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A.I. Michael2, A.O. Iyun1,2, O.A. Olawoye1,2, S.A. Ademola1,2, R.E. Nnabuko3, and O.M. Oluwatosin1,2
- Department of Surgery, University of Ibadan, Ibadan.
- Department of Plastic Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery, University College Hospital, Ibadan.
- Department of Plastic Surgery, National Orthopaedic Hospital, Enugu.
Background: With the severity of machine hand injuries in our environment, the need to determine the normal values for key pinch strength with which to compare restorative surgeries was justified.
Methods: A cross sectional survey of participants who had no previous hand injuries limiting hand function. Data obtained included age, gender, body mass index, hand dominance and hand span. The Baseline Hydraulic Pinch Gauge was used to obtain key pinch strength. The influence of the above variables on measured pinch strength was analyzed using independent sample t-tests and Pearson’s correlation.
Results: Of the 242 recruited participants, age range between 20 and 80 years, 163(67.4%) were male and 79 (32.6%) were female. Males had higher pinch strength (right-8.3±2.7kg, left-7.6±2.5kg) than females (right-6.3±1.5kg, left- 5.8±1.5kg). Pinch strength varied with age peaking in the fifth decade in males and females. Interestingly, the left handed dominant female had higher right pinch strength than her right handed counterpart (p<0.009). Height, and hand span correlated with pinch strength in females.
Conclusion: Normal values for key pinch strength in this Nigerian population
are lower than that of Caucasians.
Keywords: Key pinch, Nigerians, Normal values.
Dr. Afieharo I. Michael
Dept of Plastic Reconstructive and
University College Hospital,
Performances of the activities of daily living (ADL) are spontaneous with normal functioning hands. With hand injuries resulting in impairment of ADL, these seemingly innocuous tasks become arduous. The ADL tasks brought about by the key pinch include; insertion and removal of a key or the Automated Teller Machine (ATM) card, operating a clothes zipper, insertion or removal of a plug, stabbing food with the prongs of a fork, operating a remote control or holding a pen.1 The key pinch strength has been demonstrated as a standard objective clinical test for evaluating the outcome of surgical procedures on the hand.2,3 A statistically significant difference between the mean pinch strength of the donor finger and that of the contralateral finger in extended reverse dorsal metarcarpal artery flaps was found by.3
The surgeon’s primary goal is restoration of hand function as much as is possible. Post operative evaluation data are needed in clinical audit and therefore governance geared towards improving surgical practice. Normal data on key pinch strength in adult Caucasians in both the normal and pathological states exist in the literature.4-8 Increasingly, the need to exercise caution in generalization of normative data across regions is emphasized. Hand grip values in an African population have been found to be lower than that of the Caucasian population.9,10 There is a dearth of data on key pinch strength pinch in Africans in the literature. The objectives of the study were to have normal values of key pinch strength amongst a Nigerian population, to determine the influence of gender, age, handedness and body mass index on key pinch strength and to compare the values obtained with that reported in other populations.
The study was a community based cross sectional survey carried out over a one-year period on adults between the ages of 20 and 80 years in Ibadan, the capital City of Oyo State. A multi-staged sampling method was used to select the Local Government Areas (LGAs) for the study. Akinyele and Ibadan North local government areas were randomly selected from the eleven LGAs in Ibadan. In each of these selected LGAs, two streets were selected by convenience sampling from where the subjects were recruited using a modified cluster sampling method.
Ethical approval was obtained from the Institutional Review Board. For each participant that met the terms of the inclusion criteria stated, an informed consent was obtained. Participants who were not conversant with English language were communicated with in the local dialect.
Participants who were of lucid consciousness, without any history or obvious mental illness, who were not on systemic drugs, were recruited. They also had no history of alcohol misuse and were able to display the activities of daily living such as eating bathing, dressing, and work.
A structured questionnaire, which was in two parts, was used for obtaining data. The first part consisted of information such as age, sex, height, weight, drug use and the occurrence of previous hand trauma or surgery. The second part comprised of the required hand measurements; key pinch values and hand span. The key pinch (lateral pinch grip) was measured with the baseline hydraulic pinch gauge that had been pre calibrated at the factory. The subjects were seated with their shoulder adducted and neutrally rotated, elbow flexed at 90° with the forearm and wrist in neutral position.11 Three consecutive measurements in kilograms, after resetting to zero, were taken and the arithmetic mean computed.12
The hand span was measured by first instructing that the hand be opened as wide as possible and placed on a plain paper on a table. The outer lateral border of the distal phalanx of the little finger and thumb were marked as points on the paper. The distance between these two points, the hand span, was then measured and recorded to the nearest centimeter.
