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What Latin America needs:
I’ve said it before, and will continue saying it: What Latin America needs is the rule of law and property rights. I agree wholeheartedly with Alejandro Chafuen:
The real problem in Latin America is that, with few exceptions, the rule of law — particularly on private property rights — doesn’t exist as we know it.
Chaufen states (emphasis mine),
When the rule of law is weak and there is no respect for private property, efforts to promote free trade — and thereby spur economic growth and reduce poverty — are dubious at best. It is difficult to promote trade and investment in a country whose legal institutions are weak and corrupt; the risks are too great.
The results begin to show. Despite Latin American economic growth rates averaging more than 5 percent in 2004 and similar growth anticipated this year, “capital flows” are negative, meaning more money leaves than enters the region. This is not due to foreign debt but a continued lack of confidence among long-term investors. Not surprisingly, as Latin America expert Andres Oppenheimer has noted, “only 1 percent of the world’s investment in research and development currently goes to Latin America.”
If economic progress is the goal, the U.S. government and multilateral institutions like the World Bank need to push the region to take legal reform seriously. Every country in the region needs a legal system and regulatory environment that defines and protects property rights.
The institutions for such an environment simply aren’t there.
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Your credit score indicates to your lenders whether you will be a credit risk or if you can repay your loans. There are several ways to lift or reduce that score. You can even request to increase your credit limit if you have a good credit score. An increased limit can mean many things for you, both good and bad. But it has its benefits & adversaries. Here’s a detailed account of how you can raise your credit limit and if it will affect your credit score.
What is a credit limit?
A credit limit is the maximum pre-decided limit of money you can borrow on your credit line. If you use up all the money, you can’t borrow more from that credit account unless you have already repaid the entire borrowed amount first. Under exceptional circumstances, creditors can increase your credit limit on their own accord, but these are rare. One more way to shoot up your credit score is to submit a request to your lender to increase your credit limit.
How to increase your credit limit?
If you wish to bring up your credit limit, make a point to use your line of credit wisely. Boosting your credit limit requires more financial discipline and careful planning. Here are some strategic ways to help you raise your credit limit:
Make timely repayments
Repayments affect your credit score the most. If you make late repayments or have been missing the dates altogether, it can damage your credit score. A low credit score means your chances of getting your limit increase requests are low, if not non-existence.
Don’t use up the entire limit on your credit card
A credit card should be a necessity that helps you out during emergencies. Your credit score will be affected if you have been maxing out on your credit card repeatedly. Ideally, using 30%-40% of your credit limit from the total available credit limit is considered ideal credit utilization. It shows you aren’t entirely dependent on your credit card and can repay all your installments.
Try to pay off your existing loans
Having fewer on your credit report while you request a credit limit increase is the best way to get it approved promptly. If you have any personal loans, home loans, or other lines of credit, it’s best to repay as many of them as possible before you request an increase in your credit limit.
Stable proof of income
Your income is the most essential factor in deciding whether the lending agency will approve your credit or loan request. If you have a stable income, attach a copy of income proof with your request to increase your credit limit. Hence, you should provide such proof of income by yourself the first time you submit the request to increase your credit limit.
How does a credit limit increase affect your credit score?
Increasing your credit limit can have an adverse impact on lenders in the future when you apply for another loan. If you haven’t closed your credit account yet, and are applying for another loan, you may appear as a high-risk taker to your lenders. This could result in your loan request getting denied.
A higher credit limit also means your repayments and interests will be high. If you can’t make the repayments on time, it will affect your credit score.
If you are someone who won’t succumb to the temptation of using up the entire credit limit on your credit card, then an increased credit limit can be beneficial for you. However, a credit limit increase also has their pros and cons. So, you should check the benefits before submitting a request to increase your credit limit. | <urn:uuid:7a2ab79c-39b9-47d9-b9f1-170ed741e92a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://abcathome.com/finance/how-do-i-raise-my-credit-limit-and-will-it-affect-my-credit-score/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572198.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815175725-20220815205725-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.949993 | 741 | 2.046875 | 2 |
Have you seen Amanda Palmer’s TED talk? https://bit.ly/2VTNP9y
If you’re over the age of forty, you might not know her. She’s a musician who has alot to say about vulnerabilty and the art of asking for help. Just so you know, she’s pretty out there too.
She went through some really rough life events, as we all do. She had started out as a street performer who stood perfectly still as a bride, wearing whiteface and not speaking except through her eyes all day long. What she noticed was that the people who stopped, made a deep connection with her eyes. As they started to leave, she would hand them a daisy.
She was trying to get her band going and needed time to work on her creative projects. One of her friends suggested a Kickstarter campaign. She is one of those people who does nothing she takes on halfheartedly and she put together a campaign that got the largest amount of funding in the history of Kickstarter.
The learning from all of this was: it’s ok to ask for help. She realized that it was a way to establish a different kind of connection with the people who love her music. Letting them help her was an honor. And none of the investment cost much because it is shared over a large number of people.
She now uses a different platform, but is still supported by her fans which gives her the creative time she needs to develop new projects that she brings to the world. It’s a sustainable model.
I’m not sure what makes us think we have to do everything ourselves. Maybe it’s the lingering pioneer spirit that helped to start this country, the bootstrap mentality that makes us think that we have to walk the path to our purpose alone. It’s simply not true. It may look that way, but that’s the illusion.
Still, we all get stuck. Someone says something that creates a yawning doubt inside us that starts the old “what ifs” and we are off to the races building that doubt into a technicolor disaster flick where no one survives.
These are the times when we do need to reach out or at least look for the reminders that we are just fine thank you, and to recognize the times that it may be appropriate to ask for help.
We think we are intruding or being pushy or asking too much. If we do that, we are thinking in a one-way direction and there are some other ways to look at it.
We could consider an alternative way of thinking…. like giving someone an opportunity to help. This is a bigger gift than getting the help in many cases. Giving someone the connection to something deeper, something that takes on an importance which you don’t even realize, is a true gift.
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Collaborative effort permanently protects the environment, communities, water supply and hydropower generation
North Fork Mokelumne below Salt Springs Reservoir
Thirty-seven miles of the North Fork and main stem of the Mokelumne River running through Amador and Calaveras counties became California’s 15th California Wild and Scenic River on June 27, 2018, when Governor Edmund G. Brown signed SB 854. The legislation was passed by the State Assembly and Senate on Thursday, June 14.
The Mokelumne language included in the bill embodies recommendations made by the California Natural Resources Agency’s Mokelumne River Wild and Scenic River Study Report, which was released in mid-April 2018. The study recommendations and legislation – which included five special provisions to protect local water supplies – were broadly supported by a coalition of interests including river conservation, fish and recreation organizations; businesses and tourism organizations; foothill and East Bay water agencies; local water agencies; and Amador and Calaveras counties.
“This legislation is a true ‘win-win.’ It protects the Mokelumne River water supply that Amador County residents depend on for nearly all of our public water,” said Amador Water Agency Board President, Art Toy. “At the same time, it protects the river environment and recreation.”
“This is a landmark achievement,” said Scott Ratterman, Calaveras County Water District Board president. “We are proud to have reached a consensus with all stakeholders that protects local water rights and the river for future generations.”
“I can’t begin to tell you how happy we are,” said Katherine Evatt, board president of the Jackson-based Foothill Conservancy. “It’s a tremendous day for our community. People really love the Mokelumne. We have worked for decades to ensure that this beautiful river is protected for generations to come, and finally, the upper Mokelumne is a California Wild and Scenic River.”
The Mokelumne was found eligible and suitable for state Wild and Scenic designation because of its extraordinary scenic and recreational values. The river provides water for residents and agriculture in foothill counties, Central Valley agriculture and communities, and residents of the East Bay. The Mokelumne is also home to an extensive PG&E hydroelectric project. Water and power uses and operations will not be affected by the designation, which bars new onstream dams on the five designated river segments.
“After many years of debate, Californians may now enjoy the extraordinary scenic and recreational values of this magnificent river, with the knowledge that it is permanently protected because conservationists, water agencies, local government officials, and the California Natural Resources Agency were able to ultimately work together to permanently protect the river for present and future generations,” said Eric Wesselman, executive director of Friends of the River. “Californians, please welcome the Mokelumne as our state’s newest wild and scenic river.”
“We are proud to have been part of this consensus effort to add the Upper Mokelumne River to California’s Wild and Scenic Rivers System,” said Lesa McIntosh, East Bay Municipal Utility District board president. “This designation is a historic, once- in-a-generation opportunity. The Mokelumne is a treasured resource that provides precious water supplies for local communities and the East Bay. With these new protections, the river will continue its vital role in sustaining our communities and be a jewel that present and future generations can enjoy.”
For more information, contact:
- Gene Mancebo, Amador Water Agency: (209) 223-3018
- Joel Metzger, Calaveras County Water District: (209) 754-3123
- Donna Leatherman, Calaveras Public Utility District: (209) 754-9442
- Steve Fredrick, Jackson Valley Irrigation District: (209) 274-2037
- Alison Kastama, East Bay Municipal Utility District: (510) 287-0111
- Katherine Evatt, Foothill Conservancy: (209) 223-3508
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The Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) is a £1.5 billion fund announced by the UK government to support cutting-edge research that addresses the challenges faced by developing countries. As the GCRF looks to fund interdisciplinary research and maximize its impact, James Georgalakis reflects on what can be learned from previous examples of successful evidence-based policymaking; from the importance of effective networks to the establishment of long-term research and knowledge initiatives. It is designing research that considers its impact from the outset that will be key to whether or not the GCRF proves successful.
At last week’s Grand Challenges Conference, hosted by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, UK Secretary of State for International Development, Priti Patel, announced that her department would continue to invest 3% of its budget in research. This very welcome commitment is additional to The Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) which represents one of the UK’s most daring moves to address the challenges faced by developing countries. Patel described the UK as one of the world’s “research super-powers…respected everywhere for both the quality and impact of that research.” Just when mainstream media on development seems stuck in a largely negative frame focusing on alleged aid waste and corruption, this far more positive message speaks strongly to the government’s agenda around UK thought leadership in the world.
Image credit: Priti Patel by Policy Exchange. This work is licensed under a CC BY 2.0 license.
However, to what extent will the GCRF, which will more or less match DFID’s own research budget, deliver the kinds of impact that Patel is so proud of? Perhaps the most exciting thing about GCRF is that it dares to pop the development bubble, with a great deal of funding formerly managed by DFID and targeted at the usual suspects now being handed out by the research councils and national academies to potentially attract a broader range of academics within the UK. An overtly interdisciplinary approach with a requirement to fit with Official ODA guidelines means that historians, geographers, biologists, biomedical scientists and mechanical engineers should be joining forces with social scientists, to respond to open calls worth millions of pounds. Some of the initial tenders have even suggested that part of the purpose of the call is to re-orientate those doing research in a UK context to work on producing solutions for low income countries.
ESRC and DFID have valuable lessons to share
Achievement of genuine interdisciplinary research, in which the social sciences are fully integrated, is one big challenge that the GCRF must meet if it is to deliver on its promises. However, a further concern is just how much of GCRF is going to be designed taking on-board the valuable learning arising from years of cutting edge research that emerged from largely Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and DFID funded projects. Although we all love to moan about a DFID log frame, along with the Canadians, it was DFID that really led the development research impact agenda and forged entirely new approaches to strengthening evidence-based policymaking. A whole industry has sprung up servicing the needs of the development studies and research-to-policy communities with impact toolkits, how-to guides, specialist consultancy services and trainings, all aimed at building individual and institutional research uptake capacity. The impact evaluations, impact case studies and learning arising from all this work tell a compelling story – not all of it comfortable reading for donors and researchers alike. We know what some of the key barriers to impact are and we know why engaged scholarship is more likely to produce scalable solutions to global and local challenges. We also know why top down technical fixes often fail and more local knowledge is vital for social and economic development.
Brilliant individual researchers are great but impact is better
Many donors, and especially DFID, have pushed the impact agenda, while most research councils tend to place more importance around the individual project and in the social sciences at least, around the individual principle investigator with the aim of achieving ‘high-quality’ research. Of course, the Research Excellence Framework (REF) has encouraged some focus on impact and research councils have long required a pathways to impact statement. Nonetheless, to find individual researchers who can achieve both the best research (in narrow terms of publishing in ‘top’ journals) and impact is rare. As I have written before, there is a lot of evidence to suggest that it is networks not prize winners that generally influence changes in behaviours, attitudes, policies and practice.
Image credit: 33/365 Atlas by Joe Lodge. This work is licensed under a CC BY 2.0 license.
DFID are less focused on superstar academics and more interested in direct or implied impact on policy and practice. This is perhaps not surprising given the push to justify spending of taxpayers’ money and show value for money. At the same time, DFID has given strong support for long-term research and knowledge initiatives and networks. DFID’s Research Programme Consortium (RPC) model offers real opportunities to strengthen research to policy processes, develop genuine partnerships, and create new generations of researchers to co-produce knowledge at a local level. Increasingly DFID also urged us to look beyond a supply-driven approach, which is undoubtedly one of the curses of working in any research-producing organisation, and look at how to create demand in developing countries for rigorous policy-relevant research. There was also longstanding support for whole knowledge systems, seeing research knowledge as a global public good. Funding from DFID’s Evidence into Action team has supported the institutional capacity of southern researchers and knowledge intermediaries, funded innovative digital knowledge exchange initiatives and promoted more inclusive forms for knowledge curation and sharing like the Global Open Knowledge Hub. More recently, ESRC and DFID put funds into the Impact Initiative for International Development Research, a programme aimed at enhancing research uptake across a broad portfolio of around 150 projects by brokering stronger relationships between the researchers themselves and relevant policy actors and practitioners.
Design of the GCRF will determine its success
These diverse approaches to maximising research impact, whether focused on individual studies or wider research to policy processes, have been reflected on many times, creating a wealth of learning through acres of reports, thousands of blogs and volumes of journal articles and impact case studies. It will be vital for the GCRF to take heed of all this learning. If a close study of impact theory and practice tells us one thing it’s that the design of the research itself, how it is conceived, who is involved from the start and how success is defined, which has the biggest influence on potential impact. So, it is the design of the GCRF calls themselves which will largely determine whether this brave new vision of UK thought leadership will be realised. We must listen to those who have gone before us and succeeded and failed, we must learn from those at the coalface of impact work, the development researchers, practitioners, local partners and enlightened donors. Failure to do so could threaten to undermine the contribution the UK can make to knowledge for global development and that would be a tragedy.
This piece originally appeared on the Institute of Development Studies website and is reposted with permission.
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About the author
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This progress report is published a bit earlier than usual to coincide with the release of version 1.1.0.
Python module enhancements
The python module has seen quite a lot of development this month in order to make it possible to do export tasks in continuous integration environments and other scripts.
Adding STEP export to the python module was pretty straightforward as the STEP exporter itself doesn’t have any dependencies inside of Horizon EDA. However this means that the python module now has a hard dependency on opencascade.
Implementing running checks from the python module was a bit more involved though as it required two changes to be made beforehand:
First of all, we
need to be able to return the check results. The easiest way of
accomplishing this is serializing the results as JSON as there’s already
code to create a python
dict from a C++
Second, we need to provide something that implements
it’s required by the check cache. Up until this point the only
IDocument was to be found in the
that’s unsuitable for inclusion in the python module as it has indirect
UI dependencies. To make it easier to write other classes that
implement this interface, common parts were factored out from
All of this was enabled by the introduction of
IDocument interface a few months earlier.
With this in place, the only left things left to do were to make the
BoardWrapper class that holds the
associated objects inherit from
DocumentBoard, implement the
required virtual methods and write the code that calls the checks and
takes care of argument type conversion.
This makes Horizon EDA one of the few PCB layout tools that can run a headless design rule check.
With software projects these days, it’s usual to have some sort of continuous integration that tests pull requests as they’re opened to make sure that the code still builds (and passes tests) with the PR merged. So why not have CI for the pool repository?
The first step in this is to make sure that the pool still updates without errors, i.e. all dependencies are met. To do so the python module gained support for opening and updating pools.
To make the pool CI convenient to implement on a variety of CI platforms, the horizon python module is now available on dockerhub! The Dockerfile to build the image is quite simple thanks to Horizon EDA trying to be as maintainer-friendly as possible.
Continuous integration for the pool repository
Exporting 3D renderings
Since setting up continuous integration can be a bit dull at times, I decided it’s time for some fun features that nobody ever asked for but might come in handy nevertheless!
Originally, the only way to export a 3D rendering of the PCB was to take a screenshot of the 3D view which has several shortcomings:
- Hard to reproduce the exact camera angle
- No alpha transparency
- Resolution limited by screen resolution
- Impossible to automate
All of these shortcomings have been eliminated with the python module now
being able to export 3D renderings. In order to reuse the existing
OpenGL code and shaders, OSMesa
is used to create an offscreen OpenGL context without the need for any
GPU hardware as it makes use of Mesa’s software renderer. All of the UI-independent parts of
factored out into
Canvas3DBase to avoid code duplication.
The rendered image can then either be
directly saved to a PNG file or retrieved as a cairo surface for
further post processing.
Since exporting a single still image is boring, let’s have some fun by exporting many turning them into a silly loop, because we can!
Here’s the code:
import horizon import numpy as np import subprocess import matplotlib prj = horizon.Project('hubble-pub/hw/main/hubble.hprj') brd = prj.open_board() ex = brd.export_3d(720, 540) ex.load_3d_models() ex.view_all() ex.cam_elevation=-30-90 ex.render_background = True ex.background_top_color = matplotlib.colors.to_rgb("#333365") ex.background_bottom_color = matplotlib.colors.to_rgb("#B3A26B") ex.cam_distance *= 1.2 prefix = 'brd' n = 60*5 for i, angle, h in zip(range(n), np.linspace(0, 360, n, endpoint=False), np.linspace(0, 1, n, endpoint=False)) : ex.cam_azimuth = angle ex.solder_mask_color = matplotlib.colors.hsv_to_rgb((h,1,.9)) ex.render_to_png("%s%02d.png"%(prefix, i)) print(i) subprocess.call(["ffmpeg", "-y", "-r", "60", "-i", prefix+"%02d.png", "-pix_fmt", "yuv420p", prefix+".mp4"])
Roundoff polygon vertex
Unfortunately, no one jumped in to solve #322 and other users started asking for this feature, so I decided to implement it. Compared to other tools, implementing this tool involved a bit of trigonometry to be worked out beforehand in order to place the arc’s center at the correct position. This tool also makes use of the non-modal tool window infrastructure to provide a means of directly entering the radius with a live preview.
Select on work layer only
When the selection filter got revamped to also support filtering layers, the “Select only on work layer” checkbox got removed as I deemed it’s now redundant. However, users told me that it made working on boards with many layers more difficult than before. To alleviate this, the selection filter dialog grew a new checkbox “Work layer only” that makes the selection filter behave the same way as it did before as in that the selection filter specifies the objects and the work layer specifies the layer objects can be selected on.
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Nowadays we see a lot of advertisements for online stores popping up in our social media sites. Have you ever wondered why there is a sudden evolution of too many online stores? What makes an online store more preferable than a conventional/ traditional store?
After a short-notice research, we concluded that online store is opted both by sellers and buyers of the upcoming generation and the graph shows only progress without a pause or slow-down.
Therefore we have jotted down few advantages of e-commerce in the aspects of both buying and selling.
From the seller’s stand point, E-commerce has actually boosted their courage to start their own ventures since the break-through seems higher and the liabilities are comparatively lower.
Some of the evident supremacies of starting an online store are:
You don’t have to be financially very sound to kick start an online business be it selling a product or offering a service. Whereas to start a conventional business, the initial investments itself is sky-scraping.
You will just need a few hundred dollars to develop your website which is the only major investment in the initial stage while the other expenses are minimal.
Shop rent, electricity, labor wages, etc. are cut down. This increases the profit drastically.
If you are planning to start a business with low set up cost, e-commerce will be your best shot.
2) Wider coverage:
On opening a conventional store you are restricting your business to a narrow line covering only the people in and around the location of the store. E-commerce sites hits the larger crowd anywhere anytime. You can mark your brand internationally without any geographical restrictions.
Thus it builds an international connectivity that takes your product to the person wanting it at any corner of the map.
3) Faster flowering:
Since the profit in online mode is higher, as we mentioned earlier, blossom is also rapid. You can widen your business by making changes as and when possible without affecting the performance.
Making changes in conventional mode is like moving mountains in many cases which actually hinders their growth.
The reach is also wider which brings the farthest customer closer paving way for the growth of the business.
4) Complete adequacy:
You can hire a smaller size in everything when compared to the conventional mode. Be it labor, storage or office space, stocks etc.
Since the products you sell are put online with the sufficient details, you can just stock up only the fast moving items as you don’t have to keep a sample of all that you sell. This in turn reduces the storage space. Therefore the number of Labor or staff to look after these also comes down.
And so you can run a successful business with smaller space and minimal labors.
Buyers too have their own fruits from online shopping like
1) Time management:
Online shopping serves quicker and faster. You don’t have to waste time traveling, standing in long queues, arguing with the sales person etc., instead you will just have to look for your choice, pay in few clicks and bring home your goodies.
2) Saves money:
Online shopping saves one’s pocket in many aspects. Since it is cost effective for the sellers, they cut down the vending price. So comparatively this mode is cheaper than conventional mode.
It also cuts down your travel allowances. You can sit in your couch and buy your dream.
3) International shopping:
Imagine traveling abroad just to buy your desired stuff. It is a complete exhaustion of time, money and energy. Or you will have to wait for your kith and kin to bring from there. But after the evolution of online shopping, buying stuff from a global store has become a no sweat event.
These are just a few handpicked pearls from the ocean of its benefits.
Owing to all these advantages, setting out an e-commerce has become the most sought business solution of today’s youth.
If you are on among those who are waiting to start your own venture, then opening an online store will be your right choice.
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Speak Your Truth
Last week, I had the honor of presenting to the Hawaii Chamber of Commerce. My topic: Effective Communication to Overcome Obstacles. I was thankful to have a handful of familiar faces in the crowd and glad to meet some new and interesting students.
Afterward, a few of those familiar faces sent me photos from my presentation. I noticed a theme, the slide with the image “Speak Your Truth” was appearing in most of the photos. While I only spent about 60 seconds on this slide, it is my favorite of them all and I believe, when practiced one of the most impactful techniques to manage our work relationships.
“Speak Your Truth”. What does this mean, anyway? I suppose it could mean a lot of different things depending on who you are and where you are coming from. I’ll give you my interpretation. To me, speaking your truth in the workplace means aligning what is in your heart with what comes out of your mouth or even your facial expressions and body language. Some examples:
– Asking for clarity on an assignment you were just handed.
– Telling your workmate that your feelings were hurt when they made a cruel remark.
– Setting aside time to “hash it out” instead of rushing through decisions.
– Confidently commanding a specific action when you truly are the expert in the room.
– Truly “not worrying about it” when the matter is trivial, and moving on to more important matters.
– Expressing frustration and disappointment for deadlines that have not been met.
These are just a few examples, there are many more I could name. Much of time, instead of engaging in the behavior I noted, we avoid or accommodate others. We don’t want to make waves, or be a burden. We rush through the relational side of business and keep marching towards our more easily quantifiable goals. A lot of the time we act this way because well, it’s the only way we know. We learned it in school or at our first job and we haven’t been taught otherwise. Or, we seek to please and are fearful of the consequences. We ask ourselves questions like: what will they think of me? What if they quit? You know, all the questions we use to justify keeping quiet.
Ultimately though, there is a consequence. Resentment builds, we send mixed signals, we remain “mysterious” and/or difficult to read and that creates conflict, stress or tension (whatever the heck you want to call it) in the workplace relationship. This becomes a cycle and continues…sometimes indefinitely. From there, two things can tend to happen. We get sick of putting up our facet and those on the receiving end are frustrated too. If you are the one “faking it”, you will have stress of some sort, you will be emotionally drained and likely to erupt. Others could and probably will quit. Maybe they will still “work” for you but they will quit following you, quit giving you their best work, quit looking up to you. Trust will be lost and loyalty will die.
To “Speak Your Truth” takes a whole lot of courage, bravery and even some finesse. Sometimes we need time to process our truth, to find the best words and way to say things. We need time and energy. We need trust and the benefit of the doubt when we mess up and we will probably need some forgiveness too. I encourage you, take the post seriously and consider making the shift from holding back your truth to speaking it. | <urn:uuid:d9e36f60-bcff-4feb-8b22-f4124ae29420> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://heatherpatterson.com/uncategorized/speak-your-truth/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572198.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815175725-20220815205725-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.962334 | 751 | 1.828125 | 2 |
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INDIAN VETERINARY JOURNAL, vol.83, no.12, pp.1298-1299, 2006 (Journal Indexed in SCI)
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Our sense of stimuli originating outside of the body. For example: Vision, Smell, Hearing, Taste, Touch, Temperature, and Pressure
Our sense of stimuli originating inside the body. For example: Heart rate, blood pressure, oxygenation, pH, other organ functions.
“Plasticity, then, in the wide sense of the word, means the possession of a structure weak enough to yield to an influence, but strong enough not to yield all at once. Organic matter, especially nervous tissue, seems endowed with a very extraordinary degree of plasticity.” (William James, 1890).
Our sense of our body’s position in space and time, essentially our movement and awareness map. For example: Joint angles, position, tension, speed, quality of movement, etc. | <urn:uuid:81aff3c4-dc1c-4467-ba10-536bde2ced32> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://neuroathlete.com/glossary/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572198.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815175725-20220815205725-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.852305 | 202 | 3.3125 | 3 |
The qualities of a good fosterer are: patience, understanding, and unconditional love.
Older people can make excellent foster parents; so if an older person has resisted getting a cat because they are worried that it may outlive them, then fostering could be the answer.
People who take several holidays in the year often resist getting a cat as a result. However, short-term fostering can work well in such situations.
People who find it hard to cope with the grief when a pet dies may decide not to have pets for that reason. Fostering allows you to enjoy the company of cats again, but without the grief of bereavement.
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Candidates seeking to develop skills directly associated with warehouse management as well as those seeking to manager the wider supply chain functions but require an understanding of the warehouse component.
The aim of this module is to examine Warehouse and Transport Management as an interface in Supply Chain Management and to develop the knowledge necessary to fulfill Logistics and Supply Chain strategies. Based on an interactive approach to learning, Warehouse and Transport Management studies the business environment as it impacts on internal operations and emphasizes lean management practices for improving performance and savings on costs. This module also analyses the strategy of outsourcing for Supply Chain efficiencies and the implications of the latest Technology, including Digitalisation.
The course begins: 19th November 2022.
Warehouse and Transport Management is an increasingly important and complex component in global supply chains, with trends toward near shoring, postponement and transhipping, warehousing today is much more than a short term storage or an inventory buffer. As a result the skills of good management of a warehouse and associated transport are key to the management of an efficient supply chain.
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Improve your business through platform consolidation
Businesses should work on consolidating systems and platforms to make it easier to initiate digital projects that utilise the potential of the application landscape.
A key parameter for being able to launch solutions in a time-to-market manner is avoiding a forest of applications that basically all have the same or overlapping features. Businesses should thus work on consolidating systems and platforms to make it easier to initiate digital projects that utilise the potential of the application landscape.
If there is only one system for browser-based communication towards customers, one solution for internal communication, one internal collaboration tool, one CRM and so on, there will be no discussion about what to use and how to use it. In this scenario, it is possible to launch small, fast, MVP-based development sprints, so it is possible to release new services and solutions at a high pace. This is why the consolidation of platforms and systems is decisive for the pace of innovation.
Initiating expensive infrastructure projects as a condition for pace of innovation is not recommended. The architecture strategy with the to-be scenario and launching wide-ranging consolidation projects as an end in itself will never be approved by an investment board, since the business case for such infrastructure projects usually is poor. There is no return on investment (ROI) if these activities are not incorporated as part of commercial, ROI-driven projects initiated by the business units.
In most cases, corporations and organisations can incorporate their activities in the commercially-driven projects that nevertheless have to be executed. Naturally, some determination at executive level is required to shut down systems that do not fit into the strategy, or which are unnecessary, because the business is going to focus on other systems. The process of taking the hard, but necessary decisions can easily be part of these commercially driven projects.
Once the business has defined its strategy for the architecture, and defined a to-be application landscape around its reference points with the aim of enhanced pace of innovation, work is needed to consolidate the platforms.
By mapping every tower, we know which systems are in use in each tower, and hopefully it also becomes possible to identify any shadow IT that might exist.
By considering cloud vs on-premise, best-of-breed vs best-of-suite, and the running and development costs per application in each tower, the business will have gained a good idea of which card in each tower it wants to focus on. The process of consolidating its activities on a few, strong applications can then be planned.
The architecture must support changing requirements, including the provision of effective and time-to-market solutions for customers, employees and partners. If the architecture is not geared to doing so, then the digital processes will be perceived as being slow, complicated and resource-intensive.
One way of orchestrating your architecture to counter this problem is to use Gartner’s Pace-layered Application Strategy. As the name indicates, there are various roles and different paces of development in the various layers of the architecture.
