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December 21, 2021 By Aemetis
Aemetis, Inc., a renewable fuels company focused on negative carbon intensity products, has signed a 10-year, 450-million-gallon renewable diesel supply agreement with an industry-leading travel stop company, which is expected to generate more than US$3 billion in revenue.
Renewable diesel is a drop-in fuel that significantly reduces greenhouse gases and other emissions from heavy duty vehicles that would otherwise use petroleum diesel.
The renewable diesel to be supplied under the agreement will fuel an estimated 3.6 billion miles of heavy truck and cargo transportation.
The travel stop company is continuing its strategy to diversify its fuelling operations. Renewable diesel provides environmental benefits and performance enhancements compared to petroleum diesel.
“This supply agreement represents the largest supply contract signed by Aemetis for our Riverbank Carbon Zero Plant,” said Eric McAfee, the founder, chairman and CEO of Aemetis. “Combined with $2.1 billion of signed sustainable aviation fuel contracts, we have now signed more than $5 billion of binding offtake contracts related to the Riverbank production facility and also have MOU’s signed with seven airlines for additional contracts.”
The 90 million gallon per year Aemetis Carbon Zero sustainable aviation fuel and renewable diesel plant under development in two phases in Riverbank, California is designed to produce below zero carbon intensity renewable fuels. The design utilizes cellulosic hydrogen from waste forest and orchard wood along with onsite CO2 carbon sequestration and zero carbon intensity hydroelectric electricity. The demand for renewable diesel has increased as a result of policies including the California Low Carbon Fuel Standards and the federal Renewable Fuel Standard that require reductions in carbon emissions from transportation.
The Aemetis Carbon Zero plant is being built on the 125-acre former U.S. Army Ammunition plant in Riverbank, Calif. The industrial site has 710,000 s.f. of existing production and office buildings, a 125-car railroad with ladder tracks, and a 22 megawatt power substation with high capacity power lines delivering hydroelectric power to the site.
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VANCOUVER, B.C. – A new partnership between Vancouver Community College (VCC) and the Rick Hansen Foundation (RHF) will benefit students and industry professionals interested in improving accessibility in commercial and public settings.
The Rick Hansen Foundation Accessibility Certification (RHFAC) program is designed to rate a given site or facility's overall accessibility against a national, universal scale. VCC will offer a two-week RHFAC Accessibility Assessors training beginning Sept. 25, to help people with disabilities, professionals already working in the field, or others interested in learning to analyze a site or facility for overall accessibility. Students are trained through interactive instructor presentations, in-class exercises, disability simulation experiences, reading assignments, and small and large group work.
The training course will prepare students to become Accessibility Assessors and conduct ratings using RHFAC criteria. For those wanting formal accreditation, students must pass a written exam administered by the Canadian Standards Association (CSA) after completing the course. Graduates will gain skills to become independent consultants to conduct RHFAC ratings and provide expertise in Universal Design, and support community education and awareness on the importance of accessibility.
“We know the importance of what a program like this truly means to people’s lives. With one of the highest population of students with disabilities in post-secondary in the province, we are acquainted with the wide range of mobility challenges people contend with on a daily basis. It’s wonderful to work with RHF to make a difference by training the professionals who will contribute to creating better facilities that work for everyone,” says Kathryn McNaughton, vice-president, academic, students and research.
“We’re very excited to combine the expertise of Vancouver Community College and the Rick Hansen Foundation to deliver this course as part of continuing education in B.C. Well-trained assessors are at the heart of the RHF Accessibility Certification program. It will bring new opportunities for anyone interested in creating more accessible built environments and help move access considerations into the normal design process,” says Brad McCannell, vice-president, access and inclusion, RHF.
About Vancouver Community College:
VCC celebrates more than 50 years of inspiring students to reach their career and educational goals, offering post-secondary training in 125 programs including bachelor's degrees, diplomas, certificates, and apprenticeships. With three campuses located on Broadway, Downtown, and on Annacis Island, students can choose from hands-on instruction in culinary arts, business, design, health sciences, hospitality, transportation trades, and music.
About the Rick Hansen Foundation:
The Rick Hansen Foundation was established in 1988, following the completion of Rick Hansen’s Man In Motion World Tour, to continue raising funds and awareness to create a world without barriers for people with disabilities. Over nearly 30 years, RHF has made transformational change in raising awareness and removing barriers for people with disabilities, and funding research for the cure and care of people with spinal cord injuries. Today, the Foundation focuses on improving accessibility to create a world that’s accessible and inclusive for all.
Media can contact:
Amanda Basi, Manager, Accessibility Certification Program
Rick Hansen Foundation
Karen Wilson, Executive Director, Marketing and Communications
Vancouver Community College
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THE MORNING SHOW
Sun Sync Nutrition
Atom’s journey towards health, nutrition, longevity, and meditation goes back to 1955, when he first started reading books by D.C. Jarvis, J.I. Rodale, Carlton Fredericks, Adelle Davis, Aldous Huxley, Paramahansa Yogananda, Swami Prabhavananda, and numerous others. His exposure to the above mentioned authors instigated a deep desire and passion to understand and unlock the secrets to optimal human wellness and longevity.
Atom was inspired by the words of Thomas Jefferson: “School teaches all of the branches, but none of the roots.” He sought the answers to his questions, not in classrooms, but in books, relationships, and life experiences. His quest for true knowledge and wisdom began by studying in hundreds of libraries across the country and evolved by studying with teachers and masters including Swami Adano Ley, Sufi Adnan Sarhan, Rabbi Michael Shapiro, Taoist Master Yun Xiang Tseng, and Fitness Icon Gypsy Boots.
His most significant teacher was Swami Adano Ley with whom he spent 14 years. During this time, he studied a variety of sciences extensively, including the sun centric lifestyle, and ultimately graduated from Adano Ley’s Texas Institute of Reflex Sciences. The knowledge and wisdom he gained studying under a highly evolved swami combined with his emphasis on scientific research & personal experience would soon become the heartbeat of Sun Sync Nutrition.
For the past 40 years, Atom has dedicated his life to the continuous learning and teaching of Sun Sync Nutrition, Time Conscious Eating, Cosmo-Chemistry, Reflexology, Muscle Response Testing, Body Language Analysis, Iris Analysis, Lucid Dreaming, Meditation and many other sciences.
-The NIH is all over nano technology; what is their motive?
-ORMUS is nano tech
-The effectiveness of Feng Shui
-China is going nuts for Bitcoin
-Atom talks the future of the internet; bringing technology back to the US
-Atom gives his predictions for 2017
-What are we here for if we’re not serving others?
-Why Atom keeps a red light on almost all the time
-The deaths of Debbie Reynolds and Carrie Fisher and the mother/daughter connection
-How barometric pressure affects weight
-CHIA seeds: When to take them ? How much ? How to take it?
-Does eating grains, beans, nuts, and seeds on solar time eliminate the toxic effects of the lectins? As well, does it eliminate the need for enzymes if eating cooked foods on time?
-Does solar eating apply to other species; would dogs live longer from solar nutrition and need to have their foods prepared like human food rather than just be feed dog food from cans and bags?
-Question from a listener:I believe Atom, mention his mother was given oxygen instead of carbon dioxide? Can he explain the need for carbon dioxide in lieu of oxygen?
-Substitutes for blood transfusions
-Questions from a listener:What did Swami Nitty Gritty have against fried foods? Does that include deep fat fried, stir fried, sauteed, and tempura? Also, there are several species of bananas here in Thailand. One variety, the ones called “fragrant bananas” sometimes get infested with little white worms when they are over-ripe and the peel is broken. If accidentally eaten, could such worms live in the human digestive system and cause problems?
-What is so special about broccoli and it’s link with anti-aging
-Beware of Life Extension magazine. Atom tells why.
-Your attitude trumps DNA
-Question from a listener:When I go to bed before 10:30 , the side of my left hip. It starts hurting like a deep aching. Usually around 3 am to 4:30 am . What are Atoms thoughts on this ?
-Increasing lymphatic drainage;what time of the day is focused on the lymph system?
-Question from a listener: My stomach would get bloated regularly around 5-6PM. What could that be?
-Question from a listener: If you had some crappy, long half life pharmaceuticals in your mylene sheath, causing some numbness and weakness, how could you contemplate removing it?
-Question from a listener:I have had pain in my right hip for several years. Will the red light help? How long and how often should I use it? How far away should the light be?
-The best things for kidneys and adrenals
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Traditionally the problem of elastohydrodynamic lubrication (EHL) has been solved using the Reynolds equations for fluid flow. In this paper we explore the finite volume method (FVM) to model fluid behaviour in rolling-element bearing systems. The effect of cavitation is modelled with a barotropic cavitation model. We investigate two cases with a cylinder on a flat plate, one under rolling and one under sliding conditions. These solutions are compared to the Reynolds-EHL approach. Towards higher loads, stability problems are encountered and strategies for dealing with these are discussed.
CFD Modelling of Elastohydrodynamic Lubrication
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Hartinger, M, Gosman, D, Ioannides, S, & Spikes, HA. "CFD Modelling of Elastohydrodynamic Lubrication." Proceedings of the World Tribology Congress III. World Tribology Congress III, Volume 1. Washington, D.C., USA. September 12–16, 2005. pp. 531-532. ASME. https://doi.org/10.1115/WTC2005-63840
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Five workers at Michigan’s Wildlife Disease Laboratory were diagnosed with tuberculosis after likely contracting the disease from white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) with bovine tuberculosis. The state Department of Natural Resources told Bridge Magazine that the workers have undergone several months of antibiotic treatment after the outbreak was discovered in the lab last summer. Workers were testing thousands of deer for chronic wasting disease and bovine TB. Officials speculate the large volume of animals may have resulted in “human errors” that resulted in the infections.
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In May 2015, China had 27 new nuclear reactors under construction. This accounts for 40% of all new plants under construction globally and makes China a world leader in the field. Metso’s crushing equipment is the top choice for nuclear power project contractors because it enables them to produce the high-quality aggregates needed in the construction.
Nordberg gains reputation
CNI Huaxing entered the nuclear power construction industry in 1993. The company initially used domestic crushing equipment, but these machines failed to produce aggregates that met the quality requirements. The end product was of poor quality, and the crushers were extremely difficult to repair and maintain.
In 1999, CNI Huaxing began using Metso’s crushing equipment as it undertook phase I of the Tianwan nuclear power plant project.
“Tianwan nuclear power plant is a high-tech collaboration in nuclear energy. It’s a joint venture of China and Russia and also their largest technical and economic cooperation. After thorough research, we ended up choosing the French technical team of Nordberg (Metso’s predecessor) for our crushing solution,” says Jiang Tao, the current director of the nuclear island building team of the Yangjiang nuclear power project, CNI Huaxing.
Ever since then, CNI Huaxing has relied on crushing equipment from Metso and has gained reputation with its leading technologies. Besides phase I of the Tianwan nuclear power plant at Lianyungang, CNI Huaxing has also provided aggregates to many other important Chinese nuclear power construction projects, such as phases I & II of the LingAo plant, phase II of the Ningde plant, and the Yangjiang nuclear power plant currently under construction.
“With its crushing equipment, Metso has captured the majority of the Chinese nuclear power market and has definitely become a standard configuration,” Jiang Tao says.
High quality demands“Metso’s equipment can produce the highest quality aggregates and meets the high safety requirements, so we do not hesitate to choose Metso,” he continues.
Since the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster in Japan in March 2011, the Chinese government has substantially enhanced its nuclear safety evaluation procedures and will adopt the highest international safety standards.
High-grade concrete plays an important role in the construction of a nuclear power plant. Grain composition, grain shape, surface features and a low amount of elongated and flaky particles are essential to the concrete quality. This is why the Yangjiang project selected a Nordberg C125 jaw crusher, a Nordberg HP400 secondary cone crusher, and a Nordberg HP4 tertiary cone crusher to produce four different grades of end products: 0.16-5 mm, 5-16 mm, 5-20 mm and 16-31.5 mm.
“In addition to strict requirements on the shape and diameter of the end products, the Yangjiang nuclear power project demands that the aggregates contain 10% or less of elongated and flaky particles. To achieve this, we have adopted the world’s most advanced solutions from Metso. The content of elongated and flaky particles remains under control at around 3%, far surpassing the project requirements,” Jiang Tao states.
Superior reliability, high returns
This aggregates production system was designed originally for units 1, 2, 3 and 4 of the Yangjiang nuclear power project with an expected service life of 5 years. But, thanks to its reliability, the system has continued to supply aggregates for the construction of units 5 and 6.
“Although the plant looks a little bit rusty, most of the equipment was put into use from 2008 onwards. It has been running smoothly for 7 years, producing altogether more than 3.5 million tons of aggregates. So far, it has saved the cost of constructing a new aggregates system,” explains Du Jinyin, operations director of the aggregates production system in the Yangjiang nuclear power project of CNI Huaxing.
The perfect performance of Metso crushing equipment has earned CNI Huaxing recognition from China General Nuclear Power Group, the project owner. China General Nuclear Power Group took the initiative to conduct in-depth cooperation with CNI Huaxing: after the completion of units 1 and 2, CNI Huaxing will continue to supply aggregates for units 3-6.
“Last year, as the construction of units 5 and 6 of the Yangjiang nuclear power plant began, the project owner offered us funds for an equipment overhaul. After careful consideration, we ordered a Nordberg C125 jaw crusher with higher capacity to replace the previous C100 crusher. Meanwhile, we opted for just preventative maintenance for our HP400 and HP4 cone crushers. The Yangjiang nuclear power project will be completed in 2018, and Metso crushers should yield 500,000 tons of products as planned,” Jiang Tao recounts.
“We must ensure a continuous supply of aggregates. More than 10,000 workers are operating at the same time on site. If the supply breaks down, most of them will have to stop working, and even a delay of just a single day results in inestimable losses. Fortunately, Metso crushers feature large capacity, high efficiency and long uptime, and they effectively support our production goal,” he emphasizes.
About CNI Huaxing
China Nuclear Industry Huaxing Construction Co., Ltd. (“CNI Huaxing”) is affiliated with China Nuclear Engineering Corporation Limited directly under the central government. It holds a unique competitive advantage in terms of liquefied natural gas engineering, military engineering, high-rise engineering and regional planning development.
Huge cuts in CO2 emissions
The Yangjiang nuclear power plant is located in the coastal city of Yangjiang in western Guangdong province. At a total investment of nearly CNY 70 billion, the station will consist of six 1,000-MW CPR-1000 pressurized water reactors (PWRs). It is currently China’s largest approved nuclear power project by capacity. After completion, the plant can produce 45 billion kilowatt hours of electricity each year. It will cut carbon dioxide emissions by 36 million tons and save 16 million tons of coal annually.
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- Epilepsy is a chronic noncommunicable disease of the brain that affects people of all ages.
- Around 50 million people worldwide have epilepsy, making it one of the most common neurological diseases globally.
- Nearly 80% of people with epilepsy live in low- and middle-income countries.
- It is estimated that up to 70% of people living with epilepsy could live seizure- free if properly diagnosed and treated.
- The risk of premature death in people with epilepsy is up to three times higher than for the general population.
- Three quarters of people with epilepsy living in low-income countries do not get the treatment they need.
- In many parts of the world, people with epilepsy and their families suffer from stigma and discrimination.
Epilepsy is a chronic noncommunicable disease of the brain that affects around 50 million people worldwide. It is characterized by recurrent seizures, which are brief episodes of involuntary movement that may involve a part of the body (partial) or the entire body (generalized) and are sometimes accompanied by loss of consciousness and control of bowel or bladder function.
Seizure episodes are a result of excessive electrical discharges in a group of brain cells. Different parts of the brain can be the site of such discharges. Seizures can vary from the briefest lapses of attention or muscle jerks to severe and prolonged convulsions. Seizures can also vary in frequency, from less than 1 per year to several per day.
One seizure does not signify epilepsy (up to 10% of people worldwide have one seizure during their lifetime). Epilepsy is defined as having two or more unprovoked seizures. Epilepsy is one of the world’s oldest recognized conditions, with written records dating back to 4000 BC. Fear, misunderstanding, discrimination and social stigma have surrounded epilepsy for centuries. This stigma continues in many countries today and can impact on the quality of life for people with the disease and their families.
Signs and symptoms
Characteristics of seizures vary and depend on where in the brain the disturbance first starts, and how far it spreads. Temporary symptoms occur, such as loss of awareness or consciousness, and disturbances of movement, sensation (including vision, hearing and taste), mood, or other cognitive functions.
People with epilepsy tend to have more physical problems (such as fractures and bruising from injuries related to seizures), as well as higher rates of psychological conditions, including anxiety and depression. Similarly, the risk of premature death in people with epilepsy is up to three times higher than in the general population, with the highest rates of premature mortality found in low- and middle-income countries and in rural areas.
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Five "small leaks" around BP well ARE a reason to be VERY concerned. Chris Landau (geologist)
Thad Allen says "We've found nothing that would be consequential," said retired Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen, the national incident commander, in a news conference Tuesday July 20,2010in the afternoon. This newswas reported by Kimberly Quillen of The Times-Picayune.
We should be extremely concerned for three reasons.
1) There is at least 9824 psi of gas and oil missing over and above the 6700 to 6,830 pounds per square inch (psi) being reported. See my article for calculating the missing pressure that would have been required to keep the gas and oil down in the well while drilling. http://www.opednews.com/articles/BP-Halliburton-Transocean-by-Chris-Landau-100717-770.html This "leaking" or gushing oil and gas coming through the sea floor tells a person that all is not right. The 6830 psi is too low. The pressure is building in the well because the surrounding formations are being pressurized from deeper down. The oil and gas pressure is following the weakest links through the formation blown out zones. It also means that although the cap is holding, it is only holding because the formation strength is compromised, allowing the missing 9824 psi oil and gas to leak away through these broken hyper-porous horizons.
2) If the leaks around this well are due to badly sealed, wells, why are they now beginning to "leak" It means that they are now receiving oil and gas pressure from the BP-Halliburton-Transocean-Anadarko-Mitsui-Well. I apologize for the investors I have left out. I am sure they would like their name in print to be forever associated with this well.
3) If the leaks are unrelated, how many badly sealed wells are there in the oceans of the world, polluting it now on a daily basis? There are probably tens of thousands of plugged and abandoned wells whose cement plugs are breaking down, or will break down with earth movements and chemical attack. It is an environmental catastrophe of the greatest order. No further drilling in the sea should be allowed anywhere in the world. We are now only beginning to see the slap-dash, out of sight-out of mind way the oil industry works.
No more permits should be issued. The oil industry is ruining our world.
Enough is enough. Cancel all offshore drilling permits permanently.
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by Cynthia M. Johnson, MA
A wrist sprain is stretching or tearing of the ligaments of the wrist. Ligaments are strong bands of tissue that hold bones to each other.
A wrist sprain is caused by trauma. The most common way this happens is by falling on an outstretched hand.
Playing sports may raise the risk of a sprain.
Problems may be:
The doctor will ask about your symptoms and health history. You will also be asked how you hurt your wrist. A physical exam will be done. It will focus on your wrist.
It can be hard to tell a wrist sprain from a fracture or dislocation of one of the small wrist bones. Pictures of the wrist may be taken. This can be done with:
Treatment will depend on the joint involved and how much it is injured. The goal of treatment is to ease pain and improve movement. Choices are:
Some people may need surgery to repair a ligament that is torn. This is not common.
The risk of a wrist sprain may be lowered by:
American College of Sports Medicine
Ortho Info—American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons
Canadian Orthopaedic Association
Canadian Orthopaedic Foundation
Derry S, Moore RA, et al. Topical NSAIDs for acute musculoskeletal pain in adults. Cochrane Database Syst Rev.2015;(6):CD007402.
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Sprains and strains. National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases—National Institutes of Health website. Available at: https://www.niams.nih.gov/health-topics/sprains-and-strains. Accessed October 9, 2020.
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The City of Wilkes-Barre in Partnership with the Pennsylvania Environmental Council and the Anthracite Scenic Trails Association is preparing a Trail/Greenway Master Plan for a city-wide trail/greenway system.
The Partnership is seeking public comment on the final draft map of the potential alignment for the trail/greenway system. A brief survey and map are available for viewing at the following two locations within the City of Wilkes-Barre:
40 West Northhampton Street, Wilkes-Barre
Barnes and Noble
7 South Main Street, Wilkes-Barre
Anyone who is interested in seeing the map and providing survey input is encouraged to visit the locations listed above.
You may also download a copy of the map and survey by clicking the links below:
The map and surveys will be available for two weeks from Monday, February 1, 2010 until Monday, February 15, 2010.
The Trail/Greenway will not only spur eco-tourism opportunities for the region but will provide free accessible walking and bicycling opportunities within the City of Wilkes-Barre.
If you have questions please feel free to contact Janet Sweeney at PEC at 718-6507 or [email protected]
The Pennsylvania Environmental Council (PEC) protects and restores the natural and built environments through innovation, collaboration, education and advocacy. PEC believes in the value of partnerships with the private sector, government, communities and individuals to improve the quality of life for all Pennsylvanians.
The focus of the Northeast Office is to promote the Council’s work in our community.
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Community health initiative/Metrics kit/da
The Trust and Safety team, in collaboration with other teams within the Wikimedia Foundation, researched a Community Health Metrics Kit to help volunteers understand the relative health of their communities. We invite you to read more about our plans here, and to give your opinions on the talk page.
The Community Health Metrics Kit is a project being investigated by the Trust and Safety team, in collaboration with the Community health initiative, at the Wikimedia Foundation. The ultimate goal is a public suite of statistics and data documenting the relative health of Wikimedia communities on a per-project basis. This project was researched in the 2018–19 financial year, and will inform further development of community metrics in the future.
As a movement, Wikimedians have always measured aspects of their communities. Data points such as editor activity levels, new users, and editor retention have been regularly collected. While these metrics provide some useful indications about the health of a project, they do not give major insights into challenges and specific areas needing improvement. The Community Health Initiative wants to build on the metrics work already done by individual contributors, affiliate groups, academics and researchers, and the Wikimedia Foundation.
Dette projekt har to primære mål:
- to have regularly updated quantitative statistics that provide useful insights into aspects of a community’s health, and
- to provide better qualitative options for finding insights that can’t effectively be measured through quantitative approaches.
This kit and the data it will contain will be targeted towards two major audiences:
- The local and global communities, in order to ascertain the relative health of their projects and to more easily identify the early signs of an unhealthy community; and
- The Wikimedia Foundation, who may make use of the data (now in one centralised place) to better identify trends in community health and direct development efforts towards solving problems.
Where we are now: Consultation
This page is outdated, but if it was updated, it might still be useful. Please help by correcting, augmenting and revising the text into an up-to-date form.
|Juli–august 2018||Metrics definitions; brainstorming; internal publicising|
|September 2018||Design involvement; determining location; community consultation on metrics|
|Oktober-december 2018||Further work on design; community discussions to continue|
|Januar-marts 2019||Technical implementation, prototyping|
|Før slutningen af juni 2019||Launch of Metrics Kit|
This project is currently at the design and consultation phase. At this point, we have a rough idea of who this project is for (local community members interested in judging the relative health of their communities/projects, and Wikimedia Foundation staff interested in monitoring this health for things like tool or policy development). We also have a rough shortlist of metrics we'd like the kit to include. That is where we need your help.
How to give feedback
While we have set up the framework for this and put down our ideas, this project will suffer without the community's knowledge and expertise. Here, we are asking you to give us feedback on our ideas and to offer your own.
Please use the discussion page of this project for your feedback. To make it easier, we have set up a number of sections there for the aspects of this project about which we are most excited to hear your opinions. One of those sections is titled Other feedback, because we might miss things otherwise. Please feel free to leave your comments and suggestions in one, several or all of the sections! Thank you in advance for your thoughtful insights!
How to engage deeper
In addition to asking for feedback on what we do, we are also looking for volunteers who like to work more closely with us on the project. There are several ways you can engage, if you are interested:
- You can work with us to refine the way we gather the data in one or more fields for all the Wiki communities
- You can help find bugs and mistakes we may make
- You can get our support to understand your own community better through community health metrics
- You can help spread the knowledge about those new metrics throughout the wikiverse
If you are interested in investing time into this project on one or more of those issues on a mid to longterm basis, please sign up under the corresponding section of the discussion page!
Hvordan vi vil bruge resultaterne
Your feedback at this stage will directly affect our thinking with regards to this project. As one of the major audiences for this work, the community's insight is naturally invaluable. As such, it will all be taken aboard and used to guide the future of this project as we focus on its design and usecases.
We're currently looking at metrics that reflect community health. These will be informed by comments and suggestions made during this consultation, as well as by individual user interviews and other design research methods. Right now, we're looking at metrics reflecting things like:
- Active administrator and user statistics;
- Backlog statistics (compared with the number of people working on them);
- Statistics already used to compare Wikimedia projects with each other (such as Wikipedia article depth);
- Rates of vandalism, blocks, and other administrative tasks;
- Other metrics we haven't yet come up with :)
We've spent a little time thinking about how this kit might ultimately look and be used by members of the community. Our requirements for this project are that it is:
- Findable: It should be easy for community members to find and make use of in their work.
- Readable/Accessible: It should be simple to read and absorb the information it is attempting to impart.
- Up-to-date: It should be updated live (or at least regularly), automatically and with minimal maintenance.
- Translatable: It should be available to users in as many languages as possible (ideally beginning with the UN standard languages), and be available for users to supply translations where none exist.
Right now, we are thinking of hosting this data on Toolforge, as that option would cover most of the above requirements. We are aware that many of the metrics points we'd like this kit to hit are already collected by Wikistats, and we imagine the finished product would likely turn out quite similar to this in look, feel, and target demographic.
Building on existing work
Some top-level community insights are part of the WikiStats portal. This platform provides data on:
- Total unique devices
- Top-viewed articles
- Newly registered users
- New pages
- Edited pages
- Net bytes difference
- Absolute bytes difference
The Community Engagement Insights survey provides a window into a number of community health aspects, and provides useful demographic information as well.
Individual projects and contributors have used various approaches and API queries to gain specific insights about specific workflows and issues. Examples include the English Wikipedia’s AdminStats and this analysis of Adminstrator numbers and ratios on the different Wikipedias.
There is a large body of past research projects that deal primarily with topics of community health, or look at related aspects and issues. We have collated some of that here in this table; if we have missed something, please add to this subpage!
We began this project by looking at what is already collected and what isn’t, and identifying which data points and areas should be prioritised for this project. This will involve both collecting new metrics and using existing metrics differently (e.g. providing new ratios and comparisons of already-collected information). Some of the broad areas we looked at to include in the Metrics Kit:
- Administrator statistics
- User statistics
- New accounts
- Activity levels
- Retention rates
- Prevalence of vandalism, trolling, harassment
- Abuse filter, vandalism reports
- Cultural, ethnic, gender barriers
- Content bias
- Language barriers
- Access to tools
- Internet access
- Libraries and knowledge resources access
Future plans: More and easier qualitative surveying
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The restaurant industry is seeing a major wave of innovation right now. Many existing restaurant owners are abandoning the conventional service model for several new models—like food trucks, “groceraunts,” and delivery-only restaurants.
Much of this change is likely in response to shifting demand generated by the coronavirus pandemic, which forced restaurant owners to adapt rapidly to stay afloat.
Now, as the pandemic winds down and consumers return to in-restaurant dining, the restaurant industry as a whole is learning which alternative service options are most likely to offer a competitive edge still.
Dark Kitchens and Delivery-Only Restaurants
Many of the listings on food delivery apps, like Uber Eats and GrubHub, are for restaurants that don’t really exist—at least, not for customers interested in the sit-down restaurant experience. The restaurant may instead be the product of a kitchen dedicated to cooking food exclusively for delivery orders.
Dark kitchens—also called ghost kitchens, cloud kitchens, and delivery-only restaurants—are restaurants without tables or wait staff. These restaurants make their money by contracting out kitchen services to other restaurants or by exclusively serving customers who order online or over the phone.
Dark kitchens existed before the pandemic began, but as demand for delivery took off, so did their popularity. According to one report, COVID-19 accelerated the delivery-only segment’s growth by five years in three months.
For businesses, the benefits of the delivery-only model are primarily in reducing startup and maintenance costs. If you only provide delivery, you don’t have to maintain front-of-house or hire waitstaff. Because many delivery-only restaurants provide delivery services through gig economy-style apps, you may not even have to hire delivery drivers.
The loss for business owners is that they can no longer offer in-person dining services. If they are renting a pre-existing kitchen, the owner may also have less control over kitchen layout, inventory, equipment, and staff.
Many new ghost kitchens, for example, advertise themselves as “smart kitchens” outfitted with a range of Internet of Things-powered restaurant technology. Aspiring dark kitchen chefs that don’t need this advanced equipment may pay for assets they don’t need or be forced to look elsewhere for kitchen space.
Food trucks have rapidly become a popular and highly mobile alternative to the traditional restaurant model. With this approach, owners convert a box truck into a mobile catering vehicle complete with its own kitchen.
What food trucks lose in dining space, they gain in flexibility. A food truck can pick up and move its kitchen at any time, allowing it to serve events and provide service at food truck parks or similar open-air venues on short notice.
This flexibility is likely part of why the food truck market outgrew the broader restaurant industry between 2016 and 2021 by a margin of around 7.5 to 1.1 percent.
There are significant limitations to the food truck format, however—which possibly is why many foodservice industry publications write to food truck owners as if they plan to eventually rent restaurant space and adopt a more conventional service model.
Kitchen space is extremely limited, restricting both the menu and the number of customers you can serve at a given time. Food truck failure — like a flat tire or damage to the truck radiator—can also prevent you from serving any customers at all.
Like dark kitchens, you also lose out on the advantages of having space for customers to sit down and be served.
Also, while food trucks tend to require less money for initial startup costs, they can sometimes pay more than conventional restaurants for permitting. In some cases, the cost difference is enough to make the two models comparably expensive.
