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WASHINGTON—World Bank administration pressured team associates to manipulate data utilised in its flagship report on small business competitiveness, ensuing in enhancements in China’s and Saudi Arabia’s international rankings, the lender stated soon after an interior investigation.
The lender on Wednesday produced the outcome of its audit, which it opened this yr following workers elevated worries through an internal study about the integrity of facts in the yearly Executing Business enterprise report. The lender mentioned in August it was investigating irregularities impacting knowledge for 4 nations around the world: China, Azerbaijan, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. The manipulated data were being made use of in the 2017 report for China and in the 2019 report for the other 3 nations.
The Accomplishing Organization report has come to be a leading intercontinental position of countries’ business enterprise environments, motivating governments around the entire world to jockey for increased positions to entice foreign enterprises. The rankings are based on actions these kinds of as the simplicity of beginning a enterprise, tax policies and obtain to credit. In the hottest report, issued previous yr, New Zealand is ranked No. 1 amid 190 international locations for relieve of carrying out organization.
The Planet Bank’s audit located that out of the 15 workforce on the report’s manufacturing workforce, 9 reported they had been directly or indirectly pressured to manipulate data when making ready the studies issued in 2017 and 2019. The staff claimed they didn’t to begin with escalate their issues about the tension they encountered thanks to concern of retaliation, in accordance to the audit report.
Soon after correcting for irregularities, for example, China’s world position in the report issued in Oct 2017 would decrease seven factors to No. 85 from the 78th slot it was awarded originally. | <urn:uuid:87c56af4-9597-4aa4-9874-5c2b1c19834b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://error-page.com/environment-bank-suggests-managers-pressured-staff-to-alter-world-wide-enterprise-rankings.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571198.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810161541-20220810191541-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.949943 | 355 | 1.632813 | 2 |
An electronic or digital payment is the transfer of value from one account to another utilizing digital devices such as mobile phones, POS (Point of Sale) or computers and digital channels of communications such as mobile wireless data. To put it another way, digital payments are transactions that don’t require the actual exchange of money. Both the sender and the receiver must utilize technological means to transfer money.
Digitization is shifting the wallet share as analog methods continue to diminish in response to the pandemic. Alternatives like installment loans and cryptocurrencies will threaten the market share of the giants in their place, as will an increase in the use of cards and electronic transactions. Digital payment providers, processors, systems, and gateways can differentiate themselves by providing value-added services, which can generate new, diversified income streams.
What Is the Process of Digital Payments?
If a business or an individual is involved, it doesn’t matter which. A bank account, an online banking method, a device from which they can make the payment (either from their own bank account or through an intermediary such as an intermediary such as a bank or service provider), and medium of transmission are all required for digital payments to occur. The digital payments ecosystem has a number of intermediaries that work together to ensure that a transaction goes through smoothly.
The merchant (payee), the customer (payer), the bank, and the payment network are all involved in the end-to-end processing of a digital payment. These include local Kirana stores, shopping centers, retail outlets, and service providers that allow customers to pay for goods or services via digital means.
The issuer bank is the financial institution responsible for taking money from the payer. On the other hand, the acquirer bank, or the payee’s bank, is responsible for crediting the receipt with the amount of money. To conduct business online, you’ll need a bank account and an online banking account for each party.
Digital payments can be made in a variety of ways.
Some methods have been in use for more than a decade, while others have only recently become popular.
1: Banking Cards
Cards are preferred for a variety of reasons, not the least of which are their portability, security, and convenience. In both online and real-world transactions, this is the only form of digital payment that is widely accepted. Apps like Cred, Square, and others are springing up to manage card transactions.
2. Electronic payment systems
The use of an electronic payment system makes it possible for two parties to conduct financial transactions through the internet. Electronic payment systems are prompting stakeholders to review their strategy as the trend to online purchasing continues to accelerate.
3. Contactless payments
During the pandemic, due to health limitations and safety considerations, the adoption of contactless payment techniques (touch-free digital payment methods that use radio-frequency identification or near field communication) increased.
4: Unified Payments Interface (UPI)
It is possible to transfer money between any two parties via UPI, which combines multiple bank accounts into a single application. UPI is more standardized and well-defined than NEFT, RTGS, and IMPS. Just a few clicks are all it takes to initiate a bank transfer using UPI.
While you use UPI, you don’t have to enter your bank or card information when making a transaction.
5: Mobile Wallets
A mobile wallet is a type of wallet that allows you to carry cash in a digital form, as the name suggests. Customers often link their bank accounts or bank cards to the wallet in order to make safe digital payments. As an alternative, you can fund your Mobile Wallet with money and then use that balance to transfer money.
In recent years, a growing number of banks have introduced their own e-wallets. In addition, a number of well-known private companies have also entered the Mobile Wallet market.
Trends in electronic payments
As a result of advances in digital payment technology, machine learning and artificial intelligence are key components in enabling these types of digital payment systems to be offered to consumers. Machine learning can learn from the experiences of customers who use their cards, mobile wallets, or applications to make transactions in the future. With this enhanced user experience, you’ll be better able to spot and avoid scams.
Because of the widespread adoption of new technologies, consumers are digitizing their payments both in-store and online. There has never been a better time for mobile P2P service providers to start making money, since the industry has seen an increase in volume and is now in a better position to do so. Cross-border payments and real-time non-card payments are becoming more and more of a barometer for broader industry developments as they continue to rise in popularity.
What are the benefits of digital payments?
Financial equality is especially critical in a country, where inequalities can be diametrically opposed. Most governments’ push for a Cashless Economy and a Digitalization was motivated in part by the desire to broaden financial inclusion. Digital payments provide a number of advantages over traditional methods of payment.
Convenience and ease of use
One of the most major advantages of digital payment is that it provides a smooth client experience. Online payments are popular because of their convenience, quickness, and less reliance on currency. As a result of traditional payment methods like cash and cheques, there is a greater chance that a transaction would go awry or fail. At the press of a button, you can send and receive money from any location on Earth.
Progression of the economy
When customers see how easy, convenient, and secure internet payments are, they begin to use them more frequently. More and more consumers are comfortable making purchases online, investing digitally, and transferring money via electronic means. Economic growth is aided by an increase in the flow of money and the expansion of online commerce. As a result, new online businesses are springing up on a daily basis, and many of those businesses are turning a profit.
Safe And Effective Tracking
The chore of handling and dealing with cash is a time-consuming one. Carrying cash everywhere you go and keeping it secure is a headache on top of the danger of losing money. As a result of digital payments, anyone may keep their money safe and sound online. Thanks to UPI, netbanking, and mobile wallets, you can now send and receive money using only your smartphone. A customer’s finances can also be tracked through the regular updates, notifications, and statements provided by most digital payment channels. | <urn:uuid:0370525e-8e9d-4ef9-a0c9-1adfbff8b2e3> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://guestpostfeed.com/boosts-scope-for-digital-payments/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571909.51/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813051311-20220813081311-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.94779 | 1,350 | 3.375 | 3 |
Research into the victims of burglary found them more concerned with health and finances than self-defence, writes Joanna Perry
Under what circumstances should property owners be prosecuted for harming intruders? This is a question that we were asked to address when a private members’ bill was introduced last year in parliament.
The bill sought to raise the threshold above which a person would be prosecuted for harming an intruder when acting in self-defence from “reasonable” to “grossly disproportionate” force.
On the face of it, why wouldn’t Victim Support encourage measures that seem to give victims greater protection and freedom. But, digging more deeply, the problem is far more complex.
The first question we needed to ask was what do our members think? On such an important issue it was crucial that we canvassed their views. Second, because we had not given a view about this topic in the past, it was necessary to consult senior management and trustees.
We found that very few prosecutions had been undertaken under existing law. This suggested that there was more of a perceived than an actual risk that victims were being unfairly prosecuted when they acted in self-defence against intruders.
Joint guidance from the Crown Prosecution Service and police is clear and sets out how decisions would be made about prosecution and assuring people that, even if they killed an intruder in selfdefence, this is unlikely to lead to a prosecution.
On the other hand, if a victim of burglary premeditates a violent act against an intruder, this might well lead to a decision to prosecute.
An important factor in our consideration was to what extent can we legislate for an instinctive “fight or flight” response that may make someone a victim of crime?
Can the law handle a reaction that may range from killing a person to collapsing in a heap on the floor? This point exposes the failing of the criminal law to take account of the psychology of fear while at the same time demonstrating the need for guidance on the subject.
Of course, the more common needs of the majority of victims of burglary are often ignored in discussions like these.
Our recent research found that more than half of the 545 people who were surveyed reported difficulty in sleeping after they were burgled, and more than a third experienced depression or anxiety.
People who had been burgled also said they wanted practical help and advice and that they suffered financial consequences because of the crime. These are issues that also need guidance and direction from the relevant agencies. We will certainly be using the research to improve our own service to victims of burglary.
Let’s hope that parliament will also make the time to provide legislative backing to meet these less high profile but far more pervasive needs too.
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Opie collection of children's games & songs
Recording of children demonstrating songs with Graham Stephen (part 1 of 2)
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Children's games; Children's songs
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Opie collection of children's games and songs
Montrose, Angus and Maud, Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Stephen, Graham (spreaker, male)
Part 1 of 2. [00:00:00 - 00:11:18]. This is a re-recording, made by Iona Opie, of an original recording made by Graham Stephen in Montrose, Angus and Maud, Aberdeenshire in January 1975. Throughout the recording Iona can be heard fast-forwarding and rewinding the tape. The tape contains Aberdeenshire children performing singing games, skipping songs and ball game rhymes. The sound is of poor quality. The recording begins with children performing the singing game 'I Was Going to the Country, I Was Going to the Fair' (a variation of 'We're Going to Kentucky') [00:00:00 - 00:00:33]. They then go on to sing 'I'm Shirley Temple' [00:00:35 - 00:01:24]; 'Down By the River' [00:03:27 - 00:03:44]; 'Down in the Meadow' [00:03:48 - 00:04:18]; 'In and Out the Dusty Bluebells' [00:07:59 - 00:08:09]; 'When I Was One' [00:05:41 - 00:05:56] and 'When I Was One I Ate a Bun' [00:08:10 - 00:08:45]. Â A number of skipping songs are performed throughout the recording. These are: 'Cowboy Joe of Mexico' [00:02:03 - 00:02:21]; 'Teddy Bear, Teddy Bear' [00:02:23 - 00:02:31];' I'm a Little Brownie' [00:02:36 - 00:02:50]; 'Jelly on a Plate' [00:04:20 - 00:04:29]; I'm a Little Highlander' [00:05:17 - 00:05:24]; 'I'm a Little Girl Guide' [00:05:25 - 00:05:40]; 'Anything You Like' [00:09:05 - 00:09:12]; 'I Like Coffee, I Like Tea' [00:10:31 - 00:10:42]; 'I'm a Little Bumper Car' [00:11:10 - 00:11:18] and 'High, Low, Dolly, Pepper' [00:10:43 - 00:10:48]. Ball bouncing rhymes regularly feature on the recording. The children recite the rhymes 'Mrs Dunlop' [00:02:58 - 00:03:09]; 'Plainsy Mother Brown' [00:03:10 - 00:03:26]; 'Have a Cigarette, Sir' [00:06:46 - 00:07:10]; 'Kathy, Kathy, Katharine' [00:17:14 - 00:07:27]; 'Matthew, Mark, Luke and John' [00:07:29 - 00:07:38]; 'Over the Garden Wall' [00:07:40 - 00:07:57] and 'Oliver Twist' [00:09:56 - 00:10:13]. The clapping game 'When Susie Was a Baby' is sung [00:04:30 - 00:04:54]. A recitation of the rhyme 'There Was a Man Called Michael Finnegan' can also be heard on the recording [00:10:17 - 00:10:30].
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As the Green Party’s Presidential Nominating Convention convenes in Houston, there’s renewed attention on the party’s presumptive nominee, Dr. Jill Stein, and increased interest in third-party alternatives to the American two-party duopoly.
On Saturday, MintPress News will be at the University of Houston, where Stein and her running mate, human rights scholar and activist Ajamu Baraka, are expected to accept the Green Party’s nomination for president and vice president.
Polls consistently show that Americans are deeply dissatisfied with the political status quo. Just 9 percent of U.S. residents voted for either Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump in the primaries, according to The New York Times. In a poll conducted in May by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research, some 90 percent of voters expressed a lack of confidence in the American political system, while 40 percent said that the two-party system is “seriously broken.” | <urn:uuid:ecda1457-c6a4-4806-8ad4-2db774e927c7> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://kitoconnell.com/tag/jill-stein/page/3/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571909.51/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813051311-20220813081311-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.938899 | 201 | 1.710938 | 2 |
Social-Emotional Learning to Help School Leaders Craft COVID-19 Reopening Plans
NewSchools Venture Fund released a new brief examining multi-year academic data and student self-reports identifying what matters most in social-emotional learning. Partnering with Transforming Education, NewSchools’ research hones in on three factors that are closely tied to improving academic outcomes, and identifies “power-pairs” within the findings that can help school leaders prioritize as they make decisions for how to support students in the coming school year. Specifically, NewSchools finds academic results comparable to double-digit improvement on nationally normed assessments when students:
- believe their abilities and skills can grow with effort and feel physically and emotionally safe, or
- believe their abilities and skills can grow with effort and feel their teachers expect a lot from them in terms of effort, persistence and learning.
The findings in the brief build on what is known about social-emotional learning and school culture by looking at longitudinal data and real-world examples to help educators plan effectively for a school year like no other. “There will be pressure on schools to double down on helping students ‘catch up’ as they reopen – but our research points to the need for school leaders to pay close attention to the crucial correlations between social-emotional learning and academic outcomes,” said Stacey Childress, CEO of NewSchools Venture Fund. “Kids are going through something right now that has no recent precedent. To serve them equitably, schools have to support students in ways equal to the challenge.”
The brief also highlights schools seeing the impact of a focus on culture and social-emotional development, and provides relevant guiding questions for school leaders to grapple with in their planning processes and revisions.
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Reanalysis of Earlier Collected Material
- Clive Seale
- Giampietro Gobo
- Jaber F Gubrium
- David Silverman
Summary, in English
bringing back one’s attention to these data in order to understand them in new conceptual contexts is rarely as valued as the opposite: a quest for new data to be put in one’s familiar conceptual contexts.
In this article we discuss the methodological aspects of “recycling” one’s own data, pointing out obstacles and rewards as well as the linkages between the process of reinterpretation and researchers’ biographies. Against
worries about data getting “old,” we argue that analytical creativity is not necessarily tied to a specific research project and its limited time span. If cultivating a methodological open-mindedness and an interest in the
phenomena, data can be used again and again by looking at them through different analytical lenses. In that sense, data never get old.
Two empirical illustrations are used. One concerns a woman in prison, interviewed almost twenty years ago in a study on violence and threats in prison. An original naturalistic approach, employed to identify common
traits in the local prison culture, made this particular interview difficult to place. The woman’s storytelling did not fit into the overall picture. She was mostly concerned with life ouside prison, wheras the other interviewees kindly kept themselves to researcher's choosen topic. Furthermore, she presented herself in a way more aking to some of the male prisoners, than did the other women. Subsequently, as qualitative research gained insights in narrative perspectives, tools appeared that made it possible to interpret what originally seemed puzzling.
The other illustration relates to ethnographic data from a study of parents and professionals involved in education and care of deaf children. Whereas an original interactionist approach seemed sufficient to discern and interpret all patterns and variations, a later analysis of practically the same material, now in accordance with Mikhail Bakhtin’s dialogical view of language, shed a new light on the field.
Thus, the idea of recycling data involves potentials not only to revisit and ruminate old riddles but also to generate new riddles in data once considered to be entirely squeezed. As Georg Simmel wrote, animating the quality he saw in empirical materials: “there’s more within me.”
Qualitative research practice
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- battered women
- analytical creativity sociology sociologi
- Kriminal- och socialvetenskapligt nätverk
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Professional Communication: Teaching Students to Use Email Effectively
By Dori Peleg Mazor
We expect today’s college students to be technologically savvy – after all, those in the millennial generation have grown up with email and social media. However, when it comes time to use email in a professional context, many students can benefit from explicit coaching. Along with many of my colleagues, I teach an hour-long class on the topic to students preparing for their first internships and strive to model effective strategies in the messages I send.
Students, who are almost always experienced email users, are initially skeptical about the class content, but many acknowledge later that the instruction was useful. Covering the following key points in a handout or workshop can improve students’ success in the job search and their performance once they are hired.
Using Email Appropriately
I emphasize that email is best used for exchange of information, clarification, and follow-up, rather than as a substitute for face-to-face dialogue. Students should understand that charged or sensitive topics are best addressed in person (or, if necessary, by phone). Further, an email message sent through a work address is usually considered company property and can easily find its way to more recipients than initially intended. I also discuss the volume of email most professionals cope with and the importance of brevity and using this medium sparingly. Finally, I highlight that students should be attuned to their co-workers’ communication styles and preferences, and use email in ways that conform to workplace norms.
Striking a Tone
Because they are accustomed to conventions of texting and social media, many students don’t realize the importance of striking a professional tone. I recommend that they:
- begin with “Dear” or “Hello” instead of “Hey”
- use respectful titles (Mr./Ms./Dr./Prof.) when contacting someone for the first time
- include a short pleasantry before making a request (“I hope your week is off to a good start. I wanted to check in about …”)
- avoid the use of emoticons and Internet slang (e.g.: lol, imho)
- invite input and feedback; for example: “hopefully this captures what we discussed; let me know if I missed anything.”
- proofread their messages to ensure accurate grammar and spelling.
Judicious Use of Cc and Bcc
Students should understand the significance of including multiple people on a message and that cc’ing a colleague’s manager may escalate a situation unnecessarily. I also encourage students to indicate clearly if a message has multiple recipients (e.g. “Dear Joe, I’d like to introduce you to Jane (cc’d on this message”). This ensures that subsequent replies are suitable for all of the recipients.
Subject Lines and Attachments
I explain that clear subject lines can improve the chances of receiving prompt and accurate responses to questions and requests. A good subject line is brief, yet detailed: “Confirming Thursday 9 AM Team Meeting.” Similarly, detailed attachment names can also reduce frustration on the recipients’ part – a hiring manager will find it easier to find Jane Doe’s application in a sea of downloaded documents if it is named “JaneDoeInternApplication.pdf” (as opposed to “Final Resume” or “Acme Corporation Resume”).
Doing the Legwork
A key element of professional success is taking the perspective of others and making it as easy as possible for supervisors and co-workers to respond to emails in a timely way. Often this takes the form of doing initial legwork and providing key information up front. For example, an intern requesting supplies should include the prices and item numbers of the items she would like the office manager to purchase; most meeting proposals should include several possible dates/times; questions about specific projects should include key details about the client, timeframe, and the issue at hand; requests for IT support should include screenshots whenever possible. Taking the perspective of the email recipient, and considering his/her time constraints and competing priorities, can help all employees communicate efficiently and effectively. I tell my students repeatedly: make it easy for other people to help you.
Strategies for Teaching
These concepts can be easily conveyed in a workshop or class session and they really come alive when students are given specific situations to discuss. I provide a series of real-world scenarios and ask students to work in pairs to draft messages, including ones in which they:
- request time off
- follow up with a manager whose input is needed
- explain the reason for a missed deadline
- clarify a complex assignment
- schedule a meeting for multiple participants
- ask for help with a technical problem
- summarize a meeting and propose an action plan.
I also include some situations for which email is not appropriate. Students first determine the best course of action (email or conversation) and then write either an action plan or a complete message, including subject lines and attachment names. I also provide students with a set of completed email messages which they are asked to critique and then re-write.
There is always rich discussion, not only about wording and language, but about underlying issues of efficiency, professionalism, and respect. I notice a striking improvement in the quality of students’ emails after this class session. And subsequently they bring broadened awareness—and newly honed skills—to their internships and, eventually, their careers.
Dori Peleg Mazor manages the cooperative education program for Northeastern University’s Department of Art + Design. Before joining Northeastern, she directed the Global Engagement program at Wellesley College, connecting hundreds of students with internships all over the world. Prior to that, she provided coaching and programming to aspiring engineering leaders at MIT. Dori holds a B.A. in Education and Child Study from Smith College and an M.B.A. from the Heller School at Brandeis University. She may be contacted at email@example.com. | <urn:uuid:178cc233-e656-4367-98e4-b541c4afae10> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://ncda.org/aws/NCDA/pt/sd/news_article/94686/_self/CC_layout_details/true | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571536.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811224716-20220812014716-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.942471 | 1,265 | 2.71875 | 3 |
Neonatal dairy calf gut microbiota-derived ursodeoxycholic acid improves intestinal homeostasis and colitis to attenuate diarrheagenic Escherichia coli infection
Metabolomics preprocessed data, the data set is related to figure 2, Extended Data figure S3.
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Feces were thawed on ice-bath to diminish degradation. About 5 mg of each lyophilized sample was weighted and transferred to a new 1.5 mL tube. Then 25 μL of water was added and the sample was homogenated with zirconium oxide beads for 3 minutes and 120μL of methanol containing internal standard was added to extract the metabolites. The sample was homogenated for another 3 minutes and then centrifuged at 1,800 g for 20 minutes. The 20 μL of supernatant was transferred to a 96-well plate and following procedures were performed on a Eppendorf epMotion Workstation (Eppendorf Inc., Humburg, Germany). 20 μL of freshly prepared derivative reagents was added to each well. The plate was sealed and the derivatization was carried out at 30°C for 60 min. After derivatization, sample was further diluted by adding 330 μL of ice-cold 50% methanol solution. Then, the plate was stored at -20°C for 20 minutes and followed by 4,000 g centrifugation at 4℃ for 30 minutes. 135 μL of supernatant was transferred to a new 96-well plate with 10 μL internal standards in each well. Serial dilutions of derivatized stock standards were added to the left wells. Finally, the plate was sealed for LC-MS analysis. Metabolite profiling and data processing were performed using a ultra-performance liquid chromatography coupled to tandem mass spectrometry (UPLC-MS/MS) system (ACQUITY UPLC-Xevo TQ-S, Waters Corp., Milford, MA, USA). The analytes were separated on an ACQUITY UPLC BEH C18 1.7 µM VanGuard pre-column (2.1×5 mm) and ACQUITY UPLC BEH C18 1.7 µM analytical column (2.1×100 mm). Mobile phases were used as carried liquid at a constant flow rate of 0.4 mL/min. The source and desolvation temperatures of was set at 150℃ and 500℃, respectively. Each sample was analysed by UPLC-MS/MS in both negative and positive ionization modes to acquire metabolite profiles. The raw data files generated by UPLC-MS/MS were processed using the MassLynx software (version 4.1, Waters, Milford, MA, USA) to perform peak integration, calibration, and quantitation for each metabolite. The analysis order of all test samples was randomized. Quality control (QC) samples were obtained by mixing a small aliquot of each biological sample in the study set. The pooled QC represented both the sample matrix and metabolite composition of the samples. The raw pooled QC mixture were used to produce multiple QC samples that would be analyzed during the whole injection sequence. In metabolomics the application of QC samples provides a mechanism to evaluate the quality and assess the analytical variance of the aquired data. The self-developed platform iMAP (version 1.0, Metabo-Profile, Shanghai, China) was used for statistical analyses, including PCA, OPLS-DA, univariate analysis and pathway analysis. | <urn:uuid:43f7d23b-63db-4bb8-9f4f-2611e01765b6> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://data.mendeley.com/datasets/gspw8w9wt6/1 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571536.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811224716-20220812014716-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.950952 | 745 | 1.570313 | 2 |
History, Mission, and Vision
In 1927 religious leaders met in Cleveland in response to organized campaigns of hatred spreading across America. They formed The National Conference of Christians and Jews (NCCJ) to mobilize citizens against the forces of violence and exclusion.
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which is certainly a recognition of the serious difficulties faced by thousands of innocent taxpayers in New York and South Carolina.
This hearing, I believe, is a major step forward for those of us who believe that Congress, and not the courts, must settle once and for all the claims brought by the various Indian tribes in the Eastern part of our Nation.
Even the courts, which in too many instances have intervened in matters properly within the boundaries of the legislative branch, have recognized that in cases involving these land claims there is a need for a political and not a judicial solution. The challenge before the Congress then is to enact into law legislation which will provide a fair and equitable solution to the Indian land claims issue. It would be unfair to say that this task is a simple one. It is not, as the chairman well knows, having had extensive experience in these matters.
The issue before us is fraught with emotion and a sense of guilt pervades our conscience because of the inequities that may have been inflicted upon the Indians by our forefathers.
We cannot and should not forget the sins of the past, but we must carefully separate those memories from the facts before us.
Today, we have an opportunity to achieve a rational and sensible solution to the lands claims issue. The facts compel passage of S. 2084. To do otherwise will impose and continue to impose an injustice unparalled in American history.
New York claims currently pending before the Federal courts account for nearly 9 million acres. The size of these claims brought by the Oneida and Cayuga nations is about the size of the States of Rhode Island, Delaware, and Connecticut combined.
Additional claims of the St. Regis Mohawk Tribes which have not yet been filed in court account for additional thousands of acres. The land involved is neither vacant nor in the condition it was in 200 years ago. Like most of the property throughout the United States, generations of Americans have invested their sweat, savings, et cetera, to create a better way of life. What was vacant, unimproved land at the time of the transfers from Indians to non-Indians is now occupied by homes, farms, businesses, and municipalities.
More important though is the fact that the land is now lived on by men and women who have had absolutely nothing to do with the alleged illegal transfers which took place in the 18th century. Unfortunately, these men and women have become a forgotten class. They are remembered only by the attorneys for the Indian tribes who have served them with notices of complaints brought against them. However, as Mayor Koch of New York City has written to this committee, “It would be unconscionable if these taxpayers who purchased their property in good faith might lose it because of alleged wrongs which might have occurred nearly 200 years ago.'
I ask that a copy of the mayor's letter endorsing S. 2084 be made a part of this hearing record.
Congress cannot ignore the fact that the landowners in the communities being forced to bear the burden of the Indian land claims are completely innocent of any wrongdoings in connection with the claims. We must prevent the injustice threatening these people, who are faced with the loss of their residences or their businesses, from taking place.
Former Attorney General Griffin Bell recognized this proposition as he refused to bring suit against landowners in New York, South Carolina, and Louisiana. In the letter of June 30, 1978, to the Secretary of the Interior, Mr. Bell wrote the following: “The fact that the landowners are completely innocent of any wrongdoing weighs heavily against suing them.”
It is not difficult to imagine the tremendous personal and economic disruption which would result should
the complainants be granted possession of the property they seek. Congress has a special duty to protect the Indian tribes, but it also has a duty, just as compelling, to prevent injustice to thousands of innocent landowners. The legislation I have introduced with Senator Thurmond and Congressman Lee protects these people and at the same time provides the affected Indian tribes with the opportunity to seek monetary compensation. This legislation does not prejudice the merits of the Indian tribes with the opportunity to seek monetary compensation. This legislation does not prejudice the merits of the Indian claims. The Indian tribe will still have their day in court, if they so choose.
Mr. Chairman, for the sake of brevity, I would ask that the balance of my remarks be included in the hearing record. These remarks include a discussion of the methods by which affected Indian tribes can receive monetary compensation for their land claims, including administrative and judicial remedies. I might add that the decision of the U.S. Court of Claims in the process can be appealed to the Supreme Court.
[The remainder of Senator D'Amato's, remarks follow:] The bill ratifies, approves, and validates all nd transfers which have provided or might provide the basis of Indian land claims in New York and South Carolina. Therefore, it removes the clouds on the titles of property owned by innocent landowners. The legislation then provides affected Indian tribes with due process, as it establishes procedures for obtaining fair compensation for their claims, including a cause of action for monetary compensation against the United States in the Court of Claims.
There are two processes for the Indian tribes to receive equitable compensation, without ejecting innocent people from their property.
First, the tribe can submit to the Secretary of the Interior information supporting the contentions of its claim. This information will assist the Secretary in determining whether in the absence of the bill the Indian tribe had a credible claim and to determine a fair monetary award that should be paid by the United States. Any determination made by the Secretary can be accepted or rejected by the tribe. This procedure also authorizes the Secretary to assist Indian tribes with the purchase of land from willing sellers.
According to the second procedure, the Indian tribe, if not satisfied with the award, or if it wishes to bypass the Secretary, can sue the United States in the U.S. Court of Claims. This decision can be appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court. The Indian tribe can receive a fair monetary award in this procedure as well.
Monetary damages awarded by the Court of Claims shall be equivalent to the difference between the fair market value that the claimant should have received for the transfer of its interest in the land and the compensation received. The amount of the award shall be increased by simple interest from the date of the transfer until the date final judgment is entered in the Court of Claims.
Clearly, this measure provides a fair and equitable solution to the Indian land claims controversy, addressing the serious problems facing present landowners and the claims made by Indian tribes.
To those who say the land is sacred to the Indians and should be returned, I say it is of no less value to those who occupy it today. To those who say this leg. islation is arbitrary and unfair, I say not to act would create an even greater injustice. To those who say that there should be negotiated settlements, I say we must bring an end to this chapter in American history.
Whatever wrongs may have been committed in the past by others must not color our judgment in dealing with the problems of today. To turn back the clock to the eighteenth century to correct alleged errors is neither equitable nor just. Instead, it will mean tremendous injustice to people who were not even born at the time of the alleged wrongs. It is the responsibility of the Congress to avoid this injustice. By passing the Ancient Indian Land Claims Settlement Act. Congress can prevent this injustice and bring finality to a situation which has dragged on far too long.
Senator D'Amato. Let me close by saying that I think it is a responsibility of Congress to provide the leadership necessary to resolve these land claims. I think that absent that, we will not be able to obtain the settlement that has been made possible and has taken place in other areas. There was a settlement negotiated in 1980 and Congress almost did provide the vehicle by way of legislation to implement that. However, there was a tremendous outcry and there were some very real problems, constitutional problems within the State of New York, that prevented that from being implemented.
I believe that S. 2084 will provide a vehicle to settle the Indian land claims issue. And certainly, I recognize that there may have to be a number of amendments, but I think that this gives us an opportunity to begin to focus in on this very difficult, complex, and emotional issue.
I thank the chairman for the opportunity that you have afforded, I believe, to all of the parties to begin to focus in on this important issue.
Senator Cohen. Thank you very much, Senator D'Amato. We appreciate your testimony. [The letter from Mayor Koch follows:]
THE CITY OF NEW YORK,
OFFICE OF THE MAYOR,
New York, N.Y., June 17, 1982. Hon. WILLIAM S. COHEN, Chairman, Senate Select Committee on Indian Affairs, U.S. Senate, Dirksen Sen
ate Office Building, Washington, D.C. DEAR MR. CHAIRMAN : As a result of a prior commitment which I must honor, it is not possible for me to appear before this Committee today. However, I wish to underscore my strong and unequivocal support for the Ancient Indian Land Claims Settlement Act of 1982.
For too long now, thousands of homeowners, small businessmen, and communities have been faced with the possibility of losing their property as a result of suits brought by various Indian tribes. It would be unconscionable if these taxpayers, who purchased their property in good faith, might lose it because of alleged wrongs which may have occurred nearly 200 years ago. It is equally absurd that the State donate its land as part of a negotiated settlement when the claims of the Indian tribes have not been proved.
The Ancient Indian Land Claims Settlement Act brings finality to a situation which has dragged on interminably. By extinguishing the claims in New York, the clouds on the titles to land located within the State will be removed. At the same time, the legislation establishes a fair and equitable method of compensating those affected Indian tribes which can prove a valid claim. In addition, it provides the Indian tribes with an opportunity to sue the Federal government for monetary compensation in the United States Court of Claims and to appeal its decisions to the United States Supreme Court.
To continue efforts to negotiate settlements in New York is not practical. There are a number of claims which have been brought in Federal court, but without Federal legislation, it is possible that claims will continue to appear. Even within the Indian tribes themselves, there are disputes concerning the tribal leadership which often make it difficult, if not impossible, to reach a final negotiated settlement.
The Federal government must bear its responsibility not only to its Indian tribes but to the non-Indian taxpayers and property-owners. The Committee should move expeditiously to pass and send to the floor the legislation before it. To do otherwise would result in tremendous economic dislocation and hardship. Sincerely,
EDWARD I. Koch, Mayor.
Senator Cohen. Senator Goldwater, do you have any questions?
Senator GOLDWATER. I have some questions to address to Mr. Coldiron when he has completed his statement.
Senator COHEN. Mr. Coldiron, have you completed your statement ?
STATEMENT OF CAROL E. DINKINS, ASSISTANT ATTORNEY GEN
ERAL, LAND AND NATURAL RESOURCES DIVISION, DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
Ms. DINKINS. Thank you, Mr. Chairman, Senator Goldwater.
We appreciate the opportunity to testify on S. 2084, the Ancient Indian Land Claims Settlement Act of 1982. As the previous testimony by the Solicitor indicated, S. 2084 would achieve a legislative solution to ongoing and potential litigation over the disputed land in New York and South Carolina by extinguishing tribal claims based on both recognized and aboriginal title. This would be accomplished through retroactive ratification of any pre-1912 transfer of land by Indian tribes and by the extinguishment of any claims for damage from trespass or mesne profits based on those transfers.
Compensation for the loss of the tribes' right to sue the present landowners would be based on the difference between the fair market value of the land and natural resources at the time of the transfer and the price that the Indians actually received.
The administration supports the basic legislative solution embodied in S. 2084. We consider the provisions of the bill to be constitutional, but we believe-as has already been indicated by the previous testimony-that certain modifications are necessary. One of these concerns aboriginal title.
As the committee is aware, aboriginal title refers to the tribes' right of occupancy of their aboriginal homelands. Recognized title refers to lands guaranteed to tribes by treaties, statutes, or other action of the sovereign. The Supreme Court has made clear that Congress has plenary authority to extinguish aboriginal title with or without the consent of the tribes.
Moreover, it is well established that the Indian right of occupancy created by aboriginal title is not a vested property right protected by the fifth amendment. The Supreme Court has explicitly held, in TeeHit-Ton Indians v. United States, 348 U.S. 272 (1955), for example, that Congress can constitutionally extinguish any claims based on aboriginal title without the necessity of paying just compensation.
The administration believes that while there may be a constitutional obligation to compensate for certain interests in land resulting from retroactive ratification of transfers of recognized title, there is clearly no such requirement with respect to aboriginal title. Moreover, compensation for aboriginal title might create an irresistible legislative precedent which could prove extremely expensive. We therefore recommend that the provisions authorizing compensation for extinguishment of aboriginal title be deleted.
With respect to recognized title, S. 2084 essentially replaces the Indians' cause of action against the landowners with a cause of action
1 See appendix, p. 366.
against the United States in the Court of Claims. The Justice Department believes that this provision comports with the just compensation requirement of the fifth amendment. However, the issue of retroactive ratification in this context has never been definitively addressed by the Supreme Court.
S. 2084 would also extinguish Indian claims for trespass damages or mesne profits based on alleged wrongful use or occupancy of Indian lands or natural resources after the date of any allegedly invalid transfer of recognized title. A court construing S. 2084 might conclude that Congress lacked the authority to validate the original transfer of recognized title interests as of the date they were sold by the tribe. In that event, the tribes might have a cause of action against the United States under the Tucker Act for accrued trespass claims and mesne profits. Also, even if Congress validates the transfer retroactively, these causes of action may be deemed to be vested and thus the tribes would be entitled to compensation under the fifth amendment. We do not believe there is any other potential constitutional problem with the bill.
