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: Reverse reads: "C.W. Ackerman, Photographer. 3021227 Prospect Bldg. MA, 5693 Cleveland, O."
This photo depicts young men and women socializing outdoors at the Cleveland Metropolitan Park District in Cleveland, Ohio. Several of them are wearing swimsuits and one woman is doing a handstand. There are also people sunbathing on blankets in the grass nearby and several groups of people sitting a picnic tables in the background. View on Ohio Memory.
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How parenting is like living in Paris
A news story on the radio arrested my attention the other day.A journalist was detailing the chronic problem of public urination in Paris, and some Parisian’s reactions to the mayor’s solution: a toilet.
More specifically, many open air red rectangle urinals placed along popular stretches of historic Paris neighborhoods. They basically look like trash cans with red lids. Some have plants on top.
Stay with me here.
English is a fairly imprecise language, requiring great verbosity to make up for its lack of exactness. (Exhibit A: this sentence.) Other languages don’t have this problem.
German, for example, has many different words that sum up a whole concept in one fell swoop. For example, backpfeifengesicht means “a face in need of a fist.” Germans are nothing if not efficient.
OK, back to the beautiful — albeit urine-stained — streets of Paris.
The French have a name for the public urination problem, and it’s great. It’s called "pipi sauvage." Which, in addition to being fun to say, also hilariously translates to “wild pee.” They have a problem with wild pee.
And so do I. Well, not me personally, but in my household. I can’t think of a better phrase than "pipi sauvage" to sum up what is happening in a house of all boys with four of them ages 2 to 7 and all of them aiming for the toilet at the same time.
I have witnessed so many pee-related shenanigans, if I ever write a book about raising the boys it could be called, “The ABCs of Parenting Starts with the Letter P.”
There is no quick fix for this dilemma. Actually, there is, and ironically it would be to fully embrace pipi sauvage and have them pee outside. It’s equivalent to moving the goal post, but if the target is a lot bigger (an entire field instead of a small porcelain oval), then the success rate and our bathroom cleanliness goes up too.
Of course, maybe that kind of thinking is how Paris’ whole problem started.
To be fair, men in general know the French and my boys aren’t the only ones suffering from the scourge of pipi sauvage. One visit inside a men’s restroom in any public establishment will suggest there’s a good amount of wild pee going on. Americans just don’t have a catchy name for it.
But back to my German roots. I’ve come up with a word, a long and difficult to pronounce one, that sums up the environment parents in my situation are dealing with: Kinderpinkelnüberallimmer. This loosely translates to, “kids peeing everywhere all the time.” | <urn:uuid:c936ce94-a072-49fb-bb23-42d8972afbff> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.statesman.com/story/news/local/pflugerville/2018/10/03/daddy-days-how-parenting-is-like-living-in-paris/9715105007/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571536.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811224716-20220812014716-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.923898 | 627 | 1.648438 | 2 |
With absolutely no ulterior motives. Mel Gibson, along with acclaimed screenwriter Joe Ezterhas, will be making a historical film about the story of Judah Maccabee, possibly the third most important Jew in history after Jesus and Moses. For you gentiles, the Maccabees rebelled against the Greeks and Syrians that invaded Judea in 200 B.C. The story of the Maccabees also spawned the Jewish holiday of Hannukah, where the Maccabees had to hole up in a temple, and they only had enough oil to light the lamps for one day, but THANKS GOD! It lasted eight days.
Before you start shouting “Oh, he’s just making up for his anti-Semitic remarks!,” remember that this is a movie he actually was talking about well before he started falling out of the limelight, as Judah Maccabee is actually a distant relative of Braveheart protagonist William Wallace. Though, really, it’s not like it’s ENTIRELY unrelated to making him look a little better.[Via Deadline] | <urn:uuid:60386e79-c788-47b6-8397-4241812bc1ef> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.flixist.com/mel-gibson-to-make-a-movie-about-heroic-jews/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570765.6/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808031623-20220808061623-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.960102 | 224 | 1.992188 | 2 |
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How do we make a computer mouse more comfortable? Hint: relax
Comfort equals relaxation, so what if we designed a mouse around your relaxed hand? Turns out it's less stressful and, as a result, more comfortable to use. Relaxed, your wrist falls at a roughly 45-degree angle, not parallel, not perpendicular. Relaxed, your fingers curl gently inward, they don't extend straight. The most natural finger motion is to curl inward, not press down. These insights led the creation of an entirely unique form factor that minimizes strain and maximizes comfort.
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The formative years in your child’s development – beginning with pregnancy and extending through the first three years of life – will have a profound effect on your child for the rest of his or her life. During this stage of development, children have a unique ability to absorb knowledge quickly and effortlessly.
The good news is, there’s plenty of research available these days to help you make the most of these moments. Even though every child is different, each has the capacity to respond to the same science-based techniques that can unlock their intellectual, emotional, mental and physical potential.
But, babies need motivation to flex their intellect. As a parent, that’s where you come in. New abilities are determined by stimulation and opportunity. For example, the sensory pathways grow when appropriate visual, auditory, and tactile stimulation is given with the proper frequency, intensity, and duration. That’s because every newborn has about 100 billion brain cells. The networks these cells form create the pathways for thinking and learning, pathways they will use the rest of their lives.
In infancy, the brain is growing at a phenomenal rate: 25% of its adult weight at birth, 50% by age one, 75% by age two and 90% by the time they turn three.By then, their brain has formed more than one-thousand trillion connections, according to experts. Every connection, whether it’s learning to walk, talk, read, sing, or even play, forms new connections. These young minds are hungry for input and the more you provide, the more connections are made, not only in their brain and with their body, but with the relatively new world that surrounds them | <urn:uuid:735fba04-aeb8-405b-9a8d-4bad98aa6c7f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://ingeniousbaby.com/about/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571536.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811224716-20220812014716-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.961655 | 344 | 3.5 | 4 |
The Jumping Off Place by Marian Hurd McNeely can be read for free at A Celebration of Women Writers by clicking here.
Also available at Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and BooksAMillion.
1930s Newbery Honor Book
Orphaned siblings Becky, Dick, Phil, and Joan have inherited a homestead in 1910 South Dakota. But to keep the land or sell it they must first live there for 14 months. Not sure if they can live in the remote prairie for that long they decide to try anyway. They deal with unexpected expenses, unpleasant neighbors, claim jumpers, bad weather, and other problems, but eventually triumph over them all and gain the respect and friendship of the nearby town's inhabitants and come to love their prairie home. A sweet story of a family adventure in a time with amazing opportunities.
The Jumping Off Place by Marian Hurd McNeely
My rating: 2 of 5 stars
I've wavered over my star-rating for this 1930s Newbery Honor Book. I lean to three-stars for the modern writing style, which will appeal to today's children, especially if read following the vintage writing style of the Newbery predecessors. This book is easy to read and is oft compared to Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House series. I do recommend reading this book following that series because this story attempts to fill in some of the gaps in Wilder's tales, helping to round out the hardships of frontier life. For example, Wilder frequently mentioned hunger and going without food in her stories; McNeely's Linville children rarely go hungry -and we see the work that goes into them having food - but the Linvilles are exposed to death, a concept that Wilder glossed over in her series.
But, this is a fantasy novel. This is one of those books promoting false notions about the history of our country, treating Manifest Destiny as a natural right and not a colonization attempt driven by religion. This leans me toward a one-star review and, when I average my opinions, I come up with a two-stars rating.
The negative portrayals of Native Americans and the casual way in which the author never refers to homesteading as theft of native lands bothers me. Anecdotes blur lines; we can't find viable solutions if we're trying to solve falsehoods. You don't get to the root of the problem that way; thus, any attempt at change is just an illusion that keeps feeding the beast of social injustice.
I first read this book as a child and this was an issue I had with the book back then and my response hasn't changed over the years. The problem with thinking about those larger issues outside of the book trivializes what actually happens inside the book. I stop caring about the story because it never actually addresses the issues that it makes me think about. This isn't the real prairie, this isn't real homesteading. It might as well be set on Mars - and that setting would help me stay inside the story instead of popping out into my own fantasy, wondering what it would've been like to come back 200-hundred years before Europe invaded North America and walk along the prairie, maybe meet a Hidatsa kid (when I was a kid) without having the burden of violence squatting on our shoulders. I keep wanting to read that story, which makes The Jumping Off Place pale in comparison. | <urn:uuid:538ad948-bd54-4731-8997-e83f5ee84fe7> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://blog.angielisle.com/2016/07/the-jumping-off-place.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571536.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811224716-20220812014716-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.961665 | 708 | 1.679688 | 2 |
Co. Contae Fhear Manach →
Béal Leice Paróiste Sibhialta →
Castlecaldwell Electoral Division →
Ballymagaghran is in the Electoral Division of Castlecaldwell, in Civil Parish of Béal Leice, in the Barony of Lorg, in the County of Contae Fhear Manach
Ballymagaghran is on Logainm.ie: Ballymagaghran.
It is located at 54° 29' 49" N, 7° 59' 0" W.
Ballymagaghran has an area of:
- 1253894 m² / 125.39 hectares / 1.2539 km²
- 0.48 square miles
- 309.84 acres / 309 acra, 3 ceathrú-acraí, 15 percheanna
Nationwide, it is the 22591ú largest townland that we know about
Within Co. Contae Fhear Manach, it is the 296ú largest townland
Ballymagaghran borders the following other townlands:
We don't know about any subtownlands in Ballymagaghran.
Genealogy / Ancestry / Records Search
Curious to see who lived in Ballymagaghran in the past? Maybe even seeing scans of their handwritten census returns?
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Flounder is Beneficial and You Can Find It at PJ Lobster House!
When you think of healthy seafood options, flounder is probably not the first food that comes to mind. However, flounder actually has several surprising health benefits. To learn four of these healthy perks, just continue reading this blog post.
Flounder is a deep sea flatfish that is usually found in North America. It can be cooked several different ways, has a mild fish flavor, and a touch of sweetness. Texture ranges from delicate to firm, depending on the variety of flounder.
The first health benefit that flounder has to offer is the ability to lower cholesterol. Flounder is seafood that is low in saturated fat. It also contains some omega-3 fatty acids, which work with the human body to lower overall cholesterol levels and protect the heart.
Another surprising health benefit of flounder is the ability to help with depression. Even though the levels of omega-3 fatty acids are low, this small amount can help to relieve some symptoms of mild depression.
By consuming flounder, some individuals may lessen their risk of neurodegenerative diseases, such as dementia. Flounder is one of the fish species found to improve blood flow to the brain, which stimulates the brain and reduces the risk of dementia and other similar diseases.
Both inflammation and symptoms of arthritis can potentially be minimized by the consumption of flounder. Flounder contains several nutrients and minerals that are found to decrease inflammation.
Adding flounder to your diet is easy, especially when you visit PJ Lobster House. Our fish market sells an incredible variety of seafood, including flounder. Pick up some flounder to feed to your family to enjoy these health benefits. You can find PJ Lobster House at 1 North Country Road in Port Jefferson, or you can call us at 631-473-1143 to learn more about the fish we have for sale at our market. We hope to hear from you soon! | <urn:uuid:e68ece75-1a6b-4ce9-be14-7e11c8c6043a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.pjlobsterhouse.com/flounder-is-beneficial-and-you-can-find-it-at-pj-lobster-house/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571198.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810161541-20220810191541-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.960494 | 415 | 1.53125 | 2 |
2008-04-01T07:00:00Z Completely updated and revised edition of one of the most widely-praised food books of recent years.
It's a perverse fact of modern life: There are more starving people in the world than ever before, while there are also more people who are overweight.
To find out how we got to this point and what we can do about it, Raj Patel launched a comprehensive investigation into the global food network. It took him from the colossal supermarkets of California to India's wrecked paddy-fields and Africa's bankrupt coffee farms, while along the way he ate genetically engineered soy beans and dodged flying objects in the protestor-packed streets of South Korea.
What he found was shocking, from the false choices given us by supermarkets to a global epidemic of farmer suicides, and real reasons for famine in Asia and Africa.
Yet he also found great cause for hope--in international resistance movements working to create a more democratic, sustainable and joyful food system. Going beyond ethical consumerism, Patel explains, from seed to store to plate, the steps to regain control of the global food economy, stop the exploitation of both farmers and consumers, and rebalance global sustenance. | <urn:uuid:9c6b30f7-7c2e-488c-a2a2-470698f5d8fd> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://index.gamescaptain.com/7773/Alan%20Wiley/Social%20Science,Books,Nonfiction,Politics%20&%20Current%20Events/Play%20Games/Stuffed%20and%20Starved%20%20,%20Raj%20Patel | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570921.9/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809094531-20220809124531-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.932669 | 248 | 2.40625 | 2 |
Encounter the flames to teach you ten strokes "" hedge
The two main aspects of casualties caused by fire: first, smoke and gas suffocation, and the two is the flame burns and strong thermal radiation. As long as it can avoid or reduce these two kinds of harm, can protect their own safety, reduce harm. Therefore, how to grasp some fire self-help tips, trouble may be able to gain second life.
1 fire, always pay attention to escape road
Each person to their work, study or live in the structure of the building and the escape path to do to understand, to be familiar with the building fire facilities and self-help escape method. So, when the fire broke out, will not be cornered. When you are in a strange environment, be sure to pay attention to evacuation routes, safety exits and stairs, and so on, so as to escape the scene as soon as possible.
2 put out a small fire, benefit others and themselves "
When a fire occurs, if the fire is not large, and has not yet posed a great threat to the people, we should make full use of the surrounding fire equipment, such as fire extinguishers, fire hydrants and other facilities to control the small fire, put out. Don't confound screaming around, or the others without regard for their own &rdquo, or “ exit; a small fire in disregard and catastrophe.
3 caught fire, keep calm speed out of
Suddenly faced with smoke and fire, must keep calm, quickly determine the dangerous place and safe place, decided to escape to evacuate Xiande as soon as possible. Do not blindly follow the flow and congestion, blunt rampant. Only calm and calm, in order to come up with a good way.
4 as soon as possible out of the woods, cherish life Liancai Mo
In the scene, life is more than money. The danger, escape is heavy, must race against time, remember not money.
5 rapid evacuation, crawl Mo standing
In the evacuation of the fire scene, when the smoke billowing, the line of sight is not clear, choking you breathless, do not stand to walk, should quickly climb on the ground or squat, so as to find a way to escape.
Use channel 6, not the elevator go blind alley "padding:
When a fire occurs, can use the stairs to exit, also can use the balcony windowsill buildings, skylights and other climbing to a safe location around, or bileixian etc... along the building structure in my slide protruding.
7 fireworks besieged, hedge adherence to do it
When the escape route is cut off and no relief in a short time, can be taken to find or create shelter, adherence to the kind of way. Should first meet the fire doors and windows closed, open fire back doors and windows, with a wet towel, wet cloth blocked door or water soaked blankets covered windows, and then water drenching room, to prevent smoke infiltration, adherence to aid.
8 jump of the life insurance to no harm to the body "
Many people choose to jump fire escape. Jump to speak skills, jumping as much as possible should be central to the life-saving air jump or select a pool, soft awning, meadow direction jump; if possible, try to embrace some quilts, sofa cushions and other soft items or open umbrellas to jump, in order to reduce impact.
9 fire and oneself, in situ
The fire fall his clothes on fire, should be to try to take off their clothes or roll over on the ground, put out the flames; promptly jumped into the water or let a person to water spray extinguishing agent is more effective.
10 danger, self-help MO forget save others "
Any person found a fire, should as soon as possible call “ 119” call for help, in a timely manner to report a fire. The children and the old and infirm, they do not possess or lose self ability, the presence of other people in addition to self-help, should also actively help them as soon as possible to escape from danger. | <urn:uuid:fbfbb1f3-ea42-4d1a-9415-60bd1ccdd0c5> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.chocapocalypse.com/wap/en/industrytrends/222.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572033.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814113403-20220814143403-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.946236 | 867 | 2.09375 | 2 |
Behind the subtle, unexplainable, yet deeply affecting atmosphere of Daisuke Tomizawa’s photobook “Zi” lies Tomizawa’s own fascination with inexplicable senses. A year ago, his mother sent him a piece of colored paper with the Japanese symbol “字” (meaning “character; letter; written text”) on it, written by Tomizawa himself when he was still a child. Moved by the strange beauty of the sign, Tomizawa made it the keyword for this project.
In 306 photographs selected (by feeling and instinct, without being able to put the reason into words) from a total of 9000 taken over the period of a year, Tomizawa’s “Zi” builds a multifarious, unhasty, contemplative and evocative mosaic of life in momentary fragments.
“Rather than a constant rollercoaster of emotions, everyday life mostly unfolds in a weird kind of stability, a mixture of worry and being at peace. The ‘true everyday,’ really, is an endless continuation of this kind of state. That is exactly what Tomizawa captured in these photographs. There is no excessive staging, no clumsy self-expression. Just a permeating, faint, strange kind of atmosphere.”
― book designer Minori Asada about the project (translation by shashasha)
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Historical Events In 1917
Saturday, 13 August 2022
Apr 19 21st Boston Marathon won by Bill Kennedy of NY in 2:28:37.2 in the year 1917.
Apr 19 In the year 1917 johnny Hoes, Dutch musician/producer (Wished I'd stayed with my Mom)
Apr 20 Pravda (Lenin names Russia "Free land of world") in the year 1917.
Apr 20 SS Ballochbuie, torpedoed and sunk by German UC41 off the Firth of Forth Isle of May. In passage from Aberdeen to Sunderland in the year 1917.
Apr 21 Emanuel Vardi, Jerusalem Israel, violist, SD Symph 1978-82) on this day in history.
Apr 21 Foundation of Imperial War Graves Commission, later Commonwealth War Graves Commission The purpose of the commission was to erect and maintain war memorials and cemeteries on this day in history.
Apr 22 In the year 1917 leo Abse, biographer/MP
Apr 24 On this day in history len Creed, bookmaker
Apr 24 In the year 1917 oskar Blumenthal, writer, dies
Apr 24 On this day in history yankee lefty George Mogridge no-hits Red Sox 2-1 at Fenway
Apr 26 M Wolf discovers asteroid #868 Lova on this day in history.
Apr 28 Joop Waasdorp, Dutch writer (Naked Life) on this day in history.
Apr 29 Celeste Holm, American actress in the year 1917.
Apr 30 On this day in history bea Wain, US singer/radio host (Lucky Strike Hit Parade)
May 01 Danielle Darrieux, France, actress (Alexander the Great, Mayerling) in the year 1917.
May 01 In the year 1917 jose E Rodo, Uruguayan writer (Motivos de proteo), dies
May 02 Albert Castelyns, Belgian water polo player and bobsledder on this day in history.
May 02 In the year 1917 cin Fred Tooney & Chic's Hippo Vaughn pitch duel no-hitter, Vaughn gives up 2 hits & a run in 10th, so Cin wins 1-0
May 02 In the year 1917 the Drayton-Acworth report is produced being the findings of two out of three members of a Royal Commission which was set up in 1916. Sir Henry L. Drayton was Chairman of the Board of Railway Commissioners for Canada while William Ackworth came from London. The third member, who produced a minority report, was Alfred H. Smith, President of the New York Central Railway. The report recommends that the Government take over the Grand Trunk, the Grand Trunk Pacific and the Canadian Northern companies and operate them as one system together with the Intercolonial and the National Transcontinental Railway. The recommendations are accepted by the Government.
May 03 On this day in history 1st performance of Ernest Bloch's symphony "Israel"
May 03 James Penberthy, composer on this day in history.
May 03 In the year 1917 lt. Robert G. Combe (27th Cdn. Infantry Batt.) wins the Victoria Corss at Acheville, France
May 03 Norman Callaway, NSW bat, cricketer (207 in only FC innings), dies on this day in history.
May 03 On this day in history second attack on Bullecourt sector of Hindenburg Line in France
May 04 On this day in history arabs sack Tel Aviv
May 04 Edward Toner Cone, composer on this day in history.
May 05 Ron Saggers, cricket wicket-keeper (effective NSW & Aussie late 40's) in the year 1917.
May 05 St Louis Brown Ernie Koob no-hits Chic White Sox, 1-0 in the year 1917.
May 06 On this day in history st Louis Brown Bob Groom no-hits Chic White Sox, 3-0
May 07 David Tomlinson, Scotland, actor (Mary Poppins, Helter Skelter) in the year 1917.
May 07 Red Sox Babe Ruth beats Wash Senator Walter Johnson, 1-0 on this day in history.
May 09 On this day in history george Fleming, cyclist
May 10 Atlantic ships get destroyer escorts to stop German attacks in the year 1917.
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BENEFIT–ISSD organized a three-day training on ISSD Guiding Principles and Approaches on April 17-19, 2018, in Bishoftu town for project staff from all regional project units. The training was intended to acquaint new experts with ISSD guiding principles and approaches, and to refresh knowledge of existing staff. Overall, 18 participants including seed business development and marketing experts, seed value chain experts, farmer organization experts and seed experts attended the training.
The training covered key issues such as history of seed sector development in Ethiopia; introduction to ISSD approaches and guiding principles; informal seed systems and local seed business; multi-stakeholder partnerships and sector governance; gender mainstreaming and analysis; crowd sourcing; and business model canvas. It was facilitated by Gareth Borman, Dr. Amsalu, Dr. Mohammed, Teshome, Sanne, Selam and Miressa.
Welcoming speech was made by Dr. Amsalu (BENEFIT – ISSD Manager) in which he gave an overview of the purpose and agenda of the training and talked about key components in establishing a successful organization in today’s world: vision, passion, value and discipline. His speech was followed by a power point presentation on history of seed sector development in Ethiopia.
The training employed group work exercises, power point presentations, reflection methods, debate and role-plays to help participants appropriately internalize the concepts and enhance active participation. The session on seed business model generation was found to be helpful by participants whereby they were able to come up with business ideas. A power point presentation was made on what business model is and why it is useful for seed sector development. During the group assignment on business model canvas, participants identified: key partners, key activities, value proposition, customer relationship, customer segments, key resources, channels, and cost structure and revenue streams. At the end, they designed business models around three areas: Seed Producing Cooperatives, Seed Inspection and Certification Agency, and Farm Service Center.
Another important session of the training was gender mainstreaming in which participants were introduced to basic gender concepts; why gender is implemented in agriculture; and tools for gender analysis. Through group work exercise participants were able to internalize basic tools employed for gender analysis. Another group work exercises focused on analyzing the effects of the seed sector regulation on farmers. | <urn:uuid:e9528794-039b-4df1-9420-ec8a62ee0a0d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://ensp-seed.org/2018/05/18/strengthening-issd-principles-approaches/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571536.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811224716-20220812014716-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.944932 | 482 | 1.914063 | 2 |
1. Those drugs are experimental. They have not being tested or tried long enough for a definitive medical opinion to have formed about them.
2. They are not vaccines, in proper medical terminology; they are ‘medical devices’ i.e. they are something ‘other.’
3. In the background, there are reports of some recipients having bad reactions to them.
4. Some are derived from a stem cell line derived from an aborted foetus = immoral.
5. I’ve probably had COVID. I had a bad ‘flu’ before the New Year and someone else in the house, who got it from me, tested positive for COVID.
6. COVID only seems to truly harm the really old, the obese and/or the already ill. That’s not me.
7. AFAIK, the manufacturers and the government refuse all liability if you have problems later; you can’t sue anyone.
8. I don’t trust that The Gummint is sufficiently moral not to take chances with the health of its subjects, if it suits its goals. In a population of 67 million, if 300 thousand die, and they are mostly the old and sick, it’s not a disaster, in military terms. The Gummint may even save a deal of money in socialised medical care.
The British Gummint has experimented on the general public in the past, to test biological weapons.
9. If many others take the drugs, and they become immune, then the chances of my being infected (again,) are much lower. | <urn:uuid:ce7c1593-ed21-4117-901b-c115042187e4> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.layman.tv/10-reasons-i-wont-be-receiving-a-covid-vaccine/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571909.51/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813051311-20220813081311-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.963983 | 345 | 1.84375 | 2 |
British Law Makes Children's Authors Register in Pedophile Database
The UK has introduced a law that would require children's authors who are planning to visit schools to enter a database of people that may pose a danger to children. The worst part? These literary potential-peds have to cough up approximately 64 euros (approximately $105) to do it.
In protest, a few authors announced they would stop visiting schools at the beginning of next academic year. Among them are Philip Pullman, Anne Fine, Anthony Horowitz, Michael Morpurgo and Quentin Blake.
"I've been going into schools as an author for 20 years, and on no occasion have I ever been alone with a child," Pullman, the author of the His Dark Materials series, told The Independent. "The idea that I have become more of a threat and I need to be vetted is both ludicrous and insulting. Children have never been in any danger from visiting authors or illustrators, and the idea that they should be is preposterous." | <urn:uuid:9a6963b4-b9e0-44da-952c-c6b7a183bbd6> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.alternet.org/2009/07/british_law_makes_childrens_authors_register_in_pedophile_database/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573163.7/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818033705-20220818063705-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.978504 | 205 | 1.695313 | 2 |
Mass flow rate, abbreviated as \(\dot m_f\), is the average velocity of a mass that passes by a point. In engineering, mass flow rate is often used, along with the conservation of mass to determine how much product moves through a pipe or duct. The calculation and formula for determining the mass flow rate where the flow area and density are known.
Mass flow rate calculator
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Cambridge IGCSE is the world’s most popular international qualification for 14 to 16 year olds. It develops skills in creative thinking, enquiry and problem solving, in preparation for the next stage in a student’s education. Cambridge IGCSE is taken in over 150 countries, and is widely recognised by employers and higher education institutions worldwide.
Cambridge IGCSE is graded from A*-G. In the UK, Cambridge IGCSE is accepted as equivalent to the GCSE. It can be used as preparation for Cambridge International A & AS Levels, UK A and AS levels, IB or AP and in some instances entry into university. Cambridge IGCSE First Language English and Cambridge IGCSE English Language qualifications are recognised by a significant number of UK universities as evidence of competence in the language for university entrance.
Subjects: available in over 70 subjects including accounting, Afrikaans – first language, Afrikaans – second language, agriculture, Arabic – first language, Arabic – foreign language, art and design, Baha Indonesia, Bangladesh studies, biology, business studies, chemistry, child development, Chinese – first language, Chinese – second language, Chinese (Mandarin) – foreign language, computer studies, Czech – first language, design and technology, development studies, drama, Dutch – first language, Dutch – foreign language, economics, English – additional language, English – first language, English – literature, English – second language, enterprise, environmental management, food and nutrition, French – first language, French – foreign language, geography, German – first language, German – foreign language, global perspectives, Greek – foreign language, Hindi as a second language, Italian – foreign language, history, India studies, Indonesian – foreign language, information and communication technology, IsiZulu as a second language, Japanese – first language, Japanese – foreign language, Kazakh as a second language, Korean (first language), Latin, Malay – first language, Malay – foreign language, mathematics, mathematics – additional, international mathematics, music, Pakistan studies, physical education, physical science, physics, Portuguese – first language, Portuguese – foreign language, religious studies, Russian – first language, science – combined, sciences – co-ordinated (double), sociology, Spanish – first language, Spanish – foreign language, Spanish – literature, Thai – first language, travel and tourism, Turkish – first language, Urdu – second language, world literature.
The Cambridge International Certificate of Education (ICE) is the group award of Cambridge IGCSE (see above). In order to be awarded a Cambridge ICE certificate, a student must obtain at least grade G in seven subjects from five subject groups. They must take two different languages and one subject from each of the other groups: humanities and social sciences, sciences, mathematics, and creative and professional. The seventh subject can be taken from any of the five subject groups.
The certificates are awarded in the following levels:
Distinction – student must obtain grade A or above in five subjects and grade C or above in two further subjects.
Merit – student must obtain grade C or above in five subjects and grade F or above in two further subjects.
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Jan 13, 2008
Tim O’Reilly writes that John Brockman’s magazine The Edge (www.edge.org) is “A remarkable feast of the intellect... an amazing group of reflections on science, culture, and the evolution of ideas. Reading the Edge question is like being invited to dinner with some of the most interesting people on the planet.? This month The Edge put the question to over a hundred scientists and scholars “What have you changed your mind about? Why?? Articles were submitted by Steven Pinker, Alan Alda, Michael Sherman, Richard Dawkins and many other names that you would likely recognize. I scanned for theologians and UU ministers and found none. The question intrigues me. How much and what kind of evidence instigates a change of mind? A change of heart? Over your lifetime, what have you changed your mind about and why? And how is this relevant to our religious community today? | <urn:uuid:eb1450c5-6a75-4e8b-befa-615f0793f121> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://allsoulschurch.libsyn.com/webpage/changing_our_minds | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571198.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810161541-20220810191541-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.950321 | 192 | 1.75 | 2 |
Today 23andMe announced that we’ve submitted our first round of 510(k) documentation to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The application provides a detailed description of our Personal Genome Service ®, extensive data supporting the performance of our technology, and comprehensive discussions of the science supporting the information we present to customers about their genetics and its impact on health.
Not too long ago personal genomics was a new idea. Consumer personal genomics was even more novel — the idea that everyone, not just doctors and researchers or those with special health needs, could know what was in their DNA. What wasn’t new was the desire to improve our knowledge of what all that DNA means and for that knowledge to make a difference in people’s lives.
We started 23andMe six years ago with those goals in mind and since then more than 150,000 people have joined us to learn more about what’s in their bodies and to contribute to our innovative research platform. Already our growing research community has made discoveries in many diverse topics, including the photic sneeze reflex, male pattern baldness, and Parkinson’s disease.
As with anything new and potentially disruptive, there have also been concerns. The FDA responded to some of these concerns by indicating that direct-to-consumer genetic testing services require regulatory review to remain on the market. We remain strong in our belief that consumers have a fundamental right to their personal genetic data. We believe personal genetic data will power a revolution in healthcare. But we also recognize that appropriate oversight of this industry can be a stepping stone on the path to realizing that revolution.
For the last three years we have worked with FDA to apply their regulatory approach to direct-to-consumer genetic testing. It is important to us that a regulatory framework for genetic testing reflect the dynamic nature of genetic science and protect individual access. What we know about the genome changes every day. If we want our genetic information to be current, there needs to be a way for us to update that information quickly.
We are confident that our initial application to the FDA is complete and comprehensive. Being the first in the industry to announce we are actively working toward FDA clearance of our direct-to-consumer service demonstrates our commitment to make personal genetics an integral part of routine healthcare without sacrificing people’s right to access information about themselves. Our goal is to remain the world’s trusted source of genetic information — not just for people with a doctor’s order, but for everyone regardless of why or how they choose to learn about their DNA. DNA is fascinating, but it’s even more fascinating when it’s about you. | <urn:uuid:c16f0d94-a2c3-470b-a1fa-3694eec19541> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://blog.23andme.com/news/move-toward-fda-clearance/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571536.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811224716-20220812014716-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.95088 | 548 | 1.609375 | 2 |
I listen to Jim Cramer's radio show every chance I get. I am 38 years old and have never invested in the stock market. My pension is in the form of an annuity through the union that I work for. Jim said that he suggests that first-time investors invest in one of Vanguard's mutual funds. But there are so many of them -- can you guide me in the right direction?Thank You,Mark Gregory
Jim's right -- Vanguard is a great place for a beginning investor to start. (Indeed, it's often a one-stop shop for even the most sophisticated investors.) Not only does it have loads of general investing information on its
Web site, but it offers a superior product.
Unlike most other mutual fund companies, Vanguard is a
company -- which means the shareholders in the funds are also essentially shareholders in the company. (Most mutual fund companies have a for-profit parent company -- like insurance powerhouse
Marsh & McLennan
, which owns Putnam, or
. Vanguard, though, essentially runs like a not-for-profit company -- which translates into razor-thin expenses on its funds. And that means you get to keep more of the money you make.
Vanguard funds carry the lowest average operating expenses of any family of retail mutual funds, according to fund-tracker Lipper, a Reuters company. In 2002, the average expense ratio for Vanguard funds was 0.26% of assets -- less than one-fifth of the mutual fund industry's average of 1.36%.
John Bogle, Vanguard's founder, is also credited with inventing the index fund -- a mutual fund that owns only the stocks in any given index (be it the
, Wilshire 5000 or any other index), and owns them in the same ratio that they're held in the index. (The first indexed mutual fund was launched in 1976 and is now known as the
Vanguard 500 Index fund.) Now, indexing has
many and varied adherents in the financial industry as well as academia, and should play a major role in virtually every portfolio.
But while some investors insist on trying to beat the market by investing in actively managed funds (in which the portfolio manager picks and chooses stocks that could outperform according to his or her own research), those attempts usually fail over the long term. (For more on this, click
Study after study has shown that index funds outperform 75% of actively managed funds over virtually any time period. But half of the remaining funds (or 12.5%) that outperform their relevant benchmark do so just as a matter of chance, according to research done by finance professor and chair of the Richard H. Driehaus Center in Behavioral Finance at Chicago's DePaul University, Werner De Bondt. Those numbers are even more compelling because they don't include the thousands of failed funds that have either folded or merged over the years.
So now investors are forced to pick among the 10,000 funds, 25% of which will likely beat their relevant index in any given year. That last phrase is key -- the 25% of funds that beat their benchmark don't do so every year. Because a fund has beaten the index in the past year or two is no indication of whether it will continue to outperform.
And it must outperform by quite a lot, given how expensive most actively managed funds are. For starters, the average equity index fund has an expense ratio of 0.79% -- and exchange traded funds, or ETFs, are roughly half that (although you will have to pay a trading fee when purchasing). The average actively managed equity fund has an expense ratio of 1.49%, according to Morningstar.
Because index funds trade much less frequently, they are almost always more tax-efficient, which again means you'll preserve more of your return. You can learn more about the benefits and methods of tax efficiency
But even once you've settled on Vanguard and index fund investing, there are a plethora of choices. (Vanguard is by no means the only fund shop to offer index funds; indeed, they almost all do, but it is generally the cheapest.)
If you're looking for stock funds, a good place to start is the
Vanguard 500 Index fund. The S&P 500, which represents about 80% of the stock market, is generally considered the best way to make your portfolio look like the U.S. economy. If you want to capture small stocks as well, you can opt for the Vanguard
Total Stock Market fund, which essentially represents the entire stock market.
Vanguard also offers a wide variety of index funds that invest in smaller indexes, including a series of sector index funds
about to be launched this fall. But beginning investors don't need this level of specificity -- stick to the broader indexes.
There are other options as well. Vanguard just announced it will launch a series of target retirement funds this fall. These six new funds will adjust the mix of assets (stocks, bonds, cash) according to the retirement date. At 38, you might want to consider the Target Retirement 2025 fund, which has 60% of its allocation in stocks and 30% in bonds, or the 2035 fund, which has 80% in stocks and 20% in bonds. Also to be launched are funds for people already retired (the Income fund) and those with plans to retire in 2005, 2015 and 2045.
