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NORWALK, Conn. -- The Maritime Aquarium at Norwalk welcomed an adorable new member to its family Thursday when 11-month-old Levi joined the river otter exhibit.
Levi was born in February at the Beardsley Zoo in Bridgeport. He joins Lew, an 11-year-old river otter who has been alone in the exhibit since his companion, Bell, passed away in April.
"He's got some spunk to him," said John Lenzycki, curator of animals at the aquarium, the most popular tourist attraction in Fairfield County.
Levi has been at the aquarium since early November, Lenzycki said, but the aquarium wanted to give him time to acclimate to his new home before permanently introducing him to the exhibit. He and Lew were first kept in two cages, separated by an empty cage, while they acclimated to each other.
Then they were moved into side-by-side cages before being placed in the otter exhibit together. Lenzycki said it was important that they get used to each other and for the aquarium to make sure that they were a good fit.
As soon as Levi was introduced into the otter exhibit, he and Lew began playfully chasing each other around and wrestling on the rocks and in the water. Lenzycki said that this behavior is common.
"There will be some testing to see who's dominant, to see who gets the preferred spot in the habitat. They'll wrestle and tussle," Lenzycki said. "In a couple days they'll be inseparable."
Levi was acquired from the Beardsley Zoo as part of a cooperative breeding program. His parents live at the zoo, and his siblings who were born in the same litter will be sent to the Dickerson Park Zoo in Illinois and the Florida Aquarium.
The placement of the animals after they are born is determined by scientists, Beardsley Zoo Director Gregg Dancho said. They go to facilities that are accredited by the Association of Zoos and Aquariums.
For visitors looking for Levi on their next trip to the aquarium, he's the smaller of the two otters and his neck is creamier in color than Lew's.
Lenzycki thinks that Levi will fit in well at the aquarium, and that his presence will be good for Lew as well. He said the river otters are among the most popular exhibits in the aquarium, and that visitors are sure to love Levi.
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A team of people from the Isle of Man and Australia have successfully driven through 17 countries in 21 days – all in fur cars.
Team Mad Manx travelled from Andreas to Athens to raise money for The Childrens Centre, which supports young people and families when they are faced with challenges in their lives, and Manx Children’s Art Therapy, who provide art therapy for young people with chronic illness and mental health needs at The Children’s Centre.
Fern Callister, who took part, said: ‘It was amazing. We finished on Wednesday last week and celebrated with drinks in our hotel.
‘The wine was given to us by a gentleman at a service station we’d stopped at that day. The kindness of people was astonishing.
‘A couple of people gave us wine in different countries, and one morning we even woke up to a pack of German ham and a map of the local area on the windshield.’
She said the fur covered cars proved to be a fun addition, with many people waving to them as they passed.
‘I think the fur cars definitely boosted morale, especially during the really tiring, long days – we were overwhelmed by the reaction,’ the woman from Sulby said. ‘There was lots of laughter and there were lots of children who were really excited about them because they were so sensory.
‘They were just a real attention grabber. Who doesn’t love a fluffy car?’
Despite the cars becoming a hit with many, the group didn’t think about how much insulation the fur would add.
Mrs Callister added: ‘I think the main issue was the heat. We underestimated, being on the Isle of Man, how many degrees hotter the inside of the car would be with the fur insulating it. We didn’t have any air conditioning either.
‘We planned to camp a lot as well but we had to rethink and start staying in places where we could actually have decent showers and feel refreshed because it was actually quite hard-going.
‘We changed our game plan a little bit there because the heat was just so wearing, especially if you spend all day in a hot car and then have to put up and take down a tent.’
She explained her favourite highlight of the trip was the culture, saying: ‘I think when you fly to a place, you’re instantly immersed in all the culture there but if you drive through it you see all the cultures blend together, you see the houses change and evolve and the landscape changes gradually too.
‘That was something you’d never experience if you just flew into those countries.’
This is the third challenge the team has taken on and Mrs Callister says it won’t be the last.
She said: ‘We’ll probably recover for a few weeks and then try and figure out what next challenge we can do. Let’s keep it going!
‘We’ve also managed to raise about £1,400, plus donations from the road, which I’m really happy with.’
The team’s JustGiving is still open for donations, you can find it by searching for Team Mad Manx.
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The PS5 cooling fan will get online optimization updates that will adjust the fan's speed based on the game you're playing.
The news, which comes from Eurogamer (opens in new tab) by way of Japanese gaming site 4Gamer.net (opens in new tab), is based on an interview with Yasuhiro Ootori, the vice president of mechanical design at Sony. "Various games will be released in the future, and data on the APU's behavior in each game will be collected. We have a plan to optimize fan control based on this date," Ootori tells 4Gamer. In layman's terms, this means data on the games that cause heavy loads on PS5 will be sent to Sony, and the internal fan can be adjusted accordingly - even if that means your living room is going to sound like the runways at JFK Airport.
The PS5 has a double-sided air intake fan and internal sensor temperatures inside the APU and the main board that control the fan speed. Now we know that speed will also be adjusted with online updates based on game data collected by Sony.
In order to test the PS5's fan capabilities, Sony made a completely transparent model of the PS5 chassis and observed dry ice flowing through it. The team took temperature readings in each area of the system and the engineers adjusted the fan accordingly. I'd like to formally request a transparent PS5 so I can relive my clear blue Nintendo Gameboy days, please.
As we previously reported, we got an incredibly close look at the PS5 and its design two weeks ago, when Ootori himself disassembled the entire console down to its circuit boards. If that wasn't mind-blowing enough, news that the console will regularly get cooling fan adjustments based on data Sony is collecting is taking it even further. Welcome to the future of gaming, eh? | <urn:uuid:c9cbabd9-f267-4c1b-a414-fcaad6a44451> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.gamesradar.com/ps5-cooling-fan-optimization/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571536.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811224716-20220812014716-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.950168 | 381 | 1.53125 | 2 |
NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING (NLP) WEEKLY NEWSLETTER
The NLP Cypher | 10.17.21
Welcome back NLP peeps! Do you miss the old days? The old internet days of modem calling, static websites, you know… a time of innocence where developers were innovating the backbone of the internet at hyper speeds?
Well, we are very much going thru that right now via the Web 3.0 revolution. Cryptocurrencies usually get all of the attention but there is something else at play and it involves the entire web.
You see, the current internet (web 2.0) sucks. 🤷♂️
The internet being the world’s hive mind, has, over time created single points of failure due to centralization among its players and how the HTTP protocol is structured.
What does that mean?
Here are some examples of single points of failure: On the nation-state level, a country’s leader can shut down their country’s internet and prevent free speech from an opposing populace. On the company level, if a company doesn't agree with your point of view, they can cancel you and your access to their services, and sadly, you can be filtered out of the digital system.
The server in the middle problem…
The HTTP protocol, is a location-based protocol, meaning a URL points to an IP address where the files of interest are located. And if that server goes down and you depend on that website to pay your rent…this can happen 👇
Facebook is back online after a massive outage that also took down Instagram, WhatsApp, Messenger…
A global Facebook outage lasted for about six hours before the service started coming online around 5:45PM ET…
As you can tell, these servers are super fragile and its consequences scale non-linearly. We need to bypass these servers but how do we do that?
Well the web can be turned into a P2P (peer to peer) network. My local computer can be a node, and your computer can be a node.
(And when we add content it gets shared among the nodes and hashed with a content ID. This protocol is now content-based and not location-based)
This method allows to bypass the central server problem and allow us to download content from all of the nodes simultaneously which can be much faster in performance relative to a single server. Content can be pinned on this network and no single owner can take it down. That means content can be up FOREVER. Like this meme:
Long story short. If you haven’t yet, initialize your first P2P node and let’s decentralize, for humanity’s sake.
IPFS Powers the Distributed Web
The InterPlanetary File System is a peer-to-peer hypermedia protocol designed to preserve and grow humanity's knowledge…
ok ok back to NLP…
Is this the End of Python’s GIL Problem? 👀
A viable solution for Python concurrency
Concerns over the performance of programs written in Python are often overstated - for some use cases, at least. But…
Meanwhile this dev…
GitHub - colesbury/nogil: Multithreaded Python without the GIL
Copyright (c) 2001-2020 Python Software Foundation. All rights reserved. See Doc/license.rst for copyright and license…
Alias-Free Generative Adversarial Networks (StyleGAN3)
It’s really good
this person doesn’t exist:
GitHub - NVlabs/stylegan3: Official PyTorch implementation of StyleGAN3
Alias-Free Generative Adversarial Networks Tero Karras, Miika Aittala, Samuli Laine, Erik Härkönen, Janne Hellsten…
Google Cloud Just Got Spot Instances 👨💻
Spot VMs | Compute Engine Documentation | Google Cloud
Preview This feature is covered by the Pre-GA Offerings Terms of the Google Cloud Terms of Service. Pre-GA features…
8-bit Optimizers via Block-wise Quantization
Tim Dettmers (ex-🤗) stunts on YouTube.
Airtable Open Sourced Alternative
FYI, this is how some peeps hack (the hacking part is not what the article is about ☠ ).
What is SSH Tunneling, SSH Reverse Tunneling and SSH Port Forwarding?
This post explains SSH Tunneling and covers different tunneling features as supported by OpenSSH, which helps achieve…
Free Course on Vector Similarity Search and FAISS
FAISS tutorials are rare, so this is a jewel. 💎
Free Course on Vector Similarity Search and Faiss
Essentials for the future of machine learning
FastAPI and GraphQL w/ Code
Getting started with GraphQL in Python with FastAPI and Ariadne
Generate a FullStack playground using FastAPI, GraphQL and Ariadne
State of TV Pre-Phase Transition
Me thinks this is proof we are in a simulation. 😂
Fast WordPiece Tokenization
A New (and Really Fast) Tokenizer for Tensorflow.
“Happy to announce a fast tokenizer which is 8.2x faster than Hugging Face tokenizers and 5.1x faster than Tensorflow text. Accepted to EMNLP 2021 as oral (“Fast WordPiece Tokenizer”), and integrated into Google products. Being opensourced in Tensorflow soon.” -Deeny Zhou | Google Brain | <urn:uuid:13833dce-13a8-49c2-bf05-9e060d9f0394> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://nlpcypher.medium.com/the-nlp-cypher-10-17-21-da46d6cb11e8?source=post_internal_links---------6---------------------------- | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571536.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811224716-20220812014716-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.86912 | 1,244 | 2.265625 | 2 |
Whether in school or college, students’ lives are packed with tasks, chores, and challenges. From writing dozens of papers to making it to every class in time and preparing for difficult tests – everything you do in school or college is hard and requires exceptional attention to detail. So, it can be easy to get off the track.
Luckily, these days students are not left alone with their struggles. Thanks to many years of progress and technological advancements, modern students have access to a wide range of helpful tools that make their everyday lives simple. Read on to learn about the top nine tools that each of you must have to ensure success!
Being a student is hard in many ways. But, most often, different academic papers and homework are the hardest part of college life. Thanks to professional paper writing help by WritePaper, students of all ages can make their studies simple and stress-free. Therefore, this is the first and one of the most important must-have apps to have in your toolkit.
WritePaper gives you access to a huge pool of qualified and experienced writers with degrees in different areas. By hiring them, you can delegate challenging and boring assignments and get more time for other things. And the best part is that you will also get high grades for all your assignments without wasting your precious time.
Writing is present in every student’s life a lot. We are talking not only about academic writing itself but also about written communication with classmates, teachers, and other people too. Therefore, the next tool on this list is Grammarly – an app that will help you write better without a hassle.
Whether writing an essay for college, an email to a teacher, or a post for your personal blog, you, of course, want it to be free of mistakes, and Grammarly makes it real. This tool helps you proofread your texts right as you write them. It will spot mistakes in spelling, grammar, punctuation, and even style to help you write clearly and compellingly.
A solid plagiarism checker also must be present in every successful student’s toolkit. We recommend choosing Turnitin. Among all plagiarism checkers out there, Turnitin is one of the oldest and most reliable ones. It was tested over time and is widely used by teachers and professors in the US and beyond.
With this app, you can quickly scan your homework assignments for plagiarism and ensure that they are 100% unique before you hand them to your teacher. This will significantly simplify your life and help you get higher grades easily. So, give it a shot.
We bet that everyone who was a student (even in school) knows what it feels like to suddenly realize that you’ve lost some important notes from your classes or lectures. Taking notes in an old-fashioned way doesn’t work anymore. Today, students need Evernote to ensure success.
Evernote is an app that has taken notes to a completely new level. It allows you to create text notes right on your laptop, tablet, or even smartphone. It also enables you to attach different files, organize your notes by subjects, and, most importantly, store them securely on the cloud and synchronize across all devices. With Evernote, you will never lose important notes again.
Long gone are the times when students had to flip through dozens of pages in books or vocabularies to find the definition of unknown words. Today, anyone can look up a word or phrase they don’t understand on Google. But, there is also Oxford Dictionary – a must-have app that makes it even simpler.
This tool brings the famous Oxford Dictionary right into your pocket. It lets you look up definitions, meanings, and synonyms of pretty much any word. There are many situations when it can come in handy. For example, when studying a new topic, conducting research, or dealing with your homework assignments. One way or another, every student needs it.
We bet that each of you will agree that citing sources for academic papers is hard. Every citation must follow a proper format, which can vary depending on the specific formatting style you are required to use. Sounds pretty confusing, right?
RefMe solves this problem. This app was designed to make citations simple. With its help, students can scan any book’s barcode and receive a properly formatted citation in APA, MLA, or any other style. This tool can save you plenty of time and nerves the next time you will be writing an essay or another paper. So, be sure to get it right now. After all, it is free of charge and available for different gadgets.
Tired of traditional cramming before exams? We feel your pain. Cramming for exams is probably the worst thing that happens to all students and, let’s face it – it’s not even very effective. But, there is an alternative. StudyBlue is another must-have tool for every student. It makes test prep a piece of cake and helps young people master even the hardest subjects faster and easier.
How does it work? StudyBlue has a collection of ready-made flashcards and quizzes on various topics. It has been proven that using flashcards and quizzes for test prep boosts information retention, so, with this app, you can nail your exams with ease. Moreover, this tool allows you to upload your own study materials and create unique sets of flashcards and quizzes for even better outcomes!
Today, students have so much on their plates that keeping up with everything becomes incredibly challenging. MyHomework is a smart solution to this issue. This app is a handy digital planner designed specifically for students. It enables you to note down and organize your classes, lectures, assignments, projects, exams, due dates, and all other important things in one place.
With the help of MyHomework, you can finally become more organized and productive in your day-to-day life. Keep track of all chores and tasks and make sure that you never forget about something important or miss an important date.
Finally, the last must-have app on our list is all about getting your own thoughts organized. Whether you are writing a paper, working on a new project, or trying to study a new topic, getting your thoughts and ideas organized can be hard. But, mind maps are proven to help with this, and SimpleMind will let you use this to your benefit.
With the help of SimpleMind, you can make clear visual maps representing your thoughts, ideas, or information that you have to learn. These maps will help you generate ideas, create associations, and retain information better. If you have never tried this trick before, just try SimpleMind, and you will never go back!
If you are in school or college, we bet that you often feel like a little help won’t hurt. And the good news is that there are plenty of tools and apps that can provide you with it these days.
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HATTIESBURG, Miss. (WHLT) – Staff at the Hattiesburg Zoo welcomed a baby boy sloth on Tuesday, July 5.
Mo, a Linnaeus’s two-toed sloth, gave birth to her third baby, Lumpawaroo (Lumpy). However, staff noticed an issue shortly after his birth.
Staff said Lumpy wouldn’t latch on to his mother. They discovered that it was because Mo wasn’t producing milk.
Staff contacted other zoos and did research to determine that goat’s milk was the best alternative for Lumpy. Zoo officials said sloths are naturally lactose intolerant and goat’s milk has the least amount of lactose.
Lumpy was syringe-fed every two hours while he stayed close with his mother. After he began to gain weight, the animal care team turned their attention to Mo.
The team gave Mo an injection that quickly increased her milk production. Shortly after, Lumpy was able to start nursing from his mother.
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Waste company Kier has said Rother councillors cannot visit a Swanley recycling plant processing East Sussex’s waste.
Rother Environmental Group (REG), who asked to visit the Swanley site in Kent, was told that even Rother councillors and officials could not visit it.
Rother’s new waste and recycling scheme starts in Rye on June 30, and some recycling will go to Ideal Waste Paper in Swanley.
Kier has a £32m 10-year waste-and-recycling contract, estimated to save four East Sussex councils (Hastings, Eastbourne, Wealden and Rother) up to £30m. Kier and Ideal said that although councillors cannot visit the site, they would provide a video instead about how the waste is recycled.
REG chairman, Dominic Manning, asked Rother council leader Carl Maynard whether Ideal “have something to hide”, as there were concerns that recycled waste just ended up “in landfill or being incinerated”.
Councillor Maynard said, “It is in the interest of Kier to sell as much recycling as possible as they receive the income generated from its sale”. He also outlined the monitoring carried out by Defra, the government department for the environment, food and rural affairs.
Kier stated that the Swanley site is not set up for public visits. However, Mr Manning expressed concern that the council was taking too much on trust. He said that other similar recycling sites at Brighton and Uckfield can be visited on request.
Mr Manning added, “It is well publicised that the authority overlooking the processing of waste, the Environment Agency, has seen cuts to its funding and resources diverted to flood protection. At the same time, local authorities like Rother are needing to cut costs and now rely more than ever on private contractors to provide their services.
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Do you know what brings life satisfaction? Most people realize that giving to charity is the most gratifying thing that they can do. They might have different sources of motivation for doing charity, but the contentment they get from it is worth its weight in gold. It brings a positive effect on the living. Millions of people are involved in giving to charity as it makes a huge difference in their living, making them more optimistic and cheerful. It’s not about donating money; you will find uncountable ways to support the causes close to your heart. There are many kindhearted people like Katrina Sriranpong and Paul Allen who believe in doing charity regularly.
There are many reasons why you should support charitable organizations:
It makes you cherish your life.
When you donate, it develops a realization in the person that still people believe in blessing and giving to others in the modern world. Due to daily chores and uncertainties, we start to neglect those who are far away from the resources that might be a precious thing to deprived people. For some like Katrina Sriranpong, helping these people and bringing a smile to their faces is an achievement.
It ties the bonds within the community.
The feeling of being one in the community is priceless. In the world, some are very wealthy and some are poor too. They need the support that you can give. It ties the bonds between people. It is the small donation that the people give that adds up to the amount that can help needy people. A little amount from you can change the lives of such people. This will inspire other people throughout the world.
It discourages racism.
Racism is a big problem throughout the world. Charitable organizations address this issue and try to improve racial equality. They try to stir awareness about the problems the racial minorities are facing without any faults. With the money people donate, they help them by providing legal presentations and offering essential services.
Charities are also helpful in protecting health.
Many charitable organizations take care of public health in several ways. This includes dental care, reproductive care, general health, and preventive care about various diseases. There are some issues like contaminated water, pollution, and garbage that affect public health and add to various major diseases in people. These organizations spread awareness through various programs and they also begin various vaccine programs, provide clean water and other essential services to improve the lives of people.
In the End
Charities have existed even hundreds of years ago. There are several causes these charities embark on, including culture, health, education, jobs, environment, etc. Selfless giving makes the people united and creates a community-focused world. Besides, it also helps in reducing some major issues like racism and improves equality. The charities also ensure human rights for everyone. | <urn:uuid:a031e271-caab-4178-be9f-d6269d045935> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://digestley.com/four-reasons-you-should-go-for-charity/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571198.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810161541-20220810191541-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.970356 | 567 | 2.578125 | 3 |
Philip Henry Hadow, RN
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|Died ||25 Nov 1942||(39)||HMS Furious (accident)|
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|HMS Foxhound (H 69)||Lt.Cdr.||Destroyer||7 Dec 1937||26 Jan 1940|
|HMS Ivanhoe (D 16)||Cdr.||Destroyer||30 Jan 1940||1 Sep 1940|
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Microglial activation continues to be considered as an essential procedure in the pathogenesis of neuroinflammation and psychiatric disorders. unusual STIM1-mediated intercellular calcium mineral homeostasis. suppression of [Ca2+]elevation; nevertheless, the molecular pathway because of this suggested effect is however to be described. Among Ca2+ legislation in non-excitable cells, the primary Ca2+ influx system is named store-operated Ca2+ entrance (SOCE) (Hoffmann et al., 2003; Qian et al., 2010; Kettenmann et al., 2011; Garaschuk and Brawek, 2013; Heo et al., 2015). Research also reported that Ca2+ discharge from SOCE stimulates an intercellular proinflammatory indication (Ohana et al., 2009; Mizoguchi et al., 2011), indicating that SOCE may donate to the discharge of proinflammatory chemicals during microglial activation (Kraft, 2015; Michaelis et al., 2015; Moccia et al., 2015). Nevertheless, to the very best of our knowledge, there is absolutely no study which has addressed this matter currently. In today’s study, utilizing a CPZ-induced chronic demyelination mouse model, aswell an systems using lipopolysaccharide (LPS)-induced turned on microglial, we confirmed that Que attenuated microglial activation and promoted myelin repair dramatically. We also discovered that Que can neutralize the STIM1-mediated elevation of Ca2+ entrance (SOCE) and following NFB activation in LPS-induced turned on microglia. Components and Methods Pets and Experimental Manipulations C57BL/6 mice (male, 6?weeks aged, 22C25?g) were extracted from the Animal Service Centre of the 3rd Military Medical School, TMP 269 tyrosianse inhibitor PR China. The pets were housed as of this facility using TMP 269 tyrosianse inhibitor a 12-h dark/12-h light routine, at a continuing heat range of 22??1C and a member of family humidity of 60%. 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In addition, to be able to verify whether Que have an effect on SOCE in N9 cells, or even to examine the specificity of Que effects on Ca2+ influx, we investigated the effect of Que on TG-induced activation of [Ca2+]elevation due to release of internal ER Ca2+ induced by LPS; the second peak is due to Ca2+ influx through the PM, namely ER Ca2+ store-operated Ca2+ access (SOCE). Pretreatment of Que reduces the [Ca2+]elevation induced by LPS (reddish) (20C25 cells were analyzed in each group). (B) Quantification of Ca2+ launch (left maximum) and store-operated Ca2+ access (SOCE) (ideal maximum) in N9 cells activated by LPS with or without Que pretreatment. (C) Ca2+ image of N9 cells with Tg activation in Ca2+-free medium following by Ca2+ (2?mM) buffer incubation after wash with or without Que pretreatment (20C25 cells were analyzed in each group). (D) Quantification of Ca2+ launch (left maximum) and store-operated Ca2+ access (SOCE) (ideal maximum) in N9 cells triggered by Tg with or without Que pretreatment. Ideals are means??SEM. *and inhibit the activation of NF-B pathway in LPS-induced microglial ethnicities. As a result, the inhibitory effects of Que on microglial activation may have important implications for its restorative software in SZ. Cuprizone or biscyclohexnaone oxalyldihydrazone is definitely a -copper chelator that selectively damages oligodendrocytes. As such, it really is a model that is utilized to induce demyelination. Interestingly, the CPZ-induced demyelination mouse model is normally recognized being a SZ model also, where many cognitive features or behavioral modifications connected with SZ sufferers are mapped (Makinodan et al., 2009; Xu et al., 2009; Xu et al., 2010; Xu et al., 2011; Praet et al., 2014). Que can be used in the clinical treatment of SZ currently. Previous research indicated it stops CPZ-induced white matter pathology and behavioral abnormalities within a short-term nourishing (Zhang et al., 2008; Xu et al., 2010; Chandran et al., 2012). To comprehend the system that may underlie the development of white matter abnormality to a persistent state, we utilized the persistent CPZ treatment mouse model, where. | <urn:uuid:9fcd4b93-e5c7-4cef-85a1-9fa1dac0a19e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://paft-phil.com/microglial-activation-continues-to-be-considered-as-an-essential-procedure-in/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571909.51/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813051311-20220813081311-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.921668 | 1,239 | 1.8125 | 2 |
Students at the Islamic University in Uganda have developed a hands-free hand-washer to promote safe hygiene and save water during the Covid-19 pandemic.
The two students, Lucky Mwaka and Mansoor Muhammad, work at the university’s research and innovations laboratory.
Their idea is aimed at using technology to minimise contact with potentially contaminated surfaces in low-income settings.
“We thought of a way to draw water without having to open and close the taps. This is for people who use soap and water separately or those who do prior mixing of the disinfectant with water,” Umar Yahya, their lecturer and team leader, told the BBC.
“This can be fitted on any water container; a jerrycan, tank or tin, depending on what one can afford.”
The invention works using sensors and a solar battery-powered controller.
“Water is dispensed when hands are in close proximity with the tap, and closed when hands are moved away. So in cases where water is scarce, you use exactly what you need to wash your hands. The hands-free washer is made from a plastic bottle, and so is the tap”, Mwaka explains.
The device, which costs about $24 to produce, is so far being used at the university campus in Kibuli, Kampala, and the team is in the process of producing six more, which will be used at their countryside campuses. | <urn:uuid:1c94abbb-5f6a-439f-ba22-d96385e48c9c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.sapositivenews.com/africa/uganda-students-produce-hands-free-washing-aid/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571536.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811224716-20220812014716-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.951466 | 308 | 3.296875 | 3 |
Poole Tourist Information and Tourism
(Poole, Dorset, England, UK)
The medieval port town of Poole is situated next to the sea and is full of tourist attractions and activities, such as its famous pottery and Poole Park. These appealing sights also include Poole Harbour and the Sandbanks peninsula, with excellent facilities for boating and water sports - including both windsurfing and jet skiing, a number of highly-acclaimed restaurants and cafés, many historic 18-century buildings, and some excellent waterfront hotels.
Poole is also one of the most popular areas in the south-west of England for fishing and deep-sea fishing, and mackerel-fishing trips regularly depart from the harbourfront itself. Set just back from the Quayside is the High Street, where a plethora of shopping opportunities present themselves. The Poole Tourist Information Centre (TIC) is also to be found on the High Street, being open on a daily basis and the best place to make tourism related enquiries.
There are a wide variety of hotels and accommodation available in the centre, close to Poole Quay and the surrounding area, making this friendly and lively Dorset seaside resort an accessible holiday destination for travellers and families. If nightlife is an important part of your holiday, then consider looking for hotels next door, in the neighbouring town of Bournemouth, which is only a matter on minutes away and stands next to Boscombe and Christchurch.
Dorset beaches are amongst some of the finest in England and are often referred to as the 'Florida Keys of British beaches'. There are more than 5 km / 3 miles of golden beaches in Poole, and these are popular with both tourists and locals in the area. Poole Quay is one of the most vibrant areas in the town and has an exciting, friendly vibe. Attractions at the Quay include numerous restaurants, cafés, bars and public houses - many with excellent views of the harbour; yachts, boats, water sports and the renowned Poole Pottery. There are also regular events and gatherings throughout the year at the Quayside.
Other popular tourist attractions in the Poole area include Compton Acres Gardens - featuring seven spectacular gardens, including a stunning Japanese garden; Brownsea Island - a popular National Trust nature reserve, home to native red squirrels; Poole Park - more than 100 years old and featuring superb flower displays, a jungle playground, a miniature railway, a large boating lake, an immaculate bowling green, crazy golf, a small pitch and putt golf course, and a number of tennis courts; the Poole Speedway - with regular races held at the town's stadium every Wednesday; Greyhound Racing - held throughout the year at the stadium; and the Tower Park Leisure Complex - the largest entertainment complex on the south coast. Tower Park features a 10-screen UCI cinema, Splashdown - with shallow pools and water slides, a huge tenpin bowling alley centre, bingo, numerous restaurants, bars and cafés, fast-food outlets, amusements featuring the latest arcade games, ice skating, and many games. More information about Poole Tourist Attractions
and Poole Landmarks
Poole also has a number of excellent museums and art galleries in and around the town, providing interesting information about this region of the Dorset coast. Some of the major museums here include the Poole Waterfront Museum - situated next to the Quayside and home to the Local History Centre; the Scaplen's Court Museum - with a fragrant walled herb garden and displays of many interesting exhibits and local artefacts; the Study Gallery - one of the town's most important galleries, housing a large collection of mid-20th century art works; and the Poole Lighthouse - the newest centre for arts, with number of excellent exhibitions, such as contemporary photography and modern, digital art.
Festivals and events in the town include the Poole Summer Breeze - the largest beach party, held every Thursday night in the summer, with live music, a fun zone for families, barbecue areas and a spectacular firework display at around 22:00; and the Poole Crescent Dream Machines - where literally thousands of motorbikes gather on the Quay every Tuesday evening during the summer.
Poole has excellent shopping facilities and the large Dolphin Shopping Centre is situated in the centre, offering some of the best under cover stores in the town. There are over 100 shops at the Dolphin Centre, including a number of familiar High-Street chains and many smaller, independent specialist shops.
There are numerous towns and cities close to Poole, offering an enormous selection of day trip possibilities. These include Boscombe, Bournemouth
, Christchurch, the
New Forest, Salisbury
and Wimborne, which are all well worth a visit when staying here. It is even possible to pop over to the sunny beaches on the Isle of Wight
for the day, or head to the enormous shopping malls of Portsmouth
More Poole Information / Fast Facts and Orientation
- Country: England
- Location: Dorset
- Population: 140,000
- Language: English
- Currency: Pound Sterling (GBP)
- Time zone: GMT / UTC and BST (British Summer Time), 5 hours from Eastern Standard Time
- Country dialling code: +44
- Telephone area code: 01202
- Average daily January temperature: 8°C / 46°F
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Salesforce’s Visual Workflow and Process Builder are incredibly powerful tools but can be very difficult to troubleshoot. I struggled to make these tools effective until I was able to get a glimpse of what was happening inside. Salesforce has some suggestions for how to troubleshoot failing flows but often these tools provide incomplete answers. Particularly for auto launched flows, these techniques are often insufficient.
If you work on the clicks side of the force and you haven’t heard of Custom Settings and the cool things you can do with them using declarative functionality then this is the blog post for you! There are also many other great blog posts for you out there and a few Dreamforce sessions as well. Why should you keep reading this particular blog post and not crawl off down the internet rabbit hole I just dug for you? Because I’m going to explain what Custom Settings are and then document three examples of how you can use them with clicks not code, but more importantly, my examples are kind of funny… I hope.
What are Custom Settings?
Custom Settings, like Custom Objects., have custom fields that allow you to create records that contain data. However, unlike Custom Objects, Custom Settings can be accessed in any formula, workflow rule, and process builder organization-wide. Custom Settings are indeed settings for your org or application!
You’ve probably heard of “lean management” or “lean manufacturing.” It feels like “lean” is ubiquitous in many industries, but I haven’t encountered the buzz word up here in the cloud. We have a self-improvement book club at my employer, Optimum Energy, and last week we discussed 2 Second Lean by Paul Akers.
“Lean” is the involvement of the entire company in continuous small improvements to remove waste and improve efficiency, as practiced by fanatic Paul Akers.
Good Salesforce administration is one of the most “lean” things you could do for your company.
Every day each of Paul Akers’ employees comes up with one process improvement that cuts out two seconds. 2 Second Lean claims you can revolutionize your company in these tiny increments. And I believe it, because that’s exactly what I do all day in SFDC.
At Optimum Energy, for every energy optimization project, a series of emails used to go back and forth between members of three teams until pricing was agreed upon. Now a user clicks a button, launching a flow which asks them a series of questions and starts an approval process. No information is misplaced in an email folder. All the right people are looped in. That’s efficiency!
Continue reading Salesforce Admin: The Leanest Job Ever
Have you ever wanted to report on something only to realize you’ll likely have to write three processes and a few formulas to get there? Have you already written those processes and formulas? Is your org in danger of maxing out all its cross-object relationship reference limits? Are you about to write some more right now? STOP! Custom Report Types can solve many of your cross-object reporting problems with just a few clicks! Continue reading Custom Report Types: Why do I love thee? Let me count the ways…
Here’s an example of a “simple” flow that uses a Decision element. You don’t need to use flow to achieve the results – you could entirely stick to Process Builder. This flow is for educational purposes only.
Here’s the sitch: I want an automatic email to my customer when we quote a specific product. For example, “Dear Darnell McCustomer, for a limited time only, you can purchase the EDGE widget for $150!”
Caveat: I want this to be in an HTML template, not a Visualforce email, based on the Quote object. I can’t reach the price on the Quote Line Item from Quote in this format.
Flow took me from a “hmm…let me Google that” Salesforce admin to a confident “no record is too far out of reach” admin-eloper (admin/developer). Leadership changed at my company and I had to quickly differentiate myself from my new boss, a Salesforce administrator with way more experience than me. In our initial conversations, he made it clear he would prefer to have a developer working for him. Okay…. one developer, coming up!
You can’t do a user lookup inside a screen element in Flow, so create dynamic record choices instead! No need to hardcode the names of employees who might leave.
- Dynamic Record Choice – don’t need to hard code the values if they may change!
- Default Picklist Value
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Third-Grade Fairy Tale Lesson
Classic fairy tales such as "Beauty and the Beast" and "The Emperor's New Clothes" provide opportunities for third-graders to understand basic fairy tale elements and use creativity to reinvent characters and story lines. Fairy tales give young students accessible examples of theme, plot, setting and story illustration. Additionally, fairy tales introduce young people to other cultures and historical eras.
Fairy Tale Basics
After reading a fairy tale to your third-graders, begin with a review of the basic elements of a story. Ask students to retell the problem in the story and how it eventually is solved to cover the concepts of conflict and resolution. Once students comprehend the story, discuss elements of fairy tales, including the clearly defined "good" and "bad" characters, the quest motif, magical objects and other fantasy aspects. Emphasize the moral of the fairy tale and how it relates to the cultural values of its area of origin.
Description and Setting
Once all students understand the key points of the fairy tale, move on to more specific details. In this stage of the lesson, students focus on detailed descriptions to illustrate elements of the tale that are magical or exist in a fantasy world. To begin, create a list of settings and objects, such as a candlestick that talks or a robe that disappears, as a class. Reread the descriptions of items on this list and ask students to pick one and draw it in detail. For fairy tales that include illustrations, ask students to determine how each drawing relates to the story.
In addition to lessons on literary elements, fairy tales can give third-graders an overview of the culture or historical period in which the story takes place. For example, in "The Emperor's New Clothes," explain to students what an emperor is. In general terms, students can learn the difference between an emperor and a president. Additionally, you may explain to students what weaving is and what a weaver does, using activities such as paper weaving or a tactile comparison of different fabric types.
Original Fairy Tales
After students understanding character types, elements of a fairy tale and the idea of a moral, create a framework to help them write an original fairy tale. Review specific elements of a fairy tale, including a fantasy world, magical objects, a quest, "good" and "bad" characters and objects that occur in threes. Emphasize that each story should have a "moral" and teach a lesson through the characters. Students can then write individual stories containing all of the elements decided upon by the class, or you can compose a story as a class. Have students illustrate the story or stories and display the drawings in the classroom.
- Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute: Multicultural Fairy Tales -- The Stuff of Magic
- Common Core State Standards Initiative: English Language Arts Standards » Reading: Literature » Grade 3
- Scholastic.com: Myths, Folktales, & Fairy Tales for Grades K-3
- ReadWriteThink: Common Elements of Fairy Tales
- The Hans Christian Anderson Center: The Emperor's New Clothese
Based in Los Angeles, Jana Sosnowski holds Master of Science in educational psychology and instructional technology, She has spent the past 11 years in education, primarily in the secondary classroom teaching English and journalism. Sosnowski has also worked as a curriculum writer for a math remediation program. She earned a Bachelor of Arts in print journalism from the University of Southern California. | <urn:uuid:3c575bf6-322f-460c-a0fa-09c887bfd995> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://education.seattlepi.com/thirdgrade-fairy-tale-lesson-6444.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570921.9/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809094531-20220809124531-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.914802 | 724 | 4.15625 | 4 |
Story and Pictures by Alice Gerard
A shoreline protection program is currently underway in the West River near Buckhorn Island State Park. Dan Dinsmore, field superintendent for LDC Construction, said the Grand Island company, owned by Lyle Dinsmore, is doing the project for the New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation.