I appreciate the opportunity to testify and would be glad to answer any question.
Senator COHEN. Senator Goldwater?
Senator GOLDWATER. I have some questions I want to direct to Mr. Coldiron, but not specifically on this subject. I do though want to say that this is not a simple piece of legislation. We are talking about, for example, 144,000 acres in South Carolina. The Indians in my State live on 30,000 square miles. And there is not much question in my mind that the Indians were there a long, long time before we nonIndians came there.
In fact, we have one tribe that can trace back 3,000 years. So, when we start legislating in this field, it is not just for New York or South Carolina, I can guarantee you that every western State that has Indians, and most of them do, will come in under the same type of legislation. And I have very grave questions about it, frankly.
For example, how did the Federal Government obtain title rights to Indian land? Now, after we set ourselves up as a Nation, we went through the process of Supreme Court decisions and laws and so forth, but I have never been satisfied that that in itself could take land away from somebody who has occupied it and give it to somebody who has just moved in.
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New Defender's Study Bible Notes
1:26 in our image. God is, as it were, taking counsel here with Himself, not with angels, since man was to be made in the image of God, not of angels. “Our image,” therefore, implies human likeness to the triune Godhead. Plants possess a body, and animals a body and consciousness. Man was not only to have a body (of the created “earth”) and a consciousness (of the created “soul”), but man was also to possess a third created entity, the image of God, an eternal spirit capable of communion and fellowship with his Creator.
1:26 likeness. Man was not only created in God’s spiritual image; he was also made in God’s physical image. His body was specifically planned to be most suited for the divine fellowship (erect posture, upward-gazing countenance, facial expressions varying with emotional feelings, brain and tongue designed for articulate symbolic speech–none of which are shared by the animals). Furthermore, his body was designed to be like the body which God had planned from eternity that He Himself would one day assume (I Peter 1:20).
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The new fish in town is “cryptocurrency” and it is evident that any talk about virtual money elicits varying opinions — some swear by the independence and reliability offered by its peer-to-peer architecture, some consider it risky. But can your business afford to ignore it?
For payment, your business is probably well-versed with the usual methods — credit and debit cards, cash and bank transfers, as well as more recent options like Apple Pay or PayPal. These are tried and tested, and offer a high level of convenience to you and your customers at low risk to both parties. But if you think about it, it took a while for users to warm up to each method and overcome their fears and apprehensions around new ways to make payments.
The new fish in town is ‘cryptocurrency’ and it is evident that any talk about virtual money elicits varying opinions — some swear by the independence and reliability offered by its peer-to-peer architecture, some consider it risky.
But when it comes to businesses, some of the behemoths are now embracing this new digital currency — including PayPal and Facebook, the most recent ones to jump on the crypto bandwagon.
In this blog, we will delve deeper into the mighty new world of cryptocurrency and explore if it could be a good fit for your business as well.
What is cryptocurrency?
Cryptocurrencies are a form of digital money, which is stored and used online. Today, there are over 3000 numbers of cryptocurrencies, like Bitcoin, Ether and Ripple. Transactions with cryptocurrencies are not controlled or regulated by any centralised authority or federal banks unlike traditional forms of money or currency.
Businesses and Cryptocurrency:
In the last few years, cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and Ether have gained massive popularity among individual traders and businesses alike. Many businesses have been adopting cryptocurrency as a possible payment method and this is because crypto offers numerous benefits in terms of speed, cost of transaction, security and autonomy.
Moreover, if you are running a business, you would want to be on your front foot and keep abreast of new technologies, especially the ones that can improve how your business operates and offer your users an even larger range of payment methods.
Here are some of the advantages of using cryptocurrency:
1. Worldwide Access
If the sky’s the limit for your business, cryptocurrency can indeed be a formidable ally. There are no boundaries to virtual assets, as opposed to traditional forms of currency which are bound by region, central banks or governments. People from over 100 countries have used cryptocurrency and it is testimony to how it can eliminate the hurdles of cash flow on an international scale.
Digital assets also eliminate high costs associated with exchange rates and cut down the waiting time for international transactions. Cryptocurrency can thus create a bigger audience and a vast talent pool for your business, at affordable rates.
2. Save on Transaction Costs
Card processing fees make banking costs high for businesses and this is common across the board — traditional banks charge a processing fee for card transactions, which are by far the most common form of payment. Small businesses especially struggle with transaction costs.
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The Independent recently ran a story discussing an image that went viral over the weekend purporting to show of what the United States will look like in only a few decades if climate change is not “reversed.” To the Independent’s credit, they debunked the false image, explaining the issues with the map. Not content to correct the false future portrayed by the image, however, the news site pivoted to propagating its own false claims concerning rising sea levels.
The article, “Map which claimed to show US climate impacts in 2050 is debunked as photo of the Mediterranean Sea,” explains the origin of a recent viral Twitter post claiming to show a map of the U.S. in 30 years if climate change continues. In reality, the image is just a map of the Mediterranean Sea laid on top of a U.S. map from Google Images.
The Independent failed to recognize, however, that the linked Tweet is a meme—an absurdist joke posted that almost everyone on Twitter except professional journalists understood. Hilariously, the Twitter account that posted the meme has subsequently reposted his “debunking” by professional news organizations, even setting his profile banner to one of the article headlines missing the joke. The fact that Italy is laid across the central United States is, apparently, something journalists think plenty of people will fail to notice.
The fact that the post was so widely distributed with some Twitter users expressing genuine alarm in the comments does lend The Independent a modicum of credit for discussing it.
One of The Independent’s biggest gripes with the obvious meme is that it shows water in the center of the country, asserting instead that “[a]s sea level rises, the coastlines are going to be eaten away, carving out low-elevation areas in states like Florida, Delaware, and the Carolinas.”
The article goes on to claim that human emissions of CO2 are causing sea level rise, a claim refuted by current data and research on prehistoric sea level trends.
The Independent paints a dire future:
Even if the world drastically reduces greenhouse gas emissions, sea levels are projected to rise by at least half a metre (1.6 feet) by the end of the century, according to the most recent report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
With higher emissions, sea levels could rise by six metres (20 ft) or more by the year 2300, IPCC says. In such a scenario, places like New York City, Bangladesh, and Amsterdam would be almost unrecognizable.
As Climate Realism has pointed out many times, here, here, and here, for example, present sea level rise is not outside of the average historical rate experienced since the end of the last ice age. Claims that sea levels are rising at unusually rapid rates, are based on flawed climate models using impossible climate model simulation pathways, like RCP8.5, or a faulty analysis of sea levels measured by satellites.
A variety of factors contribute to sea level rise—including the expected warming as the Earth exits the last glacial period—and data show that the current rate is not unusual. Claims that it is accelerating are hotly debated. Data shown below from tide gauges in New York, for instance, show a relatively stable rate of rise since the mid-1800s. The fact is sea level always rises during the interglacial periods until the next ice age arrives.
Local increases or decreases in rates of sea level change can be caused by tectonics, local groundwater displacement causing land subsidence, over construction of dwellings on coastlines causing compaction, wetland destruction, and other influences. All contribute to the varied rates of change seen on coastlines around the world.
Predictions of rapid sea level rise swallowing entire island nations and coasts, displacing residents, have been made for decades, not a single one has come to pass. For example, the claim that the island nation of Tuvalu is slipping beneath the waves due to sea level rise has been proven false time and again. In the Climate Realism post, “Yahoo News Repeats the False Claim Tuvalu Is Sinking Beneath Rising Seas, Data Show It Is Growing,” H. Sterling Burnett points out that most of the islands in the chain are remaining stable or even are experiencing landmass growth.
The Independent struggled to notice that the post they were “debunking” was a joke, instead soberly and gravely informing readers that the prediction was unrealistic, and then immediately pivoted to make their own unrealistic claims about sea level rise. Perhaps, in addition to getting their funny bones checked, writers and editors at mainstream corporate news sources might think about checking actual data before parroting alarmist talking points. | <urn:uuid:b8addbbf-a819-4a3d-9064-f3bff9081205> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://climaterealism.com/2022/07/independent-debunks-fake-sea-level-map-joke-then-makes-its-own-false-claims/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571536.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811224716-20220812014716-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.939899 | 981 | 2.875 | 3 |
CRITICAL READING Section — SENTENCE COMPLETION:
The Critical Reading section of the SAT is broken down into two parts: Sentence Completion and Reading Comprehension. Sentence completion questions make up about 25% of the Critical Reading section on the SAT. Each sentence completion question includes one or two blanks and you are required to find the best answer choice(s) to complete the sentence. On average, you’ll need to complete each question in under one minute. The Reading section of the test is composed of 52 questions that must be completed in 65 minutes.
CRITICAL READING Section — READING COMPREHENSION (Short and Long):
The Critical Reading section of the SAT (also known as the Reading Comprehension section) tests your ability to comprehend what you read. You’ll be given several passages to read and then be required to answer questions based on the messages stated or implied in each passage. Passages will vary in length. Some will take about 3 minutes to read and be followed by just two questions. Others may take up to 15 minutes to read and be followed by up to 13 questions.
WRITING Section — WRITTEN ESSAY:
Being able to write well is a skill critical to success in both college and the workplace. The Writing and Language section of the SAT is designed to test (1) rhetorical skills and (2) usage and mechanics. Rhetorical skills questions test your ability to revise and edit text, specifically your ability to organize sentences, passages, and paragraphs. The following tips and strategies will help you improve your performance on the Written Essay portion of the Writing and Language section.
WRITING SECTION — MULTIPLE CHOICE: Usage, Sentence Correction, and Paragraph Correction
The questions in the multiple-choice Writing section of the SAT are designed to test your skills in sentence structure, usage, and punctuation. Follow the tips and techniques below to improve your performance in this section of the test.
MATH Section — STUDENT PRODUCED RESPONSE (GRID):
The math sections on the SAT are designed to test students’ ability to solve mathematical problems, reason quantitatively, and interpret data that is presented in graphs and tables. Areas of math covered on the SAT include Arithmetic, Geometry, Algebra, Functions, and Data Analysis. The math section offers two types of questions: Student-Produced responses (grid-in questions) and Standard Multiple-Choice questions. For the first section of the Math SAT, no calculator is allowed. This section includes 15 multiple choice and 5 grid-ins. In the second section of the MATH, SAT students are allowed to use a calculator. This section includes 30 multiple choice and 8 grid-ins (including an Extended Thinking question). In all, 80 minutes are allotted for the completion of the Math SAT section (25 minutes for the “no calculator” section and 55 minutes for the “calculator” section.)
The following are tips and techniques for improving your performance on the student-produced response questions.
MATH Section – STANDARD MULTIPLE CHOICE:
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Despite its overwhelming country music association Nashville has a large black population and produced great music sourced from and aimed at this largely unheralded group.
Local songwriter Ted Jarrett was one of the driving forces in the 50s and carried on working through the next three decades. On this CD R&B based act Lucille Mathis sings his gritty mover ‘I’m Not You Regular Woman’. Ted had his own labels but the city’s main black music imprint was Ernie Young’s Excello which had been issuing R&B since the early 50s, many with Ted’s involvement.
Ted studied at the city’s noted black university Fisk, where the younger Bob Holmes gained high distinctions. Bob was a master arranger and though his first successes were with the raw blues of Slim Harpo, he brought a sophisticated orchestrated soul sound to most of his work. Ted worked with Bob on several releases for Excello and the pair would later run Ref-O-Ree together. Bob’s main acts were the girl group the Avons, male trio the Hytones (also later solos by member Freddie Waters) and Peggy Gaines, along with occasional projects on Freddie North, Jimmy Church and others.
In 1967 Excello launched a more uptown soul subsidiary, Abet. The first release was the Hytones ‘Bigger And Better’ a perennial Northern Soul favourite that fetches up to £500. It was written by Bob Holmes, as was the exquisite ‘Since I Met You Baby’ by the Avons and ‘I’ve Got To Hold Back’, which carries a more mainstream soul sound than Freddie North is usually associated with. Bob and Ted also worked with Detroiter Roger Hatcher whose ‘Sweetest Girl In The World’ is a mid tempo masterpiece with a terrific arrangement. Bob said if they were trying to emulate anyone in the mid 60s it was Detroit more than the nearby Memphis sound.
Fellow Nashville producer Jerry Crutchfield managed Memphis singer Percy Wiggins and produced him in the Music City on ‘That’s Loving You’, a catchy number with a fast, bouncing rhythm, one the dancers on the Northern Soul scene adopted a decade after its Abet release.
The fascinating thing about many of these artists is that they can be seen appearing on the TV show The Beat produced by Hoss Allen out of Nashville and now available on DVD. Hoss had his own Rogana Productions and cut Frank Howard, who regularly appeared on the show with his group the Commanders, on the pretty mid-tempo love song ‘Judy’.
A more Southern soul sound came from the acts that were on the Sims or Whit labels or those who migrated to Excello from those labels after they folded. The Kelly Brothers’ ‘Crying Days Are Over’, Bobby Powell’s ‘Childhood Days’ and the Wallace Brothers’ ‘Thanks A Lot’ are examples. Marva Whitney and Shirley Brown are better known for their work with other imprints but these overlooked sides are excellent too. Abet continued well into the 70s and embraced the disco era, though still staying soulful. The Skip Mahoney, Jerry Washington and Bits ‘N’ Pieces tracks represent that period.
There is a wonderful previously unreleased beat ballad by Freddie North and other musical debutants include the haunting ‘I Would If I Could’ by the Avons.
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Algebra is a useful ability to solve problems, which can be used in many different areas as well as in people's workday. As a matter of fact, there are many professions that use algraic formulas on a day -to-day bases, such as mathematics, accountancy, and almost every faculty of civilng.
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Almost all college undergraduates have or need at least one algebra grade, whether in a conventional schoolroom or online, because college algebra is a key grade that is needed for almost all study programs. Specialists like the above need to take several algebra classes, as well as other mathematics classes, such as calculation andometry.
In order to make it easy to meet these needs, many educational establishments offer college maths classes online, which include algebra class. On-line college algebra classes allow college algebra learners to study and make college algebra loan without walking in a schoolroom, which is useful for those who are too stressed for the times to commuting to a nearby college campus.
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Mathematicians, for example, need to find out whether certain designs are possible from a physical point of view, and bookkeepers work with mathematicians to resolve moneys. It will also offer a sound basis for the study of advanced maths, such as physical and mathematical sciences. Many professions demand special algebra. If you need to work with e.g. straight line charts, you can take an online course in straight line algebra that teaches you about vectorspaces and straight line formulas, often concentrating on matrices theories.
A lot of physical scientists, robot technicians and even designers will take an online course on geometrical algebra, combining algebra with a combination of physical phenomena between geometrical entities. When you believe how your algebraic abilities can become a little rusted, or when you find that you need to study another part of algebra, you can take an online custom algebra course for loan, or just for your own professional development.
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Christopher W. Morgan is professor of theology and dean of the School of Christian Ministries at California Baptist University. He holds a PhD from Mid-America Baptist Theological Seminary and is the author and editor of several books including Hell under Fire.
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News Environment Elon Musk Previews His Not-So-Boring Tunnel By Ben Bolton Ben Bolton Writer University of Georgia Ben Bolton has covered athletics for several universities. He has since embarked on a career as a digital editor, creating media campaigns for major brands. Learn about our editorial process Updated May 24, 2019 Share Twitter Pinterest Email News Environment Business & Policy Science Animals Home & Design Current Events Treehugger Voices News Archive Sitting in gridlock traffic every day isn't just harmful for your health; it's also a complete waste of time. Enter Elon Musk. In 2016, the CEO of Tesla and SpaceX proposed an idea to build tunnel loops, an underground solution that can get electric vehicles to their destinations quickly without adding cars to already congested roads. Now we finally get to see the concept in action in the video below. Musk's other business, The Boring Company, has been developing this first tunnel from SpaceX headquarters to a parking garage in Hawthorne, California, as a prototype. This is the first of four planned tunnels. The other three include a tunnel to Dodgers games in Los Angeles, an express loop between downtown Chicago and O'Hare Airport and an East Coast loop from Washington, D.C., to Maryland. Musk held a preview event, showing off the new system and giving people test rides through the first tunnel in Hawthorne. The system involves driving your electric car onto a lift that takes you down into the tunnel. Your car uses an attachment on its wheel to lock on the track, and then you take off. Test speeds were around 50 mph during the demonstration, but Musk says vehicles will be able to go upwards of 150 mph. The Boring Company is also designing in-house vehicles for walk-up pedestrians and bicyclists. The California tunnel is still in the preliminary stages, but The Boring Company has a long list of explanations for why and how this system could work one day. Their focus is on reducing the cost of creating tunnels so that it becomes a viable alternative. Musk hopes eventually these tunnel loops will pave the way for his hyperloop project, which would transport passengers in a high-speed capsule in a vacuum tube. While the not-so-boring demonstration of the first Boring tunnel may just be a prototype, it raises hope that it can help chip away at our commutes — for the sake of our health and the environment. | <urn:uuid:6016ca1f-8826-43a8-99a0-0227696d8f6e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.treehugger.com/elon-musk-previews-boring-tunnel-los-angeles-4864758 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571536.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811224716-20220812014716-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.962137 | 479 | 2.0625 | 2 |
Most of the consequences brought about by the covid-19 pandemic have been in the banking sector. The commercial aftermath has had ripple consequences through just about all businesses, ranging from Wall Street boardrooms to small-town cafes, as individuals tried handling their stuff amid the uncertainty.
Even though it seemed like institutions like banks were thriving because they never faced closures because of their essential business classification, they were also experiencing he turmoil of their own. They had to adhere to the social distancing protocols, which restricted the influx of walking clientele, and they also had to take on remote work tools.
With such shifts in play for the better part of last year, financial institutions have taken charge and are already speeding up their digital innovation and adaptation policies. As the smoke slowly clears in 2021, a selection of tools they picked in 2020 will most likely last. Below we take a look at some of the technology trends that will shape the banking sector in 2021.
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It’s worth noting that even before the pandemic crisis, mobile banking was already enjoying massive popularity, and the pandemic just made it more and more popular as customers had to stay at home to be safe. Online and mobile banking applications not only gave consumers the freedom to bank remotely but also carry out paperless transactions without having to come into contact with physical cash that could increase the chances of infection.
Mobile banking will continue playing an important role in banking in 2021 and in the years to come because of how vital these devices have become in our daily lives. Moreover, outside the regulated world of banking, it is these mobile devices that will facilitate the faster adoption of cryptocurrency.
Banks Cloud Environments Getting Bigger
In the course of remote work, the running of certain processes in the cloud has progressed to become essential. The financial industry is one sector that has historically been unwilling to adopt cloud architecture due to safety and compliance reasons, and even the cloud-based companies will often keep those surroundings uncomplicated.
Now that businesses must have the ability to allow disseminated workloads as well as help clients from everywhere, banks will take inspiration from other private corporations and start implementing not only more multi-cloud environments but also hybrid cloud environments. And while doing this, they must ensure that they’re tackling vital matters to not only thrive and make a profit but also ensure a safe and secure banking environment.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Banks now have in store more information than ever before so that they can anticipate the needs of their clients for better services. With the extension of online services, there are more opportunities to tailor products and services to consumers who will certainly gain more from them. That can be made possible by data analytics powered AI technology.
Personalized advertising can also help businesses to promote their products and assist consumers in finding whatever they are seeking much faster. This is a trend that will help the banking sector grow faster and offer more efficient services to its consumers.
RPA Will Help Boost Efficiency
RPA, or robotic process automation in full, is a process that employs robots alongside advanced technology to get tasks done that were otherwise performed by human beings. In 2021, we’ll see more organizations within the fintech sector adopt RPA to carry out backend duties such as security checks, account closing, account maintenance, customer on-boarding, loan processing, among many others. With RPA, organizations can handle ordinary tasks effectively, making human resources available for other more significant duties such as customer support.
It is also interesting to note how the pandemic also transformed other industries. In the gambling industry, for instance, players increasingly embraced casino sites like VulkanBet casino online, given that most land-based facilities faced closures for months on end. By the same token, online gambling platforms also had to look into other channels of accepting new technologies to offer more engagement as more players continued welcoming internet gambling. For example, game developers of new slots online, such as Microgaming, even moved to purchase a MegawaysTM mechanic from their rival Big Time Gaming to meet the growing demand and cater to the needs of fans who wanted a taste of the thrilling feature.
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The first of much-feared rains fell on the Bangladeshi border town of Cox’s Bazar on Wednesday, bringing with it apprehension and the first signs of flooding in the camps hosting Rohingya refugees who have fled a violent crackdown in Myanmar.
An early morning downpour that fell on the flimsy bamboo and tarpaulin shacks of the sprawling camp marks the beginning of a rainy season which, it is feared, could put at least 150,000 lives at risk.
The first bout of rain lasted only an hour, but brought strong winds and left destruction in its wake. Sporadic bouts of rain are now predicted for the rest of the week, though the full monsoon rains and cyclonic storms will not hit properly until late June.
Nur Jahan, 27, who fled from Maungdaw in Myanmar, said his home had already been damaged by the first rainfall. “It was really dangerous because there was also a strong wind blowing around the camp and dust was coming into our homes,” he said.
“I was really worried. I thought my hut was going to be blown down by the wind. I was trying to save my ration cards because I thought if I lost those, we won’t be able to get our rations. The water was gathering on my roof and it almost caved in and at the same time I was worried about it blowing off.”
Jahan added: “If the rains continue like this, then my house and others are going to be destroyed. I’m worried about my children. Where are they going to stay during the monsoon?”
Since August 2017, over 700,000 Rohingya refugees have fled to Bangladesh from Myanmar, following a brutal military campaign of violence that saw villages razed to the ground, men killed and women sexually assaulted. Cox’s Bazar is now home to the most densely populated refugee camp in the world.
Fiona MacGregor, of the International Organisation for Migration (IOM), who was on the ground in Cox’s Bazar, said: “Given the ground conditions and weather in the area, it is impossible to mitigate against all disaster.” Describing the camps in the aftermath of the first rainfall, she said there had already been shallow flooding and churned roads, highlighting the challenges for aid access that lay ahead.
She went on: “The fact that people in some parts of the camps today were having to wade through water after only a few showers is an indication of the kind of the difficult and dangerous ground conditions we will see far more of when monsoon proper arrives and which will also bring the risk of water-borne diseases and infections.”
Cox’s Bazar is known for having one of the highest rainfall totals in the country during monsoon season. Many of the overcrowded camps are also built on newly deforested hills, which are susceptible to mud landslides and flash flooding.
Bangladesh’s refugee relief and rehabilitation commissioner, Mohammad Abul Kalam, said they were trying to stabilise the slopes using sandbags and other techniques. “We have adopted elaborate plans to save the refugees from the risks of the natural disasters during the coming monsoon,” he said, adding that they hoped to relocate all those in high-risk areas within weeks.
“Around 90,000 of the refugees are living in very high-risk areas and we are planning to relocate them to safer areas on a priority basis. We are developing 700 to 800 acres of forest land on the west of Kutupalong camp, where they all will be relocated to a new, safer area.”
Speaking on Tuesday, Bangladesh’s prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, re-emphasised a controversial government plan to move 100,000 of the monsoon-vulnerable refugees to Bhasan Char, an uninhabited sediment island in the Bay of Bengal. However, the plans have prompted a backlash from aid agencies, who have raised concerns about living conditions and weather vulnerability of the proposed location, while refugees themselves have said they will refuse to go.
Kalam said the island was not yet ready to welcome the refugees. “It is being developed to make the place suitable for living. We hope within a month or two it will be ready,” he said.
Agencies such as the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, the IOM and the World Food Programme, in cooperation with some Bangladeshi government agencies, are working to make the camps as resilient against the impending rains as possible. Refugees have also been attempting to prepare for the floods over the past few weeks, though the prospect has left many terrified.
Shafiqa, 25, who left Buthidaung in Myanmar, described how she had begun rebuilding her hut almost from scratch, digging up mud to fortify the weak frame of the bamboo and tarpaulin shelter.
“The winds are coming and people say they could break everything,” she said. “We haven’t been able to build our homes properly, so I’m terrified of the monsoon. There’s no one in the house to help me, my parents are old and it’s dangerous at night, so I’m just trying to strengthen my home by building these mud walls.”
Ali Johor, who crossed over from Rakhine to Bangladesh in September, was concerned the 10ft x12ft shack he lives in with nine other family members, built on the slope of a hill, would not be able to survive the rain. “I fear that one such storm could blow away my entire shack,” he said.
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Robert C. Gesteland
I began graduate studies under the direction of Warren S. McCulloch in 1955. At that time there was intense interest among the neuroscience community in discovering the properties of the individual cells which constitute the nervous system. The larger scientific community was also newly curious about the workings of the brain, largely as a result of Wiener’s Cybernetics (1) and von Neumann’s interests in intelligent machines (2). The McCulloch laboratory, more than any other, cared about the relations between cellular events and the processes of mind. The spirit of the laboratory was well characterized by the sign on the door. It read “Experimental Epistemology”.
The range of research interests was broad. At the time I started, a seminal contribution to analysis of central nervous system function was being prepared for publication (3). Investigations were in progress which revolutionized experimental approaches to sensory perception (4). McCulloch had begun the exploration of logical symbolism to represent complex neural processing (5). The investigations of spinal afferents which matured into the gate control pain theory had begun (6). Low noise amplifiers and new electrodes were being developed which allowed investigations of activity of the smallest fibers in the nervous system. My first participation was concerned with these (7, 8, 9, 10).
The work on electrodes ultimately led to our study of the olfactory receptor organ. I spent the 1957 summer in Steven Kuffler’s Nerve-Muscle Training Program at the Woods Hole Marine Biological Laboratory. David Ottoson from Sweden was working with Kuffler on the crustacean stretch receptor at the time. His important study on olfaction in the frog had just been published (11) and we talked about noses quite often. He described the frustration of trying to record from single receptor neurons in the nose. Conventional micropipettes killed cells upon penetration. Their noise obscured unit field potentials when extracellularly located.
Back at MIT that fall, we set out to see if the electrodes which had been so spectacular in recording from unmyelinated axons of the frog optic nerve would work as well on the small, unmyelinated axons which constitute the olfactory nerve. Walter Pitts liked the project because of his interest in molecular kinetics and because this was a sensory cell in which a chemical stimulus acted directly on the receptor membrane. (In vision, hearing and touch, the stimulus is transduced first into an unknown chemical intermediate which then causes changes in membrane conductance.) Jerry Lettvin was encouraging, partly because of his curiosity about any nervous system mystery and partly because of his current involvement in another chemosensory receptor study (12). Warren had been interested in the olfactory sense since his early days in psychiatry. I was intrigued at the prospect of research on a sensory organ whose biophysics had been little studied.
The olfactory receptor organ is unique among sensory systems in its simple anatomical organization. The receptor neuron soma lies outside of the brain in the olfactory epithelium. It is a bipolar neuron with a single dendrite extending to the surface of the epithelium. From the dendrite apex, cilia project into the mucus layer. Inhaled odorous vapors dissolve into the watery mucus and diffuse to the ciliary surface. Schultze (13), Hopkins (14) and Ottoson (11) all argued that the cilium was the part of the cell on which odors exerted their effect.
From the opposite pole of the receptor cell soma an axon projects, passing through the cribriform plate to the olfactory bulb of the brain. Here, in glomerular structures, about 50 thousand second-order neurons receive synaptic inputs from about 50 million receptor cells. There are no collaterals from the receptor axons. There are no lateral interactions between receptor neurons. There are no efferent fibers from the central nervous system to the neurons of the olfactory epithelium. This simplicity of connectivity is accompanied by a simplistic geometry. The receptor neurons lie in an orderly array. Each dendrite lies within an enveloping invagination of the glial-like supporting cells. Tight junctions between receptor dendrites and the supporting cells just beneath the mucus serve as a diffusion barrier between the mucus and the extracellular space of the sensory epithelium.
We saw that the nose presented a unique opportunity to study receptor processes uninfluenced by feedback or by concurrent events in cellular neighbors.
Our first recording of single unit action potentials was obtained in 1959. In the experiments which followed we found chaos where we expected order and complexity where we expected simplicity. We learned almost nothing about coding of odor information (15, 16, 17, 18). The harvest of confusion which we reaped 20 years ago has only now begun to be sorted. What follows is a summary of the early results and their recent unravelling.
The extracellular unit potentials were of unusually long duration, typically 5 ms, and their shapes were complex. Often we could identify 3 to 5 components. We know now that the abrupt velocity change which occurs when the action potential in a 0.2 micron diameter axon antidromically invades a large soma is the cause. In the absence of stimulation the cells fired spontaneously. The firing rate was less than once each second and the periods between spikes were highly variable. When stimulated, the firing rate usually increased but the intervals remained irregular. Sometimes a stimulus would inhibit activity.
When we attempted to classify cells according to the subgroups of stimulus substances to which they responded, we failed. No two cells responded in the same way to the odors in our stimulus set. Chemically similar or perceptually similar substances often evoked very different activity patterns. Responses of a particular cell were quite repeatable. However, this information was not sufficient to predict how a different cell would respond to the same stimuli. We could not identify categories of substances which produced similar effects. When we knew how a cell responded to each of two stimuli, we could not guess the response when they were delivered as a mixture.
In experiments on the receptor population, in which the voltage and impedance changes evoked by odors were measured with large electrodes, we found two kinds of processes. Odors evoked an excitatory event which we inferred to be a conductance increase to ions whose equilibrium potential was positive with respect to the membrane potential. They simultaneously evoked another process which appeared to be a shunt, decreasing the excitation process. Rise times and durations of the two processes were independent of each other and were dependent upon the stimulus substance.
These results provided an explanation for our finding that responses recorded from the olfactory epithelium are not simple functions of stimulus intensity. The ionic mechanisms remain to be determined. It was easy to say that all would be resolved when reliable intracellular recordings were achieved. This has not yet been accomplished. Nor is such a method likely to provide answers to the important questions. There is indirect evidence for the existence of multiple active processes occurring in different regions of the same cell (19).
As it turned out, I didn’t heed the most important lesson taught by my mentors. If you ask the wrong questions, the answers will not make sense. About a decade after the olfactory work at MIT, it was found that olfactory receptors are continually generated (20, 21, 22). We had assumed that olfactory receptor neurons were like other neurons of the vertebrate nervous system, i.e., elaborated early in life and never replaced.
Olfactory receptor neurons, unlike all other nerve cells in vertebrates, have a lifetime of only 6 to 7 weeks. They are continually replaced by new ones which differentiate from basal cells in the receptor epithelium. We recently studied the response properties of olfactory receptors at different stages of development (23, 24, 25). They have quite different response properties at different stages of the life cycle. It requires about a week after cell differentiation for the dendrite to reach the epithelial surface and sprout cilia. As soon as this happens, the cell is responsive to odorous substances. Most surprisingly, each cell is excited by all the substances we use. It can make no distinctions among different odors. Two weeks after this time, the axon has extended far enough to reach the second-order neurons at the olfactory bulb. At this time, the cell properties change abruptly. Any single cell responds henceforth to only a fraction of substances in the stimulus set. It is these mature neurons that provide the messages to the brain.
Our original attempts to determine classes of cell selectivity types were certain to fail because of the inclusion of many cells which are generally irritable and not selective. Any study done on a normal adult receptor epithelium includes two populations of quite different physiological properties, a situation totally unexpected.
The selective, mature neurons have another property which distinguishes them from most other neurons. For any effective stimulus there is a particular stimulus intensity (concentration) which produces a maximum response. At intensities significantly above the optimum, the cell responds with a single action potential followed by a period of inactivity due to depolarization block. Thus what we had called inhibition was often, if not always, extreme excitation. Since different cells have different “best intensities”, the response properties can only be defined by a series of different concentrations of each test stimulus. It is seldom possible to hold a cell long enough to accomplish this.
There is another problem in determining cell sensitivity. Spontaneous activity in many cells waxes and wanes quasiperiodically over a period of several minutes. A given stimulus concentration produces a greater response if delivered during a time of maximum spontaneous activity than it does during a minimum. If stimulated with a brief odor during a period of low spontaneous firing, the response begins a minute or more later. Responses so poorly synchronized with stimulus timing were generally ignored as artifactual in past studies.
Finally, extracellular action potential amplitudes vary by a factor of 2 or 3, due to the profound sensitivity to depolarization block. Much of the activity recorded in earlier studies was rejected on the basis that differing spike amplitudes indicated that the activity of more than one neuron was responsible.
These observations coupled with some powerful new experimental methods suggest that some of the mystery will be resolved in the near future. By studying response properties at fixed states of development, signaling should be separable from responses of unconnected immature cells. By isolating single cells and investigating them in vitro, cellular biophysical processes ought to be resolvable. Patch studies on tiny membrane areas will certainly define the properties of the molecular receptors. Analysis of cellular membrane conductance changes during stimulation will reveal the properties of the transducer and allow its properties to be separated from the generator events. Desorption dilution promises to provide simple and precise stimulus control which will simplify study of response-concentration functions.
Each of these methods has been developed within the past 3 years. We expect some more surprises as they are applied.
Warren McCulloch’s enthusiasm and his support for his people in pursuit of their own science are legendary. It was in startling contrast to the attitude which prevails in most laboratories now. He didn’t produce clones of data collectors performing slight variations on their mentor’s ideas. Much of the learning was from one’s own errors. The studies on olfaction are a particularly clear example. We do not know much about the physiology of olfactory reception. Most of what we thought we knew is either out-and-out wrong because it was based on invalid assumptions or is partial truth with no basis for separating truth from falsehood. The delight is that we now have some clues to what the questions are which we should be asking. These studies should provide joyous days for a generation of young investigators.
McCulloch, W.S., Agatha Tyche: Of Nervous Nets - The Lucky Reckoners, in Proceedings of a Symposium on Mechanism of Thought Processes, National Physical Laboratory, Her Majesty’s Stationery Office, London, 2, 611-634, 1959.
Gesteland, R.C., Lettvin, J.Y., Pitts, W.H. & Rojas, A., Odor Specificities of the Frog’s Olfactory Receptors, in Proc. 1st Int’l. Symp. Olfaction & Taste, Y. Zottermn, ed., Pergamon, Oxford, pp 19-34, 1963.
Moulton, D.G., Celebi, G., & Fink, R.P., Olfaction in Mammals — Two Aspects: Proliferation of Cells in the Olfactory Epithelium and Sensitivity to Odours, in Taste and Smell in Vertebrates. G.E.W. Wolstenholme & J. Knight, eds., Churchill Press, London, pp 227-246, 1970.
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Eggshell membrane may activate a gene transcription factor that hinders development of inflammatory diseases, according to researchers.
Ruff KJ et al., “Eggshell membrane hydrolyzates activate NF-κB in vitro: possible implications for in vivo efficacy,” Journal of Inflammation Research, vol. 8 (2015): 49-57.
The eggshell membrane (ESM) has made a name for itself as a possible source of relief from joint health conditions, but a new study may provide some insight into the actual mechanism at work in ESM action. Researchers at Missouri State University’s Jordan Valley Innovation Center evaluated the in vitro effect of ESM hydrolyzates on human immune cells, finding that the activation of a certain gene transcription factor may be one aspect of the process.