Descriptive statistics (mean, mode) were used to determine frequency of data subsets. Independent t test were used to compare key pinch with gender and hand dominance while Pearson’s correlation was used to determine the relationship between key pinch and the measured constitutional variables. Statistical significance was defined by p values <0.05.
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Commonly found on roadsides and field margins, and in meadows, it is particularly abundant where there is chalk bedrock. Most seeds fall close to parent plant but animals also facilitate seed dispersal in their manure. … It is found throughout the UK growing on chalky and neutral grassland that is well-drained. The juice of ' scabiosa herba ' (from whence its common name derives) was given to alleviate plague sores. curly head). The head is flatter than in similar species, such as devil's bit scabious (Succisa pratensis) and small scabious (Scabiosa columbaria). They come in a wide range of colours, from white through blue to darkest burgundy. The ‘mars midget’ variety of this lower classification is popular for its diminutive size and variegated green-and-white foliage. Identification difficulty. Similar Images . Each plant can produce up to 50 flowers and blooms are the largest of our native scabious species. It prefers grassy places and dry soils, avoiding heavy soils, and flowers between July and September. It is commonly found in its preferred habitats. Another name for this plant is gipsy rose. Knautia arvensis (field scabious): A prolific growing variety, especially in chalky bedrock, the ‘field scabious’ has a lighter pinkish-purple flower. • Leaves deeply lobed into 5 to 15 narrow segments. It is hardy to zone (UK) 6. Add to Likebox #127524020 - Butterfly on a daisy flower gerbera in the garden. Scabious is a summer flowering annual or perennial plant. Also known as bluebuttons. It is occasionally used by the marsh fritillary as a foodplant instead of its usual foodplant of devils bit scabious (Succisa pratensis). Field Scabious has a rough and hairy stem similar in texture to scabby skin. Field Scabious is a familiar parent of one of our favourite cottage garden plants. The species is hermaphrodite (has both male and female organs) and is pollinated by Bees, Lepidoptera (Moths & Butterflies). Stems usually with purple spots. Description. Field Scabious is closely related to Teasle and Devil’s-bit Scabious, all of which have distinctively coloured flowers in blue, bluish-lilac or bluish-violet. It has a very long flowering period and so is a valuable nectar source for bees and butterflies. Field Scabious has a rough and hairy stem similar in texture to scabby skin. It is a perennial plant that grows between 25 and 100 cm. The genus Knautia is named after a 17th-century German botanist, Christian Knaut. Field scabious (Knautia arvense) Erect perennial up to 1.5 meters (4 feet) tall. Field Scabious (Knautia arvensis) Field scabious, Knautia arvensis, is one of our most beautiful native plants. It flowers between July and September, and is a prolific source of nectar for a range of pollinators. ID guidance. Plant in a sunny site with a moist but well-drained soil that contains a little lime. It is a big attractive plant which will look at it's best in a sunny meadow garden with grasses as a backdrop. It is noted for attracting wildlife. Especially good in chalky soils, but will tolerate well-worked clay. Huge range of seeds, bulbs and plants available. It's associated with chalk grassland, and thrives on calcareous well drained soils. Field Scabious can have up to 50 purple flowers which make up the pin cushion flower heads. • Distinctive V shaped branching … #122696724 - Flowering plant Korostavnik field or field scabious isolated.. We promise not to pass on your details to anyone else. There are no stipules. The fruit is nut like, cylindrical and hairy, 5–6 mm in size. Field Scabious plugs (Knautia arvensis), buy online for delivery across the UK. It is a plant that is particularly attractive to Butterflies and Bees. It’s sometimes known as the pincushion flower for its pretty blooms. It can also be found in hedgerows and along roadsides and railways. Corolla is 4-lobed (Small Scabious is 5-lobed) and … Field Scabious How and Where to grow it. It is in flower from July to September. • Lower part of plant is bristly and hairy. Sign up here to receive emails about plants and Plantlife’s work. This species is a robust perennial producing clumps of large leaves, the lower ones tending to be unlobed while those higher up the stems are deeply lobed. Species of scabious were used to treat scabies, and many other afflictions of the skin including sores caused by the bubonic plague. Similar Images . Field scabious (Knautia arvense) Erect perennial up to 1.5 meters (4 feet) tall. Medium to tall, hairy plant, often stoloniferous, with a basal leaf rosette. It is also the foodplant of the narrow-bordered bee hawk-moth (Hemaris tityus). Add to Likebox #121269026 - Knautia arvensis flowers. An ideal choice for coastal, city and courtyard gardens. Did you know? The easy-keeping Knautia (pronounced NOT-ee-ah) isn’t a plant for the meticulous gardener, since it’s tall stems and wide spread mean it can creep into other areas of your garden. In Belgium a girl