According to Tom Burke, a member of the Grand Island Conservation Advisory Board, “Through the years, LDC has become one of the leading habitat restoration companies in the Great Lakes, if not the leading habitat restoration firms in the Great Lakes basin.”
Among the projects LDC Construction has worked on is the restoration of Strawberry Island, as well as Motor Island. They also did restoration work on the lagoon at Beaver Island State Park, Burke said.
Dinsmore described the current project as a “habitat project.” He said that hemlock logs were trucked in from Penn Yan. These trees are considered to be “more resistant to weather.” The wood is being used to build large “planter boxes,” he said. “They get staged in the water, and there are plants that will be planted within them.” The plants will be surrounded by “walls.”
“It protects the plants,” Dinsmore said. “When we had this surveyed for where everything goes in here, we found there are certain spots that are protected. We will have these (spots) marked out. We can’t encroach in these areas.”
Dinsmore explained that the large planter boxes will be permanent fixtures in the river, as they will use “helical anchors, which are screwed into the bottom of the river.” The large planter boxes will be “cabled into place,” he explained.
Employees of LDC Construction work on building the giant “planter boxes.”
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Bangor was inspiration for fictional Derry, Maine
UPDATE (10/18): Stephen King has shared more information about the archive and retreat on Facebook. “We are in the very beginning of planning the writers’ retreat at the house next door, providing housing for up to five writers in residence at a time,” he wrote. “The zoning change getting press coverage was the first step. We are one to two years away from an operating retreat. The archives formerly held at the University of Maine will be accessible for restricted visits by appointment only. There will not be a museum and nothing will be open to the public, but the archives will be available to researchers and scholars.”
Constant readers (with the right credentials) will soon get the chance to hang out at Stephen King’s mansion in Bangor, Maine — although he likely will not be on the premises.
On Wednesday night, the Bangor City Council unanimously approved a request by King and his wife Tabitha to rezone their home as a non-profit, allowing it to house an archive of King’s work (offering restricted visits by appointment) and up to five writers at a time. The couple was not present at the meeting. In recent years, the family has spent most of their time on the road or in Florida or Oxford County, Maine, according to their lawyer, Warren Silver.
“The King Family has been wonderful to the City of Bangor over time and have donated literally millions of dollars to various causes in the community,” one of the city councilors, Ben Sprague, told Rolling Stone. “Preserving his legacy here in Bangor is important for this community.”
“They did not want the house to become a Dollywood or some kind of tourist attraction,” David Gould, a Bangor planning officer, told New England Cable News. “That would bring all sorts of people to the neighborhood, and they have other neighbors that live there.”
The King residence at 47 West Broadway has nevertheless become a kind of tourist destination over the years. Fans often snap photos in front of the house, a blood-red mansion with an ornate gate boasting all sorts of winged creatures.
In a 1983 essay, owned by the Bangor Historical Society, King explained that when he first moved to the town, the idea for IT was stewing in his mind. The book was set in fictional Derry, Maine, a proxy of Bangor.
“I had a very long book in mind, a book which I hoped would deal with the way myths and dreams and stories — stories, most of all — become a part of the everyday life of a small American city,” he wrote, detailing how he visited the town library to research its history. The librarian informed him that they had 12 tomes about Bangor, but none were all that good.
When King told her he wanted to write a novel set in the town, she replied “’Wonderful! Just like that fellow Ben Ames Williams! What a nice man he was! Sat in there every day for most of one summer. He was so pleasant and polite!… Who ever would have guessed what awful things he was writing!”
Williams was an American novelist and short story writer and, perhaps coincidentally, ended up sharing a first name with IT character Ben Hanscom, a frequent visitor to the Derry library.
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Source:Symposium on Assistive Machine Learning for People with Disabilities at Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS) (2009)
Over the last couple of decades, the increasing focus on accessibility has resulted in the design and development of several assistive technologies to aid people with visual impairments in their daily activities. Most of these devices have been centered on enhancing the interaction of a user who is blind or visually impaired with objects and environments, such as a computer monitor, personal digital assistant, cellphone, road traffic, or a grocery store. Although these efforts are very essential for the quality of life of these individuals, there is also a need (which has so far not been seriously considered) to enrich the interactions of individuals who are blind, with other individuals. Non-verbal cues (including prosody, elements of the physical environment, the appearance of communicators and physical movements) account for as much as 65% of the information communicated during social interactions . However, more than 1.1 million individuals in the US who are legally blind (and 37 million worldwide) have a limited experience of this fundamental privilege of social interactions. These individuals continue to be faced with fundamental challenges in coping with everyday interactions in their social lives. The work described in this paper is based on the design and development of a Social Interaction Assistant that is intended to enrich the experience of social interactions for individuals who are blind, by providing real-time access to information about individuals and their surrounds. The realization of a Social Interaction Assistant device involves solving several challenging problems in pattern analysis and machine intelligence such as person recognition/tracking, head/body pose estimation, gesture recognition, expression recognition, etc on a wearable real-time platform. A list of eight significant daily challenges faced by these individuals was identified in our initial focus group studies conducted with 27 individuals who are blind or visually impaired . Each of these problems raises unique machine learning challenges that need to be addressed. While the problems discussed above are typically encountered in many other fields including robotics, this application presents a unique perspective to the design of machine learning (ML) algorithms for recognition and learning: the presence of the ‘human in the loop’. In addition to the challenges of implementing such systems on wearable real-time platforms, we note that the end users in this context have their cognitive capabilities intact (as we have been often reminded by our target user population). The intelligence of the human user can be judiciously used to design systems that demonstrate improved reliability and performance. More importantly, these users often would like to use their cognitive and decision-making capabilities at every possible opportunity to compensate for the sensory deficit. To illustrate with an example, if a system was built to recognize individuals standing in front of a user who is blind, the user may not like to receive a singular answer with the identity of the individual. Rather, the user would prefer to receive a set of possible identities with their confidence levels, and make the decision himself/herself. This necessitates the design of ML algorithms and systems that are user-centric by design, utilize the cognitive capabilities of the userto solve the problem at hand, and support the user actively in decision-making, rather than provide decisions passively. We term such algorithms as ‘human-centered’ ML algorithms. In this paper, we present a few of our efforts in machine learning that address the challenges of the Social Interaction Assistant. We first present a brief introduction to our current prototype, followed by two examples that illustrate our human-centered approach and then briefly review other ML contributions that have been made as part of this effort. | <urn:uuid:7d77cd91-6ac0-4ac7-b34d-8ef5297a9492> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://cubic.asu.edu/content/human-centered-machine-learning-social-interaction-assistant-individuals-visual-impairments | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571536.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811224716-20220812014716-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.956031 | 742 | 2.796875 | 3 |
In 2010, after years of tolerating an ambiguous policy on whether clinical or counseling psychology fits into the U.S. National Science Foundation’s (NSF’s) mission to fund basic science, agency officials announced that they would reject any application—without even reviewing it—from students in clinical or counseling psychology graduate programs. The psychological science community protested the decision, and within a year, NSF had restored eligibility for scores of graduate psychology students. The reversal has had a significant impact: A doctoral student in psychology has won a prestigious Graduate Research Fellowship.
Read the whole story: Science Magazine*
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So you're in a relationship with verbal abuse and struggling. Whether you have suffered for a long time or are just realizing that the person you’re with is not the person you thought they were, verbal abuse is painful. The important thing now is that you can begin to make changes. So what can you do about it?
Identifying Verbal Abuse
Verbal abuse can be hard to identify. Unlike physical abuse there are no bruises or broken bones that give it away.
However, there are always signs. Yet it can be harder to see those signs if you are the one experiencing the abuse. You may have become so accustomed to the treatment, or have been told so often that this is what love is, that you don’t even realize something’s wrong.
If you're not sure if that's you, or that what you are experiencing is really abuse, then read about what verbal abuse signs look like: Verbal Abuse - What's It Look Like? Are there Signs?
Stopping Verbal Abuse
Below are 8 things you can do to stop verbal abuse from the article How Can Someone Identify and Respond to Verbal Abuse? by Cathy Meyer. I've included my take (in italics) on how they compare to my experience.
- Abuse is never justified so, you should never feel that it is your fault.
Guilt is a tool that abusers will use to keep control over you. If you are being abused there is nothing you have done to justify it. The behavior of the abuser is the problem, not you, so taking a stand and protecting yourself is the right thing to do.
- Let the abuser know how hurtful their words are and discuss with them the fact that it is unacceptable to you. Set boundaries on what you will and will not accept from your abuser.
This is easier said than done, but it is necessary. Abusers don’t see the problem with their actions. You may need support of loved ones to help ensure the boundaries you are setting are respected.
- Seek counseling, either together or separately.
Generally speaking, abusers can’t change their behavior overnight. Whatever has caused them to become abusive is likely a much deeper problem. And the emotional damage done to you can be difficult to undo as well. It's almost certain that you will each need the help of a counselor to get back to a healthy place.
- Surround yourself with a support system of family and friends. Discuss with them what is happening and how you are feeling.
This is crucial as secrecy and silence can enable abuse. Their support will help keep you strong and safe. They can also help prevent you from falling back into accepting the abusive behavior as normal by giving you the perspective you need.
- If the verbal abuse escalates to physical abuse, leave. Your personal safety is far more important than the relationship.
It doesn’t take professional experience to tell you this is the right thing to do. Even though it is necessary, it's not easy.
- Do not engage in conflict with your abuser. If your spouse becomes angry stay calm, walk away and don’t give him/her what they want…a reaction from you.
Be prepared to leave if necessary. Sometimes distance is the only way to diffuse things.
- Take back your power. If you react to the abuser, you are rewarding them. Letting them know they have power over your emotions. Don’t allow the abuser to have control over how you feel.
In my professional experience this can be very difficult. When you love someone you’ve already allowed them to influence your feelings. Remind yourself that abusive behavior is NOT a part of love and you deserve better. Do you best to control your emotions until you have a private and safe place to deal with how you feel.
- Leave the marriage. If setting boundaries, getting therapy and refusing to respond to the abuse doesn’t work, then maybe your marriage is over. There are times when the best thing you can do for yourself is, break all ties with your abuser.
This is a last, but sometimes necessary, resort.
The most important thing to remember about verbal abuse is that its purpose is to control. The key to responding to verbal abuse is learning how to break free of the control and get your power back. Don't underestimate how difficult this can be. In order successfully stop verbal abuse it's critical to have the guidance and coaching of an experienced professional counselor. Don't go it alone any longer.
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Editor's Note: This post was originally published on September 4, 2010 and has been updated with new information for accuracy and comprehensiveness.
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Henri Brocklebank says the ‘business-as-usual’ model is not helping our future, and is concerned that development pressure threatens to cut off corridors for nature in Sussex.
So what does nature’s recovery mean for decision makers across the county? Henri explains:
“What will we be doing in June 2031? Will we be looking back at the decisions we were making now, in Sussex, in 2021, appalled at how we hadn’t yet worked out as a society what our priorities were? We were still procrastinating around the business-as-usual model, despite all the evidence being shared with us demonstrating this as a failing approach? Had we started learning what being bold, brave and ambitious looked like and felt like?
“That business as usual is not helping our future – or frankly – more importantly – our children’s future.
“So let’s face the elephant in the room (for note: the last decade has seen a 98 per cent nose-dive in elephant populations in India). Here in Sussex, development represents one of our biggest threats to the ‘business-as-usual’ standpoint. Development pressure in Sussex threatens to cut off corridors for nature and destroy vast tracts of our precious environment. It is the nail in the coffin for many of our species, not just the actual footprint of the development, but the light and noise from our new towns and new roads exacerbating nature’s declines. Planning departments across West Sussex are building a stronger voice in prioritising the environment in their decisions.
“However, our crippling housing targets are calculated nationally and our Sussex local authorities are obliged to deliver them. Or are they?
“Housing numbers are decided by a complicated system whereby a national equation sets out how many homes a local planning authority needs to plan for, this is based around economic and population growth predictions. Critically no environmental information is used in this calculation – can the borough or district sustain this level of growth or will it be the growth that provides the death knell to the functionality of nature?
“For example, Arun is expected to build for 1,368 homes per year, Horsham 920 homes per year. For Horsham District this is the equivalent of a new Southwater every couple of years.
“So, I call on our Sussex decision makers to do two things:
“1. Challenge the national housing figures. If you don’t think our districts can absorb these numbers, without irreversible damage to the ecological networks of Sussex – push back. Within national planning legislation our local authorities can do this – but who will be brave enough to do this first? Will we build a new town alongside our very own internationally celebrated Knepp rewilding estate? Cutting off the very wildlife that we have all been so proud to celebrate? Will we continue to hem in our designated wildlife sites, so that they are destined to fail? Standing up for nature isn’t the minority viewpoint of 20 years ago – it is now a fundamental necessity that our decision makers need to catch-up with. They need to be our champions. Please don’t wait for these decisions to be made to realise they were the wrong ones.
“2. Redress the balance of priorities. Nature is critical – not a ‘nice to have’. The reason we are in the ecological state we are in, is the relentless prioritisation of economy over ecology. The Dasgupta Review (2021), commissioned by our very own UK National Treasury, tells us how wrong this dated presumption is. But when do we start to listen to our own advice? Horsham District Council has critical evidence to use, to inform them of the place of nature in it’s decisions in its local plan revisions. But where does nature fit into the grand scheme of priorities? This fundamental point sits at the heart of Horsham District Council’s current situation, which will, in time be where other West Sussex Districts and Boroughs will find themselves. We have an opportunity to PLAN where development goes, where what we need for nature is part of this decision.
“Our corner of the world is beautiful, and it is not yet too late to change our approach to nature. But these changes are big and bold and we all have a sphere of influence that we can use. I call upon our county’s decision makers to do everything they can to stand up and be proud for nature.” | <urn:uuid:f7c6721e-f150-43e7-8f5c-cead49f816f5> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.sussexexpress.co.uk/news/people/development-pressure-in-sussex-threatens-to-cut-off-corridors-for-nature-says-sussex-wildlife-trust-3291624 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571198.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810161541-20220810191541-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.936327 | 933 | 2.234375 | 2 |
The Department of Gastric Surgery of Tianjin Medical University Cancer Institute and Hospital, whose predecessor was the Department of Abdominal Surgical Oncology founded by the late distinguished tumor expert, Professor Jin Xianzhai in 1972, was established as an independent department and renamed as such in 2004 as a result of disciplinary specialization. The department, with 69 assigned beds and a faculty of 17 doctors, including 6 attendings, 6 fellows and 5 residents, of whom 90% are medical doctoral degree holders, provides surgical treatments of a wide range of gastric diseases such as gastric cancer, gastrointestinal stromal tumors (GISTs), peritoneal neoplasm and retroperitoneal neoplasm etc.
The department, composed of a team of first-class surgeons specializing in gastro-intestinal tumors, is renowned for its clinical expertise and excellent surgical techniques and enjoys a fine reputation both home and abroad, therefore attracting numerous patients from Tianjin and other provinces. The quantity and quality of operations performed by the department has been rising continually every year. In 2018, the number of outpatients reached 21624 and that of discharged patients, 3283; meanwhile 1015 operations were performed and 84.15% of them were on gastric cancer patients. The surgical treatment of gastric cancer of our department attaches importance to standard D2 radical resection with standard lymph node dissection, which not only increases greatly the survival rate but also promotes the accuracy of pathological stage of gastric cancer, hence provides better prognosis and suitable comprehensive therapeutic plans after the surgery. Therefore, our department has been taking a leading role in gastric cancer treatment and its prognosis and participating in setting the criteria of standardized gastric cancer treatment. The department has a unique advantage in the field of digestive tract reconstruction. It adopts the standard B-I, B-II, Roux-en-Y and explores new means of rebuilding the digestive tract as well. In 2011, our department undertook a major national research project, “A Clinical Study into the Effect of Different Means of Reconstructing Digestive Tract on Improving the Patients’ Life Quality After the Surgeries of Total Gastrectomy”, which compares Roux-en-Y and functional jejunal interposition (FJI) and their effects on long-term postoperative complications and life quality of the patients who have received such surgeries. For gastric cancer patients of early stages, we advocate minimally invasive (laparoscopic and Da Vinci) surgery in order to reduce perioperative complications, and have achieved favorable results; for patients of advanced stages, neoadjuvant chemotherapies are adopted to improve the surgical resection and 5-year survival rates. For patients with peritoneal metastasis or the risk of tumor peritoneal dissemination, peritoneal thermal perfusion chemotherapies have been carried out earlier than other institutions in China to prevent and treat the peritoneal spread of advanced gastric cancer, and have achieved satisfactory results. In the treatment of patients with gastrointestinal stromal tumor, the advantages of the combined treatment of operation and postoperative targeted drugs are emphasized, and patients are encouraged to have regular postoperative review to find the drug resistance timely, and adjust the treatment plan in time to obtain satisfactory treatment effect. Specializing in gastric cancer and the relevant expertise, we are also capable of performing difficult and complicated surgeries with satisfactory results.
In recent years, our department has made it a regular practice to hold the Multiple Disciplinary Team (MDT) symposium, which invites experts from departments of surgery, pathology, oncology, radiology etc., to meet bi-weekly on Thursday and join in discussions about patients’ diseases and their conditions so that the most pertinent treatment strategies can be adopted according to each individual patient’s medical condition and therefore it can ensure that every gastric cancer patient receives the best individualized treatment possible.
Besides the surgeries and other clinical work, the Department of Gastric Surgery has also been engaged in clinical and fundamental research related to gastric cancer. We have established long-term collaboration with Massachusetts General Hospital of Harvard University, and Cancer Institute Hospital of JFCR, Seoul National University Hospital, Yonsei University of Korea and Institute of Digestive Disease of The Chinese University of Hong Kong. Meanwhile, our department has undertaken research projects of various levels, including 1 National 973 Project, 1 National Natural Sciences Project, 3 provincial research projects, 1 key Tianjin anti-cancer research project, 4 institutional projects and 7 hospital projects. In addition, 221 research papers completed by our department have been published, among which 104 are in SCI journals, 93 in Chinese Medical Journal Series, 24 in key Chinese journals, with the impact factor reaching 18.38 at its best. In 2018, 361 cases were involved in various clinical researches, accounting for 31.6% of all surgeries. Our department graduates 3-4 students with master’s degree annually and so far has graduated more than 40 students in total. Besides, our department hosts the interns of Tianjin Medical University and offers training and teaching to the 7-year students of Tianjin Medical University as well as the surgeons from other provinces for further learning. Moreover, we have participated in writing, compiling and translating a dozen of monographs including Gastric Cancer, Visual Lectures on Operation for Gastric Cancer, Principles and Practice of Gastrointestinal Oncology, Basic Clinical Surgery, Abdominal Oncology, Surgical Oncology, Oncology, Concise Oncology, all of which have been published, and among which, Visual Lectures on Operation for Gastric Cancer has been included in a series of academic monographs on the 30th anniversary of the Chinese anti-cancer association.
Our department has been involved actively in academic exchanges with peers from both China and other countries. Sino-Japan-Korea Gastric Cancer Submit hosted by our department has become a well-known brand conference on gastric cancer and the clinical work and research results have been recognized and applauded both domestically and internationally. | <urn:uuid:615f1078-ff73-41f9-a5de-7badbffd957d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://tmucih.com/index/clinical/department/id/10.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571536.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811224716-20220812014716-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.952456 | 1,237 | 1.554688 | 2 |
More people use the Internet every day, which attracts more hackers and those looking for personal data such as credit card details or credentials. This necessitates that website owners pay greater attention to visitor safety and guarantee that the site is used safely. SSL certificates are the first line of defense in the fight against online data leakage, as they secure privacy and save data transferred on the site.
Secure Sockets Layer is hidden behind SSL. It is a safe technique that allows a server and a client to establish an encrypted connection. For example, this server may be WP Developer, and the client could be your web browser. TLS and SSL are closely linked. (TLS) stands for Transport Layer Security. TLS is a modernized version of the SSL protocol. One of the most popular SSL certificates is WP Force SSL.
Those with the key can only read encryption content from readable text to encrypted text to decode it, allowing for secure communication via computer networks. In other words, people attempting to steal data from your site will be unable to do so since they will be unable to read the meaning of the data without a key. SSL, in particular, allows you to transfer confidential data securely over the Internet because the data is first encrypted and then forwarded. The fundamental purpose of SSL is to protect users’ personal and financial information. As a result, if a user inputs personal information into a website form, the SSL protocol encrypts the information to protect it from theft and unauthorized management.
SSL certificates for webpages are now the industry standard and are required for all websites. Previously, certificates were only needed for web businesses and sites that collected personal information, but now they are also necessary for blogs. They assure the website’s credibility, boost it in search rankings, and offer protection to website users. If you don’t have one on your website already, it is time that you do. An SSL certificate is a must if you collect sensitive data from users on your website for digital shopping, email registrations, or any other reason. But keep in mind that an SSL certificate is still needed even if you do not gather any personal data from users. Google has become increasingly strict about websites that lack an SSL certificate; it has added it to the list of necessary SEO variables that affect your website’s ranking or location in search engine results.
The easiest way to secure your website with an SSL certificate is to use the WP Force SSL. This is an easy tool you can install on your website. It provides a lot of different unique features in configuring SSL. This tool also enables you to scan the content of your website and see if there is anything wrong. Problems with content can significantly ruin your SEO, so it is essential to know if there is an issue. Always double-check everything after installation to ensure everything is working correctly. Visitors’ web browsers will tell them that your website is insecure if you do not have the proper settings. You can get free WP Force SSL or paid WP Force SSL, which offers you more amazing features.
Many individuals believe that the WP Force SSL protocol only benefits websites that handle sensitive data like credit cards or bank account numbers. And while it is necessary for these websites, their advantages are not confined to them. Encryption is one of its key features. When you or your users enter a website, the information passes through several “points” before arriving at its final destination. Without WP Force SSL, this information would be transferred in plain text, which might be intercepted, stolen, or altered by malicious persons. Data integrity is another benefit. Data privacy is ensured during transport by adding an authentication code or MAC to encrypted connections. This guarantees that the message sent is received intact.
If you’re not sure whether a website is SSL-certified, there’s a quick way to find out. If the SSL protocol does not secure the website, Google will inform you automatically by showing “Not secure” in front of the domain name in the web browser. Instead of HTTP, websites protected by an SSL certificate begin with HTTPS, where the S stands for secure. Attackers can acquire access to personal information and the user’s online accounts by visiting pages that start with HTTP. The presence of SSL can also be identified by a little padlock icon next to the website address or by the presence of green in the place where the web address is located.
Approximately 80% of websites are provided with the HTTPS protocol by the most recent Google Chrome web browser data. It’s also expected that nearly all websites will have a certificate authority in the years ahead and that having one will be required by the law governing digital media and Online trade.
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Diesel generators run on diesel fuel, which provides them with the power they need to produce electricity. But diesel generators can also use batteries to store some of this energy, providing a backup power source in case of an outage or emergency.
Which type of battery is used in a generator?
The most common type of battery used in diesel generators is lead-acid.
What type of batteries are used for diesel engines?
There are several kinds of diesel batteries, including:
- AGM – Absorbable Gas Mat Battery. In addition to providing high cold cranking amps, this sort of battery can power your truck’s electrical system for a lengthy period of time.
- Batteries are made of lead.
- Battery Reserves for Cold-Cranking Amps (CCA). These include popular names such as Optima, Odyssey, and. ACDelco.
What size battery do I need to start my generator?
12-volt batteries, like those used in your automobile, are required for a backup generator.
How do I choose a generator battery?
There are a few things to consider when choosing the right battery for your diesel generator, including the type of battery, the size of the battery, and the specific needs of your generator.
Ensure that the battery is appropriate for the purpose required. See a comparison of the battery to the manufacturer’s specifications of comparable batteries. Take into account the battery’s claimed lifetime and the cost vs. accessibility in your location.
Related Questions and Answers
What does 650 CCA mean on a battery?
CCA stands for ‘cold-cranking amps’ and this is the rating that refers to the battery’s ability to start in cold weather. 650 CCA is above a 630, which is more suited to weather that is warmer. However, a 650 CCA is not best for the coldest regions which are better served by 700 CCA batteries.
How many cranking amps do you need to start a diesel?
For every inch of engine displacement, a battery with at least one Cold Cranking Amp (CCA) is often recommended (two for diesels). As the name suggests, the CCA rating tells us how long a battery can keep an amp output steady under certain environmental conditions.
How many volts does a diesel battery need to start?
A voltmeter may be used to verify the battery’s voltage while the engine is running. The battery should be 9 to 10 volts and your starting motor should be drawing roughly 100 amps at the present level and timing.
What size battery do I need for a 24 kW Generac generator?
Generac supplies the suggested 26R wet cell battery for all air-cooled standby generators in an attempt to make installation as simple as possible.
How many volts is a generator battery?
By way of the alternator, power is transferred from the machine to the battery. Battery voltage should be kept between 11.6 and 12.5 volts when the generator is running for the best energy storage.
What battery connection is needed for a diesel generator?
This video should help:
How long should the generator battery last?
A generator battery should last more than a year.
How many watts does a 12v battery charger use?
The battery pack will consume 38 watts when it reaches its maximum voltage of 12.6 volts and is charged at 1c (1 times the capacity rating for 3amps). Multiplying the voltage by the current gives the result. 38 watts is the result of 12.6 volts times three amps.
Is it OK to use a higher CCA battery?
In general, a higher CCA or RC score is preferable. However, if you reside in a cold environment, you should take the CCA rating into account while making your purchase. You don’t need as much CCA if you live in a hot environment.
What do 1000 peak amps mean?
Peak amp ratings refer to the amount of energy produced at peak intervals. In general, peak amps normally fall between 300 and 1000 amps, with some exceeding 3000 amps.
What does CA mean on a battery?
Cold-cranking amps (CCA) and cranking amps (CA) are shown on batteries. At 32 degrees Fahrenheit, the cranking amps are rated. Temperature affects the rating of amps, with greater temperatures resulting in a higher rating for the amp. Many machines utilize amplifiers with cold-cranking capabilities.
How many amps does a diesel alternator produce?
For welding rigs, trucks with air tools, and other utility vehicles, the OEM alternator may only provide 35 amps at 4,000 RPM. Upgraded units are available that can generate more than 100 amps at idle and more than 200 amps at greater engine speeds.
How many CCAs does a 7.3 Powerstroke need?
The manufacturing batteries each have a capacity of about 850 CCA.
How many amps does a diesel engine use?
The starter’s voltage is often less than 160 amps, which is typical. The alternator provides 13 amps of electricity. It is required to have a power source that can provide 29-60 amps.
What should a Duramax battery voltage be?
If your meter is accurate, a fresh battery that has been fully charged should register 12.6 or 12.66 volts. If your batteries aren’t charging off the shelf, it’s not always a sign that they’re faulty.
How many volts does it take to start an engine?
To get an automobile started, you’ll need at least 12.6 volts. In use, this value ranges from 13.75 to 14.75 volts.
What size battery goes in a 20kW Generac generator?
With all air-cooled standby products (excluding PowerPact®), Generac recommends the 26R wet cell battery.
How much does a Generac generator battery cost?
Generac’s 26R, a wet cell battery, is compatible with all air-cooled standby generators and is the simplest battery to install. From $99.00 to $139.00 for the battery alone, these batteries are available.
Diesel generators with batteries have enhanced energy storage capacity to provide backup power to your home during an emergency. It is important to know what kind of battery you need and the amount of power it can store before purchasing one.
The “diesel generator battery charging system” is the device that keeps the diesel engine running. The battery will be charged by the generator’s alternator or an external power source.
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Global Food Studies has been privileged to host Associate Professor Sven Anders from University of Alberta. Prof Anders is visiting Global Food Studies from January to July 2014. He has published extensively on topics related to food and meat marketing, food retailing and consumer demand and international trade.
We talked about his current projects and how these projects address some of the key issues in global food markets including changing consumer demand and issues with agricultural trade.
Prof Anders’s work is currently focussing on at least three topics. The first one is on quality-based product differentiation. His work aims to see how consumers demand for food products with health attributes and how retailers respond to this demand. In an article with Waseem Ahmad in 2012 entitled “The Value of Brand and Convenience Attributes in Highly Processed Food Products“, using data from Canada Prof Anders suggested that there is evidence of consumer preferences for perceived “natural” and health attributes over products with higher degrees of processing.
Prof Anders has also been actively doing research on the relationship between food health attributes and perceptions, food labelling and specific food health outcomes such as Body Mass Index (BMI). In Northern America, there is evidence that consumers who pay more attention to food labels are most likely to have lower BMI. Similarly, his study on the economics of health and vitamin consumption suggested that consumers who take vitamins and supplements are most likely to have better health outcomes.
While most of his work have been focussed on developed countries, Prof Anders has also looked at issues affecting developing countries using global coffee markets as a case study. His work has been motivated by a ‘static’ concept of comparative advantage. Standard international trade theory suggests that a country should export commodities in which it has comparative advantage. However, various factors may influence coffee trade flows from exporting countries (eg Brazil, Indonesia, Columbia). The factors may include political stability, fluctuations in supply of production factors, climate, etc. Therefore, Prof Anders’ work is to assess determinants of the survival of coffee trade using survival analysis which has not been much applied in the trade literature.
Prof Anders’s work is expected to provide contribution to not only development literature but also some policy recommendations on developing global food markets. He views that his work in developed countries have potentials to be adopted in developing countries. Issues such as food labelling have been increasingly important in many developing countries and lessons from developed countries should be taken into account by governments and other stakeholders in developing countries, in particular lessons about what worked and what did not work. These lessons may assist develop strategies to improve global food markets effectively considering complex issues related to human’s health and food production and distribution.
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It was a wonderful—if completely illogical—hope: If we could just crawl past the midnight finish line of 2020, the spell of a very bad year would break, and we’d be saved. Cue the confetti! But 2021 came with other ideas, and here we are in 2022.
“The carriage turned back into a pumpkin real quick,” says Jhanelle Peters, a registered psychotherapist (qualifying) and mental health clinician to the Toronto Raptors. She’s been talking about this with her clients lately. “In the days leading up to January 1st, we drank a big glass of what I call ‘Hope Kool-Aid,’ preparing ourselves for a better version of ourselves and the world.” But she says many of us didn’t leave “room in our cup” for the unknown, the uncontrollable. This is always a recipe for a letdown, but this year, when the stakes are so high and the events of January are so grim, it feels like a cliff to fall off of.
If 2021 was somehow worse than 2020, how do we cope in 2022? This feels way above banana bread’s pay grade. “It’s all about how we comfort and nourish our mind and body back to a state of stability after facing things like anxiety, fear, trauma,” explains Peters, who notes that many of us self-soothe without even knowing it, like tapping our foot when we’re agitated or biting our nails when we’re nervous. Yes, self-soothing—the thing that babies learn to do to regulate their emotional state. “In reality, not much changes when we become adults, although the good news is that we have more options than resorting back to a pacifier or thumb-sucking,” says Peters.
Here a few practical ways to calm anxiety and soothe ourselves through 2021.
1. Pay attention to your senses
Much as one baby responds to rocking while another loathes it, self-soothing works differently for different adults. To find what works for you, Peters suggests experimenting with your responses to the five senses—touch, hearing, sight, smell, taste—and then find calming activities that tap into them. If you respond to smells, go in with aromatherapy. Sound? Try saying some positive affirmations aloud. Sight? Go for a walk and take in some nature. Taste? Eat your favourite snack, taking the time to savour it. Touch? Wrap yourself up in a soft blanket.
If Peters finds the climbing COVID numbers are making her anxious, here’s what she does: “I remove myself [from the news], and then I engage in my favourite sense, which is touch…although being the extra person that I am, I find a way to throw several of them into the mix at once,” she says. “I have a hot shower and play my favourite Jazmine Sullivan track to calm my nerves and release any form of tension. I hang a eucalyptus plant in the shower too, and the steam makes it give off this lovely aromatherapy experience.”
2. Write yourself a letter
A study showed that doing an exercise that involves writing down your concerns and feelings once a day for seven days “decreased depression for three months and increased happiness for six months,” according to Dr. Kristin Neff.
Neff is a pioneering researcher into “self-compassion,” which she defines as “stepping outside of yourself, and treating yourself with the same kindness you would show to someone you care about.” (She’s written several books on the subject, and is an associate professor at the University of Texas at Austin.) She says showing yourself compassion comprises three elements: mindfulness, kindness and a sense of connectedness.
The writing exercise from the study is a great way to put this into practice. Sit down with a piece of paper, think of a situation that’s troubling you, and begin by writing a paragraph that just acknowledges how you’re feeling. “This gives you some perspective and space for your reactions,” says Neff.
Next, write a paragraph that reflects on what Neff calls our “common humanity,” the understanding that we’re not alone in our suffering, and that it’s a normal part of being human. “Compassion recognizes that everyone struggles, and we’re all imperfect,” she says. Finally, write a paragraph of kindness, speaking to yourself the way you would a good friend.
“It’s asking yourself, ‘What do I need to do to care for myself right now?’”, explains Neff, who says that sometimes that’s just showing “warm acceptance” toward ourselves, while other times it’s taking an action to effect change, whether that’s exercising to feel better or going out to protest against injustice.
3. Put your hand on your heart
You can “bypass your brain,” as Neff puts it, by simply placing your hand on your heart, or touching your face tenderly. “The primary way parents show compassion to infants is through warm touch,” she says, adding that as mammals we’re primed to respond to this simple but powerful act. “It activates our parasympathetic nervous system [which controls things like our heart rate] and releases cortisol to help us calm ourselves down.” She also suggests putting your hands on your stomach, or anywhere you feel a difficult emotion in your body, and simply telling yourself, “I’m here for you.”
4. Embrace the adult bedtime story
If laying your head on the pillow is an invitation for all your darkest fears to come visiting, you might find comfort in someone reading you a bedtime story…especially if it’s, say, Harry Styles? Thanks to a new trend for celebrities reading us “sleep stories,” his dulcet tones (and others, including Nick Jonas, Chris Hemsworth and Laura Dern) are just an app download away. The meditation app Calm houses Styles’s Dream With Me and Mathew McConaughey’s Wonder, while Audible has guided meditations from Diddy, plus a whole shelf of celebrities like Emma Thompson and Reese Witherspoon reading classic novels, if you fancy making it a standing appointment.
5. Don’t feel the pressure to make it “mindful”
Sure, meditations and sound baths are great, but they don’t work for everyone, or in every moment. Peters gets it. “Sometimes, I enjoy a little bit more of an upbeat distraction,” she says. It’s why she recommends “entirely off-topic” podcasts like Lip Service with Angela Yee or The Black Girl Podcast, or even a paint-by-numbers kit from The Amazing Paint Party. “What matters most is what makes you feel stable and present,” she says. And yes, it’s okay if that’s watching Friends for the 117,000th time.
6. Resist the urge to numb out
There is a difference between soothing an emotion and denying its existence altogether. “Feeling sad or anxious is our body’s way of responding to a situation,” says Peters. “It’s our body trying to tell us something, and it’s okay to listen to it for a bit.” Feelings are hard, however, and you might be tempted to just numb them with food or wine or endless scrolling. The danger there is that one day, all those bottled feelings could emerge in what Peters calls the “Hulk smash,” which is so much harder to manage than acknowledging our feelings along the way.