For four hours, the scientists exposed human cell cultures to ESM hydrolyzates produced by fermentation, enzymatic, or chemical hydrolysis. Compared with untreated control cells, the hydrolyzates significantly activated NF-κB, a signaling protein found in the cytoplasm of human cells and “a primary regulator of immune function,” according to the researchers. All three types of hydrolyzates activated NF-κB, although the fermentation and enzymatic varieties were the most effective.
Partners Stratum Nutrition (St. Charles, MO) and ESM Technologies (Carthage, MO) announced the results of the study, which used the ESM Technologies NEM brand eggshell membrane to determine that ESM hydrolyzates activate NF-κB.
The finding is significant because “dysregulation of NF-κB has been implicated in the development of a number of classical inflammatory diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis, asthma, and inflammatory bowel disease,” according to a press release. In other words, the ESM action on this gene transcription factor may be a crucial aspect of the ingredient’s possible benefits to joint health.
“It’s always rewarding to gain insight into the observed efficacy of one of our ingredients through fundamental research, particularly when this leads to the potential for new intellectual property, says Kevin J. Ruff, PhD, director, scientific and regulatory affairs, ESM Technologies. The companies hope this study will build on previous research suggesting NEM may support a healthy inflammatory response.
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Universal Credit comes with its own set of rule that claimants can be sanctioned for if they don't meet.
Those who sign up for Universal Credit, or who find themselves moved on to it, must meet these conditions or they could find themselves penalised by the Department for Work and Pensions with reductions in their payments.
These penalties are known as sanctions. Many people have complained of severe reductions in their benefits while on Universal Credit, sometimes leaving them with no money at all.
So how exactly does it all work?
What responsibilities come with Universal Credit?
When you claim Universal Credit there are a number of activities you must carry out in order to receive your payment.
These activities are:
- Completing work search activities for up to 35 hours per week
- Completing a 'tailored commitment' with your work coach
- Paying your own rent and other housing costs
- Reporting changes in circumstances through your online account
- Manage your payments and budget on a monthly basis. You may be able to get an advance to help you manage until your first payment.
- Working part-time and able to earn more? You’re required to seek additional work and increase your earnings
When you claim Universal Credit you will need to complete and accept what is called a tailored commitment.
This is the DWP's name for an agreement between you and the work coach that is based on your individual situation. It states what you will need to do in order to receive your Universal Credit.
In most cases, this will be drawn up during a conversation between you and your work coach at your local jobcentre.
It sets out what you have agreed to do to prepare for and look for work, or to increase your earnings if you are already working.
It is based on your personal circumstances and will be reviewed and updated on an ongoing basis.
The DWP says that each time it is updated, you will need to accept a new commitment to keep receiving Universal Credit.
Are there any specific variations?
Yes, the DWP has different rules depending if you are claiming Universal Credit as a couple, or have health problems, or are a carer for a disabled person or for children.
These are explained below:
If you claim Universal Credit as a couple, both of you will need to accept an individual commitment. Your commitment may be affected if your partner starts work or their circumstances change.
If you are earning as much as your current circumstances allow, you won't be asked to increase your wages.
If you are able and available to work, the DWP expects you to do everything you reasonably can to give yourself the best chance of finding work.
It says "preparing for and getting a job must be your full time focus."
If you currently have limited capability for work, because of a short-term disability or health condition, you must prepare to get a job when your situation improves.
If your health problems are long-term or permanent and prevent you from working, you aren't expected to try to get a job.
If you care for a severely disabled person for at least 35 hours per week you will not be required to work and will be supported through Universal Credit.
If you are the main carer for a child, the DWP will provide Universal Credit with conditions based on the age of the youngest child in your household.
So what happens if you don't do all this?
Your commitment will clearly state what will happen if you fail to meet one or more of your responsibilities.
You will receive reduced payments, known as a sanction, if you fail to meet one or more of your responsibilities and can’t give a good reason.
The DWP says it tells claimants how long the sanctions last. If they ask you to complete an activity to limit the length of a sanction, how long the sanction lasts will depend on how quickly you do what they have asked.
What are the sanctions?
There are four sanction levels: higher, medium, low and lowest. The period of reduction will increase if you fail to meet requirements multiple times in each level.
A higher level sanction means you will suffer a reduction in your benefit for 91 days (13 weeks) for your 'first offence' and 182 days (26 weeks) for your second and each subsequent higher level sanction in any 364 day period if you:
- Have to meet the 'work search requirement' and fail to apply for a particular job when told to do so
- Have to meet the 'work availability requirement' and you refuse a job offer
- Leave work or reduce your hours of work, whether voluntarily or due to misconduct (while claiming Universal Credit or just before your claim)
There are special rules for how long your sanction will last if it is for leaving work before you claimed Universal Credit.
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You will be sanctioned for 28 days for your first medium level sanction in any 364 day period, or 91 days for your second if you have to meet either the:
- Work search requirement – and you fail to take all reasonable actions to find paid work or increase your earnings from work
- Work availability requirement – and you are not available to start work or attend interviews
A low level sanction lasts until you do whatever you were sanctioned for failing to do, plus 7 days for your first low level sanction in any 364 day period, 14 days for your second, or 28 days for your third if you fail to:
- Attend or take part in a work-focused interview, and a lowest sanction level does not apply
- Attend or take part in a training course
- Take a specific action to get paid work, or to increase your earnings from work
These apply if you only have to meet the work-focused interview requirement, and you fail to attend or take part in a work-focused interview, they last until you take part in one.
How much is taken off your benefits?
Sanctions reduce the amount of Universal Credit standard allowance.
The standard allowance is the amount of Universal Credit that does not include extra money for things like children and housing costs.
It's cut by up to 100 per cent (meaning you get zero cash) for a single claimant or up to 50 per cent for each member of a couple.
No other deductions will be made, except to pay back arrears of service charges, rent, gas or electricity.
The rate of the sanction will be reduced to 40 per cent of this amount if:
- You are aged 16 or 17
- You are the carer of a child under one
- You are pregnant and have less than 11 weeks before the baby is due
- You have had a baby in the last 15 weeks (including if the baby was stillborn)
- You have had an adopted child placed with you in the last 52 weeks
- Your claimant commitment requires you to only attend work focused interviews
As a guide, based on the standard allowances of Universal Credit that are typically paid, these sanctions mean:
A cut in UC of £8.20 per day for the period of the sanction, if you are single and under 25 (and therefore usually receive £251.77 a month before any deductions).
A cut in UC of £10.40 per day for the period of the sanction, if you are single and over 25 (and therefore usually receive £317.82 a month before any deductions)
A cut in UC of £6.40 per day for the period of the sanction, if you are in a couple and both aged under 25 but only one of you has been sanctioned (and therefore usually receive £395.20 as a couple before any deductions)
A cut in UC of £8.20 per day for the period of the sanction, if you are in a couple and one or both of you is over 25 but only one of you has been sanctioned (and therefore usually receive £498.89 as a couple before any deductions)
What if you think the sanction is wrong?
If you don't think you should have been sanctioned, call the DWP using the number on your documents and ask for the decision to be looked at again. This is called a mandatory reconsideration. You can also ask for this online.
It usually has to be done within a month of the original decision.
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Question for others using VESC regarding motor RPM.
I’m running at 50 volts, My ERPM is maxing out at 18000 which indicates 3000 rpm unloaded (spinning in air) 18000ERPM/6 poles is 3000rpm, I’ve verified that is correct using an android app that uses a strobe light function to check rpm (really easy effective way to check rpm). With a 130kv motor I should get 6500rpm at 50v right? I measured ~30v AC between motor wires at full throttle, has anyone else measured the ac voltage output of a VESC when not connected to a motor? Am I missing something? Is the KV rating wrong on this motor? What should the voltage between two of the motor wires be from the ESC at 100% duty cycle? I’m in FOC mode, max ERPM is set to 50k, and I’ve checked other minimums to see if something is limiting my rpm, and I can’t find anything.
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Battery: 12s1P li-ion
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THREE care homes in Cork have been found to be non-compliant with infection control regulations in recent inspections by the Health Information and Quality Authority (Hiqa).
The watchdog has published 48 inspection reports on residential centers for the elderly across the country in recent days, including 10 reports on centers in Cork, following inspections between January and April.
Levels of non-compliance varied, with nine centers nationwide found to be non-compliant with one rule, seven centers non-compliant with two rules, four centers non-compliant with three rules, and 12 centers non-compliant with four or more rules. .
Instances of non-compliance were identified in areas such as governance and management, resident rights, accommodations, visitation, infection control, healthcare, fire precautions, medications and pharmaceutical services, risk management, individual assessment and care plan, staff, staff training and development, complaints. procedure and the management of difficult behaviours.
In Cork, five residential centers for the elderly were found to be non-compliant with regulations in one or more areas.
An unannounced inspection of Teach Altra Nursing Home in Newmarket looked at the centre’s compliance with 21 regulations.
The inspection was the fourth inspection of its kind in a year and was organized to follow up on findings of non-compliance made in February, June and November last year.
Overall, the inspector found that the person in charge and the staff worked to improve the quality of life and to promote the rights and choices of the residents of the centre.
The report says residents gave positive feedback and complimented the staff and the care provided at the center.
He also indicates that improvements have been noted in some areas of service delivery and acknowledges the appointment of a new manager.
The inspection found that the facility complied or substantially complied with 19 of the regulations assessed. However, it failed to comply with regulations in two areas – infection control and staffing.
The report indicates that issues related to infection prevention and control continue to be uncovered. He notes a number of concerns, including that there was no schedule for deep cleaning, high dusting and rotation of curtains, which was necessary, and that there were no designated handwashing facilities for staff, so their only access to handwashing facilities was indoors. resident suites or bathrooms.
The report said staffing levels were insufficient for the size and layout of the centre, dependency levels and the number of residents requiring two staff to provide care and transfer.
An inspection of Norwood Grange in Waterfall found that the facility complied or substantially complied with 17 of the 18 regulations assessed, but was non-compliant when it came to infection control.
The inspection report states that it was evident that residents were supported to have a good quality of life in the center and notes that residents told the inspector that “the staff were wonderful, very caring and respectful of their choices. “.
Overall, the report says the inspector found the center to be clean and that the findings of the previous inspection regarding infection control had been taken into account.
However, the inspector found that some improvements were needed in cleaning processes and other areas of practice that could increase the risk of cross-infection in the centre.
Among the issues identified, the report says not all staff were bare below the elbow to ensure hands could be effectively cleaned.
An inspection of Blair’s Hill Nursing Home in Sunday’s Well found the center failed to meet infection control regulations and staff failed to consistently follow standard infection control precautions.
The report notes that staff were not bare below the elbow as recommended by hand hygiene guidelines.
Among other issues noted, the report states that staff did not consistently wear respirator masks for all resident care activities, as recommended in the guidelines, and that one staff member wore the same plastic apron for several hours on the morning of the inspection.
It also indicates that the environment was not managed in such a way as to minimize the risk of transmission of a nosocomial infection.
The report says the inspector was assured that residents living in the center enjoyed a good quality of life. Four residents of the centre, who spoke to the inspector, “were very complimentary in their comments and said they were satisfied with the quality of care provided”.
An inspection of Clonakilty Community Hospital found the facility to be compliant or substantially compliant with all 17 regulations assessed. However, it was non-compliant in the area of staff training and development.
The report states that training records reviewed on the day of the inspection did not provide evidence that all staff had received mandatory training. Approximately 10% of staff required training on protecting vulnerable adults and 90% of staff required training on responsive behaviours.
The report says that overall residents described being satisfied and happy to live in the center and they acknowledged that there had been many improvements in the center over the past few years.
An inspection at Youghal Community Hospital found that the center complied or substantially complied with regulations in 19 areas, but failed to comply in two areas: fire precautions and premises.
The report says that at the time of the inspection, the registered provider had failed to take adequate precautions to ensure residents were protected from the risk of fire, with a number of issues identified relating to improper fire safety management, including gaps around fire doors. .
An Urgent Action Plan has been issued to the vendor requiring that the issues identified be resolved as soon as possible due to the severity of the findings.
Additionally, the inspector found that a number of serious findings, which had been highlighted in an external report on fire safety at the center which had been received in 2021, had not been addressed.
With regard to the premises, the report indicates that the inspector found a number of issues which needed to be resolved since the previous inspection to bring the premises into compliance with the regulations, including the replacement of the flooring in a certain number of areas.
The report said general feedback from residents and relatives was that Youghal Community Hospital was a comfortable place to live, where residents were known to staff and felt safe in their care. Residents felt their rights and choices were respected and said staff were kind and caring and available to listen to any concerns they might have.
Of the 48 reports issued nationwide, inspectors found evidence of good practice and compliance with regulations and standards during a number of inspections.
Hiqa found 16 centers to be fully compliant or substantially compliant with national standards and regulations.
This included five centers in Cork: Macroom Community Hospital, Unit 1 St Stephen’s Hospital in Glanmire, Bandon Community Hospital, Bridhaven Nursing Home in Mallow and Strawhall Nursing Home in Fermoy.
Hiqa’s full reports are available at www.hiqa.ie.
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Obamacare’s Horrible Headlines
News Outlets Coast to Coast Detail Health Law’s Negative Consequences
This week, Senate Republicans are using the budget reconciliation process to repeal the President’s signature domestic policy achievement, Obamacare. In doing so, Senate Republicans are fulfilling a promise to repeal a failed law that has led to higher healthcare premiums, higher taxes, and fewer choices for American families.
The health law’s negative consequences have been spelled out in headlines and polls from across the country in recent weeks. And what American families are up against when it comes to Obamacare isn’t pretty.
It’s time the Obama Administration and Democrats own the law’s failures and work to implement patient-centered reforms that will address costs and increase choice.
Here’s the latest headlines on Obamacare:
Wall Street Journal: Rising Rates Pose Challenge to Health Law “Higher-cost premiums for 2016 threaten the appeal of the program for the healthy customers it needs.” (Nov. 19, 2015)
The New York Times: Health Care Law Forces Businesses to Consider Growth’s Costs “For some business owners on the edge of the cutoff, the mandate is forcing them to weigh very carefully the price of growing bigger.” (Nov. 18, 2015)
GALLUP: Ratings of U.S. Healthcare Quality No Better After ACA “Fewer than one in four satisfied with cost of healthcare.” (Nov. 20, 2015)
The Hill: Major insurer may leave ObamaCare “…a shock announcement that could ripple through the marketplace.” (Nov. 19, 2015)
Associated Press: More than half of health law's insurance co-ops are closing “The federal government provided $2.4 billion in loans to get the co-ops going, and repayment from the ones that have failed seems doubtful.” (Nov. 3, 2015)
The New York Times: Health Care Co-op Closings Narrow Consumers’ Choices “The grim announcements keep coming, picking up pace in recent weeks.” (Oct. 25, 2015)
GALLUP: Americans Again Cite Cost and Access as Top Health Issues “Americans continue to be most likely to name healthcare access or cost as the most urgent health issues facing the U.S.” (Nov. 18, 2015)
Omaha World-Herald: Insurance premium hikes raise questions about Affordable Care Act “Soaring health insurance premiums in the Affordable Care Act’s exchanges have sparked questions about whether the law is helping to contain medical costs nationwide.” (Nov. 2, 2015)
Associated Press: Big jumps ahead in South Dakota individual market premiums
“Tens of thousands of South Dakota residents who buy health coverage individually, including through the federal marketplace created by the Affordable Care Act, are facing premium hikes for next year ranging from an average of about 13 percent to as much as 63 percent.” (Oct. 26, 2015)
NBC’s KFOR: Oklahoma Obamacare premiums see 35 percent price hike “The Department of Health and Human Services is estimating premiums will jump 35 percent on average for the one company returning to the exchange this year.” (Oct. 29, 2015)
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With the entry of immune checkpoint inhibitors such as anti-PD1 and anti-CTLA-4 into the clinic, excitement about immune-based therapies for cancer has been growing. Three immunologists at the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC)—Zihai Li, M.D., Ph.D., Shikhar Mehrotra, Ph.D., and Chrystal Paulos, Ph.D.—discuss the promise of immune-based therapies such as immune checkpoint blockade and adoptive cell transfer and how the researchers and clinicians at MUSC are helping advance the field.
Progressnotes, MUSC’s Medical Magazine
ZIHAI LI: There was a debate about whether immune system care about cancer. But I think recent developments in the field have answered this question loud and clear. And that is cancer develops partly because of failure of the immune system. So as a result, there's a tremendous excitement and promise that focusing on rejuvenating the immune system will be one day the curable strategy for eradicating cancer. CHRYSTAL PAULOS: When I started training in cancer immunotherapy, I had to walk down this long hallway of patients that were getting treated with adoptive immunotherapy. And Steven Rosenberg would update us on what's going on with these patients, which was invigorating because back then, long ago, we would see large tumors regress and never come back. So it's not just now. It's been an exciting thing that, I feel, finally, people are paying attention to. SHIKHAR MEHROTRA: Here, what you're talking about is a person's own immune cells, which can be either engineered or redirected to control the tumors much better. And that is something which is very exciting. And a bunch of small number of cells have got the power to go and find the tumor and kill it. CHRYSTAL PAULOS: Immune checkpoint blockade has been an exciting game changer in cancer immunotherapy. As you can imagine, you've probably seen headline news on how exciting it is. So I'll be more specific. PD-1 blockade therapies, as well as CTLA-4 blockade therapies have unleashed the t-cells in the tumor to be reactive again. So the tumor actually upregulates CTLA-4 as well as PD-L1, which inhibits that. And it binds to PD-1 and CTLA-4 on the t-cell. So when we use an antibody against that, it blocks that interaction and allows a t-cell-- which has otherwise dysfunctional because of the tumor-- to be very effective. So effective, that it's treated patients with melanoma, lung cancer, kidney cancer, and it's been used in a lot of solid malignancies now. It's given curative as well as durable responses to patients that would otherwise succumb to their disease. ZIHAI LI: Two treatments, now, have been in clinical development. One is so-called CTLA-4, and the other one is called PD-1. Blockade of CTLA-4 and PD-1 have been shown to be effective broadly against many types of cancers, including melanoma, lung cancer, bladder cancer, Hodgkin's lymphoma, triple negative breast cancer. CHRYSTAL PAULOS: Adoptive t-cell transfer therapy is basically taking t-cells from a patient-- normally from the tumor of a patient, and then inside that tumor, there are t-cells that are actually very tumor-reactive. But again, they're suppressed by the tumor. So if we enrich those t-cells from the patient, we can activate them, expand them to large numbers, and put them back into the patient. And what we've seen is it can also elicit long-lasting anti-tumor responses. And what's really exciting is that at the Medical University of South Carolina, we have a clean cell facility, so that we can actually do this very exciting technology and actually put it into patients. SHIKHAR MEHROTRA: So the clean cell facility that we have in here is one in 12 or 14 of those kind that are in the US. And this is a great facility because it can cater to the needs of immunotherapy by using cell therapies-- t-cells, generic cells, mesenchymal stem cells-- a bunch of those things which can be used for immunotherapy can be made into the-- the patient-grade material can be made and can be transferred into the cell. So we have qualified technicians for that. We have an accuracy person who looks into every detail, so that the SOPs are implemented to the T, and then those can be used for the clinicians to go and use this facility to produce the cells which can be used for immunotherapy. We are already working with a couple of protocols to sterilize them. And what it does is if there's some kind of a benchside research which has got some promise, we validate it by working with the PI to see that those can be transferred to the larger scale, to the validation rounds with the GMP-graded reagents, which are FDA approved that those can be used for the patients. And then once we get those through-- and we have to file for the PIS or file for the ND, and we help and assist them in doing so and making the protocols through and getting their SOPs through, so that this can be implemented back and used for the patient's beside. CHRYSTAL PAULOS: Combining adoptive t-cell transfer therapy with checkpoint modulators is going to be the next step. In fact, the National Institutes of Health as well as places like the University of Pennsylvania are already gearing up to do this. And that's something that we are very passionate about doing here as well. And, really, it's a very timely question. And it makes sense to actually put the t-cells in that are tumor-specific into the patient. We know that we can actually harness a specific immune response against that patient. And inevitably, unfortunately, even the cells we infuse can become quite tired or suppressed by the tumor. And so we're getting quite clever, because now, we're going to come in with checkpoint blockades. So we know the cells that are effective. We put them in there, and we can change the biology of those cells, and on top of that, keep them going. So it's, in my opinion, like a power punch. ZIHAI LI: MUSC is in a very strategically unique position to really move the field and contribute to the field. About six years ago, MUSC Hollings Cancer Center attained the National Cancer Institute designated cancer center status. So the cancer immunology program is one of the original program to achieve such a designation, which is really prestigious. At this point, the cancer immunology program is very active. We have about 20 investigators working day and night, understanding the immune system, particularly in dealing with cancer. We have funding from National Cancer Institute. We have funding from the Department of Defense as well as funding from private foundations. We're working in a number of areas, both in understanding the fundamental aspect of immune response against cancer but also on how to translate our knowledge to novel clinical trials. CHRYSTAL PAULOS: There's a lot of creative, clever investigators. That's the other thing that's great about MUSC. There's a huge critical mass of t-cell immunologists and translational physicians that are teaming up in a really amazing way to make adoptive immunotherapy better than it already is. SHIKHAR MEHROTRA: So immunotherapy therapy definitely has a lot of promise. 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TheTamilNadu Food Recipes-really its Lip Snacking
TamilNadu Food Recipes are more than idlis, dosas and sambhars. Crisp wadas sound crisp not only because they are fried but also due to the recipe that gives it its texture. Let’s understand more about TamilNadu Food Recipes and its local temting taste.
- Meen Kozhambu– A delicious combination of two pulses toor and urad dal, and tamarind. Surprisingly you can choose to add other sources of protein on this curry as well and the majorities go for fish. Meen kozhambu with fish is a Tamil Nadu household staple and first in TamilNadu Food Recipes list.
- Milagu Pongal– A favorite breakfast option made using white rice, cumin seeds, moong dal, black pepper, curry leaves, cashews, ginger and ghee. This power packed meal is mostly made using left over rice and is quite easy to stir up.
- Chicken 65– Yes, this curry is Tamil origin and is very easy to make. The original TamilNadu Food Recipes of chicken 65 calls for lots of heat but you can fine tune it as per your liking.
- Urlai Roast– Urlai is baby potatoes and they are roasted with cumin, mustard and other spices to make it tangy and spicy. It is not a main dish but a great appetizer and most served up during weddings.
- Chicken Chettinad– The famous Chettinad recipe is a mix of 28 spices and what’s better than a Chettinad chicken. This Tamil Nadu classic is a treat for the taste buds. There are two ways to cook this dish. One being the regular marination along with the spice mix and then frying it in oil and the second being directly cooking it on the flame with onion and tomato sauce plus the spices but minus the marination.
- Archuvitta Sambar– The most recognized world famous TamilNadu Food Recipes is the Sambar made with freshly roasted and grounded spices. A traditional south Indian Idli-dosa breakfast is incomplete without the Sambar.
- Mulligatawny Soup– This soup is comfort food for those cold days and is made from cooking red lentils, potatoes, carrots and apples simmered in coconut milk with peppercorns and tamarind pulp. Served garnished with small diced onions and coriander.
- Medhu Vada– Made from white urud dal this relish is a go-to snack for rainy days or just a quick simple breakfast. Its taste best when eaten with coconut chutney.
- Kanchipuram Idli– Mind it, these idli’s are not your regular idli’s. The kanchipuram idli has a mild spice punch and is stuffed with vegetables. They are easy to make and follow the same protocol is the plain idli’s but these are with a twist. Best enjoyed with sambar and coconut chutney.
- Arisi Thengai Payasam– To end the list on a sweet note, Arisi Thengai Payasam is a sweet dish made with rice, jaggery and coconut. It is traditionally served cold but those who can’t wait can slurp it up while it’s still hot. No rules when it comes to matters of hunger and taste.
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Cut Gate – fix the Bog of Doom!
We’re now pleased to announce that the BMC have included this Cut Gate project in “Mend our Mountains”, a nationwide campaign to raise 1 million pounds for various maintenance tasks across the UK’s National Parks.
The target for Cut Gate is £75,000, to be used for sensitive repair works to improve drainage and surfacing at the Bog of doom. This will give a clear, sustainable route in wet weather and allow the moorland habitat to recover. Think short sections of flags, only where required – we’re not looking to sanitise or change the character of the trail! These works will also allow the local moorland to recover, once trail users stop diverting further and further around the wet and muddy sections.
We’re over the moon with the way this collaborative project has come about. We’re working with the BMC, Peak District National Park Authority, Moors for the Future and other trail user groups. It’s been a great way for Peak District MTB and Ride Sheffield to work together too – mountain bike groups taking the initiative and leading the way.
This campaign needs your support, so please give all you can. The BMC is running national fundraising and approaching corporate funding options, but we think this is a campaign where mountain bikers can show that we do care for the landscape.
You can choose to donate to the central Mend our Mountains pot, or to the individual Cut Gate campaign.
We’re also looking for help from businesses and other bodies – if you think you know of a company who can help, then please let us know. Perhaps they can help with donations, sponsoring a section or maybe with some prizes for the crowdfunder that will launch in 2018.
We’ve also set up a separate website for the Cut Gate campaign, which you can see here. Keep an eye out there for updates and news.
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Journalism has come a long way since the publishing of the Acta Diurna in Rome in 59 BCE. The invention of the printing press gave a much-needed impetus to journalism by reducing the time it took to replicate reports and news and led to the regular publishing of newspapers in Germany and Antwerp in the 1600s. The first daily newspaper, called the Daily Courant, began in 1702, allowing journalists to provide news, views, and reviews to the world every day. Modern-day journalism relies on media such as television, radio, the internet, newspapers, magazines, and social media to showcase public opinion.
Journalism is often referred to as vox populi, giving the opinions of many a platform to be heard. It can be a great way to bridge the gap between authorities and the people and lend constructive criticism for the betterment of society. Journalism signifies freedom of speech. It exercises the people’s right to have an opinion and a platform to broadcast that opinion. In a way, journalism also connects the world by providing Because of journalism, we empathise with Ukraine today. If it weren’t for journalism, countries around the world would exist in a silo—living and dying in their tiny bubbles. Without journalism, ignorance would thrive.
Journalism strives to provide relevant and recent information to the masses. We live in a global economy where our actions can directly or indirectly impact the lives of others. A journalist helps to assess these impacts and brings them into perspective for people worldwide while creating an audience for his specific style of writing. Journalism and mass media are often referred to as a source of truth—as they provide legitimate news devoid of partisan bias and help people understand the issue at hand. The duty of a journalist lies in presenting facts rather than trivialising, sensationalising, and fragmenting topics to impose their opinions on the readers. Kovatch and Rosenstiel aptly termed journalism “a public forum for criticism and comment.”
Journalism can help in driving societal change by forming public opinion. This is done by making complex information available to the masses in a clear and easily understandable format. This helps multiple strata of society to understand the issue at large and form an opinion according to their perception of the problem. For example, the reportage of the Kargil war, the attack on the parliament, and 9/11 helped entire nations form public opinion about the perpetrators.
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Regional inequalities will widen without action, ex-civil service chief warns
The gaps between the richest and poorest parts of the UK will widen without Government action, a former head of the Civil Service has warned.
Lord Kerslake, who led the Civil Service from 2012 to 2014, said despite efforts to tackle inequalities, the gap between London and the rest of the UK is widening.
The cross-bench peer added: “A child poor enough to qualify for free school meals in the London borough of Hackney is still three times more likely to go to university than a similarly disadvantaged child in Hartlepool in County Durham.
“These inequalities have built up over many decades and many different governments. Without a radically different approach and conscious effort to rebalance, the gap will continue to widen.”
The UK2070 Commission, chaired by Lord Kerslake, has now published a preliminary report following its inquiry into regional inequalities.
The report suggests that without intervention London will continue to steam ahead to the extent that “its growth ceases to benefit the rest of the country”.
However, if changes enable higher growth in less affluent regions – with an additional four million jobs outside London and the South East – the rise in long-distance commuting would slow, housing would become more affordable and pressures on environmental resources would be reduced, it says.
It recommends a greater devolution of powers and funding, including the creation of four new “super regional” economic development agencies.
The commission also calls for long-term investment through a new “National Renewal Fund” with the aim of rebalancing the economy over a 25-year period.
Lord Kerslake (pictured) said: “There is no logical reason why people and places in one part of the UK are bound to perform more poorly than others.
“There is tremendous untapped potential in the regions in particular and we need to put the structures and resources in the right places to release it.
“Whilst solutions will take time to have an impact, now is unquestionably the right time to be having this debate because government is clearly not immune from the impact of disruptive events.”
He added: “Whilst the scale of these challenges dictates substantial investment over a long-term horizon, the immediate pressures the UK is under demand that we develop a new national narrative and accompany that with some clear signs of intent.
“If we are going to start shifting the dial then we need to increase local capacity to take on these tasks, be bold enough to set national standards for living conditions and access to services, and put place at the heart of policies, programmes and spending.
“There is too much distance and inertia in our government system. We need to bring it closer to people and places to make it more relevant and responsive.”
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Considering building another home or complex? Will you utilize a modeler or a structure designer?
Both are associated with the plan of structures – their appearance, format, structure, etc. However, what’s the difference?
The least difficult contrast is a legitimate one. To be called an “modeler” in NSW, you must be enrolled with the Board of Architects of NSW. The title “building originator” can be utilized by anybody planning buildings.
But that is not really in any event, starting to expose what’s underneath. Brian Basford is a structure originator and financial officer of the Building Designers Association of NSW. He recommends that building creators are by and large more affordable, and generally engaged with less ostentatious structures. “It’s ponies for courses. Most engineers likely wouldn’t have any desire to plan a solitary room augmentation for a retired person, while I’ve done a great deal of that.”
Brian likewise focused on that there are frequently covers between what modelers do and what building originators do. There’s no straightforward principle. “In any case, regardless the work, great structure originators and great draftsmen both produce quality work”, he says.
Architect Gary Kurzer concurs that engineers are bound to be associated with more particular, “up-market” structures. However, not in light of cost. “Engineers work to your financial plan actually like structure architects. The genuine explanation is that engineers are somewhat more liable to extend the limits and challenge convention.”
According to Gary, you ought to by and large pick a planner assuming you need something beyond an exacting interpretation of your brief. “My customers ordinarily have a harsh thought of what they need. I take that thought and change it into something they love, however would never have envisioned themselves.”
The most significant thing is knowing what you need from the assistance, and picking somebody that suits your job.
And whether you pick a modeler or building originator, recollect, capabilities are no assurance of value. Continuously request to see past instances of their work. Request references from past clients. Request to see their capabilities. Ask how long they’ve been functioning. Do they have proficient repayment protection? Are they an individual from an authorize body?…
In the end, it resembles whatever else… there’s not a viable replacement for normal sense.
Thanks to Gary Kurzer, Architect, 0411044448, and Brian Basford, Building Designer.
Q: Are engineers and building creators a similar thing?
A: No. Modelers should be enlisted with the Board Atef Tabet & Associates of Architects of NSW.
Q: Will I improve plan from an architect?
A: Not really. The main assurance is a base degree of capabilities. Planners should have a Bachelor of Architecture degree (5 years) just as the exhibited capacity to manage customers and fulfill their prerequisites. For the most part this implies somewhere around a few years experience in a modeler’s office.
Q: Are building architects more in contact with developers and other trades?
A: Not really. Engineers are prepared to manage and deal with all parts of the structure project. Everything boils down to the singular’s experience and abilities.
Q: Are Building originators “would-be” architects?
A: No. Building configuration is a perceived calling with its own public body (the BDAA) offering 3 degrees of accreditation dependent on experience and quality – however enlistment isn’t mandatory. Many structure planners have the capabilities to enlist with the Board of Architects however they decide not to in light of the fact that they don’t think the name “designer” merits the continuous expense of enrollment. | <urn:uuid:8a67a237-4aac-48ec-89bd-b44d3d2b8e97> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.estaticarts.co.uk/architect-or-building-designer-who-do-you-choose/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571198.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810161541-20220810191541-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.949949 | 802 | 2.171875 | 2 |
CAMPAIGNERS against knife crime have called on the Government to ban the sale of pointed domestic knives.
They say that the knives that are easily available on the high street are no longer necessary in kitchens, and that a round-tipped design would reduce their effect as a weapon.
The call, in an open letter published in last weekend’s Sunday Times, was formulated at a conference organised by the diocese of Rochester at the end of a month of actions in the Medway area to address the rise in knife crime.
The signatories, who include experts on gang culture, county lines, and violent crime, MPs, church and community leaders, wrote: “A five-year study in Edinburgh found that of the sharp instruments used in homicides, 94 per cent were kitchen knives. Research demonstrates kitchen knives are used in a large percentage of homicides due to their availability and lethal nature.
“Historically, we needed a point on the end of our knife to pick up food because forks weren’t invented. Now, we only need the point to open packets when we can’t be bothered to find the scissors.”
Home Office research showed that rounded knives had “significantly less penetrative capabilities than pointed knives. Round-ended knives can still cause slash-type wounds, but they are far less likely to be life-threatening.”
At the conference “The Point”, a researcher at Royal Holloway, University of London, Katy Jackson, said that, until the invention of the fork in the 17th century, the pointed ended of a domestic knife was important for picking up and skewering food. Once the fork became more widely available, the pointed end became largely obsolete. She concluded that there was no reason, historically or socially, for using pointed knives on a daily basis today.
The Pro-Vice-Chancellor of the School of Engineering and Applied Science at Aston University and Professor of Materials and Forensic Engineering, Professor Sarah Hainsworth, said: “A kitchen-knife’s length and point make it lethal because of the range it has in the body and it’s penetrative capabilities. Because of this, a focus on the design of kitchen knives is an important element to be considered in a solution to knife crime”.
Government figures show that, in England and Wales in 2017-18, there were 268 homicides using a sharp instrument, including knives and broken bottles — a third of all homicides — compared with 216 in 2016-17.
London had the highest rate of knife crime in 2017-18: 168 offences per 100,000 population — an increase of 26 offences on 2016-17. Surrey had the lowest rate: five offences per 100,000 individuals (up by one from 2016-17). In the year ending March 2018, there were 21,044 convictions for possession of a knife or offensive weapon. A fifth of the cases involved children aged between ten and 17.
The month of action in Medway concluded on Saturday with a service at Rochester Cathedral, during which the Bishop of Tonbridge, the Rt Revd Simon Burton-Jones, said that there was never just one victim of knife crime: “Knife crime rips up the lives of families and friends, piercing the networks that give us life, meaning, and support,” he said.
“Knife crime can be reduced if we follow the evidence trail, devote our resources to the right places, share knowledge smartly, and value the organising power of local communities. The Church has a role to play; for it is located in most, if not all, places.”
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A health worker administers a COVID-19 vaccine to an elderly person at a hospital in Prayagraj, December 2, 2021. Photo: PTI
India has given at least two vaccines against COVID-19 to 75% of its adult population, the government said on January 30.
The announcement came as the third wave of the novel coronavirus, driven by the highly-infectious omicron variant, appeared to be plateauing in some states. However, cases seemed to still be on the rise in some parts of the country, particularly in the south.
“The faith of our people in our nation’s vaccine is a great source of strength,” Prime Minister Narendra Modi said in his monthly radio address, adding: “Now, the number of COVID infections is declining. This is a very positive sign.”