Now, just a quick word about asset allocation -- you need to consider what you're investing
. Retirement? If you have some time, a mix of stocks and bonds that favors stocks should be fine. Investing for your kids' education? Well, when are they going to college? Any money that you'll need in the next three to five years should be in cash. If you have a little more time, add bonds to the mix. Money in stocks shouldn't be earmarked for any goals less than 10 years away -- at least.
Whew. That's a lot of information, and it's only the tip of the iceberg. But don't get overwhelmed. Just do your homework, choose one or two broad index funds that meet your needs and don't sweat the short-term dips. In the long term, you'll be far better off. | <urn:uuid:9a5aa219-cf15-4c90-a27a-c3cd6de05ad1> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.thestreet.com/personal-finance/vanguard-funds-good-for-beginners-10106811 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571909.51/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813051311-20220813081311-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.963026 | 1,350 | 1.53125 | 2 |
This is pretty basic economic stuff, but the vast majority of Americans watching the news probably don’t fully realize it.
That’s not a knock on everyday Americans. Getting into even the minor details of the economy and monetary policy is no easy task. Combine that with all the fakery and manipulation, and most Americans are probably smart to simply avoid it all and focus on other things.
However, the media is very much to blame for all of this as well. As we’ve seen with inflation which they tried to portray as “transitory”. Or even NBC News which aired a segment that stated Americans can easily afford increased inflation. Worse yet, CNBC was caught trying to promote the idea that inflation is actually good and will increase wages.
Of course, all of this total nonsense even for those with just a cursory understanding of economics and finance.
But what they are doing now is most troubling and it’s setting the majority of the public up for a giant shock when this whole thing finally does play out.
The media is trying to portray inflation as a symptom of a “bad economy”. News reports often remark that an improving economy will ease the burden of higher prices. This may seem logical to those not paying attention. As the economy improves, it should be easier to absorb a few higher prices here and there. However, that’s the complete opposite of how things actually work.
An improving economy will actually increase inflation. It’s a basic fact that economic activity increases inflation, not the other way around. When inflation is somewhat normal, increased economic activity is welcomed because the extra inflation is acceptable in return for all the other benefits of an expanding economy. However, when inflation is already at record highs with no sign of slowing, increasing economic activity is seen as catastrophic.
And that’s the dirty secret in all this. Everyone who sets monetary and fiscal policy knows this too well. That’s why they all know they have to create a recession to keep inflation in check. The problem is, they painted themselves into a corner and a recession will most likely quickly deteriorate into a depression given the current situation.
This is what the media won’t tell you. The people in charge are actively trying to create a recession, but without it quickly developing into a depression. So even if they succeed, which they won’t, the American public still gets a recession no matter what. And all of this after tens of millions of people lost all their savings already due to the lockdowns.
So there are literally meetings taking place right now among appointed officials discussing how to crash the economy in a “safe” way. That’s not a conspiracy, it’s a simple economic fact. Even former NY Fed official and current market analyst Zoltan Polzar who believes the Fed most likely needs to create volatility and crash the market.
So basically, all the real players in the game know the economy, and most markets are about to be crashed intentionally. But as usual, the public will be the ones left holding the bag when it all goes down.
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The U.S. government is developing a massive computer system that can collect huge amounts of data and, by linking far-flung information from blogs and e-mail to government records and intelligence reports, search for patterns of terrorist activity…
…The core of this effort is a little-known system called Analysis, Dissemination, Visualization, Insight, and Semantic Enhancement, or ADVISE. Only a few public documents mention it. ADVISE is a research and development program within the Department of Homeland Security, part of its three-year-old Threat and Vulnerability, Testing and Assessment, or TVTA, portfolio. The TVTA received nearly $50 million in federal funding this year….
…What sets ADVISE apart is its scope. It would collect a vast array of corporate and public online information — from financial records to CNN news stories — and cross-reference it against U.S. intelligence and law-enforcement records. The system would then store it as “entities” — linked data about people, places, things, organizations, and events, according to a report summarizing a 2004 DHS conference in Alexandria, Va.
The storage requirements alone are huge — enough to retain information about 1 quadrillion entities, the report estimated. …
..For example: Is a burst of Internet traffic between a few people the plotting of terrorists, or just bloggers arguing? ADVISE algorithms would try to determine that before flagging the data pattern for a human analyst’s review.
…ADVISE “looks very much like TIA,” Tien of the Electronic Frontier Foundation writes in an e-mail. “There’s the same emphasis on broad collection and pattern analysis.” | <urn:uuid:d486a0f1-8a76-49c0-8c4c-5aff854882ec> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://battellemedia.com/archives/2006/02/advise_me_baby_is_this_just_tia_in_new_clothes?replytocom=8600 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571909.51/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813051311-20220813081311-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.939461 | 363 | 2.171875 | 2 |
The Middle East is going through historic changes in its political, economic and social order. Iraq and Kurdistan Region are aspiring to become democratic, however, their system of governance, public and private sectors and civil society remain in their infancy and are evolving with inadequate academic support. There is, therefore, an urgent need in Kurdistan, Iraq and the entire region for modern strategic research institutions, hence, the establishment of the Middle East Research Institute (MERI) in the capital of Kurdistan Region in 2014.
Status: MERI is an independent, not-for-profit organisation, focused on policy issues relating to the people, the land and the system of governance in the Middle East in general, and Kurdistan and Iraq in particular. It is based in Erbil, Kurdistan Region of Iraq.
Mission: To contribute to the process of nation building and democratisation in the Middle East via engagement, research, analysis and policy debates.
Objectives: To promote and develop human rights, democracy, good governance, the rule of law and social and economic prosperity.
Core values: Rigorous, independent and objective research and analysis;
Remit: A broad range of activities, grouped under five main programmes, including:
- International Politics and National Security
- Democracy and Governance
- Economics, Energy and Environment
- Health, Education and Public Services
- Community, Civil Society and Cultural Development
MERI is committed to open access and makes its research available to the general public through publications, workshops, seminars and conferences.
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NARAYANA PAI, J.
(1) CERTAIN standing orders governing the conditions of service of workmen in the Mysore Iron and Steel Works, Bhadravathi, were certified by the Commissioner of Labour functioning as certifying authority under the Industrial Employment (Standing Orders) Act, 1946.
(2) THE workmen represented by their association which is respondent 2 in this petition filed an appeal under S. 6 against the said order before the appellant authority. The appellate authority modified the standing orders in so far as certain categories of leave and holidays were concerned and confirmed the same in all other respects. In regard to monthly rated staff, he gave four additional holidays as festival holidays on full pay. In regard to daily rated staff, he gave three additional holidays as festival holidays and also gave them the benefit of another category of leave called casual leave to the extent of three days on full wages and six days on half wages.
(3) IN this civil petition presented by the employer, the attack against the appellate order is confined to the above modification made by the appellate authority in regard to leave.
(4) THE principal argument in support of the petition is that the appellate authority has exceeded its jurisdiction in making the above modifications, especially in view of the fact that the appellant before it, who had been given full opportunity to make all comments on the draft standing orders proposed to be certified, had failed to make any claims in regard to the additional leave asked for by them before the appellate authority and granted by the said authority as aforesaid.
(5) AS already pointed out by this Court in Mysore Kirloskar Employees' Association v. Industrial tribunal [1959 - I L. L. J. 531], the jurisdiction of the authorities functioning under the statute have to be ascertained from Ss. 3 and 4 of the Act which govern the provisions of both Ss. 5 and
(6) SECTION 4, which is more important, reads as follows :
"4. Conditions for certification of standing orders.- Standing orders shall be certifiable under this Act if - (a) provision is made therein for every matter set out in the schedule which is applicable to the industrial establishment, and (b) the standing orders are otherwise in conformity with the provisions of this Act. "
6. Before the amendment carried by Central Act 36 of 1956 which came into force on 17 september, 1956, the rest of the section read as follows :"and it shall not be the function of the certifying officer or appellate authority to adjudicate upon the fairness or reasonableness of the provisions of any standing order. "
(7) BY the said amending Act the word "not" was deleted with the result that in addition to satisfying itself on Cls. (a) and (b) of that section, both the certifying authority and the appellate authority were assigned the additional function of adjudicating upon the fairness or reasonableness of the provisions of any standing orders.
(8) SECTION 6, which prescribed the procedure and defines the ambit of jurisdiction of the appellate authority, states, among other things, that
"the appellate authority shall, by order in writing, confirm the standing order either in the form certified by the certifying officer or after amending the said standing orders by making such modifications thereof additions thereto as it thinks necessary to render the standing orders certifiable under this Act. "
(9) BEFORE, therefore, the petitioner can succeed in this petition, he should make out that the appellate authority in making the above modifications has either acted without jurisdiction or exceeded its jurisdiction as defined in S. 6.
(10) NO question arises in this case as to the standing orders being not exhaustive of the subjects mentioned in the schedule to the Act as applicable to the establishment or of their conformity or otherwise with the provisions of the Act.
(11) THE appellate authority does not state in its order that the standing orders as originally certified by the certifying authority are not certifiable for the reason that they do not comply with the provisions of Cls. (a) and (b) of S. 4.
(12) THE appellate authority, however, states that in regard to the modification effected by it by making available a new category of leave to daily rated staff, viz. , casual leave,
"in these circumstances it would be fair and equitable to make some provision for meeting emergent and unforeseen circumstances. "
(13) WHILE there is no such specific statement in the course of the discussion in regard to national and festival holidays, there is sufficient indication of the appellate authority having entertained an opinion that it was reasonable to give the additional holidays granted by it or to put it the other way, that the smaller number of holidays proposed to be granted in the standing orders certified by the original authority were not quite fair or reasonable.
(14) IF that much can be read or ascertained from the order of the appellate authority, we think it is difficulty for the petitioner to contend that the authority has exceeded its jurisdiction. The actual entertaining of an opinion as to fairness or reasonableness or otherwise of a standing order is a matter exclusively for the authorities functioning under the statute. Though we are not prepared to say that this Court will not interfere in cases where authorities have acted with manifest or clear unreasonableness or unfairness, the mere fact that we might entertain an opinion slightly different from the one entertained by the statutory authority is not a sufficient ground for interference.
(15) HAVING regard to the deliberate omission of the word "not" from the later portion of S. 4 by the legislature itself, it has to be held either that the certifying and appellate authorities have to satisfy themselves not only on the purely legal of certifiability according to the express provisions of the statute but also as to fairness or reasonableness of the provisions of a standing order or that the amendment has enlarged the idea of certifiability itself by including therein fairness or reasonableness of the provisions of standing orders as one of the aspects thereof.
(16) THERE is, however, another argument addressed by the learned counsel for the petitioner, viz. , that the workers or their representatives having refrained from raising these points before the certifying authority while actually offering their comments on the draft proposed to be certified, it was not open to them to contend that the standing orders certified by the original authority were either unfair or unreasonable, or to the appellate authority to entertain any such case on appeal.
(17) THOUGH at first sight there appears to be considerable force in this argument, there is one possible answer to it. In matters or topics arising under law of industrial relations, it is well-known that the case on behalf of the workers is neither necessarily nor always presented by them individually but by chosen representatives. The representative of the latter need not necessarily be workmen. It may be that, having regard to these considerations, the law has though it proper to impose upon the authorities function
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ing under the statute the duty of exercising their independent judgment on the question of fairness or reasonableness of the provisions of standing orders, irrespective of the fact whether the workers had actually raised or formulated the point before coming up in appeal. But, the omission on the part of the workers' representatives to raise this question, though it may be one of the relevant considerations on the question of fairness or reasonableness, does not take away the jurisdiction of the appellate authority or absolve it of the duty imposed upon it by the statute of satisfying itself as to the fairness or reasonableness of any of the standing orders as certified by the original authority. (18) THIS civil petition, therefore, fails and is dismissed. (19) THERE will be no orders as to costs. | <urn:uuid:2af10118-7d46-484b-bc7e-423395961c91> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.lawyerservices.in/Mysore-Iron-and-Steel-Works-Bhadravathi-Versus-Appellate-Authority-Under-Industrial-Employment-Standing-Orders-Act-1946-1962-09-12 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571198.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810161541-20220810191541-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.960896 | 1,596 | 1.609375 | 2 |
Nematodes are one of the most numerous and widespread groups of animals, marine substrates, fresh water, soil or living as parasites of animals and plants. Despite their simple body plan, nematodes can adapt to a wide range of conditions and habitats. Although nematodes look similar to the untrained eye, their morphology is very diverse, which reflects the wide range of niches they occupy.
De Ley & Blaxter (2002, 2004) introduced a classification of the Nematoda largely based on molecular data (SSU rDNA) but also including morphological, ontogenetic and biological characters. We adopt this classification, together with the overview of families and genera found in The Handbook of Zoology – Volume Nematoda (Schmidt-Rhaesa, 2014).
Nemys offers documentation on free-living marine, brackish, fresh-water and terrestrial nematodes, mainly providing taxonomic information but also ecological information. Primary taxonomic literature can be consulted by registered users.
The website is integrated into the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) hosted at the Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ), and managed by an international team of taxonomic editors with the help of the WoRMS – Aphia data management team.
Nemys remains a work in progress! Taxonomic lists and/or status of taxa need to be checked by the users with the most recent primary literature.
In order to help us improve the database, we encourage users to provide their feedback or queries directly to the editors who will be happy to help.
18IMCO - Meioscool
Added on: 2022-08-10 21:03:47 by Bezerra, Tânia NaraMeioscool will be held online the week prior to 18IMCO This event is held with support from the BLUE REVOLUTION project (BLUE REVOLUTION project (ifremer.fr)) ...
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Background and evolution
- 80’s – Difficulties with identification and access to literature, without internet, led to the necessity of creating a compilation of dedicated information. An extensive work reuniting copies of parts of taxonomical literature was initiated by Nic Smol, followed by other contributors working in the Marine Biology Research Group. The files formed the species library, an ongoing work called -– “Nematotheek”.
- 1999 – Following previous discussions, a generic system for storage of relevant information on “species” was built by Tim Deprez to host Nematodes, Mysida, Amphibians and Pepperonia – NeMys
- 2004 – Intensive scanning work done by Gustavo Fonseca and Tania Nara Bezerra, made the files on nematodes species stored at the Marine Biology Research Group available on line.
- 2005 onwards – Data on free-living marine nematodes were added to NeMys by collaborators of the Marine Biology Research Group of Ghent University through a series of projects funded by OSTC (now: Belspo) and voluntary work. Yearly updates were done with work of the MarBiol’ nematologists – “NeMys Task Force”. These projects include:
- 2009 – System crashed – the storage system was not prepared for the amount of information that ended up there. The problem was fixed.
- 2010 – After the crashing followed by the data recovering, the software was “hacked” and NeMys had to go offline – lot of information was lost (PDF’s, methodology protocols, images, keys, distribution…).
- 2013 – October – November: Jan Vanaverbeke from the Marine Biology research group, had first discussions over the possibility to transfer Nemys to Aphia database at the Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ) as part of WoRMS database.
- 2014 – January – February: begin of transfer: NeMys database moved to VLIZ – WoRMS – Aphia Data Management Team.
- 2014 – March – August: transfer of all NeMys data to Aphia + quality control.
- 2014 – September – December: development of interface, similar to ‘old’ NeMys interface; implementation of identification keys; set-up of login system to allow access to all publications; communication on NeMys transfer; building a NeMys editor network + first thoughts about the first workshop.
- 2015 – 24th-26th February: First NeMys editors workshop in Oostende. [report]
- 2015 – November: Katja Guilini became chief editor, replacing Jan Vanaverbeke.
- 2016 – July: During the Meiofauna Conference in Crete an informal reunion with the editors gave the opportunity to discuss some issues.
- 2018 – January: Katja Guilini passed on her chief editor responsibilities to Ann Vanreusel and Tânia Nara Bezerra.
- 2018 – 05th-07th September: Second Nemys editors workshop in Ghent. [report]
- 2021 – 28 july: Third Nemys editors workshop online [report].
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Schmidt-Rhaesa A. (2014) Handbook of zoology. Gastrotricha, Cycloneuralia and Gnathifera. Volume 2. Nematoda. De Gruyter: 759pp.
Siddiqi M.R. (2000) Tylenchida: parasites of plants and insects. CABI Publishing: 833 pp.
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Warwick R.M., Platt H.M. & Somerfield P.J. (1998) Free-living marine nematodes. Part III Monhysterids. Synopsis of the British fauna (New series) No 53: 296 pp. | <urn:uuid:24ffba46-b99f-4943-8091-36f85315b332> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://nemys.ugent.be/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571909.51/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813051311-20220813081311-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.831915 | 1,809 | 3.046875 | 3 |
Seeing is Believing
Distrust with automotive service shops is a common mindset among consumers. It’s often because the average consumer is uneducated about automotive-related issues. They don’t know terminologies, parts or repair processes, and have no idea what repairers are talking about when discussing their vehicle. Lack of knowledge makes customers wary of a shop’s advice, because they have no way of validating the accuracy of the information. Joe Marconi, owner of Osceola Garage in Baldwin, N.Y., says shop operators can help prevent the problem by using digital photos to offer repair explanations.
Marconi discusses the process he uses to provide customers with digital photo documentation and the business improvements that have followed.
Using visual elements to describe and illustrate vehicle issues during customer interactions is the best way to combat customer distrust. Automotive consumers like things to be visual; they don’t understand verbal descriptions of technical subjects. It’s true that pictures are worth a thousand words.
We’ve been using a very simple, straightforward process to do exactly that for years. We take digital photographs of every step in the repair process, including all damaged parts, and storyboard the job from beginning to end. It’s usually a series of roughly 10 photos. Then we e-mail or text those photos to customers before following up with them about repair recommendations so we can visually point out all necessary part replacements and repairs.
Our technicians take the photos as they go. Everybody’s got a smartphone now, so they just snap the photo and send it to our service advisor who’s on that particular job. The service advisor then sends it on to the customer. We’ll send them before, during, after—whatever the customer wants and whatever we feel the customer needs to feel more comfortable with the process. Most customers have smartphones, too, so this is information they can look at instantly.
This process is especially important for large jobs that require several steps, such as engine, transmission or dashboard disassembly. Those types of repairs can be expensive, so it’s important to provide customers with a clear understanding of all the work being done. In addition, large jobs tend to have additional items uncovered that weren’t initially discussed with the customer. Customers tend to be skeptical about having those repairs done. They may not have noticed the issue previously, and question the merit of your suggestions.
For example, say we’re replacing a heater core. Most customers have no idea what it means to have a damaged heater core. So we take photos before taking the dashboard apart, again when everything is disassembled, and once more after everything has been replaced. We immediately send the photos to the customer after each step, and physically point out every problem when speaking with them over the phone.
Supplying customers with photo documentation eases their minds. It instills confidence that we’re doing the right thing. The effort validates the honesty and credibility of our work and expertise, and helps assure them that we’re not trying to pull anything by suggesting unnecessary repairs. Their anxiety level goes down and their confidence in the shop goes up. Customers are more quickly willing to approve repair recommendations after seeing the photos, and feel more comfortable continuing to do business with us in the future.
This improves our record-keeping and repair documentation of work performed as well. We have thorough records of all the problems uncovered that were discussed with the customer. That’s especially helpful when customers decline certain repairs, so if there’s a problem down the road they can’t make claims that we improperly informed them.
Customers don’t ever ask for this information up front. We always volunteer to provide it to them on our own. Customers tend to be wowed by that service offering, and are impressed with our approach to provide them accurate, visual information about their vehicle. Customers really appreciate the level of education and detailed information they receive, which has tremendously benefitted our shop. Customers perceive us to be trustworthy, and are impressed with our sophistication through use of technology. Those factors create a unique, memorable customer experience, and lead to emotional ties with our brand, repeat business and increased revenue. Implementing this strategy will engage your customers, boost confidence in your shop and give them a reason to come back. | <urn:uuid:2bf2614d-0a3d-41f3-8eef-a9f55ae91d83> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.ratchetandwrench.com/articles/163-seeing-is-believing | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571909.51/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813051311-20220813081311-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.947101 | 892 | 1.671875 | 2 |
If you have been using computers for some time, you have probably come across files with the .zip extension. They are special files that can hold the compressed content of many other files, folders, and subfolders. This makes them pretty useful for transferring files over the internet. Did you know that you can use Python to compress or extract files?
This tutorial will teach you how to use the zipfile module in Python to extract or compress individual or multiple files at once.
Compressing Individual Files
This one is easy and requires very little code. We begin by importing the zipfile module and then open the ZipFile object in write mode by specifying the second parameter as 'w'. The first parameter is the path to the file itself. Here is the code that you need:
import zipfile with zipfile.ZipFile('C:\\Stories\\Fantasy\\jungle.zip', 'w') as jungle_zip: jungle_zip.write('C:\\Stories\\Fantasy\\jungle.pdf', compress_type=zipfile.ZIP_DEFLATED)
Please note that I will specify the path in all the code snippets in a Windows style format; you will need to make appropriate changes if you are on Linux or Mac.
You can specify different compression methods to compress files. The newer methods
LZMA were added in Python version 3.3, and there are some other tools as well which don't support these two compression methods. For this reason, it is safe to just use the
DEFLATED method. You should still try out these methods to see the difference in the size of the compressed file.
Compressing Multiple Files
This is slightly complex as you need to iterate over all files. The code below should compress all files with the extension pdf in a given folder:
import os import zipfile fantasy_zip = zipfile.ZipFile('C:\\Stories\\Fantasy\\archive.zip', 'w') for folder, subfolders, files in os.walk('C:\\Stories\\Fantasy'): for file in files: if file.endswith('.pdf'): fantasy_zip.write(os.path.join(folder, file), os.path.relpath(os.path.join(folder,file), 'C:\\Stories\\Fantasy'), compress_type = zipfile.ZIP_DEFLATED) fantasy_zip.close()
This time, we have imported the
os module and used its
walk() method to go over all files and subfolders inside our original folder. I am only compressing the pdf files in the directory. You can also create different archived files for each format using
If you don't want to preserve the directory structure, you can put all the files together by using the following line:
fantasy_zip.write(os.path.join(folder, file), file, compress_type = zipfile.ZIP_DEFLATED)
write() method accepts three parameters. The first parameter is the name of the file that we want to compress. The second parameter is optional and allows you to specify a different file name for the compressed file. If nothing is specified, the original name is used.
Extracting All Files
You can use the
extractall() method to extract all the files and folders from a zip file into the current working directory. You can also pass a folder name to
extractall() to extract all files and folders in a specific directory. If the folder that you passed does not exist, this method will create one for you. Here is the code that you can use to extract files:
import zipfile with zipfile.ZipFile('C:\\Stories\\Fantasy\\archive.zip') as fantasy_zip: fantasy_zip.extractall('C:\\Library\\Stories\\Fantasy')
If you want to extract multiple files, you will have to supply the name of files that you want to extract as a list.
Extracting Individual Files
This is similar to extracting multiple files. One difference is that this time you need to supply the filename first and the path to extract them to later. Also, you need to use the
extract() method instead of
extractall(). Here is a basic code snippet to extract individual files.
import zipfile with zipfile.ZipFile('C:\\Stories\\Fantasy\\archive.zip') as fantasy_zip: fantasy_zip.extract('Fantasy Jungle.pdf', 'C:\\Stories\\Fantasy')
Getting Information About Files
Consider a scenario where you need to see if a zip archive contains a specific file. Up to this point, your only option to do so is by extracting all the files in the archive. Similarly, you may need to extract only those files which are larger than a specific size. The
zipfile module allows us to inquire about the contents of an archive without ever extracting it.
namelist() method of the ZipFile object will return a list of all members of an archive by name. To get information on a specific file in the archive, you can use the
getinfo() method of the ZipFile object. This will give you access to information specific to that file, like the compressed and uncompressed size of the file or its last modification time. We will come back to that later.
getinfo() method one by one on all files can be a tiresome process when there are a lot of files that need to be processed. In this case, you can use the
infolist() method to return a list containing a
ZipInfo object for every single member in the archive. The order of these objects in the list is the same as that of actual zipfiles.
You can also directly read the contents of a specific file from the archive using the
read(file) method, where
file is the name of the file that you intend to read. To do this, the archive must be opened in read or append mode.
To get the compressed size of an individual file from the archive, you can use the
compress_size attribute. Similarly, to know the uncompressed size, you can use the
The following code uses the properties and methods we just discussed to extract only those files that have a size below 1MB.
import zipfile with zipfile.ZipFile('C:\\Stories\\Funny\\archive.zip') as stories_zip: for file in stories_zip.namelist(): if stories_zip.getinfo(file).file_size < 1024*1024: stories_zip.extract(file, 'C:\\Stories\\Short\\Funny')
To know the time and date when a specific file from the archive was last modified, you can use the
date_time attribute. This will return a tuple of six values. The values will be the year, month, day of the month, hours, minutes, and seconds, in that specific order. The year will always be greater than or equal to 1980, and hours, minutes, and seconds are zero-based.
import zipfile with zipfile.ZipFile('C:\\Stories\\Funny\\archive.zip') as stories_zip: thirsty_crow_info = stories_zip.getinfo('The Thirsty Crow.pdf') print(thirsty_crow_info.date_time) print(thirsty_crow_info.compress_size) print(thirsty_crow_info.file_size)
This information about the original file size and compressed file size can help you decide whether it is worth compressing a file. I am sure it can be used in some other situations as well.
Reading and Writing Content to Files
We were able to get a lot of important information about the files in our archive using their
ZipInfo objects. Now, it is time to go a step further and get the actual content of those files. I have taken some text files from the Project Gutenberg website and created an archive with them. We will now read the contents of one of the files in the archive using the
read() function. It will return the bytes of the given file as long as the archive containing the file is open for reading. Here is an example:
import zipfile with zipfile.ZipFile('D:\\tutsplus-tests\\books.zip') as books: for file in books.namelist(): if file == 'Frankenstein.txt': contents = books.read(file) # <class 'bytes'> print(type(contents)) # b'\xef\xbb\xbfThe Project Gutenberg eBook of Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft print(contents) # 29 print(contents.count(b'Frankenstein')) contents = contents.replace(b'Frankenstein', b'Crankenstein') # b'\xef\xbb\xbfThe Project Gutenberg eBook of Crankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft print(contents)
As you can see, the
read() function returns a bytes object with all the content of the file we are reading. You can do a lot of operations on the contents of the file, like finding the position of any sub-sequence from either end of the data or making regular replacements as we did above. In our example, we are doing all our operations with simple byte strings because we are reading text files.
There is also a
write() function in the module, but it is used to write files to the archive and not to write content to those files themselves. One way to write content to specific files is to open them in write mode using the
open() function and then use
write() to add content to those files.
import zipfile with zipfile.ZipFile('D:\\tutsplus-tests\\multiples.zip', 'w') as multiples_zip: for i in range(1, 101): with multiples_zip.open(str(i) + '.txt', 'w') as file: for j in range(1, 101): line = ' '.join(map(str, [i, 'x', j, '=', i*j ])) + '\n' number = bytes(line, 'utf-8') file.write(number)
The above code will create 100 text files with the first 100 multiples of those numbers stored in each file. We convert our string to
write() expects a bytes-like object instead of a regular string.
As is evident from this tutorial, using the
zipfile module to compress files gives you a lot of flexibility. You can compress different files in a directory to different archives based on their type, name, or size. You also get to decide whether you want to preserve the directory structure or not. Similarly, while extracting the files, you can extract them to the location you want, based on your own criteria like size, etc.
To be honest, it was also pretty exciting for me to compress and extract files by writing my own code. I hope you enjoyed the tutorial, and if you have any questions, please let me know on the Envato forum.
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It is a city, commuter and sightseeing railway all in one: The Sihltal Zürich Uetliberg Bahn, or SZU for short, combines hectic urban life with the beauty of nature. In addition to punctuality, cleanliness is also a high priority for the small but mighty public transport company.
The Sihltalbahn, the S4, transports work commuters and sightseers between the city of Zurich and the Sihltal agglomerations of Adliswil and Langnau am Albis. Recreation-seekers and animal lovers use this line to visit the Langenberg Zoo – the oldest zoo in Europe – or to experience untouched nature up close in the Zurich Wilderness Park Sihlwald.
The Uetlibergbahn, the S10, takes day-trippers from Zurich main station up to Zurich’s local mountain, or rather to the Uetliberg terminus, 813 m above sea level. With a gradient of 79%, the Uetlibergbahn was for a long time the steepest standard-gauge adhesion railway in Europe.
In recent decades, SZU has permanently adapted to its passengers’ mobility needs. Since the two lines were connected to Zürich Hauptbahnhof, Zurich’s main railway station, in 1990, the number of passengers transported annually has risen from 4 to 15 million. The company even expects 20 million by 2030. SZU is handling with these services within its long-term strategy to increase capacity, including the procurement of state-of-the-art rolling stock and the further expansion of the infrastructure.
An important renewal project last year was the upgrade and automation of the ageing washing facility for cleaning the exterior of the trains. The project aimed to increase cleaning efficiency, improve safety and reduce personnel and costs by half. SZU ordered almost all the components and automation systems necessary from Bachofen. Project manager Luke Zollinger comments: «Bachofen’s wide range of products largely covered our needs. In addition, procurement from a single source offered us a guarantee that the parts would work together perfectly. »
The shopping list with which SZU approached Bachofen was varied and long. The cross-divisional requirements ranged from safety components of all kinds, valve technology and pressure sensors, pneumatic systems and signal columns to radar sensors, proximity switches, level probes, silencers and operating elements. Luke Zollinger: «The technically experienced specialists from Bachofen provided us with expert and professional support in evaluating the parts. The deliveries were made punctually and reliably – qualities that we have also taken to heart. Bachofen delivered exactly what we needed in a timely manner. Nothing was imposed on us. »
In addition to punctuality, the cleanliness of trains is also a high priority in public transport, as it is an important image factor. The fact that the SZU’s vehicle fleet makes a sparkling appearance in its immaculately shining red is due not least to the perfect cooperation between the SZU and Bachofen.
«It is really cool to work alongside Bachofen. It convinced us with its understanding of our concerns, the technical know-how of the consultants and the range of products. For the retrofit of our washing facility, the principle of ‘everything from a single source’ has proved its worth. »
The Sihltal Zürich Uetliberg Bahn SZU AG was formed in 1973 from a merger of the Sihltalbahn, founded in 1892, and the Zürich-Uetliberg railway company, which had existed since 1922. The latter in turn had emerged from the Uetlibergbahn-Gesellschaft founded in 1875. SZU has been part of the Zurich Transport Network (ZVV) since 1990 and has been operating the Zimmerberg bus – as the transport company responsible for the Zimmerberg market area – since 1995. SZU operates the S4 line between Zürich Hauptbahnhof and Sihlwald as well as the S10 line from Zürich Hauptbahnhof to the Uetliberg. The company also operates the aerial tramway between Adliswil and Felsenegg.
Foundation of SZU AG
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The boundary between cybersecurity and geopolitics has never been as porous as it is now, with both having a significant influence on the other. The enmeshing of cybersecurity and geopolitics brings new challenges and intriguing flashpoints. In this month’s March 2021 podcast, Ian Thornton-Trump (Cyjax CISO) is joined by Tristan de Souza (Editor and Head of Communications at Cyjax) to look at the exploitation of Microsoft Exchange Server vulnerabilities by Chinese threat actors, explore the SolarWinds debacle, analyze cybercrime’s effect on the American recovery, and talk about the need for continued education against fake news.
Microsoft Exchange vulnerabilities
This month saw reports that Chinese computer network operatives exploiting multiple 0day vulnerabilities to access on-premises Exchange Servers. The threat group, dubbed HAFNIUM, forced Microsoft to distribute an out-of-band patch because of the breadth of the attacks: primarily US-based entities across several industry sectors, including infectious disease research, law, higher education, defense, and policy (think tanks and NGOs). As noted by Ian, this is a serious issue: email is both incredibly vulnerable and incredibly valuable, from a threat actor’s perspective. If access is gained to a company inbox, all manner of sensitive data can be exposed. In many ways, this was just a ticking time bomb. What’s the best way forward? And how do we create a secure environment for business communication?
SolarWinds keep blowing
This story, which initially broke at the beginning of December 2020, has yet to run its course. There are now a little under ten individual malware variants tied to the supply-chain attack, and the SolarWinds executives have been hauled in front of US government committees. Intriguingly, there appears to be no appetite for similar action in the UK, even though this attack will almost certainly have compromised ongoing espionage activity across the Five Eyes countries – of which the UK is one. Ian compares SolarWinds’ reaction – to blame an intern – with the way in which Zoom tackled innumerable bug reports that were laid bare in the media and pored over by people across the globe, after its product was catapulted to the forefront of everyone’s consciousness by the onset of the coronavirus pandemic. One of these companies got it right. Tristan points out that corporate responsibility needs to play a far bigger role in the protection of data.
Cybercrime and the American recovery
We have yet to see what the fallout from the SolarWinds and Microsoft issues – as well as those affecting Accellion – will have on the cyber-insurance sector. Will premiums be raised? Will there be more stringent penalties imposed on the victims by their insurers down the line? And is legislation necessary? Certainly, the theft of intellectual property and the potential exposure of data in mailboxes could be disastrous for the victims. But it is hard to see any benefit for either Russia or China (the alleged state sponsors of the groups responsible for the attacks on SolarWinds and Microsoft) to slow down the recovery in the US. Rather than state-sponsored cyber-attack groups, Tristan sees ransomware groups like Cl0p as being the main threat to the US and global economic recovery. The operators of Cl0p have been distributing their ransomware through an Accellion file transfer product, infecting both public and private sector organizations around the world, causing untold disruption and a heavy financial cost on victims.
Rounding off the podcast, Ian ropes in Meghan and Harry (and the way in which social media has been used to both help and hinder them) to make a broader point about Russian disinformation, and political discourse more generally: he wonders whether have we reached a point where our politics is so divided that we cannot hope to establish consensus around things such as climate change and internet governance? And what should the long-term strategies be for addressing misinformation? That last question will be the over-arching theme of next month’s podcast, but for now, listen in for Ian and Tristan’s insights on all of the topics outlined above – here. | <urn:uuid:9075a2d0-aa66-4343-b50c-3e8af5aa4b4e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.securitymagazine.com/articles/94836-cybersecurity-and-geopolitical-video-podcast-march-2021-episode | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571909.51/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813051311-20220813081311-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.951306 | 891 | 1.898438 | 2 |
Property Tax Lawyers in Sheridan
The law of Sheridan, Oregon says that everybody who owns real property has to pay taxes on it. The term "real property" refers to land and buildings, as well as anything fixed to the land, like trees and natural resources.
The property tax in Sheridan, Oregon is simply a percentage of a piece of property's appraised value, paid to the state and/or local government on a periodic - typically annual - basis.
Typically, the federal government does not collect property taxes anywhere in the U.S. Property taxes are gathered almost always by state and local authorities.
How Property Tax is Calculated in Sheridan, Oregon
Sheridan, Oregon calculates its property taxes by requiring property owners to pay a set percentage of the appraised value. While the property tax rate varies considerably across different parts of the country, they fall into the 1-5% range.
In order to levy this tax, the tax authorities in Sheridan, Oregon must have an uniform formula for figuring out the value of a particular piece of property.