would pick Scabious "buttons", give each a lover's name, and then choose her husband by the one that flowered best. The 'pom-pom' like nature of its flower has also given rise to alternative names such as Lady's pincushion, bachelor's buttons and blue bonnets. The word scabies comes from the Latin word scabere 'scratch'. The stem has long stiff hairs angled downwards. According to the 'Doctrine of Signatures' - where herbalists treated illnesses with plants that resembled the body part associated with illness - this association probably led to it being used as a herb to treat scabies, mange and itches. Knautia arvensis is a PERENNIAL growing to 1 m (3ft 3in) by 0.4 m (1ft 4in). It does prefer full sun, and is a favourite with bees and butterflies, so ideal in a wildlife garden. Field scabious is a lovely blue meadow flower, which can flower from July through to September. Introduced from Eurasia as an ornamental ... green floral bracts. Introduced from Eurasia as an ornamental. There are 4 stamens in each floret, and 1 notched long stigma. Field scabious Botanical name: Knautia arvensis Common name: Field scabious Family: Caprifoliaceae Plant Type: Perennial, Deciduous The flowers are borne on inflorescences in the form of heads; each head contains many small florets. Plant at the front or in the middle of summer flower beds, borders, raised beds and rock gardens. Knautia arvensis, commonly known as field scabious, is a herbaceous perennial species of flowering plant in the honeysuckle family Caprifoliaceae. Knautia arvensis, commonly known as field scabious, is a herbaceous perennial species of flowering plant in the honeysuckle family Caprifoliaceae. We usually send them once a month. Common names include blackamoor's beauty, pins-and-needles, snake flower, and curl-doddy (i.e. You can change your mind by clicking a link we put in the emails. Knautia macedonica: Crimson flowers and green foliage. Finches and linnets love the seeds of this plant. Floral background. Although a meadow flower, scabious look as happy in manicured borders, cottage gardens or gravel gardens as in a wildflower mix. The leaves form a basal rosette, are paired on the stem, the lowest typically 300 mm long, spear shaped, whereas the upper are smaller. Although it will grow in most areas if well drained, it will do better in an alkaline soil.
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After fasting and abstaining for the last 40 days and nights (Sundays not included), the Lenten season draws to a close with Easter Sunday. This day is also known by such names as Paschal Sunday or Resurrection Sunday as well. Easter Sunday is the most important feast in the Catholic community. Even more important than Christmas since it is when we celebrate the resurrection of Jesus Christ.
Easter Sunday and Jesus’s resurrection
This year the commemoration of the resurrection of Jesus Christ happens on the 1st of April. Easter Sunday and related celebrations, such as Ash Wednesday and Palm Sunday, are considered “moveable feasts,” although, in western Christianity, which follows the Gregorian calendar, Easter always falls on a Sunday between March 22nd and April 25th.
Jesus’s resurrection, as per the New Testament in the Bible is the very foundation on which Christianity is built. As the New Testament states, Jesus was arrested because he claimed to be the ‘Son of God’. There was also possibly that this happened because the Romans felt he was a threat to the Roman empire. However, this is just from a historical point of view as there doesn’t seem to be any proof to back it up.
On Good Friday, the ‘Passion of the Lord’ is spoken during church service. It tells of all that happens to Jesus from the time he enters Jerusalem until he dies on the cross and is resurrected three days later. This showed proof that he was the living son of God.
In different ways, all four of the gospels in the New Testament (Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John) state that those who believe in Jesus’ death and resurrection are given “the gift of eternal life.” This essentially means that those of faith will be welcomed into the “Kingdom of Heaven” upon their earthly death.
The feast of the Passover
Easter is also very much associated with the Passover feast. The Last Supper was essentially a Passover feast, occurring the night before Jesus’s arrest. It is from this feast that we get the Christian ritual of Holy Communion. Jesus broke bread with his disciples and declared it to be his ‘body’ and the wine they drank, his ‘blood’. To this day, it remains a fundamental part of Christian religious services.
There are a number of traditions associated with Easter, leading up to Jesus’s resurrection.
People fast and abstain from various things in their daily life during the period of Lent. Lent begins on Ash Wednesday and lasts for 40 days (not including Sundays). Fasting and abstinence are personal decisions and cannot be forced on anyone.
Palm Sunday marks the beginning of Holy Week leading up to Easter. It signifies the day that Jesus arrived in Jerusalem with his disciples. Jesus’s followers were believed to have laid palm leaves on the ground to commemorate his arrival.
The Easter Vigil services usually begin late on Saturday night, also known as Holy Saturday to herald Jesus’s resurrection.