There are several problems with a bimodal IT strategy. Remember the problems concerning the tendency towards a long development mode involving legacy and core systems which are neglected in commercially driven projects? Consequently, data from legacy and core systems will not be employed in the new development, innovation and extension of the existing business. Put simply, old systems can disappear from the radar, and business units thus forget to bring data, processes and that part of the end-to-end value chain into play when shaping and designing new innovative projects. The bimodal IT strategy has thus the regrettable side-effect of forming silos that do not bring into play data from legacy and core systems. Hence, digitalisation is only performed halfway. This will eventually raise costs, as the justification for core and legacy systems is still present, but the core and legacy system can disappear from the digitalisation of business processes.
And this is exactly what Gartner’s Pace-layered Application Strategy is designed to avoid, by putting the entire application landscape into one concept.
That concept can be illustrated as follows:
System on Innovation
The System of Innovation is characterised by new applications which are built on an ad hoc basis to address new business requirements or opportunities. These are typically short life cycle projects (0-12 months) using departmental or outside resources and consumer-grade technologies. Consolidation projects within ‘System of Innovation’ are centred on concentrating customer-focused applications on a few, safe options for customer communication. It is often in this layer that shadow IT is identified.
Considerable savings can often be made by consolidating all web, app, marketing automation etc. onto a few strong cards. This is often referred to as omnichannel. To achieve cross-channel consistency, the different customer-facing channels must use the same master data through a well-defined IT architecture.
System of Differentiation
In the layer called ‘System of Differentiation’, one can also identify possible gains and potential consolidations. In this layer, applications that enable unique company processes or industry-specific capabilities reside. They have a medium life cycle (1-3 years), but need to be reconfigured frequently to accommodate changing business practices or customer requirements. In this layer, the applications and concept reside which can differentiate the business from competitors within the same industry. In other words, by utilising customer data, analytics and product information management, a business in the e-commerce industry can outperform its peers from the same industry through the determined governance of these applications and consolidate its activities on the applications and concepts that will differentiate the business from its peers. One example of consolidation in this layer is if your business is working with two different CRM systems following acquisitions or mergers, but has not yet standardised the use of customer data into one system.
You might also have a data warehouse, a Power BI solution and an Adobe analytics service without considering whether it might be possible to use only one tool for analytics. This is another chance to optimise, and to accelerate pace of innovation through consolidation.
System of Records
A System of Record is characterised by established packaged applications or legacy homegrown systems that support core transaction-processing and manage the organisation’s critical master data. The rate of change is low, because the processes are well-established and common to most organisations, and are often subject to regulatory requirements. In this layer you will rarely find two systems with the same features and thus with a potential for consolidation.
There may be COBOL systems that are irreplaceable because there is no standard system, or the business’s domain is so specific that there are no alternatives to a tailor-made application. The focus here should be on ensuring that these systems are geared to a higher volume of traffic, more transactions from an omni-channel set-up and new digital initiatives. Microservice architecture will ensure that your business can increase readings and writings to such systems through a narrow cloud-based microservices layer which can ensure, for example, that orders are not lost, but put into a queue, and that data can always be sent to and retrieved from the systems.
One method worth considering is a ‘strangler pattern’ – a strategy through which a business can break down its monolith into microservices one at a time. The idea is that the business gradually transforms a monolith application into microservices by replacing a given functionality with a new service. When the new service is ready, the business can ‘strangle’ the old component.
This principle will gradually create better ways of bringing data from legacy systems into play through innovative and commercially driven projects in the System of Innovation.
Consequently, reorganisation using a strangler pattern is not recommended for executing one single project. This task should be part of the design of the projects implemented in a System of Innovation. They are thus financed through business-critical innovation projects. As such, older legacy systems which are still required will not represent a bottleneck in the overall digitalisation, which means that packing your legacy systems in a microservice architecture can accelerate pace of innovation.
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Getting through college is hard enough, but doing it away from your home is a real challenge. With the rise of Islamophic attacks in the US attacks following the recent presidential election, it can even be dangerous. It’s every parent’s job to worry about their children, so Muslim parents worked with The Jubilee Project to make a video telling their children to be comfortable with their culture.
KSA students in US colleges are definitely aware of Islamophobia, but all of the students interviewed by Sayidaty say that they don’t feel directly discriminated against.
“I never felt outcast or any of its synonyms,” says Dona Alburi, a biology student at Boston University. “Whether in college or outside, I've always felt like I blended in with my surroundings.”
It helps that US universities often have clubs focusing on Arab, Muslim, and Saudi culture, and give resources to help international students get used to their new surroundings. Still, Muslim students sometimes stand out from the rest.
“I sometimes get stared at by people just because of speaking in another language, Arabic,” says Khalid Alturki, a mechanical engineering student at Boston University.
“Although it sometimes is a simple glance, I get the vibe of an outsider every now and then.”
But the cultural exchange goes both ways. Just as others may be curious or confused by Saudi culture, Saudi students want to learn more about their peers. “Learning about cultures fosters understanding and helps you realize that there’s more than one way to do something. As an international student at BU, I’m glad to have made friends from different walks of life who challenge my thinking.”
Finding a balance between fitting in and retaining their culture is difficult, and everyone has their own way of doing it. Melfi Alrashidi, a graduate student at the University of Toledo, says that prayer keeps him in touch with his culture. For Alturki, surrounding himself with Arab friends keeps him close to home.
“Whether it is going to an Arabic restaurant, playing card games, or studying together, a community to fall back on is very helpful,” Alturki says. “Especially after the rumpus the recent election has caused.”
But there are some situations where it’s beneficial to hide Saudi culture. “When Saudis say hi they kiss each other on the cheek,” says Alrashidi. “Here, this can be interpreted in the wrong way.”
Although these small gestures have to be adapted to new surroundings, KSA students are proud of their heritage and emphasize its importance. Alturki notes that culture doesn’t change based on your location – whether in the US or at home, he is still Saudi.
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Last week, Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni signed into law a bill that imposes 7-year-to-life sentences for same-sex intimacy, 7-year sentences for those who perform same-sex marriages, and 5-7 years in jail for people and NGOs accused of “promoting homosexuality” or seeking support through the internet or local religious ministers. Once dubbed the “Kill The Gays” bill, it’s now the “Jail the Gays” bill.
Advocates of compassion and human dignity, including the organization I serve, Seventh-day Adventist Kinship International (SDA Kinship), have spent the last four years challenging this law. SDA Kinship is a fully affirming organization extending unconditional love to LGBTI people who are current and former Adventists and their families.
Our denomination is one of the largest Protestant denominations in Uganda, and a growing number of Adventist converts worship in East Africa.
This outrageous law has now been signed, and our church should have unambiguously condemned the stigmatization and criminalization of a vulnerable minority. Instead, its latest letter to SDA Kinship erroneously claimed that the Ugandan bill had been vetoed and referred us back to the church’s 2012 statements:
“This statement applies by extension to other parts of the world where similar measures have been or are being taken against the LGBT community,” says Orville D. Parchment, assistant to General Conference President Ted Wilson.
The Seventh-day Adventist church could be using its influence in the region to quell homophobic attitudes and laws, but instead, it has remained silent in the face of oppression, discrimination, and violence. Instead, the church is planning a summit in South Africa that will only further marginalize vulnerable populations on the African continent.
The Adventist church should be outraged about this law—but it is not.
In December 2012, SDA Kinship asked the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists to respond to the proposed bill “in a Christ-like way” and clearly refute the bill’s threats to LGBTI Ugandans’ life, liberty, and security of person. Church administrators eventually rejected a local church leader’s support for the bill, but they did not stand up for LGBTI Ugandans or explain why imprisonment and execution don’t show Christian compassion.
Furthermore, this law will not help public health workers, protect children, or support the public health mission of the church in the region. UNAIDS and international HIV/AIDS charity AVERT reports that Uganda is the only East African country whose HIV rates are increasing, and the main modes of transmission there are unprotected sex and mother-to-child.
Even before the bill was passed into law, Ugandan LGBTI people have been verbally abused and maligned by their president, and Ugandan civil society groups are actively being threatened by informers and newspaper harassment. Yet the Adventist church believes its past comments are enough to challenge Uganda’s legislation and “by extension,” any other anti-LGBTI law enacted anywhere else in the world.
We conclude that the Seventh-day Adventist church—our church—has no intention of condemning Uganda’s “Jail the Gays” bill.
Nor does it seem willing to condemn the US evangelical influence, anti-LGBTI religious rhetoric, and falsified science that fueled the passage of this legislation. We have urged our church to “affirm the human dignity, liberty, equality, and non-discrimination of all Ugandans by publicly advocating for the safety of those put at risk by this outrageous law and by taking specific actions to provide physical protection for individuals where it may be needed.” It has not.
Not only has the Seventh-day Adventist Church refused to challenge anti-LGBTI legislation, it’s also preparing a summit for church ministers and administrators on what it calls “alternative sexualities” in Cape Town, South Africa, in a few weeks. The conference, In God’s Image: Scripture, Sexuality, and Society, isn’t open to the public, and offers attendees a single, non-affirming perspective on non-heterosexual orientation and LGBTI lives.
SDA Kinship has worked with and for LGBTI current and former Adventists since 1976 and has members from more than 80 countries worldwide including Uganda, Nigeria, Russia, and India, yet our church hasn’t invited one member of SDA Kinship to attend the conference or speak to delegates about our community’s faith, experiences, and families.
No one scheduled to present at this conference is an authority on our lives, but we’ll be their topic of conversation for four long days.
It is dangerous for our church to organize such an echo chamber for conversations about sexual and gender minorities when LGBTI Adventists on the very same continent are at risk for beatings, prison terms, and mob violence. I can’t fathom why my church is spending so much money and effort to transport delegates who agree with the “company line” on sexuality and gender to a continent where several countries are passing brutal anti-LGBTI legislation.
The Adventist church has consistently excluded SDA Kinship from conferences like this one and has sought to avoid having any contact with the Seventh-day Adventist lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex community or our relatives and friends. We cannot be silent about this un-Christlike treatment.
We’ve published a letter we sent conference participants, GC President Wilson, and Vice-President Mwansa three weeks ago in the same spirit of transparent dialogue that we so wish our church would use with us.
They haven’t yet responded to us.
We respect our members enough to honor their consciences about their faith and what they believe God requires of them in this life. Some have chosen committed relationships, some have built families with children, and others are celibate; all must be convinced in their own mind as the Lord leads them. We believe that love is worth celebrating, and we support all of our members as they grow in grace. We wish our church would do the same.
Being silent in the face of oppression is complicity. Excluding key voices and perpetuating harmful stereotypes isn’t dialogue, and in the context of the extreme anti-LGBTI legislation just signed into law, it’s dangerous.
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To arrive at a “theory” of systems requires several levels of abstraction form comparing a wide range of natural and human systems. While workers have been doing this for ages, one rarely encounters a deep examination of how accurate abstraction should be performed. But this is the very most fundamental act of assembling a theory of systems. It must be very carefully studied.
It is much more direct to call these “rules.” However, there is a danger in naming them rules. Most of us think of rules as things that must be followed. We are too early in the testing of theories of systems in general to call these rules. Nevertheless, this is the intent of the exercise. To detect poor abstraction from good abstraction. See later on in Systems Application the equally important Rules for Deabstraction. | <urn:uuid:c05fead1-5501-4cf5-9afd-b69b6432b93e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://lentroncale.com/systems-theory/theory-criteria/rules-for-abstraction/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572198.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815175725-20220815205725-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.972551 | 164 | 2.734375 | 3 |
Chasing Olympic Dream Is Costly
Posted February 14, 1998 6:00 a.m. EST
RALEIGH — Many young athletes chase an Olympic dream, but not many parents find it easy to handle the costs. A single Raleigh mother says she's spending $30,000 a year to pave the Olympic road for her 13-year-old son.
Jonathan Heyward spends hours on figure skating lessons and even more time in practice. His mother Marianne spends a large chunk of her time driving him to the rink, to competitions in other states -- and at her sewing machine making his costumes.
As she points out, budding skaters must pay for their lessons, for their costumes and for travel expenses both for themselves and their coaches.
Marianne Heyward displayed one of her son's costumes -- it cost $900 for the beads alone. Jonathan says ice time can cost $300 to $600 a month, and lessons can run from $20 to $120 an hour.
Still, both Heywards are hoping their efforts pay off at Olympic competitions in 2002 or 2006.
"I sit here and shake," Marianne Hayward said. "When I think about the years, and the dollars and the time, and the no sleep and the miles on the car, and everything. I wouldn't give it up for anything. Because I know in my heart that this what Jonathan is supposed to do.
Watching her son spin, and leap, and twirl on the ice, Marianne Heyward said she sees it as an investment, teaching a child something to do something disciplined in their lives to help them later on. Whether they get a gold medal or not it is experience they just couldn't get anywhere else."
She said she gets teary-eyed watching the Olympics because she hopes for her son to join the ranks of U.S. figure skaters one day.
One point in favor of Jonathan and all other male figure skaters: more girls are drawn to the sport so competition is much more intense; the boys' field is far less crowded.
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Memo To: Website Browsers, Fans, Clients
From: Jude Wanniski
Re: Mexico Elections
In the summer of 1992, Ernesto Zedillo, the presidential candidate of Mexico’s Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI, was trailing in the polls. He seemed to be sleepwalking through his campaign, which should have been no surprise inasmuch as he had never stood for public office in his young life. It was only through a quirk of history that the PRI, which had dominated every national election since 1929, was forced to nominate Zedillo. Just 40 years of age, he was a party functionary who had risen to a minor cabinet rank in the government of Carlos de Gortari Salinas. He had dutifully resigned the office in 1991 in order to organize the presidential candidacy of Luis Donaldo Colosio, who had been the party’s first choice to replace Salinas. When in January of 1992, Colosio was assassinated during a campaign event, the PRI was unable to replace him with any of the major party leaders in the Salinas Cabinet. The party rules required that sitting Cabinet members could not succeed the nominee, only PRI members who had not held office for six months. Given the time constraints, Zedillo was the only possibility, which is the reason why he had to be chosen.
The Cabinet official who most likely would have been chosen, had the rules permitted, was Pedro Aspe, the Finance Minister, the man most closely identified with the success of the Salinas administration. Both Aspe and Zedillo had PhDs, in economics from U.S. universities -- Aspe from MIT and Zedillo from Yale. The backbone of Aspe’s tenure at Hacienda, as the Finance Ministry is known, was his determination and success in keeping the peso fixed to the dollar. For the first time since 1976, Mexico had a unit of account of known and predictable value. Aspe’s achievement came as a result of his team’s courage in fighting off the demands of the United States Treasury Secretary, Nick Brady, that in order to get assistance from Washington, Mexico’s government had to devalue the peso. When Brady instead backed down, on the Aspe argument that he could best improve Mexico’s economy with a stable peso, the Mexican stock market began a long advance that foretold the healthiest economic expansion in more than a generation. Marked by tax cuts and privatization of state industry, Mexico’s progress was capped by its successful entry into the North American Free Trade Association (NAFTA).
If Wall Street could have chosen Salinas’s successor, it surely would have been Aspe, but the party establishment chose Colosio, who found the assassin’s bullet. The political outlook had already been clouded by a rebel uprising of peasants in Chiapas, the southernmost state and the most impoverished. The economic expansion had also slowed to a walk as the recession in the United States followed the 1990 tax increases of President Bush, who broke his campaign pledge “read my lips, no new taxes,” to satisfy the austerity demands of the Republican party establishment. It was against this background, in July of 1992, that young Ernesto Zedillo, floundered in the polls, with speculation rampant that he would be overtaken by the candidate of the conservative National Action Party (PAN). Whereupon he got a gift from the political gods, as the charismatic PAN candidate suddenly blurted out in an interview that he believed the peso was overvalued, and should be devalued. Upon the urging of Pedro Aspe, Zedillo issued an emphatic statement that if elected, he would maintain the peso’s value. The Bolsa, Mexico’s stock market, had been flagging, but it now resumed its upward climb. Reserves began climbing again at the Bank of Mexico, and Zedillo shot past the PAN candidate in the polls, foretelling his easy win in September.
It was then that the Forces of Darkness descended on Mexico, in the form of agents of the International Monetary Fund, the U.S. Treasury Department, and big-time Wall Street currency speculators with friends at the IMF and Treasury. They began to lay the groundwork for a currency devaluation as soon as Zedillo’s election was confirmed. Their agent inside the Zedillo inner circle was Guillermo Ortiz, a Stanford PhD, who had served for three years as Mexico’s IMF director in Washington. No sooner had Zedillo been inaugurated on December 1, 1992 with Pedro Aspe and Carlos Salinas returning to private life, than the devaluation wheels were set in motion. The IMF/Treasury forces achieved critical mass in that month, with Lloyd Bentsen having resigned as Secretary, with his successor Bob Rubin not to arrive for several weeks. The man in charge during this December hiatus was Lawrence Summers, Undersecretary for International Affairs. With his help, the IMF and Federal Reserve international chief, Ted Truman, gave a heave ho to the new Salinas government, urging devaluation, while their friends on Wall Street sold the peso short in anticipation of making a killing. That they did. Zedillo never knew what hit him. The plan was to have a nice little 10% devaluation. It turned into a 50% devaluation, which wiped out half the peso savings of the Mexican people, sent foreign investment fleeing, and pitched the Mexican economy into a recession that it is only recently been crawling out of. If you would like to read my testimony before the House Banking Committee on this subject, you can get to it easily in our archives.
The people of the United States waited until 1992 to punish George Bush for breaking his read-my-lips campaign pledge. The people of Mexico had to wait for their congressional elections yesterday to punish the PRI. Until and unless Zedillo shakes up his cabinet, getting rid of Ortiz in favor of Aspe or Aspe’s deputy, Francisco Gil Diaz, who is now at the Bank of Mexico, it will surely lose the presidency in next year’s elections. You can bet on it. Isn’t democracy wonderful? As long as politicians keep 51% of their campaign promises and 100% of their read-my-lips promises, democracy works better than anything else yet devised by mortal man. | <urn:uuid:21b2b12e-cc86-4de1-9f8b-6f02db7f82c1> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://supplysideinvestor.com/memos/mm-970707.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817001643-20220817031643-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.975036 | 1,325 | 1.882813 | 2 |
A report earlier this week said the Galaxy S9 may not come with a 3D facial recognition system similar to Apple’s iPhone X, although Samsung is already looking to equip 2018 devices with 3D sensors. The same report claimed that the Galaxy S9 will not have too many features to differentiate it from the previous generation, although the phone is expected to pack better hardware and deliver a better camera experience.
A Samsung exec even went on record to say that the Galaxy S9’s best feature might be Samsung’s software innovations. “Although the Galaxy S9 may not have the innovative features expected by the market, we are focusing on enhancing the completeness of the Galaxy S8 hardware and an innovative user experience (UX),” that person said.
A new leak tells us more about that “innovative user experience.”
I have absolutely no idea what “the completeness of the Galaxy S8 hardware” means, given that the Galaxy Note 8, which sports exactly the same hardware, does better in performance tests than the Galaxy S8.
The real innovation might be on the software side, at least the part that’s controlled by Samsung. Gone are the days when Samsung software on Android devices meant a bunch of bloatware that users hated. Samsung still doesn’t control the underlying software of its smartphones, and it’s dependent on Google’s innovations. But the company polished the user interface that sits on top of Android and plans to introduce new features next year.
Prominent Chinese leaker Ice Universe posted on Twitterthe following image: https://twitter.com/UniverseIce/status/932919492497235968
It’s apparently a presentation of Samsung’s Galaxy AI UX, with the Bixby logo also clearly present.
We have no idea what Galaxy AI UX is, but it certainly has something to do with artificial intelligence and machine learning. After all, everybody else is doing it, including Google and Apple on their devices. We can safely assume that Galaxy AI UX will bring over various AI features and automation to future Galaxy devices, including the Galaxy S9. Samsung’s flagship phones may become smarter, and more aware of what’s happening around them, offering a customized user experience that may take into account various factors, including device usage, location, and time of day.
I’d also expect all these smart Galaxy S9 features to be served under the Bixby assistant, which is Samsung’s own response to Google’s Assistant and Apple’s Siri.
Samsung is yet to unveil its Galaxy AI UX to the world, although the image below does suggest the company did present it to at least a few people recently. The leaker doesn’t say where the picture was taken and doesn’t offer other images.
In closing, we’ll also address the tweet above, posted on Monday. Apparently, Ice Universe also believes that Samsung is interested in 3D face recognition components, even though I have no idea what he meant to say. | <urn:uuid:21bc23b4-2df6-47cc-9a1c-77f8c5fd0acb> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://bgr.com/tech/galaxy-s9-rumors-galaxy-ai-ux-software/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817001643-20220817031643-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.947332 | 641 | 1.671875 | 2 |
The Duchess of Cornwall - Biography
Prince Charles always made it clear that his relationship with Camilla Parker Bowles was "non-negotiable". And, despite the controversy it provoked, he remained true to his word, championing the divorced mother-of-two and gradually making her role in his life increasingly prominent.
Born Camilla Shand in London on July 17, 1947, Camilla was educated in London and "finished off" in Switzerland and France. The granddaughter of Lord Ashcombe, she grew up on a country estate in Sussex, spending much of her free time hunting.
Self-confident Milla, as she was known, met the shy, 25-year-old Prince Charles at Windsor Great Park in the early Seventies. Friendship grew into romance, with Camilla often spending time in the Prince's apartments in Buckingham Palace. Believing Charles would never propose, Camilla married Army officer Andrew Parker Bowles shortly after the heir to the throne was sent abroad on a naval mission. Camilla and Andrew had two children, Tom, born in 1975, and Laura, born four years later.
But her friendship with the Prince endured, and Camilla became a constant in his life even after his 1981 wedding to Lady Diana Spencer. The fairytale marriage was not without its difficulties, however, and Charles and Diana announced their separation in December 1992. Camilla, still a trusted member of the Prince's inner circle, immediately offered Charles her support and comfort.
The down-to-earth, outdoorsy woman came under the public spotlight after Charles confirmed he had commited adultery with Camilla while still married to Diana. As controversy raged around her, Camilla chose to remain silent.
Her marriage to Andrew ended in divorce in January 1995, and the former Cavalry officer went on to marry Virginia Pitman just a year later.
After Diana's tragic death in August 1997, Camilla retreated from the public eye. It appears to have been Charles' son Prince William who extended the olive branch to his father's companion by inviting her to tea. At the request of the young Prince and his brother Harry, Mrs Parker Bowles also accompanied Charles and his sons on a Mediterranean cruise in August 1999.
The couple began to undertake public engagements together, and were often snapped in each other's company on social occasions. With speculation over Camilla's role in the life of Britain's future sovereign mounting, on February 10, 2005, Clarence House announced Charles and Camilla were to wed at Windsor Castle on April 8.
Though naysayers began to brand the wedding as "jinxed" after a number of obstacles arose - including a switch of venue to the more humble Windsor Guildhall, and a one-day postponement when the original date conflicted with Pope John Paul II's funeral - the April 9 nuptials went without a hitch.
After tying the knot with Charles in a brief civil ceremony witnessed by just 30 guests, Camilla, in a long porcelain blue gown, walked down the aisle alongside her Prince for a prayer service at St George's Chapel attended by 700. The blessing was followed by a lavish Windsor Castle reception, before the longtime couple set off for their honeymoon in Scotland. | <urn:uuid:40934661-76c8-4fce-8669-0cf5caf2241b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.hellomagazine.com/profiles/the-duchess-of-cornwall/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572198.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815175725-20220815205725-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.978955 | 662 | 2.140625 | 2 |
12 November 2014 – Commenting on new pledges to cut greenhouse gas emissions unveiled by the US and China today in Beijing, Dipti Bhatnagar from Friends of the Earth International said:
“Today’s climate announcement by the US and China may be spun as a landmark, but in reality the US pledges are just a drop in the ocean. These figures are very far from being the sea of change we urgently need from the US government.”
“The good news is that China is taking the fight against climate change ever more seriously and intends to peak its emissions in next 15 years. We urge China and all nations to urgently switch from emissions-causing dirty energy to community-based renewable energy.”
US President Barack Obama said that the US will aim to reduce its emissions levels 26-28% by 2025 (compared with 2005 levels).
“The cuts pledged by President Obama are nowhere near what the US needs to cut if it was serious about preventing runaway climate change. These US voluntary pledges are not legally binding and are not based on science or equity,” said Sara Shaw, Friends of the Earth International Climate Justice and Energy coordinator.
“This agreement deliberately ignores the issue of equity. Industrialised nations, and first of all the world’s largest historical polluter, the US, must urgently make the deepest emission cuts and provide the bulk of the money if countries are to share fairly the responsibility of preventing catastrophic climate change,” she added.
“Disgracefully, today’s announcement ignores the fact that developing countries urgently need finance and technology to transform their energy systems and adapt to climate change,” she added.
The world’s richest, developed countries are most responsible for climate change. They emitted the biggest share of the greenhouse gases present in the atmosphere today, way more than their fair share.
The UN is the most democratic space to address the climate crisis. The UN climate talks are supposed to be making progress on implementing the agreement that world governments made in 1992 to stop man-made and dangerous climate change.
The UN agreement recognises that rich countries have done the most to cause the problem of climate change and should take the lead in solving it, as well as provide funds to poorer countries as repayment of their climate debt.
The solutions to the climate crisis are available. They include steep reductions in carbon emissions, stopping fossil fuels and deforestation, building clean, sustainable, community-based power solutions, and transforming our food systems.
FOR MORE INFORMATION
Dipti Bhatnagar, Friends of the Earth International Climate Justice and Energy coordinator: +258 840 356 599 (Mozambique mobile) or email email@example.com
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VRB Power is the only public vendor of a flow battery chemistry, the Vanadium Redox Battery. I bought the company when I first realized that in order to get a large proportion of intermittent wind and solar energy onto the grid, long term electricity storage would be essential. Of the available technologies, flow batteries are some of most technically elegant. Since VRB is one of only two publicly traded vendors of large scale batteries, I bought some.
I was not being discriminating. Even with the belief that large scale storage will soon be needed to integrate intermittent resources onto the grid, buying VRB would still have been a mistake. Although flow batteries are an extremely elegant solution, they are a solution that is not ready for market. As Michael DeAngelis, SMUD‘s Manager of Advanced Renewable and Distributed Generation Technologies, told me, "It’s a research project. It’s not price competitive." SMUD has a share of a 20 kW x 9hr VRB system [.pdf 1.83 mb, slide 12].
SMUD invests in research projects because they want to help develop future technologies they may need in the future. Although that may also be a motivation for CleanTech investors, those investors would do better to think of such investments as charitable donations than investments; the results are more likely to be a tax write-offs than a capital gains.
Research projects are the most tempting way for cleantech aficionados to lose money in our investing. In this case, I was seduced by what a speaker at the same conference aptly described as a "pretty toy." Venture capitalists and angel investors can make money by finding a new technology and jumping on it at the right time, although they usually have more losers than winners. For investors in public companies, making money on technology projects is mostly limited to finding a bigger fool to sell the company to. The problem with this is even if you manage to find a bigger fool, you’ve gained something with the money you made… you gained self-confidence.
Self-confidence arising from knowledge of the asset you’re investing in is an asset, but confidence based on your own belief in yourself and your own qualities as an investor is poison. All investors make mistakes. (This series of entries is a showcase of several of mine. Part of the value of writing this series is in maintaining my own humility. A tendency to revel in success and dismiss mistakes will make an investor happier in the short term, but poorer in the long term.)
For the above reasons, I seldom advocate investing in research projects. In the current context of much dearer money, research projects (which often need to return to the capital markets for more money) are even less attractive.
None of this is to say that VRB’s quite interesting technology has no place in the future of our electric grid. I strongly hope it does, because inexpensive, large scale storage will be key to completely decarbonizing our electric grid. Nevertheless, at any future date when VRB flow batteries are widely accepted by utilities, the current shareholders of VRB Power are unlikely to retain any significant ownership of the technology.
Other entries in this series:
- Held: UQM Technologies
- Sold: Carmanah Technologies
- Sold: Pacific Ethanol
- Sold: Dynamotive Energy Systems
- Sold: Nova Biosource Fuels
- Ten stocks to buy at the bottom.
DISCLAIMER: The information and trades provided here are for informational purposes only and are not a solicitation to buy or sell any of these securities. Investing involves substantial risk and you should evaluate your own risk levels before you make any investment. Past results are not an indication of future performance. Please take the time to read the full disclaimer here. | <urn:uuid:7105eedf-4138-4388-ac3b-2bc1aabe9420> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.altenergystocks.com/archives/2008/10/what_i_sold_vrb_power_vrbpfpk_vrbv_1/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572033.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814113403-20220814143403-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.953502 | 786 | 1.703125 | 2 |
As electric vehicles (EVs) become more and more popular, the need to install EV charging stations is also increasing. Currently, EVs and plug-in hybrids account for about 5% of new car sales. Some analysts estimate that this figure will rise to 25% by decade’s – end. As a result, property owners are quickly researching if installing EV charging stations is feasible. There are many factors that play a role in determining station installation costs. Several of these questions may be easily answered, while others take professionals such as engineers or contractors to evaluate.
Here are five factors that can affect the cost of your EV charging project.