“Groceraunts” and the Hybrid Service Model
Some restaurant owners are opting to combine existing service models—providing grocery services or a cafe, for example—in addition to standard offerings.
The reasons for adopting this model can vary from business to business. Some adopt the hybrid model as a way to provide additional services to their community. For an example, see the Philadelphia-based Honeysuckle Project, which aims to provide a hybrid grocery store, community center, and restaurant for residents of the neighborhood of Mantua, a food desert where more conventional grocery stores may be difficult to reach.
Others, like existing supermarkets, adopt the model because they want to draw in additional customers with restaurant services. With these groceraunts, shoppers can complete their weekly grocery trip and pick up dinner at the same time.
How Alternative Foodservice Formats are Disrupting Restaurants
Changing consumer expectations and preferences are likely to have a major impact on the restaurant industry, even as the coronavirus pandemic winds down.
Delivery and contactless models are on track to remain much more popular than they were pre-pandemic, potentially opening up new opportunities for dark kitchens, food trucks, and similar service options. Community-based restaurants may also become more important.
Customers increasingly want to spend money in a way that supports their local community, meaning groceraunts and hybrid models that serve as community hubs or community spaces may draw more attention than similar restaurants that take a more conventional approach.
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One of the ministry presentations at the Children’s Spirituality Summit 2018 was by Rev. Andrea Roske-Metcalfe, Associate Pastor at Grace Lutheran Church in Minnesota. She shared a vision that developed from her experience as a mom with young kids for more intentionally engaging and welcoming young children in worship called The Pray-ground.
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Cooperative Extension Service’s kitchen incubator initiative, Share Grounds, providing introductory workshops
By the U of A System Division of Agriculture
Oct. 23, 2019
- Fairground kitchens are being renovated and will be open to would-be food entrepreneurs and producers in early 2020.
- Introductory workshops planned for Oct. 24 (Rison), Nov. 18 (Marshall), 19 (McCrory) and Dec. 7 (Little Rock)
(Download this story in MS Word format here.)
RISON, Ark. — The University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture Cooperative Extensions Service will host the first of three introductory workshops for Share Grounds, a kitchen incubator initiative, on Thursday, Oct. 24, at the Cleveland County Fairgrounds in Rison.
Share Grounds is intended to provide certified kitchen space, distribution centers and technical assistance to help caterers, farmers, educators, food truck businesses and other would-be entrepreneurs launch successful food-based businesses. The program will launch in three areas in Arkansas, using existing facilities at county fairgrounds in Cleveland, Searcy and Woodruff counties.
The program is designed to help emerging entrepreneurs navigate the “hoops” of food and farm business development, said Dr. Amanda Philyaw Perez, assistant professor and food systems and safety extension specialist for the Division of Agriculture.
“I hope we can help rural communities lift up their local economies with good food grown or made in Arkansas,” Philyaw Perez said.
Three introductory workshops are planned for 6-8 p.m. at the three pilot sites on the following dates and locations for food entrepreneurs to learn more about the program:
• Oct. 24 - Cleveland County Fairgrounds, 309 Mockingbird Lane, Rison
• Nov. 18 - Three County Fairgrounds,416 Old Highway 64B, McCrory
• Nov. 19 - Searcy County Fairgrounds, 105 Armory St., Marshall
An all-day client training will be held Dec. 7 at the Cooperative Extension Service state office. Potential clients can register by contacting Julia Fryer, firstname.lastname@example.org.
Share Grounds is a partnership between the Cleveland, Searcy and Three County Fair Associations, the Division of Agriculture, and several regional partners.
Angela Gardner, program associate in produce safety and local foods with the University of Arkansas Division of Agriculture Cooperative Extension Service, said the fairgrounds are a logical site choice because they have available kitchen facilities, many of which are underused. The kitchens have all been renovated and are awaiting clients.
“It would be an advantage for potential clients to participate at this stage since they will help guide us on what types of kitchen equipment to purchase,” Gardner said.
The kitchens will each be open 20 hours per week for now. Each site will have a part-time manager who will assist with recipe testing, product development, regulatory assistance (paperwork), kitchen rental, cold and dry storage rental. Clients would then pay an hourly rate to use kitchens and equipment.
The aggregations centers will be especially useful for fruit and vegetable producers looking for space to wash, package and store their produce until a buyer can pick it up for distribution.
“Buyers had rather go to one central place than multiple farms,” she said. “That is the link between rural and urban.”
The Share Grounds concept is modeled after the Arkansas Food Innovations Center, which is part of the Food Science Department within the Division of Agriculture.
For more information, contact Gardner at (501) 671-2180 or email@example.com.
For more information about Share Grounds, www.uaex.uada.edu/sharegrounds.
To learn about community and economic development in Arkansas, contact your local Cooperative Extension Service agent or visit www.uaex.uada.edu. Follow the Cooperative Extension Service on Twitter at @uaex_edu.
About the Division of Agriculture
The University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture’s mission is to strengthen agriculture, communities, and families by connecting trusted research to the adoption of best practices. Through the Agricultural Experiment Station and the Cooperative Extension Service, the Division of Agriculture conducts research and extension work within the nation’s historic land grant education system.
The Division of Agriculture is one of 20 entities within the University of Arkansas System. It has offices in all 75 counties in Arkansas and faculty on five system campuses.
The University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture offers all its Extension and Research programs to all eligible persons without regard to race, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, religion, age, disability, marital or veteran status, genetic information, or any other legally protected status, and is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer.
The University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture is an equal opportunity/equal access/affirmative action institution. If you require a reasonable accommodation to participate or need materials in another format, please contact your (insert appropriate office) as soon as possible. Dial 711 for Arkansas Relay.
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For your child to gain expertise or mastery in a particular form of dancing or basic knowledge in several dance forms, from the start, choose a school for your child that offers a variety of dancing classes.
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Thoughts Are Things
Thoughts are things. They’re real. Invisible, but tangible.
You may not always be conscious of the impact your thoughts have on your life, but impact they have.
Other people may not consciously be aware of the thoughts you hold about them, but subconsciously they are.
Be mindful of your words. Before that even, be mindful of your thoughts.
I was driving home from an event the other night. I had a conversation with someone that got me thinking about how I was being misunderstood. The thinking led to defensiveness, which led to fuming. In my head.
I spent about 15 minutes formulating arguments and indulging in criticism of others.
A burning smell broke me out of my reverie. Then smoke began rising from the hood of my car. I pulled over and got out to take a look. As I bent to see where the smoke was coming from, I saw flames underneath my hood.
Instant panic/adrenalin response and my accompanying thought sequence:
“Cars + Smoke + Fire = Explosion?
If explosion = incinerating contents of car, what’s in the car?
Ah, my laptop. My book is on my laptop. Must get the laptop.
Hmm. My groceries. Yep, must get those as well.
I think my runners are in the trunk. I might go running tomorrow. Grab those too.”
And then I sprint across the parking lot, because I think i should probably be far away from my car. I look around to see how many other cars and potentially people are around me. No people, but all these cars could be toast.
The car is in the shop (no explosion) but they haven’t found the problem yet. I have.
Everything you think and feel emanates out into the world and finds form. The spiritual Law of Karma states that it all comes back to you. Maybe not right away. Maybe not this week. Maybe not this lifetime.
But it comes back.
The relationship I have with spirit right now is that whatever I sow, I reap immediately. I’m ever refining my actions and thoughts to make them more pure.
When I slip, I get smacked. I am reminded to be much more mindful of my thoughts.
Because the truth is, if my destructive thoughts are that powerful, just think of how far-reaching my positive ones are, especially, when they’re infused with the superpower, secret weapon, most powerful force we have access to, love.
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At 10:48 a.m. on November 9, 1841, the future King Edward VII of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland was born in Buckingham Palace, London. He was the eldest son and second child of Queen Victoria and her husband Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. He was christened Albert Edward at St George’s Chapel, Windsor Castle, on January 25, 1842, named Albert after his father and Edward after his maternal grandfather Prince Edward, Duke of Kent and Strathearn. He was known as Bertie to the royal family throughout his life.
As the eldest son of the British sovereign, Albert Edward was automatically Duke of Cornwall and Duke of Rothesay at birth. As a son of Prince Albert, he also held the titles of Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha and Duke of Saxony. He was created Prince of Wales and Earl of Chester on December 8, 1841; Earl of Dublin on September 10, 1849, or January 17, 1850; a Knight of the Garter on November 9, 1858; and a Knight of the Thistle on May 24, 1867. In 1863, he renounced his succession rights to the Duchy of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha in favor of his younger brother, Prince Alfred.
Before his accession to the throne, Albert Edward was heir apparent and held the title of Prince of Wales for longer than any of his predecessors. During the long reign of his mother, he was largely excluded from political power, and came to personify the fashionable, leisured elite. He travelled throughout Britain performing ceremonial public duties, and represented Britain on visits abroad. His tours of North America in 1860 and the Indian subcontinent in 1875 were popular successes, but despite public approval his reputation as a playboy prince soured his relationship with his mother.
When Queen Victoria died on January 22, 1901, Edward became King of the United Kingdom, Emperor of India and, in an innovation, King of the British Dominions. He chose to reign under the name Edward VII, instead of Albert Edward — the name his mother had intended for him to use — declaring that he did not wish to “undervalue the name of Albert” and diminish the status of his father with whom the “name should stand alone”. The numeral VII was occasionally omitted in Scotland, even by the national church, in deference to protests that the previous Edwards were English kings who had “been excluded from Scotland by battle”. J. B. Priestley recalled, “I was only a child when he succeeded Victoria in 1901, but I can testify to his extraordinary popularity. He was in fact the most popular king England had known since the earlier 1660s.”
As king, Edward played a role in the modernization of the British Home Fleet and the reorganization of the British Army after the Second Boer War. He reinstituted traditional ceremonies as public displays and broadened the range of people with whom royalty socialized. He fostered good relations between Britain and other European countries, especially France, for which he was popularly called “Peacemaker”, but his relationship with his nephew, the German Emperor Wilhelm II, was poor. The Edwardian era, which covered Edward’s reign and was named after him, coincided with the start of a new century and heralded significant changes in technology and society, including steam turbine propulsion and the rise of socialism.
Edward habitually smoked twenty cigarettes and twelve cigars a day. In 1907, a rodent ulcer, a type of cancer affecting the skin next to his nose, was cured with radium. Towards the end of his life he increasingly suffered from bronchitis. He suffered a momentary loss of consciousness during a state visit to Berlin in February 1909. In March 1910, he was staying at Biarritz when he collapsed. He remained there to convalesce. The King’s continued ill health was unreported and he attracted criticism for staying in France in the midst of a constitutional crisis. On April 27, he returned to Buckingham Palace, still suffering from severe bronchitis. Alexandra returned from visiting her brother, King George I of Greece, in Corfu a week later on May 5.
The following day, the King suffered several heart attacks, but refused to go to bed, saying, “No, I shall not give in; I shall go on; I shall work to the end.” Between moments of faintness, his son the Prince of Wales (shortly to be King George V) told him that his horse, Witch of the Air, had won at Kempton Park that afternoon. The King replied, “Yes, I have heard of it. I am very glad”: his final words. At 11:30 p.m. he lost consciousness for the last time and was put to bed. He died 15 minutes later.
Alexandra refused to allow the King’s body to be moved for eight days afterwards, though she allowed small groups of visitors to enter his room. On May 11, the late King was dressed in his uniform and placed in a massive oak coffin, which was moved on May 14 to the throne room, where it was sealed and lay in state, with four guardsmen standing at each corner of the bier. Despite the time that had elapsed since his death, Alexandra noted the King’s body remained “wonderfully preserved”. On the morning of May 17, the coffin was placed on a gun carriage and drawn by black horses to Westminster Hall, with the new King and his family walking behind. Following a brief service, the royal family left, and the hall was opened to the public; over 400,000 people filed past the coffin over the next two days.
As Barbara Tuchman noted in The Guns of August, his funeral, held on May 20, 1910, marked “the greatest assemblage of royalty and rank ever gathered in one place and, of its kind, the last.” A royal train conveyed the King’s coffin from London to Windsor Castle, where Edward VII was buried at St George’s Chapel.
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The cost of living crisis is something that is very real and affecting people of all ages. With inflation continuing to rise and energy prices soaring, people’s incomes have stalled while costs continue to spiral. However, those who are retired or are planning to retire are also being affected by the cost of living crisis, it isn’t just limited to the employed and unemployed.
With inflation continuing to put a strain on budgets, people are having to make cuts they usually wouldn’t, which means it can severely impact your retirement plans or any savings you have. With consumer goods and services being at their highest prices in over 40 years, the money you once had put away just isn’t stretching as far as it once did.
How Is The Cost Of Living Impacting Retirees?
If you’re already retired then you’re likely living off your investments or savings, meaning you’ll see regular payments from these as your source of income. However, with interest rates being at their lowest and people and businesses sitting on their money and holding back from spending, it means the money in the bank simply isn’t generating the same income it once did.
Many retirees are trying to cut their own spending back, however, there are a number of things you could be doing to help reduce the impact on your income. Keep reading below to find out more about what retirees can do to lessen the impact of the cost of living crisis.
What Should Retirees Be Doing To Lessen The Impact Of The Cost Of Living Crisis?
1. Property Investments
Property has been a solid investment for many years, even when the property market does dip, the rental market remains strong. Which means property investments are a great way to give your monthly and annual income a boost. With people still buying and selling homes at record rates, it’s a perfect time to invest in property or to off-load any property that isn’t generating the maximum amount of income for you. Buying to let properties are a great way to boost your income overall, you just need to be aware of the responsibilities that a landlord has.
2. Clever Investments
Whilst market conditions and inflations have affected budgets over the years, there are still many opportunities out there that could be worth investing your money in. From investing in businesses to shares, there are a lot of opportunities that could drive a great return on investment when made in a strategic way. Many people find shares a scary thing to handle, but when chosen carefully and with the right advice, they can prove beneficial and most shares values will generally exceed the typical level of inflation.
3. Financial Plans
Your financial plan isn’t something you should just be sitting on, it’s something that needs to be reviewed regularly. Now is the perfect time to adjust your financial plan to ensure you can drive additional returns from your investments. A review of your financial plan will help you to ensure you stay ahead of inflation. Professional financial planners will be able to provide advice on how you can better manage your money and how you can start generating more income from your investments.
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When a famine threatens the State of Bihar in Eastern India in 1967, Roberta Meeker is among the Peace Corps volunteers rushed in to assist in the relief effort. Richard Verlock is in charge of U.N. operations. He is deeply cynical about the many do-gooders around him but is perversely attracted to Roberta, the most idealistic of the whole crowd.
Roberta, sure that she can save the world, faces India’s stolidly entrenched caste system at a feeding center. The plight and passivity of the women–their utter powerlessness and subservience to men–incense her.
In the vast background that is India, officials pursue their own agendas, which often baffle or — worse — stymie the relief efforts. Fortunately, one senior Indian official, F.C. Chaganti, helps them by overriding a District Commissioner who is blocking a train full of grain, and by arranging for the transfer of two stubbornly bureaucratic railway officials so that food supplies can keep moving.
Richard arranges a vacation for himself and his mistress, with Roberta and Bentley Overman, another Peace Corps volunteer, in Kashmir, in the foothills of the Himalayas. As they talk far into the night, we learn the depths of Richard’s cynicism. He seems able, as always, to disprove the likelihood that human beings really want to do anything decent or could if they did want to.
Roberta challenges his nihilism, but he sees that she is also attracted by it, just as her reformer’s naiveté attracts him. Roberta has begun to believe — naively? — that Richard’s cynicism masks a deeper generosity.
Roberta becomes increasingly drawn to Richard. He relishes the prospect of undermining her innocence, teaching her how weak and venal people are, and reinstating her picture of him as someone who doesn’t give a damn.
As the story approaches its climax, an alert goes out that a desperately poor section of rural Gaya District has run out of food. For 48 hours straight the volunteers, U.N. workers and CARE reps all pitch in.
That night, exhausted, they sing songs around a fire fueled by wood and dung cakes and cry for those they have been unable to help–and those they have perhaps saved.
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Stand Strong with the ground rules of assertiveness
Assertiveness is a word that has a different meaning for everyone of us. And even though we all agree that it is a specific way of interacting with others, this interaction will look differently for everyone. Your “If I was more assertive I would…” will be different than mine. And that’s great. We are all individuals. If I set a goal to be more assertive in my life, my success will look differently to yours.
There is however one major misconception about assertiveness that leads us astray. This misunderstanding negatively impacts our attitude towards learning the concepts of effective communication and impacts the level of success we achieve with the learning.
Assertiveness is not only about saying “No“. It is not a set of skills that give us confidence to talk down to others, to argue and question others or to be defensive. Learning assertiveness skills in order to stand up for yourself against others is hopeless, pointless and it diminishes the purpose of effective communication.
That’s what assertiveness is Not!
So now let’s find out what assertiveness actually is and how to benefit from the developing the skills associated with assertive communication. For anyone considering the benefits of assertiveness in their lives let’s introduce the ground rules of assertiveness:
- Assertiveness is about you. The focus is on you and your behavior
- It starts with the realization and your acceptance that you have rights
- These rights are for you to honor first. Others may still not honor your rights even when made aware of them. It is your job to stand your ground for yourself (not to change others way of thinking, acting and behaving)
- Others have rights too and they are exactly the same as yours
- In assertive communication both sides involved are equal
- Rules of assertiveness apply also to the way you treat yourself, speak to yourself and think of yourself (when you hear your own judgmental self-talk)
Assertiveness is about setting boundaries and maintaining your personal rights. Others don’t have to and may not. Trying to force our rights onto others leads to aggression which is a form of communication that’s overpowering and disrespectful. Assertive communication is based on equality and if necessary on compromise. The intention behind assertive communication is to understand and be understood as opposed to an ego driven need to be right.
So start with yourself and focus on yourself. Set your own personal goals for assertive communication and develop skills.
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Mold in the house is extremely unpleasant and dangerous issue, as it endangers health in many ways.
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They crushed the tea tree leaves and applied them to the affected place. Then, they applied mud to secure it. Back in the 20s, Australian researchers found these miraculous properties of tea tree oil.
Moreover, they discovered that the antiseptic properties of this oil are even a hundred times more powerful than the carbolic acid, which is a germicide used in that period.
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Try Changing The Mtu Value On Your Ps4
The main solution that has been known to work sometimes in allowing PS4 users to circumvent PSN outages has been to change the MTU settings on your PS4. This method allowed some users, though not all, to get around the outage in late 2014.
Why this is the case in unclear, but it did work for some people. It is worth giving a go. Here are the general steps for changing the MTU value on your PS4:
- Go to Settings..Network..Set Up Internet Connection
- Select Wi-Fi or LAN depending on your connection.
- Click Custom
- Click through all the setting as they are without changing them, until you get to MTU Settings.
- For MTU, switch to Manual
- Enter 1453 or 1473 for the MTU value. If one doesnt work, try the other.
- You can also try other values from 1450 upwards if you want. See also our article on the best MTU for gaming for a more precise method of finding your optimal MTU value.
- Finish Setup and Test Connection. The PS4 should now be able to get online.
NB. If the Network Sign in on the Connection Test still fails after you put in the new MTU value, then dont worry, just attempt to sign back into PSN manually and it usually works. The rest of the connection test usually runs through as normal after making this change.
There are also other networking settings you can change on your router and PS4 which can get you back online, but these are more solutions for home networking or ISP errors than errors with PSN itself. Here are some other things you can do:
Learning How To Fix Ps4 Connection Issues
There are many forms of internet connection problems in a PS4. Some users may find that their console may appear to be laggy when playing online or only when in a multiplayer game. Others may have or upload issues. For some, wifi connection may periodically fail due to poor signal.
In any of these cases, theres one easy solution that you can try: reset your PS4 network settings. If the cause of the problem is due to a random network bug, or by a fluke in your console, resetting the network settings is a good, non-drastic fix.
Not all PS4 connection problems can be fixed by network settings reset though so if that wont change anything on your console, you should continue with your troubleshooting by doing other things such as checking your cables, verifying for possible PlayStation Network server issues, troubleshooting your own local network, checking for wifi signal interference, factory reset, etc.
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Check For Slow Or Intermittent Connection
Sometimes, gamers may not realize that the primary cause for connection issues on their console is not total loss of connection but slow download and upload speed. If the network speed test result shows that your internet connection is so slow, like when its below 3Mbps download/upload, your PS5 may not be able to communicate with the servers reliably.
If you play on your PS5 during times when people are at home and using your internet connection for streaming Netflix, downloading files, or video chatting, or playing online on another computer or console, low bandwidth may be to blame. This means that your PS5 is no longer getting enough reliable connection due to noise or traffic in your network.
What you can do in this situation is to disconnect other devices and see if your PS5 can start connecting to the internet again.
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Sometimes You Just Have To Wait Until Its Fixed
If literally all these options fail, then there isnt really much more you can do its more a case of simply waiting until Playstation resolve any problems they have and get the servers and PSN back online.
Sony are prone to having their network hacked and attacked, with notable outages in late 2014 and autumn 2016 due to hackers targeting their servers.
In these cases, simply keep checking the status of PSN and keep up to date with developments on social media. Playstation have millions of customers worldwide and dont want their servers down for too long.
You dont hear about these kind of problems nearly as much with Microsofts Xbox console though! Hopefully these previous hacks have prompted Sony to invest more in security measures to make sure these outages are less common.
Psn Down: Playstation Network Status Not Working Following Ps4 Maintenance Period
Sony PSN status is showing as offline again with services for PS4, PS3 and PS Vita all encountering issues following a PSN maintenance period this morning.
PSN DOWN UPDATE: Network Service Resumed
Sony have fixed the problems plauging the PlayStation Network this morning.
Talking to fans on Twitter, the Ask PlayStation UK Twitter support page tweeted: “All PSN services are now restored. Apologies for any inconvenience caused.”
However it wasn’t disclosed what casued the extended downtime.
Currently the PlayStation Network Status page is showing as green with all services now up and running.
PSN DOWN UPDATE: Network Service Issues
The PlayStation Network is still down two hours after the initial PlayStation Network maintenance period was meant to have finished.
Sony currently list ALL their core online services as offline and below you can see what in more detail as to what services are affected.
According to Sony you may have some difficulty signing in or creating an account on PlayStation Network, launching games, applications or online features, streaming PlayStation Now games, accessing PlayStation Video content, accessing features and products in PlayStation Store and accessing PlayStation Music content.
Talking to fans on Twitter, the Ask PlayStation UK Twitter support page has said on several occasions, “We don’t have information on this at the moment” and “We are looking into this at the moment”.
Stay tuned for more details as we get it.
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Psn Servers Are Down On Ps4 & Ps5 Consoles
Sony has confirmed that most core online services provided by the PlayStation Network are down tonight. No ETA has been given on when regular service will be resumed, and we also dont know why PSN servers are down tonight. Here are the latest statements from Sony regarding todays PlayStation Network issues:
You might have difficulty launching games, apps, or network features. Were working to resolve the issue as soon as possible. Thank you for your patience.
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You might have difficulty streaming PlayStation Now games. Were working to resolve the issue as soon as possible. Thank you for your patience.
The create menu on the PS5 console lets you take screenshots and record your gameplay. You can also view recent screenshots and video clips:
You might have difficulty getting products on PlayStation Direct. Were working to resolve the issue as soon as possible. Thank you for your patience.
Gamers on PS4 and PS5 consoles also report a problem that ends in a ws-37469-9 Error Message. Here is the official explanation for this error message and what it might mean:
WS-37469-9 Means Failed to connect to the server.
- Check the PlayStation Network status page.
- Turn off your router, wait at least 5 minutes, then restart it. Please try again later.
Fix #: Manually Check For System Update
First, make sure your PS5 is connected to the internet and that you check for a system update. This is the simplest and easiest way to fix known bugs.
Follow these steps on how to update your PS5:
Wait for your PS5 to check if theres an available update for the system. Once the download has began, be sure not to turn the system off.
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Local Network Is Not Working
For others, the main reason why the PSN may be inaccessible on their PS5 is not because of server troubles but problems in their home network.
If your router has become unresponsive, or if theres an issue with your Internet Service Providers end, this can also result in issues connecting to PlayStation servers.
A common problem at home is low bandwidth or slow connection. You can run a speed test on your PS5 to see which part of the connection is not working, or if the download speed is not optimal for connecting to the PSN.
Psn License Issue And How To Get Your Ps4 Games Working Again
Simon Sayers / August 26, 2020
PSN License Issue And How To Get Your PS4 Games Working Again Find out about the PSN license issue and solve problems with your PS4 game licenses.
Since the launch of PlayStation 4, weve come across the issue with licences numerous times, yet by following a few simple steps weve managed to fix it!
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How To Avoid Playstation Store Payment Issues
Are there issues with the PlayStation Network?
If PlayStation Network is experiencing issues, it may be possible that your payment information cannot be recorded. Please check the PSN status page and wait until all services display a green light before re-entering your payment information.
- Does PlayStation Store accept the type of card?
While PlayStation Store accepts most payment cards, there are certain payment methods that cannot be used. Take a look at the accepted payment methods page to see if your card type is compatible with PlayStation Store.
Are the card details up to date and accurate?
Enter your details exactly as they appear on your bank statements.
To check the payment details on your account, go to Account Management> Payment Management and select the payment card.
Do your details contain any special characters?
If your name, address or flat number contain special characters, try replacing them with the nearest letter from the basic 26-letter Latin alphabet.
Dont use characters that arent letters, such as asterisks , hyphens , apostrophes or slashes .
Is your payment card from a different region to your PlayStation Store region?
If your credit or debit card is registered to an address in a different country to that of your PlayStation Store region, you may find that they cannot be linked. If possible, please use a payment card registered to the same region as your PlayStation Store region.
Fix : Reset Your Ps4 To Default Settings
Here is the last resort to fix PlayStation Network Sign-In: Failed. Resetting your PS4 to default settings could be helpful. But note that this solution will erase all your data on your internal drive. So, confirm there is no important data on your internal drive.
Step 1: Go to Settings and then choose Initialization.
Step 2: Select Initialize PS4. Then, select Full on the next page to perform a full factory reset.
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Ps5 Issues: All The Big Playstation 5 Problems To Look Out For
PS5 updates have helped make the console a lot more stable but keep an eye out for these problems
At some 18 months old, the kinks in the PS5 have pretty much all been ironed out with a slew of updates.
These have also evolved from fixes to delivering new features such as enabling the spare SSD slot to accept a storage upgrade, and more recently variable refresh rate support.
But with that in mind, we have a collection of the PS5 problems that may have caused the most problems, and ones you should be aware of if you’ve managed to uncover a PS5 restock.
Fix #: Double Check Your Psn Account
If your PS5 has a good IP address and is able to connect to the Internet, try checking for a system update again, as detailed above. If updating the console wont allow you connect to the PSN still, make sure that you verify if your account email and password are correct. You can do that by logging out of your PSN account and signing back in.
If you seemed to be having an issue with your PSN account, try signing it using your smartphone or computer. If your email address or password is the problem, youll have to fix it first.
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Your Home Internet Is Too Slow
If you have internet connection at home but the speed is too slow, your PS5 may not be able to maintain a solid connection with the PlayStation Network or with game servers.
Try running a speed test on your console to see the download and upload speeds. Download speed is important if you are downloading a game or updates while upload is crucial if you regularly play and voice chat or stream your games.
All Services Are Experiencing Issues
Update 4/12 4:58 pm PT: PlayStation Network is back up according to the official Network Status page.
PlayStation’s official PSN Status page is now listing all online services as up and running. If you log into PSN on your PlayStation device now, you should be able to engage with online services.
PlayStation has not acknowledged the temporary outage that lasted a little under an hour.
PlayStation Network is currently down.
Reports from PlayStation owners online as well as the PlayStation status page indicate that PSN is currently experiencing some technical difficulties.
As shown on IGN sister site DownDetector, there have been over 13,000 reports of an outage with PSN since 4 pm PT.
According to the official PlayStation Network status tracker, all services, from Account Management, online gaming, PlayStation Now, and the PSN Store are experiencing issues.
No official word yet on why exactly there’s an outage or how long it will be until services are back to normal. So check back with IGN as we’ll update this story when services resume, or there’s an official announcement.
Matt T.M. Kim is IGN’s News Editor. You can reach him .
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Culprits Behind Playstation Network Sign
Why cant I sign into PlayStation Network on my PS4? The possible reasons are:
1.You input a mismatched username and password:
The most common reason for the sign-in error is that you input your username or password wrong. So, make sure your input the right username and password.
2. The PS Network server is down due to maintenance:
PS users will encounter PlayStation Network Sign-In: Failed when the server is in maintenance. You can go to the path: Setting> Network> Test Internet Connection and then follow the on-screen instructions to make sure your console can get online.
3. Your IP has been changed or banned by PS:
If you see the error code WS-37397-9, it means that your IP address has been banned. Thats because PlayStation Network server Ais detects some suspicious activities from your IP address.
4. Your internet connection goes wrong:
Make sure that your network connection can work functionally.
Now, lets start performing the following solutions to fix PSN sign-in failed.
Fix : Change Dns Settings
PSN sign-in failed can be ascribed to the blocked IP address. To unblock the IP address, you can try changing DNS settings. Below are the steps to change DNS settings.
Step 1: Go to Settings> Network.
Step 2: Select Internet Connection Setup.
Step 3: Select Use Wi-Fi to connect to the network and then choose Custom.
Step 4: Select the Wi-Fi network you want to use and then set the IP Address Settings as Automatic.
Step 5: Select Do Not Specify on the DHCP Host Name screen.
Step 6: Select Manual under DNS Settings, and then enter the following Google DNS. After that, click the Next button to continue.
- Primary DNS 126.96.36.199
- Secondary DNS 188.8.131.52
Step 7: When you see MTU Settings, still select Manual and then set the MTU value as 1456.
Step 8: Click Do Not Use under Proxy Server. Then, click Test Internet Connection.
When the test comes to an end, please try to resign-in PlayStation Network.