Easter eggs are usually left in hidden spots by the Easter bunny. This tradition has its roots in pagan celebrations. It’s believed that eggs represented fertility and birth in certain pagan traditions that pre-date Christianity. Egg decorating may have become part of the Easter celebration in a nod to the religious significance of Easter, i.e., Jesus’ resurrection or re-birth.
Not much is known about the exact origins of the Easter Bunny tradition. It is believed that it arrived in America with German immigrants in the 1700s. Rabbits are, in many cultures, known as enthusiastic procreators, so the arrival of baby bunnies in springtime meadows became associated with birth and renewal.
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Dear Little Ones: Dissociative Identity Disorder for Young Alters. Written by Jade Miller and illustrated by Germán Zaninetti. CreateSpace, 2015. Available from Createspace and Amazon in paperback and Kindle formats.
Jade is a blogger and an artist. She is a polyfragmented Satanic ritual abuse survivor who wrote this book to help all inner children who are lonely and scared.
Germán Zaninetti is an illustrator living in Argentina. He prefers to work on mythological themes (mostly Greek and Egyptian), but also feels comfortable with child themes.
It’s hard for me to review this book. I would rather just quote the whole thing so that you can see how gentle and loving it is. Frankly, it brings tears to my eyes.
What I like best about the book is that it empowers child alters. Often decisions are made for them by more powerful alters, by the part currently in charge, or by a therapist or other helper. Hopefully those decisions are made with love and caring, so that the child alters can experience some healthy reparenting. But their lack of power when other people are telling them what to do can’t help but be a repetition of a large part of the cult experience.
Jade takes a really different approach. She starts by telling the child alters that it wasn’t their fault. “No matter what happened, no matter what anyone told you, it was not your fault.” And she tells them how wonderful they are.
She then explains the creation of alters. “But because of those things that happened, other people needed to be born on the inside in order to help the body stay alive.” Some stayed young, others grew older. She tells the child alters they get to choose whether they grow older or stay the same.
Jade suggests that they explore inside and see if they can find other children to be friends with, older people to help them and explain things to them. She tells them she might find scary people inside, too. They are trying to help in their own way. She suggests that the children be kind to them because they are hurting, too. “In time, as people are nice to them, they will feel better and learn other ways to help and how to be friends.”
That’s true. If inside people are nice to parts that frighten them, those parts change. But I have never heard (that I remember) anyone telling child alters that they can do this, even without a PhD. Talk about empowerment!
After explaining outside people who are helpers and giving the child alters suggestions on how to stay grounded when they feel overwhelmed, Jade comes back to the theme of choice. They get to choose things that make them feel better.
The ending is like a blessing: “I wish all and only good things for you as you continue to take steps that will bring you into a life of truth and joy and peace.
I am with you in my heart, and I am cheering for you.
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While Canadian clinics are able to serve American women seeking abortions, experts say the country isn’t a ‘silver bullet’ solution.
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Following the overturning of Roe v. Wade in the United States, people in states with restrictive abortion laws are looking for resources beyond their local clinics – including even across the country’s northern border.
But while some Americans might be turning to Canada for a solution to some of the rollbacks on abortion rights in the U.S., seeking abortions in the country may not be the most accessible answer. Canada has had abortion decriminalized since 1988, but traveling across the border to seek care in Canadian abortion clinics remains out of reach for many abortion-seekers in the U.S., experts say. | <urn:uuid:89105c6b-ac20-495f-bae9-0c29cd544341> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://abortion-news.info/%EF%BB%BFhow-canada-factors-into-the-post-roe-landscape/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817001643-20220817031643-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.940958 | 163 | 1.640625 | 2 |
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The purpose of this note is to highlight the emergence of private sectordelivered RAS that aim to address the gaps in traditional government extension. Private sector RAS can serve a company’s business goals while also providing farmers with the essential agronomic and business knowledge needed to be more productive and earn higher incomes. It is in the private sector’s interest to engage with and improve their clients’ farming practices in order to achieve increased company revenues and profits. This enables them to ensure commercial viability, resulting in long-term mutual benefits for farmers, employees, and shareholders.
NOTE 13: Agricultural Innovation Systems
Generating and applying new knowledge is important for all enterprises, including farming. But, quite often, new knowledge that can enhance productivity, competitiveness, and sustainability in farming is not widely adopted at scale. This lack of innovation in agriculture has led to the search for new frameworks such as ‘innovation systems’ that help in understanding how the process of agricultural innovation takes place and how its relevance and quality can be enhanced.
