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For the parents of children with intractable epilepsy, the stream of constant seizures, emergency-room visits and powerful medications can become a demoralizing blur. Beth Collins of Fairfax County said her teenage daughter suffered as many as 300 epileptic seizures per day.
“There were days when I just laid in bed with her and prayed,” Collins said, “and watched her because I wasn’t sure what would happen.”
Now, the seizures have all but stopped. Each day, Collins gives her daughter Jennifer a dose of medical marijuana oil from a syringe, as any parent might administer liquid medicine to a child.
But Collins can’t offer the cannabis extract from her kitchen in Fairfax, where she raised Jennifer for 14 years. Instead, she does so in a small two-bedroom apartment in Colorado Springs. Collins is one of a pair of Northern Virginia mothers and daughters who, after trying various combinations of drugs and treatments for their children, have packed up and moved recently to Colorado to try medical marijuana oil to battle the children’s debilitating seizures. Because Virginia law does not allow for the sale of medical marijuana or its extracts, the families have elected to move 1,700 miles so their children can have a chance at a normal life.
“I feel a lot better,” Jennifer said of the treatment, which is scientifically untested. “I can focus more, I’m doing better on tests in school. My memory’s improved a lot.” Her seizures are “not completely gone,” but her mother said that “we’ve had days where I’ve seen very few, maybe one or two. That’s a major decrease.”
Former South Riding resident Dara Lightle has watched her 9-year-old daughter move from not only seizures, but also “unbelievable anger, kicking and screaming at me” to reading for the first time and discarding all other drugs. “We’re grateful to be here” in Colorado, Lightle said, although she considers herself and daughter “medical refugees.”
The Northern Virginia families’ efforts are part of a growing national migration toward the seemingly life-changing marijuana oil. More than 100 families have moved to Colorado Springs in recent months to obtain the oil, and mothers have launched lobbying efforts in many states to legalize medical marijuana for conditions such as epilepsy.
Meanwhile, other Virginia families watch with envy, unable to uproot their families but hopeful that the Old Dominion will consider a change in its marijuana laws, at least for this oil — which has marijuana’s intoxicating ingredient, THC, removed — and this condition. Virginia has long been reluctant to consider legalizing medical marijuana, and previous pushes for legalization in the General Assembly have quickly died.
But now supporters have a new, important ally: recently elected Lt. Gov. Ralph Northam (D), a pediatric neurologist who has treated children with epilepsy for years. He said in an interview that he is going to help craft legislation next year that would allow certain Virginia residents to use medical marijuana for epilepsy, although he acknowledges that scientific research has not caught up with the glowing anecdotal research emerging from Colorado, where medical marijuana has been legal since 2000.
Northam said that a British company, GW Pharmaceuticals, has been approved for a study in the United States using a cannabis extract for patients with Dravet syndrome, a particularly severe form of epilepsy.
“The bottom line is to do something, through the studies or legislatively, to help these families,” the lieutenant governor said. “If we go before the legislature and have these families come in and testify, I really think we could get that passed and get help for these families. I’m going to do a bit more research and we’ll put the language together” for next year’s legislative session.
The Virginia General Assembly may be a tough sell. Del. Robert G. Marshall (R-Prince William), who has pushed a bill repealing Virginia’s already restrictive 1979 law permitting possession of marijuana for medical purposes, said those who support cannabis for epilepsy should go through the established scientific testing process required for other drugs.
“They are taking homemade remedies and asking the legislature to bypass those” testing procedures, he said. “It may curtail seizures in the short term in kids, but to do these experiments on kids, in the absence of science, I question that. Go to the FDA and go through the regular process.”
Parents who have endured years of epilepsy’s consequences — particularly those who have children with Dravet syndrome, which can be fatal at any time — feel that they don’t have time to wait for the FDA’s process. A lack of assistance from the federal government has complicated matters for these families. The Food and Drug Administration, which must approve any legal use of medical marijuana, says it “requires carefully conducted studies in large numbers of patients (hundreds to thousands) to accurately assess the benefits and risks of a potential medication.”
It recently gave approval to GW Pharmaceuticals for testing of the cannabis extract-based drug Epidiolex for both Dravet and Lennox-Gastaut syndromes, two severe forms of epilepsy, and the company hopes to work with doctors and patients to perform clinical trials in the United States this year.
Officials with the FDA, the Drug Enforcement Administration, the National Institute on Drug Abuse, and the Office of National Drug Control Policy all declined to discuss the government’s position on marijuana oil or relaxing restrictions on marijuana for research purposes.
But even in the epilepsy community, there is a debate about whether using the extract is appropriate. In February, the Epilepsy Foundation released a position paper calling for an end to DEA restrictions on clinical trials and research and asking the agency to allow greater access to medical marijuana oil for the 1 million Americans who have uncontrolled epileptic seizures.
“People with uncontrolled seizures live with the continual risk of serious injuries and loss of life,” Epilepsy Foundation leaders Philip M. Gattone and Warren Lammert wrote. “If an epilepsy patient and their doctor feel that marijuana is the best treatment option then they need to have safe, legal access to medical marijuana and they need that access now.”
A week after the Epilepsy Foundation released the statement, the American Epilepsy Society issued a contrasting view cautioning that “we must remember that these are only anecdotal reports, and robust scientific evidence for the use of marijuana is lacking . . . use of marijuana for epilepsy may not be advisable due to this lack of information on safety and efficacy.”
Experts, state legislatures and the federal government continue to wrangle with the issue, but parents say they are left with a single, desperate option: Move to Colorado. In many cases, they have connected with Realm of Caring, a group started by a family who developed the “Charlotte’s Web” low-THC plant and the oil, which is rich in cannabidiol, or CBD, according to Heather Barnes-Jackson, the group’s executive director. The plant is named for Charlotte Figi, who began taking the CBD oil (also called “Realm Oil”) at 5 as a last resort and saw a drastic reduction in her violent grand mal seizures. Research has showed that CBD has anti-inflammatory, neuro-protectant and antioxidant properties through its interactions with the brain and the body, Barnes-Jackson said.
In Colorado Springs, 206 people are using the Charlotte’s Web extract, Barnes-Jackson said. They include her son, who has “catastrophic” epilepsy.
And now the Virginia families are joining a growing group of families setting in Colorado. Indeed, the parents came from nearly identical backgrounds: dubious of medical marijuana, frustrated by the ineffectiveness of FDA-approved drugs and feeling that they had no other options.
“My child is not going to smoke pot,” Lightle said she remembers thinking. But she also endured such stress from her daughter’s deterioration that she got panic attacks. “I’m a mother, realizing I couldn’t protect my child,” she said. “It really shows how hard this is on a parent, too.”
Lightle’s daughter Madeline began having seizures at 6, including during 80 percent of her sleep. Strict diets worked for a time, then became ineffective, as did each new medication. Her vision got worse because of the seizure medication, doctors told her. Doctors even suggested a hemispherectomy, in which a large part of the brain is removed.
So Dara and Madeline Lightle left South Riding in October.
“By the grace of God,” Lightle said, “we were able to wean her off all pharmaceuticals by the end of December. She’s had three seizures in the past 13 weeks. Before, she would have multiple seizures, five in a day.” On Facebook, she posted before-and-after electroencephalograms of Madeline that are drastically different.
But moving from home has taken its toll on Jennifer Collins, who was an eighth-grader at Robinson Secondary School. She wrote a letter to Virginia legislators that her mother recently delivered: “My family is totally split up and it’s killing me,” she wrote. She asked the legislators to imagine “your little girl going off to Colorado with her mom because she has no other medical options but you have to stay here so you can afford all of it . . . wouldn’t that be hard on your family?”
Meanwhile, in Ashburn, Cady Coe is preparing to move her three children to Fort Collins, Colo., this summer. Her youngest, 9-year-old Charlie, has tried 17 types of medications and numerous diets.
“He has not had a day seizure-free since he was 3,” she said. “He weighed more at age 3 than at age 9.”
But not everyone can move. Lisa Smith, a Northern Virginia native now living on the Northern Neck with her husband and three children, said her 13-year-old daughter, Haley, has Dravet syndrome and suffers 100 seizures per week. As a toddler, Haley was treated by Northam, and the pair reconnected when Northam was on the campaign trail.
Lisa Smith said Northam was encouraging when she spoke to him about medical marijuana, and now she is lobbying the General Assembly as part of Virginia Parents for Medical Marijuana. But moving to Colorado is not an option.
“It’s not really the time you pick up and go,” Smith said. “I have a whole support system here, a whole lot of medical professionals she’s involved with.” Relocating is “very drastic. We would if we had to. If it’s never going to happen in Virginia, we would move.”
Collins also has been involved in lobbying, and she returned to Virginia last month to participate in an epilepsy walk in the District with like-minded parents. She is not thrilled about staying in Colorado indefinitely. She wants medical marijuana in Virginia.
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Sterling on World Copyright Law provides the most comprehensive analysis of copyright law and decided cases on a national, international, and regional level in a single volume. This accessible and carefully structured text covers the key principles of protection as well as giving guidance on the leading conventions and treaties, marking it out as a leading authority on the subject of copyright law.
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Garment aftercare is essential when it comes to fabric lasting longer or even just smelling nice, but somehow, it’s almost become a dirty word.
Let’s unpack that…
Almost every industry or sector has a previous bad news story that hangs around for far longer than the good news stories, and no matter how hard you try to shake it off, the mud sticks.
There are lots of good things to be said about the garment aftercare sector.
A dry cleaning machine is a closed-loop system, which means that all the waste stays in the machine—anything from lint to microfibers and microplastics. The removal of waste will tend to be regulated depending on the geographic location of the dry cleaner. A closed-loop system ensures that the waste will not end up in our waterways.
Of course, we believe that there is no better way to clean than with GreenEarth Cleaning. Not only is it a closed-loop system, but it is also much gentler and milder than other solvents. It has a lower Kauri Butanol (KB) value which means that it is less aggressive and its impact on clothing, and indeed the planet, represents quality and environmentally non-toxic garment aftercare.
The GreenEarth Cleaning system also uses far less energy and water—our studies have shown a saving of at least 50% per load.
GreenEarth’s Sustain detergent, which forms part of the Optimized GreenEarth Cleaning System, is gentle yet most effective. To that end, the necessary dosage levels are far lower than other detergent recommendations. And best of all, it is so safe that hazardous warning symbols are not required.
Laundry loop is closing
GreenEarth is proud to be working alongside PlanetCare and Plastic Soup Foundation in developing ‘SeaClear.’ This is a solution, a filter, to trap microfibers and microplastics, and prevent them from going into our waterways and the ocean.
We’re currently in the Beta testing phase and hope to share more news on that very soon.
Single-use plastic is a well-known “no-no” when it comes to the environment. Many dry cleaners have been offering customers a garment bag for many years, either to buy or as part of a loyalty program. Most bags are breathable, so they can be hung in the closet straight away, retaining their freshness, while also avoiding tons of plastic going to landfills.
A great example of this is the Johnson Cleaners ‘Priority Club’.
Plastic and metal hangers do form an important part in ensuring that a garment stays in good shape after it’s pressed and until it gets hung up in the closet.
Now, some customers will keep them on those hangers, but others discard them to place them on their own hangers. It doesn’t have to be that way. Dry cleaners will be delighted to receive them back, either when you’re passing or just when you bring in your next order.
It keeps the demand down, which means that finite resources are being protected, plus they do not end up in landfill sites. You’ll also be saving your local independent dry cleaner some money too.
Keep an eye out for any racks that they have for you to leave those hangers!
There will always be cases where a garment needs to be cleaned the same day or the next day, but many customers are not in a huge rush. Determining when they want their order ready can help a cleaner maximize their cleaning loads.
Why is that important? Well, the more items in a load, the less carbon and water used per item. The capacity of a machine establishes the maximum size of that load so that the quality of cleaning is never compromised.
Let your cleaner know when you need your garments to be ready—it will help them and the planet.
Make clothes last longer
And of course, gentle and effective care can lead to clothes lasting longer. This is why it’s so important that the information on the care label is correct. Fabric testing forms a large part of that—usually retaining a control sample and cleaning other fabric samples in any garment aftercare solution. The results will determine what is put on the care label and be supported by customer communications.
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DeepFake and Fake News Media is On the Rise
The Counter Deepfake and Counter Fake News Software Solutions Market report is the first report to cover this up and coming market, focused on detection and mitigation solutions for Fake News and DeepFakes:
- Fake News – the deliberate creation of false reality to influence public perception.
- DeepFake – manipulated videos or audio produced by AI, that yield fabricated images and sounds that appear to be real.
There are two major categories of DeepFake detection tools, however, at the end of the day, it may be that both types of DeepFake detection methods will be needed in order to mitigate this potential threat. These include:
- Pattern Analysis – looking and analyzing the behavior of people in the videos, learning the patterns, from hand gestures to pauses in speech, and comparing it to real life patterns. This approach has the advantage of possibly working even if the video quality itself is essentially perfect.
- Quality of Video Analysis – analyzing the differences between deepfakes and real videos. Most deepfake videos are created by merging individually generated frames into videos. By analyzing the essential data from the faces in individual frames of a video and then tracking them through sets of concurrent frames one is able to detect inconsistencies in the flow of the information from one frame to another. This can also be used for face audio detection.
Fake News are disseminated via networks of fake profiles, bot networks and smart utilization of social media, therefore, most tools developed and used to detect fake news are geared towards finding, analyzing and stopping these networks and bots. These tools are a mix of OSINT and Cyber technologies.
Intelligence and Law Enforcement agencies are further understanding that the threat of an “information warfare” is increasing rapidly, and are spending growing budgets on technology that can detect and counter #fakenews or #deepfakes media. Furthermore, as the usage and threat of DeepFakes and Fake News intensifies, so do efforts to develop new detection methods, resulting in the next wave of (mis)information warfare. The proliferation of technology, specifically Artificial Intelligence, allow wide scale and easy to use solutions to create synthetic media that seems very real, either in video, photos, or text. In combination with networks of fake profiles, bot networks and smart utilization of social media, the attackers have many ways to influence either the public or specific individuals. As media and technology are now being used for cyber terrorism, criminal activity, espionage and military warfare, the new age of information warfare threatens democracies worldwide, pushing governments to combat this threat with large investments.
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On October 3, 2013, the greater region of Vienna suffered what was called a “moderate unusual”earthquake. The tremors were at a depth of over 10 kms, and no major damage was noted.
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According to stock exchange filings by the three fuel retailers, the losses were due to erosion in the marketing margin on petrol, diesel and domestic LPG.
"Despite having lower bidders and tenders, the government has signed an agreement with Adani Group for generating solar power at a higher cost and the public should know details of the deal," BJP's Tamil Nadu unit President Tamilisai Soundarajan told reporters at the airport here.
Stating that there was no understanding between BJP and the Adani group as believed, she pointed out that chief ministers of Kerala and Madhya Pradesh had signed agreements as per norms and there was no intervention from the Centre.
Under the agreement, the Adani group plans to set up five solar power generation centres with a total capacity of 648 MW at Kamudhi in Ramanathapuram district at an investment of Rs 4,536 crore.
The BJP state unit president demanded that the chief minister or ministers concerned respond to various charges of corruption in the noon meal and power sectors.
She criticised TNCC president E V K S Elangovan for seeking a 'white paper' on the health condition of Chief Minister Jayalalalithaa and also condemned MDMK General Secretary Vaiko for attacking the Modi Government over various issues without any concrete evidence.
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As a UK Translations Agency, we get lots of translation and interpreting requests for Spanish; either translating into Spanish or from Spanish into another language. To explain the high demand, here are some facts and figures that will blow your mind. In no particular order:
- Spanish is spoken by 570 million people worldwide (about 450 million of which have it as their first language). The number is growing fast and it’s estimated that by 2050 there will be around 750 million Spanish speakers.
- Spanish is spoken in 44 countries.
- It is the official language of 21 countries.
- It is the fourth most widely spoken language in the world (after Chinese, Hindustani and English) and is expected to overtake English by 2050.
- It is the third most used language on the internet (at the moment – but expect that to change!). The use of Spanish online has risen by a phenomenal 800% in the past few years. In fact it is the second most popular language on social media. And it is also the second most-used language in Wikipedia, in terms of visitors to the site.
- Many international companies and organisations, including the United Nations, include Spanish among their official languages.
- 21 million students are currently studying Spanish as a second language, making it the second most studied language in the world.
So there you have it, in summary, this language is growing fast in business and on the Internet, and it is being embraced by the next generation. It is spreading across the globe faster than English ever did in terms of numbers.
What about its origins and influences? Spanish is part of the Indo-European family of languages and the modern form of the language dates from the 13th century. Around 75% of modern Spanish is derived from Latin, but there are other influences too, especially Arabic. Approximately 8% of Spanish vocabulary has its roots in Arabic as a result of the Moorish occupation of Spain that lasted nearly 800 years. Other influences include other European languages as well as the indigenous languages of the Americas.
With more than 110 million people who speak Spanish, Mexico is the largest Spanish-speaking country. The second largest, with more than 50 million speakers, is the United States. Spain and Colombia are so close in numbers, it’s safer to award them joint third.
The language itself originated in the Castile region of Spain, and it’s still referred to as ‘castellano’ (Castilian) as well as ‘español’ (Spanish). People sometimes call it Castilian for political reasons. It’s not the only official language in Spain; there are also Catalan, Galician and Basque, so these are ‘Spanish’ languages too. And many South Americans prefer to call it Castilian, because ‘Spanish’ might imply that it’s mainly the language of Spain. The versions of the language may vary but can be understood easily between both sets of speakers. Across all the countries globally where Spanish is spoken as a first language, each country offers an array of dialects – the dialect spoken in Buenos Aires, Argentina, for example, is hugely different from the local dialect of the Patagonian villages in Chile.
The Spanish love vowels. They throw as many into a word as they can, it seems. They love them so much that the Spanish language even has its own word for ones that use all 5 vowels. These are called ‘pentavocales’ (they missed a trick – if they threw in an ‘i’ and a ‘u’ the very word could be a ‘pentavocal’). Here are a couple: murciélago (bat) and abuelito (grandpa). The Spanish Language has 300-400 of them. Just to go off on a small tangent here – I can only think of one ‘pentavocal’ in the English language, but it’s a cool one: ‘Eunoia’ which means beautiful thinking. It’s pronounced yoo-noya. Said too fast and it sounds like you’re saying “You annoy her” or “You are annoying”. To annoy you, I would just like to point out that I know you said eunoia out loud. Twice probably.
I digress…. Back to Spanish.
David Beckham, Jack Black, Tom Daly, Tom Hiddleston and Will Smith are a few non-Latino celebrities who have conducted interviews in Spanish. But the best by a mile is Gwynneth Paltrow who is fluent (having spent a lot of time in Spain as a teen). She encourages her children to speak only in Spanish, she clearly recognises its importance and its beauty, referring to Spain as her second home. What’s my ability as a Spanish speaker? I hear you ask. All my phone-calls with Gwynnie are in Spanish. Or would be, if she ever rang. And if she wanted me to ask her where the toilets are, what time it is and pardon. Sadly, my Spanish is worse than Manuel from Fawlty Towers’ English. ¿Qué?
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The second artist I decided to focus for Inspiration for my A2 Module is Solve Sundsbo, I choose this artist due to his editorial style images and use of projection.
I felt this artist would be a strong choice in order to develop my work forward in terms of Portraiture and Techniques.
For this shoot, I set out to feature the Compositional Rules such as: Rule of Thirds, Simplicity and Leading Lines.
I choose for this shoot to be taken in the studio using projection and to be Black & White similar to my artist.
My overall thoughts on this shoot are positive, I enjoyed the shoot throughout and the final photographs however when It came to the technical side I felt that trying to perfect the camera and lighting was hard due to how bright the projector was, to overcome this I decided to play around with the ISO and Aperture and move the projector around and the camera in order to capture different styles of light and angles.
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Tetanus Toxin (1084-1099)
Tetanus Toxin (1084-1099) is a protein that is derived from the single-chain polypeptide neurotoxin produced by Clostridium tetani.
Catalogue number crb1001481 Molecular Weight 1878.1 Sequence (one letter code)
Sequence (three letter code)
Purity >95% Storage -20°C References
Pellizzari et al (1999). Tetanus and botulinum neurotoxins: mechanism of action and therapeutic uses. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci. PMID: 10212474
Surana et al (2018). The travel diaries of tetanus and botulinum neurotoxins. Toxicon. PMID: 29031941
Manufactured in: United Kingdom
Tetanus Toxin (1084-1099) is a protein that is derived from the single-chain polypeptide neurotoxin produced by Clostridium tetani. The neurotoxins produced by Clostridium tetani are among the most potent molecules known to humankind. Once in the body, the toxin binds to the basal lamina at the neuromuscular junction. From here, the toxin is transported to inhibitory interneurons in the spinal cord, where it prevents the release of neurotransmitters, which causes spastic paralysis. | <urn:uuid:87538054-2c32-47fb-a6c3-1dd9fcea3178> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://crbdiscovery.com/discovery-peptides/tetanus-toxin-1084-1099/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571536.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811224716-20220812014716-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.70069 | 381 | 2.28125 | 2 |
Why do women continue to earn less money than men – approximately 20% less, according to some estimates – and what can be done about it?
At least half the pay gap reflects the fact that women tend to work in different kinds of occupations and industries than men, a phenomenon known as “gender segregation”. Understanding the causes of that gender segregation is a key part of any attempt to address the pay differential.
Wharton management professor Matthew Bidwell and Roxana Barbulescu, a management professor at McGill University in Montreal, set out to understand the causes of gender segregation by taking a different approach than studies that typically look at variances in the kinds of jobs that men and women choose, or at the decisions made by employers during the job application process.
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Bidwell and Barbulescu opted instead to look at job applicants themselves to determine whether the decisions they make during their job search process have a significant impact on which offer they accept. Their results are presented in a paper titled, Do Women Choose Different Jobs from Men? Mechanisms of Application Segregation in the Market for Managerial Workers, forthcoming in the journal Organization Science.
“Much of the debate over earnings has focused on the idea that there are barriers to women getting certain kinds of jobs, and that a big part of this is due to subtle and not so subtle discrimination on the part of employers,” says Bidwell. “But most of the available data looks at the jobs women end up in, which reflects a series of decisions by both the employee and employer.” The challenge was to separate out data that deal primarily with how women view the employment landscape even before starting the job application process. Do those views, for example, lead women to systematically choose different, and lower-paying, occupations than their male counterparts?
The two researchers analysed data on 1,255 men and women entering the job market as they were graduating from a large, elite, one-year international MBA program. Such a group is far from representative of the population at large. However, “studying MBA students is particularly valuable for exploring segregation into some of the best-paid and most influential jobs in society, which are the kinds of jobs in which women have traditionally been under-represented,” the authors note in the paper.
Barbulescu surveyed the students about their job interests at the beginning of the MBA program, and then again at the end in order to find out what kinds of jobs they applied for, where they got offers and what jobs they ultimately accepted.
The researchers’ main finding was that women were significantly less likely to apply to Wall Street-type finance jobs, somewhat less likely to apply to consulting jobs, and more likely to apply to jobs in general management, most notably internal finance and marketing. Not coincidentally, the finance and consulting jobs that women avoided were also the ones that were most highly paid.
No surprises there, but the researchers dug deeper to see what might explain these results. To start, they broke down the different influences on job search decisions into three different factors: applicants’ preferences for specific rewards from their jobs, such as money or flexibility; the ability of applicants to identify with particular kinds of jobs, which often reflects how compatible those jobs are with other ways the applicants see themselves; and the applicants’ expectations that an application could succeed. | <urn:uuid:ca78043a-a1d0-4dce-9cc5-be62cbc54bda> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.smartcompany.com.au/business-advice/innovation/why-do-women-still-earn-less-analysing-high-paying-jobs/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570921.9/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809094531-20220809124531-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.967964 | 711 | 3.375 | 3 |
I don’t play World of Warcraft (OK, I played Guild Wars for several years) – but if I did, I’d be this guy.
As part of my ongoing quest to make you readers aware of walruses in popular culture, I give you Rotor the Walrus, a character in the Sonic the Hedgehog cartoon series. I became aware of Rotor by accident, I’m too old to have watched the Sonic cartoons and never played the games, but my young son has been very into Sonic for some time. One night when I had half an eye on the TV, I noticed Rotor! So here he is. Not as well known as other popular cartoon walruses (like Chumley, which is the most popular search term that brings viewers to this site). Rotor is the mechanical genius of Sonic’s team of “freedom fighters”. He is self-described as a nerd, and this quote appears on his fanclub site (linked below). “If I spend my time working on this, I don’t have to face other people”, which I suppose is a very walrusy sentiment.
Here’s a link to an info page about Rotor:
Here’s his wikipedia entry:
Rotor even has a fanclub site:
So I’m sitting there innocently watching The Simpsons Movie when out of nowhere comes the greatest video game that never existed, Grand Theft Walrus! An instant classic, to be sure. Obviously not an Atlantic or Pacific Walrus, the Liberty City walrus is clearly on the fast track to nowhere. Here’s some links to relevant reference material, including the clip from the movie.
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Shea Butter is extracted from the nuts of the Shea-Karite tree found in the African tropics, and is prized for its unique healing and moisturising properties. It contains vegetable fats which are much more beneficial to the skin than those found in cocoa butter and other vegetable butters.
Why should I be aware of this?
Shea Butter, an all-natural vitamin A cream, is not only an excellent moisturizer but also has very good healing properties for skin conditions such as blemishes, wrinkles, eczema, and dermatitis. It is derived from the seed of the Shea tree and prepared without chemicals or preservatives.
Shea Butter cream is ideal for treatment of skin allergies, insect bites, sunburns, frostbites, and a number of other conditions of the skin. The natural moisturizers present in Shea Butter are the same as those produced by the sebaceous glands in the skin.
Shea Butter is also a wound healer with its positive biochemical and physiological effects.
By buying Shea Butter, conscious consumers are also aiding underprivileged communities in Africa, for whom producing and marketing this product is a sustainable sources of livelihood.
All about Shea Butter
Traditionally, Shea Butter was extracted by people who picked the nuts, cracked them, grilled them and pounded them..
Thse nuts were boiled with water for hours until the shea butter rose to the surface. The butter was separated from the water, put into gourds and left to cool and set. Today, however, there are techniques available to refine this natural butter to increase its shelf life and improve its fragrance.
Shea Butter is solid at room temperature although it quickly liquefies right around body temperature. This Shea Butter is called unrefined Shea Butter or raw Shea Butter. Since Shea Butter is an all natural product, it can vary widely in quality, appearance and smell depending on where it is produced from and how it is refined or extracted. The low melting point of shea butter has its pros and cons. When applied on the skin, it instantly melts, leaving a luxurious layer on the skin. However, this also means that shea butter routinely liquefies during summer. Melted shea butter, as long as it does not smell rancid, is perfectly safe to use. If regrigerated, it will just set again.
The color of unrefined Shea Butter depends on the Shea nuts used. Shea nuts will vary in color from almost white to yellow. Therefore, refined Shea Butter will vary in color.
Where it is found
The shea tree is found all across the African tropics -- nearly 5,000km from Senegal (west) to Uganda (east) across the African Continent. It usually grows to an average height of about 15m with profuse branches and a thick waxy and deeply fissured bark that makes it fire resistant.
There is some confusion as to which shea butter is better, West African (Vitellaria Paradoxa) or East African (Vitellaria Nilotica). The East African Shea Butter is higher in olein (the liquid part of the Shea Butter), which makes it softer and and more fragrant than West African Shea Butter. It also has a much better yield, giving Ugandan women farmers over five times the amount received by their West African counterparts.
Compared to West African shea butter, East African Shea Butter has less vitamin A and less sterols. To use for prevention of stretch marks, you might want to use West African Shea Butter. However, if you are looking for natural, intense moisturize, East African Shea Butter may be a better alternative.
Shea butter and health --
- Healthy skin
- Insect bites
- Peeling skin
- Protection from cold
- Dry skin
- Skin allergies
- Muscle fatigues
- Frost bites
- Stretch mark prevention during pregnancy
- Smooth shave
- The African shea tree was given its name at the end of the 18th century by the Scottish explorer Mungo Park.
- In many parts of West Africa shea butter is the main source of fat for cooking and for skin care, the fruits are also eaten.
- The Shea Tree is considered sacred in some parts of Africa.
- In the hot Sahara shea butter has a life-preserving function. For centuries the people there have used it to protect their skin from the drying wind.
- In Germany shea butter products were first imported at the end of the 19th century. The first large-scale practical tests of its use in skin care were performed between 1930 and 1952.
- The chemists were very enthusiastic about the high fat content of the fruits as well as about their long stability without preservatives.
- In the mid-1960s shea butter disappeared from the world markets and was supplanted by the cocoa butter promoted by the industrial countries.
What can I do about it?
Tips for choosing shea butter
Pure Shea Butter can be found in three types of extractions. Also, recently, Shea Butter has begun to be graded.
- Raw or unrefined shea butter is extracted using water. The color ranges from like cream (similar to whipped butter) to grayish yellow. This is the original form of Shea Butter.
- Refined shea butter is more highly processed, but still has many of its natural components intact.
- Highly refined or processed shea butter has solvents added to it to increase the yield (hexane is an example). The color is pure white.
How should Shea Butter smell?
Shea Butter has a natural smell, which is not unpleasant to most people. The smell of raw or lightly refined West African Shea varies from nutty to similar to Crisco® or shortening. Over time the smell of the Shea Butter will diminish. If an unrefined Shea Butter has almost no smell, it is probably getting old. Shea Butter should not stink, not matter how old it is. It is possible for Shea Butter to go rancid. If it does, do not use it.
How do I store Shea Butter?
Shea Butter does not need to be refrigerated. However, over a period of two or three years, the Shea Butter will begin to lose some of its effectiveness. As the natural ingredients begin to break down, some of the healing benefits will be reduced, but the Shea Butter will continue to be an effective moisturizer. Store Shea Butter is a cool (not necessarily cold) place. If you're going to use it within a couple of years, you should have no problems.
The shea tree also has a great, untapped capacity for producing copious amounts of sap that can constitute an important source of raw material for the gum and rubber industry.
Shea nuts may also be a good food source. The trees begin to bear fruits at maturity and start flowering by early November, with picking or gathering lasting from April to August every year. When the shea fruits ripen, they fall under their own weight to the floor and are gathered by hand. The fruit, which is green in color, has a fleshy edible pulp, which contains 0.7-1.3g of protein and 41.2g of carbohydrate and is very sweet. The fruit pulp is a particularly rich source of ascorbic acid: 196.1mg/100g compared with 50mg/100g in oranges. The iron and calcium content compares favorably with raspberries: 1.93mg/100g as against 0.92mg/100g for iron, and 36.4mg/100g as against 26mg/100g for calcium. (FAO, 1988b), reports that B vitamins are also present. The sugar content varies from 3-6%, equally distributed between glucose, fructose and sucrose.
Shea butter and culture
In Ghana women pick shea fruits from their husbands’ plots, and the oldest wife regulates the activity and is responsible for the allocation of farmlands of husband among wives in polygamous marriages (Grigsby & Force, 1993). Fallow or abandoned plots are destined for the wives of the previous owners, whilst uncultivated plots are open to all women. Pickers wake early in the morning and trek up to 15km, then carry the loads back in head pans of 20-25kg (sometimes over 40kg). Hazards include scorpions and snakes, especially beyond cultivated areas (Schrechenberg, 1996).
In northern Burkina Faso, land rights are acquired through relatives tending previously cultivated land or spontaneous clearing, but also by requesting uncultivated plots from the village Chief. In Mali, every one in the village is allowed to collect from crop fields, regardless of who owns them
Basically an occupation for rural women and children, the shea business was previously, a largely opportunistic trade, with little or no organization at community level. Men do not participate in shea nut gathering and regard this as the preserve of women and children. It is called an “opportunistic business” because no one has ownership rights over the trees and gathering is equally open to all. The owners of farms and old, abandoned farms maintain the right to harvest their trees. The fruit is also an important source of food for many organisms, including birds and bats. In northern Ghana the fruits contribute to food security, particularly for the rural poor, especially since their ripening coincides with the lean season of food production.
Shea butter and environment
Here are some reasons why shea butter production is considered sustainable --
- Shea trees are readily available in tropical Africa, live for up to 300 years and are adapted to the dry climate.
- The trade in shea butter has enabled women to earn a better living. Some money is used to train them in business skills.
- As the women work locally, they are still able to look after their children and homes.
- Shea butter has multiple uses -- used to make soap, candles, as cooking fat, as a moisturiser, and to help protect grains in storage.
- Shea fruits, which contain the nuts, are an important source of vitamin C.
- Waste products created by making the butter are spread as organic fertiliser, used to waterproof mud walls and burnt as fuel.
- ↑ Shea Butter Market Report
- ↑ Shea Butter and Its Uses
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Shea Butter Benefits
- ↑ STEP Report on Shea Butter
- Shea Butter and Its Uses
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WASHINGTON — The Trump administration is seeking to use NAFTA to boost the U.S. steel and other basic materials industries by proposing stricter automotive content rules that require the use of North American-made steel, aluminum, copper and plastic resins.
Three people who were briefed on the matter said that the U.S. rules of origin proposal would put these materials on the North American Free Trade Agreement's auto parts tracing list for the first time.
The list is used to verify the regional content level of vehicles and parts so that they can qualify for tariff-free shipment to all three NAFTA countries.
U.S. negotiators submitted their rules of origin proposal to Mexican and Canadian counterparts on Friday. Other sources briefed on the talks said the proposal includes raising the threshold for overall North American value content for cars, trucks and large engines to 85 percent from the current 62.5 percent and a first-ever U.S.-specific content requirement of 50 percent.
A spokeswoman for the U.S. Trade Representative's office declined to comment on the autos proposal.
U.S. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross has vowed to close "loopholes" in the parts list that he says allow too many cheap auto parts from Asia and other regions to enter the United States.
The proposal would also give a boost to the steel and aluminum industries that Ross has sought to protect from subsidized imports with national security reviews.
In some ways, the proposed steel, aluminum, copper and plastics requirement would help vehicle and parts makers meet the higher thresholds. Auto plants in North America already largely use North American steel and aluminum, but the metals' value does not count towards reaching the threshold because it is not on the tracing list.
But the bigger problem is that President Donald Trump's administration also wants the auto parts tracing list expanded to include many components in modern cars and trucks that did not exist when NAFTA was first negotiated in the early 1990s, such as sophisticated electronics that largely come from Asia.
Gains from tracing steel and aluminum would be offset by the higher overall content thresholds and the need to find other sources for electronics, said Kristin Dziczek, a trade and labor economist with the Center for Automotive Research in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
Dziczek and auto industry groups say that the U.S. content proposal is likely to backfire, with automakers and suppliers simply choosing to pay the 2.5 percent U.S. tariffs for passenger cars and many parts, sourcing more of them from China and other low wage countries in Asia.
"That could be the preferred trading route if NAFTA becomes too strict, and that means content could come from any country with most favored nation status," she added.
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Sips and Sonnets
An homage to love, friendship and art
“What the world needs now is love, sweet love” and Congregation Ahavath Sholom helped with that idea with their Creative Arts “Sips and Sonnets” Zoom reading on Sunday February 13th. We celebrated the day with a recital of sonnets and other poems from different times and places. To make the day even more festive, we offered drink recipes and an online exhibit of wonderful paintings by the late Moe Brooker. And, to spread the love, all donations from this performance go to our local People’s Pantry.
Please check out this video of the event.
About the Poets
Raymond Carver (May 25, 1938 – August 2, 1988) was an American writer who contributed to the revitalization of the American short story during the 1980s. Although better known for his short fiction, Carver published eight poetry collections. He’s been praised for his ability to forge solid beginnings and endings: “A Carver poem instantly establishes its presence.”
Billy Collins (born March 22, 1941) is an American poet, appointed as Poet Laureate of the United States from 2001 to 2003.[ Collins also served as Poet Laureate for the State of New York from 2004 until 2006. During the stay-at-home confinement period necessitated by the COVID-19 pandemic beginning in March 2020, Collins appears daily on Facebook Live offering his art to a worldwide audience, reading poems and talking about poetry.
Wendy Cope, (born 21 July 1945) is an English poet. Five collections of her adult poetry have been published, Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis in 1986, Serious Concerns in 1992, If I Don't Know in 2001, Family Values in 2011, and Anecdotal Evidence in 2018. In 2013, after 19 years of living together, Cope married poet Lachlan Mackinnon in a register office, although she has stated that she would have preferred a civil partnership.
Edward Estlin Cummings or e e cummings (October 14, 1894 – September 3, 1962), was an American poet, painter, essayist, author, and playwright. He wrote approximately 2,900 poems, two autobiographical novels, four plays, and several essays. He is often regarded as one of the most important American poets of the 20th century. Cummings is associated with modernist free-form poetry. Much of his work has idiosyncratic syntax and uses lower-case spellings for poetic expression.
Emily Elizabeth Dickinson (December 10, 1830 – May 15, 1886) was an American poet. Little-known during her life, she has since been regarded as one of the most important figures in American poetry. Dickinson was born in Amherst, Massachusetts. While Dickinson was a prolific writer, her only publications during her lifetime were 10 of her nearly 1,800 poems. The poems published then were usually edited significantly to fit conventional poetic rules. Her poems, unique for her era, predated modernist poetic strategies. The poem contains short lines and often use slant rhyme as well as unconventional capitalization and punctuation. It was not until after her death in 1886 that her work became public. Her first collection of poetry was published in 1890.
Joy Harjo (born May 9, 1951) is an American poet, musician, playwright, and author. She is the incumbent United States Poet Laureate, the first Native American to hold that honor. She is also only the second Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to serve three terms. Harjo is a member of the Muscogee Nation. She is an important figure in the second wave of the literary Native American Renaissance of the late 20th century. Harjo is the author of nine books of poetry, and two award-winning children's books. Her signature project to date as U.S. Poet Laureate is called "Living Nations, Living Words: A Map of First Peoples Poetry," which focuses on "mapping the U.S. with Native Nations poets and poems.
Li-Young Lee (born August 19, 1957) is an American poet. He was born in Jakarta, Indonesia, to Chinese parents. Lee's father, who was a personal physician to Mao Zedong while in China, relocated his family to Indonesia. In 1959 the Lee family fled Indonesia to escape widespread anti-Chinese sentiment and after a five-year trek through Hong Kong and Japan, they settled in the United States in 1964. Lee is the author of four books of poetry and a prose poem memoir.
Pablo Neruda (12 July 1904 – 23 September 1973) was a Chilean poet-diplomat and politician who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1971. Neruda became known as a poet when he was 13 years old, and wrote in a variety of styles, including surrealist poems, historical epics, overtly political manifestos, a prose autobiography, and passionate love poems such as the ones in his collection Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair (1924).
William Shakespeare (bapt. 26 April 1564 – 23 April 1616)[a] was an English playwright, poet and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language. His extant works consist of some 39 plays, 154 sonnets, three long narrative poems. His plays have been translated into every major living language and are performed more often than those of any other playwright. Published in 1609, the Sonnets were the last of Shakespeare's non-dramatic works to be printed. Scholars are not certain when each of the 154 sonnets was composed, but evidence suggests that Shakespeare wrote sonnets throughout his career for a private readership.
Alice Walker (born February 9, 1944) is an American novelist, short story writer, poet, and social activist. In 1982, she became the first African-American woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, which she was awarded for her novel The Color Purple. Over the span of her career, Walker has published seventeen novels and short story collections, twelve non-fiction works, and collections of essays and poetry.
About the Artist
Moe Brooker (September 24, 1940 – January 9, 2022) was an American artist. Working in painting and fabrics. Brooker employed bright colors such as "saturated pinks, mellow yellows and lime greens (that) are feasts for the eyes," as well as stripes and checked patterns. He was nationally known and received a number of awards and honors, including the James Van Der Zee lifetime achievement award.
His work is displayed at the Studio Museum in Harlem, Montgomery Museum of Art, the Musee des beaux-arts de l’Ontario, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art. He is represented by The Sande Webster Gallery in Philadelphia and the June Kelly Gallery in New York City. He was a member of Recherche, an African-American artists group whose works are known for "active engagement with life and a zestful manipulation of color and pattern”. He died on January 9, 2022, at the age of 81.
"If you are given a gift, using that gift in its fullest sense is true worship.”
On The Way To Somehow, by Moe Brooker, oil and mixed media on canvas
Some Valentine’s Day Suggested Cocktails
Splash of Cassis topped with Champagne
Garnish with fresh strawberry or Luxardo cherry
Splash of Godiva chocolate liquor
Splash of raspberry puree (optional)
Garnish with fresh raspberries
Hershey’s chocolate kiss
2oz Godiva chocolate liquor
1oz Grand Marnier or Cointreau
Garnish with candied orange rind
1oz Brandy or Cassis
Dash of lemon juice
Garnish with candied lemon rind, fresh raspberry
Hershey’s chocolate kiss
Pinch of cinnamon
Garnish with blackberries
Splash of pomegranate or Cranberry juice
Garnish with orange slice
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Prepare for Trump Administration Turnovers
The mid term elections are over and Americans are preparing for a number of resignations and firings inside the White House. It’s obvious that a president who made the phrase, “You’re fired,” popular is getting ready to use the same words in Washington.
In this analysis, we want to look at the attrition rate of the Trump Administration and how it stacks up to previous administrations. Then we will look at the critical posts that will probably be vacant within the next few weeks. Then we will look at possible replacements and the potential policy changes that this will engender.
Turnover is common in White House positions. While they are attractive, they engender long hours and considerable pressure. As a result, there is a above average turnover as people decide they don’t want the pressure and time away from their families, and their bosses decide that the person isn’t fulfilling the job requirements.
It’s also a fact that many people who go the White House only want to stay long enough to make contacts and add the job to their résumé. Then they are off to a higher paying position in the outside world.
The post election period between November and January is a popular time to make these changes. The White House can calibrate its policy and make changes (as Bush did in 2006 after suffering major losses in the Senate and House). In addition, the holidays are a slow time, when positions can remain vacant until a new person is picked and confirmed (if necessary).
There is also the case of firing people that the president didn’t want to fire before the elections for political reasons. That was surely the case with Attorney General Jeff Sessions.
Consequently, the Trump Administration is making several key changes.