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Fix #: Run A Network Connection Test
If there are no reported issues from the server side at all, the next that you can do is to test your internet connection to know where the point of failure might be.
To do that, follow these steps:
Once the speed test is finished, try to check where the failure is. There are three point of failures that youll see: PSN, Internet, and IP.
How To Fix Ps4 Game License Issue
1. Log out and log back in
Yep, its the most simplest of fixes, but youd be surprised at how often this works. Just shut down your PS4 and boot it back up and if the problem is still there move onto step 2.
2. Are you actually signed into the profile associated with that account?
While some gamers will automatically sign-into their PSN profile when they boot up, others will manually need to sign in. Press up on the control pad, go to Settings > PlayStation Network > Sign in. Click Yes if asked if this is your Primary PS4 account.
3. Check the PSN status is it down?
We provide regular updates at PlayStation Universe on the PlayStation Network status, and you can also check the PSN down detector to see whether theres a problem. If there is, its just a matter of waiting until the network is back online. Keep an eye on our homepage or the official PlayStation server status UK page or U.S. page.
4. Deactivate as primary PS4 account
On numerous occasions, actually deactivating your primary PS4 account has worked for us and gets rid of the lock hovering over your game icons. This wont cause you any problems, as you can always re-activate again.
Go to Settings > PlayStation Network/Account Management> Deactivate as your primary PS4.
Now check to see if you can play your games.
5. Possible DRM issues
Try these steps:
- Uninstall your disc version of the game, or
- Ask previous owner to uninstall their disc version
6. Restore your license
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Much still needs to be done, when it comes to research, support and government policies, around Lupus, a rare auto-immune chronic disease, according to non-profit organisation, The Lupus Drive.Lupus is when your immune system cannot tell the difference between foreign invaders and your body’s healthy tissues; as a result, it creates auto-antibodies that attack and destroy healthy tissue.
Earlier this month, 25-year-old Vusi Nhlakanipho Zuma, the son of former president Jacob Zuma, passed away due to Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE). He was buried at the weekend.
Lupus Drive founder, Pontso Moiloa, said: “The disease is still very foreign to us.There is not enough research around this disease in South Africa, we are trying to establish more. A lot of mystery still surrounds who gets it and how it starts.
“But it causes a lot of deaths and, by the time most people are diagnosed, it’s either too late or they become suicidal.”
“We have created programmes of advocacy, to try to get the government to not ignore Lupus.
“The organisation also has a support group where they currently assist 183 people suffering from Lupus,” said Moiloa.
In a statement, the organisation said: “We have been on a drive to educate South Africans about Lupus.
“We have also been trying to reach as many places as possible to allow for other Lupus patients to get support and not experience the isolation that a lot us felt when being diagnosed – because that was the first time most of us had heard of the illness.
“We have done marches to the Department of Health in Johannesburg and Pretoria, and have sat down with the Department of Social Development and the Gauteng regional office with the hope that the government will more robustly focus on Lupus and provide patients with much-needed support.”
In honour of Vusi, and the many other lives lost, as well as Lupus survivors battling the illness on a daily basis, the organisation will host an Evening of Hope gala dinner on September 28 at a cost of R450. The venue still has to be confirmed. For more information on the event and the work they do, The Lupus Drive can be found on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter.
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In July 1976, the 58th annual convention of the American Legion foregathered at Philadelphia’s Hotel Bellevue. As the event began, the celebrating membership was feeling no pain. Then a sudden, swift, severe pneumonia laid low 182 of the attendees, and brought death to 29 of them.
At first, this unprecedented infection baffled the medical profession, but eventually the etiology of the deadly disease was tracked to the hotel’s rooftop air-conditioning water tanks, and the bacteria that incubated in them invading the convention via the ducts. That pathogen since became famously known as Legionella pneumophila. An estimated 8,000 to 18,000 Americans contract Legionnaires’ disease (LD) each year, and 5 percent to 30 percent of them die.
“Of community-acquired outbreaks of LD,” recalled cell microbiologist Craig Roy, at Yale University in New Haven, Conn., “the most recent that comes to mind is back in April of this year, at a Ford plant in Ohio. A number of auto workers came down with LD, and a couple of them died. The management had to close the plant down and decontaminate all water systems.
“In addition,” Roy continued, “there was a very large LD outbreak a while back at a flower show in Holland. They were using mister sprays, whirlpools and fountains to humidify the environment and create a greenhouse effect in the floral display room. The moisture became contaminated with aerosol-borne Legionella. Hundreds of people came down with symptoms, and there were quite a few deaths.
“When identified very early after infection,” he went on, “Legionnaires’ disease is readily treated with antibiotics. The problem arises because usually LD is not recognized until people develop severe pneumonia, and a number of them come into an area hospital with acute symptoms. At that point, the infection has progressed to a stage where antibiotic therapy may not be sufficient to save their lives.”
Roy, an associate professor of microbial pathogenesis at Yale, is senior author of a paper in today’s Science, dated Jan. 25, 2002. It’s titled: “A bacterial guanine nucleotide exchange factor activates ARF on Legionella phagosomes.”
Co-Conspirator: A Bacterial Protein Called RALF
“The unique thing about this paper,” Roy told BioWorld Today, “is that we’ve determined the existence of a prokaryotic bacterial protein that can be injected into a eukaryotic human host cell by means of a specialized secretion apparatus. This demonstrates that bacteria have the ability to drive the membrane-bound compartment in which they reside to a new location, helped by a protein named RALF, which is directly injected into the host cell. RALF functions by activating the host protein, ARF1, which is a key regulator of membrane transporting in eukaryotic host cells. It’s also involved in the transport of vesicles between two of the cell’s organelles its endoplasmic reticulum [ER] and the Golgi apparatus.
“Interestingly,” Roy explained, “Legionella is a bacterium that can somehow be transported to the ER, rather than being delivered to lysosomes in the cell for destruction digestion by macrophages.” He added: “No one really understood how it can do this, when the ER is an organelle that bacteria shouldn’t end up in under any circumstance. Yet, Legionella figured out how to get into that compartment, which provides us a real clue as to how the bacterium is accomplishing this. It’s not doing it by interfering with normal transport of the pathogen-digesting phagosome. Instead, it stimulates transport by recruiting eukaryotic host proteins, specifically ARF, which are key regulators of driving its compartments to the ER.
“In other words,” Roy went on, “Legionella is really building a Trojan horse here, that the eukaryotic cell thinks is a legitimate type of vesicle, and then brings this vesicle into a location that bacteria shouldn’t ever occupy. In doing so, the cargo of that Trojan horse is Legionella, and it’s delivered to the ER, where it now finds itself in a very rich and non-degradative nutrient environment. This results in bacterial proliferation in the eukaryotic host cell, thus allowing Legionella to cause an infection in humans, which leads to Legionnaire’s disease. But it also gives us clues as to many other bacterial pathogens that can avoid being delivered to lysosomes. So instead of being destroyed by their professional phagocytes, they may be redirecting transport of their membrane-bound compartment after internalization in the cell.
“This isn’t a question only for Legionella,” Roy pointed out. “It’s applicable to a wide variety of intracellular pathogens, including Chlamidia, Mycobacteria, Brucella, Rickettsia. In all of these microbes it’s believed that they’re somehow altering transport of their membrane-bound compartment, but in no case has it been determined that bacterial proteins enable them to do this.
“Another interesting aspect of our study,” Roy noted, “is that Legionella is ubiquitously found in freshwater environments, where they grow in protozoan host cells such as amoeba. When these bacteria gain access to the human lungs, they cannot discriminate between those simple unicellular phagocytes in nature, and the very sophisticated macrophages which are the first line of defense against infection in the human lung. In other words, the genes that encode the specialized transporter are absolutely essential for growth in amoeba as well as in macrophages. This means that Legionella must be targeting host proteins that have remained evolutionarily conserved. That also helps explain why the prokaryotic bacterium can actually parasitize such conserved eukaryotic host cells.”
On Track Of Multi-Pathogen Therapeutic Drugs
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If you want to raise happy and successful kids, model the traits of a dolphin, says Shawn Achor, author of Before Happiness and The Happiness Advantage, and Harvard researcher. Be playful, friendly, intelligent and social. Dolphin parents raise positive kids, and that sets the stage for future success, Shawn says.
Many parents think success first, happiness second, but that’s not how it works. Happiness fuels success and not the other way around, Achor says. The problem with putting success before happiness is that success is a moving target—once you achieve a victory (something you thought would bring happiness) you push the goalpost out, so happiness keeps getting pushed over the horizon. The same philosophy applies to your kids.
Parents can increase the likelihood of raising successful kids by focusing on creating a positive environment for their kids because happiness and optimism fuel performance and achievement. “Cultivating positive brains makes us more motivated, efficient, resilient, creative and productive, which drives performance,” Shawn says.
To embrace dolphin parenting, Shawn says you need to prioritize happiness and positivity in the present. Here are some ways to do it:
- Create a positive environment for your kids by modeling optimism. Remember that the lens through which you see the world shapes your reality—and the reality for your kids.
- Teach your kids to openly express gratitude for three things a day—at the dinner table or before they go to bed each night. Encourage your kids to come up with new things each day. “It gets their brains to operate from a positive place, think about their strengths and cultivate optimism.”
- Exercise a little bit each day. “Exercise teaches your brain that what you do matters,” Achor says.
- Encourage your kids to journal about positive experiences. They get to relive happy memories.
- Make learning fun. Instead of rewarding your kids after they finish homework (delayed gratification), look for creative ways to make the process of doing their homework more enjoyable.
- Encourage your kids to connect and create deep social support with their friends.
- Change how your kids view stress. Help them see stress as a challenge and not a threat.
- Show your kids how to be open to possibilities and make goals attainable. Focus on the positive by reminding kids of past accomplishments to fuel future accomplishments. Break those bigger goals into smaller objectives so kids are encouraged and goals seem reachable.
- Have your child write a positive note to someone in their life.
- Have fun and smile.
“What we really want is not only to get parents to teach these habits to children, but to model the habits. As the parent becomes more peaceful, calm, compassionate and positive, it becomes easier for the child to respond and do these things as well,” Shawn says.
The key is to cultivate happiness in the present moment. When kids are happy and have a positive outlook, success is likely to follow, Shawn says. “When we believe positivity is important in the present, I think we will see a very different future.”
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Two women were detained at the airport: they tried to carry 109 animals in their luggage
Two Hindu women were arrested at the airport in Thailand. They found 109 animals in their luggage, including porcupines, turtles and chameleons. Read more about the smugglers told the publication Independent.
Customs officers at Suvarnabhumi Airport in Bangkok, Thailand, searched the women after X-rays revealed the strange contents of their suitcases.
Authorities said the women violated animal protection and trade laws.
In their two suitcases, two white porcupines, two armadillos, 35 turtles, 50 chameleons and 20 snakes were found.
After that, veterinary services were called, the smugglers were detained, and their luggage was confiscated.
Thailand's Department of National Parks, Wildlife and Plant Conservation identified the detainees as Nithya Raja, 38, and Zakia Sultana Ebrahim, 24. They tried to board a Thai Airways flight to Chennai on 27 June.
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They were accused of violating the Wildlife Conservation and Protection Act of 2019, the Animals Act of 2015 and the Customs Act of 2017.
Airports are a common route for animal trade. More than a million illegal wildlife and animal products were seized at airports around the world in 2019, according to Traffic, a charity that campaigns against the illegal wildlife trade.
A 2016-2018 study of global animal trafficking through airports found that Thailand ranks third in the world in the number of instances of airport trafficking (57). China is first on this list (240), well ahead of Vietnam and leaving it second position (76).
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Chennai Airport, the destination of the arrested women, was by far the most popular, accounting for 36,1% of all wildlife seizures at India's 18 major airports.
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- 1 TITLES:
- 2 AUTHORS (order ok?):
- 3 ABSTRACT
- 4 I. Introduction + Motivation
- 5 II. Previous Work
- 6 III. Feature-based Sound Design
- 7 IV. Results
- 8 V. Conclusion and Future Work
- 9 VI. References
- The smartest sound editor ever built
- (Feature-based Sound Design Framework/Workbench/System/null)
- (Feature-aware TAPESTREA: A Integrated/Comprehensive/Smart/Interactive Approach to Sound Design Workbench)
- (TAPESTREA: Augmenting Interactive Sound Design with Feature-based Audio Analysis)
- Interactive Content Retrieval for Intelligent/Template-aware Sound Design
- Interactive Sound Design by Example
- FAT-APE-STREAT: Sound Design by Querying
- Sound Design-by-Querying and by-Example
- Finding New Examples to Sound Design By
- Extending Sound Scene Modeling By Example with Examples
- Integrating Sound Scene Modeling and Query-by-example
- Sound Scene Modeling by Example with Integrated Audio Retrieval
- Facilitating Sound Design using Query-by-example
- Enriching/Extending/Expanding Sound Scene Modeling By Examples using Audio Information Retrieval
- Enhancing the Palette: Querying in the Service of Interactive Sound Design
- Expanding the Palette: Audio Information Retrieval for Intelligent Sound Design
- Expanding the Palette: Audio Information Retrieval for Intelligent Data-driven Sound Design
- Enhancing the Palette: Audio Information Retrieval for TAPESTREA
- Expanding the Palette: Audio Information Retrieval for Sound Scene Modeling by Example
- Enhancing the Palette: Template-based Retrieval for Intelligent Sound Design
- Enhancing the Palette: Using Audio Information Retrieval to Expand the Transformative Power of TAPESTREA
AUTHORS (order ok?):
Ananya Misra, Matt Hoffman, Perry R. Cook, Ge Wang
(no. down with order.)
We integrate music information retrieval technologies with TAPESTREA techniques to facilitate and enhance sound design, providing a new class of "intelligent" sound design workbench.
I. Introduction + Motivation
Sound designers who work with environmental or natural sounds are faced with a large selection of existing audio samples, including sound effects, field recordings, and soundtracks from movies and television, as a starting point. The TAPESTREA system [cite] facilitates the reuse of existing recordings by offering a new framework for interactively extracting desired components of sounds, transforming these individually, and flexibly resynthesizing them to create new sounds. However, the corpus of existing audio remains unstructured and largely unlabeled, making it difficult to locate desired sounds without minute knowledge of the available database. This paper explores ways to leverage audio analysis at multiple levels in interactive sound design, via TAPESTREA. It also considers methods for TAPESTREA in turn to aid audio analysis.
The main goals of this work include: (1) aiding sound designers in creating varied and interesting sound scenes by combining elements of existing sounds, and (2) enabling a human operator to quickly identify similar sounds in a large collection or database. Combined with TAPESTREA's analysis-transformation-synthesis techniques and paradigms, this presents an extended "query by example" framework, where feature-based querying can enhance both the analysis and synthesis aspects of interactive sound recomposition. The constructs discussed here can also be useful in forensic audio applications and watermarking.
The rest of this paper is organized as follows. Section 2 addresses related work, and also provides an overview of the TAPESTREA system. Section 3 discusses the integration of the audio information retrieval with the analysis-transformation-synthesis framework of TAPESTREA. Section 4 provides results. We conclue and discuss future work in Section 5.
- Large corpus of unstructured and largely unlabled audio
(sound effects, field recordings, soundtracks from movies and TV, etc.)
- leverage audio analysis in interactive sound design (via TAPS)
- vice versa
- To aid sound designers in creating varied and interesting scenes (standard TAPS stuff)
- To enable a human operator to quickly identify similar sounds in a large collection of sounds.
- can be also useful for forensic audio applications, watermarking */
II. Previous Work
- see references
- Marsyas, Taps (sine+noise, transient, wavelet), feature-based synthesis
- related systems generally falls into one of two categories, (1) "intelligent" audio editors,
which generally extracted musical information, or (2) sonic browsers for search and retrieval.
TAPESTREA, Techniques And Paradigms for Expressive Synthesis, Transformation and Rendering of Environmental Audio, aims to facilitate the creation of new sound scenes or recompositions from existing sounds. It builds on the notion that most natural or environmental sounds consist of foreground and background components, and these are best modeled separately. It therefore enables the extraction of the following types of components or _templates_ from an existing sound:
(1) Deterministic events: highly sinusoidal foreground events, often perceived as pitchy, such as bird chirps or voices. (2) Transient events: brief, noisy foreground events with high stochastic energy, such as a door slamming. (3) Stochastic background: The background noise or "din" that is heard beneath the foreground events, such as ocean waves or street noise.
Each type of template is detected, extracted and resynthesized using techniques suited to its particular characteristics. Deterministic events are found and extracted by sinusoidal modeling based on the spectral modeling synthesis framework [cite serra]. They are then synthesized via sinusoidal resynthesis, enabling massive real-time frequency and time transformations. Transient events are located by examining energy changes in the time-domain envelope of the sound [cite?], and are resynthesized with desired transformations through a phase vocoder [cite?]. The stochastic background is obtained by (a) removing deterministic events during spectral modeling, and (b) removing transient events in the time domain and filling in the "holes" via wavelet tree learning [cite Dubnov] of nearby transient-free segments. A modified wavelet tree learning algorithm is then used to continuously resynthesize more background texture, controllably similar to the extracted background template.
In addition to this basic template set, TAPESTREA also provides additional templates to facilitate sound analysis and synthesis. These include: (MAYBE CUT SHORT) (1) "Raw" template: A selected segment in time extracted from a recording, bandpass filtered between specified frequency bounds, thus capturing both foreground and background components of the selected time-frequency region. It can be resynthesized with time and frequency transformations. (2) Loop: A structure for synthesizing repeating events, varying parameters such as periodicity, density, and range of random transformations. (3) Timeline: A structure for synthesizing a collection of templates explicitly placed in time relative to each other. (4) Mixed Bag: A structure for synthesizing multiple events repeating at different likelihoods. (5) Script: ChucK [cite] scripts for finer control over the synthesis parameters.
TAPESTREA presents interfaces for interactive, parametric control over all aspects of the analysis, transformation and resynthesis, and can be used to create a wide range of sounds from a given set of recordings. Since templates can be saved to file and reloaded at a later sitting, it also paves the way for building a reusable database of extracted templates and raw sound effects, to be loaded in and used at any time. As this database grows, it becomes worthwhile to include audio analysis techniques for searching through it, visualizing it, and using it to its full potential. Context Aware TAPESTREA addresses some of these topics.
III. Feature-based Sound Design
In order to augment TAPESTREA with audio information retrieval capabilities, two areas were addressed. Firstly, we integrated a feature-based similarity query engine as a component into the TAPESTREA system, and established well-defined points of interface to the analysis, synthesis, and template library components (Section 3.1). Secondly, we designed and integrated a new user interface devoted to and specialized for similarity retrieval of TAPS templates and raw audio files, and for interactively visualizing and browsing the feature-space in regions of interest (Section 3.2). Additionally, several retrieval-aware hooks were embedded into the existing user interfaces to allow the query and marking of sound events during analysis (Section 3.3).
Interactive template-based similarity search (database)
(figure for interface)
quering/marking recorded sounds for template discovery
V. Conclusion and Future Work
The most obvious next step toward improving the relevance of our query results is the incorporation of more features, particularly features capturing information the time domain dynamics of our sounds. At the moment our only two primarily time-domain-oriented features (low power and feature variance) do not consider any potential long-scale periodicity or order-dependent qualities present in sounds, which could be potentially quite relevant. A finer-grained set of spectral features might also provide better results.
One advantage to using a relatively small number of features, however, is that it remains practical for a user to manually set the weights to give each feature when ranking similarity. When using large numbers of features, many of which may be strongly correlated with each other, choosing the relative importance of each feature becomes both increasingly important (lest one set of features dominate the distance calculation) and increasingly difficult and time-consuming. An approach to dealing with this problem is to use machine learning algorithms such as [schapire rankboost] to try to infer how a user would rank the similarity of a set of sounds to one another from feature data. However, such an approach requires a substantial amount of human-labeled data, and presupposes that a general mapping is possible.
A disadvantage to query-by-example systems is that, by definition, they require the user to have an example on hand of the sort of sound they wish to find. It may be possible to circumvent this problem using the feature-based synthesis techniques we are currently developing, as described in [hoffman, these proceedings fingers crossed]. Using feature-based synthesis, we can synthesize audio matching arbitrary feature values specified by the user in real time. Once the sound generated in this way begins to resemble what the user is looking for, the features used to specify that sound can be passed as a query to the database, which should return a sound resembling what the user had in mind.
Finally, we hope to use machine learning techniques to better predict appropriate source separation parameters for TAPESTREA based on the feature values we extract for each sound. Since we have and continue to build a large library of extracted template files recording good separation parameters for a wide variety of sounds, it may be possible to leverage the features we extract and classify sounds into broad categories for which certain separation parameters are most appropriate. This in turn would allow us to do sinusoidal analyses of batches of sound files, and extract new features based on statistics about the deterministic, residual, and stochastic components of those sounds as automatically separated.
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* NOT what taps does.
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* 1st paper to deal with transcription without dealing with identifying notes
Dubnov, S., Z. Bar-Joseph, R. El-Yaniv, D. Lischinski, and M. Werman (2002). "Synthesizing sound textures through wavelet tree learning,". IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications 22(4).
Fernstrom, M. and E. Brazil. (2001)."Sonic Browsing: an auditory tool for multimedia asset management," In Proceedings of the International Conference on Auditory Display.
* deals more with musical structures and notes
Foote, J. (1999). "An overview of audio information retrieval," ACM Multimedia Systems, 7:2(10).
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Kashino, Tanaka. (1993). "A sound source separation system with the ability of automatic tone modeling," International Computer Music Conference.
* uses of clustering techniques for identifying sound sources
Misra, A., P. Cook, and G. Wang. (2006). "Musical Tapestry: Re-composing Natural Sounds," International Computer Music Conference. Submitted.
Misra, A., P. Cook, and G. Wang. (2006). "TAPESTREA: Sound Scene Modeling By Example," International Conference on Digital Audio Effects. Submitted.
Serra, X. (1989). "A System for Sound Analysis Transformation Synthesis based on a Deterministic plus Stochastic Decomposition," PhD thesis, Stanford University.
Shneiderman, B. (1998). Designing the User Interface: Strategies for Effective Human- Computer Interaction. Addison-Wesley, 3rd edition.
Tzanetakis G. and P. Cook. (2000). "MARSYAS: A Framework for Audio Analysis" Organized Sound, Cambridge University Press 4(3).
Tzanetakis, G. and P. Cook. (2001). "MARSYA3D: A prototype audio browser-editor using a large scale immersive visual and audio display," In Proceedings of the International Conference on Auditory Display. | <urn:uuid:ee83600f-6788-4572-9600-bcf3dd699692> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://wiki.cs.princeton.edu/index.php?title=Taps_ISMIR&oldid=2151 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572198.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815175725-20220815205725-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.865607 | 3,061 | 2 | 2 |
Chesapeake Bay is the largest estuary in the United States and is famous for its once extensive and now severely degraded eastern oyster (Crassostrea virginica) populations, along with a number of other important fisheries including crabs, rockfish, and menhaden. Here we explore the historical ecology of Native American subsistence and land use strategies in the Fishing Bay area of Maryland's Eastern Shore, building on our broader bay-wide analyses of oyster fisheries and human-environmental interactions. Archaeological analysis of faunal remains from shell middens dated between AD 500 to 1500, along with analysis of locally collected modern oysters, help reconstruct Fishing Bay's evolution during the late Holocene, and document shellfish harvest strategies and predation pressure. These data suggest a stable and sustainable prehistoric oyster fishery in Fishing Bay, likely due to: 1) seasonal harvest and local consumption; 2) intertidal harvest that allowed replenishment from subtidal populations; and 3) relatively low human population densities. When placed in the context of our broader bay-wide analysis, these data provide implications for managing the present day oyster fishery, lending support to increasing no-take zones and expanding oyster sanctuaries that can be rotated with areas actively being fished.
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The annual Holly Run charity fly-out to Tangier Island, Virginia, a fishing village of 400 residents in the Chesapeake Bay, returned after a one-year hiatus because of the coronavirus pandemic with more than 40 pilots helping to deliver holly branches for holiday decorations, school supplies, and Christmas presents on December 4.
The event began in 1968 with pilot Ed Nabb flying a two-person Ercoupe to the tiny island and has grown into an annual holiday tradition for big-hearted mid-Atlantic-based aviators. Organizer Helen Woods of Chesapeake Sport Pilot has been a driving force for the fly-out for several years.
Tangier Island Mayor James Eskridge thanked general aviation pilots for their “generosity and for not forgetting us here on this tiny island.”
Swain Memorial United Methodist Church’s Denny Crockett praised the dozens of aviators who donated their time, resources, and energy to make the holidays a little brighter for residents: “I don’t know what we’d do without them. I love to see the planes coming in and not just the planes, but what’s behind the planes.” He said the group “has really helped the people on Tangier Island.” | <urn:uuid:1e061cdd-e471-4c03-914d-67beadc39692> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.aopa.org/news-and-media/all-news/2021/december/07/tangier-island-mayor-thank-you-for-not-forgetting-us | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572033.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814113403-20220814143403-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.936328 | 267 | 1.617188 | 2 |
EghtesadOnline: To help reduce consumption of piped water across the sprawling capital, the second phase of a development plan to transfer sewage from the South Tehran Wastewater Treatment Complex to Tehran Oil Refinery is underway, head of engineering department of the refinery said.
“The plan calls for diverting 19 million cubic meters of wastewater a year to the refinery’s wastewater unit now under construction,” Reza Heydari was quoted as saying by ILNA.
When completed, 19 million cubic meters of piped water will be saved annually and pumped to small towns in the vicinity of the refinery in south Tehran, he added.
The wastewater, which will be recycled in the refinery’s wastewater treatment facility, will have a low total dissolved solids (TDS) that is suitable for cooling towers and the refinery’s fire department.
TDS is a measure of the dissolved combined content of all inorganic and organic substances present in a liquid in molecular, ionized, or micro-granular suspended form.
Referring to other advantages of treated sewage, Heydari noted that the wastewater plant of the oil refinery will supply boilers with demineralized water, water completely free (or almost free) of dissolved minerals, that can be used instead of boiler feedwater. BFW causes corrosion in the oil complex.
The wastewater treatment unit is under construction and seven kilometers of water pipes have been laid.
A 2015 agreement between TWWC and Tehran Refinery calls on the former toprovide the latter with 2 mcm of wastewater per annum for 30 years. This volume will increase as soon as the second phase of the project is completed.
While 48% of the country’s treated wastewater is used in the agricultural sector, about 45% of it enters surface waters, less than 0.5% is utilized by industrial units and 5% for urban green spaces.
Recalling that wastewater output is estimated at 1.2 billion cubic meters per year, Heydari said 70% of water used by households can and should be reused in wastewater treatment plants.
Unlike some countries, recycled wastewater is not used for drinking purposes in Iran as it is against Islamic tenets, the head of the department in charge of wastewater networks at the National Water and Wastewater Engineering Company, Behnam Vakili has said
Wastewater is largely used in the industrial and agricultural sectors, Vakili said, and added that since the 1960s when the first wastewater treatment plant was built in Iran, more than 200 plants have been built, of which 183 are operational and the rest will go on stream soon. | <urn:uuid:904d5575-0388-46e1-97c4-fb3f15706f5e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.en.eghtesadonline.com/Section-energy-70/32873-tehran-oil-refinery-expands-wastewater-infrastructure | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572033.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814113403-20220814143403-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.956929 | 538 | 2.265625 | 2 |
Communicate with the boss to get noticed
Most employees communicate with their bosses only when they have problems. While it is undoubtedly important to keep the lines of communication open in crisis situations, it is also necessary to communicate with your boss when things are going well. All too often, bosses are overwhelmed with their responsibilities and can lose sight of you in the shuffle. If you don’t want to be “just another employee,” then you need to make sure you maintain communication with your boss.
When bosses are aware of the specific responsibilities that you handle from day to day, they have a better appreciation of you. This allows them see the kinds of problems you can manage and gives them the opportunity to assess how well you are doing. If you only communicate with your superiors about your problems, it can create the impression that you aren’t doing too well. However, when you share your accomplishments and successes, you give your boss a chance to appreciate your work and to remember you in a positive light.
You may have a good deal of competition for the boss’s attention. Other employees, work obligations and responsibilities may limit the time you boss may have for you. You can still make yourself visible through means other than face-to-face talks. A very effective way to ensure your boss is kept up to date on your efforts and successes is to write him or her regular memos. This is not to suggest that you spend hours writing detailed reports – this may end up with your boss thinking that you are wasting your work time.
When sending a memo there are some guidelines to keep in mind:
■ Your memo must be worth reading. Don’t just write one without direction. Provide information the boss can use.
■ If you are sharing a problem offer a solution within your memo. Suggest a way to avoid the problem if possible.
■ Share good news. The boss likes good news, too. Let them know progress that is being made on a problem or goal.
■ Share other employees’ accomplishments. What a wonderful way to create a sense of good will and teamwork. Send a copy of the memo to the other employee. Not only will the other employee be grateful, it will also impress your boss.
■ Producing a meaningful memo is easiest if you keep notes for yourself. Jot down problems you have worked on and goals you have achieved. When you are comfortable with your accomplishments and ideas, send your memo.
■ Keep in mind not to overdo it. Don’t prepare pages of details nor send a memo every day. Learn to make your memos count. You must remind yourself that these memos are for your boss’ convenience. Show them you have respect for their time.
■ Remember, you keep your name in front of your boss when you send memos. Well-written timely memos create opportunities for further communication, which is the cornerstone of high visibility. | <urn:uuid:49952941-711c-4d2f-ad30-8e8d860db207> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://jankantor.com/communicate-boss-get-noticed/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572033.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814113403-20220814143403-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.960595 | 595 | 1.609375 | 2 |
NiRA, through its special purpose vehicle, training Academy, is organizing a three-day training on Domain Name System Security Extensions (DNSSEC). This training would bring together various stakeholders in the ICT Industry, to effectively deploy DNSSEC. Please see the training website https://nsrc.org/workshops/2019/nira-nsrc-icann-dnssec/index.html
The Domain Name System (DNS) is the hierarchical naming system for all resources connected to the Internet or a private network, including websites, mail servers and application servers.