“Allow yourself the time to be sad or anxious if there is something that caused it,” says Peters, and then “reach into your toolbox and use what you need at that moment to feel better.” She recommends reading Alexandra Elle’s After The Rain, “a great book that goes right for those uncomfortable feelings and coats them in understanding and affirmations.”
7. Allow for imperfection
If you’re, say, trying to juggle a full-time job while virtual-schooling kids, and feeling 100 per cent overwhelmed, you might particularly benefit from what Neff calls “tender self compassion” as well as “fierce compassion.” The first lets you say, “This sucks, this hurts, this is hard, I’m doing the best I can,” says Neff. The second allows you to draw some boundaries and empowers you to say no when possible.
“There are no easy answers in how to make that balance,” says Neff, who’s in a similar situation herself as a working parent. “But what is important is that when you approach those decisions, you give equal weight to your own needs. As women, our value is so tied up in being helpful, meeting everyone else’s needs, and we often don’t include ourselves in the equation. But if we don’t, we’re going to burn out, and you can’t meet anyone’s needs if you’re a puddle on the floor.” The answer isn’t a “screw you, I’m just going to do what I want,” she says, but rather a willingness to compromise on perfection and including your needs in a solution.
8. Let yourself to have a “fallow period”
In Katherine May’s new book, Wintering, she makes a case for being fully present in the “fallow periods” of our lives, which she defines as “when you’re cut off from the world, feeling rejected, sidelined, blocked from progress or cast into the role of an outsider.” (So, basically, right now for most of us.) Her remedy for these “winters” of our lives is simple: Welcome the season, slow down, let yourself rest, and throw off the burden of trying to be level-10 happy all the time. It’s okay to hibernate for a little while—literally or emotionally—but she also suggests finding solace in the winter season itself. Her choice, swimming in icy cold seawater, might be unappealing and/or inaccessible, but consider a long walk in snowy woods, or even just appreciating the particular beauty of a winter sunset. | <urn:uuid:5053e06c-2cce-4ed0-86d3-b8f4ca1e6b66> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://thekit.ca/living/health/how-to-calm-anxiety/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573163.7/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818033705-20220818063705-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.949765 | 2,275 | 1.742188 | 2 |
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We are always looking for fun ways to study our history together. Heroes, Heroines, and Tales of Ancient History by Amy Puetz and Golden Prairie Press most definitely fits the bill. I just LOVE products from Golden Prairie Press. They are SO well done and so much fun, you can’t go wrong!
When I first found Amy’s products I was a little skeptical because of, quite frankly, the price and, of course, the promise of multilevel learning but I must say it’s worth EVERY PENNY. I love the layout, the easy-to-use format, the many, many extras that you can use or pick and choose form, the audio files that are included and the fun ways of learning for the whole family. And it’s a solid, full year curriculum. Actually, you get quite a bit of bang for your buck with this Heroes, Heroines, and Tales of Ancient History.
If you haven’t heard of Amy Puetz and her great products, you can check out my previous review of her Heroes and Heroines of the Past: American History curriculum. This time, with a focus on Ancient History, the product does not disappoint.
Now let me tell you a little about HHT because, I’m here to tell you, you will find something to appeal to every type of learner, at almost every age, in your homeschool. We certainly did!
WHAT YOU GET
When you first visit the website, and take a look at the Heroes, Heroines, and Tales of Ancient History curriculum, you will see that you have the choice of digital download or a printed product (by the way, check out the current sale available on the printed product). We received the Heroes, Heroines, and Tales of Ancient History digital download, which means we had access to the course right away. It comes in multiple .zip files but was easy to download.
The directions on how to download and start using your product are easy to understand and it all goes really quickly. Another thing I love is that there are UNLIMITED downloads available from your online account with Golden Prairie Press. I have run into so many sites that have only a certain number of downloads or a time period before you don’t have access to the digital product anymore. This is frustrating to me because you never know when you will have a data failure, need a new computer, and then you don’t have your products you have paid for. NO WORRIES HERE WITH GOLDEN PRAIRIE PRESS – unlimited downloads with no expiration! That is DEFINITELY a plus in my book.
Here’s what we received in our files when we purchase Heroes, Heroines, and Tales of Ancient History:
- Heroes, Heroines, and Tales of Ancient History Part 1 – Lessons for the first half of the year.
- Heroes, Heroines, and Tales of Ancient History Part 2 – Lessons for the second half of the year.
- Additional Materials CD – This CD has supplemental materials. There are printable timelines, instructions and entertaining videos, color artwork, pronunciations, and much more.
- Historical Skits – Performing historical skits is a great way to bring history to life.
- Sing Some Ancient History CD – This CD contains the songs mentioned in the books.
- Listen to Some Ancient History MP3 CD – An audio collection of original speeches, letters, and documents
There is an option Heroes, Heroines, and Tales of Ancient History Coloring Book which will become available to go along with this curriculum- look for it in July. We were given the opportunity to get a “sneak peak” at this fun, optional accompaniment to this study.
HOW IT WORKS – Multi-Age and Learning Together
The Heroes, Heroines, and Tales of Ancient History book is designed for 1st through 6th grade. Each lesson has 5 days of lessons. Part 1 has 15 lessons and begins with the study of Creation and ends with Alexander the Great. Part 2 is the study from the Hellenistic Age to the Dark Ages beginning with lesson 16 on the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World and ending with lesson 30 on Attila the Hun, Genevieve Saves Paris, Clovis and Clotilda, Genseric the Vandal and Saint Patrick.
Each daily lesson has a lower grades and an upper grades options. For instance, Lesson 1 has a lesson for grades 1 and 2 and a lesson for grades 3 through 6. Some lessons are for all grades. Each lesson is 3-5 pages of reading, with drawing, colorful pictures, review questions and activities to correspond with the lesson. The additional resources that are included with your download, like the Ancient History Skits, Ancient History songs to sing, and the audio collection of speeches, letters and documents, are references during corresponding lessons. It is easy to know when to use these.
The optional coloring book has a page for each lesson with a coloring activity and a few lines for use if you wish to notebook along with the study. We used the coloring pages as an additional option and I had my son do his copywork of the weekly Bible verse (or a portion of it) onto the lines on the coloring page. My older daughter did this a few times as well.
Each weekly lesson has a corresponding Bible verse to learn and memorize. Though the King James Version is references throughout the lesson, I liked that the memory verse is not PROVIDED for the student, only the book and verse so that any Bible can be used with the curriculum. My son got a special Bible this year that is not the same as his sisters so they could each use their own Bibles with the study.
There are different activities with each lesson and age-appropriate activities options like puzzles, recipes, making things out of play-doh, drawing, writing, and many others. You can pick and choose which activities are best for your learner. For instance everyone made an ark out of playdoh (they even have a homemade recipe included) but only my 5th grader worked on the writing prompts.
There are art studies sprinkled throughout the curriculum and the art is included right within the curriculum. The art was very clear, easy to use, and pictures were very colorful. I really thought this was a nice touch to the curriculum. Look at this beautiful Art from the 1500’s.
LAYOUT AND GUIDE
There are memory verses throughout the curriculum, spread out every few lessons to learn and recite later. This was a nice addition. We added this to our Bible verse studies. The curriculum asks the student to write the memory verse on a 3X5 card and then work on it each day to recite from memory. I liked having a set of 3×5 cards of Bible verses to refer to and my oldest didn’t mind copying them down. My son would not have liked that so if I had just been doing this with a younger child, I probably would have copied the verses onto the cards.
The guide is easy to follow and easy to know when to add one of the additional resources included with the curriculum.
EXTRAS – AUDIOS AND HANDS-ON LEARNING
The Historical Skits e-book had 10 skits from the Ancient Greece to Early Christian Era. The e-book states when the skits correspond with the time period being studied. The skits included in the e-book include such skits as Pandora’s Box (Greek Legend), Ulysses (Green Hero), Damon and Pythias (c.430-367 BC) and Alexander Learns a Lesson in Justice (300s BC) to name a few.
Since my kids are drama kings and queens for sure, adding these skits is a fun way to learn about history and act out something we have been learning about. Since I only one strong reader and 1 beginner reader (and a toddler) it made it a little difficult but we adapt and overcome. Dad and I filled in on some and even had a performance with my oldest student’s friends when they were over. I knew my oldest would love the skits and I was right, she really would have been fine directing the entire exercise!
Here are some of the extras that are found throughout the lessons:
- Examining Historical Art
- Games of the Past
- Cook Up Some History
- Sing Some Ancient History
- Listen to Some Ancient History
HOW WE USED IT
When the lessons were 2 levels I usually read the lighter level and then had my 5th grader read her level herself while I got my son started on his activities. We did all the activities together for the most part, though cooking/recipes was my daughter’s thing and my son didn’t have much interest. He didn’t like the skits as well as my older daughter but played along because he does like to ‘act.’
We loved the songs that went along with the curriculum and, quite frankly, could spend 2 weeks on each lesson if we wanted. It is easy to handle the 5 days a week pace because the lessons are 30-60 minutes depending upon the type of activities. And, if you skip an activity, you don’t lose anything from the lesson, so it’s really a matter of how much time you WANT to spend on each lesson. We spent 20 minutes one day and an hour another day. We typically only do history 4 days a week so we tried to combine 2 lessons one day. I did this by looking ahead to the week and seeing which days we could “double up” and that worked just fine. The lessons are very manageable in length and quite fun.
It is advised to look ahead to each week beforehand to see the supplies you will need to have on-hand to do the activities. The curriculum does supply the lists of weekly supplies on the Additional Resource CD, which is a nice reference. You will also find maps and timelines to be used on the Additional Resources CD. The answer key to the questions etc are at the back of each corresponding book, which is helpful, especially if you student is working independently.
WHAT WE THOUGHT
Overall, we just LOVED Heroes, Heroines, and Tales of Ancient History and look forward to finishing up this study. We were given the opportunity to review the digital edition of this fantastic ancient history curriculum. Loaded with historical crafts, games, songs, and recipes, you are so busy having fun that you almost forget you are learning!
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(RepublicanReport.org) – In 1960, Sharon Lee Gallegos was abducted outside her grandmother’s home in Alamogordo, New Mexico. Ten days later, the authorities found a child’s body 500 miles away in Arizona, but were unable to confirm whether the remains belonged to Gallegos. Now, thanks to modern technology, the authorities have finally identified her.
On Tuesday, March 15, sheriffs from various counties announced the deceased child found in Arizona, whom analysts had dubbed “Little Miss Nobody” because of the unsolved nature of the case, was indeed Sharon Lee Gallegos. This finding was the result of a years-long effort to solve the cold case. Officers exhumed the body in 2015, but DNA testing was not sophisticated enough to point them in the right direction at the time.
In 2016, researchers produced a 3D reconstruction of the girl’s face, leading to the initial connection with the name Sharon Lee Gallegos. Then, the investigating team tracked down a living relative and confirmed there was matching DNA between that person and the young girl’s body, giving them a direct connection.
After more than six decades, a missing girl known as "Little Miss Nobody" finally has a name. https://t.co/yv6z1qrFAb
— ABC News (@ABC) March 16, 2022
Those working on the case say there’s still work to do. They would like to determine the identity of the individual, or individuals, who abducted Sharon Lee Gallegos 62 years ago.
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- No And! The secret of meeting error lies in knowing its nature. And the nature of error can be summed up in such words as "carnal mind," "suggestion," "appearance," or "hypnotism." The nature of error as hypnotism, or the carnal mind, can be illustrated in this way: If there were a plant in the room where you are now sitting and if someone hypnotized you, he could make you believe that, instead of branches, snakes were growing out of the flowerpot, and you would accept and believe it. Through hypnotic suggestion, the hypnotist has taken temporary control of your mind, and because you are apparently unable to act independently, you follow his suggestion to its logical conclusion. A fear of the snakes is set up in you; you run away from them and may even pick up a knife with which to chop off their heads-all this based on the belief that snakes are actually there. No matter what you might do to those nonexistent snakes, you still could not change the fact that as long as you remain hypnotized you will see snakes. There is no possible way for you to be rid of those snakes except to become dehypnotized; there is no way to get rid of your fear of snakes except to become dehypnotized; there is no way to put up your sword except to become dehypnotized. In other words, as long as the hypnosis lasts, all the component parts of the picture are there, are they not? Now just as it is possible to hypnotize you into believing that there are snakes in the room, so is it possible to hypnotize you into believing that there is a selfhood other than God in any place where you happen to be. As soon as you have been hypnotized into believing in a selfhood apart from God, you then logically accept all the beliefs regarding this selfhood: birth, growth, maturity, and ultimately death. There is only one way to be rid of the human picture, and that is to understand that there is no person and there is no selfhood other than God in the room or in any other place. But the hypnotized person ...
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The Master Speaks: Chapter 9, A High Form of Treatment
- ~ 9 ~ A HIGH FORM OF TREATMENT We must come to the realization that we are adults, and that we should be able to stand on our own two feet without being dependent on some one or some thing. This spiritual independence is achieved through the realization of our oneness with God: "I and my Father are one." This oneness with the Father constitutes my oneness with every spiritual being and idea. Therefore, I need not seek my good or be concerned about my good, because my oneness with God constitutes my good. It constitutes the law of attraction, bringing to me all that is necessary for my unfoldment, for the revelation of my true being, for my daily experience. Right where I am, God is. Right where I am, the allness of God is. This ever presence of God makes me independent of person, place, thing, circumstance, condition, or relationship. Wherever I am, the fullness of God is revealing Itself. The place whereon I stand is holy ground. Right here, right now, the allness of God is made manifest as my individual experience, and the awareness of this truth is the law unto that experience. I and the Father are one. In this oneness is my self-completeness. I am, therefore, Self-maintained; I am Self-sustained. The Self of me, the Reality of me, maintains and sustains me, supports and upholds me, teaches me, enlightens me, enriches me. This truth is a light unto my path. This truth is my salvation. The awareness of this truth-the conscious awareness of this truth-sets me free from human dependence. I am in the world, but not of it. I enjoy all the experiences, all the relationships, all the joys, all the companionships, that are a part of God's spiritual creation. And yet I am free. All those with whom I come in contact are free-free to enjoy each other, but not to hold each other in any sense of bondage, physical, mental, moral, or economic. Each one is free in Christ. I find my freedom in Christ. I find my economic freedom, my political freedom, my physical freedom, my moral ...
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A Message for the Ages: Chapter 5, Infinite Way Pearls
- Chapter Five Infinite Way Pearls Several major contributions have been made to the world through the Infinite Way. One of these does away with belief, faith, and hope in God as a word in the mind or as existing some place remote from us, and reveals instead that the illumined consciousness of an individual is God. When a person has the mind that was in Christ Jesus, he has the God-mind. When he does not have the mind that was in Christ Jesus, in reality he has no God, for there is no God separate and apart from the illumined consciousness of an individual. The unillumined consciousness is not God, but the illumined consciousness is. Is there any principle in the Infinite Way greater than the truth that God is individual consciousness, your consciousness and mine? This is the top secret because to my knowledge it is the first time it has been revealed. Everyone has a consciousness; therefore, everyone has God; but there are two states of consciousness: the illumined consciousness and the unillumined consciousness. Your consciousness and mine are either unillumined or illumined. It may not be wholly unillumined and it may not be wholly illumined, but it is at some stage in between. If the unillumined have a God at all, it is a God separate and apart from their own being. It may be something as paganistic as a man on a cross or a man who walked the streets of Galilee. But if a person has a man for a God, either the man of Galilee or an old gentleman up in the sky with a great big book, marking down a person's good days and his bad days, he is totally unillumined. The closer a person comes to the realization that the kingdom of God is within him, the more quickly he will go from the unillumined to the illumined, until he finally reaches the realization: God constitutes my individual consciousness; therefore, my consciousness is imbued with the quantities and qualities of God- not just a little bit but the fullness of God. The highest illumination involves an awareness ...
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- Chapter Four God Formed Man for His Glory But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned. I Corinthians 2:14 If a spiritual message such as the Infinite Way sounds like foolishness to you, it is because you are seeing and hearing as a human being and can be counted among those of whom Jesus spoke, "Having eyes, see ye not? and having ears, hear ye not?"1 If, on the other hand, this message makes sense to you, it is because your human sense of life is becoming fainter and your spiritual discernment is being awakened and aroused to perceive it. In a colloquy with his disciples the Master asked: Whom do men say that I the Son of man am? And they said, Some say that thou art John the Baptist: some, Elias; and others, Jeremias, or one of the prophets. . . . But whom say ye that I am? And Simon Peter answered and said, Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God. And Jesus answered and said unto him, Blessed art thou, Simon Barjona: for flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee, but my Father which is in heaven. Matthew 16:13-17 It was as if Jesus had said to the disciples: "The mind did not tell you that; your eyes did not see it; your ears did not hear it: the Father within you, your spiritual sense, revealed it to you." So it is with a spiritual message. You will never learn a spiritual message merely through the physical senses, not by seeing or by hearing. You will learn a spiritual message when your heavenly Father, that is, your spiritual consciousness, is awake and reveals to you that this is truth, this is the Christ, this is reality. Then are you able to accept it, receive it, respond to it, and demonstrate it. Thought Is Not Power Some persons have accepted the belief that their human mind is God and that by thinking good thoughts they will come true. There are some who believe that if you send them a good thought it will benefit them, ...
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Our Spiritual Resources: Chapter Two, Begin Prayer with the Word God
- ... A person can be the most unregenerate sinner in the world, but he will be made as white as snow in the moment that he contacts God. It makes no difference what his fears or sins may be today. Do not sit in judgment on him; do not criticize or condemn him. Remember that your function is to reveal the Christ, and instead of sitting in judgment on the Magdalenes and thieves and alcoholics, turn around and love them, forgive them, understand them, and place them in God's keeping where God's love and God's forgiveness and God's grace can reach them. One second of God-realization will dispel any sin, any disease, or any fear that has ever existed on the face of the earth-but it must be God-realization and not just talk about God or preaching about God. God-experience must come to you, and that experience is what dispels the sins, diseases, and illusions of the world. Keep your consciousness attuned to God, never bringing your thought down to the level of a patient, a discord, or an ... Out of the spiritualized individual consciousness come the great works of the masters, and in proportion to this deepening and enriching of consciousness will come forth the great works given you to do. I do not expect that the day will ever come when there will be one church on earth, since for many generations to come there will be varying states and stages of consciousness, but this need not in any way interfere with the ultimate realization of the great truth that there is but one God, and this God is the God of all churches, and therefore, regardless of our affiliation or nonaffiliation, we are brothers to one another. And now a final word: If you find it difficult to forgive those who have offended you or yours, pray daily that God forgive them. Forgiveness is one of the great spiritual qualities, but personal sense does make it difficult at times for us to understand and demonstrate the true nature of forgiveness. Nevertheless, we can always turn to God and ask that God forgive ...
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New York Needs More Nurses
As long as people rely on hospitals for health treatment, there will be a never-ending need for nurses worldwide. This is especially true in high-population areas like New York, where a state shortage of nurses has caught the attention of the New York Times.
In most hospitals around the state, nurses are finding themselves overworked and exhausted, often having to treat as many as seven to ten patients at a time, instead of the recommended four. While hospital administrators may see this as an “efficient” use of money, nurses are fighting back, saying that it is not safe to treat that many patients at once.
We can examine in-depth what is causing this need for more nurses, but, in the meantime, it can be safe to say that nursing will continue to be a groundswell opportunity for those that decide to take the training necessary to enter the field.
Of course, the understaffing of these hospitals is just a symptom of a much larger problem. A hospital is a business, after all. Unfortunately, many times this gets in the way of patient care. Sometimes it goes unnoticed, or can even be seen as “innovative.” However, artificial scarcity of nurses in the hospital is noticeable to all, especially the patients.
As long as hospitals continue to run solely on their profitability, it will be difficult to enact change quickly. With that being said, having your case publicized in one of the nation’s most recognized newspapers is bound to help.
The decisions made in the board room eventually bleed down to the patients somehow, and deliberate understaffing has stretched many New York nurses as far as they can go.
Luckily, hiring rates for nurses and nursing assistants in New York have been growing at an incredible rate. While it’s true that this is due in some part to the high turnover in many of the larger hospitals state-wide, in-hospital employment rates have also gone up, showing that some hospital administrators may be listening.
This is fantastic news for nurses, or anyone currently enrolled in a nurse school in NYC.
According to Dale Beatty of the University of Illinois Hospital & Health Sciences System, demand is higher now for nurses than ever before, and new technology has created new positions, allowing nurses to move up quickly within the hospital structure. This, plus a newly reinvigorated focus on patient care, has contributed to a national shift toward meeting higher standards of patient care quality. In fact, S.1132, also known as the Registered Nurse Safe Staffing Act of 2015, received enough support to be introduced on the floor of the Senate. The bill has yet to be passed in either branch of the legislature, but it is due for re-introduction later this year.
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Upon assuming the presidency, many observers expressed reservations about what a Trump administration foreign policy would look like. More than any other representative of President Donald Trump’s government, United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley has answered those critics.
At the UN, Haley has articulated a clear vision of how America would handle itself on the world stage: a stalwart friend to its allies, fearsome foe to its enemies, and consistent voice of reason in a forum often governed by the whims of authoritarian regimes and violent special interests.
This week, for example, Haley made clear the Trump administration would stop at nothing to curb dictator Kim Jong-un’s threats in North Korea and uproot Iranian terror proxies from Syria.
“We’re not ruling anything out,” Haley told reporters on Wednesday in response to what the United States would do in response to North Korea’s latest missile tests, which Pyongyang openly admitted were in preparation for an attack on U.S. bases in Japan. She offered a staunch defense of the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) missile system: “We are not going to leave South Korea standing there with the threat of North Korea facing them and not help. The reason for THAAD is because of the actions of North Korea.”
Both China and Russia, permanent members of the UN Security Council, disapprove of the deployment of THAAD in South Korea. The system allows South Korea to reach deep into both countries, as well as North Korea, to destroy any missiles heading its way.
“Tell me why we wouldn’t do the THAAD in light of twenty-four ballistic missiles? In light of two nuclear tests?” Haley asked critics.
Haley’s support for South Korea is a far cry from what domestic and South Korean critics feared out of a Trump administration – a full withdrawal from Asia. As a candidate, Trump had encouraged both nations to be self-reliant, even invoking the possibility of nuclear weapons development.
Critics also claimed Trump’s White House would remain silent in the face of Russian belligerence in Eastern Europe. As chief international representative to that White House, Haley has done no such thing. On the contrary; her debut before the UN Security Council was a condemnation of Russian military incursions into Eastern Ukraine. “I consider it unfortunate on the occasion of my first appearance here I must condemn the aggressive actions of Russia,” she said during her first appearance before the Security Council. “We do want to better our relations with Russia… however, the dire situation in eastern Ukraine is one that demands clear and strong condemnation of Russian actions.”
“We have criticized Russia for Crimea and Ukraine, for the actions they’ve taken there. We will call them out when we see something wrong. If we see where we can work together, of course, we’re going to try and do that,” Haley told an Al Jazeera journalist this week, once again condemning Russia, this time for supporting Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad and opposing resolutions condemning his use of chemical weapons against civilians.
Haley has also been excellent as a vocal ally of Israel, the only functioning democracy in the Middle East. Among her first acts as UN Ambassador were a visit to the family of an Israel soldier killed by the terrorist group Hamas and a rebuke of the Security Council generally for its “obsession” with Israel.
Calling its attacks on Israel “breathtaking,” Haley highlighted in February that the UN “Department of Political Affairs has an entire department devoted to Palestinian affairs… there is not a division devoted to illegal missile launches from North Korea.”
“There is no division devoted to the world’s number one state sponsor of terror, Iran,” she noted, a country she demanded the international community take out of Syria entirely this week, despite Iran being Assad’s most prominent ally.
“I’m here to say the United States will not turn a blind eye to this anymore. I’m here to underscore the ironclad support of the United States for Israel,” she concluded.
Haley’s support of Israel is a particularly striking contrast with her predecessor Samantha Power’s decision to abstain from a Security Council vote against Israel in December, a final abandonment of America’s longtime ally on the world stage before President Obama’s departure.
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Authors: Uma Kelekar; Xiang Liu
Addresses: Health Care Management, Marymount University School of Business, 1000, North Glebe Road, Arlington, VA 22201, USA ' Information Technology, Marymount University, 1000, North Glebe Road, Arlington, VA, 22201, USA
Abstract: This paper provides an overview of some of the uses of geographic information systems (GIS) in public health management - diagnosing and investigating health problems, analysing environmental hazards, analysing locations and access to health services, planning the use of health services and resources, managing public health emergencies, and disease surveillance. It enumerates a number of applications of GIS in epidemiology and healthcare research in the developing world, followed by an analysis of the diarrheal disease in the Philippines. Using a combination of descriptive methods, this study presents a visual comparison of distribution of diarrheal disease incidence and distribution of households with sanitary infrastructure and safe drinking water across provinces in the Philippines. A spatial autoregressive model is performed in order to examine whether there is spatial dependence of disease occurrence among provinces. The paper concludes with a discussion of extending the spatial methods to study other issues in public health research and its uses to public health managers.
Keywords: public sector management; geographic information systems; GIS; developing countries; geography; public health management; epidemiology research; healthcare research; diarrhea; Philippines; sanitary infrastructure; safe drinking water; spatial autoregressive modelling.
International Journal of Business Performance Management, 2013 Vol.14 No.4, pp.418 - 434
Received: 08 May 2021
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Food plants operate on a whole different level than other product processing plants. The machines, work areas, and employees must follow specific guidelines to ensure that food is clean, safe, and properly prepared. If any issues were to occur, there could be health problems for consumers or major recalls for the company. This is why it's important to have specific parts that can make everything go smoothly. As food is prepared and packaged in your plant, it's a good idea to consider machine control with electric valve actuators.
Water jet cutting is a very powerful way of cutting materials. It is a very precise method of cutting and is ecological as it only uses water pressure and an abrasive to function. Water jet cutting is a very safe and powerful tool that can be precisely programmed to make intricate cuts in many different materials. Here are some of the capabilities of a water jet cutter:
Water Jet Cutting Benefits: Water jet cutters use high-speed water pressure and not heat to cut through materials.
Steel is a metal that is absolutely vital to the construction industry and isn't going away anytime soon. That said, there are plenty of alternative building materials that are available to builders, and the variety is only increasing each year. So why does steel maintain a distinct advantage? Keep reading to discover just a few benefits of using steel in construction projects big and small.
Steel is one of the strongest materials on the planet.
Dumpsters come in a variety of sizes. They are measured by cubic yard, meaning a ten yard dumpster will hold ten cubic yards of debris. You can rent a 5 yard dumpster for a small project in your yard, while the most common dumpster rental is a 20 yard dumpster. This size is good for many projects, and it is always useful to rent a dumpster that can hold all of your trash at once.
As natural resources continue to become more and more depleted, the recycling of metal is more important than ever before. Working with a metal processor in your area can be a great way to help the environment while generating some additional cash.
If you are looking to expand your scrap metal collection activities, here are a few simple tips that can make your operation more efficient.
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The collar pecais are tiny pigs found in the desert regions of the video game. They flee quickly and have a large observation variety (that is to state that they will probably see you as well as leave you prior to you do not Have actually seen in shrubs).
The day-to-day challenge forces players to kill and skin the animal, which, if it is done as well usually, will certainly anger Harriet. To prevent getting mad, lasso the animal and also kill it with the knife. For any reason, Harriet is not (yet) set to acknowledge that it killed his pals and will certainly salute you gently.
The collar pecais are usual in the desert. Anywhere in the south of the huge levels aura.
We found a couple of factors of look near the Coronado Sea and the Benedict pass.
Red Dead Online offers different day-to-day difficulties to gain meager quantities of gold daily. These obstacles run every 24-hour. They can be anything, varying from an area looking for a specific pet. One of these challenges is to skin a collar pecari.
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Sustainability projects at Community Recycling Centres
When we think about Community Recycling Centres (CRCs), 'the tip' and 'the dump' probably spring to mind, but our CRCs offer so much more than just a place to take unwanted items.
We've been working with our waste contractor Suez on various projects to increase recycling and re-use in Surrey.
Walking aid reuse scheme
All 15 CRCs in Surrey are now official collection points for walking aids like crutches and walking frames. All equipment will be put back into use in the South West London Elective Orthopedic Centre (SWLEOC) at Epsom and St Hellier Hospital which has been having disruptions to their supplies.
Earlswood Revive Shop has donated almost 20 bikes to The Bike Project, a charity which takes in second hand bikes, refurbishes them and matches them with refugees and asylum seekers in the UK. One new owner is a 20 year old Nigerian refugee who has been waiting for a bike for nine months. The bike will help them access food banks, legal advice, healthcare, education and employment.
Employment for prison leavers and reducing waste
SUEZ and HMP Ford have been working together to provide employment for prison leavers and reduce waste by refurbishing bikes. SUEZ sponsored the on-site bicycle repair workshop at HMP Ford, doubling the number of workbenches available and allowing more prisoners to learn valuable mechanical skills. Discarded bicycles collected at our Community Recycling Centres (CRC) in the county are sent to be refurbished in the workshop before they are returned and sold back into use through the five Revive reuse shops.
Increasing biodiversity behind the Witley site
Unused land behind the Witley CRC is being transformed into a thriving habitat for wildlife. Staff across Surrey's CRCs have been busy working together to build a wetland habitat, bug hotels, reptile hibernaculas, bee hives and other features designed to attract local animal life. Earlier in the year bird boxes were also installed to encourage birds to nest during spring.
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Having a septic tank alarm system is a great way to know when something may be wrong with your septic tank. When the septic alarm sounds, it tells you that there is a problem getting wastewater to the drain field. Several different things may cause this.
Most septic tanks have an alert when there’s too much water inside of it and could cause some kind of backup or overflow if not dealt with promptly. Your float sensor will trigger your alarm box to sound off once that event has been triggered by detecting how high up in the tank the level is reaching.
Let’s discuss the other possible reasons for the alarm being triggered.
If it has been storming or you have gotten a lot of rain in the past few days, the water could be too much for septic tanks. Standing water around septic systems normally causes issues for your septic tank. A rain-saturated drain field will not allow the waste water to go into it. You can also have a flooded area if you overwater your lawn or drain the pool in your yard. You will need to try and not to use your water until the drain field is not flooded. If you continue to use your water during this time, it can worsen the problem.
False Alarms Caused by Power Issues
In some cases, the issue with your septic system alarm may be because of a faulty electrical issue in your home or septic system. For example, your power may have flickered and caused a false alarm. You could also have some electrical problems in your home, which makes the alarm go off.
Water Over Usage
How’s your water use been lately? Have you had a party, or did you have a big shower or bath when doing two laundry? This can all lead to more water being held between pump cycles in the tank. The tanks may also leak if it rains hard enough, causing them to overflow and eventually triggering the alarm to go off.
If the power has accidentally been disconnected from the pump, the alarm may sound. If you hear the alarm go off, the first thing you should do is check to ensure the connection is in place. If not, reconnect and see if the buzzer goes off again. If the septic alarm goes off again, there is an issue somewhere with your pump tank.
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What To Do When Your Septic Alarm Goes Off
When your septic alarm goes off, do not panic. The alarm signal is meant to warn you of an issue. This means that you won’t have a sewage backup in your home immediately. However, you should still address the issue right away, as the warning is typically good for 24-48 hours. It means you have a dangerously high water level or the level is too low.
Your septic tank system alarm should have a timer on it. This timer dictates when the pump starts to flow wastewater through your drain field. However, if the system is damaged, then the timer won’t be able to work properly. If a lot of water is going through your system between pumping cycles, then the water has nowhere else to go except for your tank. It can take multiple pumping cycles to return the level to normal, which is why backups can happen.
If your alarm is going off:
- Switch on the alarm box or push the red button to turn the alarm off
- Look for where the red and green lights are located. Your green light should always be on.
- The green light means the alarm has power. The red light means that your water level is likely too high.
- Check your septic breaker. Make sure it has power and make sure there isn’t any standing water around it.
- If the red light does not turn off after 10 hours, give your local plumber a call! At The Original Plumber, we’re available 24/7 for the Atlanta metro area’s emergency needs.
We also recommend reducing your water usage when this happens. Typically, your septic system pumps wastewater (also known as effluent) out into your leach field. If it’s overwhelmed, it will need time to catch up. Too much water usage won’t give the septic system a chance to catch up. Reduce the amount of dish washing and try to take a short instead of a long shower.
You might be interested in: How to find out if you have a septic tank
Maintaining your Septic Tank
One of the most important things you can do to avoid your septic tank alarm going off is to make sure that it is properly maintained. This means making sure there are no clogs. If you find a clog, you will want to use a septic-safe chemical drain opener or use a plumbing snake. If the clog is bad, you will want to call a professional out to ensure that the clog is dealt with. Clogs over time can destroy your pump tank.
You want to make sure that you know the age of your septic tank. Generally, a septic tank has a lifespan of about 10 to 15 years. If your tank is nearing the end of 15 years, you will want to consider getting a new septic tank installed. If your septic tank is around ten years old, you may want to set up savings to where you will be able to afford a new pump tank within the next five years.
Another great idea to ensure that you do not have any issues with your pump tank is to have an inspection at least once a year by a septic tank professional. They will be able to inspect the tank to make sure there are no issues. They will also check the alarm to make sure that it is in full functioning order and getting the proper power to it.
If you hear your septic alarm going off and do not know precisely what to do, please contact the Original Plumber quickly. It would be best if you never neglected your septic system alarm as it can be an indicator of a bigger problem. Leaving septic issues alone can lead to costly repairs and a smelly yard. Call us today for an appointment so that we can address any pump tank issues you may have. | <urn:uuid:13392552-693f-4a9b-8224-1d87b83272c8> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://theoriginalplumber.com/plumbing-tips/why-is-my-septic-tank-alarm-going-off/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571198.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810161541-20220810191541-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.955151 | 1,293 | 2.046875 | 2 |
When you think of Sydney, the largest city in Australia, the Sydney Opera House, the Sydney Harbour Bridge, and beaches probably come to mind. While these attractions shouldn’t be missed, don’t overlook smaller sports hidden around the city. Make sure you don’t miss these three not as touristy secret spots when visiting Sydney.
From the outside, Mortuary Station looks like a Victorian cottage, but hidden beneath its gothic exterior is a haunting secret. Built in 1869, Mortuary Station, also known as Regent Street Station, houses Sydney’s residents who’ve passed on and are on their way to Rockwood Cemetery. Over the years it’s been a parcel dispatch station, a dog and horse loading bay, and a pancake restaurant. Today they offer after-dark tours that are sure to give you the creeps.
Footpath of Fame
You may have visited Hollywood’s Grauman’s Chinese Theatre that has a footpath with the handprints of the biggest stars in the industry, but did you know Sydney has something similar? The Footpath of Fame dates back to 1983 and it has those from the entertainment, politics, sports industries. There are even some make-believe stars like Big Bird and Santa Claus.
Chiseled by industrious fishermen over a century ago, this 40-meter tunnel that connects the Queenscliff and Freshwater beaches is a hidden gem and you won’t find signposts or boardwalks to help you get there. The picturesque views of Freshwater beach are well worth the visit. | <urn:uuid:a52413a7-004f-4c7f-92e9-d90c690ab9f8> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://travelermaster.com/3-secret-spots-in-sydney-australia-you-have-to-visit/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571198.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810161541-20220810191541-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.940673 | 340 | 1.546875 | 2 |
Palestinians Owe Ban Ki-moon No Apologies
Palestinian political prisoners are not only numbers
Last night, a new friend of mine noticed that I try to highlight the issue of Palestinian political prisoners in my writings. That led to a long chat about my interest in bringing out their stories. I started by describing how being the daughter of a former detainee has inspired a passion toward my homeland and the feeling of having a duty toward my people, especially our forgotten prisoners, within me.