1. Distance Between the Charging Stations and the Electrical Panel
First, the distance between charging stations and the electrical panel can have one of the greatest influences on cost. Trenching through asphalt and concrete can be quite expensive as well as the cost of wire. If the length of the conduit running between the chargers and the panel is too long, larger wire may be needed to support voltage drop.
Pro Tip: Work with your electrician to find a suitable location close to the electrical panel. In some circumstances, it may be cheaper to install a new subpanel near the charging stations.
2. Number and Type of Charging Stations
As with any project, a larger scope of work has higher cost implications. The same holds true for installing EV charging stations. While hardware can account for nearly 50% of the total cost of a smaller installation, this decreases to 20% in larger projects. PwC analysis shows that after adding 4-6 stations, “capital cost per charger declining slowly as the overall size and capacity of the station [i.e. location] increases.” Rather than installing a single DCFC station, consider installing several high-power Level 2 stations to support more drivers and lower your per-station cost.
Pro Tip: It is wise to install enough charging stations within the current demand while also planning for future growth. The more EVs that are sold, the greater the need for charging stations. Instead of ripping up concrete or asphalt later to install more charging stations, it is more cost-efficient to install a few “EV Ready” spaces while you are already under construction.
EV Ready spaces have conduit stubbed to the parking space so properties are ready for increased demand for chargers. The parking space is ready for the charging stations. With EV Ready spaces, all electrical work at the panel and underground conduit will have been preinstalled ultimately saving both time and money.
3. Available Electrical Capacity
This is another factor that can affect the total installation cost for EV charging stations. All sites have a limit to how much additional electrical load they can accommodate. Once a certain point is reached, a service upgrade is required and the cost can be significant depending on how much additional electrical capacity is needed.
The work of the electrical engineer is needed during this stage of the project. Service upgrades can include larger transformers, electrical panels, or switchgear.
Pro Tip: Select a charging station and smart network with a load management system such as SemaConnect. A load management system can limit and/or distribute electrical load to the charging stations based on available capacity. With a load management system, more charging stations can be installed without overloading the existing infrastructure.
4. Availability of Rebates and Incentives
Of course, one factor that can reduce the cost of the EV charging station is the availability of rebates and incentives. There are millions of dollars of rebates and incentives available at the state, utility, and local jurisdiction level. In addition, the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act has created federal grant programs specifically focused on increasing EV charging infrastructure.
These programs can provide thousands of dollars for each charging station installed. Make Ready rebates can reduce project costs by 50% to 75%, while other programs may pay for 100% of your costs!
5. Level of Charging
There are three levels of charging: Level 1 (the slowest), Level 2, and Level 3 (more commonly referred to as DC Fast Charging or DCFC).
For reference, Level 2 charging provides around 25 miles of range per hour of charging, while DCFC provides around 100 miles of range in 10 minutes. As a result, the cost difference between Level 2 and DCFC is quite significant. Level 2 charging stations can cost a few thousand dollars per unit while DCFC can cost tens of thousands of dollars per unit. Ultimately, the location and use of the property will determine which charging level is most appropriate.
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Nana Kojo Kru, Paramount Chief of Komenda, made a very profound statement on May 31 2016, when the sugar factory was inaugurated “Before, this Komenda was dead but with the new factory, Komenda is back to life”. This was the genesis of the Komenda Sugar factory that was established in 2016 by the erstwhile, John Mahama government.
Previously, there existed the Komenda Sugar Factory, but during the era of the National Democratic Congress (NDC)in 2016, President John Mahama under the “Better Ghana Agenda” refurbished this old sugar factory and propagated it as government’s vision of industrializing the country by transforming the structure of the economy and creating jobs.
The refurbished factory was re-constructed through an Indian Exim Bank loan and the factory was billed to crush 1,250 tonnes of sugar per day as compared to the 1,000 tonnes the then collapsed Komenda sugar factory used to produce.
It was also estimated that the factory would have added value to the lives of the people of Komenda and created jobs for more than 7,300 people. Obviously, an initiative that would have moved Central Region from being counted among one of the poorest regions in the country. The collapse of the old factory meant that the country’s high dependence on sugar importation was going to be reduced.
The commitment attached to the factory also meant that it would do away with the government’s expenditure in the importation of sugar annually. It was therefore estimated to have cost Ghana at least close to 200 million dollars in the importation of sugar annually and the new factory would change the situation.
However, this beautiful dream was not to be achieved with the plethora of political fracas and gimmicks associated with it.
Currently, the $60-million factory, which has now been valued at $28 million dollars located at Komenda in the Komenda-Edina-Eguafo-Abrem (KEEA) municipality in the Central Region is vastly dying, as weeds have taken ownership of the facility and age-old Ananse the spider, has barricaded the rusty equipment and machines with its web, leaving the entire town in a mental lockdown, and vast unemployment.
Just a year ago, The Deputy Ranking Member on the Trade and Industry Committee of Parliament, Yusif Sulemana expressed his disappointment and anger in the government’s decision to sell it off to a foreign investor. Mr. Sulemana felt that the state would be shortchanged with the latest arrangements from the current Akuffo – Addo government.
This was in reaction to an announcement made by The Ministry of Trade and Industry in November 2019 that Park Agro-tech has been named as the strategic investor in the project with a financial commitment of $28 million over the next four years as suggested is its current value.
The political hunch and mistrust for each other led Mr. Sulemana to make a statement on Accra based Citi FM that the government has intentionally devalued the factory for its own alleged corrupt and parochial gains.
In his view, the state had not maintained the factory well enough.
“…if you have inherited such a beautiful and strategic investment, you needed to maintain it so that if you are giving it to any investor, we can say that we have value for money”.
He further went on to add that “This is a project we borrowed over $37 million [to set it up] and I can tell you we borrowed from EXIM bank, India; about $36.4 million, we borrowed money from our local EXIM bank $1.3 million and we also borrowed money from them; $750,000… Today we are selling the project at $28 million, what happens to the difference? How are we going to pay for the rest of the money? How are we going to pay for it?
Interestingly, before the announcement was made in November 2019, in April of that same year, former President Mahama encouraged the government not to sell off the Komenda Sugar factory, since there are several ways to make it work, and even describing it as unacceptable.
“It is unacceptable to sell the factory. We can get the expertise and the technology to make this factory work,” he said to the media during his thank-you tour of the Central Region.
He, therefore, encouraged the current Akuffo – Addo government that the $23 million loan from the Indian Exim Bank for phase two of the project, was still available so they must endeavour to chase it. However, for no apparent treason than may be political bigotry, the current government refused to heed to this suggestion and went ahead to sell it off.
In September 2018, President Akufo-Addo revealed that his government is in the process of finding a strategic investor to revive the “debt-ridden and idle” factory.
Subsequently, the Trade and Industry Minister, Alan Kyeremanten told Parliament in April last year that, the factory will be sold to a new investor at a depreciated value of $12 million.
On April 5, 2019, the Minister of Trade and Industry, Mr Alan Kyerematen, also assured Parliament that a strategic investor would be named by the end of that month to acquire the assets of the factory and help operationalize it.
The hand over
The day of reckoning came and on Tuesday, November 26, 2019, it was handed over to the Indian firm, Park Agro-tech to revamp it and put smiles on the faces of the natives and residents of Komenda.
As usual, such occasions are days to show off party colours, a usual phenomenon in Ghana. This is not a novel theory and practice in Ghanaian politics. Officials of the Trade Ministry and PwC introduced the investor to the community and officially handed over the facility to the investor.
The $35 million factory which was commissioned under former John Mahama has not been working since May 2016.
The People of Komenda in tears
In a usual narrative of the current situation of the Komenda Sugar Factory, the machines are seriously turning brown each day as they get rustier.
Underground cables are now exposed in water, with weeds taking all over the facility, yet no government official has been to the venue to even find out how the security men, who are struggling to take breath and bread are even faring.
Reptiles have formed their kingdoms there and this is posing a serious health threat to the only surviving workers there, security men. At night, the whole place is in total darkness, with about 13 bulbs functioning at the entire factory, thus putting the lives of these security men into great jeopardy.
The deepest pain that many people in the district experience is the fact that their paramount chief, Nana Kru, has overtly and glaringly done very little about the sad state of the factory and even the state of their roads in general.
Currently, there are about 8 security men manning the entire edifice. Interestingly, most of them have to commute from neighbouring villages to get to the venue.
“About four months ago, there was a charade here, when the president of the land brought the Indian investor here to the factory with many party functionaries joining the fray, but apart from that day, not even an ant has been here to assess the state of the machinery and even how this place is holding up” “Joseph Esson” (not the real name), one of the security men who opened up to me on the issue, but requested I kept his name incognito spoke in Fanti.
My eyes became heavy and began to give way to more tears when he told me that for close to fourteen months, they haven’t been paid by the government.
This was when I realized that indeed, the factory may be at its dead end, awaiting its burial. Sadly though, just a few weeks ago, the sugarcane plantation that had each sugarcane plant cost GH 60.00 was raised to ashes. He revealed that after this, some labourers were sent to weed some parts of the factory. All that investment made is gone.
Joseph Akyea, a farmer who lived by told me of the glories that existed during the testing period that lasted barely two months after its construction.
“You can’t imagine how busy the place was. There were a lot of people who came around. Food vendors were in droves and even had to run a shift. Today, it is just a big white elephant sitting in a ghostly nature with no economic activity going on. I am very emotional each time I talk about this…(wept bitterly)
Mary Armah, one of the vendors also narrated how things used to be over there, and how she made enough to cater for the bills of her ailing husband who was languishing at the hospital.
“I sold food here and I made enough to take care of my husband who had been admitted at the hospital. I couldn’t have paid for his bill until I sold here. I made a lot of money just within that few weeks” she also spoke in Fanti and ended up in tears, cursing politicians to the core.
There seems to be no sign of relief, or even when the factory would commence work. All is bleak until there is a miracle, even though it is not expected to happen. However, one question still lingers, are our leaders still waiting for the factory to die eventually so it is buried, or they would pull off another facade because we are in the election season?
Columnist: Onesiphorus Obuob
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Upcoming digital experience aims to put tourists in George Washington’s shoes
An upcoming digital experience is aiming to show tourists what it was like to be the first President of the United States.
The interactive experience, "Be Washington: It's Your Turn to Lead," will give visitors insight into the challenges George Washington faced, namely leadership issues on the battlefield and as president. It's expected to be open by Feb. 12 in the Donald W. Reynolds Museum and Education Center in Alexandria, Va.
Guests will be taken into a 1,200 square-foot theater room to watch as Washington maneuvers each crisis. There are four options to partake in, reported George Washington’s Mount Vernon.
Depending on what scenario is chosen, those in the room will listen to advice and insight from historical advisers in those situations just as though they were there.
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Vermund named assistant vice chancellor for Global HealthApr. 9, 2015, 10:05 AM
Sten Vermund, M.D., Ph.D., has been named assistant vice chancellor for Global Health in recognition of the growing importance of globalization to Vanderbilt University Medical Center’s research, teaching and patient care missions.
Vermund, the Amos Christie Professor of Global Health, directs the Vanderbilt Institute for Global Health, and is professor in the Department of Pediatrics. He is known internationally for his leadership of projects aimed at HIV/AIDS prevention, care and treatment, HPV/cervix cancer prevention, and on maternal and child health in low resource regions.
In the newly created position, Vermund will lead development and implementation of the Medical Center’s strategic vision for global health, said Robert Dittus, M.D., MPH, associate vice chancellor for Public Health and Health Care.
“Over the past decade, the importance of global health has grown significantly, both locally and nationally,” said Dittus. “Expanding our portfolio of global health activities is critical to continue this work.”
An international focus is particularly important for an academic medical center like Vanderbilt, said Vermund, because it strengthens its ability to fully achieve its three-part mission: research, teaching and service.
Toward Vanderbilt’s research mission, “scientific questions are sometimes better answered in an international context,” he said, “because the diseases and/or key risk factors are more prevalent than in the U.S. We need to compare and contrast data from the U.S. and overseas to derive key inferences, as has been done so elegantly in the area of cancer etiologies through the Shanghai cohorts and the Southern Community Cohort Study.”
Dozens of Vanderbilt faculty members already provide clinical services in low and middle income countries. Their expertise has proven invaluable in responding to surgical and anesthesiology needs, natural disasters here and abroad, and in combating the spread of emerging infectious diseases no longer contained by geography, Vermund noted.
While communicable diseases are a primary focus for global health at Vanderbilt, there is rapidly growing faculty activity in chronic health conditions globally. Poor health behaviors, such as smoking, and chronic diseases, including obesity, diabetes and heart disease, “have become critical global concerns for which we need local, national and global solutions,” Dittus said.
In the realm of training, “we have students from all over the world at the Medical Center and University,” Vermund noted. Faculty members also go to other countries to share their expertise with international colleagues in clinical care and health care delivery and to learn from them new approaches for improving health and health care.
The expansion of the Vanderbilt Health Affiliated Network, for example, is encouraging a wider population focus on the provision of health services, said Dittus, a focus that other countries have had for many years.
At the same time, Vanderbilt experts can help colleagues in other countries develop health care delivery systems that incorporate, in an efficient and effective way, new preventive, diagnostic and therapeutic approaches to care, and which ultimately improves individual and population health.
This “reciprocal learning” will yield benefits locally and globally, Dittus said.
A member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies, Vermund is known for leading international projects in Zambia, Mozambique, Nigeria, China and elsewhere. Among other successes, these projects have brought to scale the prevention of HIV transmission from mothers to their infants. He also has spearheaded efforts to increase childhood immunization rates and to ease the burden of tropical and childhood diseases.
Before coming to Vanderbilt in 2005, he served as chief of the vaccine trials and epidemiology branch of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases’ AIDS Division, and as chairman of Epidemiology and director of the Sparkman Center for Global Health at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.
Vermund and colleague Douglas Heimburger, M.D., M.S., are co-principal investigators of the Vanderbilt-Emory-Cornell-Duke Fogarty Global Health Fellowship program, funded through the Fogarty International Center of the National Institutes of Health.
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Tax Lawyers in Naples
The government of Naples, Florida collects taxes from its residents in order to pay for general public services, like police and fire departments, libraries, hospitals, and public transit.
In Naples, Florida, there are various different sources of tax revenue. Irrespective of the source, however, taxes are always levied in amounts decided by the relevant laws. Usually, taxes are calculated as a percentage of something, such as income or home value. Sometimes, however, they are simply collected as a flat fee (usually in exchange for a license or permit).
Paying your taxes in Naples is not optional. It is obligated by law. If you don't pay your taxes, you could face stiff fines, and even jail time.
Sources of Tax Dollars in Naples, Florida
Taxes can come from a wide number of sources in Naples, Florida, such as sales tax, administrative/licensing fees, and tolls.
Sales Tax: In Naples, there may be a sales tax on top of the sales tax imposed by the government of . City sales taxes are usually pretty small, usually in the range of one percent or less, as opposed to the 5-7% sales taxes imposed by most states.
Licensing Fees: The government of Naples issues licenses for engaging in a wide number of different activities. Most often, they issue business licenses, which business owners must obtain before operating any type of business in city limit. The most important of this process is usually paying a fee. While these taxes are called "fees," instead of "taxes," they are functionally identical, and serve the same purpose (namely, raising revenue).
Bridge/Road Tolls: Most major cities charge a toll to enter them via main roads or bridges. These fees are meant to pay for the upkeep of basic public infrastructure in Naples, by imposing a tax on visitors to it. In theory, this means that individuals who visit the city are obligated to contribute to the upkeep of the infrastructure that they will be using while present there.
How Can a Naples, Florida Tax Attorney Help?
In Naples, Florida, the laws and regulations that govern the tax system are fairly complex, even if determining one's tax rate is, in theory, a simple matter. Furthermore, there are many different exemptions, breaks, and deductions that can make the matter even more complex.
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The lecture method is a teaching method. A lecture is an oral presentation intended to present information or teach people about a particular subject, for example by a university or college teacher. Lectures are used to convey critical information, history, background, theories and equations. A politician's speech, a minister's sermon, or even a businessman's sales presentation may be similar in form to a lecture. Usually the lecturer will stand at the front of the room and recite information relevant to the lecture's content.
Though lectures are much criticized as a pedagogical method, universities have not yet found practical alternative teaching methods for the large majority of their courses. Critics point out that lecturing is mainly a one-way method of communication that does not involve significant audience participation. Therefore, lecturing is often contrasted to active learning. But lectures delivered by talented speakers can be highly stimulating; at the very least, lectures have survived in academia as a quick, cheap and efficient way of introducing large numbers of students to a particular field of study.
Lectures have a significant role outside the classroom, as well. Academic and scientific awards routinely include a lecture as part of the honor, and academic conferences often center around "keynote addresses", i.e., lectures. The public lecture has a long history in the sciences and in social movements. Union halls, for instance, historically have hosted numerous free and public lectures on a wide variety of matters. Similarly, churches, community centers, libraries, museums, and other organizations have hosted lectures in furtherance of their missions or their constituents' interests.
The noun "lecture" dates from 14th century, meaning "action of reading, that which is read," from the Latin lectus, pp. of legere "to read." Its subsequent meaning as "a discourse on a given subject before an audience for purposes of instruction" is from the 16th century. The verb "to lecture" is attested from 1590. The noun "lectern" refers to the reading desk used by lecturers. In British English and several other languages the noun "lecture" must grammatically be the object of the verb "to read."
The practice in the medieval university was for the instructor to read from an original source to a class of students who took notes on the lecture. The reading from original sources evolved into the reading of glosses on an original and then more generally to lecture notes. Throughout much of history, the diffusion of knowledge via handwritten lecture notes was an essential element of academic life.
Even in the twentieth century the lecture notes taken by students, or prepared by a scholar for a lecture, have sometimes achieved wide circulation (see, for example, the genesis of Ferdinand de Saussure's Cours de linguistique générale). Many lecturers were, and still are, accustomed to simply reading their own notes from the lectern for exactly that purpose. Nevertheless, modern lectures generally incorporate additional activities, e.g. writing on a chalk-board, exercises, class questions and discussions, or student presentations.
The use of multimedia presentation software such as Microsoft PowerPoint has changed the form of lectures, e.g. video, graphics, websites, or prepared exercises may be included. Most commonly, however, only outlines composed of "bullet points" are presented. Critics contend that this style of lecture bombards the audience (as critics such as Edward Tufte put it) with unnecessary and possibly distracting or confusing graphics. Others simply think this form of lecture is non-spontaneous and boring.
Bligh, in What's the Use of Lectures? argues that lectures "represent a conception of education in which teachers who know give knowledge to students who do not and are therefore supposed to have nothing worth contributing." Based on his review of numerous studies, he concludes that lecturing is as effective, but not more effective, as any other teaching method in transmitting information. Nevertheless, lecturing is not the most effective method for promoting student thought, changing attitudes, or teaching behavioral skills.
Many university courses relying on lectures supplement them with smaller discussion sections, tutorials, or laboratory experiment sessions as a means of further actively involving students. Often these supplemental sections are led by graduate students, tutors, Teaching Assistants or Teaching Fellows rather than senior faculty. Those other forms of academic teaching include discussion (recitation if conducted by a Teaching Assistant ), seminars, workshops, observation, practical application, case examples/case study, experiental learning/active learning, computer-based instruction and tutorials.
- public lecture
- Donald A. Bligh: What's the Use of Lectures? (San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2000). ISBN 0-7879-5162-5
- Konrad Paul Liessmann: Über den Nutzen und Nachteil des Vorlesens. Eine Vorlesung über die Vorlesung (Vienna: Picus, 1994) ISBN 3-85452-324-6 .
- Edward R. Tufte: The Cognitive Style of PowerPoint: Pitching Out Corrupts Within (Cheshire, Connecticut: Graphics Press, 2006, 2nd edition). ISBN 0-9613921-5-0 The Cognitive Style of PowerPoint
- lecturefox.com: free university lectures (videos, podcasts, notes)
- World Lecture Project (wlp°): free academic lectures from around the globe, covering all faculties
- videolectures.net: free academic lectures, especially on Computer Science
- Lecturefinder: Search academic and college grade lectures online.
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Teaching Responsibilities 2020/21:
Term 1: MA4L6 Analytic Number Theory
I am a number theorist, and am particularly interested in analytic, combinatorial and probabilistic number theory. I also enjoy learning about more general topics in analysis, combinatorics, probability and statistics.
Thus far, my research has dealt with a selection of problems in probability and probabilistic number theory, including the behaviour of random multiplicative functions, multiplicative chaos, extreme values of Gaussian processes, and applications to moments of character sums and Dirichlet polynomials, and to the Shanks--Rényi prime number race between residue classes; with the distribution and applications of smooth numbers (that is numbers without large prime factors); with the behaviour of the Riemann zeta function on the critical line, both conjecturally and rigorously; with some additive combinatorics questions connected with sieve theory; and with estimating various sums of general deterministic multiplicative functions.
Lecture notes for courses I am currently teaching in Warwick may be accessed by following the relevant links above.
Here are the notes for some Part III (fourth year) number theory courses that I lectured in Cambridge.
These informal notes aren't intended for publication, so aren't extremely polished, but people have occasionally asked me for copies of them. I hope they are accurate and of some interest.
A different proof of a finite version of Vinogradov's bilinear sum inequality. (pdf link) This is a 3 page note giving a different proof of a bilinear sum inequality from a paper of Bourgain, Sarnak and Ziegler. The new proof exploits a classical kind of result from probabilistic number theory, namely that a certain divisor sum (additive function) is "close to constant on average" (i.e. has small variance). See Terence Tao's blog post for some more discussion of this topic.
A version of Baker's theorem on linear forms in logarithms. (pdf link) These are fairly brief notes that I wrote when giving an expository talk about Baker's results on linear forms in logarithms. The notes should be thought of as giving a moderately detailed sketch proof, where my aim was to motivate the various steps of Baker's argument. When I gave the talk, the consensus was that one should think of the argument (constructing an auxiliary function) in the same spirit as the "polynomial method" from combinatorics.
Most relevant recent publications:
Recent research grants:
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The AMC’s power bill has steadily increased over the last decade, rising from Rs 93 crore in 2011 to as much as Rs 283 crore in 2020-21. So, is the civic body utilising alternative energy sources in order to reduce the rapidly rising power bills, or is it not? It is, indeed. So, how come its power bill hasn’t been reduced? It turns out that, despite having implemented a slew of energy-efficiency measures, such as rooftop solar installations, LED street lighting, and even producing some of its own power in plants in Kutch, money has been leaking elsewhere. A large portion of it will go to civic contractors.
Although the AMC has approved energy efficiency projects, contractors are reaping the benefits. For example, the AMC approved a tender for the conversion of streetlights on CG Road and other locations to energy-efficient LEDs. The tenders for these have some unusual terms and conditions, such as the AMC paying 70% of the saved amount to the contracted agency.
As a result, the AMC does not benefit from the cost savings, and its light bill remains unchanged. Contractors, for their part, have discovered ways to reduce consumption while reaping the benefits of savings. They keep the majority of streetlights turned off at night, which reduces power consumption and increases savings and earnings for them.
It’s no shocking that AMC’s electricity bill has risen by Rs 190 crore in the last decade, despite the fact that it has installed alternative energy sources such as solar and other energy efficiency projects. In fact, over the last five years, it has spent up to Rs 50 crore on energy efficiency projects. It has installed solar panels on the roofs of all of its buildings, bus stations, and stadiums, as well as a wind power project in Nakhtrana, Kutch, which became operational in 2016.
The corporation first implemented energy-saving measures in 2011 by establishing an energy efficiency cell with the goal of lowering energy bills. However, a decade later, the power bill is still rising, rising to Rs 283 crore in 2020-21 from Rs 93 crore in 2010-11. AMC has spent over Rs 50 crore since then on wind and solar projects, as well as converting all streetlights to LED.
It consumed 30 crore units in 2015-16, which will increase to 32.60 crore units in 2020-21.
The civic body stated in its budget for 2021-22 that it used an average of 32.60 crore units per year. It claimed that the conversion of streetlights to LED saved 2.6 crore units, resulting in a Rs 15.50 crore reduction in energy bills. Other factors such as exemption from electricity duty, refund, tariff, and demand-supply management also contributed to a 4.5 MW reduction in power demand, resulting in a Rs 20.64 crore savings.
According to AMC, the 600 KW solar rooftop panels installed on its various buildings produced 14.50 lakh units.
Furthermore, its 4.2 MW wind power project in Nakhtrana, Kutch, has produced 4.53 crore electricity units up to October 2020, bringing in Rs 29.50 crore. Another 4.2 MW plant installed in Nakhtrana in 2017 produced 3.27 crore units in three years, generating Rs 22.94 crore in revenue.
Overall, the claim of having saved a total of Rs 101.88 crore from all of its energy efficiency projects is meaningless given that AMC’s power bill has risen rapidly over the last decade. It would be wise to have a third-party audit performed to identify any gaps.
Rajshri Kesri, a Congress corporator, said the AMC’s power bill-cutting measures had failed miserably. They have spent crores on a variety of projects, but a vigilance investigation is needed to determine where the money was actually spent.
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Investing in property is a popular strategy for building wealth in Australia. It's more accessible than trying to keep track of the intricacies of the stock market and if you hold on to your property long enough, you're likely to reap the rewards of capital growth.
A negatively geared investment property can also help you put money back in your pocket with the help of tax deductions, pretty much from the minute you start renting it out. This is due to negative gearing, a tax benefit that occurs when the cost of owning a property (mortgage repayments and other expenses) is more than the rental income it generates. The difference is a taxable loss, which is offset against your total income — ending up saving you money on the tax you pay each year.In addition to this, you may be able to hold off on paying tax on capital gains (the amount the property has gained in value) until you sell it. Some investors also qualify for the CGT discount, meaning they only pay tax on 50 percent of those gains upon sale.
Here, accountant Saul Markunsky, of InThePicture chartered accountants, talks us through some of the topline expenses you are entitled to claim on your property investment — including some you may not know about.
1. Borrowing costs
The borrowing costs related to buying your investment property are tax deductible over the life of the loan or for five years, whichever is shorter. These include loan establishment fees, legal fees for preparing and filing home loan documents, lender's mortgage insurance, mortgage broker fees and valuation fees if required for loan approval.
Markunsky says an important tax deduction is the depreciation of both the internal fixtures (such as carpets, blinds and kitchen appliances) and the building itself. A quantity surveyor can put together a depreciation schedule for you (the cost of which is also tax deductible). "If your property was built after September 1987, you can claim depreciation," Markunsky says. "The bricks and mortar depreciates at 2.5% per year for the next 40 years.”
3. Loan interest
Not all potential property investors realise they can claim the interest charged on the home loan of their investment property while it’s being rented out, according to Markunsky. The interest is shown on your loan statement so it's easy to account for at tax time.
4. Repairs and maintenance
The cost of maintaining your property is tax deductible, but Markunsky advises being aware of what counts as maintenance and repairs, and what steps into the territory of 'improvement', which is not tax deductible. "If your 50L hot water system breaks down and you replace it with a similar hot water system, that's a repair and it's allowed," he says. "But if you replace it with a functionally better 75L unit, the tax office considers that an improvement and therefore not tax deductible. In that case, you can only depreciate the cost along with other internal fixtures."
5. Real estate management fees
The cost of managing your investment property is also a tax deduction, Markunsky says, which means you can claim all management fees paid to the real estate agent looking after your property.
In addition, you can also claim the cost of advertising your property for rent. Ask your real estate manager for an annual tax statement itemising these costs to make it easier at tax time.
7. Travel for inspections
A tax deductible cost that is often overlooked is travelling to inspect your property. Markunsky says that if the property is within driving distance, you can claim a kilometre rate, while you can claim flights and accommodation if it's interstate. If part of the trip is for other purposes — for example, you're adding on a holiday or other business not related to the property — you can only claim the amount related to the property inspection. However, the trip cost isn’t tax deductible where the main purpose of the travel is something other than the inspection of the rental property.
8. Landlords insurance
"Landlord insurance is an inexpensive option that covers you in the event of tenants damaging your property. It's definitely worthwhile and it's also a tax deduction," Markunsky says.
9. Cleaning costs
"The cost of cleaners when tenants move out, gardening costs or costs associated with maintaining the garden are tax deductible," Markunsky says. Like everything, hang on to your receipts.
10. Other holding costs
Other money associated with owning a property, such as council rates, water rates, strata fees and pest control can be claimed. It's worth noting that in strata buildings, any special contributions for specific capital works are not tax-deductible, but can be claimed as a capital works deduction instead.
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Trust is a Business Asset
The impact of trust on the economy can be witnessed at the corporate level. Bear Stearns, AIG, and Lehman Brothers were at one time considered trust-based businesses. Each of these companies relied on the trust of the market to establish the firm’s value. As trust goes down, value goes down. For instance, the $236 million purchase proposal for Bear Stearns by JP Morgan Chase came just hours after Bear Stearns’ market capitalization was $3 billion. Interestingly, just over a year ago that market cap was $20 billion. As trust in the market tanks, so does the value of the business.