While the DNS is invaluable to the Internet community, it is not without vulnerability. It is the target of some of the internet’s most dangerous hacks. Attacks on the DNS can allow malicious entities intercept an internet user’s request to access a website, send e-mail, or transact with a domain. These attacks can also redirect or eavesdrop on the user without their knowledge. Organizations run the risk of losing multiple millions of naira in lost reputation, stolen transactions, recovery costs and more, if they are unable to reassert control. These vulnerabilities have increased interest in introducing a technology called DNS Security Extensions (DNSSEC) to secure this part of the Internet’s infrastructure.
DNSSEC introduces digital signatures into the DNS infrastructure and is designed to automatically ensure that users are not hijacked en-route and taken to an unintended destination. It is a technology that can be added to the Domain Name System to verify the authenticity of its data. Full deployment of DNSSEC will ensure the end user is connecting to the actual web site or other service corresponding to a particular domain name
This three-day workshop is organized under the auspices of NiRA Academy in collaboration with Network Startup Resource Center (NSRC). NiRA Academy is established to build capacity in the DNS industry in Nigeria and other African countries. NSRC is a non-profit organization based at the University of Oregon and formed to support the deployment of Internet research and education networks. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) sponsors the activities of NSRC. | <urn:uuid:664c78dd-3fd1-432a-ab97-4222fb92a0b9> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://nira.org.ng/nira-media-news-update-418-information-on-the-dnssec-training/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571909.51/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813051311-20220813081311-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.904709 | 439 | 2.59375 | 3 |
Gazdík has previously stated that about 17 billion crowns will be needed for the integration of refugees. According to him, this amount is based on the current average cost per student and on the assumption that 120,000 Ukrainian children would enter Czech schools.
According to the latest estimates, there are about 300,000 refugees in the Czech Republic, about half of whom are children. The Minister warned that it is no longer possible to estimate how the situation will evolve. “Nobody knows what the situation will be in May. In June, there may be only half the refugees, or there may be twice as many,” he said. approved budget of the ministry is 249.6 billion crowns.
The money is used to attend adaptation courses or to teach Czech
“At the moment we know that we need 5.2 billion crowns by the end of August,” he said. According to him, this is money for adaptation courses, teaching assistants and other staff or for teaching Czech to foreigners. To finance the adaptation groups, the ministry wants to use simplified grant applications, known as model grants. The government is expected to discuss this next week.
“At the moment it has to be national money (not European subsidies). It is possible if the European Union reimburses us in the future, but we must react quickly. “The European mechanisms are a bit slower after all,” he said. According to the minister, additional teaching assistants or Ukrainian teachers should be paid from regional reserves.
The minister also wants to use money from abroad for Czech language courses or holiday recreation for refugees. “For example, the Norwegian ambassador offered me help from Norwegian funds in this direction in the order of millions of euros. At the same time, we are negotiating in Brussels, ”said the minister. According to him, the conditions under which the summer language courses for refugees could take place could be clarified in May.
School funding should be adjusted
Gazdík reminded that the ministry will also find out at the end of March the evolution of the number of pupils in the schools. He wants to adapt school funding to statistics. According to him, similar data collection will likely be repeated in May. “We will solve the problem of long-term integration of Ukrainian children into Czech schools in September, May and June depending on the situation that will develop,” he added.
As he announced before the outbreak of war in Ukraine, he would like to discuss the possibility of adding money for non-teachers in education this year. But it is not sure that it will work. “We really inherited the state budget in a failing state and we didn’t save for the bad times in these times of plenty. And we’re not in bad times now, we’re in extremely bad times. bad,” he concluded.
Czechia has already issued 233,000 visas
Czechia has so far granted more than 233,000 visas to people affected by Russian aggression. Nearly three thousand more were added on Saturday. Nearly 127,000 refugees have registered with the Police and Assistance Centers for Foreigners since the start of the war. The Interior Ministry announced it on Twitter on Sunday.
The actual number of Ukrainian refugees residing in the Czech Republic is probably higher. According to Prime Minister Petr Fiala’s (ODS) statement on Tuesday, around three hundred thousand refugees have arrived in the Czech Republic since the start of the war in Ukraine. Almost half of the refugees are children, four-fifths of the adults are women.
The number of visas issued has decreased in recent days. On Monday, the interior issued more than seven thousand visas, on Tuesday and Wednesday about 5 thousand, on Thursday less than four thousand and on Friday about 3600. The number of people registering with the foreign police is also decreasing. More than 1,500 of them reported it on Saturday. According to the latest data from the Ministry of the Interior, more than 35% of children under 15 do not have to declare their stay.
Most of the refugees still remain in Prague, their number is around 57,000, according to statistics from the Ministry of the Interior. The assistance center in Prague, which is common to Prague and the Central Bohemian region, has so far taken care of 56,600 people, more than eight hundred on Saturday, firefighters said on Twitter.
Other centers in Central Bohemia – in Kutná Hora, Mladá Boleslav and Příbram – received 202 people on Saturday, more than 500 last week on the same day, more than 600 two weeks ago. The center was hosted by 83 Ukrainian refugees. Since the start of their operation, the regional assistance centers in Central Bohemia outside Prague have taken care of 17,807 people and accommodated 2,635 of them.
Before the war, refugees received new temporary protection visas. They can stay in the Czech Republic for up to a year. At the same time, they have access to public health insurance, education, the labor market and are entitled to additional support, such as housing. Due to the influx of refugees, the government wants to extend the state of emergency for about two months. It is now valid from March 4 for 30 days. Members will consider the request at a special meeting on Tuesday. | <urn:uuid:8a215652-1c16-4ce7-8eea-90405df184ce> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://hdlfinancialservices.com/2022/03/27/more-than-five-billion-will-be-needed-to-integrate-ukrainian-children-into-schools-by-august-says-gazdik-ct24-ceska-televize/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572033.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814113403-20220814143403-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.970619 | 1,097 | 1.8125 | 2 |
Pretoria is the administrative capital of South Africa. It straddles the Apies River and has spread eastwards into the foothills of the Magaliesberg mountains.It is one of the country's three capital cities, serving as the seat of the administrative branch of government, and of foreign embassies to South Africa. Pretoria has a reputation for being an academic city with three universities, the Tshwane University of Technology , University of Pretoria , and the University of South Africa , also home to the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research , and the Human Sciences Research Council.
Pretoria is the central part of the Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality which was formed by the amalgamation of several former local authorities including Centurion and Soshanguve. There have been proposals to change the name of Pretoria itself to Tshwane and the proposed name change has caused some public controversy. Pretoria was one of the host cities of the 2010 FIFA World Cup.
Pretoria stretches along both sides of the Apies River and extends into the western foothills of the Magaliesberg on the east. Founded in 1855 by Marthinus, son of Andries Pretorius, the Boer statesman for whom the city was named, it became the capital of the Transvaal in 1860, administrative capital of South Africa in 1910, and a city in 1931.
Data and Facts
- Stanza Bopape Street is the longest street in any of South Africa’s cities, and at 26 km, is one of the longest urban streets in the world
- The Cullinan Diamond was discovered near the city in 1905
- The University of Pretoria is the largest residential university in South Africa and provides education for over 50,000 students
- There are more than 40 embassies in Pretoria
- Mrs Ples, the nickname for what is considered one of the oldest intact skulls of a distant ancestor of humankind dating back over 2-million-years ago is housed at the Transvaal Museum in Pretoria
- Pretoria was founded in 1855 by Marthinus Pretorius, a leader of the Voortrekkers, who named it after his father Andries Pretorius
Pretoria is divided into 5 regions, namely Eastern, Southern, Central Western, North West and North East. The City of Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality is the metropolitan municipality that forms the local government of northern Gauteng Province, South Africa. The Metropolitan area is centred on the city of Pretoria with surrounding towns and localities included in the local government area.The City of Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality was established on 5 December 2000, comprising 13 former city and town councils and managed under an executive mayoral system.
The Metsweding District Municipality was incorporated into the municipality with effect from 18 May 2011 .
In the election of 3 August 2016, the Democratic Alliance won a plurality of 93 seats on the council, but no party won a majority. On August 19, 2016, minority parties united with the DA to vote in DA mayoral candidate, Solly Msimanga as the first Democratic Alliance mayor of Tshwane. Msimanga appointed a mayoral committee coalition consisting of the DA, African Christian Democratic Party and the Freedom Front Plus. Mokgalapa announced his resignation in February 2020.
Despite the many corporate offices, small businesses, shops, and government departments that are situated in Pretoria's sprawling suburbs, its Central Business District still retains its status as the traditional centre of government and commerce. Many banks, businesses, large corporations, shops, shopping centres, and other businesses are situated in the city centre which is towered by several large skyscrapers, the tallest of which is the Poyntons Building , the ABSA Building and the Reserve Bank of South Africa building .Several National Departments also have Head Offices in the Central Business district such as the Department of Health, Basic Education, Transport, Higher Education and Training, Sport and Recreation, Justice and Constitutional Development, Public Service and Administration, Water and Environmental Affairs and the National Treasury.
Pretoria is primarily a seat of government, but it is also an important rail and industrial centre. Economic activities include engineering, food processing, and diamond mining. In 2000 Pretoria became part of the Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality. Pop. (2005 est.) urban agglom., 1,282,000.
The recent announcement from the Brookings Institute, that Pretoria is now the fastest-growing South African metropolitan economy, appears to suggest that future growth prospects for the national economy seem, at last, to be more promising.
It is true that the economic growth of Pretoria is undeniably a step in the right direction for the growth of the broader economy. It is equally evident, however, that persistent structural barriers and political uncertainty are challenging factors contributing towards continuing the low level of economic growth at the national level.
Gauteng Province, in which Pretoria is situated, is lauded as the «economic engine» of South Africa. Despite that, however, the positive economic growth of the province as a whole has previously fallen short of expectations.
The result has been high income inequality, significant levels of unemployment, declining global competitiveness and a general slowing of productivity growth. Those industries, along with mining and agriculture, are vital components of the South African economy.
The Brookings Global Metro Monitor June 2018 report found that Pretoria had the highest regional growth in employment, at 7.6%, and a robust 3.5% GDP per capita growth.
Compared to earlier in the year, when the national economy contracted by 2.2%, Pretoria’s economic growth indicates that there is potential for a more positive outlook in the future. National economic growth has been predicted to reach 1.6% in 2018 and 2.0% in 2019; notably higher than in preceding years.
Pretoria, the city of South Africa is an important industrial centre. It is famous for heavy industries that include iron and steel casting. Other manufacturing industries incorporate automotive, railroad and machinery. Being the midpoint of the national economy, the Greater Pretoria metropolitan area produces up to 9% of the National Gross Geographic Product. Its economy is dominated by several sectors, which includes government companies, motor vehicles and parts manufacturing industry.
The city is a centre point for developing small as well as big businesses. The Pretoria Municipal Area is very much famous for various economic activities.
The South African economy furthermore is characterised by a low growth rate, a high inflation rate, taxes such as Valued Added Tax and a high rate of unemployment. The South African economy grew at a growth rate of 2.5%during 1994, the first year after the first democratic elections and the opening of global trading boundaries for importing foreign products and exporting local products.
In 1995 the growth rate improved to 2.9%, but with the depreciation of the rand, which started at the end of 1996, the growth rate declined sharply to a mere 0.1% for 1998.
Pretoria has over the years had very diverse cultural influences and this is reflected in the architectural styles that can be found in the city. It ranges from 19th century Dutch, German and British colonial architecture to modern, postmodern, neomodern, and art deco architecture styles with a good mix of a uniquely South African style.
Some of the notable structures in Pretoria include the late 19th century Palace of Justice, the early 20th century Union Buildings, the post-war Voortrekker Monument, the diverse buildings dotting the main campuses of both the University of Pretoria and the University of South Africa, traditional Cape Dutch style Mahlamba Ndlopfu , the more modern Reserve Bank of South Africa and the Telkom Lukasrand Tower. Other well-known structures and buildings include the Loftus Versfeld Stadium, The South African State Theatre and the Oliver Tambo building which is the Headquarters of the Department of International Relations and Cooperation.
Pretoria's nickname «the Jacaranda City» comes from the around 70,000 jacaranda trees that grow in Pretoria and decorate the city each October with their purple blossoms. The first two trees were planted in 1888 in the garden of local gardener, J.D. Cilliers, at Myrtle Lodge on Celliers Street in Sunnyside. He obtained the seedlings from a Cape Town nurseryman who had harvested them in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The two trees still stand on the grounds of the Sunnyside Primary School.
The jacaranda comes from tropical South America and belongs to the family Bignoniaceae. There are around fifty species of jacaranda, but the one found most often in the warmer areas of Southern Africa is Jacaranda mimosifolia.
At the end of the 19th century, the flower and tree grower James Clark imported jacaranda seedlings from Australia and began growing them on a large scale. Pretoria Station is a departure point for the Blue Train luxury train. Rovos Rail, a luxury mainline train safari service operates from the colonial-style railway station at Capital Park. The South African Friends of the Rail have recently moved their vintage train trip operations from the Capital Park station to the Hercules station.Various bus companies exist in Pretoria, of which PUTCO is one of the oldest and most recognised. Tshwane municipality provides the remainder of the bus services.
The N1 is the major freeway that runs through Pretoria. It enters the city from the south as the Ben Schoeman Highway. At the Brakfontein Interchange with the N14 it continues as The N1 Eastern Bypass bisects the large expanse of the eastern suburbs, routing traffic from Johannesburg to Polokwane and the north of the country. The R101 is the original N1, and served the same function before the construction of the highway. It runs through the centre of town rather than the eastern suburbs.
The N4 enters the town as a highway from Witbank in the east, merging with the N1 at the Proefplaas Interchange. It begins again north of the city, branching west from the N1 as the Platinum Highway, forming the Northern Bypass, and heading to Rustenburg. The N4 runs east–west through South Africa, connecting Maputo to Gaborone. Before the Platinum Highway was built, the N4 continued passed the Proefplaas Interchange to the city centre, where it became a regular road, before again becoming a highway west of the city. It crosses the N1 east of the Brakfontein Interchange at the Flying Saucer Interchange and runs north–south towards Ekurhuleni . Importantly it links Pretoria with the OR Tambo International Airport in Kempton Park.
A proposed third north–south highway, in the west of the city, the R80 is partially built. At present the highway begins in Soshanguve. It terminates just north of the city centre at an intersection with the M1. Plans have been in place for some time to extend this all the way past the M4 and N14 highways to the N1 in Randburg.
Pretoria is also served by many regional roads. The R55 starts at an interchange with the R80, and runs north–south west of the city to Sandton. The R50 starts from the N1 just after the Flying Saucer Interchange in the south-east of the city, and continues south-east towards Delmas. The R511 runs north–south from Randburg towards Brits and barely by-passes Pretoria to the west. The R514 starts from the M1, north of the city centre, and terminates at the R511. The R513 crosses Pretoria's northern suburbs from east to west. It links Pretoria to Cullinan and Bronkhorstspruit in the east and Hartbeespoort in the west.
The Tshwane University of Technology is a higher education institution, offering vocational oriented diplomas and degrees, and came into being through a merger of Technikon Northern Gauteng, Technikon North-West and Technikon Pretoria. TUT caters for approximately 60,000 students and it has become the largest residential higher education institution in South Africa.The Council for Scientific and Industrial Research is South Africa's central scientific research and development organisation. It was established by an act of parliament in 1945 and is situated on its own campus in the city. It is the largest research and development organisation in Africa and accounts for about 10% of the entire African R&D budget. It is non-profit community organisation providing a wireless community network in Pretoria, the capital of South Africa.
PTAWUG has been created as the community’s answer to South Africa’s restrictive telecommunications environment. The South African telecommunications industry has been marked by poor service delivery, monopolistic practices and prohibitively high prices.
Founded on 28 July 2007, PTAWUG embodies the African spirit of Ubuntu. Its constitution guarantees openness, free participation and equality to all members of the Wireless User Group. PTAWUG exemplifies the proverbial open source Bazaar – no management team, no hierarchies, equal participation.
PTAWUG is the 3rd largest wireless network organisation in the world, behind AWMN , TWMN . These two networks provide internet as well, which PTAWUG doesn't, so counting community networks that don't provide internet - PTAWUG is the largest on earth.
In the past year the network has exploded from 4 users to 500+ users, all helping each other, playing games, sharing tips etc. The network grows at the rate about 10 new users a month. PTAWUG has also extended its network by connecting to several other wireless networks including JAWUG . The exponential growth is mainly attributable to the free-for-all and open community principles governing PTAWUG, as users contribute their time, income and knowledge freely without hindrance of a governing body.
Social Wellness and Human Resources
Pretoria is home to an extensive portfolio of public art. A diverse and evolving city, Pretoria boasts a vibrant art scene and a variety of works that range from sculptures to murals to pieces by internationally and locally renowned artists. The Pretoria Art Museum is home to a vast collection of local artworks. After a bequest of 17th century Dutch artworks by Lady Michaelis in 1932 the art collection of Pretoria City Council expanded quickly to include South African works by Henk Pierneef, Pieter Wenning, Frans Oerder, Anton van Wouw and Irma Stern.
Pretoria houses several performing arts venues including: the South African State Theatre which houses the arts of Opera, musicals, plays and comedic performances.
A 9 metre tall statue of former president Nelson Mandela was unveiled in front of the Union Buildings on 16 December 2013. Since Nelson Mandela's inauguration as South Africa's first majority elected president the Union Buildings have come to represent the new 'Rainbow Nation'.
Public art in Pretoria has flourished since the 2010 FIFA World Cup with many areas receiving new public artworks.
One of the most popular sports in Pretoria is rugby union. Supersport United were the 2008–09 PSL Champions. Following the 2011/2012 season the University of Pretoria F.C. gained promotion to the South African Premier Division, the top domestic league, becoming the third Pretoria-based team in the league.
After a poor league finish in the 2015/2016 season, University of Pretoria F.C. were relegated to the National First Division, the second-highest football league in South Africa, in the 2016 Premier Soccer League promotion/relegation play-offs.
Cricket is also a popular game in the city. As there is no international cricket stadium in the city, it does not host any top-class cricket tournaments, although the nearby situated Centurion has Supersport Park which is an international cricket stadium and has hosted many important tournaments such as 2003 Cricket World Cup, 2007 ICC World Twenty20, 2009 IPL and 2009 ICC Champions Trophy. The most local franchise team to Pretoria is the Titans, although Northerns occasionally play in the city in South Africa's provincial competitions. Many Pretoria born cricketers have gone on to play for South Africa, including current captain AB de Villiers and T20 captain Faf du Plessis.
The Pretoria Transnet Blind Cricket Club is situated in Pretoria and is currently the biggest Blind Cricket club in South Africa. Other early Jewish settlers, many of them immigrants from Lithuania, were not as educated as De Vries and often did not speak Dutch, Afrikaans, or English. Many of them spoke only Yiddish and made a living as shopkeepers in the local retail industry. Most Jewish residents stayed neutral in the Second Boer War, though some joined the South African Republic army.
The first congregation was founded between 1890 and 1895, and in 1898 the first synagogue opened on Paul Kruger Street. A second synagogue, known as the Great Synagogue, opened in 1922. Both synagogues are no longer in operation, but a Reformed synagogue, Temple Menorah, opened in the early 1950s.
The Jewish community of Pretoria's golden age was in the early 20th century, when many Jewish sports clubs, charities, and youth groups flourished. After 1948, many Jews left for Cape Town or Johannesburg.
The synagogue on Paul Kruger Street was purchased by the government in 1952 to become the new home of the High Court where prominent opposition figures in the Anti-Apartheid Movement were tried, including Nelson Mandela, Walter Sisulu, and 26 others were prosecuted for treason from August 1, 1958 to March 29, 1961; the Rivonia Trial was held there in 1963–1964. | <urn:uuid:f0524cd4-e31c-4ca8-8575-ff4f4bc7cc61> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.citiesabc.com/city/pretoria/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572033.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814113403-20220814143403-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.956267 | 3,714 | 2.546875 | 3 |
November 22, 2015
Here’s Why the Hype About Hydrogen Cars Won’t Last
Hydrogen cars promise clean, green driving – but several factors could stop their mainstream adoption.
Firstly, a quick explanation of hydrogen cars.
They are sometimes referred to as Fuel Cell Vehicles (FCV), and are cars powered exclusively by oxygen from the air and compressed hydrogen.
People tend to be amazed when they hear that hydrogen cars only emit water and heat from their tailpipes. And this is true – these cars emit no nasty pollutants whatsoever.
Sounds good so far?
Unfortunately, despite the hype from some car manufacturers, hydrogen cars have been slow to come to market due to some significant downsides.
I’m sure you don’t have time to read a whole thesis on this, so I’ll summarize the issues for you below:
- Hydrogen cars are inefficient compared with battery-powered cars
- Hydrogen cars are more expensive than battery-powered cars
- The infrastructure for hydrogen fueling stations will take years to build
- There are safety concerns, as hydrogen has a low-ignition point
The question you need to ask yourself is, do we actually need hydrogen cars?
We’re already seeing widespread global adoption of battery-powered cars, which are low-maintenance, zero-emissions vehicles. And as battery prices continue to fall, these cars are getting cheaper – and their driving range is getting longer.
Hydrogen cars initially sound impressive, but quickly lose their gloss when compared directly with battery-powered cars.
For me, I see hydrogen cars as a backward and unnecessary step.
Craig J Todd – Freelance writer with a passion for tech, trends and simplicity.
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Work Zone Safety Data Collection and Analysis GuideAbstract:
The Work Zone Safety Data Collection and Analysis Guide is designed to assist highway agencies in developing techniques and strategies to successfully collect and analyze work zone safety-related data to make work zones safer. The guide shares work zone safety-related data analysis methods that are effective in identifying problems, choosing safety strategies and developing work zone crash reduction programs. Methods that are currently being implemented in the United States are included in the guide to empower practitioners to effectively reduce work zone crashes, injuries, and fatalities.
Publication Date: 2013
Full Text URL: Link to URL
Cost is free and for a hard copy, contact ATSSA, 540-368-1701, [email protected].
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- Read the textbook pp. 5-12.
- What are the key points? Write them in a comment on this blog. (For your privacy, I suggest you only use EITHER your FAMILY name or your GIVEN name, not both.)
- Watch this video. (You may find it easier to watch with no sound!)
- What? (e.g. what is academic writing?)
- When? (e.g. today’s date – keep a record of when you wrote your notes).
- Where? (e.g. where was Plato’s Akademia?
- Who? (e.g. who was Copernicus?)
- How? (e.g. how has British history influenced modern Japanese culture and society?)
- Why? (E.g. why study academic writing?)
- Presentation on academic writing (download the handout here: what is academic writing_short_v3
- fill in the blanks in the worksheet
- Discuss in small groups and write your answer based on the mini-presentation.
- What are the key points of the Adam and Eve story according to the Bible?
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Model: 72MHz Analog Clock
You can verify that a clock is receiving a signal at its install location. This is completed by initiating a manual signal search locally at the clock, which resets the clock.
Before you begin, verify the main Transmitter is transmitting (broadcasting) and is not in an error state. This allows the clock to receive a signal, either directly from the main or a repeater Transmitter.
From the back of the clock, press and release the red button. You can also remove and reinsert its batteries.
The clock emits a double-beep and the clock begins to search for a signal from the Transmitter. The clock emits subsequent beeps to indicate its signal strength as described below. Also, when a signal is received the clock will reset its time. | <urn:uuid:21421d7a-c0d3-4c43-8170-7833f68d606f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://support.primexinc.com/hc/en-us/articles/360026468274-Analog-Clock-Manually-initiate-a-signal-search-reset-clock- | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571198.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810161541-20220810191541-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.94841 | 166 | 1.859375 | 2 |
Clustering and interpretation on real nutritional data
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Nutritional Genomics studies diet-gene-disease interactions and aims to promote health and disease prevention. It is based on the idea that everything ingested into a person’s body affects the genome of the individual and, therefore, both genes and nutrients modify the same metabolic processes. This paper presents an application of clustering and interpretation over real heterogeneous data coming from a nutritional study. The individuals are clustered by their diet and physical activity habits and the resulting clustering is interpreted. This work is part of a methodology to deal with data from dietary intervention studies.
CitationSevilla-Villanueva, B.; Gibert, Karina; Sanchez, M. Clustering and interpretation on real nutritional data. A: Conferencia de la Asociación Española para la Inteligencia Artificial. "Multiconferencia CAEPIA'13 : Madrid 17-20 sept 2013". Madrid: 2013, p. 1454-1463. | <urn:uuid:a3e1ffa4-8b6f-4a06-a945-e198f3dca5bd> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://upcommons.upc.edu/handle/2117/22903 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572033.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814113403-20220814143403-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.716219 | 323 | 1.570313 | 2 |
One of the questions I get asked again and again is "How often should I CrossFit?" Well, the short answer can be summed up with -- It Depends. It depends, is not a quantifiable answer that many of us are looking for. But, it depends is in reference to how often should an individual who is new to CrossFit do the WOD. There are a certain number of variables that I will look at and consider before giving a more concrete answer. Some of those factors are health, age, athletic background, current fitness routine, and lifestyle. While there will never be a one size fits all model to answer this question, with a few general guidelines we can hopefully answer the question of, "How often should I CrossFit."
One of the factors to weigh is current health and age. These do not necessarily go hand-in-hand, but typically men and women in the 18-25 year-old age range are of a different health than those in the 35-45+ age range. On average, a younger athlete will bounce back much quicker than an older athlete. I am now almost 37 years old, I can remember playing football in college, and as an 18-23 year-old, I was able to quickly recover from workouts, practices, and games. In general, younger men and women have much quicker recovery times. Age isn't the only factor though, current health plays a large role. An individual with chronic joint pain will usually need more time to rest and recover between workouts. Similarly an individual with a weakened immune system or a very deconditioned athlete will need more time between workouts.
A second factor to consider when looking into the question of how often to WOD, is current fitness routine and lifestyle. These two variables can be intertwined, but like any other variable, it is not always the case. Having a current fitness routine will help keep you into a rhythm. Many people find it easier to continue working out daily once they've made it part of their daily routine. A daily workout is part of many people's lifestyle. Others have made a commitment to choose a healthy lifestyle -- and including a fitness routine is part of that lifestyle. Your routine and your lifestyle will play a large roll in determining how often to WOD.
So, all that being said, How often should I CrossFit? Just past the "it depends" answer I typically tell new members to aim for three days per week. Usually Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. This gives you three great WODs in a week, with a day of rest in between. On average, no matter what your age, current health, lifestyle or athletic background, many people will want a day off between workouts in their first two weeks of starting CrossFit. After about two weeks I will encourage people to start adding an extra workout day each week. Very quickly both men and women will get very close to 5 or 6 WODs per week -- and for certain few there are multiple training sessions in some days.
After an individual has been CrossFitting for about two or three months I generally do not see a distinction between how often they CrossFit and their age, background, lifestyle or any other factor. The beauty of CrossFit, is that the WOD is tailored to the individual. If each man or woman gives their best effort day in and day out, they will see results. So, no matter where you are starting from, no matter what your goals are, you can achieve tremendous success through CrossFit.
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Since we have a few weeks before the next congregational conversation on February 23, I’d like to share a model that might be helpful for personal reflection and in future discussions. The ladder of inference was developed by an organizational psychologist named Chris Argyris.
Each of us filters the world around us in a different way. We select among observable data, often without thinking much about it. We add meaning to that slice of data according to our personal experiences or cultural background. Those assigned meanings lead us to make assumptions, and we then make conclusions accordingly. As conclusions pile up over time, they solidify into beliefs. We act based on those beliefs.
The ladder of inference explains how even in a congregation that averages 100 in attendance, people can end up having very divergent perspectives and experiences. It can also help us learn to explore situations through others’ eyes. How might differences at each rung of the ladder lead to ranges of beliefs and actions? Where are potential points at which further discussion might result in understanding and collaboration? | <urn:uuid:83bd58c6-5b5b-44c6-8641-b848813dfce3> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://fbcmemphis.org/january-29-2020/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572033.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814113403-20220814143403-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.964769 | 212 | 2 | 2 |
Thrive Home offers hands-on, theme based learning for grades K-8th. This co-op offers small class sizes and in-person instruction. Each class is designed to engage learners and encourage social skills, critical thinking skills in a positive setting. Science, Math, English and Social Studies lessons are provided daily. Special education available.
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In 2020, washing your hands regularly seems like common sense. Besides handwashing during cold and flu season, most of us grew up washing our hands before meals, after using the bathroom, and after sneezing or coughing.
But the practice of handwashing is only a little over 150 years old. Before the mid-19th century, many people died from infections that could have been prevented with basic hand hygiene. Here’s what you need to know about the why and the how behind handwashing.
The History of Handwashing
In the mid-1800s, a Hungarian doctor at Vienna General Hospital named Ignaz Semmelweis noticed a striking pattern. He saw a stark contrast in patient mortality rates between different hospital wards. The hospital was so large that midwives treated maternity patients in one wing, and doctors treated maternity patients in another. The disparity between these two wards was staggering. In the midwives’ ward, the maternal mortality rate was 36.2 per 1,000 births, while on the doctors’ ward, the mortality rate was 98.4 per 1,000 births.
Among the differences between the two wards. one of the most noteworthy, Semmelweis discovered, was that doctors often performed autopsies and then went directly to the maternity ward without cleaning their hands. When he made a rule that all doctors must wash their hands after autopsies, the mortality rate in the doctors’ maternity ward lowered to a similar level as the midwives’ ward.
In 1867, a Scottish doctor named Joseph Lister published a paper encouraging doctors to wash their hands and sterilize medical equipment. While this seems like common sense now, at the time, health-care providers often used the same tools on multiple patients. The result was many unnecessary, complicated infections and even deaths. Lister’s positive results were so powerful that by 1875, surgeons across the world widely adopted his methods of sterilization and handwashing.