Although the media has made an issue of the turnover in the Trump Administration, a Brookings Institution study shows that changes amongst Trump’s important White House executives are in line with turnovers in every administration since President Reagan. In fact, Reagan, Clinton, and Bush made more mid term election year changes in their executive staff.
President Trump has had the largest percentage turnover in the first year since 1980 (about 35%). However, his second year turnover rate is lower than other presidents (this figure includes Sessions, but may change in the next two months). In terms of cabinet positions, Trump is tied with Clinton in number of turnovers. Obama is in third place.
Obviously, the media has made more of an issue of changes in Trump’s Administration than they did with other presidents.
However, that isn’t to say that the Trump Administration is not without its problems. There have been reports of heated arguments in the hallways (the argument between Chief of Staff Kelly and National Security Advisor Bolton is a good example.
In some cases, the problem is that when Trump was elected he relied on advice from other Republicans because he knew little about the people in Washington. The result was that he picked people that were not a good fit for his administration. In many cases, they advocated positions that he opposed.
The first post election casualty was Attorney General Jeff Sessions, who was asked to resign. As senator, Sessions was the first important politician to endorse Trump. Given his early support and former job in the Justice Department, he was a natural choice for the position. However, he proved to be ineffective – partially because he recused himself from the Russian probe and he failed to take firm control of his department.
Although the Attorney General doesn’t have a major impact in national security issues, he is part of the national security team. And, given the number of investigations that the Democrats are threatening, he will be a point man in defending the administration’s actions.
Trump’s temporary appointment of Matthew Whitaker as Attorney General fits the Trump criteria. In recent writings, he has taken the same positions as Trump on the Special Prosecutor and Immigration. He has also made it clear that he will not recuse himself from supervising the Special Prosecutor and will take over management of that from the current Deputy Attorney General. This has raised objections from the Democrats that he can’t fill the position. The DoJ has countered with legal precedents and will probably win the case in the courts.
Since Whitaker is only temporary, he must be confirmed by the US Senate in order to be the permanent Attorney General.
There, are however, some changes that will have more of an impact on foreign policy. One of those changes represented a first – being pushed out by the First Lady.
First Ladies traditionally stay out of major national and international policy formulation, and if they do, are subtle. That wasn’t true this week when the office of the First Lady called for the firing of Deputy National Security Advisor Mira Ricardel, who reported to National Security Adviser John Bolton.
Mrs. Trump’s office said, “It is the position of the Office of the First Lady that she no longer deserves the honor of serving in this White House.”
A Wall Street Journal report suggests that the First Lady’s office had had it with Ricardel’s behavior.
The Wall Street Journal reported, “The president became involved in that decision at the urging of Mrs. Trump, whose staff battled with Ms. Ricardel during the first lady’s trip to Africa last month over seating on the plane and requests to use National Security Council resources, according to people familiar with the matter.”
“The first lady’s team told the president that they suspect Ms. Ricardel is behind some negative stories about Mrs. Trump and her staff.”
Politico also reports that Ricardel may also be responsible for a breakdown in communication between the Pentagon and NSC because of conflicts with Defense Secretary Jim Mattis.
Ricardel is a tough bureaucratic infighter and supports more of a traditional Republican foreign policy than John Bolton does.
She has also had several run-ins with Washington power brokers. Ricardel was part of Donald Trump’s presidential transition team as a Department of Defense advisor. She was looked at for positions in the new administration in the Defense and State Departments, but was twice blocked based upon past bureaucratic run-ins, in the first instance by Mattis and in the second by Department of State Chief of Staff Margaret Peterlin. Ricardel had blocked some nominees wanted by Mattis because they had Democratic backgrounds.
In the end, she lasted only 24 hours after the First Lady pushed for her ousting.
Personality issues may also account for other White House shakeups, namely Chief of Staff John Kelly and DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen.
CoS Kelly has made it clear that he is willing to resign and talk of his departure has been common. However, it seems that his presence has settled the White House Staff after a first year of turmoil.
However talk of his departure has grown since reports of his heated argument with National Security Advisor John Bolton.
The issue was border security and Kelly supported the more lenient position of Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen. Bolton favored a stricter policy that would close the border. The issue became hotter when Bolton reportedly accused Kelly of having an affair with Nielsen, who served as Kelly’s deputy when Kelly was in charge of DHS.
After the blowup, aides whispered privately that one of the men might leave the White House given the deep disagreement over the border. The fact that the President sided with Bolton only added to Kelly’s fury.
This isn’t the first time Nielsen’s handling of border security has been scrutinized by the Trump White House. Trump and Nielsen got into a heated argument during a Cabinet meeting in May over border security, a source with knowledge told CNN.
Trump said he didn’t think she was doing enough to secure the border and two people told The New York Times, which first reported the argument, that Nielsen drafted a resignation letter over the matter.
If Kelly leaves the White House the top choice for the position of Chief of Staff is Vice President Mike Pence’s chief of staff Nick Ayers. Ayers is only 36, but enjoys warm relations with some of the most important figures in Trump’s White House: his eldest son, Don Jr., his eldest daughter, Ivanka, and his son-in-law, Jared Kushner. Ayer also enjoys support among outside advisers who have Trump’s ear but have clashed with Kelly when he sought to regulate access to the president.
Ayer has proven to be a settling influence on the Pence team – something needed in the Trump White House. He also managed Pence’s 2018 campaign strategy, which impressed Trump.
Trump and Ayers had already discussed the chief of staff job in the early summer, according to a former senior administration official, but at the time it was unclear when Kelly would depart. And Trump spent the summer asking friends, White House advisers and former aides: “What do we think about Nick?” – an indication he is privately considering a staff shake-up.
Ayers first impressed Ivanka Trump, Kushner and then-Trump campaign chairman Steve Bannon as an aide to Pence during the presidential campaign. All three later encouraged Ayers to join the White House as a replacement for Pence’s first chief of staff, Josh Pitcock. If Ayers took over as chief of staff, he would be seen by some Trump allies as an improvement over Kelly, since he has far greater political influence and connections.
As for a DHS choice to replace Nielsen, Trump is considering Thomas Homan, former acting director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, to succeed Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen, three people familiar with the process told Politico.
Homan is a hardliner on immigration and immigration is an immportant issue for Trump’s voter base and necessary for his reelection in 2020.
Homan once recommended charging so-called sanctuary city politicians “with crimes” and has pugnaciously defended even Trump’s most controversial immigration moves, including separating children from their parents at the border.
In addition to Homan, other potential Nielsen replacements include Kevin McAleenan, the commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection, and David Pekoske, administrator of the Transportation Security Administration. Both have already been confirmed by the Senate.
The president is also considering Maj. Gen. Vincent Coglianese, who currently runs the Marine Corps Installations Command, according to two people familiar with the process. One of Coglianese’s sons serves as editorial director at the Daily Caller, a conservative outlet known for its favorable news coverage of the Trump administration.
Clearly, these resignations and replacements will fit Trump’s agenda. However, there appears to be another personality in the changes – National Security Advisor John Bolton.
It was Bolton who precipitated the heated argument with Kelly over Nielsen – an argument that Trump sided with Bolton on.
If Nielsen or Kelly resign or are fired, Bolton’s hand will be in it.
We can also be sure that the departure of Deputy National Security Advisor Mira Ricardel, at least had Bolton’s acquiescence. And we can be sure that the replacement will be in tune with Bolton’s policies.
This means that Bolton’s policies will have more support in the new Trump Administration. Bolton has been called a neoconservative and is an advocate for regime change in Iran and North Korea and repeatedly called for the termination of the Iran deal. He has continuously supported military action and regime change in Syria.
Bolton is skeptical of international organizations and international law, believing them to endanger American sovereignty, and does not believe they have legitimate authority under the U.S. Constitution. He is a critic of the European Union and praised Britain’s vote to leave it.
Bolton is known for his strong support for Israel. Bolton opposed the two-state solution. He is also a supporter of Taiwan, which has increased tension with China.
These are all policies that Trump advocates, which means that some of his new advisers will merely echo his opinions, instead of providing opposing opinions.
If this proves to be true, expect Trump’s policies in the run-up to the 2020 election to be less nuanced and more in line with his campaign promises.
Minding the “God Gap”: ISIS’ Genocide of Religious Minorities and American Statecraft
By Emilie Kao and Joshua Meservey
November 8, 2018
The swift rise of ISIS in Syria and Iraq presented the United States with yet another threat from a religiously motivated actor—yet American leaders struggled to “know the enemy.” American leaders have historically secularized the motives and commitments of religious actors, which weakens our ability to “know the enemy.” At the same time, secular political assumptions have limited our capacity to engage religious actors in the work of promoting religious freedom and pluralism. In the future, U.S. attempts to understand religious actors should treat the sincerity of religious commitments with due gravity. Doing so enhances our ability to distinguish friend from foe and helps anticipate hostile actions, as well as find avenues of cooperation in our pursuit of freedom, security, and peace.
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A Century after the Armistice, the World is Still Coping with the End of Empires
By Jeffrey Mankoff
Center for Strategic and International Studies
November 13, 2018
A century after the Armistice that ended World War I on the Western Front, much of the world remains haunted by the legacies of that conflict. Apart from the deaths of more than 9 million soldiers and an untold number of civilians, the most lasting impact of the First World War may be the collapse of the old empires that dominated Europe and Eurasia until 1918. From Poland to Syria, states that emerged from the peripheries of the old empires struggled to reconcile nationalist ideologies, the principle of self-determination, and the reality of diversity. Meanwhile, the old imperial cores—states like Russia and Turkey—still wrestle with the loss of status and territory that accompanied the end of empire. With the post-Cold War order giving way, instability along the old periphery remains, even as the centers of the old empires increasingly look to the past for inspiration, seeking to recreate something like an imperial order in the regions they once ruled.
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America’s FY2020 Defense Strategy and Programming Crisis
By Anthony H. Cordesman
Center for Strategic and International Studies
November 13, 2018
For several decades, American strategic planning has been little more than a facade for annual line item budget debates. Arguably, U.S. strategic planning peaked when Harold Brown was Secretary of Defense in 1981. From that point onwards, efforts to create and manage U.S. national security using some effective linkage between strategy and real-world planning, programming, and budgeting activity steadily declined. Meaningful posture statements by the Secretary that tied strategy to plans and budgets faded away, along with real-world force goals, future year defense plans and budgets, and efforts to link strategy and spending to key joint mission areas like the categories in the program budget system or to the major regional and functional military commands.
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Testing Trump’s Iran Strategy
By Ilan I. Berman
American Foreign Policy Council
October 30, 2018
On Nov. 6, Americans will go to the polls in midterm elections that are likely to reshape the complexion of national politics. But even before they do, U.S. foreign policy will face a crucial test of resolve vis-a-vis the world’s leading state sponsor of terrorism. Back in May, President Trump formally announced that the United States was withdrawing from the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran, and that pre-existing sanctions which had been waived by the Obama administration would begin to “snap back” into place against the Islamic Republic. The first step in this direction was the re-imposition on Aug. 7 of restrictions on Iran’s ability to buy U.S. currency, its trade in precious metals, and commercial sales of aircraft and auto parts to the Islamic Republic. These steps have already begun to have a marked impact on Iran’s economy, prompting a veritable exodus of foreign companies from the Islamic Republic and cratering the value of Iran’s national currency, the rial. But the second tranche of sanctions, which is set to be reinstated on Nov. 4, promises to be even more serious. The new measures will include massive restrictions on Iran’s global oil trade, as well as a severing of Iran’s Central Bank from the global financial system.
Taken in isolation, these steps have the power to deal a severe blow to Iran’s fragile, energy-dependent economy. Taken together, the impact on Iran’s radical regime — which is already said to be on the verge of economic collapse — could be nothing short of catastrophic.
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Israel’s embrace of China is sorely misguided
By Dan Blumenthal
American Enterprise Institute
November 15, 2018
Israel’s embrace of the Chinese Communist party (CCP) under Xi Jinping is morally and strategically misguided. This has become increasingly evident as Xi has transformed the People’s Republic of China (PRC) from the “soft authoritarian” developmental state created by Deng Xiaoping in the 1980s into the “hard totalitarian” state it is today, both at home and abroad. In turn, Washington is gradually changing its own strategy to one of vigorous competition with China as its main great-power rival. As Washington shifts course, Israel would do well to align itself accordingly.
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U.S.-Saudi Security Cooperation: Restricting Operational Support in Yemen
By Michael Knights and Lt. Col. August Pfluger, USAF
November 6, 2018
Last week, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Defense Secretary Jim Mattis laid out a sequence for ending hostilities in Yemen: the Houthi rebels are expected to cease border and missile attacks, after which the Saudi-led coalition is to halt high-risk airstrikes in populated areas, thus laying the ground for peace talks. Yet if the hoped-for talks wind up failing (as the previous round did earlier this year in Geneva when the Houthis refused to attend), Washington will likely intensify its scrutiny of U.S. operational support to the Saudi war effort. Since the conflict began in 2015, Congress has debated whether to end support activities such as refueling coalition aircraft and providing advise/assist functions in Saudi Arabia. Yet discussion of these missions often loses sight of their limited scale and, in the case of advisory support, their crucial defensive and diplomatic value.
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Business loans can be a useful tool when you’re running your own business. They’re especially helpful if you need capital to expand, purchase equipment, or hire employees. But before you dive into business loan applications, it’s important to understand how they work.
In this article, we’ll discuss the ins and outs of taking out a business loan, from the various options available to different types of loans, risks involved, and how much financing is required.
What is a Business Loan?
When you apply for a business loan, you’re applying to borrow money from a lender. Typically, the lender will want some form of collateral against the loan, for example, a tangible asset like equipment or property. If you don’t have collateral to make the loan repayable, the lender may deny your loan application.
Types of Business Loans
There are different types of business loans that might apply to your business. These include:
If you want to buy new equipment, but don’t have the cash on hand to pay for it, you can finance it. The finance agreement allows you to use the lender’s money to pay for the equipment. This is a common way to get a small business loan. However, if you don’t own the equipment at the end of the financing term, you’ve just rented it.
Business Line of Credit
A business line of credit is a short-term loan. It usually lasts as long as the business needs it to. You apply for a line of credit with the lender, and they give you a specific amount of money. You don’t have to return the money if you don’t have the cash to cover it.
The SBA (Small Business Administration) offers many different types of small business loans. Some of these are guaranteed loans that are collateralized by the SBA, and some are unsecured business loans.
Business Term Loan
A business term loan is a loan that lasts for a specific duration. The money is available until the date the loan ends, which can be the day you return your collateral to the lender, or when you pay back the loan.
Merchant Cash Advance
A merchant cash advance is a short-term loan that has stricter requirements. You agree to pay back the loan from a percentage of your business’s future earnings. The lender is taking a risk since the loan is collateralized by only future business earnings.
Business Credit Card
A business credit card is a way for you to borrow money without the need for collateral. You get a business credit card from your bank, and you have a spending limit. Your bank will allow you to make purchases for less than the limit. You’ll make payments that are at least the minimum required payment each month.
Short Term Loan
A short term loan is a loan that is due in a few weeks or months at the most. This can be useful when you need quick cash to cover bills or expenses. You might have to pay an exorbitant interest rate on the money you borrow, so it’s best to repay the loan quickly.
If you need to finance a commercial real estate purchase, you may need to secure a commercial mortgage. A commercial mortgage is a type of secured loan in which you take out a mortgage on an office, restaurant, and retail space.
Accounts Receivable Financing
If you have an account receivable, or sales revenue, you can use a revolving line of credit to borrow money against unpaid invoices. This can be useful if you need cash to cover expenses or buy inventory.
Business Acquisition Loan
When you buy a business, you often need to borrow money to pay for it. If you have enough cash, you can pay cash. However, if you don’t have enough cash, you can get a business acquisition loan to buy the business. These loans are often based on the value of the business itself.
Startup Business Loan
A startup business loan can be useful if you need cash to start the business. You might need to pay for startup expenses, or you might need to buy inventory.
Pros and Cons of Taking out a Loan for Your Business
There are some benefits and disadvantages to taking out a business loan. It is generally more secure than taking out a personal loan, but it can be expensive.
One of the most important things to consider is the length of time it will take to pay it back. While a personal loan may be repaid in just a few months, a business loan can take as long as five years. When you take out a business loan, be sure to consider how long it will take before you start seeing any profits and whether or not you can afford to pay back the loan once you start seeing profits.
There are also some risks involved. If you default on the loan, you could face financial difficulties and even bankruptcy. So, before deciding to take out a business loan, make sure that you fully understand all of the risks involved.
Business Loan Application Process
You can apply for a business loan in a few ways. The details are specific to the lender, because every type of loan has different requirements. However, the main steps to applying are:
1. Apply Online
Most applications are handled online. You usually have to fill out a form on the lender’s website.
2. Provide Your Business Information
When applying online, you’ll usually have to supply some basic information about your business. You’ll fill out an application form that asks for information like your name, address, and tax ID number.
3. Supply Collateral Details
Most business loan applications require you to supply collateral details. This means supplying information like: your assets, assets history, liabilities, and your lender relationship.
4. Provide References
Some lenders ask for references when you apply. However, they’ll usually ask for references later in the process. You can usually provide references on the lender’s website after you complete the application form.
Tips for Applying to Small Business Loans
Here are some things you should keep in mind when applying for a business loan so that it isn’t only successful, but stress-free as well.
Know Your Numbers
Numbers are the building blocks of finance, so it’s critical to have a thorough understanding of your company’s financials before you apply. This will help you determine what terms you’ll need to secure the loan and help you negotiate an appropriate interest rate. Some of the numbers you’re looking for are:
- The annual sales volume of the company
- The company’s annual operating expenses
- The company’s total liabilities
- The company’s total assets
Develop a Plan
Before you apply for a business loan, you will want to have a plan in place. This plan will help you determine what kind of financing you’re going to apply for, how much money you’ll need, and how you’ll repay it. Lenders prefer to provide financing to business owners with well constructed business plans, as these are more sound investments.
When applying, you’ll want to be strategic with the way you approach your financing request. This will help ensure that you get the most out of the opportunity while keeping your costs down. What kind of financing will help you get the funding you need to grow your business? While it may not make sense to request a business loan to support everyday expenses, using it as a part of a larger strategy toward scaling or growth can be smart.
If you’ve done your research and know you’ll need a certain amount of funding, then it’s critical to negotiate terms. When negotiating terms, you’ll want to look at the terms that are most appropriate for your company’s needs. This will help you negotiate a lower interest rate and possibly a longer repayment period.
Know Where to Look
The key to finding funding for your business is knowing where to look. Business loans are a great way to get the funding you need, but you need to know what to look for and how to approach them.
Business Loans Can Help Your Company Grow
Business loans are a great way to get the money you need to start up or grow your business. They can help you start up with a small amount of startup capital, or they can be used to fund the larger expansion of your business. A business loan can be taken out in a few different ways, including taking out an individual loan from a bank, applying for a business loan from your local bank or credit union, or even applying for a Small Business Administration loan.
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“When Shanghai meets Prague” exhibition – Visit nixie tubes made by Dalibor at Shanghai Museum of Glass.
展览时间从2013年12月11日 至 2014年3月11日，历时4个月，上海玻璃博物馆在上海市宝山区长江西路685号，希望上海的朋友可以亲自前去观赏。
IV-18 (ИВ-18) the VFD tubes Clock DIY kit published last month, the housing assembly process is a little more complicated, so these two days with Solidworks drawn complete set of 3D assembly guide pictures for your reference.
The housing assembly process is carried out in accordance with the illustration, any questions please leave a message or email me!
VFD tube, vacuum fluorescent display, which was invented in Japan in 1967, typifies the display component of the vacuum electronic era.
Just as the Nixie Tube, VFD tube is also on the verge of extinction. It has been fade out from modern applications since the 1990’s. Young generations may have never seen its limpid cyan fluorescence, given life by the intelligence of the last century.
With the same concept of developing the Nixie Tube module for Arduino, in order to make the VFD tube reborn, combined antiquated electronics with modern technology, the VFD tube module is developed as independent blocks. Without headaches about high-voltage generation, logical driver, soldering, geekers can focus their time and energy on achieving the design idea of the final works. Meanwhile, for designers with no electronic background, Arduino is all they need, of which 4 I/O pins can supply full control on a dozens of VFD tube modules with individual RGB led background lights. Other MCU systems or developer kits would do the same.
Thanks aGuegu for testing my VFD tube moudle first-handed and developmet of its Arduino library.
The technology of VFD is still widely used nowadays, however, no more in tubes. VFD screen is Hi-fi equiment, Automobile instrument panels. This device consists of a hot cathode (filaments), anodes (phosphor) and grids encased in a glass envelope under a high vacuum condition. The cathode is made up of fine tungsten wires, coated by alkaline earth metal oxides, which emit electrons when heated by an electric current. These electrons are controlled and diffused by the grids, which are made up of thin metal. If electrons impinge on the phosphor-coated plates, they fluoresce, emitting light. Constract to the Nixie tube, it requires lower supply voltage, which means is safer and longer life expectancy.
This module application use model IV-22 (ИВ-22) VFD tube, dimensioned as a rectangle of 32mm * 22mm. It display on top with 12 pins. These batch of tube were mass manufactured in former Soviet Union during the Cold War, whereas, they are stored in warehouse corners and being forgotten. But its material guarantees its unlimited shelf life.
The specifications of IV-22 VFD tube:
1. High vacuum inside, unlike the inertia in nixie tube.
2. Lower vlotage requirement and energy consumption. The filament voltage is between 1.0 and 1.3 volt, working both on DC and AC. The voltage of anodes (phosphor) against grids is 22-30v. The current in filament is 100mA, while 4-10mA in grids.
3. Seven-segment digital display, can present decimal figures and basic letters.
4. Cyan colored, bright light with high contrast, visible even in daylight, and not Glare.
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Context: The term eHealth is widely used by many individuals, academic institutions, professional bodies, and funding organizations. It has become an accepted neologism despite the lack of an agreed-upon clear or precise definition. We believe that communication among the many individuals and organizations that use the term could be improved by comprehensive data about the range of meanings encompassed by the term.
Objective: To report the results of a systematic review of published, suggested, or proposed definitions of eHealth.
Data sources: Using the search query string "eHealth" OR "e-Health" OR "electronic health", we searched the following databases: Medline and Premedline (1966-June 2004), EMBASE (1980-May 2004), International Pharmaceutical Abstracts (1970-May 2004), Web of Science (all years), Information Sciences Abstracts (1966-May 2004), Library Information Sciences Abstracts (1969-May 2004), and Wilson Business Abstracts (1982-March 2004). In addition, we searched dictionaries and an Internet search engine.
Study selection: We included any source published in either print format or on the Internet, available in English, and containing text that defines or attempts to define eHealth in explicit terms. Two of us independently reviewed titles and abstracts of citations identified in the bibliographic databases and Internet search, reaching consensus on relevance by discussion.
Data extraction: We retrieved relevant reports, articles, references, letters, and websites containing definitions of eHealth. Two of us qualitatively analyzed the definitions and coded them for content, emerging themes, patterns, and novel ideas.
Data synthesis: The 51 unique definitions that we retrieved showed a wide range of themes, but no clear consensus about the meaning of the term eHealth. We identified 2 universal themes (health and technology) and 6 less general (commerce, activities, stakeholders, outcomes, place, and perspectives).
Conclusions: The widespread use of the term eHealth suggests that it is an important concept, and that there is a tacit understanding of its meaning. This compendium of proposed definitions may improve communication among the many individuals and organizations that use the term. | <urn:uuid:5304fd7b-d81f-4a7f-9f02-09f6303036b1> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15829471/?dopt=Abstract | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571536.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811224716-20220812014716-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.912165 | 434 | 2.625 | 3 |
Martin J. Walsh
Martin J. Walsh was sworn in as the 54th mayor of Boston, MA on January 6, 2014.
Mayor Walsh’s vision is of a thriving, healthy, and innovative Boston — a City with equality and opportunity for all, where a revolutionary history inspires creative solutions to the challenges of the 21st century.
Since taking office, Mayor Walsh has focused on strengthening Boston’s schools, adding hundreds of high-quality pre-kindergarten seats, funding extended learning time and advanced curriculum at more schools, and securing tuition-free community college for Boston Public Schools graduates.
The Mayor has led Boston to the forefront of the global innovation economy, by attracting industry-leading private sector employers, upgrading the City’s digital infrastructure, and using technology to transform government services — from a parking meter payment app to a new City website.
At the same time, he has created powerful tools for low-income workers, including a “learn and earn” job apprenticeship program and an Office of Financial Empowerment. He is the founding vice-chair of the Cities of Opportunity Task Force at the U.S. Conference of Mayors, elevating the national conversation on income inequality. | <urn:uuid:e41b747c-60ca-4747-bb18-eb4c687e1660> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://climatemayors.org/person/martin-walsh/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571536.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811224716-20220812014716-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.942755 | 253 | 1.523438 | 2 |
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New International Version
The Death of Abraham(A)
25 Abraham had taken another wife, whose name was Keturah. 2 She bore him Zimran,(B) Jokshan, Medan, Midian,(C) Ishbak and Shuah.(D) 3 Jokshan was the father of Sheba(E) and Dedan;(F) the descendants of Dedan were the Ashurites, the Letushites and the Leummites. 4 The sons of Midian were Ephah,(G) Epher, Hanok, Abida and Eldaah. All these were descendants of Keturah.
7 Abraham lived a hundred and seventy-five years.(L) 8 Then Abraham breathed his last and died at a good old age,(M) an old man and full of years; and he was gathered to his people.(N) 9 His sons Isaac and Ishmael buried him(O) in the cave of Machpelah(P) near Mamre,(Q) in the field of Ephron(R) son of Zohar the Hittite,(S) 10 the field Abraham had bought from the Hittites.[a](T) There Abraham was buried with his wife Sarah. 11 After Abraham’s death, God blessed his son Isaac,(U) who then lived near Beer Lahai Roi.(V)
13 These are the names of the sons of Ishmael, listed in the order of their birth: Nebaioth(AA) the firstborn of Ishmael, Kedar,(AB) Adbeel, Mibsam, 14 Mishma, Dumah,(AC) Massa, 15 Hadad, Tema,(AD) Jetur,(AE) Naphish and Kedemah. 16 These were the sons of Ishmael, and these are the names of the twelve tribal rulers(AF) according to their settlements and camps.(AG) 17 Ishmael lived a hundred and thirty-seven years. He breathed his last and died, and he was gathered to his people.(AH) 18 His descendants(AI) settled in the area from Havilah to Shur,(AJ) near the eastern border of Egypt, as you go toward Ashur. And they lived in hostility toward[b] all the tribes related to them.(AK)
Jacob and Esau
19 This is the account(AL) of the family line of Abraham’s son Isaac.
Abraham became the father of Isaac, 20 and Isaac was forty years old(AM) when he married Rebekah(AN) daughter of Bethuel(AO) the Aramean from Paddan Aram[c](AP) and sister of Laban(AQ) the Aramean.(AR)
21 Isaac prayed to the Lord on behalf of his wife, because she was childless.(AS) The Lord answered his prayer,(AT) and his wife Rebekah became pregnant. 22 The babies jostled each other within her, and she said, “Why is this happening to me?” So she went to inquire of the Lord.(AU)
23 The Lord said to her,
24 When the time came for her to give birth,(AX) there were twin boys in her womb.(AY) 25 The first to come out was red,(AZ) and his whole body was like a hairy garment;(BA) so they named him Esau.[d](BB) 26 After this, his brother came out,(BC) with his hand grasping Esau’s heel;(BD) so he was named Jacob.[e](BE) Isaac was sixty years old(BF) when Rebekah gave birth to them.
27 The boys grew up, and Esau became a skillful hunter,(BG) a man of the open country,(BH) while Jacob was content to stay at home among the tents. 28 Isaac, who had a taste for wild game,(BI) loved Esau, but Rebekah loved Jacob.(BJ)
29 Once when Jacob was cooking some stew,(BK) Esau came in from the open country,(BL) famished. 30 He said to Jacob, “Quick, let me have some of that red stew!(BM) I’m famished!” (That is why he was also called Edom.[f])(BN)
31 Jacob replied, “First sell me your birthright.(BO)”
32 “Look, I am about to die,” Esau said. “What good is the birthright to me?”
34 Then Jacob gave Esau some bread and some lentil stew.(BR) He ate and drank, and then got up and left.
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If you use an anonymity network such as Tor on a regular basis, you are probably familiar with various annoyances in your web browsing experience, ranging from pages saying “Access denied” to having to solve CAPTCHAs before continuing. Interestingly, these hurdles disappear if the same website is accessed without Tor. The growing trend of websites extending this kind of “differential treatment” to anonymous users undermines Tor’s overall utility, and adds a new dimension to the traditional threats to Tor (attacks on user privacy, or governments blocking access to Tor). There is plenty of anecdotal evidence about Tor users experiencing difficulties in browsing the web, for example the user-reported catalog of services blocking Tor. However, we don’t have sufficient detail about the problem to answer deeper questions like: how prevalent is differential treatment of Tor on the web; are there any centralized players with Tor-unfriendly policies that have a magnified effect on the browsing experience of Tor users; can we identify patterns in where these Tor-unfriendly websites are hosted (or located), and so forth.
Today we present our paper on this topic: “Do You See What I See? Differential Treatment of Anonymous Users” at the Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS). Together with researchers from the University of Cambridge, University College London, University of California, Berkeley and International Computer Science Institute (Berkeley), we conducted comprehensive network measurements to shed light on websites that block Tor. At the network layer, we scanned the entire IPv4 address space on port 80 from Tor exit nodes. At the application layer, we fetched the homepage from the most popular 1,000 websites (according to Alexa) from all Tor exit nodes. We compared these measurements with a baseline from non-Tor control measurements, and uncover significant evidence of Tor blocking. We estimate that at least 1.3 million IP addresses that would otherwise allow a TCP handshake on port 80 block the handshake if it originates from a Tor exit node. We also show that at least 3.67% of the most popular 1,000 websites block Tor users at the application layer.
We find that the websites that block Tor mostly belong to Autonomous Systems (ASes) corresponding to mobile and access ISPs, and hosting services. Some of these ASes perform wholesale blocking of Tor, that is all the IP addresses in the AS block Tor. We also wrote classifiers to map websites to their web hosting services. Our results bring out CloudFlare and Akamai as dominant Tor blockers, highlighting the amplified blocking effect such centralized web services may create when their Tor-unfriendly policy trickles down to thousands of their client websites. The figure below shows the top 20 websites by how many Tor nodes they block, from the Alexa top-1,000 list. Each row in this figure represents a website, and each column represents a Tor exit node (of about 900 total). So a blue bar means that the website blocks a Tor exit node. Clearly, these websites (mostly hosted by Akamai and Amazon Web Services) block a large fraction of Tor exit nodes. We think that some of this blocking is caused by blacklists that include Tor exit nodes, yet other instances likely arise when abuse generated from Tor exit nodes trigger automated blocking mechanisms on websites.
Our work provides a first step towards addressing the problems faced by Tor users by characterizing websites that treat traffic from the Tor network differently from other sources. The next steps, as described by Tor developer Roger Dingledine, involve social activism to engage with major players on the web such as CloudFlare and get their perspective on this problem and discuss possible solutions. There is not much we can do in the case of entities such as ISPs and countries that preemptively block all Tor exit nodes as a matter of policy, beyond some alleviation in the form of awareness campaigns to highlight the problem (such as, Tor’s “Don’t Block Me” initiative). With abuse-based blocking, we need solutions to enable precise filtering beyond IP address blocking of Tor exit nodes, so that benign Tor users don’t have to suffer from the abusive actions of other Tor users sharing the same exit node.
In a broader context, our work calls attention to a new kind of blocking that is mandated by publishers. In the classical censorship scenario, blocking takes place near the user, for example an intermediate device dropping a user’s request for a blacklisted website. In publisher side blocking, the user’s request arrives at the publisher, but the publisher (or something working on its behalf) refuses to respond based on some property of the user. Who else over the Internet besides Tor users is subject to publisher-side blocking?
“Do You See What I See? Differential Treatment of Anonymous Users” by Sheharbano Khattak, David Fifield, Sadia Afroz, Mobin Javed, Srikanth Sundaresan, Vern Paxson, Steven J. Murdoch, and Damon McCoy will be presented at the Network and Distributed System Security Symposium, San Diego, US, 21–24 February 2016.
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I don’t think women should have to register for selective service. They are much more needed out of the way of harm and taking care of the young. I’m not being sexist and saying should do only those duties, but I just can’t imagine my sister, daughter or mother getting the call of duty. I’d rather go instead of them, in a heartbeat. I just don’t see myself taking care of a family while the women are fighting a war. It wouldn’t make sense.
– Ricky Ing
As a retired female military member, I do not believe women (or men, for that matter) should have to register for selective service. I disagree with the idea of forcing anyone to join the military. The reason our country’s military is so powerful is because its filled with people who are voluntarily there.
– Angie Lanier
I believe we live in an incredibly progressive era. We have to fight for social equality. Allowing women to register for the draft is just another step in that fight. The military won’t be seen as a “boy’s job” and staying home won’t be seen as a “girl’s job.” These are antiquated principles. Allowing anyone regardless of gender, identity, sexuality and religion will make our forces stronger. Is the military ready to get rid of its institutionalized sexism though?
– Austin Weihmiller
As a veteran I am not in favor of drafting our young people at all, as it is not conducive to maintaining a professional military. During the Iraq and Afghanistan conflicts, a variety of issues were had with service members who had no desire to stay in. I can only imagine the problems that would occur with non-volunteers. As a feminist I say make the girls play in the mud too: this is the price of equality.
– Jordan Blais
Women should not have to register for selective service. In history, women are kept from dangerous activities like hunting because the key to survival was to protect women because they produce life, and protect children because they are the next generation. Males are important as well but they are built to withstand a whole lot more physical stress than women or children.
– Rowena Kim
I do not think that women should have to enter the draft but I feel the selection should be up to the woman to decide if they do or don’t. I feel that if all the men are going to be in the selective service for war then who is going to be back home to take care of the children. I’m not being sexist but even some men should stay back from the draft to protect the women and children back home in the States.
– Nikolas Uyeno
I stand neutral on the issue because women have proved themselves to be useful especially with dealing with other issues that involve other women in other cultures that are not allowed to have contact with men in which their lives depend on it. However, we do need women (as much as men) to stay home to ensure survival.
I feel that women should have the choice to register for selective service if they want. I think they should stay home and care for the family. I think it’s more a man’s job to go to war than it is a woman’s job because men are more dominant and physically stronger the majority of the time. However, if a woman feels she can handle it, then she should have the choice to register or not.
– Adam Aku
I feel that women should not have to register for selective service because most women are mothers. I feel that every child needs their mother. They are already able to take their father away with the draft, and nobody can replace a mother’s love for their child. The mother and child build a bond from when the baby is in the mother’s womb. Mothers are there to nurse, guide, protect, love and discipline their child and so much more.
– Sheila Ramseyer
Women should always have to register for the selective service. Since the secretary of defense authorized women to serve in combat roles such as infantry and special forces, they need to be registered. The only problem is that there are only a few women who can hold up to the challenges of being in these roles and if a draft happens, and say 95% of the women have to be in a ground combat role and can not make the cut, that makes the U.S. look ineffective and could end in more casualties.
– James Fethersten
I think that desperate times call for desperate measures and for a draft to happen, things would have to be pretty dire. With that said, if women were drafted as well, there would certainly be an issue with childcare, but if women are to be considered equal to men in every sense, as many want to be, then a draft should be no different.
Most women want to be around to raise their children, but if there had to be a draft, maybe there could be an option (at least where children are concerned) for at least one parent in each family unit to stay behind. Then whether it were male or female should be up to each couple.
Many women want to serve in the military and I respect their choice to do so just as much as I do any male. Yes, we women can bear children if we wish to do so, but in my opinion, both parents are equally important when it comes to raising them and in a draft situation, either way the child is losing.
– Meghan Ruiz
Would you be alright seeing your daughter sent to war to be killed? I hope it would start riots in the streets if this happens. No one should be drafted because if the United States itself is being invaded, the people will stand up to fight or help in what ways they can for her. Other than to literally protect the country and their own lives, no one should be forced to fight the wars of these old men. If you’d like to join to help protect national interests and sort of “police” the world then that is one thing but being forced to do so is un-american in my book.
– Joshua Hackman
Women should not have to register for selective service because women are excluded by policy from front line combat position. Although the continued efforts to achieve equality in men and women in our society, we must acknowledge that each sex carries its own distinctive physiological characteristics. Until the U.S. legislature can come up with more specific duty distribution system for selective service, training women for frontline combat would not be a productive investment for the U.S. government.
– Jae An
This is a really hard question to answer. A very small part of me wants to say yes because we women are always wanting equality but that is only reason why. A huge part of me thinks not. I personally feel that women are not designed to go into combat. Sure there are women who want to go and train to be in combat but that would be a very small percentage. I also feel that there are reasons that there are men and women, and we compliment each other. There are just things that men are better at than women and women are better at than men. Women should not be forced in to selective service.
– Kimberly Wong
No, I think women should be given a choice because not all women are capable in participating in the extremities of military service. Although it is not uncommon for women to do so voluntarily, I personally feel that a woman’s job is to care for her children, home and husband.
– Sheila Estanique
Yes, I believe all qualified persons, male and female should be required to register for selective service (the draft), if such a situation arises. I think the process should consider an individual’s availability status to decide the order in which positions are filled. Those who are employed full-time, going to school full-time, providers or caregivers of others should be placed lower on the list. I feel in this modern age, military placement can reflect one’s qualifications to combat or administrative support stations.
– Michael Farquhar
I think that women should be able to make the decision to register for selective service but not be required to. Yes equality for men and women hasn’t stopped growing, but women have other domestic duties to partake in. While some of us are completely capable of performing special service duties, the rest of us are more than okay with taking care of our families and not fighting for our country.
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Annual Report Fact Check
Biontech does not doubt the efficacy of the vaccine
Biontech’s annual report for the US Securities and Exchange Commission is said to indicate that the Mainz-based company doubts the protection and safety of its own corona agent. But is it really like that?
Biontech’s vaccine has been used worldwide against the corona virus for almost a year and a half. It offers millions of people protection against serious Covid illnesses. Although numerous international studies have already proven this, vaccine opponents continue to rage against the drug. Referring to a Biontech document from the USA, the manufacturer was recently accused of not being at all convinced of its vaccine.
Claim: “Biontech does not even believe in vaccination itself”, says the AfD, for example.
Facts: The focus of the prosecution against the Mainz pharmaceutical company is its report to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) dated March 30, 2022 for fiscal year 2021. According to the U.S. Commercial Code, such report must be submitted annually by foreign joint-stock companies.
In principle, Biontech refers in this report to the “high level of protection” of vaccination. The agent provides “a high level of protection against critical variants, including alpha, beta, and delta.” According to the company, the latest laboratory studies also showed that three doses of the vaccine were equally effective against the Omicron variant.
But one sentence in particular in the 700-page diary warms the spirits. Biontech writes: “We may not be able to demonstrate sufficient efficacy or safety of our Covid-19 vaccine and/or variant-specific compounds to warrant continued regulatory approval in the US, UK, in the European Union or other countries where the vaccine has received emergency or conditional marketing authorisation.”
Some conclude that even the manufacturer admits to having put on the market an ineffective and dangerous remedy. But this is not true. The statement is contained in a “Caution Regarding Forward-Looking Statements”. This legal information is prescribed in detail by the stock exchange supervisory authority in order to avoid possible claims for damages by investors. In Biontech’s report, this regulation means that every conceivable influence on corporate profits and business development must be described. This should allow investors to get an idea of all the possible risks.
Potential uncertainties listed include, but are not limited to, competition from other vaccines and their efficacy, cost, shipping and storage options, safety, side effects, and durability of immune response. Business results could also be affected, for example by “the extent to which a Covid-19 vaccine will continue to be needed in the future”. The Biontech Comirnaty vaccine is currently subject to conditional marketing authorization in the European Union. This was first granted in December 2020 and extended for one year in November 2021.
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Given the nature of clients and the level of competitiveness present in the commercial sector, laundry mistakes are something most businesses cannot afford to make.
While laundry best practices abound, commercial laundries are prone to making inefficient choices that hurt their operations and clients. These include overloading or underloading washers and continuing to operate with outdated machines.
While these may seem like cost-effective practices, we’ve found that these hinder efficiency and profit growth effectively. Diving into more of what can hurt your business, our blog this week takes a look at common commercial laundry mistakes. Continue reading to find out what these are!
Neglecting washing machine maintenance
While it may be hard to find the time to clean washing machines in a commercial laundry, this is absolutely crucial to ensure that items are laundered effectively.
Now, it may be baffling as to why washers need to be cleaned. The truth is, however, that not all water leaves these machines at the end of a wash cycle. This can stagnate and lead to unpleasant odours, which, in turn, can be transferred onto linen.
It is important, therefore, that washing machines are cleaned at the end of each day. In this way, water remaining in the drum is not allowed to accumulate overnight, making for an easier and odourless wash cycle the next day.
Excessive use of cleaning chemicals
While it’s tempting to believe that loading your laundry with detergents and other chemicals will clean linen more thoroughly, this can also damage fabrics and cause colours to ‘leak’.
Given that this is unacceptable, especially within the commercial sector, such laundry mistakes need to be avoided at all costs. In this regard, operators must ensure that all chemicals used are measured and used according to manufacturer guidelines, load size, and the types of machines being used.
Using outdated equipment
Another one of many laundry mistakes that can really hurt businesses in the commercial sector is the use of outdated equipment.
Given the impetus to move towards more conscious consumption through energy-efficient, water and heat-saving machines, commercial laundries simply have to take the dive when it comes to hardware investments.
While this is certainly a considerable investment, these machines pay for themselves over and over through utility savings. These not only save electricity and water, but they also cut down on the use of chemicals that are harmful to the environment. They also improve washing operations, cleaning and protecting fabrics considerably better – compared to their older counterparts.
Overloading washing machines
When considering laundry mistakes, another crucial failing is the practice of overloading washing machines.
While you may think that doing so will get the job done much faster, this is a counterproductive practice that can land laundries in hot water. Even with large industrial washing machines, overloading linen must be avoided at all costs.