Value is subjective in many respects. The home that you grew up in is likely worth more to you than its going market rate. Thus, to ensure that property taxes are fair and uniform, tax collectors have to use purely objective factors when appraising property.
With that in mind, the land appraisers in Sheridan, Oregon look at different factors, including the state of the local real estate market, the square footage of the house, and the permissible use (zoning) of the land.
How A Sheridan, Oregon Property Tax Attorney Can Help.
Property tax law in Sheridan, Oregon is not always simple. Legal disagreements about property taxes can arise from almost any instance. For example, you might have reason to suspect that the taxable value of your home was overestimated, creating a bigger property tax bill. And, the government might claim that you have underpaid your property taxes, while you think that you have paid the appropriate amount.
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Shenzhen KNY Battery Industrial Co.,Ltd specializes in designing and manufacturing powerful rechargeable batteries and chargers, which can be used in many practical applications. They have now introduced Lithium-Ion lawn more batteries that are perfect for greenwork and can be charged in minutes.
According to the spokesperson of the company, the newly developed Cordless Lithium-ion power tools batteries are ideal for the busy people of the modern times. At the same time, people who travel frequently will find these batteries very useful for them. One can charge these batteries in a few minutes. The spokesperson reveals that in just a few minutes, the 4000mAh lithium-ion batteries can supply enough power for using a device and completing a necessary task. These batteries can be charged with no negative memory effects, and thus the peak power can be maintained even after hundreds of charging cycles.
The company also brings After market Apple laptop batteries that are compatible with different MacBook Air models. These Li-polymer batteries are more suitable for powering Apple laptops and enjoy a power supply to keep using the laptops for hours without any trouble. With 35wh capacity, these batteries can provide enough power to a MacBook device. These are non-removable batteries with 7.3V voltage and can be charged very quickly to keep using the Apple Laptop to carry out any important task.
Shenzhen KNY Battery Industrial Co.,Ltd also has a wide range of Portable power bank chargers in their stock. These power banks can be used in mobile phones, laptops, cars and USB powered devices. The 40000mAh Power bank is available in aluminum case with an LED screen. With a net weight of 820g, the power bank is available in a silver color compact case. The power bank ensures availability of power for different devices on the go and makes sure one can keep using his/her devices without any difficulty.
One can learn more about the newly developed Lithium-Ion lawn more batteries and other products the company supplies by visiting the website: http://www.knytech.com
About Shenzhen KNY Battery Industrial Co.,Ltd
Shenzhen KNY Battery Industrial Co.,Ltd, established in 2005, is a high-tech manufacturing and trading combo for Li-ion and Li-Polymer batteries, including mobile batteries, digital camera batteries, Apple laptop batteries, power tool batteries and OEM battery packs. They also supply Power supply chargers, including backup battery charger, power tool chargers and power banks. Shenzhen KNY Battery Industrial Co.,Ltd is committed to provide professional, fast, patient sales. Their products are highly appraised by high-end and mid-end clients around the world.
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Updated: Feb 10, 2021
*I just noticed that the pictures, although a square when put into the graphic was a square, stretched and looked like a rectangle when put into Google Docs, so I just updated and inserted them as pictures instead of backgrounds, sorry!* Thanks!
I have created two others in this set so far, and they include how to keep track of the faces on a cube or rectangular prism, which you can find in the blog section of the site. All lessons are there! I also have an introduction to 2D shapes, which is a set I did with our students earlier in the year, as well as a 3D figures one, which I will be doing with them this week. These are the follow up ones with the attributes. I have tied both in to support our students and feel that it is a great refresher and helps them to compare and remind themselves of the connections.
Hope you find it helpful, thanks! Vertices or corners (again I teach K so I use both to help them learn these even though we introduce them to the vocabulary now for both).
All posts are here if you want to see what else I have shared:
Google Doc Link (Edit, but credit, do not benefit from my work financially):
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The MENA region has been earmarked by the United Kingdom as a potential growth area for business. A huge part of the world that has long been ignored by too many Western economies, new efforts are being launched to support and inspire entrepreneurship in the Middle East and North Africa that could prove beneficial to all involved parties.
At last year’s World Islamic Economic Forum, British Prime Minister David Cameron announced that businesses across the Middle East and North Africa would receive £4.5 million to provide support to more than 600 SMEs across five countries suffering high unemployment including Jordan and Egypt. The funding was amplified by the Shell Foundation and it was hoped the money would lead to the creation of more than 15,000 jobs.
“Jobs and growth are critical to the stability of the Middle East and North Africa,” said Minister of State for International Development Alan Duncan upon the announcement of the fund. “We are pleased to be working with the Shell Foundation to create thousands of jobs that will contribute towards the stable economic environment needed for growth and prosperity in the region.”
The MENA region currently has a population of 381 million people and one of its smallest nations is currently being singled out as a potential hub of activity for the next few years. At a recent UK Trade and Investment conference, Gareth O’Brien, Director of UK Trade & Investment spoke on opportunities Qatar offered across all sectors, including architecture, engineering services and intelligent building systems. Qatar has proved a controversial choice to host the 2022 Football World Cup with accusations of corruption in the voting process and reports of poor working conditions on building sites as the small desert nation races to construct the stadiums required to host the event. Nevertheless, Qatar and the UK’s business relationship has always been strong and in the first quarter for 2014, UK export of goods was £662 million, representing a 67 per cent rise on the first quarter 2013 when the figure was £397mn.
“There is, of course, major work being done around the 2022 World Cup, with six new stadia and 70 training grounds being built,” said O’Brien. “The transport sector opportunities are related to key developments in Doha Metro (HVO) and national rail network, improving roads, and the new port and airport (opened just last month) with plans to serve 50mn passengers by 2030.”
While the MENA region offers much in terms of opportunity, there are many regulations, standards and cultural differences businesses must acknowledge before attempting to foster ties. For example, in some Islamic countries there are rules for banking that comply with Sharia law. The Koran forbids usury so, unlike Western firms, Islamic banks are interest-free. Speculative trading is also avoided.
UK expats considering a move to Qatar or other parts of the region for business purposes might well consider getting a business credit card with an international bank to aid them when carrying out transactions here.
Equal opportunities for women has also proved a strong point of development in the MENA region, as it has in many parts of the world. The UK Government has prioritised supporting women’s economic empowerment. £6 million will be provided to the Arab Women’s Enterprise Fund, which will be matched by the Islamic Development Bank.
The initiative is aimed at improving the competitiveness of women entrepreneurs in the Arab world, which currently has the lowest rates of female participation in the global labour force.
“Women are the engine of growth and it is not possible for a country to develop without investing in women,” said Gareth O’Brien. “We are delighted to be working with the Islamic Development Bank to design and implement exciting projects that will strengthen women’s economic contribution to the Middle East and North Africa.”
Overall then, the MENA region holds many opportunities for both small and large UK businesses looking to expand overseas, or start-ups with clear goals in mind. Qatar in particular is one to watch.
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People tout many different goals in the educational enterprise, but not all goals are created equal. They require a good deal of sifting, and some should be discarded. Many of them seem to be either obvious on the one hand or, on the other, completely wrong-headed (to my way of thinking, at least). One of… Continue reading Failure as a good thing
Everywhere we see extravagant public handwringing about education. Something is not working. The economy seems to be the symptom that garners the most attention, and there are people across the political spectrum who want to fix it directly; but most seem to agree that education is at least an important piece of the solution. We… Continue reading STEMs and Roots
Okay…now for something a mite silly. Of the various things I’ve published in one medium or another over the years, the one that people still e-mail me asking about is not actually anything serious — but this. It’s not widely available any more, so I thought I’d put it where those who want it can… Continue reading Do you still have that old double-dactyl thing…?
Last May I wrote a piece for this blog entitled “Autonomy of Means and Education”. The choice of phrasing was drawn from Charles WIlliams, “Bors to Elayne, on the King’s Coins”. I’ve recently had reason to revisit the question again, from a different direction. I’ve just finished reading Nicholas Carr’s The Shallows: What the Internet… Continue reading Autonomy of Means revisited: the Internet
On bulletin boards and in magazines dealing with classical homeschooling, one question that arises over and over again is, “What sort of pronunciation should we use in teaching Latin?” The options usually boil down to two: the reconstructed classical pronunciation, and the Italianate ecclesiastical pronunciation. Both have their champions, and the discussions that follow in… Continue reading Latin pronunciation for the continuing student
My intermediate and advanced Greek and Latin classes are largely translation-based. There’s a lot of discussion among Latin teachers about whether that’s a good approach, but much of the dispute is, I think, mired in terminological ambiguity, and at least some of the objections to translation classes don’t entirely apply to what we’re doing. What… Continue reading Making Sense and Finding Meaning
I read a lot of material on classical education, and I’ve become a little bit skeptical of much of it. In almost any given context, one question that’s sure to come up is, “Why study Latin?” Almost everyone who writes on the topic has a great passion for learning Latin, whether they really know Latin… Continue reading Why study Latin? | <urn:uuid:d63b5b7e-ca80-437b-9922-13ab930ebe32> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.scholarsonline.org/Blog/?cat=4 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571909.51/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813051311-20220813081311-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.946982 | 588 | 2.484375 | 2 |
Cache (as defined by Wikipedia) is a component that transparently stores data such that future requests for data can be faster. I hereby presume that you understand cache as a component and any architectural patterns around caching and thereby with this presumption I will not go into depth of caching in this article. This article will cover some of the very basics of fundamentals of caching (wherever relevant) and then will take a deep dive into the point-of-view on the caching architecture with respect a Content Management Plan in context to Adobe’s AEM implementation.
Principles for high performance and high availability don’t change but for conversation sakes lets assume we have a website where we have to meet the following needs.
- 1 Billion hits on a weekend (hit is defined by a call to the resource and includes static resources like CSS, JS, Images, etc.)
- 700 million hits in a day
- 7.2 million page views in a day
- 2.2 million page views in an hour
- 80K hits in a second
- 40K page views in a minute
- 612 page views in a second
- 24×7 site availability
- 99.99% uptime
- Content availability to consumers in under 5 minutes from the time editors publish content
While the data looks steep the use case is not uncommon one. In current world where everyone is moving to devices, and digital there will be cases when brands are running campaigns. When those campaigns are running there will be needs for support such steep loads. These loads don’t stay for long but when then come they come fast, they come thick and we will have to support them.
For the record, this is not some random theory I am writing, I have had the opportunity of being on a project (I cant name) where we supported similar number.
The use case I picked here is of a Digital Media Platform where we have a large portion of the content is static, but the principles I am going to talk here will apply to any other platform or application.
The problems that we want to solve here are:
- Performance: Caching is a pattern that we employ to increase the overall performance the application by storing the (processed) data in a store that is a) closest to the consumer of the data and b) is accessible quickly
- Scalability: In cases when we need to make the same data-set available to various consumers of the system, caching as a pattern makes it possible for us to scale the systems much better. Caching as we discussed earlier allows us to have processed data which takes away the need to run the same processing time and again which facilitates scalability
- Availability: Building on similar principles as of scalability, caching allows us to put in place data in areas where systems/components can survive outages be it network or other components. While it may lead to surfacing stale data at points, the systems are still available to the end users.
Adobe AEM Perspective
Adobe AEM as an application container (let’s remember AEM is not built on top of a true application container, though you can deploy in one), have it’s own nuances with scalability. In this article I will not dive into the scalability aspects, but as you scale the AEM publishers horizontally it leads to increase in several concerns around operations, licensing, cost, etc. The OOTB architecture and components we get with Adobe AEM themselves tell you to make use of cache on the web servers (using dispatcher). However, when you have to support Non Functional Requirements (NFRs) I listed above, the standard OOTB architecture will need a massive infrastructure falls short. We can’t just setup CQ with some backend servers and an apache front-ending with local cache, throw hardware at it with capacity and hope it will come together magically.
As I explained, there is no magic in this world and everything needs to happen via some sort of science. Let’s put in perspective the fact that a standard apache web servers can handle a few thousand requests in a second and when you need to handle 80K hits in a second which includes resources like HTML, JS, CSS, images, etc.; with a variety of sizes. Without going into the sizing aspects, it is pretty clear that you would need not just a cluster of servers but a farm of servers to cater to all that traffic. With a farm of servers, you get yourself a nightmare to setup an organization and processes around operations and maintenance to ensure that you keep the site up and running 24×7.
Cache, cache and cache
Before we dive into the design here, we need to understand some key aspects around caching. These concepts will be talked about in the POV below and it is critial that you understand these terminologies clearly.
- Cache miss refers to a scenario when a process requests the data from a cache store and the object does not exist in the store
- Cache hit refers to a scenario when a process requests the data from a cache store the data is available in the store. This event can only happen only when a cache object for the requests has been primed
- CachePrimeis a term associated with the process where we fill up the caching storage with the data. You can do this in two waysinwhichthiscan be achieved
- Pre-prime is the method where we run a process (generally at the startup of the application) proactively to load all the various objects whose state we are aware of we can cache. This can be achieved by either using an asynchronous process or by an event notification
- OnDemand-prime is a method where the cache objects are primes real-time i.e. when a process which needs the resource does not finds it in the cache store, the cache is primed up as the resource is served back to the process itself
- Expiration is a mechanism that allows the cache controller to remove objects from memory based on either a time duration or an event
- TTL known as Time To Live a method which defines a time duration for which a data can live on a computer. In caching world this is a common expiration strategy where a cache object is expired (flagged to be evicted if needed) based on a time duration provided when the cache object is created
- Event-based (I can’t find a standards naming convention for this) cache expiration method is one where we can fire an event to mark a cache object as expired so that if needed it can be evicted from memory to make way for new objects or re-primed on the next request
- Eviction is a mechanism when the cache objects is removed from the cache memory to optimize for space
The Design // Where Data should be Cached
This point-of-view builds on top of an architecture that designed by a team which I was a part of (I was the load architect) for a digital media platform. The NFRs we spoke about earlier are the ones that we have successfully supported on the platform during a weekend as part of a campaign the brand was running. Also, since then we continue to support very high traffic week everytime there are such events and campaigns. The design that we have in places takes care of various layers of caching in the architecture.
When we talk about such high traffic load, we must understand that this traffic has certain characteristics that work in our favor.
a) All this traffic is generated by a smaller subset of people who access the site. In our case, when we say that we serve 1 billion hits on a single weekend, it is worthwhile to note that there are only 300,000 visitors on the site on that day who generate this much load
c) As the users interact with the site/platform, there is content and data which maps back to their profile and preferences and it does not necessarily changes frequently and also this is managed directly and only by the user themselves
Content Delivery Networks (CDN) are service providers that enable serving content to end consumers with high performance and availability. To know more about CDN networks, you can read here. In the overall architecture CDN plays a very critical role. Akamai, AWS’s CoudFront and CloudFlare are some of the CDN providers with which we integrate very well.
CDN for us over other things provides a highly available architecture. Some of these CDN provide you an ability to configure your environment such that if the origin servers (pointing to your data center) are unavailable they continue to serve content for a limited time from their local cache. This essentially means that while the backend services may be down, the consumer facing site is never down. Some aspects of the platform like content delivery and new publications are activated and in certain cases like breaking news we may have an impact on a SLA, but the consumers /end users never see your site as unavailable.
In our architecture we use CDN to cache all the static content be it HTML pages, images or Videos. Once a static content is published via the Content Delivery Network, those pages are cached on the CDN for a certain duration. These durations are determined based on the refresh duration but the underlying philosophy is to break the content in tiers of Platinum, Gold, Silver and then assign duration for which each of these would be cached. In a platform like NFL where we are say pushing game feeds these need to be classified as Platinum and they had a TTL of 5 seconds, while content types like Home Page, News (not breaking news) etc. have a TTL of 10 minutes and has been classifies as Gold. Then on the same project we have TTL of 2 hours (or so) so sections like search and have been classified as Bronze. The intent was to identify and classify if not all most of the key sections and ensure that we leverage CDN cache effectively.
We have observed that even for shorter TTLs like Platinum with increase/spike in traffic the Offload %age (defined as the number of hits served by CDN to humber of hits sent to backend) grows and touched a peak of 99.9% where the average offload %age is around 98%.
Varnish is a web-accelerator which (if i may classify it as is as web server on steroids). If you are hearing its name for the first time, I strongly urge you to hop over here to get to know more about it.
We had introduced Varnish as a layer to solve for the following:
- Boost Performance (reduce number of servers) – We have realized that Varnish bring an in-memory accelerator gives you a boost of anywhere between 5x-10x over using apache. This basically means that you can handle several times the load with Varnish sitting on top of Apache. We had done rigorous testing to prove these numbers out. The x-factor was mostly dependent on the page size aka the amount of content we loaded over the network
- Avoid DoS attacks – we had realized that if there are cases where you see a lot of influx of traffic coming into your server (directed and intentional or arbitrary) and if you cant to block all such traffic, your chances of successfully blocking the traffic on varnish without bringing down the server when compared to doing same on apache increase many fold. We also use Varnish as a mechanism to block any traffic that we don’t want to hit our infrastructure and those could be spiders and bots from markets and regions not targeted by campaigns we run
- Avoid Dog-pile effect – if you have heard this term the first time, then hop over here hype-free: Avoiding the dogpile effect. In high traffic situations and even when you have CDN networks setup, it is quite normal for your infrastructure to be hit by a dog-pile as cache expired. Chances of dog-pile effect to increase, increase as you hit lower TTL. Using varnish we have setup something that we call a Grace Configuration where we don’t allow requests for same URLs to pass through. These are queued and after a certain while if the primary request is still not getting through consequent requests are served off of stale cache.
If you haven’t heard about Apache WebServer, you might have heard about httpd. If none of these ring a bell, then this (Welcome! – The Apache HTTP Server Project) will make explain things. AEM’s answer to scale is what sits on this layer and is famously known as Dispatcher. This is a neat little module which can be installed on the Apache HTTP server and acts as a reverse proxy with a local disk cache. This module only supports one model of cache eviction which is event based. We can configure either the authoring or the publishing systems to send events of deleting and invalidating cache files on these servers in which case the next call on this server will be passed back to the publisher. The simplest of the model in AEM world and also recommended by one of the Adobe is to let everything invalidate (set statlevelfile = 0 or 1). This design simplifies the page/component design as now we don’t have to figure out any inter-component dependencies.
While this is the simplest of the things to do, when we have to support such complex needs it calls for some sophistication in design and setups. I would recommend that is not the right way to go as it reduces the cache usage. We made sure that the site hierarchy is such that when a content is published we would never invalidate the entire site hierarchy and only relevant and contextual content is what gets evicted (invalidated in case of dispatcher).
AEM publishing layer which is the last layer in this layer cake, seems like something which should be simplest and all figured out. That’s not the case. This is where you can be hit most (and it will be below the belt). AEM’s architecture is designed to work in a specific way and if you deviate from it, you are bound to fall into this trap. There are 2 things you need to be aware of
- When we start writing components that are heavily dependent on queries it will eventually lead to system crumbling. You should be very careful with AEM Queries (which is dependent on underlying AEM’s Lucene implementation).
- This article tells us that we have about 4 layers of caching before anything should hit publisher. This means that the number of calls that should ever hit this layer is only a minuscule number. From here on, you need to establish how many calls your servers will receive in a second/minute. We have seen in cases where we have used search heavily AEM’s supported TPS takes a nose dive. I have instances across multiple projects where this number is lower then 5 transactions per second.
The answer is to build for some sort of an application cache which we used to do in a typical JEE application. This will solve this issues, assuming that content creation either manually by authors or via ingestion is limited which means the load we put on search can be reduced significantly. The caveat you should be aware of is that we are adding one more layer of cache which is difficult to mange and if you have cluster of publishers this is one layer which will have distributed cache across servers and can lead to old pages cached on dispatcher. The chances of that happening will increase as the number of calls coming into publishers increase or as the number of servers in the cluster increase.
In my next article I will explain how you can go about modeling the load your platform/site is expected to get and discuss about how the finer details of the architecture. | <urn:uuid:5fee9115-2a3f-476a-96c9-bedfd2f9c918> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://scratchpad101.com/2014/07/25/caching-architecture-adobe-aem-part-1/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571909.51/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813051311-20220813081311-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.946978 | 3,412 | 2.484375 | 2 |
Everyone from the newbie yogi to yoga instructors can learn something from Richard, I know I did!Melita Mollohan
Since 2005, Richard Gartner has been fostering a non-dogmatic and compassionate attitude about students’ abilities and circumstances in Pittsburgh and beyond.
Richard’s style is paradoxically both unique and universal. His instructions allow for any student to approach the practice, embracing all levels of experience and ability. This allows for yogis to explore their own unique structure and make every practice their own.
This philosophy was infused into Onward Facing Yoga, an app Richard released in September 2015. The eleven sequences on Onward Facing Yoga playfully explore various aspects of yoga philosophy, anatomy and breathwork, at various levels of challenge.
His teachings fuse traditional posture and breathwork with contemporary anatomy and bodywork. He draws from many forms of yoga, fascial release, mindfulness techniques, and common sense.
Richard and his wife Kristin were mentors in the first cohort of Hello Neighbor, a Pittsburgh organization that supports recently resettled refugee and immigrant families. They are currently on their mentor board, which helps guide mentors on their journey to build an inclusive community.
Richard helped me understand that yoga is not a substitute for something better, but indeed is the foundation of a complete physical regimen that can be as intense or as restorative as anyone might want.Clyde Jones
His knowledge of yoga and his willingness to give you advice allows you to improve your skills through a deeper understanding of your body. The benefits of this knowledge extend quickly beyond the yoga lesson to everyday life.Irene Arduini | <urn:uuid:8e3b2539-c21d-45b2-8ff9-75524a21ceb7> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://rgyoga.com/about/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571909.51/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813051311-20220813081311-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.957369 | 337 | 1.625 | 2 |
In a world plagued by a deadly new disease composed of viral shadows, young, healthy volunteers across the globe step forward to test a breakthrough vaccine. Using motion-tracked generative effects projection-mapped on the body, the Shadowpox storyworld re-imagines immunity as an acquired superpower, but one whose bearers are framed as villains as often as they’re hailed as heroes. This research-creation doctoral project explores how a participatory science fiction storyworld can help young people build scientific, civic and media literacy by exploring immunization and vaccine hesitancy through a networked superhero narrative.
The project’s first phase, a full-body videogame for gallery installation titled Shadowpox: The Antibody Politic, debuted during the 2017 World Health Assembly in Geneva, where The Lancet called it “one of the most powerful and playful ways to illustrate both the individual and population-level implications of community immunity.” With the advent of COVID-19, the team created a new, online version of the game, Shadowpox: #StayHome Edition, shifting the focal decision from vaccination to physical distancing.
This artwork is available to experience online. To view the work: shadowpox.org/game
- Alison Humphrey is a doctoral Vanier Scholar in Cinema and Media Arts at York University, Toronto, Canada. Alison plays with story across drama, digital media, and education. After starting as an intern at Marvel Comics, her career has included producing a pioneering alternate reality game for Douglas Adams, writing transmedia television, and directing Shakespeare and live-mocapped interactive theatre. alisonhumphrey.com | <urn:uuid:16ca83fc-6ef2-4e90-a8be-164589c76307> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.isea-archives.org/isea2019/isea2020-artist_statement_humphrey/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571909.51/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813051311-20220813081311-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.919092 | 339 | 2.59375 | 3 |
We investigated the life history of an exotic soft scale insect, Phalacrococcus howertoni Hodges and Hodgson that damages croton and several other economically important ornamental and fruit plants in Florida. There was no difference in the development, survival, and reproduction of this scale insect species when reared either on croton or on buttonwood at 27 ± 1°C, 12:12 (L:D) h and 65% R. H. The scale insect practiced ovoviviparity. We observed that eggs that came out from vulva hatched to first instars immediately. Newly hatched nymphs had a tendency stay underneath the female body for somewhat less than approximately 24 h and then disperse throughout the leaf area for feeding. Females went through 3 immature stages (first, second, and third-instar) prior to becoming adults, while males had 4 immature stages (first, second, third (‘pre-pupa’), and fourth instar (‘pupa’)). Survival in the first instars was the lowest (50.0–50.9%), while the survivorship of the other instars was as follows: second instars (88.9–90.0%), third instar males (92.9–93.7%), third instar females (92.9–94.8%) and fourth-instar males (96.0–97.6%).Thus, approximately 40% of the first instars survived to adults. The pre-oviposition period was 17.6–19.1 d and the oviposition period was 13.9–15.5 d. Lifetime fertility was in the range of 382.4–394.7 live first instars per female. Intrinsic rate of increase (rm) was 0.091–0.095. The lifespan of adult males was very short (less than 1 d) at 27 ± 1°C compared to that of adult females (60.3–61.5 d).
A new exotic soft scale insect species, P. howertoni Hodges and Hodgson (Hemiptera: Coccidae), was first detected in the United States in Apr 2008 in Marathon (Monroe County), Florida on croton (Codiaeum variegatum (L.) ‘Blume’) (Hodges 2008). The scale was subsequently found in 21 counties in Florida including Broward, Miami-Dade, Palm Beach, Duval, Indian River, Lee, Orange, Pinellas, Putnam, and St. Lucie (Hodges 2008; Hodges & Hodgson 2010). Economically important fruits and ornamental plants such as guava (Psidium guajava L.), mango (Mangifera indica L.), croton, buttonwood (Conocarpus erectus L.), Mysore fig (Ficus mysorensis Roth), and strangler fig (Ficus aurea Nutt.) are included in the currently recorded host plant range of this scale; the complete list of known host plant species totals 72 belonging to 34 families (Hodges 2008; Hodges & Hodgson 2010). P. howertoni is a new species in a new genus of an unknown origin (Hodges & Hodgson 2010).
Although the economic importance of P. howertoni is unknown at present, the scale does build up large populations on croton and could potentially become pest of this and other host plant species from which it has been recorded. Observations on its prolific nature and the high intensity of sooty mold production in affected host plants, suggest that this scale species could become a serious pest to numerous agricultural crops in Florida and elsewhere in the United States. Currently, there is no published information on the biology and life history of this soft scale species.
We investigated the life history of P. howertoni on 2 popular ornamental plants in Florida: croton and buttonwood. In addition to its ornamental value, buttonwood is a mangrove species of ecological importance (Gilman & Watson 1993). Information on the development, reproduction and survival of the scale insect species is important in developing control measures for P. howertoni to prevent further infestations throughout Florida and in predicting the establishment and spread of this species to the other parts of the United States.
MATERIALS AND METHODS
Phalacrococcus howertoni was initially collected (July 2008) from an infested croton plant in Homestead, FL. A scale colony was maintained at 27 ± 1°C in a temperature-regulated greenhouse on 6-mo old container-grown croton plants (Codiaeum variegatum (L.) variety ‘Mammey’) purchased from a local store (Walmart, Florida City, Florida). The plants were maintained under overhead irrigation and fertilization not exposed to any insecticides. Plants were utilized for colony rearing 1 mo after their purchase.
Development and Survival
We measured the development and survival of P. howertoni under controlled conditions (27°C, 65% R. H., and a 12:12 (L:D) h photoperiod). Croton (cuttings) and buttonwood (cuttings and seedlings) with fully expanded leaves were used as the host tissues. (We used both buttonwood seedlings and cuttings with the assumption that if P. howertoni could develop and complete its life cycle in seedlings, they would be in great danger of dying because of the prolific nature of the scale species and high density of sooty mold production observed in affected plants). Cuttings were excised from 3-mo old container-grown croton plants maintained outdoors under overhead irrigation and without any pesticide applications. Buttonwood cuttings were obtained from a hedge of buttonwood from University of Florida, Tropical Research and Education Center (TREC) landscape that were maintained without any insecticide applications. Buttonwood seedlings (liners) (15 cm in height) were used 1 mo after purchase (Pat Ford's Nursery Inc., Boynton Beach, FL).
The experimental arena consisted of a 9-cm-diameter petri dish. A 0.6-cm-diameter hole was created in the bottom of the petri dish using a heated cork borer. A seedling or cutting with 2 to 3 newly expanded leaves (5–10 d old and ∼6 cm in length) selected from the upper leaf canopy (with 11-cm long stem) was placed in to each petri dish with the stem inserted through the hole at the bottom of the dish. A lid was placed on top to avoid insect escape. Each petri dish containing a cutting was placed on a 296 ml plastic cup so that the stem below the petiole was immersed in water. This arrangement was similar to the set up used by Amarasekare et al. (2008).
Gravid females (kept individually on croton leaves prepared as above) were transferred to environmental growth chambers (Percival I36LL, Percival Scientific Inc. Perry, North Carolina) 24 h before the experiment. They were acclimatized to experimental conditions of 27± 1°C temperature, 65 ± 2% R.H., and a photoperiod of 12:12 (L:D) h. Each individual female was placed in each experimental arena (croton stem cutting arranged in a petri dish) and allowed to lay eggs. Females were removed after 24 h. Ten first instars emerged from eggs of a single female were kept in each experimental arena. There were 21 females (replicates) with each replicate comprising of the offspring of a single female. The experimental arenas were placed in the environmental chamber set at above-mentioned conditions. Petri dishes were checked daily for shed exuviae to identify eclosion of nymphal instars and adults. The numbers of days to each instar, percentage survival, and numbers of adult males and females were recorded. The crawlers (first instars) of soft scales do not appear to be sexually differentiated morphologically (Marotta 1997). The sexual gender of each individual was determined during the latter part of the second instar when males changed their appearance. At this time, the male nymphs become elongate and show the beginning of eye pigmentation. After this point, males and females held separately and the development times and survival of males and females were recorded separately.
Reproduction and Adult Longevity
Newly emerged virgin females and males (emerged from the above study) were used to determine reproductive capacity. In this experiment, newly eclosed adult females of less than 24 h old were selected from each experimental arena and each female was paired with 2–3 newly emerged adult males. Twenty-five females (replicates) were used in the experiment. The number of days prior to oviposition (number of days from adult emergence to oviposition) and oviposition period (number of days from beginning to end of oviposition), number of eggs laid, and adult mortality were recorded. Sex ratio was calculated as the proportion of females. The intrinsic rate of increase was calculated using the equation rm = 0.74 (In Md)/T (Wyatt and White 1977), in which T is time from birth to onset of reproduction, Md is the reproductive output per original female during a period equal to T, and 0.74 is a correction factor.
The experiment involved a completely randomized design. A one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) was conducted using PROC MIXED (SAS Institute 1999). The mean number of individuals in each petri dish / replicate was used as the dependent variable in the analyses. Treatment means were compared at P = 0.05 significance level using the LSMEANS test (SAS Institute 1999). The data on proportion of females (sex ratio) and percentage survival were arcsin square-root transformed to stabilize variances (Zar 1984) prior to ANOVA.
Voucher specimens of the scale species were deposited in the Entomology and Nematology Department insect collection at the Tropical Research and Education Center, University of Florida, Homestead, Florida. For verification of identification, scale samples from each host plant species were sent to the Systematic Entomology Laboratory, USDA-ARS and to the Division of Plant Industry, Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services.
Duration of each developmental stadium of P. howertoni was not different between croton and buttonwood (Table 1). We observed that eggs were coming out from vulva and that they would hatch to first instars (crawlers) immediately after oviposition. Newly hatched nymphs had a tendency stay underneath the female body for somewhat less than approximately 24 h and then disperse throughout the leaf area for feeding. First-instar developmental period ranged from 12.4 to 12.6 d. In the latter part of the second-instar development, males changed their appearance. At this time, the developmental period for the second-instar males and females were monitored separately. Females had 3 immature stages (first, second and third nymphal instars) before becoming adults (Table 1). In contrast, males had 4 immature stages before becoming adults (first, second, third (‘pre-pupa’) and fourth (‘pupa’) instars) (Table 1). The developmental periods of second, third and fourth- instar males ranged from 9.8–10.4 d, 3.8–3.9 d and 2.8–3.1 d, respectively. The developmental periods of second and third- instar females were 11.6–11.8 d and 6.7–6.9 d, respectively The overall development periods from first instar to adult male and female were between 29.0–29.7 d and 30.8–31.1 d, respectively (Table 1).
There was no difference in the survival of developmental stages between croton and buttonwood (Table 2). Percentage of first-instar survival (50.0–50.9%) was the lowest compared to the survival of other developmental stages (Table 2). Second-instar survival (percentage of first instars survived to second instars) was 88.9–90.0%. More than 90% of third-instar males and females and fourth- instar males survived to the next stage (92.9–93.7%, 92.9–94.8% and 96.0–97.6%, respectively). Percentage survival of first instars to adults was lower (39.5–40.9%) than the survival of the other developmental stages on both croton and buttonwood (Table 2). Scale crawlers have a tendency to move away from light (Peña et al. 1987). They are generally the most active stage, and engage in both active and passive dispersal (Marotta 1997). This movement causes the disappearance of some individuals during the experiment. The survival of the crawlers was lower than the other life stages, likely because of the sessile nature of the other stages.
Adult Sex Ratio and Longevity
Adult sex ratio ([females/(males + females)] × 100%) ranged from 49.0–52.3% and was not significantly different between croton and buttonwood (Table 3). The adult males died within 24 h of their emergence so their longevity was not assessed in detail (Table 3). Females lived between 60.3 and 61.5 d with no difference between the host plants tested (Table 3)
Pre-oviposition and oviposition periods did not differ between croton and buttonwood and ranged from 17.6–19.1 d and 13.9–15.5 d, respectively (Table 3). Lifetime fertility of mated females was 382.4–394.7 live first-instars and with no significant difference between croton and buttonwood. Almost all first instars born were alive at the time of birth and zero or negligible numbers of hatching failures were observed. The intrinsic rate of increase (rm) ranged from 0.091–0.095 (Table 3).
MEAN NUMBER OF DAYS (±SEM) FOR EACH DEVELOPMENTAL STADIUM OF P. HOWERTONI REARED ON CROTON (CUTTINGS) AND BUTTONWOOD (CUTTINGS AND SEEDLINGS).
MEAN (±SEM) PERCENT SURVIVAL (%) DURING EACH DEVELOPMENTAL STADIUM OF P. HOWERTONI REARED ON CROTON (CUTTINGS) AND BUTTONWOOD (CUTTINGS AND SEEDLINGS).
MEAN (±SEM) PROPORTION OF FEMALES, ADULT LONGEVITY, LIFETIME FERTILITY, PRE-OVIPOSITION AND OVIPOSITION PERIODS AND INTRINSIC RATE OF INCREASE (RM) OF P. HOWERTONI REARED ON CROTON (CUTTINGS) AND ON BUTTONWOOD (CUTTINGS AND SEEDLINGS).
The new exotic soft scale species, P. howertoni, was able to develop, survive and reproduce equally successful on both croton and buttonwood. This is the first information available on biology and life history of P. howertoni. This information on life history of the scale insect species is important and needed to understand its development, reproduction and survival and useful in predicting distribution and abundance and implementing appropriate control measures to prevent further infestations in Florida and the species' spread to other areas in the United States or abroad.