Bill Otis, former Chief of the Appellate Division in the U.S. Attorney’s Office, offered this analysis: “Our ability to bail our way out of this recession is extremely limited, because, even if they worked and could be paid for, bailouts and government spending generally fail to address the fundamental problem at the heart of our difficulties. The fundamental problem is not liquidity or even solvency. It is trust—or more correctly, the lack of trust—that has spawned the breakdown in the credit markets. The lack of trust cannot be remedied with money. It can only be remedied with that which creates trust.”
Though our trust has been shaken in America during this economic crisis, we still enjoy a level of trust that is not enjoyed in all parts of the world. A business professor and friend of mine, Leo Gabriel, was asked by a native of a small war-torn, developing country, “Why does capitalism work in America and not here?” Gabriel said, “Because, generally, we can assume trust in our economic system.” In America we can go online, order a product, and assume it will be shipped. The retailer can generally assume that he will be paid. Without trust there cannot be economic activity. You must be able to put trust in your cash, check, or credit to have value and be good. A retailer must know that the product or service will be delivered from the supplier as expected. With greater trust comes greater economic activity and a better form of capitalism. | <urn:uuid:3bd8cfc3-ee6e-4fbf-a711-ace3b0f723be> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://trustedge.com/trust-is-a-business-asset/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572198.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815175725-20220815205725-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.969511 | 457 | 2.34375 | 2 |
When do membranes fuse in pregnancy?
The separation of the chorion and amnion before 14 weeks’ of gestation is physiologically normal. The amnion and chorion usually fuse between 14 and 16 weeks, and any chorioamniotic separation (CAS) that persists after 16 weeks is uncommon and anomalous.
What is amnion Fusion?
Amnion refers to a membranous structure which covers and protects the embryo. It forms inside the chorion. The amnion usually fuses with the outer chorion by around 14 weeks of gestation.
What is amniotic membrane in pregnancy?
Amniotic sac. A thin-walled sac that surrounds the fetus during pregnancy. The sac is filled with liquid made by the fetus (amniotic fluid) and the membrane that covers the fetal side of the placenta (amnion). This protects the fetus from injury. it also helps to regulate the temperature of the fetus.
What is the role of chorionic membrane in placenta?
Function. The placental membrane separates maternal blood from fetal blood. The fetal part of the placenta is known as the chorion. � Oxygen and nutrients in the maternal blood in the intervillous spaces diffuse through the walls of the villi and enter the fetal capillaries.
What is the importance of amnion?
Lined with ectoderm and covered with mesoderm (both are germ layers), the amnion contains a thin, transparent fluid in which the embryo is suspended, thus providing a cushion against mechanical injury. The amnion also provides protection against fluid loss from the embryo itself and against tissue adhesions.
Can a baby live without amniotic fluid?
Without sufficient amniotic fluid, a baby is at risk of suffering serious health complications from: Intrauterine Growth Restriction (IUGR). This is also known as fetal growth restriction.
What is normal amniotic fluid?
A normal amniotic fluid index is 5 cm to 25 cm using the standard assessment method. Less than 5 cm is considered oligohydramnios, and greater than 25 cm is considered polyhydramnios.
What is the difference between placenta and chorion?
The main difference between chorion and placenta is that chorion is the outermost fetal membrane, covering the embryo of mammals, reptiles, and birds whereas placenta is the temporary organ that connects the developing fetus to the uterine wall through umbilical cord in mammals.
What types of chorion do you know?
The chorion is the outermost fetal membrane around the embryo in mammals, birds and reptiles (amniotes). It develops from an outer fold on the surface of the yolk sac, which lies outside the zona pellucida (in mammals), known as the vitelline membrane in other animals….
What is Chorioamniotic membrane?
The two chorioamniotic membranes are the amnion and the chorion, which make up the amniotic sac that surrounds and protects the fetus. The other fetal membranes are the allantois and the secondary umbilical vesicle.
When do the chorionic and amniotic membranes fuse?
During embryologic development, the chorionic and amniotic membranes arise from different germ layers. Sonographic identification of the two separate membranes is a normal physiological finding before 14 weeks of gestation as the fusion of these membranes usually occurs between 14 and 16 weeks of gestation. 1, 2
What happens if there is no fusion between the amnion and chorion?
If after 16th week there is still no fusion between amnion and chorion, this can be associated with preterm delivery or even some chromosomal abnormalities. Down syndrome is one of chromosomal abnormalities.
Can chorioamniotic separation occur later in gestation?
Rarely, a chorioamniotic separation can occur later in gestation. It can be focal or extensive, with the amniotic membrane becoming either free-floating or adherent to the fetus.
What is chorioamniotic separation (CAS)?
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At first, Gozzo and Pasara sailboats were used for regattas. These sailboats were built specifically for that purpose, and since there were seven shipyards on the island of Lošinj at the turn of the 20th century, it was a matter of honour and prestige whose Pasara would win the regatta.
Due to the characteristics of the Mali Lošinj bay, where thermal winds and mistral along with minimal waves prevail in summer, the Pasara boat was built differently on the island of Lošinj than in other parts of the Adriatic. It is wide at the main frame and has fairly large sails for its size as well as a deep keel along its entire length, especially at the stern, and a deep rudder. The so-called Marconi rigging was used because the long gaff running parallel to the mast was reminiscent of the telegraph antennas made by the Marconi Company at the time. Such a sail, similar to modern sails, was more advanced than the Latin sail and the lugsail; so the boats could sail more against the wind.
The L-5 class national sailboats, designed by Anton Martinolić from Lošinj, developed from these Pasara boats, while the Olympic Star class originated from the national sailboats. Agostino Straulino and Nicolo Rode became two-time Olympic champions (Helsinki, 1952 and Melbourne, 1956) and three-time world champions sailing in the Star class. | <urn:uuid:7cbc16f9-ab0a-4c64-b33e-ff56a161ae13> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.visitlosinj.hr/losinjska-regatna-pasara-v2.aspx | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572033.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814113403-20220814143403-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.980644 | 308 | 2.875 | 3 |
Mon Jan 25 2021 (Updated 01/27/21)Solidarity Means Attack
An anonymous communiqué reads: On January 18, as strong winds raged, 30+ anti-racists attacked the Immigration and Customs Enforcement office in San Francisco. We thoroughly painted the walls, smashed the windows, and breached the building to wreak havoc inside.... We join all prisoners and ICE detainees who continue to fight by way of hunger strikes, escapes, and riots against repression and neglect from the State. We see you, we hear you, until every prison door and border wall is open. Solidarity means attack!
Sat Nov 30 2019 (Updated 04/04/20)Indymedia Fighting Spirit Carries on 20 Years After Seattle Protests
Two decades is a long time and a lot has happened in the movement for global justice since the first Independent Media Center was established in preparation for the World Trade Organization protests that began in Seattle on November 30, 1999. The global IMC network exploded on the scene in cities around the world within a few years of N30. It didn't come easy, though. Volunteers have been arrested, jailed, maimed, and even killed by state forces. While the network has contracted in the intervening years, Independent Media Centers continue to make major contributions supporting worldwide struggles for justice.
Thu Nov 21 2019 (Updated 11/22/19)Solidarity with Chile's Rebellion in San Francisco
Chilean high school students began to protest a fare hike on the subway system of Santiago by jumping turnstiles en masse on October 6. Protests against economic inequality quickly spread across Chile and escalated to huge public demonstrations and work strikes. In response, Chilean president Sebastián Piñera directed police and military to use violence against protesters. Thousands have been arrested and injured, including hundreds who have lost sight because the Chilean military is targeting protesters' eyes. Actions in solidarity with the people of Chile have been held around the world, including several in San Francisco.
Thu Sep 5 2019 (Updated 09/08/19)Montgomery Street Repurposed to Save Amazon Forest
The Amazon is burning at an unprecedented speed. Ranchers and cattle farmers are burning territory, clearing it, and creating pastures for cattle and big agriculture to take over and buy their property. On August 30, San Francisco's Montgomery Street, normally the home of plundering corporations, became the venue of Amazon peoples' worship and demands to save their world, and ours. Montgomery Street was quickly sealed off with a street-wide banner at the 300 building, site of the Brazilian consulate.
Thu Mar 14 2019 (Updated 03/20/19)San Francisco Bay Area Says Hands Off Venezuela
Venezuela has been in the crosshairs of the U.S. since 1999 when Hugo Chávez began implementing socialist reforms. Upon Chávez's death in 2013, Nicolás Maduro was elected President. Maduro's second inauguration was on January 10, 2019. On January 22, U.S. Vice President Pence offered Juan Guaidó the presidency of Venezuela and Guaidó then appointed himself "Interim President." Trump recognized the self-appointment, in effect instigating a coup against the Bolivarian government. Several protests and marches have been held in the Bay Area to demand the U.S. take its "Hands Off Venezuela." On March 16, thousands marched in D.C. | <urn:uuid:c06a159b-7380-425f-b509-f329b9033565> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.indybay.org/international/americas/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572198.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815175725-20220815205725-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.958021 | 694 | 2.09375 | 2 |
In an effort to improve the quality of paddy/rice and save time and money on transportation, the Tamil Nadu Civil Supplies Corporation (TNCSC) has called for an Expression of Interest from rice millers in the State. It has asked them if they will be interested to carry paddy for hulling straight from the direct procurement centres (DPCs) instead of the present system of collecting it from the godowns of the TNCSC.
There are over 650 mills that hull paddy for the TNCSC, of which 507 do this permanently and 108 work part-time. “The idea is to let the mills collect the paddy that has been procured by the TNCSC from the DPCs, check moisture content and if need be dry it and hull what is needed. Paddy, when it has moisture content of 13% can be stored safely for a year. We procure paddy that has moisture content of up to 17% and this can be stored only for two months at the maximum. Beyond that the paddy starts turning bad, meaning the rice inside the paddy would start turning yellow, which is frowned upon by consumers,” explained a source in the TNCSC.
This system of the millers picking the paddy for hulling is in practice in other States including in Kerala. After drying the paddy, if need be, they can store it or hull it as required and then hand over the rice to TNCSC godown for storage and distribution from there. “In the EOI, millers have sought time to create additional storage and some wanted to know if they can rent our warehouses. In a short time, the modality of the proposal would be worked out and sent to the State government,” said the official.
D. Thulasingam, president, Tamil Nadu Rice Federation, who welcomed the proposal, said that millers also required relaxation for the out-turn ratio of rice when moisture content is 17% and the paddy has been stored for a longer time. “Food Corporation of India norms stipulate that out-turn ratio be 68% for rice. But we stand to lose more rice when paddy with higher moisture content is provided for milling. In Kerala, millers were provided an incentive so that all the paddy procured is hulled despite the out-turn ratio being 4.5% lesser,” he explained.
Federation secretary A. C. Mohan said facilities at the 1800 DPCs across the State should be improved. “Many do not have moisture metres, weigh bridges or enough storage space. If moisture metres are available, the paddy that has more moisture can be sent to mills immediately. Those that are within 13% can be kept for some more time. Similarly, DPCs can also be provided with driers to minimise damage,” he said.
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Are you worried about your children, not studying? And want to know how to make them focus on their studies. Then there's no need to worry about anything. Here, in this article, we are going to discuss what are the reasons behind your child not feeling like studying and a few tips to effectively teach my kid at home. Most parents always keep on complaining that their children do not study and do not show their interest in studies. Does your child not feel like studying? So, to resolve this problem. Let us first know what are the reasons behind children not feeling like studying and how to deal with a child not interested in studies.
To make your child feel like studying firstly you need to understand why your child is not interested in studies and research the reasons behind them not feeling like studying you should not force your children to study rather understand them or if you think you need professional expertise then take help of child counseling but never pressurize or bog your kids down. so, let us know a few of these reasons
The main reason behind children's not feeling like studying is due to the lack of awareness of the significance of education. It is parents' and teachers' responsibility to make children understand the significance of education in one's life. Children who are not aware of the significance of education often hold a very casual approach to studies. To help them you need to understand first why my child is not interested in studies.
Environment plays a very major role when it comes to studying. And these may be the reason behind your children being disinterested in studies. One of the biggest reasons your kid does not feel like studying is environmental states, maybe there's a lot of disturbance at your home which distracting your child's mind from studies So, being a responsible parent it is your responsibility to provide a proper environment to your children.
There's maybe a possibility that your children are interested in studies but he/she is not interested in the process. Sometimes, the learning process becomes very unexciting, boring for children and that may be the cause behind them, not studying. Every teacher has a different way of teaching things. If the process of teaching involves a lot of memorization then it may make children feel disinterested in learning. So, to make children interested in studies we should keep on experimenting with new and interesting ways to make them learn. Rather than asking how many hours should my child study, figure out how your kid can study through innovative ways. You can also take the help of professional parenting counseling to understand your kid better and help them at home effectively.
You should not force your children to study and understand that another main reason behind children, not feeling like studying may be due to the imbalance in mental and physical health. Mental and physical health plays a very important role when it comes to the performance of students in their academics. We need to understand that mental health without physical health is incomplete. For example - Your Child is fit mentally but when it comes to physical health he/she often stays ill and due to this he/she is not able to go to school and hence, it negatively affects academic performance. In order to know how to deal with a child not interested in studies, you need to understand that physical health is very important for the positive development of your child.
Many parents keep on saying their children score well and constantly just ask why does my child not study but do not get involved in their studies. Which is a completely wrong way. Being a parent it is your responsibility to help your children out in their studies. Children face a lot of difficulties when they study all alone. And there's maybe a possibility due to the lack of support they may feel be motivated and end up losing interest in studies. So, being a parent it is your responsibility to keep on asking your children about their studies and help them out whenever they are facing any difficulty.
To make your children feel like studying you should focus on making studies enjoyable. As children do things that they enjoy. You should ask them to study with the help of different day-to-day examples of cartoons, etc. When you try to teach them things with the help of examples related to them they will listen to them with the utmost attention and also remember it for a quite long time. You can also teach them to draw mind maps or charts. Start adding creative things to make them feel interested in their studies. This way they will start enjoying studies rather than taking it as a burden and make sure that you should not force your children to study. So, try to make studies enjoyable in the best way possible.
A responsible parent is the one who always sits with their children while they are studying and not just keeps asking why my child is interested in studies. Just like we accompany them in eating, celebrating, etc. we should also accompany them in their learning time. It is one of the most vital tips to effectively teach my kid at home as there's a possibility that your child is facing difficulties in studying alone and this may also be the reason behind the disinterest of your children in studies. So, you should always take time out of your busy schedule and sit with your children. Help them if they face any problems, motivate them that they can do it. This will help them to study properly and with a good mindset. If your child still feels anxious during exams then talk to them and let them know that grades or marks don't matter, only their hard work and honesty matter.
To make your child interested in studies. You should focus on knowing their interests. The idea of learning varies from person to person. There's a possibility that your child has a problem with the process of learning and not learning. He/ she is finding it boring or uneasy. So, you should try to figure out an area of interest. For example - if your child loves animals or is good at listening to stories. Then you should start relating things to their area of interest. This will help your child to stay focused and concentrated on their studies. And they will no longer find it boring and uneasy.
Children are always curious about things they like. So, you should focus on increasing their curiosity about studies. Being a good parent, it is your responsibility to harness their curiosity, motivate them, encourage them and provide them with the right direction. You should teach your children to find answers on their own. This will help them to know the topics independently. You can even encourage them by asking different questions to them and making them try new things besides studying like art therapy and different exercises to keep them healthy and creative holistically. This will increase their curiosity about studies. And hence, they will get interested in their studies.
We all are nowadays being so addicted to our mobile phones, tv, etc. The first and the last thing we do while waking up is to check the phone. And children are also being so much addition to gadgets like mobile phones, video games, etc. And due to these distractions, children are disinterested in studying. You should always make sure that their screen time shot is limited. You can set timings for using such gadgets and they should not be allowed to use them other than the specified timings. This will help them to stay away from distractions and will be able to focus on their studies.
So, here in this article, we have got to know about what are the reasons behind your children not being interested in studies and a few tips that will help you to get this problem resolved and answer your question that why does my child not study. I hope this information helps you. If you still face any difficulty feel free to consult a psychologist. You can even consult a psychologist online. There are so many online counseling platforms and one of these platforms is My fit brain. There are so many good psychologists practicing on this platform.
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From Gregg Keizer’s “Massive botnet returns from the dead, starts spamming” (Computerworld: 26 November 2008):
A big spam-spewing botnet shut down two weeks ago has been resurrected, security researchers said today, and is again under the control of criminals.
The “Srizbi” botnet returned from the dead late Tuesday, said Fengmin Gong, chief security content officer at FireEye Inc., when the infected PCs were able to successfully reconnect with new command-and-control servers, which are now based in Estonia.
Srizbi was knocked out more than two weeks ago when McColo Corp., a hosting company that had been accused of harboring a wide range of criminal activities, was yanked off the Internet by its upstream service providers. With McColo down, PCs infected with Srizbi and other bot Trojan horses were unable to communicate with their command servers, which had been hosted by McColo. As a result, spam levels dropped precipitously.
But as other researchers noted last week, Srizbi had a fallback strategy. In the end, that strategy paid off for the criminals who control the botnet.
According to Gong, when Srizbi bots were unable to connect with the command-and-control servers hosted by McColo, they tried to connect with new servers via domains that were generated on the fly by an internal algorithm. FireEye reverse-engineered Srizbi, rooted out that algorithm and used it to predict, then preemptively register, several hundred of the possible routing domains.
The domain names, said Gong, were generated on a three-day cycle, and for a while, FireEye was able to keep up — and effectively block Srizbi’s handlers from regaining control.
“We have registered a couple hundred domains,” Gong said, “but we made the decision that we cannot afford to spend so much money to keep registering so many [domain] names.”
Once FireEye stopped preempting Srizbi’s makers, the latter swooped in and registered the five domains in the next cycle. Those domains, in turn, pointed Srizbi bots to the new command-and-control servers, which then immediately updated the infected machines to a new version of the malware. | <urn:uuid:60be9371-dab6-437f-b549-985e4d220fd1> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://blog.granneman.com/2008/11/27/a-botnet-with-a-contingency-plan/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817001643-20220817031643-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.970074 | 481 | 1.867188 | 2 |
COLLECTIVE CREATION LAB
Six Mondays from October 19 – November 23, 6 – 9pm
$72 for the series, advance registration required by Oct 5. No drop-ins
The Lab is facilitated by Rhizomatic Arts founder Allison Wyper. Email email@example.com for more information.
Collective Creation Lab is a practice based, studio workshop for performers of all disciplines to try out new ideas and ways of working. Participants take turns leading structures for generating new material, and playing with old, new, or undeveloped ideas, in a safe, supportive, interdisciplinary cohort of peers.
- The goal is not to create “a piece,” or even show anything we make to the public. The Lab is a place to play around, try out ideas, experiment with ways of working that are totally outside your wheel house, make BAD WORK in a fun, safe, private space, etc. Or it can be the start of a new project.
- Participants can come from any performance-based discipline (dance, performance, theatre, music…), and should be open and curious about trying out other ways of working. Structures will be led by different members of the group each week, and might be borrowed from dance composition, devised or traditional theater, performance art, or experimental music.
- In the past, weekly sessions have explored: authorship and exchange; Eric Morris’ Instrumentals; Barbara Dilley’s Red Square; and plot, character, and story. YOU tell us what you want to experiment with, make a lesson plan, and we’ll dive in together.
- Each participant will be invited to lead (or co-lead) a session, but that is not a requirement. It is, however, a low-pressure opportunity to experiment with leading a class or facilitating an interdisciplinary collaborative process.
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- Voice Commands
- Prominence among all Age Groups
- Further develop User Experience
- Voice Search Uses Artificial Intelligence
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Prominence among all Age Groups
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Further develop User Experience
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Voice Search Uses Artificial Intelligence
Google voice search utilizes AI or man-made reasoning to give clients point by point results. Whenever you look for a specific issue and afterward follow up that search involving a pronoun instead of a particular thing, Google can decipher that pronoun as alluding back to the thing. This capacity saves a great deal of time contrasted with composing, expecting you to type the specific words Local SEO Services all other times you really want to look. Setting and discussion search have fundamentally worked on this usefulness and can help you an incredible arrangement at streamlining your voice search content. | <urn:uuid:56fdfe77-1157-4f11-acf0-cd733b510b0e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://iteduinfo.com/what-is-voice-search-in-digital-marketing/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571198.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810161541-20220810191541-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.9249 | 656 | 1.65625 | 2 |
Si Gross makes collectable Pop Art based on people featured in headline news stories. It is a world full of truth and lies that he captures with a combination of sincere and satirical illustrations, drawn from real life situations. Si creates his designs through a process of photographs, digital or ink drawings, silk screen printing, spray cans and paint pens, switching between stark monochrome or painterly colours that are bold and dramatic. Another method he commonly employs is the layering of paint onto a photographic background, essentially planting a cartoon world into a real life situation. Each print has slight variations, and comes in limited editions on various surfaces. We speak with Si.
A: You often use vivid colours in your work, how does this complement the themes in your art?
SG: I use vivid colours to encompass the drama of the situations displayed. Those colours also bring out the eccentric and bold personalities of the people illustrated in the picture.
A: What is it about celebrity culture that you find interesting?
SG: All the truth and lies in stories, jumbled up together. Fame as a propaganda tool can be used by public figures to manipulate the general public into buying into their brand, mostly administered by PR companies. It’s absurd that people are now a brand. I prefer to concentrate on stories about iconic public figures. People that have a significant control over their own image, like the Queen. The fanatical drama surrounding famous people keeps celebrity culture ticking over. Before I photographed the news I worked in security. I watched and chuckled, as a celebrity refused to go outside because there weren’t enough fans waiting for them. As a photographer, I was swept up while recording a wild scene, where ecstatic fans ran amok in a shopping centre, after they got wind of a backdoor exit. Without devoted fans, fame withers away.
A: You focus on photography with the use of silk screen, paint and ink. What is it about this combination that interests you as an artist?
SG: It’s the transformative process of turning something digital into something I can touch. I use my digital camera as a journal, collecting a lot of photos. Sometimes certain images jump out for further inspection and transformation. I start sketching digitally on an iPad. Aferwards it becomes a large scale drawing made in Photoshop. Then I like to see my designs embossed on a surface. I’m drawn to silk screen, paint and ink because it allows repetition of motif and gives fast, simple colour changes that deliver a tactile hand finish. I’m not convinced by my work if it’s just on the flat surface of a digital print.
A: What issues in society do you attempt to expose through the satirical nature of your practice?
SG: To bring the underbelly of society to the surface. I want to follow up on interesting investigations forgotten by the press. From working in the media, I see that breaking a story can sometimes take over from a more thorough investigation. This in effect can kill off a story. On the flip-side, I draw to celebrate the eccentric dreamers. I believe good news and bad news should come in equal measures.
A: What are your key artistic influences, and how do you hope your work will evolve in the future?
SG: I’m influenced by headline news, ancient culture, criminal investigations and patterns in nature; combination of subjects that should keep me busy for many years to come. What I’m looking at now, is the way headline news is buried under less damaging but still sensational stories. I see a smoke-screen to protect the interests of another entity. Specifically I’m making a series on the mounting evidence of organ harvesting in China. Former Police Chief Wang Lijun, disguised as an elderly lady, attempted to seek sanctuary and entered a US Embassy in Chengdu. He ratted out his boss Bo Xilai, leaking all kinds of confidential information. Bo had tracked him down using Wang’s mobile phone and surrounded the Embassy. Wang was handed over and then debriefed. The story that rose to the top in the West was Bo Xilai’s wife, Gu Kalai murdering businessman Neil Heyward. This avoids the bigger picture. That being, both Bo and Wang Lijun were believed to be key pioneers and perpetrators in organ harvesting of prisoners of conscience such as Falun Gong and Tibetans. Their faction boss was former Chinese leader Jiang Zemin. I’m illustrating this from a book called The Slaughter – Mass killings, organ harvesting, and China’s secret solution to its dissident problem by Ethan Gutmann. Some stories involve a deeper investigation that doesn’t fit into a 24 hour news cycle. They get lost in the system. I want to help uncover and make sense of this story with macabre illustrations and fitting propaganda style slogans.
View more of Si’s work at www.sigross.com.
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1. Si Gross, Flowerclava II, 2015. Courtesy of the artist.
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After an initial “V”-shaped recovery, national employment growth has tapered off and is well below the pre-COVID levels.
Unemployment is coming down from the COVID-19 spike in the spring of 2020, but it is still high, and current proposed fiscal policy is likely to make the situation worse.
Labor force participation is still low as thousands of small businesses are unable to re-open and workers have become discouraged and simply dropped out of the labor force.
Further evidence of the continued struggle is the fact that the number of people who have been unemployed for more than 27 weeks continues to rise…
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Find out about each of the races which make up the MotoGP Championship with the free printable MotoGP Calendar!
Established in 1949 by the Fédération Internationale de Motocyclisme (FIM), the MotoGP Championship is currently in its 65th year. As one of the longest running Motorsports Championships in the world, MotoGP is the premier class of three separate categories that take place during a typical Grand Prix Racing Weekend. Take a look at our selection of Racing Calendars to see the dates of even more Racing Events.
During a Grand Prix Racing Weekend, there is a race in each of the three categories: Moto3, Moto2 and MotoGP which, predominantly distinguished by the engine capacity of the motorcycles, means that three Grand Prix Champions are crowned at the end of every MotoGP season. A Grand Prix Event lasts for three days with the first two used for practice and qualification rounds for each class and the third day is always Race-Day.
Whether you're planning to attend the 2014 MotoGP Racing Weekends themselves and visit the MotoGP Circuits or simply want to to watch the televised 2014 Grand Prix Events from the comfort of your own home, make sure you remember all of the MotoGP dates with your free MotoGP Calendar!
2014 MotoGP Calendar
The 2014 MotoGP will be made up of races which, taking place on 18 different circuits, will be hosted in a total of 13 countries as shown in the free MotoGP 2014 Calendar below:
|Circuit||Start Date||End Date|
|Qatar, Doha, Losail International Circuit||Thursday 20th March||Sunday 23rd March|
|United States, Austin, Circuit of the Americas||Friday 11th April||Sunday 13th April|
|Argentina, Autódromo Termas de Río Hondo||Friday 25th April||Sunday 27th April|
|Spain, Jerez de la Frontera, Circuito de Jerez||Friday 2nd May||Sunday 4th May|
|France, Le Mans||Friday 16th May||Sunday 18th May|
|Italy, Mugello Circuit||Friday 30th May||Sunday 1st June|
|Spain, Catalunya, Circuit de Catalunya||Friday 13th June||Sunday 15th June|
|Netherlands, Assen, TT Circuit Assen||Thursday 26th June||Saturday 28th June|
|Germany, Sachsenring||Friday 11th July||Sunday 13th July|
|United States, Indianapolis, Indianapolis Motor Speedway||Friday 8th August||Sunday 10th August|
|Czech Republic, Brno, Masaryk Circuit||Friday 15th August||Sunday 17th August|
|United Kingdom, Silverstone Circuit||Friday 29th August||Sunday 31st August|
|San Marino, Misano World Circuit Marco Simoncelli||Friday 12th September||Sunday 14th September|
|Spain, Aragon, Motorland Aragon||Friday 26th September||Sunday 28th September|
|Japan, Motegi, Twin Ring Motegi||Friday 10th October||Sunday 12th October|
|Australia, Phillip Island Grand Prix Circuit||Friday 17th October||Sunday 19th October|
|Malaysia, Sepang, Sepang Circuit||Friday 24th October||Sunday 26th October|
|Spain, Valencia, Circuit Ricardo Tormo||Friday 7th November||Sunday 9th November|
The 2014 MotoGP Schedule went through some last minute changes when Brazil was dropped from the definitive MotoGP Calendar. MotoGP´s planned return to Brazil and the Autódromo Internacional Nelson Piquet circuit in the capital city Brasilia in 2014 was omitted from the MotoGP Calendar as the construction work to upgrade the venue, close to Brasilia´s stadium for the 2014 FIFA World Cup, was said to be running behind schedule. Therefore, the original date of 28th September was given to the Aragon Grand Prix which moves a week from its original slot of 21st September. This change to the 2014 MotoGP Calendar means that the San Marino Grand Prix and the Aragon Grand Prix will be held two weeks apart, rather than there being three back-to-back races.