This is because stuffing linen can prevent detergent and other cleaning fluids from being distributed evenly, leading to a poor cleaning service. It also places an undue burden on the washers themselves, leading to damage and breakdowns before too long.
Underloading washing machines
While it may seem illogical, underloading washing machines is just as wasteful as overloading.
Given that washers typically consume significant water and energy, not loading up the washer to optimum capacity can clam down on operational efficiency. This can affect a laundry’s delivery rate, which, in the commercial sector, can prove to be very damaging.
Failing to adjust machine settings
For commercial laundries, meeting the cleaning requirements of each client is necessary to boast exceptional service delivery.
In this regard, one of the biggest laundry mistakes businesses make is the failure to adjust wash settings for each load. Given the different cleaning standards required and the differences in the material of each laundry set, using standard wash setting can run laundries out of business if they’re not too careful.
Commercial laundry clients are tough and unyielding when it comes to their demands being met. By committing laundry mistakes such as those outlined above, laundries may find that their service is not up to the standard expected of businesses within this industry.
If left unaddressed, these can quickly prove to be a nightmare for companies trying to reach their zenith.
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Although we often speak about a global increase in awareness and policy on street harassment, in France, the issue was incorporated into a gender-based violence policy subsector, while Dutch policymakers avoided vocabularies pertaining to structural male domination. Differences in governmental campaigns on street harassment were the result not only of policymakers’ positive convictions, but also of their ‘apprehensions’. Apprehension of ‘moralising’ led to resistance against and decline of feminism in the Netherlands, while apprehension of ‘stigmatising’ men of colour informed campaigns in France. This notion is proposed as an alternative to that of ‘blame avoidance’, which reduces policymakers’ avoidance behaviour to the logic of instrumental strategy. An analysis of apprehensions is attentive to how ideas shape social action: policy implementation cannot be reduced to the mechanical reproduction of policy paradigms, but is often the product of policymakers’ reflective choices in the policies they do and do not want to pursue. | <urn:uuid:e4dba486-01cd-4c01-87b1-d46768fb8803> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/search?f_0=author&q_0=Mischa+Dekker | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571909.51/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813051311-20220813081311-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.956375 | 202 | 1.640625 | 2 |
Q: What is the punishment for murder in georgia?
Please review Georgia Code (OCGA) section 16-5-1 which includes the charge of murder. According to the statute, a person convicted of murder shall be punished by death, imprisonment for life without parole or imprisonment for life. That is a simplistic answer to a very complex question, considering that there are so many factors that go into whether or not a murder charge will hold up, whether the death penalty would be pursued and how the case can be negotiated by a qualified attorney.
If you are asking the question, you must know someone facing that charge. Advise them to hire an attorney (that handles murder cases) as soon as possible or, if they are already represented, to direct questions like this to their own attorney who can apply the specific facts of that person's case to the analysis of what the expected punishment will be.
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Letter: Miracle man of Salisbury leaves a legacy
Published 12:00 am Thursday, November 5, 2020
His name was Fisher, Paul Fisher. It was only fitting that Paul Fisher past away the same time as Sean Connery. Connery was famous as Bond, James Bond. They have a lot in common such as being calm under pressure, fighting the good fight and incredibly resourceful.
Paul Fisher was a mentor to many. He was a natural leader. Able to weave life principles from everyday occurrences, his wisdom was shared freely and with humility. His community impact felt for generations — both past and future.
To do justice to his legacy, this eulogy will sound like a filibuster. His life was remarkable. One of his famous sayings was “it’s a miracle.”
For all of us, Paul Fisher was a miracle. The agent 007 hero of our lifetime.
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Planting trees can benefit both farmers and the environment
By Kaitlynn Anderson
While strong environmental stewardship practices are already present across much of Ontario’s farmland, producers may now have an additional incentive to give back to the land.
By planting trees on their properties, producers can actually increase their farmland value, according to a Forests Ontario release on Tuesday.
The trees can provide many benefits, “which can help to create a healthier farm,” according to Suzanne Perry, forestry outreach coordinator with Forests Ontario, such as:
- Improvement in soil quality
- Reduction in land erosion
- Improvement in water and air quality
- Reduction of water runoff
- Addition of habitat for wildlife
In addition to land improvement, trees also offer potential energy savings, she told Farms.com yesterday.
“When trees are planted near homes, they can help to reduce utility costs by offering shade in the summer and protection from the wind in the winter, which helps with temperature control.”
In the long term, producers may also realize benefits for crops and livestock when planting trees to create a windbreak.
“A windbreak is a row of trees or shrubs that is planted along the edge of a field or property to reduce the force and speed of the wind,” Perry said. “Windbreaks slow down the force of the wind, which helps to protect crops and livestock. Studies show that a windbreak can improve crop yields.”
During the winter, trees can also provide another advantage to anyone travelling to and from the farm.
“Trees can prevent snow from drifting and piling up on laneways and roads, which can be a safety hazard,” she said.
Farmers can realize these benefits by participating in Forests Ontario’s 50 Million Trees Program (50MTP).
The program, which provides producers with subsidies to cover up to 90 per cent of the cost of planting trees on a large scale, is part of the Ontario government’s goal to plant 50 million trees by 2025.
To be eligible for the program, producers must own at least one hectare (2.5 acres) of “land that is open, or mostly open, and has not been defined as a woodland since December 31, 1989, per the Forestry Act,” according to Forests Ontario.
The farmer must then sign a 15-year agreement where he or she promises to maintain the planted trees and practice proper forestry management habits. As part of this contract, the farmer agrees to assume any maintenance costs associated with the trees.
To apply for 50MTP, “farmers can submit an application online or by phone at 1-877-646-1193.”
For more information, Forests Ontario encourages producers to contact Perry at firstname.lastname@example.org.
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PR17 - Caminho do Pináculo e Folhadal
This walk follows the levadas of Serra and Norte between the elevations of 1000m and 1600m. It offers lovely views of the São Vicente valley, and passes areas of high altitude vegetation as well as Laurissilva forest.
Beginning at the regional highway E.R. 110 on the way up to Paul da Serra from Encumeada, this trail leads to the areas of Bica da Cana, Casa do Caramujo and Folhadal, coming to an end at regional road E.R. 228 at the Encumeada junction.
This path follows the levadas of Serra and Norte, between the elevations of 1000 and 1600 metres, crossing an excellent area of native high-altitude vegetation, as well as the native Laurisilva forest, an area that is part of the Natura 2000 Network.
Along the way, you will encounter magnificent views of the São Vicente Valley, as well as examples of the island’s architecture and heritage, as is the case of a “municipal path” - a section of a public pathway used by the islanders in travelling between the north and south sides of the island - paved with stone; the levadasand tunnels carved out of the rock that were built to carry the water from the north to the south side of the island.
The route runs along the levada, although in some places you leave it to follow the stone pathway. When you reach the top of the footpath at Pináculo, you will have a view of the magnificent landscape of the Ribeira Brava Valley in the background and the Central Mountain Range, where the island’s two of thr highest peaks stand out, Pico do Areeiro (1817m) and Pico Ruivo (1862m).
Surround this levada is a vegetation rich in small endemic plants which are at the height of their beauty in the spring months: Madeiran orchids (Dactylorhiza foliosa), Canary buttercups (Ranunculus cortusifolius), easily recognised by their bright yellow flowers, Mandon’s chrysanthemum (Argyranthemum pinnatifidum), and geraniums (Geranium palmatum).
You will reach a point where the levada you have followed from the start divides into two branches. Follow the walkway at the side of the Levada do Norte, which is used to power the hydroelectric generating plant at Serra d’Água.
Cascades and tunnels are found all along this route and when you come out of the last tunnel, you reach Folhadal, a name referring to the abundance of Lily-of-the-valley trees (Port., folhados) (Clethra arborea) found here.
At Encumeada you can take PR 1.3 - Encumeada Footpath, which leads to Pico Ruivo.
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Weather subject to frequent changes, take warm clothing
Tunnels en route, carry a torch
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Communication Protocol When There Is a Case of COVID-19
- The SMUHSD COVID-19 Point Person for all schools is Sara Devaney, Health Coordinator, Ana Herold, COVID Response Team Health Aide, and all school site Health Aides who will serve as the designated alternates. All school staff, students and families will be informed of the designated staff person/s and how to contact them.
- The SMUHSD COVID-19 Point Person will report all COVID-19 cases and clusters of undiagnosed respiratory illness to SMC CD Control as soon as practicable (within 24 hours)
- The SMUHSD COVID-19 Point Person will immediately notify SMCOE’s Point Person of COVID-19 cases in the school community
- The SMUHSD COVID-19 Point Person and the assigned San Mateo County Health investigator will be in daily contact Monday – Friday, unless instructed otherwise by SMC CD Control.
- The SMUHSD COVID-19 Point Person will collect data from all schools and must complete a daily report for all new cases and submit it via secure email daily by 10:00 a.m.
- The SMUHSD COVID-19 Point Person will notify the Superintendents and SMUHSD Communication Manager.
- The SMUHSD COVID-19 Point Person and Principal will notify the school community using template letters provided in the PRF or created by SMUHSD Communications Manager
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Inflation remained elevated in April but eased to its highest level in 40 years, indicating that a runaway rise in consumer prices since last summer may have peaked.
The consumer price index rose 8.3% year over year, down from 8.5% in March, as a drop in gasoline prices offset a continued rise in food, rent and other costs, the Labor Department said Wednesday. March’s annual advance marked the fastest since December 1981.
April’s pullback in the annual reading was the first since last August and halted five straight months of 40-year highs. But stay away from that shopping spree. Headline consumer prices rose 0.3% from March.
Much of the slowdown in the annual measure reflected a 6.1% monthly drop in gasoline prices. Pump costs, however, soared higher again this month. regular lead free hit a record high of $4.37 per gallon on Tuesday, up from $4.12 a month ago, according to AAA.
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Rick Kiphut, of Memphis, Tennessee, his wife and two teenage daughters planned to tow their RV to the Great Lakes in Michigan in July, as they did last year, for a 10-day vacation. But the 3,300-mile trip will cost about $550 extra in gas, so they decided to skip it this year.
“It’s not fiscally responsible,” he says.
Annual inflation slowed in April in part because prices began to rise a year ago, making the latest figures look less than great by comparison.
One worrying sign: Core consumer prices, which exclude volatile food and energy items, rose 0.6% from a month earlier, sharper than expected. The annual increase slowed to 6.2% from a four-decade high of 6.5% in March.
“The declines in headline and core inflation in April should usher in a sustained decline,” wrote economist Andrew Hunter of Capital Economics in a note to clients. But the monthly rise in core prices “indicates that underlying inflation pressures are stronger than we expected.”
On Tuesday, President Joe Biden called inflation the nation’s top economic challenge, blaming the twin crises of a “once-in-a-century pandemic” and the war in Ukraine.
“I want all Americans to know that I am taking inflation very seriously and that it is my top domestic priority,” Biden said.
As the pandemic abated this year, consumer purchases began to shift from goods to services, such as dining out and travel, says Wells Fargo economist Sam Bullard. The development began to mitigate the supply chain bottlenecks behind much of the rise in inflation.
That has started to temper increases in the price of furniture, appliances and other items. Used car prices fell 0.4% in April after falling 3.8% the previous month, although they are still up 22.7% from a year earlier. Clothing prices fell 0.8% monthly, lowering the annual rise to 5.4%.
Grocery costs increased 1% monthly and 10.8% year over year. Airfares increased 18.6% in April and 33.3% in the last 12 months. The rent rose 0.6% monthly and 4.8% compared to the previous year.
In other words, the obstacles still loom. COVID-19-related factory closures in China raised the risk of more supply disruptions, says Bullard.
Russia’s war in Ukraine reduces global oil and food supplies and intensifies supply grunts, driving up prices. Ukraine accounts for about 8% of world wheat exports. Breakfast cereal prices rose 2.4% in April and 12.1% higher than a year ago, and bread costs rose 2% and 9.1% year over year.
Proteins continued to march higher. Pork chop prices rose 1.9% monthly and 14% annually. Chicken costs increased 3.4% and 16.4% during the year. Fish rose 0.9% and 13% annually.
Julie Malkin of Toledo, Ohio, says she and her family have replaced grill favorites like pork chops, steak, salmon and shrimp with burgers, sloppy joes, homemade chili and pasta.
“The prices are ridiculous,” she says. “It’s frustrating.”
Consumers’ shift to spending more on services, coupled with a shortage of workers that drove higher wages, drive a different set of prices. In addition to the jump in airfares, hotel rates increased by 1.7%, pushing the annual rise to 19.7%.
Barclays expects annual inflation to ease to a still-high 5.7% by the end of the year and to 2%, the Fed’s target, by the end of 2023.
“The eventual decline in the pace of inflation will be very gradual,” says economist Kathy Bostjancic of Oxford Economics.
To reduce inflation, the Fed raised its key short-term interest rate by half a percentage point last week, the most in 22 years, and tentatively plans two more hikes in June and July.
Wednesday’s report will likely “strengthen the Fed’s resolve” to go ahead with those rate hikes, says Hunter of Capital Economics.
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The issues which I have had with the PHP for the last ten years is the community, tutorials and/or guides, and the development of web applications. Yet at the same time, the core of PHP is the amazing people which I have met so far with talent – they have created some of the best, unique web applications to date.
For the other majority percentage of the community, they tend to usually be all beginners and people who seem to know what they are doing. They tend to focus more on writing tutorials, articles, and posts that are designed to help people learn the language. From my experiences so far, these people do not know what they are talking about.
Why is W3Schools still around?
W3Schools is a good website. There is no doubts about it. Yet they really need to update their content and enforce good programming standards for their tutorials and guides. They still allow their tutorials to use
mysql_ functions as if that is the right thing to do in 2022, let alone throughout the 2010s.
Just having this site as the top search result on the major search engines is an issue in itself when you are looking for learning PHP and or referencing the official manual. I rather see more accurate, up to date information as a top search results than information that is over five... no wait... two years old.
This drives me insane when I am teaching someone PHP and they link the reference code and documentation from W3Schools instead of the PHP manual proves that people do not know what they are doing. Besides for that site, people are offering bad advice and deprecated coding techniques and ideas. People are still going to be using the MySQL functions in their tutorials and articles.
Database Access and Tutorials
I understand at one time that the MySQL functions were used in coding in PHP. They are not recommended at all. They have also need replaced by PDO and MySQLI which gives:
- Prepared statements
- Encryption with SSL
- Works with MSSQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite, etc.
What are we seeing in search results?
Deprecated tutorials that are totally and morally wrong to even see in the top results of a search engine. I am still seeing tutorials which are over ten years old for PHP database connections.
Sadly, we are not seeing properly designed tutorials to explain why to use PDO, how to connect to it with spaghetti code or class design. We see half-done tutorials to say throw this and this together for a database connection and to query information from the database. Even then, most of the time it does not even work in an actual test environment.
I am going to also call the majority of this issue is half-assed. They do not even mention error handling or throwing exceptions correctly. Even then, they are explaining how to do it in a development environment over a production environment. Giving out database details is morally wrong and leads to having your code exploitable and hackable.
Where are all of the good tutorials to explain database handling with handling errors and throwing exceptions correctly? If we had these, then the security of PHP would increase ten fold and allow developers to not be afraid of their code is exploitable; which it wouldn't be if it was done right the first time around and explained well.
Building a framework, MVC, or CMS with PHP
There are a few, actually good articles on how to design one of the three around on the web if you are willing to look for them. Maybe I am not looking hard enough for these type of tutorials and articles for designing these items.
The bare-bone basics is not good enough to fully understand what one is getting themselves into when they are starting a project like this or learning how these are designed. There is way more to it than just throwing a few classes together, calling functions here and there, and building a blogging platform.
When building a production based (also known as a live site) web application, you have to consider the three most important things when it comes to serving people on the web.
- Security Minded: One needs to make sure that their code is the most secure possible and exploitation free. Validate input, trust nobody, and try to be one step ahead of a person who wants to exploit websites.
- Performance Driven: Code needs to operate fast and load extremely fast. I try to keep all queries for loading information from a database in web application at 10 queries or under. The better the code performs, the better off the web application is going to be.C
- Web Design: I am horrible at this, but I stick to with what I know. I tend to use Bootstrap for my web design with a few colour changes and mobile-ready. This web design framework is a win-win for everyone from a mobile phone user to the desktop.
How to solve these issues?
The community is large enough to make a site dedicated to spreading accurate information tutorials and updating them like a wiki with better information and input in how to connect to a database, query information, designing a framework, and so much more.
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IgA1 protease, like various other bacterial proteases, is immunogenic highly, a property which will limit its utility if neutralizing antibodies are induced. S Ubenimex (EndoS), an IgG-specific glycoside hydrolase that catalyzes removal of nearly all sugar moieties in the N-glycan primary on all subclasses of individual IgG45 and markedly reduces the capacity of all IgG to bind FcgR in vitro.46,47 EndoS hydrolysis of mouse anti-collagen-II IgG or K/BxN mouse serum containing arthritogenic IgG1 ahead of injection from the IgG into web host mice attenuated development of joint inflammation in the recipients, without altering IgG autoantigen binding.12,13 Recombinant EndoS administered right to pets is well tolerated in vivo and provides been proven to efficiently hydrolyze glycans of circulating IgG. In vivo EndoS is certainly efficacious in multiple murine types of autoantibody-mediated disease, including lethal immune system thrombocytopenia, lupus in the BXSB stress, and anti-myeloperoxidase (MPO) ANCA vasculitis C without changing autoantibody titers.13-15 Potential limitations of EndoS therapy include retention of Fc effector functions in a few deglycosylated IgG, as shown for the human IgG2 subclass,47 and development of neutralizing anti-enzyme antibody responses. Repeated shots is going to be necessary because of ongoing in vivo repletion of serum IgG by plasma cells. An alternative solution mechanism where IgG can acquire anti-inflammatory properties is certainly through connection of terminal alpha2,6 sialic acidity moieties to galactose residues in the primary glycan.16,48-50 The importance of IgG sialylation was explored during investigation of mechanisms fundamental the anti-inflammatory properties of intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIG). It had been proposed the fact that element of IVIG that mediates a lot of its anti-inflammatory activity may be the minimal small percentage of IgG (typically 5C10% in healthful human beings) that bears a completely sialylated Fc.16,17 Kaneko and co-workers observed enhanced security against inflammatory joint disease in the K/BxN serum transfer model using IVIG enriched for sialic acidity and insufficient efficiency using IVIG where Ubenimex sialic acidity was removed by neuramindase treatment.16 Anthony et. al. eventually constructed a recombinant sialylated IgG1 Fc that confirmed powerful anti-inflammatory activity in K/BxN joint disease.17 Sialylation confers anti-inflammatory properties that are reliant on upregulation of inhibitory FcgRIIb on monocytes.51-54 In a few disease versions efficiency depends upon binding of IgG to type II FcgRs also, specifically mouse particular ICAM3-grabbing nonintegrin related 1 (SIGN-R1), an orthologue of individual dendritic cell-specific ICAM-3 grabbing non-integrin (DC-SIGN, also called Compact disc209) expressed on myeloid regulatory cells,18,19 reviewed in ref.55,56 Type II FcgR binding is related to a conformational change in the Fc area of sialylated IgG that changes its FcgR specificity from type We FcgRs, such as for example activating FcgRIIa, IIIa, and IIIb and inhibitory FcgRIIb, to type II FcgRs such as for example SIGN-R1. These Mouse monoclonal to STAT6 systems are involved in quality of experimental GN: IVIG protects mice from nephrotoxic serum nephritis, a nephritis induced by administration of heterologous anti-glomerular basement membrane (anti-GBM) Ubenimex Ubenimex antiserum, only once FcgRIIb expression is certainly intact.53 High dosages of IVIG, preparations which contain polyclonal IgG pooled from a large number of healthful donors, have already been utilized to control a number of autoimmune illnesses with antibody-triggered inflammation effectively. However, IVIG is certainly at the mercy of lot-to-lot deviation and costly to manufacture, partly because of the processing necessary to preclude infectious disease transmitting.57 Replacement of pooled donor IVIG with in vitro glycoengineered sialylated monoclonal or polyclonal IgG, Fc fragment multimers, or Fc-fusion proteins may provide a safer, cheaper, more efficacious option for therapy.49,58,59 Efforts to optimize these reagents is going to be informed by ongoing parallel efforts to glycoengineer IgG for gain-of-function using glycosidase inhibitors being a therapy to improve inflammation in charge of infection Ubenimex and cancer.41 Techie challenges in efficiently generating sialylated IgG Fc in vitro remains a roadblock to the approach. An alternative solution to administering exogenous IVIG or its constructed biomimetic substitutes is certainly healing in vivo IgG sialylation. The addition of terminal alpha2,6 sialic acidity to galactose residues on IgG N-glycans is certainly catalyzed with the sialyltransferase ST6GAL1 in the trans-Golgi.60 An enzymatically dynamic soluble type of ST6GAL1 is secreted by hepatocytes and with the capacity of sialylating circulating IgG also. 61 colleagues and Pagan capitalized upon this pathway in.
non-etheless, MOG immunization didn’t considerably affect B cell subset depletion in comparison to unimmunized mice (data not proven). effective during early EAE initiation, that they had no apparent function during disease development. Rather, B cell depletion during EAE disease development suppressed symptoms dramatically. Particularly, B cells had been necessary for the era of Compact disc4+ T cells particular for CNS autoantigen as well as the entrance of encephalitogenic T cells in to the CNS during disease development. These total results demonstrate reciprocal regulatory roles for B cells during EAE immunopathogenesis. The therapeutic aftereffect of B cell depletion for the treating autoimmunity may as a result depend over the comparative efforts as well as the timing of the opposing B cell actions during disease initiation and pathogenesis. Launch MS is normally a common inflammatory and demyelinating disease from the individual CNS. EAE can be an induced autoimmune disease in mice that leads to inflammatory demyelination from the CNS by Compact disc4+ T lymphocytes particular for CNS autoantigens such as for example myelin oligodendrocyte glycoprotein (MOG) (1). EAE and MS are very similar in disease susceptibility, training course, and histopathology. Because the adoptive transfer of neural antigen-specific T cells by itself is enough to induce pathology (2), EAE is known as a T cellCmediated autoimmune disease predominantly. Particularly, IFN-C and IL-17Cmaking T cell subsets diABZI STING agonist-1 trihydrochloride are essential for marketing EAE (3, 4), while IL-10 is normally very important to EAE negative legislation (5, 6). Contradictory assignments for B cells in EAE pathogenesis have already diABZI STING agonist-1 trihydrochloride been demonstrated (7C10). Although autoantibody creation isn’t needed for EAE development or induction, MOG-specific autoantibodies can boost demyelination and irritation (11, 12). Furthermore, research using double-transgenic mice with MOG-specific T and B cell antigen receptors show that B cells may work as antigen-presenting cells during EAE initiation (13, 14). A lot more than 50% of the mice develop inflammatory demyelinating lesions in the CNS, while disease incidence is normally around 5% in MOG-specific T cell receptorCtransgenic (TCRMOG) mice. In comparison, both congenitally B cellCdeficient mice and Compact disc19-lacking mice with minimal B cell function create a serious nonremitting type of EAE (7, 10, 15). Furthermore, B cell creation of IL-10 can inhibit EAE advancement (10). Thus, the evidently contradictory results attained in research of B cell efforts to EAE pathogenesis may reveal the participation of multiple assignments for B cells or different B cell subsets during disease pathogenesis (16). For instance, regulatory IL-10Cmaking B cells (B10 cells), representing 1%C2% of spleen B cells, have already been recently discovered within a distinctive Compact disc1dhiCD5+ B cell subset (17). B cell depletion in human beings using Compact disc20 mAb (rituximab) could diABZI STING agonist-1 trihydrochloride be GDNF effective in dealing with patients with several autoimmune disorders such as for example arthritis rheumatoid and lupus (18C22). Compact disc20 is normally a B cellCspecific molecule that’s first expressed over the cell surface area through diABZI STING agonist-1 trihydrochloride the pre-B to immature B cell changeover but is dropped upon plasma cell differentiation (23, 24). A recently available stage II trial using rituximab provides suggested clinical efficiency in MS sufferers (25); nevertheless, the mechanisms root the result of B cell depletion on disease activity stay unknown. Additionally, B cell depletion may exacerbate disease since B cells are reported to possess regulatory features during EAE advancement (10). In human beings, B cell depletion using rituximab was lately recommended to exacerbate ulcerative colitis (26) and cause psoriasis (27), both circumstances representing T cellCmediated autoimmune circumstances. Since individual research are limited to calculating adjustments in bloodstream B cells mainly, which represent significantly less than 2% of most B cells beyond the bone tissue marrow (28), mechanistic research often neglect to look at the feasible changes in tissues B cells. As a result, it’s important to assess whether and exactly how B cells get excited about EAE pathogenesis utilizing a preclinical mouse style of B cell depletion. In this scholarly study, B cells had been depleted during EAE using Compact disc20 mAbs that remove mature B cells in mice with usually intact immune system systems (29C31). Outcomes B cells can inhibit and augment EAE. To measure the efforts of B cells during EAE development or induction, mice received Compact disc20 mAb (MB20-11) seven days before (time C7) or 7, 14, and 21.
[PubMed] [Google Scholar]Lariviere RC, Julien J. by binding the cdk5 activator p35. Cdk5 activity is normally induced with the repulsive assistance cue Semaphorin3a (Sema3a), resulting in axonal development cone collapse in vitro. As a result, we examined whether nestin-expressing neurons demonstrated altered replies to Sema3a. That nestin-expressing is available by us newborn neurons are even more delicate to Sema3a within a roscovitine-sensitive way, whereas nestin knockdown leads to lowered awareness to Sema3a. We suggest that nestin features in immature neurons to modulate cdk5 downstream from the Sema3a response. Hence, the transient appearance of nestin could enable temporal and/or spatial modulation of the neurons response to Sema3a, during early axon guidance particularly. Launch Proper wiring from the anxious system needs that axonal development cones react to a number of extracellular assistance cues to discover their correct goals (Kolodkin and Tessier-Lavigne, 2011 ). Galidesivir hydrochloride Semaphorin 3a (Sema3a) is normally among the many diffusible developmental cues and provides been proven to repel axons of reactive neuronal populations (Sibbe = 14 (time 1), 10 (time 4), and 14 (time 6C8). (Figures: MannCWhitney check). (C) Mouse principal neuron cortical neuron cultures: percentage of nestin-positive neurons lowers rapidly as time passes in lifestyle (30C60 stage 3 neurons had been counted per period stage for 3C5 tests, as proven as the These data demonstrate that nestin is normally portrayed transiently in a considerable subpopulation of Galidesivir hydrochloride differentiating cortical axons and eventually down-regulated as differentiation proceeds. Nestin is normally portrayed in subpopulations of developing cortical neurons in vivo We following searched for to determine whether there is an in vivo correlate towards the axonal nestin appearance we seen in cultured neurons. Others show that developing cortical neurons in the intermediate area (IZ) contain an assortment of axons of adjustable state governments of maturationpreexisting axon tracts laid down by previous pioneer neurons, and afterwards blessed neurons that start axon projections during migration through the IZ (Namba (1995 ). In vitro, nestin had not been within all axons and didn’t fill the complete length of a person axon. We hence forecasted that nestin-positive axons will be detected being a subpopulation of axons in the IZ. We also forecasted that axonal nestin will be less than nestin in NPCs/radial glia. A low-magnification summary of one hemisphere from the cortex displaying vimentin and -internexin (INA) appearance is proven in Amount 3A, plus a schematic to orient the audience. The boxed area in Amount 3A signifies the lateral lower IZ, which may be the area in the schematic imaged in the next panels. All sections in Amount 3, BCE, possess the radial glia focused as well as the axon tracts focused horizontally vertically. INA can be an intermediate filament portrayed early in neuronal advancement, however, not portrayed in radial glia (Kaplan Many axons in the axon fascicle usually do not express nestin, therefore just a subset of axons in the intermediate area exhibit nestin as of this best Xdh period point. Arrowheads suggest radial glia and arrows suggest nestin-positive axons. (D) Nestin staining of the low intermediate area of E16 mouse cortex using poultry anti-nestin (cyan) and goat anti-nestin (magenta) antibodies. Axon tracts are visualized with -internexin antibody (white). Nestin staining is situated in radial glia fibres (arrowheads) aswell such as -internexin-positive axon tracts (arrows). The goat anti-nestin antibody was preincubated with immunizing peptide on sequential Galidesivir hydrochloride cryosections in the low sections. All staining using the goat anti-nestin antibody was obstructed by peptide preincubation, like the axon tract staining, demonstrating which the axon staining was particular and not history staining. All pictures match higher magnification of the low intermediate zone from the lateral E16 mouse cortex (boxed locations within a). Radial glia are focused vertically (arrowheads) and axon tracts are focused horizontally (arrows). (E) Id of nestin-positive axons in.
5E). engulfment of broken erythrocytes. Coordinated phagocytic signaling will be beneficial for physiological and pathological situations that require speedy clearance of unusual (apoptotic or aged) cells. Launch A lot more than 1 million cells are recycled per second in our body. The undesired cells, including unwanted cells produced in tissues within normal advancement, aged cells, and broken cells that occur from infections or disease, undergo apoptosis and so are quickly and safely taken out by phagocytes (34). Efficient clearance of apoptotic cells is crucial for mobile homeostasis, quality of inflammation, as well as the advancement of multicellular microorganisms (8, 33). Furthermore, inefficient engulfment of apoptotic cells relates to many illnesses, including atherosclerosis, chronic irritation, and autoimmunity (7, 23, 37, 40). Clearance of apoptotic cells by phagocytes is certainly a complicated but extremely orchestrated and effective event that may be divided into many steps (39). Initial, apoptotic cells discharge find-me indicators to draw in phagocytes to the website of loss of life within tissue. When phagocytes are near apoptotic cells, particular recognition is certainly mediated by connections between engulfment receptors on phagocytes and eat-me indicators, such as for example phosphatidylserine (PS), in the apoptotic cell surface area. After following internalization from the Proparacaine HCl corpse, the phagosome goes through maturation steps, ultimately resulting in its degradation (19). The ultimate step involves the discharge of anti-inflammatory cytokines to mediate the immunologically silent removal of apoptotic cells (13, 34). Particular identification via PS, which is certainly open on early apoptotic cells, is certainly a decisive stage for the onset of downstream signaling leading the engulfment procedure (4). Many receptors function in the tethering of apoptotic cells through two principal mechanisms, specifically, binding either to PS or indirectly via soluble bridging substances directly. Direct-binding PS receptors consist of brain-specific angiogenesis inhibitor 1 (BAI-1) (27), T-cell immunoglobulin and mucin domain-containing proteins 4 (Tim4) (20, 22), as well as the atypical epidermal development factor (EGF) theme formulated with stabilin-1 and -2 (28, 30). Soluble elements, such as dairy fat globule-EGF aspect 8 (MFG-E8) and development arrest-specific gene 6 (Gas6), bind to PS on apoptotic cells and employ receptors on phagocytes concurrently, such as for example integrin v3 as well as the Tyro-3-Axl-Mer (TAM) category of receptors, (3 Proparacaine HCl respectively, 11, 36). Additional membrane proteins, CD68 and CD36, are additionally with the capacity of binding PS (16, 35). A recently available study showed how the receptor for Proparacaine HCl advanced glycation end item (Trend) binds PS and aids in the clearance of apoptotic cells (12). The answers to why many receptors and bridging substances are needed and exactly how different models of receptors orchestrate phagocytic indicators are available to speculation, and these presssing issues need further analysis. The general contract is that not absolutely all receptors are indicated on all phagocytes, and for that reason, multiple settings of reputation and coordinated activities of engulfment receptors are participating to AF-6 cope with different physiological conditions (14, 33, 34). As the mechanisms where numerous cell surface area PS receptors activate phagocytic signaling aren’t fully realized, two conserved signaling pathways have already been identified to day. In a single pathway, engulfment receptors, such as for example integrin or BAI-1 v5/v3, function from the CrkII/DOCK180/ELMO complicated and upstream, subsequently, activate the tiny GTPase Rac1 (2, 27). Another pathway engages the engulfment receptor CED-1/MEGF10 or stabilin-2, resulting in CED-10/Rac1 activation through the adaptor proteins CED-6/GULP (18, 19). Latest genetic research on exposed that integrin features as an upstream receptor from the CrkII/DOCK180/ELMO complicated, supporting the discovering that the integrin and its own downstream signaling pathway are conserved in and mammals (15). Stabilin-2, among the PS receptors, mediates fast cell corpse engulfment (28). The proteins identifies PS through EGF-like site repeats (EGFrps) in the extracellular area and activates Rac1 via relationships with GULP through the NPXY theme in the cytoplasmic tail (31, 32). knockdown of stabilin-1 and stabilin-2 verified their jobs in sequestrating aged reddish colored bloodstream cells (RBCs) in the hepatic sinusoid and finally removing aged cells inside a mouse model (21). Because of the initial structure from the stabilin-2 extracellular area, which contains both PS-binding EGF do it again and integrin-binding fasciclin 1 (FAS1) domains, we hypothesized that stabilin-2 communicates with additional conserved phagocytic receptors, such as for example integrin, and coordinates both phagocytic pathways for efficient and rapid uptake of apoptotic cells. Interestingly, stablin-2 can be indicated only in.
Future results will increase our understanding of the specific mechanisms that elicit the autoimmune response and of the active profile of ASA that leads to an antibody-mediated infertility. to the epididymis or vas deferens many testicular isoenzymes and other proteins get auto-antigenic during immunological challenges resulting in the formation of ASA in the blood serum, seminal plasma ACX-362E or located on the ACX-362E sperm membrane. ASA have also been reported to be associated with inflammation, cryptorchidism, varicocele and operative involvement in the genital organs 4. ASA may hinder different sperm features needed for the fertilization procedure. However, the issue is normally to detect if ASA of a person guy are of useful relevance, i.e. if the ASA binding to a sperm surface area antigen affects sperm function and which also. In previous research many antibody-binding proteins have already been characterized in isolated sperm surface area membranes and many proteins have already been defined whose ASA could possibly be connected with agglutinations 5, motility 6, cervix mucus penetration 7, acrosome response 8, zona binding 9 and oolemma and penetration binding 10. NASP continues to be found to make a difference for the pronucleus development to which most vasectomized guys develop autoantibodies 11. In today’s study a number of important outcomes regarding NASP have already been attained: 1. Sperm-egg binding and IVF of mouse oocytes with capacitated mouse spermatozoa had been inhibited in the current presence of antisera against NASP. 2. Anti-NASP didn’t transformation sperm motility. 3. Sera from infertile guys filled with antisperm antibodies reacted with anti-NASP. 4. After immunization of fertile feminine mice with NASP the being pregnant rate was considerably reduced as well as the decrease in litter size correlated with the antibody-titer. With regards to the immunogen utilized (recombinant mouse NASP) or a artificial peptide (individual NASP), the immunized mice regained fertility at prices much like those of the control mice following the antibody titer acquired dropped or the pets continued to be infertile (immunized with mouse NASP). In regards to towards the ACX-362E mechanism where fertility is normally disturbedinhibition of sperm-egg binding and IVFit is normally speculated which the antibody effect should be from the cell surface area rather than using the cytoplasm or nucleus. That is a bit as opposed to the actual fact that NASP provides been shown to become located mainly within the nucleus in support of partially in the acrosome 12: right here the authors discuss that some area of the NASP ACX-362E could be shown for a short while when it’s carried in to the ovum using the sperm nucleus at fertilization. This issue can be replied after executing intra cytoplasmic sperm shot (ICSI), which is the next phase in an additional study announced with the authors to be able to investigate the immediate ramifications of the anti-NASP antibodies on embryo advancement and implantation. As ICSI is normally suggested as the correct treatment to get over antisperm antibodies’action on the main one hands, andaccording to my very own experiencefertilization and being pregnant rates are low in lovers with male immunological infertility in comparison to lovers without antisperm antibodies in the male, when ICSI is normally used also, it will be very interesting to find out what these potential research will reveal. They will Rabbit polyclonal to ARFIP2 most likely show that it’s no antibody against an individual sperm antigen that triggers a substantial reduced amount of fertility, but is normally much more likely multiple ASAs that donate to a person fertility problem. Upcoming outcomes increase our knowledge of the specific systems that elicit the autoimmune response and of the energetic profile of ASA leading for ACX-362E an antibody-mediated infertility. Hence, specific therapies predicated on the usage of monoclonal antibodies aswell as new methods to male immune system contraception could be developed..
To the extent that this practice happens, the SQ route provides an effective alternative strategy that may decrease the costs and rates of complications associated with vaccination. (anti-HBs) screening was 56.9 20.3 months. Radafaxine hydrochloride Eighty-five of 92 subjects (92.4%) who received vaccine SQ developed a positive antibody titre ( 12 IU/L), compared to 101/114 (88.6%) who received IM (= 0.30). There was no statistically significant difference in distribution of titre ideals. The average age of the subjects at time of screening was 53 20 weeks in the SQ group vs. 60 20 weeks in the IM group (= 0.02). The average time between the last dose of vaccine and anti-HBs screening was 47.6 18.5 months among SQ vaccinated subjects vs. 51.6 20.5 months in the IM group (= 0.2). Immunogenicity to hepatitis B vaccination from the SQ and IM routes is similar. = 0.3). The mean age at time of hepatitis B titre was 56.9 20.3 months and ranged from 8 to 97 months. There was no difference in the distribution of titre ideals between the two groups. The average age of screening was 53 20 weeks in the SQ group vs. 60 20 weeks in the IM group (= 0.02). The average time between Radafaxine hydrochloride the last dose of vaccine and screening for hepatitis B antibodies was 47.6 18.5 months among subjects vaccinated SQ vs. 51.6 20.5 months among those receiving IM vaccination (= 0.2). Among the 92 subjects who experienced received SQ vaccination, 10 (10.9%) children had a total of 12 intramuscular haematomas recorded in their clinical records. Among the 114 subjects receiving IM vaccination, 23 (20.2%) children had a total of 38 intramuscular haematomas. The difference between the Radafaxine hydrochloride proportions of children going through intramuscular haematomas by vaccination route did not reach statistical significance (= 0.07). Given the nature of the data, there was no way to determine if haematoma formation was related to vaccine administration. Discussion There is discrepancy among recommendations published by international bleeding disorder expert panels concerning the route of vaccination in individuals with bleeding disorders [1C3,17,18]. The Association of Hemophilia Medical center Directors of Canada, the United Kingdom Haemophilia Centre Doctors Organisation and WFH recommend that SQ HBV vaccination is preferred for individuals with bleeding disorders [3,8,17C19]. In contrast, ACIP and MASAC recommendations specifically recommend IM injection of hepatitis B vaccination [1,2]. Despite these inconsistencies, of the 767 children who participated in the monitoring, 222 (29%) experienced received at least one dose of HBV vaccine SQ and these subjects were distributed throughout 52 (58.4%) of the 89 enrolling HTCs. Consequently, more than one-half of the federally supported U.S. HTCs providing care to children with bleeding disorders look like recommending SQ administration of HBV vaccine. MIF We speculate that the reasons for this recommendation are to avoid IM haematoma formation at the site of injection and to minimize need for factor in individuals not on prophylactic therapy . Ragni, em et al /em . evaluated seroconversion to hepatitis A vaccine in those receiving the vaccination SQ. They found SQ injection to be as effective as IM in inducing immunity in their human population . Zanetti, em et al /em . found that hepatitis B vaccination resulted in the development of antibodies to hepatitis B surface antigen in 98% of haemophilia individuals immunized SQ . Conversely, Fessard, em et al /em . found that antibody response was higher when vaccination was given IM . It is possible that early investigation of immunogenicity of hepatitis B vaccination by varying routes was affected by concomitant HIV illness and the continued potential for hepatitis illness from factor products [7,11,13,21]. Our results display no significant difference in immunogenicity between SQ and IM routes for the HBV vaccine. However, the overall seroconversion for this human population was lower than expected a priori, which was estimated at approximately 95% [7,12C16]. We hypothesize that this may be due to a delay in HBV titre ascertainment, which averaged closer to 50 weeks after the last dose of immunization in both organizations rather than the recommended one month. The proportion of subjects with local haematoma formation appeared higher in those.
Sequence variations present in levels higher than 5% of the full total amount of reads were identified in each placement in the HA gene (Desk 3). one influenza subtype qualified prospects to immunodominance. Following seasonal publicity or vaccination to fresh subtypes may alter following immune system reactions, which, subsequently, leads to selection of get away mutations in the viral genome. Right here we display that while some mutations do happen in known epitopes suggesting antibody escape, many mutations happen in other parts of the HA protein. Analysis of mutations outside of the known epitopes exposed that these mutations occurred at the same amino acid position in viruses from each of the two IBV lineages. Interestingly, where the amino acid sequence differed between viruses from each lineage, reciprocal amino acid changes were Apratastat observed. That is, the disease from your Yamagata lineage become more like the Victoria lineage disease and vice versa. Our results suggest that some IBV HA sequences are constrained to specific amino acid codons when viruses are cultured in the presence of antibodies. Some changes to the known antigenic areas may also be restricted inside a lineage-dependent manner. Questions remain concerning the mechanisms underlying these results. The presence of amino acid residues that are constrained within the HA may provide a new target for common vaccines for IBV. strong class=”kwd-title” Keywords: influenza B, hemagglutinin, lineage, quasispecies, next generation sequencing 1. Intro Influenza B disease (IBV) belongs to the Orthomyxoviridae disease family and causes significant morbidity and mortality each year [1,2]. Humans are the main host of this segmented, negative-strand RNA disease. The major surface protein, hemagglutinin (HA), is definitely encoded from the fourth of eight segments. HA is involved in receptor binding and membrane fusion and is one of the major antigenic proteins targeted from the host immune system . IBVs developed into two lineages that diverged in the 1970s . The lineages are named Apratastat after the B/Victoria/2/1987 and B/Yamagata/16/1988 strains . Before 1985, Rabbit Polyclonal to MAGI2 the precursor to the Yamagata lineage circulated . The Victoria lineage circulated globally in the past due 1980s and then the Yamagata lineage dominated in the 1990s [2,4]. Like additional Orthomyxoviridae, IBVs encode an RNA polymerase that is utilized for replication. Errors during replication of influenza viruses result in quasispecies . Not all the viruses are viable and genetic bottlenecks happen when the viable viruses infect fresh hosts . The disease retains growing and antigenically unique viruses emerge each year. It has been demonstrated for an A(H3N2) influenza A disease (IAV) that only one mutation was required for the disease to escape the sponsor adaptive, B-cell mediated, antibody immune reactions . Thus, updates to the seasonal vaccine formulation are frequently required in order to encourage the production of antibodies specific to the circulating viral strains. The goal of many common influenza vaccines is definitely to generate antibodies that are protecting against multiple strains of influenza. Much of the immune response is directed toward less well conserved immunodominant epitopes, and one of the major difficulties in developing common vaccines is definitely directing the immune response toward the more conserved sites . However, much of this knowledge is based on IAV studies and the reactions to IAV and IBV strains differ . Illness, or vaccination with live attenuated influenza viruses, may play a role in the development of cross-reactive antibodies. Broadly neutralizing antibodies are selected at viral replication sites and animal models have shown that sequential illness with IAVs can generate antibodies that are protecting against additional IAV strains . There is some evidence for cross-reactive reactions toward IBVs in animals ; however, it is not known how much of this effect is due to B-cell mediated adaptive versus T-cell mediated innate immunity. There is evidence that broadly protecting antibodies toward IBVs are produced in humans. First, IBVs mainly impact children and adolescents 18 years of age or more youthful [14,15]. This most likely indicates that some form of long-lasting safety is acquired after individuals are infected before adulthood. Second, human being monoclonal antibodies that protect mice against lethal challenge from IBV from Apratastat both lineages have been explained [16,17]. Furthermore, activation of peripheral blood mononuclear cells from healthy donors with IBV from either lineage results.