We found that the female P. howertoni are neotenic, reaching the adult stage after 3 molts through metamorphosis of the heterometabolapaurametabola type (Marotta 1997). This is a common life history feature in all soft scale species as well as in other families of Coccoidea. On the other hand, adult male P. howertoni goes through 2 nymphal instars and sessile pre-pupal and pupal stages before becoming an active adult. This is again a common life history feature of male soft scales (Marotta 1997).
We found that the female has a high fecundity with close to 400 live nymphs per female with 0.091–0.095 intrinsic rate of increase (rm). This combines with its polyphagous nature suggest that P. howertoni could be a threat to other similar crop plants grown in Florida and elsewhere in the United States. In general, fecundity of soft scale species can vary enormously depending on temperature, scale abundance, size of adult females and the condition of the host plant (Marotta, 1997). It is important that future studies investigate factors that affect the fecundity of P. howertoni, as fecundity is likely to be a key life history trait that allows the scale to successfully establish and spread.
According to Hodges & Hodgson (2010), this new genus and species of P. howertoni show similarities with members of the Eulecaniinae, Paralecaniini, and Coccini but differ significantly from all these taxa with uncertain (unknown) taxonomic relationships. At the time this species was first found in Florida, there was a speculation that this soft scale may be a Philephedra sp. (Hodges 2008). Both species are polyphagous and have wide host plant ranges, which include popular fruits and ornamental plants. P. howertoni and Philephedra sp. are both green in color but P. howertoni does not produce an ovisac as Philephedra sp. does (Hodges 2008). We observed that eggs of P. howertoni hatched to first instars immediately after oviposition. This feature is also observed in several subfamilies within the Coccidae (Ceroplastinae, Coccinae (tribes Coccini, Paralecaniini and Saissetiini), Eulecaniinae and Myzolecaniinae) (Marotta 1997). There are similarities in the developmental periods of P. howertoni's life stages and those of Philephedra tuberculosa (Pena et al. 1987). In general, male soft scales are devoid of mouthparts and may live only for few hours to about a week (Marotta 1997). Males of both species had less than 1 d of longevity, while females of P. howertoni and P. tuberculosa (Pena et al. 1987) lived 60.3–61.5 d and 59 d, respectively.
The fact that P. howertoni successfully completed its life cycle in buttonwood shows that it has the potential to damage native plant species that are ecologically important. It also shows that P. howertoni can survive on native host plant species even in the absence of cultivated species such as croton. Its polyphagus nature and high reproductive ability therefore makes P. howertoni a potentially serious pest of tropical and subtropical ornamental and fruit plants and ecologically important mangrove plants such as buttonwood. With the interstate plant movement, this pest has the ability to move in to other US. states in which similar host plant species occur naturally or are grown commercially The life history information obtained in this study is likely to be important both in predicting the potential distribution of this species and in implementing appropriate control measures.
We thank Douglass R. Miller (Coccidae) of Systematic Entomology Laboratory, USDA-ARS for insect identification (Lot # 0902998), Greg Hodges of Division of Plant Industry, Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services for providing information on soft scale insects similar to this studied species and for insect identification (sample number E2009-12141 and E2009-1215-1), and Holly Glenn and Julio Almanza of the University of Florida, Tropical Research and Education Center for their support during this experiment. | <urn:uuid:84048404-271e-47e9-9713-e76f4c84fed4> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://complete.bioone.org/journals/florida-entomologist/volume-94/issue-3/024.094.0324/Life-History-of-an-Exotic-Soft-Scale-Insect-Phalacrococcus-howertoni/10.1653/024.094.0324.full | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571909.51/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813051311-20220813081311-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.943827 | 4,237 | 2.96875 | 3 |
20 Covid-19 patients discharged in Chinese mainland
Beijing: Twenty Covid-19 patients were discharged from hospitals after recovery in the Chinese mainland on Tuesday, the National Health Commission said on Wednesday.
There were 390 patients still being treated, including six in severe conditions, the commission said in its daily report, Xinhua reported.
Altogether, 78,548 patients had been cured and discharged from hospitals by Tuesday, the report said.
As of Tuesday, a total of 83,572 confirmed Covid-19 cases had been reported on the mainland, among whom 4,634 died of the disease. | <urn:uuid:4f4c1188-9dcc-45c6-8822-d5fed63fbbb5> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.mangalorean.com/20-covid-19-patients-discharged-in-chinese-mainland/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571909.51/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813051311-20220813081311-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.983513 | 125 | 1.507813 | 2 |
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The World Economic Order, Circa 2025
, On Tuesday May 17, 2011, 9:00 am
With China overtaking Japan as the world’s second-largest economy last year, there can be no doubt that emerging markets are becoming increasingly powerful.A new report from the World Bank predicts that by 2025, China, along with five other emerging economies – Brazil, India, Indonesia, South Korea and Russia – will account for more than half of all global growth, up from one-third now.The report, „Global Development Horizons 2011 – Multipolarity: The New Global Economy,“ also anticipates that the dollar will be joined by the euro and the renminbi as dominant international currencies. The Chinese government is already easing currency controls and has taken other steps to help the renminbi become a fully convertible reserve currency, which would make it easier for foreign companies to finance projects in China.
Hans Timmer, director of development prospects for the World Bank, said in an interview that despite the current sovereign debt crises roiling Europe, the euro remained a strong and viable currency. „With all the problems they have had in the past 10 years, they have been successful,“ Mr. Timmer said. „A big part of global reserves is denominated in euros. There is more borrowing going on in euros. As a reserve currency, dollars are still dominant, but countries are drifting away from the dollar into the euro.“According to the report, the fast-growing developing countries will continue to outpace those in the developed world – mainly Europe, Japan, Britain and the United States. The emerging economies will grow at an average pace of 4.7 percent a year between now and 2025, while the developed countries will grow at an average of 2.3 percent.
For developing countries to keep up growth rates, the report’s authors write, they will have to innovate their own technologies and improve productivity.
Mansoor Dailami, the lead author of the report, said there was growing evidence that developing countries were beginning to invest in research and development that would lead to new technologies. He pointed to data showing that of the top 1,000 companies investing in research and development in 2009, 114 of them were from emerging economies. He also cited an increasing number of patents and scientific articles generated by researchers in developing countries.
Another key driver of growth for emerging economies, which have grown exponentially by offering cheap labor and low-priced consumer goods to developed countries, will be the ability to get their citizens to spend more on domestically produced goods and services.
Mr. Timmer said the evolution toward domestic consumer spending would come naturally. In China, for example, the demographics of the population is shifting toward older age, which in turn tends to force savings rates – currently high in Asian countries – down.
„Elderly people don’t earn, but they do spend,“ Mr. Timmer said. „So from a macroeconomic perspective there is more consumption relative to earnings.“ He added that with rising income levels in emerging countries, consumers would naturally begin spending more on domestically produced goods. And maturing economies develop larger service sectors, which tend to be locally staffed and financed.
Mr. Timmer said that the United States needed to view the shift in economic power as an opportunity rather than a threat. „There will be increased future opportunities for the U.S. increasingly to export more advanced products and more luxury products into those new emerging countries,“ he said.
He added that it was also a matter of perspective. „There is a lot of cross-border investment between Europe and the U.S. going into Europe and coming out of Europe,“ he noted. „And those are win-win solutions for all the companies involved. That is a picture that is very well understood by companies and governments, but when you talk about relationships with emerging economies, suddenly people are afraid | <urn:uuid:1d4e0bae-ea95-416b-a97f-7f5208420ad5> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.dragas.biz/the-new-york-times/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572581.94/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816211628-20220817001628-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.960015 | 813 | 2.140625 | 2 |
Bossier Schools’ own Spencer Kiper can add yet another title to his growing repertoire. The 2019 Louisiana State Teacher of the Year has been named by Louisiana Life magazine as one of nine Louisianans of the Year.
Kiper is an award-winning STEM educator at Elm Grove Middle School who is being singled out by the magazine for thinking outside the box to expose his students to the real-world applications and possibilities of science, technology, engineering and math.
Outside of the classroom, Kiper is educating teachers at the U.S. Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama to build STEM programs at their schools and most recently in Abu Dhabi. .
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Karly speaks with the wildly creative and intelligent Anna Kellerman – educational psychologist, registered art therapist and entrepreneur who is passionate about art, kids, sharing and disrupting mother guilt. The women explore the process and benefits of art therapy for children and inspire you to return to your creative heart to bring more joy into your life.
2:41 Anna shares how she came to specialise in art therapy and provides an outline of her work in this space.
6:48 The potential effects of not externalising anxiety and the role creativity can play in moving things from the inner to the outer.
9:45 Anna places children into two basic categories and shares how she approaches therapy with them.
17:51 Case example – one boy’s journey through art therapy with generalised anxiety and obsessive-compulsive disorder.
24:42 The process and flow of art therapy.
28:19 Karly shares her freeing experience of returning to singing.
31:51 Anna provides an insight into her Mama Creatives community and why she created it.
34:42 Motherhood doesn’t need to hold you back from your creativity.
37:21 Bringing back your childhood joy.
41:09 Karly shares how she has brought creativity into her parenting.
43:04 Karly and Anna touch on the emotions good art can create and the prevalence of numbing ourselves.
47:29 The connection between art therapy for children and the mama creatives community.
48:44 The cost of suppressing our emotions and who we are – and the flip side of that.
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MASSACHUSETTS IS MOVING FORWARD WITH MORE JOBS AND TRADE
Massachusetts Is Moving In The Right Direction
Unemployment Is Down. The unemployment rate in Massachusetts has declined from 7.5% in January 1993 to 3.9% in July 1997.
Nearly 300,000 New Jobs In Massachusetts. 296,000 new jobs since 1993 -- after over 325,000 jobs were lost during the four years before President Clinton took office.
Exports From Massachusetts Are Up 47%. In the first 6 months of 1997, Massachusetts's goods exports were running at a rate of $19 billion -- up 47% since 1992. Massachusetts's exports of manufactured products were up by 51% in 1993 from $12.1 billion to $18 billion in 1997*.
221,000 Jobs In Massachusetts Are Supported By Trade. Jobs supported by goods exports increased 25%
-- up 44,000 since 1992 to 221,000 jobs in 1997*-- paying an average of 15% more than non-trade related jobs.
Electronic and Electric Equipment Exports Are Up 73%. Electronic and Electric equipment exports have increased 73% since 1993 from $2.2 billion to $3.8 billion -- creating more higher paying jobs for more people in Massachusetts.
Over 20,000 New Construction Jobs In Massachusetts. 21,200 new construction jobs -- after falling by 56,600 during the four years before President Clinton took office.
*All figures for 1997 are based on exports for the first 6 months.
America Is Moving In The Right Direction; Now Is Not The Time to Turn Back
President Clinton's three part economic strategy of cutting the deficit, investing in our people through education and training and opening more markets to U.S. goods is working. Now is the time to continue that progress by renewing fast track authority to help create more jobs that pay more.
13 Million New Jobs. The economy has created nearly 13 million new jobs under President Clinton. Private sector job growth rate nearly 8 times greater than during previous Administration.
Unemployment Rate Down To 24-Year Low. In 1992, the unemployment rate was 7.5%. Today it is under 5% -- as low as it's been at any time in the last 24 years.
1.7 Million New Export-Related Jobs -- Paying On Average 15% Higher Wages. Since President Clinton took office, the number of export-related jobs has increased by 1.7 million.
Family Income Up $1,600. After stagnating for 20 years, family incomes are rising again. Since 1993, the income of the typical American family increased by $1,631, after adjusting for inflation.
Exports Are Up By Nearly 50%. Since the beginning of 1993, exports from the U.S. have grown by nearly 50% -- up $318 billion -- after adjusting for inflation. Exports have accounted for 38% of the overall growth in the economy since 1993.
Renewed Growth In Key Industries. After a decade of enormous job losses in construction, manufacturing, and autos, these industries have made a remarkable recovery -- more than one million new jobs combined under President Clinton.
Smallest Deficit Among Major Economies. Under President Clinton, the deficit has been cut by more than 80% -- from a record $290 billion in 1992 to an expected $37 billion this year.
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Generate CUDA Code for a Fog Rectification Algorithm
GPU Coder™ generates optimized CUDA® code from MATLAB® code for deep learning, embedded vision, and autonomous systems. The generated code calls optimized NVIDIA® CUDA libraries and can be integrated into your project as source code, static libraries, or dynamic libraries. It can also be used for prototyping on GPUs, such as the NVIDIA Tesla® and NVIDIA Tegra®.
This video shows an example of taking a foggy image as input and producing a defogged image. The image processing algorithm is a typical implementation of a fog rectification algorithm and has several stages, including dark channel estimation, anisotropic diffusion, inverse Koschmieder's law, and histogram stretching. It uses conv2, rgb2gray, and imhist functions. Once the code is generated, a MEX-file is created and is then executed back in the MATLAB environment where you will see a 5X speedup compared to running the algorithm on the CPU.
At this point, you can take the generated CUDA code and run it on any NVIDIA GPU, including the embedded Tegra GPUs.
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The Morrisville Free Library has been a grass-roots effort since it first opened its doors in 1904. That was in Mrs. Bertha Peaseys front parlor on Banks Street. The library was opened one night a week and the entire collection consisted of books on religion. Since then the Morrisville Library has been housed in various buildings in downtown Morrisville. At times, the library had to close its doors. But over the years many good friends of the library have stepped up to the plate and kept the dream alive. These visionaries who volunteered their time and efforts have insured the continuance of the Morrisville Library for future generations.
In 1906 the library moved from Mrs. Peaseys home to the basement of the Borough Council Building located at the time on the corner of Washington and Chambers Streets. Volunteers went door to door to promote the library and in 1907, one hundred and sixty-seven patrons paid $1.50 membership fee. Dances were also held at the William E. Case School to raise money to keep the library going.
In 1923 Thomas B. Stockham, Jr. and Rev. Seaver M. Holden formed a Morrisville Library Board of Directors and the library moved into the newly built Morrisville Community House on the corner of Pennsylvania and Palmer Avenues.
The Morrisville Womens Club was another group that took responsibility for the running of the library. The Community House became too small, so another move was in order. On October 3, 1963, the library moved into the basement of Summerseat. By 1966 the library was already outgrowing its new location. Members of the Morrisville Womens Club went door-to-door collecting signatures for a referendum that proposed the purchase of the Episcopal Church on Pennsylvania and Palmer Avenues, which would become the new home Morrisville Library. The referendum passed, and this is where you will find the library today. This beautiful old church with its original stain glass windows and ornate woodwork found a new purpose. With help from local scout troops and many other volunteers, the Morrisville Womens Club organized the move to this new location in October 1968.
Today the Morrisville Free Library has a collection of well over 25,000 items and a patron base of 7,000 plus. We have computer access for the public and offer a myriad of programs for children and adults. We work with local schools, senior centers, and daycare facilities. Because of the Access PA Program, our patrons can borrow materials from anywhere in Pennsylvania.
2004 marked the 100th anniversary of the library founding. We celebrated with a big birthday bash for the whole community. We remain grateful for the foresight of those men and women who came before. And we are proud of our long and noble history. We pledge to keep the Morrisville Free Library serving the people for another 100 years. | <urn:uuid:a1bf2d26-36d2-4039-846f-18dc3b6bea4b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.morrisvillepalibrary.org/history/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571909.51/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813051311-20220813081311-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.966986 | 577 | 2.203125 | 2 |
After you convert your vCenter Server to subscription, you can manage your vCenter Server updates from the VMC Console.
To manage updates for your vCenter Server from the VMC Console, as a one-time activity, you must provide the following network configuration details for each vCenter Server:
- Temporary network: The network for communication between the new appliance and the appliance you want to update.
- Troubleshooting network: The network for troubleshooting any update issues if the vCenter Server is unreachable.
- Ensure that your vSphere environment meets all the requirements. See System Requirements for vSphere+.
- The vCenter Server must be self-managed. It must manage its own ESXi hosts and virtual machines.
For your vCenter Server deployment, take the appropriate action to convert it to a self-managed vCenter Server.
Table 1. Converting a vCenter Server to a Self-Managed vCenter Server vCenter Server Deployment Action vCenter Server deployed on an unmanaged host Add the host to the management cluster. See Add a Managed Host to a Cluster. vCenter Server deployed on a standalone host managed by a different vCenter Server Remove the host from the managing vCenter Server and add the host to the management cluster. See: vCenter Server deployed on a cluster managed by a different vCenter Server Perform either of the following tasks:
- Remove the host from the managing vCenter Server and add the host to the management cluster. See:
- Move the vCenter Server to the management cluster by using Cross vCenter vMotion. See Migrating Between vCenter Server Systems.
- Ensure that the vCenter Server is on the latest version with the latest patch.
- Download the latest version of the vCenter Server by using the Downloads option in the VMC Console. See Download Software Binaries.
- Update your vCenter Server to the latest version. See the vCenter Server Upgrade documentation.
- Depending on the upgrade path of your vCenter Server version, you might have to back up and restore the vCenter Server after the update. See https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/87864.
- If you plan to choose DHCP for IP assignment, ensure that the MAC Address Changes policy is set for all the hosts in the management cluster. See Configure the Security Policy.
- Verify that the network configuration meets the following requirements:
Network Requirement Temporary Network The temporary network and the vCenter Server network must be in the same subnet. Troubleshooting Network
- Choose a network that is not already connected to the vCenter Server for other purposes, such as backup and restore.
- The troubleshooting network must be on a subnet and VLAN different than the vCenter Server and vCenter Cloud Gateway.
- The troubleshooting network must be routable from the vCenter Server network.
- Log in to the VMC Console at https://vmc.vmware.com.
- Use either of the following methods to navigate to the Maintenance tab:
- In the Enable Updates for vCenter Server notification, click Enable Updates.
- Go to Inventory, select the vCenter Server, and then click Maintenance.
- Click Enter network details.
- Select the cluster where the vCenter Server and vCenter Cloud Gateway VMs are deployed.
You cannot change the cluster selection after the settings are applied.
- Enter the network configuration details for both temporary network and troubleshooting network.
- Click Apply.
- vSphere+ creates a management resource pool and reserves the required hardware in the management cluster for vCenter Server updates. The vCenter Server and vCenter Cloud Gateway, if deployed in the same vCenter Server, are moved to the management resource pool. Do not change these management resource pool configurations. Do not move the vCenter Server out of this cluster.
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Ray Carter | July 27, 2022
Watchdog: Oklahoma schools paid millions for unnecessary services
Oklahoma schools have received millions of dollars in annual funding to teach English to bilingual students who have already mastered the language, apparently allowing schools to inflate their budgets without providing extra services, a state watchdog agency has found.
Officials with the Legislative Office of Fiscal Transparency (LOFT) also determined that schools may be similarly profiting off increased per-pupil payments provided based on the number of low-income students served, noting schools are not required to use those funds for the benefit of those specific students.
“State funding (amounts) generated for economically disadvantaged students are not applied to specific supports or services,” said Bradley Ward, program evaluator for LOFT. “Instead, the additional funding is directed to school districts’ general-operating funds.”
Those findings were among those presented from LOFT’s review of Oklahoma’s K-12 public-school funding. The report was presented to legislators serving on the agency’s oversight board during the group’s July 26 meeting.
Oklahoma school districts received $424 million in increased per-pupil funding for serving economically disadvantaged and bilingual students in the 2020-2021 school year.
While schools are paid additional per-pupil funding for a wide range of student groups, the state does not require schools to spend the money on aiding those specific students or report outcomes for any of those groups aside from students in special-education and gifted-and-talented programs, Ward said.
While schools receive extra funding for bilingual students—a group that has increased in size 49 percent since 2011—LOFT officials determined many of those students are fluent in English and require no extra services.
In the most recent year for which data were available, 30 percent of students identified as bilingual learners had already mastered English. That translated into $10.1 million in excess state funding sent to the schools serving those students, LOFT reviewers found.
In other years, the share of such students has been as high as 43 percent.
Ward noted many states target funding for only English-language learners, not all bilingual students, and most states require reporting on whether schools succeed in teaching those students to master English. He said Oklahoma has no such reporting requirement.
“As Oklahoma does not require a reassessment of bilingual students’ English proficiency, there is no way to measure whether the additional support is having the intended effect of helping students achieve proficiency,” Ward said.
That caught some lawmakers off-guard.
“There’s no requirement necessarily to spend any of that additional weight (funding) to address that issue?” said state Sen. Michael Brooks, D-Oklahoma City. “Is that correct?”
“Yes,” responded Mike Jackson, executive director of LOFT.
State Superintendent of Public Instruction Joy Hofmeister said she and the Oklahoma State Department of Education (OSDE) supported bills filed in 2019 and 2020 that would have altered the state’s school-funding formula so additional money would be directed only to English learners and not bilingual students who have already mastered English.
But House Appropriations and Budget Committee chairman Kevin Wallace noted those measures were opposed by school districts that have reaped excess payments from English-proficient bilingual students. Those schools, he noted, argued the funding formula should not be altered unless overall funding was increased to the point that they faced no reduction in state appropriations.
As a result, rather than simply shifting $10.1 million to schools that truly served English-learner students, the bills became costly boondoggles.
“This is off of my memory: It would have taken $60-plus million to make everybody whole that might have taken a loss,” said Wallace, R-Wellston.
Hofmeister indicated she did not support fixing the problem if schools currently receiving excess payments take a significant cut.
“When I refer to balance, we are talking about either an amount to hold harmless the impact immediately, or a graduated, incremental approach to that,” Hofmeister said.
LOFT’s review also found administrative spending in schools continues to outpace spending on classroom instruction.
“Between 2010 and 2021, administrative expenditures increased by 40 percent, compared to a 35-percent increase in instructional expenditures,” Jackson said.
He said growth in administrative spending is not tied to any increase in regulatory requirements.
Over the last five years, LOFT found the number of administrative employees in Oklahoma schools has increased by 8 percent. During that same period, there was no overall growth in student enrollment.
“If the growth of school administrative personnel had followed student-enrollment growth between 2011 and 2021, approximately $26.4 million in salary and benefits for school-administrative staff could have been available to hire the equivalent of 500 teachers,” Jackson said.
Over the past 10 years, LOFT officials noted, administrative positions have increased by 13 percent, and seven out of 10 administrative positions grew at a faster rate than did the number of certified teachers. The number of deans and assistant principals have increased at the fastest rate.
Senate Appropriations Committee chairman Roger Thompson, R-Okemah, said he believes the growth in the number of deans is caused by schools trying to pay administrative-level salaries to employees who are not legally qualified to hold administrative positions.
“My personal thought is—and I could be very wrong—is that they don’t qualify to be principals; they don’t qualify to be superintendents,” Thompson said. “And so they appoint them deans and pay them for that until they are able to meet the qualifications.”
Hofmeister said many positions should be included as part of the calculation for classroom instruction that are currently excluded. Hofmeister also blamed COVID and changes in financial coding over the past decade for causing some of the reported growth in administration spending.
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If at first you don't succeed try, try and try again. In this handy little guide, we'll take you through the process of re-triggering workflows. Whilst we'll be looking exclusively at form workflows, it's great to note that the same theory can be applied to workflows in events, broadcasts and call campaigns!
Technically speaking, once a workflow has run, it is impossible to trigger the same workflow again. However, as we demonstrate in the video above, workflows can easily be cloned and retrospectively run against students who have filled in your form - in effect re-triggering the workflow.
To retrospectively run a workflow, simply:
Go to the Workflows section of your form.
Clone the workflow that you'd like to re-run.
Set your conditions so that the workflow is only triggering for the correct student(s). We discuss how you could easily pivot between targeting one student, all students or a specific group of students who have completed your form in the video, above.
Important: Change the workflow delay from Immediately to After a Date and set the date to a point in the future. Note that when the date/ time has passed, your workflow becomes an Immediately workflow, so set an end date if you wish to avoid this.
Click Save Changes.
That's it! As soon as the date & time you set has elapsed, your workflow will look back over all of the form submissions, filter them by the conditions you have set and then run your outlined instructions.
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The PC hard drive could soon be an endangered species. As the price of Flash memory crashes, it is being used in areas traditionally occupied by magnetic storage systems. USB Flash keys are fast becoming the portable storage medium of choice, and a growing number of digital music players (such as Apple's iPod nano) use Flash memory rather than miniature hard drives. Flash memory - specifically, that using NAND logic gates in its transistors, rather than NOR gates, which is slower - is frequently used in games consoles, digital cameras, digital camcorders and mobile phones. But could it really replace a computer hard drive?
Some are trying. In Korea, Samsung has launched two computer products that use solid state drives (SSDs) in place of the conventional magnetic version. Both the NT-Q1-SSD ultra mobile PC (about £1,300) and the NT-Q30-SSD (around £1,900), a 12.1-inch screen notebook, have a 32GB NAND Flash drive. Samsung says there are many benefits to putting an SSD inside a computer, claiming an SSD can read data at 57MB/s and write at 32MB/s, significantly faster than a hard drive's typical 24MB/s, thus offering faster access to applications and slicker multi-tasking.
The boot-up time for Windows XP is said to be 25% to 50% faster and an SSD is up to 60% lighter than a comparable 1.8in hard drive. It's also more robust - Samsung claims that the SSD can withstand deceleration forces (that is, being dropped) double what would cripple a standard hard drive. It uses far less power (0.5W when busy, compared to a hard drive's 2W) - significant, since hard drives use 10% to 20% of a laptop's battery power. And finally, the lack of moving parts means Samsung's SSD-enabled PC can operate in complete silence.
Hard drives are not dead yet
With benefits like these, you'd think that PC manufacturers would be racing to replace magnetic disk drives with solid state versions. But they're not. John Rydning, manager for hard disk drives and components at research company IDC, says: "To borrow a quote from Mark Twain, the death of hard disk drives has been greatly exaggerated. Hard disk drives will continue to provide the lowest cost random-access, rewritable storage for the foreseeable future. The biggest challenge for Flash drives is cost."
As IDC data shows, on a cost-per-gigabyte of storage, hard disk drives win hands down - even though the price gap is narrowing. Last year, a gigabyte of NAND Flash cost around 33 times more than that for a small hard drive used in portable devices. This year, the price gap is projected to be around 19:1. It's an impressive reduction, but Flash has always to play catch-up with magnetic drives as each successive generation of PC offers larger storage capacity.
"The disadvantage is cost," admits Richard Walsh, Samsung Europe's senior manager for Flash marketing, "but we're targeting our solid state products at the professional executive who's looking for a smaller computer - a kind of 'super Blackberry'. It's for carrying your business applications and not for storing movies or family photos. But NAND Flash prices are falling every year."
In an article written last November for the International Disk Drive Equipment and Materials Association (IDEMA), research group Gartner described the uphill task faced by Flash drive technology to usurp the magnetic disk drive. The PC market "currently uses 80GB hard disk drives that cost major OEMs [original equipment manufacturers] less than $50 ... with 32GB NAND Flash chips likely to cost [them] more than $100 until 2009, at which point, a 500-750GB hard disk drive will cost less than $50." Gartner described how the industry had delivered 29.9m hard drives in 1990, 375m in 2005 and is expected to ship more than 650m in 2010.
Joe Unsworth, a senior research analyst at Gartner, says: "If you're looking at drives that are 1.8in or larger, then the cost-per-gigabyte difference is so great, compared with what Flash will reach in the next five to 10 years. Hard drives measuring 1in and less will be under pressure from Flash. But we think Flash will coexist with larger disk drives."
PC users will get their first chance to see this coexistence in action next year, when a new generation of hybrid hard disk drives (HHDDs) are launched by companies such as Seagate and Samsung. An HHDD combines a magnetic disk drive with a NAND Flash cache. Data and applications are stored in the cache, providing much faster access to the processor. The disk only needs to spin perhaps once every 10 or 20 minutes, when the solid state cache is full and needs to put some of its contents on to the hard drive.
Joni Clark, Seagate's product marketing manager for notebook drives, says there are three key benefits to using an HHDD: "It's more power efficient, because the hard disk drive hardly spins, and so you get longer battery life. Second, it's faster, so you can expect faster boot-up times, faster resume [from Windows hibernation mode] and faster access to applications. Finally, because the hard drive spins much less, a laptop [drive] is less likely to get damaged if it's bumped."
Manufacturers of HHDDs say they could give boot-up times up to 20% faster than on a conventional hard disk drive; a 20% faster resume time; give access time to applications four times faster, and extend battery life by up to 30 minutes. Samsung has demonstrated a prototype HHDD, but Seagate has announced its first product, the Momentus 5400 PSD, which will offer up to 160GB of magnetic storage combined with a 128MB or 256MB NAND cache - the company is still working on finding the optimum cache size for an HHDD.
Other manufacturers are expected to launch HHDDs, not least because it is an open standard, although they will probably offer their own variants - Samsung has developed OneNAND technology, said to have a sustained data read speed four times faster than conventional NAND memory. But as Clark notes: "It's not a case of just adding Flash to a hard drive; you need an operating system to interact with the drive." It's no coincidence that the first HHDDs are due in early 2007 - the expected date for the consumer launch of Microsoft's Windows Vista - because manufacturers have been working with the software giant for years on HHDD technology.
"I believe Microsoft saw certain limitations in the hardware," says Walsh. "Microsoft recognised the bottlenecks and saw hybrid disk drives as a means of improving the computer." Wes Brewer, Sandisk's vice-president for consumer products, adds: "Vista is about five times bigger than XP, and what comes along with that large size is a speed issue, even with faster CPUs. We've been working with Microsoft on ways to speed up booting and application loading by complementing the hard drive with Flash."
Vista is ready for HHDD
Vista will automatically recognise when a device is using a HHDD and will activate a feature, ReadyDrive, which is designed to take advantage of the technology. Vista will also offer a feature called ReadyBoost, where a Flash USB key can be used instead of additional RAM chips to boost the available amount of PC memory (up to 4GB).
The chip maker Intel also wants to use Flash memory to improve PC performance, but rather than opt for HHDD technology, plans to put Flash memory elsewhere on a PC. The company's next generation portable platform (codenamed Santa Rosa) will include a technology called Robson, which adds up to 4GB of Flash to the motherboard.
"You're talking about a component the size of a fingernail, so that someone using a cell phone today could use a highly mobile PC as an alternative," says Brewer. Meanwhile Intel, Sony, the memory manufacturer Micron and others have formed the Open NAND Flash Interface Working Group, which aims to develop specifications to make it easier for manufacturers to integrate NAND Flash with computer and consumer devices.
But besides cost, there are other obstacles for Flash memory replacing hard drives. Flash memory is typically guaranteed for around 1m read/write cycles, which sounds a lot, but in the context of the working life of a PC (which is continually writing, erasing or rewriting data) is not. So designers have to use techniques known as wear-levelling to shift data around the Flash memory block to reduce the risk of data error. "We can design around the problem," says Walsh.
Even so, Gartner believes that hard disk drives will continue to be the main storage medium for uses requiring more than 20GB for at least the next few years. "Set-top boxes, media centre PCs, home servers and other large storage devices will continue to use hard disk drives," says Unsworth. "But because of the advantages Flash offers portable PC users, we'll see lots of notebooks with Flash." But even then, Unsworth has a warning: "Companies selling these products are going to have to have a good marketing campaign to help people understand just what the benefits are."
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Please find attached soundbite by Dr Dion George MP.
Media reports that President Cyril Ramaphosa, as part of his measures to address the energy crisis, will announce a partial takeover of Eskom debt by the State and its allocation to the sovereign balance are not only alarming but pose a dangerous risk to South Africa’s sovereign debt profile.
The DA will reject any steps taken by the President to use any of his Executive powers, or emergency authority for that matter, to make a unilateral decision on national debt without parliamentary input.
To this end, the DA will be writing to the Minister of Finance, Enoch Godongwana, asking him to deny or confirm the veracity of these claims. The Minister, as the custodian of National Treasury, has an obligation to protect the integrity of our public finances and protect the fiscus from unnecessary risk.
In February, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) warned that shifting Eskom’s debt onto the State’s balance sheet would precipitate a marked deterioration in the nation’s already stretched finances. Surging debt and debt-service costs has become the fastest-growing expenditure line item in the budget. Instead of making it worse, government should be taking steps to minimise risks to fiscal sustainability.
Taxpayers should not be asked to shoulder a sinking Eskom ship that was looted by political elites and their proxies during the heydays of State capture.
As a result of Eskom’s unviable business model and the State-owned enterprise’s (SOE) inability to generate sufficient revenue to cover its debt, which currently stands at over R390 billion, placing Eskom’s debt liabilities on the national balance sheet will create a bad precedent. According to the 2022 Budget Review document, the total liabilities for SOEs (combined debts owed by SOEs) for 2020/2021 is R853.4 billion. Taking over Eskom debt will create a very costly expectation from other failing SOEs, wherein they might expect government to take over their debt and subsidise their underperformance.
An immediate outcome of taking over Eskom debt is that President Ramaphosa’s government risks downgrading South Africa back to junk status almost immediately. With ongoing upheaval in the global economy and a struggling local economy, any further economic shocks will send the economy over the edge and plunge South Africa into a debt crisis. | <urn:uuid:dc9639db-aa5d-43dd-9ec4-38822a07cdf1> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.da.org.za/2022/07/adding-eskom-debt-to-south-africas-r4-trillion-national-debt-burden-will-be-reckless-and-irresponsible | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571536.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811224716-20220812014716-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.942434 | 494 | 1.5 | 2 |
We will not sugarcoat this: the leak this week of a Supreme Court majority opinion overturning Roe v. Wade, a ruling that would eliminate the constitutional right to abortion, is extremely alarming.
It is also a wake-up call.
While we do not know if the leaked opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization will be the final one issued, it is nonetheless shocking to read a draft opinion showing just how extreme and dangerous the Court has become over the last decade. A Court that would issue an opinion this radical is clearly a Court that no longer can be expected to protect any individual freedoms.
While overturning constitutional protections for other fundamental rights, including marriage equality, would be more difficult for the Court to achieve, this draft opinion shows that nothing is off the table for the new radical conservative majority of Justices. The rights of LGBTQ people and our families are in the crosshairs. It is obvious that we can no longer count on the courts to protect our rights.
It is not lost on us that many of you reading this letter right now were on the front lines nearly 50 years ago fighting for our right to privacy, bodily autonomy, and safe, accessible abortions. This is a clear, unprecedented, and coordinated action to take away the rights that our champions secured for us.
We are going to fight.
Right now we will be working in solidarity with those who are fighting alongside us for reproductive freedom, voting rights, the safety of people of color, full equality for LGBTQ people, people who have immigrated or are seeking asylum in this country, people living in poverty, and so many more. We are asking everyone committed to protecting our fragile democracy to join us. Every day counts.
Though this week has been a difficult one, it reminds us, more than ever, of the importance of our fight. As Martin Luther King, Jr., reminded us: “the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.”
It’s important to stress: the Court has not yet issued its decision in the Dobbs case, and abortion is still legal. Here’s what you can do right now to support access to abortion care:
- Donate to Abortion Funds: A donation to the National Network of Abortion Funds brings abortion funds closer to a future where all people have access to abortion without shame or stigma.
- Keep Our Clinics: Support independent community providers who provide the majority of abortion care in the U.S.