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The European Union\u0026#039;s executive branch on Tuesday announced new rules for plastic waste shipments—including a ban on some exports to poorer countries—that will take effect on January 1 as part of the bloc\u0026#039;s Circular Economy Action Plan and European Green Deal.The changes to the bloc\u0026#039;s 2006 Waste Shipment Regulation will apply to exports, imports, and intra-E.U. shipments of plastic waste, according to a statement from the European Commission. Various shipments to and from the E.U.\u0026#039;s 27 member states will be subjected to a \u0022prior notification and consent procedure.\u0022Starting next year, bloc members may no longer export plastic waste that is hazardous or hard to recycle to nations that are not a part of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, and the export of clean, non-hazardous waste to non-OECD countries will only be allowed under certain conditions laid out by the importer.Milestone in the fight against #PlasticPollutionNEW rules on importing \u0026amp; exporting plastic waste, toboost \u0026amp; #CircularEconomy on a global scale As of 1st of January 2021, export of unsorted plastic waste to non @OECD countries will be banned!https://t.co/7Y3aWhOW3y pic.twitter.com/TTu4vJPj6h— EU Environment (@EU_ENV) December 22, 2020The rules come in response to a 2019 conference at which 187 countries agreed to add restrictions on plastics to a 1989 United Nations treaty—a deal that was praised by public health and environmental advocates. According to the commission, \u0022By banning the export outside the OECD of plastic waste that is difficult to recycle, the E.U. is actually going further than the requirements of the Basel Convention.\u0022As Virginijus Sinkevičius, commissioner for environment, oceans, and fisheries, put it: \u0022These new rules send a clear message that in the E.U. we are taking responsibility for the waste we generate.\u0022\u0022This is an important milestone in fighting plastic pollution, transitioning shifting to a circular economy, and achieving the aims of the European Green Deal,\u0022 he said.The German broadcaster Deutsche Welle noted that \u0022the moves follow China\u0026#039;s 2018 ban on plastic imports and statements from environmentalists that waste was ending up in other Asian nations, such as Malaysia, and then being dumped into ocean waters.\u0022Citing Sinkevičius, DW added that last year, \u0022the E.U. exported 1.5 million tons of plastic waste, mostly to Turkey and Asian countries such as Malaysia and Indonesia.\u0022This is huge. New rules will require trash importers and exporters to *agree* on how to handle hazardous shipments. https://t.co/BNZGIgb92O— Rachel Cernansky (@rachelcernansky) December 23, 2020Greenpeace Malaysia detailed in a May report how plastic waste from developed nations is adding to the country\u0026#039;s environmental crisis.\u0022When plastics are exported from one country to another they can bring with them a wide range of hazardous chemicals,\u0022 explained Kevin Brigden, senior scientist of Greenpeace Research Laboratories. \u0022Improper storage and treatment can later release these chemicals into the local environment, and burning can even generate new hazardous chemicals.\u0022Heng Kiah Chun, a Greenpeace Malaysia campaigner, said at the time that \u0022the illegal dumping of plastic waste from over 19 countries worldwide has left an indelible mark on Malaysia and other countries in Southeast Asia.\u0022\u0022Aside from the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, communities in Selangor and Kedah have another invisible enemy to face—chemical contaminants that remain in our environment with the possibility of entering our food chain,\u0022 the campaigner added.We must beware of false solutions and work to change the single-use culture of modern society. It\u0026#039;s time for the #CircularEconomy.#BreakFreeFromPlastichttps://t.co/gQI5R6kIYh— Greenpeace NZ (@GreenpeaceNZ) December 17, 2020In order to STOP polluting our earth with single-use plastic, we need robust reuse systems to be put in place.Sign the commitment to reuse and DEMAND that policy makers and corporations take concrete action. https://t.co/7UDpFCtUup#wechoosereuse #breakfreefromplastic pic.twitter.com/TyHE3qUQn1— breakfreefromplastic (@brkfreeplastic) December 23, 2020Greenpeace Germany campaigner Manfred Santen emphasized in May that exporting countries like his \u0022must take responsibility for its wastes\u0022 and \u0022stronger regulations are needed to drastically reduce the production of unnecessary single-use plastic packaging by multinationals like Nestle, so waste does not need to be exported in the first place.\u0022While the new E.U. rules are designed to help stop richer countries from exploiting poorer ones, demands are still mounting worldwide for more ambitious efforts to #BreakFreeFromPlastic. 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(Reuters) -While professional forecasters now see the U.S. economy growing more slowly in the first quarter, many have faith the Federal Reserve may be able to control inflation while keeping the economy on track, according to a survey released Friday.
Economists still expect strong GDP growth for the year, supported by a robust jobs recovery, according to a survey of forecasters by the Philadelphia Federal Reserve. They also largely expect inflation to stabilize in the long term, the survey showed.
Fed officials are under pressure to act more aggressively to curb price increases after a report released Thursday showed that inflation increased last month at the fastest pace in 40 years. But not all policymakers are convinced that the Fed should launch its rate increases with a half a percentage point increase, with some saying they prefer to speed up or slow down the rate increases based on what happens with inflation.
Professional forecasters said they now expect the U.S. economy to grow by 1.8% in the first quarter, down from the 3.9% growth expected in November, according to the Fed survey. But they still see the economy growing by 3.7% for the year, down only slightly from previous expectations.
They also see the U.S. labor market adding about 430,000 jobs a month this year – a pace that could help fill the jobs hole https://graphics.reuters.com/USA-ECONOMY/JOBS/ygdpzzqwypw caused by the pandemic levels within six months.
As for inflation, forecasters said they expect price increases to ease in the longer run from the high levels seen today.
Forecasters now expect the personal consumption expenditures (PCE) price index to average an annualized rate of 4.7% in the first quarter of this year, before dropping down to 3% in the second quarter. They estimate PCE will average 2.2% a year over the next decade, slightly above the Fed’s 2% target.
A separate survey of consumers by the University of Michigan showed that inflation is weighing on consumer sentiment, which dropped to its lowest level in more than a decade in early February.
The consumer survey one-year inflation expectations rose to 5.0%, highest since July 2008. Its five-to-10-year inflation outlook held steady at an 11-year high of 3.1%.
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What GAO Found
To improve critical infrastructure security, key actions Department of Homeland Security (DHS) needs to take include (1) strengthening the federal role in protecting the cybersecurity of critical infrastructure and (2) improving priority setting efforts.
Strengthen the federal role in protecting the cybersecurity of critical infrastructure. Pursuant to legislation enacted in 2018, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) within DHS was charged with responsibility for enhancing the security of the nation’s critical infrastructure in the face of both physical and cyber threats. In March 2021, GAO reported that DHS needed to complete key activities related to the transformation of CISA. This includes finalizing the agency’s mission-essential functions and completing workforce planning activities. GAO also reported that DHS needed to address challenges identified by selected critical infrastructure stakeholders, including having consistent stakeholder involvement in the development of related guidance. Accordingly, GAO made 11 recommendations to DHS, which the department intends to implement by end of 2022.
Improve priority setting efforts. Through the National Critical Infrastructure Prioritization Program, CISA is to identify a list of systems and assets that, if destroyed or disrupted, would cause national or regional catastrophic effects. Consistent with the Implementing Recommendations of the 9/11 Commission Act of 2007, CISA annually updates and prioritizes the list. The program’s list is used to inform the awarding of preparedness grants to states. However, in March 2022, GAO reported that CISA and other critical infrastructure stakeholders GAO spoke with said that the Prioritization Program results were of little use and raised concerns with the program. For example, stakeholders questioned the current relevance of the criteria used to add critical infrastructure to the Prioritization Program list. In 2019, CISA published a set of 55 national critical functions of the government and private sector considered vital to the security, economy, and public health and safety of the nation (see figure). However, most of the federal and nonfederal critical infrastructure stakeholders that GAO interviewed reported being generally uninvolved with, unaware of, or without an understanding of the goals of the framework for its critical functions. GAO made recommendations to DHS in its March 2022 report to address these concerns, such as ensuring stakeholders are fully engaged in the framework’s implementation, and DHS agreed with the recommendations.
Examples of Critical Infrastructure
Why GAO Did This Study
The nation’s critical infrastructure consists of physical and cyber assets and systems that are vital to the United States. Their incapacity or destruction could have a debilitating impact on security, national public health and safety, or national economic security. Critical infrastructure provides the essential functions––such as supplying water, generating energy, and producing food––that underpin American society. Protecting this infrastructure is a national security priority.
GAO first designated information security as a government-wide high-risk area in 1997. This was expanded to include protecting (1) cyber critical infrastructure in 2003 and (2) the privacy of personally identifiable information in 2015.
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The design of the map in Luxor has a tan brick background, and the path itself is a pyramid. On the left-hand side of the map there is a sun with Anubis in it and two men crawling up the pyramid. In the center, there is a golden Eye of Horus. On the right-hand side of the map there are two women in red dresses sliding down the pyramid. There is also plants with white flowers. At the bottom of the map is a row of women in yellow dresses doing the chakrasana pose.
The design of the map in Luxor HD has a sand background with rocks and the path color is now a richer sand color. The right-hand side now features a green emerald. The center now has two crystals. There is now a cover at the part of the path where the path covers the danger zone.
The map is a difficult map when a line of spheres approaches the danger zone, as spheres coming close to the danger zone can block ones already at the danger zone, making it almost impossible to eliminate the spheres. However, if you can eliminate the spheres before they reach the danger zone, it makes the process easier. This is not an issue in Luxor HD as the map contains a cover at the part of the path blocking the danger zone, making the map a lot easier.
Luxor and Luxor HD
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- Stage 3-5 (Challenge of Horus)
Luxor: The Wrath of Set
- Stage 8-6
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Emotional Validation in the Face of Mental Illness
Emotional validation counteracts the lack of stability that may accompany living with a family member suffering from mental illness. Indeed, that lack of stability is challenging to endure. My husband and I usually live day to day or week to week without knowing what our future might hold. Yet, the best way to cope with this instability is to work together and focus on emotional validation.
Instability Is a Constant with Mental Illness -- Emotional Validation Should Be Too
Before my husband’s most recent series of hospitalizations and his schizophrenia diagnosis, our lives were seemingly perfect. Our life plan was mapped out in detail. He was a new physician assistant with a high-paying job. We were expecting our third child and were preparing to purchase a home. How fast life can change.
I didn’t know what to do following my husband's hospitalization. I wasn’t earning an income and I didn’t know how to explain things to our children and I had no idea what our future would hold. But life changed quickly once again. Over a year later, my husband is far more stable and some of our most significant trials are in the past. We have three amazing children, a farmhouse renovation project, and prospects for the future. My husband is now a part-time college professor, and we are hoping to eventually run a bed-and-breakfast out of a renovated barn on our property.
Finding Stability Takes Time and Effort
We didn’t arrive at this point overnight. My husband didn’t start a cure-all medication his first night in the hospital and return home symptom-free the next day. Even now, over a year later, he still isn’t symptom-free. He may never be. We are still actively engaged in medication changes. We still attend therapy. My husband still suffers from schizophrenia, and he always will. Despite our recent improvements, instability persists.
Please don’t take this to mean that there cannot be a happy ending. We are happy. Our family is doing well, but this is a process for each of us. We find something new to work on every day, and it may be that way for a long time. For my husband, this is particularly daunting and even downright discouraging at times. To be honest, sometimes I feel the same way. But it is crucial that we remember to encourage each other continually.
The Importance of Emotional Validation
In particular, it falls on me to encourage my husband. I cannot begin to imagine how he must feel. He was on top of the world before it all came crashing down. Now he lives each day reminding himself of the need to continue on and try his best. When he is feeling discouraged, it is really important for the kids and me to tell him that we love him, that we need him, and that he has many redeeming qualities.
Mental illness is not only emotionally trying for caregivers, but also for the person suffering. Don't be afraid to remind them of what they have to offer. They often need help to remember that, even though their path through life may change directions, they are still capable of great things. Even the smallest accomplishments can make a difference. As silly as it sounds, sometimes just seeing my husband get out of bed and put waffles in the toaster for the kids is a sign of a good day to come. Remembering to thank him for such a simple act may seem unnecessary, but it validates his efforts.
It is vital to encourage others and show gratitude for their actions. It reminds those around us that we care and that, no matter what may come our way, we will always be there. It tells them that we will try to help, support and love them despite their mental illness. Mental illness does not make your loved one a failure. Nor does it mean that they are incapable of accomplishing great things.
Law, M. (2019, May 3). Emotional Validation in the Face of Mental Illness, HealthyPlace. Retrieved on 2022, August 15 from https://www.healthyplace.com/blogs/mentalillnessinthefamily/2019/5/emotional-validation-in-the-face-of-mental-illness
Author: Megan Law
This is such a beautiful read. Showing others, on a consistent basis, that we love them and that we believe in them is so important. I love this part in particular: "It is vital to encourage others and show gratitude for their actions. It reminds those around us that we care and that, no matter what may come our way, we will always be there." Encouragement and gratitude are such powerful pieces.
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Tips to Maximize Benefits of Vaccination and Treatment
Robert Tremblay, D.V.M.,Health Management Section,
After you and your veterinarian have established a vaccination program
or treatment protocol for your farm, there are several general steps that
you can take to ensure you get the most benefit from the program:
1.. Be sure to read the label. Look for the following information:
a.. the purpose of the vaccine or drug
b.. instructions for preparing the vaccine or drug. For example:
the proper method to reconstitute vaccines.
c.. the route of administration. For example: im -intramuscularly,
in the muscle
d.. sq - subcutaneously, under the skin
e.. the proper dose
f.. For example: 2 ml of a vaccine or 3 ml/ 45 kg body weight
g.. the timing of treatment. For example: some vaccines require 2
doses given 3-4 weeks apart.
h.. safety information
i.. For example: the labels of some vaccines indicate that the
vaccine should not be used in pregnant cattle.
j.. storage recommendations
k.. For example: some vaccines and drugs should be refrigerated or
protected from freezing.
l.. withdrawal times
m.. expiration date
2.. Do not combine vaccines or drugs to make your own combinations
unless the vaccine or drug labels say to do so.
3.. Be sure vaccines and drugs are adequately mixed. Large bottles
of vaccines and drugs should be inverted regularly to be sure they stay
4.. Mix only enough vaccine to last for an hour or less.
a.. Vaccines lose potency within hours after mixing.
b.. Use transfer needles or designate a "mixing" syringe for
mixing that is not used for injecting cattle. This reduces the chance that
the vaccine will become contaminated.
c.. Discard any leftover vaccine.
d.. When not in use, store vaccines in a cool place.
5.. Choose the right sized needle.
a.. Use 16 to 18 gauge needle
b.. Use 1/2" to 1" needles for subcutaneous injections
c.. Use 1" to 1 1/2" needles for intramuscular injections
d.. Change needles often at least after every 10 uses or sooner if
the needle becomes burred, bent or broken.
6.. Eject air from the syringe after loading it with vaccine or
7.. Restrain the animal.
a.. Prevent injury to yourself, people helping you and the animal.
b.. Reduce the risk of breaking off needles.
8.. Select a proper injection site (see diagram).
a.. In adults, good sites are the neck muscles for intramuscular
injections and the skin over the side of the neck or side of the chest for
subcutaneous injections. In calves, good sites for IM injections are the
hamstring muscles. In suckling calves, don't use the neck muscles because
sore neck muscles can prevent calves from sucking the cow.
9.. Inject the correct volume.
a.. Inject only as much drug at one site as recommended on the
b.. Split large volumes over may sites. If there are no
recommendations on the label, inject only 10 ml in any single intramuscular
site or 20 at any single subcutaneous site.
10.. Use the right technique.
a.. Pull back on the plunger and look for blood before you give an
injection to make sure you aren't in a blood vessel. If you are, move the
needle slightly and check again.
b.. To give a subcutaneous injection, put the needle in a "tent"
of skin by lifting the skin and inserting the needle under the skin.
c.. Don't try intravenous injections without getting advise and
training from a veterinarian.
11.. Keep yourself and your equipment clean.
a.. Use hot water only to clean syringes used for modified live
b.. Use hot water or a mild disinfectant to clean syringes used
for bacterins and killed virus vaccines.
c.. Wash your hands before and after handling medicines.
12.. Keep records of treatments for individual cattle.
Each animal should be individually identified and all treatments given
to each animal should be recorded.
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Kate Elizabeth Bunce
Kate Elizabeth Bunce (1856-1927) was an English painter and poet associated with the Arts and Crafts movement. Bunce studied at the Birmingham School of Art in the 1880s and exhibited across the U.K. A devout Christian, she painted a series of decorative pieces in churches, often in conjunction with her sister, a metalworker and watercolourist. The key figures in The Keepsake were modelled after Bunce’s friends, Margaret Lousia Write (left), Ethel Newill (center left), and Katie Palmer (center right).
The painting is based on a poem by Rossetti and was shown along with an excerpt:
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Your one asset:
When the brain does not function properly things begin to get chaotic, you may not remember saying certain things e.g Boss/Sir/Mrs you forgot when you said ……….. How many times have you heard this?
Being in a key position in the company is one thing, but taking care of your brain is the stimulus to ensure that you are not embarrassed because when you can’t remember what you said is quite a task. Most people don’t pay attention to this until it is too late.
Do you know that “Omega-3 fatty acids are essential fatty acids? We need them for our bodies to work normally. Essential fatty acids (DHA and EPA) are not made in the body so we must get them from our food. Research shows strong evidence that the omega-3s EPA and DHA is the stimulus for heart health and lower triglycerides, as well as providing help with rheumatoid arthritis, depression, and many more”.
Let’s talk about inflammation – Omega-3s also play an important role in reducing inflammation throughout the body, the blood vessels, the joints, and elsewhere in the body. Omega-3 is the stimulus for the development and healthy functioning of the brain, eye, and heart, for all stages of life, especially children. Omega 3s are essential in every stage of life from pregnant and nursing women to infants, children, and adults
Where can you get a good source of essential fatty acids?
Black Seed Oil
As far back as the 1st century Black Seed Oil had been in use for many ailments. Black Seed is referred to as one of nature’s greatest gifts. It has a rich composition of more than 100 compounds including essential fatty acids, vitamins, and minerals.
Chia Seed Oil
This oil is rich in Omega-3 in the form of alpha-linolenic acid (ALA), omega-6. ALA has been used for years for nerve damage caused by diabetic neuropathy. Chia seed oil also has smaller amounts of other healthy fats, such as oleic acid and stearic acid.
Flax Seed Oil
Improves gut health, lowers cholesterol, increases omega-3 fatty acids, including eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA) and docosahexaenoic acid (DHA which are essential compounds for promoting a healthy heart and preventing heart disease.
Cod Liver Oil
This is a must to include in your daily diet as it is rich in Omega 3 fatty acids that are known for preventing a number of ailments.
When you combine all these oils:
- Black Seed Oil
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What are you waiting for? As you get more stressed on the job or get older the brain begins to deteriorate so your best line of defense is to take care of the brain. What’s more important than not being embarrassed when you cannot remember something on the job. If you value your brain try our blend here: Real Health or message or email us – firstname.lastname@example.org | <urn:uuid:f1213fdc-1cf2-4bec-b075-0e150457a422> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.joipf.com/2020/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572198.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815175725-20220815205725-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.9473 | 705 | 2.40625 | 2 |
CLP Current Event: October 30, 2018
The environment. Taxes. Affordable housing. How would your students vote on this year’s ballot measures? Help them better understand the issues and Oregon’s ballot measures with this week’s CLP Current Event!
Brought to teachers by Susie Marcus, CLP consultant, with CLP staff.
Voter’s Guide, League of Women Voters, 2018
Both Sides to Ballot Measures this Midterm, by Chloe Collins, The Advocate, October 25, 2018
“On Tuesday, Nov. 6, Oregon residents will vote on a variety of topics. Oregonians will decide who the governor should be for the next four years, as well as who should represent them in the U.S. House. In addition to voting on who should represent Oregon at the national level, citizens will also make the final call on five statewide measures appearing on the ballot this year.”
The Skanner News Endorsements for Statewide Elections 2018, The Skanner, October 12, 2018
“Polling is tight in some races this year, notably the governor’s race between Democratic incumbent Kate Brown and incumbent Knute Buehler, and as always, turnout is critical. In Oregon, voters’ pamphlets for the November 6 election will be delivered this week (Oct. 10-12). Oregon voter registration deadline is Oct. 16.”
Could Ore. Ballot Measure Loosen Housing Affordability Squeeze?, by Eric Tegethoff, Public News Service – OR, October 11, 2018
“Passage of Measure 102 could affect a metro housing bond in Portland. According to the campaign Yes for Affordable Housing, bond Measure 26-199 is estimated to fund homes for 7,500 people and would increase to 12,000 people if the constitutional amendment passes.”
Why Was it So Easy For Republicans to Crowd Oregon’s November Ballot With Measures?, by Aaron Mesh, Willamette Week, September 19, 2018
“That’s a reversal from the past few election cycles, which mostly featured proposals from progressives. And it suggests that beneath this fall’s much-anticipated «blue wave» is a red riptide.”
Questions to Consider
- What is a ballot measure?
- How is an initiative ballot measure different from a bill referred from the legislature?
- What is a constitutional amendment? Is adding measures to the Oregon Constitution helpful or hurtful? How do you remove a measure from the Oregon Constitution?
- What are the key verbs used in the 2018 ballot measures?
- How do voters find information about the effects of ballot measures?
- Are commercials helpful in determining how to vote? If so, why? If not, why not? Are the ballot titles helpful in making decisions?
- How many measures involve money? How does an increase or decrease in revenue for a ballot measure affect policy decisions?
- Are initiatives a way of curbing the power of the legislature? Are they an effective expression of direct democracy? Are they responsible for voter fatigue?
- Which of the ballot measures demonstrate love, caring, and compassion?
- Which demonstrate fear of others and an unwillingness to be “helpers”?
Background and More
Oregon 2018 ballot measures, Ballotpedia
“As of October 26, 2018, six statewide measures were certified to appear on the Oregon ballot in 2018. One measure—Measure 101—was on the ballot for a special election on Jan. 23, 2018. It was approved. The other five were certified for the November 2018 ballot.”
Measure 105 seeks to overturn ‘Sanctuary State’ law in place for 30 years, by Mark Brennan, Sisulaw News, October 23, 2018
“Measure 105 would allow any law enforcement agency to use agency funds, personnel and equipment to detect and apprehend people whose only violation of the law is a violation of federal immigration law.”
The Most Important Ballot Measures of 2018, by Simon Davis- Cohen, The Nation, October 24, 2018
“Statewide ballot initiatives were established in the early part of the 20th century as a way to counter the influence of corporate monopolies and moneyed interests. Some of the first citizen initiatives abolished poll taxes, gave women the right to vote, and funded public higher education.”
Oregon ballot measures at 30-year low. Here’s why., by Hillary Borrud, The Oregonian, August 4, 2018
“This fall, Oregonians will decide just five ballot measures. That is the fewest since Ronald Reagan sat in the Oval Office and marks a significant drop-off from the flurry of initiatives that defined state elections in the 1990s and 2000s.”
Oregon Constitutional Amendments Over the Decades, Oregon Secretary of State
“Voters immediately used the new tool that blacksmith William U’ren had so skillfully forged for them. Many reform ideas that had persisted in society for decades but had been blocked in the legislature by powerful interests now enjoyed real chances of becoming law.”
The Ballot and Questions, Citizens, Not Spectators (Center for Civic Education)
CLP: Grades 10-12
Constitutional and Legal Connections
Initiative Process 101, National Conference of State Legislatures
Oregon State Social Science Standards
8.8 Evaluate information from a variety of sources and perspectives.
8.17 Examine the development activities of political parties and interest groups and their affect on events, issues, and ideas.
8.26 Examine a controversial event, issue, or problem from more than one perspective.
HS.28 Evaluate how governments interact at the local, state, tribal, national, and global levels.
HS.29 Examine the structures and functions of Oregon’s state, county, local and regional governments.
HS.30 Analyze the roles and activities of political parties, interest groups and mass media and how they affect the beliefs and behaviors of local, state, and national constituencies.
HS.33 Explain the role of government in various current events.
HS.35 Examine the pluralistic realities of society (e.g., race, poverty, gender and age), recognizing issues of equity, and evaluating need for change.
HS.59 Demonstrate the skills and dispositions needed to be a critical consumer of information.
HS.60 Analyze an event, issue, problem, or phenomenon from varied or opposing perspectives or points of view.
We the People Lesson Connections
Middle School, Level 2
- Unit 6, Lesson 29: What are the rights and responsibilities of citizenship?
- Unit 6, Lesson 30: How might citizens participate in civic affairs?
High School, Level 3
- Unit 6, Lesson 33: What does it mean to be a citizen?
- Unit 6, Lesson 34: What is the importance of civic engagement to American constitutional democracy? | <urn:uuid:4e338682-1567-4f37-a30b-1a781704ab21> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://classroomlaw.org/es/resources/oregon-ballot-measures/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817001643-20220817031643-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.938148 | 1,459 | 1.945313 | 2 |
- "I'm a Radical Black Girl"Black Women Unionists and the Politics of Civil War History
Hurrah fo' de Blue Bonnet Flag,Hurrah fo de home-spun dressesDat de colored wimmen wear;Yes I'm a radical girlAnd glory in de name—Hurrah fo' de home-spun dressesDat de colored wimmen wear.—"De Blue Bonnet Flag"
Maggie Whitehead was only seven years old when President Abraham Lincoln gave his now famous speech at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania on the occasion of the dedication of a cemetery honoring the men who had died there over three days in July 1863. They had given, Lincoln stated, "the last full measure of devotion" to ensure that "government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth."1 Whitehead likely knew nothing of Lincoln's speech that spoke of a "new birth of freedom" but made no mention of emancipation. Enslaved in Gonzales, Texas, she lived far from the Civil War's major battlefields and political centers, but the war touched and profoundly shaped her world.
Gonzales held a place of honor in the state of Texas as the site of the first skirmish between Americans in Texas and the Mexican government and as the only town in the state to send men to the aid of the Alamo. All thirty-two of them died there in 1836. An important transportation hub and center of cotton production, slaves represented some 40 percent of the county's population in 1860 and slaveholders less than five percent. The county's white population had voted overwhelmingly in favor of secession and organized twenty-two volunteer companies and home guards. As war appeared on the horizon, the Confederate army's chief engineer ordered the construction of a fort at Gonzales for defensive purposes and [End Page 359] as a supply depot for the Confederate army in the Western Subdistrict of Texas.2
Though only a child, Maggie Whitehead would have witnessed this increased activity that spelled war and the growing number of slave coffles on the road when war came. As the Union tightened its grip on the Confederacy and the territory controlled by Confederate forces shrank, more slaveholders looked to Texas for refuge and carried their slaves to prevent them from falling into Union hands or running away. Listening to the talk of adults in her family and community, Whitehead may have heard of the big battles in Louisiana just east of Gonzales and those further away. Her father, John Whitehead, was a highly prized blacksmith—his skill commodified as part and parcel of his enslaved body—and her mother, Temperance, a midwife.3 Their work placed them in advantageous positions to hear talk among white people about slavery and the war. What we know for sure is that Maggie Whitehead lived in a community of men and women who honored black women unionists. In 1937, she was interviewed as part of the WPA project to record the memories of ex-slaves. She recalled the celebration of freedom's arrival they held on the first anniversary of their freedom, June 19, 1866. It was, she stated, their "first Nineteenth." On that day, the freedpeople of Gonzales paid tribute to black women's contributions to the struggle to defeat the Confederacy with a rendition of "The Bonnie Blue Flag" that acknowledged their community's and the nation's indebtedness to black women.4
In the hands of the freedpeople of Gonzales, "The Bonnie Blue Flag," a song beloved by Confederate soldiers, was re-imagined and transformed into a battle song for black women unionists. In a place far removed from the war's major battlefields, enslaved people saw black women as radical, Union women. They transformed a song that had originated as a symbol of self-governance for the short-lived Republic of West Texas in 1810 and was later used by the Republic of Texas in 1836 before becoming a song celebrating the Confederacy, into a song celebrating black women unionists, and this tells us something about their politics and understanding of the Civil War.5 With the verse "Hurrah fo de home-spun dresses," black women... | <urn:uuid:9198dfba-25f6-4cb3-b1b1-71751ff34f99> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://muse.jhu.edu/article/699970 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572033.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814113403-20220814143403-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.969142 | 853 | 3.40625 | 3 |
A bill to expand the state’s hemp industry faces dwindling opposition from law enforcement groups after a Senate amendment addressed their concerns.
The amendment alters a section of the bill that would have eliminated THC — the main psychoactive substance in marijuana — from the state’s list of controlled substances for OWIs.
The bipartisan legislation, SB 188, unanimously passed the Senate Agriculture, Revenue and Financial Institutions Committee Tuesday after getting a public hearing in May. The bill aims to align state statute with newly passed federal regulations on hemp.
Supporters of the bill say it would give the state more control over how hemp is regulated as the burgeoning industry continues to grow.
Initially, a handful of law enforcement groups were opposed to the proposal, fearing it would make it easier for residents to drive under the influence of THC. But now they’ve largely switched their positions to neutral. Read the full story here. | <urn:uuid:2829f81f-109c-4536-a306-68cfe6a7f36e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://wisconsintechnologycouncil.com/wisbusiness-hemp-bill-amendment-addresses-concerns-of-law-enforcement-groups/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572198.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815175725-20220815205725-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.949679 | 183 | 1.59375 | 2 |
Written by Employment for Everyone
“Employment is for Everyone” is a social movement that aims to improve employment opportunities for people with learning disabilities and autistic people. We work closely with the South Yorkshire Integrated Care System who are partnerships of Health and Social Care organisations that come together to plan and deliver joined-up services and to improve the lives of people who live and work in their area.
We know the positive difference employing people with learning disabilities and autistic people can make to a business. So we want to share knowledge and skills to encourage other businesses to do the same.
Our website will become the first port of call for businesses, people and families to find out employment information and supported employment.
We want to promote the work of key support organisations helping people across our area; there is no charge for this; this is part of our social movement of getting information out to people.
Application workshops for NHS jobs
We have also been given a fantastic opportunity to advertise NHS jobs through the site for Rotherham, Doncaster, Sheffield and Barnsley.