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Justice Rajinder Sachar, former Chief Justice of Delhi High Court and a leading personality of the Human Rights movement of the country, breathed his last on 20 April 2018 in Delhi at an age of 94. Under the joint auspices of the Centre for Protection of Democratic Rights and Secularism (CPDRS) and the Legal Service Centre, a memorial meeting was held in Kolkata on 7 May 2018 to pay tribute to the untiring fighter for human and civil rights, an upright unbending proponent of bringing justice to the oppressed and deprived from his leading position in the country’s judicial system and a veteran socialist. With befitting solemnity and regards, a host of eminent intellectuals recollected the commendable role of Justice Sachar in the history of Indian Judiciary and Human Rights movement, particularly recalling his unique contribution towards giving exposure to and suggesting ways and means to make amend for the miserable plight of the minority community through his well-known Sachar Committee Report which remained unattended to by all governments, his no less significant report on Kashmir, his bold and uncompromising attitude against the repressive Emergency which caused disruption and deprivation in his glorious career and many such other enviable achievements of this great personality. Among those who paid tributes, were Justice Chittatosh Mookherjee, former Chief Justice of Bombay High Court and former Chairperson West Bengal Human Rights Commission, Shri Bimal Kumar Chatterjee Bar-at-Law and former Advocate General, Government of West Bengal, Parthasarathi Sengupta, distinguished Senior Advocate, Calcutta High Court, Prof. Miratun Nahar, eminent educationist and Human Rights campaigner, Dr. Tarun Mandal, Vice-President, Medical Service Centre and former Member of Parliament of India, Justice Malay Sengupta, former Acting Justice of Sikkim High Court and President Legal Service Centre, Dr. Subhash Dasgupta, President and Prof. Pranab Dasgupta, Secretary, CPDRS, Bhabes Ganguly, Advocate, Calcutta High Court and Secretary Legal Service Centre. Justice Malay Sengupta presided over the meeting. Shri Bibhas Chakraborty, distinguished theatre personality and President, Forum of Artistes, Cultural Activists and Intellectuals had sent a message regretting his absence because of indisposition and offering his tribute to Justice Sachar. The packed reverent auditorium of several hundred capacity experienced a solemn evening which brought back many faded out chapters of courageous and relentless fight of an uncompromising character. | <urn:uuid:0b17ed42-2696-472f-8eeb-01fb286abf36> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://sucicommunist.org/on-the-sad-demise-of-justice-rajinder-sachar/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572198.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815175725-20220815205725-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.954567 | 511 | 1.59375 | 2 |
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Uber’s workforce may still be mostly white men, but the company says it is taking new measures to diversify its staff, especially managerial roles.
The newly public ride-hailing company released on Monday its latest diversity report, which included a breakdown of its US workforce by race or ethnicity and gender. White men still make up most of its staff (30.1%), a pattern that is even more evident in leadership, tech, and leadership in tech roles. Black women make up 5.3% of its overall workforce in the US, black men 4%, Hispanic women 3.7% and Hispanic men 4.6%.
For the first time, Uber is setting some diversity and inclusion goals for 2022 that will be tied to the compensation of several of its senior executives — CEO Dara Khosrowshahi, chief financial officer Nelson Chai, chief legal officer Tony West, and chief people officer Nikki Krishnamurthy.
Uber’s global headcount has grown tremendously in the past year: It had approximately 26,000 employees at the end of March 2019, up from 18,000 the year prior. This number does not include drivers, whom Uber does not classify as employees but instead, as independent contractors. Uber had 3.9 million drivers globally at the end of 2018.
While adding thousands of new employees, Uber has shown some diversity gains. The percentage of women in leadership roles grew from 20.9% to 28% in the past year. The largest percentage of women in US leadership roles, though, are white. The amount women in tech leadership roles fell from 15.6% to 13.8%.
At Lyft, by contrast, women occupied 32.8% of all its leadership roles in 2018, but only 11.5% of tech leadership positions. The company, which also went public this year, has not yet released its 2019 report.
Uber barely moved the needle on the number of Hispanic and black employees in tech leadership jobs, according to the report. Both are at 0.8%, up from zero percent last year.
Ahead of last year’s diversity report release, Khosrowshahi told CNN Business that improving senior leadership diversity was a priority.
Its new diversity and inclusion goals for 2022 that are tied to compensation for some senior leaders are to increase the percentage of women in managerial roles and the percentage of underrepresented people in transitional roles, which are sometimes but not always, positions that include managing others.
Uber is also testing a “Rooney Rule” approach for mid-career hires. The original National Football League policy required teams to interview minority candidates for coaching and operations-level roles. In the report, Uber chief diversity officer Bo Young Lee wrote that the goal is to expand the Rooney Rule approach to all its hires in the future.
The company said it also plans to dig into more granular data in the coming months about its global workforce. It is collecting the information through a global self-ID survey where employees can voluntarily share information about their gender identity, veteran status, disabilities and caregiving status, in addition to answering questions about race, sexuality and socioeconomic status.