Why: The Science of Handwashing
Handwashing is important because many diseases are spread through small particles that you can’t see or feel. For example, if someone coughs or sneezes into their hands and then touches a doorknob, the respiratory droplets from their sneeze can stay on the doorknob. The next person who touches the doorknob may pick up those particles. If they don’t wash the particles off their hands, they can put the germs into their own body by touching their eyes, nose, or mouth.
When everyone washes their hands regularly, research has shown, we can reduce the spread of respiratory illnesses such as the common cold, flu, or COVID-19, by up to 21 percent. The same research has also shown that handwashing reduces gastrointestinal illnesses by up to 31 percent and helps prevent antibiotic resistance.
How: Hand Hygiene Best Practices
While most of us know to wash our hands frequently, not all of us wash our hands correctly. Follow these five simple steps to wash your hands thoroughly, every time:
Wet your hands and apply soap. It doesn’t matter whether the water you use is hot or cold.
Lather the soap in the palms of your hands, between your fingers, and underneath your fingernails.
Scrub your hands for a minimum of 20 seconds. This will likely take longer than you think it should. For a quick timer, hum the tune “Happy Birthday” twice in a row.
Rinse your hands well.
Dry your hands with a clean paper towel or towel. Turn off the faucet while covering your hand with the paper towel or towel.
Always wash your hands before and after preparing food, before eating, after using the restroom, after blowing your nose or coughing, and after touching garbage. When soap and water are not readily available, use a hand sanitizer that contains at least 60 percent alcohol. It would be best if you used enough sanitizer that your hands stay wet for around 20 seconds. | <urn:uuid:046ebe55-051a-4439-a8f0-f19a55018a9e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.adventistworld.org/wash-your-hands/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570765.6/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808031623-20220808061623-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.958177 | 828 | 3.75 | 4 |
The history of the Noyo Harbor Inn begins with a sawmill at the mouth of the Noyo River and flows through time. This brief summary of historical moments in the ongoing story of the Noyo Harbor Inn starts in 1858. Although there are many significant events before that time that time, that led to the construction of this now historic site, beginning with the family that built the original home seems the right place to start our story.
Alexander McPherson, who co-founded Albion Lumber Company in 1854, built a steam powered lumber mill at the mouth of the Noyo River. The McPherson family, along with other families helped to build up the Noyo Harbor and surrounding areas, including a small store they owned and operated, near the future site of the Noyo Harbor Inn.
Alexander McPherson built the original Noyo Harbor house and small lodge on the peninsula like ridge on the north side of the naturally formed Noyo Harbor. The first bridge across the Noyo River would soon follow. McPherson grew the mill and eventually it merged with the Fort Bragg Redwood Lumber Company. Later the merged companies would become part of the Union Lumber Company. Before the turn of the 20th century, the McPherson family would loose their matriarch to illness, Alexander McPherson would become badly injured by a riding accident shortly after and eventually, the family would give up the mill and property.
A second bridge, to replace the original bridge, was built in 1887 across the Noyo River. The building on the left is the White & Plumber Company, a business that bought and sold railroad ties. That building is now the Noyo Fishing Center. Above the trees (also on the left of the image) the Noyo Harbor Inn roof gables are visible. The lumber trade and general economic growth would bring rapid development to the harbor and the mills operating there, until drought unraveled many of these economic gains, before a resurgence in the first decide of the 20th century.
Fisherman began to discover the Noyo Harbor and squatted in the old mill buildings soon after the mill closed in the late 1880s. The Noyo Fishing Village began unofficially with these squatters and in time, became known for the high quality fish being produced during the entire 20th century and into the 21st century.
The 1906 earthquake that shook the Northern California coast caused severe damage to building, bridges and other infrastructure from San Francisco to Fort Bragg. Many of the Noyo Harbor buildings were leveled or burned in the destruction. It took over a year to rebuild the town and harbor. Despite the hardship, the rebuilding of towns and cities damaged by the earthquake, was a boon to Fort Bragg and the Noyo Harbor, as the local mills greatly increased activity to provide the lumber needed to rebuild nearby San Francisco. The resulting affluence led to the completion of a rail line to Willits, and thus the first tourists began to arrive in Fort Bragg and the Noyo Harbor in 1912. By 1916, the area was a popular vacation destination, and new residents began to settle the area.
The Union Lumber Company sells the house and surrounding property to Harry and Annie Holmes. Harry Holmes was the superintendent of Woods for the Union Lumber Company at the time. The Holmes family added additional property to the parcel, creating what would be the final parcel of land that is now home to the Noyo Harbor Inn.
The Holmes family spent nearly a decade renovating, remodeling and adding onto the house. Mr Holmes employed skilled Scandinavian shipwrights, who stayed in the harbor between voyages, to complete the beautiful board and batten hardwood fir and redwood paneling throughout the building.
From 1935 to 1943 the Schlote raised their family in what they then named Casa Del Noyo. Upon the death of her husband, Mrs. Schlote begin renting rooms in the house to travelers and fisherman at a rate of $5 per night. Casa Del Noyo was the first time the property was used as a formal Inn, and the Schlote family was the last family to live full time on the property.
California completes the CA Hwy 1 bridge over the mouth of the Noyo Harbor. This is the current bridge that visitors cross as they travel the highway along the northern coast. The Noyo Harbor had become a thriving fishing community by this point and was home to a considerable number of fishing boats. A US Coast Guard Station would also be established in the Noyo Harbor, which is currently an active station.
The Nationally known Awareness House training program finds a new home in Casa Del Noyo.
The Casa Del Noyo had operated under various owners during its long history. In 1984, under new management, the Inn re-opened with an inspired new menu, updated amenities and a sense of classy comfort, from the valet parking to the luxurious views of the river and harbor.
The property, after changing hands many times, reopens as a bed-and-breakfast called the Noyo River Lodge.
Joseph Marino purchases the property and spends six years extensively renovating what will become the current Noyo Harbor Inn & Restaurant. Joseph carefully renovates the entire property and all it structures. All the original building materials and decorative elements are preserved, while the structural and internal elements, foundations, plumbing, electrical, are updated. Working with the finest local materials and artisans, the updates to the rooms and other public spaces are restored to their original elegance and beauty, while enhancing the property with modern updates, amenities and luxuries.
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Millions for Guatemala's hard-pressed highways
Guatemala's notorious highways have been given a $150 million boost in the form of an IDB loan that has two aims, one economic, the other social.
The density of traffic on the Guatemalan roads is much higher than the average for Latin America. To make matters worse, they are in very bad shape, so adding to operational costs and transport times. In fact, Guatemala is number 18 of 23 Latin American and Caribbean countries in terms of an index of logistics.
But while the program will help to improve the transport of merchandise, the program will also improve the quality of life of rural poor people who are, at present, unable to have access to schools and hospitals. | <urn:uuid:67a068b7-35f4-4cde-a6b9-78f8ac233c49> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.centralamericalink.com/news/millions-for-guatemala-s-hard-pressed-highways | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571198.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810161541-20220810191541-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.959139 | 149 | 1.84375 | 2 |
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has taken up the ambitious project that requires sending 40,000 satellites in the Earth’s orbit.
The billionaire tech mogul’s project developed by SpaceX under the name of Starlink and with this launch the number of satellites in the earth’s orbit will increase 13 times.
According to SpaceX, the project will increase the internet speed to up to 100 megabytes per second which will allow users to stream multiple high definition movies simultaneously while still leaving some bandwidth to spare.
“Starlink will deliver high speed broadband internet to locations where access has been unreliable, expensive, or completely unavailable,” says the website.
What makes this project even more ambitious is the use of Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) satellites which makes its operation even more precarious. Unlike conventional geostationary satellites which are over 35,000 kilometers from earth, the distance of starlink satellites from earth will be just 550 kilometers.
Boasting of less mass and compact mass, every Starlink satellite weighs approximately 260 kilogram and has just one solar panel array.
LEO satellites need to revolve around the earth at a speed of 5 miles per second to maintain a constant altitude. The receivers on the ground need to switch from one satellite signal to another constantly for a seamless internet connectivity.
The first Starlink satellite was launched in May 2019 and this month SpaceX launched 700 more satellites into orbit. In 2020, Starlink is targeting broadband services in the Northern United States and Canada.
The company says it will expand its services to near global coverage by 2021.
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New York, May-June 1966. This is one of two such copies, both inscribed to "Fred"; please read on. They probably came to me decades ago as duplicates from the UCLA Art Library. Although the catalogue indicates that the exhibition was in New York, the possible connections to UCLA suggest that it traveled there from Marlborough, as did a wonderful 1963 show of Kurt Schwitters. There were at least two prominent "Fred"s who participated actively in the L.A. art scene during 1966: Frederick Wight was an artist and director of the UCLA Art Gallery. The second was filmmaker Frederick Weisman, whose collection includes work by Agam. Another notable "Fred" established the Fred Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts at UCLA, but he died in 1963. Profusely illustrated. 51 pp. Decorated paper covers. 21 x 21 cm. The scan of this cover is the first, creased copy, with the more elaborate inscription. Agam turned both inscriptions into visual jokes by repeating and inverting letters. The text in this copy, decoded, reads: "To Fred to who I owe this show,"signed and dated IV.5.66. This probably is from Frederick Wight, who would have arranged for the exhibition to travel to Los Angeles. The other copy, with the simpler inscription and the better cover most likely is fromFred Weisman. It reads, "To my friend Fred with friendship," signed but not dated. See my copy 00351.2.
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19th- to mid-20th-century families
Families in the 19th century were large – Pākehā women had on average seven children each, Māori women six. In the early 20th century Pākehā began to marry later, and birth rates dropped to around two per woman.
Grandparents, parents and children lived together in Māori households. Most Pākehā households were just parents and children, although some included elderly grandparents, other relatives, or friends.
Mothers and fathers had different roles, especially in the cities. Men were the breadwinners, who went out to earn money. Women took care of the house and children. In rural areas, women and children joined men in work on farms and in small businesses.
Mothers without male support survived doing paid work. A Widows’ Pension was introduced in 1911, but it wasn’t until 1946 that all mothers could access the Family Benefit.
The baby boom
After the Second World War there was a ‘baby boom’, when Pākehā women had three or four children each. Women who got pregnant outside marriage would usually marry before the birth.
In the 1970s Pākehā and Māori birth rates both dropped to around two births per woman. This did not change over the next three decades. Pacific women tended to have more children on average, and Asian women fewer.
Families since the 1970s
People had begun to question traditional ideas about families. From the 1970s more mothers were involved with paid work and had on average only two children. However, in the early 21st century mothers were still more involved with childcare than fathers.
In 1973 the Domestic Purposes Benefit, a payment by the state for solo parents was introduced. This enabled more women to raise children on their own, or to leave their husbands. Divorce became more common.
As parents entered new relationships, many children were brought up with step- or half-siblings. Some children moved between their separated parents. Some were raised by parents in gay or lesbian relationships.
In 2017 nearly half of all children were born outside marriage, often to couples in committed relationships. Fertility rates have been decreasing for women in all age groups in the 21st century. The median age of childbearing was 30 years in 2013, but differed for women of different ethnicities: 30.74 years for those of European descent and other women, 25.85 years for Māori, 27.19 years for Pasifika and 30.77 for Asian women. The teenage fertility rate has been dropping steadily. It was 15 live births per 1,000 women aged 15–19 years in 2017 – half the rate in 2008. | <urn:uuid:d9b2bf89-8839-4bfa-8078-0ba4a7aa3f8c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://teara.govt.nz/en/families-a-history | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572033.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814113403-20220814143403-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.988424 | 571 | 3.5625 | 4 |
Schizachyrium scoparium - Little bluestem
Easily grown in well-drained soil and full sun, it can tolerate moist soils, clay soils, and can also tolerate heat and humidity. Very drought tolerant once established. Blueish green in the summer, changing in the fall to brown, copper and crimson with fluffy silvery-white seed heads.
Great for pollinators and wildlife. It provides food for caterpillars, grasshoppers, leafhoppers, and more. Songbirds also feed on seeds.
Height: 2-4 ft
Sun: Part to Full sun
Water: Dry to medium
Bloom color: Purplish Bronze
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By Jacob Knight
Offensive Line Coach
Waverly High School (OH)
At Waverly High School, we are a “hang-our-hat” on being an 11 Personnel offensive team that wants to establish our running game with an inside zone focus. When running inside zone, we do it almost exclusively with our TE on the backside of the run kicking out the backside DE. The counter scheme has become a great changeup off this run look. Over time, counter has become our staple run to counter the inside zone.
We teach counter as a physical downhill A gap run play. We want our running back to stay in the A gap as long as possible. When we run counter, we typically run it from 11 personnel and with a TE. We primarily live in formations where our TE is aligned directly behind the tackle three yards from the ball; this is our most common formation. During the season, we found different ways to formation this run so we could appropriately tag RPOs with this. For example, we would vary the location of the back as well as mix this concept with jet motion.
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Story at a glance:
- More people have new perceptions and expectations of public spaces.
- A recent survey showed 93% of Americans want companies to invest more in healthy indoor environments.
- Respondents reported wanting improvements in air quality, hygiene, and natural design elements.
The “great resignation” is a modern term crafted to define the nearly 60 million Americans who have voluntarily left their jobs since the start of 2021. This ongoing trend, which Harvard Business researchers believe started nearly 10 years ago, erupted as a result of the Covid pandemic. With a new awareness of how indoor environments can impact one’s health and safety, the great resignation serves as a sign of what will continue to happen if business owners do not make the necessary improvements needed to meet heightened expectations.
While the great resignation focuses on the workforce, consumers are looking at all indoor spaces in which they live, work, learn, and play with a new lens. These new perceptions and expectations of public spaces are reflected in the latest Ambius survey of 3,000 North American adults. According to the survey, 93% of Americans want companies to invest more in healthy indoor environments.
Improvements in air quality, hygiene, and natural design elements are among three key areas people reported wanting to see greater investment from businesses. These new expectations will be a driving force behind the future of design for indoor spaces. As businesses work to create smarter, healthier spaces moving forward, design experts can use these three tips to help guide decisions on where to focus attention and best invest resources.
1. Incorporate a tailored approach to improve indoor air quality.
According to the Ambius survey, 74% of Americans feel anxious when entering public spaces with poor indoor air quality. Armed with new knowledge of how viruses, pathogens, and contaminants can be airborne and the direct health impacts of poor air quality exposure, employees and consumers are hesitant to return to indoor spaces without improved indoor air quality enhancements.
People want to feel safe, protected, and comfortable when out shopping, dining, and completing everyday activities. As with other interior design enhancements, there is no one universal technique for improving indoor air quality. Design experts and business owners will need to consider the building size, location, capacity, and other factors when determining the most effective approach for improving the building’s indoor air quality.
HVAC units can serve as the first line of defense for fresh air, but these units are not equipped with the technology needed to attack and decontaminate harmful airborne particles. Air decontamination units like Ambius’ VIRUSKILLER™ help to additionally clean the air as it passes through the room, working as a supplement to the HVAC system.
These units come in a variety of sizes, from personal units to larger wall and tower units—offering a sleek, dynamic design perfect for most spaces. Specialized air purification units are designed to physically pull contaminated air particles away from the breathing zone, pushing the particles through a triple-filter process to deactivate contaminants and release clean, purified air back into the breathing zone. Air decontamination units equipped with real-time monitoring displays can also help track the current state of the indoor air and will provide visual reassurance for anyone concerned about the indoor air quality.
Business owners and designers can work with air hygiene experts to evaluate the building’s natural airflow, identify potential high traffic areas, calculate the building’s unique air change per hour rate and any other factors that make up the building’s unique air quality equation in order to maximize air filtration efficiency.
2. Improve hand hygiene.
Hand hygiene is another critical component of health and well-being. It is common knowledge that handwashing is one of the most effective tools in preventing Covid and other diseases, making improved hand hygiene standards essential for all indoor environments.
The Ambius study revealed that 37% of Americans would consider moving jobs if the company had poor hygiene and cleaning practices. A quick and easy way to ensure proper hygiene practices is to promote hand hygiene through the use of mobile hand hygiene units.
Place mobile hand hygiene units in high traffic areas like entrances and exits, near common areas, in breakrooms, and close to any transition points like elevators and stairs. Design experts can use the Ambius hand hygiene calculator to help identify how many mobile units are recommended for a particular space.
As people pass by these units it will serve as a visual cue that “right now” is a great time to sanitize. Employees and consumers will likely feel safer and will appreciate businesses taking the extra step toward investing in their overall health.
3. Increase well-being through biophilic design.
People may be spending less time in their workspaces due to remote working options, but finding time to spend outdoors is still a challenge. Nearly one-quarter of Ambius survey respondents reported spending less than 15 minutes of time outside each day, which can have a significant negative impact on mental health.
Business operators may find it surprising that more survey respondents (51%), consider access to natural light and outdoor views more important than flexible or hybrid working environments (41%) for future working spaces. These results support the increasing amount of research that shows time spent in nature has a range of positive benefits for individuals, including lowering stress levels, decreasing anxiety, improving attention and productivity, promoting cognitive development and sharpness, and increasing overall happiness.
The American Psychological Association reports that even exposure to nature by looking out a window, watching a video, or hearing nature sounds can lead to improvements in attention, positive emotions, and the ability to reflect on a life problem.
Business owners and designers can use potted plants, living green walls, and green mobile partitions as three simple ways to incorporate green and natural elements into indoor spaces. Typically plants that do not require a lot of sunlight, grow slowly, have broad green leaves, and can survive in very low light conditions serve best as indoor plants. The Ultimate Guide to Indoor Plants is a great resource for designers tasked with identifying the best plants to incorporate into an indoor space.
Designing spaces with improved indoor air quality, hand hygiene, and biophilic design enhancements should be a significant priority in 2022 and beyond. There is a lot to be learned from the great resignation. As droves of employable adults continue to voluntarily leave their job due to unmet needs, businesses will be expected to step up to the plate and make the necessary updates needed to make employees and customers feel safe.
The return on investment will not only be seen in improved customer and employee retention rates, but there are also competitive advantages to improving health and wellness measures. More than 70% of Ambius survey respondents said they would happily or strongly consider paying a higher price for products or services in an environment with better air quality and health and safety measures.
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The report about Sea-lion hunging on Takeshima dates back to two weeks before the famous Battle of Tsushima which almost ended around Takeshima on 28th May 1905. This is one of the good evidence not only that incorporation was not "secret" at all, but also people of Shimane has already know the fact of incorporation very well.
"●Sea-lion Hunting on Takeshima
As you readers have already know, Takeshima is a solitary island far off in the sea which locates 85 sea-ris north-west of Oki country and one of the island is around 20-chou(町), the other is merely aounrd 12-chou. Mr. Nakai Yonesaburo first voyaged tothe year before last and found the colony of Sea-lion. He found it is a pity that the island is omitted from the sea-chart, and petitioned to the national government. Through the good offices of Mr. Nakai, the islands were determined as the territory of the empire and incorporated into our Shimane prefecture by the Prefectural Order on 22 Feb. Ths islands are, as were described above, a meeting place of sea-lions for three months from May to July. Now apart from Nr. Nakai, three more rivals has emerged. Then they publised the licence only to those four and is going to let the four to hunt cooperatively. Furthermore, from what I hear, the period of time above are the period of their deivery, so the female are on the land for nurcing the baby, and male also land for the love of female. This is convenient for hunting. 7-8 thousand of sea-lion are on the same zone, tops, but excessive hunting would damage their reproduction. So the number of hunting is limited to 6-7 hundred per year so that they would make a profit for 5-10 years."
讀者も知れる如く、竹島は隱岐國の西北八十五海里にある絕海の孤島 にして、一は周回二十町、他の一は同上十一二町に過ぎず。這(こ)は、西鄕の中井米三郎氏が一昨年始めて渡航し、海獺の集合地なることを發見せしも、海圖 に洩れたるを遺憾とし、中央政府に稟申(りんしん)する等、大に斡旋の勞を執りし結果、帝國の領土とすることに決定し、去る二月廿二日の縣告示を以て、本 縣の管轄に歸せしものなるが、同島は實に前記の如く海獺の集合地にして、其期は五月より七月まで三ヶ月間なるが、今は同氏の外に三人の競爭者を生じたるを 以て、其向(そのむき)にては右四人の外には可か(きよか)を與へず、四人も亦共同して獵せしめん方針なりといへり。尙ほ聞く所に據れば右の期間は、海獺 が分娩するときにして、牝は哺乳の爲め陸地に上り、牡は牝を戀ひて上陸するものにして、銃殺に好便を與ふる次第なるが、多く上陸しるときには一區域にても 尙ほ七八千頭を下らす。然れども濫獲は生殖を害するを以て、一年凡そ六七百頭を限りなば、尙ほ五年や十年の利益を保持し得べしとのこと。
The article says the man's name was Yonesaburo, but it is Yozaburo or Yosaburo, in fact. San-in Shimbun(山陰新聞) is a local newspaper in Matsue, and now it called San-in Chuo Shinpo(山陰中央新報).
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Poverty, peer and household stress, as well as gender inequality, all drive baby marriage in Nepal, leaving the nation with one of many highest charges of kid marriage in South Asia. Nepali families that don’t have sufficient food to eat usually tend to marry their daughters at a young age to lower the monetary burden on the family – which is all too typically associated with having girls somewhat than boys. She will encompass your kids with so much love and care that they could grow as much as be the happiest children on earth. You can really feel on excessive of the world with a Nepal woman even if you find yourself merely talking to her on-line, but solely when she turns into your Nepalese bride, you possibly can experience all of the traits that make Nepal brides so properly-liked around the world. From a really youthful age, a Nepal girl strives to build a higher future for herself and her household.
Cehiz generally includes decor, units, crystal, mirrors, mattress, jewelry and cash based on the negotiations between the groom’s plus bride’s households proper earlier than the marriage ceremony time. Seeing that the groom’s loved ones will get Cehiz, the specific woman receives Mahr. Relatives of your explicit new bride typically result in the Cehiz calls for, throughout the particular behavior of koncas. Dowry is certainly moved a variety of days ahead of the particular marriage ceremony, and analyzed by groom’s loved ones, and a Sihaye (receipt) for the actual dowry is unveiled with the groom’s family members; this may help keep away from variations.
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And some women are so crushed down they’ll’t take into consideration that they’ve decisions. My parents don’t need me to consider another marriage because of all of the complications in my past. Since my family isn’t properly off, I feel frustrated they should care for me and my baby. I only made it as much as 10th grade, and I always wished to review more however didn’t have the possibility after I got married. Now, I work in a garment warehouse, folding clothes for about seven hours a day and I make about 500 rupees ($4.60) per day.
The Nepal authorities should reform its system for registering births and marriages, and use this as a approach to stop and detect baby marriage. Efforts to stop teen marriage through universal begin and marriage registration should be sensitively designed and applied in order that they don’t impose punitive measures on married kids.
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Two women inform us about their choice to marry early and reveal the challenges they face as young moms. Girls Not Brides Nepal played a key function in the improvement of a nationwide technique to end baby marriage. In specific, they helped conduct greater than 60 consultations on the neighborhood, district, and nationwide ranges to better perceive youngster marriage and what wanted to be carried out to deal with it. According to UNICEF, Nepal has the 17th highest prevalence rate of kid marriage on the earth and the seventeenth highest absolute number of child brides – 587,000.
Prevention of child marriage should go hand in hand with broader efforts to empower women and girls, end home violence and baby labor, and improve access to schooling and health services. The authorities ought to incorporate prevention of kid marriage into its efforts to reduce poverty, and take steps to finish caste or ethnicity based mostly discrimination which plays a key function in driving girls into marriage. The authorities ought to be sure that all interventions to forestall youngster marriage and assist married youngsters put one of the best interests of the kid first and do not beneath any circumstances leave children worse off.
The authorities urgently needs a strategy to deliver sexual and reproductive well being info to children who aren’t at school. The community of female neighborhood health volunteers (FCHV) plays a crucial function in helping married women entry well being care together with family planning services, but it’s much less helpful to unmarried girls, and does not target outreach to boys. The content of the data nepali girls the government supplies on sexual and reproductive well being also needs to be reformed. When children do obtain the government’s faculty module, it could not provide the data they need; many interviewees criticized it as being academic and lacking in sensible data. “On reproductive health, the textbook says you need to marry after age 20, have youngsters after age 20, and eat nutritious food,” an NGO worker in Kailali said.
At UNICEF, we believe that child marriage is a form of violence towards youngsters. “[The] primary [factor] is education. It is necessary that they perceive that being sexually energetic does not equate to marriage,” Krishna Prasad Bhusal of the Ministry of Women, Children and Senior Citizens advised AFP. Nepal has one of many world’s highest charges of child marriage even though the apply was banned about 50 years in the past and the authorized marrying age is 20. Nepal should also give girls some sort of incentive to stay in class so they aspire to a profession of their very own, said Sumnima Tuladhar of the Kathmandu-based youngster rights group CWIN Nepal. “Had it not been for my Big Sister, I would have had three or four children by now, and they’d be learning here instead of me,” mentioned Magar, 17, at her authorities-run college in western Nepal’s Surkhet district.
“There was no stress from my family, but inside the village must you don’t get pregnant after some time they start speaking,” Shanta Mishra informed Human Rights Watch. Seventy-five p.c of feminine migrant employees are married, and ladies and girls could face strain not to migrate earlier to marriage primarily based on the view that migration might damage their reputation and make it extra durable for them to marry later. Many of the married girls Human Rights Watch interviewed had been married to men working abroad. Most appeared to not ideas their husbands’ absence—and a few, notably these in abusive relationships, welcomed it.
Relatively, there is a lack of labor that provides workers with sufficient earnings to fulfill their main needs, reminiscent of meals, housing, and clothes. Members of 1 ladies’s group argue that if they might work further – even though their wages are lower than men’s – they’d make more money, the kids would go to highschool and there could be no little one marriages anymore. But with the dearth of native income-generating opportunities, dowry system and other gendered practices still going robust, it is exhausting to imagine that their daughters will be capable to choose coaching over marriage anytime quickly. TALAMARANG, Nepal — After the 2015 earthquake in Nepal destroyed an estimated 800,000 properties and damaged one different 300,000, households that had been already experiencing poverty set about rebuilding their lives. For a Nepalese girl, taking care of her family and the home isn’t just about cleansing and decorating.
Not only Nepalese, but poor girls from Philippines, Vietnam, Thailand and Indonesia are additionally married to the Korean men in the identical method and led miserable life. The women married to old aged Koreans needed to do all house maintain works in addition to satisfying their sexual wants.
There are many social tribes and communities additionally current in Nepal, which might be also known as Nepalis. PMC partnered with Nepal’s premier communication and production house, Antenna Foundation (AFN), to broadcast over 40 stations nationwide. Hilkor is produced by Population Media Center (PMC), a nonprofit specializing in leisure-training that addresses the rights of women and girls.
That may drive up the dowry price and subsequently presumably make her unmarriageable. Keeping girls at school reduces the bargaining energy of her mother and father and implies that the household that will get the older bride misses some priceless years of female work. Nepal has the third highest price of child marriage in Asia, with 37 percent of girls marrying before age 18, and 10 % marrying before the age of 15, although the minimal age of marriage is 20 beneath Nepali law. A smaller percentage of boys (an estimated 11 p.c) marry before age 18. Around 30 percent of ladies in Bangladesh are married off before their 15th birthday, according to the report “Marry Before Your House is Swept Away.” The HRW report is based on interviews with scores of Bangladeshi baby brides.
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The Impact of AI in the Workforce
Ask ten people what effect AI will have on the job market and you’ll probably receive ten different answers. It’s an emotive question that has devote followers at either end of the spectrum.
Some paint a picture of a dystopian future where robots have taken over the world turning humans into a sluggish, overweight race. But history shows that this vision is far more suited to science fiction, than it is reality. While AI in business is certainly fuelling massive changes, it’s a pessimistic view to say that it will replace humans.
In the widely noted 2014 study, The Future of Employment: How Susceptible are Jobs to Computerization? authors Carl Benedikt Frey and Michael A. Osborne state: According to our estimate, 47 percent of total US employment is in the high-risk category, meaning that associated occupations are potentially automatable over some unspecified number of years, perhaps a decade or two.
It’s a sobering figure, but as the report itself notes, this is only one aspect of the impact of artificial intelligence on employment.
Will artificial intelligence lead to massive unemployment?
Warnings of technology being a harbinger of death for the job market is nothing new. MIT Economist David Autor in Why Are There Still So Many Jobs? The History and Future of Workplace Automation notes that the Luddite movement of the early 19th century was one of the earliest examples, in which a group of English textile artisans protested against the automation of textile production by seeking to destroy some of the machines.
But in fact, that wasn’t the case, and basic economics intervened. Automation made it cheaper to produce fabric, which in turn led to more customers, which drove demand for more product. The job might have changed, but during the industrial revolution there was no shortage of work for semi-skilled labor.
James Bessen, an economist at Boston University School of Law looks at more modern examples in his blog post Automation Paradox. Software, for instance, made it cheaper and faster to trawl through legal documents; so law firms searched more documents and judges allowed more and more-expansive discovery requests. Likewise, ATMs made it cheaper to operate bank branches, so banks dramatically increased their number of offices.
These examples add weight to the point of view that, in all likelihood, rather than AI taking jobs, humans and AI will work in unison.
How AI is transforming the workplace
While many people warn that this time is different, that jobs are being sacrificed to AI in a much shorter timescale than with previous industry changing events, so far the figures don’t add-up. Rather than wiping out jobs, AI in the workplace is actually increasing the skill sets of workers, and therefore remuneration, across a wide range of industries from healthcare to clerical.
Artificial Intelligence is also improving workforce conditions. According to a report in the Economist, AI will help remove unconscious and conscious biases in the hiring and renumeration of staff. It also points out that AI will benefit employees in other ways such as ensuring the appropriate safety gear is being worn using intelligent scanning technology.