I told him how attending the weekly protest with prisoners’ families in the Red Cross has turned to be a psychological cure for my own pains. It’s true. Sometimes I feel very sad, but as soon as I see a prisoner’s mother, wife, or daughter smiling, my spirit strangely rises. Interacting with the prisoners’ families and listening to their stories, full of suffering and pride, has created a warm relationship between us. They have become an important part of my life, and a reason to live.
I’ve always criticized the way prisoners are presented as numbers. Reports often show them as mere statistics, omitting that behind these figures there are humans desperate for dignified life and justice. Humanizing their issue by making their stories heard has been the main goal of my writings, with faith in humanity preserving my hope that their stories may wake the sleeping to take action.
Unconsciously, my life has recently centered on Khader Adnan. He is an administrative detainee who has been on hunger strike since December 17 to protest his illegal detention without trial. I have followed updates about his continuing hunger strike, his silence, his deteriorating health, the ban on his family visiting him, and the Israeli Prison Service (IPS)’s indifference and neglect of his situation. Gaza has held many events in solidarity with him and his family, who are terrified that each new dawn could bring news of his death.
Ban Ki-moon’s visit to Gaza
From Khader Adnan’s story, which has repeated itself thousands of times in Palestine, to news about United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s visit to Gaza, anger and frustration have dominated my mind.
Representatives of families of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails and martyrs’ families wanted to join the delegation that would meet Ban. Civil society figures made intensive efforts to ensure that this would happen so he could hear about their demands and long years of suffering. However, Ban simply refused to meet these people, who wanted his support and protection for their violated rights. An angry crowd, having heard of his repeated visits to former Israeli prisoner Gilaad Shalit, hurled shoes and stones at his convoy as it entered Gaza Thursday morning.
I watched the video of the prisoners’ families throwing shoes and stones. Honestly, it filled me with joy and pride in my people. I thought that it might make the Palestinian people look bad in front of the international community. But I would have only one response for those who might define Palestinians as mere throwers of shoes against diplomats: Those shoe throwers included angry relatives of prisoners who have endured terrible conditions at the hands of merciless Israeli jailers. They are frustrated with Ban’s biases toward Israel, and have witnessed more than enough of Israeli brutality, tyranny, and violations of their simplest rights guaranteed by international law and the Geneva Conventions. Those people have been filled with anger by more than five years of living under a closure imposed by Israel, and declared illegal by UN bodies. They haven’t been allowed to visit their relatives in prison since Hamas was democratically elected, boycotted by the UN, and marginalized as a terrorist organization.
Om Ibrahim Baroud joined the angry crowd that welcomed Ban “disrespectfully”
Watching the video, I saw Om Ibrahim Baroud join the crowd that greeted Ban. Baroud is the 75-year-old
mother of a political prisoner who has spent 26 years in Israeli prisons, and for 26 years, she has never stopped calling for the freedom of her son. Despite her age, she has joined every hunger strike prisoners launched since her son was detained, and has never missed a protest for Palestinian political prisoners. She always says, “I am not only the mother of the detainee Ibrahim Baroud, but of all the prisoners and oppressed. I’ll keep calling for their freedom as long as I am alive”. Last Monday at the weekly protest in the Red Cross, she limped because of a pain in her leg, but was still fasting in solidarity with Khader Adnan and all prisoners. She spoke for the prisoners to the media, appealing to every human right organization to witness the suffering of Palestinian detainees and act.
In the video, she was angry as never before, gathering all her physical power to hit Ban’s convoy with a stick. Her strength has always impressed everyone who knows her. “I know I am for Ban, nothing more than a mother of a ‘terrorist’”, she told me on the phone with rage. “Why would he bother to listen to me? He must know that I am the mother of a human being who deserves dignity even in detention. And I am a human who deserves to be heard”.
No one should blame this mother, who has been deprived of wrapping her arms around her son for 26 years. No one should blame her after she witnessed countless Israeli attacks on Gaza, especially the 2008-2009 war. She saw the phosphorous bombs, banned by international law, falling on civilians who took shelter in the Al-Fakhoura UNRWA School after fleeing their homes. She lives near it. Don’t blame her when she explodes with anger after hearing of Ban Ki-moon’s thanks to Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak – the architect of the 2008-2009 war – for his “generosity” towards Gaza; his generosity in redeeming the world of 352 children whom, if they hadn’t been killed, would have grown up into terrorists to threaten the holy security of Israel. Don’t blame her or any Palestinian when UN did nothing against Israel for the war crimes Israel committed even at UNRWA sites. Instead, they are biased toward Israel, while we have been terrorized daily by the Israeli Occupation ever since it was illegally established through ethnic cleansing.
Palestinians owe Ban Ki-moon no apologies
After this “disrespectful welcome” of Ban Ki-moon by the angry families of prisoners and martyrs, the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) shamefully sent apologies to him.
But I’ll allow myself to speak on behalf of Palestinians and say proudly: “We make no apologies!” And I add: “The PLO doesn’t represent us.” Palestinians aren’t the ones who should apologize. The one who should apologize is who keeps talking of human rights, yet sees human rights continuingly and openly violated by Israel, but does nothing, instead covering up Israel’s crimes against humanity. Actually, thousands of apologies wouldn’t suffice to heal the long, bleeding wounds that Palestinians suffer from the long course of Israel’s occupation and existence. | <urn:uuid:c28ef0f4-cbbd-4eda-9a6a-57939a178e63> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://palestinefrommyeyes.com/2012/02/04/palestinians-owe-ban-ki-moon-no-apologies/?like_comment=169&_wpnonce=4da7238801 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571536.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811224716-20220812014716-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.977275 | 1,490 | 1.765625 | 2 |
Sony has announced that it has developed a new "next-generation" back-illuminated CMOS image sensor, which it claims "embodies the continuous evolution of the camera."
The new sensor layers the pixel section containing formations of back-illuminated structure pixels onto chips containing the circuit section for signal processing.
This is in place of supporting substrates for conventional back-illuminated CMOS image sensors.
This means the usual supporting structure is omitted and the two sections can be produced separately.
As a result Sony claims that the structure can achieve further enhancement in image quality, superior functionalities and a more compact size. Faster speeds coupled with a lower power consumption are also promised.
More sophisticated cameras
In an official statement on the Sony website, the company describes the popularisation of smartphones as the reason why "more sophisticated cameras" are in demand.
The first model with this built-in signal processing functionality will be available from March 2012. It is not known whether the first models will be conventional cameras, or smartphones.
The new models have also been developed with Sony's "RGBW Coding" function to facilitate low noise, high quality image capture in low light conditions, and its proprietary "HDR (High Dynamic Range) Movie" function, which has been designed to achieve better colours in bright light.
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Consultation is intended for eliciting opinions aimed at policy formulation and implementation. There are two types of consultative or advisory bodies that can be constituted, namely, expert committees based on specialized knowledge or experience and representatives committee based on their representative character. The importance of consultation in governance in the large Indian democratic framework cannot be over emphasized as illustrated by Dutt (1958). Successful outcome of consultation process would depend on the experience, maturity, understanding and spirit in which opinion of consultative bodies is sought by the concerned authorities. However, due caution must be exercised by the administrators to guard against biased opinions emanating from parochial and vested interests of committee members.
Consensus building involves a good-faith effort to meet the interests of all stakeholders and generally seeks a unanimous agreement. Administrators that focus on making decisions through consensus building tend to implement the policies in more pragmatic and acceptable manner. Consensus-building is a emergent process that allows a diverse section of citizens to participate in decision-making process and avoid dissent, protests and hindering decision implementation subsequently. The consensus-building process helps stakeholders to establish a common understanding and framework for arriving at mutually acceptable solution. Consensus implies majority support as a result of both informed debate and the opportunity for divergent views, interests and values to be heard and understood. Consensus is thus the result of an effective process which is both fair and competent. There is increased usage of consensus-building processes at the international level to resolve conflicts involving multiple issues, objections and stakeholders. Globalization has enhanced interdependence among nations, societies, multinational corporations, governments and non-governmental organizations. A global issue today has local impact and vice-versa as evident from issues of global warming, sustainable development, trade, human rights and proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. The Montreal Protocol, to protect the Earth's stratospheric ozone layer, is a case in point of what can be accomplished by using consensus building on an international scale.
Burgess & Spangler (2003) have highlighted the Characteristics of issues that may be effectively addressed with a consensus-building approach, these are:
- Ill defined problems.
- Multiple, interdependent stakeholders with vested interests.
- Disparity of power and/or resources for dealing with the problems among the stakeholders.
- Stakeholders may have different levels of expertise and different access to information about the problems.
- Problems characterized by technical complexities.
- Differing perspectives on the problems leading to adversarial relationships among the stakeholders.
- Incremental or unilateral efforts to deal with the problems producing sub-optimal solutions.
- Existing processes for resolving the issues have proven unsatisfactory and may even aggravate them.
Stages/ Levels of Consensus Building
Stages of consensus building vary depending on the issue at hand wherein different levels can be distinct or merged with other stages, Burgess & Spangler (2003). Suggested steps are:
- Problem identification: This is the very initial stage where a problem is identified and consensus building as a resolution process is considered.
- Participant identification and inclusion of ideal candidates: Problems necessitating consensus building have multiple stakeholders who will be affected by a decision. Thus, it is necessary to take time to assess and include representatives who have a intimate knowledge, understanding and maturity to arrive at consensus decision.
- Convening to include identifying location (preferably neutral), setting ground rules choosing a convener or facilitator, assigning roles and responsibilities that will direct the consensus building effort.
- Process Design: This would involve agenda setting with reasonable timetable. People should neither feel rushed to make a decision nor feel that a decision will not be reached in a timely manner. The stakeholders can initially build consensus over non-contentious issues and then address more controversial issues.
- Problem definition, analysis and re-defining. This step is distinct from the problem identification of step one as in this stage all the issues are identified holistically by the stakeholders and re-defining or reframing of the problem carried out as per requirement.
- Group problem solving, identification and evaluation of alternative solutions. Stakeholders should be encouraged to brainstorm to develop innovative options and possible solutions.
- Decision making and reaching agreement: A decision with regards to the consensus decision is made as opposed to vote based majority rule decision making. It is imperative to maintain effective communication and build strong relationships while arriving at an agreement.
- Approval of the agreement: Stakeholders may be able to help each other develop strategies for making the agreement acceptable to all the citizens on the merit of the agreement.
- Implementation and Monitoring: This is the final phase of consensus building requiring careful attention. Hold people to their commitments as hindrances are inevitable; implementation often become the most difficult stage in any consensus decision. The consensus building members should be involved in implementation to ensure that the agreement is being carried out as envisioned. Monitoring group ideally should comprise of representatives of the entire stakeholders.
Effective Consensus Building: Considerations and Guidelines
Be open to consultation and consensus building :-
- Accept and involve the public as a legitimate partner while demonstrating respect for them.
- Demonstrate openness to consult others by involving the community and all stakeholders early in decision making and implementation process.
- Co-ordinate and collaborate with other credible sources.
- Plan carefully, begin with clear objectives and evaluate effort.
- Display sincerity of effort by presenting your view in a in a clear, concise and constructive manner supported by data.
- Reach out within and outside the organisation, with those who can provide work-related information.
- Invite others’ views and opinions.
- Communicate the pros and cons of an initiative including benefits for the public.
Consult and take multiple actions to persuade others:-
- Develop links with the experts and relevant information sources, propose good solutions to benefit the public.
- Develop and nurture key contacts as a source of information, keeping in mind the end goal of providing qualitative citizen centric services.
- Leverage colleagues experience for synergy and convergence.
- Understand the target groups’ views and customise the communication to convince them.
Proactively look for opportunities to promote convergence:-
- Continuously seize opportunities to partner and transfer knowledge.
- Take initiative to engage with stakeholders to create innovative ideas and solutions.
- Proactively shares knowledge and information for capacity building and convergence.
- Keep stakeholders informed about various initiatives and engage with them regarding new initiatives.
- Gain insight into divergent motives and use this insight to tailor consensus building communications.
- Contingency planning to cater for opposition, reactions and visualising the implications of the proposal on the larger public.
Help to align diverse interests to a common goal :-
- Explore innovative ways to converge different opinions in consonance with end goal.
- Creatively use the knowledge of the experts in order to address diverse interests of the stakeholders.
- Listen to people's concerns, identify with the audience, recognise people's emotions and hidden agendas.
- Communicate clearly with conviction, using simple non-technical language.
- Discuss actions that are under way or can be taken while clearly enunciating what cannot be done and promise only what you can do.
Promote consultation, consensus building and convergence:-
- Create forums where people can interact with each other on the larger goal and move away from a ‘silo’ mindset.
- Identify opportunities to build relationships with external partner and larger communities with the purpose of serving larger public interest.
- Demonstrate willingness to trade-off immediate gain with long-term benefits.
- Take long-term perspective of development in synch with public good.
- Inspire others to consult, keeping the greater good in mind, before arriving at any critical decisions.
Transparent conduct of entire process while keeping all concerned informed :-
- All stakeholders should be kept adequately informed by preparing and providing background material.
- Meet the needs of the media by being open and accessible to reporters while respecting deadlines.
- Provide risk information tailored to media needs
- Establish long-term media relationships for factual reporting and avoiding rumour mongering.
Success or Failure ??
International experience of the practical implementation of these different dialogue-based involvement models in decision making namely consultation and consensus building Eun (2016) contend contend that success or failure is dependent upon :-
- Time limits - providing for an adequate amount of time for discussion before a decision is required;
- Flexibility - not precluding discussion by taking the decision before discourse is commenced.
- Equal opportunity- ensuring that all the parties taking part have equal access to information and are in an equal position to participate.
- Consensus-based discussion - willingness from all those taking part to learn and if necessary, amend or adapt proposals and opinions.
- Inclusiveness - all interests (including minority) in the issue having an opportunity to be involved /represented.
- Respect for Diverse Interests - recognition and acceptance of the diverse values, interests and knowledge of those involved.
- Self design - those taking part design the process and agree the objectives.
- Implementation - commitment to implementation and effective monitoring are essential parts of any agreement.
Payoffs of Consultation and Consensus Building
Envisaged benefits of employing consultation and consensus-building processes to resolve complex issues are:
- It enhances the quality of solutions based on a comprehensive analysis of the problem, innovative solutions and minimizes chances of deadlock.
- Stakeholders have ownership of the outcome of consensus-building processes.
- The ability to participate in the problem-solving process enhances acceptance of the solution and willingness to implement it among the affected population.
- The participatory process assists in strengthening the relationships between stakeholders.
- Consensus building saves time and resources besides developing mechanisms for dealing with related problems in the future.
Governance is assuming an increasingly citizen centric, collaborative and participative hue leveraging technology and online platforms to engage the public in government policy formulation and implementation. Consensus building is a non-adversarial approach to decision-making which goes beyond the traditional consultative processes. The latter rely primarily on decision makers, proponents and/or experts defining a problem and the preferred solutions, and then seeking public comment on their proposals. Consultation is a top-down process which often displays the decision making characteristics of the initiating body. By contrast, consensus building is a primarily bottom-up process where stakeholders are enlisted into the drawing up of initial proposals as well as the consideration of the preferred proposals or solutions. Consensus building processes provide forums for exchange of information, predictions, opinions, interests and values. Those initiating the process have to be open to the potential need for change and to be prepared to work with different interests to develop plans or to amend or even drop existing proposals. | <urn:uuid:7b914a40-79c3-4cf1-8aa8-2bf70f070a49> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.iipa.org.in/cms/public/training_course/48 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571536.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811224716-20220812014716-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.918443 | 2,233 | 3.1875 | 3 |
Advertisers are developing digital posters that will recognise people’s faces and respond if they are paying attention.
Cameras attached to the billboards will scan to see if passersby are looking, and immediately change their display to keep them watching.
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The technology is so sophisticated it could soon even be possible to link the posters to a store’s profile of an individual and display goods that would specifically appeal to them.
The posters recall a famous scene of 2002 sci-fi thriller Minority Report in which Tom Cruise walks past a row of digital signs that scan his retina and display holograms of products he likes.
The Barbarian Group, a digital services and creation company based in the United States, is hoping to introduce billboards that respond if you are paying attention, while other companies have spoken of introducing technology that recognises faces.
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February 20, 2014: Israel is still at war with Islamic terrorists and is still winning. Six Israelis were killed by Islamic terrorists in 2013. Three were security personnel and three were civilians. No Israelis were killed in Israel. Five of the deaths took place in the West Bank and the other one in Gaza. This continues a trend. Moslems in general and Palestinians in particular have been trying to kill Israelis ever since Israel was created nearly 70 years ago. There was a peace deal (the Oslo Accords) with the Palestinians in 1993 and between then and September 2000 Islamic and Palestinian terrorist attacks killed about 300 Israelis. In September 2000 the Palestinians decided to launch a major terrorism campaign against Israel and between then and the end of 2005 some 1,100 Israelis were killed (most of them inside Israel). But by 2005 Israel had developed new tactics and techniques against the terrorism and since 2005 only 135 Israelis have been killed by terrorism. Each year since 2005 the number of Israeli terrorist deaths has declined, which has only enraged anti-Israel terror groups more.
In the Sinai Egyptian over a hundred police and soldiers have been killed fighting Islamic terrorists so far this year. Since 2011 over 450 policemen have been killed by Islamic terrorists in Egypt, most of them in Sinai. The police are taking more casualties than the army, which is only really active in Sinai.
Egypt revealed that its AH-64 Apache helicopter gunships had recently fired 24 Hellfire missiles at Islamic terrorists in the Sinai. According to the 1979 peace deal with Israel Egypt is not allowed to operate any of its 35 AH-64s in Sinai but in 2012 Israel agreed to allow Egypt to operate AH-64s in Sinai against Islamic terrorists. Israel also operates 44 AH-64s and uses them frequently and successfully against Islamic terrorists.
Egyptian Islamic terrorists warned foreign tourists to stay out of Egypt. For older Egyptians this is all too familiar. Although the Moslem Brotherhood renounced terrorist violence back in the 1970s, a Brotherhood faction went rogue in the 1990s and took part in a major terrorist campaign against the government and foreign tourists. The attack on foreigners and Egyptian civilians led to a major backlash from Egyptians in general the quick defeat of the Islamic terrorists. After that the Moslem Brotherhood promised to behave and was allowed to continue operating openly. Until recently the Brotherhood condemned the terror attacks by groups in the Sinai. These have left hundreds of Islamic terrorists, civilians, soldiers and police dead in the last year. The Brotherhood has long condemned all violence, but now it’s the 1990s all over again with some Brotherhood members getting involved with Islamic terrorists. Brotherhood members are increasingly angry at government efforts to prosecute their leader Mohamed Morsi, despite the fact that Morsi was elected president in mid-2012. The majority of Egyptians are anti-Morsi but many of those who still back Morsi are willing to use violence to try and get Morsi back in power. Israel wants things to quiet down in Egypt, as long as the place does not turn into an Islamic terrorist sanctuary.
On the Lebanese border the Lebanese army is deploying more troops and ordered them to use forced to prevent Israeli troops from crossing the border to plant spying devices or for any other reason. Meanwhile Lebanon has growing problems with violence between Shia (Hezbollah) and Sunni Lebanese. In addition to a lot of demonstrations (for and against Hezbollah, some of them violent) there are more terror bombings and assassinations. For example, today a pro-Syrian Lebanese politician was assassinated in Tripoli. On the 19th Sunni Islamic terrorists set off two bombs in a Shia neighborhood of Beirut, killing six people.
February 18, 2014: Egypt charged two Israelis and two Egyptians with spying inside Egypt. The two Egyptians were arrested but the Israelis were apparently back in Israel.
February 17, 2014: On the Syrian border with Lebanon 27 Hezbollah gunmen were killed when Syrian rebels ambushed a large groups of Hezbollah men entering Syria.
February 16, 2014: In the Sinai, near the Israeli border a bomb hit a tourist bus killing three South Korean tourists and the Egyptian driver.
February 14, 2014: Two rockets were fired into Israel from Gaza but there were no casualties. There have been 35 rockets fired from Gaza to far this year. All these rocket attacks are answered with air strikes on Islamic terrorists targets in Gaza. The UN is trying to calm things down but believes that the ceasefire between Hamas and Israel is falling apart.
February 13, 2014: After a week-long Egyptian offensive against Islamic terrorists in the Sinai Peninsula the army claimed 112 Islamic terrorists killed or wounded and 69 arrested. Lots of equipment and many documents were seized. On the Gaza border troops found and destroyed another 49 smuggling tunnels and seized a lot of items from the smugglers, including 104 assault rifles and 12,500 rounds of ammo. More buildings within 500 meters of the Gaza border were also destroyed. The Gaza operations are part of a six month (so far) effort to destroy all buildings within 500 meters of Gaza, making it more difficult to build new smuggling tunnels and easier to find the ones that are undiscovered. Security at the only legal crossing from Gaza to Egypt has become more intense. Egypt believes many anti-Egyptian terrorists have sanctuary in Gaza where they plan and launch attacks against Egypt. Hamas denies this but the facts say otherwise. With or without the permission of Hamas, several terror groups are based in Gaza and Hamas cannot or will not shut them down unless these groups openly rebel against Hamas rule. Meanwhile Egypt is accusing Hamas of arresting and harassing Egyptians working in Gaza. The Egyptian army has also been launching periodic sweeps for Islamic terrorists in Sinai in addition to lots of patrols and raids on known Islamic terrorist houses and camps. Egypt reports that troops keep finding evidence of continued connections between Sinai based Islamic terrorists and counterparts in Gaza.
A Palestinian was killed by Israeli security forces while trying to damage the border fence. Palestinian terrorists are regularly trying to plant bombs (to hurt passing Israeli patrols) or damage the security fence (so it can be breached). The Israelis shoot back when Palestinians refuse orders to back off. Islamic terrorist groups in Gaza also organize large crowds to throw rocks at Israelis maintaining or repairing the border fence.
February 10, 2014: In Egypt (Sinai) terrorists blew up a portion of a natural gas pipeline. This is the fourth such attack in 2014.
A rocket was fired into Israel from Gaza but there were no casualties.
February 8, 2014: In Tel Aviv a man was killed by a bomb planted in his car. This was the third such attack in a week and is all about a feud between criminal gangs, not Islamic terrorism. Car bombs have become a favorite weapon of the local gangs. | <urn:uuid:d9f27dc6-ddd6-415d-b60c-5a47d010c882> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.strategypage.com/qnd/israel/articles/20140220.aspx | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571536.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811224716-20220812014716-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.974479 | 1,339 | 1.640625 | 2 |
- Case report
- Open Access
Coexisting of bone marrow fibrosis, dysplasia and an X chromosomal abnormality in chronic neutrophilic leukemia with CSF3R mutation: a case report and literature review
BMC Cancer volume 18, Article number: 343 (2018)
Chronic neutrophilic leukemia (CNL) is a rare myeloproliferative neoplasm (MPN) with less than 40 cases of patients being reported or clinically suspected meeting with 2008 World Health Organization (“WHO”) diagnostic criteria. The current diagnosis of CNL remains to exclude other diseases. Recently, a new biomarker of CSF3R mutations that is almost invariably present in CNL has been identified. There is no effective treatment for CNL, therefore prognosis of the disease is poor, but it may be attributed to the presence of both SETBP1 and CSF3R gene mutations. The presence or absence of CSF3R mutation did not affect survival, whereas a trend for shortened survival was observed among patients with SETBP1-mutation.
Here we report a 65-year old woman patient who presented with leukocytosis without sign of fever and tumors. Bone marrow aspirates showed a markedly hypercellular feature with 76%–92% myeloid and the dysplastic changes were found in about 7% of neutrophils cells. The bone marrow biopsy demonstrated marrow fibrosis with Gomori staining positive (+++~++++). Cytogenetic analysis showed 46,X,del (X) (q22). No molecular markers of BCR/ABL1 rearrangement (P210, P230, P190 and variably), JAK2V617F, FIP1L1-PDGFRA, TEL-PDGFRB, ZNF198-FGFR1 and SETBP1 mutations were identified, however, the CSF3R gene membrane proximal mutation (c.1853C > T/p.T618I sites) was detected by PCR techniques. The patient was diagnosed with CNL and died in about 2 months after disease diagnosis.
In clinical course, the CNL concurrently with severe bone marrow fibrosis and dysplastic features as well as X chromosomal abnormality may predict a worsening prognosis regardless of SETBP1 mutation status.
Chronic neutrophilic leukemia (CNL) is an extremely uncommon myeloproliferative neoplasm (MPN) characterized by sustained, mature neutrophilic leukocytosis, hepatosplenomegaly, and bone marrow granulocytic hyperplasia. The key diagnostic criteria of CNL has been retained by the World Health Organization (“WHO”) for hematopoietic tumors . However, a critical review of the literature using these WHO diagnostic criteria could only confirm 40 cases , representing approximately 51% of the clinically suspected patients with CNL , suggesting that the true rate of occurrence is even lower than suspected . In 2013, a new biomarker of CSF3R mutations with a close association with diagnosis of CNL was identified [3,4,5]. In 2016,WHO revised the classification of MPN and added the CSF3R mutations as one of the CNL diagnostic criteria [6, 7].
The median age of CNL diagnosis is 66 years (range: 15–86), and the median survival of CNL is 23.5 months (range:1–106 months). The most frequent causes of death are intracranial hemorrhage, progressive disease or blastic transformation, and regimen-related toxicity from induction chemotherapy or transplantation [1, 2]. There is no effective treatment for CNL and therefore prognosis is poor. The poor prognosis factors of CNL are not clear. Recent research has showed that new biomarkers such as SETBP1 and/or ASXL1 mutations may be associated with poor prognosis in CNL and CMML , and presence of SETBP1 mutation in CNL suggested a pathogenic role associated with progression of blast phase transformation . Herein, we report a case with CNL who had a very poor prognosis due to concurrent of bone marrow fibrosis, dysplasia and an X chromosomal abnormality but without SETBP1 mutation.
Our patient is a 65-year-old Chinese woman with medical history of 1 year hypertension and 2 years intermission versatile skin purpura. Starting in February 2014, she had overt aggravated skin purpura with malaise, fatigues and anorexia. Peripheral blood count showed hemoglobin of 76 g/L, leukocytes of 72X109/L with 92% neutrophils and platelet count of 41X109/L. Peripheral blood smear examination showed no immature granulocytes and myeloblasts. The bone marrow aspiration revealed myeloid hyperplasia at 92%, and then she was diagnosed with CML-CP at a local hospital.
She was admitted to our hospital on March 20, 2014. Physical examination showed no other positive signs except anemia. Complete blood count showed leukocytes of 85X109/L with 90% mature neutrophils and 2% monocyte, there was no increase of blasts or immature granulocytes detected. The hemoglobin level was 74 g/L, platelet count was 62X109/L. CT scanning showed mild splenomegaly, and B ultrasonography of the abdomen showed an splenomegaly (intercostal thickness was 5.5 cm).The lactate dehydrogenase (LDH) and creatinine was 499 U/L (40–240) and 70 umol/L (35–80) respectively. Bone marrow evaluation showed a markedly hypercellular with 76%–92% myeloid cells and the myeloid:erythroid ratio was 17.9, consisted of 1%–3% myeloblasts, 2%–8% promyelocyte, 1%–22% myelocyte, 6%–24% metamyelocyte, 30%–75% band and neutrophils, 2%–5% eosinophils, 0.4%–3% basophil, 1%–3% monocyte and 16% -18% erythroid cells. Dysplastic changes were found in about 7% of neutrophils such as dikaryocyte, vacuoles, hypergranular cytoplasm and hypersegmented nuclei (Fig. 1). The leukocyte alkaline phosphatase(LAP) score was increased to 387 (normal range 13–130) and the LAP positivity was 100% (Table 1). Immunophenotyping analysis of bone marrow cells by flow cytometry revealed that myelocytic cells consisted of 82%–90% with majority of CD16 + CD10+ mature granulocytes. The CD34 + CD117+ blast cells were 0.42%–0.6%, monocyte of 0.76%–4.06%, and few eosinophils, basophile and erythroblasts. Bone marrow biopsy examination showed marked myeloid hyperplasia with focal fibroblasts. Additional immunophenotyping of bone marrow cells demonstrated negative for CK, CD23, CD34, TdT and CD30, positive for VIM +, CD68 +, and EMA scattered +, CD3 scattered +, CD20 individual +, CD5 a few scattered +, MPO suffusion +, Ki-67(80%+), CD15 partial +, and the Gomori staining was positive (+++~++++) (Fig. 2). Conventional cytogenetic analysis showed 46,X,del (X) (q22) in 8 out of 9 metaphase spreads(46,X,del(X) (q22) [7, 8] /46,XX ) (Fig. 3). There were no molecular markers of BCR/ABL1 rearrangement (P210, P230, P190 and variably), JAK2V617F, FIP1L1-PDGFRA, TEL-PDGFRB, ZNF198-FGFR1 and SETBP1 mutations identified. However, the CSF3R gene membrane proximal mutation (c.1853C > T/p.T618I sites) was detected by PCR techniques. She was then diagnosed with chronic neutrophilic leukemia (CNL) and treated with hydroxyurea (1.0 g–2.0 g/day), EPO (6000 U/day) and Andriol (testosterone undecanoate, 160 mg/day). She was discharged on April 2nd of 2014, and her peripheral blood counts were leukocytes of 25X109/L with 89% neutrophils, and Hb of 83 g/L and platelet of 25X109/L.
She was instructed to receive regular therapy of transfusion, hydroxyurea, EPO and Andriol. In late April, she experienced hematochezia. She was admitted again at our hospital on May 11, 2014. Physical examination showed an oral mucosa bleeding, blutpunktes and purpura on sporadic whole body, and both lower extremities oedema (+), without hepatosplenomegaly and superficial lymphadenopathy. Peripheral blood count showed leukocytes of 34X109/L with 92% neutrophils and 3% monocyte, hemoglobin of 62 g/L and platelet of 3X109/L. Bone marrow showed a markedly hypercellular with myeloid states cells and there was no increase of blasts (Fig. 1 and Table 1). PT: 12.6 s, PTA:78%, INR: 1.12, FIB:1.53 g/L, APTT: 26.5 s, TT:18.7 s, D-D:1026 ng/L, FDP:5.70 μg/ml, stool examination: bloody stool, occult blood(OB) (+), urine assayed: OB (+++). Her condition was slightly improved after standard treatment. On May 25, 2014, her disease worsened from lethargy to coma after a defecation. She had a hypomyodynamia and hypomyotonia in right limbs, and her right pupilla was larger than left one, concurrent with hematochezia, hematuria and hemoptysis. Peripheral blood count showed leukocytes of 67~116X109/L with 85%~ 94% neutrophils but no immature granulocytes and myeloblasts. Laboratory examination showed the hemoglobin of 56 g/L and platelet of 11X109/L. PT:12.4 s, PTA:75%, INR:1.12, FIB:3.56 g/L, APTT:25.2 s, TT:14.5 s, D-D:5243 ng/L. She was diagnosed with cerebral hemorrhage, gastrointestinal hemorrhage, pneumohemorrhage and respiratory failure. She passed away on May 27, 2014.
Discussion and conclusion
CNL is a rare aggressive myeloproliferative neoplasm, similar to other MPN, the clinical course of CNL is heterogeneous. Clinical course of CNL is recognized by a chronic phase, an accelerated phase, and a blast phase respectively. Due to lack of specific molecular markers, the diagnosis of CNL has been considered of exclusion until an relevant CNL CSF3R mutation was identified in 2013 [1, 3]. Colony-stimulating factor 3 receptor gene (CSF3R) provides the proliferative and survival signal for granulocytes and also contributes to their differentiation and function. Nonsense somatic mutations affecting the cytoplasmic domain of CSF3R appear to be stem cell derived, associated with but not essential for severe congenital neutropenia -associated acute myeloid leukemia . Maxson et al. identified activating mutations in the gene encoding the CSF3R in 16 of 27 patients (59%) with CNL or atypical CML . Pardanani et al research showed that a total of 14 CSF3R mutations were identified in 13 patients, all of whom belonged to the group of CNL patients with either WHO-defined (n = 12) or unconfirmed (n = 1). The overall CSF3R mutational frequency was 100% in WHO-defined CNL and among these patients, the CSF3RT618I occurred exclusively in WHO-defined CNL with mutational frequency of 83% . The current study was undertaken to determine the frequency, location and specificity of CSF3R mutations in CNL. A very strong association of mutations of CSF3R with WHO-defined CNL has been established and led to the reassessment of the current CNL diagnostic criteria. Presence of CSF3RT618I or other membrane-proximal CSF3R mutations have been recognized as one of the major diagnosis criteria at the revision of the WHO criteria for the diagnosis of CNL in 2016 . According to this criteria, the CNL case presented here was diagnosed based on clinical manifestations as well as presence of CSF3R gene membrane proximal mutation [6, 7]. In the meantime, it has excluded other potential diseases such as infections, inflammatory conditions, solid tumors, and plasma cell neoplasm. The most frequent causes of death for CNL are intracranial hemorrhage, progressive disease/blastic transformation, and regimen-related toxicity from induction chemotherapy or transplantation [1, 2, 8]. Our patient had a fatal outcome due to a cerebral hemorrhage event. In addition, presence of SETBP1 mutation may associate with a poor prognosis in CNL , however, our patient was absence of SETBP1 mutation, therefore other pathological findings such as the bone marrow fibrosis and the dysplastic features of the bone marrow cells could be poor prognosis factors.
Presence of myelofibrosis is rare in CNL and it is important to distinguish between the primary and secondary fibrosis. Primary myelofibrosis (PMF) is a clonal hematologic malignancy with a variable disease course, its pathogenesis is associated with JAK2-STAT pathway and the somatic mutations included JAK2V617F, MPL, CALR and other epigenetic mutations (eg.TET2, ASXL1 and EZH2) rather than CSF3R mutations [3, 4, 9,10,11,12]. Our patient had CSF3R mutation without JAK2V617F, thus it would support a diagnosis of CNL. Bone marrow fibrosis (BMF), which results from abnormal deposition of reticulin and collagen fibers in the bone marrow plays a major role in the pathophysiology and clinical manifestation of the disease and it has been suggested that BMF may affect overall survival in patients with myelofibrosis no matter primary and secondary fibrosis . Our patient with BMF passed away died in less than 3 months after diagnosis. The presence of myelofibrosis in CNL suggests that the disease was evolving to the end-stage and it was reasonable to hypothesize that any disease evolution in CNL might be a worsening prognosis indicator . Further clinical and biological studies and longer follow up are needed to fully understand the significant impact of BMF in patients with CNL.
Recently the SETBP1 and ASXL1 mutations were identified as prognostic biomarkers in CNL. Presence of SETBP1 and ASXL1 mutations have worse prognosis whereas CSF3R variants were not prognostically significant . Pardanani et al. research showed that SETBP1 mutational frequencies in WHO defined CNL, aCML, CMML and PMF were 33, 0, 7 and 3%, respectively and concurrent of CSF3R and SETBP1 mutations might have the worst prognosis for survival. However, the presence or absence of CSF3R mutation did not affect survival, whereas a trend for shortened survival was observed among patients with SETBP1-mutation alone . Elliott et al detected SETBP1mutations in 5 out of 14 patients with CSF3R-mutated CNL and suggested pathogenetic roles for SETBP1 mutation in disease evolution into blast phase disease of CNL , but another a meta-analysis shown that the SETBP1 mutation was associated with a poor prognosis in patients with MDS and CMML, but not in patients with CNL . Therefore, the further follow-up studies are necessary to confirm these findings so that SETBP1 could be used as a prognostic marker to guide therapeutic decisions.