Emphasizing the need to keep observing health protocols, Modi said: “It is important to defeat COVID and ensure economic progress.”
India reported 234,281 new cases in the past 24 hours on Sunday morning and 893 deaths, according to the latest health ministry data.
Several regions have now started relaxing restrictions introduced during the latest wave.
Delhi has ended its weekend curfew, while the neighboring Haryana state has allowed cinemas and theaters to re-open at 50% capacity, according to news channel NDTV.
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SMOKING IS COOL
DECONSTRUCTING THE UNALTERABLE
2 and 4 month
Smoking is cool. It is a universal truth,
and there is nothing that you or anyone
else can do to change that. Accept it.
Critics will say that smoking kills millions
of people and is highly addictive, and they are
right of course. Cigarettes have a strangle-hold
on most smokers and have caused countless
early deaths, horrible, debilitating diseases
and burn-holes in that sweater that you just
However, when the hell did health and
responsibility have anything to do with
"cool"? Nothing is more attractive (especially
for teenagers) than disregard for your personal
well-being, self-destructive behavior and reck-
less contempt for authority. A cigarette
becomes an extension of the big middle finger
to adults, teachers and anyone else who tells
you that smoking is bad.
To determine the causes of the inherent
coolness of smoking, we must look to the pub-
lic figures in popular culture. Picture
Humphrey Bogart in "The Maltese Falcon,"
shoulders hunched, hat cocked to the side and
a cigarette dangling loosely from his lips. Or
recall Miles Davis in a dark room, clutching a
cigarette between two fingers as he holds his
trumpet. Or Bob Dylan circa 1966 with a tan-
gled mess of hair, sunglasses and, sure
enough, a cigarette. Or even a young Mike
Wallace in the '50s, bringing us the news with
a thin, gray wisp of smoke rising from his
side. These icons, among countless others,
have defined cool for us, and there is nothing
that medical science or commercials or our
parents can tell us to change that. (One might
then argue that it is smokers, not smoking
itself, that are cool, but that is just a superfi-
cial, semantic argument, and we are losing our
It's not that there are no cool non-smokers,
but as much as you don't want to admit it, that
cool non-smoker would be even cooler with a
cigarette. That is not the most popular opinion
ever expressed, but deep down in places you
don't talk about at parties, you agree with me.
The problem is that it doesn't work that way
for everyone. Picture the typical 13-year-old
suburban kid, standing outside a convenience
store with some of his grubby friends, trying
his hardest to exude coolness and convince
everyone around him that he does not have an
acne-ridden disaster area of a face and a vocal
pitch that fluctuates with no warning, and is,
in fact, 25 years old with a car, possibly a gun
and definitely some beer. The cigarette isn't
fooling anyone, and his C.Q. (cool quotient)
Actually, I take that back. Even that kid is
We must also consider man's obsession with
fire. From the first time that a primitive
human harnessed the unruly element, he has
been captivated with the glowing red flame
and the smoke that accompanies it. Cigarettes
are like a portable inferno, and the dragon-like
power to breathe smoke using this mystical
wand of fire is an attractive prospect for many.
Another fire-related perk is that you have an
excuse to carry a lighter, which has many
other practical, scientific uses, e.g. burning
things you find on your living room floor.
Smoking also becomes cool by .default,
since there is nothing as powerfully uncool as
anti-smoking advertising or spokespeople.
From the sanctimonious, faux-guerilla "Truth"
ads to squeaky-clean rock stars who endorse
healthy living, there are few things as lame as
anti-smoking propaganda. Even the most avid
non-smokers find themselves wanting to grab
a pack and light up when they see the pious,
handheld camera commercials showing youths
sticking it to the tobacco companies.
A prime example of how non-smoking seri-
ously detracts from the C.Q. of our leaders,
institutions and role models is the recent re-
vamp of James Bond. In the 60s and 70s,
James Bond smoked as many cigarettes as he
downed martinis, but with "Tomorrow Never
Dies," the sophomore effort from Pierce
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Nogginz provides a laid back
atmosphere, creative styles
By Will EI-Nachef
Daily Arts Writer
"Hold on a sec, I'm going to go
through and texturize you," is one of the
more common phrases you'll hear at
Nogginz, winner of the Best of Ann
Arbor survey for the sixth year in a row.
If you don't know what it means to get
"texturized" don't worry because half of
the other clients are probably wondering
the same thing. The other half, however,
is knowledgably requesting it. If you've
wussed out and only gotten your hair
done while on visits back home, Nogginz-
will seem foreign compared to your
hometown barbershop or beauty salon.
Gone are the old men getting their ear
hair trimmed while grumbling about the
NPR news that's being broadcasted in a
crowded room; gone are the aging beau-
ticians past their prime trying to convince
you that perms WILL make a comeback
(is there a better example of a passe
Instead, Nogginz plays rock music,
caters to the college crowd, and mostly
employs college-aged cutters, some of
whom have nose and lip peircings. "We
have a totally different target. We're tar-
geting the campus. That's why I love
working in a campus salon --I'm cutting
my age group, I'm listening to my
music," said Nogginz cutter Corrine
Another reason Nogginz appeals to so
many students is its dual
barbershop/salon feel and its ability to
cater to both sexes. "Technically we're
cosmetologists. But this salon actually
has a cosmetologist license and a barber
license," explained Foytik.
Andrew Patterson, a LS&A freshman,
is pleased with his experiences at
Nogginz, "I've gotten my haircut there
three or four times from them. Every
time it's been nice... They changed my
style one time-I liked it. She just started
cutting my hair and said, 'You know, you
should try something different."'
Patterson isn't alone in trusting the
Nogginz cutters to give him a new style,
though. From what Foytik had to say, it
seems that many clients come in and
leave the haircut style up to the stylist.
Nogginz cutter Stephanie McQuarrie
defines this as "Creative freedom.
Someone who comes and gives you a
rough idea of what they want, but tells
you to do what you think looks
good...It's a three dimensional art"
Students also appreciate the informal
atmosphere. "It's laid back, and college
kids work there so it's cool. You can have
nice conversations,' said Patterson.
"People tell their hairdresser every-
thing. Oh yeah, dude, they spill their guts.
You'd be surprised with the shit people
will tell you... I love it. I end up telling
my clients a lot of stuff I shouldn't, too,"
expanded Foytik. She added, "I've had
clients ask me for all kinds of advice, like
sex and things like that. I've had guys ask
me about going down on girls, like what
feels better, what techniques they should
use. And then I tell them- at least what
"Pretty much everyone here is really
easy-going... But there's a fine line
between being professional and, well you
know what I mean; she concluded.
However nice the atmosphere,
Nogginz's merit ultimately comes down
to the product. Despite the Best of Ann
Arbor award, not all clients are satisfied.
"I didn't think their haircut was of the
greatest quality and I thought it was real-
ly expensive... The haircut took approxi-
mately four minutes," criticized LS&A
junior Ben Goldfein.
"I asked if they could do corn-rows,
and out of the ten people working, none
of them could do it! I don't trust anyone
in Ann Arbor to cut this mane, anyway.
It's a flowing beauty. It's an artwork and
it needs to be worked by a master and not
some Nogginz bum," complained
Engineering freshman Mike Affeldt.
Foytik justified the corn-row deficien-
cy, "To have like one person request it a
year wouldn't pay for our training [to
learn that hair cut]"
But, contrary to the above complaints,
the masses voted otherwise in the Best of
Ann Arbor survey. Foytik maintains, '"'I
think we put out a pretty smooth ass hair-
cut. We don't take appointments, it's
walk-in only. You just sign in, and it's in
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Regardless of the size of your organization, or the industry in which you do business, good and accepted practice requires that there be someone responsible for risk management, and that you have internal risk management controls, i.e., a risk management policy or plan, to address risk issues relevant to your business.
Risk management concepts are applied across all businesses and industries, including banking and investment, education, health care, legal and manufacturing, just to name a few. Each industry has its own specific approach and perspective to risk management. There are, however, widely recognized risk management concepts that can be applied to all businesses and industries. These include (1) identification of the potential risks; (2) evaluation of risks to determine likelihood, frequency and severity of risks; (3) prioritization of risks; (4) development of structure and internal controls to mitigate risk; and (5) because risks cannot be eliminated, insuring against risks. Information gathering on these concepts is key to the development of any structure and strategy for mitigation of risk.
Identification of risks
As indicated above, each industry has its own unique risks. For example, in the health care industry, in addition to patient care concerns, risk areas may include accuracy, compliance and patient privacy. Research should be conducted to identify the types of risk concerns that most frequently arise in your industry. In this regard, there is likely significant information available in the public domain that will address risk management issues that are pervasive to your business or industry. In addition to external research, internal group discussion will be critical to identifying risk concerns.
There are also risk concerns that apply across all businesses and industries. These include, but are not limited to, security and safety risks for the business and its employees; information technology risks; personnel risks, such as discrimination and harassment; and document storage and retention risks.
Evaluation of the risk
Once risks have been identified, there must be an evaluation of those risks, which will inform you of important considerations, including the likelihood and frequency of the risk event; the severity of the risk event (even if the risk of that event is not frequent); and the potential consequences of the risk event. Evaluation will also inform you as to whether the potential risk warrants internal control and the level of priority the risk will have within your risk structure.
Some examples here may be instructive. For example, a risk manager in the field of accounting is aware that, depending on the complexity of a business, there may be risk concerns of material misstatement in the auditing process. Addressing severity may be more difficult, but is equally important. One can foresee that a single event, although infrequent, could lead to a significant loss and even be catastrophic to a business. For example, in construction, given the nature of the work, a risk event could lead to significant injury or the loss of life.
Risk evaluation must further address the potential consequences of a risk event, including the effect those consequences will have on your business. Is the consequence of a risk event reputational or financial? Does the consequence preclude continued work in a business segment? To properly evaluate all of the foregoing, consideration of applicable laws, regulations, industry standards and best practices may be necessary.
As a final point on evaluation, it bears noting that thorough evaluation will almost certainly inform the development of mitigation strategies.
Prioritization of risk
Once evaluation of the risks attendant to your business is complete, the risks should be prioritized. Risks should be prioritized by frequency, severity and consequence, with appropriate weight given to each factor depending on your business or industry. Prioritization will provide an overview of all risks and place the focus on the risks that present the most significant threats to your business.
Structure and internal controls to mitigate the risk
Every business organization, regardless of size, should have a person with designated responsibility for risk management and have internal risk management controls.
With respect to a designated risk manager function, the size of an organization and the risks attendant to the business will dictate the size of the risk management function. It is not unusual for large companies to have extensive risk management teams. Other companies contract with an outside vendor to provide risk management services. Smaller organizations, or professional organizations such as law and accounting firms, may address the risk management function internally.
Internal control documents and risk management policies vary widely from business to business and industry to industry. There are, however, certain sections/topics that should be included in any risk management policy. These include, but are not limited to:
- A section setting forth purposes and objectives
- A section that identifies the organization’s risk management functions, including designated risk management personnel and the roles and responsibilities of all individuals charged with risk management functions. With respect to roles and responsibilities, it is critical to convey in the policy, and training sessions related to the policy, that it is the responsibility of all employees in the organization to assist in the mitigation of risk.
- Sections that set forth the procedures and strategies that have been developed to mitigate the specific risks that have been identified and evaluated through the information gathering process outlined above.
Insuring against risk
Because risk can only be mitigated, not eliminated, risk management considerations must include insuring against risk. The risk management process, however, will help identify the types and amounts of insurance needed to ensure the continued viability and success of your organization. Moreover, engaging in the risk management process, designating risk management personnel and responsibilities, and adopting written internal controls and procedures for mitigation of risk, may result in insurance premium reductions.
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Were you informed of lead-based paint, asbestos, or other toxic substances when you began renting your apartment or home? Landlords are required by Pennsylvania law to disclose this information, and if they kept it a secret, they may be held liable for your damages. Asbestos and lead are two lethal substances that can cause devastating medical conditions with long-term exposure, or with exposure that children face at a young age. You may have a toxic tort on your hands, and it is most likely time to speak with an attorney if lead or asbestos have been found in the property that you rent.
Was Your Landlord Negligent in Their Duty to Test for Asbestos?
Your landlord may be required by federal law to test for asbestos. Asbestos is a chemical used for fire retardant, and was widely incorporated in buildings and dwellings until the early 1980s, when it was found that it causes mesothelioma, a deadly form of cancer. Mesothelioma is a form of cancer for which there is no cure. The average life expectancy for a victim of mesothelioma is just 12 to 21 months. Mesothelioma is caused by long-term exposure to microscopic asbestos fibers, which are breathed into the lining of the lungs and stay there. As such, only airborne asbestos is deadly. If it is in the ceiling and testing is performed in the home that shows that it is not in the air, the landlord does not have an obligation to remove the asbestos. Of course, just because there are no airborne fibers when it was tested years ago, or even recently, does not mean that there will never be airborne fibers. Fibers get released into the air when the asbestos is disturbed.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), lead-based paint was widely used until 1978. The greatest hazard of lead-based paint is to children who may eat paint as it flakes off the walls or ceiling of a home. Lead causes permanent development issues for children. Like asbestos, your landlord must inform you if the home you are in has lead paint. During the removal of lead-based paint, your landlord must employ a contractor certified in the removal of lead-based paint, as per Pennsylvania’s Lead Certification Act, because the removal of lead-based paint can cause a serious hazard to current or future inhabitants if not done properly.
Call an Experienced Philadelphia Toxic Tort Attorney For Help Today
Whether you have developed mesothelioma from asbestos contamination, or your child has suffered from lead-based paint, you must contact an injury attorney immediately to discuss your legal options for compensation. Your landlord may be held responsible for the medical costs, pain and suffering, as well as other serious damages that you have suffered. To find out more, call the compassionate and dedicated Philadelphia toxic tort attorneys of van der Veen, Hartshorn and Levin today to set up a consultation at no cost. | <urn:uuid:774aa832-76d8-4699-86be-59da19ded72b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.mtvlaw.com/blog/2018/june/filing-a-toxic-tort-against-your-landlord/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571536.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811224716-20220812014716-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.956826 | 605 | 2.265625 | 2 |
Cuts, cuts, and more cuts.
Local authorities plan to find £824m of savings, meaning they will be spending £6bn less on social care than in 2010 when austerity began.
Cuts to social care will continue this year despite ministers putting in an extra £1bn to halt the deterioration in services, senior council officials have said.
Local authorities in England plan to make £824m of savings in their social care budgets in 2017-18, according to research by the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services (Adass).
Many older people who rely on councils to provide personal services at home or places in care homes will be hit again as social service departments struggle to reconcile rising demand and increasing costs with limited budgets, it warns.
Efforts to keep older people healthier at home, so they avoid unnecessary stays in hospitals, will also be reduced as councils switch money from prevention work into their general social care budget.
Despite more cash from both the government and the increased 3% precept on council tax bills for social care, the system “still remains on a cliff edge” as a result of deep cuts in recent years, Adass said.
“This is because more older and disabled people are living longer and with increasingly complex support needs, as well as financial pressures caused by the welcome ‘national living wage’ and other cost pressures, including emerging ones from the NHS, such as fines for delayed transfers of care.”
The £2bn for social care – the first £1bn to come in this financial year – announced by chancellor Philip Hammond in March’s budget helped avoid “a precipice in social care”. But need rising by 2.8% a year and costs growing by £378.5m will force councils to cut further the amount of social care they provide, even though the amount they spend on it will increase by 8% to £14.2bn this year.
The £824m of savings this year will means that overall councils will have spent more than £6bn less on social care since austerity began in 2010 under the coalition.
Adass’s annual survey of social care budgets, based on information from 95% of all councils, is very gloomy about the sector’s prospects this year. More care home providers are set to hand back contracts and cease operating because they cannot make money any more.
The survey also bore out claims made on Tuesday by NHS Providers, which represents hospital trusts, that many councils are not using the £1bn on action to schemes specifically designed to speed up patients’ discharge from hospital. Only a third have done so, Adass found.
“Given the huge pressures facing social care services, expecting this money to double up by coming to the aid of the NHS was always likely to prove to be a triumph of hope over expectation”, said Richard Humphries, an expert in social care at the King’s Fund health thinktank.
A government spokesperson said: “We have already invested an additional £2bn to relieve short-term pressures across the health and care system. However, we know we need to ensure the system is prepared to meet the challenges of an ageing population, which is why we will be consulting on options to improve social care and put it on a more secure financial footing.”
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Core and peel the apples, then cut them each in half and each half into thin slices. Put them in a bowl with the molasses, cinnamon, ginger, lemon zest and juice, 1 tablespoon brown sugar and 1/2 teaspoon salt. Toss to blend.
Combine the flour, nutmeg, remaining brown sugar and remaining 1/2 teaspoon salt in another bowl. Add cubed butter and break it up with your fingers, integrating the flour with the butter.
Grease the bottom and sides of a shallow rectangular 6-by-12-inch baking dish with the remaining tablespoon butter. Layer the apples in the dish evenly with the flour mixture. Place the dish in the center of the oven and bake until the apples are tender when pierced with the tip of a knife, 35 to 40 minutes. Let cool.
Break up Cream Biscuits into large chunks. Layer into a bowl or large jar, so that layers of fruit, topping and biscuits are stacked on top one another.
Yield:16 to 20 biscuits
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
Sift together the flour, baking powder, granulated sugar and salt in a large bowl. Add the cream to the dry ingredients. Use your hands to mix the dough, taking care that all ingredients are well blended. Turn the dough out onto a lightly floured surface and pat down with floured hands until it is about 1-inch thick. (If the outside edges start to show cracks, cup the outer edge with your hands and push the dough towards its own center.)
Lightly flour a knife (to avoid sticking as you cut) and slice the dough into 1 1/2-inch squares. Reflour the knife each time you make a cut.
Arrange the biscuits with some distance between each on a nonstick baking sheet or one lined with a sheet of parchment. Bake until they start to brown lightly, 15 to 18 minutes.
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To sponsor something is to support an event, activity, person, or organization. The support can be with money or giving something else useful, such as advertising, or time. A sponsor is the individual or group that gives the support, similar to a benefactor. A sponsor may also be a personal sponsor, a political sponsor or a state sponsor. There are many different kinds of sponsors.
Commercial sponsor[change | change source]
A sponsor is one (usually a company) who gives cash, goods or services in return for promoting the sponsor's company. There is a distinct difference between sponsorship and philanthropy. A sponsor expects a return on investment (ROI), usually in the form of advertising. A philanthropist donates something as a charitable contribution. In sports, sponsors compete to advertise in the most popular sports. In India, sponsors all want to be associated with Cricket. It is much harder to find sponsors for other sports.
Legislative sponsor[change | change source]
A sponsor or patron, usually a legislator, is someone who presents a bill or resolution for consideration. Others who join the sponsor are known as cosponsors or copatrons. In the United States Congress a sponsor is the first person listed among the lawmakers who introduce a bill to either the Senate or the House of Representatives. The process is very similar to sponsoring a bill in Parliament.
Personal sponsor[change | change source]
This is someone who agrees to help another person or persons, and be responsible for them. For example, an employer may sponsor a foreign national to become a permanent resident of the United States by guaranteeing that person a job. Sponsorship can also mean an individual who helps an organization. Many charitable organizations offer personal sponsorship of a boy or girl to help them. Many public radio and television stations ask for sponsors to provide funds for them to operate. At a Ceremonial ship launching the person breaking the champagne bottle over the ship's bow is called the sponsor of that ship. In many religions, godparents are the baptized child's sponsors.
State sponsorship[change | change source]
Sponsorship is not always for the purposes of doing good. A state (or government) may sponsor terrorism for their own purposes. While not engaging in activities against another country (or countries) themselves, they may sponsor other groups to do it for them. The United States currently lists four countries who sponsor terrorism. They are: Cuba, Iran, Sudan, and Syria. State sponsors may also be called affiliates and/or supporters.
References[change | change source]
- Deborah Philips; Garry Whannel, The Trojan Horse: The Growth of Commercial Sponsorship (New York, NY: Bloomsbury Academic, 2013), p. 12
- James F. Larson; Heung-Soo Park, Global Television and the Politics of the Seoul Olympics (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1993), p. 98
- Rebecca Bundhun (26 July 2014). "Sponsors search beyond Indian cricket". The National/Abu Dhabi Media. Retrieved 7 May 2015.
- "Legislative process: taking a Bill through Parliament". UK.gov. Retrieved 7 May 2015.
- "I am an employer, How do I sponsor an employee for U.S. permanent resident status?" (PDF). U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. Retrieved 7 May 2015.
- "Sponsor a Girl Today and Change a Life of a Child for Good". World Vision UK. Retrieved 7 May 2015.
- "Become a Sponsor". Minnesota Public Radio. Retrieved 7 May 2015.
- "Baptism Sponsor (also known as Godparent)". Saint Ann's Episcopal Church, Woodstock, IL. Archived from the original on 16 May 2015. Retrieved 7 May 2015.
- "State Sponsors of Terrorism". U.S. State Department. Retrieved 7 May 2015.
- "Policy, Counter-terrorism". Gov.UK. Retrieved 7 May 2015.
Other websites[change | change source]
- Ways to Sponsor a Child
- Become a Sponsor, Make-A-Wish
- Sponsoring an Animal Archived 2015-04-08 at the Wayback Machine
- Find sponsors for your next event
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ANOTHER arctic front, named Jasper, is expected to affect several regions of the United States, with forecasts of snow and ice.
The storm is expected to sweep from the southeast across parts of the Midwest and East Coast, according to The Weather Channel.
The Carolinas are expected to bear the brunt of the storm, with Charleston, South Carolina issuing its first winter storm watch since Jan. 5, 2018.
The National Weather Service has issued winter storm watches for other major areas of the country, including New Jersey, Virginia and Texas.
Most winter storm warnings begin Thursday afternoon. Meanwhile, New York saw snow this morning ahead of Jasper.
The storm comes just days after snowstorm Izzthere dropped a foot or more of snow in several northern states last weekend after also slamming the Southeast.
Hundreds of flights were canceled by the storm and thousands were left without power.
Read our snowstorm live blog for the latest news and updates…
What is a winter weather watch?
A winter weather watch indicates that there is a risk of extreme winter weather.
If a winter weather watch is issued, be prepared for hazardous weather conditions.
What is a winter weather advisory?
A winter weather advisory is an indication that winter weather conditions are likely.
However, the expected conditions are not severe enough to warrant a warning.
Charleston’s first watch in years
The last time the city of South Carolina issued a winter storm watch was January 5, 2018.
According to AccuWeather, the storm will track a few hundred miles further south and east than the previous weekend storm, Izzy.
Spirit Airlines warns travelers
The airline has issued an advisory and warned travelers that their flights could be affected by the upcoming storm.
Spirit also offered a link to check your flight status.
Weather Channel meteorologists outdoors
Weather Channel reporters are already out and ready to provide updates on Jasper, as it is expected to arrive in select areas today.
Coming storm named Jasper
The Weather Channel named the next storm Jasper.
The platform explained that the names selected will be used in alphabetical order.
The last storm, which happened over the weekend, was called Izzy.
Notice of winter operations
The New York City Department of Sanitation has issued a winter operations advisory for Thursday beginning at 4 a.m.
From 5 a.m. to 1 p.m. Thursday, up to three inches of snow is expected.
Early morning rain with a mix of snow is a possibility, according to Bronx News 12.
Find out how much snow to expect
The storm is expected to hit different parts of the country, but the effects could vary depending on where you are.
To get a better idea of how you might be affected, visit the Weather Channel. The platform predicts the weather in your city.
End of the sequence without snow
Atlanta, Georgia was hit by the storm last weekend.
The snowfall ended the city’s nearly four-year streak without measurable snow.
Winter storm warning extends to Texas
Other parts of southern Texas are now under a winter storm warning, which is expected to begin Thursday afternoon.
Safety Tips, continued
Have a stock of batteries.
If you lose power, know how to report the outage to your power company.
Keep pets in a warm place with access to food and water.
The South Carolina Department of Emergency Management shared some driving safety tips and winter storm tips last week, before Izzy arrived:
Avoid unnecessary travel to affected areas.
If you must travel, make sure your vehicle is running smoothly, your cell phone is fully charged, and extra blankets and snacks are packed in case you are late.
Toronto boy goes viral
Carter Trozzolo said he was exhausted from shoveling in his neighborhood.
The kid admitted, “I really wish I was in school right now.”
Icy roads in New Jersey
The National Weather Service has issued winter weather advisories for 16 counties in New Jersey, New York and eastern Pennsylvania.
The storm is only expected to drop 1 to 2 inches of snow, along with a possible sleepy spell, but it could create slippery driving conditions during early Thursday morning drives.
Winter weather advisories in effect from 3 a.m. to 11 a.m. Thursday have been issued in Hunterdon, Morris, Somerset and Warren counties.
Notices from 5 a.m. to 1 p.m. Thursday were also posted in East Bergen, North West Burlington, Camden, Essex, Gloucester, Hudson, Mercer, Middlesex, West Monmouth, East Passaic , Salem and Union Counties.
State of emergency in South Carolina
South Carolina Governor Henry McMaster declared another state of emergency in South Carolina due to the impending winter storm this weekend.
Current weather reports show a mix of snow and ice will begin in the state late Friday morning and continue through Saturday morning.
The National Weather Service has also issued a winter storm watch for the entire South Carolina Midlands ahead of this weekend.
State of emergency in North Carolina
North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper has declared a second state of emergency ahead of the second winter storm expected this weekend.
Starting Thursday, a winter mix of snow, sleet, freezing rain and ice are expected to have major impacts in central and eastern North Carolina.
“This state of emergency will override certain transportation regulations to allow for faster storm preparedness and response and restoration of power,” Governor Cooper said in the news release.
“North Carolina residents should prepare today for this storm and ensure they have all the medicine, food and emergency equipment they may need over the next few days.”
Nashville snow record
It is expected to snow in Nashville early Thursday, adding to January’s snow total so far of 9.3 inches.
It’s the most snowfall Nashville has seen since 1985, according to a Tweeter by the Nashville National Weather Service.
Temperatures drop in Texas
In parts of Texas, temperatures will drop from 70s and 80s on Wednesday to below zero Thursday night before Friday, according to weather reports.
“75 to 35 sounds like a car manufacturer’s stopping power, but the numbers aren’t in miles per hour: that’s the temperature range in Houston over the next few days,” said Chad Myers, a meteorologist at CNN.
The temperature should change drastically in just 36 hours.
The death of a winter storm causes
Most of those who die from winter storms are not killed by the weather itself.
The majority of deaths are traffic accidents on icy roads.
Some also die from heart attacks while shoveling snow and from hypothermia due to prolonged exposure to cold.
2020 winter storm deaths
According to Statista, six lives were killed in 2020 as a result of winter storms.
More people died that year from the extreme cold, as 13 lives were lost.
The Great Blizzard of 1888
Dubbed one of the most devastating storms in US history, the Great Blizzard of 1888 killed more than 400 people.
New York received 22 inches of snow, with other areas receiving 40 to 50 inches.
There was $20 million in reported damage.
The Knickerbocker Storm
This two-day storm occurred in 1922, on January 27 and 28.
28 inches of snow were dumped in Washington DC, and after the storm subsided, hundreds of people tried to attend a screening of the silent film “Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford” at the Knickerbocker Theater.
The storm earned its name after 98 people were killed when the theater’s flat roof collapsed, crushing spectators.
The Knickerbocker Theater was the largest and most modern movie theater in Washington DC, according to History.com.
Storm of the Century
A huge winter storm that occurred from March 12 to 15, 1993 earned the title “Storm of the Century”.
300 people died and the United States faced damages of $6 billion to $10 billion.
At least 26 states were affected by the storm and several homes were even washed out to sea on Long Island, New York.
Names of winter storms
Here are the names Weather Channel has chosen for winter storms for the 2021 to 2022 season:
- Land on
- If we
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CALGARY, June 27, 2016 /CNW/ - The Canadian Energy Pipeline Association (CEPA) today announced the publication of its second annual transmission pipeline industry performance report. The 2016 report shares details on how CEPA members are performing in the areas of safety and the environment and how the industry is contributing to the well-being of Canada.
The intention of the report is to demonstrate our continued accountability as an industry, to educate and inform Canadians, and to tell the stories about progress that's been made – and where improvements are still required.
To view the 2016 Pipeline Industry Performance Report, click here.
How we are continuing to improve:
- Enhancing emergency preparedness and response through improved transparency and the launch of a National Spill Response Program
- Developing a national strategy for pipeline leak detection
- Continuing to build our CEPA Integrity First® program, which enables CEPA's member companies to work collectively to strengthen the pipeline industry's performance in critical areas
- Engaging with over 100 biologists, engineers and government officials to produce the fifth edition of our comprehensive guidelines for constructing transmission pipelines across bodies of water
- Collaborating with various groups of stakeholders such as First Nations, the Canadian Association of Fire Chiefs and CEPA's External Advisory Panel to ensure we're focusing our efforts on what matters to Canadians
"A key goal of this report is to provide balanced, honest and transparent information that will help Canadians to make their own informed decision about the transmission pipeline industry." – Chris Bloomer, CEPA President and CEO
"The report addresses the key areas of concern for Canadians: safety, environmental protection, the economic impacts and what we're doing to build trust with stakeholders. It not only shows the tangible actions we've taken over the past year to improve, but also what we're doing to become better." – Leon Zupan, CEPA Board Chair and Chief Operating Officer, Enbridge
CEPA represents Canada's transmission pipeline companies who operate about 134,000 kilometres of pipeline in Canada and the United States. In 2015, these energy highways moved approximately 1.2 billion barrels of liquid petroleum products and 5.4 trillion cubic feet of natural gas. Our members transport 97 per cent of Canada's daily natural gas and onshore crude oil from producing regions to markets throughout North America.
SOURCE Canadian Energy Pipeline Association
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Home flipping — defined as when a home is purchased and subsequently sold again within six months — was serious business in 2013, according to new data from RealtyTrac. Last year, 156,862 single-family homes were flipped across the country, a year-over-year increase of 16 percent from 2012 and a whopping 114 percent increase from 2011.
Home flips made up 4.6 percent of all U.S. home sales in last year, up from 4.2 percent in 2012 and 2.6 percent in 2011. Profits on a flip also jumped to an average of $58,051 in gross profit, up from $45,759 in 2012, RealtyTrac data show.
Although home flipping activity was up across all price ranges, home flips on properties worth $400,000 or more saw the greatest increase in activity – 36 percent year-over-year – according to blog Zero Hedge.
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What was the 2009 inauguration like? How did Obama prepare for his presidency and life in the White House?
The 2009 inauguration was historic. With it, Barack Obama became the 44th President and the country’s first African-American head of state.
Read more about the 2009 inauguration.
2009 Inauguration: Preparing for the White House
As Barack was assembling his cabinet, Michelle and the girls were preparing to make the full-time transition from Chicago to Washington. Although Michelle was set to become the first lady—and thus, one of the most high-profile people in the world—she remained a mother to Malia and Sasha first.
That meant busying herself with school tours in Washington for the girls, hoping to find a school that would be sensitive to their unique family situation and give her daughters as much privacy and normalcy as possible (she and Barack ultimately settled on Sidwell Friends).
Still, the changes took a toll on Michelle, especially seeing her beloved girls now needing to be escorted everywhere by an armed Secret Service detail.
To help with the transition, Barack and Michelle invited Marian Robinson, Michelle’s mother, to move into the White House full-time to help with the girls. In this role, Marian would become the glue of the family. Born and raised on the South Side of Chicago, she had a loving—albeit no-fuss and no-nonsense—demeanor that helped keep Malia and Sasha grounded as they were soon enveloped in a world of luxury and privilege in the White House.
The Household Staff and the Obamas
One highlight of the transition period was meeting the warm and accommodating White House household staff, who would soon become deeply close to the Obama family. The cooks, housekeepers, butlers, and gardeners would take care of the family’s every need. While luxurious, Barack always found it somewhat odd and disconcerting to be waited on hand and foot. Both he and Michelle worried about the girls growing too coddled or privileged by the trappings of the White House.
On a deeper level, it was impossible for Barack not to notice that the household staff was disproportionately Black and Latino, and many of them had served since as far back as the Nixon administration. As Barack came to see, the staff treated his family with an extra level of service and care and took exceptional pride in their work. Later, one Black member of the staff told him that having the Obama family in the White House was a tremendously meaningful event in their lives. Their commitment to Barack and his family was born of a desire to ensure that the Obamas received the care and service that every other First Family had.
On January 20, 2009, Barack Obama became the 44th President of the United States, and the nation’s first African-American head of state. The enthusiasm was palpable that day, as a record crowd on the National Mall withstood freezing January temperatures to witness the historic 2009 inauguration.
After Chief Justice John Roberts administered the oath of office at noon, it was official. In his inaugural address, Obama acknowledged the celebratory mood that much of the nation felt at seeing a Black man ascend to the highest office in the land. But he also knew he needed to tamp down some of the overheated enthusiasm, especially among his core supporters.
The country was in crisis, with a once-in-a-generation economic calamity sapping the household wealth of millions of American families, two overseas wars that had steadily devolved into violent quagmires, and rising global temperatures that threatened the very future of life on the planet.
This was not a time for celebration—it was a time for hard work, sober reality, and determination. The seriousness of the moment was underscored when Senator Ted Kennedy of Massachusetts collapsed during the inaugural festivities. Kennedy had been diagnosed with brain cancer and his health was rapidly deteriorating. Kennedy’s fading health would soon have major political ramifications for Obama’s first-term agenda.
Still, it was impossible for Barack and Michelle not to be caught up in the rapturous mood. They danced through the night at a whirlwind of inaugural balls. To Barack, Michelle looked as lovely, radiant, and poised as she had when they met 20 years before.
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Los Angeles, California, USA
Exhibition of Full Scale Prototypes
PlusClovers’ installation Immuring is currently on view at SCIArc until July 18, 2010. Immuring consists of six full-scale prototypes that were developed in collaboration with LA-based artist C.E.B Reas as the cladding system for Lunar House. The cladding system - the exterior enclosure of a typical suburban home - is re-imagined as a fresco that pushes the third and the fourth dimensions. Immuring is a material study that takes the fresco’s illusive and painterly effects explores them in new scales - between Reas’ artwork and PlusClovers’ architecture. Three prototypes use Corian Exterior cladding, a flat panel material that is etched and formed to shape light and texture. The etching extracts material to create zones of thinner material, allowing for programmed, fiber optic lighting from behind to glow through the material. Using the identical fresco line work, three prototypes use Glass Fiber Reinforced Concrete (GFRC) as an alternative to the Corian cladding. This is fabricated using an additive process that builds up material on a wax mold. As such, these prototypes produce different effects with different means, yet both are nuanced and delicate, actually thin yet appearing tremendously thick. | <urn:uuid:4c6067cb-6710-40ed-84a6-701649454a9b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://plusclover.com/project/immuring/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571909.51/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813051311-20220813081311-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.936398 | 285 | 1.671875 | 2 |
At the heart of any modern understanding of democracy lies the idea that our institutional framework allows all citizens to be political equals. In practice, of course, disparities in political information, or political participation, persist and even thrive in some instances. In this research stream, projects probe into the various dimensions that constitute political inequality. The focus is on measurement of inequalities, as well as the links between the different dimensions.