The average duration between intake of raw cow liver and sampling of serum was 6 months. was performed. Statistical analysis We compared the age, sex, intake of uncooked cow liver, eosinophil count, and toxocara seropositivity among the individuals with unexplained pulmonary infiltrate and those with normal chest CT scan by using the chi-square test or ML303 Fisher’s precise test for categorical variables, and the College student t test or Mann-Whitney test for continuous variables. Multivariable analysis was also performed by using a logistic regression model including toxocara seropositivity and additional significant variables in univariable analysis. Among the individuals with the pulmonary infiltrate, we compared the age, sex, intake ML303 of uncooked cow liver, eosinophil count, and total IgE levels relating to toxocara seropositivity. We also performed univariable and multivariable analysis to evaluate the risk factors for toxocara seropositivity. A value of less than 0.05 was regarded as statistically significant. The data were analyzed by SPSS version 12.0 K (SPSS inc., Chicago, IL, U.S.A.). RESULTS Demographic and baseline medical characteristics A total of 102 individuals with unexplained pulmonary patchy infiltrate and 116 subjects without any infiltrate on chest CT scan as control were included. Demographic and baseline medical characteristics of the individuals are demonstrated in Table 1. In the infiltrate group, 15 individuals were excluded. Two individuals were diagnosed as paragonimiasis with positive ELISA, eight individuals were diagnosed as either atypical adenomatous hyperplasia or bronchoalveolar carcinoma by transthoracic biopsy, one individual was diagnosed as pulmonary tuberculosis by positive AFB smear and ML303 tradition, and four individuals were diagnosed as interstitial lung diseases by either transthoracic biopsy or bronchoscopic biopsy. Table 1 Demographic and baseline medical characteristics Open in a separate windowpane IQR, interquartile range; NA, not available. In the infiltrate group, individuals with a history of intake of uncooked liver comprised 89.8% and median eosinophil count was 449/L (interquartile range [IQR], 262-852). Five individuals were positive on ELISA to cysticercosis and six individuals were positive on ELISA to clonorchiasis. No individuals experienced positive stool parasite. Individuals having any sign of respiratory symptoms comprised 23.7% in the infiltrate group. Sixty eight individuals had ground glass opacity (GGO), 14 nodules, 3 consolidations, and 17 combined infiltrate on chest CT scan out of the 102 subjects with infiltrate. In the control Rabbit polyclonal to PHF13 group, a history of raw liver intake was relatively high (45%). Seroprevalence ML303 of toxocara Sixty eight of 102 individuals (66.7%) in the pulmonary infiltrate group were toxocara seropositive, whereas 22.4% of the control group were seropositive ( em p /em 0.001). Toxocara seropositivity in the pulmonary infiltrate group was significantly higher compared to the control group after adjustment for eosinophilia (eosinophil count 500/L) ( em p /em 0.001) (Table 1). Clinical characteristics and risk element of toxocara seropositivity in the infiltrate group Clinical characteristics of the 68 toxocara positive individuals with pulmonary infiltrate and the 34 bad individuals among all the individuals with infiltrate are demonstrated in Table 2. Peripheral eosinophil counts (median: 592, IQR 366-1,055 vs. 296, IQR 147-440, ML303 em p /em 0.001) and total IgE levels (median, 583, IQR 193-1,965 vs. 135, IQR 44-331, em p /em 0.001) were higher in the toxocara seropositive individuals than in seronegative individuals. Patients who experienced ingested uncooked cow liver within 1 yr comprised a higher percentage of toxocara seropositive individuals (96% vs. 78%, em p /em =0.013). The average duration between intake of uncooked cow liver and sampling of serum was 6 months. No significant difference was observed according to the intake of raw refreshing fish (data not shown). Table.
Most investigators survey the initial recognition of IgA in mucosal secretions between a week and 2 a few months with peak amounts between four to six 6 weeks old. 14 Several research have suggested presence of IgA antibodies in the newborn period to become primarily of fetal origin. 15 16 The infant’s sera in cases like this on time 13 was strongly positive for both IgG and IgM with an additional upsurge in reactivity on time 18. respiratory symptoms coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) world-wide, the epidemiology, the scientific characteristics, and the procedure are under investigation even now. The chance of vertical transmitting of SARS-CoV-2 during being Rabbit Polyclonal to DNAI2 pregnant has been regarded but continues to be unproven by however. 1 2 3 4 5 According to current suggestions from Centers for Disease Control, the medical diagnosis of COVID-19 an infection depends on the positivity from the real-time change transcriptase (RT)-polymerase string reaction (PCR) from the nasopharyngeal or oropharyngeal swabs, bronchioalveolar lavage, tracheal aspirates, and sputum. 6 Small is known however about the medical diagnosis predicated on the serology. We survey a complete case of COVID-19 contaminated preterm baby blessed to a COVID-19 contaminated mom. The infant provides multiple RT-PCR assays positive for COVID-19, markedly unusual inflammatory markers (regarded as connected with COVID-19 in released reports to time) and positive serology for COVID-19. There is no contact between your mom and the newborn. All credited airborne isolation safety measures were taken. 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In obstetrics and gynecology triage, the fetal center tracing was significant for reduced variability and past due decelerations. The biophysical profile rating was 2/10. Your choice was designed for instant cesarean section under vertebral anesthesia. All workers in the working room noticed airborne precautions, as well as the mom was presented with an N-95 cover up during the medical procedures. Rupture of membranes was performed at delivery, and apparent fluid was observed. Infant was created limp with poor respiratory work. She was placed directly under the glowing warmer instantly, and resuscitation was performed according to the Neonatal Resuscitation Plan. Baby was intubated for consistent apnea at 3?a few minutes of life, moved and stabilized towards the neonatal intensive caution CCT020312 unit. Apgar’s scores had been 3, 5, and 7 at 1, 5, and 10?a few minutes with heartrate always over 100 beats/minute respectively. 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My dad was telling me about his violin teacher’s car. Rats managed to get under the hood and chewed off the wires. And this happened so many times that he ended up selling his car. In a tropical country like India, this is a common phenomenon. Our next-door neighbours also have the same problem.
My ancestral village is an old-fashioned house with an open interior – it is open to the sky. As you can imagine, not many people live there anymore. So most of the homes are occupied when we have our village functions, weddings or other special occasions. And in a few families, the kids have settled abroad, and there is nobody to look after the house. The house next to us is in a similar category, and within a year, plants and trees took over. It is difficult to imagine that people ever lived in that house.
Growing up, I did not mind cockroaches, house flies or stray dogs. The two beings that bothered me the most were mosquitoes and wall lizards. When they built the house, my parents put nets all over the windows to keep the lizards away. However, when we sat down for lunch, I saw one between the window and the net. It cannot come into the house (not yet!), but it found a tiny gap on the outside and made its way in. Similarly, when we open the front door around dusk, a swarm of flies rush in, and I have to immediately put on Odomos (mosquito repellent cream). You can call the pesticide guys over as much as you want, but cockroaches will find their way back in.
Looking at all this, it feels like we are desperately trying to keep nature from taking over our space. But the crux of the matter is we are encroaching their space. If human beings were to vanish, then nature would take over within a year and not in vengeance but naturally. When human beings first started taking over nature – it adjusted. For the trees, they have learnt to blow with the wind; it’s the humans who erect walls to keep the wind out.
But there comes a point when the wind gets to be too much. And the willow tree breaks – we are seeing signs of that now. Even nature’s big heart cannot take what this human species has done to it – we only take never give. As a species, we are the only ones who are not in danger of getting extinct, but we are on track to make ourselves more extinct.
If nature was conscious like us and decided to take revenge, just imagine our plight – we will be fighting for our lives against predators. It will be us in the zoos, and they will be roaming freely. That’s what we have done now as well – we all live in our enclosures and feel safe. But now, we have overextended our welcome. The zoos we have created for ourselves are not in harmony with nature. As human beings, we have the ability to choose and look at what we are choosing to do as a whole – destroy ourselves.
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10 Sports Fun Facts about American Sport
- Updated: August 18, 2021
If you’re looking for a break from all games and enjoy some fun sports facts about American sport, then this blog post is for you! We’ll be covering ten different topics that will change how you watch your favorite sporting event forever. Afterward, make sure to check these amazing sports trivia quizzes for more interesting stuff.
The New York Yankees hold the record of winning the 26 World Series titles.
Through the years, many US teams have won several World Series titles. The New York Yankees have won more Series than any other team – a total of 26! Six of those victories are from recent years.
Shaquille O’Neal wears a new pair of the shoe before each game; A size 22
He’s 7’1″ and 350 pounds, so you can imagine how large his shoe would be! The only part of him that’s more well-known than his shoes is Shaquille O’Neal’s name. He has played in the NBA for over 20 years and has won four championship rings and three finals MVP awards.
More than 1800 medals are awarded in the Olympics.
It takes a lot of skill to be able to win one of the medals that are handed out at each Olympics. The first Olympics was held in 1896, and over 1800 medals have been awarded since then.
Boxing became a legal sport in 1901
The only American to win a gold medal in boxing is Cassius Clay, Muhammad Ali. Not many sports allow you to punch people in the face and get rewarded for it, but that’s precisely what happens in boxing.
Babe Ruth wore a cabbage leaf under his cap to keep his body cool.
Babe Ruth played baseball from 1914 to 1935 and helped his team win more games than any other athlete ever has. So how did he do this? He wore a cabbage leaf under his cap during the hot summer months to keep himself calm and hydrated.
Golf balls can reach speeds of 170 miles per hour.
On a good day, you could get from New York to LA in only three minutes! This sport has been around for over 500 years. It was initially played with a curved stick and balls made out of stone; these days, golf is much more high-tech and can be seen on TV all the time.
The most attended and Watched sport in the US is soccer.
This is a sport that many Americans widely love. The National Football League (NFL) is the most attended and watched league in the US, with an average of 70,000 people in attendance at each game.
Modern day baseball was invented in 1839
Sportsmen have been using balls for training purposes through the ages, but not until 1839 was the modern-day “baseball” invented. Baseball is a sport that has two teams competing against each other.
Frozen cow poo was the first-ever puck used in a hockey game!
Who would have thought that frozen cow poo was initially used as a puck in the first-ever ice hockey game? The cow poo is frozen to make it have less bounce and be easier to get off the ground.
The first world series was played in 1903 between Pittsburgh and Boston.
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Ardnamurchan Lighthouse is an iconic, grade A listed landmark on Scotland’s wild West Coast. Situated at the most westerly point on the British mainland, the enduring elegance of Alan Stevenson’s design is framed by unrivalled panoramic views across the Small Isles and Inner Hebrides. Here, the titanic forces of geology, waves, weather and human industry form a rich melting pot of natural and cultural heritage.
April – October inclusive
Open daily from 10:00 – 17:00.
- Day Parking.
- Gift Shop.
- Guided Tower Tours
- Currently Monday to Friday, due to staff shortages.
- Foghorn Engine Room.
Ardnamurchan Lighthouse Trust recognise the importance of providing good access for guests with an impairment or disability. We are seeking grant support to improve accessibility infrastructure across the site on an ongoing basis, so that more people can explore and enjoy this special place. The Trust is pleased to confirm that the Lochaber Disability Access Panel will be supporting us throughout our project journey, to ensure that our objectives for accessibility are delivered in real terms.
Parking: we have two marked accessible parking spaces. The first is situated adjacent to the Stables Coffee Shop and guest toilets in the lower parking area; the second is situated next to our beautifully painted accumulator tanks, on the seaward side of the upper parking area. This second space is ideal for guests wishing to enjoy a spectacular seascape from the comfort of their vehicle.
Toilets: a single accessible toilet is located next to the Stables Coffee Shop entrance door. Due to limited space within this grade A listed building, the toilet itself sits against the wall on the user’s right hand side. In recognition that this layout may prove challenging for some guests, the Trust is seeking to significantly improve our accessible toilet offer as the site continues to develop. Please bear with us.
Out and about: our parking areas and footpaths were all resurfaced in summer 2021. This has greatly improved accessibility across the site for ambulant walkers and pushchair users. Guests using mobility scooters and wheelchairs should proceed with care, as some short steep slopes still remain as a result of our topography.
The foghorn viewing platform: The foghorn viewing platform underwent a number of accessibility improvements in summer 2021. The platform is wheelchair and pushchair accessible. Nevertheless, the Trust recognise that the gravelled area surrounding our Keepers’ Cottages makes access to the platform entrance challenging for guests using a wheelchair. This is an issue that we are seeking to address; but in the meantime, blue badge holders should feel welcome to take their car up to the platform entrance. If it is possible to ‘drop-off and pick-up’ guests requiring vehicle access (rather than parking at the entrance point) this helps to keep the turning circle clear for other users.
The tower: regrettably, there can be no disabled access to the lighthouse tower due to the nature of the building.
Ardnamurchan Lighthouse is situated 10km west of Kilchoan on the Ardnamurchan Peninsula (look out for brown informational signage as you pass through the village). It is accessed by a scenic single-track road, which is steep and winding in places.
Ardnamurchan Lighthouse Complex
The Stables Coffee Shop is located at grid reference NM416672
If you are travelling from Fort William, you may choose to take the Corran Ferry, operated by The Highland Council. Please see here for timetables and travel information.
If you are traveling from the north of Mull, you may choose to take the Tobermory – Kilchoan Ferry, operated by CalMac. Please see here for timetables and travel information.
Unfortunately, there is no public transport service to Ardnamurchan Lighthouse.
On your final approach to the lighthouse complex, look out for our welcome signage and traffic lights. There are no passing places or verge on the narrow lighthouse causeway, so please respect the traffic signals and proceed with care.
Upon entering the site, vehicles may park either adjacent to the Stables Coffee Shop, or in the upper parking area 100m further along the main track.
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Chinese scientists have discovered a way to boost the yield of rice crops by up to 40 per cent through tweaking the plant’s genes.
A team led by plant biologist Wenbin Zhou from the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS) found that the change allowed the plant to absorb more fertiliser, increase photosynthesis and accelerate flowering.
The experiments ran for three years in climates ranging from temperate to tropical, with researchers hopeful that the “supercharged” technique could be applied to other crops.
“I don’t think I’ve ever seen anything quite like that before,” said Matthew Paul, a plant genetecist at Rothamsted Research, who was not involved in the work.
The scientists hope it can address global food shortages brought about by rising population growth and conflict-related supply chain issues.
“To achieve the required yield increases and make agriculture more sustainable, intensified breeding and genetic engineering efforts are need to obtain new crop varieties with higher photosynthetic capacity and improved nitrogen use efficiency,” stated a paper detailing the research, published in the scientific journal Science.
“Our work demonstrates that by genetically modulating the expression of a single transcriptional regulator gene, substantial yield increases can be achieved while the growth duration of the crop is shortened.”
Improving photosynthesis is seen as one of the most promising avenues for increasing crop yields, though genetically modified foods, including transgenic crops, have faced opposition from both consumers and regulators in recent years.
Pushback has begun to soften, however, amid growing food insecurity that could see millions of people face shortages and even famine this year.
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(CNN) — “Reading Rainbow” made its TV debut in 1983 with a simple idea: Use television to keep kids reading during summer by urging them to “take a look” in a book.
The popular public television show ended its run in 2009, but host and actor LeVar Burton hasn’t stepped away from children’s literacy, or the ideas behind the beloved show.
“If you are a reader, then you have the ability to educate yourself,” Burton said. “When you have the ability to be a lifelong learner, there are no limits on what you can acquire in terms of knowledge and information. It represents the ultimate freedom of mankind.”
This week, Burton will be recognized with the Impact Award for his efforts to instill “a lifelong love of reading in children” at the seventh Children’s Book Week Gala hosted by the Children’s Book Council and Every Child a Reader. While Burton has drawn critical and popular acclaim for his acting in “Roots” and “Star Trek: The Next Generation,” he said he wants “Reading Rainbow” to be is legacy.
After all, what makes a good story hasn’t changed much since “Reading Rainbow’s” debut, Burton said. Technology has.
Burton said he realized the power of TV as a medium for educating and informing viewers when he played Kunta Kinte on the “Roots” miniseries, based on Alex Haley’s novel about slavery and African-American history. The story captured the nation as millions tuned in to watch the miniseries during the late 1970s.
Decades later, after reading a book on an iPad for the first time, he saw the potential to create an interactive reading experience. Burton acquired the rights to the “Reading Rainbow” brand and created his company, RRKidz. He envisioned an app that could interact with the audience in ways the show never could.
He launched the “Reading Rainbow” app in 2012, and in its first 18 months, users read 10 million books, making it the No. 1 free educational app in the iTunes store for two years.
“I wanted to put in the hands of kids a library of books and videos, like the TV show did, all in the service of inspiring a love of literature and exploring the world — connecting the real world to the literature that kids are reading,” Burton said.
Burton’s efforts come at a time when researchers and educators are trying to figure out how to use technology to encourage reading. Since 1984, the proportion of adolescents who read for pleasure once a week or more has dropped from 81% to 76% among 9-year-olds, according to research released this week by advocacy group Common Sense Media.
Among 13-year-olds, rates of reading for pleasure have dropped from 70% to 53%. Among 17-year-olds, the rate dropped from 64% to 40%. The proportion who say they “never” or “hardly ever” read has gone from 8% of 13-year-olds and 9% of 17-year-olds in 1984 to 22% and 27%, respectively.
“E-reading has the potential to significantly change the nature of reading for children and families, but its impact is still unknown,” said the Common Sense Media report “Children, Teens and Reading.”
On the TV show, Burton became a trusted friend to children, parents and educators, recommending a variety of books and taking viewers on book-related field trips. He invited kids to recommend books in a segment, using the famous line, “but you don’t have to take my word for it.”
“The books were enhanced by the show and the show brought people to read the books,” said Starr LaTronica, president of the Association for Library Service to Children. “It sort of lays the groundwork for research later in life because LeVar always took those books, found out something about them and went further.”
In the new incarnation of “Reading Rainbow,” children navigate the app in a virtual hot air balloon, traveling to themed islands and discovering books they might like to read. The app hosts more than 500 books and video field trips with Burton. Users can interact with the stories like it’s a game and receive rewards for each book they read.
Parents are encouraged to use the app along with their children, filling in youngsters’ interests for reading recommendations or exploring lessons and themes within the books together. Kids can read by themselves, with their parents or have Burton narrate. The app is free to download, with a $9.99 monthly or $29.99 six-month fee for accessing and downloading unlimited books to read.
“Elementary school-age children are at a juncture where you have such a great opportunity to capture them as readers at that point,” said Nicole Deming of the Children’s Book Council. “The app has struck that ideal balance between enhancing the storytelling without being distracting.”
Burton said he hopes to expand beyond the “Reading Rainbow” app available now. The next move? Creating a version for teachers to use in the classroom, including lesson plans and tools to track student progress.
Burton said he also would like to see more diversity in children’s literature. “Reading Rainbow” will continue to share a variety of books, just as he did on the show, he said.
“I firmly believe that seeing oneself reflected in the popular culture is critically important for developing a solid and healthy sense of self,” he said. “Unless the publishing industry is proactive, this will be one of the causes of its demise. I don’t understand the reluctance. Here is a sector that is woefully underserved, with an opportunity to target a market that is thirsty for literature.”
Still, not everything has changed. Just as Burton’s mother nurtured his interest in reading, parents and children can bond through books, whether on paper or tablets.
“There is nothing more powerful to me than that elemental experience of storytelling: being read to aloud, following along, seeing the story in the pictures and feeling it in your heart,” Burton said. “It is really beautifully, brilliantly embodied in the sharing of a children’s book.”
What were your favorite books as a young reader? Share your memories in the comments, on Twitter @CNNschools or on CNN Living’s Facebook page.
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There is general consensus that a concerted effort by all individuals, governments, businesses and sectors is required if the goal of sustainable development is to be achieved. Increasing awareness and understanding of sustainable development and the associated challenges and opportunities, has therefore been a fundamental goal of policy makers and interested parties across the globe.
This in turn raises an interesting question, i.e., to what extent has sustainable development permeated and entered the general public domain?
This is a challenging question, primarily because sustainable development is a broad and multi-faceted concept, that is known by many names depending on the context (e.g., sustainability, corporate social responsibility, etc.) and which incorporates a vast number of economic, social and environmental issues.
This website has been developed to address some of these challenges. It provides an online user-friendly tool to help interested policy-makers and researchers track and understand the extent to which ‘sustainable development’ is reflected in people’s daily lives globally. Amongst other things, the tool enables depiction of the trends both on a regional basis and on an ‘issue’ basis. A detailed description of the tool’s underlying approach is provided in the methodology section. | <urn:uuid:37b2e574-397f-4253-824b-bf01ab34b700> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://trendsinsustainability.com/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571536.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811224716-20220812014716-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.945068 | 249 | 2.828125 | 3 |
The cryptocurrency market has hundreds of different crypto tokens doing the rounds. If you have never invested in them before, doing so now can seem challenging with the various options made available to you. This challenge is mainly owing to the fact that choosing one or two options among a thousand requires you to understand the details of all of them which can prove to be confusing or time-consuming. A handful of cryptocurrencies have maintained their upward trajectory in recent months. In addition, both established users and newbies have wanted to gain the most they could while the upward trend continues.
Due to a new variant upending the market in 2021, we saw a major crash in the values of all cryptocurrencies, causing a loss of nearly $300 billion in the overall market. According to the latest data, the total value of the cryptocurrency market has fallen from 2.68 trillion to 2.39 trillion dollars. The investors were apprehensive that the new variant would result in new restrictions, leading to the abrupt drop. Most major cryptocurrencies managed to find their way back to the top in 2022 while making up for their losses. As a consequence, if you’re searching for some bargain cryptocurrencies to invest in, here are a few that you should keep an eye on.
The XRP coin is a cryptocurrency created by the company Ripple, which is a digital technology and payment processing platform. XRP is another famous cryptocurrency that has risen to prominence as a result of its capacity to endure periods of high market volatility. You can easily exchange XRP tokens for traditional currencies or use them to exchange other cryptocurrencies. Furthermore, XRP is the first cryptocurrency to be accepted by a number of financial institutions for the purpose of transmitting and receiving payments. When it comes to cryptocurrency investing, XRP is a fantastic coin to consider, and the year 2022 is an excellent time to do so because the rates are lower compared to those of other prominent digital currencies and it is a low investment high return choice. Price of the XRP token is approximately $.08521 (XRP to INR).
DOGE, or Dogecoin, was developed in 2013 as a joke by its inventors, software programmers Jackson Palmer and Billy Markus. This was the first ‘meme’ coin, and what began as a joke quickly grew into a rapidly expanding cryptocurrency. Elon Musk mentioned it in a tweet, which accelerated its growth pace. This joke immediately gathered popularity, and the value of dogecoin skyrocketed. Dogecoin is now worth around $0.14 (DOGE to INR). In a relatively short period of time, Dogecoin has risen dramatically in value from its initial market value. Because of its rapid growth, it has become a valuable cryptocurrency and is estimated to go even higher with its market value which makes it a good upcoming token to invest in.
Avalanche (AVAX) which is an altcoin, saw a tremendous windfall gain in the form of a sudden profit at the start of 2021. AVAX was priced at $103.60 per token in December 2021, a 3130.43 percent gain from its initial value of $3.207 per token in January 2019. Analysts estimate that the price of avalanche will rise even more in 2022, reaching $200 after delivering investors with a 34x return over the course of the year. If you are looking for a cryptocurrency that will go big in 2022 you must consider Avalanche, which is a relatively unknown cryptocurrency but has grown to become one of the fastest-growing, with a market valuation of more than $20 billion at the time of writing. AVAX is now available to buy for approx. $84.98 USD.
With its market value ranging from as low as $1 at the start of the year to as high as $200 by the end of the year, Solana (SOL) was the cryptocurrency that had the most gains in 2021, making it one of the top cryptocurrencies to invest in for 2022. Solana is now trading at $136.08, making it the seventh-largest cryptocurrency in terms of market capitalization, after Bitcoin and Ethereum. Solana’s success is attributed in part to the company’s own blockchain technology, which blends ‘proof-of-stake’ with Solana’s ‘proof-of-history,’ among other features due to which its transactions become quicker and less costly, placing it in direct competition with Ethereum. Prices for solana are expected to reach $300 per token by the end of 2022.
Stellar is an open blockchain network meant to link financial institutions for massive transactions. Bank and investment business transactions that used to be expensive and inefficient can now be completed instantly without intermediaries and a fraction of the cost. While Stellar is marketed as a corporate blockchain for institutional transactions, it is still an open blockchain. Stellar’s currency is Lumens (XLM) and to transact on the network, users must own Lumens. Jed McCaleb, co-founder of Ripple Labs and creator of the Ripple protocol, launched Stellar. In February 2022, Stellar Lumens were worth roughly 25 cents and had a market valuation of just under $6 billion and are expected to grow in 2022.
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In the comments from time to time is frankly skeptical chiding about my naive belief that government can be improved and decisions made to aid our economy or people. Then stuff like this happens.
First, the conservative WSJ sounds the alarm on protectionism over the emerging sugar import battle.
The costs have been a sticky issue for years. According to a 2006 study by the U.S. International Trade Administration, each sugar job saved by propping up domestic producers costs three jobs in manufacturing, with many companies relocating to countries such as Canada and Mexico where the price of sugar can be one-half to two-thirds the rate in the U.S. So instead of importing sugar, the U.S. brings in more sugary finished products, with imports rising to $18.7 billion in 2004 from $6.7 billion in 1990.
The Administration's reluctance to take on the sugar lobby comes in the context of what is beginning to look like a slow roll by the President on free-trade principles. In September, the Administration must also decide whether to allow tariffs or quotas on imported car tires from China. Standing for free trade would require the administration to stand up to some powerful unions. So far, no evidence of that.
In a recent Pittsburgh speech, U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk spoke primarily about trade enforcement issues, but the Administration has quietly encouraged protectionist policies. According to U.S. Chamber of Commerce Vice President John Murphy, the "Buy American" requirements of the stimulus package are stalling projects in some states and municipalities struggling to comply.
Challenging the status quo may be tough for President Obama, but a commitment to embrace standards of free trade early in his Presidency would be a boon to U.S. trade leadership. Big Sugar has long been the recipient of one of Washington's most destructive policies, and the continued price manipulation has no place in a recession. President Obama should increase the quotas and end American sugar's sweet deal. [More]
And sadly, I cannot help but recall, the previous administration hardly was stalwart in defense of free trade on this very issue.
Then the very conservative Cato calls out the stunning political duplicity of Republicans on the Medicare problem.
Yet Republican National Committee chairman, Michael Steele, takes to the Washington Post today to defend Medicare against any cuts, while at the same time criticizing the Democrats as “left-wing ideologues:”
Steele uses the mushy statist phrasing “our seniors” repeatedly, as if the government owns this group of people, and that they should have no responsibility for their own lives.
- “Under the Democrats’ plan, senior citizens will pay a steeper price and will have their treatment options reduced or rationed.”
- “Republicans want reform that should first, do no harm, especially to our seniors.”
- “We also believe that any health-care reform should be fully paid for, but not funded on the backs of our nation’s senior citizens.”
- “First, we need to protect Medicare and not cut it in the name of ‘health-insurance reform.’”
- “Reversing course and joining Republicans in support of health care for our nation’s senior citizens is a good place to start.”
Fiscal conservatives, who have come out in droves to tea party protests and health care meetings this year, are angry at both parties for the government’s massive spending and debt binge in recent years. Mr. Steele has now informed these folks loud and clear that the Republican Party is not interested in restraining government; it is not interested in cutting the program that creates the single biggest threat to taxpayers in coming years. For apparently crass political reasons, Steele defends “our seniors,” but at the expense of massive tax hikes on “our children” if entitlement programs are not cut. [More]
OK - that leaves ummm, who in Washington to put faith in?
Or in other words, all those export figures in the S&D tables for meats especially, but for grain too, will have to be effected with little help from forward thinking political leaders.
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I love the story of Samuel. Perhaps as a mother, I love the thought of Samuel responding so quickly to his mentor Eli, thinking Eli had called for him. Perhaps it is the story of his mother Hannah and her longing and pleading with God for a baby, and then delivering this baby back to God to serve him- what surrender! Or maybe it is because Samuel hears God speak to him in an audible voice- I know I have longed for that. For a refresher, read the story in 1 Samuel 3.
Hearing the audible voice of God is something many people pursue. They long for God to speak and want to learn the ‘skill’ of hearing God’s voice. Many have questioned, does God still speak verbally like he did in the Bible to the prophets? If yes, why hasn’t he spoken to me? If no, why not? Others claim that making a ‘ruling’ on this issue is putting God in a box. So, how do we handle this contentious issue and more importantly, how does the Bible handle this issue? For an excellent article on this, read “The Morning I Heard the Voice of God” by John Piper.
In Timothy Keller’s book Prayer: Experiencing Awe and Intimacy with God (2014), Keller writes of the fact prayer is communication with God and that this involves us talking and listening. Yet, the important point Keller makes is not to seek God speaking outside of his Word (extra-biblical communication). Yes, God did speak audibly to his prophets, but now God speaks through Jesus in the Bible. In Hebrews 1:1-2 we read: “Long ago, at many times and in many ways, God spoke to our fathers by the prophets, but in these last days he has spoken to us by his Son, whom he appointed the heir of all things, through whom also he created the world.” This shows that it is the the Bible, where Jesus life and teaching is documented, that I should expect God to speak to me.
To illustrate the importance of listening to God through his infallible Word, Keller shares the following story:
The eighteenth-century Anglican clergyman George Whitefield was one of the spearheads of the Great Awakening, a period of massive renewal of interest in Christianity across Western societies and a time of significant church growth. Whitefield was a riveting orator and is considered one of the greatest preachers in church history. In late 1743 his first child, a son, was born to he and his wife, Elizabeth. Whitefield has a strong impression that God was telling him the child would grow up to also be a “preacher of the everlasting Gospel.” In view of this divine assurance, he gave his son the name John, after John the Baptist, whose mother was also named Elizabeth. When John Whitefield was born, George baptized his son before a large crowd and preached a sermon on the great works that God would do through his son. He knew that cynics were sneering at his prophecies, but he ignored them.
Then, at just four months old, his son died suddenly of a seizure. The Whitefields were of course grief-stricken, but George was particularly convicted about how wrong he had been to count his inward impulses and intuitions as being essentially equal to God’s Word. He realized he had led his congregation into the same disillusioning mistake. Whitefield had interpreted his own feelings- his understandable and powerful fatherly pride and joy in his son, and his hopes for him- as God speaking to his heart. Not long afterward, he wrote a wrenching prayer for himself, that God would “render this mistaken parent more cautious, more sober-minded, more experienced in Satan’s devices, and consequently more useful in his future labors to the church of God.”
The lesson here is not that God never guides our thoughts or prompts us to choose wise courses of action, but that we cannot be sure he is speaking to us unless we read it in the Scripture.
– T. Keller (2014), Prayer: Experiencing Awe and Intimacy with God, p. 63. London: Hodder & Stoughton
In this story, I am reminded to not place my promptings and perceived leading of the Holy Spirit above the Word of God, for God’s Word is the only thing that is infallible. When I feel down, I should prayerfully turn to Scripture.When someone tells me they have a Word from God for me, I should take it with caution and test all things by his written Word. When I feel drawn to make certain decisions or take a certain course of action, I should prayerfully turn to Scripture. And I should expect to find God answer me through his written Word: “For the word of God is alive and active. Sharper than any double-edged sword, it penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow; it judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart.” (Hebrews 4:12). | <urn:uuid:d0c91e22-18a8-4947-9a47-264e59333055> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://emilykcobb.com.au/is-that-you-speaking-to-me-god/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571536.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811224716-20220812014716-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.984107 | 1,055 | 2 | 2 |
Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s airing of a 9-11 conspiracy theory during his speech to the UN General Assembly last week produced a walk out by several delegations (including New Zealand’s) and a predictable chorus of outrage by conservative Western media. Not being a fan of 9-11 conspiracy theories myself, I simply note that this is is just the latest in a series of provocative UN speeches by Ahmadinejad, including his contention three years ago that there are no gays in Iran (insert Tui ad here).
What may not be apparent to the peanut gallery is the real reasons for the crazy talk. Let me therefore explain them.
As I have written before here and elsewhere, authoritarian regimes are seldom monolithic but instead are usually divided into factions of one kind or another depending on the specifics of the regime. There are hard-liners and soft-liners, idealists versus pragmatists, old guard versus new guard, religious versus secularist, military versus civilian, rural versus urban–these and other cleavages may overlap in any variety of ways (and can include inter-service divisions in military-dominated regimes). Ahmadinejad is associated with one hard line faction within the electoral authoritarian theocratic regime in Iran. This faction has been seriously undermined by the disputed December 2009 election results and subsequent unrest, something that comes at a time when Tehran is trying to impose its stamp as a major regional power by, among other things, pursuing an independent nuclear capability that has the potential if not intent of achieving nuclear deterrent status. That is the domestic context in which the UN speech was given.
The speech was televised live in Iran. It was designed to bolster Ahmadinejad’s hard-line credentials and image as a strong leader at home, thereby shoring up his support within the Revolutionary Guard affiliated hard-line elements that are vying for regime control with more moderate, secularist factions. The speech was, in other words, more for domestic consumption than international indigestion.
But it was also designed to raise Ahmadinejad’s stature within the Muslim world, and by extension that of Iran in its battle with pro-Western Sunni regimes such as those in Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Egypt. The theory that 9-11 was an inside job perpetrated by the US so that it could then embark on a military project of world domination and defense of the”Zionist entity” has a fair bit of credence amongst (mostly uneducated) Muslims. Although crazy on the face of it, supposedly unexplained questions about the attacks themselves, the possibility of an ex post facto US whitewash or cover-up of the events leading up to and immediately following the attacks, and the subsequent US declaration of a “war on terror” leading to the invasion and occupation of two Muslim-dominant states (as well as the deployment of US military forces to dozens of others), lends itself easily to conspiracy theorisation, if not out of genuine skepticism than as a tool by which to manipulate subject populations already hostile to the US and Israel. By voicing one version of the “9-11 was an inside job” theory (as one of three possible explanations for the attacks mentioned by Ahmadinejad in his speech), the Iranian president dared to go where other Muslim leaders fail to tread. That raises his profile, and that of Iran, as the champion of Islamic interests at a time when other Muslim states are seen as complicit with or subjugated to US-led Western interests.
There is an irony in all of this. In a very real sense, Ahmadinejad’s speech and the reaffirmation of his position within the Iranian regime can be seen as a good thing when it comes to negotiations about its nuclear ambitions. It is axiomatic in diplomatic negotiations that agents have a strong mandate from their constituents. If the agents do not then their bargaining position can be undermined during or after the negotiations, making the entire process futile. By making his speech Ahmadinejad bolsters his position as a negotiating agent in the measure that support for him unifies and consolidates into diplomatic talking points. Put another way, were his position within the regime to remain weak or under challenge, his position as a negotiator would be undermined as well and anything that he agreed to could be undone by rivals seeking to strengthen their own internal hand. In other words, his word would mean nothing at the negotiating table.
But if his speech serves to unify support for him, then his ability to negotiate an agreement on the nuclear programme in which trade-offs between renunciation of weapons ambitions are exchanged for removal of sanctions and provision of aid, etc. will be enhanced. This is especially so because he is a hardliner with a reputation, reaffirmed by the speech, of defying the Great Satan, the UK and other Western powers while denouncing the Zionists and courting Chinese, Pakistani, North Korean and Venezuelan ties. Just like US Republican administrations (Nixon and Reagan, respectively) could lead the opening to China and the thawing of relations (glasnost) with the Soviet Union because of their hard-line credentials and domestic positions of political strength, so too it is that Ahmadinejad’s faction, not the soft-line or moderates in the Iranian regime, has the best credentials for negotiating the terms of any durable agreement on its nuclear programme. In the measure that his speech reaffirms his hard-line credentials and strengthens his position within the regime, the more possible it is for him to be a reliable negotiating agent vis a vis the West, which means that the prospects of a peaceful solution to the Iranian nuclear impasse are actually improved if his speech has the desired effect on his intended main audience.
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This is the first of 24 weekly color correction video tutorials from the revised edition (due in December) of “Color Correction for Video” which was the first color correction book ever published at the time. This tutorial is pretty basic and others are quite advanced. I’ll try to release them in an order that builds on concepts from previous tutorials. Many of the tutorials will be based on Color, but others utilize Final Cut Pro, Avid and Color Finesse (as a plug-in for Adobe After Effects or Premiere). There may be some gaps in the information, since the video tutorials were designed to be viewed in conjunction with the book. Enjoy and make sure to sign up for the RSS feed so you don’t miss any of the tutorials! | <urn:uuid:e3664e61-c2c2-40bd-abc3-05cd43c5d7b5> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.provideocoalition.com/color_primary_video_tutorial/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571536.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811224716-20220812014716-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.960044 | 156 | 1.6875 | 2 |
The 2018 Accord is the 10th generation of Honda’s perennially best-selling midsize sedan. All new from the ground up, the new Accord is built on a new platform with a lower, wider stance, a lighter and more rigid unibody structure; a lighter and more sophisticated chassis; two advanced new power units, including Accord’s first-ever turbocharged engines, a new 10-speed automatic transmission.
In recreating Accord for its 10th generation, Honda designers and engineers sought to convey “absolute confidence” in every element of design and performance. Building on the bedrock character of Accord – its outstanding quality, fuel efficiency, packaging and sophisticated driving dynamics – they have imbued the 10th-generation Accord with a new level of emotional appeal and premium quality; an Accord that defies its mainstream midsize sedan status, providing even more refined and engaging performance, a more spacious and upscale interior, and the latest generation of advanced Honda safety and driver-assistive technologies.
In summary, the most dramatically styled, premium and fun-to-drive Accord yet.
Virtually everything on the Accord is new and substantially reengineered. Major new engineering features and technologies for the 10th-generation Accord redesign are as follows:
Connectivity and Driver-Assistive Technology
Packaging and Design
In reimagining Accord, designers first established the fundamental packaging strategy. Consistent with the “Man Maximum-Machine Minimum (MM)” design philosophy that underpins all Honda designs, the team shrunk the Accord’s footprint while expanding its interior space, at the same time creating more premium and athletic proportions and stance. The move to 4-cylinder engines across the lineup is a key component of this approach, allowing a shorter engine bay while also reducing weight and improving dynamic performance.
The new Accord has a longer wheelbase (+55 mm), a lower overall height (-15 mm), a wider body (+10 mm) and a shortened overall length (-15 mm). A sweeping greenhouse, positioned farther back on the body, completes the new stance and proportion of the next-generation Accord. The combined effect of these changes is a more premium look, highlighted by shorter overhangs, a bold front fascia, a long and low hood, and a visual center of gravity moved closer to the rear wheels.
Viewed head-on, the new Accord's greenhouse also angles in more sharply from the window sills to the roof, further emphasizing the wide lower body, while inside the cabin the seats have been moved slightly inward, which contributes to improved hip, shoulder and head room while enhancing occupants' freedom of movement. In addition, the longer wheelbase allowed designers to move the second-row seats substantially rearward, giving Accord 48 mm of added rear legroom. Overall passenger volume is increased by 70 liters (LX trim) and trunk space, at 473 liters on all models and trims, is up 25 liters on 1.5-liter and 2.0-liter models.
Elegant and modern exterior detailing compliments the Accord's new, more dynamic design. The bold and upright front fascia is highlighted by Honda's signature chrome wing front grille positioned above a large main air intake and flanked by available 9-lamp full-LED headlights and LED fog lights. The chiseled hood features a distinctive and aggressive raised center, and the deeply sculpted body sides enhance the visual length and strength of the lower body.
A new laser brazing process that joins the roof to the body side panels creates a clean exterior appearance with no need for a garnish over the rain channels. The similarly low and wide rear view is finished off with an upswept decklid, distinctive LED light-pipe taillights and available integrated dual exhaust ports.
First introduced in 1976, the Honda Accord is the second longest-running automotive nameplate in Honda’s history, after the Honda Civic. The Accord was the first automobile from a Japanese automaker to be manufactured in America and has been in continuous production at the company’s Marysville, Ohio auto plant since November 1, 1982, using domestic and globally sourced parts. Total global Accord production exceeds 17.5 million units. In 1987, Accord became the first U.S-made automobile from a Japanese automaker to be exported overseas (Accord Sedan to Taiwan).
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An extensive study maps patterns of gene flow between Mallards and Black Ducks.