In addition, chatbots are being used by HR to support training activities too. This follows on from the success many chatbots have had as in-house advisors to call center agents in situations where a high turnover of staff can often impact on the consistency of answers and the knowledge to answer queries quickly.
The growth in AI is also opening up new opportunities in other areas of emerging technology closely linked with it such as Augmented Reality. Who could have predicted that Pokemon Go would lead the way to job creation? Already consumers are benefiting from the interest the game created. While currently that might only be seeing what a sofa online would look like their living room; it’s an industry expected to be worth $66.68 billion by 2022 as its use increases.
In 2016 Gartner suggested that IT leaders look for unanticipated consequences of the rise of IoT, saying that the secondary effects will be more disruptive than the initial digital change. A recent global survey conducted by Accenture cites that 61% of business leaders expect the share of roles requiring collaboration with Al to increase in the next three years. 54% placed human-machine collaboration as important to achieving their strategic priorities.
The future of chatbots and emotional intelligence
One area of business in which AI is gaining increased traction is in customer service, where enterprises have started to deploy artificially intelligent virtual customer assistants (often referred to as chatbots). Whilst this trend is still in the early stages, with only 4% of enterprises having deployed conversational interfaces according to a recent Gartner survey, 38% are planning to or actively experimenting in this market which is set for significant growth.
But how emotionally savvy are these chatbots? It might, if your chatbot uses conversational AI, be able to recognize sentiment. For example, it would be able to detect that a customer is angry and sarcastic because they are annoyed you didn’t deliver and be able to respond with the appropriate terms of empathy. Or it may be able to distinguish that “I want to go somewhere nice” is positive, vs “I want to go to Nice” is neutral, hence respond in a meaningful way. But it doesn’t replace the need for human connection, just as talking on social media doesn’t fulfil the same need as sitting down with a friend for a cup of coffee and a chat.
What AI does do however, is free up contact centre staff to deal with the emotionally charged issues. The one-off circumstances that your chatbot has yet to expect and so hasn’t learnt or been trained to give an appropriate response. Those situations where a real person can use their life experiences and combine them with your policies and procedures to arrive at a satisfactory outcome.
So, that bottom line is AI has its place; as do humans.
For example, machines are good at making sense of enormous amounts of data, of learning correct responses and statistically guessing the appropriate response. They are amazingly fast at processing; at making logical choices based on statistical rules. But when your customer’s expectations and satisfaction rests on a little empathy, wouldn’t it be great to be able to detect a shift in sentiment and hand off to a live agent – with all the appropriate background of the specific problem so it doesn’t need repeating.
And that is the crux of the debate – machines are all about data and humans are all about emotions. The decision to purchase with a particular company is more often rooted in emotional need than rational choice.
Undoubtedly, AI will replace humans in some roles such as process orientated tasks where RPA technology excels. However, computers are tools, not rivals. In every situation where technology threatens jobs, new positions arise, often because of changes brought about by technology. There will always be jobs that only humans can do, including designing, updating and enhancing the artificial intelligence technology itself.
Expanding the role of artificial intelligence in business
While there is no doubt that achievements made in the field of deep learning or neural networks are impressive, it is not the fastest, nor the most cost-effective way forward for the average enterprise to develop conversational AI applications. Just like a child learning a language, an artificial system for natural language understanding needs human supervision. Even a statistical algorithm that learns from data can only do so from structured training data carefully curated by humans.
So why is there so much hype around algorithms? Perhaps because statistical algorithms are supremely useful for some purposes, such as aiding and guiding analysis of big collections of language data. And for some applications, neural network algorithms deliver very impressive results. Such algorithms have vastly improved speech recognition systems, the technology for mapping sound waves to text characters, which is the first step in processing speech.
But what seems like effortless communication to humans, poses multiple obstacles to a statistical algorithm. Unless training data are supplied in copious quantities, the signal—the meaning at the heart of the conversation—is lost in the statistical noise.
Put simply, when the algorithm is faced with too many ambiguities, too many options, and too little data, it gets confused.
The truth of it all is no matter how hard some may try to convince us otherwise, AI will not replace human emotional intelligence. Or, at least, not anytime soon. As an article in Inc put it recently, there isn’t a mainstream consumer machine that’s close to achieving full sentience.
The negative economic impact of Artificial Intelligence
Are there threats from AI that will affect all of us? Undoubtedly. The Inquirer recently reported Jim Al-Khalili as saying that without concerted action by the government, industry and academia, AI could end up “uncontrolled and unregulated”, with development monopolised by just a few powerful companies.
If enterprises sleepwalk into handing over their data to FAMGA on a silver platter, this could well be the case. The Cambridge Analytica debacle has already highlighted the value of personal data, even innocuous statements, and the need to protect it. It is one of the reasons we stress the importance of data ownership in Conversational AI.
Without data ownership, not only do enterprise lose valuable data insight, but it is also makes it harder to protect and secure the information. It’s clear that as data becomes the driving force behind businesses that data protection regulation around the world is going to increase. GDPR and China’s Cybersecurity law is only the beginning. Data privacy will become a major issue for everyone as the use of AI increases. Starting to address this now will place enterprises in a better position in the future.
The future of artificial intelligence and jobs
Computerized automation does potentially put low skilled workers, whose jobs could be easily automated, at risk. Conversely, this may be a short-term effect while the labor market re-adjusts. As Carl Benedikt Frey and Michael A. Osborne say: findings thus imply that as technology races ahead, low-skill workers will reallocate to tasks that are non-susceptible to computerization – i.e., tasks requiring creative and social intelligence. For workers to win the race, however, they will have to acquire creative and social skills.
One of the auxiliary effects of the industrial revolution was how it changed education.
By the 1830s the British government started to fund education through charitable organizations. The newly introduced Factory Act meant that children working in factories attended school for at least 2 hours every day. By early 1900s civic or “red brick” universities were introduced to deliver vocational training covering areas from medicine and science to mechanics and engineering. Indeed, such was the change brought on by the industrial revolution that other countries following suit found that their success rate in capitalizing on the opportunity correlated directly to the standard of education within the region.
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Splunk is a software platform to search, analyze and visualize the machine-generated data gathered from the websites, applications, sensors, devices, etc. which make up your IT infrastructure and business.
If you have a machine which is generating data continuously and you want to analyze the machine state in real-time, then how will you do it? Can you do it with the help of Splunk? Yes! You can. The image below will help you relate to how Splunk collects data.
Real-time processing is Splunk’s biggest selling point because, we have seen storage devices get better and better over the years, we have seen processors become more efficient with every aging day, but not data movement. This technique has not improved and this is the bottleneck in most of the processes within organizations.
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6 Ideas to Boost Your Creativity in Photography
One of the best ways to take your photos to the next level is to work on increasing your creativity in photography. All photographers find themselves in a creative slump at some point, but we’ve got some great tips that will get you shooting again.
Struggling for fresh ideas can be incredibly frustrating. But all photographers find themselves in that headspace someday, and it can be a blessing in disguise. It forces you to break free from your usual pattern of attack, and start shooting something new.
Let’s look at some ways you can get your photo mojo back!
1. Shoot the same things in different light
It doesn’t matter whether you’re taking photos of wildlife or of people, light is the key to any great image. Harnessing different types of light can create entirely different images.
So if you’re finding yourself struggling to express creativity through your photography, working with light could be the easiest fix for that artist’s block.
Backlighting is my favourite type of light to work with. Honestly, it’s just really fun to work with. It’s possible in a studio environment or out in the wild – just think about the sun’s position for the latter.
Look through your portfolio and find your favourite images that you’ve taken so far. Then, make a conscious decision to go out and shoot them again but in an entirely different light.
2. Set up a mini-studio and try close-ups
On the theme of backlighting, why not set up your own mini-studio and try some backlit autumn leaves?
This isn’t as complicated as it might sound. All you need is a small flash unit and some diffused perspex.
All sorts of translucent objects can be great for this, but leaves are the perfect subject to start with. The flash brings out all of the veins and tiny details in the leaf, making for intricate close-ups.
3. Shoot abstracts in nature
There’s nothing that helps your creativity in photography like shooting an abstract. It changes the way you view things and forces you to look for something new.
The natural world provides ample opportunities for this. Switch to a macro photography lens for your best chance at isolating your subject and creating something different.
You can find abstracts everywhere. It might be a frozen puddle in a woodland path, or a low angle looking across rippling water in the morning.
Read more: How to Photograph Abstracts in Nature
4. Change your perspective
We can often find ourselves stuck shooting with the same lens most of the time. There is nothing wrong with having a favourite lens, especially if you’re consistently getting good results.
But why not try shake things up? After all, boosting your creativity in photography is all about forcing yourself to think outside the box.
If you shoot with a telephoto, then try a wide-angle; if you shoot with a wide-angle, try a telephoto!
Forcing yourself to change the perspective of your image will pave the way to a new type of photo. Try shooting the same subjects you usually favour but with this new viewpoint.
5. Try creative blur for something different
You probably fight motion blur all the time. Keeping images sharp without camera shake and without a blurred subject is the hallmark of a great image. But that’s not always the case. Try purposefully introducing blur into your image and see what dynamic that brings to your frame.
Motion blur describes a subject that is blurred from its movement. Camera blur describes blur introduced from the movement of the camera itself.
Intentional camera movement is where you move the camera itself whilst using a slow shutter speed. This is best done on a tripod, moving the camera on one axis. It works particularly well with trees and can bring about fantastic results.
You can also try motion blur. The wind is one of the best ways to do this, as it can shake the branches of a tree and bring a scene to life.
Read more: How to Take Creative Photos of Autumn Trees
6. Learn about composition
There are plenty of “rules” when it comes to photography. But to quote a famous pirate: “they’re more like guidelines than actual rules.”
Following different rules of composition can completely change the “feel” of an image and how it draws the viewer’s eye. It’s also a great way to be creative, too.
Some compositions are seen more often than others. For example, the rule of thirds is probably the most popular compositional guide that is followed. That’s for good reason: it makes an image more “comfortable” to view and it feels like it has been composed correctly.
But some of the more advanced composition techniques can change that feeling to something more dramatic. A person or animal at the edge of frame, looking “out” of the picture can feel uncomfortable. It gives a sense of unease, and when used properly can make for a strong image.
There are plenty of rules to learn about, so I suggest a couple of great guides:
- Composition in Wildlife Photography: Getting Creative
- Composition in Landscape Photography: The Essential Guide
Creativity in photography comes from forcing yourself to think outside the box. Give yourself no other choice but to try something new.
A different lens, lighting condition, or perspective can be the first step toward this goal.
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The following was excerpted from a keynote speech to the National Civic League's 98th National Conference on Diversity, on November 13, 1992, in Los Angeles, CA.
It is a treat to be in Los Angeles ... I have great respect for this community. I continue to see it as the leading edge of pioneering opportunities -- as well, to be sure, of problems that confront the entire country. This is a special place. In no way is it more special than as an example of diversity that will soon sweep across America.
California grew by some 25 percent in the 1980s. It grew from 23 million people to almost 30 million people, but the real story of that growth is the significance of the 25 percent increase in what was already the largest state in America by far. Thirty million people here compared to the second largest state in America, New York, which has something less than 17 million people.
The real story of that growth of 25 percent was the growth of different groups within the California population. Keep in mind the number 25 percent overall growth in the 1980s. But the Hispanic population in California grew by 69 percent in the 1980s. The African-American population grew by about the average, a little less than 25 percent. The Asian-American population grew by 127 percent during that period. The white population of California grew by 13.8 percent. Again, phenomenal rates of growth, and that Asian-American growth of 127 percent is not the traditional Chinese-American and Japanese-American populations but Philippino, and Korean, and Asian-Indian, and Hmong, and Cambodian, and Pakistani, Sri Lankan, and Laotian.
As a result of these rates of growth, during this decade California's population will become majority Hispanic-, Asian-, and African-American. Indeed, the Rand Corporation concludes that in the year 2000, just eight years from now, 92 percent of the people of California will live in a county that is at least 35 percent Hispanic-, Asian- and African-American. Ninety-two percent of the people of California will live in a county that is at least 35 percent minority.
One looks at numbers for key cities in California and the numbers are equally striking. San Jose, for example, in Northern California, had an overall growth rate of 24.3 percent. The white population grew by only 4.4 percent which tips you off quickly that the growth had to come from other population groups. Indeed, the Hispanic population grew by 48 percent. The African-American population grew by 27 percent and the Asian-American population in San Jose by 187 percent.
One of the most interesting things about this process unfolding in California is the number of communities that are quickly becoming majority Hispanic-, Asian-, and African-American. There are 19 communities over 100,000 population where the population is better that 50 percent Hispanic-, Asian-, and African-American ...
The reality of this kind of demographic change, accompanied by the realities of economic change and growth in poverty, create a devastating combination. During 1989 and 1990, the percentage of persons living below the poverty line increased for every ethnic group -- for whites, for blacks, for Hispanics -- for everyone except for Asian-Americans. But for every group, median household income declined. All of this created scenarios in many parts of California, as well as other parts of the nation, where tensions have intensified, the most fearsome of which are those associated with levels of crime and the disturbing increase in bias crimes. Such events are vicious, with primal feelings turned loose, and groups blaming each other for economic troubles. All of this creates a dangerous, difficult environment that the country as a whole must face.
The decisive questions in America's civic and democratic future are those concerning whether it will be truly possible to incorporate ideas of multicultural inclusiveness into our institutions and our decision-making structures. Among the most critical of these questions, the most controversial and the most difficult are these: What will it mean to be an American in the 21st Century? Who indeed are the Americans? What are the core beliefs and social bonds to which one must adhere in order to be American? What are the essential elements of a social accord that would allow people who are characterized by profound differences to function as a society and to prosper and share leadership in a global setting?
Any society needs to achieve essential conditions of accord, to agree to a minimal social contract so that its members can work cooperatively, engage in a positive dialogue, and decide national directions. A social contract has always existed in American society, but historically has incorporated decidedly different elements than we would accept today. In the 1700s, the social contract allowed slavery, the explicit acknowledgment that certain portions of the population were not extended human rights. In the 1800s, it did not include women among those who could vote. In the early 1900s, it still allowed children to be exploited in the work force and workers to be at the mercy of monopoly powers. We have come an immense distance. Look at some of the greatest changes that have been created by the political movements of this century: the labor movement, the New Deal, the civil rights movement, and the women's movement. Augmented by changes in technology, medicine, communications, and economics, the social contract at the end of this century is a profoundly different one from that which existed in the 1900s. This social contract will continue to change, but the functioning of a society requires more than a social contract made explicit in laws and court rulings.
There are also the unwritten laws, the unspoken differences that determine who is accorded the status to lead and who decides the distribution of the nation's benefits. For the better part of American history one could predict the race, gender and educational background of America's leadership group. Visible manifestations helped sort out who would decide and who would lead. Skin color, ethnic origin, country of birth, gender, accent and last name were the common bonds, the glue of prestige and power that held the leadership structure and the country together. As those external characteristics become a less-accepted means of deciding, of leading us to consensus, I wonder what will take their place. As the population of cities and states becomes so diverse that in many places, such as California, there will be no majority group or culture, the pursuit of common purpose becomes a heightened priority.
As we extend respect to diverse cultural heritages in school curricula and in the arts, the question of whether there is a minimum core of ideas that constitute the American idea begs for an answer. As we hear languages from areas of the world which have not been part of the cultural superstructure, we must find ways to engage in a new civic discourse. As fewer of our fellow citizens look like "real Americans," we will have to adapt our images and learn to feel less threatened by the different faces, the different voices. Can it be that we could agree to a set of core values which would be called "the essential American values of the 21st century?" If so, what are they? Could it be that, as a society, we could master a new dialogue, a new civics by which we speak to and collaborate with each other in effective and respectful ways?
I was recently reminded of the importance of achieving a 21st century social compact, encompassing the core values that can bind our people to common causes and allow us to maintain a leadership role in the world. Arturo Madrid, President of the Tomas Rivera Center, a Hispanic research organization, recently recounted a conversation he had with officials in Israel during a study visit there. He had asked, on several occasions during his visits, about relations with Arab and Palestinian minorities. He was told by one official as an explanation for the obvious difficulties that there was no record in human history of multi-racial, multi-ethnic nations being able to prosper or even survive. Historical antecedents may be lacking but, for the United States, the question of global precedents is essentially moot. We are a multicultural, multi-racial society and we will continuously become more clearly so. The real question is whether we can, once again, create a uniquely American future. The challenge is to anticipate the changes and forge a social contract that is imaginative, and inclusive, and that rewrites the rules of human history in an American way once again.
As we find our way toward a 21st century social contract, it seems to me that it would be useful to retrace the steps of those who have gone before, to retell the human story, to understand human nature, or humanity and identity, as individual human beings. We must restudy the works of thinkers, theologians, philosophers and political theorists of all cultures and ages -- those who have thought about the themes that transcend our individuality to our collective presence, our responsibilities, our civic duties -- to review the application of some of those human and civic ideas and apply them to the American reality, to America in the 21st century.
First, what is important to know about our humanity in order to start toward a discussion of living together? Well, I think it's possible to say a number of things that we know about ourselves as human beings. As human beings we fight for life itself, believe in life. And yet, on the same newscast, we watch starving children in Somalia hanging on for morsels, struggling for one last drink, one last bit of sustenance to sustain life, fighting with their last energy for life itself. How at odds with the cold-eyed squeeze of the trigger of the drive-by shooter who blasts away a life, tears through muscle, and bone, and heart, and breath, and then the sound of car tires squealing into the night! Over what? Over colors, or drugs, or race, or imaginary turf, who knows? But when we are healthy, when we are sane, we honor life as human beings.
As human beings we believe in human potential, in the soaring capability of the human spirit, the spirit that inspires the brain, the hands, the voice, the eyes, the body to great attainments. Michaelangelo and Michael Jordan. Einstein and Walt Disney. Dante and Barbara Streisand. Aquio Morita and Sister Theresa. We believe in the human spirit.
As human beings, we love our children. As human beings, we also know that we need other people. The elderly wait in nursing homes and, when they are asked what they miss, they say what they miss most is the human touch. No one hugs them, no one holds them. People who are rejected and lonely are driven to pathologies that result in violence because it is in the nature of the human being, of the human spirit, to need other people and to need human contact.
We know also that as human beings we seek respect, we seek approval, we seek a measure of fulfillment. Maslow's hierarchy of needs tells us that at the highest level is a kind of fulfillment that comes from finding respect and approval from other human beings. And, as human beings, we seek peace. Benito Juárez said, "El respeto al derecho ajeno es la paz." "Respect for other people's rights is the basis of peace."
So any discussion, any meaningful sense of diversity, must begin with the basics. That is, what do we know about our human natures from which we can begin a sense of building a society respectful of individual human beings? But, we don't live as individuals. We live in a society, and thinkers across time have forged ideas of what it means to respect people living together. How do you build a civic culture, a civil order?
One of the most important thinkers of our day, a man who has not only written and imagined, but practiced politics, is Vaclav Havel. He wrote on this question. "I am in favor of a political system based on the citizen and recognizing all his or her fundamental civil and human rights in their universal validity and equally applied. No member of a single race, a single nation, a single sex or a single religion may be endowed with basic rights that are any different from anyone else's. In other words, I am in favor of what is called a civic society. I support the civic principle," he said, "because it represents the best way for individuals to realize themselves -- to fulfill their identity in all of the circles of their home -- to enjoy everything that belongs to their natural world, not just some aspects of it. To establish a state on any other principle than the civic principle, on the principle of ideology, or nationality, or religion for instance, means making one aspect of our home superior to all the others and thus reduces us as people, reduces our natural world, and that hardly ever leads to anything good." Most wars and revolutions, for example, came about precisely because of this one dimensional concept of the state. Vaclav Havel recognizes our place as citizens in a society where we are recognized for our individual capabilities and where our human rights are applied equally.
The third question, in addition to our individuality and our place in a society, is how these ancient ideas might work in America. To seek some sense of whether or not there is a set of core American values, I looked at some research done by Daniel Yankelovich, who surveyed Americans as to what they regard as enduring American values, not the things that come and pass with time, but the things that we would call the essence of what it means to live as an American in America. These are the things he cited that are at the core: a belief in fairness, and a sense of placing a high value on people getting what they deserve as the consequence of individual actions and efforts; a belief in self-improvement, in the efficacy of individual effort; the conviction that people should constantly strive to better their lot through education and hard work; a belief in democracy, that the judgment of the majority should form the basis of governance; a belief in caring beyond the self, placing a high value on concern for others such as family or ethnic group, neighborliness, caring for community. Americans believe in equality of opportunity -- the practical expression of freedom and individualism in the marketplace that helps resolve the tensions between the values of freedom and equality. At the core of American values are those associated with moral responsibility for the consequences of one's own actions -- paying one's dues, accepting obligations as well as rights. And Americans believe as well in a concept of American exceptionalism, a belief in the special status and mission of America in relation to other countries. How does all of this -- our individuality, our civic responsibility, and how these things relate to American core values or enduring values -- relate to this moment?
... Unlike previous eras, when we as a society put our faith in the central government and legislation from Washington, and in sanctions, today's action point is local -- not only services, but also creating new forms of governance, of community building and social interaction. It is instructive that the President-elect is a governor who cited ideas tried in his state of two million people as examples for what could be done at the national level. If our society is to address social issues, then they will be addressed at the local level or, I would argue, not at all. It is at the local level that these issues will clash, will spark the full intensity at which they must be addressed.
Each of us, and each of us in our communities, must ask ourselves: What do we really believe about race? What do our communities believe about race? Do we harbor some subconscious prejudice yet? All of us -- whites and sometimes people of color -- sometimes believe that this just will not work, that America has seen her best days and that everything about these demographic trends is frightening, alarming, dangerous. What do we really believe about these demographic changes, these different voices, these different faces?
The truth is we are going to have to do some things differently. In an age of diversity, we will have to govern differently. We will have to build communities differently. It means using the institutions of government, the structures and facilities of government, to bring people together. Public facilities, senior citizens' centers, schools, libraries, cable television stations, voter registration efforts, all of them must be redesigned to give people a place to gather, to speak, to have their voices heard, to come together. Governmental accountability must include an assessment of whether or not it is being sufficiently inclusive, not just efficient, but inclusive. Among our most important innovations must be those associated with creating mediating structures, mediating institutions to resolve conflict, new hybrids of institutions where people can come to resolve differences, to hear each other, to listen, to share ideas.
There must also be new ways of delivering traditional services. We will not be able to police in the same ways. We will not be able to offer social services in the same way, but must provide them in ways that are reachable in practical common sense terms by people. Our libraries must take on new responsibilities. California's state library system some years ago did an analysis of the role of the public libraries in California. It was an excellent piece of work, in which they set forth twelve or so new responsibilities for the public libraries. They were responding to realities of demographics, and considered everything from such pedestrian things as large type in library books for the increasing population of those of advanced age, to providing services such as job retraining services. They considered how these services will be used and needed by people who come from different countries and different languages and who need a place to tap into the larger society.
Clearly it is important, as we think in terms of diversity, to invest on an unprecedented scale in our human resources, in our human capital. That means schools, and community colleges, and technical training institutions, and higher education, and adult literacy, and parental training for young people in school. There are very few communities in America, none that I know, that have a plan for their human capital as sophisticated as that for streets or parks or library expansion or any other dimension of their physical capital base. No city that I know of in America has set forth a plan for reducing poverty by 25 percent or setting out a plan to address social services expectations over a 10- or 15- or a 20-year period.
Clearly, our corporations and business sector must involve itself in a new understanding of how it functions in an age of diversity. A new book by Ann Morrison, The New Leaders: Guidelines On Leadership Diversity in America, sets forward what multiculturalism means for corporations. "Multicultural approaches" she says, "are the highest evolution of corporate thinking about diversity, an increasing consciousness and appreciation of differences that are associated with heritage, characteristics, and values of different groups as well as respecting the uniqueness of each individual." This is very interesting in contrast to corporate models that demand assimilation of different persons, of minority persons, in effect saying, "This is our corporate culture; if you want to come here, you change." Now organizations themselves recognize that, by allowing people to be themselves, they will be able to tap the creativity, the spirit of change that people bring to the organization. Rather than forcing people to change to fit some outdated corporate culture, they can create a new sense of openness, a new sense of inclusiveness about the corporate setting itself.
Where these things occur, they will occur because top management has decided that it is important for the organization to promote diversity. They have allowed the creation of internal advocacy groups or task forces on these subjects. They have put an emphasis upon keeping employment statistics in accurate ways so it is possible to gauge their progress and to keep people accountable. They have incorporated diversity into performance evaluation goals and ratings so that people can be reviewed for promotion purposes as they head a division, a line department, or a staff organization not just on the function that they are carrying out, but also on what kind of progress they have made on these important corporate and national goals.
Corporations that are working on this area work hard on development of people training programs, and network and support programs within the organization. They offer a fast track for potential prospects, for people of color brought into the organization. They provide formal mentoring programs that replace the informal structures that have long existed where the traditional route to promotion is to play golf on Saturday at the country club -- a country club where people of color are not welcome and at which women who must attend to their children's needs on Saturdays have no opportunity to participate. Corporations that are sensitive to the promotion of persons of color recognize that these old-style approaches to mentoring are not going to work. And they focus on recruitment -- targeted recruitment of women and persons of color. They engage in parallel hiring of people for top posts, sometimes finding the best talent there is and bringing it from outside the organization. They create partnerships with educational institutions, and they try to establish a reputation for themselves as an organization that is progressive on issues of diversity so that people are attracted to the organization instead of put off by its reputation as a place that is unattractive and uninviting.
All of these are the concrete kinds of things that we must do as we attempt to create a society that responds to the reality of the demographic changes upon us. It is diverse, not just in statistics, but diverse in leadership, and diverse in spirit. Each of you in this room must play a role, a role as an honest broker, a role as a truth teller. There is a temptation for professionals to hide behind the technical and professional imperatives of their job or assignment. But you must go beyond the technical and professional advice to [take] real leadership on this issue -- to be truth tellers, bargainers, mediators, negotiators, guardians of a public ethic that shapes public ideas of justice and due process in an age of diversity. Many of you in this room have the positioning to articulate a vision of a fair and inclusive society. If not people like you, then who? You can choose to hide behind the role of neutral professional, guardian of the budget, producer of a product for a corporation or, on the other hand, you can choose to be part of the solution that advances this nation's most treasured ideals ...
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This work utilizes the language of technology and the hard edge of the pixel to question the role of process and contemplation in contemporary painting. We've all seen digital images trying to look like paintings, but this work is just the opposite. Our culture no longer has the time for contemplation once deemed necessary for paintings, so often we try to quickly reproduce work which once took time and effort. This painting's color and optical effects cause a pause which forces the viewer to look more closely. In that pause, one may note that thr conflation of space and the typical instantaneous understanding of an image is halted and the possibility of painting persists.
Timothy Horjus was born in 1978 in Louisville, Kentucky. After receiving his B.A. in 2000, Timothy went on to teach art. He later moved to Baltimore to attend the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA), where he received a Post-Baccalaureate certificate. Timothy continued his education at the University of Maryland College Park, where he earned his M.F.A. in May 2010. While he was there he also received the Ann Truitt Fellowship, as well as the David C. Driskell teaching award.
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‘Tis the season for… introverts to start panicking about the number of large group gatherings they need to attend. From gift exchanges with friends to company events and late-night New Year’s Eve parties, making it through the month of December to New Year’s Day can seem like a marathon—especially for people who don’t thrive in large group settings.
“A common misconception is that introversion is the same as shyness or social anxiety,” says Tabitha Kirkland, Ph.D., a psychology professor at the University of Washington. “But it’s really about how you get your energy.”
Introversion and extroversion are two ends of a personality continuum, and people fall on one end or somewhere in the middle, she explains. The difference is that introverts get their energy from being alone, whereas extroverts tend to get energy from social contact and find themselves recharged and revitalized in a crowd.
Are you more on the introverted side? Here’s how to have a holiday season that you enjoy—and that doesn’t completely suck the life out of you.
Try to find time to recharge beforehand
Every time you socialize, it’s like an energy transaction, says Kirkland. Introverts start out with a lower social energy budget than extroverts. And that can easily be spent during a workday of phone calls, meetings and presentations, she says.
If that’s the case, you’ll probably feel pretty drained before you even get to the party and will be contemplating ghosting the minute you walk in the door.
In an ideal world, the best thing you can do is schedule in a couple hours of me-time before the event, says Kirkland. You can use that time to read, take a bath, or watch The Real Housewives, as long as the activity leaves you feeling relaxed and with more to give later on in the night, she says.
This can be tough in the case of after-work events. On those days, see if you can schedule less social work and more alone time into your day, Kirkland recommends.
Say “yes” when you don’t feel like it
With so many social obligations around the holidays, it can be tempting to turn down invitations in favor of staying home. But the only way you’ll feel comfortable in large group settings is to practice, says Amanda Focht, M.D., a psychiatrist at UW Medical Center.
In psychotherapy, this would be called “exposure.” If you’re invited to a big event, say yes, even if the idea makes you cringe. But also agree to smaller gatherings that can help prime you for the main event, Focht recommends.
If you have the urge to bail at the last minute, try not to. Over time, your brain will realize these parties and the people at them aren’t a threat, and the socializing may get easier, she says.
It can also be helpful to realize that being an introvert falls on a very normal continuum of human behavior, says Focht. You can own your introverted nature and still show up for events without having to try to morph yourself into an extrovert for the night.
“You don’t have to talk to everyone at the party,” she says.
Set some ground rules with your partner
The only thing worse for introverts than going to their own company holiday party is going to their partner's company’s holiday party. But it doesn’t have to be a night of awkward forced conversation or sitting alone in a corner.
Before heading to the party, ask your partner to make introductions at the party to a couple of colleagues you might have a nice time chatting with, says Focht. You might also ask for periodic check-ins throughout the night, she says.