The politics of political inequality is poorly understood. There is certainly inequality in who participates in collective decision-making and in who influences collective decisions. However, there is a lack of consensus on how to measure political inequalities, how political inequalities affect wellbeing, and how best to address them. This project takes up these challenges in the context of a unique episode of citizen engagement in city governance in Kampala. We build on a partnership with the Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA) aimed at developing a “Citizen’s Charter”—a kind of social contract that specifies rights and expectations of citizens with respect to this authority. In the context of this consultative process, our project seeks to: (1) contribute to strengthening the behavioral measurement of inequalities in political influence, (2) assess whether and how participation in setting the rules can flatten inequalities in citizens’ willingness to take action to demand services, and to hold service providers to account, and (3) assess how the formalization of political rights and obligations can flatten these inequalities.
Type: Field experiment
Activities: (1) 188 small-scale citizen consultative meetings, where we randomize attendance to the meetings, as well as the type of meeting (led by KCCA staff or an outside discussion leader). In this arena, we measure both citizen and discussion leader preferences for Charter design; (2) baseline and endline survey about citizen preferences, political attitudes and behavior, trust, and pro-social inclinations; (3) bureaucratic audits where survey respondents are asked to serve as confederates and submit requests to the public authority.
Researchers: Constantin Manuel Bosancianu (WZB), Ana Garcia-Hernandez (NOVA SBE and WZB), Macartan Humphreys (WZB and Columbia University).
Timeline: July 2019 – ongoing.
Funding: An anonymous foundation; International Growth Centre – Uganda, through the Cities initiative; Columbia University; WZB Berlin Social Science Centre.
Outputs: Report to KCCA on Charter design to be released soon. Working paper assessing input, throughput, and output inequality in the context of meetings to be released soon.
In recent years, policy-makers across the world have implemented policies to increase the presence of underrepresented groups, like women, in decision making bodies. Evidence has shown that this can alter local political outcomes. Yet, studies may confound two mechanisms: a selection effect (the representation of different preferences) and an empowerment effect (the acquisition of political voice changes one’s behavior). To test for these effects, I conduct a modified public goods game over two categories of real community goods in rural Uganda. By exogenously assigning voting power over which good is chosen, I can directly test for the empowerment effect. The results suggest that having political voice in choosing the public good does not increase prosociality on average. Men are not sensitive to changes in political voice. However, women contribute significantly less after experiencing a negative shift in empowerment. The results present new evidence that changes in political influence may directly impact prosociality.
Status: Data was collected in Spring 2017. Link to working paper in circulation.
Researchers: Ana Garcia-Hernandez (WZB)
We study the impact of a program that provides a bicycle to a school-going girl who lives more than 2.5 km from the school. We randomized whether a girl receives a bicycle with a small cost to her family to cover replacement parts, a bicycle where these costs are covered by the program and so is zero cost to the family or a control group. We find that the bicycle reduced average commuting time to school by 35%, decreased absenteeism by 27%, improved math test scores and led to girls expressing higher feelings of control over their lives. We also find evidence that girls who received bicycles with the small cost to her family had higher levels of aspirations, self-image and a desire to delay marriage and pregnancy, possibly due to the girls perceiving the payment from the family as a desire to increase future investment in her. We do not find any impacts on a school dropout and grade transition. Heterogeneity analysis by distance to school shows an inverted u-shape for most of the schooling and empowerment results, suggesting that impacts are greatest for girls that live far, but not too far, from school. This also suggests that empowerment outcomes worked through schooling effects.
Researchers: Nathan Fiala (UConnecticut), Ana Garcia-Hernandez (WZB), Kritika Narula (Yale), and Nishith Prakash (UConnecticut)
Funding: WBR and UBS Bank
Status: Data was collected between August 2017 and December 2018. Administrative data was collected in 2019 and 2020. Working paper available soon.
Link to policy brief
Link to project webpage
The share of women in legislatures has increased dramatically in the past decade. Yet female politicians continue to face barriers that undermine their performance relative to men. We argue that those barriers have different implications across job duties, which can result in performance gender gaps of different magnitudes across duties. In particular, where female politicians are excluded in politician networks, duties requiring interaction with fellow politicians (e.g., legislative activities) may exhibit larger gender gaps as compared to duties (e.g., constituency services) that can be undertaken independently. We find support for this argument when comparing women and men politicians’ performance across 50 subnational Ugandan legislatures (where 1/3 of seats are reserved for women). Using original network data, we find that women are significantly more peripheral in professional networks, and that this network peripherality drives gender gaps in duties requiring more interaction with fellow politicians, but not independently-performed duties.
Researchers: Ana Garcia-Hernandez (WZB), Guy Grossman (UPenn) and Kristin Michelitch (Vanderbilt)
Status: Paper under review. Link to working paper in circulation.
Women and girls remain marginalised in many parts of the world, particularly in countries where patriarchal gender norms dominate society. Empowering women through changing gender norms has thus become a prominent endeavour in development practice. An innovative approach consists of the use of counter-stereotypical female role models, often presented in the form of a movie, soap opera or radio show. While previous quasi-experimental studies have documented promising effects of role model interventions on a range of social and economic outcomes, causal evidence to date is sparse. This project aims to experimentally test the viability of a role model intervention within a randomised controlled trial in India - one of the lowest-ranking countries on the Gender Development Index. Specifically, we intend to test the impact of a culturally adapted movie, on the viewer’s internalised gender attitudes and gender stereotypes. Further, we will shed light on two important policy questions, namely whether it is possible to change attitudes and beliefs in both women and men (girls and boys) and whether interventions are more effective if targeted at young children alone or at young children and their parents. This research project will thus generate vital new evidence on how to effectively promote gender equity.
Researchers: Ana Garcia-Hernandez (WZB) and Janina Isabel Steinert (TUM)
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The Trust acknowledges and values the diversity of the people living and/or working in Norbury. The Trust will strive to respond to the needs of the community in the housing and other projects that it develops. The Trust seeks to respect differences amongst the community and to ensure that all are treated fairly. The Trust expects the agencies with which it works in partnership to have Equality and Diversity Policies. The Trust will undertake monitoring of its policy to ensure compliance.
The Equality Act 2010 requires people with the protected characteristics of: age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnerships, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion and belief, sex and sexual orientation to be protected from discrimination. The CLT is committed to considering these protected groups when developing responses to housing and other projects.
This includes all aspects of the CLT’s activities and notably:
- Interaction with residents;
- Access to information about the work of the CLT
- Feedback on the activities of the CLT including complaints and compliments;
- The basis of its Allocations policy in the identification of tenants for properties developed by or in partnership with the CLT;
- Development of Community Led Housing in the locality;
- Development of other community resources in the locality.
This statement will be implemented by the following actions:
- Work to ensure that the diversity of the local area is reflected within the composition of the Trust;
- The Policy being displayed on the CLT’s website;
- The existence of the Policy on the Trust’s website being drawn to the attention of all service providers and potential contractors and partners
- The provision of opportunities for the community of Norbury to participate in the work and decision making of the CLT;
- The identification and pursuit of opportunities to promote equal opportunities and community cohesion in all that the CLT does;
- An annual review of the policy to ensure that it is relevant and up to date.
Approved by the Board on 10 July 2021
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use for ING computers and networks. The information given below does not include the computers or the user accounts of the telescopes' observing systems.
We can provide you with up to 3 additional guest accounts if necessary (see the current account assignments. For more guest accounts that you might require, or if you are visiting the ING and you need an account, please complete the Computing Facilities Questionnaire for visiting astronomers.
Certain access restrictions are applicable when using these guest accounts. In accordance with the ING Computer Security Policy, guest accounts are provided to be used within the ING network domain. That is to say, access to ING resources via these accounts is only permitted if the user is on ING premises.
at the WHT, at the INT, and at the SLO
Please be aware that the use of the email outgoing ports 25 (SMTP) and 465 (SMTPS) within the ING network is not permitted, unless used for connecting with an ING email server. As a consequence you can read but not send out email using, for instance, an application on your laptop to connect with your usual email server. Alternative ways to email from within the ING network like webemail, or SSH, VPN or EDUROAM connections are not affected by this network security restriction.Computing Facilities Questionnaire for visiting astronomers. ingext requires Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP), no static IP addresses are available.
You can apply for a cable network access, based on DHCP. Please provide your ethernet MAC address using the Computing Facilities Questionnaire for visiting astronomers. You can use any of the spare wall UTP ports, although we strongly recommend those marked as "General Ports". Keep the wall port free if not being used. In case you are not using DHCP, we also provide some static IP addresses at the disposal of the visitors if the ethernet MAC address wasn't registered previously.
IAC operates a wireless network at the Residencia that can be accessed from the bedrooms. Details on how to use it can be obtained at the reception of the Residencia. ING also provides a network hub in the computer room of the Residencia. For plugging your computer there you need DHCP and registering your ethernet's MAC address using the Computing Facilities Questionnaire for visiting astronomers.
Users of Macintosh are requested to contact the ING Computing Group using the Computing Facilities Questionnaire for visiting astronomers well in advance of their visit, if they suspect that they will require any specific support for their computers.
If your institution is connected to the network, you can log on the ING's eduroam wifi network using your network's username and password at your institution (enter username@domain as username). At the ING, security is set to WPA2-Enterprise and encryption to AES CCMP. More information can be found attransferring and recording data.
For any reasons, edit (create, modify or remove) any data files from the /obsdata/whta or /obsdata/inta directories.
It is an ING policy that all astronomical images are archived and eventually sent to the image archive operated by the CASU Astronomical Data Centre in Cambridge (see the ING data ownership policy for more information. To ensure that all images are archived, please do not delete any files on the observing directories.
If you need to recover any data or an observational log of your run during the propietary period, your request will need to be made via the ING Astronomy Group. Please contact the Support Astronomer of your observing run or the Head of Astronomy.
The following are data areas at the disposal of visitors:
To work with observational data, first copy the files to a scratch area. Do not use the /obsdata or /home directories for data storage or reduction. Please be aware that scratch areas are not backed up and files older than 1 year could be removed without previous warning if free disk capacity drops below 5%.
Below are examples of how to print from a Linux computer:
Where <printer> is the printer's name as provided in the first column of the table above, except otherwise noted. If you need to print from your laptop using ingext network, please follow the instructions on how to print to ING printers as a guest.
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Joy, sadness, excitement, fear – watching a musical on stage should have you experiencing a myriad of intense emotions. Successful modern-day musicals feature talented all-round performers, enchanting music played by a live orchestra, lavish sets, stunning costumes and breath-taking choreography, alongside a strong and captivating storyline. The best may also include cutting-edge technical tricks and special effects – such as the amazing “wow” moments in Mary Poppins and Frozen – the Musical (I won’t say any more on this here, in case you haven’t seen them yet!).
Although music and song have accompanied stage performance since as long ago as Ancient Greece, it wasn’t until the 18th century that theatre evolved to include song, dance and music as a
fundamental and integral part of the structure of musical shows – without which the performances would not have made sense. Jon Gay’s The Beggar’s Opera, written in 1728, is believed to be the first true example of a musical, with musicals then starting to gain wider traction in the 19th century. In contrast to the bawdy music hall genre, which was popular amongst the lower classes, musicals represented a more sophisticated type of theatre, appealing mainly to the upper and middle classes.
Nowadays, many popular musicals derive from films or TV shows – such as Grease – the Musical, Billy Elliot – the Musical and Only Fools and Horses – the Musical, or from books – such as Matilda – the Musical and Les Misérables. Whatever their roots might be, Broadway and the West End are the ultimate settings for the best and most lucrative of musicals, and one way of measuring their success is the length of their run in these locations. In the US, the record-breaking musical classic Phantom of the Opera has been on Broadway since 1988, and in the UK, the world-famous Les Misérables has been performed in the West End since 1985.
The staging of musicals is certainly a big-money business – London theatre box-office revenue was an astounding £799m in 2019! The musicals industry has rebounded strongly from the recent pandemic-induced venue closures. Theatres are filling up again across the globe, allowing audiences to experience once more the wonder of being immersed in a world of spectacular song, dance and storytelling, as they laugh, cry and sing along with the exceptional performers. | <urn:uuid:a68fd290-8575-41f7-aa19-1a467a26520e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.oxfordhomeschooling.co.uk/blog/musicals-and-their-magic/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570765.6/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808031623-20220808061623-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.958856 | 504 | 1.984375 | 2 |
1-20 ton gas/oil fired boiler
Capacity: 1-20 ton/h
Pressure: 0.7-2 Mpa
Fuel: Nature gas, coke oven gas, biogas, methanol, liquid propane gas, diesel, heavy oil, light oil, crude oil, etc.
Industries: Heat supplying, chemical, food, textile, printing and dyeing, cigarettes and tobacco, fodder, pharmacy, building materials, brewery, rubber, hospital etc.
7-70 MW gas/oil fired hot water boiler
Capacity: 7-70 MW
Pressure: 1.0-1.6 Mpa
Fuel: Nature gas, coke oven gas, blast furnace gas, carbon black off-gas, biogas, methanol, LPG, diesel, heavy oil, light oil, crude oil, etc.
Industries: Heat supplying, hospital, colleges and universities.
2.8-29mw coal fired boiler
Pressure: 1.0-1.25 Mpa
Fuel: Bituminous coal, lean coal, anthracite
Industries: Heating, hotels, schools, hospitals
horizontal thermal fluid heater
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Pressure: 0.8 - 1.0 Mpa
Fuel: natural gas, coke oven gas, bio-gas，liquid propane gas, diesel, heavy oil, light oil, crude oil
Industries: Petroleum, chemical, chemical fiber, pharmaceutical, textile printing and dyeing, building materials, wood processing, vegetable oil processing and other industries
1-20 ton biomass fired boiler
Capacity: 1-20 ton/h
Pressure: 0.7-2.5 Mpa
Fuel: Biomass particles
Industries: Heating, chemical, food, tobacco, textile, printing and dyeing, feed, medicine, building material, wine, rubber, hospital
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Thai SPP Uses CENTUM CS 3000 to Improve Efficiency of Biomass
In 2005, A.T. Biopower Co., Ltd. built a biomass power plant in Pichit, Thailand. with the outflowing flue gases, the heat from the flue gas generates 480 degree C transported as drops of water back to the boiler to be recycled as steam .
Using Biomass for Process Steam Boilers - RASLRES
The coupling of a steam boiler with a steam turbine would facilitate the They are usually employed with a moving grate boiler which has a good degree of.
Heat & Waste Power - Spilling Technologies GmbH
A typical application field for Spilling steam engines and steam turbines is for the steam cycle such as e.g. steam boiler , steam power unit or condenser type and degree of exhaust steam utilisation; operational overall conditions Inlet temperatures, saturated steam , superheated steam up to 480 °C Biomass power.
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Used Steam Boiler : Business & Industrial | eBay
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Economical optimization of steam data for recovery boilers - DiVA
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Sala-Heby Energi AB, Silververket, Sweden - bio-chp.force.dk
Type of CHP system: BFB boiler Thermal input, biomass & waste: 36 MW Heat backup: Three oil-fired boilers on 12 MW and one on 10 MW, all adapted for mbp biofuel 18 (fish oil). Steam data: 80 Bar, 480 degree Celcius, 42,8 tons/hr.
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Interesting facts about the Plant (PDF) - Nova Scotia Power
30 Oct 2013 NS Power's Port Hawkesbury Biomass Plant generating firm, renewable of the steam when it leaves the plant boiler is 480 degrees Celsius.
(PDF) The Experimental Study of Full-scale Biomass -fired Bubbling
of full-scale biomass -fired bubbling fluidized bed (BFB) steam boiler with a Temperature of main steam 480 °C Pressure of main steam 80 bar Operating . He holds a master's degree in Mechanical Engineering and master's degree in
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Biomass Conversion Technologies - EPA
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ORM object for handling item update history.
Contains set of getters/setters for system fields.
Object has two "states". First - is at the moment of creation. In this case, its created based on [link=11310764]item[/link] and its field values are calculated dynamically.
Second - when existing record is read. In this case, all field value are sourced from database.
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Private Viewing: Is it time we consigned the Victorian museum to history?
- Credit: Archant
Museums & galleries are having a hard time. Arts Editor Andrew Clarke says it’s time we reinvented them for the modern age.
Museums and art galleries are often seen as rather austere, unsexy monoliths – unloved and consistently underfunded when they should be vital, engaging and interactive repositories of our collective past. Too often they are regarded as being boring and dull filled with dusty relics of a bygone age with little or no relevance to our modern life.
Nothing could be further from the truth. Museums and art galleries should be part of our collective identity. They should tell us stories. They should reveal who we are. They should engage our imaginations. We are always being told that times are tough, that the public purse cannot continue to be raided to support cultural events but we ignore our heritage at our peril.
The time has come to reinvent the museum. It’s time to ditch the Victorian vault approach and resuscitate our past and present it to a new generation in an engaging, interactive way that fires their imagination and makes them want to discover more.
As much as we may resist the notion, we are all the product of our collective past. Society evolves over time. Attitudes change as fashions change. Social and political history are inextricably linked.
Change is inevitable but modern technology has speeded up the process. The communication of ideas is faster than it has ever been and the way that language changes can seem dizzying.
Museums and art galleries help us identify who we are and make sense of our past. They help us come to terms with who we are.
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A recent episode of Time Team had Tony Robinson talking about grave goods as dating evidence. He was looking at an early episode of the series in which he was using a large mobile phone (complete with telescopic antenna) and a book of road maps and said that both items would now be considered obsolete and so would be perfect dating evidence.
Museums are more concerned with our history and the world around us while art galleries take a more existential approach, looking at changes in ideas and how our national identity has evolved over time. Art tends to challenge accepted norms and help lubricate change. Art holds up a mirror to who we are now while museum artefacts examine where we have come from.
Sometimes galleries and museums can work together, particularly in areas relating to the recent past. Museums and art galleries have worked effectively when harvesting first person testimony relating to the effects of the two world wars. Museums have carried out interviews with those who experienced war first hand while art galleries have curated exhibitions which make sense of the art work created at the time.
Both try to get behind the official headlines which invariably revolve around us being stoical and plucky. Art allows us to glimpse a truer view of those years. It provides a chance to see both the fear and the resolve which was very much part of ordinary people’s lives.
It’s so easy for people to see museums and galleries as being something of a luxury but they are very much part of who we are. We should cherish our museums and galleries because they are reflections of us.
I am hugely pleased that Ipswich Borough are pursuing a lottery bid to integrate the museum, art school gallery and associated buildings on the site into one integrated heritage centre.
By making the museum and galleries exciting, relevant spaces we are reclaiming our own history and culture. So often history is only seen as political history whereas social history carries equal importance because that is the history of us all – the history of ordinary people, their thoughts, feelings and how they lived their lives.
These are the lessons we can learn from both galleries and museums. History is more than dates. History is more than a list of kings and queens, battles and different coloured governments. History is thoughts and feelings. It is opinions and social change.
As my history teacher was fond of saying. “Unless we learn from the past, we shall be condemned to repeat the same mistakes for eternity.” He was talking about the First World War at the time but the sentiment stands for all history.
Museums shouldn’t be austere, forbidding, cold, charmless places. They should be engaging and challenging. They should create an atmosphere that makes people want to interact with the exhibitions and to engage with the past. Museums and galleries should be about discovery and ideas, then people may be happier to finance them. | <urn:uuid:98daef45-4867-4503-b60b-23aa421fa6db> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.eadt.co.uk/things-to-do/private-viewing-is-it-time-we-consigned-the-victorian-museum-2197602 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571909.51/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813051311-20220813081311-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.963552 | 1,097 | 1.898438 | 2 |
Automotive sensors are the devices, used in automobiles, which detects physical or chemical quantity such as temperature or position and transduces, indicate or respond to it. These sensors are made out of semiconductors such as cobalt and nickel. Automotive sensors are used to increase vehicle performance, safety and passenger comfort. Sensors are getting improved in terms of quality, smartness and they are more specific and robust. Further, these sensors are cheaper than the previous generation sensors. Better system and pleasures are encouraging people to buy automobiles equipped with sensors. Nowadays, people are inclining towards safety features such as Auto emergency braking, driver attention detection, Active cruise control, Airbags (passenger knee, thorax airbag with head). Government’s legislation and regulations on safety, emission reduction, fuel economy, driver assistance and onboard diagnosis systems are the factors which are driving the automotive sensors market. Automotive industry being one of the largest industries in the world with a growth rate of 2.8% is encouraging the development of connected technologies and rising the demand for automotive sensors. Moreover, the demand of automotive sensors in Asia –Pacific is bolstering the growth rate of automotive sensors market. In automobile sector, the electronic systems are expanding on the back of rising number of sensors in automobiles. Thus, automotive sensors market is expected to showcase a lucrative growth.
The market is anticipated to expand at a CAGR of 7.8% over the period i.e. 2017-2024. The global automotive sensors market is expected to reach USD 45.76 billion by 2024.The global automotive sensors market is expected to rise in terms of demand due to the invention of diverse sensors along with technological advancement of connected integrated technologies. Also, high efficiency and cheaper price of new generation sensor is expected to encourage the market growth.
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Asia-Pacific automotive sensor market is the largest market and expected to dominate over the next five to six years due to extremely large number of vehicle production, increasing number of electronic systems, connected technologies and government regulations on emission. Further, growing consumer awareness is also bolstering the automotive sensor market in developing countries such as India and China. Currently, Europe is the second biggest market for automotive sensors and is expected to remain at its position during the forecast period. Europe automotive sensor market is anticipated to reach USD 9.73 billion due to the expanding popularity and demand for electronically connected automobiles. With the revision in vehicle safety system regulation, safety features such as advanced braking system, tire pressure management system, driver attention detection and seatbelt reminders have become necessary for automobile manufacturers to sell their product in the European Union.
Furthermore, North America automotive sensors market is expected to reach to USD 9.89 billion by 2024. Moreover, government regulations and awareness among the car owners about safety and comfort are the major factors which are driving the automotive sensor market.
Global automotive sensors market is further classified on the basis of region as follows:
Rising concern towards safety and increasing sales of automotive vehicles are the two major factors which are driving the automotive sensors market. Further, the expanding market of hybrid and fully electric vehicle is expected to register a growth in demand of automotive sensors. Beside this, the government regulations on safety and fuel emission are increasing the growth of global automotive sensors market. Due to revision in the vehicle safety system in the General Safety Regulation (EC) No.661/2009, it has become mandatory for automobile manufacturers to incorporate various safety features such as lane departure warning systems, tire pressure management system, seatbelt reminder etc. Also, the numbers of sensors in the automobile are expanding as if now an automobile is equipped with 60-100 sensors and expected to be equipped with about 200 sensors by 2020. Further, adoption of cruise control system by automobiles OEM’s is expected to boost the market in near future. However, equipping automobiles with various automotive sensors will increase the overall cost of automobiles which creates a significant challenge for the market players. With more than 200+ sensors manufacturers, the competition in the global automotive sensors market is high.
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Allude or Elude ?
Exemple : ‘’I think he will allude to you in his speech.’’
The verbs "allude" and "elude" are often mixed up due to their similar pronounciations. "Allude" is used to denote the act of making reference to something indirectly.
Exemple : ‘’He will manage to elude the police.’’
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- Although increasingly popular, this cannabis consumption method can have adverse health effects when misused.
- Dabbers are exposed to higher toxin levels compared to other methods of use, according to a study by the American Chemical Society.
- Keep reading to find out how to enjoy your favourite plant in complete safety.
Dabbing has been around since the 60s, when American cannabis users started to inhale extracts through hot-knifing, a rather rudimentary method that involves heating the blade of a knife, placing a blob of oil on it and inhaling the vapour with a straw or bottle. Nowadays, bongs and other specific devices are used instead. These became popular in the US throughout the 2000's and later on also in Europe and worldwide.
The popularity of dabbing has increased in recent years on account of a potent effect that kicks in fast. Yet the technique is often misused, leading to the production of harmful substances that may affect users' health.
According to a study by the American Chemical Society, this method of consumption involves risks to health as it expose users to high levels of toxins. The study analysed the degradation products cannabis extracts deliver when heated to high temperatures, concluding that some are toxic and carcinogenic compounds.
Dabs are concentrated doses of cannabis that are obtained by extracting THC and other cannabinoids with a solvent such as butane or carbon dioxide, which results in a sticky oil. BHO (Butane Hash Oil) is often the preferred option, but waxes, shatters (glass-like concentrates that are solid at room temperature) and the creamier budders are equally popular. One of the problems with these products is that they are made with flammable substances, but if the process is carried out in a controlled environment and high-quality, certified products are used, there's nothing to fear.
That said, the main risk identified by researchers during the study is associated with a wrong use of the dabs, which should always be inhaled through a rig, a sort of water pipe specifically designed for dabbing. Rigs can be divided into two types depending on the heating method: through a nail made of titanium, quartz or glass or through a small metal pan, which are then heated with a blowtorch. Both the nail and the pan are coated to help the smoke flow through the glass holes.
Another essential piece is the dabber, a small metal or glass rod that is used to place the extract on the hot nail or pan, triggering the vaporization and thus the formation of the inhalation smoke. It is here that special caution should be exercised, according to the research by the American Chemical Society, co-authored by Robert Strongin.
In line with earlier studies on e-cigarettes, Strongin focused on the combustion process, concluding that when cannabis terpenes are heated to extremely high temperatures, they produce harmful products that are potentially irritating, toxic and even carcinogenic. In fact, the vapour of extracts that were heated to higher-than-normal-temperatures contained high levels of methacrolein, an irritant that is also found in cigarettes. Acrolein, an irritant associated with lung cancer, and benzene, a compound that is present in the air and is associated with leukaemia when in high concentrations, were also found.
"The results of these studies clearly indicate that dabbing, although considered a form of vaporization, may in fact deliver significant amounts of toxic degradation products," the researchers conclude. As already mentioned, this is only true at high temperatures, but still researchers warn that "the difficulty users find in controlling the nail temperature put users at risk." Accordingly, controlling the temperature to which cannabis is heated prior to consumption is of the utmost importance.
How to avoid the dangers of dabbing
Most experts agree that the answer is cannabis legalisation, as this would mean the production of substances such as BHO, which are tricky to handle, would be in the hands of licensed professionals, limiting both the amount of non-controlled homemade extracts and the number of resulting household fires and bursts.
Another problem with homemade BHO is purging, i.e. eliminating the solvents and impurities that are formed during the extraction process and that by no means should be inhaled. Purging involves bringing the extract to atmospheric pressure in order to lower the boiling point of the separate compounds and cold boil away the harmful ones without potentially damaging the rest.
A vacuum oven is essential for a safe purging process, but this is something not all users can afford, so again professional manufacture with proper equipment is the best way to obtain delicious safe pure BHO - in a professional environment safety is easier to control.
Also, dabbing itself is not without risk, as again the dabs are exposed to extremely high temperatures. Not over-using the rig, allowing the pan or nail to cool completely before reuse or checking the tools for rust are just some of the measures that can be taken to avoid inhaling any noxious substances. Ultimately, it all comes to adopting responsible consumption habits for a better dabbing experience.
The effect of dabbing is barely comparable to that of vaporising or smoking dry flowers - dabs are much more potent and kick in immediately - so whether you are a first-timer or a frequent user, you should be extra-cautious to avoid a bad experience.
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God emobodies ultimate power, will, knowledge and ubiquity. As the embodiment of both Caritas et Justitia, no evil can exist in His Presence. People who do evil reject Him. Those who knowingly do evil and thus knowingly reject God cannot enter the Presence of God after the death of the body. So, where can they go, being solely spirit? To the hell of Lucifer.
God made us. We owe him everything, much more than any earthly son owes his father. To take the gift we have been given and then smear it in dirt is a base insult.
For the crime of rebellion, and thus disobedience, angels were sent to Hell. Because we do not have immediate sight of the Presence we have more excuse than the angels. So we get Purgatory for venial sins.
Someone who has willingly and knowingly disobeyed the Commandments cannot then just saunter into Heaven. God will not be mocked. He does not change. He does not deviate. He embodies Justice as well as mercy.
It is part of the darkness of this era that people, even many Catholics, think that this is not so. In their minds God has gone from being the father of Justice to a sentimental uncle, who will look the other way. | <urn:uuid:fa31557d-9205-4a12-8b6a-318f3b05f546> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.layman.tv/why-god-sends-people-to-hell/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571909.51/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813051311-20220813081311-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.970004 | 258 | 1.710938 | 2 |
Parents Use Complementary Health Care for Kids: Children Taking Part in Alternative Medicine or Practices
The 2012 National Health Interview Survey, published in 2015, included a survey on the use of complementary medicine practices. Nearly 45,000 Americans were questioned, including more than 10,000 children between the ages of 4 and 17.
The survey found that nearly 12 percent of children had used complementary medicine, either in a practice or product, during the year studied. The most common form of alternative medicine among children was natural supplements, such as fish oil, probiotics and melatonin. Chiropractic care and yoga were also popular choices.
Researchers found that parents sought complementary approaches most often for children due to back or neck pain, musculoskeletal conditions, colds, anxiety, attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder or insomnia.
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The lead story, “The Vanishing Princess or The Origin of Cubism,” is the allegorical tale of a princess locked in a tower. She exists there in a state of perpetual peace, not realizing what she is missing outside, while she is slowly conditioned by her suitors to see the world in terms of fragmentation and attachment. By the end, this paradigm ends up erasing her and trapping her, literally, in an image of herself. Diski’s knowledge of philosophy, psychology, and feminism is woven seamlessly into the princess’s transformation from purity and contentment to self- consciousness and insatiable longing, a process that many women can relate to. The brevity and simplicity of the story provoke a powerful response in the reader.
What makes this collection so special and readable is its versatility. After the heartbreak of the first story, one that seems antiquated and yet timeless, we are plunged into the contemporary urban world of the second story, “Leaper.” One of the collection’s strongest tales, it traces the connection that forms between two women after they pass a subway station in which a person has jumped to his/her death. The story keeps peeling itself back, moving into stranger and more surreal territory, as the two strangers bond while discussing notions of suicide, death, selfishness, and the difficulty of living until words finally fail them. The conclusion of the story is shocking and leaves a lasting impression. I could not help but think of James Salter and his heralded ability to break a reader’s heart with a single sentence. Diski’s elegance and boldness create an effect achieved by Salter’s most unforgettable stories, such as the devastating “Last Night,” which haunts me to this day.
In “My Brother Stanley,” Diski unfurls a world of betrayal, sadness, and violence through a character’s simple observation of the facial expression forever frozen in the portrait of a dead relative. The precision of language and depth of insight are remarkable:
It was the look in my brother Stanley’s eyes that I remember best, though I searched for the rest of his features thoroughly to find angles and aspects that reminded me of me. We were, after all, closely related; his father was my father. The thing about Stanley’s eyes was that they seemed to know what was going to happen to him, and that he would be looking out on a future from which he would be absent.
That last line gives me chills every time I read it, particularly once it’s revealed how he was killed — the tiny, ordinary tornado that suddenly wiped him out of existence. It’s a poignant little story, wise and unafraid in its brief exploration of a life lived then finished suddenly and inexplicably.
Diski may be sophisticated, but she also enjoys delving into the carnal and pushing certain stories to the extreme, such as in “Housewife.” In this very naughty story, two married people carry on an affair, which is a common enough premise. What is delightfully shocking are the intense, graphic scenes of self-pleasuring and the penetration that occurs in every nook and cranny of the lovers’ bodies — an exploration that eventually gives way to a desire to consume each other’s internal organs. I am not prudish, but even I was startled and impressed by just how deep Diski was willing to go into the lovers’ delirious, boundless escapades. Diski is remarkably good at writing sex scenes with unabashed sensuality, shocking detail, and poeticism. “Housewife” ultimately moves beyond the baser pleasures to expose the true desire behind sexuality: to consume and to merge, to transcend the separate self in a way that is spiritual or even noble:
“More. More,” I said. And you gave me a gift of more and more. So much of you inside me. I wonder if there’s a critical dose, after which I am more you than I am me? Or more us than either me or you. I adore your madness and desperately hope no terrible attack of sanity comes over you.
This assignment of power to deranged thinking is a catalyst for getting to a rawer truth. The story is narrated at the beginning by a creature that is an embodiment of the dark and wicked instinct to consume. The creature tells the character Susan, “You’ll only know I’ve been there by the strange dreams you’ll dream. Misty, murky things, like swamps, with smiles hanging from the trees.”
Diski is indeed naughty, not in an off-putting way but in a way that begs the reader to consider revaluing herself and her desires, simply because she is made of flesh and bones and has yearnings grotesque and romantic, sweet and salty. Diski celebrates the senses with a lushness that brings to mind masters such as Walt Whitman:
Susan’s hand casually stroked his lower back and continued around the curve of his buttock. As a sudden spasm of desire ran through her, she gripped him harder, her fingers digging into the dividing slope, and for a split second the rhythm of his movements was interrupted. She looked up at him and saw some new longing in his eyes. That time, the moment passed, and they continued their slow and sensual reacquaintance, but Susan took note.
There is a philosophical diplomacy that often appears in Diski’s narrative voice, a sense that she wants to view things from all sides and thus avoid stereotyping. She will at times repeat herself for rhetorical effect. Repetition provides a heartbeat for the world she evokes. In “Shit and Gold,” it is used to symbolize stability for the miller’s daughter who, plagued by loneliness, takes comfort in the rhythm and redundancies of daily life at the mill:
So I was a solitary child. I watched the stones grinding and listened to the rhythm they made as the slight hollows and bumps in the granite altered the pitch. Strraagga graast, scrummm, scrummm. Straagga grasst, scrummm scrummm. It inhabited my dreams, that beat, becoming as much a part of me as my own heart’s rhythm. And I was content in spite of my loveless surroundings.
Every now and again, this repetition leads to a bit of over-explanation of ways of looking at things, an intentional obsessiveness (this is perhaps her only weakness, if it is even that). But that is nitpicky. Overall, her tendency to explore and obsess is a strength of her work as it allows her to “go all the way” in drawing a world and its myriad complexities. As a reader, I would not want it removed, even if at times it reads as relentlessly philosophical or explanatory.
Diski’s troubled childhood and teenage years infuse the book’s exploration of pain with authenticity. A sense of weariness that comes from surviving family violence permeates many of Diski’s stories and brings to mind her own troubled past before she began living with the writer Doris Lessing. She seems truly to know the ugliness of two parents fighting and the distress it can produce in their offspring. In the strange and meandering story “Strictempo,” we ultimately arrive at a scene in a mental hospital of two parents screaming at each other over the devastated patient, their daughter:
Each turned towards her, their heads almost touching over Hannah’s body like the apex of a triangle, shouting at her in unison.
“How dare you do this to me!”
“…do this to me! You’ve never been anything but trouble! I’m sick to death of you…”
“…sick to death of you … and the trouble you’ve caused me…”
“…you’ve caused me…”
In the wonderfully titled “Wild Blue Yonder,” Diski uses her gift of insight and understanding of human psychology to full, beautiful effect. A family of three vacations in the Caribbean, and the wife, Christina, reflects back on all the safe choices of her life while floating on the striking, green tropical waters, majestic fish below her. Later in the day, she watches her husband take their toddler son out on the same raft and then release him into the water a few feet after promising not to let him go. Christina meditates on this tiny betrayal, on the utter terror in her son’s face as he stares at the expansive sea alone before his father ends his torment and holds the raft again. The story calls to mind Joy Williams, her surreality, her examination of the odd and baffling hidden just underneath the surface of daily life. The effect of this story is that we feel the agony of daily living, particularly when juxtaposed with the terrifying beauty of the calm and vast ocean. We end up with a complete portrait of married life, which can be a mix of tiny betrayals, stability, love, predictability, and irrational behavior.