The king of avian hybrids? Clearly the Mallard (Anas platyrhynchos), this duck species has hybridized with at least 39 other species. Most of these hybridization events concern closely related species, such as the Mottled Duck (A. fulvigula) or the Spot-billed Duck (A. zonorhyncha). With all this interbreeding you would expect that the Mallard will assimilate all the other species, leading to genetic extinction. This has been proposed for the American Black Duck (A. rubripes) in the eastern United States (see Mank et al. 2004). A recent study in the journal Ecology and Evolution revisited the Mallard x Black Duck case with new genetic data.
Not Much Backcrossing
Philip Lavretsky (University of Texas) and his colleagues present “the most comprehensive molecular study of mallards and black ducks to date” by collecting 290 samples across the range of both species. The researchers quantified the degree of gene flow between Mallard and Black Duck by assigning each individual to a generational class. For example, pure species, first-generation hybrid (F1), backcross to Mallard, and so on.
This analysis revealed relatively few backcrosses. In fact, individuals that backcrossed into Black Duck or Mallard were genetically indistinguishable from “pure” individuals within one or two generations. This suggests that there is little gene flow between the species. In contrast to previous work, the Black Duck is not being assimilated by Mallards. However, this analysis is based on only 0.04% of the genome (using RADseq data), so they might have missed important genomic regions.
Detailed analyses of the Mallard samples revealed two clear populations, which the researchers refer to as western and non-western Mallards. Ducks from the non-western group, which occur mainly east of the Mississippi River, carry a genetic signal that suggests hybridization with feral ducks. To understand this signal, I need to provide some detailed information on the structure of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) in Mallards.
Based on mtDNA, Mallards belong to one of two groups, the so-called haplotypes A and B. Ducks in the Old World carry haplotype A, while both haplotypes can be found in populations of New Worlds ducks. The reason behind this pattern is not resolved yet. It could be that the New Worlds only consisted of haplotype B but that gene flow (historical or recent) has mixed things up. Or the New World populations have arisen relatively recent and haplotype B has not spread across the range yet (i.e. incomplete lineage sorting).
Anyway, most non-western Mallards carry haplotype A which originates from the Old World. The most likely source for this haplotype is feral ducks, which have been (and are still being) released in North America. The game-farm birds are originally from Eurasia and this carry haplotype A. Based on these patterns, the researchers propose the following scenario: hybrids tend to backcross with mallards and these backcrosses consequently interbreed with feral ducks. But samples from game-farm birds are needed to confirm this hypothesis. There will definitely be more studies on this system. So keep an eye on the Avian Hybrids Project.
Lavretsky, P., Janzen, T. & McCracken, K.G. (2019) Identifying hybrids & the genomics of hybridization: Mallards & American black ducks of Eastern North America. Ecology and Evolution. Early View.
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Pigeons, or real pigeons (lat.Columba) - a genus of birds of the pigeon family.
The genus includes 35 species:
- White-headed Pigeon - Columba albinucha
- Ethiopian Pigeon - Columba albitorques
- Silver pigeon - Columba argentina
- Olive Dove - Columba arquatrix
- Canary pigeon - Columba bollii
- Wine Red Pigeon - Columba delegorguei
- Nilgiri pigeon - Columba elphinstonii
- Brown Pigeon - Columba eversmanni
- Speckled Pigeon - Columba guinea
- Himalayan Pigeon - Columba hodgsonii
- Columba iriditorques
- Black dove - Columba janthina
- † Silver-striped pigeon - Columba jouyi
- Bay Pigeon - Columba junoniae
- Lemon Turtle Dove - Columba larvata (Aplopelia larvata)
- Black and White Pigeon - Columba leucomela
- White-breasted Dove - Columba leuconota
- Rock Pigeon - Columba livia
- Santomei Pigeon - Columba malherbii
- Clintuh - Columba oenas
- Somali Pigeon - Columba oliviae
- Yellow-footed pigeon - Columba pallidiceps
- Andaman Dove - Columba palumboides
- Wood pigeon, or vituten - Columba palumbus
- Comoros pigeon - Columba pollenii
- Ash Dove - Columba pulchricollis
- Purple Dove - Columba punicea
- Rock Pigeon - Columba rupestris
- Columba sjostedti
- Columba thomensis
- Ceylon Dove - Columba torringtonii
- Madeira Pigeon - Columba trocaz
- Congolese pigeon - Columba unicincta
- † Bonin Dove - Columba versicolor
- White-chinned Pigeon - Columba vitiensis
Lemon turtledove is sometimes isolated into the genus Aplopelia.
To the genus Columba previously included species of the genus Patagioenascommon on the American continent.
Extinct endemic to Reunion Columba duboisi (English) may have belonged to the genus Turtle Doves.
Most pigeons are of medium size. The beak is usually relatively thin, thickened at the end. The nostrils are narrow, slit-like, in most species they open in the wax. The border of the forehead plumage protrudes forward. The head is small. The neck is short, thin at the head and strongly widening (large goiter) at the chest. The body is short and wide, with a strongly developed chest. The wings are usually long and sharp, with apex formed by the second or third flight (less often the third or fourth). The tail is often shorter than the wing, sometimes as long as the wing, slightly or significantly rounded. The tarsus is short, naked or only slightly feathered at the intermetatarsal joint, the tarsus is covered with scutes in front, and reticulated at the back and sides (in crowned pigeons, reticulated on all sides). The toes are long, with short but strong claws. The back (first) toe is well developed and level with the front toes. The plumage is dense, relatively hard and dense. The color is varied, sometimes very bright. Age-related changes are not difficult.
Chicks hatch blind, covered with sparse hair-like down. The downy outfit is replaced by juvenile plumage, which in the very first autumn or winter is replaced as a result of complete molting with the final outfit. The juvenile plumage differs slightly from the final one: it is duller and without metallic sheen. Sexual dimorphism is mostly expressed in the size of males larger than females. In some species, the male is colored brighter. Primary flywheels are 10 or 11, steering ones are usually 12-14, less often 1618 and even 20.
All species are strictly diurnal. Most sedentary birds, only a few migrate in temperate latitudes. Pigeons are mainly associated with forest habitats, a smaller number of species live in rocks, cliffs, and human structures. Food is usually collected on the ground. In this regard, pigeons walk well (but run badly). They take off freely, without a run, flapping their wings strongly. The flight is light, strong and fast, with frequent flaps of the wings. If necessary, pigeons can make quick and sharp turns on the fly and are capable of significant flight acceleration. Most species nest in groups and even in nesting time they fly to feed in flocks. In non-nesting time, they form flocks, sometimes of enormous sizes.
The food in the vast majority of cases is vegetable, most often the seeds of various herbaceous plants. Some species of pigeons specialized in fruit feeding. Animal food small invertebrates serve as a minor addition to plant food. Pigeons cannot do without water and sometimes fly to watering places for long distances. When drinking, immerse the beak almost to the nostrils in water and draw it in, without raising the head when sipping, as chicken do.
Nests are built from a small number of dry twigs, blades of grass or roots, with a shallow and flat tray, usually without any lining. Eggs are often visible through the bottom of the nest. Nests are located most often in trees, less often in hollows, on rocks or in buildings, even less often right on the ground. The number of eggs in a clutch is usually two, in some species three, or one. The shell is white. During the year, there are usually two or more clutches, even migratory species nest twice, and sedentary species sometimes nest 45 times. Embryonic development is rapid from 14 to 30 days (in different species).
Chicks develop chick type. In species of medium size, they fly out of the nests at the age of about a month. To a certain extent, the duration of postembryonic development depends on the characteristics of nesting: for example, in the openly nesting wood pigeon, the chicks leave the nest at the age of about 20 days, and in the nesting in the hollows, somewhat smaller in size, at the age of 25 days.
Pigeons are now distributed almost all over the world, with the exception of the polar countries of the Arctic and Antarctic
Man tamed the wild rock dove over 5000 years ago. Since then, pigeon breeders have bred more than 800 breeds of domestic pigeons, different in color, body shape and purpose. There are about 200 breeds of domestic pigeons in Russia.
Pigeon mail has long been one of the main methods of postal communication.
The most numerous group is decorative pigeons. Breeders have achieved an amazing variety of body proportions and colors of pigeons. Their color varies from pure white to black, reddish-red, piebald in a wide variety of varieties. The paws can be feathered up to the toes and carry long "hairs", the goiter is capable of swelling in the form of a ball (puffs), the beak varies from long to very tiny, the tail has a different number of feathers and is of different lengths. Some decorative breeds are famous for their beautiful acrobatic figures during flight (tormans), others for their unusual voice (laughing).
The original decorative breeds are Jacobins with a plumage of the head in the form of a wig, peacock pigeons, whose tail resembles a peacock's tail in a loose state, curly pigeons with corkscrew-shaped feathers. The group of "short-billed gulls" has many varieties. Gulls were brought to Russia from the middle of the 19th century, but during the Second World War, almost all birds disappeared, including the Moscow Ivory Gulls bred in our country, which were later restored, but still rare. Quarries, Indians, Bagdets, and Dragons are varied in size and body shape. They belong to the representatives of the group of breeds of warty pigeons, which are practically not represented in domestic pigeon breeding. They have a warty wax, on the eyelids and under the beak there are skin growths. Many have quite satisfactory flying qualities.
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India-China border tensions, despite all the negotiations, remain high. India is expectedly furious with China for violating border pact that resulted in the death of 20 Indian soldiers. China, on the other hand, wants New Delhi to forget the border conflict and focus on bilateral trade.
As EurAsian Times reported earlier, Modi-government identified several Chinese organisations including Alibaba, Tencent, Huawei, Xindia Steels Ltd. which it believes are associated with the Chinese PLA and could be face action by the Indian government.
“We have zeroed in on some companies with links with the Chinese army but what action would be taken is yet to be decided,” said a source who has knowledge of the matter. Allegedly, the Chinese venture capital investments in India including “big names” where the benefits of civilian innovation are suspected to be used for China’s defence sector.
Earlier, the Indian government banned a total of 59 Chinese apps including the teen favourite TikTok. India’s IT ministry announced the banning of 59 Chinese apps that include giants names like ShareIt, UC Browser, Likee, WeChat, Weibo and Bigo Live.
The Indian ministry called the Chinese-owned applications as “prejudicial to sovereignty and integrity of India, defence of India, the security of the state and public order.”
Chinese state-media including the Global Times has consistently attempted to warn India over the economic repercussions in case tensions are not sorted out between India and China. Beijing also wants New Delhi to continue the economic partnership and overlook the recent border skirmishes.
In its latest attempt to ‘woo & warn’ India, the Global Times talks about Bollywood films and writes how Indian movies are doing wonders in China.
The GT writes – a remake of 2015 Indian movie Drishyam is doing roaring business in China. The Chinese remake Sheep Without a Shepherd has earned more than $430,000 since theatres reopened in the country.
The author further says – This makes me wonder when Bollywood films will return to the cinemas and which will the first movie to be screened. Citing Indian reports, GT writes that Hrithik Roshan’s Super 30 is likely to “be the first Bollywood movie to release in China after the coronavirus pandemic.”
Due to stringent safety protocols, theatres are only screening older films such as 2017’s Wolf Warrior 2 during the initial phase and then will move on to new films that were originally planned for release in the first half of 2020. When things are running smoothly, movies like Super 30 will finally hit big screens in China, says the GT report.
In its typical intimidating style, GT talks about the possibility of Indian movies being banned in China which could come as a massive blow to the Indian film industry.
The GT author writes – some of my Indian friends told me that they were disturbed that Bollywood movies were going to be banned in China. However, looking at China’s Weibo and other social media outlets, this worry seems to be an overreaction as there are no such voices which are demanding a ban on Bollywood films, the author reassures.
On a warmer tone, the report says that Chinese people love to watch Indian films and are open to embracing new ideas and adapting them into our their films just like Sheep Without a Shepherd.
The report, in the end, takes a complete u-turn and goes on to blame extreme element in the Indian society who have launched a vicious campaign against Bollywood stars like Aamir Khan, Salman Khan and Shahrukh Khan, who are loved and appreciated in China.
It is making matters even more detrimental by following the bad example of the Modi government’s ban on China’s video app TikTok, a move that has spurred detestable comments and behaviour toward China. | <urn:uuid:03b0998c-49f6-42bb-8498-b246daea7049> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://eurasiantimes.com/china-cites-bollywood-actors-shah-rukh-khan-hrithik-roshan-to-diffuse-sino-india-tensions/?amp | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571536.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811224716-20220812014716-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.953662 | 797 | 1.625 | 2 |
Noem’s Tribal Affairs Assistant, Dave Flute, is the previous president of one’s Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate. Assistant Flute’s son to the Governor’s new rigged social education criteria panel, Fred Osborn, nevertheless are unable to get his Indian Degree Advisory Council so you can gather a quorum to talk about brand new Governor’s venture up against talking racism against Indians while others in school. It hit a brick wall a week ago Wednesday and you will failed once again recently Wednesday:
State Office out of Indian Training manager Fred Osborn said nine of this new council’s users was in fact into label, about three short of the minimum needed to see.
Osborn told you this new governor’s order perform now be put into plan for the council’s next regular quarterly conference. The guy said that have to exists from the June 31 [Bob Mercer, “S.D. Indian Ed Committee Does not have a good Quorum, Once again,” KELO-Tv, ].
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Sion’s greet findings concerning the the fresh Bison Cardio commonly slide flat towards the Southern area Dakota Tourism Department’s services inside product sales so you’re able to out from condition visitors. The individuals tourists want to see and you can pay attention to a complete colourful tapestry of your own history of all of payday loans in Delaware our region – perhaps not particular Noem-acknowledged light-cleanse kind of you to definitely record. Sion’s right because Pierre cannot love local community and you can competition interactions.
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Anne Arundel County Food Bank facing challenges amid coronavirus pandemic
The Anne Arundel County Food Bank is facing challenges collecting food amid the coronavirus pandemic.
The food bank said many county residents who have been laid off from nonessential jobs in the past two weeks are seeking help with food.
"Our pantries have seen a significant increase in families seeking assistance," said Susan Thomas, executive director of the Anne Arundel County Food Bank. "Some pantries have reported an average of 200% increase in the number of clients requesting help, of which 50% are new and we are doing our best to provide enough food to meet that increase."
The food bank said the need for assistance with food will continue to grow as 8,900 unemployment claims were filed in the county in the last two weeks and schools have closed.
The Anne Arundel County Food Bank is accepting food donations at its Crownsville location and is accepting monetary donations to purchase food from distributors at discounted prices.
"We are trying to make it easier for people to donate -- you can text 'FOOD' to 41444, or you can go to our website, aafoodbank.org/make-a-difference to make a donation online or order from our virtual food drives through Target or Amazon," Thomas said.
The Anne Arundel County Food Bank is open for food donations in Crownsville at 120 Marbury Drive weekdays 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., as well as at the Anne Arundel County Donation Center at 1370 Blair Drive, Suite H in Odenton weekdays from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. | <urn:uuid:73fc77d1-42fb-4377-b029-3b844c377947> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.wbaltv.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-anne-arundel-county-food-bank-donations/32053877 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570765.6/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808031623-20220808061623-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.960542 | 351 | 1.648438 | 2 |
Black Women Rising: It's Time to Support Our Fastest Growing Group of Entrepreneurs
March 21, 2022
For the better part of the past decade entrepreneurship has been steadily increasing in America—with Black people playing an important role in that growth. Black women in particular have been disproportionately leaving the corporate world to become the fastest-growing group of entrepreneurs in the country. According to a report by JP Morgan Chase, the number of businesses owned by Black women grew 50% from 2014 to 2019. And we accounted for 42% of all women who started a business during that time.
During the pandemic, 17% of Black women said they were “in the process” of starting a new business compared to just 10% of white women and 15% of white men. While these stats are impressive and show the resilience and determination of Black women, we are 2X as likely to be turned down for business loans; further, only 3% of Black women founders are running mature businesses. Starting a business, raising capital, and growing a business is challenging for any entrepreneur, but for Black women it is an uphill battle.
At LinkedIn, our vision is to create economic opportunity for every member of the global workforce. The influx of Black women entrepreneurs presents a unique opportunity to fulfill our commitment by supporting the fastest-growing group of entrepreneurs. Black women are building remarkable startups with amazing potential. For those eager to see meaningful progress in funding for women and diverse owned businesses, investment in Black women entrepreneurs offers a path to catalyze a more equitable, inclusive funding and support ecosystem.
Black Women: From Office Job to Entrepreneurs
Earlier this year, LinkedIn surveyed 1000 Black founders to better understand why Black people are leaving their corporate jobs to pursue entrepreneurship. With a goal of providing insights and resources to help Black founders build strong networks and connections to potential customers, we sought to understand the lived experience of Black women - our challenges, opportunities and the resources needed to build.
What we discovered is that Black women are multi-hyphenate entrepreneurs who pursue multiple professions and projects simultaneously as a means to create economic opportunity. For Black women entrepreneurs, the decision to leave corporate America and start businesses is based on several factors–from financial security, to flexibility, to job fulfillment and career growth. Data from the survey shows that 43% of Black entrepreneurs are motivated to become entrepreneurs to create generational wealth for their families. When we look at Black women specifically, 35% pursue entrepreneurship to create additional income for our families and to create generational wealth.
For many Black women, part of creating additional income means juggling a 9-5 job as well as an additional business or side hustle. Nearly half of Black women entrepreneurs said that the shift to remote work facilitated their pursuit of business ventures. However, that freedom comes with its own set of challenges. 33% of Black women entrepreneurs with full time jobs feel they’ve been overlooked for career advancement opportunities because they have an additional business. Ultimately, many Black women professionals hope to turn their personal business ventures into full time jobs. The number one reason is flexibility. Amidst the pandemic, 56% of Black women founders pursued entrepreneurship to have more flexibility and control over their schedule.
Access to Information and Capital are Key—But Black Women Entrepreneurs Don’t Know Where to Go
Building a business requires dedication, perseverance, resilience and patience. It requires raising capital, and investing in the skills necessary to propel business forward. This is no simple feat for any founder, much less for Black women founders. Our survey revealed that nearly 1 in 2 Black women did not know where to go for information when starting their own business.
Sourcing startup funding is also a major obstacle. While 40% of Black women founders cite access to funding as key to growing their business, of the challenges in Black women’s entrepreneurship journey, accessing capital (33%) and personal debt (33%) are at the top of the list. According to ProjectDiane, a biennial study on the state of Black and Latinx women founders conducted by digitalundivided, 0.27% of the total venture capital investment went to Black women between 2018 and 2019. This is not surprising as our survey found that 74% of Black women entrepreneurs have not had a funding conversation with an institutional investor or VC.
Building a network and fostering communities that can deliver capital, mentorship, and timely knowledge are vital and presents an opportunity for LinkedIn to support. It is also an opportunity for the funding ecosystem to step up and address the persistent underfunding of women entrepreneurs. Despite these significant obstacles, Black women demonstrate determination, ingenuity and resilience, bootstrapping our businesses with personal savings (61%), credit cards/loans (35%) and borrowing from friends and family (27%). If we care about fostering an inclusive ecosystem, a different approach is warranted, one that provides equitable access to the level of funding required to scale business meaningfully, including angel and institutional investment.
No One Goes It Alone: The Importance of a Strong Network + Skills
Access to a strong network, mentors and advisors are also critical for entrepreneurs as networks help foster growth and create a community for support and development. As we say, “your network is your net worth.” That’s why along with access to capital, Black women founders consider having a strong network one of the top attributes contributing to the success of a venture. Our survey found that 58% of Black women business owners believe they would be more successful if they had a stronger network; and nearly a quarter of them also said that a lack of mentorship and a limited network is one of their top challenges.
I’m so proud that our annual TransformHer event and online TransformHer community supports Black women entrepreneurs and the venture capital community that sees the value of investing in women of color. Last year, we also held our inaugural INFused event to gather Black creators on LinkedIn, providing the tools to connect, inspire, and engage your audiences. This connects to our LinkedIn Creator Accelerator Program that invested $25 million to help creators build their audience and amplify their voice. We are leveraging our platform to amplify the voices of Black women who are creating companies of scale and potential and engaging in platform discussions. These community initiatives are essential. 42% of Black women business owners seek out family, friends, colleagues, and community groups for advice. Nearly 1 in 3 Black women entrepreneurs (31%) find their support network via online communities like LinkedIn. Of those who are part of an entrepreneurship group/network, these groups have helped them feel supported (73%), gain the skills they need to grow as an entrepreneur (68%) and feel a stronger sense of belonging (64%).
Black women are the most educated bloc of Americans. We are consistently doing the work to invest in ourselves, upleveling our businesses and communities. Organizations can tap into that ambition by delivering useful and timely knowledge. Among survey respondents, 39% of Black women founders said that business management/planning, and/or soft skills was the top skill they wanted to learn.
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What is baby step 3 of the Total Money Makeover program? How big of an emergency fund is enough?
Baby step 3 is to make sure you can cover your expenses for 3-6 months. This keeps you protected if something big happens, like losing your job.
Read more about baby step 3 of the Total Money Makeover program.
Baby Step 3: Boost Your Emergency Fund
At this point, you’ve eliminated debt other than your mortgage and have $1,000 cash for emergencies. You’re now in control of your income and have momentum. Baby step 3 is boosting your emergency fund to give you a cushion against big, life-disrupting problems like a job loss or medical bills.
Remember, major financial emergencies are inevitable in life, and if you use debt to cover them, you’ll be back to square one. Everyone needs an emergency fund large enough to cover three to six months of expenses, enabling you to manage for up to half a year without an income. In one survey, 49% said they couldn’t cover even a month’s expenses if they lost their income. That’s why you need to do baby step 3.
The amount in your emergency fund should be between $5,000 and $25,000.
For example, a frugal family with expenses of $3,000 a month might keep a minimum of $10,000 in an emergency fund. While $3,000 a month may not seem realistic, keep in mind that when you’ve eliminated debt and have adequate insurance coverage, it’s possible to live on much less than your income.
The exact amount you should save for emergencies depends on your situation. If your situation is unstable—for instance, if your job could be at risk—you need a larger emergency fund. Here are some rules of thumb:
- If you work on commission only or are self-employed, cover six months of expenses.
- If you’re single or a couple with one income, cover six months.
- If your job is unstable or your family has ongoing medical problems, also cover at least six months. In contrast, if you’re a tenured teacher or professor and plan to stay in that job, covering three months of expenses could suffice.
When faced with an emergency, pause and take a deep breath before drawing on your emergency fund. Don’t do anything until you and your spouse talk about it and agree on the solution. Then go one step further and sleep on it to be sure you haven’t overlooked anything.
Where to Put the Money
As noted in step #1 (create a $1,000 emergency fund), your emergency fund must be in the form of cash and easily accessible without any penalties.
The point isn’t investing the money to earn interest, it’s keeping it available and safe—so don’t put it someplace hard to tap into, like a mutual fund. A great option is a money market account with no penalties, and on which you can write checks. Your money will earn a little interest there but again, that’s not the objective of baby step 3.
As you change the way you handle money through the Total Money Makeover process, you’ll find yourself using your emergency fund less, for two reasons:
- Your monthly budget will be healthier and able to handle most things that come up.
- As you become more financially fit in general, your finances will be less easily upended. Problems that used to throw you for a loop are just inconveniences.
Aside: Don’t buy a home until you’ve completed this step of the money makeover; too many people buy a home before they’re ready financially (with no other debt and a full emergency fund). Further, you should save first (maybe years) for a substantial down payment or a cash purchase. More on this follows in Chapter 10.
Reaching the end of baby step 3 takes about two and a half years.
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Enjoy a traditional style yet different from today’s standards of dining on charcuterie. The different types of charcuterie boards allow you to explore food in a whole new way. If you love unique food pairings, you’ll have fun creating your own personalized charcuterie board. The origins of charcuterie date back to Ancient Rome. The French then adopted the practices of charcuterie and made it part of the traditional French dining experience. Read on to find out which type of charcuterie you like best.
Rillettes are typically made from game meats such as duck, goose, rabbit, or venison. It is very much is like pate in its consistency. A French cooking technique is used where one cooks the meat slowly and shreds it to make a paste-like texture. If you use a slow cooker, you can set it and forget it. Serve rillettes at room temperature on crackers or toast.
Typically a mousse is a mixture of meat and liver, the most common of which is chicken liver. It has a creamy consistency and the same serving procedure as rillettes. You can eat it on toast, crackers, cheese, and even with fruit.
Salami is ground meat mixed with spices and formed in a sausage casing. It’s smoked and may be thick or thinly sliced to accompany cheese, wine, and many other pairings. Some of the most popular types of salami include soppressata from Italy and chorizo from Spain.
A cured meat, prosciutto is made from high-quality pork legs. The meat is covered in salt and left to rest for a few weeks. During this time, the salt draws out blood and moisture, which prevents bacteria from entering the meat. Salting the meat also causes the flavors to become more concentrated. Serve it thinly sliced; you may enjoy pairing it with cheese, melons, and crostini.
Though it’s not traditional, modern charcuterie boards can go in just about any direction you want. To parallel your savory board, you can offer a dessert board as well. The best things to include on your dessert charcuterie board are delicious and attractive items. Consider including sweet fruits, nut assortments, chocolates, wafers, ice cream, sorbet, candies, flavored popcorns, and cookie selections to name a few. | <urn:uuid:043c0447-8a3a-4977-9571-8a7c52d123f5> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.francolania.com/2021/07/different-types-of-charcuterie-boards/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571198.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810161541-20220810191541-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.951842 | 515 | 1.632813 | 2 |
Presents critiques of four works of the Nobel Prize-winning civil rights leader and guides readers through the process of analyzing them from different critical angles, including moral theory and historical, racial, and rhetorical viewpoints.
I just wanted to point out that the description of these collective works is describing Martin Luther King, Jr.
These are works by Martin Luther, the reformer. That's a little embarrassing, Apple.
Incorrect description and frustrating layout
The description on this book says that is critiques of the writings of American Civil Rights Leader Martin Luther King Jr. But it is actually the writings on Martin Luther, the German monk and Father of the Protestant Reformation who lived 200 years before America was even founded.
Also, the book has no index or table of contents of the whole book that I can tell. You have to either read through it or flip through it to see which of his writings are in this book. | <urn:uuid:cd24cc32-be20-434c-bb89-d0f649840721> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://books.apple.com/us/book/works-of-martin-luther/id498232653?uo=1001lqpH | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571909.51/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813051311-20220813081311-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.939187 | 197 | 3.109375 | 3 |
Этот доклад был представлен в ноябре 2014 на открытом семинаре Dashkova Open Seminar (The Princess Dashkova Russian Centre, The University of Edinburg)
I want to talk about modern memorial rituals in Russia. I suggest that investigation of remembering practices and rituals can help us to understand something about social rules and orders as well as the common values on which Russian social life is based.
As is well demonstrated in the ethnographic literature, a characteristic feature of Russian rural culture was the view that life has a predestined length. Anyone who died a natural death in old age was viewed as having died at the “correct” time. According to one proverb “One does not die when old, but when ripe” [umiraet ne staryi, a pospelyi.] (Bernshtam 2000, 180). Russian rural people often refer to those who have died a natural death collectively as “roditeli” (parents, ancestors). These ancestors, it is believed, must be honoured by the living if the living wishes to avoid serious consequences, such as emotional upset, visitations by the dead, and illnesses.
By contrast, a person who does not live out his or her allotted time is said to die a “bad” or “incorrect” death. The Russian ethnographer Dmitrii Zelenin calls such deceased zalozhnye, the “set aside” dead, in the sense of a body that is placed separately from others (Zelenin 1916; Warner 2000a and 2000b). Among such “incorrect” deaths were those of murder and suicide victims and victims of accidents. Those who died in this way were subject to different funeral practices: they were buried outside the boundaries of the cemetery, or the funeral procession took a different route. I want to underline that those who fell in battle (soldiers) and died far from their native places were viewed as having had a bad death. So they had to have different memorial rituals.
We’ll return to this theme later, but now I want to make one comment. Contemporary Russian commemorative traditions follow different memorial scenarios for those who fell in battle far from home, on the one hand, and for the ancestors who lie in cemetery graves on the other. In every Russian town and village, we can see the same picture: the old cemetery is situated near the church, the modern cemetery is at the boundary of the settlement, and the memorial obelisk is in the centre. The latter is visited every year on the same day when the soldiers who died in the Second World War are commemorated. So the term “incorrect” death does not mean that the dead are bad or unclean, it means that they are out of the norm like the hero, the victim or the villain.
The correct death is associated with a person’s readiness to die. Preparing one’s own death clothes in advance, for example, which is still practiced today, is a gradual mental and practical preparation for death. That one is able to choose one’s own time of death is a belief we often hear in our interviews. One woman told us, “This year I’ll live, and next year I’ll depart [go on a journey / uedu], either to the town or to the cemetery” (Roksoma, Vologda oblast, 2001). And she did: when we came to the village the following summer, we found out that she had died in the spring. According to the discourse of death, she had gone on a journey.
The following conversation about the preparations that individuals make for their own deaths shows the difference between the urban and village understanding of death. One can see that for the interviewer being ready for death is a new idea: she asks whether her informant is not afraid to think about death. In the city culture, people avoid thinking about the things that will happen after they are gone. The rural dweller in this interview does not understand what can be scary about preparing a dress for her funeral. She must look respectable in her coffin, and to prepare for that is a normal part of life.
Here is the transcript of the conversation:
<You prepare the funeral clothes yourself?>
Who else? All of them.
<So, you know when it's time?>
[laughs] Of course. I bought a sarafan, too. And everything’s ready.
<Aren’t you afraid?>
No. I bought the shoes and all, the boots, the pants and the shirt. What’s scary about it! I keep it out there in a cupboard.
(Woman b. 1929, Kolmogora, Leshukonskii region, Arkhangel’sk oblast, 13 July 2009 [Lesh 17-22])
For many dwellers of large cities in post-Soviet Russia, death has become more removed from the family, while in the village, it is accepted as part of daily life. In the city, the family uses a service to take care of the body and organize the funeral, while in the village everyone is involved in every funeral. Children are not excluded but are taken to the home to say farewell to the deceased – even if the deceased is only a neighbour, not a relative. They see the dead body, and their parents take them to the cemetery for memorials and funerals.
In the village, the dead need certain services which can only be provided by community members: the neighbours (not the family) must wash the body and dress it in its death clothes. Every member of the community must say farewell and must accompany the body on the initial part of its journey. This is a duty to the deceased, more than to the living. The sense of connection with members of the community referred to by the Russians as “svoi” (literally ‘one’s own’) extends to them after death. The dead -- those who die a natural death -- are still svoi. They do not become alien or unclean as is commonly believed of the dead in urban centres.
Because death is a public matter in the rural community, it is important what one wears when one is publically displayed after death. But what one wears is also important because life does not end at the moment of death. Death is an experience, not a lack of being. The myth of life after death underlies the practice of preparing the funeral clothes. Old women desire to look good and to feel comfortable in the future life.
Through practical preparations for death, our rural informants ready themselves for the rite of passage which is death itself. They gain control over their future existence in the new place to which they are going, the land of death or the Other World. They believe that they will join the roditeli, their honoured ancestors. They live and die with the certainty that their memory will be preserved via numerous community practices designed to keep the deceased peaceful and happy in their new state.
The practice of remembering the deceased at specific times is a duty the living perform for their deceased relatives, to make their existence in the Other World easier, and even to remove them from a bad place (Hell, for example). The forms and times of these memorial practices vary in different areas, but all over Russia, the principle is the same: to remember the deceased is a duty of the living. The simplest act, which many of our village interlocutors perform daily, is remembrance while drinking one’s morning tea. In the Orthodox tradition, remembrance is included in the morning prayer ritual.
Mandatory visits to the cemetery take place on particular ancestor/ roditel’skie days. Depending upon the local tradition, they may include the following dates: 1) The Saturday before Maslenitsa (Butter) week, before Lent; 2) the second, third, and fourth Saturdays of Lent; 3) the Saturday before Troitsa, the ninth day after Ascension day; 4) Radonitsa or Radunitsa, the second Tuesday after Easter; 5) Dmitriev Saturday, a kind of Veterans’ day, the first Saturday of November; and 6) Veterans’ Day, celebrated in Russia on the ninth of May.
Memorial communication with the ancestors of the clan (rod) becomes one of the ways in which people express their unity with each other. Relatives come from other villages and cities, and all join together in a common meal at the gravesite and accept some food from neighbours who are doing the same thing at the same time − so there is a kind of communion of relatives and neighbours on the one hand and of the living and the dead on the other. So, remembering the dead is one of the rituals that construct social cohesion in the village community.
Many times we observed women taking meals to graveyards to be shared by the family on remembrance days. The meals contained special foods, such as kisel’, a sweetened grain and/or fruit jelly, and often vodka. The food would be eaten by the family and any passersby; then part of the meal would be left on the grave, and the vodka poured onto the grave, for the dead.
What is the idea that is symbolized by the partaking of a common meal at the gravesite?
On the one hand, the implication of a funeral is that the deceased physically leaves the community. On the other hand, the goal of the memorial rituals is the reincorporation of the dead into the community. Although the deceased are bodily located in a new place (underground in the cemetery) and spiritually occupy a new space (the Other World), they are still part of the extended community of the living. In order to maintain this contact, the living must accommodate the deceased by moving to “their” space (the space of the cemetery), by speaking to and about them.
And now I want to return to the differences between commemorative rituals in cities and villages. For city dwellers death has become removed from the family, special services take care of the body and prepare funeral rituals. Funeral processions are only seen in the case of celebrity deaths. Death as a normal event, as part of everyday life, has moved away from the public space. So one can say that the urban community does not have a symbolic language with which to express cohesion in the face of death. However, there is one kind of death that is accepted as a part of city public life. I mean the death of soldiers far from their native places and the erection of obelisks in their memory. Such monuments occupy central places in cities and, like village cemeteries, serve as places for public gatherings on the 9th of May, a day of commemoration which marks the end of the Second World War.
So, how are we to interpret all this?
It would be helpful here to introduce the concept of a sacred–profane dichotomy as was first proposed by Émile Durkheim. He considered this to be the central characteristic of religion: "religion is a unified system of beliefs and practices relative to sacred things, that is to say, things set apart and forbidden." In Durkheim's theory, the sacred represented the interests of the group, in particular the feeling of unity, which is embodied in sacred group symbols. I argue that the dead themselves remain sacred objects for contemporary Russian society as a whole. This value has not changed. However, the social order has changed. As far as state memorial events are concerned social cohesion is provided only by accidental death or heroic death. Rituals dedicated to such deaths were intended to import a sense of the sacred and the metaphysical into the public life of Russian society. However, they do not make use of the whole gamut of sacred values available to memorial tradition as a whole. It is particularly noticeable that although these military heroes are honoured, for example by gifts of flowers or wreaths, no-one shares a meal with them. The only people who may share food with the dead are those who are part of the same mystical ‘communion’. It is self−evident that the ‘holy’ heroes, who are remembered in the public arena are not part of this ‘communion’/’community’. They do not determine how relationships among the living are organized− they are outside the community of ‘one’s own ’people (svoi). By contrast, social inclusiveness is created out of the public gaze, by private groups of citizens through their gatherings on commemorative days, when they break bread both with the living and with the ancestors and in this way construct and preserve the community’s sacred values. Unlike the exclusivity of state memorial occasions, these private memorial gatherings are inclusive. They honour all the dead. The sharing of food between the living and the dead establishes the order of inter−relationships among the living members of the community. These include the notions of mutual support and help, both emotional and physical, which are understood by the expression ‘one’s own − svoi. | <urn:uuid:c7f1cee1-a0a3-4639-be30-8c69108871c7> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.pragmema.ru/ru/svetlana-adonyeva-remembering-rituals-dashkova | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571909.51/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813051311-20220813081311-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.967836 | 2,782 | 2.78125 | 3 |
It plays a useful role in facilitating access to specialist care and follow up consultations for patients with chronic diseases, living in remote areas or unable to travel. During this pandemic, it has helped patients seek medical care, when hospital visits carried a high risk of infection or disease transmission.
In recent times, several online portals have sprung up, offering basic or specialist consultations, second opinions, and even day care surgery. However, there are limitations to an online consultation. Medicine is a very hands-on discipline. Every little observation, from how the patient walks into the room to a detailed physical examination is necessary to provide optimal care to patients. It is also needed to form the doctor-patient connection and bond.
If you live in a place that has access to medical care, seek the opinion of your family doctor or general physician first. If they refer you to seek specialist opinion, meet them in person. Specialist referrals or second opinions are generally sought for difficult or tricky medical conditions and you are better off meeting them in person. If this is not possible, then seek an online consultation. Follow the guidelines issued by the concerned health authorities in your area during the pandemic. | <urn:uuid:490eb65a-72ce-4858-93a4-987f37089c0e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://ilcare.org/2021/10/25/online-medical-consultation/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571536.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811224716-20220812014716-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.951302 | 235 | 2.34375 | 2 |
Lawrie Jordan, director of imagery at Esri, gave a keynote at today’s International LiDAR Mapping Forum with a focus of going beyond the 3D imagery to the information model behind it, allowing for deep analysis to address problems. With the move toward real-time and global persistent surveillance we have a new view and a new vision for where we go with it, supporting dynamic operations.
GIS offers a new architecture to bring together information in real time for a better view, and transparency, into what is happening around us. As an integrating framework, GIS is rapidly expanding into 3D. The 3D capabilities are more scalable, and are moving more rapidly into analytics to solve problems. Within the same day, we’re able to capture detailed 3D and combine it with traditional 2D data.
With Hurricane Sandy as an example, Jordan showed areas of high surge potential as provided by NOAA along with state data on buildings that were captured via LiDAR. Running a geoprocessing model, within minutes the LiDAR and flood data are overlaid and indicates which buildings will be flooded and by how much. With the data it allows for pre-positioning of assets to prepare and also provides data to insurers so that they can also prepare.
Another example is finding lost revenue with LiDAR to do tax parcel assessments and see what has changed and what has been assessed. LiDAR comparison of two different collection dates, subtracted, with parcels overlaid allows you to filter out major additions or new homes. With connections to the tax parcel data, assessors can see who pulled a permit, and determine exactly who needs a visit.
In addition to LiDAR, photogrammetric techniques have advanced with smart software to create detailed 3D models. Pictometry is now combining their oblique imagery, with smart software to create 3D models.
Aerometrex and the software company Euclidean, both out of Australia, are pioneering ways to rapidly classify point cloud data to create rich 3D models. With terrestrial data, the company is creating models with 1mm accuracy (the width of a pencil line!). With accurate imagery, we’re now doing overlays of reality (augmented reality), to provide detailed navigation of the world around us.
Esri’s CityEngine now runs on the cloud, with models that you can visualize without needing expensive hardware or software, and adding analysis. You can view models for time of year or day, and see if there will be shadows and what it will look like at the street level as well.
The rules-based modeling creates very realistic models, shown for both Afghanistan and a European city, where models can be created quickly. Merging into entertainment, the modeling tools are being applied to commercials and even full-length feature films.
The technology covers all these areas from science to entertainment, with geography as an integrator. Jordan closed with the line that the best way to predict the future is to invent it. | <urn:uuid:3c828264-0312-46e6-a5d3-9c80c76e512a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://sensorsandsystems.com/mapping-the-future-as-an-intelligent-3d-image-ilmf/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570921.9/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809094531-20220809124531-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.945858 | 616 | 1.984375 | 2 |
(The Center Square) - Colorado's unemployment rate dropped to 3.7 percent in March as the state added 5,800 jobs, according to the latest data from the Colorado Department of Labor and Employment (CDLE).
The unemployment rate represents a drop of 0.3 percent month-over-month and is the lowest rate Colorado has recorded since 2.8 percent in February 2020. The national unemployment rate declined by 0.2 percent to 3.6 percent last month.
"I am excited that even more Coloradans have good jobs, our economic recovery continues to outpace the nation, and we will keep prioritizing making sure people can hold on to more of their hard-earned money," Gov. Jared Polis said in a statement.
Overall, Colorado's workforce grew by more than 12,300 people last month, bringing the state's total workforce up to 3.2 million, according to CDLE. The state's labor force participation rate also increased to 68.9 percent, which is the highest rate recorded in over two years.
Over the past 23 months, Colorado has experienced the fifth highest job recovery rate in the nation, according to CDLE data.
The state has added more than 389,400 nonfarm payroll jobs compared to the 374,500 jobs it lost at the beginning of the pandemic, representing a recovery rate of 104 percent compared to the national average recovery rate of 94 percent.
However, not all industries benefited from Colorado's declining unemployment rate in March, according to an analysis of the data by the Common Sense Institute (CSI), a free-enterprise think tank.
The construction industry lost more than 2,300 jobs last month. Other industries like arts, entertainment, and accommodation services have also struggled to regain their employment levels.
Arts and entertainment is still missing more than 6,200 jobs when compared to its employment levels from January 2021. There are also 5,200 fewer accommodation service jobs available now than there were last year, according to CSI's analysis. | <urn:uuid:caaf6119-3961-4dc2-8a70-6c7a86a14de9> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.kiowacountypress.net/content/colorado-adds-5800-jobs-march-unemployment-rate-drops-37-percent | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570765.6/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808031623-20220808061623-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.961952 | 409 | 1.640625 | 2 |
|Title||On Quantum Chosen-Ciphertext Attacks and Learning with Errors|
|Publication Type||Journal Article|
|Year of Publication||2020|
|Authors||Alagic, G, Jeffery, S, Ozols, M, Poremba, A|
Large-scale quantum computing poses a major threat to classical public-key cryptography. Recently, strong “quantum access” security models have shown that numerous symmetric-key cryptosystems are also vulnerable. In this paper, we consider classical encryption in a model that grants the adversary quantum oracle access to encryption and decryption, but where we restrict the latter to non-adaptive (i.e., pre-challenge) queries only. We formalize this model using appropriate notions of ciphertext indistinguishability and semantic security (which are equivalent by standard arguments) and call it QCCA1 in analogy to the classical CCA1 security model. We show that the standard pseudorandom function ( PRF )-based encryption schemes are QCCA1 -secure when instantiated with quantum-secure primitives. Our security proofs use a strong bound on quantum random-access codes with shared randomness. Revisiting plain IND−CPA -secure Learning with Errors ( LWE ) encryption, we show that leaking only a single quantum decryption query (and no other leakage or queries of any kind) allows the adversary to recover the full secret key with constant success probability. Information-theoretically, full recovery of the key in the classical setting requires at least a linear number of decryption queries. Our results thus challenge the notion that LWE is unconditionally “just as secure” quantumly as it is classically. The algorithm at the core of our attack is a new variant of the well-known Bernstein–Vazirani algorithm. Finally, we emphasize that our results should not be interpreted as a weakness of these cryptosystems in their stated security setting (i.e., post-quantum chosen-plaintext secrecy). Rather, our results mean that, if these cryptosystems are exposed to chosen-ciphertext attacks (e.g., as a result of deployment in an inappropriate real-world setting) then quantum attacks are even more devastating than classical ones. | <urn:uuid:0ce792c9-8e52-42f2-8544-1cd6adbcc597> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.quics.umd.edu/publications/quantum-chosen-ciphertext-attacks-and-learning-errors | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571536.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811224716-20220812014716-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.868757 | 529 | 1.828125 | 2 |
Office 365 services operate off a token expiration and refresh mechanism. This is a standard method used for authentication across the IT industry. This mechanism works in Office 365 by issuing a token, which is valid for one hour, to a client when it authenticates against a service. When the token expires the client reaches back out to the identifying service, Azure AD, and refreshes the token. At this time a reevaluation is done to verify user access is still allowed.