Cytogenetic abnormalities are found in about 23%~ 25% of CNL patients at diagnosis [2, 12]. These cytogenetic abnormalities are not to have significance for the diagnosis of CNL. Loss or gain of an X chromosome is usually accompanied by other chromosomal abnormalities and often associated with the hematologic malignancies such as acute leukemia, lymphoma and MDS, and also associated with dismal prognosis . The X chromosomal abnormality is rarely found in CNL and only one case with an extra X chromosome was reported. This case progressed to blast crisis just in 2 months , so CNL with an X chromosomal abnormality may play an important role in the rapid progression.
Yamamoto et al. reviewed 15 cases of CNL who terminated in the blast crisis and found 7 cases with dysplastic changes of granulocytes in the bone marrow cells. Among these cases, five had dysplasia in the erythroid and/or megakaryocytic lineage, as well as in granulocytic lineage. The median survival for 7 cases with dysplastic changes was 17.71 months, and for the other 8 cases without dysplastic changes was 54.62 months (t = 2.20586,0.05>p>0.02). Our patient with dysplasia in the granulocytic lineage survived in less than 3 months, thus, it is interesting to investigate if dysplasia might be an independently prognosis factor for the CNL. Note that utilization of novel biomarkers for CNL diagnosis were not widely accessible, therefore diagnosis of CNL remains to rely on morphology features of the bone marrow cells, such as bone marrow fibrosis and dysplasia in the CNL. The relationship between dysplasia and survival in CNL needs to be further explored in future clinical research. We hypothesize that coexistence of an X chromosomal abnormality, severe bone marrow fibrosis and dysplastic features of the bone marrow cells is one of the worsening prognosis factors no matter with or without SETBP1 mutation. It is possibly the early signs of leukemic transformation for the CNL.
No standard of care exists for CNL. The primarily and the most commonly used treatment for CNL is hydroxyurea and/or interferon-α. These agents are effective in controlling leukocytosis and splenomegaly and maintaining a stable chronic phase, but not curable. No hematologic complete remission has been reported to date following standard induction therapy (anthracycline and cytarabine) for accelerated or blast phase in CNL [1, 7]. Given the potential for progressive refractory neutrophilia and blast transformation, allogeneic hematopoietic SCT has been performed in a number of cases and at this time represents the only known curative therapy . Reviewing SCT in CNL patients, it is observed that 71% of the patients who received the transplant at the chronic phase have an ongoing remission of more than 7 months, in contrast with those who received it at the accelerated phase and died after the procedure . Therefore SCT may result in favorable long-term outcomes in selected patients, particularly when undertaken in the chronic phase of disease [1, 7]. Optimal therapy of CNL remains to be defined, but significant advances are anticipated in the context of the recent progress in defining the molecular pathogenesis. CSF3R is known to signal downstream through both JAK and SRC tyrosine kinase pathways, and the two classes of CSF3R mutations exhibit different downstream signaling and kinase inhibitor sensitivities [1, 13]. Given the poor prognosis of this disorder, the potential applicability of JAK and/or SRC kinase inhibitors is another important implication of the discovery of activating CSF3R mutation. Treatment with the SRC kinase inhibitor Dasatinib and the JAK1/2 kinase inhibitor Ruxolitinib have shown efficacy for CNL with membrane proximal mutations and truncation mutations respectively in some patients [1,2,3, 7, 11]. These novel target-specific agents need further clinical investigation with larger CNL sample size.
CNL is still a deadly disease without effective diagnosis and treatment. CSF3R mutations have been confirmed as one of the WHO diagnosis criteria at the revision of CNL in 2016. Our patient had coexisting of the bone marrow fibrosis, dysplasia and an X chromosomal abnormality without SETBP1 mutation led to a very poor outcome. This implies that CNL with severe bone marrow fibrosis and dysplastic features of the bone marrow cells as well as X chromosomal abnormality may predict a worsening prognosis of the clinical course regardless of the SETBP1 mutation status. The recent developments in the knowledge of the molecular pathogenesis are the foundations for the identification of novel and effective therapeutic strategies.
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Wu, X.B., Wu, W.W., Zhou, Y. et al. Coexisting of bone marrow fibrosis, dysplasia and an X chromosomal abnormality in chronic neutrophilic leukemia with CSF3R mutation: a case report and literature review. BMC Cancer 18, 343 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12885-018-4236-6
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Bivolaru and Moldovan v. France: A new challenge for mutual trust in the European Union?
In the recent Bivolaru and Moldovan v. France case, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) handed a landmark judgment in relation to the execution of European arrest warrants (EAWs) between Member States of the European Union (EU) and the equivalent protection doctrine. For the first time, the ECtHR decided that the execution of an EAW violated Article 3 of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR), which prohibits torture, inhumane and degrading treatment. As we shall see, this case sends a clear warning to all European judges – national or supranational – that the execution of EAWs is subject to the ECtHR’s jurisdiction.
Under the doctrine of equivalent protection, also known as the ‘Bosphorus’presumption (by reference to the case in which it was first established by the Court), States Parties to the ECHR are presumed to have abided by their obligations under the Convention when applying EU law. This presumption was established by the ECtHR in consideration of the fact that the EU, as an international organization, offers substantive guarantees in the protection of fundamental rights under the Charter of Fundamental Rights, general principles of EU law and the case law of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU).
Two applications were joined in this case. Both concerned French decisions granting the execution of EAWs issued by the Romanian authorities against Romanian nationals for the purpose of serving a custodial sentence. The joinder of these two cases nevertheless resulted in different verdicts, as the Court found a violation of Article 3 in respect of one of the applicants, and no violation in respect of the other.
The first applicant, Mr. Codrut Moldovan, was convicted by a Romanian court to seven years and six months imprisonment for crimes of human trafficking committed in France and Romania. A European arrest warrant was subsequently issued by the Romanian authorities. With references to the case law of the CJEU and the ECtHR, Mr. Moldovan argued that his surrender to Romania would lead him to endure conditions of detention contrary to Article 3 of the ECHR. The Romanian issuing authority assured the French executing authority that Mr. Moldovan would be detained in conditions compatible with Article 3. These assurances were found sufficient by the Court of Appeal of Riom, which granted execution of the EAW. This decision was then upheld by the French Court of Cassation.
The second applicant, Mr. Gregorian Bivolaru, was convicted in absentia by a Romanian court in 2013 to a term of six years imprisonment on counts of sexual offences against a minor. During investigations, the defendant had fled to Sweden and been the subject of first extradition proceedings for the purpose of being tried in Romania. The Swedish Supreme Court denied his extradition on the ground that he would face persecution in Romania based on his religious beliefs and his activities as leader of the ‘movement for spiritual integration into the absolute’. The Swedish authorities subsequently granted Mr. Bivolaru the status of refugee under the Geneva Convention. After his conviction, the applicant was arrested in France pursuant to a Romanian EAW issued for the purpose of serving his sentence. He argued before the Paris Court of Appeal that his refugee status barred his surrender to Romania. He also claimed that he would be subject to inhuman and degrading detention conditions in Romania. The Paris Court of Appeal, having sought further information from Swedish authorities, concluded that the applicant’s refugee status did not constitute an obstacle to the execution of the EAW, as Romania had, since then, acceded to the EU. Besides, this argument fell outside the grounds of non-execution of EAWs, which are exhaustively listed in the EAW Framework Decision. Furthermore, the allegations made by the applicant were considered too vague to create a grave risk that he would be subject to inhuman conditions of detention if surrendered. Consequently, the French Court of Appeal granted the execution of the EAW, and that decision was upheld by the Court of Cassation.
Mr. Moldovan and Mr. Bivolaru decided to challenge the decisions against them before the ECtHR on the ground that their surrender to Romania would violate the prohibition of inhuman and degrading treatment under Article 3. In substance, the applicants were alleging that the execution by a Member State of its obligations under the law of the EU constituted a violation of the ECHR – a situation likely to create a conflict of norms between EU law and the ECHR.
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In 2013, HRWF investigated the Bivolaru case in Romania itself and, in the presence of her husband, interviewed his alleged minor victim of sexual abuse. Bivolaru was running a network of yoga centers in Romania. The concerned minor told HRWF that she was interrogated for 13 hours without the help of a lawyer and outside the presence of her parents. She was forced to write a statement that was afterwards misused to give her the status of injured party – first without her knowledge and afterwards against her will - and to incriminate Gregorian Bivolaru. Despite the fact that with the help of a lawyer she retracted her statement the next morning, the case was channelled through irreversible judicial proceedings. Later on, Gregorian Bivolaru was accused of alleged illegal border crossing attempt.
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An Experimental Research on Closed Loop Supply Chain Management with Internet of Things
Abstract. Closed loop supply chain (CLSC) optimization is integration of forward and reverse logistics activities. The importance of CLSC management is increasing by legal regulations, limited energy resources and environmental- financial problems that growing in recent years. However, reverse logistics part of the CLSC is a flow type which is more difficult to made predictions, planning and controls by reason contained uncertainties. This stage, Internet of Things system reduces related uncertainties by providing all the life information of the returned product and substantially attenuates planning of reverse flow activities. In this study, a CLSC is considered that meets demands of the sales&collection center both new and remanufactured product. Manufacturer has three options (refurbishing, disassembly and disposal) to assessing returned products. A mixed integer linear programming model is proposed for a single type of product is completely modular (automobile, computer, telephone, etc.). The model meets customer's products and components demands based period, maximizes profit consist of different sales revenues and total cost (total production, purchase, transportation and disposal costs) and determines how to evaluate all returned products. The proposed model has been verified with the aid of a numerical example by solving in GAMS software and its performance reviewed with experimental studies.
Keywords. Closed loop supply chain optimization, Internet of Things, Mixedinteger linear programming, Returned product management.
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Speaking at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona in late February, Pavel Durov looked like a man in control.
Dressed all in black — a nod to the character of Neo in the film The Matrix — he strode across the stage. Like Neo, he was a programmer on a mission.
Pavel had come to Barcelona to announce that Telegram, the encrypted messaging service, had gathered 100 million monthly users and was gaining an impressive 350,000 new subscribers per day.
But his triumph was about more than just business success. It came about two years after the tech entrepreneur fled Russia after losing VKontakte, Russia's biggest social network, to allies of the Kremlin. Telegram is his revenge. Oozing confidence, he spoke to the audience: "Let me explain how we got here."
From early childhood, Pavel Durov had little regard for figures of authority. While still in school, a young Pavel used his budding coding skills to hack the school's computer network. He changed the welcoming screen to: "Must Die" alongside a photo of his least favorite teacher. The school retaliated by cutting access to the network. But Pavel cracked the new passwords every time.
Pavel told his classmates he wanted to become "an Internet icon," Nikolai Kononov reported in his book The Durov Code. It was Pavel's brother Nikolai who would help him realize that ambition.
Four years Pavel's senior, Nikolai was a child prodigy. He was reading books by the age of three, and went on to become the two-time winner of an international programming olympiad. "He is a computer genius," said Anton Nossik, an Internet entrepreneur who has known the Durov brothers for years. In interviews, Pavel frequently refers to his older brother as his role model and coding mentor.
Pavel founded VKontakte fresh out of St. Petersburg State University in 2006, initially designed as a social platform for university students.
Nikolai began by advising his younger brother over the phone from Germany. But as VKontakte gained momentum, he returned to St. Petersburg and put his brains to the task as the company's chief technical officer. Тheir obsession was to make the Russian answer to Facebook faster and more reliable than its U.S. rival.
VKontakte's hiring policy was unashamedly ageist — the bulk of the mostly male team was in their early twenties. Future employees were asked at job interviews whether they drank (the desired answer was no) and parties were rare. Kononov described the atmosphere at VKontakte as one of triumphant ambition. "The nerds had conquered the world," he wrote.
From their headquarters at the prestigious Singer House in central St. Petersburg — which featured a medieval hall fitted with throne-like seats and torture instruments lining the walls — the team coded their way to success. By 2013, VKontakte had 210 million registered users, and was still growing.
VKontakte's booming success was facilitated by an almost complete absence of regulation of the Internet market in Russia in the early 2000s. A staunch libertarian, Pavel embraced the vacuum. In а manifesto published in the Afisha magazine in 2012, he argued: "The best legislative initiative — is the absence of one."
VKontakte rapidly filled with hundreds of thousands of pirated films and music, becoming a focal point of cultural life — YouTube, Facebook and Spotify rolled into one. Critics said VKontakte facilitated the infringement of intellectual property rights by providing unpaid access to licensed films and music. It was also accused of distributing pornography.
At first, the Kremlin kept its distance. Pavel occasionally met with Vladislav Surkov, then in charge of President Vladimir Putin's domestic strategy. But the implicit deal seemed to be that VKontakte would be allowed to go its own way.
That changed in December 2011, when a wave of protests swept the country. Tens of thousands of Russians, many of whom formed part of the "VKontakte generation," protested against the rigging of parliamentary elections.
Facing the biggest uprising of Putin's reign, Russia's state security apparatus lumbered into action. The St. Petersburg branch of the federal security service, the FSB, asked VKontakte to delete the pages of seven groups using the site to coordinate and rally the protests.
Law enforcement had made previous requests to curb the activity of users who were deemed extremist — and VKontakte had reportedly given them backdoor access — but this time things were different.
Pavel responded with a resolute no, posting a picture of a dog in a hooded sweater with his tongue sticking out alongside a link to a scan of the official FSB request.
The tech entrepreneur would later tell Kononov: "I don't know why I then refused to close the groups' [pages.] Something in me resisted."
That same night, armed men in camouflage came to Pavel's apartment and pounded on the door, demanding to be let in. He refused.
On several other occasions, the FSB would try to curb VKontakte's activities. It demanded the closure of a group in support of opposition leader Alexei Navalny and Ukrainian activists who were supporting the anti-Kremlin Maidan protest movement in Kiev.
Pavel again went public with the requests on social media accompanied by photos of hairy dogs. His resistance bought him fame. He was embraced as a maverick who would challenge the establishment.
Nikolai, meanwhile, remained in the background. "He spends most of his life behind his laptop and other devices," Kononov told The Moscow Times. A handful of public photos show a middle-aged, bespectacled man with thinning hair and glasses.
The growth of Telegram
The standoff with law enforcement took place amid a corporate dispute that saw Pavel gradually lose power over his company to two companies with ties to the Kremlin — Mail.ru and United Capital Partners.
Pavel treated the struggle for control with typical irreverence, posting a photo of himself giving the "trash-holding company Mail.ru and its attempts to take over VKontakte" the middle finger.
As Pavel's grip on the company slipped, law enforcement stepped up their attacks. In April 2013 Pavel was linked to an incident in which one of Vkontakte's white Mercedes had run over the foot of a police officer, even though Pavel claimed he did not drive.
Raids followed by investigators on VKontakte's office and Pavel's home. He was called in for questioning but didn't show up.
Days after the incident, United Capital Partners, a fund run by financier Ilya Sherbovich who had reported connections to Putin ally Igor Sechin, was announced to have bought a 48-percent combined share of the company.
Pavel would lose the battle for control. In January 2014, he sold his 12-percent share in the company to Ivan Tavrin, an ally of Russian tycoon Alisher Usmanov, the owner of Mail.ru and one of Russia's richest men.
Mail.ru later bought UCP's share, too, giving it complete control over the company.
"[Pavel's ouster] sent a very simple, but powerful message to the Internet market," said Andrei Soldatov, an expert on online security. "Either you cooperate with the Kremlin or you're out."
By then, however, the Durov brothers had set up a plan B — and it involved leaving Russia.
While still at VKontakte, Durov had secretly set up a new company called Digital Fortress. Its headquarters in Buffalo, New York, reportedly had enough server capacity to house one-third of VKontakte's traffic.
Russia's independent Dozhd television network broke the news to great scandal. VKontakte's staff, shareholders and Pavel himself denied the report and accused the station of fabricating the story to stir up tensions between shareholders.
"Even before the broadcast was over, my phone started ringing non-stop with people calling and asking: what are you doing? It the most aggressive reaction [to a story] that I've experienced in my entire career," Ivan Golunov, a journalist involved in the scoop, told The Moscow Times.
But Golunov had found evidence that a handful of Durov's programmers had already relocated to the United States. He said at least one of the programmers was still on VKontakte's payroll.
Asked to comment on the mystery project, Pavel had sent Dozhd's reporters a moving image showing a scene from The Social Network — a film about the creation of Facebook. In it, the character of Facebook entrepreneur Sean Parker gives two middle fingers to a group of venture capitalists in a shiny office building. Pavel Durov seemed to be plotting his revenge on the shareholders that were pushing him out of VKontakte.
In August 2013, Pavel pulled the rabbit out of the hat — the Durovs had been working on an encrypted chat service called Telegram.
Pavel provided the capital — he had reportedly left Russia with $300 million in his pocket from selling his VKontakte shares — and its "ideology." Nikolai was responsible for the coding.
The result is a James-Bond-meets-artificial-intelligence messaging service that rivals bigger players on the market like WhatsApp by promising to protect users from third party interference.
User data is encrypted and stored in several jurisdictions — making it difficult for third parties to access. A secret chat option allows users to send messages with self-destruct timers.
Pavel reportedly burns through $1 million of his own cash every month to keep the project going. He told Fortune magazine in an interview that he would start looking for investors in several years, but according to Telegram's website: "Making profits will never be a goal."
Privacy Is Priority
With Pavel himself functioning as a walking billboard for the service, Telegram needs little PR. The Durovs say the idea for Telegram was born out of their need to communicate privately while the Russian security services were breathing down their necks.
The timing of Telegram's launch also coincided with revelations on the snooping practices at America's National Security Agency leaked by Edward Snowden. Pavel has called Snowden — who, ironically, was granted political asylum in Russia — his "personal hero."
But history is looking to repeat itself, as Durov's company once again finds itself in the crosshairs of authorities. This time it won't be just Russia's security services asking for a backdoor, but those of governments worldwide.
China has already blocked access to Telegram. A Russian lawmaker called for a similar measure after it was reported that the terrorists responsible for a series of coordinated attacks in Paris last year used Telegram to communicate. Telegram's public channels service, which allows users to publish messages to unlimited audiences, was also accused of providing a recruiting and propaganda platform for Islamic State, a terrorist group banned in Russia.
Since then, Telegram has shut down 78 public channels being used by IS. But the function, famously used by Pope Francis, has also been embraced by civil rights activists who argue it allows citizens to bypass countries with repressive media laws.
Tech giant Apple has also found itself in a corner after the FBI demanded access to an encrypted iPhone belonging to a man involved in a shooting rampage in December that killed 14 people in San Bernadino.
Pavel has publicly supported Apple in its battle against the FBI saying: "Our right to privacy is more important than the fear of terrorism." But Apple seemed more willing to throw the Durovs under the bus. A chief lawyer for Apple in early March told the U.S. Congress that "one of the most pernicious apps that we see in the terrorist space is Telegraph [sic]. It has nothing to do with Apple."
He also called the service "uncrackable." Pavel is likely to consider this an endorsement of his service.
Band of Fugitives
While the standoff between privacy and security continues, the Durovs are not taking any risks.
The brothers and a handful of programmers, many of them Russian, live the lives of fugitives. Pavel reportedly alternates between three phones. Though the company is based in Berlin, its staff uproots to a new location every several months, staying in hotel rooms or accommodation rented through AirBnB.
With Telegram, the Durovs appear to have avenged the regime that saw them flee their country. It is an open secret that Russian top officials themselves use Telegram to communicate through the secret chat service without being snooped on by their colleagues.
But Putin's Internet adviser German Klimenko late last year issued a veiled warning, telling the Dozhd television network: "I am sure [that] either Telegram cooperates [with the security services,] or it will be shut down."
If Pavel's history and his love for The Matrix is anything to go by, his response to that ultimatum is likely to resemble Neo's answer to a deal proposed by his nemesis, Agent Smith. The agent promises to clear Neo of criminal charges if he provides the agent with information on rogue elements fighting the system. "We're willing to wipe the slate clean, give you a fresh start," he says. "All that we're asking in return is your cooperation in bringing a known terrorist to justice."
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Retailers are on a constant quest to understand what customers do in their stores: What do they look at, touch, reject or buy? Do they return? Answers allow store operators to adjust inventory, refine store layout, price goods, optimize costs and give customers a better experience.
After six years of operating its own brick-and-mortar stores, century-old textile giant Gul Ahmed has gained an understanding of shopper behaviour through machine vision technology. The project aims to streamline operations, attract return customers and boost revenue — goals that are in line with what CIOs across the Middle East use to justify large-scale expenditures in IT, according to Gartner.
The company sells its textile merchandise online as well as in retail stores, and has a presence in the UAE, Pakistan and the UK. Across the MENAP (Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan and Pakistan) region, it operates over 100 stores for Ideas, its direct-to-consumer (D2C) business launched in 2013, for Eastern fashion apparel and home linen.
The multinational enterprise generates more than 90 percent of its annual revenue through distribution hubs — which supply merchandise for online sales — and D2C retail outlets in Sharjah in the UAE and Haslingden in the UK.
Emphasizing retail first-party data
Most textile producers in the MENAP region that operate online businesses are working with either Amazon’s Souq or Alibaba Group’s Daraz to white-label an e-commerce site. Others emphasize ownership and control of first-party data and operate their own online stores on Magento (like Gul Ahmed) or Shopify.
Along with its online data-gathering, the company was also interested in introducing analytics to the brick-and-mortar world. The idea was to learn which marketing initiatives, merchandising and in-store displays most effectively drive people to retail locations and convert them to paying customers.
Gul Ahmed leveraged the capabilities of SenseR, a machine vision system developed by Integration Xperts, applying facial recognition on video from closed-circuit TVs at more than 100 outlets.
When shoppers enter a store, SenseR’s machine-learning technology makes best guesses — based on data it has already been fed — for emotional state and demographic attributes such as age and gender.
After a front-facing camera captures a shopper’s demographics, secondary cameras track the person’s movements and correlate the data with information collected at the point of sale (POS). This includes information that people give — such as date of birth, email addresses and phone numbers — when opting to fill a loyalty/discount form.
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This behavioural and purchase information collected in the store is ported to a data- and order-management system connected to the company’s cloud-based marketing platform, and used to finetune its omnichannel strategy. Based on purchase history, customers are retargeted for similar products in the same or next fashion line.
“Optimizing in-store video analytics empowered our business to focus on the development of products, streamlined our store layout, and gave the customers what they wanted,” Khalilullah said. “When retail is involved, customers want to touch and feel what they’re purchasing. Video analytics is the perfect opportunity to find out what our customers prefer.”
AI helps resource and demand planning
According to Ilsa Khan Baqai, a data scientist at Integration Xperts, machine-learning vision tech like SenseR can help large brick and mortar retailers with various aspects of resource and demand planning.
“For example, if it is observed that the dwell times of visitors in a store is generally high however the transactions are low, it can easily be depicted via an on-screen dashboard via a sales conversion chart,” Baqai said. “This can now then be given attention to by the management by planning actions such as sales staff training or improving the price of the products etc.”
In the implementation phase at Gul Ahmed, Microsoft Azure ended up being used for analytics and database requirements. Since the cognitive services from Microsoft were not performing very well on closed-circuit TV footage, they were not used.
The machine vision system also required on-premise compute, which meant that implementation technicians from Integration Xperts had to go to each branch to deploy and configure SenseR. The distributed approach was to save data transmission cost from branch to cloud, hence all videos were processed on-site, while results were sent to Azure.
Deployment causes friction
“On-site deployment was the major challenge,” said Zia Saleem, head of product development at Integration Xperts. “The focus of the branch is day-to-day operations. In the middle of the operations, expecting [staff] to take time out to help us align closed-circuit TV cameras, arrange and install compute on-site is difficult.”
For Saleem’s team, the experience reinstilled the importance of communications to reduce friction between store staff and technical personnel. To reduce disruption, Integration Xperts devised a software deployment package. Integration Xperts is also planning a number of system enhancements, including an in-store kiosk display that can identify recurring customers and suggest new offers within a store based on customer demographics and in the case of a recurring customer, historic buying pattern and store journeys, Saleem said.
“Know your customer – the better you know the customer, the more targeted the sales effort can be,” Saleem said. Machine vision when deployed for retail analytics can, for example, identify weak staff performance, when there are many shoppers in a store but relatively few purchases.
“The system can analyze sales staff behavior with the customer and analyze the sentiment of the customer while they were being dealt with by the sales staff. This can give the business a very clear idea of how much effort the sales team is making in satisfying customer queries,” Saleem said.
Machine vision enhances security
Depending on the placement of cameras within and outside stores, machine vision layered on top of a closed-circuit TV system can also help retailers with security and prevent theft or fraud, removing the need for human security to be sitting behind a screen, while initiating physical intervention when alerted to a threat.
Gul Ahmed plans to take advantage of this capability in phase two of the machine vision project.
Over the next few years, 5G transmission speeds are expected to further enhance data-gathering and analysis. When operating in an ecosystem supported by 5G, D2C companies with retail analytics applications built on machine vision will be able to pull IoT data from closed-circuit TVs, homes, drones, and metering systems.
In the Middle East, Saudi Arabia piloted a 5G network in the city of Al Khobar, while Ooredoo in Qatar and Etisalat in the UAE have also taken active steps toward adoption. Shortly after setting up a 5G Ecosystem Programme in 2018, Huawei announced in early 2019 that 50 operators, vertical industry partners, and industry leaders from the Middle East were on board to bring 5G applications to a range of industries.
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Rabbit Awareness Week (10th – 18th May) is a nationwide event that aims to make the public aware of the welfare needs of rabbits.
Rabbits make very rewarding pets as they are intelligent, fun and inquisitive. However, they do live up to 10 years plus and are a long term commitment. We want to make sure that your decision to choose a rabbit as your pet is the right one.
Rabbit awareness week is an annual campaign that Not Just Pets supports. We take it as an opportunity to educate local owners and potential owners on how to take care of their pets properly. We aim to raise awareness of caring for rabbits as well as raising funds and promote local charities.
In order for an animal to thrive and be happy there are five main areas that need to be met. These areas are Diet, Environment, Behaviour, Company and Health.
Whether you are an existing owner or plan to be one there is a wealth of knowledge to be found during Rabbit Awareness Week.
In store we are holding an open day in conjunction with Bath Bunny rescue. There will be a fabulous raffle and cake sale to raise essential funds for the charity. Here is the star cake from the last cake sale!
The date for your diary is Saturday 10th May. We will be holding the Open day at our Bath store 8-9 St James Parade.
Our staff will be on hand to guide you through any rabbit purchases you may need help with and Michelle from Bath Bunny Rescue will be in store to answer your questions and to chat about all things rabbit.
Michelle will also be bringing in some rabbits with her so please come and visit them for a cuddle!
Rabbit themed incentives and promotions will be available so come and get a treat or learn something new during Rabbit Awareness Week!
We look forward to welcoming you in store soon; remember we are open in our Bath store 7 days a week!
Any ideas and suggestions you have will be welcomed. You can follow us in many ways:
We are now on Instagram! – notjustpets Follow us and see some fantastic photos!
We run regular photo competitions, quizzes, offers and promotions on our Facebook and Twitter pages, so why not “like” or “follow” us today!
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ten Meaningful Team building Situations to own Healthier Organizations
Truth be told. Team building activities shall be awkward. If you find yourself regularly reaching folks in a professional context, permitting reduce is a problem, specially when you happen to be questioned entscheidendes Bindeglied becoming vulnerable. But not, the great benefits of solid peer matchmaking at the office was unequaled, especially when considering business society.
The easy fulfillment of experiencing loved ones of working try a strong influencer into the work pleasure, staff wedding, retention, plus production. To make a society from suggestions and you will cooperation, some body need to basic feel comfortable and their people relationship. In reality, Simpli5 discovered that nearly a 3rd of its participants had before sensed making a position on account of negative class environment, so it is not surprising that you to definitely building strong communities are an excellent priority.
ten Significant Team building events Points getting More powerful Groups
Chemistry allows you to score a great deal more regarding much less. When anyone generate rapport and faith, they may be able to complete over the sum of the their pieces since the everyone knows exactly what others give the desk, which grows efficiency. – David Hua, Co-maker and Ceo, Meadow
A natural choice will be to check for affairs you to definitely support team connection-therefore the overall performance one pop-up may not be… the greatest. From inside the a survey done-by Vodafone Uk and you may YouGov, “a majority of workers interviewed (66%) were made to accomplish some kind of group-building pastime, [and] over fifty percent (54%) usually do not think undertaking much more would help them work better with their associates.”
The thing that makes it? Esther Cohen, Workamajig’s strengthening factors elicit shame in lieu of warmth. Any kind of feeling they could have is actually voided of the sheer reluctance of team members to participate him or her.”
To build stronger communities, we have to link the brand new gap anywhere between stereotypical team-strengthening factors, and you will genuine, important group connecting. Which can be perhaps not will be with faith drops. Believe you. ??
The dos and you will don’ts from team building events situations
The term “mandatory” is normally a source of hate. Very let’s simply get rid of those of all of us-building words immediately. It is essential to enjoys whole organizations participate in circumstances, however, more importantly, it’s crucial to enjoys professionals feel personally engaged and you may dedicated to strengthening more powerful organizations.
Very plan points that your employees enjoy! Don’t believe that most people enjoy bowling or is good which have staying later having pleased hr. Additionally, in the event that everyone in the office is actually stoked regarding hiking or a specific board game, your all of a sudden have a very good chance of connection.
Think guaranteeing team members so you can plan their own events. This allows opportunities to have get across-class venture over the work environment and you can forges connections across different divisions. Particularly, Bonusly’s Terrace Household Prefer Bar provides admirers together with her out-of some other teams and you will local workplaces to freak out more than Japanese reality television. Because is due to a contributed notice, i look ahead to enjoying an event together each week so you can participants we would struggle to relate to generally.
To learn more about culture-building suggestions for remote groups, comprehend ten Effortless A means to Continue Remote Specialists Pleased and you may Involved.
Many successful, splendid cluster-strengthening situations are those which do not feel like 24 hours at your workplace. – Brian Scudamore, Chief executive officer, O2E Labels
They sends an effective message when an organization measures out of any office in order to focus on team building. Specifically which have remote specialists or practices spread nationwide, face-to-deal with date can make a noticeable difference between casual really works. Seeing subtleties into the gestures and you may telecommunications appearance when you look at the another type of perspective could affect how you strategy teamwork working. Buffer, a myspace and facebook management platform with a totally marketed cluster, takes it one step further from the flying someone off to three internationally retreats a year. It’s a big costs, but Shield towns quality value on the peer relationship. | <urn:uuid:49b10302-0bb6-44f8-b9eb-ed24acd77e31> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://xn----8sbcqmxlhox.xn--p1ai/ten-meaningful-team-building-situations-to-own/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571909.51/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813051311-20220813081311-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.950694 | 915 | 1.585938 | 2 |
December 27, 2018
When a Real Estate Contract Becomes Binding
At Topouzis & Associates, P.C., we understand that, for many potential parties to a real estate transaction, the nature of contract law and real estate law is less evident than it is to experts like ourselves, who deal with the ins and outs of the industry on a daily basis. And where a home purchase is concerned, the first major contract into which the parties will enter is the real estate contract. Naturally, the status of this document causes a level of concern and consternation for those with little experience in real estate, who often want to know: When does this transaction become something I can’t back out on?
Put simply, the real estate contract is a binding document, which comes into the equation once a property’s seller has decided to accept the offer made by a prospective buyer. Also known as a purchase agreement, it is the official set of rights and duties shared between the two parties to a transaction, and lays out expectations of behaviors and actions to be taken by the parties, including the amount of time in which each action should be taken. As such, it is at the heart of any pending real estate transaction.
Once both parties have signed it, it becomes binding.
At this point, each party must then begin to take action on their rights and duties: the buyers to take steps toward getting their various legal and lending requirements in place, and the sellers to start with the process of vacating the premises, which usually means locating a new home to move in to.
Of course, it’s important to recognize that, despite the real estate contract’s putatively binding nature, there are often contingencies built into the document. This is because real estate transactions can be somewhat unpredictable; and nobody wants either side of a purchase to be forced to take on undue hardship because of factors that prove beyond their control. Contingencies are qualifications on the binding nature of a contract; they lay out conditions precedent to the full enactment of the purchase, and may end up delaying closing if not fulfilled in time, or even in the cancellation of the contract altogether if they cannot be met, as in the case of a failed inspection the cause of which is a problem with the property whose scope goes well beyond what the seller can remediate in a timely fashion. This cancellation of contract would permit the buyer to get back any earnest money they may have put into escrow.
Should the contingencies to a real estate contract be met, on the other hand, and the transaction proceed to its conclusion, we here at Topouzis & Associates, P.C., stand ready to aid at closing. Not only do we act as a bulwark against problems of the past, performing title searches and ensuring clear title to property—we also back our services with offerings of title insurance (click here). | <urn:uuid:a5b9bf87-aafd-439f-9906-2a6b057dea56> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.taclosinglaw.com/2018/12/27/real-estate-contract-becomes-binding/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571198.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810161541-20220810191541-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.962053 | 590 | 1.515625 | 2 |
Are you moving house, relocating to new business premises or preparing for the overseas adventure of a lifetime? There are all kinds of reasons why people use storage units and often, you find that certain items end up in storage more often than others. Here are ten of the most popular storage items and some tips to help you get the most out of your storage unit.
The top 10 storage items and useful storage tips
- Furniture: furniture is the most popular storage item. If you’re storing desks, chairs, sofas or beds, disassemble larger pieces, wrap individual items and organise your furniture in a way that enables you to maximise the space you have available. Tables, for example, can be placed top down on mattresses. Keep an eye on your pieces and take steps to preserve and maintain furniture that features metals like brass or copper or soft furnishings.
- Electronics: if you haven’t got room for electrical items at home, you don’t have to throw them away. Storage is a popular option for those who aren’t ready to part with spare TV sets or consoles just yet. If you are storing these items, keep them in their original boxes and make sure you put the right wires and plugs with the corresponding electrical item. This will prevent confusion when it comes to unpacking.
- Home appliances: you never know when you may need a spare washing machine, toaster or fridge. If you’re storing home appliances, make sure they’re empty and give them a clean before you move them. Store larger items up against the walls of the unit. It’s a good idea to leave the doors of fridges and washing machines slightly ajar to prevent a musty smell.
- Files and documents: if you have papers or files you wish to store, it’s wise to keep them in an airtight plastic box to prevent damage caused by humidity.
- Antiques, decorative items and art: if you have valuable items you don’t want to keep at home, it’s important to try and protect them as best you can. Wrap pictures in storage tissue, roll rugs and keep canvases off the ground. Wrap items individually to protect them from damage and reduce exposure to moisture and make sure your items are insured.
- Vehicles and cars: are you going away or have you run out of room on the driveway? If so, storage units are an excellent option. Rust can be a major issue, so keep some gas in the tank. Clean the car inside and out before you store it, and disconnect the battery to prevent leaks.
- Festive decorations: Christmas comes but once a year. If you don’t want decorations taking over your spare room or loft, store them in a secure unit. Wrap delicate items, such as glass baubles, and keep your decorations in sealed boxes if possible.
- Photographs and magazines: if you’re storing photographs or magazines or papers that have sentimental value, it’s wise to try and protect them from light and heat. Place tissue paper between the pages of magazines and store newspapers and photographs in acid-free boxes.
- Books: books take up valuable space in homes and offices. If you want to store books, it’s best to keep them in sealed boxes. It’s worth spending a few minutes labelling and organising your books before you take them to your unit.
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As a mother of a newborn, personally I think there are three kind of common infants' eye problems. The first one is clogged tear duct. It's common for newborn tear ducts to clog and for tears to overflow onto a baby's cheeks. The remedy: Apply a warm compress to the inner corner of the eye and massage it gently. If you see crusting when your baby wakes up, just wipe it away with a damp cotton ball. But if pus drainage and crusting last throughout the day, call your doctor. The second is crossed eyes. Many babies cross their eyes because the muscles that control them are still weak. However, if your child is 4 months old or older and frequently cross-eyed, or if it occurs at the same time each day or during the same activity, an eye exam is warranted. The third is infection. If the whites of one or both of your tot's eyes are very red, and perhaps crusty or draining pus, he may have conjunctivitis (pinkeye), a contagious bacterial infection. Call the doctor ASAP. A prescription topical ointment usually relieves it in just a couple of days.