However, Uber didn’t say in the report how many of its workers are on foreign work visas. Last year, it said 16% of US employees had work visas and that they represented 90 countries.
Tech companies like Apple, Microsoft, and Facebook started voluntarily releasing diversity reports in 2014 following increased scrutiny of the imbalance of gender and race in the industry. Other tech companies eventually followed suit. Uber shared its first diversity report in March 2017 when the company’s “bro culture” and treatment of female employees in particular, was in the spotlight after a former female engineer alleged sexism and harassment.
Diversity and inclusion reports from tech companies have become more robust over the years — recognizing more forms of diversity, such as age breakdowns in an effort to combat ageism — but on the whole, show the industry’s largely underwhelming progress.
Speaking generally about diversity reports, Allison Scott, chief research officer at the Kapor Center, told CNN Business that it is important companies continue to release reports so the public can know their demographics, and whether progress is being made.
“The lack of significant progress indicates how deeply ingrained inequity in tech actually is, and indicates comprehensive approaches — not quick fixes — are needed,” Scott said. “We must ask ourselves, what are the negative consequences to companies when numbers don’t change or hiring goals are not reached?” (Kapor Center’s investment arm, Kapor Capital, invested in Uber in 2010.)
In its newest report, Uber also highlights some employee benefits, such as 18 weeks of parental leave for all full-time global employees. Uber drivers, who are classified as independent contractors and not as employees, do not receive similar benefits such as parental leave, overtime, workers’ compensation, unemployment insurance, or paid sick leave.
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As you reflect on the successes and challenges of the semester, mulling changes to readings, assignments and various pedagogical approaches, please consider this series of short pedagogical workshops being offered by the Brooklyn College Open Education Resources Project and the Center for Teaching and Learning. These workshops illustrate different ways of enacting the belief that students, as part of their learning, can be—and should be—not only consumers of knowledge but also producers of it. Each workshop will connect you with a technologist who can assist you and your students with the digital tools used to support various pedagogies.
-- Miriam Deutch, Director, Brooklyn College Open Education Resources
-- Madeline Fox, Director, Roberta S. Matthews Center for Teaching and Learning at Brooklyn College
Date: October 8, 12:30-2:00 pm
As digital course materials become more widely used in the classroom, instructors have the opportunity to take advantage of modes of engagement that aren’t feasible with print/analog texts. In particular, many freely-available digital annotation tools such as Hypothes.is, Slack and CUNY Academic Commons Group Forum offer the potential for richer engagement with text, both individually and in groups. This workshop will feature a demonstration of courses utilizing digital annotation for textual and media content, the tools and structures that work in different classroom environments, and a discussion of the challenges and opportunities created by digital annotation.
Date: October 15, 12:30-2:00 pm
This workshop will introduce faculty to easy-to-use web-based mapping and podcasting tools for engaging student projects. Online mapping tools offer creative environments in which students can pull together multimedia elements into a shared, visual space. From representing locations found in literature to annotating historical sites and visualizing geospatial data, these tools can tie learning to real-world knowledge and enable the creation of scholarly resources that extend beyond the confines of the classroom.
Date: October 22, 12:30-2:00 pm
Participants will learn how to support student assignments based on the production of podcasts or audio recordings and video recordings, with an emphasis on tools and methods for production and distribution. Video Recordings or podcasts offer students an opportunity to combine classroom learning with research, address a major analytical issue with a creative approach and learn about presenting information for a public audience. This workshop will cover technical approaches to making podcasts and other types of audio for varied web and mobile use cases, video recording resources and models to use for creative inspiration, and best practices for implementing successful audio and video assignments.
Date: October 29, 12:00pm – 1:00 pm
Learn how to use Manifold, and Scalar open-source platforms that allow instructors to create textbooks, course materials and monographs as interactive online books that can also be easily exported and distributed as ebooks, PDF, and print-on-demand formats. You can create dynamic course materials by publishing custom editions of public domain texts and open educational resources (OER). Instructors can embed additional notes, files, images, videos, and interactive content into the text to create an interactive multimedia experience. Manifold and Scalar also support social reading through collaborative annotations that can deepen student engagement with OER course materials. Social annotation helps teach students how to engage in the digital public sphere. Both platforms format well on phones and tablets as well as desktop computers | <urn:uuid:b80088b0-306a-46c3-8ea5-174883c0e40d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://libguides.brooklyn.cuny.edu/research/oer/workshops | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572198.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815175725-20220815205725-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.920971 | 688 | 2.53125 | 3 |
Remote code execution is the ability an attacker has to access someone else's computing device and make changes, no matter where the device is geographically located.