If your loved one is an extrovert, it may seem rude if you step out for a while. But just explain ahead of time that it just means you’re recharging. Giving a heads up before the party can help you avoid misunderstandings, says Kirkland. Your partner can also help you out by establishing a signal for when you’re socially fried and need to head home for the night, she says.
Take it easy on the booze
Having a few drinks might take the edge off and make chatting easier, but too much could make things worse, says Kirkland.
“Often we’ll have a drink to kind of ease ourselves into a new situation. That can be helpful in moderation, but we don’t want to consume too much and feel regret, remorse or embarrassment that can further compound the problem of having a tough time facing social situations,” she says.
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Introduction: Eugenol (Eg), a compound extracted from Clove tree, is known for its anti- anaphylactic, anti-inflammation, antiseptic, antibacterial and analgesic properties as well as chain breaking antioxidant in inhibition of lipid peroxidation. Retinoic acid (RA), one of the synthetic derivatives of vitamin A, has been frequently used for treatment of face acne. In our studies Eg was used to test its probable correcting action on decreasing the toxicity and the teratogenic effects of retinoic acid in female NMRI mice embryo.
Materials and Methods: Five groups of 8 weeks old pregnant female mice were fed as follows: 1- an oral dose of 60 mg RA per kg b.w. on day 10 of pregnancy, 2- an oral dose of 100 mg/kg b.w. Eg for ten days (5th to 15th day of pregnancy), 3- olive oil (solvent) for 15 days, 4-Eg plus RA (as in groups 1 and 2) and 5- untreated controls. On day 18 of pregnancy the mice were dissectioned and the embryos were taken from the uterus. The length of the Crown Rump (CR), Cranio-Facial (CF), hands, feet and tail were measured and the organs were observed for probable defects. ANOVA , Tukeys and Chi-square were used for data analysis.
Results: A positive relationship was observed between the quantity of RA taken by the animals and the frequency of embryonic organ defects. Simultaneous administration of Eg with RA significantly reduced the frequency and the intensity of embryonic defects. RA could significantly reduce the length of hands, feet, tail, CR and CF (p<0.001). It could also cause embryonic defects such as short lower jaw, spiral tail, foot bending, hand and feet oligodactily and syndactily. Simultaneous administration of Eg with RA could significantly correct the length reduction in hands, tail and CF by 16, 18.85, 7.44%, respectively (P<0.001), and CR by 6.57% (P<0.05).
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Thursday, July 7, 2022 / by Ana Baldner
July has just begun. This means we are entering the peak of summer and officially halfway through 2022! It's the perfect time to make sure your home is prepared for the hot summer days and ready for summer activities.
Here is a mid-year checklist for your home:
Check safety devices
It's important to have working carbon monoxide detectors and smoke detectors to make sure your home is safe. Test these devices monthly and replace their batteries if needed. If your device is older than 10 years, then it should be entirely replaced to ensure a safe home. Don’t forget to check expiration dates on fire extinguishers and replace them if expired.
Look at windows
July is a great time to set aside time to deep clean your windows around the home. Clean them inside and out and don’t forget to check for holes in the screens to protect your home from unwanted bugs and mosquitoes that may sneak in. Use a screen patching kit to repair any damage found.
July is also a great time to pay attention to your water usage and cut down on costs. Water your lawn and plants earlier in the morning as opposed to the middle of the day. If you tend to water your lawn in the middle of the day when the sun is at its peak, a lot of it will evaporate rather than sinking into the soil and watering the grass. Watering in the early morning will help cut down on unnecessary usage.
Upgrade pool safety measures
If you have a pool in your backyard, taking a day to make sure it has proper safety measures is essential, especially in the summer months. If you have small children or pets, make sure your pool is properly fenced with a self closing gate so they won't be prone to falling in. You can also place a safety cover on your pool when it's not being used or consider installing a pool alarm that will go off if anyone enters the pool. If you do have small children in your life, it's important that they know pool safety and how to swim well.
Clean any deck furniture
Speaking of guests, take a second in these first weeks to deep clean any outdoor furniture. This can mean tables, seat cushions or even porch lights, as gatherings start moving outside.
Add shade to the yard
As you start spending more time outside, it’s important to remember that Florida in July has an average high of 91 degrees. It's a perfect time to add some shade to your yard to make sure your family and guests have protection for heat and sun exposure.
Prepare your home for any trips
If your family is taking any Summer trips this year, make sure to add any necessary safety precautions. Motion sensing lighting inside and outside the home and a well maintained yard can make your home appear less appealing target for break-ins while you're gone. Make sure to inform neighbors of your vacation and ask a friend to keep an eye on it.
All of these are important to ensure your home is ready for the hot summer days. For more home maintenance tips, give us a call!
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Only high-quality beans
We carefully select cocoa beans mainly in the Western Africa region. Discover more about where we source our cocoa here.
We only buy cocoa pods from the main crop harvested between October and February to ensure the highest possible quality of the raw material. The cocoa pods are then opened to remove the fresh beans which are left to ferment in large heaps, preferably under banana leaves. This phase lasts about a week, and is very important because this is when the aromatic precursors of cocoa develop.
From the beans
to cocoa powder
We transform the beans ourselves into cocoa powder trough a multi-stage transformation process carried out in our factories.
The drying and shelling
We start with the drying phase, followed by the shelling. The beans are put into a large mill that separates the edible part to be ground - the nibs - from the outer shell.
The ground nibs are treated to reduce the cocoa's natural acidity and then roasted to enhance their flavour and colour.
We grind the roasted nibs to obtain the cocoa mass. Then the cocoa mass is pressed to separate the fattest part (the cocoa butter) from the dry part (the cocoa “cake”).
Lastly, after breaking out the cocoa "cake", we obtain the cocoa powder that we use in the preparation of Nutella®.
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IDAHO — Halloween is almost here, and with no shortage of trick-or-treating fun around the Treasure Valley, you'll probably find yourself with plenty of candy in the house soon!
Unfortunately, all that sweet stuff can sometimes be a scary sight for your smile so it's important to take steps before, during, and after the holiday to protect those teeth.
"You may think that the dentist is going to say, 'no candy,' this Halloween, and I'm not going to tell you that," says Dr. Alice Zeigler, a dentist at North End Dental and member of the Idaho State Dental Association. "There are certain strategies that you can use to make sure that you're maintaining your oral health at the same time."
Some of those strategies include limiting or changing when you eat candy versus avoiding a treat altogether.
"Frequency is a bigger factor in tooth decay than quantity when it comes to candy so if you're going to have five pieces of candy, it's going to be better for your teeth to have those five pieces of candy in one sitting, preferably after a meal when you've got lots of great saliva flowing, even better if you can brush and floss your teeth afterwards," says Dr. Zeigler. "That's going to be a lot healthier for your teeth than it would be to have those exact same five pieces of candy spread throughout the day. The frequency makes a big difference."
Dr. Zeigler adds it's important to remember not every candy will affect you the same way.
"Something like a sucker that's in your mouth for a long time, you're just bathing your teeth in sugar. The same goes for hard candies or even sticky gummy candies that can get stuck in your teeth. There's a lot of time for that sugar to be in contact with your teeth."
For those with braces, there are also a few rules to keep in mind when choosing which candy to enjoy first.
"Sticky candies and hard candies are notorious for breaking brackets. That's going to prolong your treatment time. Nobody wants to be in braces longer than they have to so you're going to want to go through your treats and choose some things that are easier to chew. Chocolate, you can't go wrong with chocolate," Dr. Zeigler explains. "Peanut butter cups, something like that, would also be a better choice than the hard candies."
Dr. Zeigler says the same rules apply to people with fillings, or even if you have the perfect smile, you could still break a tooth biting into a hard candy.
Even if you have no trouble satisfying your sweet tooth, Dr. Zeigler wants to remind everyone to follow basic hygiene rules and avoid some common mistakes around the holiday season.
"I would say not brushing thoroughly or frequently enough and flossing. If you're really taking care of your mouth, you should be able to enjoy those treats this Halloween season."
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Nelson M Rosario is an intellectual property attorney working as an associate at Marshall, Gerstein & Borun in Chicago. He has years of experience working on patent prosecution matters in bitcoin/blockchain and fintech, as well as other areas.
In this CoinDesk opinion piece, Rosario ponders why we have developed so many terms for what is effectively the same technology – bitcoin.
“What’s in a name? That which we call an electronic payment system based on cryptographic proof instead of trust by any other name would smell as sweet.”
– William ‘Satoshi’ Shakespeare (probably)
In the beginning, there was ‘bitcoin’, and it was good. But, bitcoin would end up bearing a nomenclature fruit salad that tests mortal comprehension. Perhaps, that is the natural way of things.
As a new technology develops, the number of people exposed to that new technology increases, and the language used to describe the new technology evolves.
Initially, the language was limited to bitcoin. Now a person is liable to see any of the following words or phrases that theoretically all mean different things: bitcoin, Bitcoin, block chain, blockchain, Blockchain, private blockchain, public blockchain, distributed ledger technology, distributed asset ledgers, decentralized ledger technology, shared ledgers, et al.
Further confusing the matter, the term bitcoin may not always mean the same thing to different people. What happened? Why the change in language?
First, bitcoin has the word ‘coin’ right in it. This naturally makes people think of currency. Not surprisingly, bitcoin use as a currency is far and away the most successful iteration of bitcoin. The applications for bitcoin are not, however, limited to currency.
This is where much of the confusion arises. Intuitively, the currency implementation for bitcoin (with the word coin in it) makes sense. Trying to convince someone that bitcoin can also be used for purposes as diverse as asset transfers, escrow services, or logistics management is not so straightforward.
Bitcoin also suffers from an image problem. The early publicity surrounding bitcoin included scandals, thefts, a euphoria akin to the Tulip bubble, and in general, bad press. ‘Fake internet money‘, as some people called bitcoin, did not inspire confidence amongst the masses.
Additionally, the main advocates for the new technology were unpolished and unproven. Often if someone had heard of bitcoin they had heard of the failed Mt Gox exchange, or they assumed bitcoin was something a person used to buy illicit drugs or hire a hitman. The reality was not that far off.
How do you get people to forget about the failed exchanges, drugs, and hitmen? Get them to focus on ‘the technology underlying bitcoin’, and get them to think about the other potential implementations. Once the conversation moved beyond currency, people started searching for a new word. That search led them to the blockchain.
The rise of the blockchain
Negative publicity and conceptual confusion laid the groundwork for people to begin to refer to the blockchain as the real innovation to come out of the bitcoin phenomenon.
The blockchain is a chain of transactions that makes bitcoin possible. The term refers to a collection of bitcoin transactions grouped together into blocks and linked through cryptography. This linkage is part of what makes it virtually impossible to fake bitcoin transactions.
In a sense, the blockchain provides true decentralized trust and distributed consensus, but the rebranding, or reorienting of people’s attention, to the blockchain and away from bitcoin may be just a clever marketing trick.
Many people argue that you cannot separate the blockchain from bitcoin. The thinking is that you cannot break up bitcoin into its component parts because the parts by themselves will not work the same way independent of each other. In other words, the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. Regardless of whether this is correct, that is precisely what people have done.
Once the power of bitcoin became apparent, we started to see article after article touting the ‘real innovation’ behind bitcoin. Respectable and well-established firms began developing blockchain solutions to their problems.
People consistently discredited bitcoin as boring, while extolling the virtues of the multifaceted blockchain. Large banks, financial exchanges, and the ‘Big Four’ consultancies all rushed to publish reports on blockchain technology. The hype train that left the station heading to Bitcoinland was diverted to Blockchainville.
There are now hundreds of blockchain startups. Problems related to back end services for large institutions, digital identity, asset transfer, escrow, and logistics, are all being tackled by blockchain solutions. Even tracking pork along a blockchain has been proposed. These companies are doing truly innovative work.
However, to many observers the term ‘blockchain’ is still conceptually associated with bitcoin. So, if a company describes an innovation that leverages a type of blockchain they have to distinguish it from bitcoin and the bitcoin blockchain. How do blockchain companies talk about what they are doing without referencing bitcoin, or other blockchains? The solution is to talk about ledgers.
The arrival of distributed ledger technology
A ledger can record transactions between multiple parties. The ledger concept is a main building block of bitcoin and any blockchain. Ledgers also benefit from the fact that they are commonly thought of as boring, safe, and dependable tools in an accountant’s toolbox, as opposed to the technological innovation that makes bitcoin possible.
What better way to put thoughts of bitcoin and blockchain out of people’s minds than insisting that you are only talking about ledger technology? Thus, the conceptual chain to bitcoin was broken.
However, there remains considerable debate over whether this is feasible or even desirable. To early adopters, bitcoin is a monolith that cannot exist without distributed trust, consensus, and immutability, but many new industry entrants view the technology as an a la carte buffet. They are free to decide between many concepts including: permissioned vs permissionless, public vs private, tokenized vs no token, etc.
Today any institution or organization that refers to ledgers is free to discuss bitcoin or blockchain related concepts, without the supposed taint of bitcoin. Even the Federal Reserve Board (of Federal Reserve Bank fame), has touted ledgers in their recent report on “Distributed Ledger Technology.”
Over the past two years, hundreds of new blockchains and ledgers have been created. They all draw on the root concepts of bitcoin, but their purposes and the lingo used to describe them have diverged widely. This conceptual repackaging, and public relations approved language replacement, is likely to continue for some time.
What does it all mean?
This story has gone from bitcoin to blockchain to distributed ledger technology. There are companies that operate in all of these spaces, or only one of them.
Outside observers are forgiven if they struggle to keep up with all the different terms. Yet, through all of this evolution and upheaval, bitcoin has remained central to the discussion. Whether bitcoin, the blockchain, and distributed ledgers will be adopted and thrive or consigned to the ash heap of history remains to be seen.
The fact that bitcoin has undergone repeated repackaging is a testament to the strength of the technology. Other blockchains or related technologies may rise and fall, but bitcoin’s inertia and first-mover advantage will continue to make it the most relevant cryptocurrency, blockchain, and ledger.
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The global demand for Oxetane Market is presumed to reach the valuation of nearly USD XX MN by 2028 from USD XX MN in 2021 with a CAGR of XX% during the period of 2022-2028.
Oxetane is a strained cyclic ether that is commonly used in drug discovery and synthetic chemistry. Oxetanes can tune the physicochemical properties and the stability of a molecule when combined. Oxetane being a heterocyclic organic compound exhibiting ring-opening reactions can be used as a motif in labs to create many useful derivatives. Oxetanes are being developed for use in synthetic and medicinal chemistry as well as in material and agrochemical studies owing to their versatility as building blocks. They can be used as efficient tools in the production of drugs, fragrant and crop protection agents. Oxetane can substitute epoxy resins in electronic materials and hence used in photoresist, sealer, and as an underfill material.
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The Church of England’s General Synod has set new targets for all parts of the Church to work to become carbon ‘net zero’ by 2030. Underscoring this project at Lambeth Palace is a commitment to achieve a zero-carbon outcome. The project will commit to a ‘fabric-first’ approach in which upgrading the historic building fabric is prioritised, reducing the energy required to heat and cool internal spaces.
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Plasma Exchange an Effective Therapy for Raynaud’s and Digital Ulcers, Review Says
An overview of published studies exploring the use of therapeutic plasma exchange (TPE) in scleroderma patients indicated that the treatment improved Raynaud’s phenomenon and digital ulcers. Findings also showed that TPE made blood less viscous, improving blood flow and preventing blood vessels from becoming blocked.
The findings will be presented at the American College of Rheumatology (ACR)/ Association of Rheumatology Health Professionals (ARHP) 2016 Annual Meeting, being held in San Diego, California, on Nov. 11–16. The presentation is titled, “Therapeutic Plasma Exchange for the Treatment of Raynaud’s and Digital Ulcers in Systemic Sclerosis: A Systematic Review.”
Current medications for Raynaud’s phenomenon and digital ulcers mainly focus on drugs that improve blood flow in the smallest blood vessels, called capillaries, in the hands and feet. Although such drugs use varying mechanisms, they all act on the blood vessels themselves — relaxing the smooth muscles of the vessel walls to enlarge them, and so allow for a better blood flow.
But such treatment is not sufficient for many patients, and there is an unmet need for other approaches.
Researchers, led by Edward Harris of the Scleroderma Education Project — himself a patient who turned into an avid scleroderma scientist — reviewed all articles published between 1978 and 2016 exploring TPE as a scleroderma treatment.
Out of 40 identified articles, 13 had analyzed effects on Raynaud’s phenomenon and digital ulcers. Researchers excluded an additional four studies since patients had been on other scleroderma drugs while undergoing plasma exchange.
Together, the studies included 133 patients, and were mostly in the form of small pilot studies. One randomized clinical trial had 27 participants, of which nine received TPE. Another controlled trial explored the treatment in 37 patients, where nine patients with severe scleroderma were non-randomly chosen to receive plasma exchange.
Several studies reported that a single course of treatments — most often one treatment per week for four weeks — improved Raynaud’s symptoms, digital ulcers, blood flow, and vessel parameters, with symptoms frequently reported to entirely disappear.
Studies often reported long-standing effects of at least six months. In one study involving 18 patients, digital ulcers had not re-emerged at a three-year follow-up visit.
In contrast to current medications, TPE does not impact blood vessels. An earlier study has, however, suggested that patients with active digital ulcers have an abnormally thick, or viscous, blood.
Researchers think that the treatment works by reducing the aggregation of red blood cells. Such aggregates, they reason, get stuck in the tiny vessels in hands and feet, hindering blood flow and destroying the vessels.
Harris and the research team recommends that these aspects, particularly focusing on blood characteristics, should be explored in a clinical trial of TPE.
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Report on Ambrym (Vanuatu) — January 1995
Bulletin of the Global Volcanism Network, vol. 20, no. 1 (January 1995)
Managing Editor: Richard Wunderman.
Ambrym (Vanuatu) Lava lakes still present in Benbow and Marum craters
Please cite this report as:
Global Volcanism Program, 1995. Report on Ambrym (Vanuatu) (Wunderman, R., ed.). Bulletin of the Global Volcanism Network, 20:1. Smithsonian Institution. https://doi.org/10.5479/si.GVP.BGVN199501-257040
16.25°S, 168.12°E; summit elev. 1334 m
All times are local (unless otherwise noted)
During an aerial reconnaissance on 7 December 1994, activity was at normal levels with lava lakes present in both Benbow and Marum craters. An intermediate-depth earthquake (185 km) occurred under Ambrym on 26 April 1994. Regular monitoring is done with a seismic station on Ambrym that transmits data via ARGOS satellite to the ORSTOM office in Port Vila.
Geological Summary. Ambrym, a large basaltic volcano with a 12-km-wide caldera, is one of the most active volcanoes of the New Hebrides Arc. A thick, almost exclusively pyroclastic sequence, initially dacitic then basaltic, overlies lava flows of a pre-caldera shield volcano. The caldera was formed during a major Plinian eruption with dacitic pyroclastic flows about 1,900 years ago. Post-caldera eruptions, primarily from Marum and Benbow cones, have partially filled the caldera floor and produced lava flows that ponded on the floor or overflowed through gaps in the caldera rim. Post-caldera eruptions have also formed a series of scoria cones and maars along a fissure system oriented ENE-WSW. Eruptions have apparently occurred almost yearly during historical time from cones within the caldera or from flank vents. However, from 1850 to 1950, reporting was mostly limited to extra-caldera eruptions that would have affected local populations.
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A new study seeking to learn more about the earliest stages of Alzheimer’s disease in normal healthy volunteers aged between 65 and 83 years of age is currently being conducted at the Glasgow Memory Clinic.
By volunteering for the TOMMORROW study, you are contributing to a process that may have the potential to help millions of people at risk for developing Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI) due to Alzheimer’s disease.
The TOMMORROW study has two main goals. First, it will evaluate whether a new investigational test involving two specific genes can predict a person’s risk for developing MCI in the next 5 years. A second goal is to explore whether an investigational medication will delay the first symptoms of MCI due to AD in people who are cognitively normal.
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Breast Cancer and Gynecological Cancer Rehabilitation provides clinicians with a concise and accessible resource covering the holistic rehabilitation of breast cancer patients. This book begins with the epidemiology, genetics and pathophysiology of breast cancer and moves into clinical assessment and treatment options before providing comprehensive coverage of rehabilitation. Containing practical information, best practices and the latest advances and research, this book provides a valuable reference for physical medicine and rehabilitation physicians and residents, as well as occupational therapists and physical therapists.
Provides a clear understanding of the current medical, surgical, and radiation treatments for breast cancer.
Covers the whole spectrum of breast cancer rehabilitation, including the role of physical and occupational therapy, treatment of anxiety and depression, pain syndromes, integrative care, nutritional rehabilitation, palliative care, and more.
Offers a timely and convenient resource written by leading experts in breast cancer and rehabilitation.
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Rare white elephant born in Myanmar-- state media
A rare white elephant has been born in western Myanmar, state media said on Wednesday, unveiling what many in the Buddhist-majority country believe to be an auspicious creature.
Born last month in western Rakhine state, the baby weighs about 80 kilograms (180 pounds) and stands roughly 70 cm (two-and-a-half feet) tall, according to the Global New Light of Myanmar newspaper.
Footage released by state TV showed the tusker tot following his mother to a river and being washed by its keepers, and later feeding from her.
The mother -- a 33-year-old called Zar Nan Hla -- is kept by the Myanma Timber Enterprise in Rakhine state, the Global New Light said, adding the baby possessed seven of the eight characteristics associated with rare white elephants.
Pearl-coloured eyes, plantain branch-shaped back, white hair, a distinctive tail, auspicious plot signs on the skin, five claws on the front legs and four on the back legs and big ears, the newspaper reported.
Social media users first posted about the birth of the elephant -- which has not been named yet -- late last month.
Historically, white elephants were considered extremely auspicious in Southeast Asian culture, and the region's ancient rulers acquired as many as they could to boost their fortunes.
But the ruinous cost of keeping the beasts in appropriately lavish style gave rise to the modern expression in which a white elephant is a useless, if beautiful, possession.
There are currently six white elephants in captivity in the military-built capital Naypyidaw, according to state media -- mostly from Rakhine state and the southern Ayeyarwady region.
With Myanmar reeling from a military coup last year and its bloody crackdown on dissent, the reaction of many on social media was muted or sceptical.
Am I colourblind if it just looks brown to me? posted one user.
Elephants were important only in the old eras, said another.
Now the poor elephant will have to go to jail.
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73a. Poa faberi var. faberi
法氏早熟禾(原变种) fa shi zao shu he (yuan bian zhong)
Poa linearis Trinius (1833), not Schumacher (1827); P. paucifolia Keng ex Shan Chen; P. prolixior Rendle.
Ligule (2–)3–6(–8) mm. Rachilla glabrous; lemma callus sometimes not webbed.
* Meadows among scattered thickets on slopes, grassy places on sunny slopes; 200–1200(–3000) m. Anhui, Gansu, Guizhou, Henan, Hubei, Hunan, Sichuan, Xinjiang, Xizang, Yunnan.
Type material at BM and K is heterogeneous. Three of the syntypes differ clearly from Poa sphondylodes by the very thin, soft stems and leaves, the uppermost leaf sheaths almost reaching the panicle, and the rather long panicle branches. Although the fourth syntype has the uppermost node in the lower 1/3 of the culm, it matches P. sphondylodes in being robust with thick, dense culms and leaf blades and a narrow, dense panicle. Moreover, some of them have an unwebbed callus.
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It sounds like a dystopian science fiction novel: Writers in crowded basements, operating under pseudonyms and code words to build networks with the like-minded without attracting the ire of a watchful government.
But it’s true – gay and lesbian writers and activists who wanted to connect with others in the LGBT community in the 1940s could only do so with pseudonyms and double entendre. And they were able to do it with the help of another burgeoning movement with roots in Los Angeles – science fiction.
Jim Kepner's "Toward Tomorrow" magazine. Courtesy ONE Archives/USC.
“Everybody in this particular time is using a pseudonym to cover for their gay activities,” says Joseph Hawkins, professor at University of Southern California and director of the ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives at USC. “So, if they openly go out and do gay activities, they get blacklisted by the American government.”
Deep within the ONE archives, Hawkins made a discovery. Jim Kepner is famous in LGBT history for co-founding the nation’s first gay magazine, as Lisa Ben (whose real name is Edythe Edye) is for founding the first lesbian magazine. But these two LGBT revolutionaries found an unlikely ally in the science fiction community, which not only allowed them to imagine a more equal future, but connect with others under their pseudonyms: Jyke (Kepner) and Tigrina the Devil Doll (Ben).
“I’ve always been completely obsessed with science fiction,” says Hawkins. “And then when I began to realize how much Kepner was and how much Lisa Ben was - they were actually using science fiction publications to figure out what they wanted to do with gay and lesbian magazines.”
Lisa Ben -- an anagram for “lesbian” -- would go on to found the nation’s first lesbian magazine, "Vice Versa," in 1947. Six years later, Jim Kepner would co-found "ONE Magazine," dubbed “the homosexual magazine,” which was in circulation for over a decade. Their revolutionary work would spur the early gay rights movement, as well as win the first Supreme Court cases for LGBT people.
A page from a science fiction fan zine from the 1940s, with Ray Bradbury and Tigrina (Lisa Ben). Courtesy ONE Archives/USC
“Each of them has these particular science fiction covers, so Lisa Ben writing as Tigrina or Kepner writing as Jyke will produce these incredible fan zines.” Hawkins said. Both Kepner and Ben were well-known science fiction writers in Los Angeles, writing in well-known magazines and members of fan clubs, along with Ray Bradbury and L. Ron Hubbard.
“This provides a sort of proving ground where they learn how to organize, how to create networks for publication,” Hawkins says. “If you think about it, Lisa Ben and "Vice Versa," and "ONE Magazine" owe, to some extent, their foundation to that early science fiction publication.”
But Ben and Kepner didn’t just save their activist writing for "Vice Versa" and "ONE." Their science fiction writing was full of their desires for a more equal world.
“It was all over the place,” Hawkins said. “Some of it is clouded, some of it’s not. Kepner and Lisa Ben weren’t just talking about gay rights, they were talking about feminism, racial equality – the thing is science fiction was a place they could do all that because they were imagining a new world.”
Courtesy ONE Archives/USC.
Kepner and Ben, as Jyke and Tigrina, were both devoted members of the Los Angeles Science Fantasy Society, which met weekly in the basement of the Prince Rupert Arms near downtown Los Angeles to imagine a future of technological marvels and social equality.
The society still exists. Now in Van Nuys, it’s the oldest running science fiction society in the world, and holds members just as devoted as Kepner and Ben once were, like June Moffatt, who joined the society in August 1947 when she was a teenager. She says she “only met Tigrina once” but she knew Kepner quite well.
“He was good fun,” says Moffatt. Moffatt knew Kepner was gay and an activist, but he was still just “one of the gang. I remember once sitting down next to [Kepner] and telling him he was in danger,” Moffatt says, laughing. “I was flirting with him.” | <urn:uuid:2b22b9df-6719-4e0c-a936-963a98e5509b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://archive.kpcc.org/programs/offramp/2015/09/04/44365/how-gay-rights-got-its-start-in-science-fiction/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572198.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815175725-20220815205725-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.972269 | 989 | 2.515625 | 3 |
Release Date: July 28, 2014
BUFFALO, N.Y. – Edward H. Steinfeld, SUNY Distinguished Professor at the University at Buffalo’s School of Architecture and Planning, will receive one of his field’s most significant honors: the James Haecker Award for Distinguished Leadership in Architectural Research.
Presented by the Architectural Research Centers Consortium (ARCC), the award recognizes individuals who have “made outstanding contributions to the growth of the research culture of architecture and related fields.”
A pioneer and leading scholar in the field of inclusive design, Steinfeld’s research centers on designing products and built environments that are more accessible, safe and friendly for all people, including those who are often marginalized.
His research on design for disability is the foundation for accessibility codes and regulations in the U.S., including the Americans with Disabilities Act Accessibility Guidelines. That work is widely cited by other researchers and helped establish UB as a leader in rehabilitation research.
“When we think of the most impactful architectural research of the past 40 years, Edward Steinfeld's research and influence on inclusive design has been unquestionably profound,” ARCC President Keith Diaz Moore said. “Our built environment today is more equitable and empowering to a more diverse population due to his work and its impact on policy, advocacy and design.
“We as an organization could not be more pleased to recognize Dr. Steinfeld's clear leadership and distinction in our discipline with this year's James Haecker Award.”
Robert G. Shibley, dean of UB’s School of Architecture and Planning, praised Steinfeld’s work and the effect it has had upon the world.
“Ed’s research, teaching and critical practice at UB over the past 30 years has fundamentally established the field of universal design as an academic discipline and profession,” he said. “Through the IDeA Center, he’s put UB and its School of Architecture and Planning on the map as leading public research institutions.
“Most importantly, his work has brought a sensibility to architecture and its related disciplines that changes the way we design buildings, environments and products and, ultimately, improves the quality of life for those of all abilities, ages and backgrounds.”
Steinfeld, ArchD, AIA, joined the UB faculty in 1978. Six years later founded the IDeA Center (the Center for Inclusive Design and Environmental Access) which is dedicated to increasing the adoption of inclusive design practices.
Under Steinfeld’s guidance, the center has become an internationally renowned, multidisciplinary research initiative that includes six other UB faculty members and a staff of seven full-time researchers and professionals.
It is one of the most successful and long-lived research programs in architecture and environmental design in the U.S. In addition to sponsored research, the center offers services to the Western New York community, New York State and corporate sponsors.
Steinfeld is the principal investigator for the Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center (RERC) on Universal Design and the Built Environment. The center has received funding from the National Institute for Disability and Rehabilitation Research for three, five-year cycles, making it the largest funded research and design program on universal design in the world.
The center works to produce an improved evidence base for universal design, develop new research tools, innovative products and voluntary standards, and disseminate educational resources on universal design to an international audience.