We are aware the NHS application process can be very difficult, so to try to help make this easier for people with learning disabilities, autistic people and organisations supporting people into work we have linked with colleagues in the NHS to offer some workshops to help go through the NHS application process.
We would like to run these workshops throughout August and September – If you would like to register your interest for these workshops then please at firstname.lastname@example.org | <urn:uuid:8a905cec-0abc-44b9-9534-8a7d506afe7d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://teacakeclub.org/2022/07/11/employment-is-for-everyone-feature-on-website-application-workshops-for-nhs-jobs/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572198.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815175725-20220815205725-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.965156 | 309 | 1.546875 | 2 |
Type C is becoming the ubiquitous charge port technology it was meant to be, and that means the same plug can be used across devices. Does that mean a phone charger can power a laptop?
One of our favourite trends of the past decade is finally having an impact: devices are finally crowding around a universal port standard.
Universal ports are based around the idea that you won’t need to carry lots of different plugs, and can instead focus on just the one in your life.
That means you can forget needing a separate plug for your laptop, tablet, and phone, relying instead on the one that handles all.
Not every computer or phone is there yet, mind you, but it’s gradually happening, and Type C USB is more or less the reason why.
While microUSB helped do away with different ports in the phone world outside of the models that Apple sells — at the time this piece was published, Apple was still using the Lightning port for its iPhones and iPads, but had adopted Type C for Macs and the iPad Pro models — Type C USB is clearly taking over.
Simple, reversible, and able to carry more charge, it’s a port and plug design used for both USB and Thunderbolt 3, and it’s being seen in lots of devices. Headphones, speakers, cameras, and monitors are joining the other USB Type C gadgets of laptops, tablets, and phones.
If you see a USB Type C port, it means any Type C plug can be thrown in to charge the device. But the same may not be true for the power source.
Can a phone Type C plug charge a laptop or tablet?
While you can easily plug a Type C cable into from a phone into a laptop, the connector that supplies the power may not work with the laptop itself. If it does, you can almost bet the current draw will be too slow to make a difference to the laptop’s battery.
However, you can easily go the other way.
If you plug a Type C cable from a laptop — like that of the MacBook Air or Dell XPS 15 — and use that to charge a phone supporting USB Type C — like a Samsung Galaxy S10+ or a Google Pixel 3 XL — it will charge a phone, and likely faster than the phone’s charger normally handles things.
This has to do with the plug pack and the amount of charge it can handle. While the plug pack for a phone might provide a couple of volts at 5 to 15 watts, a laptop’s needs tend to be far greater, and so while the Type C plugs are compatible, the power will likely trickle in, and may not provide an optimum recharge cycle.
That means if you’re thinking of charging your Type C-charged laptop, make sure to bring with the adaptor for that computer. If you have a Type C-charged phone, which is more or less anything mid-range and higher that isn’t made by Apple, it should be able to take charge from that same plug. | <urn:uuid:6cac0564-f4fa-4004-b247-6af3065cfe7f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.pickr.com.au/phones/2019/can-a-type-c-phone-charger-charge-a-laptop/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570921.9/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809094531-20220809124531-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.936539 | 628 | 2.28125 | 2 |
Be Ready For The World's First Artificial Meteor Shower
A Japanese company announced that it has a technology to create the world's first artificial meteor shower. The Toyko-based startup ALE said it has almost completed the technology needed to put spectacular shooting stars in the sky -- anywhere and at any time.
The program works by using micro-satellites. Those small satellites can carry up to 400 pellets that look like shooting stars. These pellets burn upon entering Earth's atmosphere, and the glow is just bright enough to be seen from the ground.
The company points out that while it's an artificial meteor shower, they took inspiration from how shooting stars happen in real life.
"Natural shooting stars occur when dust particles of several millimeters in size enter the Earth's atmosphere and burn due to plasma emission," the company explains.
"ALE reproduces this artificially by inventing shooting star particles and using specially designed microsatellites. The process is as follows – we launch a microsatellite containing shooting star particles into outer space; we release shooting star particles from the microsatellite once it stabilises in orbit around the Earth; the particles travel approximately one third of the way around the Earth and burn upon entering the atmosphere."
The first satellite is set to debut in March of next year. ALE expects it will go into space via a rocket from the Japanese space agency. A second mini-satellite is expected to go up in mid-2019 via a private sector rocket. The ultimate goal is to have them in orbit by February 2020 and delivering a meteor shower to Hiroshima sometime in the spring of 2020. The pellets should be visible to millions of people, and the show has an expected range of 124 miles.
"We are targeting the whole world, as our stockpile of shooting stars will be in space and can be delivered across the world," ALE chief executive Lena Okajima told a news conference.
The company has been rather silent as to what goes into the pellets. However, ALE researchers have stated the contents can be changed into a variety of colors depending on the need.
The two satellites expected to go up first will have enough pellet power for 20 to 30 events. Each star is expected to last at least a few seconds before burning up, making the synthetic shower a bit longer lasting than most meteor showers.
According to reports, ALE plans on spending $20 million on the entire operation, and each satellite will be able to stay in space for two years. | <urn:uuid:1f009268-5279-4977-9a0a-30d8fbb73423> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://interestingengineering.com/science/be-ready-for-the-worlds-first-artificial-meteor-shower | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572033.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814113403-20220814143403-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.948827 | 512 | 3 | 3 |
Are you a lawyer or a manager?
In a recent case, the lawyer was successful in growing his practice. So much so that he engaged 30 staff; they met with clients and even provided legal advice in loan modification matters. The net result is that the attorney did not provide adequate supervision for his staff and allowed them to five legal advice. This was the unlawful practice of law. The attorney was guilty of violating the Rules of Professional Conduct and was suspended for two years. Punishment could have been more, but the lawyer made financial restitution to aggrieved clients and agreed to community service during his suspension.
Moral to the story: Grow your practice with appropriate supervision of unlicensed staff and technological support. Don’t allow unlicensed staff to provide legal advice. Coaching helps both with growing your practice and with operating your practice efficiently and within professional guidelines.
The larger one’s firm gets, the more management issues arise. Running a law practice is equivalent to running a professional service business and management principles are as important as being legally competent.Tags: Unlawful practice of law; | <urn:uuid:b6db5622-1e76-480c-9df6-6617f37ba870> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://blog.lawbiz.com/2014/06/cash-flow-finances/are-you-a-lawyer-or-a-manager/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817001643-20220817031643-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.984324 | 222 | 1.726563 | 2 |
Russian Stove Museum
On December 22, 2007 «Dialogue of Cultures - United World» International Public Charity Fund opened the Russian Stove Museum in «ETNOMIR» Cultural and Educational Center as part of the program on the popularization of Slavic cultures.
Russian stove had a special place in the life of ancient Slavs. Here people baked bread and cooked food, dried wheat and other supplies for the winter, prepared herbs and roots, cured ailments and took steam bath. Russian stove had an enormous influence on the development of cultural traditions, handicrafts and classical rites of ancient Slavs. The extended interpretation of the concept of «Russian stove» includes not only the stone structure itself designed for cooking food and heating the izba (hut), but many structural elements in the form of wooden shelves, benches and partitions. Despite the huge variety of shapes and forms, uniform building principles form the heart of this ancient construction made of beaten clay or fired brick.
Exposition of the Russian Stove Museum is represented by a single architectural ensemble of old Slavic settlements. It includes the world’s largest Russian stove and nine thematic houses from different regions of the European part of Russia. According to the location of the stove inside the izba (hut), Slavic dwellings are classified into: Northern house, Vologda izba, Ural izba, traditional five-walled house, wattle hut of the southern Black Sea coast, Kostroma izba, Kuban wattle hut, Western-type house and Volga house.
The main items of the museum exhibition are located in special izbas (huts) with stoves of different designs and destination, as well as fully reproduced interior of Slavic izbas of the 19-20th centuries. The world’s largest Russian stove is a huge model, four times the actual size of the original stove. Due to the unusual construction solution, you can easily go inside the structure to examine the design features in detail and get acquainted with the operation principle of the legendary stove. Since spring of 2014, delicious cakes are baked here according to the Slavic recipes. The izbas also exhibit ancient irons, vintage quilts and children’s toys made of wood.
Guided tours and thematic workshops are held in the territory of the ethnographic yard every day. Musical holiday programs, art performances, folk games and festivities are organized on holidays in front of the Russian stove. | <urn:uuid:ea2082b1-8313-4114-916a-00dff523344c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://ethnoworld.ru/en/projects/projects-in-russia/russian-stove-museum/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572198.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815175725-20220815205725-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.930567 | 508 | 2.625 | 3 |
This week sees the release of Byzantium. This is director Neil Jordan’s second foray into the world of vampires, following 1994’s Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles. Both films feature girl vampires. Despite the age difference between the characters, there are definite parallels.
Byzantium‘s Eleanor is sixteen year old when she is turned, while Interview with the Vampire‘s Claudia is yet to hit puberty. Both of Jordan’s films emphasise the limitations of their age as immortals; the constraints of being forever young. Claudia is at first contented in her lifestyle, happy to be indulged with dolls and victims by her ‘parents’ Lestat and Louis. After thirty years as a girl vampire, however, Claudia longs to age. She begins to obsess on the adult female form, pining for a body she will never inhabit. Claudia’s body is her prison, an ageless form impeding a maturing mind.
Neil Jordan draws Eleanor with a similar predicament of restriction, although hers is less corporeal and more emotional. From the beginning of Byzantium, Eleanor paints a lonely figure; her lifestyle demanding a solitary existence. More than anything, Eleanor wishes to share her secret, something Clara forbids her her to do. With his young protagonist, Jordan accentuates the isolation of the undead amongst the living. As a girl vampire, Eleanor shares the same spaces as humans but is ultimately unable to connect because of her secret. Eleanor is at an age that she wishes to embark on relationships. Unlike Clara, she never had any chance of this before she was turned. Eleanor is stunted therefore in wanting to experience the same things as her peers but being unable to immerse herself entirely with humans.
Claudia and Eleanor are both hindered by their gender, despite the differences in setting. As a young girl in the nineteenth century, Claudia is expected to act the part. She has to maintain the appearance of a young girl in prim dresses. When she attempts to rebel against this by cutting her hair, her locks grow back just as they were. Looking at her never-changing her, Claudia’s frustration is all too clear. Even among her own kind, Claudia faces additional expectation as a girl vampire. When she hides a female corpse amongst her toys, her fathers are disgusted by her behaviour, which is sprung from a natural curiosity. Eleanor is similarly constrained by her age and gender. Although she is capable of handling herself, Clara desire to protect is clear. Clara shields Eleanor from the realities of survival, ensuring she is not tainted by some of the more unseemly ways the former makes money. Moreover, Clara and Eleanor are hunted by their own kind, simply for being female.
Jordan’s girl vampires are desirous of something just beyond their grasp. Seeming to accept the fact she will never be a woman, Claudia looks for a mother figure. Typical of the constraints of her age and perhaps gender however, Claudia is unable to sire a vampire herself. While Eleanor has an older female figure to provide guidance, she wishes for companionship of her own age. Unable to share her secret greatly diminishes the connections she is able to make.
The girl vampires in Neil Jordan’s films experience the limitations of the corporeal form and necessities of the undead existence. Loneliness and restriction loom heavy of proceedings; unfortunate consequences of becoming immortal before reaching adulthood. To a certain extent, vampirism acts as a metaphor for puberty, or specifically stunted growth, with regards to both Claudia and Eleanor. Both characters wish to enjoy the freedoms that adulthood brings, but are stuck at an age where this is impractical or impossible. These girl vampires have the mental capacity to live as adults, but are stuck in a shell that is forever young.
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* [https://cds.climate.copernicus.eu/cdsapp#!/dataset/satellite-methane?tab=overview '''Copernicus global methane data''']: Dataset on global methane emissions from 2002 onwards from the European Space Agency.
*'''[https://ampd.epa.gov/ampd/ United States Environmental Protection Agency's Air Markets Program data]''': Datasets from the US EPA's emissions trading programs. For instance, the Continuous Emissions Monitoring System dataset (also available via the EPA's [ftp://newftp.epa.gov/DMDnLoad/emissions/ FTP site]) provides hourly emissions and generation for many fossil fuel generators in the United States.
*See also: '''[[Remote Sensing|Satellite imagery datasets]]'''
=== Other ===
* '''[[Accelerated Materials Science|Accelerated materials science datasets]]:''' Datasets that may be useful for research on solar fuels, next-generation battery conducting fluids, or other accelerated materials science applications in the electricity sector.
* '''[[Remote Sensing|Satellite imagery datasets]]:''' Datasets that may be useful for applications such as power plant emissions detection, power grid mapping, solar panel mapping, etc.
* [https://www.google.com/get/sunroof/data-explorer/ '''Project Sunroof by Google''']: Detailed estimates of rooftop solar potential based on sunlight and roof space. | <urn:uuid:cbe710d7-2bac-48e4-8542-3ef942157de5> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://wiki.climatechange.ai/wiki/Special:MobileDiff/166 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572198.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815175725-20220815205725-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.718826 | 371 | 2.125 | 2 |
Target audience/key stakeholders
The project will be based on stakeholder-informed research and promote the development of researcher and stakeholder collaborations. The key stakeholders who will be informed of the research are:
• Farmers, farming managers and advisors including citizens, who will be directly or indirectly impacted by the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) and climate policies in Europe.
• Researchers/academics involved in agriculture and forestry research and modelling.
• Stakeholders and policy makers (European Commission, Joint Research Commission, European Environment Agency, COFORD, DAFM).
• The global scientific community and the Research Alliance, including agricultural GHG modeler’s and data generators (ICOS, Ameri-Flux, Fluxnet, etc.).
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Hydrangeas are a big part of spring gardens and these plants can be quite tricky to grow. To help you in your quest, we’ve put together an easy guide that will get your blooming tree off the ground quickly!
The “how to support hydrangea tree” is a type of flower that is known for its beautiful flowers. The plant has been around since the 17th century and can be found in many different colors.
How far back can you cut a hydrangea tree?
A: I am not sure what a hydrangea tree is, but if you are asking about cutting down a tree, the answer would be that it depends on how tall the tree is. If the tree is very short, then it might only take one cut to get it down. However, if the tree is taller than 10 feet, then you will need to make multiple cuts in order to get it down.
How many hydrangeas can you plant together?
A: It is difficult to say how many hydrangeas you can plant together. There are a lot of factors that go into this, such as the size of your garden and the type of soil you have. If you would like some advice on how many hydrangeas you should plant in your garden, please contact an expert at your local nursery or gardening store.
How do you root a hydrangea leaf?
A: The process of rooting a hydrangea leaf is to cut the stem just below where it meets the leaves. After this, you will want to take a sharp knife and make an incision in the stem. You should then be able to see some white sap coming out of the wound. This is what you are looking for. Once you have found it, use your thumb or index finger to rub the sap onto the underside of one side of the leafs petiole (
Should I deadhead my hydrangea tree?
A: Deadheading is the process of removing spent flowers from a plant to encourage new blooms. This can be done by cutting off the stem at the base of the flower, or by pulling off individual flowers as they fade.
The “limelight hydrangea tree” is a great way to grow your own flowers. You will need to plant the seeds in soil and water them daily.
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“Sanitation through Innovation: the Tube Sock Toilet — Congo 1997” Wouldn’t that be fun to read! Or, “Peace Corps Tunisia: The Legacy 1962–1996 — Tunisia 1996”; or “Botswans: Preservice Training Re-entry Group 2 Final Technical Report, May 04 — Botswana”; or, “Peace Corps Tunisia: The Legacy 1962-1996 — Tunisia 1996”; or “Reflecting Life: A Workshop on HIV/AIDS Education and Awareness — Thailand 2004.” These are just a sample of a wide range of field generated materials found in the Peace Corps’ Information Collection and Exchange or ICE. Field generated materials are those created in the field by Peace Corps staff and Volunteers.
Since the beginning, Peace Corps has provided technical information from all sources to Volunteers in the field. Sometimes this service was provided within the Publication and Information Center or PIC, sometimes within the Peace Corps Library. In 1975, this function was formalized as the Information Collection and Exchange or ICE. One of the major tasks of the new staff was to solicit Volunteer participation and (re)gain their support in technical information exchange, according to an internal memo. Materials created by PCVs were gathered and included in the collection.
When Peace Corps left the ACTION agency in the early ’80s, its organization was evaluated to make sure it was meeting its new responsibilities. In 1982, Director Rupert requested a survey of Volunteers and staff to determine if ICE and the Peace Corps Library should be combined. The survey:
found field staff and PCVs viewed ICE as having “dedicated,” “responsive”, “industrious” staff who provided needed information and services to the field. The praises from the field attest to ICE staff’s competency and to their significant contributions to overseas operations.
As a result, ICE remained separate from the Peace Corps Library. It remains so, today.
The ICE Catalog 2009, Publication No. RE001 describes the mission and activities of ICE this way:
The ICE Mission Statement
to provide and contribute to the Peace Corps as a learning and sharing organization by providing reference and technical information services. We enhance our client’s abilities to work with community partners in achieving development goals through information distribution, using the most relevant technology available.
What does ICE do?
- Disseminates technical publications worldwide, via mail and online delivery, to every Peace corps Volunteer and staff member
- Manages the review and purchase of resources for inclusion in the ICE Catalog.
- Collaborates with OPATS to write, edit, and design original Peace Corps resources in appropriate media.
- Serves as the locus of programming and training knowledge management for the office of Overseas Programming and Training Support
- Supports Information Resource Centers (IRCs) at Peace Corps posts and conducts training in resource center management
- Collects and maintains Peace Corps publications
In addition to the published materials listed in the ICE Catalog, ICE also maintains a list of Field Generated Materials, or materials developed by Peace Corps Volunteers and staff in the field. Most of these materials are recent, but there are a limited number that date back to the earliest days of Peace Corps. This list is only representative, not comprehensive.
These reference and technical information services are designed for the use of Volunteers in the field. They may be available to the RPCV community as well as the general public through the Freedom of Information Act. The process would be to request the ICE catalog and/or the list of Field Generated Materials via a FOIA request. After reviewing the catalog and/or list, a FOIA request could then be made for specific items. There might be copyright or other legal considerations that would prevent Peace Corps from fulfilling the request. The FOIA response would say so if this were the case.
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A number of Congressional panels have held hearings recently on health care issues, including the following:
- A Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee hearing entitled “The Broken Pipeline: Losing Opportunities in the Life Sciences”.
- A Senate Aging Committee hearing entitled “Under the Influence: Can We Provide Doctors An Alternative To Biased Drug Reviews“.
- A House Ways and Means Health Subcommittee hearing on MedPAC’s annual report to Congress (see related discussion below).
- A Senate Finance Committee “roundtable discussion” regarding Medicare hospital value-based purchasing.
- A House Judiciary Committee hearing on corporate deferred prosecution agreements and non-prosecution agreements, with a focus on the role of independent monitors of such agreements.
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We have compiled a few golden kernels about the causes and impacts of bad data quality. We hope that it can help motivate your team and company to start prioritizing good quality data.
In this pdf, you will find info on:
Garbage in, Garbage out.
George Fueschel is generally credited for coining the term back in the late '50s while working as an IBM 305 RAMAC technician.
He was reminding programmers that their machines will not transform bad or incomplete data into valuable results.
If bad data is inputed, then bad results will be produced.
GIGO is just as prevalent in the world of Big Data and Machine Learning as back then.
Did you know the No. 1 failure of CRM success is bad quality data?
Data is estimated to decay at a rate of 30% annually which could mean thousands of records are outdated and accumulating each year.
Data comes largely from two main sources, machines and humans.
Machines referring to anything from sensors to websites and IoT devices. Data for the most part generated from machines can be very accurate and easily cleaned, refined and analyzed.
People-generated data is more problematic and prone to error (data entry, text, voice, etc.), and requires more attention to improve the quality of data. The answer is human augmentation.
The impact bad data has on a company is paramount from debilitating sales efficiency to ruining brand reputation.
With 85% of companies believing AI will help sustain or obtain new competitive advantages, the first step should be to invest in improving data quality otherwise AI/ML investments to improve business effectiveness aren't going to succeed.
According to IBM, US businesses spend $3 trillion USD annually in costs associated with bad quality data.
Data is the foundation of businesses today and only good foundations are going to be able to maintain strong and competitive businesses.
There are many characteristics of data that influence quality, but we will focus on these six major dimensions :
There isn't a hierarchy amongst these dimensions in terms of which has a bigger impact on data quality, but each possesses unique challenges for companies depending on their growth and maturity stages.
Businesses are challenged on a daily basis when it comes to each one of these data characteristics.
Companies could be struggling with:
The key is to define what data needs to be collected, how it's stored and what procedures need to exist to maintain high quality.
Continuing to do business and data collection as usual will not improve data quality. In fact, doing nothing or waiting to fix it later will increase costs exponentially.
Bad data affects the entire business from marketing to sales and customer success in the form of:
Again we are not talking about bad data produced from machines such as the faulty data from malfunctioning sensors that can cause Boeing 737 crashes, but the data from human-involved processes.
We are not equating loss of life to business loss, however bad quality of data can have severe impacts on the health of a business.
Let’s take a deeper dive into the specific impacts.
Poor quality data in your CRM can mislead your marketing and sales teams’ approach to landing and converting opportunities into successful deals.
Bad proposals may be created and delivered as a result of the poor data that served as the foundations for each one or it may be that potential opportunities are overlooked entirely.
Accurate and relevant opportunities will be more often secured when there is high-quality data fueling the identification, nurturing and conversion processes.
Business leaders need good data in order to make good decisions (think GIGO). When marketing and sales teams have inaccurate information or outdated data in their databases, they are unable to make efficient decisions and ultimately waste resources.
For example, Forrester conducted a research on how bad quality data affects marketing teams and their findings suggest that 21 cents of every media dollar spent was wasted due to poor data (about $16.5 million average annual loss for enterprises).
Additional cost estimates:
The result of bad decisions are mistakes and more mistakes require more time fixing. It becomes a very tedious and painful process for the organization when people are unable to trust the data and have to spend resources to fix incorrect data.
All teams suffer productivity losses when an organization has poor quality data. 32% of marketing teams' time is spent on managing data quality and 26% of campaigns on average suffered from poor data quality.
When data is incorrectly assessed as accurate, teams can make decisions that have negative consequences such as bad customer support and compliance issues. Sending products to the wrong address or having one customer’s buying and support records split across duplicate contacts can create bad touch points with the brand.
Not sure about you, but I find it completely frustrating when customer service teams don’t have a clear understanding of my purchase history of their products and/or services and I have to explain to them when and where those events occurred. The customer in these instances should be remunerated for helping the customer success team update their CRM! These bad touch points can lead to a bad customer experience and damage the brand’s reputation.
The answer can be found in the 1-10-100 rule. Fixing data quality retroactively is going to cost the business 10X more and potentially 100X more depending on the severity of the situation compared to investing in prevention methods.
The golden ticket that will protect higher profit margins for businesses is to begin proactively improving data quality.
Research suggests 30% of CRM data becomes obsolete annually.
Instead of waiting until the functionality of your CRM is tiptoeing around the precipice of failure to throw one-time savior funds to pull it back from the edge, businesses should implement processes that prevent databases from getting near the edge in the first place.
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There it stands, dominating the city from the top of Sejongno – Seoul’s main boulevard – an immense four-storey pile of grey granite topped with a copper dome, once the grandest building in all of north-east Asia. In its vaulted halls and marble-pillared galleries, the National Museum displays floor upon floor of priceless art and artefacts, the crown jewels of Korean culture. In a previous incarnation, the building housed the parliament where Syngman Rhee proclaimed the independence of the Korean Republic in 1948.
For nearly 70 years this great, historic neo-Renaissance landmark has dominated Korea’s political and cultural life and loomed large in millions of postcards and tourist snapshots.
In two years’ time, workmen with dynamite, jackhammers and steel balls will pulverise it and cart the rubble away to be dumped.
Cultural vandalism? Development gone mad? No, says Chung Jae Hoon, director-general of South Korea’s Culture and Leisure Bureau, from his office less than 200 metres from the building.
“Almost all Koreans, including myself, look at the museum with a feeling of lingering anger – it was the heart of the cruel Japanese regime which sought to obliterate our culture. It must be destroyed.”
The museum, as it is now, was built by the Japanese in 1923 – 13 years after the Imperial Army deposed the last Korean king and annexed the peninsula to its rapidly expanding empire which stretched from Taiwan to the (Russian)Kurile Islands.
The main halls of the magnificent Kyongbokkung Palace, for five centuries the seat of government of the Yi (Chosun) Dynasty, were demolished to make way for the building from which the Japanese governor would rule the country. It is bigger than the Diet building in Tokyo, “a temple to authority meant to awe and subdue”, wrote a historian.
A Seoul newspaper editorialised the other day: “It stands as a humiliating symbol of Korea’s enslavement by Japan. It is like a tattoo or scar branded on our forehead. Unless we get rid of it completely, we can never be liberated from the stigma of Japanese rule.”
And so, a few weeks ago, Kim Young Sam – South Korea’s first civilian president in 32 years – gave the final go-ahead to demolish the museum, erect a replica of the palace in its place and build a new home for the 120,000 priceless exhibits: paintings, scrolls, golden crowns and celadon pottery.
The building’s demolition will not be in time for next year’s celebrations marking the 600th anniversary of Seoul being proclaimed the country’s capital
The project will not be completed before 2000 and it will cost a whopping$780 million.
There has been some carping in the local press that the money would be better spent on schools and sewers for this still-developing country, but Chung Jae Hoon believes it is well worth the cost if it helps “heal the pain and establish a basis for a new relationship between the two countries”.
That is obviously President Kim’s plan and it got off to a good start in November when he welcomed Japan’s new Prime Minister, Morihiro Hosokawa, on his first official visit to South Korea. It was all the more poignant because Mr Hosokawa lost an uncle during the war and his grandfather was a wartime Prime Minister who swallowed a cyanide capsule rather than submit to a war-crimes trial.
Speaking in the ancient Korean capital of Kyongju, Mr Hosokawa impressed his hosts by ignoring the Japanese Foreign Ministry’s attempts to water down his speech when making a forthright apology for “various forms of unbearable pains and sorrows inflicted by Japan’s colonial rule”.
Nearly 50 years after the war, those unbearable pains still rankle with most Koreans, and have blighted relations between Northeast Asia’s two most important economies.
“It’s mutual,” says Chung Jae Hoon. “We don’t like the Japanese and they don’t like us.”
In a recent poll of young men eligible for Korea’s compulsory national service, more than half named Japan as the greatest military threat to the country – the United States came a distant second and the menacing nucleararmed regime of North Korea third. The latest best-seller in the bookshops is a “near future simulation novel” called The South Korea-Japan War of 1999.
FOR A glimpse of just why this is, visit what must be the region’s most macabre museum, tucked away in the corner of Independence Park near the ancient city gate of Tongnimmun.
Independence, of course, means independence from the Japanese – the main national holiday is August 15, Liberation Day.
All around are the ruins of the cell blocks where the Japanese held thousands of Korean political prisoners.
In a small stucco building, schoolchildren are taken to view dioramas of the horrors that were inflicted on their grandparents.
In scenes like a blood-curdling Madame Tussaud’s, lifelike wax models of Korean prisoners are held in boxes like vertical coffins and are tortured by being strung up by the feet and branded with glowing irons. Photographs on the walls show Korean dissidents being rounded up to be publicly decapitated with swords.
As well, most Koreans will never forget the systematic attempts during 35 years of occupation to commit cultural genocide against their country, with its three millennia of recorded history. The unique Korean language was suppressed, Koreans were forced to take Japanese names and to abandon their traditional Buddhism and worship at State Shinto shrines.
The “comfort women” issue – the 200,000 or so mainly Korean women who were press-ganged into service in the Imperial Army’s brothels – refuses to go away. Likewise, the hundreds of thousands of Korean men who were shipped away to work as slave labourers in Japan, Siberia and Manchuria in one of history’s great forgotten diasporas.
Mr Hosokawa has apologised to the survivors, declaring that Japan and Korea”will no longer have to discuss the past at future summits”. But his Government has so far made no gesture to settle the lawsuits that have been issued.
So it is hardly surprising that animosity lingers, or that it has poisoned relations between the two countries in arenas as diverse as sport, culture and particularly industry.
On the streets of Seoul, you will see imported Fords and Mercedes but no Hondas or Toyotas; the markets of bustling Itaewon must be the only shopping district in the world where you can find no Canon cameras or Sony VCRs. These are just a few of the 285 Japanese manufacturers which have been banned from import into Korea since the war.
To the Koreans, their closed market makes commercial as well as emotional sense. Korea runs a festering trade deficit with Japan – mainly the capital goods imported to tool Korea’s industrial miracle – and with its economy tentatively picking up after a three-year slump, the Government does not want to jeopardise recovery.
President Kim, as part of his “new beginning”, has pledged to cut this”blacklist” in half in the next five years. But just how and when have not been announced. “We are not about to drop our guard in front of the heavyweight boxing champion of the world,” said a Ministry of Finance official. “One jab and we would be flat on the canvas.”
THERE is also only a chink of light around the closed door of cul tural exchanges. So deep is the hatred that Japanese movies, videos and even pop songs are banned in Korea. A special exemption had to be made for a traditional Japanese song-and-dance group to perform at the Taejong Expo. Japanese companies in Seoul change their names to sound “less Japanese”.