Vulnerabilities can provide an attacker with the ability to execute malicious code and take complete control of an affected system with the privileges of the user running the application. After gaining access to the system, attackers will often attempt to elevate their privileges.
The best way to protect a computer from a remote code execution vulnerability is to fix holes that allow an attacker to gain access. Microsoft often releases security patches addressing remote code execution vulnerabilities in its monthly Patch Tuesday fixes. | <urn:uuid:2c520541-8339-4f25-8910-356c700fa1b8> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.techtarget.com/searchwindowsserver/definition/remote-code-execution-RCE | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571536.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811224716-20220812014716-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.942002 | 121 | 2.65625 | 3 |
We all know the language of teachers possesses the power to inspire or injure, to heal or humiliate. Language sets the academic and emotional climate of the room. The greater awareness of the relationship between the language of the teacher and positive learning outcomes, the greater chance we have of getting the climate just right.
So, we have to ask ourselves: “Does my language optimize learning, achievement, relationships and emotional intelligence?”
Among all the ways teachers communicate their intentions to students, let me focus on one specific type of language that I believe activates a student’s sense of worth and boosts confidence. That is the language of hope.
A Personal Story
Let me illustrate what I mean by the language of hope with a personal example.
Five years ago, when my youngest daughter was in ninth grade, she was a pretty typical high school student – she found great interest in some areas, less so in others, accelerated when necessary, and coasted when possible, doing all that were asked of her, and happily said little to her parents about the daily goings-on in her high school life.
One day, however, during an otherwise ordinary dinner conversation, she announced: “My science teacher thinks I should be a scientist.” Interested and probing for more context around the conversation, I followed with, “Why do you think she said that to you?” She shrugged and said, “I don’t know. She just thinks I’d be a good scientist.” End of conversation.
Future-Oriented Narratives SEL Strategy
But it was not the end for me, especially as the assistant superintendent for curriculum and instruction in the district in which this exchange took place. That seemingly simple statement occupied my thinking for a long time.
Whatever career my daughter chooses does not really matter in this story. What matters is the power of a teacher’s optimism to envision a future for a student that she could not yet see for herself. Regardless of what students will be or do, knowing their teachers believe in them and can see a future world in which they matter and will be influential matters as much, if not more so, than the curriculum we teach.
An important SEL skill is the capacity to envision one’s best self. Narratives of hope are a complementary strategy to help students build their self-awareness, confidence, and sense of agency. Its power rests in its simplicity and authenticity – narratives of hope are not faint praise or platitudes. Quite the opposite. Skilled teachers use this language intentionally and at the right moment, after knowing the student well and seeing something in them that the student cannot yet see for themselves.
Beyond the “I think you would make a great _____” statement itself, teachers can engage parents/guardians or connect the student with a mentor in the school or help the student explore more about the field or pursuit, and they can continue to nurture that future identity for students.
The seemingly simple statement “I think you should be a scientist” crystalized for me the power of future-oriented narratives in schools and classrooms. Watching my daughter flourish in high school and embrace her academic identity in college, I can draw a straight line to that one transformational observation. The concept is generalizable to all grade levels. As educators stock their SEL toolbox with new strategies, this is one with the power to improve the emotional climate of the classroom while helping students envision a future that they cannot yet see for themselves.
About the Author
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Every musician that strives to create the perfect symphony is an apprentice to the tiny nightingale. Every disciplined ballerina is an apprentice to the wind and to that which man calls nature, and so is every poet a student to the perfect word. Yet everything and everyone are the followers of silence. These words are from a place found between the words and therefore not subject to the meter or formulae of man.
They are as they are.
Meet these words and the spaces between the words, as you would a stranger, meet them for the very first time. If they are not known to you, let them wait a while at the door of consciousness. Then welcome them in as you would a friend, invite the stranger in that you may join with them and they with you. If still you do not recognise them, send them on their way, or better still, go follow them.
Hello my silent friend
I wonder what has bound you
Made you mute and clipped your wings?
Surrender your chains
And in exchange
I’ll wrap you round in swathes of silk
To hold you fast
To heal and protect
To keep you safe but let you grow
When all that is
And everything that is not
Appears to be
I’d rather have less of what I want
Than everything of what I do not need
Oh tainted thing, you were once the soft and luscious leaf of green, gorging temptress sitting high upon the pedestal of tree. You held a high and mighty place and looked out above the lowly things. Yet remember you flew and fled and lie upon the ground, the hardened ground were the least be found. No more the luscious green, your body wraps and curls as the brown and tainted thing spreads your self, you denied it’s truth. Soon the earth shall claim you.