Steinfeld also is an influential writer. He is one of the authors of the seminal Principles of Universal Design, a framework for designing beautiful and functional environments for all people, regardless of age, gender, ability or change in ability. The principles have been translated into many languages and are instrumental in defining the concept throughout the world.
His more than 100 publications include “Universal Design: Creating Inclusive Environments” and "Inclusive Housing: A Pattern Book: Design for Diversity and Equality.” Steinfeld also has received many awards and honors.
Created in 1976, the ARCC is international association committed to the expansion of research culture and supporting infrastructure in architecture and related design disciplines.
The Haecker award is named for James Haecker, founding secretary of the ARCC.
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Looking for boredom busters? Learning can be a LOT of fun for kids. Don’t let a lack of ideas stop you from teaching your kids STEM. Use these ideas so that you can get kids excited. These STEM projects for kids are fun and easy and they are sure to get kids excited.
Engineering STEM Project For Kids
Many parents know that their kids need to be involved in STEM but oftentimes it is left to the school to teach. The problem is, there is not enough STEM being offered in some schools. Parents can easily teach STEM at home and keep kids excited about STEM over the summer. Use these ideas for simple STEM Projects for Kids.
What is STEM?
STEM stands for Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics. Sometimes it is also called STEAM, which adds in the arts. STEM affects every area of our lives, from science and medicine to new technology to building roads and bridges to environmentally friendly homes.
Related Article: Ways to Get Girls Excited About STEM
Why Are Stem Projects Important For Kids
It is extremely important to encourage children to find a low of Science, Tech, Engineering, and math. It is important because kids are the future and without excitement and interest in STEM there will be less advancements in these areas.
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- Pom Pom Drop Stem Challenge from coffeecupsandcrayons.com
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COVID Isolation Period
It has been a tricky half term with the number of covid infections we have had both with staff and pupils. Thank you for being so understanding if your son or daughter has been affected if we have had to reduce their time in school due to unsafe staffing levels.
As you know, with the support of local public health, we have maintained our isolation period at 10 days for confirmed cases. However, we are seeing a slowing of the number of cases so we have decided to change this to follow the national guidance. Please see below for the guidance.
This will come in straight away.
Please be assured that if your son or daughter is still experiencing symptoms and are too ill to be in school, then he or she should continue to recover at home. | <urn:uuid:144a522e-fa2b-4d5a-9b86-acdff80ba92b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.priorywoodsschool.com/information/news/covid-isolation-period | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572033.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814113403-20220814143403-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.977619 | 163 | 1.546875 | 2 |
From Egyptian Secrets of Albertus Magnus, Joseph H. Peterson edition:
To Still the Blood,
Three blissful hours are to this world bestowed. In the first of these hours God was born, in the other hour God died, in the other hour, however, God was resurrected. Now, I call the three blissful hours, and quiet thee, N. N., so that thy water and thy blood may be healed from all ailment and wounds, and henceforth may thou in health abound. + + + Three times.
The grimoire Egyptian Secrets of Albertus Magnus lists this spell.
Timeline of related events
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Browsing for the best woodworking plans that can ultimately assist you to achieve perfect woodworking jobs can be a difficult task.
In this write-up, we will certainly recognize more on Free Woodworking Plans Hidden Gun and also factors to consider when selecting a woodworking strategy.
Woodworking Plan Sypnosis
A Woodworking plan is instructions for constructing woodworks which can consist of drafts drawn with pencils or pen and paper.
It also includes more comprehensive illustrations in the kind of scaled templates called patterns with measurements needed for making joints like mortise & tenon joints.
Woodworking plans usually consist of instructions of what timber to buy for the task, in addition to device lists and cutting representations. Woodworkers can work from a Woodworking strategy by reading it in order to determine their following phase of the activity or they might select not to seek advice from the Woodworking plan at all.
These woodworking blueprints consist of pictures highlighting exactly how each piece ought to look during the setting up process which permits users to see if they have the woodworking abilities necessary for finishing a job efficiently.
Woodworkers can additionally use woodworking Strategies as reference factors and also change them to suit their requirements, or they may refer to online data sources of woodworking strategies that are offered by knowledgeable craftsmen in numerous places.
Reality About Woodworking Plan
Woodworking is the activity of reducing, shaping, as well as assembling wood. Woodworkers are usually carpenters, closet manufacturers, shipwrights, and also other people who work with wood as their major material or item.
Woodworking has actually been going on for a very long time. It is one of the earliest crafts in existence – archaeologists have discovered evidence that people were making hand tools out of timber about two million years back.
By learning woodworking you can use your hands and also creativity to create something stunning. Woodworking is not almost making points for other people, you can make unique tasks or gifts for yourself, also!
Woodwork involves the creation of furnishings, closets, floor covering, and also far more. Woodworkers frequently work with wood alone but also include steel such as nails and screws in their task.
Learning Woodworking Free Woodworking Plans Hidden Gun
To discover Woodworking you need to begin with the essentials to get a feeling of exactly how Woodworking works. Woodworkers can construct everything from furnishings, cupboards, and also doors to toys like rocking horses or wood trains.
Beginners can take into consideration taking woodwork classes in order to find out the standard devices such as hammers, screwdrivers, and saws – both handsaws and also power round saws called scroll or reciprocating saws.
Various other woodworking tools that are important are wood blades, planes, clamps for holding boards with each other while they are being worked on, workbench dogs that maintain things straightened during intending procedures, steel shaping devices called flexing irons used for making bent surface areas along a side.
Choosing Woodworking Projects
Picking the best woodworking job is essential considering getting into the craft. Woodworking jobs can range from easy to extremely complicated, but, they all have one thing in common, you will certainly need wood for them.
Knowing what sort of job is the finest fit for your skill degree and offered information is essential when it comes to choosing a task.
If you are fairly skilled with devices yet don’t want anything as well challenging, after that a tiny side table would certainly be perfect.
Next, if you only understand the essentials of using power tools and also might make use of many techniques before dealing with something larger like an end-table or shelf, later starting with a birdhouse could be right up your alley.
Despite which kind of woodworking project attract you, it is important to guarantee that you have the proper woodworking plan that reveals to you properly to tackle your job.
Woodworking plans are available online, in publications and also publications, or from other woodworkers who have experience with the kind of woodworking job, you intend to carry out.
Kinds of Wood For Woodworking
The standard of wood is one of the most vital element when selecting the timber that will be made use of for your woodworking project.
Wood high quality describes just how dense as well as tough the grain of the timber is, which determines what kind of coating can be put on it. For example, premium wood like oak can have numerous coats of polyurethane.
Woods with excellent unrefined sturdiness are generally harder woods such as mahogany or walnut while softer timbers include pine, cedar, poplar, or fir.
Plywood originates from slim sheets of relatively low-cost and uniform product typically made from softwood veneers compressed together with adhesive in between layers so they adhere well without utilizing nails or screws. Given that it is affordable and readily available in large sizes.
Building woodworks at home is a concept that has constantly been prominent and also connected with a feeling of self-reliance. Woodworking is not just for individuals who have experience or ever done it as a task.
With the right woodworking strategy, wood materials, tools, and also the readiness to place in some time and effort by themselves home jobs, every person can do it themselves as well as construct a piece of furniture, made particularly for their house.
Woodworking skills are easily offered to any person with the right attitude and inspiration, as well as much of these craftsmen have amazing developments that you can make in the house.
The kind of woodworking jobs that can do at home are limitless, they can consist of little projects such as a reducing board, birdhouse, or plaything box big items of furniture including tables and chairs.
Woodworking is an art that always has time for newbies who have never done it before and the more knowledgeable woodworkers too.
A couple of examples of home DIY woodworking:
– A cradle for your newborn baby constructed of wood from lumber trees in your yard.
– An exterior bench used by buddies throughout an evening barbecue celebration.
Final Thoughts Free Woodworking Plans Hidden Gun
Many people think that woodworking can appear confusing and also daunting. However, with the best Free Woodworking Plans Hidden Gun, materials, and also devices in position, it does not need to be.
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I amSimone Emmons.
Our mission is to provide Service Dogs to sexual assault Survivors diagnosed with PTSD, at no cost to them. The dogs are rescued from kill shelters and complete a 20-week training class with their handlers transforming them both into PTSD stopping machines and giving them both limitless possibilities. Each survivor learns to train their dog for specific tasks that will help them overcome their PTSD and take back control of their life.
Here is my story on how SDS came about…
I, myself, am a Survivor of rape. When I was 20 years old, I enlisted in the Army to serve my country and fulfill a lifelong dream and family legacy, to become a Soldier. I was a year into my service when I was violently raped. This crime did more than hurt my body, it severely left scars on my mind and total wellbeing. At that time in the Army, there was little help available for rape Survivors and even less support to encourage people to come forward and tell authorities about it. Little did I know at the time, but I had suffered from a Traumatic Brain Injury and PTSD from the incident. I began to self-medicate with alcohol and drugs to deal with the trauma I had endured and had to keep to myself. My whole life has been negatively impacted from this incident. After discharge from the Army, I led a life of trying to forget. Drinking, using drugs, risky behavior, isolation, anxiety and depression were all ways I tried to deal with what happened. As you can imagine, those were not good solutions to the problem, but these behaviors are all too common for sexual assault Survivors.
Through determination, and driven by a strong will to heal, I rose above my adversities and was able to detox and begin to build a different life for myself. I found help through counseling at the local Vet Center, enrolled in a 12-step program and was on my way to a better life. In reaching out for help I was able to find closure with the military, received an honorable discharge and the military finally acknowledged the rape caused my PTSD symptoms and TBI. Even after years of rebuilding my life, I still found it hard to feel comfortable in public and had problems surrounding authority figures. The idea of a Service Dog for my PTSD was brought up in a counseling session and I knew that was what I wanted to try for help with my symptoms. After receiving the dog and becoming certified, I noticed a great deal of confidence come back. I was able to go out and about and not think twice about the situation. I felt strong with my dog by my side. It had returned a feeling to me that I had not felt since before my rape. This was my motivation to start SDS. In hopes to return the same confidence and strength to other Survivors.
The funds we raise go directly to training Survivor/Service Dog teams and allow us to continue to maintain and grow our program. It costs approximately $3500.00 to provide one Survivor a shelter dog, send the team through training and get them on the path to recovery and leading a full life.
We have had Survivors from all over the country reach out to us looking for help. At this time, we are only able to help Mainers since they must be able to drive to Southern Maine for the training class.
Please consider helping Maine Veteran and civilian Survivors who are dealing with a horrific life-altering experience get back into the fold and on the path to optimism and happiness. If we let sexual assault victims slip through the cracks and do not provide meaningful solutions to this problem, society as a whole loses. A diagnosis of PTSD too often leads to suicide attempts or worse.
Over medication from pharmaceuticals for PTSD Survivors is becoming all too common. Looking to alternative treatments for PTSD is cutting edge; the success of Service Dogs is starting to become more documented. Service Dogs are proven to hold a key to helping with PTSD and depression.
With your generous donations, we will have the ability to help lift someone out of a dark hole and put them on the path to a better life, and help a four-legged friend as well.
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From Matthew Trueblood at Baseball Prospectus on February 26, 2019:
Conventional pitching wisdom long held that the most important pitch of a plate appearance was the first one, but famously Greg Maddux knew better. The greatest pitcher of the modern era, Maddux stood apart by asserting that the pivotal pitch within any showdown came in a 1-1 count. Research throughout the sabermetric era has confirmed Maddux’s intuition, but now the world has changed somewhat. A 1-1 pitch is still disproportionately important. However, it’s also far more common than it was for most of Maddux’s career.
For myriad reasons, the share of plate appearances getting to 1-1 has risen from around 35 percent when pitch-by-pitch data first began being tracked to almost exactly 40 percent for each of the last two seasons. Of the 140 pitchers who threw at least 100 innings in 2018, only two reached 1-1 less than 34.1 percent of the time—Maddux’s career mark, at least for the seasons for which we have the data. Those two guys were Joe Musgrove and Mike Leake, which illustrates the kind of hurler it takes to resolve at-bats quickly these days: fastball-heavy dudes who rely on sinking and cutting the ball to chase weak contact.
Read the full article here: https://www.baseballprospectus.com/news/article/47429/rubbing-mud-heads-up-hacking-1-1-is-a-hitters-pitch-but-a-pitchers-count/
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They come to work in Singapore with dreams of being able to earn enough to secure a brighter future for their families back home.
For some migrant workers, however, working in Singapore has been nothing short of a nightmare.
Meanwhile, another survey done by the International Labour Organisation (ILO) last year found that most Singaporeans still have a negative perception of migrant workers – according to the report by ILO, such negative attitudes “can condone discrimination, exploitation, and even violence against migrant workers.”
The Pride speaks to two abused migrant workers to uncover the uncomfortable truths about their experiences in Singapore.
Yanti, 38, Indonesian domestic helper
I first came to work in Singapore as a domestic helper in 2011 because I ran into financial problems back home in Indonesia. It was a difficult decision for me to come over, because I had to leave my four-month-old daughter and husband behind.
Still, when I first arrived in Singapore, I was filled with hope. I was determined to work hard and save up for my family, so that my young daughter could have a better and brighter future.
Unfortunately, my first employers here in Singapore were unpleasant and abusive. Right from the start, there was a language barrier that contributed to many misunderstandings. And whenever I did something that they didn’t like, they would not only scold me, but rub my face, pull my hair, and even hit me on my arms.
Every night, I would go into my room and cry myself to sleep. It was made worse because they refused to let me contact my family. Still, I told myself that I was doing this for my daughter, so I endured.
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After four months, I couldn’t take it anymore, so I requested for a transfer. Thankfully, my employers agreed, and I was transferred to another family.
I thought my nightmare was over then, but I was sorely mistaken. My second employers were equally abusive, and would hit me as well. The only upside was that they allowed me to talk to my family, albeit only for five minutes every fortnight.
Still, those five minutes meant the world to me. It was a link to my family, my daughter. I missed her every day that I was in Singapore. You cannot imagine the pain I felt being separated from her.
However, I soon found it strange that my husband always insisted that I spend that five minutes on the phone with him. He always had an excuse – she was sleeping, she was out with my mother-in-law, she was bathing etc – for why I couldn’t talk to her. Whenever I asked him how our daughter was, he would always give generic answers, like “fine” or “okay”.
More than a year-and-a-half later, I finally found out the truth.
She was dead.
She had died of an illness more than a year ago, when I first started working for my second employers. But my husband never got around to telling me this, because he didn’t want to do it over a five-minute phone call.
My employers knew what had happened. Yet, they chose not to tell me, because they didn’t want me to go back home or get distracted from my work.
I only found out when my employers went overseas for a few weeks, and the friend they rented their house out to allowed me to talk to my husband for a longer period of time.
Learning about my daughter’s death devastated me. She, or rather, the idea of what I wanted her future to be like, was what kept me going through the tough times, the abuse.
Now, there was nothing.
I felt betrayed by my husband. I was disappointed in him for not telling me about this earlier so that I could properly mourn her.
As for my employers, I lost whatever respect I had for them. They showed me no empathy or consideration. In fact, they were more concerned that I had talked on the phone with my husband for longer than the five minutes they allowed.
So, I began to talk back to them, to show them that I was no pushover. When they refused my request to use the phone more often – they even dared to say that I shouldn’t have any need to do so, since my daughter was already dead – I went and secretly bought my own handphone. When they realised that I was beginning to stand up to their bullying, they increased the frequency of their abuse, and would sometimes lock me in the room without any food.
Not long after, I finally decided that enough was enough. I ran away to seek help from the Ministry of Manpower (MOM). Investigations showed that I had bruises on my body, and they advised me to file a police report against my employer. During that time, I was brought to stay at HOME (Humanitarian Organization for Migrant Economics) while waiting for my case to be settled. (HOME is a Singapore charity dedicated to empowering and supporting migrant workers who find themselves victims of human rights violations and suffer abuse and exploitation.)
Thankfully, I found a network of support at HOME, and I made many good friends there. During my 14-month stay at HOME, I was able to heal, emotionally, mentally, and physically.
Eventually, I decided to close the case against my employers, because I wouldn’t otherwise have been able to find another job.
I’m currently working for employers who are kind and understanding. They treat me well, and I realise that I shouldn’t have allowed my previous employers to abuse me. We all have rights, and we all deserve to be treated as human beings.
I now spend my free time volunteering at HOME to counsel and provide emotional support to other migrant workers who have been abused. Because I want those who have suffered to know that they are not alone.
Together, we can heal from our pain and our scars.
Ms Li, 48, Chinese spa therapist
I’m a single mother of two children – one son and one daughter – who came to Singapore to work last year because my family was in debt due to a failed business venture in China. I needed more money so that I could support my family.
I engaged an agent to help me find work in Singapore, but that was a mistake, as the agent turned out to be dishonest, and I ended up having to pay an exorbitant fee.
Nonetheless, she found me a job as a spa therapist. I had learnt how to do tuina (traditional Chinese massage) in China, so I thought this would be a perfect fit for me.
However, I soon realised that the boss of the spa that I was working for was unscrupulous. He would not only deduct money from our monthly pay for unsubstantiated expenses that we supposedly incurred, but he also encouraged us to provide sexual services to our customers so that we could earn more.
Many of my colleagues agreed to do so, mostly because we were otherwise earning barely enough to survive, let alone save for our families. However, I refused to do so, and because of this, my boss took me out from his stable of masseuses, and made me do the menial work in the spa, like cleaning and running errands.
One day, however, I suffered a fall at work and fractured my tailbone. Because of that, I couldn’t move around, and I spent sleepless nights in pain. My employer refused to let me go for an X-ray, and only brought me to see a TCM doctor. When that didn’t help, he decided to end my employment prematurely and send me back home.
The problem was that I was still in heavy debt to the agent, and my employer did not pay me my salary during the five months or so that I was injured.
At my wits’ end, I went to MOM for help. I found out that I was unable to see a doctor for my injury because my employer did not buy work injury insurance for me.
I eventually got connected with HOME and stayed at their shelter while my case was being processed. They found that my boss owed me about S$25,000 in unpaid salary, injury compensation, and other miscellaneous expenses.
However, my boss closed down his business, and declared bankruptcy so that he could get out of paying me my dues. I subsequently learnt that he went on to open another two such spa establishments under other people’s names.
Throughout this time, I felt alone, ignored, and unfairly treated. I was worried about my health, but also about the financial situation back home.
But I’ve also experienced the kindness of Singaporeans in different ways – through the church and their members who offered me a place to stay, to HOME staff and volunteers who have been supporting me throughout these tough times.
For that, I’m very grateful. It’s thanks to the kindness of these people that I’m now in a better place, emotionally. There’s hope for me, for a better future now at least.
If you are a migrant worker facing abuse from your employers in Singapore, you can contact these numbers for help:
Hotline for domestic workers
+1800-797 7977 (toll free) / +65 6341 5525
+65 97873122 (Whatsapp/Viber)
Hotline for migrant workers
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OSHA News Release
WASHINGTON, DC – Since the start of the coronavirus pandemic through Oct. 15, 2020, the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has cited 112 establishments for violations relating to coronavirus, resulting in proposed penalties totaling $1,603,544.
OSHA inspections have resulted in the agency citing employers for violations, including failures to:
- Implement a written respiratory protection program;
- Provide a medical evaluation, respirator fit test, training on the proper use of a respirator and personal protective equipment;
- Report an injury, illness or fatality;
- Record an injury or illness on OSHA recordkeeping forms; and
- Comply with the General Duty Clause of the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970
OSHA has already announced citations relating to 85 establishments, which can be found at dol.gov/newsroom. In addition to those establishments, the 27 establishments below have received coronavirus-related citations totaling $381,388 from OSHA relating to one or more of the above violations from Oct. 9 to Oct. 15, 2020. OSHA provides more information about individual citations at its Establishment Search website, which it updates periodically. | <urn:uuid:c80c1ea4-efbf-4d19-87f1-37c65ae3d99c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://blog.goosmannlaw.com/risk-manager-on-your-side/u.s.-department-of-labors-osha-announces-1603544-in-coronavirus-violations | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572033.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814113403-20220814143403-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.94039 | 259 | 1.53125 | 2 |
By Kaylee McGhee White
A well-respected science writer has published a thoughtful and convincing piece this week that helps confirm what most people with common sense have long believed: Covid-19 wasn’t just randomly discovered in a Chinese wet market; it escaped from a human lab.
The lab-leak theory was always the most plausible one, but those who raised it as a possible explanation were excoriated by Democrats and media know-it-alls. For no good reason at all, the intelligentsia dismissed it as a baseless conspiracy theory. Remember what happened to Sen. Tom Cotton when he dared to suggest the Chinese government was lying about how the coronavirus originated? The New York Times accused him of appealing to tin-foil-hat-wearing kooks with his “fringe theory.” The Washington Post falsely claimed Cotton’s statements had been debunked.
But the evidence supporting the lab-leak theory is there, according to Nicholas Wade, a longtime science writer who has worked for Science magazine and the New York Times. Over at Medium, Wade weighs the evidence of both possibilities: the first being that Covid-19 naturally emerged from an animal species, the second that it leaked from the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
Wade makes a few points that demand consideration. The first is that the bats that Chinese officials claimed to be the source of SARS-CoV-2 have yet to be discovered, even after an intensive search by authorities that included the testing of 80,000 animals. There is also no evidence that the coronavirus jumped from bats to people through an intermediary host, as SARS1 did in 2002 (a bat virus spread first to civets and then to people). Surely, if bats were the original source of COVID-19, scientists could identify the intermediary host through which it was spread. They’ve had no such luck.
Wade also points out a few other holes in the Chinese government’s story. For example, why, if COVID-19 originated in a Wuhan wet market, were there earlier cases of the coronavirus with no link to the wet market? And why should a naturally spread epidemic break out in Wuhan and (at first) nowhere else?
This is where the lab-leak theory starts to make more sense. It is no secret that the Wuhan Institute of Virology was studying coronaviruses, thanks in large part to funding by U.S. agencies, such as the National Institutes of Health. However, what you might not know is that Wuhan scientists were specifically creating novel coronaviruses “with the highest possible infectivity for human cells,” Wade writes. This research wasn’t being conducted maliciously, as far as we know. Wade explains that oftentimes scientists will create and test chimeric viruses to learn how they attack human cell cultures and how they “spill over” from animal species to humans.
It is very likely that research in Wuhan produced the exact coronavirus strain, SARS-CoV-2, that has now killed more than 3 million people, according to Wade. It is also entirely plausible that this virus escaped from Wuhan’s lab, given what we know about its safety arrangements. In 2018, two years before the pandemic broke out, U.S. State Department officials warned the federal government after touring Wuhan’s facilities that the lab lacked a good number of trained technicians and investigators needed to conduct research safely. Dr. Shi Zhengli, the head of the coronavirus research project, even admitted in an interview with Science magazine that much of her work was conducted at a lower safety level than was required.
So why has much of the scientific community continued to minimize or dismiss outright the lab-leak theory? Because, as Wade points out, many of them have a financial stake in it. One of the first letters published against the lab-leak theory, for example, was published in Lancet in February 2020 and was organized and drafted by Peter Daszak, president of the EcoHealth Alliance of New York. Daszak’s organization happened to be funding the Wuhan Institute of Virology’s coronavirus research, which means he could potentially be culpable if it was discovered that the lab was responsible for the outbreak.
Like Daszak, Dr. Anthony Fauci, the White House’s medical adviser, has also thrown cold water on the lab-leak theory, even though many scientists and government officials have now begun to acknowledge its plausibility. But keep in mind: as head of the NIH’s Allergy and Infectious Diseases department, Fauci was one of the government officials responsible for securing federal grants for Wuhan’s coronavirus research in the first place. He is a more interested party than most people realize.
It doesn’t take much to string together the available facts. What we need now is definitive proof, as Wade argues, but that proof lies in the Wuhan Institute of Virology. The Chinese government is doing its best to keep the lab under lock and key, and the global scientists who funded its research are helping them do it.
But one day the evidence will emerge, and the scientific community will have a lot of explaining to do.
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While most people don’t think about the kidnapping on a regular basis, there are many reasons someone may be kidnapped. Often a person is taken completely by surprise. Having protection against kidnapping/ransom can help cover some of the financial toll it takes.
For the western world, one of the biggest reasons for kidnapping is so the person can be ransomed for money. Those with higher net worths are at greater risk for kidnapping for ransom than others, but the crime can happen to anyone. Recently a UK mom kidnapped her child to collect a large reward.
Those in the political sphere may have their children or spouses taken for political reasons. Perhaps the kidnapper did not care for the policies or statements of the politician or want to blackmail the politician to take a particular stance.
For families traveling outside of the US, corruption in local societies can lead to kidnappings. The experts at www.tangramins.com state ransom demands have increased worldwide in recent years. Insuring against kidnapping provides the ransomed with help with local agencies, safe return, negotiation management, and fund delivery.
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Calliope Joy Carr defied all odds by
living with rare genetic disease for 12 years
(Bala Cynwyd, PA) — Calliope ‘Cal’ Joy Carr, 12, who inspired a global movement to raise awareness of and funding for rare diseases, passed away Thursday, March 24, 2022, surrounded by her family at her home in Bala Cynwyd, PA.
Cal was diagnosed with late-infantile onset metachromatic leukodystrophy (MLD), a rare degenerative genetic disease, at the age of two. She lost the ability to walk, eat and talk, but never stopped laughing and smiling.
Doctors originally told the Kefalas-Carr family that it was likely that Calliope would not live beyond the age of six. However, this past December, Cal defied all scientific odds and celebrated her 12th birthday. She joined the five percent of children with her disease who live to the age of 10.
Upon learning of Cal’s diagnosis, her brother had the idea to sell cupcakes to help raise money for doctors researching a cure for “Cal’s disease.” What started off as a local bake sale grew into The Calliope Joy Foundation (CJF) – a non-profit started in Cal’s honor to help support other children with leukodystrophy and their families.
Since 2013, The Calliope Joy Foundation has sold over 45,000 cupcakes and raised nearly a million dollars through annual events. In addition to directly helping families, the foundation helped establish the nation’s first Leukodystrophy Center of Excellence at the world-renowned Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia.
Thanks in part to the advocacy and fundraising by organizations like CJF, children with MLD now have access to gene therapy treatment that can cure the rare disease. The expensive therapy was only available in Milano, Italy, until this past year when the first domestic treatment was performed on a four-year-old girl at the University of Minnesota Masonic Children’s Hospital in Minnesota.
“We understood that our daughter Cal would not benefit from the work we do,” said Maria, “but we are grateful for playing a small role in changing what it means to have leukodystrophy and offering hope to the families who follow us.
“The promise of gene therapy to cure Cal’s disease has given us a front-row seat to the biggest medical breakthrough in a generation.”
In addition to her mother, Calliope is survived by her brother, P.J. Carr, and her sister, Camille Carr. Her father, Patrick Carr, died in 2020.
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Our Folklore: Music Producer Nana Kwabena on Propagating the Greatness of Blackness
Grammy-nominated music producer Nana Kwabena is on a mission to shed light on the vivacious and encapsulating beauty of African culture through the music he produces. As a self-proclaimed “minister of Black propaganda”, Nana uses his work to publicize the greatness of Black culture and creativity. In his journey, the artist has collaborated with famous singers such as John Legend and Jidenna, and through these partnerships created many popular songs we know today, Jidenna’s hit “Classic Man” being one of them. Through music, Nana makes it his focus to embrace this generation’s renaissance of appreciation for Black culture.
As a child, Nana had always had a love for music and creating. He first tried his hand at music production in his junior year of high school when he was hospitalized for a whole summer, after an accident. While holed up alone in a hospital room Nana found solace in teaching himself how to produce on his laptop. Determined to learn everything he could, Nana developed this interest further in college at the University of Pennsylvania. By constantly getting together with other creatives in his circle to learn and develop his producing abilities, he built bridges between some of the musicians he works with today.
However, before Nana decided to take on such a large cultural mission with his music, he was on the path to medical school. His interest in medicine began with his uncle, brother and himself being diagnosed with sickle cell disease. After studying abroad in Ghana during his junior year of college he discovered his passion was in addressing the psychosocial aspect of this disease and how it impacted sufferers. Realizing that no major change could take place unless this topic is investigated, Nana then shifted his focus to music in order to impact the conversation the best way he could.
Through this personal revelation, Nana realized his two competing interests were, in a lot of ways, feeding each other. With his music he could approach the aspects of society that influence how Black people think and feel about themselves; he was inspired to help the further development and advancement of Black people and culture. He then went on to produce his first hit with John Legend, “Made To Love”, and from there has continued to grow and succeed at his craft.
In this episode of Our Folklore podcast, Nana Kwabena tells us about his background, going from medicine to music and how Black people can reclaim the telling of our own stories, live unapologetically and change the trajectory of the next generation. Listen to the podcast here, and on Apple Podcasts or Spotify, and read excerpts from the interview below.
“I really believe that I am here to propagate the greatness of Black people, to propagate the greatness of the diaspora, and the continent and so on.”
“I realized there is a lot of value in taking a different approach to the same issue, and then it really crystalized for me when my brother passed.”
“I just had a personality of, if you’re really gonna be something you have to be a master at it, so I just spent time really, really learning.”
“I got out of the other side and I recognized that my statement was going to be, ‘no one is going to create better West African-inspired drums and music with pop melodies,’ essentially and that was my statement. Ever since, that became the only thing I ever said, it became the only thing that I ever studied, it became the thing that other people said about me, and before you know it when anyone was thinking in that way they always thought of me.”
“One of the producers I was working with at the time, we were working on John Legend’s project, and although I had known John for a while, I was not ready musically to create anything that would land for his project but when I had this kind of change of philosophy of what my unique voice is gonna be, it just opened things up.”
“As a creative your only job is to actually make sure that there are no cobwebs between your own creative spirit and the Creator, it’s literally that simple. We have all of these judgments of how things are supposed to turn out or how it’s supposed to sound or how it’s supposed to be received but that’s beyond our control.”
Words by Reann Philogene
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