Pink eye is a common eye problem of baby eyes, the cause maybe a virus or bacteria. If baby has a viral infection, wait three to five days before sending her back to school, but just 24 hours if her infection is bacterial. The other common problem is blocked tear duct, as baby develops in utero, the tissue inside the tear duct sloughs off and leaves a hollow core. If that doesn't happen, the tissue remains and blocks the duct.in this case, you can use a warm, wet cloth to clean the eyes whenever you see discharge. A blocked duct usually opens on its own, and discharge lessens over time. If it hasn't completely dissipated by the time your child is 12 to 18 months, she may need surgery.
I also agree with above answer. I think some infants will have refractive errors.Refractive errors can cause decreased vision, eyestrain, or amblyopia. Fortunately, refractive errors such as nearsightedness and farsightedness can often be corrected in school-age children by means of wearing eyeglasses. Uncorrected, these errors can make some issues such as amblyopia worse, and can persevere into adulthood. The ability to correct refractive errors early makes early detection important. | <urn:uuid:c49514eb-d615-4990-b68a-8dacf8c2a431> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://answer.firmoo.com/question/13849.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571909.51/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813051311-20220813081311-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.960434 | 495 | 2.65625 | 3 |
The social network Linkedin will tell a user how he/she is connected to another. In real life, points of connection are not always that evident. However, identifying patterns or relationships and commonalities among entities is a task that is critically important advantage for businesses, biologists, doctors, patients and more.
A new computational tool developed in the lab of USC Viterbi School Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering professor Paul Bodgan in collaboration with Ming Hsieh professor Edmond Jonckheere, is able to quickly identify the hidden affiliations and interrelationships among groups/items/persons with greater accuracy than existing tools.
The researchers in Bogdan's lab are sort of like detectives and the puzzle they are trying to figure out is how one clue, person, item or action is connected and related to another entity. Imagine a lab dedicated to a scientific "Six degrees of ..." to discover hidden interrelationships. The problem they are tackling is known by researchers who study complex networks as the "community detection problem"--identifying and mapping out which individuals or items have in common and how they are connected.
Such a computational tool could be leveraged by various groups: political strategists trying to find voters' overlapping values or shared attributes; or biologists who want to predict the potential of a drug's side effects or interactions --without running years' worth of live experiments. Their research is also being deployed to identify which parts of the brain are working on the same functions--a key piece of information for neuroscientists and individuals suffering from brain damage to anticipate if certain areas of the brain might take over functionality for injured tissue. One can also imagine this lab's algorithm working on finding points of contact on seemingly unrelated information.
Their recent paper, titled "Ollivier-Ricci Curvature-Based Method to Community Detection in Complex Networks", in the journal Nature Scientific Reports, documents the method the group has developed to create this improved tool.
Methodology/Proof of Concept:
PhD candidate Jayson Sia who worked on the research indicates that the algorithm they developed, the Ollivier-Ricci curvature (ORC)-based community identification, was tested and validated on four known real-world data sets the field for which the goal is to find the point of connection among the "nodes" or individuals/ individual items in a group by looking at the links between them or what is known in technical jargon as "edges." The data sets include a drug-drug interaction network, the Zachary's Karate Club; a college football conference affiliations; and a set of over 1000 political blogs.
Says lead author Sia, "In this paper, we utilized a novel geometric approach via the Ollivier-Ricci curvature which offers a natural method to discover inherent network community structures.."
Curvature in the geometric context, explains Sia, "essentially measures how a surface deviates from being flat (or how a surface 'curves'). The geometry of surfaces is related to the study of map projections and how distances are measured in a curved surface such as the Earth. The Ollivier-Ricci curvature extends this concept of 'curvature' to networks with positively curved edges being 'well connected' and naturally forming a 'community.' Negatively curved edges on the other hand are interpreted as 'bridges' between communities and cutting such edges would isolate information flow between communities."
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Intellectual Property, Medicine and Health examines critical issues and debates, including access to knowledge and medicinal products, human rights and development, innovations in life technologies and the possibility for ethical frameworks for intellectual property law and its application in public health.
The second edition accounts for recent and, in some areas, extensive developments in this dynamic and fast-moving field. This edition brings together new and updated examples and analysis in competition and regulation, gene-related inventions and biotechnology, as well as significant cases, including Novartis v Union of India.
Table of Contents
Part 1: Health
Chapter 1: The Life of Health
Chapter 2: The Health of Intellectual Property
Part 2: Rights
Chapter 3: The Human Right to Health
Chapter 4: Health, Development, Culture
Chapter 5: Patent Morality
Part 3: Life
Chapter 6: The Technology of Life
Chapter 7: Life’s Libraries
Part 4: Access
Chapter 8: Access
Chapter 9: Use
Conclusion to the First Edition
Conclusion to the Second Edition
Johanna Gibson is Herchel Smith Professor of Intellectual Property Law at the Centre for Commercial Law Studies, Queen Mary University of London, where she researches in intellectual property law and policy.
'Professor Gibson's second edition of "Intellectual Property, Medicine and Health" like the first edition is a wide ranging and detailed discussion of the legal and moral aspects of health policy that has been brought up to date. The focus is on international treaties, morality and intellectual property law. The conflict between incentives to invent new medical devices and medicines and the right of people to have access to such technologies is thoroughly reviewed and updated.'
Martin J. Adelman, George Washington University Law School, USA
'Professor Gibson makes a very significant contribution to the literature on the intellectual property aspects of medicine and health, focussing upon gene and pharmaceutical patenting, framed by an ethical and sociological perspective. It importantly locates these perspectives within the broader context of the internationally mandated "right to health".'
Michael Blakeney, University of Western Australia
'In the second edition of "Intellectual Property, Medicine and Health" Professor Gibson offers a deep, extensive and thought provoking analysis of the ever controversial relationship between patents and health. The book provides an ideal source for anyone seeking a current and thorough review of the tensions that surround the subject and a fuller understanding of the nature of and background to the various differing perspectives that are held on it. '
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By Nancy Cook | Bloomberg
The White House on Friday announced plans to expand aid for mortgage borrowers who have fallen behind on payments during the coronavirus pandemic.
Enhanced assistance will be provided to homeowners with government-backed mortgages who have been negatively impacted by the pandemic, with the aim cutting some monthly payments by roughly 25%, according to a White House fact sheet.
The move is designed to more closely align options for mortgages backed by the Department of Housing and Urban Development, the USDA, and the Veterans’ Affairs Department with those offered for mortgages backed by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the White House said.
As the economy has started to return to life following the Covid-19-caused lockdowns, administration officials continue to closely monitor the housing market. Housing prices have climbed during the pandemic. At the same time, with millions of Americans out of work, people have struggled to pay mortgages or rent.
The administration wants to ensure people do not lose their homes or apartments in the middle of a massive public health crisis if they cannot pay their bills.
Earlier this year, the Biden extended a moratorium on foreclosures and the time period during which homeowners could enroll in mortgage forbearance programs if they had government-backed loans. In June, the administration extended the foreclosure moratorium for one final month until July 31 and the forbearance window until Sept. 30.
Roughly 7.2 million American households used the forbearance options.
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Code: ABM 028
Country: Tibet (west)
Style: Purang-Guge Kingdom
Date: 1100 - 1200
Dimensions in cm WxHxD: 67.8 x 20.5
Distemper on paper.
Size: (illumination) 4.6 x 4.8 cm
Not restored: Paper, calligraphy and illumination are in original conditions.
This paper manuscript leaf of a Tibetan translation of the Prajnaparamita-Sutra writen in dBu can script was discovered in 2004 inside an abandoned and hidden cave in Western Tibet. Information about the location of the cave could not be obtained.
The folio is numbered on the illustrated side front side as Volume kha, page gya gsum (83).
On the numbered side of this folio is a miniature painting of Buddha Shakyamuni in the act of preaching. The Buddha is seated in the diamond attitude(vajraparyankasana) on a single lotus throne, and displays the gesture of preaching (dharmacakra-mudra). The red upper monastic garment (uttarasanga )is rendered without folds and covers the left shoulder only. He is backed by a green cushion, and is encircled by a red coloured aureole, the head is set against a white nimbus. The Buddha is placed against a blue panel decorated with flowers within a red frame.
No. - Marks ( Lakkhana ) - Significance
1 - Well-supported feet - Firm undertaking
2 - Wheels arise beneath the sole of the feet - Great retinues
3 - The heels are projecting - Long life
4 - The fingers and toes are long - Long life
5 - The hands and feet are soft and tender - Well-united with people
6 - The hands and feet are net-like - Well-united with people
7 - The ankles are raised like conch shells - Becomes the best
8 - The lower part of the leg is like an antelope's - Gets the best things quickly
9 - He can touch and rub around his knees with both palms, while tanding, and without bending - Great wealth
10 - The part which should be concealed by garments, is covered by a bag - Many sons
11 - The skin shines like gold - Get finest furnishings and garments
12 - Subtle skin: dirt and sweat do not stick to his body - Great wisdom
13 - Single hairs arise, one to each pore - Well-respected
14 - The hair pointing upwards; dark, black in colour, turning in rings to the right - Becomes the best
15 - The frame is straight like Brahma - Long life
16 - There are seven outflows on his hands, on his feet, at the tips of the shoulders, and at the top of the back - Obtains excellent foods
17 - The upper part of the body is lion-like - No loss
18 - The hollow between his shoulders is filled - No loss
19 - The body is proportionate: the body is as long as the span of the arms - Great wealth
20 - The shoulders are evenly rounded - No loss
21 - He releases the highest of tastes - Very healthy
22 - The jaw is lion-like - He cannot be overthrown
23 - There are forty teeth - The assemblies cannot be divided
24 - The teeth are even - Pure retinues
25 - The teeth are undivided - The assemblies cannot be divided
26 - The visible teeth are very white - Pure retinues
27 - A mighty tongue - His words are heeded
28 - The voice of Brahma and also resembles the song of a karavika bird - His words are heeded
29 - The eyes are very blue - Attractive look
30 - The Eyelashes are like those of a cow - Attractive look
31 - The filament between the eyebrows is white like soft cotton - Well-respected
32 - The head is turban-crowned - Many followers
Perfection of Wisdom -
"Perfection of Wisdom" is a translation of the Sanskrit term prajna paramita (Devanagari:
Chinese: Pinyin: ban'ruo-boluomìduo
Japanese: hannya-haramitta, hannya-haramitta?)
Vietnamese: Bat Nha Ba La Mat Da)
- which is one of the aspects of a bodhisattva's personality called the paramitas.
The Perfection of Wisdom Sutras or Prajnaparamita Sutras are a genre of Mahayana Buddhist scriptures dealing with the subject of the Perfection of Wisdom. The term Prajnaparamita alone never refers to a specific text, but always to the class of literature.
The earliest sutra in this class is the Astasahasrika Prajnaparamita Sutra or "Perfection of Wisdom in 8,000 Lines", which was probably put in writing about 100 BC and is one of the earliest Mahayana sutras. More material was gradually compiled over the next two centuries. As well as the sutra itself, there is a summary in verse, the Ratnagunasamcaya Gatha, which some believe to be slightly older because it is not written in standard literary Sanskrit.
Between the years 100 and 300 this text was expanded into large versions in 10,000, 18,000, 25,000 and 100,000 lines, collectively known at the "Large Perfection of Wisdom". These differ mainly in the extent to which the many lists are either abbreviated or written out in full; the rest of the text is mostly unchanged between the different versions.
Since the large versions proved to be unwieldy they were later summarized into shorter versions, produced from 300 to 500. The shorter versions include the Heart Sutra (Prajñāpāramitā Hṛdaya Sūtra) and the Diamond Sutra (Prajñāpāramitā Vajracchedikā Sūtra). These two are widely popular and have had a great influence on the development of Mahayana Buddhism.
Tantric versions of the Prajnaparamita literature were produced from 500 on. The Prajnaparamita terma teachings are held to have been conferred upon Nagarjuna by Nagaraja, the King of the nagas, who had been guarding them at the bottom of a lake.
"At first sight, The Perfection of Wisdom is bewildering, full of paradox and apparent irrationality. Yet once one accepts that trying to unravel these texts without experiencing the intuitions behind them is not satisfactory, it becomes clear that paradox and irrationality are the only means of conveying to the reader those underlying intuitions that would otherwise be impossible to express. Edward Conze succinctly summarized what The Perfection of Wisdom is about, saying, 'The thousands of lines of the Prajñāparamitā can be summed up in the following two sentences:
1. One should become a bodhisattva (or, Buddha-to-be), i.e. one who is content with nothing less than all-knowledge attained through the perfection of wisdom for the sake of all beings.
2. There is no such thing as a bodhisattva, or as all-knowledge, or as a 'being', or as the perfection of wisdom, or as an attainment. To accept both of these contradictory facts is to be perfect.'
The central idea of The Perfection of Wisdom is complete release from the world of existence. The Perfection of Wisdom goes beyond earlier Buddhist teaching that focused on the rise and fall of phenomena to state that there is no such rise and fall — because all phenomena are essentially void.
The earlier perception had been that reality is composed of a multiplicity of things. The Perfection of Wisdom states that there is no multiplicity: all is one. Even existence (samsara) and nirvana are essentially the same, and both are ultimately void. The view of The Perfection of Wisdom is that words and analysis have a practical application in that they are necessary for us to function in this world but, ultimately, nothing can be predicated about anything.
Within this context of voidness, The Perfection of Wisdom offers a way to enlightenment. It represents the formal introduction to Buddhist thought of a practical ideal — the ideal of a bodhisattva. Unlike an arhat or pratyekabuddha, beings who achieve enlightenment but cannot pass on the means of enlightenment to others, a bodhisattva should and does teach. A bodhisattva must practice the six perfections: giving, morality, patience, vigour, contemplation and wisdom. Wisdom is the most important of these because it dispels the darkness of sensory delusion and allows things to be seen as they really are."
R.C. Jamieson: The Perfection of Wisdom (New York : Penguin Viking, 2000. ISBN 0-670-88934-2 pp. 8–9)
For example, the Diamond Sutra concludes with:
As stars, a fault of vision, a lamp,
A mock show, dew drops, or a bubble,
A dream, a lightning flash, or a cloud,
So should one view what is conditioned.
Stars cannot be grasped. Things seen with faulty vision do not really exist. Lamps only burn as long as they have fuel. A mock show is a magical illusion; it is not as it seems. Dew drops evaporate quickly in the heat of the sun. Bubbles are short lived and have no real substance to them. Dreams are not real, even though they may seem so at the time. Lightning is short lived and quickly over. Clouds are always changing shape. By realising the transient nature of things it is easier to detach from them and to attain Nirvana.
Klimburg-Salter, Deborah E. , 1997. Tabo: a Lamp for the Kingdom: Early Indo-Tibetan Buddhist Art in the Western Himalaya. New York: Thames and Hudson. Compare with paintings at Tabo monastery
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by Genevieve Morton
Kunanyi / Mt Wellington or simply ‘the mountain’ to us locals, Hobart’s most significant landmark was formed during the Permian, Triassic and Jurassic ages.
Despite popular myth, the mountain is not a dormant volcano. However, a small volcanic vent was active about 300m south of the Pinnacle between 50 and 100 million years ago.
The Palawa, the surviving descendants of the original indigenous Tasmanians, favoured the name kunanyi for the mountain and in 2013 the dual naming policy was announced.
The first white man to record the mountain’s existence was Lieutenant William Bligh in 1788. Bligh referred to the mountain as ‘Table Mountain’ because it reminded him of Table Mountain in the Cape Colony in South Africa. Early settlers used the name Table Mountain until 1832 when it was decided the mountain would be renamed to honour the Duke of Wellington.
During European settlement, the mountain was used as a source of clean water, timber, food, ferns, skins and seeds. Wattle, sheoak, stringy bark and blue gum were all used for building and firewood.
Between 1890 and 1910 recreational hut building on the mountain reached a peak of around 40 small huts. They were used as weekend retreats and some even homes. There are even reports a piano was housed in one small hut! Most were destroyed by bushfires. The mountain was also home to notorious bushranger Rocky Whelan who hid from authorities on the east face of the mountain. He was arrested in 1855, armed with a double-barrel pistol ready to fire. Rocky admitted to almost a dozen murders, including Magistrate Dunn, whose body was later found on the mountain.
In 1905, the first application proposal was made for an aerial tramway from Cascades to the mountain summit – which was strongly protested by the people of Hobart. In the early 1930s the Historic Exhibition Garden was built at the Springs. The gardens included over 100 rhododendron plants and the area became a popular weekend picnic spot for locals and tourists. The Pinnacle road opened in 1937. The road was built as a relief scheme for the unemployed and declared by The Mercury as a ‘triumph of engineering ingenuity over nature at its wildest’.
With the arrival of television in Australia in 1956, two towers were built on the summit of the mountain in 1959 to provide reception to southern Tasmania. In 1967, 90 per cent of Wellington Park was burnt in the Black Tuesday bushfires. Since then, there have been major bushfires in 1983, 2001 and 2013. In 1993, The Wellington Park Act passed through Parliament formalising the protection of natural, cultural, water catchment, aesthetic and tourism and recreation values on the mountain. Today, kunyani / Mt Wellington attracts 300,000 visitors a year. ■ | <urn:uuid:a2661d65-4ddd-4b13-bb66-b259d13362f5> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://thehobartmagazine.com.au/the-mountain/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570765.6/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808031623-20220808061623-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.972252 | 599 | 2.9375 | 3 |
Key factors responsible for road crashes
Road safety requires a multi-pronged approach.
Our strategies are focused on addressing four key challenges.
Bad road-user behavior
- Fractured licensing system
- Driver training not mandatory
- Negligible management of fatigue
Flawed road design and engineering
- Road user conflict
- Poor road design with disregard to Safe System Approach
- Poor road engineering and maintenance
- No safety standards for vehicles
Weak enforcement of traffic law
- Weak Penalty system
- Human dependent enforcement ; Minimal use of technology
- Limited risk factors addressed in law
Lack of rapid trauma care
- Lack of Bystander care
- No standard protocols for care
- No universal access number
- National ambulance code yet to be issued
Road traffic in India currently operates within the legal framework established in the Motor Vehicles Act, 1988. While the Act was enacted at a time when the growth in India’s road transport sector could not have been envisaged, it has only been moderately amended in the last 28 years with complete disregard to road safety and rationalisation of penalties. A number of key contributing factors to road crashes have not been addressed as the purview of the act is limited to “motor vehicles” instead of road users in general. Over 50 percent of road users, including vulnerable road users such as pedestrians and cyclists, are not protected under the ambit of the Act. This has led to a negligible framework for road safety in India with powers divided between States and the Centre.
How are we solving it?
We focus on compiling and generating authentic, verifiable data and information on Road Safety and Emergency Care in India and across the world. Based on original, expert reviewed research and data, we propose policy changes in two broad areas: Crash Prevention and Post-Crash Response.
We have identified certain gaps in the existing legal framework around Road Safety and Emergency Care in India. Based on detailed study of these gaps and after gathering authentic, original, verifiable data, we seek judicial intervention in order to provide interim relief until such time that the lacunae are addressed legislatively.
On Ground Intervention
We provide model on-ground training programs and pilot projects across different parts of the country to be replicated by government organizations. | <urn:uuid:ac1e67e6-da29-4396-9997-bd7f11093f54> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://savelifefoundation.org/the-problem/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571536.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811224716-20220812014716-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.92294 | 472 | 2.59375 | 3 |
The old proverb, "If you give a man a fish, you feed him for a day. If you teach a man to fish, you feed him for a lifetime," has some real-life consequences for fatherless boys in Florida.
William "Big Will" Dunn, befriended an 8-year-old boy who lived across the street and who he noticed repeatedly storming in and out of his house, directionless. The young man didn't have a father, and Dunn thought spending a day fishing may help him forget his problems just as it had for Dunn all his life. So, he asked permission from the boy's mother, and she agreed.
Before he knew it, that one Saturday turned into years of Saturdays with Dunn teaching the boys' friends and other neighborhood kids how to bait a hook, rig a line, hold a pole, cast, and reel in some fish. It was equally important to know what to throw back, like the sharks that were occasionally found dangling from the hook as they emerged from the waters.
Most of the boys didn't have father figures in their lives; some were foster kids shuffled around from house to house, and some had never fished before. They all lived difficult and complex lives that a few hours of fishing helped simplify, if only for that day. When they fished, their problems seemed to fade away.
At first, Dunn took a good chunk of his paycheck from selling tires to help fund the charter boats used for weekend fishing trips and to purchase fishing gear. That was fifteen years ago.
Today, Dunn is the Founder and CEO of Take a Kid Fishing, the non-profit that grew from his dedication to helping underprivileged and fatherless kids by teaching them life skills and responsibility through fishing:
Fishing teaches kids to learn from every mistake.
Sometimes, the things we think we want, we just need to throw back.
Being disciplined and having a can-do spirit will take you a long way.
The lesson is that oftentimes you may have to do seemingly dull and tedious tasks, but they can pay off in the long run. Just stick with it.
Don't lose sight of your surroundings. You can't take advantage of an opportunity if you don't see it coming.
In the past three and a half years, his non-profit has introduced more than 2,500 fatherless boys to the experience of fishing - spending peaceful time on the waters and the excitement of feeling that gentle tug on the end of the line. So far, over 100,000 fish have been caught during their 600 fishing trips with up to 20 kids at a time.
According to Dunn, they only keep what they need and throw the rest back, then fry up the fish at the end of
the day or make fish tacos. Kids can sense he's genuine and accepts them where they are. It's a transformative experience that helps them heal and confidently move forward into adulthood. | <urn:uuid:1240df58-4179-4e57-9d91-1aed19ea1fde> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.southbeachsharkclub.com/post/fishing-for-the-fatherless | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571536.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811224716-20220812014716-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.987253 | 601 | 2.171875 | 2 |
Water quality testing tech to deliver fast, cost-effective solution for pork industry
As the first – but often forgotten – nutrient, water is essential in ensuring the optimal health, welfare and performance of pigs. But while understanding the quality and variability of water being used on Australian pig farms is critical, water testing is far from a routine practice.
With a cost of around $200 for a full analysis of a single sample of water, current processes make regular testing across multiple sites prohibitive for most farmers. The need to send the samples off-site to a laboratory and wait up to a week for the results also limits its effectiveness for quick decision-making.
The trio have designed and tested a new on-site solution that delivers results in minutes and enables decisions to be made and implemented on the spot.
Now the trio have launched a call for commercialisation partners to help develop the technology ready for market.
Back to the basics
Water isn’t just essential for a pig’s health, it’s fundamental to the composition of the animal itself, making up around 80 per cent of a piglet’s body at birth, and about half the weight of a finisher.
It aids the transportation and digestion of nutrients, assists in regulating body temperature and eliminating toxins, and helps protect the pig’s organs.
Externally, water is the most important nutrient in a pig’s diet and is also used for the delivery of in-water antibiotics, vaccines and nutritional additives.
The importance of understanding water quality
But not all water is created equal. Australian pig farms draw their water from different sources including bore water, surface water like a river, lake or an irrigation channel, farm dams, or town water supplies.
The quality of the water at its source and at the point of consumption on the farm, can make a big difference to its suitability for use and the effectiveness of in-water treatments according to veterinarian and agricultural consultant Steve Little, who has a PhD on in-water medication and 35-years of experience in the pig, dairy and stock feed industries.
“Water quality varies widely across farms, and it varies over time on each farm, so whenever you're dealing with something that's variable, there's a pretty strong argument for monitoring it closely,” said Steve.
“On many pig farms, the drinking water system is also used to administer antimicrobials to pigs to maintain their health and welfare. Water pH and other parameters can impact the solubility of various antimicrobial products, and therefore their effectiveness.”
Diving deeper into water management
Previous research into water quality and management in the Australian pig industry undertaken by Ridley and the Co-operative Research Centre for High Integrity Australian Pork (the forerunner of APRIL) demonstrated the huge variability within the water being used on farms.
Water was tested across 57 farms from five states in Australia and the results showed that most water quality parameters were outside the acceptable standard at both the source and at the point of consumption.
The research also highlighted a lack of routine water testing, which meant farm managers had “poor visibility of the potential negative impacts that inferior water quality or management may be having on pig production and in turn the economics of their business”.
APRIL Commercialisation and Research Impact Manager, Charlie Rikard-Bell said it was this research that prompted Ridley and Hone to design a system that would enable cost-effective on-site testing with rapid and reliable results.
“That was quite innovative as there isn't really any available rapid assessment of water quality for livestock at the moment,” said Charlie.
“We were very interested in looking at that, but I think it goes beyond just the pig industry, it's got applications for livestock industries, agriculture in general and possibly mining and other industries that are assessing water.”
While it was designed for on-farm water testing prior to water medication or treatment, the agritech has applications for in-field or in-lab water quality monitoring, raw water testing, early detection of pollution, grey water testing, trade water monitoring and testing of potable re-use water.
Setting the parameters for water quality
Together, the project partners have designed and validated a semi-portable Raman spectroscopy device that is capable of assessing more than 13 water quality parameters including typically tested variables, alkali metals, heavy metals and microbiology.
The compact desktop device, which is smaller than a laptop computer for easy portability, can be used on-site to easily test water samples collected across the farm.
It interacts with Hone’s online data analysis platform, which uses machine learning software to analyse the spectral data and accurately predict the chemical content of the water within a few minutes. The results are based on calibrations for multiple water quality parameters, including key pathogens and coliforms [bacteria], which the team developed by investigating the relationship between spectral and traditional chemical analysis of almost 180 water samples.
Hone R&D Manager and Co-Founder, Jamie Flynn said advances in analytical technology meant it is possible to measure multiple parameters using portable spectroscopy hardware and cloud-based software.
“The two real value propositions are that it enables faster decision making because of the rapid return of results, as well as the breadth of knowledge you can gain because you can test for multiple analytes in one scan,” said Jamie.
“Water testing hardware that's out there at the moment is still very difficult to use because you've got to use multiple reagents, enzymes and/or consumables for each parameter, whereas we collect everything in one hit and it relies on the back-end analysis to pull out the key chemical variables from the single scan that's performed.
“We’re now looking to collect a larger data set to deliver the accuracy and repeatability that's required to make these on-farm decisions with confidence.”
Next step towards commercialisation
With the proof of concept and minimum viable product (MVP) achieved, the project team are seeking a suitable partner that tests high volumes of water samples to support the commercialisation of the agritech.
“We've got promising calibrations for water quality assessment but we need more samples again to get more robust calibrations. This means a lot of additional allied wet chemistry,” said Charlie.
“We're looking for partners to help out with the wet chemistry costs, including companies involved in water assessment. There may for an example be an agricultural enterprise currently testing for water quality parameters, and has data we could utilise.
“The aim is that within 6 to 12 months of securing a partner we'll have validated the calibrations in the field, and from there the partnership will take the required steps to bring the technology to the marketplace.” | <urn:uuid:bb20e210-3cdc-46a0-91a3-054ef3d6368d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.growag.com/highlights/article/water-quality-testing-tech-to-deliver-fast-cost-effective-solution-for-pork-industry?mkt_tok=NjQzLU5PRy0zMDAAAAGFiOJ8zd4J-aSzGZY6RGAdz9ul024EmrHzDd-aHfhYiApS1TGIFnV790Uitnw3E_OsED1_Y1T9iYM5SDFSqLawdUl0Y8EUowy52QklvUg | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571198.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810161541-20220810191541-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.944296 | 1,410 | 2.90625 | 3 |
How COVID Could Flood Cities
by Anna Espenhahn, Marketing Coordinator
2020 has left businesses unprepared. As COVID-19 made its way across the globe, companies took significant losses from production line disruptions, store closings, and stay-at-home orders. Now that states and stores are beginning to re-open, costs continue to accrue. Safety requirements such as PPE, hand sanitizer, plexiglass barriers, face shields, masks, and gloves continue to add up. Eager to cut costs in every way possible, your business might question why stormwater management is essential. You do not see the effects, which might make it a tempting subject for the cutting block. However, this decision could be costly to your overall budget in the long-run and the environment.
Imagine the following scenario if you did cut the stormwater management budget.
At first, everything would seem the status quo. There would be no overnight floods or sudden pipe disasters. However, as time progresses, things would begin to unravel. It would start with improper drainage. Catch basins become blocked by debris, a regular occurrence that is easily fixed with proper maintenance. However, you have cut the budget, and your maintenance provider has not been around to clean the basins. Blockage to catch basins will cause water to pool in parking lots, but you think that is not a big issue and choose to ignore it. Until one day, it storms. For the first time in a while, it pours. While there have been drizzles here and there that your unkept system was able to handle, they did not compare to this. You hear thunder roll in the distance as you watch the droplets cascade from the sky. An emergency notification appears on your phone. It is a flash flood warning. The parking lot does not have small puddles of water anymore, and it is one giant pool. The basins try but cannot let any water pass as they are coated with leaves, dirt, and trash that have created a perfect seal. The rain does not stop. It rushes out of the parking lot, and with nowhere left to go, it forces its way into your property building. Not even an inch of water makes it into your building, but thousands of dollars’ worth of damages have already occurred. Damages to the property are the cost of improper stormwater system management.
Catch basin blockage is just one of many easily preventable system failures that could result in flooding. Almost every portion of the stormwater system must be regularly maintained to promote proper function, including catch basins, pipes, inlets, outlets, and many other structures depending on your system. If even one of these structures is not maintained correctly, an event like this could occur.
Still, feeling confident that your stormwater system can take the hit? Maybe your area is not prone to flash floods. Let us play the scenario again.
At first, everything would seem to function normally. You notice the grass around the retention pond is getting quite long, but your local government does not regulate vegetation length, so it is no issue to you. Then the tree line begins to move in. The process is slow enough. You do not even notice as trees grow larger and larger dangerously close to the outlet. While maintenance crews would have been able to quickly identify the risk and thwart it, you do not notice anything wrong. The roots of the vegetation find their way to the piping and grow along beside it. The pipe is slowly chipped and cracked by roots expanding as the plants grow, until one day it is too much—the pipe splits. Unable to drain properly with part of the pipe missing and rubble blocking what is left, water becomes backlogged. You are at risk of flooding due to improper drainage, but now you have thousands of dollars worth of repairs to implement.
As your site’s stormwater system can degrade in the rainy season and in the dry season, these scenarios could quickly become a reality. In addition to property loss and repairs, a Notice of Violation is likely to happen in both cases. NOVs will add an additional fine on top of any repair costs system neglect has caused. While it may be tempting to cut stormwater management from the budget, remember that maintenance will save you thousands of dollars in repair fees in the future. Learn more here, on how AQUALIS can assist in creating a stormwater management plan that is cost-effective, mitigates flooding, and overall protects your stormwater investments. It is only a matter of time before stormwater solutions on your property require large repairs or a costly NOV, don't be caught off guard with these unplanned expenses and partner with a stormwater management provider today. | <urn:uuid:b67c0dc8-b8c1-4105-b2f1-4f80032be2c8> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.aqualisco.com/how-covid-could-flood-cities/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571536.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811224716-20220812014716-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.969128 | 967 | 2.28125 | 2 |
COVID-19: What you need to know
Critical illness insurance offers you and your loved ones financial support should you unexpectedly fall ill with a specified illness.
Critical illnesses are identified under a specific set of criteria and coronavirus (COVID-19) is not a specified critical illness under the Association of British Insurers (ABI) ‘Guide to Minimum Standards for Critical Illness Cover’.
In the unfortunate event that you were to develop a critical illness that is addressed in the ABI ‘Guide to Minimum Standards for Critical Illness Cover’ as a result of coronavirus, the majority of insurers would be expected to approach this claim in the same way as they would usually.
Most people will still be able to get critical illness insurance at this difficult time. In a minority of cases, such as if you are experiencing coronavirus symptoms or have tested positive for coronavirus and are still experiencing symptoms, there could be a delay to the decision as some insurers have temporarily postponed new applications until you have tested negatively.
In the instance where your application is delayed, insurers are working with professional financial advisers to enable an efficient re-application once there is less strain on the healthcare services. The delay will not impact your ability to apply for insurance in the future.
Many insurers are working to explore other ways to accept applications that require medical evidence in this new environment. This could include offering virtual medical screening, for example. | <urn:uuid:43803cb2-da52-4235-97e1-c493d11a075d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://jalapenoltd.co.uk/news/critical-illness-cover-7/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571909.51/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813051311-20220813081311-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.957117 | 295 | 1.914063 | 2 |
Luiz Antonio Varela Donelli and Carolina Wright Machado
In view of the current emergency situation and the absolute public calamity that Brazil is now facing due to the rapid spread of the Coronavirus pandemic, new normative instruments, of the most diverse natures, are being issued daily, in order to avoid the socioeconomic collapse in the country, as well as to try to recover all the damages already caused by such crisis.
As an example, the Federal Senate approved, on April 3rd, 2020, the Law Bill no. 1.179 / 2020, that instituted the so-called “Emergency and Transitional Legal Regime for the Legal Relations regarding Private Law (RJET)”, to regulate the Private Law relations during the pandemic period.
The main purposes of RJET is to promote the flexibility of the agreements executed before the occurrence of the Coronavirus pandemic, considering the economic difficulties that the population and companies are already facing due to the drastic and sudden decrease in the demand, the sharp increase in the unemployment rates and, mainly, due to the insecurity about the future, that is increasingly dominating the country. Among the various measures established by RJET, it is important to mention some that directly impact on day by day and on large corporate businesses fulfilled in Brazil:
- The injunctions for lawsuits regarding the eviction of building properties shall be suspended until October 30th, 2020, which is the estimated date for the end of the events resulting from the Coronavirus pandemic in Brazil, unless the respective landlord resumes the place for his own use or for the use of his family members;
- The residential tenants, on the other hand, if they suffer economic-financial changes due to the pandemic, such as dismissal, reduction of working hours or reduction of remuneration, they may suspend, in whole or in part, the payment of the rents due from March 20th to October 30th, 2020;
- The rules for agricultural agreements shall, in general, be eased. On the other hand, the counting of time regarding land occupation, for the purposes of adverse possession, shall be suspended;
- The managers and those liable for the management of condominiums shall be authorized to create temporary restrictions on the access to common areas and for the execution of works. In addition, condominium meetings may be held remotely until October 30th, 2020;
- Dividends provided by business companies to their partners/shareholders may be anticipated.
Thus, once they have been raised and even if they have not been formally approved by the partners/shareholders, the dividends arising from the fiscal year ended in 2019 may be distributed during the fiscal year of 2020 by the administrators of the respective company, regardless of an express statutory or contractual provision in this sense;
- The partners’ and/or general shareholders’ meetings, as the case may be, may be held remotely;
- All the legal terms related to (i) the approval of the financial statements of the business companies, whether by the fulfillment of a partners’ meeting or by a shareholders’ ordinary general meeting, depending on the legal nature of the company; as well as (ii) for the publication, as applicable, and the filing of the corporate acts before the competent boards of trade, shall be extended until October 30th, 2020;
- Until October 30th, 2020, it shall be possible to execute lease agreements with national companies whose corporate capital is mainly held by foreign individuals or legal entities; and
- In the specific case of purchases through delivery involving perishable or immediate consumption products and medications, the enforcement of article 49 of the Brazilian Consumer Defense Code is suspended.
As a general rule, this article would enable the consumer to withdraw the respective product or medication within seven days from its purchase or from the act of receiving it, since such supply contracting occurred outside the commercial establishment, but by telephone and at home.