This method, while good for providing an optimal end user experience, has a major pitfall regarding its lag time between when the token is issued and when it refreshes, and what changes may have occurred since. These changes could include things like password expiration, account deactivation, network location change, and so on. A real-life example would be that a person is terminated, and their account immediately disabled, however, because their mobile mail client just got a fresh token, they still have access to send and receive e-mail for the next 45 minutes. You could see where IT security professionals and management alike would have a concern with this.
Aware of this gap, Microsoft has introduced a new mechanism called continuous access evaluation (CAE). Continuous access evaluation allows for near real-time evaluation of events and enforcement of changes. This allows for immediate revocation of account access if someone loses a device or discovers their account has been compromised.
Besides acting against an account based on a critical event, CAE also allows for Conditional Access policies to be enforced more immediately. For example, if you have a policy that only allows for access to your SharePoint Online environment from devices when they are on the corporate network, and a person takes their PC to the café across the street and connects to their public Wi-Fi, they will be locked out of SPO immediately instead of potentially maintaining access for up to an hour.
To allow for CAE, clients must be using a new mechanism called claim challenge. Previously, a client would try to refresh the access token from its cache as long as it was not expired. With claim challenge, the client can be informed to bypass a cached token even if it has not yet expired. This new mechanism is available in the latest versions of Outlook, Teams, and Office on all major platforms (Windows/Mac/iOS/Android).
CAE is in public preview at the time of this writing. It currently supports enforcing access revocation based on the below critical events for Exchange Online and SharePoint online:
- User Account is deleted or disabled.
- Password for a user is changed or reset.
- Multi-factor authentication is enabled for the user.
- Administrator explicitly revokes all refresh tokens for a user.
- Elevated user risk detected by Azure AD Identity Protection.
Since it is in preview, it must be manually enabled from your Azure portal:
- Browse to Azure Active Directory> Security > Continuous access evaluation.
- Choose Enable preview.
You can also manually initiate a sign out of all user sessions, a good idea to do for any termination, or report of a lost device or compromised account, from the Office 365 Admin Center as shown in the below screenshot.
I anticipate that Microsoft will look to enable CAE on all tenants down the road, once it is no longer in the preview state. | <urn:uuid:cf1b1484-d129-4306-b31e-2589eb1658fd> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.sikich.com/insight/office-365-session-control-via-continuous-access-evaluation/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571536.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811224716-20220812014716-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.938617 | 674 | 2.125 | 2 |
Written by: Dominik Cergna
Similarly to IKEA, whose innovativeness and approach in the past few decades have revolutionised the way in which we shop for and furnish our spaces, first of all by flat pack solutions and mass production of its items, the future brings some new and different methods of shopping, designing and manufacturing objects we use in our homes.
Millions of young people go to live in big cities, where they often change jobs and flats, and those flats are many times limited in space and decrepit. Their specific way of life affects what they shop for and the way they shop. Most of us today have an unlimited Internet access and there isn’t virtually a person without any online shopping experience by now. However, the statistics suggests a very small share of furniture e-commerce. Why is that so? First of all, because of a lack of experience of objects in the space when shopping online and because of expensive and complicated delivery. “Traditional” manufacturers who sell furniture mostly in physical stores and showrooms at attractive locations have to a great deal failed to prepare properly for doing business in which online furniture ordering will become very important. Some young companies and startups want to tackle the predicament of young people from big cities and to offer them exactly what they need at a given moment in their lives.
Photo credit: Tylco.com
Tylko.com is a new furniture brand Yves Behar, one of the most influential global designers, worked on together with his Polish partners. Tylko strives to digitalise the furniture industry. You can use a simple slider on their website to literally design your own table or shelf within given parameters. You can use the application to visualise such piece of furniture in your living room and order it straightaway by a click generating a database for automated manufacturing. This example clearly shows a change in the existing shopping model. In this case the customer does not buy an off-the-shelf piece of designer furniture, but chooses on his/her own the size, colours and shapes of objects s/he wants to have. This triggers an avalanche of new opportunities for manufacturers and customers alike, as design adaptability and possibilities to adjust to different spaces are unlimited. How can the prices of such new, advanced brands compete with traditional companies? Direct sales without dealers and selling online exclusively cut down significantly the margin and the costs of the final product, making it better in quality and cheaper. It is very important in this context to have online selection and shopping process as simple and as intuitive as possible, similar to physical stores – without any fuss, ambiguities and complications.
The second example is Made.com: a British webshop manufacturing products on offer only when a customer orders a specific product, eliminating the need for storage and physical stores. At the same time, it promotes young talented designers by offering and distributing their products. They have recently opened a brick and mortar showroom as well to allow potential customers to have a look at their products and try them out in person, in order to address the biggest challenge of online furniture shopping – a lack of immediate experience and testing – at least to some point. Made.com does everything in a completely opposite fashion from “old” brands – without famous designer names and dealers, and the decision on new products depends on their webpage visitors. Made.com invites their customers to vote for the pieces of furniture, and the most popular among them go into production.
Photo credit: Hem.com
Another interesting example is hem.com, initiated by Jason Goldberg. In the furniture market, Hem is making an attempt to replicate what Warby Parker did with eyewear or Nike with NikeiD custom shoes. Hem offers good quality Scandinavian design, relevant to people with different lifestyles. Now already a half of their company profit comes from customers who personalise products on their website. The customers want to have a selection and they want something of their own and unique, which they will be able to share on the social media and show off to their friends when they come to visit. These types of brands give them exactly what they want, as opposed to e.g. a small IKEA table or shelf that practically everyone has. interiordefine.com and campaignliving.com are also trying to adapt and humour a huge population of young people, adjusting to their fast lifestyles by custom-made and flexible products easily assembled and movable to other spaces. These new business models require quite different designing logic as well. Some completely change the existing paradigms and push the existing borders while considering the entire process of objects production and sales. The company, i.e. the designer, no longer designs a single product but gives the parameters according to which the customer will shape his/her own table. The company doesn’t any more make its own decisions about the products to be launched into the market, but the market and the customers do it, who can now say what they want and what is relevant to them. In the designing process, a special focus is placed on the possibility of sending the product in parts and of assembling different combinations or modules into a single product, to facilitate many combinations the customer can put together. A good example of such design is the ILI-ILI lamp by Grupa made of differently coloured modular elements easily stack up, offering a very simple way of creating a practically unique lamp.
Owing to the advantages they offer, and given the social and technological changes happening continuously in our time, it is possible that such models of furniture shopping and designing will prevail in the future and occupy a large segment of the target market. | <urn:uuid:0a05dc44-d1be-43d5-a92d-b539e974b0c4> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.brigada.hr/endless-combinations_online-shopping-affects-contemporary-furniture/?replytocom=1757 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570921.9/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809094531-20220809124531-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.959517 | 1,150 | 1.796875 | 2 |
When I was a child, I was home alone after school one winter day waiting for my mom to get back from work. There was a knock on the door and outside there was this nice looking lady standing on our front porch. I didn’t open the door because my mom wasn’t home. The lady said she was a friend of my family, but I refused to let her in because to me she was a stranger. She sat in her car during a snowstorm for what seemed like forever until my mom finally made her way home.
Guess what? The lady that seemed like a stranger to me was really my mom’s friend. I felt so bad for keeping her waiting outside in the cold, but both she and my mom agreed that I had done the right thing by not opening the door for a stranger. I had been trained well growing up in the big city of Memphis. Never trust a stranger.
Fast forward to today. I live in the small town of Auburn, Alabama where we teach our children Southern hospitality. Say hello or ‘War Eagle’ to complete strangers, especially if they are wearing orange and blue. One of my childhood friends from Memphis visited me here recently. We were taking pictures at Toomer’s Corner and put our purses down briefly on the sidewalk. A guy walked by and as she dove for our purses she yelled “Quick get your purse!” I stood there confused until she said, “Are you crazy, he could have stolen our purses!” Never had that even crossed my mind. I guess twenty years out of the big city has made me a little less careful than I need to be about strangers.
Sadly, even in a small town, we need to be aware of strangers and teach our children how to respond to them in a way that keeps them safe. That fact hit home late last week when a man was spotted at several area schools in the parking lot allegedly watching children. Parents like me who hadn’t been that concerned before suddenly began to feel an urgency to give our kids a crash course on stranger danger.
But before we talk to our children about stranger danger, we as parents need to keep a few things in mind. Studies have consistently shown that people who hurt children are most often people that the child knows, many times even people in their own family, rather than complete strangers. In fact, more than 75% of kidnappings are committed by family or acquaintances.
As parents we are more fearful of stranger abductions, like Leiby Kletzky, than we are about the more common kidnappings by family members or acquaintances. It’s only natural. We think, no one my child knows will harm them, right? Well, unfortunately the statistics say otherwise. That’s why it’s just as important to teach our kids how to stay safe in general, from both strangers and people that they know.
It’s also important to educate our kids about stranger danger in a way that doesn’t make them so frightened that they will never want to leave the house! When talking with your kids about strangers, you need to stay calm and matter of fact. If you can’t remain calm when teaching them about stranger danger, you can’t expect them to be level headed if they ever are actually approached by a stranger!
Now you’re ready to teach your child about stranger danger. Here’s how:
First things first, who is a stranger? Strangers are ANYONE that you don’t know. They’re not scary looking people, in fact they usually look like nice people. But if you don’t know them then that makes them a stranger. Strangers might even use your child’s name to trick them into thinking they know them, but if your child doesn’t actually know the person then they are still a stranger. There’s a quick online quiz that goes through pictures asking “Is this person a stranger?” The answer to all of the questions is YES, and it’s neat to show your child how normal strangers can look.
Next, tell your child that “most strangers are good, but there are some bad strangers who might try to hurt you.” Explain that “they might try to touch you in a way that is bad or they might try to take you away from your parents and hurt you. Again, most strangers aren’t like this, but it’s important to know what to do if you are approached by a stranger so that you can stay safe.” Good strangers will usually approach a child only when a parent is around and can tell the child whether the person is safe or not. Bad strangers, on the other hand, usually approach children when they are alone or without their parent.
The most important thing to teach your child about strangers is NOT to go anywhere with them. Bad strangers might try to get children to go into their car or go to a private location. Teach your children that they need yell, bite, kick, and scream to get away from a stranger who tries to take them somewhere. Stay far away from their car and turn and run away (screaming) if possible. Make sure they know they will NOT get into trouble for doing this, since it’s exactly the opposite of what we usually teach our children about good manners, especially in a small town.
You also need to tell your children that bad strangers will make up lies to try to trick children into going with them. They might use any of the following: “Your mom is sick and asked me to give you a ride,” “I need directions, can you help me,” “I’ve lost my puppy, can you look for him with me,” “You have to come with me now or your whole family will be killed,” or “You’re so pretty, I’m a photographer and would like to take your picture for a magazine.” Teach your children NEVER to fall for these tricks. Role play with them about these scenarios and let them know that you would NEVER send a stranger to get them in the event of an emergency. Another good tip is telling your kids that adults wouldn’t ask a child for help, they would ask another adult. So, if an adult is asking a child for help then that should be a signal to the child that they need to get away!
Last but not least teach your children who to look for if they are not with you and are approached by a stranger or get lost. Get as far away from the stranger as quickly as possible and find a safe adult to get help. They can ask for help from another adult that that they know, a store clerk, policeman, teacher, neighbor, or another mom with small children. Teach them your cell phone number so that they can always know how to reach you if they are separated from you.
There’s more we can all do to educate our kids on staying safe, but these five tips are a good start to a lifelong conversation about stranger danger. For more information, check out this video clip on teaching this valuable lesson to kids: | <urn:uuid:7c9d670b-7730-48b9-a0be-5ee3e6605077> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://childpsychmom.com/small-town-stranger-danger/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571909.51/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813051311-20220813081311-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.977039 | 1,501 | 1.75 | 2 |
Web Development & Language Learning
The following titles are examples of original software currently in use at Wichita State University's Intensive English Language Center.
Spelling is a simple, but favorite application of IELC students. Easy to use.
Last update: Apr 03, 2020
Academic Topics uses authentic contemporary videos to help students improve their listening skills and build their vocabulary.
Timed Readings challenges students to read college-level material and answer ten comprehension questions in six minutes.
TalkWrite is straightforward activity that uses the Google voice recognition system as a pronunciation practice tool. Students listen to a model voice and imitate it. Colorized feedback assists and motivates the user.
IELTS Readings is a series of passages that mirrors the standardized test many international students take in order to achieve English proficiency.
Grammar Tutorial assignments provide students a thorough review of basic structure concepts. Randomized quizzes follow task sets. Managed via MySQL and PHP.
IELC Gradebook (1) This tablet-friendly application is used by faculty to record attendance, scores, etc. It also allows them to communicate with students. PHP, HTML, and MySQL based.
IELC Gradebook (2) The faculty gradebook uses some jQuery features to enhance data
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Dementia and Bathing: 5 Proven Ways to Keep Your Loved One Clean
If you’re caring for someone with dementia and struggle to bathe them, know that you aren’t alone. From “curious vision” to having a tough time seeing the water, all sorts of challenges can pop up when you’re trying to get your loved one clean. To help, we met with dementia care experts and put together a guide of our favorite tips.
1. Encourage your loved one to undress, instead of undressing them
Maintaining independence is crucial for those with dementia, and one of the best tools on your belt to promote independence is mimicking. Instead of undressing your loved ones, begin unbuttoning your own shirt or motion pulling your shirt over your head. Then gently point to your loved one and say “Now you!” Not only does this promotes independence, but it helps your loved one understand what’s coming next.
2. Be prepared for obscene language
When it comes to dementia’s work on the brain, it’s usually the case that loved ones will hold onto “forbidden” language the longest, and as time goes on, inhibitions are lowered. This means that you can expect a bit of obscenity, especially as you help your loved one undress. Just remember – it’s not your loved one talking, it’s the condition. Practice patience, kindness, and understanding.
3. Always use a gentle touch first
Many older adults with dementia develop a loss of “contrast sensitivity,” meaning that if things are a similar color, it can be difficult to tell one apart from the other. When it comes to the shower, many with dementia can’t see the water, and experience an unpleasant jolt when they step in. To help, take an extra minute to extend your loved one’s hand into the water. Allow them to feel that the water is there, and that the temperature is warm and comforting.
4. Turn them away from the faucet
After you’ve allowed your loved one to explore the water, be sure you turn them away from the faucet. Those with dementia often develop “curious vision,” and love to turn knobs and push buttons. Be sure any shower controls are firmly out of sight to avoid freezing – or scalding hot – changes in water temperature.
5. Keep your loved one clean between showers with no-rinse bathing supplies
No-rinse bathing supplies allow you to stretch your time in between showers, while keeping your loved one fresh and clean. A few of our favorites are this no-rinse shampoo cap, no-rinse body wash, and disposable bath wipes.
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The Best In Animal Odor Cleaning In Louisville & Surrounding Areas
Pets such as cats and dogs sometimes have accidents in the house. In addition to staining, pet urine has an unpleasant odor. In fact, urine is the number one need for professionals who specialize in animal odor cleaning. Unfortunately, when pets, especially cats, urinate on the floor or walls, the smell encourages repetition. Over time, urine soaks into the carpet, pad, wood floor, subflooring, drywall, framing, and foundation.
When it dries, the urine becomes concentrated and the odor becomes worse. Simple surface carpet cleaning will do nothing to remove this odor. The result? Strong pet odor travels throughout the home and can cause serious respiratory issues for residents.
With the right products and processes, odor from pet urine can be remediation. If the wood and concrete are still structurally sound, Bio-Kentucky can use specialized chemicals and application techniques to break apart urine and disinfect the wood or concrete. Next, we use Ozone to treat odors in the air. Finally, we seal all surfaces to encapsulate odor-causing material that may still be in the wood or concrete.
Give Kentucky Hoarding a call at 502-496-8336 to schedule a free, no-obligation estimate.
Solid Animal Waste:
While pet feces can be problematic, feces from nuisance animals can be dangerous. Whether you have mice in your basement, raccoons in your walls, or bats in your attic, you may notice one or more of the following:
Lots of droppings and urine on the floor and in the insulation
Odor problems inside the home
- Growth of mold on contaminated attic areas
- Parasites and other pathogens
- Strong scent that can attract new wildlife
Even if you do not spend time in your basement or attic, it is important to have the animals removed and waste remediated. Why? Because the pathogens mentioned above do not stay just in the attic or basement, they can travel throughout your home. When the droppings dry out they, along with Hantavirus, histoplasmosis fungus, roundworm, and other pathogens, are easily spread and inhaled.
As a professional bioremediation company, Kentucky Hoarding is prepared to safely remove animal feces and disinfect the affected areas of your home or business. In the end, your basement or attic will be restored to a healthy clean condition. Your whole house will be safe from possible illnesses carried in the animal waste.
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Cluster B Personality Disorder
Narcissistic Personality Disorder (shortened to NPD) is a condition in which the individual feels excessively important and is a "pattern of grandiosity (exaggerated claims to talents, importance, or specialness)." As a result, they demand admiration (inward through fantasies or outward through behaviors) and praise while fail to appreciate others.
People in their late adolescence or early adulthood often get it. However, children are still in their process of maturation and change considerably even if they are diagnosed with NPD so doctors rarely give them a diagnosis of personality disorder.
Males have NPD three times more commonly than females.
There are four subcategories of NPD:
- Craving narcissists feel deprived and are emotionally needy, oftentimes clingy and necessitate.
- Paranoid narcissists feel disgrace for oneself and projects these feelings towards others by criticisms and jealous comments and behaviors.
- Manipulative narcissists need to feel superior over others and tend to lie or manipulate them.
- Phallic narcissists are usually male who express manliness by showing off their bodies and clothes or being aggressive and athletic.
A person most likely has Narcissistic Personality Disorder if they...
- Are lost in their own world with limitless intelligence, beauty, success, power, or love
- Feel that they are important and that they should be favored or granted automatic acceptance
- Have a compulsion for reverence
- Lack of appreciation for others
- Believe they are gifted (in a variety of areas) and is not understood by people who are not of special or high-class
- Boast their achievements or talents and expect people to admire even without them
- Usually deny that they made a mistake or was wrong
- Do not apologize often
- Get jealous or believe that others are jealous of them
- Are arrogant, haughty, and so on
- Cannot see themselves objectively
- Feel that, "they deserve whatever they want or need"
- Are irritable with criticism
There are currently numerous theories about the causes of Narcissistic Personality Disorder:
Some believe it's a "form arrested psychological development."Freu believed that all infants have a phase known as 'primary narcissism' when they believe that he or she is the center of the universe. The phase comes to an end when the realities of life force the baby to realize that they do not have the control--their parents do. From here on, infants have two choices: they can move on normally by giving up their fantasies and becoming emotionally attached to their parents OR they can redirect their emotions back to themselves (secondary narcissism).
Some believe it's the "young child's defense against psychological pain."Two psychologists named Kohut and Kemberg agreed with Freud on the concept of NPD formed through parent-child relationship problems before the age of three. However, they disagreed on the nature of these problems.
Kohut believed that Child grows out of narcissism when they are exposed to chances to be idealize/gain approval from his or her parents. This grants the infnt a realistic sense of self and a set of personal ideals and values. However, if the parents fail to provide these circumstances, then the child is "stuck" at the developmental stage in which their sense lf self remains grandiose and unrealistic and they are dependent on approval from otehrs for self-esteem.
Kernberg = Child's defense against a cold and unempathetic parent usually the mother (problems before age three). The child is deprived and angry at his or her parents and withdraws into a part of the self which the parents value (looks, intellectual ability, other skills or talent). As a result, they become hyperinflated and grandiose. The "split off" into this hidden part causes the child to go back and forth from grandiosity to worthlessness.
Some psychiatrist think the problem is primarily emotional while others think it's due to knowing.
Some believe that the victim has an "empty" perception of self while others believe it's a "disorganized self."
Some believe it's because one can't test reality or construct a view of oneself.
Some refer to the Macrosocial Causes:
- The media tends to focus on the "lifestyles of the rich and famous" more than the lives of ordinary people.
- Society tends to praise showing off of vanity, status, or achievements and prefers the outward beauty and attitudes than beliefs and values.
- Corporations and government bureaucracies like "impression management" more than "measurements of performance."
- Society supports egotistical parents who avoid the needs of their kids.
- Because religious or social institutions are weakening, children see themselves as isolated individuals rather than members of a community.
Though there has been no medications developed to treat Narcissistic Personality Disorder (2002), patients diagnosed with this illness can purchase drugs to relieve certain symptoms including anxiety. There are anecdotal reports that some serotonin reuptake inhibitors that are used for depression can reinforce narcissistic grandiosity and lack of empathy for others.
PsychotherapyMany individual therapies have been tried including psychoanalysis, Adlerian therapy, rationalemotive approaches, and Gestalt therapy and it has been decided that therapists should set modest goals. NPD patients will attack and undermine their therapists, preventing a deep bond between the two to form (to heal early-childhood pains). However, a researcher stated that more research is needed of the Narcissistic Personality Disorder.
There is also the one-to-one therapy with 45 minute long sessions. These meetings should start out slow until a relationship can be formed and should introduce marital or family sessions once the time is right.
HospitalizationPatients with relatively low-functioning NPD who express the inability to control oneself resulting in self-pain can go under the inpatient treatment. But with an immediate crisis, hospital treatment seems to be more useful.
A case study was done on a man named Sam V., age 43, who was diagnosed with Narcissistic Personality Disorder.
Visit http://www.authorsden.com/visit/viewArticle.asp?id=28821 to read the full article.
When Sam came to his first therapy session, he displayed anhedonia ("failure to enjoy or find pleasure in anything") and dysphoria close to depression. He complained about the stupidity and selfishness of others and that he could not interact or even understand them and their situations due to his "intellectual superiority." As a writer, Sam believes that his work is not appreciated because of this very reason. However, he feared being talked about and being labeled as a freak. Sam believes that people are jealous and "out to get him" (delusions). He resists to bring himself down to the level of others but rather tries to bring his readers and clients up by educating them. An interesting note is that he compared with himself to a "machine, a computer, or a member of an alien and advanced race" and talked in third person throughout the therapy.
Sam had a hard life because he was often victimized by clients. For example, clients would take Sam's ideas and selfishly use them for their own benefits without re-hiring him as a consultant. Even if he tries to be generous, he would only get hostility in return.
Though a husband, Sam is sexually inactive because he perceives it as boring and a primitive activity which "empty-headed" folk practice. He doesn't show respect to the lives of others near and dear to him and becomes shocked and hurt when they demand their own personal autonomy.
Sam is aware of his weaknesses and faults but only to receive compliments. In fact, he tries to prove that his statements are true whenever somebody challenges him and when he fails to persuade them, he resorts to anger. Sam oftentimes brags but feels that he deserves better and more and sees everyone else as enemies (though he either idealizes everyone or devalues them). As a result, he never takes full responsibility for his actions nor does he accept the consequences. By blaming the world for his problems, he puts up defenses.
Other disorders in Cluster B:
- Antisocial Personality Disorder
- Borderline Personality Disorder
- Histrionic Personality Disorder
Want to know more about Narcissistic Personality Disorder?
1) Narcissism Symptoms Checklist
2) 7 Myths About Narcissism and Narcissistic Personality Disorder
3) Dr. Drew's Online Narcissism Test
4) Are We in a Narcissism Epidemic? - Newsweek.com
5) What Makes Narcissists Tick (Blog Posts about Narcissism)
6) Me, me me! America's 'Narcissism Epidemic' - msnbc.com
7) Are You Involved With a Narcissistic Person?
8) Survey: Facebook, Twitter may give perceptions of narcissism
9) Study: Social Media Is for Narcissists
10) Narcissism Quotes
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Cataracts occur naturally due to the ageing of the eye, and diagnosis in adults over 40 is quite normal. They can also sometimes occur in infants and children as a congenital defect.
Normally, the lens at the front of the eye focuses light onto the retina at the back of the eye, creating a sharp image. When the lens becomes cloudy, the light can’t pass through freely, which is why your vision becomes blurred.
Contrary to popular belief, cataracts are not caused by overuse of the eyes, nor can they be made worse by using the eyes.
Compare the two images below:
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We have to begin with the Communist Manifesto. This has to be one of the most influential political publications of the modern age.
Written by Karl Marx, published in London on 21 February 1848, the Communist Manifesto proclaimed that “the history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles” and that the inevitable victory of the proletariat, or working class, would put an end to class society forever.
The Manifesto opens with the dramatic words, “A spectre is haunting Europe – the spectre of communism …” Ideas of socialism and the potential achievement of communism reverberated with increasing force during the 20th century, and by the 1950s almost half the world’s population lived under Marxist governments.
The Communist Manifesto ends by declaring: “The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win” …
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AKS. [122 764]. The postcard is addressed “Frl. Ilse und Margot Einstein Haberlandstr. 5 Berlin,”
and postmarked “Bad Nauheim 24.9.20. 2–3N[achmittags].”
Elsa Einstein. Heinrich Zangger, who also participated in the Bad Nauheim meeting of the
Gesellschaft Deutscher Naturforscher und Ärzte (GDNÄ), took care of her (see Heinrich Zangger to
Michele Besso, 24 September 1920 [SzZ, Nachl. H. Zangger, box 216]).
In all likelihood a reference to Philipp Lenard, with whom Einstein had engaged in a debate on
relativity theory on 23 September at the meeting (see also Doc. 153, note 3).
Earlier in the year, Einstein had proposed to hold a general academic discussion on relativity at the
GDNÄ meeting in his letters to Robert Fricke (Doc. 48) and Arthur Schoenflies (Doc. 89). Following
the much publicized events at the Berlin Philharmonic Hall (see Doc. 111), he challenged all those
who objected to his theory to present their arguments in Bad Nauheim (see Einstein 1920f [Vol. 7,
Some 500 to 600 participants attended the debate in Bad Nauheim’s Bathhouse no. 8 (see Vossi-
sche Zeitung, 24 September 1920, Evening Edition). Seating was limited: at 8.15 A.M., only one door
was opened, “and it was really quite narrow, and made even narrower because to its right and left
stood a mathematician and a physicist—famous people, and not of the most slender build—like
angels with broadswords standing before the Einstein paradise. Entrance to a ‘business meeting’ was
only granted by this mathematical-physical filter to members of the Union of German Mathematici-
ans and the German Physical Society […] until those waiting outside could come in at 9 o’clock. [The
audience] quickly filled up the chairs, stood along the walls and filled the gallery—and waited for the
scholarly dispute” (“und sie war noch dazu recht schmal, und noch schmaler dadurch, daß rechts und
links ein Mathematiker und ein Physiker—berühmte Leute, und nicht vom schlanksten Typ—als
Engel mit den Flammenschwerten vor dem Einsteinparadiese standen. Eintritt erhielten durch dies
mathematisch-physikalische Filter nur die Mitglieder der Deutscher Mathematikervereinigung und
der Deutschen Physikalischen Gesellschaft zu einer „Geschäftssitzung“ […] bis dann um 9 Uhr die
draußen Wartenden eintreten konnten. Man rückte auf den Sitzen zusammen, stand an den Wänden
und füllte die Gallerie—und wartete auf den Gelehrtendisput”; Körner 1921.) The audience still had
to wait for close to four additional hours. Lectures were first given by Hermann Weyl, Gustav Mie,
Max von Laue, and Leonhard Grebe, until finally the floor was opened for a general debate of 15 min-
Lenard, Einstein’s principal adversary, was a prominent and strong critic of relativity (see
Doc. 108, notes 4 and 5, and Doc. 147, note 5). At the meeting, he repeated arguments he had pub-
lished earlier (for the contents of the debate, see Einstein et al. 1920 [Vol. 7, Doc. 46]). Lenard felt
isolated in Bad Nauheim and believed his arguments to be underappreciated (see Lenard 1921,
pp. 36–44, and Schönbeck 2000, pp. 28–33).
Accounts of the debate varied on the particulars, but most agreed and emphasized that it was
matter-of-fact (see, e.g., Vossische Zeitung, 24 September 1920, Evening Edition; Darmstädter Zei-
tung, 29 September 1920; and Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung, 25 September 1920, Morning Edition).
Nevertheless, tensions had been mounting. Planck, firmly in the chair, had feared beforehand that Ein-
stein might still leave Germany (see Lise Meitner to Max Born, 1 June 1948 [UkCC, MTNR 5/2]).
After the debate, Felix Ehrenhaft and his wife took Einstein for a calming walk in the park, and later
at dinner their party avoided the uneasy company of fellow physicists (see Felix Ehrenhaft, “Meine
Erlebnisse mit Einstein (1908–1940).” DS, MSS 289 B). The debate was further strained by the dif-
ficult relations within the DPG (for Lenard’s role, see Doc. 147). Paul Weyland was also present, yet
remained in the background; for his account, see Weyland 1920d and Vol. 7, the editorial note, “Ein-
stein’s Encounters with German Anti-Relativists,” p. 110.
Einstein was planning to travel to Stuttgart to deliver a lecture at the Schwäbische Sternwarte
Society (see the preceding document). Ernst Levy was a specialist in surgery, gynecology and obstet-
rics in Stuttgart.
Probably a reference to the first line of the poem “Urians Reise um die Welt” by German poet
Matthias Claudius (1740–1815): “Wenn jemand eine Reise thut/So kann er was verzählen.” The poem
was set to music and made popular by Ludwig van Beethoven (Op. 52, No.1).
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Farhan Haq, the Acting Deputy Spokesperson for UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said that theThe United Nations (UN) has reiterated there needs to be accountability in Sri Lanka over the alleged incidents which took place during final stages of the war. This was stated by him at the UN Daily Press Briefing today answering questions from Matthew Russell Lee of Inner City Press.
Question: And I also… on reports. I wanted to know whether the Secretariat has seen this report out of a human rights group in Australia, essentially saying that during the Sri Lanka event, in the final stages of the conflict, that there was a destruction and concealment of mass graves and also that its been… on a list of countries in which mass atrocities are still quite possible. I wanted to know, given the Secretariat’s interest in 2009 and this Rights Up Front project, what’s the response to this new study?
Acting Deputy Spokesperson: We’ve made it clear that there needs to be more done to get at the heart of what happened in Sri Lanka. You’ve seen what the Secretary-General’s reports on the situation have said and it’s clear that there continues to be a need for all the facts to be learned and for there to be a study of whether there’s any wrongdoing that’s occurred in the course of the final phases of the Sri Lankan conflict. The Secretary-General has said that repeatedly and we continue to hold by that.
Question: An international process? Just one follow-up, because it’s been a number of years now: Is a national process still credible or should it be done in Geneva?
Acting Deputy Spokesperson: Ultimately, it’s up to different Member States to determine whether there will be an international process. We have presented information to them and we’ve made clear what we believe is the need for accountability and we rely on the Member States’ judgement to follow through. Yes?
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Nutrition labels are found on the back of all food and beverage items. Whole foods, such as fruits and vegetables, are typically exceptions to this and don’t normally come with a nutrition label. When buying foods, it is very easy to only read what is on the front of the box or package. However, if you’re looking to transform your health, you’re going to need to turn over the food item and look at the nutrition label. In this guide, I’ll keep things easy and straight forward in order to help you learn how to read a nutrition label for a healthier lifestyle.
What Is A Nutrition Facts Label?
The US Food and Drug Administration (USDA) created food labels to help compare different food items using standard measurements and serving sizes that the “average” consumer typically eats or drinks.
Numbers on the Nutrition Label are typically in grams and are converted into a % based on Daily Value (DV). The DV is based on a daily dietary intake of 2,000 calories and is given as “general nutrition advice.” The goal of a Nutrition Label is to compare food items on a standardized scale.
However, you are not like the person next to you and may require different nutritional needs or have different health goals for weight loss. Therefore, you can utilize the Nutrition Label in a way that is in alignment with your health plans.
First, let’s dive in to the different components of the Nutrition Label so you can better decipher what each part contains.
What Do Serving Sizes On A Nutrition Label Mean?
Nutrition Fact Labels are broken down into a few components. In the picture below, the top blue portion tells you what quantity of food is being used to come up with all of the numbers on the label. For example, the item used in this picture was for a frozen lasagna. Therefore, 1 cup of frozen lasagna is what they’re considering to be a serving size.
If you have a food scale, you can also measure out the grams of what 1 cup would be: in this example, 1 cup of frozen lasagna is about 227g.
The next section in pink tells you how many calories is in 1 cup of frozen lasagna: 280.
Consuming very large servings can contribute to weight gain due to eating larger portions and more calories.
How Do You Calculate Calories From A Nutrition Label?
When you’re calculating calories, it is very important to know exactly how much food you’re actually consuming. Are you really only having 1 cup of lasagna? Or you having 2-3 cups? Again, if you have a food scale, you can always weigh your food (in grams to match this particular food label), and determine what multiple of a serving size you’re actually having.
Let’s say you don’t have a food scale, but you have measuring cups at home. You take the time to scoop the lasagna first into the measuring cup and then onto your plate. However, 1 cup doesn’t look like much to you so you end up serving yourself 2 cups of lasagna.
You now need to take all of the numbers on the Nutrition Label and multiply them by 2.
Therefore, the new Nutrition Facts Label would read:
- Calories = 560
- Total fat = 18g (24%)
- Saturated Fat 9g (46%)
- Trans Fat 0g
- Cholesterol 70g (24%)
- Sodium 1,700mg (74%)
- Total Carbohydrate 68g (24%)
- Dietary Fiber 8g (28%)
- Total Sugars 12g
- Protein 30g
If you look at the Serving Size part of the Nutrition Label (in blue), you’ll see that there are 4 servings per container. By having 2 cups of lasagna (or 2 servings), you would be consuming 50% of the package. If you had 4 cups of lasagna (or 4 servings), you would be consuming the entire package.
What Do I Need To Know About The Fat & Cholesterol Section Of A Food Label?
When evaluating the Nutrient Section of a food label, you’ll want to start by paying attention to the total number of grams of each item and the % Daily Value.
As a general rule of thumb, aim for %DV between 5-20%. I’ll give you exceptions to this rule in a bit.
When reading the Nutrition Label, pay attention to:
- Saturated Fat
- Trans Fat
Saturated fat can increase your risk of heart disease and high cholesterol – especially in the context of the Standard American Diet which contains highly processed foods!
Aim for < 10% of your DV from saturated fats.
Trans fat can also increase your risk of heart disease.
On a Nutrition Label, companies can label their food item as having “0g” of trans fat even if it contains up to 0.5grams. Don’t be fooled!!
NEVER consume foods with trans fat. Period. Even if it says 0 grams. If the words “Trans Fat” are even written on the Nutrition Label, put the food item down!
You can double check the ingredient list for sneaky ways that trans fat can creep into your food. Look for some of these ingredients:
- Hydrogenated vegetable oil
- Partially hydrogenated vegetable oil
Trans fats are found in baked goods, fried foods, snack foods, and margarine.
When it comes to cholesterol, aim for < 300mg per day, or < 200mg if you have heart disease.
How Much Sodium & Sugar Should I Look Out For?
The average American consumes ~3500mg of sodium a day; more than twice the amount recommended by the American Heart Association (1500mg).
By consuming so much sodium, you are increasing your risk of developing high blood pressure, heart disease, and obesity.
One Mcdonald’s quarter pounder with cheese contains 1150mg of sodium by itself! But don’t forget to add in the sodium from french fries, shakes, or any other condiments and sauces. That’s pretty much your entire day’s worth of sodium in one entree!
When it comes to sugar, the 2015-2020 Dietary Guidelines for Americans recommends consuming < 10% of total calories from added sugar.
Let’s use the example of 2,000 calories / day.
Ensuring you are having < 10% added sugar in your diet would mean that you would have to eat (or drink) less than 200 calories from sugar / day.
What is 200 calories worth of sugar?
- 1 gram of sugar = 4 calories
- 4 grams of sugar = 1 teaspoon
Therefore, you should have no more than 50g of added sugar per day (or 12.5 teaspoons of sugar).
Here’s a point worth emphasizing: I’ve been speaking on the topic of added sugar, not what sugars are naturally occurring in fruits or other food items.
Added sugars are the extra sweeteners in our foods that companies add to make them more palatable (ie: corn syrup, fructose, high fructose corn syrup, sugar, glucose etc.).
Be sure to read the Ingredients List at the bottom of the Nutrition Label to see what sugars are being added in!
If you haven’t read my blog post on Why Are Sugar Sweetened Beverages Bad For Me?, be sure to do so after finishing this blog post. I outline how many teaspoons of sugar are in sugar sweetened beverages (Hint: Minute Maid Lemonade has way more than the recommended daily intake of added sugar!!).
Let’s Expand On Added Sugars
I love talking about added sugars with my surgical patients. When I ask them what they have for breakfast, it is not uncommon for them to enjoy a big bowl of cereal with milk and orange juice.
When we calculate how much added sugar they are consuming first thing in the morning, they are usually shocked.
One of my patients outlined his typically morning breakfast:
- Raisin Bran cereal
- Based on the size of the bowl he was using, we estimated ~3 times the normal serving size
- Skim milk
- ~ 1.5 cups or 12 ounces
- Orange juice in a tall glass
- 12 ounces
Now let’s start adding up how much sugar he was consuming!
Sugar = 54g (based on 3 cups / 3 servings)
Sugar = 16g (based on 12 ounces / 1.5 servings)
Sugar = 33g (based on 12 ounces / 1.5 servings)
Total added sugar = 103 grams !!!
Remember: recommendations are to have < 50g of sugar for the entire day.
How Should I Approach Reading a Nutrition Label For Weight Loss?
If you’re a grocery shopper that tends to buy items that look or sound healthy, I’d like you to follow these steps to transform your habits into healthier, more informed behaviors:
- Turn the package over and read the Nutrition Label
- Start with the ingredients at the very bottom. How many are there? Can you pronounce them? Are there less than 10? (Ideally 5?)
- Look at the Calories
- Evaluate the Serving Size volume. Are you realistically going to eat 1/2 a cup? 1 slice of bread? 1 oz of cheese? Do you know how big or small these portions really are?
- If you’re unsure of what ounces, grams, or cups look like, I highly recommend purchasing an affordable food scale to give you perspective.
- Make sure there are no Trans Fats on the Nutrition Label
- Keep your Daily Value % in a safe range with fat, cholesterol, and sodium
- Shoot for high fiber foods / beverages that are lower in carbohydrates and added sugars. I personally shoot for < 10g of sugar (ideal <5g) per serving size.
- Remember- if you know you’ll be consuming 2, 3, or 4x the serving size listed on the Nutrition Label, you need to multiply every number by that factor!
I know it can be scary and intimidating making changes to the foods you’re used to buying at the grocery store and the comfort foods you’re used to having.
However, in my 12 Week Weight Management Program, I hold your hand and walk your through bite-size steps (pun intended!) of how to approach making small changes toward your diet that will lead to HUGE, long-lasting results.
Hear what Shannon D, had to say about her experience with the Program.
Patient Education: Nutrition: How To Read A Nutrition Facts Label. The Amaerican Academy of Family Physicians. Last Revised: August 22, 2017.
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A group of climbers who made it to the top of the Matterhorn were astonished to find a kitten at the summit. Apparently it had made its way up there without any human assistance, perhaps following some other climbers. The climbers put the kitten in one of their backpacks and carried it back down.
While the story seems hard to believe, it's pretty well documented. The website Cervinia Icons
has a brief article written in 2016 by one of the climbers, Luigi Orombelli, who found the cat. From his account:
Shortly after seven o’clock a lone mountaineer arrives on top: he’s about my age, confident, elegant.
We introduce ourselves, but the conversation is soon interrupted: we hear strange noises. “It must be those guys” says Daniel, indicating the group of climbers playing around the Swiss peak. The calls continue and more start sounding like a mew. But, suddenly, two ears appear: a cat is struggling on a thin ledge just below us, meowing and rushing toward us. The meows and his movements revealed fact that he was cold and hungry.
Climbers at the Matterhorn summit with cat
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Lucky Draw Supports Canton’s All Abilities Playground Renovation/Expansion
Drawing on July 5th at Canton’s July 4th Plus One event
Do not need to be present to win.
Our goal is to provide an inclusive, accessible and safe playground environment
where non-typically and typically developing children can experience play together
or individually by February 2023. This will be accomplished through a community
collaborative comprised of a variety of civic clubs, businesses and individuals and led
by Canton town leadership. A newly renovated and expanded inclusive playground will
benefit all the children of Haywood County, especially the greater Canton area, as it
will be designed to include those with developmental and physical challenges. This
convenient playground will enable all-inclusive family time at no cost to those families
or care givers which benefits their children.
An All Abilities Playground will replace, expand, and improve the small playground
that was severely damaged during the August 2021 flood. Kiwanis enthusiastically
accepted an invitation by Canton town leaders to partner with them to make this
playground a reality. This project will positively impact the social, emotional and
physical development of children aged one to early teens. Almost half of the $250,000
funding goal is projected to be realized by mid-July, 2022.