Diski’s legacy, her gift to the literary world, is imagination pushed to its extremes and insights so deep and probing that the reader actually reconsiders her own views of the world, of sexuality, death, vice, and virtue. This seems to be her intent, and she achieves it. Beyond this, she delights in language — she is playful and precise, which is what many writers, living or dead, have aspired to achieve in their work. She clearly had fun writing; she played with language, played with ideas, and then enjoyed polishing them up — readers can feel it when they read her sentences, that inherent joy.
Diski may be well known in sophisticated literary circles, but she deserves to be a household name. Her range and unique narrative voice are why readers read. This volume should be devoured by lovers of traditional literature as well as those interested in experimental prose: she has something to offer all, as she completely defies categorization. The Vanishing Princess is raw, gorgeous, truthful, and deliciously defiant. | <urn:uuid:3d2433d1-f405-492e-9d10-bf05f6b1424f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/tiny-betrayals-and-naughty-poeticism-jenny-diskis-the-vanishing-princess/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571198.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810161541-20220810191541-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.967866 | 2,147 | 1.585938 | 2 |
Canada’s COVID-19 vaccination programs promise a return of higher New Brunswick immigration levels, while the hospitality and tourism sector is expected to gain some momentum with the return of the Atlantic Bubble in late April.
In its economic forecast for the maritime province, TD Economics noted the devastating impact of the loss of the Atlantic Bubble, which allowed free travel throughout New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island and Newfoundland and Labrador for residents of those provinces, once the second wave of the pandemic hit in the second half of last year.
“This will impact the hospitality industries as tourist visits drop from neighboring peers,” forecast the bank’s chief economist Beata Caranci, deputy chief economist Derek Burleton, and economists Rishi Sondhi and Omar Abdelrahman in their provincial economic forecast, It’s Always Darkest Before Dawn, late last year.
Since then, though, the premiers of the maritime provinces of Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island and Nova Scotia, have announced a return of the Atlantic Bubble, on a limited scale initially excluding Newfoundland and Labrador, on Apr. 19.
New Brunswick Immigration Stream For Truck Drivers: Work Experience Requirement Reduced
Permanent Residence Route For New Brunswick International Graduates in Lower Skilled Jobs
New Brunswick Restricts Inter-Provincial Migration Over Coronavirus
“For a long time we’ve been able to keep our borders tight and that’s proven successful and the previous Atlantic bubble was very successful so I’m eager to see that happen,” Nova Scotia Premier Iain Rankin reportedly told reporters last week.
In 2020, New Brunswick suffered much less than many other Canadian provinces, taking a hit to its economy of only three per cent of its real Gross Domestic Product (GDP) as it managed to keep COVID-19 cases down.
“With the exception of some of its Atlantic Canada peers, it has maintained the lowest per capita caseload in all of North America,” states the TD Economics forecast. “After witnessing the smallest peak-trough job decline among the provinces (last) spring, New Brunswick has recorded a relatively swift hiring recovery.
“Success in containing the pandemic has also reflected in stronger household and retail spending.”
Housing Sales, Home Construction Strong
During the pandemic, New Brunswick continued to enjoy a strong housing market with double-digit growth expected for last year and a strong home construction sector. The province is, however, heavily reliant on oil exports and this has led to a downturn in its manufacturing and oil sector in the past year.
In its economic forecast, TD Economics is predicting growth of 3.5 per cent of the province’s real GDP this year and 2.2 per cent in 2022. That means the New Brunswick economy should more than completely recover this year from the economic downturn due to COVID-19 and then see growth from where it was in 2019 sometime next year.
“Executing on the commitments at the federal and provincial levels to ramp up the pace of international immigration will be important to counter New Brunswick’s aging demographics and support its economy,” states TD Economics.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s announcement that all Canadians will be able to be vaccinated against COVID-19 by the end of September is expected to help restore some sense of normalcy and boost immigration levels.
Last year, immigration slowed to a trickle across Canada as public health measures led to border closures for all but essential travel.
In New Brunswick, the number of new permanent residents to the province dropped to less than half, falling 51.8 per cent to 2,890 from 6,000 the previous year.
Business Immigration Programs Boom in New Brunswick
Despite that drop in overall immigration to New Brunswick, business immigration programs boomed in the maritime province last year, resulting in twice as many new permanent residents to the province under the Federal Self-Employed Class, and the Start-Up Visa program. The number of new permanent residents to New Brunswick under these programs jumped to 20 last year from 10 in 2019.
But Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada figures for last year show all other immigration programs in New Brunswick took a hit due to the travel restrictions imposed to curb the spread of COVID-19 in Canada.
Overall, economic immigration to the province fell by 52.7 per cent, from 5,060 new permanent residents to the province under these programs in 2019 to only 2,395 last year.
The worker programs, including the Atlantic Immigration Pilot, Canadian Experience, Caregiver, Skilled Trade and Skilled Worker, resulted in 56.6 per cent fewer new permanent residents to New Brunswick last year, only 955, compared to 2,200 in 2019.
The Provincial Nominee Program was not hit as badly but still saw a drop off of 51.2 per cent over 2019 with only 1,390 new permanent residents to the province coming through the PNP in 2020 compared to 2,850 the previous year.
Family Sponsorship Immigration Numbers Drop More Than 40%
Family Sponsorship programs fared better. In 2020, they dropped by only 41.2 per cent in New Brunswick, leading to 255 new permanent residents to the province under these programs compared to 425 in 2019. Refugees and protected persons programs dropped a bit more, by 49 per cent, and saw 250 fewer new permanent residents arrive in New Brunswick in 2020 than the 510 that had made that province their home in 2019.
Ottawa remains firmly committed to boosting immigration again with much more ambitious targets for this year and the next two.
Immigration Minister Marco Mendicino announced late last year that Canada was going to greatly increase immigration levels to make up for the shortfall in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Ottawa Still Bullish On Immigration
Under the new plan, Canada is planning to welcome more than 1.2 million newcomers between 2021 and 2023 with 401,000 new permanent residents to Canada in 2021, 411,000 in 2022 and 421,000 in 2023.
Prior to the coronavirus pandemic, the previous plan set targets of 351,000 in 2021 and 361,000 in 2022.
“Immigration is essential to getting us through the pandemic, but also to our short-term economic recovery and our long-term economic growth,” said Mendicino. “Canadians have seen how newcomers are playing an outsized role in our hospitals and care homes and helping us to keep food on the table.
“As we look to recovery, newcomers create jobs not just by giving our businesses the skills they need to thrive, but also by starting businesses themselves,” he said. “Our plan will help to address some of our most acute labour shortages and to grow our population to keep Canada competitive on the world stage. | <urn:uuid:1ae42e02-350a-4b38-9831-a0bd2705ffe5> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.cimmigrationnews.com/covid-19-vaccination-program-atlantic-bubble-set-to-benefit-new-brunswick-immigration/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571536.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811224716-20220812014716-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.940732 | 1,411 | 1.632813 | 2 |
The Stena Hibernia is a predominantly Freight Ro-Ro cargo Ferry operating between Heysham and Belfast built in 1996.
Thortech were to complete the resurfacing of the weather deck, and complete surface repairs to ramps while the vessel was on a layover at Belfast. The timescale for this project was at 2-day intervals over 2 layovers in succession. The surface on the weather deck to be replaced was a paint system which did not possess any anti-slip properties. The most economical and safe solution was to provide a Thorgrip LS waterproofing and anti-slip system. Due to the nature of the trailers turning on the surface, the appropriate bauxite 1>2 mm was chosen as the preferred aggregate.
The old paint system was removed by Scarifier, Grinder and Hilti Breaker. With the steel deck then prepared by Enclosed Shot Blasting machines to a SA2.5 standard. The steel was then immediately primed to ensure adhesion to the substrate and avoid contamination with brine and salt. After the primer had desiccated the substrate was then applied with an application of the Thorgrip LS System at the desired spread rate, which was immediately dressed with Guyanese bauxite chosen due to its technical performance with Thorgrip LS.
The total area completed was approximately 600m2, and the project was completed with a quick turnaround on schedule and on budget. The freight now continues to work efficiently with daily Ro Ro’s on its new Thortech applied surface.
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When discussing Can Betterhelp with our clients we found….Prioritizing your mental health has never ever been more important– with the COVID-19 pandemic and whatever else going on in the world, lots of people are experiencing signs of mental health conditions.
Polls report that 53 percent of U.S. adults state worry and stress amidst the pandemic has had an unfavorable effect on their mental health.
The good news is, virtual support group make it much easier than ever to take care of your mental health.
is an online therapy service that enables you to text chat with a licensed, recognized therapist 24/7. Keep reading to see how it works, what to consider, and if it’s right for you.
How does work?
Depending on what you’re trying to find, provides therapy for couples, individuals, or families. You create an account and complete a questionnaire to discover the ideal match.
During the survey, you’re able to note out your counselor choices, including their gender, religion, age, sexual preference, language, in addition to what problems you’re wanting to tackle, and how important it is that your counselor be well versed in those subjects.
It can take anywhere from a few hours to a number of days to be matched to an in-state therapist.
According to, counselors are accredited, trained, experienced, and certified psychologists, marriage and household therapists, clinical social workers, or licensed expert counselors.
All the company’s counselors have a master’s or doctorate degree and possess a minimum of 3 years and 2,000 hours of experience as psychological health experts.
You can merely email to be reassigned if you don’t like who you’re paired with.
” Therapy can be intimidating, specifically for a great deal of first-time customers. Text-based interaction (texting and live-chat sessions) are a terrific way to take some of the stress and anxiety out of beginning treatment and aid customers dive into the procedure,” states James Imrie, the innovative and marketing manager at.
Is BetterHelp com legit?
You can instantly begin messaging them in a protected and personal chat room when you have actually been matched with a counselor.
The chatroom is accessible at any time as long as your gadget has trustworthy internet. Messaging isn’t done in real-time, so there’s no guaranteed reaction time from your counselor. As a result, you’re totally free to message your therapist at any hour of the day.
Your therapist will respond with questions, feedback, guidance, or research, and the app will alert you of their action.
The conversations are conserved in the chat room so you’re free to reflect and reread whenever you ‘d like. Every conversation is also secured by stringent federal and state HIPAA laws.
You can head to the calendar and schedule a live chat session with your counselor if you do not like waiting hours for a response.
This option imitates the convenience of texting a good friend who quickly comprehends.
” Writing down your thoughts is an useful workout for all kinds of situations,” Imrie states. “If you feel like your ideas are crowded or foggy, boiling them down into a few sentences can help bring a lot of clearness and understanding.”
Live phone session
For those who prefer overcoming issues out loud, it’s possible to schedule an hour-long phone call with your counselor.
The system doesn’t share your individual contact number with the therapist and everything is done through the app.
Live video session
If you’re somebody who delights in face-to-face discussion, you can also arrange a video session with your therapist. Just visit at your visit time and your counselor will trigger you to start the video chat.
Anyhow, as it happens, I am a little fine-tuned in the head– so well played, Facebook algorithms. From the age of about 13 onwards, I’ve experienced higher-than-seems-normal levels of anxiety, and while I’ve mostly come to terms with being jittery and a bit doomy, I definitely would not mind being less so. I’ve had counselling before, and it does help. Could e-counselling not just re-hinge my mind, but do so without me having to put pants on and leave the house?
And pulling back from my own (fairly subtle) problems for a moment, could e-counselling be the answer to the mental health problems escalating among under-30s? With cuts to mental health services actually starting to bite, digitised treatment could be just the ticket for young people who currently filter nearly every element of their lives– pals, work, sex, entertainment– through a screen.
Not everybody is entirely convinced that shifting psychological health care online is the way forward. “You get to understand not only what it’s like to talk to the person, however how it feels to be in a space with them.
” I’ve carried out some research study into Skype counselling,” says London-based psychotherapist Dr Aaron Balick, “and it’s not the ‘functional equivalent’ of standard counselling; it’s just not quite the very same thing. It’s truly important that people who participate in it understand that it’s a different experience from being in the space with someone, speaking in person.”
” In regards to ease of access, it’s a good start and definitely better than nothing. It’ll ideally lead them to eventually showing up in the room. If you’re having a hard time with relationship concerns, attachment problems, or much deeper concerns, it’s better to be in the room with somebody. Skype and the web uses a distance from your counsellor that may not be practical.”
In cases of mild depression, the NHS is now directing some patients towards online programmes instead of in person counselling, a phenomenon that concerns Dr Balick.
” My fear is that it’s happening a growing number of for financial reasons, rather than due to the fact that it’s what’s best for people. If it’s presented simply to conserve cash and there aren’t crucial concerns being inquired about these services, that’s bad. However then, I’m constantly extremely sceptical of individuals who are either extremely extremely professional or very extremely versus online psychological healthcare. It’s a case of asking the right concerns.”
Well, if the future of mental healthcare is all about IMs, FaceTime and ‘OMG, which neuroses R U?’ tests, I chose I ‘d learn what that brave new world would be like. I registered for four very various online psychological health services– ranging in cost from free to , 100 a month– and ran my anxieties through them all, all at once, for a week. Here’s what I found.
Does BetterHelp use licensed therapists? Can Betterhelp
What I’m doing here is examining my experience of utilizing each psychological health service, rather than its effectiveness – due to the fact that even the most wizard-like therapist isn’t going to ‘treat’ you in simply one week. Okay, cool – let’s psychological health!
How does it work?
As seen on FB (by me, anyway), United States company is the business leviathan of the e-counselling video game. They declare to have 500 licensed counsellors working for them, each with a minimum of three years of experience.
After filling in a questionnaire to determine what specific flavour of mental you are, you’re paired with a counsellor, who you can mercilessly swap for a different one at any time. (I got Dr. Laura Dabney, from Virginia). You then begin an instant messaged treatment session that both you and your counsellor can drop in and out of, and which could, in theory, continue up until one of you ultimately died.
What does it cost?
You get a free seven-day trial – much like a free Netflix or Amazon Prime trial, except with way more questions about what your childhood was like. After that, it costs from , 24.50 a week for unlimited message-based counselling and one ‘free’ phone session with your counsellor monthly. Yeah, I don’t get how it’s complimentary either, but whatever.
How much is BetterHelp monthly?
If you discover the concept of baring your soul to a complete stranger a bit awks, filtering that through immediate messaging might be handy. You won’t get the very same connection just like face-to-face counselling, but the semi-anonymity may make it simpler to open up if you’ve been drinking two bottles of rum and dancing around in your dead nan’s bridal gown every night.
She initially ascertained the scale of my stress and anxiety, what activates it– social situations, meeting individuals for the first time– and after that dived headlong into my fractious childhood (separated parents, stretched familial relationships, bullied in junior school). She was quite nosey tbh, however then that’s her job, isn’t it?
Overall, the service is remarkably slick. The discussion can be a little stop-starty sometimes, but it was actually a far smoother and more on-tap experience than I anticipated. I even got fast responses to messages over the weekend, which was unexpected.
Talkspace vs Betterhelp
The fact you can modify messages before sending them implies you’re not likely to blurt out something revealing and unguarded in the heat of the moment. Profound moments of realisation might be tough to come by if you can’t get an unwinded circulation going.
Who do I believe it might it be good for?
Anyone with a low-end psychological health problem who’s cool with getting counselled in a very internet-y, 2016-y way. If you’re living under the blackest, bleakest cloud possible and require serious attention (and possibly some medications), most likely isn’t for you Can Betterhelp | <urn:uuid:24ec2b14-3a9c-441c-bef0-b7cd361cd8e9> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://coreflect.org/can-betterhelp/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571536.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811224716-20220812014716-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.934116 | 2,185 | 1.5 | 2 |
Jeju-island has been promoting the UNESCO humanity intangible cultural heritage
in order to protect the Jeju women diver culture. The Cultural Heritage
Administration, December 2013, after selecting Jeju women divers’ culture to
the applicant Korea representative brand of UNESCO, cooperated continuously
with the Jeju Island to register it and finally last year, UNESCO in March 2014
they made it successful. Explain several effects that a cultural heritage
registration can bring?
Jeju-island has a lots of culture. One of
it is Jeju women diver. As Jeju women divers’ culture had be a brand of UNESCO
it will bring several good effects to Korea.
First, there will be more visitors at Jeju
island. When foreigners come to Jeju island, they will buy something whatever
it is. That money can be a tax to a country. It will be helpful to our society.
Second, foreigners can know about Korean
culture. As they know about Jeju island’s culture, they will know about the
peninsula(Korea)’s culture,too. It will be an opportunity to give an
information around the world.
In conclusion, for those two reason
As the age group using smartphones goes down, people are worrying about side
effects of overuse by children. One research says smartphone distribution rate
has been sharply rising recently for children and teenagers, of 50% for
elementary school students and of 80% of middle and high school students.
Explain what the bad results are and what you can do to prevent these problems.
Now, almost all student use smartphones
from elementary school students to middle and high school students. Even
children who are younger than 8. As smartphone distribution rate is increasing,
parents are worrying about side affects of overuse by children. Overuse of
smart phone gives a lot of bad results.
First, your brain does not work. When you
are addicted to smart phone, you will do many game right? Then the part of the
brain that helps to think stops. We need to think and move but when we do games
we do not think and play. That’s the reason why.
Second, you can’t separate the reality and
fantasy. Game is fantasy. However, some people who did many games think that
reality is fantasy. So there was person who shoot people with guns. Also, there
was one boy who killed his brother. He thought that brother will woke up again
just like fame. This one is most serious side affects. However, it is not far
away in the future.
In conclusion, these two are the side
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Implementing the right business intelligence software in your business offers numerous advantages that you can’t afford to ignore. With data now being woven into every function and sector of the global economy, ignoring this fact is essentially business suicide. The fact is, big data is quickly becoming the basis for growth and competition for companies. If used correctly, it can help enhance business productivity, reduce waste, and even improve the quality of the services or products that you offer.
What is Big Data?
Big data refers to massive pools of data that are brought together and then analyzed to find patterns. These patterns show you how to make better decisions. The largest corporations in the world currently use big data to their advantage every day. There is no reason that small and medium size businesses need to miss out on this invaluable asset.
Are you currently harnessing the power offered by big data? If not, now is the time to do so. Having the right tools, hardware, and software in place is the first step. Your IT service provider can help with this. It’s smart to learn what big data can do for you and your business. After all, if your business invests money into this, it is essential to know what it’s worth.
With big data, information is always available and accessible to you and your employees in real time. When you have the right tools in place, you can capture user data and quickly accumulate information regarding your customer’s behavior. This type of valuable information means you can create strategies that improve the potential for conversions.
Track the Results of Your Business Decisions
Analytics are invaluable, regardless of the size of your business. Big data and the right business intelligence software can help you track the outcome of your promotional strategies. This means you can see what’s working and what isn’t. With the results in hand, making better decisions is simple.
With big data, even small businesses can keep an eye on how their brands are perceived by their customers. This makes it easier to make accurate predictions about the techniques being used and minimize your risks.
Develop More Customer-Centric Services and Products
When you utilize big data, your business can easily understand:
• Your prospective customer’s current requirements
• How your current services and products meet these needs and demands
• Changes that are necessary to improve products and services
With big data, your business can also test your product designs to find any flaws that could result in a loss if the product was marketed. It also helps to enhance services after the sale, including support, maintenance, etc.
Big Data Provides a Competitive Advantage
When big data is implemented correctly, it offers small businesses a competitive advantage. You can find out about the market insights of your competition, which means you know where your own business is lacking. As a result, you can step up your efforts and achieve better results.
Is Big Data Right for You?
Chances are, you have heard of big data but didn’t know about all the benefits it offered. If you are using a marketing company that isn’t pushing the use of big data, it’s time to consider the benefits it offers. When you combine big data, along with the right business intelligence software, you can create a marketing strategy that ensures the results you want and need. Are you unsure of how to get started? There are several firms that can help with this. Simply reach out to these professionals to begin implementing the use of big data for your marketing efforts.
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Interest rate rises: how investors can protect bond portfolios
For the first time since the financial crisis of 2008, the policy of Central Banks is set to diverge. The US Federal Reserve and the Bank of England are expected to raise interest rates and tighten monetary policy. While the ECB and Bank of Japan are loosening monetary policy, having just begun or are expanding their quantitative easing programme.
In response, Adrian Lowcock, head of investing at AXA Wealth, offers investors three ways to protect bond portfolios.
- Be Flexible
There is little to be gained investing in benchmark constrained funds or index trackers which will buy or sample the whole market. Investors need a fund which can protect against rising yields and avoid the areas of the market most sensitive to interest rate rises.
- Be Diversified
Don’t just own a total return bond fund which invests only in traditional bonds, ensure your bond fund is fully diversified across many markets and is not closely correlated with traditional bond indices.
- Mitigate Losses
Bond managers can use hedging and portfolio management to reduce risk of a loss. Investing in derivatives in the bond market provides exposure to investment strategies which can provide a positive return whether the market falls or rises.
Two funds, which can be used to protect bond portfolios in a volatile market
- Blackrock Fixed Income Global Opportunities
Manager Scott Theil’s fund is not constrained by benchmarks, running an unconstrained fund which is well diversified across sectors. The fund is managed with strict risk controls and targets a total return, so the income generated on the fund may vary. The current yield is 0.79 per cent.
- Artemis Strategic Bond
Manager James Foster’s focus is very much on the macroeconomic factors such as interest rate movements and inflation. Combined with analysis of specific bonds credit worthiness determines his asset allocation decisions. The current yield is 4.6 per cent.
The divergence in central bank policy is going to create volatility and opportunities for investors as well as risks.
Market expectations that the Fed will raise interest rates later this year, with the UK following suit has already led to increased volatility in the bond market.
Investors need to be cautious with their exposure to the bond market, after a 30 year bull run and record low interest rates it has become more difficult to get a decent interest; the risks of achieving a 5 per cent return, once the expected normal yield, have risen 4 fold following the financial crisis. Bonds are no longer the lower risk asset class and investors could loss significant sums of money. | <urn:uuid:41a63b96-a0d1-4d3e-af36-ca0c9fc2685f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.yourmoney.com/investing/interest-rate-rises-how-investors-can-protect-bond-portfolios/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570921.9/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809094531-20220809124531-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.938814 | 525 | 1.5625 | 2 |
Have you ever thought about it?
Putting on lipstick might be something of a daily habit, like brushing our teeth or combing our hair. But it might shock you to know just how many harmful chemicals you are being exposed to.
“In regards to lipstick we have researched and found that women will on average swallow 1kg of lipstick if you manage to work through 5 lipsticks a year between 16-60yrs of age. The chemicals that have been linked to cancer in those lipsticks are artificial colours, butylated hydroxyanisole (BHA), fragrance, plasticisers, talc, Teflon and formahldehyde.” Kim Morrison, Twenty 8 and Like Chocolate for Women
“Studies in the US by the Campaign for Safe Cosmetics and more recently by researchers at the University of California in Berkeley have found unexpectedly high levels of lead and other heavy metals in many lipsticks. These won’t be shown on any ingredients list, because they aren’t deliberately added: they originate as contaminants, mostly in colouring agents.
In addition to the possible heavy metal contamination, some ingredients that can be found in commercial lip balm that you may want to avoid are:
• petroleum jelly or mineral oil
• parabens, including parahydroxybenzoate, butylparaben,
methylparaben, propylparaben, and ethylparaben
• unspecified ‘fragrance’ or ‘flavour’
• butylated hydroxytoluene (BHT)
• diazolidinyl urea
• octinoxate/ethylhexyl methoxycinnamate (this is a
• propylene glycol
• menthol, camphor, phenol and alcohol.”
The problem with lipstick is that chemicals are absorbed directly into our bloodstream. Unlike when you eat food, there is no liver to bypass and help detoxify the toxins first. On top of that you have the potential cumulative effect of so many toxins in our body.
So, what is the alternative?
Well, you don’t have to give up lippy all together! You just need to be choosey about which one you will allow on your lips! Do your research, check ingredients and ask questions. I find the EWG Skin Deep Database an invaluable tool to investigate chemicals in cosmetics.
Here are my top three natural lipsticks.
1. Miessence Lip Cremes and Shimmer Cremes. A creamy matt formula with intense natural colour blends of pure mineral pigments. Find them online.
2. Inika Mineral Lipstick. A completely natural and vegan lipstick, Inika is formulated with natural shea butter and jojoba oil to moisturize your lip. Absolutely zero chemicals or animal derivatives. Find the Inika Mineral Lipstick here and their Lip Whips (like a lip gloss) here.
3. La Mav Tinted Lip Treatment. These are very clever as they combine an intensive hydrating lip treatment to moisturise and condition dry lips and intensive Bio-Active ingredients to help stop the visible signs of ageing on the lips. Oh, and they colour your lips too! Get them online.
What is your favourite natural lipstick? Are you concerned about chemicals in your lipstick?
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Websearch.searchere.info is a new browser hijacker which is very active these days. As a result, you will see this particular site in each new tab of your browser whenever you go online. No matter how many times you open this new search tab, you will encounter websearch.searchere.info. This means that your browser has been seriously hijacked, and this is the issue for major browsers like Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox and Internet Explorer. Use these tips below that will help you get rid of this nasty malware which attacked your browser. You will find out how to reset your browser settings to their initial parameters.
Websearch.searchere.info comes into computers as a result of users installing some other program which was downloaded online. The majority of such programs is distributed online for free, but the point is that they are often bundled with a lot of extras which are offered to be installed by default together with the initial software of your selection. We can say that the installation of this browser hijacker is a result of user’s failure to be attentive while installing other programs (primarily free applications that can be easily downloaded online).
Be very careful whenever you download and install free programs online. Remember that there can be many other potentially unwanted programs which will be offered for you to be installed by default. You should select the option of custom (manual) installation where you will have a chance to uncheck installation of all additional and really useless utilities). If websearch.searchere.info attacked your browser please follow the automatic removal instructions we recommend below.
Automatic instructions to reset your browser settings:
- Through your browser download Plumbytes Anti-Malware via https://www.system-tips.net/download.php or directly via the link below.
- Scan your computer and remove all detected adware files and registry entries.
- In Plumbytes Anti-Malware click “Tools” tab and select “Reset browser settings”:":
- Give your permission to reset your browser settings by clicking “Yes“:
- You will receive the confirmation windows about browser settings reset successfully. When you reset your browsers through restarting them you will see that browser hijacker has been successfully removed. | <urn:uuid:a4ea4929-303f-4b57-ba00-0a9e2eb7da3e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.system-tips.net/websearch-searchere-info-removal-instructions/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571536.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811224716-20220812014716-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.901006 | 463 | 1.59375 | 2 |
Finding a mentor can be tough, and it’s even more difficult when your plate is already full with work, school, or other time-consuming commitments. Although it can be difficult, the benefits of having an experienced guide are countless. If you’re in graduate school or just beginning your professional career, now is the perfect time to find a mentor to guide you through your career.
Add Instant Value
Mentors can help you develop time management skills, assist in structuring your research project or thesis, and even help you make the transition to a full-time job after graduation. Additionally, a good counselor can also give you advice on your career from the perspective of someone who has been in the industry for several years already.
A mentor will give you the opportunity to grow both personally and professionally. Having a professional in the industry you want to enter will give you an inside look into the ups and downs of the field, so you can decide whether it is truly the career you want to pursue.
Plot Your Course
Additionally, mentors can help you clarify what your career goals are. With their years of experience, they have undoubtedly been through similar situations and can offer a unique perspective on your current situation.
Another major benefit of having a mentor is having someone help to advance your career. Your mentor knows you well, and will undoubtedly be able to write you a stellar recommendation for any future employment opportunities.
Take A Dry Run
It’s also important to find a mentor that will give you unbiased feedback. Part of the learning process is making mistakes, and it’s important to have someone who will acknowledge when you have made a mistake but also help you learn from it.
Having an advisor can also help increase your confidence in the workplace. Having someone to go to for career advice can help minimize your nerves when working in a new environment, and counselors are a great resource for any questions you may have about your career.
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Are take-back schemes a legitimate way to recycle fashion waste, or are they a waste of time?
Brands need to think about their products’ afterlife
More and more shoppers and fashion brands are realising that producing better is not enough anymore. Brands need to produce less while also thinking about their garments’ afterlife, which is why circularity and circular fashion have grown in popularity in recent years. And shoppers need to buy less, ensuring they take care of their garments and dispose of them responsibly.
Circular fashion is about designing waste and pollution out of our clothes and ensuring they help regenerate natural systems at the end of their (long) lives. It is based partly on William McDonough and Michael Braungart’s Cradle to Cradle design philosophy. Circular fashion moves away from the traditional linear take-make-dispose business model. A growing number of brands are looking for ways to use what’s already been created and give shoppers options for recycling, upcycling, and donating clothes they don’t want anymore.
As a result, we’re seeing numerous fashion brands promote recycling or take-back schemes. But what are these take-back schemes exactly? Are they good for people and the environment? And are there sustainable brands using take-back programs to which you can donate your old clothes with confidence? Let’s take a look.
What are take-back schemes exactly?
First things first, what is a take-back scheme? According to the Circular Economy Practitioner Guide, a take-back scheme “is an initiative organised by a manufacturer or retailer, to collect used products or materials from consumers and reintroduce them to the original processing and manufacturing cycle.”
For example, you might have heard about H&M’s Garment Collection program, which allows you to put old clothes into in-store recycling bins to be given a new life in exchange for a voucher.
Are take-back schemes good for people and the planet?
It’s encouraging to see brands starting to transition to more circular business models, but take-back schemes are far from perfect solutions to a much deeper systemic issue.
On paper, take-back schemes are far better than simply throwing your clothes in the trash: they make it easy for shoppers to donate clothes, helping to boost the recycling rate and divert clothes out of landfills.
But the truth is, with many high street brands, it’s hard to know what happens to our clothes once they’ve been dropped into in-store recycling bins. For example, H&M says, “Once you’ve dropped off your previously loved fashion in one of [its] garment collecting boxes, [its] business partner I:CO takes over. They empty the boxes and sort the contents into three categories:
- Rewear: Wearable clothes are marketed as second hand clothing.
- Reuse: If the clothes or textiles are not suitable for rewear, they’re turned into other products, such as remake collections or cleaning cloths.
- Recycle: All other clothes and textiles are shredded into textile fibres and used to make insulation materials, for example.”
While this all sounds nice, the brand doesn’t give more details, such as where the clothes are being remarketed or what percentage of the clothes are reworn, reused, or recycled.
We now know recycling textiles is not as easy as it seems and that the fashion industry still lacks proper systems and processes to take care of discarded clothing. Breaking down materials in a recycling system is emissions-intensive and reinforces the unfortunate societal norm that says an item can be disposable after one use. In the fashion industry, fabrics and textiles have not traditionally been the most straightforward items to recycle, and there remains a lot of confusion around how to recycle clothing.
Plus, as Head of Ratings Kristian Hardiman highlighted in our guide to recycled clothing materials, while we are seeing positive steps in the right direction, “the reality is that the fashion industry as we know it is fraught with fractured systems. Regardless of the material and its impact, there is an underlying issue: too much virgin material is being used to make our clothing.” This overabundance has led to colossal textile waste issues from numerous areas of the production line, including pre-consumer and post-consumer waste.
And that’s if the brand chooses to recycle clothes. Some prefer to donate clothes left in in-store bins to charities, such as Zara, which gives old clothes to local charities and organisations. The issue is that charity stores continue to have massive problems with receiving soiled, torn, or otherwise unsuitable textiles that can’t be sold or given away. In some cases, charities are forced to spend money sorting and disposing of this material, of which an estimated 25% goes directly to landfill. An additional 40-50% is exported into the problematic global second hand clothing trade, which swamps the local textile market of countries such as Ghana.
Finally, some have argued that some take-back schemes may simply be tokenistic gestures. Having in-store collection bins and encouraging shoppers to bring old clothes back isn’t enough to counter the detrimental environmental impacts of encouraging over-consumption and over-production—especially if consumers are given discounts or vouchers to use towards a new purchase, perpetuating the vicious cycle.
At the end of the day, take-back schemes are great if they are part of a greater plan to move to a circular business model that doesn’t keep pushing shoppers to consume, and if the brand behind it is fully transparent about what happens to donated clothes.
13 brands using take-back schemes to recycle waste responsibly
Luckily, such brands exist. If you want to give your old clothes a new life but want to make sure the brands you are donating them to are working to reduce their environmental and social impact and change the fashion industry for the better, today’s your lucky day. Here are 11 sustainable and ethical fashion brands using take-back schemes to recycle waste the right way. | <urn:uuid:4a4363b4-f7c4-403b-8f4c-0eba3839c49d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://goodonyou.eco/brands-take-back-schemes/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571909.51/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813051311-20220813081311-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.949003 | 1,268 | 2.296875 | 2 |
Changing file and folder permissions in cPanel
To change permissions for a file/folder, go to "File Manager → Root directory of web content (public_html) "
To change permissions en masse, click "Select All " and then "Permissions "
In the window that appears, set the necessary permissions and click "Change Permissions "
To change permissions for a single folder or file, simply click on the permissions mask on the right side and set the required permissions
Click "Save " to save
Changing permissions of files and folders via FTP
Let's look at changing permissions on the example of the FTP client - FileZilla. When connecting to the account, the root directory will open, where with a right-click you will be able to change the access rights.
Connecting to the account via FTP
Right-click on a file or folder and choose "File Permissions ".
In the new window, set the rights
In the case of a directory, you can change the permissions recursively by choosing "Redirect to subdirectories ".
Standard access rights:
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In Kenya, we will be hosting an Online Campaign under the #Usingiziinitiative, Join the Conversation. to find out more visit www.maryannenjuguna.com
World Sleep Day is an annual event to raise awareness of sleep disorders and the burden that they place on society. The 12th annual World Sleep Day will be held on Friday, March 15, 2019.
- Most sleep disorders are preventable or treatable, yet less than one-third of sufferers seek professional help.
- Sleep problems constitute a global epidemic that threatens health and quality of life for up to 45% of the world’s population.
- Better understanding of sleep conditions and more research into the area will help reduce the burden of sleep disorders on society.
- Three elements of good quality sleep are:
- Duration:The length of sleep should be sufficient for the sleeper to be rested and alert the following day.
- Continuity:Sleep periods should be seamless without fragmentation.
- Depth:Sleep should be deep enough to be restorative.
In addition to clinical sleep problems, poor sleep habits can cause poor quality sleep in adults. To help improve overall sleep and wellness, World Sleep Society has created:
10 Commandments of Sleep Hygiene for Adults
- Establish a regular bedtime and waking time.
- If you are in the habit of taking siestas, do not exceed 45 minutes of daytime sleep.
- Avoid excessive alcohol ingestion 4 hours before bedtime, and do not smoke.
- Avoid caffeine 6 hours before bedtime. This includes coffee, tea and many sodas, as well as chocolate.
- Avoid heavy, spicy, or sugary foods 4 hours before bedtime. A light snack before bed is acceptable.
- Exercise regularly, but not right before bed.
- Use comfortable, inviting bedding.