Finally, it is important to highlight that the inspiration for the draft of this Law Bill was the rules from the French legal system which deal with exceptional situations for the enforcement of the theory of unpredictability. This is because, despite the fact that the Brazilian Civil Code and the Brazilian Consumer Defense Code already have specific provisions that deal not only with the theory of unpredictability, but also with other events that characterize force majeure and unforeseeable circumstances, the consequences created by the Coronavirus still demand new measures, with a much more drastic nature and whose enforcement shall be implemented as soon as possible. | <urn:uuid:80ad1ddc-8a86-4a6d-90c0-6caf7e36a006> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.dsalaw.com.br/en/the-issuance-of-the-law-bill-no-1179-2020-amongst-the-chaos-of-the-coronavirus/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571536.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811224716-20220812014716-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.958478 | 926 | 1.59375 | 2 |
A report from The Mental Health Foundation provides an insight into the extent of depressive illness in Britain today. 1 in 4 people experience a mental health problem in the course of a year, with anxiety and depression being the most common. 1 in 10 children have a mental health problem, and depression affects 1 in 5 older people. Women are more prone to anxiety and depression than men, but suicide rates are 3 times higher amongst men than they are amongst women.
The Bible provides real help to those who are anxious and depressed. In his letter to the Philippians, Paul wrote, “Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving present your requests to God. And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and minds in Christ Jesus.”
Paul knew that it is not helpful to simply tell people not to worry, so he gave good advice about what we should do. When we are anxious or afraid we should pray to God. We should talk to God about “everything” – big things and small things. When we pray, we should give thanks, remembering all the good things God has given us. We can thank him for the gift of life, a beautiful world, our family and friends, food and clothing, and his amazing love shown in the gift of his Son, Jesus. This puts our situation into a proper perspective, because when we are anxious and depressed we tend to forget all the wonderful blessings God has given us.
Then we can ask him for his help and strength to face our problems. Anxiety and fear can paralyse us, but God can help us to overcome them. When we pray, God also gives us his peace, which transcends all understanding. Some years ago I visited a friend who had suffered a heart attack. He was in the coronary care unit and I could see his monitor. I asked him whether the doctors had told him when he would be able to go back to work. Immediately his heart rate jumped to double the rate it had been, although there was no apparent change in his face. He was obviously very anxious about the future. We read together Psalm 56, verse 3, “When I am afraid, I will trust in you.” Then we prayed and asked God to take away his anxiety about the future and to give him his peace. | <urn:uuid:d4757199-277e-41ad-a597-9599bf40455d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.thoughtfortheweek.co.uk/2014/05/do-not-be-anxious-about-anything-2/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571536.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811224716-20220812014716-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.984659 | 484 | 2.109375 | 2 |
Institutions in 2020 are both API providers and consumers, but many are only becoming aware of this recently. Facebook introduce two API-driven seismic shifts that we are still working to understand the impacts of in 2020. Much of the growth of Twitter and Facebook over the last fifteen years has been built on top of their public APIs, providing a self-service way for partners and 3rd party developers to extend the reach of the network, helping build buttons, badges, widgets web, mobile, bots, and device applications that would extend, augment, and strengthen the importance of these social networks, and as we’ve seen in the last decade also the automation, orchestration, and introduction of bots who continue to define the tone and balance of these online platforms. To help you see the importance of this conversation, think about those psychological tests Cambridge Analytica employed to harvest the data of millions of Facebook users via their API. With the new web APIs, spreadsheet connectors, and other API driven census survey resources, the Census Bureau was able to reach an entirely new audience. When asked if they knew of the interesting projects like the Google Flu Project and other applications that were built on census data, the US Census Bureau said they had no visibility into how the data was being used-something that changed with the introduction of a feedback loop around the current Census APIs.
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The owner of Swim University reports that it makes about $300,000 a year, which works out to $25,000 per month. Other than that, referral marketing works the same as affiliate marketing. Other companies who were finding success with their web, mobile, and device applications were facing the same challenges. APIs aren’t just about developing web, mobile, and device applications, they are about managing the digital resources applied across applications in a more organized way, while developing more awareness of what is actually going on under the hood of a platform and the organization behind. APIs are how businesses move their enterprise organizations forward. Our personal and professional lives are increasingly defined by APIs, and the more awareness of APIs we have, the more control we will have over creating, managing, moving around, and even deleting our digital bits when we want. Every application on our desktops, laptops, and mobile phones use APIs to communicate with the platform behind them. E-commerce, social networks, the cloud, mobile phones, and the Internet of things has changed every business sector, and has forever changed how we live our lives. If a platform is offering their services for free via a web or mobile application and via an API, it is likely that instead of being the customer, end users are actually the product. | <urn:uuid:e5313a7b-e75e-44b3-8b4a-7c2072884431> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://tech.motivasibeasiswa.org/how-much-do-you-charge-for-affiliate-marketing/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571198.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810161541-20220810191541-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.947167 | 1,011 | 2.078125 | 2 |
Australia needs a national database of soil information to better prepare for the effects of future intense bushfires, according to a group of experts.
- Last summer's bushfires ravaged millions of hectares of Australian soils, some of which may take decades to fully recover.
- Academics say Australia needs a national database of information on different area's soils to prepare for future bushfires.
- Knowing more about soils helps farmers and conservationists treat soils to help them recover faster.
The academics recently wrote a paper saying last summer's bushfires had ravaged soils, damaging agricultural and environmental recovery.
The University of Adelaide's Professor Robert Fitzpatrick, who was involved in writing the paper, said damage to soils could be devastating for farmers.
"Once these areas have been burned, of course, it's not coverage; there's no mulch there's no vegetation, so in other words, they can't crop these areas," he said.
"If they've got stock, then there's nothing there for them to eat … so the devastation to farmers areas is huge. It runs into the millions and billions of dollars."
The brief said that while bushfires were not new to the Australian landscape, a combination of heatwaves, drought and high fuel loads meant the 2019-2020 bushfires were hot enough to damage millions of hectares of soil.
Catastrophic fires can rob soils of their nutrients, melt clays in the soil and degrade them to the point they can't absorb water.
That means any rainfall can wash valuable soil into waterways, polluting them with soot and ash.
Professor Fitzpatrick said if farmers could better understand the soil they had, they would know how to treat it after a bushfire, so it recovered faster.
Peat 'can burn on and on'
University of Tasmania's Melinda McHenry has been researching the impacts of last summer's bushfires in Tasmania.
She said soils could take decades to recover.
"I'm in Tasmania, and in Tasmania we have a lot of peat soils, or what we call organic soils, that are actually made up of dead leaves and materials," Dr McHenry said.
"In these situations when peat fires occur ... the fire can burn on and on for months, because it's actually made up of a source of carbon.
"And those peat fires can mean that recovery trajectories for those types of soils can take even 50 years to re-accumulate and re-establish."
Kangaroo Island Land and soil consultant Lyn Dohle said a national database with more information about Australia's soil could help Australian agriculture adapt to the challenges of climate change.
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Słodlin, wisteria spp.
Słodlin is rarely planted in the central parts of the country, because it is quite sensitive to frost, in western areas it is more common. It grows very vigorously and reaches a height 10 m, so not very suitable for a small plot of land, but it arouses the interest of lovers of rare and beautiful plants. Its flowers are built like the flowers of acacia (robins), but they form much longer clusters, they have a lovely one, light violet color and delicate, sweet smell. They are most appreciated: Japanese malt (Wisteria floribunda), which also has a cultivar with pink-purple flowers and a very long variety, over half a meter long clusters, and Chinese malt (Wisteria sinensis). These species differ mainly in the time of flowering and the strength of growth. Chinese malt grows stronger, blooms in the second half of May, i.e.. o 2 weeks earlier than the Japanese sweetmeat, and is slightly more resistant to frost than it.
The southern wall of the gazebo is the most suitable place for the malt, because he needs sun and a solid support. Strong bars should be placed against the wall of the gazebo, around which the shoots of this creeper could wind. Such rods are stuck into the ground every 20-30 cm, and fastens their ends to the roof.
Sweet plants require very fertile soil, carious, deeply cultivated and moist.
In winter, a high mound of earth has to be built over the roots. Before the expected period of severe frosts, you can cover the wall with these vines with a straw mat, old bags, etc.. however, it is not necessary, because the malt shoots out root suckers after it freezes over. Such suckers can be - after parting the soil - cut off along with some of the roots, thus obtaining new plants. The care pruning consists in removing dry shoots, damaged and overly thickening the plant. They are carried out in the early spring. | <urn:uuid:edf1005e-a1a7-4b0a-8617-c2092b290512> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.ogrodnik64.eu/en/garden/slodlin-glicynia-wisteria-spp | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571536.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811224716-20220812014716-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.953507 | 428 | 1.992188 | 2 |
The Teaching Modules found here are designed for use in college level or advanced high school classes. They incorporate various approaches to the study of religion and the pandemic. At WMU they are being tested in an introductory course on religion today as well as an introductory Philosophy course. We invite you to download the modules and make use of them in your classrooms. If you make use of them, we would appreciate any feedback you might have for improvement. We also invite you to develop similar modules and to share them with us for posting here so that others may benefit. Please contact Dr. Stephen Covell at email@example.com. Thank you.
Submissions from 2022
Gender, Monastic Life, and the Lay Community During the Pandemic, Stephen Covell, Diane Riggs, and Cameron Borg
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Public Policy and Religion in the Pandemic: U.S. Constitution and the First Amendment, Stephen Covell, Diane Riggs, and Cameron Borg
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"Nie widzę dziewczynki."
Translation:I do not see the girl.
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Just to confirm the rule here... The object takes the genitive in a negative sentence? Otherwise (without the nie) it would be "widzę dziewczynę"? Also I thought the genitive ending was dziewczyny? These cases will the be the death of me. Had no issues with Latin / German, but this is nuts! Thanks for any enlightenment!
You had me VERY confused there for a second. But whoever wrote that blog was wrong. Cannot, can't and can not are entirely interchangable, as Phil stated.
What exactly did you write?
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It is the beginning of the end for the United States in Iraq. No amount of glib optimism from Bush Administration soothsayers can conceal that reality. Sure, the United States possesses the military might to hang on indefinitely, but only through the continuous sacrifice of lives in a reckless venture that never had an honestly stated purpose.
Now that thousands of rioting Shiites have been added to the persistent Sunni insurrection targeting the US-led occupation, it is absurd to define the enemy as only foreigners or agents of the captured tyrant Saddam Hussein. The “coalition” forces are the foreigners, in fact, and the US-financed quisling local government fools no one, regardless of the planned “handover” of power.
Under the false conceit that the adventure made sense as part of the fight against terror, the United States seized a country containing a major portion of the world’s most valued and scarce resource. Yet our leaders expect the natives to believe that the corporate camp followers of the US military are only swarming over their country for the purpose of humanitarian reconstruction.
Just how dumb do we think they are? After all, Iraqis know their own tortuous history. Theirs is a country patched together at the end of a gun barrel by previous colonizers. The common denominator of those imperial designs was the exploitation of oil rather than the desire to produce a harmonious, let alone democratic, society.
Nor does the United States have clean hands. During the cold war, Washington tried to break any government or leader in the region unwilling to bend to its will, including popular nationalists Mohammed Mossadegh in Iran and Abdul Karim Kassem in Iraq. Never heard of Kassem? He’s the guy the CIA hired young Hussein and other unsavory thugs to overthrow (and then kill) because he dared to challenge the strong US role in the region after World War II.
And so it goes. Hussein’s rule emerged from US inability to allow yet another country to find its own way, just as Al Qaeda was blowback from our “freedom-fighting” team in the cynical cold war proxy conflict that destroyed Afghanistan. The only link between Osama bin Laden and Hussein is that they are both monsters of our creation.
To its credit, the United States is also the nation that genuinely sought to advance the Mideast peace process under every recent President until George W. Bush. From Jimmy Carter through the first President Bush to Bill Clinton, the United States aimed to undermine the region’s irrational and fundamentalist forces with a genuine peace between Palestinians and Israelis. For once, the United States deserved high praise for attempting to mitigate rather than exploit the grievances that have left the region a breeding ground for terrorism and rage.
Yet, under the current Administration, this good-faith effort has been discarded, further disillusioning US friends in the Mideast and stoking those in the region who spew hateful rhetoric against Jews and “infidels.”
And even when that rhetoric again manifested itself in violence with the deadly attacks on the US destroyer Cole in Yemen, it was of bare interest to then-candidate Bush. He rarely referenced terrorism during the campaign and, the record is now clear, all but ignored the Al Qaeda terror threat in the months leading up to the attacks on 9/11.
Instead, his focus was the irrelevant target of Iraq, defanged by ten years of sanctions and UN weapons inspections but still possessing huge reserves of black gold. Few in the rest of the world, least of all the Iraqi people, are buying the Administration’s current line, that the prime goal of the occupation is simply to turn Iraq into a good place to live.
Consequently, while it would be great if that country were to end up in the column of democratic societies, the tragic events of recent days once again remind us that it is an outcome made less likely by each additional day we presume to know what is best for the rest of the world–and we impose those views with our awesome military power. | <urn:uuid:f38bae65-6be7-473d-9229-da49056e49f4> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/more-we-try-worse-iraq-gets/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571536.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811224716-20220812014716-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.949929 | 830 | 1.601563 | 2 |
(1916 – 1997)
Area of expertise: Academic Research/Renaissance and Reformation
The Book selected: Renaissance, Kodan-sha, 1973
Alma Mater: Kyoto University
It is our opinion that he analysed these two historical events most accurately as he firmly captured the existence and importance of precursory developments for both Renaissance and Reformation. It was all about the modern concept and its venture spirit, which led the world ever since.
The salient points of his findings are as follows:
1) Renaissance, or by Aida’s expression – ‘Centuries of Genius’, started in Milan first. When the power of the principal city opened for trade with all richest regions beyond its Northern Alps was taken over by, a parvenu, Gian Galeazzo Visconti (1351 – 1402), despite papal opposition. He was a tough and shrewd politician and the man who promoted new trend in art and literature, and built the city’s stunning Cathedral. Galeazzo insisted that government must be a rational enterprise that had to achieve a certain economic development for every participant in politics.
2) For the Reformation, Aida insisted that John Wycliffe (1324 – 1384) started this movement initially in England, criticizing superstitious beliefs advocated by many priests such as selling remission of a sin. Despite the threatening pressures directed to him, the conscientious arguments put forward by Wycliffe had eventually influenced even a most prominent figure of the Reformation, such as Jan Hus who was pivotal to all German/French speaking regions and its dignitaries including Martin Luther and Jean Calvin.
So, what was Aida’s personal-geopolitical advantage? For instance, what would have happened, If Yukichi Fukuzawa wasn’t born in Nakatsu city in Kyushu as Samurai-class child in his time…instead, if he was living as a Marchant-class kid somewhere in Honshu? Then, Fukuzawa couldn’t have learned Dutch properly in Nagasaki, so most likely-scenario would have been, he had to abandon his brilliant career as the fatal detriment to the Japanese modernisation.
For Aida’s case, his most extraordinary experience occurred when he was contemplating his career as university lecturer. Then, he was suddenly enlisted to join the Japanese army as a soldier in Burma (…not in China, Indonesia, nor anywhere else but), and subsequently detained in a Rangoon’s British prison camp. During this period, he vividly saw the commanding system of two (one ancient and one modern) nations in the close vicinity. In that particular time, he had convincingly learned something about modern European organisation, its philosophy and culture, which was definitely positive for writing his own version of European history with such forceful observations. | <urn:uuid:51f4cde5-4b59-4a0a-b74f-8a787ddb07da> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.lji.org.uk/herodotusseye/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570921.9/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809094531-20220809124531-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.971369 | 593 | 2.859375 | 3 |
Rising Mortgage Rates Could Hurt Daytona Beach Housing
The Daytona Beach housing and economic outlook for 2017 seems to be filled with nagging questions about how gradually increasing interest rates may affect the continued improvement of the housing market. While interest rates have edged slightly upward in the last several weeks – most notably in response to the stock market's post-election gain – home mortgage rates are still comparatively low. But for how much longer?An extended period of rising rates may paralyze homeowners with low rate mortgages who would otherwise potentially be in the market to buy bigger or newer homes.Economists call such market conditions"ratelock,"which could take a toll on housing demand during 2017.
The past Daytona Beach housing outlook has enjoyed a seven-year run of near record low mortgage interest rates. That has encouraged homebuying and has increased home values dramatically since the housing crash of nearly a decade ago. Yet, the aforementioned increase in mortgage rates since the election has real estate professionals and prospective homebuyers a little on edge. Higher interest rates, of course, translate to higher monthly mortgage payments. That can cause existing homeowners to stay in their homes a little longer rather than trading up. As one real estate professional put it,"It doesn't take much to turn off the faucet in this market because inventory is so low and prices have gone up so quickly."The most recent mortgage interest rate increase boosted the monthly cost of owning a typical home in United States by slightly more than $70 per month. That equates to roughly $26,000 over the term of a 30-year fixed rate mortgage loan. While $70 per month is not a substantial amount, it probably has already had an impact on marginal borrowers concerned about additional expenses. Experts fear another half-point rate increase could impact even the more qualified borrowers.
In addition to the affordability aspect and the psychological impact that a higher monthly payment may have on a family purchasing a home, mortgage qualification may also become an issue. The Daytona Beach housing market has already seen some households who spend 35% or more of its income on mortgage payments. Most experts recommend that debt-to-income ratios fall between the 30% to 33% range. As interest rates rise, the debt-to-income ratio will be strained causing some lenders to reconsider whether a borrower may qualify or not.
According to CoreLogic, Inc., roughly 66% of homeowners in the United States who have mortgagesenjoy rates less than 4.5%.Economists say rates would probably need to increase above 5% before homeowners face the "rate lock" dilemma mentioned earlier. And that's where the concern begins to form. Because of the strengthening U.S. economy, the Federal Reserve will likely increase short-term interest rates this month. While the rates on Fed funds have no direct correlation to mortgage interest rates, an increase by the Federal Reserve would likely send a message that interest rates in general will likely rise –even if only slightly.Home mortgage interest rates are more closely tied to the yields on U.S. Treasury bonds. Those yields usually rise during inflationary periods, and while economists predict mortgage rates will increase in 2017, nobody really owns the proverbial"crystal ball."
Interest rates have risen largely due to the improved economy. In addition, investors are gambling that increased government infrastructure spending along with resultant tax cuts will continue to accelerate growth. The underlying hope is that the additional growth will spur increased wage growth, and higher wages should offset the increases in higher mortgage payments. However, one economist warns that since so many American homeowners have low rates on their mortgages, it could result in an ironic disincentive by encouraging homeowners to pursue employment in other cities if it means their mortgage payments will be higher.
So, what does all this mean for the Daytona Beach housing outlook moving forward?If history is any indication, rising interest rates can impact the economy quickly and dramatically. Mortgage interest rates in 2013 increased almost a full percentage point to 4.5% on the heels of investor predictions the Federal Reserve would decrease its bond buying program. The result was a decline of 8% on the sales of previously owned homes over the next six months. In addition, sales price increases dropped from an average of 9% to roughly 5%. Therefore, if 2013 is any indication the market could potentially experience a cooldown in home prices.
Of course, it remains to be seen what affect increased interest rates – if they do occur – will have on the Daytona Beach housing market and the resulting economic outlook. However, one thing to remember is that even interest rates in the 5% range still are relatively low when compared to other times in American history. Naturally, home prices continue to rise, meaning mortgage loan amounts are higher than ever before. However, going forward there is light at the end of the tunnel when it comes to home affordability.History has proven more times than not that even in the face of housing challenges home affordability is a luxury still readily available to most Americans.Whether it's more affordable mortgage products with more favorable terms and conditions or more affordable housing units entering the market, the bottom line is that housing is too big a piece of the U.S. and world economy to be adversely affected for long.
We've weathered such storms before and with the exception of the housing crash of a decade ago, the industry has rebounded steadily and has learned from its mistakes. Time will tell if the slight interest rate increases will lead to a slowdown of the housing recovery, or if it will provide the impetus for creative lending, improved mortgage products, more affordable housing and sufficient motivation for first-time homebuyers to buy. While the challenges can be daunting, the industry remains hopeful that only slight interest rate increases will occur, resulting in minor fallout that can be absorbed by the market through greater home inventory and a continued steady demand.
You can find more articles pertaining to the Daytona Beach housing outlook in the "Daytona Beach Economy" section of articles just below Daytona Beach Real Estate Categories in the column to your right.
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It’s one of the most famous quotes in history. At some point around 1789, when being told that her French subjects had no bread, Marie-Antoinette (bride of France’s King Louis XVI) supposedly sniffed, “Qu’ils mangent de la brioche”—“Let them eat cake.” With that callous remark, the queen became a hated symbol of the decadent monarchy and fueled the revolution that would cause her to (literally) lose her head several years later. But did Marie-Antoinette really say those infuriating words? Not according to historians. Lady Antonia Fraser, author of a biography of the French queen, believes the quote would have been highly uncharacteristic of Marie-Antoinette, an intelligent woman who donated generously to charitable causes and, despite her own undeniably lavish lifestyle, displayed sensitivity towards the poor population of France.
That aside, what’s even more convincing is the fact that the “Let them eat cake” story had been floating around for years before 1789. It was first told in a slightly different form about Marie-Thérèse, the Spanish princess who married King Louis XIV in 1660. She allegedly suggested that the French people eat “la croûte de pâté” (or the crust of the pâté). Over the next century, several other 18th-century royals were also blamed for the remark, including two aunts of Louis XVI. Most famously, the philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau included the pâté story in his “Confessions” in 1766, attributing the words to “a great princess” (probably Marie-Thérèse). Whoever uttered those unforgettable words, it was almost certainly not Marie-Antoinette, who at the time Rousseau was writing was only 10 years old—three years away from marrying the French prince and eight years from becoming queen. | <urn:uuid:04812526-3e28-46bf-bfac-63f8fbb914a8> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://preview.history.com/news/did-marie-antoinette-really-say-let-them-eat-cake | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571198.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810161541-20220810191541-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.968418 | 410 | 2.75 | 3 |
on 3 Jun 2020
Tourism industry a major focus in sweeping new free trade plan
On June 1, the Chinese Central Government announced that Hainan Province, which has been dubbed China’s Hawaii, will become a free trade zone, reducing or eliminating import duties on a range of goods. As part of the plan to boost tourism, “Hainan will be a ‘pilot zone’ for the reform, development and innovation of the yacht industry,” according to a report in the China Daily on June 3.
According to one yacht industry veteran based in Sanya, Godfrey Zwygart, yachts have been included “big time” in the sweeping new policy, which covers everything from shipping, technology and finance. However, details are still to be announced as well as timelines. Yacht companies established within the Hainan free trade zone will be taxed at 15% of revenue, according Zwygart.
A free trade port system focusing on trade and investment liberalization and facilitation will be “basically established” in Hainan by 2025 and become “more mature” by 2035, according to the plan jointly issued by the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) and the State Council, Xinhua news agency said.
Hainan provincial authorities being given more latitude to commit to reforms.
Hainan’s southern city, Sanya, emerged as an Asian yachting and tourism hub in the 2010s, with the establishment of numerous marinas, the Hainan Rendezvous – a yacht and private jet event, and repeated stopovers of the Volvo Ocean Race. Last July, Hainan and central government authorities made it easier for Hong Kong yachts to visit Hainan.
Yet, Sanya is still home to only about 600 yachts, of the 800 based in Hainan, according to Zwygart, who says the market has been “stagnant” for the last three years. Buyers are from northern China, with very few from Hong Kong. He says that the marinas and brokers of Sanya were well organised and government officials in Hainan generally receptive to easier regulations for visiting yachts, but there were too many agencies trying to make their own rules. Now with a new free trade zone policy, Godfrey thinks it will be easier to get positive rule changes.
“The new duty-free shopping policy will serve as a major driver to accelerate the transformation of Hainan’s industrial structure and promote integration of tourism with cultural activities and sports events on the tropical island,” Xinhua quoted Jiang Yiyi, a professor of leisure sports at the Beijing Sports University as saying.
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In a research article published in PLOS Medicine (August 2020), patients with opioid use disorder (OUD) who are hospitalized for serious infections requiring prolonged intravenous antibiotics may face barriers to discharge, which could prolong length of stay (LOS) and increase financial burden. Researchers used the 2016 National Inpatient Sample, a nationally representative database of all discharges from U.S. acute care hospitals. The
population of interest was all hospitalizations for infective endocarditis, epidural abscess, septic arthritis or osteomyelitis. The exposure was opioid use disorder (OUD), and the primary outcome was LOS until discharge.
Of the approximate 95,400 hospitalizations for serious infections, the findings suggest that patients with OUD were associated with longer LOS, higher odds of discharge to post-acute care facilities or patient-directed discharge and similar total hospital charges despite lower daily charges. These findings highlight opportunities to improve care for patients with OUD hospitalized with serious infections. Access the published article.
Despite medical and surgical advances in heart disease management and public policy initiatives around blood pressure awareness, we are losing ground in the battle against heart failure and hypertension. And the disparities in heart disease are clear. We have to recognize and address that the root causes of these disparities arise from differences in social determinants of health, such as socioeconomic status and access to care, and structural and systemic racism in our country.Dadiya Khan, MD
Assistant Professor of Preventive Medicine
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
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In December 2020, the Government of Alberta announced
that they would no longer delist or close 175 of Alberta's parks. However, the laws that protect our parks and public lands are being changed. Please visit our new action page
for more information and to send a letter.
Alberta Parks need your voice. In March,The Government of Alberta announced the removal of 164 parks and the closure of 20 campsites and day-use areas, impacting a total of 175 parks and provincial recreation areas. CPAWS Northern and Southern Alberta chapters have been pushing for this decision to be reversed, but protecting Alberta’s parks is not possible without you!
- 164 parks have been identified to have their protection removed, reverted to public land opened for other land-uses or private partnerships.
- Other impacts include closing busy visitor centres, discontinuing popular groomed cross-country ski trails, shortening the operating season for many campgrounds and increasing camping and service fees at all sites.
- 17 of the 20 originally closed sites will now be operated temporarily for summer 2020 - meaning Albertans are being heard! It is important that you ask your MLA to keep our parks protected permanently!
What’s at stake? Sites without interest from a private partner will revert to vacant public land – This could lead to these areas being used for industrial resource extraction instead of conservation such as, sale for agricultural uses, forest harvest, or coal mining.
This will result in the loss of 37% of all parks in the province, disproportionately affecting campgrounds, but also including several areas expressly meant to provide wilderness education and conservation of the land. The closure and removal of parks poses a serious threat to our quality of life, natural heritage and economic recovery.These changes were made without any public consultation. Many of these parks have provided reliable camping areas for Albertans to safely enjoy and make memories with friends and family for decades.
Click here to see which of your favorite camping locations are included, and here to see a map showing all of the impacted parks across the province.
Here is how you can help Defend Alberta Parks:
- Send a letter to your MLA and the Minister of Environment and Parks using the CPAWS template
- Call your MLA and ask them to reverse these changes (find your MLA)
- Participate in our Protest in the Parks - pack a #DefendABParks sign when you go on your next adventure in the parks. Snap a picture, email us or tag us on social media
- Write a letter to the editor to your local newspaper
- Submit your favourite park memory to our Mapping Memories Project
- Request a Defend Alberta Parks lawn sign
Want to learn more?
Read:Alberta Parks Fact Check - 13 Truths and a Lie
Watch: Defend Alberta Parks Town Hall
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Causes:Several risk factors increase a person with diabetes
chances of developing foot problems and diabetic infections in the legs and feet.
- Footwear: Poorly
fitting shoes are a common cause of diabetic foot problems.
- Nerve damage: People with long-standing or poorly
controlled diabetes are at risk for having damage to the nerves in their feet. The medical term for this is peripheral
- Poor circulation: Especially when poorly controlled, diabetes can lead to accelerated hardening
of the arteries or atherosclerosis. When blood flow to injured tissues is poor, healing does not occur properly.
to the foot: Any trauma to the foot can increase the risk for a more serious problem to develop.
Athlete's foot, a fungal infection of the skin or toenails, can lead to more serious bacterial infections and should be treated
- Ingrown toenails should be handled right away by a foot specialist. Toenail fungus should also
- Persistent pain can
be a symptom ofsprain, strain, bruise, overuse, improperly fitting shoes, or underlying infection.
- Redness can be a sign of infection, especially when surrounding a wound,
or of abnormal rubbing of shoes or socks.
- Swelling of the feet or legs can be a sign of underlying inflammation or infection, improperly fitting shoes,
or poor venous circulation. Other signs of poor circulation include the following:
- Pain in the legs or buttocks that increases with walking but improves with
- Hair no longer growing on the lower legs and feet
shiny skin on the legs
- Localized warmth can be a sign of infection or inflammation, perhaps from wounds that won't heal or that
break in the skin is serious and can result from abnormal wear and tear, injury, or infection. Calluses and corns may be a
sign of chronic trauma to the foot. Toenail fungus, athlete's foot, and ingrown toenails may lead to more serious bacterial
- Drainage of pus from a wound is usually a sign of infection. Persistent bloody drainage
is also a sign of a potentially serious foot problem.
- A limp or difficulty walking can be sign of joint problems, serious infection, or improperly
- Fever or chills in association with a wound on
the foot can be a sign of a limb-threatening or life-threatening infection.
- Red streaking away from a wound or redness spreading out from a wound is
a sign of a progressively worsening infection.
- New or lasting numbness in the feet or legs can be a sign of nerve damage from diabetes, which
increases a persons risk for leg and foot problems.
Self-Care at Home - A person with diabetes should do
- Foot examination: Examine your feet daily and also after any
trauma, no matter how minor, to your feet. Report any abnormalities to your physician. Use a water-based moisturizer every
day (but not between your toes) to prevent dry skin and cracking. Wear cotton or wool socks. Avoid elastic socks and hosiery
because they may impair circulation.
- Eliminate obstacles: Move or remove any items you are likely to trip over or bump your feet on. Keep clutter
on the floor picked up. Light the pathways used at night - indoors and outdoors.
- Toenail trimming: Always cut your nails with a safety clipper, never
a scissors. Cut them straight across and leave plenty of room out from the nailbed or quick. If you have difficulty with your
vision or using your hands, let your doctor do it for you or train a family member how to do it safely.
- Footwear: Wear sturdy, comfortable shoes whenever feasible to protect your feet.
To be sure your shoes fit properly, see a podiatrist (foot
doctor) for fitting recommendations or shop at shoe stores specializing in fitting people with diabetes. Your endocrinologist
(diabetes specialist) can provide you with areferral to
a podiatrist or orthopedist who may also be an excellent resource for
finding local shoe stores. If you have flat feet, bunions, or hammertoes, you may need prescription shoes or shoe inserts.
- Exercise: Regular exercise will improve bone and joint health in your feet and
legs, improve circulation to your legs, and will also help to stabilize your blood sugar levels. Consult your physician prior
to beginning any exercise program.
- Smoking: If you smoke any form of tobacco, quitting can be one of the best things you can do to prevent problems
with your feet. Smoking accelerates damage to blood vessels, especially small blood vessels leading to poor circulation, which
is a major risk factor for foot infections and ultimately amputations.
- Diabetes control: Following a reasonable diet, taking your medications,
checking your blood sugar regularly, exercising regularly, and maintaining good communication with your physician are essential
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At the 2019 AICPA and CPA.com Executive Roundtable a technology expert pointed out to the executives of 50 top cloud based accounting solutions that AI (artificial intelligence) had the maturity of an 8 year old. But he also noted the exponential rate at which it will grow and mature. Now, nearly 2 years since that observation, the impact of AI in our daily work and personal lives is undeniable. Join this panel to hear about innovations taking place and hear them share their vision for more potential. Are you ready to capitalize on AI? Have you begun to formulate your vision? Consider the Chinese Proverb, the best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago, the second best time is today.
Identify the different platforms that AI is developed to
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With around 7.491 kilometers of coastline, Brazil has immense potential for some of the most modern renewable energy technologies: offshore wind power, which uses fixed or floating wind turbines installed offshore.
The country is among the highlights of a recent study on the subject, a product of the Administrative Assistance Program for the Energy Sector and the International Finance Corporation, the arm of the World Bank Group for the development of the private sector.
Major offshore wind energy developers come to present plans for several gigawatts of new offshore wind projects in Brazil.
|Estados||Extensão (km)||Percentual (%)|
|Rio de Janeiro||636||8,6|
|Rio Grande do Sul||623||8,5|
|Rio Grande do Norte||410||5,7|
Equinor asked Brazil’s federal environmental agency, IBAMA, for permission to carry out an environmental impact assessment that “will examine the possibility of developing an offshore wind farm project” in the country’s waters.
The developer does not have detailed plans, but local media reports that the developer is developing a wind farm in a 4.66 GW area divided into two 2.33 GW fields called Aracatu 1 and Aracatu 2.
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14 May 2014 — From The Conversation: There are billions of dollars of broken promises in the Abbott government’s first budget for low-emission and renewable energy programs – and wiggle room to break even more in the next few years.
Among last night’s surprises was that government has budgeted to spend just A$1.15 billion, or less than half of its centrepiece A$2.55 billion Emissions Reduction Fund over the next four years (see the budget excerpt on the right).
Environment Minister Greg Hunt says the full amount could still be spent, with funds to “be allocated flexibly over time”.
But anyone with a long memory will be watching this very closely: under the Howard government, more than $360 million was budgeted but not spent on climate programs.
Going, going, gone
Gone are the Coalition’s promises for one million more solar roofs across Australia and at least 25 solar towns, for which the Environment Minister was promising A$100 million each as recently as six months ago. Those programs have been respectively abandoned and slashed.
In the case of the Solar Towns scheme, it will offer a total of A$2.2 million over the next three years to community groups, in barely more than a handful of electorates, several of them marginal seats like Corangamite in Victoria and Moreton in Queensland.
The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA), set up to support new and emerging renewable technologies into production and deployment, including funding world-leading solar research, is set to be scrapped, a cut of A$1.3 billion. That’s despite the Coalition’s repeated pre-election promises to keep it.
ARENA’s axing is on hold for now, because that the government needs support from other parties in the Senate to shut it down.
The same applies to the Clean Energy Finance Corporation, an independent investment body that’s already mobilised A$2.5 billion of mostly private funding for low-emission energy and agriculture projects, which is set to make a profit for the government if allowed to continue.
Other axed industry and community clean energy programs include the Low Emissions Technology Demonstration Fund, the National Low Emission Coal Initiative, Energy Efficiency Programmes, the National Solar Schools Plan, Energy Efficiency Information Grants and Low Carbon Communities.
While the axing of so many renewable and low-emission programs was predicted, it is significant. The Australian government cuts to programs driving greater renewable and low-emission energy use come just as we’re being advised to do precisely the opposite by global experts.
As RenewEconomy has reported, this week a new report from the traditionally conservative International Energy Agency (of which Australia is a member) shows that the world’s electricity mix needs to switch from 68 per cent fossil fuels now to at least 65 per cent renewables by 2050, if we’re hoping to limit the rise in global temperatures to no more than 2 degrees this century.
All eyes on the target
After this budget, all eyes will be on the Renewable Energy Target (RET) review now underway.
At risk are up to 18,400 additional renewable energy jobs and A$14.5 billion of investment, on top of the A$20 billion already invested under the RET scheme. Public submissions on the renewable review close this Friday at 5pm AEST.
There is room to improve the Renewable Energy Target, as I’ll explain. But after this budget, it’s now the last major remaining piece of federal government policy that supports ongoing investment.
As for big power generators’ calls for it to be cut back to a “true” 20 per cent target by 2020 – that’s a stunning reversal from their past position. And I know, because I was there.
Will lobbyists get what they want again?