- M+A Hotline: a confidential, private, and secure phone and text hotline for people in need of support for self-managed miscarriage or abortion.
- If you have questions about self-managed abortion and the law, @ifwhenhow can help. The Repro Legal Helpline is a free, confidential source for legal advice and information on self-managed abortion. Visit ReproLegalHelpline.org or call 844-868-2812.
- INeedAnA.com: Find a clinic – to find vetted, up-to-date, and personalized info on how to get an abortion; no search or user data saved.
- Support/Share Practical Support Organizations (PSOs): PSOs help abortion seekers with travel and logistical support.
We have come a long way since our founding in 1977 and we have seen many losses on that path. But we have also seen countless wins, and our resolve remains the same. NCLR has never stopped fighting for our rights for 45 years – and we won’t stop now. | <urn:uuid:9ae8dda0-2fec-48dd-bee3-8f95188e71b4> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.nclrights.org/scotus-leak-is-a-wake-up-call-for-america-its-time-to-fight%EF%BF%BC/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571536.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811224716-20220812014716-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.944847 | 734 | 1.640625 | 2 |
A refugee from a war-torn country is used to seeing all parts of their homeland become a battleground. Streets. Apartments. Football fields. Even the historic Krak de Chaveliers castle near my native Homs in Syria was fought over by opposing sides in the Syrian civil war. After landing in Canada, however, I hadn’t expected my new country’s universities to be arenas for ideological mobs to shout down and denounce their opponents.
When I made my way up to York University this month on the evening of the 20th, I was blissfully unaware of the university’s status as a hotbed of “anti-Zionist” activism.” I had only arrived in Canada in two years ago through the Refugee Resettlement Program and, still eager to explore, was taking my first trip up to York. I planned to attend an event being held by Herut Canada, who were hosting five members of the Israeli NGO “Reservists on Duty” an organization of Israeli military veterans who travel the world and hold talks and events to “counter the BDS movement and new forms of anti-Semitism erupting on US college campuses.”
I was looking forward to meeting with the Israeli veterans. Such meetings were frowned upon back in Syria—as in, land one in jail kind of frowned upon. Canada was the one truly safe place I had ever lived where a Syrian might meet Israelis without suffering any consequences. | <urn:uuid:7aae0183-a0ca-4c39-92df-b5326fd21aa3> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://sassywire.wordpress.com/2019/11/26/campus-anti-zionism-seen-through-the-eyes-of-a-syrian-refugee/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571198.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810161541-20220810191541-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.975822 | 297 | 1.921875 | 2 |
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Forbes family and friends.
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68 photographs : b&w, some col., ; 28 x 22 cm or smaller
12 photographs : col. negatives ; 35 mm
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Millicent Elizabeth "Betty" Forbes was born in Hespeler, Ontario on July 10, 1924 alongside her twin sister, Peg, to parents Millicent Lyall and George Alexander Forbes. Betty grew up at the Forbes family estate, Hillhead, in Hespeler and attended Bishop Strachan School in Toronto.
Betty later attended the School for Nurses at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto for between 1943 and 1946. In 1946, Betty graduated as a Registered Nurse from the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto with a scholarship in Child Psychology from the University of Toronto. Betty nursed in Vancouver before returning to Sick Kids to repay the scholarship. Betty was second in command of the country branch at Thistletown and then at K.W. Hospital.
Betty married William "Bill" Douglas Land on May 29, 1954. The couple had three children: Jennifer, Janet, and Thomas.
Betty passed away on June 30, 2013 at the age of 88 and was buried in New Hope Cemetery in Cambridge, Ontario.
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Photographs of the Forbes family and their friends including Mary Evelyn "Effie" Buck (nee Agnew), Millicent Lyall Forbes, George Alexander Forbes, Betty Forbes, Peg Forbes, Phyllis Agnew Buck, Isabelle Alexandra Burt (nee Buck), Florence Mary Louise Middleton (nee Buck), Evelyn Alice Foster Ferguson, Mary Ferguson, Norman and Barbara Forbes, Pamela Wilson, Stephanie Diane Forbes Derenzo, Robert Allen Forbes Derenzo, Nicholas Anthony Michael John Derenzo, Robert Forbes, A.R. Kaufman, and Dr. Robert James Lockhart. Also includes photographs featuring Royal Air Force members, Camp Forty at Tyson Lake, Ontario and the dining room of George Philip Buck and Mary Evelyn "Effie" Buck (nee Agnew) at 70 Dufferin Ave in Brantford, Ontario. Additionally, contains some correspondence between family members, primarily regarding the photographs.
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A Picture-based Approach to Travel Recommender Systems
Personalized recommendations strongly rely on an accurate model to capture user preferences. Eliciting this information is, in general, a hard problem. In the field of tourism, this initial profiling becomes even more challenging. It has been shown that particularly in the beginning of the travel decision making process, users themselves are often not conscious of their needs and are not able to express them. Aiming at revealing implicitly given user preferences, this work introduces an approach that utilizes a set of travel related pictures to discover users’ travel behavior and in turn, to deliver recommendations. Next, a more general approach based on convolutional neural networks is introduced, where any set of pictures can be used to characterize both travelers and tourism destinations. This talk discusses a stream of studies to quantify intangible user preferences and to provide easy and playful methods to generate inputs/data for recommendation systems. | <urn:uuid:ed3cd5a2-8820-4039-9ef1-1edcd5cb8b01> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/seminars/2331.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572033.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814113403-20220814143403-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.923883 | 183 | 1.789063 | 2 |
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Based in the harbor town of Stromness, Stockans have been baking in the Orkney Islands for over 100 years... that's quite a lot of oatcakes.
Their Oatcakes are made using the best wholegrain oats, a superfood, boasting a low GI and packed with fiber, giving you a slow release of energy along with countless other benefits. Traditional Scottish fare, oatcakes continue to be popular through their versatility, and as alternative to bread and crackers.
Historically Scottish oatcakes were a staple food and were traditionally eaten with every meal rather than bread. Oatcakes delivered a boost of good carbohydrates and were eaten with soup, or served with meat or fish.
Bere is an ancient form of barley, with a unique appearance and taste, grown and milled in Orkney for over 300 years. 100% natural, it is perfect for baking bannocks, scones and biscuits.
Barony Mill was built in 1873, and has changed little since. Remains of older mills are adjacent awaiting restoration. Like most northern mills of this period, a kiln for drying the grain is integral with the building.
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As the summer exam season approaches, parents might think their primary role is to keep their teenagers well-fed and rested.
But as well as such practical help, positive psychology and emotional support is a key part of keeping the whole household calm and stress-free during the exam period, says happiness expert Andy Cope.
Cope, who’s studied for a PhD on the science of happiness and positive psychology, and has written a series of books on the Art of Being Brilliant, is offering parents tips on how to make teens feel more positive about themselves and their exam prowess.
“As we enter the silly season, when kids get stressed about exams, teachers get stressed about kids not living up to expectations and parents get stressed trying not to nag too much about revision, it’s important to stay calm and positive,” he points out.
He promises the following tips can help the whole family sail through the exam period:
The 8:1 ratio
An attitude that equates success with hard work can lead to nagging, punishment and pointing out what’s wrong, says Cope. As a result, kids learn to stick to what they know to be safe which leads to a fixed mindset – for example, ‘I’m rubbish at maths. I’ll never be able to learn it’.
But Cope says positive reinforcement can avoid such a mindset. “One of the most effective things a teacher or parent can do is use a positivity/negativity ratio of about 8:1,” he advises.
“It may seem a lot and it can be difficult to get it right, but catch your child doing things well. Notice the little things and tell them. And mean it.”
Parents need to be ‘active constructive’, says Cope, by celebrating success with genuine enthusiasm.
“I’m not suggesting an over-the-top punching of the air celebration for every smidgeon of good news, but a raising of your levels of enthusiasm.
“Your active constructive response means they know you’re proud. The result is that everyone feels great and your child will want to repeat that behaviour.”
Praise effort rather than talent
Positive psychology advice is that if your child accomplishes something, don’t say, ‘Well done, you’re a genius’, but rather ‘You put the effort in and got the reward’.
Never pay for exam results
Cope acknowledges it’s tempting to give cash for results, but warns: “What you’re effectively saying is studying is horrible and you appreciate that your child will only do it for money.
“You’re teaching them, albeit innocently and subconsciously, that learning is a chore.”
He suggests parents should instead suggest a family day out as a reward for hard work.
The seven-second hug
The average hug lasts just over two seconds, says Cope, but if you hang on for a full seven seconds, “oodles of nice warm chemicals flow around both bodies and the love is transferred”.
But Cope adds the wry advice: “Don’t count out loud while you’re doing the seven-second hug as it tends to spoil the effect.
“But they’re lovely and they do help you stay calm.”
Too much love and encouragement gives children an inflated idea of what they can do, warns Cope, yet too little means they may be crippled emotionally.
“A lot of people beat themselves up about what they’re not good at to the point that it stops them celebrating what they are good at,” he says.
“Be a strengths spotter.”
“You can provide a silent room and a revision timetable for kids, but they still won’t revise unless they want to,” Cope points out.
“Getting kids happy now is the key. Rather than waiting to be happy if they get good results in August, if you create an environment where kids feel valued, happy and positive, with high self-esteem, it’s the starting point to good exam results.
“Getting them to revise because they want to rather than because they have to is a massive deal, and telling them how proud you are of the effort they’re making is an important part of that.”
THE TEACHER’S VERDICT
Secondary school teacher Kiri Tunks, junior vice-president of the National Union of Teachers (NUT), agrees that positive psychology is an important part of exam success, although she points out that other, practical steps are also important.
“The temptation is to pile on the guilt and put pressure on teenagers at exam time,” she says.
“But try to have a more positive conversation about exams, help them without being ‘on’ them the whole time, make sure they’re taking rest breaks and reassure them if something’s going wrong.
“There’s no point trying to revise if you’re in a panic. Take them out for lunch and get them into a more positive mental state, and maybe communicate with the school and find out what they need to do, as they may be panicking about unnecessary things.”
Be organised about revision, and timetable it for the time of day you work best.
Revise with other people when possible.
Include time to relax and exercise in your revision timetable.
Remember that sleeping, eating well and getting fresh air “feed the brain”.
Don’t cram and don’t panic. Remember there are second chances if your results are bad.
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Ministers face making "difficult judgements" to slow the spread of the coronavirus, Nicola Sturgeon has said.
The first minister told the BBC's Politics Scotland they may have to consider closing schools and delaying non-urgent hospital procedures.
But she stressed that their decisions would be "really strongly underpinned" by scientific advice.
Eighteen people have so far tested positive for the Covid-19 virus in Scotland.
Ms Sturgeon said she expected the number to rise "perhaps rapidly in the days to come".
"It is now likely that we are facing a significant outbreak of coronavirus across the UK," she added.
However, the "vast majority" of infected people would experience only very mild symptoms and would not need hospital treatment.
Experts are currently working to contain the spread of the virus in Scotland.
The first minister said that when that "ceases to be possible" action will be taken to slow down its spread.
If they can reduce the number of infected people at any one time, that will reduce the pressure on the health service.
She admitted school closures "could be considered" in a bid to slow the spread of the virus but no decisions have been taken.
"There are balances - quite difficult balances - and quite difficult judgements to be made here," Ms Sturgeon said.
"We have some of the best scientists in the country looking at the kind of measures that would have the greatest impact on slowing down the spread of the virus.
"That has to be balanced by how practical those measures are to implement and, of course, the society and economic impact.
"There are some careful judgements that politicians and ministers will have to take but the focus is on doing everything we possible can to slow down the spread of this."
Work to increase capacity in hospitals could include the postponement of non-urgent procedures.
They are also considering opening facilities which are not routinely used, asking retired healthcare workers to return to work, and procuring additional equipment.
On the issue of welfare payments, the first minister said the Scottish government would do what it could within its powers to support the most vulnerable people affected by the virus
She said ministers were holding "good discussions" with the UK government on issues including the relaxation of Universal Credit.
"We don't want people who are doing the right thing - self-isolating to limit the spread of the virus - being sanctioned in terms of their benefits."
Earlier, on Sky News' Sophy Ridge On Sunday, Ms Sturgeon said the need for more funding for the NHS was "inevitable".
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NASA Prepares to Deploy Mars Helicopter
NASA’s Perseverance rover touched down on Mars in February, carrying with it a suite of sensors and experiments that could help identify the remains of ancient life on the red planet. As if that wasn’t enough, Perseverance also has a flying drone. The Ingenuity helicopter is attached to the underside of the rover, but it won’t be for long. NASA just took the first step toward getting it airborne.
Ingenuity rode to Mars strapped to the underside of the rover. After landing the NASA team had to give the wheeled robot once-over, and everything has gone perfectly thus far. NASA finally paid some attention to the helicopter over the weekend. Ingenuity had a protective shield covering it, and now Perseverance has jettisoned the cover to reveal the folded-up helicopter (see above).
Perseverance will take a few days to reach the area designated by NASA as a ‘helipad” for Ingenuity — a 33-by-33-foot (10-by-10-meter) region with few obstacles. Once there, the drone will unfold and drop onto the surface — you can see what that will look like below. However, it won’t happen quite so quickly. Since NASA only gets one shot at this, it’ll take six Martian days (known as sols) to unfold and deploy the helicopter. Right before release, the team will use the electrical connection to Curiosity to charge the helicopter’s batteries one last time.
Lots of activity next week as I get ready to drop off the helicopter for its test flights. It’s tucked underneath me behind a protective debris shield, which will be the first thing to go.
Here’s my team testing some of what’s coming up: pic.twitter.com/CWwtGw87EX
— NASA’s Perseverance Mars Rover (@NASAPersevere) March 20, 2021
Ingenuity came along after Perseverance was already in production, so it doesn’t carry any mission-critical instruments. This technology demonstration could open up new paths to explore the planets, though. Unlike Perseverance, which is durable and built with radiation-hardened components, Ingenuity uses off-the-shelf parts like a Snapdragon ARM chip. It’s not designed to last through even a single winter on Mars, but the helicopter does have many times the computing power of Perseverance.
Once Perseverance drops off the drone and moves to a safe distance, NASA will run the helicopter’s rotors at 2,537 rpm for one final check. The high rate of spin is necessary because Mars’ atmosphere is just one percent as dense as Earth’s. If everything looks good, Ingenuity will make a short flight, becoming the first flying machine on another planet. We won’t know until several hours later, when Perseverance beams back data to Earth, whether the flight was a success. NASA plans to fly the helicopter several times during its month-long test, and hopefully, get a look at Mars from a whole new angle. | <urn:uuid:a88f0877-f0c7-4552-80e8-f4e742a6609e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://technoblogs.net/nasa-prepares-to-deploy-mars-helicopter.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570921.9/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809094531-20220809124531-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.93789 | 676 | 2.953125 | 3 |
Metal and rock fans are being warned about the dangers of headbanging after a 50-year-old man developed a blood clot on the brain during a Motorhead concert.
Doctors in Germany say the man complained of a persistent headache in the weeks following the gig and they discovered bleeding on the brain which developed into a clot, the BBC reports.
The news comes as Motorhead prepare to play at London’s Hyde Park with Black Sabbath today and Sonisphere festival kicks off at Knebworth.
The man said he had no history of head trauma and said he hadn’t been drinking excessively or taken any drugs. But he added he had been headbanging at the 2012 gig.
Surgeons at Hannover Medical School successfully removed the clot, but in their case report, the doctors warned: “Some fans might be endangered by indulging in excessive headbanging.”
Three other cases of bleeding on the brain have been linked to headbanging.
The doctors’ report added: “We assume that headbanging, with its brisk forward and back acceleration and deceleration forces, led to rupturing of bridging veins causing haemorrhage into the subdural space.
“This case serves as evidence in support of Motorhead’s reputation as one of the most hardcore rock ‘n’ roll acts on earth, if nothing else because of their music’s contagious speed drive and the hazardous potential for headbanging fans to suffer brain injury.”
Brain injury association Headway say it was a very rare case. Headway’s Luke Griggs adds: “Repeated aggressive movement of the head can lead to damage being caused to the brain as it moves inside the skull, but it’s fair to say this is a very unusual case.
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- 1 How do you make Thai chicken fried rice?
- 2 What is the difference between Chinese fried rice and Thai fried rice?
- 3 How do you make Khao Pad Goong?
- 4 How do you make Thai fried rice with prawns?
- 5 Is Thai fried rice unhealthy?
- 6 What is the best Thai rice?
- 7 Why is pad Thai so unhealthy?
- 8 What gives Chinese fried rice its Flavour?
- 9 Is Thai food or Chinese food healthier?
- 10 Is fish sauce the same as oyster sauce?
- 11 What is in Thai seasoning sauce?
- 12 What’s a pad thai?
- 13 How do you make Thai rice?
- 14 How do you make Trader Joe’s shrimp fried rice?
- 15 How many calories are in seafood fried rice?
How do you make Thai chicken fried rice?
- 8 oz chicken breast, cut in 1/2 inch cubes.
- kosher salt and pepper.
- 4 tsp vegetable oil.
- 3 cups cooked brown jasmine rice.
- 1/2 large onion, chopped.
- 3 cloves garlic, minced.
- 2 scallions, chopped.
- 3 egg whites, beaten.
What is the difference between Chinese fried rice and Thai fried rice?
Thai fried rice and Chinese fried rice are very similar dishes featuring protein, egg, rice and veggies. The major differences is that Thai fried rice is flavored with fish sauce, and the main flavoring agent in Chinese fried rice is soy sauce. Chinese fried rice also often contains more vegetables.
How do you make Khao Pad Goong?
How to Make Khao Pad Goong (Thai Shrimp Fried Rice)
- Cut tomato and onion into 6 equal pieces.
- Heat the oil in a wok or deep large frying pan over a high heat and add the minced garlic.
- Fry until light brown.
- Add shrimp, tomato, onion, ketchup, oil, fish sauce and sugar and cook for 30 seconds, stirring.
How do you make Thai fried rice with prawns?
- Heat 1 tbsp of the oil in a wok, add the onion, garlic and chilli, and cook for 2-3 mins until golden. Add the prawns and cook for 1 min.
- Heat the remaining oil in a frying pan and fry the eggs with some seasoning. Divide the fried rice mix between 4 bowls and top each with a fried egg.
Is Thai fried rice unhealthy?
This may be one you reach for, just because of the familiarity of its name, but Thai fried rice is just as bad for you as the Chinese version. High in fat content and calories, it is a dish defined by its greasy nature.
What is the best Thai rice?
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- Kirkland Jasmine Rice – 25 lbs.
- Four Elephants Premium Thai Jasmine Rice – 5 lbs.
- Village Harvest Organic Protein Blend Brown Jasmine – 1 lb.
- Goya Foods Jasmine Rice – 2 lbs.
- Village Harvest Organic Jasmine Rice – 3 lbs.
- Kaow Numsub Premium Thai Jasmine Rice – 2.2 lbs.
Why is pad Thai so unhealthy?
It’s rather an inconvenience, therefore, to know that Pad Thai is one of the unhealthiest things to eat in a Thai restaurant. The 40 gms of fat in Pad Thai is half of what an average person should consume in 24 hours, and the 2,500 mg of sodium is 175 per cent more than the daily allowance.
What gives Chinese fried rice its Flavour?
Chinese fried rice- light soy sauce and dark soy sauce are used. Some chefs prefer just a pinch of salt to keep the bright color of the rice. Chinese-American fried rice– tomato ketchup and Worcestershire sauce are used to render a whole new flavor. Thai fried rice- uses fish sauce, soy sauce, and sugar.
Is Thai food or Chinese food healthier?
Thai food is often healthier than Chinese food. Thai food puts a focus on balance and variety. They are often light and the aromas are just as important as the taste of the food. Thai food uses less heavy sauces and oils than Chinese food uses that are healthier for you, if any oil at all.
Is fish sauce the same as oyster sauce?
Fish sauce This sauce, made from fermented fish, has a thinner consistency and fishier taste than oyster sauce. It’s also saltier and less sweet. Fish sauce may be particularly suitable for flavorful dishes that wouldn’t be overpowered by it, or which already have a fishy taste, such as stir-fried fish.
What is in Thai seasoning sauce?
It is a good choice for flavoring stir-fried vegetables, meat, seafood, noodle dishes and can also be used as a dipping sauce. The ingredients of the sauce are oyster extractive, sugar, water, salt, corn starch and wheat flour.
What’s a pad thai?
Pad Thai is a Thai noodle stir fry with a sweet-savoury-sour sauce scattered with crushed peanuts. It’s made with thin, flat rice noodles, and almost always has bean sprouts, garlic chives, scrambled egg, firm tofu and a protein – the most popular being chicken or prawns/shrimp.
How do you make Thai rice?
- Place rice in a large bowl and cover by 2 inches with cool water.
- If cooking rice in a saucepan with a glass lid, bring to a simmer, covered, over low heat, and cook until rice is tender and no water remains in saucepan, about 20 minutes.
How do you make Trader Joe’s shrimp fried rice?
Simply warm a large saucepan with some oil in it, toss in just the shrimp portion, and cook them until they start turning pink. Then, mix the rest of the contents of the bag into the saucepan and heat for an additional three to five minutes.
How many calories are in seafood fried rice?
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Cast & Crew
Professor Henry Barnes, a widower who has been retired from a Midwestern university for eight years, telephones his close friend and fellow chamber music performer, law professor Edward Bell, and asks him to come see him. Henry explains that he needs help preparing his will as he intends to commit suicide. Although Edward rushes over and tells Henry all the reasons why he should not take his own life, Henry continues to feel he no longer is of any use to society. Edward points out that Henry has a lifetime of knowledge to impart via his writings, but Henry declares that when he completes his latest book in three weeks, he will do away with himself. When Edward relates this to his colleagues and fellow chamber music players, they are horrified. One of them, Philip Conway, a medical doctor, arranges to examine Henry and finds him in excellent health and not depressed or bitter. Henry tells Conway that he had a wonderful marriage and, although their son was lost in the war, has had a full and satisfying life. Henry claims that he has not been sleeping well and asks Conway for sleeping pills, but the doctor gives him only two. Later, while Henry is feeding pigeons in the park, young Peggy Taylor sits down on the bench beside him. She tells him that she and Jason, her husband who is studying chemistry on the G.I. Bill, have been looking for an apartment and are expecting a baby. Henry offers to mention their predicament to Edward, who is also the university housing administrator. After a philosophical conversation with Peggy about the pros and cons of suicide, Henry ponders whether he is really "living now." When Edward reveals that during the war two soldiers were temporarily billeted in Henry's attic, the effervescent and determined Peggy goes to Henry's house and talks him into letting her and Jason move into his attic. The couple causes some havoc in Henry's life, blowing fuses, interfering with his writing and adopting a dog, and Henry finds himself calling Philip for more sleeping pills. Peggy and Jason invite Henry to see what they have done to the attic, and he is amazed by the transformation. Over a cup of tea, Jason tells Henry he wants to be a teacher. Later, Peggy does some household chores for Henry and tells him about the gulf in education between G.I. husbands and wives. Peggy maintains that the wives need overview classes so that they can help their husbands, and has suggested to the university that Henry organize such courses. He protests, saying he wants to finish his book but, a few days later, finds himself in a converted Quonset hut in front of a large group of students' wives presenting a lecture on the basics of philosophy. The class is very successful, and Henry takes a new lease on life. When Jason discovers that Peggy hasn't been taking vitamin pills because they don't have enough money to buy them, he talks about quitting school and getting a job. As Jason is telling his chemistry professor that he is going to have to leave school, he is summoned to the the hospital and learns that Peggy has given birth prematurely and the baby has died. While Jason and Henry walk home, Jason asks him, "Why?" but Henry cannot answer. Later, when Henry visits Peggy in the hospital, he finds her in good spirits and tells her that a life wasn't lost, but merely exchanged, as she has saved him from suicide. Jason then leaves for Chicago to take a job selling cars, intending to send for Peggy later. Henry goes to see him at the used car lot and informs him that he can be reinstated and given a job as a teaching assistant, but Jason feels that a teaching job will not be enough for him. Back home, Henry discovers that Peggy plans to go to live with her sister. Unknown to Henry and Peggy, Jason has returned to take the make-up exams and, with the help of Henry's colleagues, passes all but still has to face chemistry. After Henry grows very despondent because Peggy and Jason are apart, and downs several of Philip's pills, Peggy tells his friends that he has taken a a lot of sleeping pills. The doctor, however, informs them that what he prescribed were not sleeping pills but pills that will merely make him slightly uncomfortable. Meanwhile, Peggy is walking Henry back and forth and filling him full of coffee when Jason comes home. Henry explains that he took the pills because they are leaving him. Jason challenges Henry to pull himself together by saying that he can think of many fellows, including Henry's son, who would like to have had the choice he has now. Moved by Jason's words, Henry gets up and starts walking on his own. Later, Henry changes the living arrangements in the house to give the couple more space. The chamber music group is performing once again in Henry's parlor when Peggy and Jason announce that they are going to try to have another baby.
Betty Ann Lynn
Hal K. Dawson
Robert B. Williams
Michael William Balfe
F. E. Johnston
Dr. W. T. Jones
Charles Le Maire
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Maurice De Packh
John N. Scott
Walter M. Scott
H. S. Thompson
E. Clayton Ward
Darryl F. Zanuck
Apartment for Peggy
Apartment for Peggy opens with Professor Henry Barnes (the great Edmund Gwenn) in rehearsal with other professors who are a small but dedicated group of amateur musicians. They're playing a nice piece, with Barnes on violin, but when they stop and attempt another go at it, Henry says he has to leave. He has things to take care of because he's leaving the college, much to the dismay of his friends. Later, he reveals to one of them that he actually intends to commit suicide.
After his friend tells everyone of Henry's plans, it is demanded that Henry see a doctor, which he does. When the doctor asks why a man in perfect health would want to commit suicide, Henry replies that's exactly the reason he wants to, because he's in perfect health. Why, he asks, should he wait until he's old and sick and praying for death. Why not do it now when he's still in control?
Outside the doctor's office, Henry sits on a bench and Peggy Taylor (Jeanne Crain) grabs the space next to him. First she complains about how tired she is (she's pregnant and has been on her feet all day), then starts quizzing him on who he knows around the college because her husband, Jason, is studying chemistry to be a teacher and they desperately need on-campus housing. Henry doesn't want to talk but the vivacious Peggy won't stop. The talk turns to life and Henry asks her a hypothetical: What if you were old, weren't depressed or despairing, had done everything you set out to do, had nothing more to contribute and wanted to go before you became sickly or demented? Why not kill yourself? Peggy responds anyone who feels that apathetic about it doesn't sound like he's been living at all and you've got to be living first if you're going to die. She recommends Mr. Hypothetical start living first, with a capitol "L" and leaves.
Later, Peggy learns that Henry lives in a house on campus with an empty attic available for occupation. She twists his arm into letting her and Jason stay there and before long they've fixed up the attic, had tea with Henry and become good friends. Due to their age differences, Peggy calls Henry "Pop," the name she gave her grandfather. Henry comes to view Peggy and Jason in a similar way. He lost his own son in World War I and takes on Jason as a son to be proud of, as long as he finishes his schooling and gets his degree. The problem is that Jason needs to earn money and is increasingly tempted to drop out of school and take an open job offer to become a used car salesman instead. When Jason does just that, Henry's heartbroken and so is Peggy.
There are many more surprises to the plot than that, with a few twists and turns along the way. But what stands out about Apartment for Peggy is the issues it grapples with without ever letting any of it stand in the way of the story. Although it deals with many issues, it never highlights them to become an "issue movie." Peggy speaks about having nine children to insure that at least some of them are good and socially conscious so they can have children who are the same in the hopes that eventually racial intolerance will no longer exist. She says all of that in a quick aside at tea without any underlining whatsoever. Later, Henry tells Jason it's tough being a professor and even tougher if you try to inject progressive methods into the mix. Finally, both Henry's apathy towards life and Jason's impatience stem from their traumas of war.
That all of this is presented without ever being emphasized is a real credit to writer-director George Seaton. He manages to keep all of it suspended on a bubble of cozy New England positive thinking without popping it once. Edmund Gwenn proves once again that he was an actor of immense gifts and Seaton knew it. He had directed Gwenn to an Oscar® for Best Supporting Actor in the holiday classic, Miracle on 34th Street (1947), a movie Seaton also wrote.
William Holden had spent nine long years since his breakout role in Golden Boy (1939) seeing stardom elude him. He is excellent as always (Holden could never not be excellent) but his role is more or less there for both Gwenn and Crain to play off of, not engage with. In just two years, Sunset Boulevard (1950) would finally put Holden into the limelight he so richly deserved.
Jeanne Crain is the real core of the movie. Her performance as Peggy is at once breathtaking and immediately relatable as well. Her plucky nature never grates or irritates and she plays the difficult emotional scenes with grace and style. It's a terrific performance and signaled that Crain was an actress to watch. And Apartment for Peggy remains a movie to watch, and watch again.
By Greg Ferrara
Apartment for Peggy
A working title of the film was Apartment for Susie. According to documents in the Twentieth Century-Fox Records of the Legal Department and the Twentieth Century-Fox Produced Scripts Collection at the UCLA Arts-Special Collections Library, the studio purchased rights to Faith Baldwin's novelette in April 1947 for $10,000. Exteriors were shot at the University of Nevada, in Reno, in early February 1948. The legal records suggest that the production May have taken a hiatus for two to three weeks in January. Griff Barnett replaced Lee J. Cobb in the role of "Dr. Philip Conway."
Sequences featuring Ray Walker as the manager of the used car lot and Crystal Reeves as a librarian appear to have been shot but were eliminated from the final film. For the production, Mozart's Clarinet Quintet was rearranged for a sextet by Edward Powell and Urban Thielman, with a flute playing the clarinet part. A radio adaptation of the screenplay was performed twice on Lux Radio Theatre, first on February 28, 1949 with Jeanne Crain, William Holden and Edmund Gwenn, and on December 4, 1950 with Crain and William Lundigan. Versions were also broadcast on the Screen Directors' Playhouse on September 2, 1949 and on Screen Guild Players on May 31, 1951. | <urn:uuid:effb9143-6aff-4ca9-b578-1e88c26bc4dc> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://prod-www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/67515/apartment-for-peggy | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571198.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810161541-20220810191541-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.976312 | 2,694 | 1.796875 | 2 |
Every year, the Milliman insurance industry consulting firm issues a report that estimates the average cost of health insurance and copays across the population of Americans, along with various other insights.
Here are some of the report’s findings:
· Cost increases in Healthcare have been most “moderate”. For the average American, the study found the healthcare costs increase by 4.1% between 2019 and 2020. This is consistent with the 5 previous years, and have actually decreased from 10 years ago, where the rate of healthcare cost increase was nearly double.
· In 2020, the hypothetical healthcare cost for an average American is $6,553 a year, while it is $28,653 for a “typical family” of four. The study recognizes that there are varying of family structures that would influence the cost of healthcare on average.
· With COVID-19 in the picture, the study estimates that the virus will have huge impacts on health care costs for 2020. On one end, massive increases in cost for direct COVID-19 care. Interestingly enough however, there will likely be an exceptionally large decrease in cost for deferred and forgone services, which could actually dwarf the increased spending due to COVID-19. There is tremendous uncertainty how the numbers will play out in the end, so the study did not make explicit adjustments to medical care cost projections.
It is important to note that the study focuses on the average, which means for people who experience significant health conditions, the numbers will be higher. And for people who manage to stay healthy until the day they die in their sleep without requiring extensive medical care or hospitalization, the costs could be much lower.
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The Department of Space (DoS) (अंतरिक्ष विभाग) is an Indian government department responsible for administration of the Indian space program.
The Indian space program under the DoS aims to promote the development and application of space science and technology for the socio-economic benefit of the country.
It includes two major satellite systems, INSAT for communication, television broadcasting and meteorological services, and Indian Remote Sensing Satellites (IRS) system for resources monitoring and management.
It has also developed two satellite launch vehicles Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) and Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV) to place IRS and INSAT class satellites in orbit.
Key Description Department of Space:
Jurisdiction: Government of India
Headquarters: Antariksh Bhavan, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
First executive: Vikram Sarabhai
Current executive: Kailasavadivoo Sivan
Founder: Government of India
Founded: June 1972
Annual budget: ₹13,479 crore (US$1.9 billion) (2020–21 est.)
Ministers Responsible: Narendra Modi
Prime Minister of India
Deputy Ministers Responsible: Dr. Jitendra Singh (Minister of State)
Department Executive: Kailasavadivoo Sivan, Chairman
Parent Department: Prime Minister Office
Child Department: Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO)
Agencies and institutes of Indian Department of Space:
Organization chart showing structure of the DOS.
The Department of Space manages the following agencies and institutes:
1.) Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) – The primary research and development arm of the DoS.
- Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre (VSSC), Thiruvananthapuram.
- Liquid Propulsion Systems Centre (LPSC), Thiruvananthapuram.
- Satish Dhawan Space Centre (SDSC-SHAR), Sriharikota.
- ISRO Satellite Centre (ISAC), Bangalore.
- Space Applications Centre (SAC), Ahmedabad.
- National Remote Sensing Centre (NRSC), Hyderabad.
- ISRO Inertial Systems Unit (IISU), Thiruvananthapuram.
- Development and Educational Communication Unit (DECU), Ahmedabad.
- Master Control Facility (MCF), Hassan.
- ISRO Telemetry, Tracking and Command Network (ISTRAC), Bangalore.
- Laboratory for Electro-Optics Systems (LEOS), Bangalore.
- Indian Institute of Remote Sensing (IIRS), Dehradun.
2.) Antrix Corporation – The marketing arm of ISRO.
3.) Physical Research Laboratory (PRL), Ahmedabad.
4.) National Atmospheric Research Laboratory (NARL), Gadanki.
5.) North-Eastern Space Applications Centre (NE-SAC), Umiam.
6.) Semi-Conductor Laboratory (SCL), Mohali.
7.) Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology (IIST), Thiruvananthapuram – India's space university.
In 1961, the Government of India and Prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru entrusted the responsibility for space research and for the peaceful use of outer space to the Department of Atomic Energy (DAE), then under the leadership of Dr. Homi J. Bhabha.
In 1962, the Department of Atomic Energy (DAE) set up Indian National Committee for Space Research (INCOSPAR), with Dr. Vikram Sarabhai as chairman, to organise a national space programme.
In 1969, (INCOSPAR) was reconstituted as an advisory body under the India National Science Academy (INSA) and the Indian Space Research Organisation was established. The Government of India constituted the Space Commission and established the Department of Space (DoS) in 1972 and brought ISRO under DoS management on 1 June 1972.