- Find a comfortable sleep temperature setting and keep the room well ventilated.
- Block out all distracting noise and eliminate as much light as possible.
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Often in life without realising it we get stuck inside our own heads.
We get caught in a web of over-thinking.
We analyse everything and we allow our ‘chimp’ limbic brain to run riot and build a wall of excuses to hide behind.
We spend more energy on convincing ourselves not to do something than doing anything, it then becomes a habit.
Step away from it all, stop thinking, stop trying to make big decisions. Life is a series of regular small steps done as best we can.
Relax and let our life out of our heads into the world and see where it takes us.
Thinking is useful, over-thinking isn’t and letting life be is often the answer to getting unstuck.
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EXPLANATION OF THE GLOSSING SYSTEM
(to understand how I describe the signs in this translation).
Refrain: WE PRAISE YOU-lf, LORD JESUS CHRIST.
KING HAVE GLORY WITHOUT END.
1. OUR HEART CAN'T LIVE HAVE BREAD ALONE,
WE NEED EVERY WORD OUR GOD ANNOUNCE.
2. ME LOOK-FORWARD LORD SAVE. HIS-lf WORD ME TRUST.
GO-WITH THE-lf LORD, HE-lf HAVE-MERCY-ON-us FOREVER.
3. COME-ON MANY-LOOK-TO THE-lf LORD, YOUR(pl) HEART COMPLETE.
GO-AHEAD KNOW THE-lf LORD. HIS-lf WAY OFFER TRUTH AND LOVE.
Notes: YOU - Underlined words are honorific indices ("indexes"), using the FT of the upturned palm to indicate who is being honored.
GLORY - (2h), POs ><, FOs away from signer, DH which is on top wiggles fingers while ascending. For an animated gif of this sign, see Animated dictionary of religious signs - Deaf Missions: Glory.
GO-WITH - (2h)[A] press palms together and move forward.
HAVE-MERCY-ON-us - (2h)[open 8], POs > signer, hands move in vertical circles normal (perpendicular) to the chest. For a QuickTime file of this sign, see ASL Pro: Mercy - 2.
COME-ON - (2h)[B^] move in circles pivoting at the wrists to beckon someone to do something.
MANY-LOOK-TO - (2h) move FT towards Heaven as if many eyes were looking to God.
COMPLETE - (2h)[B^], POs up, FOs ><, DH circles around NDH and lands on its palm. For a QuickTime file of COMPLETE, see ASL Pro: Whole.
GO-AHEAD - (2h)[B^ dot], POs ><, FOs away, move forward in a jerk.
Refrain: Praise to you, Lord Jesus Christ, king of endless glory.
1. Our hearts cannot live on bread alone,
but by every word that comes from God's own mouth.
2. I hope in the Lord, I trust the Word:
with the Lord, our God, is mercy evermore.
3. O turn to the Lord with all your heart;
come to know the Lord whose ways are truth and love.
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July is our first annual Lung Transplant Awareness Month!
When discussing treatment options for PF, your doctor or pulmonologist may have brought up the topic of a lung transplant. A lung transplant is a surgery that replaces a diseased lung with a healthy one. For some people with PF, a transplant is a realistic treatment. For others, there may be ways to improve quality of life with fewer risks involved.
Whether you were recently diagnosed or have been struggling with PF for years, you may have lots of questions about lung transplants and PF.
- What does the research say about the risks and benefits of a lung transplant?
- What does the process involve?
- What does recovery look like?
- What are some complications that may arise after a lung transplant?
- Am I too young, or too old, to get a lung transplant?
- Would I need a single or a double lung transplant?
- I have medical conditions in addition to PF. Would I be eligible for a lung transplant?
- How would I get on the waiting list? How long would I wait for? How do people handle anxiety while waiting?
- What would happen if I got more sick while I’m waiting? Or if I experienced side effects from meds like severe weight loss/gain? Would that change my spot?
- Which hospitals do you recommend?
- My relative is waiting for evaluation to be approved for a lung transplant. What advice do you have for us?
- After the surgery, what foods can I eat? What foods should I avoid?
- After the surgery, what activities can I do? Which activities should I avoid?
- How long can people live after their transplant?
- What aspects of life does a lung transplant change? What medications would I need to take?
During Lung Transplant Awareness Month, there are 3 easy ways to get all your questions answered about lung transplants & PF:
- Attend our lung transplant-themed virtual support group meetup on July 12th. Our upcoming support group features a special guest speaker who survived a double lung transplant – and then became a renowned advocate for making every breath count. Join us as we gather on Zoom to hear his story, share support, and learn more about lung transplants & PF. Register for free here.
- Follow us on Instagram and Facebook to see the latest news and research related to lung transplants & PF. Stay tuned for the big announcement on social media revealing our special guest speaker’s name!
- Submit your questions to our growing Q&A list. Comment below with your question, no matter how big or small, and we’ll answer it in a future blog post. To get the advice of real people with or impacted by PF, you can also post your questions in our community forum here.
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Background: Control of the trunk is critical for locomotor efficiency. However, investigations of trunk muscle activity and three-dimensional lumbo-pelvic kinematics during walking and running remain scarce.
Methods: Gait parameters and three-dimensional lumbo-pelvic kinematics were recorded in seven subjects. Electromyography recordings of abdominal and paraspinal muscles were made using fine-wire and surface electrodes as subjects walked on a treadmill at 1 and 2 ms(-1) and ran at 2, 3, 4 and 5 ms(-1).
Findings: Kinematic data indicate that the amplitude but not timing of lumbo-pelvic motion changes with locomotor speed. Conversely, a change in locomotor mode is associated with temporal but not spatial adaptation in neuromotor strategy. That is, peak transverse plane lumbo-pelvic rotation occurs at foot strike during walking but prior to foot strike during running. Despite this temporal change, there is a strong correlation between the amplitude of transverse plane lumbo-pelvic rotation and stride length during walking and running. In addition, lumbo-pelvic motion was asymmetrical during all locomotor tasks. Trunk muscle electromyography occurred biphasically in association with foot strike. Transversus abdominis was tonically active with biphasic modulation. Consistent with the kinematic data, electromyography activity of the abdominal muscles and the superficial fibres of multifidus increased with locomotor speed, and timing of peak activity of superficial multifidus and obliquus externus abdominis was modified in association with the temporal adaptation in lumbo-pelvic motion with changes in locomotor mode.
Interpretation: These data provide evidence of the association between lumbo-pelvic motion and trunk muscle activity during locomotion at different speeds and modes. | <urn:uuid:16c6f23f-d897-4f27-bca2-e88e600167f4> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15975698/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571536.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811224716-20220812014716-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.933069 | 374 | 1.585938 | 2 |
El Rio Community Health Center has opened its 11th clinic in Pima County. The Cherrybell Clinic in Tucson's Ward 5 is a 50,000-square-foot clinic that will house more than 150 medical professionals.
Services at Cherrybell will include primary medical care for children and adults. There are state-of-the-art lab facilities, including mammography, ultrasound and X-ray. Other services include pharmacy, behavioral health, dental, and health and wellness options.
The building is expected to get more than 50 percent of its power using solar energy panels that will do double duty as shaded parking for patients and employees.
The Cherrybell Clinic will have expanded care for HIV/AIDs patients. Nancy Johnson, the CEO for El Rio Community Health, says, "El Rio takes care of more individuals with HIV/AIDs than anybody else in Southern Arizona." She adds, "They had really outgrown their small health center on the west side of town, so they moved into the new building, double their current size."
Another new resident of the building is the small clinic that was taking care of homeless individuals.
The El Rio Community Health Center started in 1970 as part of President Lyndon B. Johnson's war on poverty. In 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson made a declaration that would change health care in America. In a speech before both houses of Congress, he said, "This administration today — here and now, declares an unconditional war on poverty in America."
The War on Poverty Act poured millions of dollars into cities all over the country in desperate need of health care. Tucson was one of those cities. By 1970, the community group that had formed to apply for federal grants had secured land on Tucson's west side.
Pima County joined the effort by donating an old building known as the Mother Higgins Juvenile Detention Center and donated $50,000 dollars to renovate the facility and to turn the jail cells into the first medical examining rooms. As it turned out, those 18 jail cells were the perfect size for the first medical examining rooms.
Today, El Rio Health has grown to one of the most highly regarded integrated health centers in the country. Paula Mandell, the deputy director of the Pima County Health Department says, "I can't imagine Pima County without having an El Rio and all of the wonderful things they do in the community."
Mandel says modern day health care is high tech and expensive and that El Rio Health Center has fine-tuned the art of collaborating with other health care groups for the benefit of the entire community.
It may have started as a small clinic where jail cells were converted into examining rooms, but today, there are more than 1,300 employees serving over 100,000 people per year. The annual budget exceeds $160 million, making El Rio Community Health a national model for other community health centers. | <urn:uuid:fa682828-21e8-4474-8fd1-2930f8fd72d7> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://news.azpm.org/p/news-articles/2019/3/19/148065-el-rio-community-health-opens-11th-clinic-in-pima-county/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571909.51/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813051311-20220813081311-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.972955 | 585 | 1.65625 | 2 |
One of the Charms in Windows 8 promised to make it easy to share content between applications – rather than copying & pasting, maybe it would be better to allow the source application to provide some extra context to the destination app. When it works well, app-app sharing is really useful, but it maybe didn’t take off quite as much as expected.
The Sharing icon from Windows 8.x and early Windows 10 versions was the 3-blobs-in-a-circle which does looks a lot like the Ubuntu logo for some, and doesn’t necessarily convey the meaning of sharing to others. One of the tweaks in the Creators Update was not only a newly-designed icon, but a new Sharing UI that aims to simplify the process further.
If you are using a suitable Windows app (like Edge or Photos, for example), which touts the new sharing icon (the one with the arrow leaping out of the box), then when you choose the Share action, a UI will show up that lists all the apps that could be the target for Sharing, and a link to the Store to find more.
Sharing a page from Edge to OneNote, for example, will put a thumbnail image if available, a description of the page, and will let you add your own verbatim notes before saving the content as a new page in your notebook.
There are a few Clipboard apps which can be handy for sharing content so you can paste it into an old fashioned app that doesn’t support the Share method. Some “traditional” Windows apps – like the venerable Windows Explorer – are Share enabled, even though their icon may still be using the old design for now (and some Store apps have the same design lag – the Store App itself being one of them…) | <urn:uuid:280768d7-ebf3-4055-a5f8-e5191b59aedf> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://tipoweek.azurewebsites.net/2017/05/24/tip-o-the-week-378-sharing-caring/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571909.51/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813051311-20220813081311-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.937493 | 372 | 1.84375 | 2 |
This talk was presented as a keynote for the 2018 Cascadia R Conference (https://cascadiarconf.com/agenda/).
Inspired by the book "Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear" by Elizabeth Gilbert, Alison talks about the five essential ingredients needed to creatively learn R and why these elements are also essential for advanced users to take their R skills to the next level. You will hear practical advice for when, where, and how to start a project in R, and how your learning can add value- both to your own knowledge and to contribute to the larger community of R learners. Along the way, she shares recommended resources and evidence-based strategies for project-based learning. Alison's background working with both new and advanced R users gives her a unique perspective on this topic. | <urn:uuid:46f7fbcd-63c5-4e23-b8fa-3a601070b5e5> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://speakerdeck.com/apreshill/big-magic-with-r-creative-learning-beyond-fear | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571909.51/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813051311-20220813081311-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.950085 | 163 | 2.40625 | 2 |
In another boost to Mozilla, Google has created a tool that lets users synchronize the settings of their Firefox browsers across multiple computers.
With Google Browser Sync, users will maintain the same bookmarks, website visits log, saved passwords and persistent cookies in all their copies of the Mozilla open-source browser.
To enable this continuous synchronization to happen, users have to install copies of the Google Browser Sync on every computer where they have Firefox, Google announced late Wednesday in its official blog.
This free tool also “remembers” the tabs and windows users had open the last time they used Firefox and gives users the option to open them. One downside is that the tool updates settings every time Firefox is launched, which will increase the time it takes a browser to open, Google warns.
Google Browser Sync works with Firefox 1.5 and newer versions. It doesn’t support Microsoft’s Internet Explorer, Opera Software’s Opera or the Mozilla Suite, which includes the Mozilla Navigator browser.
It’s not surprising to see Google developing tools for Firefox that don’t work with IE. Google has a close relationship with Mozilla that involves technology collaborations and cross-promotion efforts. Meanwhile, the relationship between Microsoft and Google is at best adversarial and often acrimonious. They compete in search, online services and, increasingly, in desktop and hosted software.
Browsers in particular are a contentious area between Google and Microsoft because they are an entry point to Web search activity. Recently, Google has complained about the new IE, version 7, which is now in beta and contains an embedded search box with a drop-down menu set by default to use Microsoft’s search engine, but which includes other options.
However, some have criticized Google for being inconsistent on this point because its search engine is the default choice in the embedded Firefox search box. Firefox is a thorn in Microsoft’s side, because it is the most credible competitor to IE in years, holding now an estimated 10 percent market share.
In April, Google caused a stir when it promoted Firefox on its homepage, a rare move and one clearly intended to help Firefox grow its market share. Google also includes Firefox in its Google Pack, a free, downloadable software suite that it distributes and that includes products from Google and other vendors, including Adobe Systems and Symantec, but not Microsoft.
More information and download instructions for Google Browser Sync can be found here.
-Juan Carlos Perez, IDG News Service (Miami Bureau)
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Originally made in Burma.
Love expressing feelings and knowledge through words. Teen writer and a language teacher as profession.
Want to write more and more fictions about people and fantasies.
The Taste of Words
What is the taste of words? It lies between the sentences which can penetrate through your mind to your heart. And then leaving the feelings behind after reading. That is the art of writing. The words, they shape the whole story. They make the scene clearer. And make the plot juicy.
Writers do cry too.
Humans, the same. Writers have feelings too. They do cry when hurt. But unlikely, they cry onto paper. Rather than crying tears, words are replaced. Hurting words, gloomy words as painful as tears, they cry. Then, the stories are made from these words or tears which are read for years. Whenever a writer cry, a new story is born on earth.
When you get a life, it's easy to live it. But the most difficult part is surviving it. Not only you, everyone is trying to survive it in their own ways.
So challenge yourself while young. See how far you can go, how high you can fly. You might face thunders, rain clouds, lightnings, and storms. Be prepared for them. After those rough and tough journeys, there are sunny days with fluffy clouds and sunshine waiting for you.
No matter how hard the life becomes, try to accept the reality and try to be the real you.
Always remember my quote
"You are you,
You were born to be you.
No one can be you and
There will always be you for yourself during difficult times."
Never give up! Don't be afraid to make mistakes. Mistakes can only correct you.
Think about it, everything is temporary. You ain't always losing! There is a place for you, a time for you to celebrate in this mighty world. But sitting and doing nothing won't help you find your place. So get up, be prepared and......face any challenges and show the people who have pulled you down. Prove them wrong😉💪 | <urn:uuid:9c6c2444-e4f9-4c46-9d59-d43b76037120> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://msha.ke/janettmalzent23/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571909.51/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813051311-20220813081311-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.968558 | 454 | 2.1875 | 2 |
Alzheiimer drug Zyprexa and other tranquilizers--sued
What is missed is that the drug companies pay kick backs to
the assisted living facilities and there additional profits in the gap between what they bill insurance and Medicare and what
the drugs cost the facility.Secondly an endpoint study has shown that those
with dementia die significantly sooner if on a tranquilizer.Finally turning
patients into zombies makes it easier for the staff.Such are the costs of making
a business out of caring for others.
Bloomberg.comBy Margaret Cronin Fisk, Elizabeth Lopatto and Jef Feeley, June 12, 2009
Lilly Sold Drug for Dementia
Knowing It Didn’t Help, Files Show
Eli Lilly & Co. urged doctors
to prescribe Zyprexa [olanzapine] for elderly patients with dementia, an unapproved use for the antipsychotic, even though
the drug-maker had evidence the medicine didn’t work for such patients, according to unsealed internal company documents.
In 1999, four years after Lilly
sent study results to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration showing Zyprexa didn’t alleviate dementia symptoms in older
patients, it began marketing the drug to those very people, according to documents unsealed in insurer suits against the company
Regulators required Lilly and other antipsychotic
drug- makers in April 2005 to warn that the products posed an increased risk to elderly
patients with dementia [of death]. The documents show the health dangers in marketing a drug for an unapproved use, called
off-label promotion, said Sidney Wolfe, head of the health research group at Public Citizen in Washington.
“By definition, off-label
means there is no clear evidence that the benefits of a drug outweigh the risks,” Wolfe said. “The reason why
off-label promotion is illegal is that you can greatly magnify the number of people who will be harmed.”
In 1999, when Lilly began its marketing
push, Zyprexa’s only approved use was for patients suffering from schizophrenia, according to the FDA. In 2008, Zyprexa
was Lilly’s best-selling drug, with $4.7 billion in sales, while anti-psychotics as a group topped U.S. drug sales last year, with $14.6 billion.
In a request for a December 2003
meeting over a proposed label change, Lilly told the FDA that data from seven studies showed Zyprexa didn’t alleviate
symptoms of Alzheimer’s or other dementia.
The studies found death rates among older dementia patients taking Zyprexa were “significantly greater”
than those who didn’t get the medicine, the company said, according to the unsealed documents.
“Plaintiffs are releasing one-sided,
cherry-picked documents obtained in discovery to selected news media in an effort to try their cases in the media,”
said Lilly spokeswoman Marni Lemons, who added that the company will fight the lawsuit. She declined
to answer specific questions about the studies.
Lilly pleaded guilty in January
to a federal misdemeanor charge of illegally marketing Zyprexa for off-label uses to elderly consumers. The company admitted
illegal promotions from September 1999 through March 2001, while denying such practices beyond that date.
The documents also revealed Lilly officials wrote medical journal studies about Zyprexa
and then asked doctors to put their names on the articles, a practice called “ghostwriting.”
Lilly employees compiled a guide
to hiring scientists to write favorable articles, complained to journal editors when publication was delayed and submitted
rejected articles to other outlets, according to the documents.
Lilly’s internal documents,
which number about 10,000 pages, were unsealed as part of suits against the drug-maker by health insurers and pension plans
seeking to recoup monies spent on Zyprexa. The insurance plans contend the papers indicate that Lilly promoted the antipsychotic
to doctors treating elderly patients even after March 2001.
The plaintiffs cite documents including
a 2002 business plan calling for expanding prescriptions in off-label use. They also point to notes from Lilly sales representatives
through 2003 recording efforts to press doctors to prescribe elderly patients Zyprexa for mood symptoms, irritability and
$6.8 Billion in Damages
Insurers and other so-called third-party
payers contend Lilly should pay as much as $6.8 billion in damages for downplaying Zyprexa’s health risks, including excessive weight gain and the risk of contracting
diabetes, and marketing the drug for unapproved uses to pump up profits.
Bloomberg News obtained copies of the documents
after U.S. District Judge Jack Weinstein in Brooklyn,
New York, ordered their release on May 1. In September, Weinstein allowed insurers
and other payers to sue Lilly as a group after finding “sufficient evidence of fraud” to let the case go to trial.
Lilly appealed that ruling.
The Indianapolis-based drug-maker
agreed in January to pay $1.42 billion to the U.S. government and more than 30 states to settle off-label marketing allegations
over Zyprexa. The agreement included a $615 million penalty for the federal criminal charge.
Lilly has paid $1.2 billion so
far to settle more than 32,000 individual claims by patients, the company said in an April 30 securities filing. About 140
claims remain, Lilly reported.
The company also faces suits from
12 states over its Zyprexa marketing practices. Cases brought by South Carolina
and Connecticut officials are set for trial later this year.
The unsealed documents support the claims of
the insurers suing Lilly, said lawyer Thomas Sobol, of Seattle-based Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro LLP. His firm
represents the plaintiffs suing the drugmaker for overcharging on Zyprexa and provided Bloomberg News with copies of the documents.
Bloomberg News filed a letter brief
asking the court to unseal the documents.
Zyprexa was initially approved
in 1996 for use with schizophrenia sufferers. In 2000, Lilly received the FDA’s approval to sell it to those dealing
with the mania stage of bipolar disorder.
The drug has never been approved for use with
dementia patients, according to the FDA’s Web site.
Even before the drug was on the
market, Lilly researchers were eyeing whether elderly dementia patients could benefit from taking the antipsychotic, according
to the unsealed documents.
A 1995 company study of users taking
between 1 to 8 milligrams of Zyprexa “did not show efficacy in alleviating the psychotic symptoms and behavioral disturbances
in elderly” patients suffering from “primary degenerative dementia of the Alzheimer’s type,” according
to a study summary that was unsealed.
The company also noted that three
patients taking Zyprexa died during a study or within 30 days of its completion, while only one control-group patient expired,
according to the unsealed documents.
J. Alan Webber, a Lilly executive,
acknowledged in a Feb. 16, 1995, note that FDA official Paul
Leber wasn’t impressed with study results in connection with Zyprexa’s effectiveness in treating older dementia
“Dr. Leber was not enthusiastic
about study HGAO (psychotic demented elderly) with respect to the indication for use, and extensive discussion did not resolve
the disagreement,” Webber said, according to the documents.
Back to the FDA
In 1998, Lilly went back to the
FDA seeking approval to market Zyprexa to those battling Alzheimer’s, the most common form of dementia, the company
said in its 2003 request for a meeting on a proposed label change. Lilly withdrew its bid to promote Zyprexa for Alzheimer’s
cases in 1999, according to the document.
In a November 2000 memo to Lilly
salespeople, company executives said the dementia marketing initiative was abandoned because the FDA questioned Zyprexa’s
effectiveness in treating the ailment.
“It was withdrawn due to
vagueness on the FDA’s part regarding a definition of efficacy,” Lilly officials said in the document.
In a 2003 memo to FDA regulators
citing the clinical studies, Lilly researchers acknowledged the death rates among older dementia patients on Zyprexa in the
reviews were two times higher than their counterparts taking placebos.
Deaths among the patients taking
Zyprexa in the studies were “significantly greater than placebo-treated patients (3.5 percent v. 1.5 percent, respectively),”
Lilly officials said, according to the unsealed documents.
The studies didn’t find Zyprexa
was effective in treating dementia, the company acknowledged in this document.
Lilly recognized this earlier,
according to a 2002 document entitled “Zyprexa in serious mental illness (65 plus years) -- A Strategy Review.”
“The treatment of serious
mental illness for people over the age of 65 has been identified as a growing opportunity for Zyprexa,” the authors
wrote. “Unfortunately, attempts to gain the data to support an application for an indication in the treatment of dementia
have to date been unsuccessful.”
Lilly, which first marketed Zyprexa
to psychiatrists, sought to expand its customer base in 1999 by focusing on long term-care facilities, particularly nursing
homes, according to the unsealed documents.
Primary Care Physicians
It later began targeting primary care physicians,
known as PCPs, as another potentially lucrative Zyprexa market. Such physicians frequently deal with dementia patients, according
to the unsealed files.
Another benefit to the strategy
was that many of those practitioners were “unaware of Zyprexa weight gain issue,” according to a December 1999
Lilly sales memo, referring to one of the drug’s possible side-effects.
Lilly viewed dementia as the “key”
to the elderly and PCP markets, according to an undated document, “Elderly
- PCP Sales Aid.” In that paper, executives urged salespeople to “utilize
dementia and symptoms as entry.”
Lilly marketing executives envisioned
expanding “Zyprexa’s market by redefining how primary care physicians treat mood, thought and behavioral disturbances,”
according to the December 1999 memo. The strategy included: “Focus message patients; symptoms and behaviors (rather
than diagnoses),” according to the unsealed internal company documents.
Lilly officials in 2002 reported
Zyprexa sales grew due to “an expanding prescriber base in primary care, off-label use including PTSD and sleep,”
according to a document called “Zyprexa Business Summary,” referring to post-traumatic stress disorder. The company’s
goal was to reach $6 billion in sales by 2006, according to a July 2002 Zyprexa marketing plan.
Lilly’s long-term care unit
also saw Zyprexa sales rise 2.9 percent in the second quarter of 2002 as sales of Risperdal, Johnson & Johnson’s
rival antipsychotic, fell, according to the 2002 marketing plan.
At that time, long-term care sales
made up about 20 percent of Zyprexa prescriptions, according to the summary. Of that number, 65 percent were written for nursing-home
Overall, prescriptions for older
patients were the “2nd biggest money-producing segment” for Zyprexa in the U.S., according to a Feb. 15,
2002, e-mail from Lilly researcher Peter Feldman to Denice Torres, the company’s global marketing director.
In that e-mail, Feldman said company
officials were saying in internal memos that they were going to stop studying Zyprexa’s potential health benefits for
That would risk “killing
the goose that lays the golden eggs to save on poultry feed costs,” Feldman said in the unsealed messages.
Torres assured him older consumers
would continue to be a prime target for Zyprexa sales, according to the e-mail.
“Elderly remains an important
aspect of target PT and affiliate focus,” she said in the message.
Increased Zyprexa sales to elderly
patients also won Lilly’s long-term care unit praise in a 2003 newsletter unsealed as part of the documents.
“For two consecutive years,
you have been on top and have turned in above-plan performance,” Grady Grant, Lilly’s national sales director,
wrote in the newsletter. “I look forward to working with you as we set our sights on overtaking Risperdal as the number
one antipsychotic in the marketplace!”
“Once again you have all
shown that LTC is a driving force for Zyprexa in the US affiliate in 2002,” Mike Murray, another Lilly executive, wrote in the
newsletter. “We must continue to accelerate the growth of Zyprexa.”
Unsealed documents also showed
Lilly salespeople prodded doctors to prescribe the drug for off-label uses, according to “call notes” Lilly turned
over in lawsuits against the drugmaker. Portions of some call notes, which record sales visits to doctors, are cited in a
recently unsealed June 15, 2007, filing by the insurance plans.
One sales representative wrote
in a March 7, 2003, note she’d persuaded a doctor to write
Zyprexa prescriptions for use in “elderly pts, help sleep and irritability.” Another asked a doctor to try Zyprexa
“in elderly who are not thinking clearly and are suspicious and hostile,” according to an Aug. 31, 2001, note.
Common Adverse Effects
In June 2004, Paula Rochon, a senior
scientist at the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences in Toronto, published a literature review in the British Medical
Journal showing there were only five trials available analyzing antipsychotics’ effect
on the elderly, and that in those trials, adverse effects were common.
In May 2008, Rochon found that
atypical antipsychotics triple the risk of a patient’s death or hospitalization
within a month of starting therapy, according to research published in the Archives of Internal Medicine. About 17 percent
of nursing home patients suffering from dementia are prescribed an antipsychotic within 100 days of their admission, according
to her study.[The actual percentage is much higher.]
The insurance plans, states and
former Zyprexa patients suing Lilly also claim company officials hid the drug’s health risks and failed to properly
warn patients they could develop diabetes by taking the medicine. Former users contend the drug leads to increased weight
gain, which can spark the disease.
In 2001, marketing executives advised
salespeople not to duck questions about whether Zyprexa caused some users to gain weight, according to an internal memo.
“Acknowledge weight gain
but present it as a manageable side effect,” Lilly advised its sales force, according to the documents. “With
most customers, we will continue to address the diabetes concern only when it arises,” the December 2001 document said.
“Get back to selling!”
The case is UFCW Local 1776 and
Participating Employers Health and Welfare Fund v. Eli Lilly and Co., No. 05-CV-04115, U.S. District Court, Eastern District
of New York (Brooklyn).
90% of users
experience weight gain, increased risk of hyperglycemia and diabetes.Wikipedia
lists over 20 serious side effects.Of interest is “a placebo-compared study of six Macaque monkeys receiving olanzapine between 17 and 27 months, a significant brain volume and weight decreases
(8-11%) were detected.”
Lilly’s own published data, which it told its sales representatives to play down in conversations
with doctors, has shown that 30 percent of patients taking Zyprexa gain 22 pounds or more after a year on the drug, another
study showed 16% of Zyprexa patients gained at least 30 kg (66 pounds) in one year, and some patients have reported gaining
100 pounds or more.
In 2006, Lilly
paid $700 million to settle 8,000 lawsuits from people who said they had developed diabetes or other diseases after taking
Zyprexa. Thousands more suits are still pending.
In 2002, British
and Japanese regulatory agencies warned that Zyprexa may be linked to diabetes, but even after the FDA issued a similar warning
in 2003, Lilly did not publicly disclose their own findings.
Eli Lilly agreed
on January 4, 2007 to pay up to $500 million to settle 18,000 lawsuits from people who claimed they developed diabetes
or other diseases after taking Zyprexa. Including earlier settlements over Zyprexa, Lilly has now agreed to pay at least $1.2
billion to 28,500 people who claim they were injured by the drug. At least 1,200 suits are still pending, the company said.
About 20 million people worldwide have taken Zyprexa since its introduction in 1996. On January 8, 2007, Judge Jack B. Weinstein refused the Electronic Frontier Foundation's motion to stay his order.
On January 15, 2009 Eli Lilly plead guilty to a misdemeanor charge of illegally marketing Zyprexa for off-label use,
and agreed to pay $1.4 billion
Lilly 'ghostwrote' Zyprexa studies, documents show
Eli Lilly prodded doctors to prescribe Zyprexa for dementia patients even though it had data showing the drug
didn't help those patients, Bloomberg reports, based on
internal company documents made public as part of a lawsuit. Plus, the company "ghostwrote" journal articles supporting the atypical antipsychotic, then scouted for doctors to append their bylines, the documents
show. Lilly also compiled a guide to hiring scientists to write favorable articles.
Aggrieved by the document release, Lilly defended itself: "Plaintiffs are releasing one-sided, cherry-picked documents
obtained in discovery to selected news media in an effort to try their cases in the media," Lilly spokeswoman Marni Lemons
told Bloomberg, adding that the company will fight the lawsuit.
She wouldn't answer specific questions, however.
The unsealed documents were submitted as evidence in lawsuits against the drugmaker, filed by health insurance
companies and pension plans that want to be repaid for their spending on Zyprexa. The plaintiffs are asking for as much as
$6.8 billion in damages. Lilly already settled off-label marketing claims with the U.S. government and several states--for
$1.42 billion, including a $615 million criminal penalty. The company has paid $1.2 billion to settle individual patient claims,
Bloomberg reports. For comparison's sake, Zyprexa sales
for 2008 amounted to $4.69 billion, down slightly from $4.76 billion in 2007.
June 11 (Bloomberg) -- Eisai Co. failed to win expanded use for its best-selling Alzheimer’s
drug Aricept in Britain, after a U.K.
agency refused to overturn its earlier decision not to fund the medicine and similar treatments.
The agency, known as NICE, reiterated its 2006 ruling, even after it fixed the flawed methods initially used to conclude
that the cost of the drug and its rivals exceeded existing guidelines. Patients with mild disease still shouldn’t receive
Aricept under the country’s state-run health program because it isn’t cost-effective, NICE
said today in an e-mailed statement.
“Although a number of technical
inaccuracies were highlighted and amendments were made to the economic model, these were not sufficient to change the original
conclusion that these treatments are not cost-effective
in the mild stages of the disease,” the agency said. “The drugs continue to be
recommended only for people with moderate Alzheimer’s disease.”
The decision also applies to Johnson & Johnson’s Razadyne, Novartis AG’s Exelon and generic formulations of the drugs. The companies
can appeal the finding, NICE said. The agency released in November 2008 the details
of how it arrived at the original finding, then reviewed the decision after taking into account comments made by the companies
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The African continent is slowly separating into several large and small tectonic blocks
The African continent is slowly separating into a number of large and small tectonic blocks along with the diverging East African Rift System, continuing to Madagascar – the long island just off the coast of Southeast Africa – that itself will likewise disintegrate into smaller sized islands. The finding comes in a new research study by D. Sarah Stamps of the Department of Geosciences for the journal Geology.
The African continent is slowly separating into several large and small tectonic blocks along with the diverging East African Rift System, continuing to Madagascar – the long island just off the coast of Southeast Africa — that itself will also break apart into smaller islands.
In prehistoric times around 88 million years ago, Madagascar, the island country in the Indian Ocean off the east coast of Africa, split off from the Indian subcontinent. Now, a new study shows the island is breaking up again, this time into smaller islands. These developments will redefine Africa and the Indian Ocean. The breakup is a continuation of the shattering of the supercontinent Pangea some 200 million years ago. Rest assured, though, this isn’t happening anytime soon.
“The rate of present-day separation is millimeters annually, so it will be millions of years prior to new oceans begin to form,” stated Stamps, an assistant teacher in the Virginia Tech College of Science. “The rate of extension is fastest in the north, so we’ll see brand-new oceans forming there first.”
The new GPS dataset of very precise surface motions in Eastern Africa, Madagascar, and several islands in the Indian Ocean reveals that the break-up process is more complex and more distributed than previously thought, according to the study, completed by Stamps with researchers from the University of Nevada-Reno, the University of Beira Interior in Portugal, and the Institute and Observatory of Geophysics of Antananarivo at the University of Antananarivo in Madagascar itself.
In one area, the scientists found that extension is dispersed throughout a broad location. The area of the distributed extension is about 600 kilometers (372 miles) large, spanning from Eastern Africa to entire parts of Madagascar. More specifically, Madagascar is actively breaking up with southern Madagascar moving with the Lwandle microplate– a small tectonic block– and a piece of main Madagascar is moving with the Somalian plate. The rest of the island is found to be warping nonrigidly, Stamps added.
While studies have shown the African continent and now the Madagascar island is actively splitting or breaking apart to form a new continent, ocean, or island, this is not happening anytime soon. Also working on the paper was geosciences Ph.D. student Tahiry Rajaonarison, who previously was a master’s student at the Madagascar’s University of Antananarivo. He assisted Stamps in 2012 in collecting GPS data that was used in this study.
The group used new surface movement information and additional geologic information to test various configurations of tectonic blocks in the area utilizing computer system models. Through an extensive suite of statistical tests, the scientists defined new limits for the Lwandle microplate and Somalian plate. This approach permitted screening if surface movement information is consistent with rigid plate movement.
The final model for the East African Rift System.
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What is a surge protector?
A surge protector or surge suppressor is an appliance or device designed to protect electrical devices from voltage spikes. A surge protector attempts to limit the voltage supplied to an electric device by either blocking or shorting to ground any unwanted voltages above a safe threshold.
Do you really need a surge protector?
You should definitely use a surge protector with your computer. It is filled with voltage-sensitive components that a power surge could damage very easily. A surge protector will generally extend the life of these devices, and there’s always a chance that a big power surge will causes severe damage.
How long do surge protectors last?
Three to five years.
Yep, that’s right: Surge protectors don’t last forever. Most estimates put the average lifespan of a surge protector at three to five years. And if your home is subject to frequent blowouts or blackouts, you might want to replace your surge protectors as often as every two years.
Are whole house surge protectors worth it?
Do Whole House Surge Protectors Really Work? Yes! A whole–house suppressor instantly blocks the surge from entering home circuits to provide comprehensive lightning protection. Individual plug-in suppressors can’t protect electronics that aren’t plugged in, but are hard-wired instead.
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What Is a Simple Receipt?
Simple receipts are documents that are used as proof of a successful transaction of goods and services and a written acknowledgment that is made between the customer or the consumer and the organization or establishment.