In sport – and particularly the Korean national obsession, soccer – the antagonism is even more obvious. At the recent World Cup play-offs the South Korean news agency described Japan’s defeat of Korea as “the second worst day of disgrace for Korea since the annexation”. Never mind that Korea went on to the finals and Japan – which is spending hundreds of millions of dollars to try to host the World Cup in 2002 – got knocked out by Iran.
Barely a week goes by without some new manifestation of Korea’s attempt to reassert its place in the world and recast its colonial legacy. “Any race devoid of national self-esteem is destined to perish,” declares the President.
In August, Korea reclaimed some of its resistance heroes – the ashes of five men who founded a government-in-exile in Shanghai during the occupation were interred with full honours in the national cemetery.
In Parliament, a bipartisan group of legislators has passed a motion denouncing former Prime Minister Ri Wan Young (Korea’s quisling who signed the surrender document and became Japan’s puppet) and is threatening to confiscate the property of his heirs. Some more thoughtful Koreans think all this has gone a bit overboard.
“Of course atrocities were committed, and we can never forget that,” said a Foreign Ministry official. “But there is also a tendency among Koreans to look for an excuse, a scapegoat – anything we don’t like tends to be blamed on the Japanese.”
Still, any attempt to write a more balanced history of the occupation will have to wait for a future generation when the coals of anger glow less fiercely.
Earlier this year a book called Minikui Kankokujin (Ugly Koreans) was published in Japan claiming that the occupation actually did Korea a lot of good – it rid the country of its feudal autocracy and laid the foundations for modern education, medical and legal systems.
It is a theory heard quite commonly in Japan.
“The Koreans are the Irish of Asia,” says a Japanese magazine journalist of my acquaintance. “They travel all round the world but when they return home they are never grateful for what the Japanese did for them.”
But in Korea today it is not yet acceptable even to joke that “at least Hirohitler (as the Okinawans call him) made the trains run on time”. The book was denounced as a fake, and frenetic attempts were made to prove that its author, Pak Tae Heok, was really a Japanese writing under a pseudonym.
Chung Jae Hoon acknowledges that the demolition of the museum building is symbolic – there are, after all, many other pieces of Japanese architecture around Seoul, not least the magnificent Edwardian railway station. Nor will it mean an overnight thaw in the prickly relations between the two countries.
“But it will be a fresh start,” he says, warily eyeing the great alien monument. “We can’t go on living in the past forever.”
Pub: Sydney Morning Herald
Pub date: Saturday 29 January 1994
Section: News and Features
Sub section: News Review
Word count: 1875
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A fresco from the House of the Centenary in Pompeii shows the god of wine, Bacchus, standing at the foot of Mount Vesuvius. Bacchus is covered, neck to ankles, in bunches of red grapes: he embodies the richness of the region’s wines. The delicate and cheerful fresco – decorated with snakes, plants, and songbirds – is a tribute to Vesuvius’ prosperous vineyards, nourished by volcanic soil. It’s really beautiful: soft brushstrokes and plenty of colour, a noble and youthful deity, a hazy, dreamy landscape. There is no sense in the fresco that Mount Vesuvius would one day lead to the city’s complete destruction and the death of thousands of its townspeople in 79 AD.
The fresco is part of the Ashmolean’s new exhibition, Last Supper in Pompeii, curated by Paul Roberts. The enticing title doesn’t do justice, however, to the breadth of the collection: 400 objects from around the Roman world and beyond, covering centuries, showcasing the Romans’ relationship to food and drink. There are artefacts from Etruria and Ancient Greece, exploring the origin of Roman dining culture, and a significant amount of the exhibition is dedicated to Roman Britain, that far-flung corner of the empire. The collection includes the UK’s largest ever display of carbonised foodstuffs, including figs, dates, almonds, and pine nuts from the funeral of a young woman in Southwark, and cockroach eggs from a baker’s oven in London (these preserved thanks to the fires that Queen Boudicca set upon the capital).
The exhibition’s main attractions, however, are obviously the wonders of Pompeii, some on display in the UK for the first time ever. Last Supper in Pompeii displays several iconic artefacts – classics students at Oxford will recognise a few frescos from Mods, including ‘Europa and the Bull’’ from the House of Jason and the ‘Bread Dole’ from the House of the Baker. Food was far from a chore for the Romans, and perfectly preserved pieces speak to the skill and whimsy of Roman art inspired by food: a mosaic bursting with sea-life, from the House of the Geometric Mosaics; a life-size fresco of an abundant garden, from the House of the Golden Bracelet; a painting of a cockerel pecking at pomegranates; a mosaic of a skeleton, with a jug of wine in each hand.
The artefacts speak not just for themselves, but also give an insight into the life and characters of their owners: take the House of Aulus Umbiricus Scaurus, for example. Scaurus had made his fortune in garum, a fermented fish sauce that was the go-to condiment for Roman dishes. Scaurus is proud of his fortune and of its origins, and had commissioned a mosaic showing bottles of garum, and his name in large letters. The contents of Pompeii’s latrines and drains are preserved and displayed, showing that it’s not just artwork and décor that gives an insight into the private lives and diets of Pompeii’s inhabitants. Surprisingly, these contents speak to the rich and nutritious diet enjoyed by Pompeiians of all social classes: fish bones, fig seeds, cherry stones, apple pips, blackbird bones, and bones of dormice, a Roman delicacy. It’s always fun to know what people ate and drank, and Last Supper in Pompeii delivers.
It’s pleasing to see an exhibition that celebrates the life and joy of Pompeii. The destruction of the city is not ignored: visitors can see the plaster cast of a pig killed in the eruption, as well as the Lady of Oplontis, who met the same end. Unlike most Pompeiian victims, whose final moments are forever frozen in plaster, the Lady of Oplontis was captured in resin. The translucent quality of the resin shows her in greater detail, with her teeth and expression visible, and also means that she is tougher and less susceptible to breakage – a perfect candidate for the thousand-mile trip to Oxford. There’s pathos too in the small details of quotidian life: a loaf of bread, baked one morning two thousand years ago, never to be eaten. But the focus of Last Supper in Pompeii is decidedly jubilant, and more than a little decadent. The curators have included video reconstructions of a Roman triclinium (dining room) and a garden, which spark envy for the Pompeiians, not pity. Last Supper in Pompeii shows us that we needn’t be torn over which way to view Pompeii, as either a tragedy, or a feast: they are one and the same.
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No one likes going back to work after Christmas. The early mornings, the ever-disappointing trains and having to deal with hordes of perpetually grumpy commuters... it all sucks. But just imagine coming back to the office only to discover that the things you make and sell to people all across the globe and form the basis of every PC in the known world have a major security flaw that you can't really fix. And some of the fixes you can implement may put a serious dent in your PC's performance.
That's what happened to the CPU industry this week, and I can only imagine a lot of Intel, AMD and ARM execs are pulling what I'm going to call the 'Total Recall Arnie scream' this very moment. Happy New Year!
So what's this CPU problem all about and what does it mean for you? Well, put simply, it turns out that researchers and security experts have discovered two really quite major flaws in almost every CPU around today. One has been reassuringly dubbed 'Meltdown', while the other is being called 'Spectre', and both allow hackers to get their mitts on a computer's entire memory contents, be it passwords, log-ins or other important personal data stuff. It's not just PCs that are affected either, as the flaw also extends to mobile devices and servers that run various cloud services.
Right now, the Meltdown problem has only been found in Intel chips (plus ARM's Cortex-A75 mobile processors), but according to The Register, who first broke the news, it might potentially affect all high-performance Intel processors since 1995. That's a lot of CPUs. Even worse, every x86-64 Intel CPU since 2011 is definitely affected. The only ones that might be safe are Itanium processors and pre-2013 Atom chips.
The New York Times has a pretty comprehensive run-down of how Meltdown actually works, but the good news is that there's already a Windows software patch that's available right now. If you haven't already downloaded it, you probably should. Linux users can also fix it with the following instructions, while Apple's MacOS should have been patched with update 10.13.2.
The bad news? Said software patch will apparently slow down your CPU's performance by as much as 30%, which rather takes the shine off those fancy new Coffee Lake chips. Intel, of course, claims this figure is being exaggerated, saying the performance impact will be "work-load dependent" and "should not be significant", but until I get some benchmarks running it will be difficult to just how much of a hit we can expect to see.
It only gets worse, too, as anyone thinking about jumping ship to AMD to try and evade Meltdown still won't escape the shadow of Spectre, which has been found in virtually all types of processor, AMD included. Spectre is much trickier to fix, and there's currently no known solution. As far as we understand it, it might even require an entire redesign of the whole CPU architecture as we currently know it and/or, you guessed it, a total recall of all affected chips. As such, this could be an issue that sticks with us for many more years to come, according to another NY Times reporter.
In truth, CPU companies have known about these threats for a while. The problem was first outed by Google's Project Zero research last June (the exact findings of which have been published this morning) , and was going to be officially announced next week - presumably so that fixes would be readily available at the same time so people wouldn't freak out like Arnie up the top there. Only The Register decided to leak it yesterday, no doubt to probably cause a bit of a stink just before the Las Vegas tech fest that is CES begins on Sunday, hence all the panic and commotion happening right now.
Fortunately, there's been no evidence so far to suggest anyone's actually taken advantage of these flaws to steal any of our precious data, according to the BBC, who spoke with the UK's National Cyber Security Centre, but how long that will remain the case is anyone's guess now it's all out in the open.
In the meantime, my advice would be to get that security update sorted for Meltdown and hang tight. There's still a lot we don't know about these flaws, mostly because the news of their existence has been rushed out ahead of time, and we'll need some time for the dust to settle before anyone knows how to tackle the truly James Bond villain-sized problem of Spectre. | <urn:uuid:6e0fa9ea-1cda-4337-97d4-6762760fc025> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/intel-amd-cpu-meltdown | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572198.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815175725-20220815205725-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.97605 | 930 | 2.203125 | 2 |
By Jack Mayne
A private property owner has asked for an amendment to Burien’s Municipal Code to allow a vehicle crossing of the Indian Trail, a designated pedestrian pathway that ends north of Three Tree Point.
City law identifies a limited number of legal driveways that may cross the Indian Trail. These driveways existed before 1995 when an ordinance was approved to protect the trail from further vehicle crossings. The city then wanted to preserve the trail with few exceptions which include utility work, emergencies, and maintenance, plus a few driveway crossings.
City Community Development Director Susan McLain said city staff is not recommending the amendment because it is an “historic resource, a well-documented pathway that was used by native people and early settlers into the late 1800s” and to protect the trail as a pedestrian walkway.
According to the Highline Heritage Museum:
The “Old Indian Trail,” as it is still known today, was used by Indians and settlers alike well into the late 1800s as the main pathway between Three Tree Point and Elliott Bay to the north, and Normandy Park (and perhaps Redondo and farther) to the south.
(A mile-long, well-preserved section of the trail north of Three Tree Point was set aside for pedestrian use by a Burien City Council Ordinance in 1993 [sic]. Another remnant of the original path extends southeast from the hill east of Three Tree Point as far as the Normandy Park Cove, the last segment via an undeveloped right-of-way.)
Community development staff are said to have worked with the property owner and their architect and note there are feasible alternatives that would not require a vehicle crossing and would still provide weather protection and accessibility for Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) access.
During the Council consideration of the issue, Councilmember Nancy Tosta wondered if an added permission to cross the trail would mean others may come in the future. Deputy Mayor Krystal Marx said she opposed the driveway request.
Councilmember Cydney Moore said the existing code should be enforced but city staff should work with people on needed flexibility to accomplish the needs of the project. Councilmember Kevin Schilling wants the city to work with citizens to create the access they need.
Mayor Jimmy Matta said it was difficult for him to vote for the “saving of history.”
City Manager Brian Wilson said the city would work with the applicant to find ways to get access of his garage across the trail but look for alternatives for the applicant in the placement of their garage across the trail.
No vote on the issue was required.
More info on the Indian Trail here:
In June 2020, the Council requested that the city’s board and commissions guidelines be updated and made more clear. During the update staff noticed that there were inconsistencies amongst the provisions for boards and commissions. Staff recommended to the Council it create a new rule governing all of the city’s boards and commissions.
Megan Gregor, the city clerk, said there recently were a number of applicants for the Arts Commission which brought forward the idea to create new rules for appointment of membership on the city boards. The changes required Council approval and a new city ordinance for which to approve new Park Board commissioner’s handbook.
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Nurses' continuing professional development: a systematic literature review
Nurses' continuing professional development (CPD) improves the quality of nursing care, patients' safety, nurses' satisfaction and healthcare costs. However, evidence has shown that nurses do not always participate in their CPD and that CPD does not always address nurses' real needs. To examine this issue, a systematic review of the literature on nurses' experiences regarding their CPD in the clinical context was carried out. The studies selected for this review (n = 9) were analyzed thematically, through which three themes were identified: The relevance of CPD to nurses; the intrinsic and extrinsic motivations of nurses to participate in CPD; and the specific needs of nurses to participate in CPD. The findings of this review highlight that nurses' experiences regarding their CPD is a key issue that has not been deeply studied. For nurses, their CPD continues throughout their professional career, and keeping their knowledge and skills up to date is important. The goals, motivations and needs that nurses may have to lead and participate in their CPD may vary according to their age and position. Organizations should consider nurses' specific professional situation as well as their actual needs to boost their CPD through different approaches and enhance nurses¿ retention at hospitals. | <urn:uuid:bded6fe5-60b0-4243-bf22-bd6a9a0ff8af> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.unav.edu/investigacion/nuestros-investigadores/detalle-publicaciones?publicacionId=246448&titulo=Nurses'%20continuing%20professional%20development:%20a%20systematic%20literature%20review | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572198.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815175725-20220815205725-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.985799 | 264 | 2.265625 | 2 |
The inhabitants of a small European country have found a peculiar way of defending themselves against the political and economic gale force winds sweeping the continent and dredging up right- and leftwing extremists from the social depths: they have elected a man who has promised them windless conditions.
The name of the man swept to power by a landslide victory in Slovakia’s general election— held early following the collapse of the centreright coalition government—is Robert Fico. Having earned a reputation for authoritarianism and left-wing populism during his term of office between 2006 and 2010, the once and future Prime Minister now says that what the country needs to weather the European crisis in good health is social reconciliation. He can afford to talk that way, having garnered enough votes in the election to assure his party, Smer (Direction), a comfortable majority, enabling him to form a government without coalition partners.
While it remains to be seen whether the Slovaks have chosen well, Fico’s sweeping victory is good news for the European Union, particularly its Left. In Europe social democrats have been in the minority for years and their hope that the economic crisis would bring them back to a place in the sun has been slow to materialize. This has begun to change now that austerity as the right-wing prescription for reducing debt has clearly failed to work since the economy has been drifting into recession, the debt has continued to grow, and financial markets are losing confidence in this type of treatment.
Fico has won the election by promising to safeguard people’s social certainties, to raise taxes for the rich, and through loyalty to Europe. For the Slovaks have been among the most loyal supporters of the EU, the overwhelming majority of the population embracing the country’s adoption of the Euro in 2009 with great enthusiasm. Admittedly, the enthusiasm has waned somewhat in the wake of the crisis, nevertheless the Slovaks still regard the EU as a guarantee of their security.
From a European perspective Slovakia thus furnishes evidence that concerns about enlarging the EU to the East were out of place. After all, who would have thought in 2004, at the time the enlargement took place, that eight years later it would be the South rather than the East of Europe that would pose a critical threat to the entire European model?
Although the political impact of Europe’s economic crisis—governments falling like dominoes and each consecutive election (e.g. in Greece or the Netherlands) strengthening extremist and populist forces—has also been felt in the eastern part of the European Union, but not excessively so. In the case of Slovakia the power of the extremists has actually been on the wane. The March elections saw the nationalists thrown out of parliament, where they had held seats since 1990, and the formerly mighty populist party of the 1990s Prime Minister Vladimir Mečiar has been forced into political retirement.
This peculiar phenomenon can be explained in two ways. The original extremist electorate is split between several parties, which offer a wide range of protest options, from anti-European to the resentment of the Hungarian or Roma minority. None of these parties has, however, made it into parliament. More importantly though, most of the population feels threatened by the crisis and by the prospect of a potential collapse of the EU and that is why they gave their vote to the parties oscillating around the centre. It was collective fear that has made the Slovaks realistic.
The greatest realist, or rather pragmatist, of all is none other than Robert Fico. This former communist (he joined the Communisty Party as a young man in the 1980s to pursue his dream of a career as a lawyer) was never under any illusion about the nature of politics, and after 1989, when the centre of power in Central Europe shifted from Moscow to Brussels, he turned into a loyal European. Incidentally, in this respect he is no different from the rest of Slovakia’s inhabitants, who—having learned from history—know it is their job not to cause trouble.
Quite unexpectedly, this has brought Slovakia closer to Poland in terms of foreign policy, even though historically it has much closer ties with the Czech Republic and Hungary. Nevertheless, the current right-wing government in Prague emulates Britain, sharing her dismissive attitude towards the EU, while Hungary has driven itself into isolation under Viktor Orbán’s authoritarian rule. Never since 1989 has the foreign policy of the Central European countries known as the Visegrad Four been so divided and even mutually contradictory.
Having found itself in the same boat as Poland in terms of deeper EU integration, Slovakia has recently, in a surprise move, also coordinated with Poland its approach to Ukraine, a country with which they both share a border. There is some logic to their failed attempt to make the EU sign the (long-prepared) association agreeement with Ukraine, in spite of the country’s many ailments: both prefer an eastern neighbour with some ties to Europe to a country under Russian control. The Czechs and the Hungarians, however, did not support this Slovak and Polish initiative.
Of course, this could easily change. The Czech right-of-centre government is mustering all its strength to cling to power and the left-wing opposition, which has much in common with Fico, including its attitude to European integration, is impatiently waiting in the wings.
But meanwhile, Fico is rather isolated in Central Europe with his left-wing dominance (which is why he was so happy about François Hollande’s victory in France), just as he is isolated on Slovakia’s political scene. The fabulous era of the Slovak Right, under two-term Prime Minister Mikuláš Dzurinda, lies in ruins. Dzurinda’s party just about scraped into parliament and his partners are little better off. Gone is the the time when the Slovak Right represented a specific mix of economic liberalism and state modernisation with an emphasis on human rights. What brought this disastrous result about is the fact that its leaders have run out of ideas as well as hypertrophied corruption.
Ironically, Fico himself lacks a Big Idea and his party is also riddled with corruption down to the marrow. However, unlike the Right, he promised to give people security and was careful to avoid the hated word reform. Exhausted after twenty years of catching up with the West, Slovak society longs for peace and quiet and even though it knows that the promised better times are not likely to come, people are willing to settle for the promise that things will not get worse.
However, this may come at a rather high cost. Right now, Fico holds sway over Slovakia’s political scene, just like Orbán in Hungary. But the difference between the two men is that Fico has no intention of changing the system. Instead he has tried to bring all social classes and groups together in a kind of corporatist model. The Slovak tradition of circular defence against bad times and external threats seems to call for this strategy, one to which Slovaks respond well. The problem is that corporatism and liberal democracy make uneasy bedfellows and Fico’s past clearly suggests that, given half a chance, he would be only too happy to succumb to the temptation to weaken democracy.
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Hinds Jr., Harold E. "Chanoc. Adventure and Slapstick on Mexico's Southeast Coast." In: Journal of Popular Culture 14.3 (1980), S. 424–436.
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Keywords: "Chanoc", Adventure comics, Latin America, Mexico, Politics, Sociology
Creators: Hinds Jr.
Collection: Journal of Popular Culture
The comic book may be more popular in Mexico than in any other Latin American country. In this essay, Harold Hinds focuses on Chanoc, which was a best seller in Mexico during its peak years from 1960 to 1971. Hinds gives much interesting information on the evolution of the comic book and on its creators, sales, and readership. He speculates that its decline was due to a number of factors, including the degeneration of one of its main characters, Tsekub, into a mere clown, the inaccessibility of its increasingly “slangy” language, and its tendency towards cuteness rather than meaningful satire. He then examines the main characters. Chanoc is a kind of highly moral Tarzan-figure who protects the defenseless against villainous exploiters. Tsekub, Chanoc's sidekick and anthithesis, is an old man with a young spirit whose zest for life provides much comedy. Hinds points out that in addition to adventure and humor, Chanoc's main components, the comic book also deals with foreign, particularly US., interference in Mexico and elsewhere. He also considers a variety of ways in which Chanoc reflects, at times quite subtly, Mexican culture and society; e.g., aspects of regionalism, nationalism, mestizo character, machismo, and modernization are briefly explored.
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Our oceans are full of mysterious objects and odd creatures we haven’t been able identify. An unknown metallic underwater object has been discovered in the water at East Beach in Westerly, Rhode Island. It’s has stainless steel legs and no-one has a clue what it is. Due to its shape, it’s described like a metal starfish.
The object is located near the Niantic Avenue entrance, about 60 to 70 yards west toward the Watch Hill lighthouse. The harbor master says he has never seen or heard about it before. The circular object was not seen there last summer, so what is it and where did it come from?
“It looks like a metal starfish because it has these eight legs that go down from the center,” said Peter Brockmann, president of the East Beach Association.
Brockmann said he’s heard guesses from equipment used by aliens to the Army Corp of Engineers.
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The object is heavy and it doesn’t float. For the safety of surfers and swimmers, Brockmann has painted a fence to mark the area.
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Perseveration treatment requires a careful patient evaluation to learn more about the origins of uncontrolled repetitive behavior to develop treatment recommendations. These can include therapy, medications, and support in settings like the classroom. Patients who experience perseveration can have it to varying degrees and may find a self-assessment helpful. In this assessment, caregivers provide the patient with videos and transcripts of behavior so he understands what is going on.
Uncontrolled repetitive behavior can include repeating words and phrases as well as actions. Patients may get stuck on a particular emotion, topic, or strategy without the ability to move forward. In a simple example, a person tasked with getting a table through a doorway might stubbornly persist in moving it in the same way, instead of turning it, removing the legs, or making other changes in strategy to see if it is possible to solve the problem that way.
Patients can experience perseveration as part of a mental illness like obsessive compulsive disorder, a cognitive disability like autism, or in the wake of a traumatic brain injury. In all cases, it reflects fundamental changes in the wiring of the brain that make it difficult for the patient to complete cognitive tasks. He may also experience other symptoms that contribute to the perseveration and could make it more complicated to treat.
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Leeds Climate Commission published a new Net-Zero Carbon Roadmap for Leeds on 07 January 2021 in accessible format, with refreshed data and a new infographic showing the pathway to net-zero by 2030.
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Australian wildlife staff needed a crane to rescue a lovelorn female koala who escaped from her enclosure at the start of her first mating season, impatient to find a partner.
Irene the koala was discovered missing from her holding yard at the Australian Reptile Park outside Sydney early Thursday, park officials said.
The two-year-old was eventually found stuck in a nearby tree after a “Houdini-style” escape through an opening in her pen, they said.
General manager Tim Faulkner said Irene had only recently reached sexual maturity and this week marked the start of the annual koala mating season.
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Mokahum Back to The Beginning
How many of us wish we could travel back in time to behold the unfolding of the story of the Bible? Of course, we would prefer a safe distance from so many of the major events that have shaped redemptive history. But what if you could get a risk-free guided tour through Noah’s Ark? That is exactly what happened this past February for the Mokahum students.
This year we took the long drive to Kentucky to visit the Creation Museum and the Ark Encounter. Being the off-season, there were no crowds or lines to hinder us from enjoying our experience to the fullest. There was so much to take in and ponder. Providentially the trip landed on the schedule the week before the Genesis class at MMC. What better way to prepare for a class! We had a great time together, learning about our great God and making new memories. As some of us hoped, it rained the day we went to the Ark Encounter. It was a good break from the blizzard conditions we left behind, if only for a few days. But as expected, the snow was waiting for us when we got back. | <urn:uuid:b220cedc-3b42-422d-a7b0-1d5e1c97bc14> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.oakhills.edu/mokahum-back-to-the-beginning | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572198.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815175725-20220815205725-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.975015 | 242 | 1.804688 | 2 |
LONDON (Reuters) – Britain and the European Union are heading into a “very significant” week, British foreign minister Dominic Raab said on Sunday, as talks over a trade deal enter their final days with serious differences yet to be resolved.
EU negotiator Michel Barnier told reporters in London that “works continue, even on Sunday” on his way to a negotiating session, as both sides look for a deal to prevent disruption to almost $1 trillion of trade at the end of December.
“This is a very significant week, the last real major week, subject to any further postponement… we’re down to really two basic issues,” Raab told the BBC.
Despite missing several self-imposed deadlines, the negotiations have failed to bridge differences on competition policy and the distribution of fishing rights.
But Britain’s transitional EU exit agreement – during which the bloc’s rules continue to apply – expires on Dec. 31, and Britain says it will not seek any extension. A deal would have to be ratified by both sides, leaving little time for new delay.
“The bottom line is… in the ordinary course of things we need to get a deal done over the next week or maybe another couple of days beyond that,” Raab told Times Radio in a separate interview.
Earlier, he had signalled some progress on the ‘level playing field’ provisions which look to ensure fair competition between Britain and the EU, and said fishing remained the most difficult issue to solve.
Despite accounting for 0.1% of the British economy, fishing rights have become a totemic issue for both sides. Britain has so far rejected EU proposals and remains adamant that as an independent nation it must have full control of its waters.
“The EU have just got to recognise the point of principle here,” Raab told Times Radio.
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Yesterday, the government announced that £60m will be made available in order to plant more trees across England. This figure includes £10m for planting more street and urban trees with funding matched by financial contributions and assistance from local authorities, community groups and charities.
The balance of £50 million has been designated to buy carbon credits from landowners who plant qualifying woodland as part of what the government billed as it’s “drive to preserve the country’s greenery.” The Treasury says this will provide for an estimated 10 million new trees over the next 30 years.
The budget is also expected to approve a study into a new “Great Thames Park” in the Thames Estuary which experts have said could be ready by 2020.
Tilhill Forestry’s Business Development Director Peter Whitfield said of the news:
“Whilst spending money on trees has got to be good news, as ever you need to look behind the headlines. In reality it is £50 million over 30 years for carbon credits for landowners planting trees. So the reality is that this is about 130 hectares of trees a year for 30 years, a drop in the ocean that will not meet the new planting targets needed to combat climate change and increase the 10% forest cover in England.”
Forestry Director Tim Liddon added:
“Another important message to take from this news is that this is the first time for many years that forestry has even figured in the Budget. The fact that it now has, and is also part of the budget headlines, must be viewed as being a positive step in the right direction.
“However, we have an urgent need to deliver more new planting right now and the Forestry Commission needs to fight hard for new planting and appropriate land use change for all our sakes.
“The shackles need removing, the micro management to be withdrawn and the Forestry Commission to be less risk averse. We have a unique opportunity to plant more trees to capture carbon, and to provide timber – a fantastic and flexible renewable resource.”
England’s tree-planting record is behind other European countries and woefully behind that of Scotland. About 1.6 million trees were planted in England with the governments support in the 17/18 financial year, covering 895 ha. Whilst Scotland planted 7,100 ha in the same period.
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BT is today celebrating the 80th anniversary of the UK’s 999 emergency service – which handles about 2.25 million calls a year across the West Midlands.
The world’s oldest emergency service was launched in London on June 30, 1937.
A fire at a London doctor’s surgery in November 1935, which led to the tragic death of five women, resulted in a committee being set up by the government to look at the problem of how telephone operators could identify emergency calls.
The committee proposed there should be a standard easy-to-remember nationwide number to alert the emergency services. They considered using 707, which corresponded to the letters SOS on the telephone dial and 333, but the technology of the time would not allow these to be used and 999 was chosen as the most practical number.
The Second World War delayed the rollout of the service across the UK, but it was eventually extended to all major towns and cities by 1948, with Birmingham and Coventry two of the first cities outside London to introduce the 999 service.
More than a thousand calls were made during the first week of the service in London in 1937, with each 999 call triggering flashing red lights and hooters to alert operators in the exchange to give priority to the emergency call. The hooters were apparently so loud that the operators pushed a tennis ball into the horn to reduce the volume until modifications were made.
Hoax or unnecessary calls were a feature of the 999 service from the very beginning, including a complaint about bagpipes being played outside a house and a dispute between a neighbour and the local coalman.
BT advisors now answer around 560,000 calls a week in the UK – including about 47,000 in the West Midlands. Of around 30 million calls received a year from fixed and mobile phones, more than 97 per cent are answered within five seconds. The early hours of New Year’s Day is traditionally the busiest time of the year when up to 9,000 calls can be received each hour.
Some of the highest numbers of calls made to 999 are around midnight on Friday and Saturday nights, with around 5,000 calls an hour being received by BT. The early hours of New Year’s Day are traditionally the busiest time of the year when up to 9,000 calls can be received each hour.
Colin Bannon, chairman of BT’s West Midlands regional board, said: “Recent events in the UK mean people are acutely aware of the work of the emergency services and the value of the 999 service.
“I am extremely proud of the BT operators and their role in 999.