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The city proposes to spend $ 800 million over each of the next two years on homeless services, likely as it has done in recent years, with no noticeable effect on removing homeless settlements. shelter from streets and parks. The moral and legal obstacle to the abolition of homeless camps is the lack of accommodation space for those withdrawn from the camps. $ 800 million would buy and supply 32,000 tiny cabins, more than enough to house all of San Francisco’s homeless people. The cabins and their services could be located on remote land owned by the city or rented. The city should provide them, then remove all homeless settlements from streets and parks. | <urn:uuid:281e3252-1d2a-49f7-b0c9-a7fdc710624b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://mycabinsinasheville.com/tiny-shacks-could-solve-homelessness-crises/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571909.51/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813051311-20220813081311-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.970793 | 131 | 2.0625 | 2 |
Have you ever believed something but didn’t think it would happen to you? The Scriptures say, “All things are possible to him who believes.” To believe is to have faith. Therefore, the way to receive from God is to have faith in Him. But, first, you must overcome doubt and unbelief. So, what do you do when you’re tossed between doubt and unbelief?
One day Jesus came upon His disciples as they argued with the scribes. He asked the scribes, “What are you discussing with them?” A man in the crowd spoke up, saying, “Teacher, I brought You my son, who has a mute spirit. And wherever it seizes him, it throws him down; he foams at the mouth, gnashes his teeth, and becomes rigid. So I spoke to Your disciples, that they should cast it out, but they could not!”
Jesus answered him, saying, “O faithless generation, how long shall I be with you? How long shall I bear with you? Bring him to Me.” Then they brought the boy to Jesus. And when he saw Him, immediately the spirit convulsed him, and he fell on the ground and wallowed, foaming at the mouth. So He asked the boy’s father, “How long has this been happening to him?” And he replied, “From childhood. And often, he has thrown him both into the fire and into the water to destroy him. But if You can do anything, have compassion on us and help us.”
All Things are Possible to Him Who Believes
The boy’s father had been desperate to find help for his son. But he had to overcome unbelief. He is caught between doubt and belief, which is the same as being caught between unbelief and faith. But Jesus calmly looked at the father and said, “If you can believe, all things are possible to him who believes. Immediately the father of the child cried out and said with tears, “Lord, I believe; help my unbelief!” (Mark 9:14-24).
All things are possible if you believe. On January 15, 2009, Captain Chesley Burnett Sullenberger III (Captain Sully) was the captain of US Airways Flight 1549. The plane was traveling from New York City’s LaGuardia Airport to North Carolina’s Teterboro Airport. Shortly after takeoff, the plane struck a flock of geese and lost power in both engines.
Captain Sully quickly determined that he would be unable to reach either LaGuardia or Teterboro Airport, piloted the plane to a crash landing on the Hudson River. Everyone survived the landing. Nearby boats rescued all 155 people on board. Captain Sully acted on impulse, making the split-second decision to land his plane in the river. Some people call it a miracle; some call it luck. But Captain Sully had to overcome unbelief. He believed he could do the seemingly impossible, and he did it.
That’s the kind of faith you must have when trusting God. All things are possible if you believe. You might have an incredible need right now that requires a miracle. But our God is a God of miracles. All we have to do to receive a miracle from God is believe.
Lord, I Believe, Help My Unbelief
What do you do when you come face-to-face with something you have wanted all your life? Why did Jesus respond to the boy’s father by saying, “If you can believe?” Jesus wanted him to know that nothing is impossible. If you believe you can receive from God. He wanted the boy’s father to know that If he cast aside his doubts, subdue his fears, and trust Him, his son would be made well.
Jesus tells us that when we pray, we are to believe that we receive the things we ask of God.
Therefore I say to you, whatever things you ask when you pray, believe that you receive them, and you will have them.Mark 11:23-24
Sometimes we allow the circumstances of life to restrict the level of blessing we receive from God. The Scriptures say, if you are a person driven by your appetite, you put a knife to your throat (Proverbs 23:2). The Scriptures also tell us that we are what we believe (Proverbs 23:7). Taste and see for yourself that God is good. Allow God to change your appetite for Him by trusting Him for your needs, and God will help you in your unbelief.
One of the ingredients in the recipe for faith is obedience. Faith is perfected through obedience. The scriptures say that Jesus, having been perfected by His obedience to the Father, became the author of eternal salvation to all who obey Him (Hebrews 5:8-9). No matter what you are going through, keep believing God will turn your life around. Trust God that all things will work together for your good because you love and trust Him (Romans 8:28).
Is it Possible to Possess Faith and Unbelief at the Same Time?
We are living in the age of unbelief, and people are skeptical of everything. Almost everyone has a conspiracy theory; the truth is distorted, and gross darkness Covers the earth. People don’t know what to believe anymore. So, is it possible to occupy faith and unbelief at the same time?
Faith believes whereas, doubt does not believe. First, understand that there is a difference between doubt and unbelief. Everyone struggles with doubt. Doubt comes when you question your faith. That is why it is important to know what you believe. Unbelief is a determined refusal to believe something. When you know what you believe, your faith closes the door to unbelief.
How to Overcome Unbelief
God has provided health and healing through the death and resurrection of His Son. All the promises of God are yea and amen (2 Corinthians 1:20). This means that God answers our prayers provided we agree with Him.
Whatever God has promised, He will do. It is not uncommon to wonder if God’s promises will come to pass. If you are experiencing trials, continue to trust God for deliverance. Here are some steps you can take to overcome unbelief.
Do not harden your heart against God
The Scripture issues a warning to believers that we do not harden our hearts. “Do not harden your heart as in the rebellion, in the day of trial in the wilderness, where your fathers tested Me and saw My works for forty years.” (Hebrews 3:8-9).
Acts chapter 28, verse 27, explains what it means to have a hardened heart. “For the hearts of this people have grown dull. Their ears are hard of hearing, and their eyes they have closed, lest they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears, lest they should understand with their hearts and turn so that I should heal them” (Acts 28:27). Blindness, deafness, and dumbness are the results of a hardened heart.
Know your position in Christ
“…The word is near you, in your mouth, and in your heart (that is, the word of faith which we preach): that if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. For with the heart one believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth, confession is made unto salvation” (Romans 8:8-10).
This is the summation of how one obtains salvation. Christ paid an excruciatingly painful price that you might become a part of the family of God and “receive” salvation. The good thing is, it doesn’t cost you anything to believe. It’s FREE!
To most people, salvation means, “I will get it in the hereafter.” My friend, salvation means God forgave you of the sin debt that you owed. That means: you will not die, you can receive healing, you can overcome addiction, you can have a good life, and more. When you receive salvation, you become a new creation. Old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new.
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About the Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment program
- Broadband planning
- Adoption activities
The National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) is in charge of administering the BEAD funding program. A total of $42.45 billion dollars is available under the BEAD program with the goal to “lay the critical groundwork” for:
- Widespread access, affordability, equity, and adoption of broadband
- Create good-paying jobs; grow economic opportunities, including for local workers
- Provide increased access to healthcare services
- Enrich the educational experiences of students
- Close long-standing equity gaps, and
- Improve the overall quality of life across America
Who can apply for BEAD funding?
All fifty states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico, as well as U.S. Territories, can apply for grants from the BEAD program.
Where do you apply?
Complete Letters of Intent, Requests for Initial Planning Funds, Five-Year Action Plans, Initial Proposals, and Final Proposals all can be submitted through NTIA’s online application portal.
How do you apply for BEAD funding?
Below are the steps Eligible Entities must take to apply for grants from the BEAD program.
Any due dates to keep an eye on?
- Completed Letters of Intent ————- July 18th, 2022
- Request for Initial Planning Funds —— August 15th, 2022
- Initial Proposal ——————————— Due 180 days after NTIA formally notifies eligible entities of their formula allocations
- Final Proposal ———————————- Due 365 days after the approval of the Initial Proposal
What broadband projects is the BEAD program prioritizing?
The BEAD program will prioritize projects that are designed to deliver fiber connectivity directly to the end user. The program’s primary focus is on deploying broadband service to unserved locations (those without any broadband service at all at 25 megabits per second (Mbps) downstream/3 Mbps upstream) and underserved locations (those without broadband service offering speeds of 100 Mbps downstream/20 Mbps upstream).
“NTIA has a strong preference that Eligible Entities also ensure deployment of gigabit connections to community anchor institutions such as libraries and community centers that lack such connectivity.”
- This program will prioritize projects designed to deliver a fiber connection directly to the end user.
- All projects are required to offer a low-cost option to eligible subscribers.
- All States must have plans to address middle-class affordability.
- This program will also prioritize proposals that improve service affordability – since these networks are being built using taxpayers’ dollars. This is to ensure service is affordable and available to access by all Americans.
How much funding can each entity receive?
“Each State is eligible to receive a minimum allocation of $100,000,000. They may request up to $5,000,000 of its minimum allocation in Initial Planning Funds.”
“U.S. Territories are eligible to receive a minimum allocation of $25,000,000. Each territory may request up to $1,250,000 of its minimum allocation in Initial Planning Funds.”
After the broadband coverage maps have been published (FCC’s Broadband DATA Maps), NTIA will then use these maps to determine the number of unserved locations in every State and Territory. NTIA will notify eligible entities of their total funding allocations. Funding allocations are calculated in accordance with Sections 60102(c)(1) and (c)(3) of the Infrastructure Act, and inclusive of the minimum initial allocation and Initial Planning Funds.
CostQuest Associates was awarded the FCC’s Broadband Serviceable Location contract to help solve location accuracy issues and provide the foundational data to support a National Broadband Map (FCC’s Broadband DATA Maps). See the full press release to learn more about CostQuest and the FCC’s Fabric.
How will BEAD funding be distributed?
“Funding will be distributed based on the relative number of “unserved” locations (broadband serviceable locations that lack access to reliable broadband service at speeds of at least 25 Mbps downstream and 3 Mbps upstream and latency level low enough to support real-time, interactive applications) in each State and U.S. Territory.”
- BEAD Info Sheet
- BEAD Overview – NTIA
- IIJA Broadband Programs Overview – NTIA
- More information on BEAD – Internet for All.gov
- More broadband funding opportunities – Internet for All.gov
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When out on the trail or in the wilderness, your backpack becomes your home away from home. It’s where you keep your food, your sleeping bag, your clothing, and all other essentials. We all know that an organized home is vital to everyday functioning and well-being; in the same way, an organized backpack makes life on the trail that much easier. Here’s the complete checklist for how to pack your hiking backpack.
1. Think about your backpack.
It’s easy to buy the top-rated product online, but this approach fails to consider some important factors. If you already have a backpack or several backpacks, you still have to determine if your backpack will work best for your trip.
First off, it’s about comfort. Packing a bag always begins with the back that carries the bag, not the pockets and features of an item on a shelf. If you’re in the market for a new bag, most outdoor stores allow you to weigh and test a bag before you buy it, which can enable you to determine how the bag affects your gait. Look for a bag with a waist strap that can take the load off your shoulders and distribute weight to your hips.
Next, consider how much space you will need in your bag. A winter trip, for instance, almost always requires at least 30% more space than a warm-weather journey of the same length. Think about the location, weather, and duration involved in your trip and choose a bag that suits your gear space needs.
Lastly, think about how much water you need on your hiking trip. Many bags come equipped with a pouch that can fit a hydration bladder, which is a very convenient way to stay hydrated on the trail. However, you may need to bring more than a hydration pouch. Most backpacks feature side pockets that make it for easy extra water storage.
2. Learn how to use your bag’s features.
Once you’ve chosen your backpack, become familiar with its features and storage options. Obviously, what you put in which pocket depends on your particular trip and what you need to bring. However, here are some general guidelines.
First, the brain or the top portion of the bag is suitable for things you need often or quickly. Side pouches are good for water storage or snacks in waterproof packaging. Waistband pockets are great places to put smaller snacks, such as small bags of jerky or trail mix, as well as a compass and a few Band-Aids. Many larger backpacks feature a zippered-off bottom compartment, which is excellent for slightly heavier or bulky items.
Remember to pack your bag in a way that maintains your center of gravity. You want heavier and denser items to be closer to your back, to avoid being pulled off balance.
Prepare your bag for possible inclement weather. Some bags come with built-in rain covers while others don’t. However, you can easily pick up an inexpensive rain cover if need be. If you’re worried about a downpour soaking through your rain cover (it is possible), slide a garbage bag into your backpack and store all your gear inside. For a more expensive but more sustainable option, invest in dry bags.
3. Plan your clothing.
Of course, the names of pockets and features are useless without a good idea of what you’ll need on your particular adventure. What clothes you need determines how to pack a backpack.
While it’s impossible to give a list of universally required hiking clothing, there are some general basics. Running into inclement weather is a real risk, and it’s always a good idea to bring one or more changes of socks. Light base layers, rain jackets, and rain pants are also all items for your list.
Keep a spare change of socks in the brain of your bag and keep rain gear toward the top of your bag or in the front of a zippered-off bottom compartment. Extra layers and changes of clothes can go toward the bottom of your bag, just above any camping gear, as it’s unlikely you’ll need to reach them during the day.
4. Plan your food.
Make a list of all your food requirements for your hiking trip ahead of time to help you maximize on tastiness and avoid stress. Especially when it comes to longer hiking trips, opt for lightweight nutrient- and calorie-dense foods.
Bring energy-boosting snacks that can keep you going in between meals. Food is best in the middle or toward the top of the bag for easy access, just under your rain gear. However, waistband pocket snacks are never a bad idea.
5. Don’t skimp on emergency gear.
As nice as “more beer and less gear” sounds, it really is a bad idea to skimp on emergency equipment. Stash some chocolate and pack your beer, but leave space for a complete wilderness first aid kit, including an Israeli bandage, triangular bandage, spare water for rinsing wounds, and normal first aid kit essentials.
Consider including an emergency bivvy bag and emergency shelter for any trip that’s more than a few hours out on an easy trail if you suspect the weather may turn or if you’re unfamiliar with the area. Keep these bulkier emergency items in the middle of your bag and store your first aid kit near the top or in the brain of your bag.
6. Remember to include a tent, sleeping bag, and roll mat.
Of course, if you’re camping, pack your sleeping bag, tent, roll mat, and any camp kitchen supplies you may need. These usually fit best at the bottom of your bag. If you have a zippered-off bottom section, store them there.
7. Pack your bag in order.
Once you’ve compiled your full, personalized packing list for your trip and have gotten your gear together, it’s time to pack your bag. Pack your bag before your hiking buddy is banging on your door and impatient to get going. That way, if you want to change your packing plan or make adjustments, you can. This can also help you avoid overpacking and allow you to question what you need and what you don’t.
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Today it became clear that the cooperation between Europe and China in the framework of the BRI can contribute both to balanced development of the partners and the risks of new challenges in the dialogue between the States-parties of the initiative. Thus, both sides of the dialog learned their lessons and mistakes and can implement new improvement in resolving the current problems and challenges in cooperation within BRI.
China is the founder and the main country of the Belt and Road Initiative. It is one of the most interested in implementing BRI country, but during period 2013 – 2020 it faced a number of challenges, which have to be resolved to fully enjoy the benefits and profits of the initiative.
Analyzing the possible challenges facing the mechanism of cooperation between China and countries of Europe, the article proposes a number of recommendations, made under the backdrop of many other conflicting realities with regard to harmonize the relation between countries-participant of the initiative, which can be implemented by Chinese side of the Initiative.
To take into account the geopolitical situation in the CEE region and establish relations with other interested countries.
Analysis of China – CEE relations has shown that the basis of bilateral cooperation is not strong enough today. China and the countries of Central and Eastern Europe belong to different civilizations, they are geographically far from each other, and after the end of the Cold War, the former ideological unity between them disappeared.
Since three-quarters of the CEE countries have already become members of the EU, following the common European foreign and security policy, China needs to balance two areas – relations with the EU and diplomacy with each country separately. Deepening ties with CEE countries is necessary to promote the “One belt, One road” initiative, but the “triangle” of China – EU – Central and Eastern European relations should be taken into account when creating a cooperation mechanisms.
For example, the EU has a strong presence in the CEE region by promoting a set of economic rules. The US maintains a military presence there. Germany considers CEE as a region of its’ traditional influence. Russia also has important geopolitical interests there.
The EU expresses doubts about the 17 + 1 format and sees it as a manifestation of China’s “divide and rule”policy. The US, through the NATO security structures, firmly controls the political and military development of 17 States. Although the US has expressed a positive assessment of the 17 + 1 format, it is constantly increasing its’ influence on Poland, the Baltic States, and the Eastern Balkans.
Because of the Ukrainian crisis, the US-led NATO bloc strengthened its control over CEE. Germany sees CEE as its “backyard” and traditional sphere of influence. The German government openly doubts the mechanism of China’s cooperation with the 17 CEE States, believing that it leads to the undermining of EU norms, which is unfavorable for European unity.
The influence of Russia in the region should not be underestimatedas well. The Central Asian and Eurasian economic space is very important for Russia, which is leading the process of economic integration and has a deep traditional influence and real interests (many countries in Central and Eastern Europe are heavily dependent on Russian energy resources).
It is also worth noting that due to historical reasons (CIS countries used to be underthe pressure from the USSR) and the current Ukrainian crisis, the CEE countries have noticeably increased their sense of distrust towards Russia. On this background, the relations of comprehensive strategic partnership between China and Russia can also cause“psychological pressure” on the countries of Central and Eastern Europe to a certain extent. Therefore, China, in cooperation with the CEE countries, needs to find common ground between the interests of the Chinese side, the European, the Russian side and the CEE countries. It is very important to properly resolve the hidden problems and contradictions affecting the trilateral relations.
When China and CEE countries cooperate within the BRI, special attention should be paid to the existing mechanisms of cooperation within CEE, internal conflicts of CEE countries where, for historical reasons, national contradictions are huge, as well as to differences in the levels of development of CEE countries.
It is worth noting that political relations between China and the CEE countries remain“relatively slow” compared to economic relations. According to the researcher, this is due to the “superiority mentality” of some CEE countries towards China on issues of the political system, human rights, religion and other values. (In particular, Poland and the Czech Republic in 2003–2009 repeatedly criticized China on human rights issues and Tibet. In December 2008, during the Dalai Lama’s visit to Europe, Polish President Lech Kaczynski and Czech Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek met with him. As a result, this forced the Chinese government to keep its distance from the CEE countries in order to avoid political risks. This blocked China’s plans to increase the status of relations with the region in the overall structure of foreign policy.
Given the fact that 17 + 1 is an extension of China – Europe cooperation and the functions of the 17 + 1 format are limited, the agenda cannot be promoted indefinitely in all important areas. In this regards, to maintain the vitality of cooperation, it is necessary to increase the strategic height of cooperation. The UN, EU and OSCE platforms can be used to address the security issues facing the CEE region.
In China – CEE – EU relations, the principle of openness in order to take advantage of the opportunities to involve a third party in cooperation should be also adhered. In the 17 + 1 format, the mechanism for attracting observers should be widely opened, inviting countries, including the EU, international financial organizations and international organizations. The EU is an irremediable influence factor, through the 17 + 1 it is possible to promote mutual cooperation between China and the EU, while actively attracting important EU members such as Germany and France to become a third party to China – CEE cooperation.
In-depth analysis and harmonization of the legal framework for EU – China cooperation in the region.
Since the laws of the CEE countries are fully aligned with the EU in many aspects, the Chinese side should strengthen its knowledge and understanding of the relevant EU laws and regulations, which is a prerequisite for promoting the 17 + 1 cooperation. It is necessary to actively study the successful experience of the best Chinese enterprises in carrying out commercial activities in CEE, fully understand the hidden rules for investment in CEE countries and identify trade barriers.
An important role can be played by “outward-looking” Chinese enterprises. When investing abroad, they should follow international norms and market laws, pay attention to the international social responsibility of enterprises with Chinese capital. It is necessary to allow Chinese enterprises to thoroughly understand the local requirements of socio-economic development, diligently increase employment, emphasize openness and inclusiveness, the spirit of joint win-win cooperation, and eliminate doubts of the CEE countries about the feasibility of cooperation with China.
Europe should also be better informed about the goals, structure and significance of the BRI, both for the region and for individual countries.
The analysis showed that despite a lot of explanatory work from the Chinese side and the signing of relevant political documents, the European region lacks understanding that the BRI initiative reaches Europe: it is often mistakenly believed that it is intended only for China’s neighbors. In this regards, within the 17 + 1 mechanism, along with reaching a practical level of cooperation, problems have emerged that reduce the interest and expectations of European countries in the initiative, which is reflected in negative reviews of the initiative in the media and the lack of interest of countries in the implementation of infrastructure projects. In particular, the difference in economic opportunities and needs for cooperation among the 17 countries makes itself felt.
It is noted that on the background of China’s rapid rise and continuous increase in its international influence, assessments of the “One belt, One road” initiative and other aspects of China’s foreign strategy are affected by geopolitics or the “Cold War mentality”.
In this regards, the CEE countries’cooperation with China causes them to fear that their influence will be weaken and that China will use economic tools to “split” the unity of the EU. Due to this the EU is trying to minimize the impact of the PRC on the CEE region by tightening budget requirements, and as a result, small countries are afraid to take Chinese investment for infrastructure projects.
To address this challenge, the article recommends expanding the joint discussion of cooperation plans with CEE and EU countries. If specific economic plans are difficult to find, partners should offer the cooperation in other areas, in order to ensure equal participation of 17 countries in the construction of the BRI, supporting the balanced development of the existing mechanism of cooperation and not allowing these countries to lose enthusiasm in the absence of“big projects” (for example, together with Croatia, partners can train specialists in EU legislation, with Slovenia – share experience in environmental protection). Thus, the legal system, culture, education, science and technology are areas through which the BRI initiative can increase visibility for small and medium-sized CEE countries. On the Chinese side, it is necessary to transmit correct information to them, promote cooperation of research centers, organize international conferences, explain the ideals and practice of diplomacy of a large state with Chinese characteristics, and form a favorable public opinion.
Support for humanitarian cooperation should be provided through special funds.
Thus, the effective financial support mechanisms for the European (especially CEE) markets is needed. The governments of some of these countries cannot provide sovereign guarantees because they have exceeded the EU’s debt limit. For this reason, the countries of Central and Eastern Europe that have joined the European Union can not take preferential Chinese loans. In Europe, interest rates are low, and interest rates on Chinese commercial loans are higher, hence they are unattractive to CEE governments and businesses. To solve this problem, the creation of the 17 + 1 investment Bank and support of the creation of a regional multilateral international financial company of 17 + 1 should be discussed, as well as the experience of international financial organizations in the CEE region, adhered to a market orientation, and financial guarantees for bilateral cooperation should be provided.
To use the “One belt, One Road” as a framework for promoting practical cooperation between China and CEE
There is a need to link Chinese proposals with development projects that a particular CEE country is concerned about. (For example, Estonia’s plans to build a shale power plant in Jordan, which were slowed down by the fall in oil prices and the subsequent financial difficulties of the Estonian energy company. In 2016 The Chinese industrial and commercial Bank allocated money for this project, which was linked to the interests of China, since the construction contractor was the Guangdong heat and power engineering company).
European experts note that a promising direction is the construction of transport infrastructure, which, according to them, is relatively backward in CEE. In this regard, the study recommends to offer the CEE new comparative advantages of Chinese HSR (high-speed railway) and rolling stock for them and port mechanisms, along with the construction of airports. This will increase the level of industrialization in CEE countries, which is currently relatively low. Offering production cooperation in advanced industries, especially HSR, it will be possible to enter the European “outpost” through the Czech Republic and other countries with Chinese technologies. In addition, it is recommended that China can participate in the development of agricultural processing in CEE countries, where agriculture occupies an important place in the national economies. In this way, Chinese enterprises can help increase employment in CEE countries, which will improve the image of China in the region.
The strengthening of financial institutions and the alignment of the line of providing loans to CEE countries.
When the small nation of Montenegro approached the EUfor help paying off a nearly $1 billion loan to China’s Export – Import Bank (EXIM), borrowed to finance the construction of a large highway project, alarm bells were raised across Europe. The request presented the EU with a problem that members of the World Bank may soon find themselves grappling with – what to do about large loans for economically unviable projects already under construction as part of China’s BRI. The European Commission ultimately decided to reject Montenegro’s request, raising fundamental questions about the EU’s willingness to reckon with BRI’s expansion.
As BRI develops, the trade imbalance between China and CEE countries may grow noticeably. If imports from these countries do not increase, their debt to China will increase, this situation will not last long and will lead to a deterioration in the terms of trade and to friction. To avoid this, targeted incentives should be granted to products from CEE countries in order to expand their exports to China.
In addressing this challenge, China needsto coordinate its economic relations with the EU, taking into account that the countries of Central and Eastern Europe are more oriented towards the EU in economy, trade and politics. Experts believe that the emerging TTIP agreement, which will bring the newest market standards and trade rules, may cause a blow to interaction with CEE countries. It will have an impact on the rules that China wants to set through the promotion of the BRI initiative, on the ability of Chinese enterprises to enter Central and Eastern European countries with investment and trade.
The possibility of “financial exhaustion” should also be taken into account, since the development of trade and economic ties with CEE through the BRI will require significant financial support. In addition to support from international financial organizations, more funds will be required from the Chinese side. Now the global economy is at a low point, China is in a period of economic transition, and the demand for money has become even greater. When deploying the BRI projects, it is impossible to exclude the depletion of finances within the country, hence partners should be prepared for the possible negative impact on the economic transition.
To strengthen humanitarian exchanges with ordinary people in CEE in order to deepen their understanding of China.
The Chinese Government should be encouraged by its EU partners to become a participant in the OECD Arrangement on Guidelines for Officially Supported Export Credits. In particular, it is recommended that, in monitoring progress towards a Comprehensive Agreement on Investment, the European Parliament seeks to ensure that China’s participation in the OECD framework is a key objective of the EU’s negotiating strategy.
An analysis of the public opinion of citizens of CEE countries showed that in many CEE countries, understanding of China is limited, and this is unfavorable for the development of cooperation. The study, in connection with the solution of this challenge, recommends opening more Confucius Institutes in CEE countries and supporting cultural dialogues within the BRI project.
Particular attention should be paid to the “greening” of China itself and BRI in particular. Thus, despite the narrative promoted by the Chinese government of a “Green Silk Road”, the environmental impact of many BRI-related projects continues to cause controversy. This includes effects on host country ecosystems and their biodiversity.
An example is the construction of a dam in the Batang Toru rainforest in Indonesia. Its construction has had devastating effects on biodiversity, leading it to be legally challenged by the Indonesian Forum for the Environment (WALHI). The World Bank, meanwhile, has refused to fund the project over environmental concerns. Yet, in March 2019, the court in North Sumatra decided the project would proceed.
Another example of environmental concerns related to BRI infrastructure project is Montenegro’s Bar-Boljare Motorway. The construction began in 2015 by the China Road and Bridge Corporation (CRBC), a subsidiary of the majority state owned China Communications Construction Company (CCCC), and is funded by China’s EXIM Bank.
Environmental concerns are specifically related to the Smokovac–Mateševo section of this project, which cuts across the Tara River, through an area protected by a UNESCO Biosphere. The most visible consequence of the project is the need for rock excavation for a motorway tunnel, but other implications, such as water pollution and illegal landfills also emerged from an investigation by the Montenegrin NGO MANS.The European Parliament and European Commission have called on authorities to share more details about the project’s environmental impact with the public.
It is also advisable that host governments start implementing more transparent bidding processes for infrastructure projects, in order to reduce environmental damage and increase long-term net benefits. On the other hand, in order to assess the environmental sustainability of projects with more accuracy and transparency, banks involved in financing the BRI should rely on third party reports, rather than those produced internally.
In order to improve transparency, it would be useful for the Chinese government to create a public portfolio of BRI-related projects, which would make it easier to verify to what extent they are environmentally sustainable. China does not directly operate as a unified actor in BRI-related infrastructural projects, but different actors such as State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs) and banks contribute to the realisation and funding and these should be made to comply with environmental standards.
These implications are especially relevant on a global level as well. The COVID-19 pandemic should arouse awareness about the scale of the consequences that phenomena such as deforestation and habitat fragmentation have on our planet and lives. As underlined by a recent Stanford University study, deforestation and landscape fragmentation have been recognised as facilitating direct transmission of zoonotic infections, including the risk of pandemics.
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Roofers are as likely as anyone on earth to develop skin cancer due to sun exposure. While light sun exposure can help us absorb essential vitamin D, many of the sun’s effects are dangerous.
There are several skin conditions related to excessive exposure to ultraviolet (UV) light or rays and skin cancer is among the most worrisome.
Skin cancer is the nation’s most prevalent type of cancer and UV rays are the number one cause. Unfortunately, UV light from tanning beds is just as dangerous. There are three types of skin cancer: basal cell carcinoma; squamous cell carcinoma; and the worst one, melanoma. Fortunately, basal cell and squamous cell make up 95% of skin cancers.
Known as non-melanoma skin cancers, basal cell and squamous cell cancers are highly curable when treated early. Melanoma made up of abnormal skin pigment cells, is the most dangerous. It accounts for 75% of all skin cancer deaths.
Cumulative exposure to the sun causes basal cell and squamous cell carcinomas. So, what you did as a teenager, basking in the sun all summer, can lead to these carcinomas later in life.
Melanoma happens after repeated exposure to the sun. People with light skin or those who burn easily are most likely to get melanoma. Therefore, it is important to protect yourself and your children from sunburn, which can lead to skin cancer.
Wear sunscreen to protect from UV rays, even while driving or riding in a car. Reapply sunscreen frequently and always use SPF 30 or higher to protect from UVB rays. Use sunscreen containing zinc oxide to protect you from UVA rays.
Most sun exposure occurs when we are children. Remember that when determining how to protect your family from the sun’s harmful rays.
Roofers constantly exposed to the sun’s dangerous rays should take extra precautions, such as wearing a hat, covering the neck, wearing long-sleeved shirts and using sunscreen daily.
Check your body periodically for any irregular moles or other markings. Changes in the color or shape of existing moles may indicate skin cancer.
In addition to changing shapes and colors on moles, there are other warning signs for skin cancer, including redness or swelling beyond a mole’s border. Other signs include itching, pain and tenderness that will not go away, or goes away, then comes back.
Any appearance of a mole that is oozing, bleeding or scaly or the appearance of a bump can also be warning signs for skin cancer. The most common occurrences are on the face, neck, ears, hands, chest, back and legs.
Protect yourself from skin cancer by always using sunscreen and getting regular examinations by a dermatologist. Anyone at high risk of skin cancer should be screened every six months.
A full-body scan can find spots that may indicate skin cancer. The doctor will typically take a biopsy of the area then send it to a lab to determine if there is skin cancer present in any form. Removing skin cancer often requires only minor outpatient surgery.
About Trent Cotney
Trent Cotney is an advocate for the roofing industry, General Counsel of the National Roofing Contractors Association (NRCA) and several other industry associations. For more information, contact the author at 866.303.5868 or go to www.cotneycl.com.
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Check Yourself: Alcohol Disease Risks and the Mortality Rates Associated with Your Level of Drinking
Check your alcohol disease risks.
Want to stay healthy and happy and fit into old age? Well, there aren't any guarantees, but in general, by taking care today, you stay well tomorrow. To check yourself, consider the disease and death rates associated with varying levels of alcohol consumption. Are you satisfied with your level of risk, or should you make some changes?
Note – though thinking about early death, cancer, alcoholic liver disease, and alcoholic heart disease can be upsetting, remember, if you’re still healthy you still have time to change and protect yourself from debilitating disease.
Alcohol Consumption and Risk of Disease and Death
Heart Disease Death Rate (for Men and Women.)
- If you drink an average of between 0 and 17 drinks per week your risk of heart disease death is 7 in 1000.
- If you drink an average of between 18 and 38 drinks per week your risk of heart disease death is 9 in 1000.
- If you drink an average of 39 or more drinks per week your risk of heart disease death is 14 in 1000.
Liver Cirrhosis (for Men)
- Non drinkers = a death rate of 1.5 persons/1000.
- Drinking an average of 14 drinks or less per week = a death rate of 1 person/1000.
- Drinking an average of 15 or more drinks per week = a death rate of 5.5/1000.
All Cancers (for Men)
- Drinking an average of 0 to 11 drinks per week = a death rate of 25 people /1000.
- Drinking an average of 12 to 38 drinks per week = a death rate of 40 people/1000.
- Drinking an average of 39 or more drinks per week = a death rate of 120 people/1000.
Breast Cancer (for Women)
- Drinking an average of 0 to 17 drinks per week = a death rate of 10 people/1000.
- Drinking an average of 18 to 38 drinks per week = a death rate of 17/1000.
- Drinking an average of 39 drinks per week or more = a death rate of 16/1000.
Take Home Message
We’ve all heard stories of somebody’s grandfather who drank a 6 pack a day and lived to 100 – but the truth is, heavy drinking most often shortens a lifespan – sometimes dramatically.
If you drink too much, think about how much your habit gives and how much it takes, and if you’re not willing to give up years of your life for your habit, then take action now and make a change for the better.
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This Learning Toolbox focuses on cultural and linguistic competency and their importance for helping to eliminate disparities in the delivery of quality healthcare. The Toolbox includes a quick primer, and provides useful links to articles, tools, and resources.
What is cultural and linguistic competency?
Cultural and linguistic competency in healthcare refers to the ability to successfully communicate and provide care to patients with diverse beliefs, backgrounds, and values, thereby building understanding and trust between provider and patient. Culturally and linguistically competent providers and organizations actively adapt delivery of care to meet patients’ cultural, linguistic and social needs.
Why is cultural competency important?
Think about the changing landscape of the U.S. population. Although non-Hispanic Whites currently comprise the largest segment of the U.S. population, racial and ethnic minority populations are growing steadily. Already, racial and ethnic minorities outnumber Whites in four states (Hawaii, California, New Mexico, and Texas), as well as the District of Columbia, the Virgin Islands, and Puerto Rico. The U.S. is projected to become a majority-minority country by 2043, with the greatest growth projected for multiracial populations (176%), Asians (93%) and Hispanics (86%). The number of minorities enrolled in Medicare will increase based on the projection that one-third of the population age 65 and over will be people of color by 2040, and the need for culturally appropriate healthcare will increase accordingly.
One-third of the population age 65 and over will be people of color by 2040.
A concern is that minorities are underrepresented in the medical professions. Minorities make up fewer than 30% of practicing nurses and 23% of nurse practitioners. There is a similar imbalance among physicians. African Americans and Hispanics – the two largest minority groups – together make up 32% of the U.S. population but only 11% of active physicians. Although the number of students entering medical school increased in 2020 and applicants for 2021 has risen sharply, underrepresented groups have made only modest gains in medical school enrollment.
These statistics mean that most of time, minority people are receiving treatment from physicians and nurses who have a different cultural background from their own, and who may not speak the same language. When patients and providers do not share the same background, they may have vastly different expectations of the provider-patient relationship. They may also have conflicting understandings of the causes of health problems, the kinds of treatments that are possible or appropriate, and the role of family members in decision-making. The resulting misunderstandings can have serious health and safety consequences.
When healthcare providers and organizations provide more culturally competent care, they improve their ability to care for the people they serve and contribute to better health outcomes.
Most of time, minority people are receiving treatment from physicians and nurses who have a different cultural background from their own, and who may not speak the same language.
What does a culturally competent provider do?