Inclusive playgrounds provide activities to engage children on many levels, in terms
of physical, cognitive, sensory and social development. Physical play structures invite
children of differing abilities to take risks and challenge themselves, creating a sense
of mastery and achievement. Research has also warned us about the decreasing
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learn and grow. It’s good for our children and it’s good for our future.
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Mac OS Mail
This guide is a complete walkthrough for setting up a Mac running the stock Mail app to retrieve email from an account hosted on one of our shared servers. Please note that software changes over time, so the details may not exactly match these. The overall process should be similar though.
First you will need to start the Mail application by looking in the App Launcher for Mail. If this is your first account you will be prompted to add a new account, otherwise tap the account icon in the top right hand corner of the screen and select 'Add another account'.
If this isn't your first email account on this computer, you will need to click the application name in the toolbar and select Accounts. Otherwise you will be taken straight to the next step.
From the list of providers, select Other Mail Account.
Enter your name, the address of the mailbox you configured in the control panel, and the mailbox password. Click Sign In to continue.
You will be prompted for server details. We recommend IMAP, especially if you're using this account over multiple devices.
Now you need to change the incoming server name. This will depend on the server your account is hosted on. Check the control panel. Possible options could be yali, onza, lynx, ocelot, caracal, oncilla or fentiger. In any case, make sure you follow up the name of the server with .mythic-beasts.com. For example, if your account is hosted on Ocelot, you would enter ocelot.mythic-beasts.com.
The outgoing server is always smtp-auth.mythic-beasts.com regardless of the server your account is on.
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One of the joys of owning a dog is taking it for long walks. These are very important for maintaining a dog’s healthy weight and helps the owner keep fit too. Off-leash or free roam areas allow the dog to sniff, run and meet other dogs. However, use of these area requires responsible dog ownership – your dog must be fully-supervised in these areas and you should clean up after you dog. Owners of dogs should ensure that they have a plastic bag or acceptable item to clean up after their dogs as failure to do so can result in an infringement being issued.
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TORONTO - Confessing a "massive blind spot" in his thinking, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau moved to contain a growing furor Thursday after a photo surfaced of him in brownface at a 2001 "Arabian Nights" costume party and two other similar incidents came to light.
With Election Day just a month away in his bid for another term, the 47-year-old Trudeau begged forgiveness from the people of Canada.
"Darkening your face regardless of the context or the circumstances is always unacceptable because of the racist history of blackface," he said. "I should have understood that then, and I never should have done it."
Time magazine published the photo on Wednesday, saying it was taken from the yearbook from the West Point Grey Academy, a private school in British Columbia where Trudeau worked as a teacher before going into politics. It shows the then-29-year-old Trudeau in a turban and robe with dark makeup on his hands, face and neck.
"I have always acknowledged I came from a place of privilege, but I now need to acknowledge that comes with a massive blind spot," the son of the late Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau said to applause from a large crowd at a park in Winnipeg, Manitoba.
Conservative leader Andrew Scheer, who is mounting a serious challenge to the prime minister in the Oct. 21 vote, reacted by declaring Trudeau "not fit to govern this country."
The prime minister, though, gave no sign at all that he might resign, and there were no immediate calls from any leading figures in his Liberal Party to step down. Instead, many Liberals, some of them minorities, rallied around him.
Trudeau has long championed multiculturalism and immigration, with Canada accepting more refugees than the U.S. under the Trump administration. Half of Trudeau's Cabinet is made up of women, four are Sikhs, and his immigration minister is a Somali-born refugee.
Canada has over 1.9 million people of South Asian descent out of a population of 37 million.
Canadian Defense Minister Harjit Sajjan, a Liberal who is Sikh, said that the brownface picture was wrong but that Trudeau has a record of standing up for minorities. Trudeau named Sajjan Canada's first Sikh defense chief in 2015.
Greg Fergus, a Liberal member of Parliament who is black, said there was a lot of confusion and hurt in the black community but noted that Trudeau apologized. And Fergus pointed out that it was Trudeau who put Viola Desmond, a black woman who refused to leave the whites-only section of a Canadian movie theater in 1944, on the country's $10 bill.
"I think the real measure of the man, and I think the thing we need to be talking about, is all the amazing things we have done for diversity," Fergus said.
Mitzie Hunter, a Liberal who is running to lead the party in Ontario provincial politics and is black, tweeted: "I know it is not representative of the man he is. This is a teachable moment for all of us. I accept his apology and I hope Canadians do too."
The photo of Trudeau was taken at the school's annual dinner, which had an "Arabian Nights" theme that year, Trudeau said. He said he was dressed as a character from "Aladdin."
The prime minister said it was not the first time he darkened his face: He once did it while performing a version of Harry Belafonte's "Banana Boat Song (Day-O)" during a talent show.
Canada's Global News TV network also reported a third instance, broadcasting a brief video of Trudeau in blackface while raising his hands in the air and sticking out his tongue. A Liberal Party spokeswoman said the footage was from the early 1990s.
Scheer said his campaign team received the video from a concerned citizen and passed it on to the media.
Asked how many times he has worn brown or blackface, Trudeau said: "I am wary of being definitive about this because the recent pictures that came out I had not remembered."
He said that he has dedicated himself as a politician to "try and counter intolerance and racism everywhere I can," and confessed to letting people down. "I stand here today to reflect on that and ask for forgiveness," he said.
Trudeau is the latest in a string of politicians to get in trouble over racially offensive photos and actions from their younger days. Earlier this year, Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam overcame intense pressure to resign after a racist picture surfaced from his 1984 medical school yearbook.
But Trudeau was already vulnerable following one of the biggest scandals in Canadian political history, which arose when his former attorney general said he pressured her to halt the prosecution of a company in Quebec. Trudeau has said he was standing up for jobs, but the scandal led to resignations and a drop in his ratings earlier this year.
As for the brownface furor, "I am deeply troubled by what this means to Canada. Young kids are not just going to see just one or two but multiple images of the prime minister mocking their lived reality," said Leftist New Democrat leader Jagmeet Singh, who is a Sikh. "This is so hurtful to so many Canadians."
Robert Bothwell, a professor of Canadian history and international relations at the University of Toronto, said he was "gobsmacked" by the development.
"That's the kind of thing you do when you are a frat boy," Bothwell said. "Maybe at 29 he had no idea that he was going to go on to greatness, but his father would have never done that."
He added: "The case has never been conclusively made that Justin is a person of substance. I mean, he may well be. But that impression is just not out there."
Trudeau was also mocked at home and abroad for repeatedly wearing colorful, traditional Indian garb during a visit to India in 2018. It led to a drop in his ratings.
Nelson Wiseman, a political science professor at the University of Toronto, said he doesn't believe the latest furor will cause people to vote differently. Wiseman said race plays a much bigger role in U.S. politics than in Canada.
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15 synthesized voices learn how to sing by interpreting their digital ancestry. Upon their death, instead of being erased from the system, they become part of the ancestry. AEco.5o is an ecosystemic algorithm informed by ancestral dynamics.
produced by: Pietro Bardini
AEco.5o is a sound composition generated by an ecosystemic algorithm that learns how to sing by interpreting its ancestry. Up to 15 voices can live in the ecosystem and the behaviour of each is based on its interpretation of an ancestral landscape, a place where the knowledge of their predecessors is stored. Once a voice dies, instead of being erased it goes into the ancestral landscape. The only way for the current individuals to learn how to live in this digital ecosystem is by interpreting the landscape.
Concept and background research
In my practice, I create compositional systems that explore the boundaries between the animate and inanimate. With this piece, I was interested in exploring the dynamics of landscape and time as put forward by Tim Ingold in ‘The Temporality of the Landscape’ (1993). I am considering the landscape as a record of the activities of the generations that have inhabited it, and, in doing so, have left within it something of themselves. The landscape is embodied by its dwellers and the landscape embodies the dwellers. The landscape in this sense is a living process perpetually under construction. AEco.5o’s ancestral landscape does not just express the cultural continuities and transformations of the ecosystem but helps write that history.
The ancestral landscape is what Mikhail Bakhtin considers a Chronotope, a place where time and space fuse together to take on a tangible form. Time here is not made of separate layers but is a continuum. Past and present are entangled, memory is malleable and history is fluid. AEco’s perpetual processes of constructing and negotiating history move away from the stratification of chronology and propose an approach to computation which does not disregard its past lives but is shaped by them.
A real-time graphic score follows the movements of the piece. This was kept cryptic and simple to avoid overshadowing the sound aspect of the piece. Chalk marks on the floor together with a laser-cut panel (pictures below) show a faint memory of the internal dynamics of the compositional system. These are on purpose unreadable; their goal is to portray a sense of structure and meaning without revealing it, they are a glimpse into its dynamics. However, the audience as external to the ancestral landscape is not allowed clarity to its inner workings. The audience only perceives the results of these dynamics.
The sound of the system is modeled to behave like a pack of wolves with a leading voice followed by harmonising voices. This reference was used to design the overall out-of-tune choir quality of the sounds.
The logic of this ecosystem was inspired by the acoustic models of Alice Eldridge, who proposed a digital ecosystem based on economies of energy exchange and recycling. On top of this, I found very useful Oliver Bown’s ‘Framework for Ecosystem-based Generative Music’. Finally, the works of Ryan Jordan, Cecile Beau, Terrike Haapoja and Martin Howse have inspired this work.
The core of the system is written in C++, while MAX/MSP is used to synthesise the sounds in and OpenFrameworks generates the graphic score. The logic of the ecosystem is not based on any other ecosystemic models nor is based on natural dynamics nor genetic algorithms but uses a system I have developed called Ancestral Ecosystem (AEco).
How it works:
Once a voice dies, either because of old age or of energy exhaustion, the knowledge that it accumulated becomes part of the ancestral landscape. If a voice manages to gain enough energy, it reproduces and passes on its knowledge to an offspring. The offspring gains an aura level. The Aura, or leading voice, emerges from the group as the individual with the highest aura level. The Aura has the responsibility to behave cooperatively with the other voices. If its behaviours are deemed uncooperative, it gets demoted, its knowledge becomes part of the ancestral landscape, and a new Aura emerges from the group.
The Aura leads the choir and initialises new movements. The movement is a step within a frequency spectrum. Every other voice will try to follow the Aura to its new position. Each movement costs energy, however, if the voices get close enough to the Aura, they will start gaining energy. The frequency spectrum is divided into several bands, each band has different energy ratios, this means that some bands will give back more energy that they consume while others will consume more energy that they give back. If the new movement either preserves or augments the voice’s energy, it gets stored in its knowledge.
The living voices decide how to interpret the ancestral landscape, based on this interpretation their behaviour changes. In this system there are three modes of knowledge:
- Personal knowledge, which is the record of all successful movements that the current voice has made (if a voice completes a bad movement several times this is also recorded in its memory);
- Family knowledge, which is passed on from the parent. This is passed down to next offspring, however when the voice dies this knowledge dies with it. If the voice did not have any offspring, it means that its family knowledge is lost;
- Ancestral knowledge, which comes from the ancestral landscape. This form of knowledge is never erased and is not dated, however when it becomes too large the first ancestors (the first 20%) gets re-amalgamated and comes back in the form of a single average value. Similarly, to turning old soil into new, the shape and knowledge of the old still shapes the landscape. There are 4 modes of interpreting the ancestral knowledge. Each voice is given an interpretation mode at birth at these are:
- Average – the system scans through the ancestral knowledge and sums up all values that match its search (it searches for a movement step going from the current position of the voice to the position of the aura) and gives an average back
- Highest – gives back the highest value within the search
- Lowest – gives back the lowest value within the search
- Random – gives back a random value within the search
Upon the voice’s death, its knowledge goes to the ancestral landscape. There are two ancestral landscapes, one for the voices and one for the aura. These are recorded onto a hard drive (displayed in the installation) into the form of two JSON files.
AEco.50 is currently being developed into a live performance where the Aura is replaced by a live input. The ecosystem this way will slowly learn how to follow the direction of the external audio input (for instance a singer or an acoustic instrument) by interpreting its past movements.
The piece worked as I intended to, I am happy with the sounds as well as the dynamics of the piece. I would however bring more changes to the Aura’s movements, this would make it more lively. At the moment the Aura moves by using a heat map, when it stays too long on a band it needs to move to the new one. However, I noticed the system tends to hover around the same 4/5 bands and rarely uses the full spectrum at its disposal.
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Bown, Oliver. (2009). A framework for ecosystem-based generative music.
Eigenfeldt, Arne & Pasquier, Philippe. (2011). A Sonic Eco-System of Self-Organising Musical Agents.
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Ingold, Tim. “The Temporality of the Landscape.” World Archaeology, vol. 25, no. 2, Oct. 1993, pp. 152–74. DOI.org (Crossref), https://doi.org/10.1080/00438243.1993.9980235.
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This skin disease can be very frustrating and, if it persists, could have harmful physical and social effects on an individual. On the bright side, cannabidiol (CBD) is being recognized by a growing band of enthusiasts as a viable antidote to acne.
Evidence about the prevention of acne and the clearing up of skin conditions resulting from the use of CBD oil has been established by Tamás Bíró, a principal researcher from Hungary's University of Debrecen.
Adults, as well as adolescents with acne, could gain from using this promising solution to their skin ailment.
Table Of Content
- My Top 4 CBD Creams For ACNE
- See Our Best Top 10 CBD Creams For Acne
- What is Acne?
- Functioning of Acne
- How Acne Develops
- Acne Medication
- Research Supporting Treatment of Acne by CBD
- Use of Cannabis Seed Extract Cream to Treat Acne
- Prevention of Sebum Production and Inflammation in Treatment of Acne
- Critiquing the Role of The Endocannabinoid System in The Skin
- Effective and Efficient Treatment of Acne
- CBD and Skin Care.
- Why is CBD Good for Skin?
- Does CBD Cream Help with Acne?
- Does CBD Help With Acne Scars
- Is Hemp Good for Acne?
- How to Use Hemp Seed Oil for Acne and Acne Scars.
- Restoration of Self-Confidence in Sufferers from Acne
- Article Sources
My Top 4 CBD Creams For ACNE
What is Acne?
Between 40- and 50-million people in the U.S. are affected by acne, described by the American Academy of Dermatology as the most common skin ailment in the country.
More commonly seen in adolescence, the skin disease is becoming more prevalent among adults, particularly among women of 30 and above.
This inflammatory skin condition can advertise its presence in the form of nodules, cysts, whiteheads, blackheads or pustules (commonly referred to as pimples).
Acne can not only manifest as physical symptoms but also result in depression and low self-esteem.
Functioning of Acne
In order to analyze how CBD makes treatment of acne possible, we must first look at how acne develops.
How Acne Develops
Acne owes its development to numerous factors, such as colonization of bacteria in the pores, inflammatory cells, and extraneous sebum. The primary cause of acne is the production of excessive sebum.
This fatty acid known as a lipid is produced by the sebaceous glands, tiny glands in the skin that account for the lubrication of both hair and skin. Colonization of the pores by bacteria known as “cutibacterium acnes” results after the creation by the extraneous sebum of a favorable environment for such colonization.
In the final step, inflammatory cytokines are produced by the bacteria which manifest as forms of acne.
The skin, among many other bodily functions, relies on the endocannabinoid system (ECS) for the maintenance of its homeostasis. Sometimes, an imbalance is caused in the ECS, such as when anandamide or other endocannabinoids activate the CB2 receptors of the system.
Such imbalance in the ECS could lead to the formation of excess lipids, in turn leading to excess sebum. Hormones could also cause excessive production of lipids -- resulting in cane --.
Some popular medication options for acne include Dapsone (Aczone), Azelaic acid cream, Antibiotics, and Retinoid drugs, derived from Vitamin A (Avita, Retin-A).
Oral pills (topicals) are the dominant form of medication for acne. In order to treat the ailment, most medication options either kill bacteria or reduce production of oil in the skin. Nevertheless, harmful side effects can result from some treatment options.
For instance, the skin could become dry and itching when both healthy and diseased fat cells are killed via treatments that rely on vitamin A. Acute gastrointestinal problems, loss of hearing, joint pain, and back pain could all result from the use of vitamin-A based treatments.
Research has shown that medications based on CBD could lead to greater safety and efficiency in treatment than cures that rely on vitamin A based medicines.
Research Supporting Treatment of Acne by CBD
Studies on the endocannabinoid system (ECS) and on CBD point to potentially successful medication for acne. Firstly, the ECS plays a primary function as it produces lipids to hydrate the skin.
Production of lipids is boosted by an endocannabinoid known as Anandamide. CBD targets excess sebum -- a fatty oil that lipids create as the root cause of acne --. Thanks to CBD's limiting of the production of sebum, anandamide cannot synthesize lipids.
Inflammation, a commonly seen manifestation of acne, is also reduced by CBD. These effects of the ECS and CBD are highlighted through research results:
Use of Cannabis Seed Extract Cream to Treat Acne
The COMSATS Institute of Information Technology of Pakistan conducted research through its Department of Pharmacy in 2015 to test how well sebum could be reduced in the skin on a human cheek by using a cream with a three percent component of the extract of cannabis seed.
Patients were treated with two creams, a cream containing the extract, and another (control) cream without the extract. The treatment involved the use of both creams twice daily over a period of twelve weeks.
Every two weeks, the researchers recorded how much sebum was produced. The control cream was found to reduce much less sebum than the one with the CBD extract. The patients revealed good tolerance for the extract from cannabis seed and did not suffer any side effects. The researchers concluded that cannabis could be efficacious in the treatment of skin diseases such as acne.
Prevention of Sebum Production and Inflammation in Treatment of Acne
Tamás Bíró, a Hungarian researcher on the efficacy of CBD in treating acne, from Hungary's University of Debrecen, studied how CBD could inhibit production of sebum in sebaceous glands (sources of sebum) in humans.
He found that CBD inhibited lipid-production in many compounds that produce lipids (known to be the raw material of sebum). Bíró also established that CBD prevented the prolific growth of sebocytes, component cells of the sebaceous gland that manufacture sebum.
Inflammation seen along with acne is aided by a commonly found cytokine called tumor necrosis factor. Apart from inhibiting the production of sebum, CBD was found to combat inflammation by preventing tumor necrosis factor from elevating.
Encouraged by both these results, researchers recommended the testing in the future of a systemic or topical application of CBD in the treatment of acne.
Critiquing the Role of The Endocannabinoid System in The Skin
The function of the endocannabinoid system (ECS) in relation to the skin was evaluated by a team of researchers, including those from the National Institutes of Health's Laboratory of Physiological Studies, the University of Manchester, Germany's University of Lübeck, New Jersey Medical School, and the University of Debrecen.
They found that the “proliferation, differentiation and survival” of skin cells were balanced by the ECS and that numerous skin diseases, such as acne, could be caused when this balance was disrupted.
The study of a section of acne revealed CB2 receptors of the ECS on sebocytes. The researchers also established that through activation of these receptors, endocannabinoids contribute significantly to the production of lipids.
In conclusion, the researchers perceived the possibility of a valuable therapy through the inhibition by cannabinoids of the activation of the CB2 receptors, especially as topical applications of cannabinoids have revealed penetration of the skin by the drugs.
Effective and Efficient Treatment of Acne
Marijuana has a psychotropic component called tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) that accounts for the "high" associated with its use. However, the drug also has a non-psychotropic component called cannabidiol, or CBD, that has proven to provide effective relief for pains and aches with topical application.
In his university lab, Tamás Bíró studied the reduction of acne by CBD. His findings showed that rather than the stoppage of lipid synthesis via activation of CB receptors, CBD functions by binding to ion channels known as TRPV4.
Activation of these ion channels allows calcium to enter the sebocytes thereby inhibiting the formation of lipids. Bíró concluded that CBD can inhibit the actions of endocannabinoids, reducing the formation of mediators, including lipids and steroid hormones.
The right concentration of CBD can have effective therapeutic results as healthy sebocytes surrounding diseased ones are spared. For instance, dry skin can result from the destruction of healthy sebocytes by commonly used medications, such as vitamin A, in the treatment of acne.
CBD and Skin Care.
In recent times, CBD has also begun to be sold as a skin care product that can be used to treat everything from wrinkles to acne. Before we analyze whether CBD is good for skin, let's take a closer look at the product.
As already stated, it is non-psychotropic which means it is devoid of the mind-altering haze associated with THC. The cannabis plant produces CBD and THC in two different parts of the plant.
We must also differentiate CBD oil from hemp oil. One is often mistaken for the other and even sold as such but the primary difference between the two lies in the cannabidiol component of the two oils.
While CBD oil has a rich concentration of cannabidiol, hemp oil has only trace amounts of the component. One way of finding out whether the product you are buying is CBD oil or hemp oil is to look at the label on the bottle. If the ingredient shown is cannabis sativa seed oil, you are probably holding a bottle of hemp oil.
Why is CBD Good for Skin?
Research has shown that CBD can benefit a person's skin in numerous ways. The antioxidant properties of CBD oil have been established beyond doubt, leading to research findings that point to the ability of the oil to slow the process of aging of the skin.
In addition to being anti-inflammatory, CBD anti-aging creams also counteract the damage of a free-radical nature, with the result that there is diminishing of ruddy skin tone, dullness of skin, and wrinkles.
Soothing of sensitive skin is a proven benefit of CBD oil. Research findings show that triggers of psoriasis, among other skin disorders, can be inhibited through the application of the oil; even eczema-prone skin can show improvement.
While research on the subject continues to be undertaken, findings thus far have established the ability of CBD to calm the skin and normalize it.
Does CBD Cream Help with Acne?
The answer lies in the positive effects of CBD on acne-prone skin. As already stated, several studies have established CBD oil's anti-inflammatory properties.
Acne is a form of inflammation. Studies have established that CBD can soothe the skin with a diminishing of breakouts and a reduction of redness. Some recent research has also established the ability of CBD to check excessive production of sebum oil that can trigger acne.
While research on the subject is far from complete, the potential of CBD as an alternative to traditional cures of acne must excite those who suffer from the skin condition.
Inhibition of Lipid Synthesis
An imbalance in hormones or in the endocannabinoid system (ECS) can result in excessive production of sebum. The release of an endocannabinoid called anandamide in the vicinity of the sebaceous glands can significantly boost the production of lipids via activation of CB2 receptors on sebocytes. Thus, an excess of sebum may be produced when the CB2 receptors are overactivated by anandamide, thanks to an imbalance.
Tamás Bíró has successfully demonstrated the inhibition of synthesis of lipids by endocannabinoids such as anandamide. The finding is especially astounding given that the actions of endocannabinoids are usually promoted by CBD.
The mystery is solved when we consider that CBD targets the TRPV4 ion receptors. Activation of the ion receptors opens them up, allowing the influx into the cells of calcium, effectively inhibiting the synthesis of lipids by anandamide. Researchers are yet to find out the exact reason for the result.
Synthesis of lipids is also affected by glucocorticoids (steroid hormones) that boost breakouts of acne. According to Bíró, CBD, which is “universally inhibitive of lipid synthesis,” can inhibit many producers of lipids, such as steroid hormones, among others.
Reduction of Inflammation
Inflammation in sebocytes is relieved by CBD, as shown by research. Proinflammatory proteins called cytokines cause inflammation; bacteria residing in the pores that contain excessive sebum release these proteins. All causes of inflammation, IL1B, IL6, and tumor necrosis factor (TNF) are three cytokines targeted by CBD.
TNF is a commonly seen cytokine that the immune system engenders. The presence of excess lipids leads to an increase in TNF component. CBD inhibits TNF levels, largely reducing the severity of inflammation. The IL6 and IL1B cytokines are also boosted when excessive lipids are produced.
The levels of these cytokines are normalized by CBD which targets the adenosine A2a receptor to accomplish such reduction. ATP, short for adenosine triphosphate, is the main energy source for muscular and cellular functions and can benefit the skin in many ways. Adenosine is a component part of ATP.
IN ITS TREATMENT OF ACNE, CBD INHIBITS SYNTHESIS OF LIPIDS AND DECREASES INFLAMMATION IN SEBOCYTES.
Does CBD Help With Acne Scars
As already discussed, many beauty and skin care products have begun to feature CBD. These include products aimed at treating acne. The immune system of a human has the endocannabinoid system as a component part. The application of CBD has an indirect effect on the endocannabinoid system. The majority of the tissues of the body contain endocannabinoid receptors. The skin also contains several. CBD not only provides relief from inflammation but also has a powerful antioxidant character, more so even than retinol.
Research has shown that scar tissue of the liver (also known as fibrosis) is improved when the endocannabinoid system is activated. The process of such amelioration involves reduction of inflammation in the liver. Such anti-inflammatory action by CBD results in lower levels of alpha-SMA and collagen1. Production of hypertrophic scarring is aided by collagen.
New skin cells are regenerated with the help of CBD that prevents the proliferation of damaged cells. The occurrence of a wound, such as an acne infection, causes the production of collagen fibers by the immune system of the body. Infection risk reduces after the wound is sealed by these fibers. Research has shown that the production of collagen is regulated by CBD oil, thereby slowing the healing process which happens in a more orderly and smoother way, thereby reducing the incidence of ugly scars. Quick improvement can be seen with CBD oil in the spot treatment of scars.
Is Hemp Good for Acne?
Before we answer this question, let’s find out what the term “hemp” refers to.
The cannabis plant has soft and fleshy stems usually referred to as "hemp." But to obtain hemp oil, you must extract it from the seeds of the cannabis plant. Greenish-brown in color (ranging from light to dark), cold pressed hemp seed oil is variously useful in a diverse array of activities ranging from cooking to medicinal cures.
There is a common misconception that hemp oil is somehow associated with the psychoactive "high" of marijuana products. In fact, hemp oil has a low component of tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) that causes the psychoactive haze in marijuana. Rather, hemp oil has a higher proportion of cannabidiol (CBD).
A regular function of the human body is aimed at upkeeping the endocannabinoid system. The endocannabinoid system
(EBS) bears the almost sole responsibility of producing basal cells that are the major component of the skin. A balanced endocannabinoid system will enable the production and moderation by the skin of healthy oils as well as the regeneration of new cells to allow protection of the skin from various disruptions such as blemishes, rashes, and inflammation, among others. The skin generally creates its own CBD. However, such production of CBD can be hindered when there is any imbalance in the EBS. That is where hemp-oil, or plant-derived cannabinoids, can come to the rescue of the skin.
How to Use Hemp Seed Oil for Acne and Acne Scars.
Acne breakouts mainly happen due to dead cells, hormonal imbalance, and inflammation. Bacteria and dead cells accumulate at skin pores that are locations of clogging of excessively produced sebum.
Many people tend to believe that acne will be reduced by dry skin, but that is a myth. According to experts, sebum is not inimical to the health of our skin. For instance, linoleic acid, which is a component part of sebum, forms 57% of hemp seed oil. So, when you apply hemp seed oil topically, you will find that the sebum becomes more soft and smooth. The application of hemp seed oil will aid the removal of blockages in your skin pores and help make acne breakouts history, given that the oil has been given a comedogenic rating of “zero.” In the absence of linoleic acid, sebum thrives on the production by the skin of oleic acid that results in sebum that is firm and dry, and that gets converted to blackheads after blocking skin pores. Thus, linoleic acid provided by hemp oil reduces the clogging of the pores by sebum. Hemp oil is anti-inflammatory, and application of the oil around acne bumps results in reduced pain and redness. Hemp oil can also moisturize your skin, ridding it of patches that are itchy and dry. Oil and impurities that cause blockages in skin pores are cleansed, thanks to the oil's activity of a non-comedogenic nature. The skin begins to function healthily, thanks to Omega – 6 and 3 fatty acids contained in hemp oil. The oil also houses magnesium, calcium, zinc, iron, phosphorous, potassium, and vitamins A and E that help in increasing flow of blood, lightning scars related to acne, and preventing wrinkles by thwarting free radicals.
Restoration of Self-Confidence in Sufferers from Acne
Besides causing annoyance, acne can demolish the self-esteem of a person and inhibit his/her social abilities. Sufferers of acme would be encouraged by the quantum of positive research findings that establish CBD as a treatment option for the skin condition with its ability to inhibit lipid production and inflammation. Additionally, CBD is safer to use than conventional treatments of acme. If you are one of the millions who suffer from acne, you could restore your self-confidence and the health of your skin by using CBD for its treatment. | <urn:uuid:f185edc0-a1c9-485e-a4fd-5d96194aa8a1> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.familycbdorganics.com/cbd-cream-acne/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571536.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811224716-20220812014716-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.947841 | 4,101 | 2 | 2 |
FPV flying, for how awesome it actually is, still consists of fiddling around with a remote control transmitter and either wearing video goggles or squinting into a screen. Awesome, yes, but not as cool as [Brett Hays]’s enclosed cockpit ground station. It’s a trailerable flight sim that allows you to have the same experience of flying an aircraft over your local terrain without actually leaving the ground.
The centerpiece for this build is a 42 inch flat screen TV that was picked up for $160. This was placed at the front of a large plywood and 2×2 box along with a computer joystick, throttle, and rudder controls.
The pots inside the controls needed to be switched out to match the resistance of the ones inside an old Futaba transmitter. From there, completing the the cockpit was just a matter of fabricating a few panels for a video switcher, gear retract lever, flaps. and RC radio settings.
It’s a truly amazing build and when placed on a trailer towed by [Brett]’s jeep, has the potential to be the closest thing to flying a manned aircraft you can get without a pilot’s license.
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QINGDAO, May 28 (Xinhua) -- Researchers Monday expanded the testing of rice growing with saline-alkali soil across China to choose breeds with quality and optimum yield.
According to Zhang Guodong, deputy director of Qingdao's saline-alkali tolerant rice research and development center,in eastern Shandong Province, the new tests almost cover all major types of saline-alkali soil in China.
The six testing bases are located across Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region and the provinces of Heilongjiang, Shandong, Zhejiang, and Shaanxi.
"The tests will examine the performance, yield, taste, and cost of saline-alkali tolerant rice on different types of saline soil," said Zhang.
A section of land at each testing base will be used for soil amelioration using a technique created by the Qingdao center. It is expected to transform the saline land into arable land within two to three years.
Yuan Longping, China's "Father of Hybrid Rice" who helped found the Qingdao center, said that if 100 million mu (6.7 million hectares) of saline land can be used to grow saline-alkali tolerant rice, the country could produce an extra of 30 billion kg of rice if production per mu reaches 300 kg.
On Monday, the center also announced the completion of yield test of its first batch of drought-resistant rice varieties in Dubai. The rice breed can produce more than 500 kg per mu. | <urn:uuid:6dc063ed-479b-4025-86db-7ee10da5849d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2018-05/28/c_137212945.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571909.51/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813051311-20220813081311-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.89858 | 314 | 2.234375 | 2 |
In the basement of her lovely old home at the top of Prospect Hill in Somerville, Janine Fay has created what is surely among the most expensive art installations in Greater Boston.
The greatest expense by far? Years and years worth of insulin.
Fay, who was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes 22 years ago, has spent years turning the detritus associated with the medicine that keeps her alive into a sort of interactive exhibit about disease and treatment.
“Creativity helps people process and deal,” said Fay, a retired real estate agent who was also a longtime server at the Harvard Club of Boston. “Creativity is the key to human liberation.”
And so she turned the tools of her survival into something liberating.
Syringes fill 5-gallon water jugs and pickle jars and mezcal bottles. Dozens of vials of long-acting insulin line displays made from the toaster-sized styrofoam boxes that arrive at her doorstep, sometimes holding two vials the size of your thumb. In the corner, a mannequin is stuck full of syringes: Our Lady of Perpetual Injections.
“What it is, is altars to the various things that keep me alive,” Fay said.
The vials and syringes that fill Fay’s installation are empty now, injected into her body to help turn the carbohydrates in her food into energy — or, put more simply, to keep her alive. Fay is on Medicare, but still pays hundreds of dollars out of pocket a month for the simple privilege of living with her disease instead of dying from it.
As Massachusetts lawmakers and Governor Charlie Baker once again wrestle with how best to overhaul and update the state’s health care laws, the out-of-control price of prescription drugs — and insulin in particular — is among a handful of issues that can’t wait any longer. As manufacturers have raised prices, the cost of a vial of insulin has skyrocketed in recent years, reaching an average of about $450 in 2016, according to the Health Care Cost Institute. How much insulin a person with diabetes needs varies, but many with type 1 require about two or three vials a month.
Already, those who can’t afford insulin resort to rationing it, trying to stretch a vial by taking less insulin than they need. A search of the crowd-funding website GoFundMe turns up more than 7,000 people raising money for insulin, and a blog by a crowd-funding expert: “How to Get Insulin When You Can’t Afford It: Six Ideas.” In July, a Minnesota man named Jesimya David Scherer-Radcliff died because he was trying to make it until payday, his family said, when he could afford the relatively simple medication that keeps him alive.
“Everyone with diabetes knows how much insulin they have in their refrigerator,” said Chris Noble, an advocate for insulin access who has lived with type 1 diabetes since childhood, speaking recently at a Greater Boston Interfaith Organization event, where 750 packed a Dorchester union hall to urge lawmakers to pass health care reform.
A wide-ranging proposal from the governor’s office would prevent the costs of insulin from continuing to skyrocket. But a Senate bill goes further, and includes a provision that would cap co-pays for insulin at $25 a month with no deductible. The House expects to go forward with a prescription drug pricing plan as well, though the details have not been released.
A co-pay cap like the one in the Senate bill isn’t perfect. It doesn’t drive down the already high sticker price of insulin, which has been in use for about a century (another provision in the bill attempts to address the price). The risk is that out-of-pocket savings will be passed on through higher insurance premiums.
But for people with high deductible plans, a co-pay cap could literally be a lifesaver, Noble said, because they currently have to pay hundreds of dollars per vial of insulin until their deductible is met. Those who can’t afford that will inevitably try to ration what they have. They’ll try to make it a few more days until payday. And some of them will die.
After hearing Noble speak at the interfaith event, I asked Fay if it would be OK to bring him over to see what she’d built in the basement.
“I’d like for more people to be able to see it,” said Fay, who doesn’t know many other people living with Type 1 diabetes.
And so, on a sunny day in November, Noble and I descended the bulkhead stairs into the temple Fay built to her disease.
“Wow,” Noble said. “I feel like I tell this story, but to see it in a visual sense is so powerful.”
He pulled out one of the small plastic drawers that line one wall: “This alone would be tens of thousands of dollars of insulin.”
They talked about their diseases and compared what they use to monitor blood sugar. They made plans to connect Fay to other people living with diabetes, stockpiling and sharing insulin in case of emergencies.
“For us, who’ve been living with this condition for so long, it’s like a sixth sense,” Noble said. “Our lives are absorbed in this. I look at a piece of food and I know how much insulin I need to take for that food.”
Fay said her collection began by necessity: Syringes can’t just be tossed in the trash. But she soon decided to save everything, and make something beautiful and meaningful.
In a brochure that accompanies the exhibit, Fay says she is “grateful to be living proof that it is possible to live a long and healthy life with type 1 diabetes.”
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She was the grand old dame of boathouses, built in the 1940s, likely with the idea that she would last forever (or at least a lifetime). Well, boathouses on Canadian lakes struggle to stay intact even that long, let alone almost 80 years. They may be the definitive icon for cottage country, but they are so, so loaded with problems.
Consider what a typical boathouse goes through every year. Boathouses are built in water, and exist over water (think of it this way, there is always water in the basement) . Most buildings are set back from the shore to protect them from wind and waves—boathouses are built to embrace such weather (there’s nothing quite like watching a storm sweep across the lake, all from the protection of a boathouse).
But their biggest challenge is ice damage, caused by freezing and thawing water, both in late fall and early spring. Fall brings about the initial freeze-up, which causes the top of the lake to actually expand. Such expansion shoves wooden cribs around as if they were toothpicks, and can even bend steel structures. Then, at springtime when lake levels drop perhaps by 2-3 feet, tons of ice become locked around the structure with nowhere to go. The resulting force actual pulls at your boathouse, trying to bring it down and away from shore—and eventually succeeds.
(This is the reason that more and more townships aren’t allowing the construction of new boathouses, or if they do, permits have to pass strict construction methods, materials and size.)
We watched the deterioration, year by year, when we’d inspect the damage each spring. knowing that without thousands of dollars, there wasn’t much we could do. We’d repair the broken boards, fix a wall, waterproof the deck (again), notice that the doors no longer closed, but most of the time, if felt like we were trying to patch up the Titanic.
By summer, of course, all was forgotten. In the splendour of a hot, blue sky July weekend, we loved our lovely bunkie perched over the water. It was the getaway for anyone in the family seeking a bit of privacy, a secret get-away for teenagers, or just, well, fun. Several times a summer it was loaded up with camp counsellors on a 24 hour break; it provided the perfect “sleep over” spot for kids and their friends; and it was the best place to sit and watch a sunset, or sing songs late into the evening, probably serenading neighbours trying to get some sleep. And many times after midnight, we made our way across her little bridge in the dark so we could count shooting stars or watch the northern lights from her roof.
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Published as an MGMA Insight Article June 2020.
Telehealth has become increasingly more popular in recent years as hospitals implementing computerized telehealth systems grew from 35% to 76% based on an American Hospital Association survey. The same growth has been seen outside of hospitals. Claims coming from non-hospital based telehealth services accounted for 84% of total claims in 2018 as compared to 52% in 2014. Many rural health systems across the United States (US) have embraced this growth to improve patient access to specialized care. One tool in their toolbox has been to setup medical office timeshares for the expressed purpose of connecting patients remotely with health systems and/or physicians located in another city.
Telehealth Timeshare Arrangement: The Basics
Ms. Adams is 20 weeks pregnant and comes to her primary OB/GYN physician and receives the news that her baby may have a congenital heart defect after having a recent ultrasound. As such, her OB/GYN refers her to a maternal fetal medicine (MFM) physician for on-going surveillance during the rest of her pregnancy. Unfortunately, the closest MFM is 4 hours away after the prior MFM stopped coming on a monthly basis.
Ms. Adams is amongst many who live in rural communities and are faced with needed specialty care. While rural communities are experiencing shortages in primary care with 39.8 primary care physicians per 100,000 people as compared to 53.3 primary care physicians per 100,000 in urban areas, the shortage is even more extreme when comparing specialists. Traditional medical office timeshares rely on the physician tenant physically coming to the location to see patients during a specific time slot. However, while these physician tenants wish to expand their patient base as far as 2-5 hours away from their primary location, the expense associated with their time is resulting in specialists trying to find alternatives. Telehealth timeshares is one such alternative.
Telehealth medical office timeshare arrangements grew from these challenges with specialists in such areas as cardiovascular surgery, orthopedic surgery, maternal fetal medicine, and neurology, placing needed diagnostic equipment in these communities in order to assess, diagnose and establish treatment plans for patients remotely. Utilizing diagnostic equipment in the timeshare space at the patient’s location along with the necessary telehealth video conferencing equipment allows for simultaneous view of a high definition image of an ultrasound, x-ray, CT scan, or MRI with the physician tenant / specialist. In the case of Ms. Adams, she is able to have a remote consult with her MFM while both being able to visualize the ultrasound of her baby.
Benefits of a Telehealth Timeshare Arrangement
Utilizing telehealth through a timeshare arrangement provides multiple advantages for both the providers and patients. The Table below illustrates some of the benefits from these arrangements.
These benefits have been echoed through multiple surveys of providers and patients.,
Key Components of Fair Market Value (FMV)
Hospitals and physician practices are subject to regulatory requirements under the federal law, a variety of state-specific fraud and abuse statutes, and governmental agencies when entering into a medical office timeshare arrangement. In order to navigate potential safe harbors and/or exceptions to these regulations, these timeshare agreements must be at FMV to ensure that there is no undue benefit provided to the physician tenant. In structuring a compliant agreement at FMV, there are key areas to examine: i. space, ii. furniture and equipment, iii. services, and iv. short-term use premiums.
Space- The space cost utilized for the telehealth visit needs to be determined based on a real estate appraisal providing the FMV full-service rental rate and an architect drawing defining the square footage subject to the arrangement. Common along with dedicated exclusive use areas need to be clearly demarcated in the calculation to ensure that the space utilization is calculated accurately. After the total square footage applicable to the tenant is identified (exclusive use square feet + allocated shared common area square feet), it is multiplied by the FMV full-service rental rate of the space determined by a real estate appraiser to ensure all building operating expenses are considered. Also, In the case of telehealth services, it will be important to consider the storage for the telehealth equipment during non-use. Should the equipment be stored at the landlord’s cost, this expense should be included in the lease payment.
Furniture and Equipment– Similar to the space analysis, the furniture and equipment utilized within the common and dedicated exclusive use areas need to be included. These could involve waiting room chairs, desks, tables, computer/office equipment, etc. Often under these telehealth arrangements, the physician tenant or local health system will own the diagnostic and/or remote telehealth equipment. If this is the case, the equipment cost that is not bore by the landlord can be excluded.
Services– There is variability in the specific services offered under these arrangements. These services can range from telecommunication, front desk receptionist, medical and office supplies, magazines, water and coffee supplies, among others. Also, under a telehealth arrangement, it is critical to understand the any clinical labor costs to provide the service. For instance, does the diagnostic test under the telehealth service require a specific staffing resource, such as a medical assistant, radiology technician, or registered nurse? Does the telehealth visit require this staff member to be present throughout a portion of the visit? The value needs to consider the extent that the staff member(s) are being utilized.
Short-term use premium– A major component often missing from the medical office timeshare value is a short-term use premium. In other industries, a premium is paid for the part-time use of space or services (i.e. conference room, executive office suite, rental car, hotel, equipment, etc.). Medical office timeshares are no exception; in fact, it’s essential to ensure compliance. This premium can be impacted by the number of tenant time-slots leased, the landlord utilization risk, and current market comparable transactions.
Key Compliance Takeaways
Telehealth has opened up an opportunity for specialists, located at a distance from patients in rural areas, to remotely care for patients in a cost-effective, efficient, and quality driven manner. It has also allowed the physician landlord to provide a convenience to their patient base needing this additional specialized care. COVID-19 has only accelerated this growth through regulatory waivers, increased telehealth funding, and the need to maintain patient volumes. To ensure the arrangement is compliant, each component must be calculated accurately and appropriately given the specific facts and circumstances of each arrangement. With well documented support, a medical office timeshare can be a great option to reach a larger patient base while increasing convenience and improved access to care for patients.
For more information on our medical office timeshare services, do not hesitate to contact us today.