“They are a highly competent team working at the sharp end of the most important communication services in the country.
“In the region countless lives have been saved over the last 80 years because of their professionalism and dedication.”
The latest development in the 999 service is Advanced Mobile Location (AML), a new mobile location system, pioneered by BT, to pinpoint 999 calls from mobiles more precisely.
When an emergency call is made with an AML-enabled smartphone, the phone automatically activates its location service and sends its position in a text message to the 999 service.
AML is up to 4,000 times more accurate than existing location systems. It is now integrated into the Android operating system in the UK and is being adopted across Europe and the rest of the world.
Around 35 per cent of the 30 million calls answered by BT each year do not involve actual requests for help. The majority of these are made by children playing with home phones or people accidentally dialling 999 or the European emergency number 112, often from a mobile handset in a pocket or handbag.
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The rate at which Covid jabs are going in the arms of Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland residents has significantly slowed down, latest data shows.
There have been 39,491 people have been injected since figures were last updated - compared to nearly 56,000 at the previous update.
Figures released today relate to jabs given up to and including February 21.
They show that 287,401 people have now received their first dose, 7,032 second doses have also been given.
The cumulative total of vaccines given in the city, county and Rutland since December 8, is 294,433.
The number of people who have received their first dose by age group is:
- Over 80s: 50,568
- 75-79: 37,728
- 70-74: 21,768
- 65-69: 44,770
- Under 65: 102,657
Vaccinating those aged 65-69 started after the Government hit its target of offering a first dose to all over 70s by February 15.
The Prime Minister pledged jabs to all adults by the end of July before he revealed his roadmap earlier this week.
The number of jabs given to under 65s has been shared for the first time this week, a large proportion of the cohort will be health and social care workers, but it might suggest those under 65 in some areas are now being invited for their first dose.
The city mayor has this week said vaccination is the only sure way for Leicester to avoid another local lockdown.
Sir Peter Soulsby said he will write to Health Secretary Matt Hancock asking for the rules around who can be vaccinated and when to be relaxed in an attempt to bring down stubbornly high infection rates in the city.
Last week’s first dose totals were:
- Over 80s: 50,073
- 75-79: 37,364
- 70-74: 50,637
- Under 70: 110,262
Over 65s can book their own jabs - details are below.
To make an appointment at the Leicester Royal Infirmary, click here .
Click here for available slots at Glenfield Hospital.
To book a vaccine at Leicester General Hospital, click here .
Leicester's mass vaccination site - The Peepul Centre - also has appointments that can be booked by eligible groups, click here . Local pharmacies are also available via the same link or by calling 119.
The booking process
- Click on the link of your preferred vaccination site
- Enter the pin CovidVL19
- Register as a new user
- Pick the patient option on the form and fill in your details
- Choose a date and time for your initial vaccination. The system will automatically generate a second slot.
- Check your inbox and junk mail for an email that confirms your booking. You will also receive a text reminder if you filled in the contact number field.
Photo ID and proof of eligibility will be needed on arrival and if you unable to provide these you will be turned away
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Carbohydrates are essential macromolecules that are divided into three subtypes: monosaccharides, disaccharides and polysaccharides. Polysaccharides: In cellulose, glucose monomers are connected in unbranched chains by β 1 to 4 glycosidic bonds. Due to the way the glucose subunits are connected, each glucose monomer is inverted relative to the next, resulting in a linear, fibrous structure. Glycosidic bonds can also form between other monosaccharide carbons. For example, several glucose polymers contain glycosidic bonds between C1 and C6 in addition to bonds between C1 and C4. This fact makes monosaccharide polymers potentially much more complex than amino acid (protein) or nucleotide (DNA) polymers, as you will see shortly. Cellulose is the most abundant natural biopolymer. The cell wall of plants is largely made up of cellulose and provides structural support to the cell. Cellulose consists of glucose monomers connected by β 1 to 4 glycosidic bonds. Any other glucose monomer in cellulose is reversed and the monomers are densely packaged as long elongated chains. This gives cellulose its rigidity and high tensile strength – which is so important for plant cells. First of all, we need to know what a disaccharide is. An saccharide is another term for sugar.
Since the prefix “di-” means “two”, the word “disaccharide” has a literal meaning of “two sugars” (double sugars). When two single molecules/monosaccharides are combined, they form a larger molecule called a disaccharide. Galactose (a milk sugar) and fructose (found in fruits) are other common monosaccharides. Although glucose, galactose and fructose all have the same chemical formula (C6H12O6), they differ structurally and stereochemically. This makes them different molecules, although they divide the same atoms in the same proportions, and they are all isomers of each other or isomeric monosaccharides. Glucose and galactose are aldoses, and fructose is ketosis. Carbohydrates must be supplemented with proteins, vitamins and fats to be part of a balanced diet. Caloricly, one gram of carbohydrates provides 4.3 Kcal. In comparison, fats provide 9 Kcal / g, a less desirable ratio.
Carbohydrates contain both soluble and insoluble elements; The insoluble part is known as fiber, which is mainly cellulose. Fiber has many applications; It promotes regular bowel movements by adding mass and regulates the rate of blood sugar consumption. Fiber also helps remove excess cholesterol from the body. Fiber binds and binds to cholesterol in the small intestine, preventing cholesterol particles from entering the bloodstream. Then cholesterol comes out of the body through the feces. High-fiber diets also have a protective role in reducing the incidence of colon cancer. In addition, a meal of whole grains and vegetables gives a feeling of satiety. As an immediate energy source, glucose is broken down during the cellular respiration process, producing adenosine triphosphate (ATP), the cell`s energy currency. Without carbohydrate consumption, the availability of “instant energy” would be reduced. Eliminating carbohydrates from the diet is not the best way to lose weight. A low-calorie diet rich in whole grains, fruits, vegetables and lean meats, as well as plenty of exercise and plenty of water, is the smartest way to lose weight. Disaccharides (di- = “two”) are formed when two monosaccharides undergo a dehydration reaction (also called condensation reaction or dehydration synthesis).
During this process, the hydroxyl group of one monosaccharide combines with the hydrogen of another monosaccharide, releasing a water molecule and forming a covalent bond. A covalent bond formed between one carbohydrate molecule and another molecule (in this case, between two monosaccharides) is called a glycosidic bond. Glycosidic bonds (also called glycosidic bonds) can be alpha or beta. Carbohydrates: Carbohydrates are biological macromolecules that are divided into three subtypes: monosaccharides, disaccharides and polysaccharides. Like all macromolecules, carbohydrates are vital and are built from smaller organic molecules. Monosaccharides such as glucose can be bound together in condensation reactions. For example, sucrose (table sugar) is formed from a glucose molecule and a fructose molecule, as shown below. Molecules made up of two monosaccharides are called disaccharides. In an enzyme-catalyzed reaction, a water molecule is removed, leaving a bond between glucose C1 and fructose C4. Plants are able to synthesize glucose, and excess glucose is stored as starch in various parts of plants, including roots and seeds. Starch is the stored form of sugars in plants and consists of glucose monomers connected by glycosidic bonds α1-4 or 1-6.
The starch in the seeds provides nourishment to the embryo when it germinates, while the starch consumed by humans is broken down by enzymes into smaller molecules such as maltose and glucose. The cells can then absorb glucose. Two monosaccharides (or simple sugars e.B. glucose) combine to form a disaccharide. Examples of disaccharides: (1) Maltose = glucose + glucose (2) Sucrose = Glucose + Fructose (3) Lactose = Glucose + Galactose Can glycosidic bonds only form between C1 and C4, as in sucrose, maltose and lactose? Disaccharides: Sucrose is formed when a glucose monomer and a fructose monomer are combined in a dehydration reaction to form a glycosidic bond. In the process, a water molecule is lost. According to the convention, the carbon atoms in a monosaccharide are numbered by the final carbon closest to the carbonyl group. In sucrose, a glycosidic bond is formed between carbon-1 in glucose and carbon-2 in fructose.
Note that the glucose half of sucrose has the configuration α to C1. Glycosidic bonds are labeled α or β, depending on the anomeric configuration of C1 involved in the glycosidic bond. Maltose, which combines two glucose molecules, has a glycosidic bond α like sucrose. Lactose, the primary sugar in milk, instead combines glucose and galactose in a glycosidic bond β. First, two monosaccharides are joined together in such a way that two hydroxyl groups are close to each other. Common disaccharides are lactose, maltose and sucrose. Lactose is a disaccharide composed of the monomers glucose and galactose. It is naturally present in milk. Maltose, or malt sugar, is a disaccharide formed by a dehydration reaction between two glucose molecules.
The most common disaccharide is sucrose or table sugar, which consists of the monomers glucose and fructose. Biological macromolecules are large molecules necessary for life and are made up of smaller organic molecules. A major class of biological macromolecules are carbohydrates, which are further divided into three subtypes: monosaccharides, disaccharides and polysaccharides. Carbohydrates are actually an essential part of our diet; Grains, fruits and vegetables are natural sources of carbohydrates. It is important to note that carbohydrates provide energy to the body, especially through glucose, a simple sugar that is a component of starch and an ingredient in many staple foods. Glycogen is the storage form of glucose in humans and other vertebrates. It consists of glucose monomers. Glycogen is the animal equivalent of starch and is a highly branched molecule normally stored in liver and muscle cells. Whenever blood sugar levels drop, glycogen is broken down to release glucose in a process known as glycogenolysis. Glucose (C6H12O6) is a common monosaccharide and an important source of energy.
During cellular respiration, energy is released by glucose and this energy is used to make adenosine triphosphate (ATP). Plants synthesize glucose with carbon dioxide and water, and glucose, in turn, is used for the plant`s energy needs. Carbohydrates can be represented by the stoichiometric formula (CH2O)n, where n is the number of carbons in the molecule. Therefore, the ratio of carbon to hydrogen to oxygen is 1: 2: 1 in carbohydrate molecules. The origin of the term “carbohydrates” is based on its components: carbon (“carbo”) and water (“hydrate”). Carbohydrates are divided into three subtypes: monosaccharides, disaccharides and polysaccharides. Monosaccharides (mono- = “one”; sacchar- = “sweet”) are simple sugars. In monosaccharides, the number of carbons usually ranges from three to seven.
If sugar has an aldehyde group (the functional group with the R-CHO structure), it is called aldose, and if it has a ketone group (the functional group with the RC (= O) R` structure), it is called ketosis. Depending on the number of carbons in sugar, they can also be called trioses (three carbons), pentoses (five carbons) and or hexoses (six carbons). Monosaccharides can exist as a linear chain or ring-shaped molecules; In aqueous solutions, they are usually ring-shaped. Since the prefix “mono-” means “one”, the word “monosaccharide” has a literal meaning of “one sugar” (simple sugar). Monosaccharides (e.B. glucose) are the simplest form of sugar, that is, they cannot be broken down further. Describe the benefits that carbohydrates provide to organisms Carbohydrates perform different functions in different animals. Arthropods have an external skeleton, the exoskeleton, which protects the internal parts of their body. This exoskeleton consists of chitin, a nitrogen containing polysaccharides. It consists of repetitive units of N-acetyl-β-d-glucosamine, a modified sugar. | <urn:uuid:5d4bbc77-92fb-4d86-b14a-5211c0889ec3> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://rouen.ou.edu.vn/2022/04/15/what-is-formed-when-two-glucose-molecules-are-joined-together/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817001643-20220817031643-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.929271 | 2,250 | 4.125 | 4 |
A picture book about what it means to be a friend from Taye Diggs and Shane W. Evans, the writer/artist team that brought us Chocolate Me! and Mixed Me.
Friends lend a hand when they can
They help blend and mend
it doesn't depend on whether you're doing wrong or right.
A friend can send or lend a shining light to a situation.
Add some bright to any frustration.
On pretty much any occasion.
Two best friends do almost everything together. They have each other's backs. But when one friend sees the other treating someone unkindly, he steps in to show that everyone wants to be treated as they would treat others.
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Adventurer tells schoolchildren about his trip across Australia on a skateboard and other challenges
An adventurer has spoken to schoolchildren about his travels all over the world using various modes of environmentally-friendly transport.
Dave Cornthwaite spoke by Zoom to children at St Anne’s Primary School in Grantham about his adventures which include travelling across Australia on a skateboard.
Dave gave up his job 15 years ago to hop on the skateboard and cross Australia, covering more than 3,600 miles, and breaking a world record.
Since then, Dave has set himself a target of using 25 modes of non-motorised transport covering 1,000 miles. He has since travelled down the Mississippi River on a paddle board, kayaked the Murray River in Canada, ridden a tandem bike from Vancouver to Las Vegas and sailed across the Pacific from Mexico to Hawaii.
Among his trips Dave has also swum the Missouri River, travelled in a pedal kayak from Oslo to Helsinki and on a waterbike around the coast of Norway. He has 10 more trips of 1,000 miles or more to complete.
Dave told the St Anne’s pupils that he had decided to say yes more in his life and this has led to a richer more adventurous life.
He says he sees life as a bit of an experiment, and really enjoys the good things that come from saying “yes”. He says he is ‘an adventurous doer’ as well as a community creator, keynote speaker, filmmaker and author.
He runs a community called The YesTribe which revolves around a motto to SayYesMore.
He told the St Anne’s children: “I like to do a full day’s work and feel satisfied. We should all feel satisfied and have fun.
“I decided I needed to say yes more and the first thing I said yes to was a skateboard. I ended up going everywhere on this skateboard.”
As well as focussing on his adventures, Dave now also runs the Big Sky Hideaway, an environmentally-friendly campsite in Lincolnshire.
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Dalet says goodbye to the antiquated models of traditional Newsroom Computer System (NRCS), News Production System (NPS), and playout system and is offering broadcasters an agile foundation to step into the future of news production and delivery with its Unified News Operations (UNO) solution. UNO combines all the traditional functions of news production and distribution into a scalable, comprehensive, flexible and agile solution. Implemented by news organizations large and small across the globe, UNO enables broadcasters to rethink the way they work, deploy new collaboration models and build data-driven strategies, becoming more agile, more efficient and more effective to make the best of fast-changing audience viewing habits in a multi-platform world.
“With so many platforms and outlets available to viewers today, news production tools and infrastructure need to be incredibly flexible and efficient in terms of content creation, curation, delivery and intelligence reporting if broadcasters want to achieve maximum engagement and retention. UNO is designed from the ground up to help news organizations do just that,” comments Dalet Director of Marketing Arnaud Elnecave. “Easy-to-use production tools AND relevant story content are readily available to every user in the newsroom and in the field. Web and social media are not treated as an afterthought – they are an integral part of the overall UNO methodology, from assignment all the way to distribution and analytics. These and other critical refinements offered through UNO, such as smart editorial planning and workflow orchestration, allow our customers to continuously improve the way they work to deliver the right content, at the right time, in the right form, on the right device, to the targeted audience.”
Elnecave adds, “And while functions co-exist within one ecosystem, UNO is not a closed solution. The unified, agile framework groups functions that naturally belong together, and exposes them via industry standard protocols and the advanced, open API, enabling media organizations to design customized, best-of-breed systems.”
Dalet has been highlighting that the very concept of “Newsroom Computer System” – inherited from the 90s system architectures and designed for linear programs – has become a technology and organizational silo that inhibits the leap most news organizations should take today. Indeed, as consumers are breaking free from the traditional news cycle, professional news productions – whether in broadcast, digital, paper or a combination thereof – need to up the ante and transform the way they operate in order to cater wisely and efficiently to this changing demand and the growing number of outlets to be served.
UNO Innovation at TVNewsCheck’s NewsTECHForum
As the Title Sponsor for TVNewsCheck’s NewsTECHForum, Dalet will present innovations in Unified News Operations at the upcoming opening session conference, “Imagining the Newsroom of the Future,” on December 12, 2016 in New York City. Joining Frederic Roux, US Director of Sales at Dalet, on the discussion is Hearst Television Chief Strategy Officer Roger Keating, W.E. Scripps VP of News Sean McLaughlin, and CJ&N VP of Digital Devices Steve Schwaid.
Real World Benefits for Newsrooms Large and Small
News organizations of all types and sizes – Euronews in Europe, NBC-owned and operated regional stations, Time Warner Cable’s Flagship NY1 station in New York City, Metro TV in Indonesia and the Record News regional stations in Brazil, to name a few – chose Dalet UNO as the partner and solution to enable the transition into the next generation of their operations.
One of the most recent news organizations to migrate to the UNO workflow, Euronews transformed its siloed operation, which consisted of productions in 13 different languages, into one cohesive workflow across multiple sites.
Francois Schmitt, COO of Euronews, explains the benefit saying, “Dalet is providing an agile, cohesive system that bends with the ebb and flow of our newsroom needs. The unified platform provides centralized access to content, which is critical for each language to cross leverage for their own news purpose. Equally as important, the flow of content will be seamless and ubiquitous from acquisition to distribution to archive, making the Euronews operations much more efficient.”
As one of the first adopters of the Dalet UNO framework, Time Warner Cable (TWC) is known for technology innovation in pursuit of “hyper-local” coverage at its news stations throughout New York State, northern New Jersey, Texas and the Carolinas. Credited with inventing the “one-man-band” reporter (journalists who shoot, write and edit their own stories), Time Warner Cable has always leveraged technology to improve efficiency.
The original installation at its flagship facility, NY1, was dependent on a mix of different systems covering ingest, news production, editing and automation. Moving to Dalet UNO gave the NY1 team a broad range of task-specific tools, allowing staff to ingest, assign stories, create packages, playout content to multiple platforms and archive video content – all from one user interface. Today, as NY1 continues to thrive, journalists can easily assemble a complete story that includes text, video, voiceovers and graphics right from their desktop in the newsroom or out in the field.
Elnecave concludes, “Dalet UNO is not a bleeding edge concept; it’s a robust framework that is designed and proven to adapt to emerging technologies.”
Presented by TVNewsCheck and the Sports Video Group, NewsTECHForum provides a high-level opportunity for executives and managers in news, technology and digital to exchange ideas, promote excellence in their field and inform new product development at key technology manufacturers. For more information on NewsTECHForum, visit https://www.newstechforum.com/.
Dalet software-based solutions enable media organizations to create, manage and distribute content faster and more efficiently, fully maximizing the value of assets. Dalet products are built on three distinct platforms that, when combined, form versatile business solutions that power end-to-end workflows for news, sports, program preparation, production, archive and radio. Individually, Dalet platforms and products offer targeted applications with key capabilities to address critical media workflow functions such as ingest, QC, edit, transcode and multiplatform distribution.
The foundation for Dalet productivity-enhancing workflow solutions, Dalet Galaxy is the enterprise NRCS and MAM that unifies the content chain by managing assets, metadata, workflows and processes across multiple and diverse production and distribution systems. Specially tailored for news and media workflows, this unique technology platform helps broadcasters and media professionals increase productivity while providing operational and business visibility.
Dalet AmberFin is the high-quality, scalable transcoding platform with fully integrated ingest, mastering, QC and review functionalities, enabling facilities to make great pictures in a scalable, reliable and interoperable way. Addressing the demanding needs of studio production, multi-camera ingest, sports logging and highlights production, the innovative Dalet Brio video server platform combines density and cost-effectiveness with high reliability.
Dalet supports customers from the initial planning stages to well beyond project execution. Our global presence includes 17 offices strategically located throughout Europe, the Middle East, Asia Pacific, North America and South America, and a network of more than 60 professional partners serving 87 countries worldwide. This collective experience and knowledge enables our customers to realize potential increases in productivity, efficiency and value of their assets.
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The first computer crimes were recognized in the 1978 Florida Computer Crimes Act, which included legislation against the unauthorized modification or deletion of data on a computer system. A few years later, Canada was the first nation to pass the legislation in 1983.
Digital forensics science has roots in the personal computing revolution of the late 1970s and early 1980s. It has evolved, with increasingly advanced technologies and tools coming into the picture. Now, digital forensics services have become a highly specialized field, following industry-accepted practices.
In this series of blogs around digital forensics, we want to shine a spotlight on digital forensics as a procedure in investigating data theft or loss. The information gained during this investigation can be used against the culprit in a court of law. Therefore, a highly skilled team needs to deliver digital forensics services with knowledge about digital forensics, cybercrime, computers, networks, and the legal aspects.
Common mistakes by organizations during a computer forensics analysis
Speculation: Sometimes, the models and methods used by the digital forensics services team don’t make the evidence look convincing, due to overuse of standardization. The failure to identify the culprit in the court of law could be speculation, precisely forming a theory or conjecture without firm evidence.
Forensics imaging of the breach scene: Forensics imaging is the method of analysing the root of the problem. Capturing, isolating and preserving the exact image is of the utmost importance in this procedure as it helps preserve the state of the system at the time of the crime. This way, changes can be made to the data and systems for its protection later on. The initial scenario and related data are already captured and stored to be analysed in detail.
Inadequate prevention: Cyber investigators must assess the damage caused by the attack, find the compromised data, and analyse what is non-volatile for investigation. The investigation can be jeopardized if any of the metadata, caches and temporary files are altered. No evidence of data is trivial when finding bread crumbs that can lead to evidence in an investigation.
Inadequate communication: During a standard criminal investigation, the police, detective, forensics experts and coroner must cooperate to achieve their common goal of finding the root cause, on how the crime was executed and who the culprit was. The same principle can be applied to cybersecurity and digital forensics services. Communication includes immediately informing about the breach to those affected by it; this includes stakeholders and customers. In many cases, customer or business data may have been exposed or leaked, causing reputational damage. Any substantial progress made in the investigation or further damage done, should be conveyed to authorities without fail and as-is when it happens.
Rudimentary policies and rules: An incident can be managed a lot better if the organization has a well-defined set of rules and a strong cybersecurity policy. With the absence of these rules, a delay within the digital forensics process will occur. An incident response plan is a set of policies and procedures that need to be followed if an event occurs. This plan can serve as a guideline for digital forensics services.
Limiting the scope of forensics: Limiting the scope is a common mistake made by the digital forensics services team. It is challenging to be sure about something, such as which file system was affected the most or which node is infected with a particular virus. Usually, in these circumstances, time is limited so that the culprit’s footprint is not lost. A limited scope can also happen if the forensics services team does not fully understand the computer system.
Not choosing a well-qualified digital forensics services team: Hiring a qualified team or a service provider is important to avoid making mistakes like those mentioned above. The team needs to be well versed in networking, operating systems, law, cybersecurity, and communication with prior experience of some situations. An in-house team can be chosen to do the investigation, but can it be ensured that they are trustworthy? Insiders can very well tamper with the information in the inquiry.
Not prepping the client to preserve evidence: Failure to preserve the evidence can be very problematic. This can cause a huge financial crisis. For example, a company was fined $1,000,000 and faced courtroom sanctions because while they had instructed employees not to delete files, they neglected to stop the automatic overwriting of backup tapes. As a result, the employees were fired, and a new team was hired to mitigate further damage done to the evidence. It is also important to prepare your employees for the worst-case scenarios through regular communications, training and awareness programs.
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In this series, we have shared our heart for nature study through nature walks, nature journaling, and caring well for God’s creation. It is definitely a strong desire at Five in a Row that you and your children all get out and enjoy time in nature! Our main goal is that we support you in your homeschooling endeavors as best we can. Knowing that planning your own nature study can be a time consuming task, Jane has written a nature study for each season to encourage your entire family in your exploration of all four seasons!
Each unique nature study is like a nature resource to be used from preschool through high school. As a whole, they include information on stars, plant life, birds, other animals, water, weather and more. There are life lists where your student can document what birds or trees they’ve seen that season – and add to it year after year! There are tips for season specific nature walks, other outdoor activities, lessons on the colors of the season in artwork and poetry to read and study together or memorize. There are suggested books to read for each season and suggested nature guides, as well as how to use them. There are even songs for one of the seasons! There are pages of activities to do – planned and spontaneous, momentary or lifelong.
One such activity suggested is to be looking often at the stars and in turn, realizing that the constellations you can see in the spring evenings as you catch fireflies are not the same ones that you see in the fall as you sit by a campfire! First you enjoy them, teach your children there are stars in the sky, and then through the years you discover together how the times you can view them change with the seasons. Once you’ve noticed this for a few seasons, your children may want to know why this is so. And without even knowing it, you’re off into deeper learning experiences – lessons that have been lived together as a family in the out of doors!
Included are also printable, season-specific, journaling pages for all ages that can be used more than once each season and year after year. There is a one really great printable set where the youngest nature learners just circle what they see. As they get older they create their own drawings for specific nature items. As they get even older, they choose their own sights and draw them as well. What a treasure it will be to have six or eight or ten years of these to have in a nature notebook to look back on and see how that young four year old asking about squirrels grew into a young adult building birdhouses for a state park!
I would be remiss to allow you to believe that the photo above is a large picture of what is included. Each nature study is completely unique to its season and in its contents. Here are only 5 of the 250 total pages of all four nature studies together! Each one page I chose represents about 10 or more similar pages included in each individual study. More importantly, the nature studies are not all about printables (though I know we moms often think we need proof to say we did school) … they are about the memories you’ll be making as you and your children fall in love with nature and its Creator. You use the study how ever it works for your family.
Each year we want to teach more and more about nature in our regular school curriculum, with the goal always being to help our child fall enthusiastically in love with nature! As I become familiar what’s in the studies, each year as the season changes I will pull out the nature study and focus on a different aspect of the season, poem or Bible verse or add to what we learned last year, deepening our love for and knowledge about that season. Since Jane has provided the wonderful information, activities and printables for each season, The Five in a Row Digital Nature studies free me up to just start enjoying nature with my children, and I don’t know any homeschooling family who won’t benefit from that!
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- 1 In which country free and fair elections are held?
- 2 Why free and fair elections are held in a democracy?
- 3 Are elections held regularly in China?
- 4 How are elections held in a democracy?
- 5 Who is responsible for free and fair election in India?
- 6 Which country follows one person one vote?
- 7 What are the requirements for free and fair elections?
- 8 What is democracy must be based on?
- 9 Why is democracy government a better government?
- 10 Which country does not deny right to vote?
- 11 What is China parliament called?
- 12 Who must have final decision making power in democracy?
- 13 Why do we need elections Class 9 in points?
- 14 What is the primary difference between hard money and soft money?
- 15 Which of these is an example of perfect democracy?
In which country free and fair elections are held?
Free and Fair Election Network (FAFEN) is a network of 35 domestic civil society organizations working together to foster democratic accountabilities, good governance and improved parliamentary and electoral processes in Pakistan since 2006.
Why free and fair elections are held in a democracy?
“Free and fair elections are the foundation of every healthy democracy, ensuring that government authority derives from the will of the people,” U.S. Permanent Representative to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) and former governor of Virginia James S.
Are elections held regularly in China?
The elections, held every three years, are always supervised by a higher level of government, usually by a County Government.
How are elections held in a democracy?
The nature of democracy is that elected officials are accountable to the people, and they must return to the voters at prescribed intervals to seek their mandate to continue in office. For that reason most democratic constitutions provide that elections are held at fixed regular intervals.
Who is responsible for free and fair election in India?
The Election Commission of India (ECI) is a permanent and independent body established by the Constitution of India directly to ensure free and fair elections in the country.
Which country follows one person one vote?
Answer: India is the country which follow ‘one person’, ‘one vote’, ‘one value’ principal. EXPLANATION: This principal means that a person has a power of one vote through which they can take active participation in the formation of the government.
What are the requirements for free and fair elections?
A free and fair election involves political freedoms and fair processes leading up to the vote, a fair count of eligible voters who cast a ballot (including such aspects as electoral fraud or voter suppression), and acceptance of election results by all parties.
What is democracy must be based on?
Explanation: Democracy must be based on a free and fair elections. (A) Democracy must be based on a free and fair elections: No doubt, in democracy, the rulers are to be elected by the people.
Why is democracy government a better government?
A democratic government is a better government because it is an accountable form of government. Democracy improves the quality of decision making. Democracy provides a method to deal with differences and conflicts. Democracy enhances the dignity of citizens.
Which country does not deny right to vote?
India doesn’t deny equal vote since it has given each resident the basic option to cast a ballot. Since the absolute first Indian general political race held in 1951–52, all inclusive testimonial for all grown-up residents matured 21 or more seasoned was set up under Article 326 of the Constitution of India.
What is China parliament called?
The National People’s Congress of the People’s Republic of China.
Who must have final decision making power in democracy?
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It reached a price of over 14 000$USD exactly 12 years to the day since Bitcoin was initially proposed by its anonymous developer.
- Bitcoin was selling for a price of 14 100$USD on some cryptocurrency exchanges yesterday (October 31st).
- The last time Bitcoin was trading at a price this high was in January 2018.
- Bitoin's all time high is over 20 000$USD which occurred in mid December 2017.
- Many large companies including Square and Microstrategy have been investing in Bitcoin over the last few months.
- Paypal also recently announced it would be supporting cryptocurrency payments at the start of 2021.
- Although Bitcoin is known to be volatile, its volatility has been decreasing over the years.
- In contrast to many other assets, Bitcoin has a finite supply of 21 million.
- Proponents have argued that this scarcity is what gives Bitcoin its value.
- Critics argue cryptocurrency is a bubble, and further question the intentions of Bitcoin's anonymous creator, Satoshi Nakamoto.
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