The key components of cultural competence are important in every clinical encounter, and become even more essential to communication in situations where the provider and patient do not share the same cultural background. A culturally competent provider is one who:
- Establishes a relationship of trust and mutual respect with the patient
- Is willing to have an open and honest two-way dialogue with the patient about their health
- Questions his or her own biases and assumptions about a patient’s background, abilities, or resources
- Asks the patient what has or has not worked for them before, and why
- Asks the patient to explain any questions or concerns they may have about the treatment plan
- Takes the patient’s understanding of the causes and potential cures of his or her condition into account when devising a treatment plan
- Works with the patient to come to an agreement about a treatment plan that the patient agrees with and can realistically maintain
- Provides a nutrition plan that is in accordance with the dietary customs of the patient
- Asks the patient which family members should be informed of their health situation and who should have the right to make decisions
- Makes certain that patients with limited English proficiency (LEP) have full access to care and services in a language that they can understand
- Instead of asking, “Do you understand?”, asks the patient to repeat what they understood in their own words
What is linguistic competency?
Most healthcare providers encounter situations in which they and their patients do not share the same native language. Even if a provider does not speak a patient’s preferred language, he or she can take steps to ensure successful patient-provider communication and reduce the risk of misunderstandings.
Why is linguistic competency important?
More than 67 million U.S. residents (age 5 or older) – or about 22% of the total population – speak a language other than English at home. About 26 million or 40% of these residents are considered limited English proficient (LEP), meaning they reported speaking English less than “very well” on the U.S. Census Bureau’s American Community Survey. Approximately 12% of Medicare beneficiaries report that English is not their primary language and 8% are considered to have limited English proficiency.
The language used in healthcare situations is complex and can be difficult to follow, even for someone who has a basic understanding of English. It is common for an English language learner to manage most daily activities in English, but still be unfamiliar with medical terms. The stress of dealing with medical conditions in a clinical setting can also make it more difficult to concentrate on functioning in a second language.
Patients who are trying to navigate a complex healthcare system in a language that they do not fully understand are at greater risk for mistakes and complications due to miscommunication. They have worse health outcomes, less access to preventive services, higher readmission rates and report less patient satisfaction.
When is a professional interpreter necessary?
The best practice is for all healthcare encounters with limited English proficient individuals be conducted through a professionally trained medical interpreter. This minimizes the potential for mistakes and misunderstandings. When no professional interpreter is available for the patient’s preferred language, telephone interpreting services provide a viable second option. Wherever possible, written materials such as prescription labels, clinical summaries and discharge instructions should be professionally translated into the patient’s own language.
When translating medical information, small mistakes can have major consequences. Untrained interpreters may omit important information, mistranslate key medical terms, or confuse matters by inserting helpful comments of their own into the translation. For this reason, untrained interpreters such as friends and family members are the option of last resort, only to be used in emergency situations when no other interpreter can be found in time.
Do deaf and hard of hearing individuals need medical interpreters?
Deaf and hard of hearing patients face unique communication challenges. Though individual communication needs and preferences vary, many deaf people use a sign language to communicate such as American Sign Language (ASL), Mexican Sign Language (MSL) or Chinese Sign Language (CSL). These sign languages are complete and fully-developed languages with their own vocabulary, grammar, and syntax. Professionally trained sign language interpreters should be provided for individuals who communicate using a sign language.
Some deaf and hard of hearing individuals can read lips if the speaker’s face is clearly visible. However, relying on lip-reading when discussing medical information is unreliable and can have serious consequences. When working with a deaf or hard of hearing patient, it is best to ask the person how they prefer to communicate. There are a range of communication services available for deaf and hard of hearing individuals.
What communication assistance might blind or low vision individuals need?
Similar to deaf and hard of hearing individuals, patients who are blind or low vision have unique needs and preferences. They may also have limited English proficiency if their primary language is not English. In this case, the best practice is to conduct for all clinical encounters through a professionally trained medical interpreter. Written materials should be available in large print, braille, and audio or electronic file in the patient’s preferred language. Ask all blind and low vision patients in what format and language they would like written materials.
What does a linguistically competent provider do?
A linguistically competent provider:
- Realizes that patients who appear to have enough English language skills to manage most everyday situations often still have difficulty communicating fully in medical situations
- Uses a trained medical interpreter or telephone interpretation service (not a friend or family member, and especially not a child)
- Will not ask, “Do you understand?”, but will ask the patient to repeat what they understood in their own words
- Does not try to “get by” on a busy day with hand gestures or untrained ad-hoc interpreters
- Will only use a friend or family member to act as interpreter in an emergency situation and asks them to translate exactly what the patient says without adding extra comments and observations of their own
- Speaks directly to the patient, not to the interpreter
- Provides written materials both in English and in the patient’s preferred language whenever possible (some individuals can read English better than they can speak it, or vice versa)
- Makes sure that prescriptions are labeled in a manner that the patient can clearly understand
- Ensures that no patient is asked to sign a consent form that is written in a language or format that he or she does not understand
- Offers blind and low vision patients materials in large print, braille, and audio or electronic format
What is a language access plan?
According to the CMS Office of Minority Health, “A language access plan can help ensure that an organization provides high quality and appropriate language services. A language access plan can help ensure that an organization’s staff members are aware of what to do when an individual with limited English proficiency needs assistance.
Understanding and working to address communication and language needs of patients is a critical part of ensuring high quality care. A language access plan documents how to provide services to LEP patients or patients who do not speak English, as well as those who are deaf, hard of hearing, blind or low vision.
Why is it important to collect and document race, ethnicity, and language data (REaL)?
Information that a provider or organization collects about patients helps the healthcare team to communicate effectively based on the patients’ unique needs by understanding their culture and language preference. This information becomes part of the patient’s medical record and can be used to prepare for each clinical encounter. For example, if it is noted in the patient’s medical record that he or she is limited English proficient, a professional language interpreter can be ordered in advance of an appointment. It is important to establish a systematic process for collecting patients’ REaL data.
Why do we need a more diverse healthcare workforce?
As the number of minority people in the U.S. grows, so does the need for culturally and linguistically competent care. The most effective way to fill this need is to build a more diverse healthcare workforce, and train healthcare professionals of all backgrounds to work and communicate more effectively with people whose backgrounds differ from their own. The number of minority people in the healthcare professions is increasing, but not steadily enough to achieve true parity. More effort is needed to recruit young people from underrepresented populations into the healthcare professions and provide them with the resources and education they need in order to become doctors, nurses, and other healthcare professionals.
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When we talk of a ‘post-Truth’ age, we must start by identifying a particular date or period when Truth died. Is that different from saying ‘post-Nehru’ India, because he is a person with name and form, unlike Truth? We know the date of Nehru’s death and we can put him in a timeframe. Can we put ‘Truth’ in a similar time period and social context? Probably yes; a cursory look at the social discourse and mores of a period do indicate the norms and values that guide the times.
So, we can clearly locate a period when Truth, Trust, Honesty and Honour disappear or take a severe beating, and retreat from the dominant discourse.
During Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s tenure in India, President Barack Obama’s period in the US or before Brexit in the UK, we were not in a situation where the validity of facts was contested or disputed on such a scale as at the present time. There was widespread, almost universal, acceptance of the notion that facts exist outside our belief system and they could be independently verified or corroborated. But that is no longer the case. There is a rupture in that universal belief system, thanks to a handful of populist leaders in the major democracies of the US, India and the UK.
When and how did we get to this post-Truth conundrum, and what exactly does it mean?
First, post-Truth is more than merely ‘falsifying facts’ or spreading fake news. Its purpose is to neutralise rational and critical thought by appealing to emotions on half-truths or repeating statements that have been proven false but are convenient and sound credible.
Secondly, it’s a discourse that advantages the demagogue, as Jack Holmes, a columnist for Esquire, puts it: “So if you don’t know the facts, you can say whatever you want and it’s not a lie.” And when confronted with facts, resort to ‘whataboutery’.
Thirdly, as Trump’s senior advisor Kellyanne Conway said famously, there exist some “alternative facts”. Thus, post-Truth creates an alternate reality based on an alternative set of facts. It creates an ‘illusion of truth’.
Finally, there is an orientation and attitude to it; as Michael Deaton of The Daily Telegraph, summarising the core message of post-Truth politics, says, “Facts are negative, Facts are pessimistic, and Facts are unpatriotic.” In the Indian context, we may add a few more adjectives to Facts: “Facts are seditious, Facts are anti-social, or anti-national, Facts disturb social harmony, or they incite hatred.”
This colour-coding of facts originates from the state that wants to control the narrative, as it alone would like to determine the Truth.
If we must put a finger on a period when post-Truth politics became the dominant form, it would be the election season of 2014 in India. That’s when the Big Lie became common currency in poll campaigning. Unearthing black money from Swiss banks was the big poll promise and one Great Leader announced that he would bring it all back to India and put Rs 15 lakh in every citizen’s account. Whether the people believed him or not, he won the elections on that promise, among other things. Months later, when asked about this promise, his confidant declared that it was just a ‘jumla’ – a phrase meant to win over gullible minds.
When a big policy was to be announced, the Big Lie came in handy again. The prime minister was back to peddling the Big Lie, in November 2016, about how demonetisation will wipe out black money, that digital cash will eliminate corruption, usher in complete transparency in financial transactions and end terrorism in J&K with no cash coming in for their stone -throwing activities, etc. None of this happened as black money bounced back into circulation within a year and the rates for kickbacks went up a notch higher than before. Terrorism in J&K was curbed not by demonetisation.
Once the Big Lie had won, it became much easier for smaller lies to thrive and flourish. Lies then became so routine and regular that more agents of the state found it convenient to peddle them. The highest law officer of the land, the Solicitor General (SG), brazenly lied to the Supreme Court, in December 2018, that the details sought in the Rafale deal were too sensitive and they had been provided to the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) and that he would provide a redacted version to the Lok Sabha. Statements concealed from the petitioner and public were then submitted to the court in a sealed cover. After the court dismissed the petitions seeking an investigation into the deal, the SG submitted an amendment to his affidavit stating that the CAG had “not been provided the information” but “would be provided” in due course.
Then came the lies about the Balakot airstrike in February 2019, where no evidence of any casualties across the border was given, yet it was projected as an unprecedented act of bold retaliation. It was initially claimed that 300 or more terrorists were killed; later reports said that 300 cell phones were found at the place of attack. Finally, Sushma Swaraj, then minister for external affairs, told BJP women workers on April 18 2019, that “no Pakistani soldier or civilian died in the Air Force strike in Balakot …. Our armed forces were told to target the Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) terrorists that were behind the attack on Pulwama and they just did that – they attacked the camp and returned.” On that day, ‘Pakistani terrorist’ emerged as a unique category in the soldier-civilian binary.
By then, this narrative of false bravado was effectively projected in the election campaign for the 17th Lok Sabha held in April-May 2019. It was a classic case of post-Truth narratives wherein statements that have been proved false were repeated because they were useful and sounded credible. An illusion of truth was created – a powerful technique of post-Truth politics that won the BJP huge electoral gains.
More glaring post-Truth pronouncements came out recently, during the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, when the fudging of numbers was done on an industrial scale. Each state was giving its figures of case load and of deaths to the Union government, which in turn released the final tally to the public. By all estimates, the real number of casualties was way over the official numbers.
According to Professor Chinmay Tumbe, at IIM Ahmedabad, “Decent estimates for the first five months of 2021 for four large states of Madhya Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu and Karnataka, comprising around 300 million (closer to 265 million) people and 21% of the population, [suggest] the excess mortality exceeds 500,000 as compared to 46,000 reported Covid deaths.” These numbers are at least 10 times higher than the losses officially acknowledged for those states. In UP too, the numbers were fudged but the bodies started floating in the Ganga and there were mass cremations in many villages. In keeping up with the post-Truth rhetoric, both Prime Minister Narendra Modi and chief minister Yogi Adityanath were commended for their ‘unparalleled efforts’ in containing the spread of the pandemic.
The virus is expected to bounce back with more deadly variants, as a billion strong population remains overwhelmingly unvaccinated and the government bungles on the vaccination programme. Yet we are told, through posters across the country, to thank Modi for giving us free vaccination, a routine jab that all governments in the past 70 years have done without any fanfare.
In the closing shots of Michelangelo Antonioni’s celebrated 1966 film, Blow-Up, the protagonist witnesses two mime artists playing tennis, but without a tennis ball. The absent ball falls near him, and he too mimics the act of throwing it back to them. It is the ball that connects all three of them and that is missing. That is the quintessential disconnect in our lives today. As the truth that connects us all is absent, we mimic the routine of our existence in mortal fear, locked inside our homes, in a state that is patently and dangerously false. And utterly misgoverned.
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Definition of Athletes:
person involved in sports
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It was the older lure that brought every year athletes of fame to run in the historic race.
Behold these patient, indefatigable athletes, ever vanquished, yet ever returning to the combat!
There were few better athletes than Matt King, and he was in the pink of condition.
The fame of athletes, however, soon declines with their bodily powers.
We know one or two of these iron athletes who have outlived their generation and they are among the bores of the world.
The excitement ran high as the young athletes struggled over the ground.
For that reason it inspired them with the courage of athletes, when they had to endure also the shame of the arena.
We now understand why they take so deep an interest in the running of the Christian athletes on earth.
We must put away our own grossness, as athletes rid themselves by severe training of all superfluous flesh.
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- Azucena Bardají (ISGlobal)
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- Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities (Government of Spain). PI19/01346, ISCIII-AES Proyectos de Investigación en Salud, 2019
Maternal immunisation is an excellent strategy for preventing severe disease in pregnant women, their foetuses and infants through the passive passage of antibodies through the placenta. As a substantial proportion of neonatal and infant deaths are due to infectious diseases, most of which are vaccine-preventable, there is a real opportunity for intervention. Tetanus, pertussis, influenza and COVID-19 vaccines are recommended for pregnant women globally, however, despite their proven benefits and the recommendation by the World Health Organization (WHO), coverage among pregnant women remains sub-optimal worldwide.
The VITAL study is a mixed-methods study aimed to understand the drivers influencing maternal vaccine acceptance, uptake and demand among pregnant women and healthcare workers, and is coordinated by the Barcelona Institute of Global Health (ISGlobal). The study includes a health facility-based cross-sectional quantitative survey of 300 pregnant women attending routine antenatal care services in Barcelona and 300 healthcare workers, including midwives and gynaecologists. Additionally, based on the preliminary findings from the quantitative sub-study, a qualitative study comprising semi-structured interviews and focus group discussions is being conducted on a sub-sample of pregnant women, their partners and healthcare workers.
Understanding baseline awareness and perceived risks and benefits of maternal immunisation among pregnant women and healthcare workers is essential to better anticipate acceptance of maternal immunisation strategies. The results of this project are expected to help guide decisions and strategies for effective future maternal vaccination programmes, including eventually those for respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) and Group B Streptococcus (GBS), two maternal vaccine targets currently under development. Additionally, the study aims to identify strategies to achieve wider maternal vaccine implementation and consequently reduce morbidity and mortality from vaccine-preventable infectious diseases in mothers and their children.
The VITAL study is funded by the Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities (Government of Spain).
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Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) in African pregnant women and children
Continued validation of the minimally invasive autopsy for the investigation of the causes of death in infants, and establishment of a research and training center to study causes of death
Transforming IPT for optimal pregnancy
Measuring community prevalence among HIV exposed children in rural Southern Mozambique
Improving Maternal and Infant Health by reducing malaria risks in African women: evaluation of the safety and efficacy of dihydroartemisinin-piperaquine for intermittent preventive treatment of malaria in HIV-infected pregnant women
Improving Care through Azithromycin Research for Infants in Africa
Identification of Prematurity and Pre-Eclampsia as Causes of Mortality
Strengthening Epidemiological Surveillance in Benin and Burkina Faso for an Effective Response to COVID-19
MULTIple doses of IPTi Proposal: a Lifesaving high Yield intervention
Prevalence and impact of SARS-CoV-2 infection on maternal and infant health in African populations
Impact of perceptions of COVID-19 vaccines on health-seeking behaviours in Sierra Leone
[This article has been originally published in Spanish in El País-Planeta Futuro . Authors: Clara Menéndez, Núria Casamitjana, Azucena...Research, Maternal, Child and Reproductive Health 13.01.2022
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The Male Gaze: How TikTok is generating discussion on this age-old phenomenon
Written by Una Vulevic
If you’re on TikTok, that probably means you’ve had at least one video about the male gaze pop up on your For You page. For anyone unfamiliar with this term, the male gaze refers to the psychological phenomenon where women feel the need to constantly appear desirable to the male sex, even when there are no men around.
The male gaze works in eerily familiar ways. For me, the term has helped put into words a feeling I’ve always had but could never before describe: the need to feel attractive or “presentable” at all times. After discussing the matter in detail with some friends, we were all shocked that this peculiar, unsettling feeling was not unique to each of us. One need look no further than the abysmal comment sections of TikTok for further proof of the fact that the male gaze is something most women can relate to.
Being sensitive to the male gaze does not make you insecure. Rather, it simply means that you are hyperaware of the expectations surrounding your appearance as someone who identifies as a woman. I recently saw a Tik Tok where a young woman described how, as a child, she used to practice sitting in her room in a “pretty” way, in the hopes of capturing her crush’s attention at school. The post received thousands of comments. So many people related to the sentiment expressed in that video: there is a strange, addictive element when it comes to appealing to the male gaze. Many women of the LGBTQ+ community spoke up in the comment section about how they, too, feel a constant need to seem attractive to straight men, even if they themselves are not attracted to them. Thus, it becomes clear that this is an issue that pertains to all women, not just heterosexual ones.
Discussion surrounding the male gaze emerged following the “main character” trend on TikTok. This trend involves women posting videos of themselves walking, eating, reading — basically, just existing — while trying to appear purposely mysterious. This trend stems from centuries-old descriptions of women in literature, and later in movies, where women are presented as alluring, ethereal, submissive creatures. What is less frequently discussed is how the implications of this trend are inherently misogynistic and damaging to women. It plants the idea in women’s minds that we must always try to look sexy, yet nonchalant, on the offhand chance that the man of our dreams is gazing at us from afar. More importantly, we must ask ourselves, who benefits from this idealization of women? How empowering is behaviour subconsciously fuelled by societal pressure to look or act according to an ideal perpetuated by the media and by men? These are just a few of the questions scrolling on TikTok got me asking myself. I never thought that an app like this — designed for cheap laughs and rapid-fire entertainment — could generate such a fascinating discussion surrounding gender issues in our society.
If you’re like me, you probably want to know how to stop fixating on the male gaze and start living without this added pressure everywhere you go. The way I see it, facilitating discussions surrounding this phenomenon with friends and family is a good way to start. It’s important to educate our male counterparts on the societal pressures placed upon women in all aspects, from the way they articulate themselves to the way they dress or look.
Above all, it is important to be kind to yourself. None of us can help being susceptible to the male gaze, but you can gently remind yourself that it is okay to take a breath, to live in the moment, and to simply exist for yourself alone. That, I believe, is the most important step when it comes to shifting your focus away from the male gaze and back inward, towards yourself. | <urn:uuid:3b90b7ea-d3ae-472c-96b0-66e7178c8ace> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://ferauoft.medium.com/the-male-gaze-how-tiktok-is-generating-discussion-on-this-age-old-phenomenon-e56c95d75aad?source=post_internal_links---------5---------------------------- | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571909.51/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813051311-20220813081311-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.964483 | 801 | 1.65625 | 2 |
Jamnagar is a city located in the state of Gujarat, India. It is located on the Gulf of Kutch. With a population of about 1.2 million people, it is the fifth-largest city in Gujarat. The city is home to several industries, including oil refineries, petrochemical plants, brass castings and salt pans. It is also famous for its hand-woven textiles and traditional silver jewelry. Jamnagar is a popular tourist destination due to its many historical and cultural sites. The city is also fondly referred to as the “Jewel of Gujarat”. Here is a compilation of lesser-known facts about Jamnagar.
History of Jamnagar
Jam Rawal, a Jadeja Rajput ruler of the princely state of Nawanagar founded Jamnagar in 1540. The city was built on the banks of two rivers, Rangmati and Nagmati, and served as the capital of Nawanagar. Under the British Raj, Jamnagar was home to a large sugar factory and several cotton mills. After Indian independence in 1947, the city became part of the newly independent state of Saurashtra. In 1956, Saurashtra merged with other princely states to form the state of Gujarat. Today, Jamnagar is a thriving city and an offbeat tourist destination.
After its founder, Jamnagar overcame the name “Nawanagar”. “Jam” refers to the ruler of this princely state, and “gar” means “town” in Gujarati, the local language. Thus, the name “Jamnagar” literally means “the town of Jams”. It also boasts a beautiful natural harbor, built by Jam Rana and still in use today.
As a result of Germany’s invasion of Poland during World War II, Maharaja Digvijaysinhji of Jamnagar provided shelter to over 600 Polish refugees, mostly women, and children. They were provided with land and built a small township in Balachadi, a small village 25 km from Jamnagar. The Maharaja also offered them financial assistance and helped them with education and keep the Polish culture and traditions alive. These refugees stayed in Jamnagar for 9 years till World War II lasted.
In recognition of Maharaja’s efforts, the Polish government awarded the “President’s medal”, Poland’s highest honor to him. Though he never set foot in Poland, Jam Saheb’s legacy lives on in the names of a road and a school in Warsaw. The Polish government also collaborated with the Indian government to produce a documentary titled “Little Poland in India”. The film tells the story of the Polish community in India and pays tribute to the Maharaja for his compassion and generosity. Today, over 80 years later, there are still some members of the community living in Jamnagar. They continue to maintain close ties with Poland and regularly visit their homeland.
Ranjitsinhji Vibhaji II inherited the title of Jam Saheb at the age of eleven. He played cricket for Cambridge University and also played a test match for England in 1896. He played 15 Test matches for England. Ranji returned to India in 1900 and took up the post of Dewan of Nawanagar.
The Ranji Trophy is one of India’s most prestigious cricket competitions and teams from throughout the country compete in it. It is an important part of Indian cricket, and it plays a significant role in the development of the game in the country. The Ranji Trophy was named after Ranjitsinhji, the first Indian cricketer to play Test cricket.
The Bandhani of Jamnagar
Jamnagar is famous for its arts and crafts, and the city’s bandhani is famous all over the world for its beautiful patterns and intricate designs. A bandhani is a unique method of dyeing cloth using tiny knots. The process of creating bandhani is both time-consuming and labor-intensive, but the results are truly stunning. The vibrant colors and delicate patterns of bandhani fabrics make them highly prized by textile collectors and fashion designers alike.
The word “bandhani” comes from the Hindi word “bandhan”, meaning “to tie”. The technique dates back to the 12th century and has been in use across a variety of regions in India. Bandhani has a special association with the city of Jamnagar. The city has a long history of textile production, and bandhani has been an important part of that tradition for centuries. Today, Jamnagar is home to some of the world’s finest bandhani fabric, and the city’s craftspeople are celebrated for their skill in creating intricate patterns. If you’re ever in Jamnagar, be sure to check out the local bandhani fabrics – you’ll be awestruck by their beauty.
Bala Hanuman Temple in the Guinness Book of World Records
The Bala Hanuman Temple in Jamnagar is famous for having the world’s longest continuous chanting of “Ram Dhun”. Shri Prembhikshuji Maharaj founded the temple in 1964 and the chanting began on August 1 of that year. Since then, the chanting has been uninterrupted and is currently carried out by a team of 30 people who take shifts around the clock. The temple has become a pilgrimage site for Hindus from all over the world. The record-breaking chant has made it to the Guinness Book of World Records.
World’s largest oil refinery
The world’s largest oil refinery is located in Jamnagar. Reliance Industries commissioned it in 2000 and has a capacity of 1.24 million barrels a day. In addition to being the largest oil refinery in the world, the Jamnagar Refinery is also one of the most efficient. It can convert heavy crude oil into high-quality transportation fuels with very little waste. The refinery also produces a variety of petrochemical products that are used in everything from detergents to paints. The Jamnagar Refinery is a truly impressive feat of engineering and a vital part of India’s economy.
INS Valsura is a naval base located on Rozi Island of Jamnagar. The base is home to the Indian Navy’s Western Fleet and houses a variety of vessels, including frigates, destroyers, and submarines. In addition to its naval functions, INS Valsura also serves as a training ground for new recruits. The base takes its name from the nearby town of Valsura, which means “Swordfish The Royal Indian Navy established the INS Valsura as a Torpedo Training School in 1942. It has since played a vital role in the Indian Navy’s operations. The base played a pivotal role during the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971.
The only existing Solarium in the world
Jamnagar is home to the only existing Solarium in the world. As a result of his deep interest in the scientific advances of Europe, Maharaja Ranjit Singh funded the construction of the Solarium in Jamnagar at a cost of Rs. 6 lakhs. The world had three solariums. During the second world war, two solariums in France were destroyed, with the Jamnagar solarium being the only one left.
The Solarium uses ultraviolet light to treat a variety of skin conditions. It can also be used to treat vitiligo, a condition that causes the loss of pigment in the skin. Solarium works by exposure to ultraviolet (UV) light, which helps to slow the growth of new skin cells and reduce inflammation.
If you’re looking for an off-the-beaten-path destination in India, Jamnagar is a great option. With its rich history and culture, the city offers plenty to see and do. And if you’re lucky, you may even catch a glimpse of the Jamsaheb Shatrushalyasinhji Digvijaysinhji. | <urn:uuid:28004758-973e-450e-be64-f00127d47a01> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://turuhi.com/resources/facts-about-jamnagar/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571909.51/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813051311-20220813081311-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.961023 | 1,711 | 2.96875 | 3 |
he title of this symphony has reference to Balinsokov’s paranoia that Czar Nicholas would steal his composition and sell it to the Americans, who were short on composers in the early 19th century. To reduce the Czar’s incentive to steal the piece, Balinsokov’s score provided only the notes the musicians were to play, without indicating other instructions such as volume, tempo, and the length of the notes. As a result, only he could conduct the Clandestine Symphony, and he did so by relying on thousands of margin notes that were scribbled in an early Yiddish version of the Morse Code—often during performances he would cause the orchestra to pause briefly as he attempted to make out his own penmanship. In addition, his performers hid their identities by dressing as stevedores; Balinokov himself preferred to be disguised as a broom closet. As is often the case with great artists, fame found a way to elude the composer, and he died in one of Moscow’s many alms’ houses over a bowl of cabbage soup.
Joseph Freedman has spent the better part of his life studying Balinsokov, and his just released biography on the composer provides certain clues to understanding the score. For instance, it is believed that Balinsokov shunned whole notes because his own father, whom he despised, had a round head. A second clue is that whenever he caught his lover in bed with another man, he would add a coda; described by his own mother as having the face and body of a pumpkin, no piece of music contains more codas than the Clandestine Symphony. With regards to tempo, Balinsokov’s notes simply say “if the audience falls asleep, make it a fitful sleep.” We are pleased that Freedman himself is here tonight to lead what can be called nothing more than a daring experiment, an experiment that may well lead to Freedman’s public abasement and demise. In keeping with the spirit of the work, the stage lights will be dimmed to obscure the musicians’ faces. However, from time to time the lights may be turned on to allow Freedman to decipher his own margin notes. Please do not applaud during these unplanned intervals. | <urn:uuid:28b7ca09-2159-4d60-b0f8-a4c22d6b74a6> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://lit-cat-cms-3c757f657b1b3847fb3964a25b4.webflow.io/reads/notes-on-the-clandestine-symphony | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571909.51/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813051311-20220813081311-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.985172 | 473 | 2.78125 | 3 |
Dara McClure on Directing, Writing, and the Beauty in Adversity
Cinema and Television Arts student Dara McClure couldn’t get through a day in high school without someone saying, “You should act!” It’s not hard to see why. She embodies the rare and valuable combination of effervescence and grounded positivity that could easily make her a stalwart of a rising generation of Broadway and Hollywood stars. But for McClure, it’s about seeing a story through from its inception to the very end. As she says, with directing, “You get to be the storyteller, the author of the narrative.”
McClure isn’t afraid to delve into the realm of the uncomfortable in order to connect with her audience. Her Directing 1 shoot, “Ready or Not,” follows Trinity, a young woman in an open relationship, who discovers that she is unexpectedly pregnant. The film explores the complicated facets of male-female relationships in an era of dating that eschews monogamy and tradition in favor of freedom. For McClure, the story evolved through a careful and intentional approach defined by empathy. McClure is a strong believer in the power of creating characters that feel at home in the heart of the story’s director.
The benefit of approaching stories from the vantage point of empathy is that encountering adversity becomes an opportunity for growth, and every day is a chance to make something new. As McClure says about creating content, “It’s important to match your stories with what you're currently going through. Today, the pandemic is a struggle, but there's a story in every part of this moment, and an opportunity to write something about it, and that's what I've been doing.” In the end, McClure is confident that she will be able to see this a strength point, a moment in time where she was able to harness her power as an overcomer. As she says, “All of our tragedies and our crisis moments have beauty in them because they teach us we are actually stronger than we think.”
McClure has also benefitted from seeking out mentors in the Department. When asked about her mentors for creating important content, she doesn’t hesitate to name an administrator who has gone out of her way to assist on various projects: “Sandy Cuprisin. Sandy is the absolute love-joy of production.” The words tumble out, stories of Cuprisin taking time to trouble-shoot both professional and personal problems, to offer support, a helping hand, and words of encouragement. She identifies Cinema and Television Arts Instructor Rachel Rozycki and David Spodak as other influences that have challenged her with their constructive honesty. As McClure says, “All of the faculty members along the way have all been a huge blessing and inspiration for me to continue because they have so much faith in me, which helps me to have greater faith in myself.”
Working with those faculty helped McClure develop strengths that she hopes to pass on to other Columbia students. The number one strategy for completing large projects that’s she embraced? Leaning in towards the unglamorous part of filmmaking. The paperwork, the research, the scheduling and the budgeting. As she says, “You gotta do the tedious homework when you don't wanna do it.” And, most importantly, you have to see yourself as a success, see it as already done. As McClure says, “If you don't see that then you won't become it. It first starts with seeing it. Then, after that, it requires application of the work.”
Despite her incredible success in her student productions, McClure remains humble. A member of the class of 2021, she knows that the path out of school may take her down many different roads, and she is excited to go down all of them. The path may take her to work on more student productions, local productions, or work in production offices. She eagerly talks about all of these opportunities, noting with a laugh that “I wouldn't mind being a production office assistant and helping, you know, file, sort, do anything!” As she says, “You're gonna have to start small in order to get big. I'm patient enough to go through that journey to see where it takes me.” | <urn:uuid:cfc9ca2b-5b9f-454c-ad3b-5b00f89d5e02> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.colum.edu/news-and-events/articles/2020/dara-mcclure-on-directing,-writing,-and-the-beauty-in-adversity | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571909.51/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813051311-20220813081311-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.968828 | 946 | 1.554688 | 2 |
Dizziness is a symptom of something not-quite-right. Dizziness can result in loss of balance, feeling faint or lightheaded, a feeling of being in motion (vertigo), a spinning inside the head, and may include nausea (with or without vomiting), a clammy feeling, or pale skin.
Clearly Defined Symptoms
Dizziness may have a physical cause with clear symptoms, such as feeling like fainting or loss of balance (disequilibrium), as well as measurable signs:
- A drop in blood pressure (orthostatic hypotension)
- Inadequate output of blood from the heart
- Inner ear (vestibular) problems
- Sensory disorders, resulting in difficulty maintaining balance
- Joint and muscle problems contributing to loss of balance
- Neurological conditions, such as Parkinson’s disease and cerebellar ataxia
Less Clearly Defined Symptoms
Dizziness may be psychological; panic attacks (agoraphobia), for instance, often result in dizziness.
Vertigo usually occurs when the ear and its inner nerves are not functioning properly, causing the brain to inaccurately receive and interpret motion signals. Common causes are:
- Benign paroxysmal positional vertigo (BPPV), vertigo following a change in the position of the head
- Inflammation in the inner ear
- Meniere’s disease
- Vestibular migraine
- Acoustic neuroma
These lists are not exhaustive. It would be advisable for a sufferer from dizziness or vertigo to consult a medical practitioner to first rule out any serious condition as the cause.
Western medicine typically addresses the symptom called “dizziness”. Positioning of the head (canalith repositioning, moving the otoconia to a part of the ear where they won’t cause dizziness) is the usual treatment for BPPV but symptoms may return. Balance retraining exercises and medications such as meclizine (Antivert), diazepam (Valium) or dimenhydrinate (Dramamine) may be prescribed to control symptoms. Diet modification, stress management, psychotherapy and exercise may be helpful. Symptom treatments rarely produce a permanent solution.
Acupuncture For Dizziness
The body’s systems and chemical/hormone states constantly fluctuate and influence one another. When an external event causes these systems and chemical/hormone states to move far beyond normal levels, dizziness or vertigo may occur. Acupuncture, a systemic treatment, addresses such imbalances by promoting healing at multiple levels, including blood pressure, heart rate, hormones, endorphins, and sympathetic and parasympathetic systems. When imbalances are resolved symptoms disappear so long as there is no repetition of the external event.
A Recent Study Reveals How Acupuncture Works to Treat Dizziness
In a 2011 Korean study, a specific acupuncture point known to treat disorders such as dizziness, hypertension, hypotension, headaches, diminished vision, windstroke (cerebral vascular accident), and syncope (loss of consciousness) was stimulated. Blood flow showed increased velocity in the middle cerebral artery (MCA) and anterior cerebral artery (ACA), thus revealing how this single acupuncture point helps to simultaneously rebalance a number of the body’s systems.
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I am in no way shape or form an accountant. Nor have I ever taken a business classes, so please take in this information with a grain of salt. Keeping an inventory is a bit tricky. What I have learned, and will share with you here, is information I have received from friends and many, many books and websites. I do believe I am on the right track, I hope.
For starters, what exactly is an inventory? From what I have gathered an inventory is basically the items you have completed for resale. Why is it important to keep track of your inventory? Because you are not allowed to deduct the expenses of items you have not sold. (ah, taxes!)
So how does one keep track on inventory? There seem to be many ways, from writing everything down in a notebook to using software such as QuickBooks. For me, right now, I am keeping track using an excel spreadsheet. (Here is a little secret about me, I love creating excel spreadsheets. Nerdy, yep; a bit sad, yep. Do I care, nope. It’s fun… so there.)
First and foremost, your expenses; you MUST keep track of everything you spend! I mean everything, including mileage it takes to get to craft store, fabric store, etc. You will need to become a hoarder of receipts. If you think it’s a business expense KEEP THE RECEIPT! I keep track of this on a spreadsheet (shocking) for now, working on getting this part into QuickBooks. Keep track of the dates, amounts, where you purchased from, what you purchased. Really it’s straight forward, but important to keep it organized, how ever you personally need to.
I keep track of every piece I make, starting when I cut the materials to the correct size. Starting with the description and the item number (every piece should have an item number, this way you can easily see what has sold- I’ll show you how I am going to do that when we chat about hang tags). The next column is “how many” I added this because sometimes I have more than one of the same item, so to make it a bit easier I group those items together. “Cost” is next, I just like seeing that column, not really sure it should be there or not. Then I keep track of the progress of the piece, ‘cut out” & “sewn” so I know where I stand in creating my actual inventory and lastly “notes and needs.”