The Renewable Energy Target has traditionally had bipartisan political support, as a policy started by the Coalition and expanded under Labor. It’s led to A$20 billion of investment, while reducing the greenhouse intensity of the Australian economy and positioning us for future economic success.
The so-called 20 per cent renewable energy target for 2020 is actually 41,000 gigawatt-hours of Large Scale Renewable Electricity (known as the LRET) and a complementary Small Scale Renewable Energy Scheme (SRES) that uses a similar certificate trading mechanism, but actually has no fixed 2020 target.
Big power generators and other industry are now calling for the LRET not to aim for 41,000 gigawatt-hours of electricity, but instead be set at 20 per cent of whatever actual electricity consumption is in 2020 – which is expected to be far lower. They have justified this position by claiming they need “certainty”, and that excess renewable energy generation is cutting into their revenue.
Yet that’s not what they said more than a decade ago.
The original Mandatory Renewable Energy Target was developed from John Howard’s 1997 Safeguarding the Future speech just before the Kyoto Climate Conference. The original proposal was for two per cent additional renewable energy (relative to 1997 generation) by 2010.
In intense negotiations, the electricity industry argued strongly for a shift from a percentage target to a fixed amount of generation – 9500 GWh, in 2010. This rested on their need for “certainty” so they could plan to meet their compliance obligations.
I was involved in these negotiations, and even co-facilitated a four-day workshop in late 1998, in which many issues were addressed. The industry’s underlying reason for the change was that it thought the official electricity forecast on which the 9500 GWh “effective two per cent extra” target was based underestimated likely 2010 consumption. So the shift was likely to reduce their RET obligation.They also recognised that predicting electricity consumption even a year or two in advance is difficult, and would create real uncertainty.
The 2020 41,000 GWh LRET target was based on electricity forecasts of 2007, which were themselves based on data provided by the electricity industry.
But now the industry is seeing unexpected ongoing decline in electricity consumption, so it wants to switch back to a target as a percentage of actual consumption. It argues it needs this for planning “certainty”.
Of course, certainty is a relative concept. For the renewable energy industry, a fixed 2020 generation target does provide certainty, while a percentage target creates uncertainty for everyone, as it is very difficult to predict consumption, even a year or two ahead.
A better plan for the renewable target
The objectives of the Renewable Energy Target are to grow Australia’s renewable energy industry and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. A 2012 review by the independent Climate Change Authority found that it was, in fact, doing that fairly effectively.
So if we don’t want to see major new renewable energy projects cancelled across Australia, and lose renewable expertise overseas, the best thing we could do is leave the Large Scale Renewable Electricity Target (LRET) as it is at 41,000 gigawatt-hours of power by 2020.
In contrast, we could improve the complementary Small Scale Renewable Energy Scheme (SRES).
The SRES has been affected by years of chaotic state and federal government policy on rooftop PV, as well as a complicated revolution related to declining PV panel costs, emergence of new technologies such as storage, and smart demand management.
But its cost is declining, and it has been widely embraced by Australians, with research for the federal government late last year showing that outer suburbs and regional areas have led the way in going solar, as the maps of Australia and Brisbane on the right show. (You can see detailed city and state maps at the end of this report.)
With all that in mind, the government should maintain SRES as it is while implementing a more comprehensive, inclusive policy discussion to deliver a predictable, long-term policy for small-scale distributed energy.
As a side note, the Abbott government and the Productivity Commission both support a trend towards privatisation of the energy sector.
And the Renewable Energy Target has actually been a key driver of privatisation already: around 1.4 million Australian households are now private electricity generators, while the renewable energy industry is privately-owned and operated. So the RET should be seen as entirely consistent with the Coalition’s approach to energy.
Why should Australians reward bad business practice?
Australia’s electricity industry is beginning to confront the kind of change that Telstra’s landline business has had to deal with. Electricity consumption is declining. For a capital-intensive industry that has long-lived assets, this is very uncomfortable.
Major coal and gas generators now seem to see the RET as a focus for blame for many of their problems, particularly their loss of revenue.
But as explained on The Conversation before, the biggest factor driving uncertainty in the need for generation capacity is the trend of falling demand, which is not related to the LRET. The electricity industry has failed to invest sufficient effort to plan for and now understand that trend.
I know of no other large industry that knows so little about how its customers think and behave. Power generators got what they asked for more a decade ago with the design of the Renewable Energy Target – and now they want it changed again, at the expense of renewable investors.
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The New KP Chair Gillian Milovanovic, who is from the US, is the first American and first female representative to take over the rolling chairmanship of the monitoring body. She takes over from Mathieu Yamba from the DRC, who faced criticism last year for appearing to push for Zimbabwe’s clearance to resume sales despite minimum standards not being met.
This pressure, in the form of multiple unilateral decisions by Yamba and ongoing threats from Zimbabwe’s government to start selling its diamonds without clearance, eventually led to the KP giving Zim diamonds the green light for export.
This decision was widely criticised for ‘letting Zimbabwe’s government off the hook’, and led to a key civil society member of the KP from quitting the body. The group, Global Witness, said last year it was leaving the scheme because of the KP’s failure to fulfill its mandate in preventing the trade in conflict diamonds.
The Zim government has insisted the local diamond trade is meeting international standards and has repeatedly dismissed claim that Chiadzwa diamonds are not conflict free.
But the country has been at the centre of serious debate over the definition of conflict diamonds, after it was suspended from trade in 2009 over serious human rights concerns. These concerns stemmed from the deaths of a hundreds of illegal diamond panners at the controversial Chiadzwa alluvial fields, where in 2008 the then ZANU PF led government launched a military led clean up operation.
Since then, there have been ongoing reports of military led abuses, including forced labour and dog attacks on villagers. At the same time, there has been rampant smuggling from the area, leading to millions of dollars in diamonds going missing. Human Rights Watch and Global Witness both reported that top ZANU PF officials were the leading beneficiaries of this illicit trade.
Regardless of these ongoing reports, the KP still gave Zimbabwe the green light to resume exporting last year, after a two year deadlock on the country’s trade future. The only restrictions now on the diamond trade are in the form of targeted restrictive measures, after the US added two Chiadzwa based diamonds firms to its sanctions list against Zimbabwe last year.
The KP chair, who is also from the US, is now under pressure to clarify her position, particularly after stating last week that the “only” conflict diamonds the KP is aware of are from Cote d’Ivoire.
“At the present moment, I am told, the only country whose diamonds are fitting within the definition of conflict diamonds is Cote d'Ivoire. And that represents, overall, far less than one percent of all diamonds," Milovanovic told a teleconference with journalists last week.
Ambassador Milovanovic, who assumed the KP chair a fortnight ago, also hinted there could be need to redefine what constitutes conflict diamonds.
"I would say that overall, yes; the organisation is looking, for example, at its core objectives and core definitions. That would include the definition of conflict diamonds….. The goal, certainly, is to look at, is there a need to make some changes,” Milovanovic said.
Political analyst Clifford Mashiri, who has been a vocal support of civil society in the Zimbabwe diamonds debate, told SW Radio Africa on Tuesday that the new KP chair must prioritise a new definition of conflict diamonds.
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Jornada 2022 is a sacred space of learning, culture and action. We invite faith leaders, scholars, students and anyone looking for ways to put faith into action to join us. Deepen your leadership at this in-person event spotlighting our beautiful borderlands community through song, dance and food, and reinvigorate your commitment to building a more just world.
The Biden administration is reportedly planning to extend the use of Title 42 expulsions for single adults, continuing to block and expel asylum seekers to danger in Mexico for months longer. This plan would prolong disparities in access to protection and disproportionately impact Black, LGBTQ and other asylum seekers.
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Maybe you’ve been considering installing a security system for your home. Sometimes, you do not actually need one in your home. Simple things, like keeping your doors and windows locked, can make a bigger difference than the system.
Be sure that your home is always occupied. Put timers on the TV, lights and radios. It’ll make it seem like someone is home. This helps you keep your house burglar-free.
Your dog can actually safeguard a spare key. Of course, your dog has to be an outdoor dog (or you at least need to have a doggy door) for this to work. Attach the key to your dog’s collar, and it will be handy if you ever need a spare.
When placing your spare key outside for emergencies, give careful consideration to where you put it. The doormat is too obvious of a place to hide it, as robbers will look there first. One idea is to hide your key inside the collar of your outdoor dog.
If you will be away from your house for an extended period of time, turn the ringers off for all your phones. When burglars hear phones ringing for an extended period of time in a home, they know that there is no one there to answer.
Does your canine stay in the yard while you go out? If so, the dog can be a terrific spot to keep a spare key. Simply put the key onto your dog’s collar so that robbers cannot locate it. This is the perfect place to store a spare key, especially if your dog doesn’t care for strangers.
Avoid opening the door if you don’t know who is standing on the other side. Nowadays, people invent many stories of why they should come in. For instance, they may say they need to call a mechanic or the police. However, their true intent is to rob you. Keep a hard, fast rule that says you only open the door for invited guests in order to keep your family safe.
When looking for a system to secure your home, do comparison shopping. The prices can vary a great deal for the same level of protection from company to company. Get quotes from no less than three companies before choosing the best one.
If your garage is attached to your home, always keep it secure. Many people are concerned about people entering their garages to gain access to their homes. You can use a C-clamp to secure the door and prevent it from being opened by strangers.
When placing your spare key outside for emergencies, give careful consideration to where you put it. Above doors or under doormats are much too common to hide them and potential criminals will check them first. A possible solution is to attach a key to your outdoor dog’s collar.
Annual check-ups are important for alarm systems. This is a job for professionals; get a security firm to inspect your equipment. Wild animals, domestic pets, and weather are all factors that can affect the reliability of your home security system. You may not know there’s an issue if you can’t see it.
Don’t allow a complete stranger to come in your home. People often think of ways to trick others into letting them in so they can steal from them. Make sure everyone in your house knows not to open the door unless they know the person standing outside.
Don’t hide an extra key under a rock or in a planter. Though you may think you are giving yourself a way into your home if you lose your key, you are actually inadvertently inviting intruders into your home. Thieves are familiar with these hiding spots. Try having your trustworthy neighbors hold spare keys.
Eliminate dead vegetation and wood in the yard in the summer. These are vulnerable to fires and put your home in danger. Clear up your yard so it looks good and is safe.
After bringing home a big-ticket item, such as an appliance or electronic device, avoid leaving the packages on the curb before trash day. Having these type of boxes hanging around will give robbers a good idea of what type of merchandise you have inside of your home.
Be sure to replace all locks on a home you have bought. Regardless of how you feel about the sellers, you never know someone’s true intentions. Besides, other tenants or owners might have copies of the key if the previous owners did not change the locks.
See what the local police offer when it comes to home protection programs. Many have quite a few helpful programs that you take, like on self-defense or other things related to your home. Contact your local police department to find out if they offer this type of program.
Keeping your home very bright during the night hours is an excellent way to prevent thieves. Most intruders avoid anything that could reveal their identity. With a well-lit home, thieves cannot hide or break in unnoticed. Keep the lights on if you want your home to be secure.
Understand certain safety precautions when it comes to having skylights for your home. Skylights are a great addition to any home, but they are also tempting entryways for crooks. Any skylights in your home should be secured with strong hardware.
You need a home security system. Placing hidden and visible video cameras is a good way to keep your home secure. Intruders can be deterred to visible cameras, but hidden cameras are better if criminals damage the other cameras. A lot of surveillance cameras could be accessed through your phone, giving you the chance to check it even when you’re away.
If you bought any big or expensive things, wait until trash day to throw away the boxes. They show the world you have money and lots of valuables inside.
You need to know your options with companies concerning either leasing or purchasing equipment. Buying outright costs a lot more in the beginning, but one time costs might lower or eliminate some monthly fees that add up over time. You’ll pay higher monthly fees if you lease the equipment, and that will add up over time. Explore both options to see which works best for you.
Replace all locks in a new house. Though you may not suspect that the seller is up to something, you still need to be careful. Also, there have likely been other owners of the home, and you don’t know them either.
A timer can help you regulate when you turn the lights off or on in the evening. A timer is very convenient and will give the impression that your home is occupied if you have to go away over extended periods of time.
Alter the locks and the keys when you change homes. You do not want anyone to have a copy of the key. It’s easy to install locks, so you can just purchase them at the home improvement store and swap them out to be sure you have the only keys.
Get a home alarm, but only if the police are called when it’s gone off. An alarm system with full-time monitoring by a security company is the safest option. You can rest assured that the police will be called by the company. You cannot depend on your neighbors to call them.
Talk to any companies you’re considering hiring to install a security system about how long the company has been around. Companies that have been around for years have shown that they know the industry and that their services are reliable and great enough for recommendations. Knowing that you are dealing with a shady company can keep you calm when making this crucial decision.
Sliding glass doors can create a security issue in a home. They can easily be unlocked by lifting them and then shaking them. If a security system isn’t attached to these doors, then insert pipe to place into the door channel. This holds the door firmly in position. Even if the lock is broken, the door will still be held closed.
Make an appointment with a home security company to evaluate the security needs of your home specifically. Everyone has different needs, and your security system should be designed to protect your home and family. If you are able to secure a company willing to tailor a system to your needs, there is a good chance that you will be satisfied.
Stay on good terms with your neighbors and you will know if there has been any suspicious activity in your area. Busybodies may be quick to notice when someone odd is checking out your house. If they know and like you, they will be more inclined to let you know.
Always lock all your windows, even the ones on the second floor. People often overlook their second floor windows, assuming that thieves won’t check them. However, this is actually not how it goes. A burglar will attempt to get in any way they can.
Before checking out security systems for your home, think about your personal security and safety needs. Security systems are a proven method of reducing your chance of break-ins, but it is not always the right choice. In some areas, a class on self defense or a guard dog might be more suitable, yet in others, an advanced home security system will fit the bill. Think about your risk factor when making a decision.
Having a dog that has a scary bark is helpful. Obviously, burglars will be afraid of being attacked by a large dog. Of course, the animal should be protective and also safe as a companion to your children or yourself. A dog with a temper may be scary, but the animal must also be friendly enough to interact with you.
A home security system might just be what you need. Make a few changes to your habits and focus on finding a quality home security system. Be sure you know all the choices you have so you can choose the best one for you.
Go through a company to buy your security system. Re-sellers are out to score quick money, and they likely won’t offer you any guarantees. Also, the manufacturer will not add on extra fees, and will provide consistent service for their equipment.
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“My Heart is Like a Singing Bird – Selected Bird Poems of Christina Rossetti” contains a fantastic collection of beautiful nature poetry by English poet Christina Georgina Rossetti, with each poem linked by the common theme of birds. A wonderful little poetry pocket book brimming with 15 delightful avian poems coupled with colour illustrations by John James Audubon that would make for a fantastic gift for birdwatchers, twitchers and literature lovers alike. Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830–1894) was an English writer famous for her devotional, romantic, and children’s poems. Her most well known poems include “Goblin Market” and “Remember”, and she also wrote the lyrics to two famous British Christmas carols: “In the Bleak Midwinter” and “Love Came Down at Christmas”. Other notable works by this author include: “Commonplace and Other Stories” (1870), “Speaking Likenesses” (1874), and “Called to Be Saints” (1881). Contents include: “Birds and Poets, an Excerpt by John Burroughs”, “A Birthday”, “The First Spring Day”, “A Birds-eye View”, “On the Wing”, “A Bird Song”, “Bird Raptures”, “Bird or Beast?”, “A Green Cornfield”, “Gone Forever”, “Symbols”, “April – An excerpt from The Months: A Pageant”, “Freaks of Fashion”, “An Old World Thicket”, “A Wintry Sonnet”, and “The Peacock has a Score of Eyes”. Ragged Hand is proud to be publishing this brand new collection of classic poetry now complete with illustrations by James John Audubon and an excerpt by John Burroughs. | <urn:uuid:42498c15-ed2d-41f8-8742-354c5c203148> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.readandcobooks.co.uk/books/my-heart-is-like-singing-bird-rossetti/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570765.6/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808031623-20220808061623-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.932404 | 431 | 2.53125 | 3 |
The troubled US city of Detroit has defaulted on its debt payments as it threatened to become the country’s largest ever municipal bankruptcy.
Detroit imposed a moratorium, or suspension, on some debt payments effective Friday to preserve the cash needed for essential services.
The Michigan state city’s state-appointed emergency manager submitted a restructuring plan to holders of some $18.5bn in IOUs.
“Financial mismanagement, a shrinking population, a dwindling tax base and other factors over the past 45 years have brought Detroit to the brink of financial and operational ruin,” said Kevyn Orr, the bankruptcy expert appointed by Michigan’s governor to straighten out the city’s troubled finances.
If creditors do not accept the plan, Detroit could be forced into what would be by far the largest ever bankruptcy by a US city.
Orr told reporters there is a “50-50” chance that Detroit will declare bankruptcy and that a decision should happen in the next 30 days.
The restructuring proposal addresses how it will meet its obligations on about $7bn in secured debt and $11.5bn in unsecured borrowings.
In his report, Orr described city conditions that would worsen if a deal on the debt cannot be reached.
It said that due to police cutbacks Detroit’s crime rate became the worst among large US cities in 2012, five times the national average.
About 40 percent of street lights do not function, and the police department is “dysfunctional” – strained by cutbacks and having gone through five different chiefs in five years.
The report said the city has 78,000 abandoned and blighted buildings, “nearly half of which are considered dangerous.”
Fewer than half of Detroit’s ambulances were functioning at any time during the first quarter of this year, fire department vehicles are in bad shape and the city’s income tax systems are in “catastrophic” state.
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The importance of personal and organisational reflection
How many of us take the time and the opportunity to reflect upon our experiences and evaluate them?
Google search definition of reflection: "Serious thought or consideration."
This process is something that as a business and personally, we should consider how we arrived at those decisions that are important to life or business changes. Did we use our past performance effectively in the evaluation process; did other elements inform us of our direction?
There are business and personal tools that are readily available to support the embedding of strategic or personal decisions making, to define the measurement of effectiveness. They have their place in the process of reflection, although this is more about the experience and the recognition, of the experience and the value it holds.
Because this very process can inform or dictate our future, life circumstances either consciously or not. A decision making process that has been preceded by reflection creates opportunities that are value based, on information that is real, and has been a reality as part of our experience. It is therefore, integral to sustaining and creating new market development and in ensuring successful progression. By evaluating the experience around the decisions we made by a full appraisal conducted with personal thought, collaboration and involvement, we demonstrate in very real terms that we are credible, to the individual client, customer and employee.
In our recognition of the journey, we have taken and are willing to learn from all aspects of the business and the effect decisions have in broad terms. Demonstrating an inclusive, learning commitment to excel, grow and continuous improve, with a value based philosophy.
As individual leaders in organisations, it seems that reflection personally and organisationally is consistently challenged against the tide of our now, based culture.
Organisations are forced to communicate the product and services improvements, via the most rapid method, compromising quality for quantity. What and how much can we achieve in the least amount of time with the least amount of resource investment or planning? The longevity stakes are high; the determinants of a lack of reflection, all too often results in us, just wanting to put this lack of foresight as an experience behind us. In our demand based culture, the existence of urgency in commercial decision making is no surprise. However any lack of reflection disregards or diminishes our previous learning or values and undermines our discernment and this has a cost at some level. To our customers, or employees, it could appear that we have compromised integrity, and the ability to demonstrate that we are capable of making and sending an intelligent company message.
Having the competitive edge in the market place is to fully engage in a life-long learning experience. This does not mean we apply ourselves aggressively, or sit on a mat and meditate, but become connected to ourselves and others from base level of integrity, honesty and with a willingness to learn and value the fullness of the engagement on the journey. A process of reflection, either formal or an impromptu learning, has learning values that integrates our overall purpose and our very direction of travel, socially and personally, enabling and informing the decisions that we make, with wisdom. If we are discerning and wise, we will explore and examine our journey so far in the broadest context possible. Adopting a leadership approach that sets aside personal ego, and requests the input of others, will gain great value. This takes courage and has a value base in recognising the importance of people and their contribution, as an investment.
Experience and learning is neglected at cost, as we move into the next task or challenge without reflection. The compelling urge for speed of decision making, often launches our decision process into a time intensive waste of effort.
Clarity and vision can only be achieved when reflection is respected and given full recognition in the organisational planning, delivery, monitoring and review of performance. Creativity is then encouraged to be the ‘Mother of invention.’
To reflect is to question:
What have we learnt, emotionally, psychologically, spiritually and physically about our being?
How have we learnt, what are the repeated patterns?
Where / when were we low in productivity?
Why have we learnt / not learnt, are there any repetitive patterns that keep reoccurring in our lives or our business?
When / how can we use this to support greater wisdom and discernment and avoid repetition?
Can we identify our decisions, or our lack of reflection to the context of social or personalised power?
The definition of socialised or personal power:
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- Do hard work.
- Help other people.
- Admire the world for what it is.
- Make people laugh and smile.
- Have fun.
- High in personalized power motivation.
- Convince others that I am right.
- Achieve my daily goals.
- Belittle those who correct me.
- Hog the limelight.
- Think positively.
To be authentic, following a path of genuine success, either personally or organisationally, is to recognise the value of reflection. In reconsidering and reflecting our path so far, and the effect on other people communities, customers is to derive an outcome that enables us to make more value based improvements, improvements that encourage greater creativity, contribution, collaboration and authentic learning. | <urn:uuid:0c802898-215e-49ec-87ca-54fe84e89c6a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.lifecoach-directory.org.uk/memberarticles/the-importance-of-personal-and-organisational-reflection | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571536.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811224716-20220812014716-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.943627 | 1,087 | 2.125 | 2 |
Ninety-two years ago, developer Clifford Reid established our special community, the Hollywood Riviera. Inspired by the beauty of its seaside location and surrounding hills, he coined the name due to its resemblance to the French Riviera and to attract celebrities from the movie industry.
Sales initially boomed but soon diminished, first due to the Great Depression in 1929 and later as a result of World War II. By 1941, only 42 Mediterranean style, red-tile roof homes, and one apartment house had been built. Ultimately, it was the aerospace industry rather than Hollywood that contributed to the neighborhood’s growth. The postwar housing boom in 1945 spurred new construction and the Hollywood Riviera’s borders expanded over time, eventually including approximately 3,100 homes.
During the 1945 boom, a group of local residents intent on preserving and enhancing the many attributes of our special community created the Riviera Homeowners Association (RHA). Through the past 75 years, the RHA has diligently served the Riviera by communicating important developments to residents, advocating local issues to our city’s governing bodies, presenting landscape awards, providing scholarships to local graduating high schoolers, and donating funds to area schools for special projects.
One of the key ways the RHA communicates with its members is through its Riviera Reporter newsletter, and looking back at some of those newsletters (go to https://hollywoodriviera.org/reporter) is truly a blast to the past for those who have lived here for many years.
The January 1969 issue, for example, mentions donations to the annual community Christmas Party made by Riviera establishments long gone but not forgotten, including Howard’s Market (where Trader Joe’s in the Village is now located), Toy Circus (where Yogurtland sits), and Morgan Moore’s Stationers (now Rolling Hills Flower Mart).
A subsequent 1969 newsletter updates residents on work planned to connect Anza Boulevard with Vista Montana: “Anza will cross Pacific Coast Highway just west of Sambo’s Restaurant, run west of Walteria Post Office, through Kissel Field and connect with Montana at Newton Street.”
That same edition had a small article about a celebrity sighting: “John Wayne, the ‘True Grit’ western movie star, visited the Riviera Village recently. The star of some of the greatest cowboy films ever made stopped off, not because he wanted to, but because of circumstances. Driving, with a companion from Palos Verdes, one of the tires on his car went flat and while the gas station attendant fixed the flat, Wayne walked down Catalina Boulevard to the Velvet Turtle and had lunch. Many people on the street did not recognize him. Reason…he wore yachting clothes, not western.” (Note: The Velvet Turtle was a popular steak and seafood restaurant on the south/west corner of Avenue I, where H.T. Grill now sits).
Recent editions of the Riviera Reporter have covered such timely matters as the Butcher-Solana project, traffic issues, airport noise, and COVID resource updates. Special topics are also covered at the RHA’s general meetings, which are now held via zoom.
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The recipe for survival for any embattled ruling party to stay in power is the same – persuasion or force. If persuasion is not working, then force is the only avenue to deal with dissent. We have seen during the reformasi era how Mahathir used the ISA and public institutions to curb opposition to his rule and we have seen how Najib used the Sedition Act to deal with dissent in his time. Now it seems that the PN Government is becoming increasingly repressive by the hour.
It is a norm that police will call up participants or organisers of public rallies to record 112 statements. But it is abnormal to call members of SUHAKAM and the Bar Council monitoring these assemblies to be called to record their statements as well. This is an indication that the repression level of the ruling party has been upgraded.
It is abnormal for the police to go and check if the address that participants gave in their 112 statements are genuine. This seems to be a new practice by the police. After the recent Kita Lawan Assembly, the Dang Wangi police district recorded statements of organisers and participants. Then an additional instruction supposedly came from the KL Contingent –IPK Criminal division where policemen were told to verify the addresses of the participants. Three to four policeman were dispatched to track down the houses of participants to check if they stayed at the addresses. While we have a serious problem of doing contact tracing for Covid close contacts, the Government has resources to do contact tracing for those involved in a peaceful demonstration.
The ROS definition of “essential”
The Registrar of Societies (ROS) who on July 19 told UMNO that it had no issues on the postponement of the UMNO Party election suddenly said yesterday that UMNO’s decision to postpone its party elections as invalid. You wouldn’t need a rocket scientist to figure this out. History will explain how the ROS allowed Mahathir’s UMNO Baru and yet sidelined his opposition who tried to form UMNO Malaysia. That is why the Government needs a month to hold the vote of confidence. In the next one month, the ROS will be busy.
Now suddenly during the height of the Pandemic, the ROS has an issue with the UMNO election. This is the same ROS who told PKR to postpone its virtual congress in June 2021 saying it is not allowed because it is a “non-essential social activity” according to the National Security Council. Imagine postponing a virtual congress because of the pandemic and now questioning UMNO’s decision to postpone its election as invalid. Suddenly UMNO ‘selection has become an essential activity for the ROS during the pandemic.
In the next one month the Government will be busy. Police will be be busy contact tracing activists while others will be busy contact tracing MPs to seek their support to make up the numbers.
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I’m always fascinated by what people value. Sometimes they won’t openly say what it is that they value, but you can learn a lot about someone by simply watching what they buy.
For a handful of years, I lived in the NYC area. I was relocated down there for work (in a former corporate job) and spent about 5 years in the “city that never sleeps.”
One weekend a good buddy of mine came to visit. As we were exploring the city we stopped in to the Nike store in SoHo. As we were perusing the merchandise, he was looking at some of the things they had on sale.
He was actually wearing one of the jackets they were selling, and I happen to look at the sticker price of this particular jacket. It was almost $700!!!
But don’t worry, it was currently on sale for about $500. (eye roll)
I thought to myself: “How is this guy ever going to get to a point where he’s financially secure if he continues to buy things like this?
THE TWO PATHS OF PERSONAL FINANCE
In personal finance, there are really only two paths you can take (with plenty of variations and slight differences).
You can take the path of the “spender.” Most people in the U.S. and throughout the world take this path. They earn an income, and the immediately go out and spend that income on whatever it is they feel like doing at that time. It’s a vicious cycle of consumerism that traps in you in a work-earn-spend, work-earn-spend loop.
On the other hand, you could take the path of the “wealth builder.”
On this path, you forego expenditures like a $700 Nike jacket. Instead, you take that money and invest it. Then, when the next big purchase looks you in the eye, you forego that one as well, and invest that money.
In this cycle of wealth-building, you work-earn-save-invest, and repeat. Over time, you build up wealth.
One day, in the future, you’ll have built up enough wealth that the interest and returns on that money is generating more and more money for you. It might be generating so much money you won’t feel bad about using it to buy a $700 Nike jacket…
THE MAGIC OF COMPOUND INTEREST
One of the reasons the path of the “wealth-builder” is so powerful is because of a concept called compound interest. This is the concept that when you invest your money and earn a return, you can then reinvest the return you received and earn additional return on top of it.
If you invest $100 dollars and over the course of the year you get a 10% return (or $10), you’ll be left with a total of $110.
Now, if you reinvest all of that money and again receive a 10% return, you’ll get an $11 return, and now have a total of $121!
So, you got a return of 10% both times, but instead of getting $10 returns each time, the second time around you actually received $11. That extra dollar is the magic of compound interest!
This is called “letting your money work for you.”
If you are spending your money, you will never benefit from that magic. The sooner people realize this, the sooner they begin taking advantage of it and enjoying the benefits.
For my friend, let’s quickly look at the opportunity cost of buying the $700 jacket.
If, instead of buying the jacket he invested that money and let it grow over the course of 30 years at an interest rate of 10%, that $700 would grow to be just over $12,000!
The purchase is costing him a LOT more than just $700. And so are all of the purchases you make without thinking about it.
CAN YOU BUILD WEALTH EVEN IF YOU LIKE TO SPEND MONEY?
This isn’t to say that it’s impossible to build wealth if you like to spend money, it’s just that the amount of income you need to earn has to be so great that it vastly outweighs the amount you’re spending.
And here’s the worst part…
Have you ever heard of the phenomenon called “Keeping up with the Joneses?” It’s the idea that we are constantly trying to keep up with the lifestyles of those around us. So, if you’re seeing your friends and family buying new cars, clothes, etc., you’re going to want to “keep up” with them, so you don’t feel like everyone is doing better than you.
If you are a spender, you’re even more susceptible to falling for this trap.
Another thing that goes hand-in-hand with this is “lifestyle creep.” As we earn more money, we tend to spend more money and get acclimated to the new level of income and spending. Spenders are also more susceptible to lifestyle creep, making it more and more difficult to build wealth.
It’s a perpetual cycle of earn more, spend more, and it constantly acts as a barrier between you and building wealth.
JACKETS FOR EVERYONE!
It’s very simple. You can buy all the jackets you want, and wealthy people can, as well. The difference is that if you use your money now to build wealth it will eventually be the one buying that jacket for you – you won’t be relying on a specific job. The interest pays for all that you need and more.
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The Khorana Program offers scholarships to Indian students to undertake research at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW) and partner universities in summer 2020 for a period of 10 weeks.
The Department of Biotechnology (DBT), Govt. of India, Indo-US Science and Technology Forum (IUSSTF) and WINStep Forward are partnering to support the prestigious Khorana Program for Scholars to undertake research at University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW) and partner universities in Summer 2018.
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The Khorana Program is envisaged to provide encouragement to young scholars to undertake R&D, enable students to carry out research at a premier University in the United States and Transform research into societal benefits Build a seamless scientific community between India and the United States
The Indo-US Science and Technology Forum (IUSSTF), established under an agreement between the Governments of India and the United States of America in March 2000, is an autonomous, not for profit society that promotes and catalyzes Indo-US bilateral collaborations in science, technology, engineering and biomedical research through substantive interaction among government, academia and industry.
Course Level: The Khorana Program will provide opportunities to Indian students to undertake research at University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW) and partner universities in Summer 2020 for a period of 10 weeks.
Study Subject: Scholarship is awarded in all fields of research.
Scholarship Award: Scholarship offers Stipend, Airfare, and Health Insurance to the applicants.
Scholarship can be taken in USA (University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW) and Partner Universities)
Eligibility: The following criteria must be met in order for applicants to be eligible for scholarship:
- Tech, M.Tech and B.Sc./M.Sc. students currently enrolled in recognized institutions of higher education in India in Biotechnology and allied areas are eligible to apply.
- Students pursuing Ph.D/Final year students are not eligible to apply.
Nationality: Indian applicants are eligible to apply for this scholarship programme.
How to Apply: The mode of application is online.
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Productivity. Priorities. Planning.
There are many buzz words out right now, and they all start with the letter “P!” These words are meant to help us maximize our time and effort.
There is not much discussion about how to do more. All “to-do” items are created equal. Not everything on a “to do” list is a guarantee of progress.
You could argue that some things on your list must be done and are essential. Many people spend their time working on customer service and client projects. We must keep our promises. These are not growth activities.
We also spend a lot of time on “distractions”. Some distractions are more evident than others. While it may seem like work, many of us spend hours reading and responding to emails. But how productive are our efforts?
What percentage of your activities can you call “growth activities”? What are the things that will help you grow your business? Increase your impact. Can you make a more significant impact? Are you able to fulfill your purpose?
If you look closely at it, these things occur in one of two ways. You create something when you are able to connect with people.
These types of activities are essential to me as a Content Creator Coach. I believe in the power of creating new things. You can turn your ideas into tangible things. You can create a book or blog article, a program, a video, or make a presentation. Creating value is what you do.
Your business’s assets are growing. Even if they aren’t expensive, you are adding value to the market. Your contribution to the market increases your value and invariably returns to you.
People often ask me, “What’s the next step to grow your company?”
It gives you something to share. If others don’t see what you’re creating, it doesn’t matter if you make something new.
This brings me to the second type of growth activity…
It is amazing what happens when you get to know other people. You may meet a new client. A great opportunity could present itself. This could be a chance to make a difference in someone’s life.
It is fantastic to see the vast array of possibilities created by a conversation with someone else. It takes a lot of skill to find the intersections between your interests, needs, capabilities. It’s also known as “networking”.
Our purpose is to make a difference in the lives of others. Each person brings their own expertise and focuses to every interaction. However, if we approach each conversation openly, every conversation can be an opportunity to live our purpose.
This is real growth.
Real growth is the result of business growth.
Recently, I have been spending a lot more time connecting with others. I also share the things I’ve created with those I connect with. I was making a difference and sharing value. Win-win!
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Be afraid. Once the coronavirus pandemic is done and dealt with, a draft United Nations report warned Wednesday searing, unrelenting heat could lay waste to large swathes of the planet, killing millions who have no means to escape a massive climate change event.
The grim climate tidings are contained in a draft U.N. report that predicts dire consequences for billions if “global warming continues unchecked,” updating earlier climate models that suggested it would take nearly another century of unabated carbon pollution to spawn heatwaves exceeding the absolute limit of human endurance.
Now unprecedented killer heatwaves are forecast to be on the near horizon, according to a 4,000-page Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) study, as seen by AFP before its scheduled release in February 2022.
AFP reports work of the U.N.’s climate science advisory panel paints a frightening — and deadly — picture for a warming planet, providing yet another set of warnings to add to those that have gone before.
Earlier this year John Kerry, whom President Joe Biden appointed as the United States special presidential envoy for climate, said in an interview with the BBC only nine years remain to save the planet from destruction, as Breitbart News reported.
Climate Change hoaxers of the world unite! https://t.co/Uf4MspfV6t
— Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) December 1, 2019
If the world warms by 1.5 degrees Celsius — 0.4 degrees above today’s level — 14 percent of the population will be exposed to severe heatwaves at least once every five years, “a significant increase in heatwave magnitude”, the report says.
Going up half a degree would add another 1.7 billion people.
Ultimately, high heat will destroy more lives indirectly rather than by reaching levels at which the body simply shuts down, the IPCC report suggests.
Higher temperatures will spread disease vectors, reduce crop yields and nutrient values, slash labour productivity and make outdoor manual labour a life-threatening activity while starving populations multiply across the planet.
In all, it says the climate crisis is real and must not be ignored, now or most certainly not in the near future.
Global warming leader Greta Thunberg explains the climate crisis to the peasantry! pic.twitter.com/J9GH3QtwhT
— Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) April 23, 2021
Experts agree the worst impacts could be avoided if global warming is capped as close to 1.5 degrees Celsius as possible, in line with the Paris Agreement.
But even then, with temperatures rising twice the global average in many regions, some severe climate impacts are certain.
“Today’s children will witness more days with extreme heat when manual labour outside is physiologically impossible,” the IPCC report warns.
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