A Multilayered Analysis of Telehealth: How this emerging venue of care is affecting the healthcare landscape. https://www.fairhealth.org/article/fair-health-research
COVID-19 has resulted in numerous regulatory waivers that impact telehealth type of visits, place of service, and reimbursement during the state of emergency. The authors understand the potential impact of these waivers should they persist after the state of emergency. Contemplation of this fact is beyond the scope of this piece.
National Rural Health Association; https://www.ruralhealthweb.org/about-nrha/about-rural-health-care
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Survey, FP Expert Agree: Interest in Telehealth on the Rise; https://www.aafp.org/news/practice-professional-issues/20190514telehealth.html
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– Research and development of Mars is not a cheap indulgence. What do we expect to get in return?
There are two aspects of Mars exploration – scientific and social. Of course, we want to get an answer to the fundamental question – whether there was life on Mars? This question concerns not only Mars, but also the entire nature of our universe – whether there is something out there capable of creating life? Is life based on a natural development from chemistry, or was there once some highly improbable almost miraculous event that gave rise to life on Earth?
90 years ago the Russian scientist Alexander Oparin, author of "The Origin of Life", outlined a possible scheme for the development of life from chemicals that may have existed on our planet in the early period of its development. The most important thing in his work is the concept of progressive complexity of the chemical structure from simple to more complex substances, to self-reproducing systems, to life. Scientists have already diverged from his particular scheme, but the idea remains a matter of great interest. We still do not know whether the appearance of life was something natural and almost inevitable, that would have surely happened in such a context, or its appearance was an incredible coincidence, the result of a random interaction of a whole set of chemicals that led to the formation of an unusually structured DNA molecules. If everything was inevitable, it means that other planets inhabited by living beings are rotating around most stars of our spectral type, and some of those living beings are rational. Because you know the history of life on Earth is the story of the development, the transition of life from simple to more complex forms that have greater ability to function, a more developed intelligence and an ability to evolve even faster. This is one concept of the universe.
The essence of the other concept is that the universe is dead. Life somehow managed to appear here on Earth, but the rest of space is empty of life.
People have been trying to find an answer to these questions for thousands of years and now we are close to the answer if we make a flight to Mars. After all, if it turns out that both planets we have studied have or have once had life forms on them, then the existence of living creatures in the rest of the universe is highly probable.
Imagine that you live in an apartment, you never go out or leave it, and you do not even have a TV. You will be in complete ignorance of the rest of the world. And suddenly you receive a letter stating that you have won the lottery. You cannot say whether you are the only person ever to receive such a letter, or that it is a general occurrence. But if you could go out into the corridor, go up to your neighbor and say, "Look, I have won the lottery!", and she answers, "I have also won the lottery", and then you would understand that this is likely to happen quite often. So it is with life in the universe.
But there are other questions. Will we be able to live somewhere else? What is the future of mankind? Will we be tied to the Earth or be able to change our habitat? If we succeed on Mars will we be able to repeat it somewhere else? The answer to these questions not only affects the future, but also the present. The way people think about the future determines their actions in the present. This is an extremely important point. For example, we can ask ourselves whether resources are finite or infinite. If you believe that they are finite, you will then perceive every person and every nation as an enemy, you will have to start a new war to subdue them. Adolf Hitler said: "The laws of existence require continuous killing to let the best people live". He uttered the phrase in October 1941, in the same month when he issued the order to kill all the inhabitants of Leningrad. The Germans said that they needed space to live, so they must kill all those people. But it was a lie – not just evil, but also a lie because this idea corresponded to reality only in their minds. Germany did not need the additional space to live. Today Germany occupies a smaller area than in the days of the Nazis, while its population and living standards have risen markedly. They did not need to do what they did; such a need existed only in their heads. If people think that the planet's resources which are available to mankind are limited, this will result in failure for everyone. Then everyone will start wanting inhabitants of other countries to die because they all use the same resources. This is similar to insanity, isn’t it?
– Does this mean that there is no lack of territory, food and other resources, and that it won’t occur in the near future, that the problem is only in the people’s minds?
The danger is not the lack of food. The danger comes from people who think that there is not enough food for everyone. And the danger is not that we supposedly have little land. The danger comes from people who believe that there is not enough earth for everyone. Do you know why the people in this room do not kill each other in order to get all the air? If we run out of air, we will die, so why don’t we fight for it? Because we’re quite sure that there is enough air for everyone, and there is no need to fight for it. We can’t live longer than a couple of minutes without air, but we won’t fight for it, because its reserves are not limited. Although the amount of air in this room is finite, we know that there is plenty of air outside. You can simply open the door and go outside. But if we thought that the air in the room is all that we had, and other people breathed it, and therefore pose a threat to our own lives, we would have attacked them and force them to stop breathing. Is that not right? This is the crux of the problem. The risk of running out of air doesn’t exist, but there is always the danger that someone will turn up one day and suddenly decide that we're running out of air. We'll have to show them that you can always open the door.
Therefore, there are two concepts of the future: one leads to war and destruction, the other leads to peace and prosperity. It all depends on which one we might accept. The notion that the Earth and humanity have a limited supply of resources still has many supporters. It is shared by lots of people; it is promoted by various organizations, which poses a great danger. But people can be shown that our horizons are constantly expanding, that the entire universe is available to us, not just the Earth. This makes the concept of the finiteness of resources incorrect, undermining its foundation, and proves the correctness of the second concept. Other people and other nations don't take from us, they create and invent for us. The more people there are, and the better off they are, the more inventors and inventions there will be. Mankind appeared in the universe not to destroy but to build. This is a struggle between two ideas, and the concept that people are able to explore space, colonize other planets and gain access to new resources has the greatest creative potential. We have endless possibilities, and our future is limited only by our creativity, rather than any physical boundaries.
– In addition to Mars exploration, in your opinion are there any other global engineering problems which now face humanity?
Of course, we have to find solutions to new problems, for example, with regard to finding sources of energy. Locally we solve this problem every time we find a new oil field. But a more serious response to this challenge will be the invention of a new energy technology and the creation of new energy resources. Uranium didn’t become an energy resource until we discovered nuclear energy. Right now we are developing the technology of nuclear fusion, and it will turn deuterium into an energy resource. Deuterium is a heavy hydrogen, which is currently not included in the number of energy resources. We must learn to use this resource for when all the oil fields are depleted. The mission of humanity is to create or discover new resources with the help of our creative ability. Mankind has not survived by sitting idly back, but due to the creation of new resources – that is what we need to do. Helium -3 may become a promising energy resource in the future, which is the ideal fuel for a nuclear fusion reactor in the outer solar system. But it will be available to us only when we become fully-fledged space explorers as the nearest supply of it is on the moon.
We must understand that people are not native inhabitants of the whole of planet Earth – they are native inhabitants of Kenya. It is where we all come from. We were not born to live in Russia or North America. We are tropical animals with long, thin arms without fur. Is that not right? People can live in all parts of the world only because of the technical ingenuity of our ancestors. In some parts of Russia, or in my native Colorado, we would be unable to live a single winter day without appropriate technology, such as houses, clothing, fire, etc. If we stayed in the environment to which we were adapted by nature for too long, we would never have gone beyond the Kenyan Rift Valley. We would only have used the resources available in this valley; we would have hunted the local animals and gathered the native plants. Our plans for the future would have been very modest. It’s not too tempting a prospect, especially from the position of what we have today, right? But in improving technology, we managed to become a global type, including hundreds of nations, cultures, languages, types of social organization with a large variety of technical inventions. Some people create something that will then be used by many others. But our prospects and opportunities will be much greater if we can explore space. Then our descendants will consider our present state to be as primitive as the Stone Age seems to us.
Space is huge. Mars is not our destination, but our direction. This is an important step that we have to take. But it’s just the next step, not the last one.
Robert Zubrin: schoolchild and engineer.
– There is a point of view that the desire for expansion is inherent to man and human nature. It happens when a person just comes out of their cave, heads towards the river, moves to the other side and continues to expand their territory...
In general I agree with this opinion. But I do not believe that such a development is inevitable. It is a matter of choice. Not everyone crosses the river. Some of them remain on one river bank and continue to exist; some of them die because of limited opportunities. In the past, our ancestors were fish that inhabited the oceans. Now the oceans are still full of fish, but only on land can you see the stars, only here it was possible to invent fire and other technologies. If we stayed in a confined space, we would not have created civilization and would not dream of space travel.
So not everyone swims across the river, and the only question is whether we'll meet other civilizations on the other bank of the river. We've seen the death of many civilizations. In the 20th century our Western civilization almost died too. But in 1914 people lived better than they ever had before. If you look at how the world changed from 1815 to 1914, you will see many amazing things: we invented steam engines, railways, telegraphs, electricity, record players, movies, airplanes. Quality of life rose dramatically; we found cures for many diseases, which previously had seemed to be incurable, and many more free people occupied the world. Everything was getting better and better, but the great leaders suddenly began to argue for some reason about the boundaries of small Balkan countries, and everything went to pieces. Everything exploded. The First World War was a colossal disaster, which would be followed by other even more devastating wars. Great nations need ways to express their greatness. But that is no reason to exert political influence on other countries to impose your policies, as it was in the Balkans, the Middle East or other regions. I'm certain of it. Europe would have been much better off in 1914 if it had thought more about Mars, and less about Serbia and the murder of the Archduke. If we become open in a new way, if we can turn into space-faring people, it will free us from our apparent limits. People will no longer need to fight for geographic power. We won't need to fixate on such issues as a squabble over Syria. Do you understand what I mean? We need to look up. Mars can free us and unite us.
Being an American, I'm certainly very proud of the fact that in the United States there exists four percent of the world population, but we have created half of all recent inventions. People around the world use our inventions. China cannot boast a large number of inventions made these days, but this country is growing, and the children of peasants are becoming university students, and then scientists and engineers. Maybe soon China will invent many things that everyone will use. But China's development won’t do any harm to America; on the contrary, it will help it! If Russia makes a number of inventions on a world scale, they will help to all inhabitants of the planet. This will help to everyone to progress.
I am an inventor myself. Many of my inventions are related to space flight, but some have applications on Earth. One of them will soon be put into production. We are talking about a portable system for producing liquids from natural gas that is now being flared. Throughout the world, including Russia, huge amounts of natural gas is being burned. But natural gas contains components such as propane and butane, which can be converted into a liquid and then transported and used. I invented a portable system that lets this happen. The first field device is ready and is already being tested. The invention will be used in the United States, and then, I'm sure, in Russia as well. People in Russia have already shown some interest in it.
Portable system for producing liquids from natural gas, developed by Robert Zubrin.
– The space race between the Soviet Union and the United States led to a huge leap in the development of mankind. And even if Gagarin didn’t fly into space and Armstrong didn’t step onto the lunar surface, it would still be of great importance today as advanced space technology was transferred to everyday life and is now widely used in various spheres of life. How can the Mars exploration program affect our lives even without actual colonization?
Yes, even if we did not fly to the moon, we would still have made some progress. But as a result of the "Apollo" program the number of graduates with majors in science in the U.S. had doubled. It refers to all levels of education: schools, colleges and graduate schools. We got millions of new scientists, engineers, inventors, doctors, researchers, businessmen operating in the technical fields. In the 1960s all these people were little boys and their favorite toys were space rockets. Therefore, the effect of landing on the moon was very significant for the United States. It is not so much about technology, developed by NASA or contractors, although some of them were very important – it is much more about the intellectual assets that our society has acquired. People trying to get funding for the space program sometimes claim that they will be able to discover a cure for cancer or something like that in the space station. Well, that's possible, though it’s unlikely to happen. But it’s very likely that a team of scientists who could invent such a cure might well include a large number of people who were inspired to become scientists by the space program.
– How should we deal with the formation of the future generation – those people who will explore Mars?
I think the most important thing in education and whether a teacher will prove to be successful in their profession or not, is the interest of students in the process of learning. You need to present your subject so that the children become interested in it, to explain why they should study science, and instill a love of learning at an early age. Before becoming an engineer, I worked as a teacher for several years. I taught in both good and bad schools, and I understood these things: anyone can teach those kids who want to learn, and no one is able to teach those who do not want to. Desire to learn is much more important than any equipment which a school has and much more important than the textbooks used. Children need something to get inspiration from, and I think the Mars Exploration Program is suitable for this role. Thanks to it, we'll have more boys and girls who really want to learn, so that they can be explorers of new worlds.
– What are the obstacles to the Mars development? Is there no needed technology? Or it’s just a lack of money?
There’s never enough money, but that’s not the only problem. What matters is where you spend the money. The United States spends more money on other things. Even if they say that we are in a budget crisis and they need to cut expenses, the budget of the U.S. government still is about $ 3.6 trillion. But NASA's budget is $ 16 billion. It turns out that the budget of the U.S. government is 200 times greater than NASA's budget, and only 0.5 % of the total budget is spent on space exploration. If we add one tenth to it, other sectors won’t lose significant funding. So it's not that we have no money, it’s about whether we are ready to act. In fact we can afford much more expenses: NASA’s budget could be increased two or three times, but we don’t need this right now. I think that we can implement our programs in the current budget if we have proper focus and proper prioritization. Russia is not as rich as the United States. I do not know the exact numbers, but I'm sure that in Russia, space research receives also only a small portion of the state budget. I think Russia can afford space exploration, and it’s not necessary to say what enormous benefits it will bring. It will increase the intellectual capital; attract young people to science and technology, which in turn will benefit the economy, national defense, health care and everything else. Putin wants Russia to once again become a great nation, and great nations do great things.
Of course, there are a number of technological problems on the way to Mars, but none of them is insurmountable. For example, we need to build a heavy launch vehicle. But we have already had a rocket, "Saturn 5", and Russia has had "Energia". There are many things to be done by engineers, and they need to be done right. But all of them are within the technical capabilities of our era. There is nothing that needs to be done that we can not do.
Modern technology allows us to reach Mars in six months. Of course, it would be better if we could reduce the time of the journey, but there is no urgent need for this. The time taken to travel from England to Australia in the 19th century was also six months. The first colonists will take six months get to Mars in a spacecraft. When our civilization settles on Mars, we will have an incentive to develop better spaceships and a fusion engine that will allow us to reach the Red Planet in just one month. Moreover, it will allow us to go to the outer solar system and then beyond. Now a mission to Saturn would take at least six years, but with the help of new technology we will reduce the length of the journey to six months. Columbus sailed across the Atlantic Ocean in a ship that, even fifty years later, no one would have attempted to cross the ocean in. Until we started crossing the ocean, there was no need for transoceanic ships. But after European civilization became transatlantic, we moved forward, building three-masted sailing ships, then steam ships, then ocean liners and in the end created a Boeing-747. Something similar will be the case in space exploration. The first colonists will fly to Mars on such ships, that when their grandchildren hear stories about the technical equipment of their ancestors, they won’t believe that anyone could have traveled anywhere in such ships because they will seem to have been so primitive.
Therefore, the main obstacles to the colonization of Mars today are political in nature. We have to convince politicians that it is necessary for them to embrace this challenge, that there are a number of problems they can solve this way. Some things are obvious: it is necessary to mobilize the national economy, technology, resources, research, to improve education, to create work and so on. Finally, we need to improve public morale, to create intellectual capital, the spirit of cooperation which will allow countries to act together. Some politicians are able to understand it, but why do we need to do it now? One reason is to improve international relations. Hostile international relations can lead to disaster for which there is no other prerequisite. Consequently it is important to diffuse the tension, which may now be increasing. This is a dangerous thing. A joint mission to Mars is one of the ways of creating trust and friendship.
– How did you get the idea to create Mars society?
In 1996 I published the first edition of my book "The Case for Mars", and then I received 4,000 letters from around the world. Some of them were written by astronauts, others by engineers from the NASA laboratory, school teachers, firefighters, police officers, military widows, New York Opera managers and Paris bankers, 12-year-old Polish children and other people. It was incredible. Looking at the huge pile of letters I said to myself: what if we could unite all those people, then we would have the strength to fulfill our plan. We announced the founding congress of the Martian Society in Boulder, Colorado, and 700 people came there from all over the world. Of course, most of them were from the U.S., but many Europeans also came to the congress. There were a few Russians, but very few, even fewer than Poles. Even Cypriots and representatives of Mozambique came.
The Mars Society then included representatives from 40 countries. There were a few Russian citizens, but the chapter was not large and eventually became inactive. Now there is renewed interest in forming a Mars Society Russia. A Facebook group has been formed and hundreds of people have joined. We plan to hold a founding convention in Moscow in April.
In America the mission of the Mars Society is to promote the idea in society, to help compatriots broaden their horizons. We want to convince politicians to take our ideas seriously. We have already achieved some success – for example we have helped to get the U.S. budget for Mars robot exploration increased.
Mars Society organized two "Martian stations" on earth.
– What projects have you started within the Mars Society?
We have two "Martian stations" on earth. One of them is located in the Arctic, on Devon Island (Flashline Mars Arctic Research Station), and the other is in the American desert in Utah (Mars Desert Research Station).
In Utah, we do a lot of research. We have had over 130 crews. Each group spends about two weeks at the station. Then it is replaced by another group. A group from Russia also came here last spring. We do not study the psychology of long duration space flights. Instead we focus on another problem. We conduct simulations to understand what research methods and techniques are suitable for Mars, and what aren’t.
For example, how much water does a team need? Physiological needs can be found in a medical textbook. But this is only a small volume of the water that you use. Much more water is used for washing up, cooking and other needs. Some people like to have a long shower, but on Mars you won’t be able to do it. You just step into the shower stall, turn on the water for a couple of seconds to wet the body, then turn off the water, soap yourself and turn on the water for a few more seconds to rinse the soap. We can save even more water if we wipe the body with a wet sponge. But why should we do it every day? How about once every two or three days? How far can you go in being economical? It is a trade between mass and morale. According to a NASA assessment, water consumption is 30 liters per day, per person. We managed to reduce this number to 12 liters during the experiments, without affecting the spirit of the crew. Even if we consider that most of the water will be recycled, this would result in a significant reduction in mission mass.
Another question is how effective is the use of space rovers on Mars. Once concept for such rovers would be pressurized vehicles the size of an SUV car. You can drive it on the planet's surface and sometimes wear a spacesuit to go outside for research. We have shown that the use of smaller cars is much more effective. We are talking about ATVs in which you can ride wearing a spacesuit. So your research becomes more informal this way. Seeing an interesting stone, you can bend down and pick it up. You do not need to go through depressurization. And if the ATV gets stuck, one or two people are enough to pull it out. Currently my Mars field exploration model has one rule: do not take what you cannot lift. Given the shortage of special tools it is the right decision.
Here is another example. NASA is interested in remotely controlled robots, and some people have supported them, making the argument that we should take these robots to Mars with us, because when part of the team is not exploring the planet on an ATV or doing anything special, driving robots can give them something to do. Our experience has shown that the crew doesn’t need other people to come up with new tasks for them. They have a lot to do, and even if you deploy the robots only during rare free moments, their effectiveness will be a thousand times lower than that of living researchers. Therefore, only small remote control robots may have an advantage if they can climb a cliff, or go into a small cave that is too small for humans. In other words, these robots can access places where we can’t otherwise reach, and they can therefore serve the crew as useful tools. But large independent space rovers, like Curiosity or MER, will become obsolete once humans are on Mars.
As for the station in the Arctic, we have longer exploratory missions here. Expeditions have shown what psychological difficulties are faced by researchers. Some motivated individuals, who have waited for ages to be able to conduct research in such an environment, joined the expedition, and their dream came true: they are at the station in an exotic setting. They have limited time, and they go out of their way to make the most of it. They work themselves in to a state of exhaustion. When I was with my team in the Arctic, I had to constantly order them not to work after nine o’clock in the evening. Otherwise, they would just become burned out.
Now we are organizing an expedition to the Arctic station, which will last one year. We called it "Mars Arctic 365". Now we are recruiting volunteers. I hope the mission will begin next year, but first we need to gather a good team and get funding.
– What are your requirements for volunteers?
Volunteers must be in good physical shape and between 22 and 65 years old. We need two types of technical knowledge and skills: these people should either be scientists, for example, geologists and microbiologists, or be good at repairing things. Thirdly, we need someone with the skills of a doctor. At the desert station the presence of such people wasn’t very important because nobody stays there for more than two weeks and could go to the city for medical care. But we can’t do without doctors in the Arctic.
– What do you think about other initiatives, especially private ones, relating to Mars exploration, and what role do you play in them?
As regards the role of the Mars Society in all these projects, first of all, we have helped inspire people like Elon Musk and Bas Lansdorp do something that will bring Mars exploration closer. Elon founded the SpaceX Company, and Bas launched a Mars One project. There are other people who are doing something similar, drawing inspiration from us too. I became a consultant for the Mars One project and now I’m working on the possible ways to cooperate. In turn, we invited Mars One to participate in the Mars Arctic 365 mission.
– What does Mars exploration mean for you personally? Why do you devote all your energy to it?
We live only once, and for me the measure of human life is what a man has done. We are looking for opportunities, looking for a place where we will be most useful. If I can do something to achieve this common goal, my life becomes more meaningful. That's why I do it.
Robert Zubrin near the model of the automatic station "Mars-1" in Moscow Memorial Museum of Astronautics.
– Are you training a group of like-minded people who are willing to follow in your footsteps and pass your ideas to future generations?
I hope that the number of young people sharing these ideas will only increase, and that some people will want to devote their life to them. I also hope to convey my thoughts through books and activities within the Mars Society. In 2011 my book "The Case for Mars" was published with updates. In the United States they have sold 100,000 copies of it, even in Poland we have sold 10,000 copies. I also found a publisher in Russia and they will publish my book in Russian too.
– Would you like our distant descendants to talk about you as a person who helped our civilization to survive?
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When you think about the modern-day sugar cookie we bet you don’t think about the small town of Nazareth, Pennsylvania. Well, perhaps you should! I mean after all, this is believed to be the birth place of the sugar cookie here in the state by German Protestants who settled in the area.
I mean sure, you can find some small facts that they may date back even further, but let’s be honest, it just hurts our heads to think past yesterday, let alone the 1700’s! And really, once you down a delicious, buttery, slightly crumbly piece of cookie perfection, we don’t really care where or when they came into play, all we want is for them to GET IN MY BELLY!
Plus, one thing we love about this cookie is the personal touch that each and every person/family puts on theirs. Some are cooked a little more or less, with frosting or without, or hard or soft (sorry I just drooled a little) but I think at the end of the day, the only thing we can say is, “thank you settlers of Nazareth, PA for changing our lives for the good!” | <urn:uuid:3e6a5e05-0dfe-4a7a-9963-29685e552e6a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://tasteoff.com/uncategorized/the-best-thing-to-come/page/2/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571536.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811224716-20220812014716-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.948725 | 255 | 1.546875 | 2 |
(Source: Business Mirror | March 20, 2018)
Retailers warned the government that the planned further liberalization of the retail sector—as embodied in a forthcoming executive order (EO) and a proposed bill—will kill the country’s small and medium enterprises (SMEs), as they will be left to compete for mere “bread crumbs.”
Samie Lim, chairman emeritus of the Philippine Retailers Association (PRA), said House Bill (HB) 4595, in particular, will “literally” sell the SME sector to foreigners.
HB 4595 intends to amend crucial provisions of Republic Act 8762, or the Retail Trade Liberalization Act, in a bid to improve the country’s investment climate. Aside from this proposed measure, the government also wants to ease the retail-industry barriers for foreigners on the Foreign Investment Negative List through an EO.
HB 4595, authored by Rep. Arthur C. Yap of the Third District of Bohol, will remove barriers to foreign investment by erasing the equity and capitalization requirements under the law. In his explanatory note, Yap said these requirements hindered the country from taking advantage of the fruits of liberalization.
“Currently, the law has a $2.5-million capital requirement before a foreign entity may 100-percent own a retail establishment. On the other hand, countries like Indonesia and Singapore allow FDI [foreign direct investment] in the retail-trade sector without
setting minimum capital requirements and without limits on foreign equity participation,”
“These requirements, together with other barriers, have resulted in the Philippines ranking dead last in terms of having a regulatory regime favorable to foreign investment, behind Singapore, Vietnam, Malaysia, Thailand and Indonesia,” he added. A totally open retail industry, Yap argued, will not only drive investments growth but also job creation.
However, Lim disagreed. He believes HB 4595 will kill the SME sector, which is just in its developing stage. With this, he said retailers will lobby against the government’s plan to totally liberalize the retail industry. What they can only concede is to lower the paid-up capital requirement to at least $2 million.
“That is the only concession we are willing to give because the moral is very simple: If the government is after investments, we should focus on investment amount. For the foreign chambers to say that we should liberalize down to $200,000, that is petty cash to foreign retailers,” Lim told the BusinessMirror.
“Whereas the Congress, I would like them: Are they here to look after the interest of Filipinos or of the foreigners? Diretsuhan na lang tayo [Let us be straightforward]. Now, what they are saying is, we let them all come and then let [foreign retailers] compete with our SMEs? That is like leaving bread crumbs to the Filipinos, [while] the foreigners take all the bread,” he added.
If the government is really bent on attracting foreign investors, the PRA chairman emeritus said it should just allow the “big guys” to compete with themselves because they can “take care of themselves.” However, further liberalization of the retail sector only means another obstruction for small businesses to develop, he added.
“I think this [measure] will wipe out the middle class, and we will go back to all small enterprises. The bill will, in effect, kill the manufacturing sector, and, in effect, will create unemployment,” Lim said.
The Duterte administration is keen on lifting existing restrictions on foreign participation in certain industries. The plan is to liberalize the economy to further attract foreign investors to the country.
Yap said the trade department and antitrust regulator agreed with him that the trade-liberalization law, ironically, is biased against foreign investors. “The DTI [Department of Trade and Industry] BOI [Board of Investments] and the PCC [Philippine Competition Commission], along with the joint foreign chambers, are all on the same page, stating that Philippine retail laws are too restrictive and impede the growth of the economy and, [if] left unchanged, work against the interests of millions of Philippine consumers,” Yap told the BusinessMirror.
“Innovation and technology is disrupting the economy. We must invite companies that have something new to offer, that are imaginative and out of the box in product offerings to come and set up shop in the Philippines. This will make the Philippines more attractive to tourists and offer Philippine consumers better-priced quality goods. This will not happen if we continue to have restrictive investments laws,” he added.
For the Bohol representative, the retail-liberalization law has yet to fulfill its stated objectives when it was enacted into law in 2000. “Clearly, the law’s intention of inviting retail trade investors, creating jobs and making goods more price and quality competitive has not been realized,” Yap said. | <urn:uuid:00191df0-b4fe-4fa4-a0f8-146e7ee52493> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.philretailers.com/lim-local-retailers-not-ready-to-compete-under-highly-liberalized-regime/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571536.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811224716-20220812014716-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.946681 | 1,052 | 1.539063 | 2 |
10/07/2019 - The OECD Working Group on Bribery has serious concerns that recent steps taken by Greece may leave the country in breach of the OECD’s Anti-Bribery Convention. On 11 June 2019, Greece amended the Criminal and Criminal Procedure Codes. As a result, the main active bribery offence was converted from felony to a misdemeanour, which is a less serious offence. The Working Group is concerned that this amendment may have far-reaching ramifications, ranging from the closure of ongoing corruption-related investigations and prosecutions, to possible hindrance of international cooperation in future cases and shorter limitations period. The Codes entered into force on 1 July 2019, having been adopted in the last session before Parliament was dissolved ahead of national elections, which took place on 7 July 2019.
The OECD Working Group on Bribery will conduct a supplementary Phase 3ter review of Greece, with an on-site visit in the fall of 2019 and the publication of an evaluation report in December 2019. The evaluation will be conducted jointly with the Council of Europe Group of States against Corruption (GRECO), which also decided to carry out an urgent evaluation of Greece’s amendments to its Criminal Code. Depending on the results of this evaluation, the OECD Working Group may decide that further appropriate measures are necessary, including the possibility of a High Level Mission to Greece. The OECD Working Group has also agreed to issue a letter that will be sent to the Greek Prime Minister. The letter will outline serious concerns about the potential impact of the revised anti-corruption criminal measures.
This is the second time the Working Group has decided to undertake a supplementary examination of Greece. In 2012, Greece failed to promptly investigate a significant foreign bribery case and to provide timely information on its anti-bribery efforts, and, as a result, the Working Group on Bribery conducted a Phase 3bis evaluation in 2015.
For more information on the implementation of the OECD Anti-Bribery Convention in Greece, please visit: http://www.oecd.org/daf/anti-bribery/greece-oecdanti-briberyconvention.htm.
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Given our Modern lifestyles and hectic schedules coupled with crazy daily routines and poor food habits, depression is a common thing of the day. Everyone feels sad and lonely at some point in time when he/she goes through a difficult phase of life. But it is very important to know where to draw a line between feeling sad and feeling depressed. It is very important to get good medical help at the right time.
There are different symptoms of depression. You may have one or all. But, it is important to identify the intensity and how long the symptoms last. They can be broadly classified as below:
- Change in sleep patterns: It could be associated either with sleeplessness (Insomnia) or sleeping too much. Also, difficulty to stay asleep for too long or early-morning wakefulness is a common thing.
- Alterations in behavioral patterns: One could display lack of interest in things or activities that were once pleasurable. Anxiety, irritability, restlessness are very common symptoms. Agitation, excessive crying or social isolation are things that can be noticed prominently.
- Appetite and overall wellness of the body: Can display either overeating or loss of appetite. Headaches, body aches, various pains or cramps too may appear and stay for long even when you pop some pills are all things that could eventually lead to fatigue.
- Cognitive symptoms: There could be a lack of concentration, difficulty in remembering details and making decisions. Very frequent mood swings or sadness, apathy, general discontent, feelings of guilt, worthlessness, helplessness, pessimism, and hopelessness. Going through the same thoughts repeatedly etc. If left unattended at the right time, suicidal thoughts or attempts by the depressed patients could have life-threatening events.
- Whole body wellness: Patients may observe sudden and excessive gain or loss in body weight.
As they say- Nip it in the bud, it is very important to get medical help at the right time. If not there could be several complications that can lead due to depression. If depression is untreated for a long time, not only that there is a possibility for the patients to face the complications of depression drawbacks that can lead to chronic illnesses related to the heart, pain perception, sex, and sleep, it may even lead to serious and life-threatening problems including suicide. The mental state of depression and the medicines used in the treatment can have side effects on the sexual desire and sexual performance of the patient as well. In addition, sleep-related problems, serotonin syndrome, antidepressant withdrawal symptoms are all the outcomes of the eventuality of depression. | <urn:uuid:49215928-64db-49a3-ae84-52b66b94e616> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.beinghealthier.com/spotting-the-signs-of-depression/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570921.9/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809094531-20220809124531-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.94955 | 529 | 2.828125 | 3 |
A comment on the current state of our stock market:
When we invest in stocks for clients, we are essentially paying for a future stream of earnings of companies discounted to today’s dollars. We want to have as much confidence in the stability and growth of the future earnings of those companies as possible. Any global trends which have the potential to negatively impact earnings flow on a broad scale will disrupt the market price of common stocks. The approximately 70% decline in the price of oil over the past year is one of those global trends that is currently affecting common stock prices.
The drop in the value of oil is a double-edged sword. On the positive side, many of our oil-based consumer items as well as gasoline will be much cheaper for the consumer. However, on the negative side, oil is now at a price where many smaller producers cannot make money and are forced to make layoffs or shut down completely.
Sixty years of investing on behalf of clients has taught us that while markets are cyclical and global trends affect market behavior, it is ultimately earnings growth that drives long term stock prices. After a strong six-year bull market from 2009 through 2014, the equity markets have experienced downward pressure since May of 2015. Whether this decline in equity prices is a much needed market correction or the beginning of a bear market is not yet apparent.
What is apparent is that the drop in oil prices has been one of the main catalysts for the market decline. We also know that this will pass in time and that stocks will once again get back to reflecting their future earnings, until we face the next major global trend.
Alison J. Gamble, President
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In a small room inside the U.S. Capitol, Sen. Bernie Sanders today was trying to marshal support for a $1 trillion infrastructure investment bill he formally introduced today, discussing the consequences of not spending money on our roads, public transportation, water systems and other public assets.
Just outside the nation’s capital, those consequences were becoming all too vivid for residents of a working-class neighborhood.
A 90-year-old water main, well beyond its expected life span, broke in the town of Bladensburg, Md. early this morning. According to WRC-TV, a family whose home was being flooded by the broken water main sought to escape in their car, only to have the car swallowed up by a sinkhole just as they were about to leave. Miraculously, the family managed to escape without injury.
Earlier this month, New Jersey transportation officials have had to close two bridges because they had deteriorated to the point that they were unsafe. And New Jersey Transportation Commissioner Jamie Fox warned that more bridges in the state could be closed; 500 of the state’s bridges are either structurally deficient or functionally obsolete.
Stories like this appear all over the country with increasing frequency, underscoring how our fraying infrastructure networks are succumbing to the ravages of age, too much demand and too little spent on maintenance.
It’s the reason Sanders (I-Vt.) is calling for a grassroots effort to push his infrastructure investment bill, which he said would create at least 13 million good jobs over the next five years if it passes the Senate.
Urging calls to both the House and Senate during a brief meeting with reporters, Sanders said, “The American people have to demand that they act, and act now.”
The bill that authorizes federal spending for the nation’s surface transportation network expires this spring, and committees in both the House and Senate are slowly gearing up their proposals. But what has dominated the conversation so far is the gathering momentum for a proposal to pay for any increases in transportation spending by enticing multinational corporations that have stashed profits overseas to avoid U.S. taxes to bring that money back into the U.S. at a deeply discounted tax rate, far less than the tax rate working people pay on their wages.
Sanders won’t support such a plan. “My own view is that when corporations stash their money in the Cayman Islands to avoid paying their fair share of taxes, they should pay them,” he said. A repatriation tax holiday to persuade multinationals to bring profits back into the U.S. would only give corporations an incentive to continue to stash profits overseas in anticipation of the next tax holiday, he said. “I think there are better ways to do it.”
Sanders’ bill would over five years invest $735 billion to repair road and public transit networks, provide an additional $15 billion a year for passenger and freight rail, $2.5 billion more a year for airport improvement projects and $145 billion in water infrastructure projects, plus additional funding for national parks, waterways, and broadband and electrical grid improvements.
Sanders did not include a specific proposal for funding the plan in the bill, but he did make clear one principle he believed should guide the funding debate. “At a time when we have massive wealth and income inequality – since the Wall Street crash 95 percent of all new income of this country goes to the top 1 percent, and when hedge fund managers in this country paying a lower effective tax rate than firemen and nurses, I think there are progressive ways to raise money.” Sanders said.
“What I wanted to do was focus on the need to build the infrastructure, not to start the debate right away on how to fund it,” he said. “We’ll have a debate on how to fund it in the weeks and months to come.”
That is a debate that should not be left in the hands of Republican congressional leaders and the corporate lobbyists who pull their strings. It needs to be driven by people like the families who are displaced by that water main break in Bladensburg, who are suffering the devastating effects of an ideology that prioritizes tax cuts for the wealthy over caring for the essential public assets on which we all depend. | <urn:uuid:e31518e0-8c19-41c8-ae33-953e31b313db> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://poole.media/poole_10bd2g/grassroots-push-needed-for-sanders-infrastructure-bill/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573163.7/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818033705-20220818063705-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.970688 | 889 | 1.921875 | 2 |
Summer Biomedical Internship Program
The UCSF Fresno Summer Biomedical Internship Program was established in 1988 to provide a quality biomedical research experience for high school students—the first of its kind in the Central San Joaquin Valley. The program matches high school students, in the summer between their junior and senior year of high school, with faculty members who have or are developing a research project. In the last twenty-seven years, over two hundred students have participated in the SBI program and many of them are finishing their medical residencies, are working in the biomedicine or biotechnical industries, or are in medical school or doctorate programs at various universities.
Students are chosen each year based on their scholastic abilities. Applications are accepted from a six county area: Merced, Mariposa, Madera, Fresno, Tulare and Kings. The number of students coincides with the number of faculty available to work with a student. The faculty member, his or her staff and the SBI student work daily on this project for 6 – 7 weeks. Additionally, there are opportunities for field trips for the group to visit each other’s project site, tour local hospitals and medical facilities, listen to various speakers and participate in discussions with residents. Students also may view surgery and will visit the main campus of UCSF in San Francisco for a tour of various research laboratories. This program is designed to enhance the opportunity for students to develop an understanding of the biomedical sciences while introducing them to a possible career in the healthcare professions.
The 2022 program is tentatively moving forward at this time. We are accepting applications, but due to the current climate the SBI program may either be abridged or canceled. Notifications of either would be provided by April 22, 2022. | <urn:uuid:3c534c2d-c086-401a-8b26-e849a1752f49> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.fresno.ucsf.edu/summer-biomedical-internship-program/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571536.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811224716-20220812014716-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.958205 | 361 | 1.65625 | 2 |
Mantis Mountain Lodge is an eco-friendly project located in the upper part of the mountain that is in front of the Sauce lagoon in the jungle of Tarapoto, Peru. Mantis seeks to create awareness of the importance of the conservation of the Peruvian high jungle, demonstrating that coexistence and respect for the wildlife that surrounds us is viable.
At Mantis we offer hiking, trekking, fauna watching and flora learning activities, generating an experience of harmony with nature; highlighting the peace and purity of wildlife in the Peruvian Amazon.
This project is developed in an area of 60 hectares, which include a conservation zone, a buffer area and an ecological coexistence area. Part of the area where Mantis is developed has been rescued from deforestation, since it had been used as farmland, without measuring the impact that logging had on the forest ecosystem. Our objective is to recover and restore to this area the balance between nature and man, through a healthy coexistence marked by respect for the environment.
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Petrographic evidence. Evidence for UHP metamorphism: garnet inclusions and exsolution mineralogy. (A) Numerous orthogonal inclusions comprising carbonates (calcite, aragonite, dolomite, and Mg calcite), graphite, and microdiamonds. (B) Radial decompression fractures surrounding quartz interpreted to have formed after coesite. Fractures infilled by later chlorite. (C) Oriented inclusion trails and crystallographically controlled exsolution of rutile. (D) Numerous rutile and apatite exsolution needles. (E) Apatite and rutile exsolution lamellae. (F) Amphibole exsolution lamellae. (G and H) Quartz exsolution laths. Qtz, quartz; Coes, coesite; Mdia, microdiamond. Credit: Science Advances (2022). DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abo2811
A trio of researchers from James Cook University, working with a colleague from the University of Adelaide, has found metamorphic diamonds in rocks near Australia’s north coast. In their paper published in the journal Science AdvancesAlexander Edgar, Ioan Sanislav, Paul Dirks and Carl Spandler, describe how they found the tiny diamonds and why they believe the find will help reveal more about the early history and formation of Australia.
Metamorphic diamonds are very rare, they only form in very specific places. They are also very small—from microscopic down to nano-sized. The unique diamonds form in subduction zones—the pressure of opposing plates grinding against one another over millions of years results in the creation of diamonds so small they cannot be seen with the naked eye, which is why they are so very rarely found. They have only ever been found in six other places on Earth. In this new effort, the researchers found a bunch of them inside of rocks along the Clarke River Fault, which came about when crustal blocks were pushed together approximately 500 million years ago.
The researchers began investigating the rocks along the fault line after they were told by one of their students of some rock formations they had observed that looked like they might have been revealed when one of the tectonic plates pushed them above the surface of the ground around them .
The researchers ventured into the site and collected some of the rocks and brought them back to their lab for study. There they sliced them into very thin slabs and used Raman spectroscopy to help identify the minerals held within. In so doing, they found evidence of silica, amphibole, apatite, lamella of rutile, coesite, quartz and most importantly, metamorphic diamonds.
The researchers note that the diamonds they observed were the first to be found in the Gondwana-Pacific part of the Terra Australis Orogen. They also suggest that because metamorphic diamonds can only be created under very specific conditions, the study of them and the locations where they are found could provide more clues about how Australia was formed.
Japan’s geologic history in question after discovery of metamorphic rock microdiamonds
Alexander Edgar et al, Metamorphic diamond from the northeastern margin of Gondwana: Paradigm shifting implications for one of Earth’s largest orogens, Science Advances (2022). DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abo2811
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CHROMagar™ Serratia, First Chromogenic Medium for Serratia marcescens
“One year ago, I had one of the worst experiences a hospital epidemiologist can have: a Serratia marcescens outbreak in a neonatal department with a total of 21 colonized or infected newborns. This outbreak caused headlines in all national TV channels and newspapers...” A quote from Petra Gastmeier - Serratia marcescens: An outbreak, 2014, doi:10.3389/fmicb.2014.00081
Serratia marcescens is frequently associated with epidemics in intensive care units in particular in neonatal and pediatric units. An increasing number of outbreaks have been described in several countries recently.
To prevent outbreaks, continuous surveillance is required, with effective recovery of clinical isolates from faeces, wound exudates, respiratory and environmental samples. S. marcescens is able to survive days to months on surfaces, distilled water, and hand soap making it an important pathogen in nosocomial infections and sporadic epidemics.
For this context, CHROMagar™ has developed CHROMagar™ Serratia, the first chromogenic medium designed specifically for the detection of Serratia marcescens.
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* Data obtained from the study "Validation of Colorex™ (CHROMagar™) Serratia agar on WASP™/WASPLab™ in screening for Serratia marcescens in neonatal intensive care units using the ESwab™" M. Gaskin, D. Yamamura, J. Korver, 2020
Date Published: 15th May 2020
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Today, Texas Secretary of State Ruth Hughs submitted her resignation, effective May 31, 2021—the final day of the 87th Legislative Session.
Gov. Greg Abbott appointed Hughs to the office in August of 2019, but she was never confirmed by the Texas Senate, so she was unable to continue serving beyond the end of this session.
She replaced David Whitley, who resigned at the end of the previous legislative session after the Texas Senate failed to confirm his appointment.
The secretary serves as the state’s chief election officer and chief international protocol officer, as well as the governor’s senior advisor and liaison for Texas border and Mexican affairs.
The Office of the Secretary of State also publishes government rules and regulations, and is a repository for official and business and commercial records.
Abbott will appoint a replacement. Under the Texas constitution, the secretary of state is the only unelected officer in the state’s executive department.
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