The next piece of the inventory puzzle is “Supplies & Costs.” I am sure this has a fancy name, but I call it what it is in my world, Supplies (i.e. how much of every material needed to make a piece) and Costs (i.e. how much it costs to buy those materials).
The basics for here are, keep track of how much material you use per item you make and what that amount of material costs. Add up the costs, and this number is what the cost is to you to make one item, not including your time. Confused or asleep yet?
If you are still with me, here is the big drum roll moment… when filing taxes, you are going to have too:
Determine your inventory for the taxman! Because you have been keeping track it’s simple. Total up the money you spent of purchasing and making products (expenses) for the year, this will be “X”. Then count how many items you have not sold (on your inventory spreadsheet) and multiply that number by your per unit cost (supplies & costs) this total will be “Y”. Subtract “Y” from “X” and you get a number that is called your “cost of goods sold” (the fancy way is COGS). This is the amount you get to deduct from your taxes.
All in all, this is the super boring part for me, except for making the spreadsheets. It is so important though, to start off the right way, therefore I hope I am, I surely hope. (And to all the accountants and business people out there, I hope I did a good enough job at explaining all this). Okay- wake up now!
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Volcanoes are mountains. But unlike most mountains in the world, formed from folding continental plates, uplift and erosion, volcanoes are created when material from inside the Earth escapes to the surface. Let’s answer the question, “what are volcanoes”.
As you probably know, the ground you’re standing on is the Earth’s crust. It varies in depth between 10 km under the oceans and 30 km beneath the continental plates. Beneath the crust is a vast region called the Earth’s mantle. The mantle is made up of molten rock called magma. At the boundaries between continental plates, volcanic vents can open up, where magma and gasses from inside the Earth can escape.
When it’s still underground, the molten rock is called magma. Although most of the Earth’s mantle is solid, it can create pockets of liquid which escape from underneath through weaknesses in the Earth’s crust. After it escapes to the surface, it’s called lava. Lava has different levels of viscosity – how easily it flows downhill. The least viscous (easy flowing) lava creates shield volcanoes. The lava can flow for great distances in huge rivers, and creates wide volcanoes with gently sloping sides. The most viscous (thickest) lava piles up around the volcanic vent created the familiar cone-shaped volcanoes.
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The simplest volcanoes where a single vent breaks through a weakness in the crust, releasing lava, ash and rocks. After being blasted out of the vent, it piles up around on the surface, allowing the volcano to grow up quickly. Some of the largest, most familiar volcanoes are composite, or stratovolcanoes. These are built up of multiple layers of ash and lava, and can have vast networks of vents.
The word volcano comes from the island of Vulcano in the Mediterranean Sea off Sicily. Ancient people thought that this island was the chimney of the forge of Vulcan, the Roman god of blacksmithing.
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As D.C. Feels Gentrification Pressures, New Study Finds Its Pre-K Lottery Provides Equal — but Not Necessary Equitable — Access
A half year into the COVID-19 pandemic, the country is wearing its world-lagging coronavirus response particularly badly. The administration is doing its level best to pretend its way around mounting a serious national response. Communities, families and educators continue to scrap over just how to mount a school year this fall.
And now, New York City is apparently “over.” Indeed, most cities are supposedly winding down. That can mean a lot of things, depending on your particular view of what makes cities special. But right now, it’s loosely defined by a slice of reality: Lots of American cities’ privileged populations have pulled up stakes and headed for other family homes or ancestral cottages in the countryside. Ironically, it was just a year or two ago, in the pre-pandemic times, that cities were allegedly being ruined because they were being overrun by wealth.
Although it’s far too early to know how the future of U.S. cities looks, the pandemic provides a perfect moment for considering their recent past. For years, American people and economic activity have been clustering particularly heavily in urban areas. This has driven contentious debates between urbanists and city planners. But the impacts of this demographic shift have been largely underappreciated in education policy.
In late August, the Urban Institute’s Erica Greenberg, Grace Luetmer, Carina Chien and Tomas Monarrez published the first in a series of studies on how Washington, D.C.’s universal pre-K program and school enrollment lotteries fit into the rapidly gentrifying capital’s own efforts to advance educational equity. Encouragingly, they found that D.C.’s approach to assigning public pre-K seats appears to be evenhanded: Students who apply and students who are assigned seats have roughly the same demographics as children across the city.
This is exciting, since this is one of the least-explored and most important issues in education reform: How can urban schools engage equitably and constructively with the resources, energy, expectations, demands, anxieties and prejudices of their large new populations of privileged families? What can they do with this sudden crop of (nice?) white parents? As urban neighborhoods with hot real estate markets drive middle- and upper-middle-class white families into historically low-income areas, there’s a real risk that the ensuing gentrification and rising housing costs will lead to displacement of long-standing residents — frequently communities of color. This dynamic almost inevitably causes social and political tensions across cities — and generally deepens educational inequities.
First: some background. Among U.S. cities, D.C. was an early adopter of both universal pre-K and a unified school enrollment lottery. Its public pre-K program began expanding toward universal coverage of all 3- and 4-year-olds in 2008. It’s a comprehensive program that stands as a model for most of the rest of the country in its breadth and resources. Nearly 90 percent of the city’s 4-year-olds attend public pre-K, along with 71 percent of its 3-year-olds. Washington state has roughly 10 times the population of Washington, D.C., but it serves about the same number of children in public pre-K. The city spends nearly $20,000 per child in the program, which is dramatically more than any U.S. state, and runs the vast majority of its pre-K programs in school settings instead of child care programs.
Students enroll in the pre-K program — and any other grade in public schools — through MySchoolDC, Washington’s unified school placement lottery. Local leaders developed the lottery in 2014 to make it easier for families to navigate the city’s many school choice options. D.C. has roughly 95,000 children in public schools — nearly half of whom attend one of the city’s 123 charter schools. Before the advent of the MySchoolDC lottery, this meant that parents often had to apply to dozens of different lotteries to have a chance at securing a spot at one of the city’s charters. This system privileged the, ahem, privileged, who generally had more time, resources and flexibility to hustle around town applying to as many schools as possible. The universal lottery sought to level the playing field — parents can apply to nearly any pre-K–12 school in the city through the MySchoolDC portal. (Disclosure: Two of my three children have enrolled in Washington, D.C.’s public pre-K program through MySchoolDC. Our experience was outstanding, so our youngest child will also enroll upon turning 3 years old.)
But does it work? Can a school enrollment lottery like D.C.’s make access to high-quality schools more equitable for historically marginalized communities in a city where gentrification is amplifying dramatic economic inequality?
To begin to answer this question, the Urban Institute’s study analyzed the demographics of pre-K students in the schools lottery. They found that students in the lottery and students who match with pre-K programs in the initial lottery “closely resemble” the populations of D.C. 3- and 4-year-olds. That is, the lottery appears to be relatively accessible and is matching students to pre-K programs in ways that track the city’s diversity.
But equal access is not equitable access. As the researchers note, “It is encouraging that applicants and matched applicants closely resemble the overall population of pre-kindergarten-age students, and yet equality may be insufficient to overcome historical and ongoing advantages wealthy and white families have in accessing high-quality preschool.”
In part, this is because the lottery isn’t entirely open. That is, most of the district’s campuses (DC Public Schools) give preference to students who live in nearby neighborhoods. Nearly half of 3-year-olds and slightly more than half of 4-year-olds who matched with a pre-K program benefited from that in-boundary preference. That is, the lottery gave them a leg up for accessing a seat in a particular pre-K program based on where their families live. Indeed, for Washington, D.C.’s upper-middle class, like their socioeconomic peers across the country, moving to more expensive neighborhoods to gain access to particular schools is a common practice. A lottery that valorizes this mechanism of purchasing school access will never be entirely compatible with efforts to increase historically marginalized families’ access to more and better school options.
“If you want to increase diversity in schools, the in-boundary preference is not going to help, especially in a place like D.C.,” Greenberg told me in a video call last week.
Meanwhile, city law forbids D.C.’s charters from tilting their enrollment lotteries to reflect students’ addresses. In 2017, Mayor Muriel Bowser proposed a limited “walkability preference” that would have given some students in-boundary lottery preference for some charters, but it never went into effect. By contrast, as the study mentions, and as some of my colleagues have noted, city leaders could consider adding a new preference to the lottery that would give particularly low-income or marginalized families a better chance to match with one of their top-choice pre-K programs. At present, the D.C. Council is considering a proposal to add an “at-risk preference” to the schools lottery.
D.C.’s schools lottery won’t “save” the city (whatever that winds up meaning after the pandemic). But it may help D.C. schools serve a city of diverse children once the pandemic recedes. At the very least — it doesn’t seem to be a primary factor expanding inequitable access to public pre-K programs in Washington, D.C.
Better yet, this view of the impacts of D.C.’s universal pre-K program will get even clearer and more comprehensive soon. Forthcoming studies from the Urban Institute aim to explore how the program affects children’s persistence in public schools and developmental progress.
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With more than 1,700 start-ups set up over the last twenty years, originating from laboratories located under the supervision of the organization, CNRS is one of the largest players in deeptech in France. And the organization intends to remember this by establishing itself for the third time at the largest European innovation fair, VivaTech, from 15 to 18 June in Paris. ” This year we offered start-ups more “mature” to accompany us. After benefiting from some CNRS support tools such as pre-maturation, maturation or even the Rise program, they have raised funds from investors, often significantly, and are now at the beginning of reaching the market with innovations with a real impact on community », Explains Jean-Luc Moullet, Deputy Director – General for Innovation at CNRS. Thanks to this funding, they have developed their technologies or even performed their clinical tests. ” At VivaTech, we want to demonstrate that the promises of business creation as a result of public research are transformed into start-ups that are able to develop and position themselves as credible players in their market. says Jean-Luc Moullet.
Cardiawave, one of the 12 start-ups present at the CNRS booth this year, a spin-off from the Langevin Institute and the Physics for Medicine lab set up in 2015, is a great example. What began between a meeting of know-how in imaging and ultrasound therapy in the laboratory, five years later led to the creation of a young company, today in the clinical validation phase of a technology that attacks the most common and deadly valve disease in the world : aortic stenosis. ” There is no cure for this pathology which affects people over 65 years of age. Today, we only treat high-risk individuals with very heavy open-heart surgery techniques. “, Explains Benjamin Bertrand, co-founder and CEO of the start-up. Cardiawave, whose innovation has just developed a non-invasive system that could treat both the seriously ill but also the disease at an earlier stage, and therefore offer prevention that is still non-existent today.
” This 6th edition marks VivaTech’s big comeback “says Julie Ranty, general manager of the show Viva technology. More than 1,500 exhibitors are expected in the Porte de Versailles and on the digital platform, which will be free and available worldwide, ” to create a real online soundtrack for the event Major themes have been chosen, such as the fight against global warming and the energy transition, tomorrow’s mobility, “the future of work”, or even inclusion or Web3 and Metaverse. Themes that will give the pulse of the four days of VivaTech 2022, through debates, recognized speakers and unprecedented innovations. ” With 250 deeptech start-ups set up in France in 2021, an increase of + 26% in one year according to Bpifrance, France has nothing to be ashamed of compared to other countries. Investment in this sector has been significant: 3 billion euros invested by the government to launch young companies using disruptive technologies, and more than 700 million euros by Bpifrance », Emphasizes Julie Ranty.
” Vivatech is a great opportunity to be promoted and develop your network with CNRS and other start-ups. The show also plays on celebrity among the general public, while many start-ups are not yet on the market. “, Explains Sophie Brac de la Perrière, co-founder and CEO of the start-up Healshape – which develops bioprostheses for natural and simple breast reconstruction, and which was present at the CNRS stand at VivaTech in 2021.
Health, sustainability and digital
This year, the CNRS has selected three areas that face many challenges with a strong societal impact: health, sustainability and digital technology. Accelerating the discovery of new medical treatments, transformation of CO2for atmospheric fuel or the design of a quantum computer … Pioneering innovations that will one day enable these exploits will be exhibited in the CNRS space. ” At Vivatech, we want to share our vision: to show how the quantum computer – which is fast approaching – will meet the challenges of the 21st century and affect industries, but also how we can start from a laboratory and participate in an entrepreneurial race where GAFA and start-ups compete “, reports Théau Peronnin, co-founder of startup Alice & Bob whose goal is to create the universal quantum computer able to run any algorithm without error within 5 years – the promise of a revolution that has recently made it possible to raise 27 million euros.
Imagine what the projects that will be presented at VivaTech in 2032 could be
Moments of intervention and discussion around the themes in Priority research programs and equipment (PEPR) exploratory or in the context of the national acceleration strategies decided by the state within the framework of France 2030 recovery plan will also characterize the program for the CNRS stand, such as, for example, quantum technologies, space exploration, decarbonization of our industry, medtech and biotech. These discussions between PEPR pilots – whose goal is to meet today’s economic, societal, digital and environmental challenges – and the leaders of start-ups from CNRS laboratories form the link between a current scientific vision and the concrete results that will follow from it in approx. . ten years. ” At Vivatech 2022, through start-ups present at the CNRS stand, we will present current results, which therefore stem from already established scientific research results, at the same time as we will present the major future scientific orientations that will be implemented. . in place within the framework of the PEPRs, whether they relate to quantum technology, smart cities or even hydrogen. This illustration of the ongoing research dynamics will therefore make it possible to project oneself and imagine what the projects that will be presented at Vivatech in 2032 could be! “, Adds Jean-Luc Moullet.
CNRS will announce the winners of the CNRS Innovation Medal on June 16, a first highlighted by VivaTech’s CEO. ” This award honors personalities whose outstanding research has led to unique technological, economic, therapeutic and social innovations, such as the Esther Duflo, CNRS 2011 Innovation Medal and the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2019 for its random award effect evaluation method “, She emphasizes. | <urn:uuid:598ec1b6-704b-4d5d-bf81-aa2d0bc8ffc0> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://rayban-sunglasses.uk/2022/05/24/vivatech-2022-cnrs-the-driver-behind-tomorrows-innovation/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571909.51/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813051311-20220813081311-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.942714 | 1,343 | 1.601563 | 2 |
By 1818 Portsea was improving in status since the formation of the Portsea Improvements Commission in 1747. Slowly transforming what was little more than a slum for dockworkers into a tidy, if not entirely respectable urban area. They had ensured many of the streets, including Orange Street were paved, and hired a man with the unenviable title of “the scavenger”. His role was to walk around the streets of Portsea, ringing a bell and pulling a cart. Households would dump their rubbish into the cart in was sounds like a prototype for modern day refuse collection. Given most of the rubbish generated by households at the time was organic, the scavenger could then sell it on as fertiliser. Whilst the area was definitely improving it was still a couple of years away from luxuries like street lighting and as a result most of the residents of the area were victims of crime fairly regularly.
Thomas and Sarah Huntingford had been married for forty years. They had the same troubles as any couple, some arguments but never anything physical. He was a retired master shipwright who had spent a lifetime at the local docks. She, ten years his junior, had only recently retired from running a local grocers shop. The shared a room at a boarding house in Orange Street. The other residents of the house were Louisa Jennings, the landlady, and three single lodgers; Samuel Bately who, like Thomas was a shipwright at the docks and had known the Huntingford’s for over twenty years. The final resident was a Ms Turnball, whose forename changes in every account, she does however appear to have been a midwife.
Louisa had enjoyed her evening meal in the communal area with Sarah and Thomas. She always enjoyed their company. Despite their love of strong drink, they were never disorderly or gregarious. There had been no alcohol tonight, it being a few days before any money was to come their way. About nine o’clock she bid the couple a good night and retired to her room which was up the stairs and at the front of the house. A short time later she heard Thomas and Sarah softly ascend the stairs and close the door to their room.
Samuel was in a bad mood. He had left work late and had to attend a later mass at the chapel because of it. As a result, he didn’t get home until gone eleven o’clock. Too tired to eat, and increasingly aware he had to be up early again for work he retired directly to his room. At three o’clock he was awoken by a heavy thumping on the stairs, he heard someone move to the door and into the yard. Still in a foul mood he ran to his window and threw it open to determine which of his housemates needed an education in nocturnal etiquette. Gazing down into the yard he saw a figure pacing, clearly female, wearing only a nightshift and something covering her head. He called out and got no response. Swiftly dressing he left his room to investigate and bumped into Sarah Huntingford returning from the yard, dressed as he had seen the figure from his window. On hearing his voice, she was so startled she dropped her candle, and it went out. “Oh Samuel, I am murdered and robbed” she exclaimed. Realising he could achieve nothing in the darkness he scooped up the candle and knocked on Louisa’s door for a light, they both retuned to Sarah, she was shivering with the cold and deathly pale but seemed uninjured. They agreed she had probably had a nightmare and Louisa supported her back to the room she shared with Thomas. And then, A scream. Samuel sprinted to the Huntingford’s room where he found a scene that was, very red. Thomas lay in the bed and if it weren’t for the blood soaking the bed, pooling on the floor and covering two of the walls he could well be sleeping. Someone had placed a handkerchief over his face.
He quickly roused their neighbour and asked the he fetch the Surgeon. Whilst they were waiting Sarah was calming enough to speak. “Oh Sarah, what has happened here?” Louisa was the first to ask. “Men, two men intruders were upon us, they wanted money, when Tom resisted, they murdered him”. She explained the two men, one tall and one squat roused them from their sleep, one had a tomahawk and the other a lantern, they looked for all the world like chimney sweeps, all in black with blackened faces and they had no shoes.
The surgeon arrived, accounts vary regarding where in the spectrum of ineptitude. He made his initial survey of the scene. Clearly in no mood for great complexity at this time in the morning, doing nothing more than looking in the direction of the body determined that the cause of death was a ruptured artery. As an after through he removed the handkerchief from Thomas’s face, revealing a concave depression and visible brain matter. Hastily reassessing his diagnosis, he advised Samuel to go and fetch the constables.
The police arrived in the form of Constables Way and Carter whose report of their search of the property remains and is held by Portsmouth City Council Archives. They noted that a chest in the Huntingford’s room was open, and a small box with a broken lid was found inside which Sarah reported was where Thomas sometimes kept his money. The chest was confirmed to have been open when the surgeon arrived, and the key was found in Thomas’s pockets when he and the other residents of the house turned out his pockets on first finding the body.
They next took statements from the residents, much was as described above however, Louisa was certain the doors had been fastened prior to her retiring for the night. Sarah reported that Thomas had gotten up to go to the yard, presumably needing the toilet and must have forgotten to fasten the door again. During this interaction the PC Carter noted there was small specks of what looked like blood on Sarah’s petticoat, she claimed they were just dirt.
Next a search of the house was conducted and the officers found a billhook, a heavy bladed item, found discarded in the coal bin, near where Samuel bumped into Sarah. The blade was reported to contain specks of blood. Whilst billhooks were common items particularly in households with craftsmen, no one recognised this specific billhook.
Sarah was arrested, and in short order found herself in front of a magistrate. The court records at the time indicate she appeared entirely apathetic to the crime, and this may have influenced the jury and judge. She was sentenced to death by hanging. Her sentence was carried out on the morning of 8th March 1819. Over a thousand people were in attendance, such was the public awareness of this murder. After the hanging her body was committed to the surgeons for dissection as ordered by the judge at her sentencing.
There was a lot of talk during this case of Sarah becoming increasingly absent minded. She would go to the shops and forget what she needed. The Huntingford’s fondness for alcohol was noted and it transpired that Sarah had been pawning communal objects from the property and some silverware and clothes belonging to Thomas in order to buy gin. Had Thomas discovered this it would provide a possible motive however you would imagine the murder would escalate from a verbal argument which wasn’t reported by the other residents of the house. I do wonder if there was some element of dementia presenting itself here, possibly secondary to alcohol related brain damage. There were no reports of psychotic episodes and if there was an impairment of her mind it was only mild and emerging.
It is impossible to say if the door to the yard had been locked at the time of the murder as Sarah had clearly exited to the yard and returned leaving the door unfastened.
Given the fact the room was flooded with Thomas’s blood and the murder weapon required close contact. I am unsure how Sarah could only have two tiny specks of blood on her clothes.
None of this is to say that Sarah Huntingford was innocent of this crime however there appear to have been several key questions that don’t appear to have been asked. Which makes the sentence of death and dissection feel rather mean. | <urn:uuid:e9ee5818-dc70-4a56-81fd-205de7b20691> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://midguard.org.uk/2021/1289/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571536.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811224716-20220812014716-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.99051 | 1,733 | 1.554688 | 2 |
Utility software is an important part of software. Utility software usually focuses on how computer hardware, operating systems, software and data storage work. Utility software is a type of system software distinguished from application software.
So today I will discuss what is utility software? Examples of utility software? or what is the name of utility software etc. If you read this article with your patience then you will get detailed information about utility software.
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What is utility software?
Utility software is a type of system software that helps the operating system to manage the performance of the computer system, optimize the computer configuration, and solve and maintain various problems.
Thus, software programs provide additional functionality to your computer that can keep your computer running at all times. Hope you understand what utility software is or what is utility program.
Examples of utility software
Names of some famous utility programs are:
- Antivirus Programs
- File Manager
- Backup Software
- Registry Cleaner
- Screen Saverser
- Disk Checker
- Disk Defragmenter
Types of utility software
So let us know how many types of utility software and what they are.
File Management Program
These utility softwares are used for managing program maintenance or file management. It is a type of software that manages data files in a computer system. These files are an important part of the computer system as all the data is stored here. So this utility software can browse system files, search and find information.
File Compression Programs
Most operating systems use a variety of tools to compress and decompress files. These tools are used to reduce file size. Examples of some compression tools are WinZip, WINRAR, 7-ZIP, PeaZip etc.
Disk Management Tools
These utility software organize computer storage and manage disk data. Examples of Disk Management Tools are MiniTool Partition Wizard, Paragon Partition Manager etc.
Backup And Recovery Tool
This tool stores all the data in computer storage as well as backup data to other locations. If your data is deleted, you can recover the data again. That is, utility software tools play an important role in keeping data backup. Different types of data backup tools are Google drive, Dropbox, Microsoft OneDrive etc.
Nowadays most of the computers try to destroy the computer security through different types of virus attack, malware attack, hacking etc. To strengthen computer security, various security tools such as antivirus, firewall, etc. are used to keep all computer data safe.
The function of utility software
- Now let’s know the features or functions of utility software.
- Utility software for managing computer system data files.
- File Compression utility software plays an important role in reducing file size
- Utility software helps to backup all the data of the computer. If any of your data is deleted then you can recover it again very easily.
- Utility software makes our computer more secure with the help of different types of antivirus and protects our computer from different types of virus attacks.
- Utility software helps to remove various types of useless files.
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Contingent Worker Agreement
Who are the workers in the contingent? Examples of contracting, on-call workers, self-employed workers, contract workers and any other type of project-recruited person are examples of contingent staff. The U.S. Department of Labor defines contingent workers as self-employed or self-employed, unlike contract workers. When a company hires an employee on a permanent or temporary basis, it is required to ensure that the employee`s taxes are deducted and paid. On the other hand, if the company hires an independent contractor or a contingent worker, that person becomes responsible for all taxes because he or she works for himself. The relationship between the different workers and your company is essential for the federal government and the federal states, especially for the agencies responsible for collecting payroll tax. The confusion around these relationships leads to an increasing number of complaints, and it is essential that you understand the differences. Here is a fundamental look at the classifications of workers. Individual workers were powerless to avoid exploitation by their employers. [Quote needed]. However, the realization that all workers in general want the same things and the benefits of collective bargaining led to the formation of the first unions.
As trade unions expanded, their sphere of influence grew and began to lobby politically, leading to much of labour law, now taken for granted. [Citation required] Find out your future goals when scouting and surveying staff. Repeat that the position is not permanent. And, be thorough. The contingent worker must continue to match your client`s work culture, even if it is not a permanent supplement. There is a vast world of talent out there, and they don`t need to treat you the same for each individual or for the job. There are different ways to hire employees who depend on your specific needs at the time of recruitment. But you need to know what you are doing if you hire employees who are not employees of your company in the traditional sense. Hiring a staff member is a great commitment. Your client may not need to add a stable employee to his or her staff to complete certain projects. If your client hires a contingent agent, he or she has more flexibility.
The workforce is only engaged for a specified period of time. The evolution of contingent personnel is also influenced by the economy. A study by MPS Group shows the link between the conditional work cycle and the state of the economy. In an inflatable economy, the demand for conditional work is high. This is most likely because organizations are trying to develop with the economy, and the use of quota workers allows them to work with experts if necessary, without the long-term cost of hiring. Conditional employment means that the position of worker in a company is temporary. The person is not an employee of the company and is therefore not permanently engaged. Typically, contingent workers are recruited to carry out a project. Production declined in the Western world in the 20th century.
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The Republic of Indonesia is a vast archipelago defined by its dramatic vistas, vibrant colors, and diverse cultures. This transcontinental country comprises 17,508 islands set in the aqua blue waters of the south Pacific Ocean that contain an underwater playground teaming with an unbelievable array of coral and sea creatures great and small. The inhabitants above water number over 2.3 million people, making Indonesia the fourth most populous nation in the world. Several countries share a land border with Indonesia including Papua New Guinea, East Timor, and Malaysia, and other neighboring nations include Singapore, Australia and the Philippines. This group of countries, with their long political histories are rich and vibrant places to visit, however, due to the political climate of these countries, it is a good idea to keep a keen ear on the latest news about the social and political state of the country before you visit. This data is readily available to travelers, and can be obtained by checking the local consular information, and monitoring any developments in your chosen destination country.
Individuals seeking to explore the more indulgent side of the islands of Indonesia range from recruiting firm partners to their janitorial staff, and from structural engineers to mortgage lenders (see Cannect.ca, and the experiences to be had in Indonesia are akin to this wide array. From the high end shopping in Jakarta, where shoppers can find everything from the latest in Motorola leather cases to elegant silk pashminas, to the busy and colorful markets where customers can haggle over the price of a pineapple, many delights await shoppers and travelers of all kinds. The world renowned city of Bali is well known for its pampering of tourists who seek to enjoy the best that the nation has to offer. Certainly a visit to this beautiful spot will persuade you to spend some time in the lap of luxury.
Straddling the equator, Indonesia tends to have a fairly even climate year-round, with no extremes of winter and summer. Rather than the four seasons of North America and Europe, Indonesia has two - wet and dry. In most parts of Indonesia the wet season falls between October and April (also known as the low season) and the dry season between May and September (or the high season). Rain tends to come in sudden and short-lived tropical downpours, but it can also rain nonstop for days on end. Researching the climate of your chosen Indonesian destination is a crucial part of your trip planning - not only in terms of what time of year you arrive, but also where exactly you plan to visit. With over seventeen thousand islands to explore, there is sure to be a variation in weather, sea conditions and other environmental factors to take into account. Just as people's names vary greatly across the globe, the climate of the south pacific is just as diverse. In some parts of the country, the difference between the seasons is slight: the dry season just seems to be slightly hotter and slightly drier than the wet season. In other areas, the differences are very pronounced, with droughts in the dry season and floods in the wet. The elevation and exact location of any given destination will play a part in the ranges of climate, and determining what the forecast is before you go is essential. | <urn:uuid:99f5596a-c06b-4404-be6f-92585bfffb55> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.iatnl.ca/Luxury_Vacation.asp | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571198.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810161541-20220810191541-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.952963 | 659 | 2.21875 | 2 |
Legal Translation Services for Arbitration
Legal document translation services for arbitration are becoming increasingly common for parties to submit disputed international contracts to arbitration. The reason for this is that arbitration offers several distinct advantages over litigation in foreign courts – namely the ability to select the place, language, decision maker and procedure for the arbitration.
In international arbitration the parties can pick the language in which they would like the proceeding to be conducted. Unlike in litigation, where language is determined by the place of litigation, the place of arbitration does not predetermine the language, and parties can thus agree on a language that is most convenient.
Likewise, the parties can also agree to have the arbitration conducted in two languages. However, it should be noted that it is more common for the parties to agree on one language while expressly allowing documents to be filed in two or more languages with foreign language translations. | <urn:uuid:dcd01700-8ebe-4578-b118-8977430ae480> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.translationforlawyers.com/2010/01/translation_services_and_succe.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571909.51/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813051311-20220813081311-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.958604 | 175 | 1.773438 | 2 |
New at the artisans’ gallery – photographer Roy Money
One of the most revered figures in Zen is Eihei Dogen, a 13th century Japanese Zen master who wrote that “Seeing forms with the whole body and mind, hearing sounds with the whole body and mind, one understands them intimately.” How is it possible to notice the radiance of things as they are and convey something significant of that close encounter? Certainly acute attention and some moments of grace are a part of the process.
For some artists and philosophers nature exhibits a kind of intelligence – not mind in the conventional sense but in the systematic interaction and self regulation of differentiated parts – the mind of mountains and rivers and the body they inhabit, and the intricate complexity of their innumerable relations. A rather different kind of mind than the usual meaning of the word, but a kind that resonates with my sense of the world.
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Clinical waste collection
We provide a free clinical waste collection service for domestic properties.
Clinical waste carries a risk of infection and injury. It can include:
- Human tissue
- Blood or other bodily fluids
- Drugs or other pharmaceutical products
- Swabs or dressings
- Syringes, needles or other sharp instruments
There are two different types of clinical waste:
- Waste that can be collected via your normal refuse collections
- Waste that needs to be collected and disposed of separately
Refuse collection and clinical waste
What can be collected in your normal waste collection? Toggle accordion
If healthcare related waste originates from a person without infection, it can be disposed of in your normal refuse bin. This waste may be offensive in appearance and smell. A healthcare professional can confirm that it is not infectious waste. This waste may include:
- Sanitary waste
- Incontinence pads
- Catheter and stoma bags (empty)
- Wound dressings
- Vomit and soiled bedding
- Nasal secretions, sputum and condoms
Never put sharps into your normal refuse – they may seriously injure those collecting or disposing of the waste.
Reducing smells and leakage Toggle accordion
You may wish to double wrap or bag this waste to reduce unpleasant smells or leakage.
Not enough space in your refuse bin? Toggle accordion
If your current waste capacity is not sufficient for your non-infectious waste, we may be able to provide you with an alternative collection method. Please contact us for further information.
Clinical waste service
What needs to be collected and disposed of separately Toggle accordion
This is infectious waste which is sent to be incinerated in order to prevent infection. This includes:
- Waste from infectious disease cases
- Waste from wound infections and other acquired infections
- Human hygiene products and dressings from infectious cases
- All sharps including hypodermic needles and syringes with needles attached.
How does the clinical waste collection service work? Toggle accordion
This is collected separately from your normal waste in special yellow sacks or sharps boxes. Collections are provided free of charge and the frequency of collections is suited to each case.
Where to get clinical waste sacks and boxes Toggle accordion
Clinical waste sacks
We will provide you with special yellow sacks for your healthcare waste.
Special yellow lidded sharps boxes are provided by your GP or the hospital clinic providing the needles. They also provide replacement or extra bins.
Further information on sharps collections can be found on the NHS website
If you are using a needle exchange scheme, please continue this with your participating pharmacy.
How to present your clinical waste for collection Toggle accordion
- Containers or sacks must be left at the boundary of your property for collection by 7am on day of collection.
- All bagged waste must be contained in the yellow sacks provided and sacks must be tied at the top.
- Please do not place yellow clinical waste sacks in your normal refuse bin as this will not be collected.
Please note: If a resident is treated in their home by a community nurse or member of the NHS, it is the healthcare professional’s responsibility to remove and dispose of any waste produced as a result of the visit.
Unused and out of date medicines
Unused and out of date medicines should be returned to your pharmacy for disposal. Please don’t put inhalers in your household waste. Take them to any pharmacy for recycling. | <urn:uuid:b1102b90-50c4-40b8-b4be-936cc2a441c1> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.stalbans.gov.uk/clinical-waste-collection | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571536.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811224716-20220812014716-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.904278 | 738 | 2.046875 | 2 |
52 Weeks of Photoshop - Week 5: Pen Tool
The pen tool was the perfect opportunity for me to work on digital pet portraits! I've been meaning to do this for quite a while and finally got around to it.
The pen tool takes a lot of patience but allows for much more accurate selection. I usually just use the quick select tool to be able to move my subjects onto different backgrounds and then have to do a few touch ups afterwards.
The pen tool is a little tricky to get used to as you need to be able to manipulate the lines to bend as required. Do this by dragging as you click the next node. There is no simple way of telling you exactly what to do and the pen tool is something that really just takes practice to master. When dragging the tool to allow for a curve the two lines will jut out either side like in the below example, you can shorten or lengthen these to adjust the severity of the curve and rotate to change the angle of the curve. When you click your next node it may alter the previous one slightly so you have to go back and readjust.
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AUSTIN (KXAN) – Over the past nine months, around 100 first-graders at IDEA Rundberg in north Austin have got their hands dirty.
That’s because the school launched its first student farm in central Texas earlier this year. Those behind the program said the goal was to teach students about sustainability while giving them access to healthier food options.
“This area has been historically underserved, so we’re really giving these kids a chance to explore, to learn, to eat, to be curious,” said Hayley Wood, the school’s farmer.
Those at IDEA Rundberg say they are seeing something similar happening in their school. Grade 1 students not only learn how to care for their own plants, but they are also able to try out different fruits and vegetables. Students like Stéphanie Rodriguez, who discovered that she was not a fan of radishes.
Earlier this year, a University of Texas study found that school gardens are linked to children eating more vegetables. The study looked at 16 elementary schools in central Texas with a specific focus on those with a high percentage of students participating in the free and discounted lunch program. They wanted to know how nutrition programs would affect low income groups. One of the things they found was that students who participated in these programs ate, on average, half a serving of more vegetables per day than before participating in a program.
“They’re like spicy,” said the first-grader.
“A lot of my students didn’t know what a radish was, so we learned what it was,” said Shyniece Gregory, a first grade science and social science teacher at the school. “They don’t know what kale is, they don’t know what it tastes like, so just give them this opportunity that they maybe haven’t had in another school or home experience just to taste these things. ”
To date, students in the program have grown 600 pounds of produce which all end up in school meals.
“If we don’t plant plants, we can’t have lunch, so we have to plant them in order to have lunch,” Rodriguez said.
For Wood, she hopes the farm will provide a healthier future for her students and their families.
“Many families will not be able to buy these types of vegetables in the store, they may not even be in the store, and so for their children to be exposed to them, it will at least be a small change in the diet of the store. ‘a family,’ Wood said.
Right now, they grow broccoli, cauliflower, beets, carrots, radishes, kale, and some herbs.
One of the largest school districts in our area, Austin ISD also offers an agriculture program at four high schools in the area as well as certification options for students interested in the career path. | <urn:uuid:645fe7f4-4e2a-4f3c-b40b-f997f7a56d47> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://loneoakmontessori.com/north-austin-school-farm-aims-to-teach-and-empower-students-about-sustainability/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571909.51/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813051311-20220813081311-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.970304 | 616 | 2.65625 | 3 |
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