This document contains the vital information of every transaction made between two parties, such as the goods or services bought or availed, the date of transaction, and the confirmation that the transaction has been paid completely.
In the event that claims regarding warranties or requests for replacements will take place, sales receipts are used to track down to verify that the claims and requests are valid.
How to Create a Simple Receipt
Do not get fooled into thinking that simple receipts are an extremely easy document to make just because it comes in a small size. Receipts contain vital information and one is missing, its validity can already be questioned. This is why, if you are about to make one of your own, we highly recommend you to follow the guidelines below in order to ensure that you have included every single detail needed for an effective sample receipt.
1. Indicate Clearly That It's a Proof of Transaction
You need to make it clear that your blank receipt can be easily identifiable as proof of the transaction. One way of doing so is by indicating it at the topmost part of the paper and write down what type of document it is.
2. Indicate the Time and Date of Transaction
The time and date when the transaction has been completed and made are necessary enough to be included in your proof of purchase. While the time can be optional for some establishments, the date when the transaction occurred should be indicated.
3. Identify the Parties Involved in the Transaction
The name of your establishment and the name of your customer must be included in the bill receipt upon a successful sale of goods or services. While there are some establishments who would not strictly require to list the name of the customer, they would usually leave a blank space where that provides the customer an option to write his or her name.
4. Identify the Goods or Services Made in the Transaction
Do not forget to include the details of the goods and services involved in the transaction. It is important to state these clearly so as to avoid any problems and disputes between your customer service. Do not also forget to clearly indicate its quantity, its condition when it was bought, its total price, and you may also include the method of payment used in paying it.
5. Understand the Purpose and Elements of a Simple Receipt
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What is a Coach?When you think of a coach, you probably imagine the athletic kind, whether that’s a high school gym teacher or the coach of a professional sports team. Life coaches are similar in some ways -- their job is to get the best out of their team (in this case: you) and their goal is to inspire traits and teach skills necessary for success.
Where an athletic coach focuses on things like physical strength, endurance, and perseverance, a life coach’s domain is confidence, responsibility, organization and personal satisfaction.
A coach is a guide, someone who’s been where you are and has developed effective strategies for dealing with all the hurdles life can throw at you. But more than that, a coach is someone who knows how to listen, to understand, and to support. In our busy and hectic modern age, the art of listening is becoming an ever-rarer quality. We all hear each other, of course, but many of us simply don’t have the time or energy to do more than that.
Coaches have made it their goal in life to listen -- unjaded and unbiased; not simply waiting for their turn to speak, but with curiosity, compassion, and genuine interest in what you have to say. Your coach’s job is to see the breadth and depth of your situation so that she can guide you through it from a higher vantage point than you’d be able to gain on your own.
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Implementing safety in retail and household environment is very crucial, following the recent series of fire breakouts in Australia. Last year, there were 1,565 preventable house fires reported in Melbourne. They resulted in loss of lives and a property damage of almost $30 million. This highlights the risk of fire outbreaks and devastatingly fatal damage they can cause.
Fire safety should be a prime concern for your homes, retail outlets, corporate buildings, warehouses and stores. Most of the fire outbreaks occur due to avoidable factors. Learn how to keep your loved ones safe with few fire safety tips from Australia Fire Protection.
PREVENTION MEASURES – BEFORE A FIRE
- Have adequate and suitable smoke alarms installed across your building and floors
- Take support from Thermal Imaging Assessment technology
- Keep emergency numbers on easy accessibility
- Make a fire escape plan and emergency exits diagrams
- Practise the fire exit plan regularly
- Consider an insurance company for financial assistance and risk management plans
- Use authorised electrical appliances and machines only
- Store matches and lighters in secure places
- Don’t overload electrical outlets
- Use surge protected multi-outlet power strips and extension cords only
- Get annual maintenance checks for the oil, gas and wood heating units
- Install a electrical safety switch or circuit
- Keep fire extinguishers and blankets near the emergency exit
- Do treat the fire alarm as an emergency and exit the building immediately
- Immediately inform the nearest fire station
- During the evacuation from the building, feel the doors for heat before opening them
- To escape the dense smoke in the air, fall and crawl to reduce inhalation exposure.
- Remain in the room if you are unable to exit. Keep the door closed and await assistance or notify rescue Personnel of your location with something like a bright cloth from the window.
- Close the doors before leaving the premises as this would help in slowing the fire and decreasing the damage
- Keep a track of your colleagues/neighbours and notify the personnel if they are missing.
- Avoid collecting personal items before moving out of the fire exit.
- Do not use a elevator during a fire emergency. Walk or run through the stairs.
- Once in a safe place, call or report about the fire outbreak and inform about your safety/assistance required
- Await further instructions from the fire emergency department and stay safe in the refuge area.
- Don’t panic or hinder the evacuation or fire exhaustion process.
For assistance on evacuation diagrams, fire equipment servicing and emergency response plans, contact Australia Fire Protection Group. Our services are currently available in CBD, North West and inner suburbs of Melbourne. Call 1300475715 for a comprehensive range of passive and active fire protection services.
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The government might know more about your soil than you do. Did you know you can access the USDA’s soil map of your property? You can and I am going to show you how.
What are soil maps?
Soil maps, also known as soil surveys, are used by architects and engineers to determine a soil’s ability to support roads or structures. Farmers use soil surveys to help them decide the best use for their land and you can, too. Your soil map can help you with plant selection, irrigation, and other gardening decisions.
Soil maps are the combined information collected by various government agencies on different types of soil. Soil surveys used to be printed in book form by every county. We don’t do that anymore. [Thank goodness!] Now, all the information is found online.
How to access a soil survey
All of the information the U.S. government has about your soil is available at the USDA’s Web Soil Survey page. Because this page isn’t exactly intuitive to use, we will work through it together. Once you open the webpage, click on the green Start WSS button to begin.
Once you are in, you will see five tabs. Those tabs are:
You will automatically be on the Area of Interest page. This is where we will begin.
Area of Interest
Before you can access any useful information, you have to set an area of interest (AOI). To do that, follow these steps:
*If your AOI is too small, you will get a warning. If this happens, make sure you are on the AOI tab, under Area of Interest and AOI Properties, and click the Clear AOI button and start again at step #7, using a larger area.
Your map will have orange lines and reddish-orange numbers and letters marking various soil series, which will be listed on the left. You can click on the soil type links for a surprising amount of information, including:
If you need help, as I did, with some of the terminology, try the USDA Soil Glossary. Now we get into the nitty gritty information. Click on the Soil Data Explorer tab.
Soil Date Explorer
This tab has sub-tabs you can investigate. Under Intro to Soils, you can get the equivalent of a college education on soil, free for the reading. The next sub-tab, Suitabilities and Limitations for Use, returns you to your map with a ton of informational categories on the left. While you probably don’t care about Building Site Development, you still might find it interesting reading. If you are short on time, go straight to the Land Management heading and click on the double arrows to expand that category. [Be sure to check out some of the other headings, as well.]
A list of several sub-categories will open up and you can expand any of them. For each of these sub-categories, you can click on View Description or View Rating. In many cases, you may see “Not rated”. I have to assume that means it is either not relevant, or that it has not been considered worth the investment.
Speaking of investments, were you surprised to learn that our tax dollars are spent on this sort of information collection?
Download Soils Data
The next tab is labelled Download Soils Data. While you can certainly try using it, I had no luck. Apparently, I do not have the proper software to open the downloadable files.
Shopping Cart (Free)
This tab allows you to download a 30-page or so document with all the general information about your soil, if you want it. Personally, I find just playing around on the website gives me more of the information I can use in my garden than the report. If you want your report, click on the Check Out button and then decide if you want it now or later, and click OK.
Since most of this information is collected for farmers, builders, emergency response, and military use, it can be far more than you need in the home garden. But it sure makes for some interesting reading!
You can grow a surprising amount of food in your own yard. Ask me how!
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The long awaited follow-up to our all-time bestseller Thinking with Type is here. Type on Screen is the definitive guide to using classic typographic concepts of form and structure to make dynamic compositions for screen-based applications. Covering a broad range of technologies, from electronic publications and websites to videos and mobile devices, this hands-on primer presents the latest information available to help designers make critical creative decisions, including how to choose typefaces for the screen, how to style beautiful, functional text and navigation, how to apply principles of animation to text, and how to generate new forms and experiences with code-based operations. Type on Screen is an essential design tool for anyone seeking clear and focused guidance about typography for the digital age.
- Ideal textbook for college-level courses in web design, interaction design, and motion graphics
- Packed with illustrations from the international design community
- Accompanied by a companion website, www.typeonscreen.info, that provides live demonstrations of screen-based hierarchies, interfaces, logotypes, and animations
I'm not sure what else is out there for digital typography books these days but Type On Screen has timing on it's side. The book shows relevant examples (for the most part), gives entry points for future learning.
For a long time typography was regarded as printing on paper and a number of books were dedicated to how it should be done. Today, when typography is a web art, it requires another approach...While reading it you'll know how to apply key principles of animation to the text, generate new forms and experiences with code-based operations. As you see, that's a worthy book for all those who are seeking for A-Z guide about an art of typography.
Ellen Lupton is the queen of typography. Her newest book, Type on Screen, was released this week and is just as good as you might imagine. I have already spent hours looking through the book which you want as a paper copy; it is beautiful. The information is presented in an easy to follow way that works for beginners or experienced designers and includes plenty of practical applications.
This is no turn to this page and do this to make it do that formula book. The book is meant to be read and studied. It encourages you to look further into typography and how it's implemented across all digital media. Any motion graphics designer interested in designing HUD and GUI for movies and television should consider this section a starting point as is goes over the basics of UI/UX wireframe mockups and the interaction of elements. While there is no chapter called Type for Motion Graphics Artists, there is plenty to be discovered in each section for a motion graphics designer to adapt to their work.
Type On Screen should be required reading for every Web / graphic design student. Pros will benefit from it as well. Type On Screen is sure to become a staple in every Web designer's growing library.
The Designer's Review of Books
As a design educator, I find that there is a constant uphill battle to get students an ever increasing amount of information in a continually shrinking amount of time. Ellen Lupton's previous books, including Thinking With Type and Graphic Design: The New Basics, have proven invaluable resources in this continued endeavor. Her latest book Type On Screen is yet another strong resource which provides a thorough overview of everything related to typography in the digital realm in a succinct and easily comprehendible manner.
It's certainly one of the most comprehensive digital typography guides I've spent time with. It covers a wide array of digital type needs from websites to mobile to video and more, with tons of real-world and easy-to-use tips for related projects. It's essentially a continued college-level look at typography in digital design.
I Love Typography
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Is it hard for you to say, “No?” Do you feel the need to explain yourself and give reasons followed by excuses followed by more reasons? Would you be surprised if I told you that you do not need to give a reason?
All the people of the world can be divided into two groups: those who can say “no” easily, and those who cannot.
To the folks in the first group, it’s difficult to imagine why anyone would have a problem with it. Like the famous line from the old movie, To Have or To Have Not, “You know how to whistle, don’t you Steve? You just put your lips together and blow,” people in the first group might say, “What’s so hard about it? Start with N, and end with O.”
But for many, many people, it’s just not that simple. Saying “no” for them carries enormous baggage. This is especially true for those who grew up in households which offered them little opportunity to say no. This is a version of Childhood Emotional Neglect (CEN).
Read these principles over and over. Post them on your bathroom mirror. Digest them. Remember them.
For they will set you free.
To learn more about Childhood Emotional Neglect, how to feel more confident and honor your own needs and feelings more, see the book, Running on Empty: Overcome Your Childhood Emotional Neglect.
This book was originally posted on psychcentral.com. It has been republished here with the permission of the author and psychcentral.
Wife: Every time I say something even slightly negative to my husband, he gets really hurt and angry and refuses to discuss it.
Employee: Every year I’m extremely nervous to meet with my supervisor for my annual evaluation. If she gives me any criticism, I’m not sure I can take it.
Student: I made a C on my first statistics test. I guess I’m not cut out for this graduate program.
Friend: My friend Maggie told me that she thought I could get a better job. I feel so insulted that I haven’t talked to her for a while.
Stranger: The cashier at the grocery store snapped at me for taking too much time to pay. I was so upset that it ruined the rest of my day.
When I was 23 I started my first year of grad school. I was so excited that I had been chosen from hundreds of applicants for admission to a Ph.D. program in psychology. My first test in the psychology program was in statistics class. I was appalled to receive my test back with a big ugly C on it. “Are you prepared for the rigors of this program?” my professor had written at the top.
Actually, I was more than appalled. I had never imagined making a C in graduate school, let alone my first test. Stunned, I went home and questioned my entire life plan. “Maybe he’s right and I’m not up to this. I guess I’m not as smart as I thought. Maybe I should just drop out now before they kick me out,” I agonized.
Let’s face it. No one can go through life without getting negative feedback or criticism from others. And believe it or not, that’s actually a good thing. Because feedback (especially negative feedback) is essential for your growth and health.
We all have our own view of ourselves: our choices, behaviors, and performances. Criticism from others offers us a view of ourselves from the outside. In this way, other people’s views offer an excellent source of information about how we can grow. Yet unfortunately, many of us aren’t able to take advantage of this rich resource.
Folding and fighting are two very different responses to the same thing: feeling hurt. Unfortunately, neither response allows you to benefit from the criticism. And both happen when you lack a good, healthy Criticism Filter.
To become stronger in the face of criticism (and maybe even benefit from it), all you have to do is build yourself a boundary to keep criticism from spearing you in the heart while you process it. Sound easy? It’s not.
But you can do it!
4. Ask your criticizer questions. Try to understand exactly what they mean and why they are saying this. Filter their message, owning the parts that are true and discarding the parts that are false.
5. If your criticism carries something valid and useful, develop a plan of action. Is there something you can or should try to change about yourself or how you’re doing things?
And now, flashback to 1983. After several hours of painfully questioning my abilities and my future, I suddenly felt indignant. “Who is this professor to question my potential on the basis of one test?” I thought to myself. “He doesn’t know me at all.”
So why would he say that? I knew the answer. Because he was challenging me to either work harder or get out.
I also realized my part in this event. I had been over-confident and had not studied properly for the test.
I took out my Statistics book and started on page 1. I spent the entire weekend poring over every page and working through every problem until I fully understood every element of every section we had covered so far and was actually ahead on the material.
And what did I take forward from that experience? I never again went into another test under-prepared.
Sometimes I look back on that experience and wonder what might have happened if I had given up? Where might my life have gone, and how many regrets would I have taken with me?
Each experience of criticism is a challenge: to get better, get stronger, or change for the better in some way. You can fold or you can fight.
Or you can filter it and use it to make yourself better.
Childhood Emotional Neglect can lead to a lack of resilience in the face of criticism. To learn more, see the book Running on Empty: Overcome Your Childhood Emotional Neglect.
A version of this article was originally published on Psychcentral. It has been republished here with the permission of the author and psych central.
Childhood Emotional Neglect: Happens when your parents do not address, validate, or talk about emotions enough as they raise you.
Growing up with your emotions ignored has some very specific effects on your entire adult life. Just as Childhood Emotional Neglect is a lack of emotional attention, one of its most harmful effects is also a lack of something: emotional skills and knowledge.
In my work with hundreds of CEN adults, I find, more specifically, that an almost inevitable consequence of growing up this way is a low emotional vocabulary. Many CEN people have few words to describe feelings. Some apply the same generic word to all of their feelings (like “stress,” “depressed,” or “anxious,” for example); some do not use any emotion words at all, and others use the wrong words altogether.
When emotions are seldom discussed in your childhood it is difficult to absorb and learn the thousands of words in the English language that describe emotions.
When we need to communicate a feeling we are having to another person, or even simply name it for ourselves, it is vital to be able to label it in a subtle and accurate way.
Imagine saying, “I felt hurt,” to your wife after she and her friends teased you relentlessly about your new white sneakers. Now imagine saying, “I felt chastised.” The difference may seem small, but it is significant.
The labels you put on your feelings matter.
There is no way to be alive and not get hurt. We have all been there. When someone says something hurtful to you, how do you name the feeling for yourself, and how do you express it to others?
Yes, you can say, “I’m hurt.” Or you can say exactly how you feel and this will make it far more likely that you will be — and feel — understood.
Next time you feel something painful, look through this list to see which word seems to best describe what you are feeling.
Find hundreds of additional emotion words in the extensive Emotion Words List in the back of the book Running On Empty: Overcome Your Childhood Emotional Neglect.
To learn much, much more about Childhood Emotional Neglect and how it happens plus access the full list of emotion words see the book Running On Empty: Overcome Your Childhood Emotional Neglect.
Do you have a word for “hurt” that is missing? Please share it! Simply post it in a comment on this blog.
Why is it so hard to be assertive? There are some very good reasons why it’s such a struggle for so many.
The first reason is that lots of people think they know exactly what assertiveness is, but they actually only know half of the definition.
That missing half makes a huge difference.
Pause for a moment here and think about what “assertive” means to you. Come up with your own definition.
Did your definition describe standing up for yourself? Speaking your mind? Telling people how you feel or what you think? If so, you got it mostly right. This is the aspect of assertiveness which most people are familiar with.
Now let’s talk about the other half. In some ways, it’s the most important half. So, enough build-up. Here’s the true, full definition.
Assertiveness: Speaking up for yourself — in a way that the other person can hear.
These two aspects of assertiveness, and how they work together, are what make assertiveness a skill which must be learned, rather than a natural ability. Most people have a hard time with the first half or with the second half, and many folks struggle with both. Also, our ability to be assertive varies with the situation, the people involved, and the amount of emotion that we are feeling at the time.
Most people err in one of two primary ways when they try to be assertive: they come across too weakly, making it too easy for the other party to discount their message; or they come across too strongly so that the other party becomes too hurt or too defensive to listen. Once the recipient’s defenses rise, your message will be lost.
No one struggles more with assertiveness than those who grew up in households where emotions were ignored (Childhood Emotional Neglect, or CEN). These emotionally neglectful families do not have the vital skills required for assertiveness because they do not understand emotions, or how they work. They do not know the Five Skills of Assertiveness, so they are not able to teach them to their children.
If you grew up in an emotionally neglectful family, it’s important to acknowledge that you struggle with these skills for a reason. And it is not your fault.
In a minute we will talk about how you can learn the skills, but first let’s consider the skills themselves.
When you put these five skills together, you are able to say what you need to say in a way that is appropriate to the setting, situation, and people involved (not too strongly or weakly), so that the recipients can process your message without their defenses being ignited. Keep in mind that talking to a defensive person is like talking to an inanimate object. Your message will not get through.
You can see from these steps why assertiveness requires not just skill, but a constellation of skills. This is why if it’s hard for you, you are not alone.
The good news is that it is entirely possible to build your assertiveness skills. If you keep all five skills in mind, you can work on building them. Follow these special suggestions to learn these vital skills.
Growing up in an emotionally neglectful family leaves you struggling with many emotion skills that other people take for granted. To find out if you grew up with Childhood Emotional Neglect (CEN), Take The Emotional Neglect Questionnaire. It’s free.
See the book Running On Empty No More: Transform Your Relationships to learn how to use and manage emotions with the most important people in your life.
Show me a family that has no anger in it, and I’ll dig out their anger and show it to them.
That’s my job. I’m a therapist.
Every family has anger. It’s unavoidable in life and in a family, simply because it is literally wired into our brains. It’s a part of our physiology, just as our eyelashes, elbows, and toes. There are many ways that families can handle anger, depending on their comfort level with it.
They can wield it as a weapon, figuratively hitting each other over the head with it; they can push it underground, or they can ignore it and pretend it does not exist.
Or they can use it the way nature intended; as a way to drive truth, and connect family members in a genuine, real and meaningful way.
The Anger as a Weapon Family: In this family, anger is used by one or more members as a source of power. Anger may be expressed in a variety of aggressive ways, like yelling, insults or barbed comments; by throwing things, breaking things, or other physical intimidation or threats.
The Underground Anger Family: This family views anger as unacceptable, or even bad. Angry feelings are viewed as unloving, uncaring or rebellious and are met with negativity or punishment.
The Ignoring Anger Family: This family treats anger as if it doesn’t exist. When a member of the family shows anger, it receives little response. Anger is invisible.
None of the children growing up in these three types of families has an opportunity to learn much about anger: how to listen to its message, manage it, express it, or use it in a healthy way. By definition, all of these children are growing up in an emotionally neglectful family.
All of these children are receiving this message: Don’t talk – don’t talk – don’t talk. No one wants to know when you are angry.
But let’s focus in particular on The Underground and the Ignoring Families, because they have one very big factor in common. They both are breeding grounds for passive-aggression.
Since anger is wired into the human brain, it happens in every human being, whether they want it or not. When you are in an environment that is chronically intolerant of this particular emotion you naturally, automatically suppress your angry feelings whenever they arise. This causes some major problems for you, and in your family.
Pushing anger down is like pushing water down. It has to go somewhere. So it may seep underground and sit there, or it may go slightly under the surface, and ripple and roil, waiting for a chance to spew.
In these two types of anger-intolerant families, the anger goes underground, but it does not disappear. It stays there. And it has to come out somehow, sometime, in some way.
Passive-aggression: The indirect expression of anger and resentment, fueled by feelings that are not addressed and resolved by talking about the issues directly.
Molly felt anxious and uncomfortable as she sat eating dinner with her family. She was acutely aware that her parents refused to speak to each other or make eye-contact.
Joel’s dad was an hour late to pick him up after soccer practice. As Joel sat on the curb waiting, he found himself wondering if his dad was angry about the argument they had the night before.
Jessica found it excruciating when her mother gave her the silent treatment. So she took great care to appear unaffected by it.
Many research studies have clearly established a link between passive-aggression between parents, and problems in the children.
One 2016 study by Davies, Hentges, et al., showed that children growing up in such an environment of indirectly expressed, unresolved hostility are more insecure, and take less responsibility for their own problems. They are also more prone to depression, anxiety, and social withdrawal.
Another difficult aspect of passive-aggression is that most people are completely unaware of their own passive-aggressive behavior. They are often, also, unaware of their own underground anger and resentment that’s fueling it.
Steps to Become Less Passive-Aggressive
Accept that you have anger. Accept that it’s normal and healthy, it’s valuable, and you can use it to make your relationships better.
Increase your anger awareness. Watch for anger in other people. Watch for it in yourself. When you start trying to feel your anger, you’ll start breaking down the wall that blocks it.
Read everything you can about assertiveness. It’s a skill that allows you to express your anger in a way that the other person can take in your message without becoming defensive. Buy a book on it if you can. Then read it!
When something happens that makes you feel angry, take note of the feeling. Practice sitting with it and tolerating it. Apply what you’ve learned about assertiveness.
And talk talk talk.
To learn how to deal with CEN in your marriage, your parenting and with your emotionally neglectful parents, see the book Running On Empty No More: Transform Your Relationships.
To learn much more about Childhood Emotional Neglect, see the national bestseller Running On Empty: Overcome Your Childhood Emotional Neglect.
Let’s start with a little test to see where you are on this.
Read through this list of personal actions, and label each as either “strong” or “selfish.”
If you answered “selfish” to all three:
Chances are, you are highly uncomfortable with saying “no” under any circumstances. You are governed by guilt, and you believe that your own needs are less important than those of others.
If you answered “strong” to:
Number 1: You are able to be strong, at least for the sake of your children. If you are saying no for the sake of your children, you are putting their needs before your elderly aunt’s, and that is a judgment call. Who needs you more right now? If it’s your children, then being able to say “no” to your aunt is a sign of strength.
Number 2: Saying no because you are tired could very well represent strength. If you get enough rest for yourself, you will be in better shape to take care of others. It’s an example of putting your own needs first, which makes it easier for you to contribute to the world in a positive way.
Number 3: You could potentially be crossing the line over to selfish here. Is the Red Sox game truly more important than giving your elderly aunt an outing? Unless there are some mitigating circumstances, you may be making a self-centered choice here. This one may require some careful self-reflection.
In truth, the line between selfish and strong is blurry at best. For example, saying no because of the baseball game may not represent selfishness if you need to be able to talk about it intelligently at a sales meeting the next day, or if your aunt asks you to dinner more often than you can comfortably accommodate in your life. Or saying no because of your children could be selfish if it’s really because you would enjoy being with your children more than dinner with your aunt.
Few people are purely selfish or strong. Most of us struggle with decisions like these all the time. Many people feel selfish and guilty for the simplest personal choices which are actually healthiest and best for them or their families. Sometimes we err too far toward selfish; at other times we give too much because of fear of being so. Often a decision which appears selfish is not, and strong decisions can sometimes come across as selfish to others.
If you have a tendency to feel guilty or selfish when you put your own needs first, it may be because you were emotionally neglected in childhood. Emotional Neglect happens when parents either purposely or unwittingly give a child the message that his feelings and emotional needs are irrelevant. The unspoken message is: “Your needs don’t matter.”
Children who grow up this way, once they become adults, have great difficulty viewing their own needs as important enough to trump anyone else’s. They feel guilty valuing or emphasizing what they want, feel and need. This is an important quandary since emotional health requires us to take care of ourselves first.
Do you worry that you are selfish? Truly selfish people don’t usually struggle much. They easily make the decision that’s best for themselves. They don’t think too much about it, and they don’t look back.
If you follow the above guidelines, you will be strong. Because, in the end, for each and every decision that you make in your life, your strength comes from the fact that you cared enough to think it through.
Strength comes not from putting another’s needs before your own. Instead, it comes from the simple act of weighing another’s needs against your own.
A version of this article first appeared on Psychcentral.com. It is republished here with the permission of the author.
This comment was posted on the Ask Dr. Webb Page of my website. It describes an experience that many can relate to: the feeling of being overlooked.
I have a question about invisibility. I was at a study group and afterwards everyone was chatting with each other except me. I had this overwhelming feeling of being invisible. It brought me almost to tears. Then, just this past Saturday I was standing with my husband and other men when a lady I knew came up, stood right next to me and asked where all the wives were. I said “I’m right here” and she replied “I didn’t see you.” I’m not sure what to make of this.
Are some people overlooked more than others? Yes.
Is it because they’re less interesting? Less important? Less vivid? No.Continue reading
Abigail needs to tell her adult son Mark that she thinks he has a drinking problem.
Simon needs to tell his wife Lisa that he’s afraid he doesn’t love her anymore.
From time to time, we all find ourselves in a tough spot. Something looks wrong or feels wrong, and we need to say something difficult. Something painful that may hurt someone we care about, but which nevertheless must be said.
Abigail and Simon have some tough decisions to make. Do they speak up and risk hurting their loved ones? How do they say it? Would it be better to just keep it to themselves? At least then they wouldn’t cause anyone pain.
Many people in these situations choose the last option. Sometimes it feels easier and kinder. Unfortunately, that is typically the worst choice. Uncomfortable truths seldom disappear on their own. And they have far more power to hurt when they remain unspoken.
If you grew up in a family that discouraged frank discussion, emotional expression, or honest discourse (Childhood Emotional Neglect, or CEN), having a conversation like this may feel simply wrong to you. And even if you do decide to speak your truth, you may not have been able to learn the emotion skills you need to do it right.
Abigail and Simon could easily do this wrong. Abigail could blurt out her message when Mark has been drinking. Simon could pick a fight with Lisa, and leave the house angrily, never explaining why and leaving Lisa baffled and unresolved.
Or each could go about speaking his truth in a caring and compassionate way.
Don’t shy away from speaking your truth. That is not loving, and it will not help.
Make yourself uncomfortable. Do the background work. Take the time, put in the effort, and sit together through the pain. Wait for the seed to sprout, and then revisit the topic with care.
That is what true love and care look like.
To learn more about emotions, emotional needs, and Childhood Emotional Neglect, Take The CEN Questionnaire. It’s free.
To learn how to use your emotions to communicate and connect in your most important relationships see the book Running On Empty No More: Transform Your Relationships.
To learn more about Childhood Emotional Neglect, see my first book Running on Empty.
Barry is good at his job as the manager of a department store, so he continues to do it year after year. But in the back of his mind, he wonders how he ended up here.
Sharon received the Most Dedicated Salesperson Award.
Francesca watched in frustration, feeling overlooked, as her co-workers were promoted over her head, one after another.
Simon’s manager appreciates how quickly he has adapted to his new role in the company, and how little support he’s needed.
Will’s boss gave him a “Needs Improvement” rating, citing inadequate communication with co-workers.
Elizabeth toils away behind the scenes in her customer service job, trying not to call attention to herself. She has no idea that she is capable of much more.
If you have ever been in one of the situations above, you know how it feels. Barry, Francesca, and Elizabeth are in painful situations in their jobs, while Sharon, Simon and Will are thriving in theirs.
You may be surprised to learn that all six of these folks’ job experiences, as different as they are, arise from a common underlying cause. All six grew up in households where their parents overlooked their emotions. They all grew up with Childhood Emotional Neglect (CEN).
The funny thing about CEN is that it leaves you with a particular set of challenges. But in some situations, those challenges can actually become your strengths. When it comes to the workplace, CEN is a double-edged sword.
The Advantages of CEN in the Workplace
The Disadvantages of CEN in the Workplace
The folks who are the most rewarded by, and successful in, their jobs are strong communicators. They know themselves well, and they pay attention to what they are feeling and why. They ask for what they want, and they accept help when they need it.
You can become this way too.
Begin right now to focus more on learning who you are. What do you enjoy? What do you like? What are your strengths and weaknesses?
Begin right now to pay more attention to your needs. Have you earned a raise? Do you deserve a promotion? Are you due a vacation? If so, ask for it.
Begin right now to change how you relate to others. Talk more, take on more interpersonal challenges. Watch how others discuss difficult topics, learn from it, and practice.
Others have seen your strong points for years, and have benefited from your competence, and your giving, independent nature. Now it is time for you to recognize what you have to offer, and ask for what you deserve.
You are worth it.
To learn more about Childhood Emotional Neglect (CEN), how it happens and how to learn the skills you missed, visit EmotionalNeglect.com and Take the Emotional Neglect Questionnaire. It’s free!
To learn more about Childhood Emotional Neglect, see my first book Running on Empty.
Of all human emotions, the one that people struggle with the most is anger. That’s understandable!
After all, it’s the emotion with the most potential to get us into trouble. It can be exquisitely uncomfortable, and it’s the most difficult to control.
Many people find it easier to push anger down altogether (or suppress it) to avoid discomfort and conflict and to stay out of trouble.
Some wear anger like armor in hopes it will protect them from being hurt or mistreated.
Others go back and forth between pushing it down and erupting. In fact, these two things go together. The more you suppress your anger, the more intense it will be when it finally erupts.
If you were raised by parents who had low tolerance for your feelings (Childhood Emotional Neglect, or CEN), then you may be all too good at pushing your anger away; suppressing it and repressing it so that you don’t even have to feel it.
In fact, you may – especially if you have CEN – be so uncomfortable with the A-Word that you can’t even say it.
you may say instead of, I’m angry.
If you’re not comfortable with your anger, you’re more likely to misread and mislabel it as something milder or more diffuse.
“Isn’t stopping yourself from feeling angry a good skill to have?” you may be wondering.
The answer is actually NO.
Research has shown how very important anger is to living a healthy life.
Aarts et al. (2010) found that people who were shown a picture of an angry face were more driven to obtain an object that they were shown later. Anger is like a driver that pushes you to strive for what you want or need. Anger carries with it the message, “Act!”
Example Without Anger: Alana was getting weary of being overlooked at work. She was well-known to be skilled and reliable, and yet she was repeatedly passed over for promotion to manager. Silently she watched younger, less experienced employees move past her, one by one.
Example With Anger: Alana became angry when a less-experienced colleague was promoted. “I deserve an explanation for this. I have to get myself promoted or leave the company,” she realized. The next day she walked into her supervisor’s office and asked why she was passed over. She was promised the next promotion slot.
2. Anger can make your relationship better and stronger
Anger, when used appropriately, can be very helpful in communication:
Baumeister et al. (1990) found that hiding anger in intimate relationships can be detrimental. When you hide your anger from your partner, you’re bypassing an important message that he or she may very much need to hear.
Of course, it’s important to take great care in how you express your anger. Try your best to calibrate it to the situation and express it with as much compassion for your partner as you can.
Example Without Anger: Lance was tired of his wife Joanne’s clutter. She kept, it seemed to Lance, virtually everything. There were stacks of newspapers on the dining room table, five pairs of sneakers of various ages in their closet, and a roomful of clothes that their children had outgrown. Lance wanted that room for an office. “I’ll never get that room,” he thought resignedly. All this time Joanne had no idea that there was a problem.
Example With Anger: Lance was fed up with the clutter. He told Joanne that it was making him feel stressed and unhappy, and also angry at her. After several heated discussions, Joanne removed her personal clutter from the spare room so that Lance could make it his office. They made a truce to try to meet each other in the middle.
3. Anger can help you better understand yourself
Anger can provide insight into ourselves if we allow it.
Kassinove et al. (1997) asked a large sample of people how recent outbursts of anger had affected them. Fifty-five percent said that getting angry had led to a positive outcome. Many respondents said that the anger episode had provided them with some insight into their own faults.
Anger can help you see yourself more clearly. And it can motivate self-change.
Example Without Anger: Joanne was surprised when Lance told her how angry her clutter was making him. “That’s too bad, you’ll just have to deal with it,” she said dully while exiting the room. She promptly put it out of her mind because she didn’t want to think about it.
Example With Anger: “That’s too bad, you’ll just have to deal with it,” Joanne fired back immediately. She stormed out of the room and slammed the bedroom door. Sitting on her bed she felt enraged and criticized.
The next day Joanne woke up with a different perspective on the conflict. She looked around and saw her home as though through Lance’s eyes. She realized that she felt criticized by Lance’s request. “I need to get better at taking criticism,” she thought.
4. Anger helps you negotiate
Anger can help you get what you want.
In a study of negotiation by Van Kleef et al. (2002), people made larger concessions and fewer demands of participants who were angry than ones who were not angry.
Anger makes you more powerful, especially when it’s justified and expressed with thought and care. Lets revisit Alana, who needed to have a difficult conversation with her supervisor.
Example Without Anger: Alana walked timidly into her supervisor’s office. After chatting about the weather, she said casually, “So what do I need to do to get promoted?” Her boss answered her question and went on with her day.
Example With Anger: Alana knew she was angry and that she needed to manage her anger when talking with her boss if she wanted to be effective. She walked into her boss’s office and said, “I need to talk to you about something important.” Alana explained how upset she was by her co-worker’s promotion. Her boss explained that the promoted co-worker was an excellent employee. This made Alana even angrier. She pushed, “Yes, he’s really good. But so am I, and I have more experience and excellent skills,” she stated clearly. Her boss paused, surprised at Alana’s persistence. “You’re right,” she said. Her boss then promised Alana the next available promotion.
If you grew up emotionally ignored or in an environment that did not have the room or tolerance for you to get angry (CEN), some small part of your brain probably screams “STOP!” as soon as you get an inkling of anger. The reality is that it’s not easy to turn that around.
But you can do it. Start thinking of anger as a helpful emotion, not something to avoid. Pay attention to your anger, and try to notice when you’re feeling it. Stop saying “STOP!” to your anger. Instead, listen to your anger’s message, consciously manage your angry feeling, and let your anger motivate and energize you.
Anger, when properly managed and expressed, is power.
So when you suppress your anger, you’re suppressing your power.
And why would you do that?
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