….and as the traveller passes he looks up to the sky and to the dancing leaves upon the tree and he says to the heavens ‘teach me, tell me of the truth’ yet know not he the ground he stands on is but holy ground. The answers he searches are trembling beneath his feet…. whispering “once upon a day did I dance upon a tree, once upon a morn I watched and fed upon the sun, once upon a morn I looked out to the world and longed only to be a little bit higher, a little bit closer to the source, yet now I lay upon the earth, that which stands the tree, that which holds the water of life and because now I know must I be hid, must I be taken for fear a man shall know and rip up the tree, for it is only when a thing lays silently within the arms of the earth shall it understand, shall it see, shall it truly dance”.
That luscious rose just a few feet away
Yet I passed it by each and many day.
I lie and wait your visit.
I long your tender tears to drop and endlessly break free.
I instruct and demand the universe with pull and play
To draw that salted drop of life to me.
Just to connect with that which I so often did not see.
Lift this weight of soil and stone, that suffocates this man, but wont.
Break me free from wood and dress.
Day or night it’s all a dark blackness here
The stale air keeps coming and never is there any less.
An eerie silence I know fills that graveyard up above.
And when you come they come to comfort you and to make you leave.
Stay please just a second longer. I hear your words.
Drop you that final kiss and I will reach it with my clasping stagnant hands of bone.
Oh to hold you now or to feel the wind.
I long the snail and slug and inevitability to come.
A million years upon each second as time drools its way
I cannot force my head to explode, though I try.
Another crunched up, cold, dark, endless day.
I scream to the world with all that’s left,
Yet the ant screams louder than I .
I thump and batter the sides of the coffin, my prison.
How shall I die? How can I die?
I hear your softness call my name.
Go home you say, we shall meet some day.
I close my eyes and give up the fight
I shall be here for two million years.
It’s all ok. I am here but you are there.
I much rather it be this way.
Go my love and dance with the sun.
Then suddenly within an instance and yet not timed
The sun it broke the ground, unrhymed
Its ray stabbed my heart, but with joy
The universe swung me as a toy.
I cared not where or what it did, to move and feel and sway and swap
It elevated me straight to the very top
I watched you cry and laugh broke out.
I seen the tears and wondered what that’s about.
Why you looking for me down there?
Don’t waste your breath or give a care
For I am here in simple bliss
No permits, or remarked remiss.
A simple thing stopped me rotting
I realised simply,
I know nothing. ∞
For once there was a perfect time, filled with perfect, in perfect rhyme.
The laze of man, of thing and things and all the emptiness that human brings
Met with perfect, at the door, dropped it’s bag and cried no more.
Yet human man he soon forgot, built his castle, learned to rot.
Forgot that perfect, held his hand, tolled the roads, ploughed the land.
Then one day when man was old, a moment touched, a silence hold.
Of a perfect day, not noticed then, cared then less, cared not again.
It’s that call that calls him now.
Frets the beads, upon his brow.
…….perfect came and perfect went
A perfect moment, no man has spent
For perfect is as perfect be, perfect touch, as perfect see.
Yes perfect called, this man missed thee
For perfect shouts, so silently.
Perfect kissed with perfect breath
Then perfect looked,
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Credits: poem @ justme; Image: CatrinPhoto; All rights reserved.
Our Father, mother, God, creator of everything.
Who art perfectness
Hallowed be thy name
Thy kingdom be realised and experienced
On earth through humanity, as is our spirit
Give us this day our daily task because there is only this day
Forgive us for not understanding because it is through understanding and forgiveness we are forgiven and understood
Lead us not into temptation because thou could not, else thou would not be a God of love.
Deliver us home through grace
That we may live.
Now close thy eyes and go nowhere, sense the air caress your hair
Feel the movement of thy breath, fear not life, fear not death.
The past is lost the future gone, in this moment now you belong.
It is within this moment that the moment is held
It is not what is done, moved or yelled.
It is the moment itself which holds the space
A silent moment filled with grace.
Catch a breath, thundering bliss, give your thoughts a passive miss
Lay you quiet upon this silent wind, for truly thou have never sinned
Submerge and melt, surrender every cell, sincere and heartfelt, just in quietness…
now ye dwell.
All the moments that ever were, all the moments still to share.
Let the earth just be.
For within this moment
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China’s Ministry of Commerce said yesterday, Jan. 5, that foreign investment in China had reached $126 billion in the first 11 months of 2015. The announcement came on the same day that the China Securities Regulatory Commission verbally informed shareholders with greater than a 5 percent interest in Chinese companies on the stock market that a ban on selling their stock would remain in effect for an unspecified amount of time beyond the initial 6-month timeframe that was set to expire on Jan. 8. Furthermore, official government statistics indicate that in 2015, more than $600 billion left the country. There is a basic contradiction in trying to understand these numbers. Why is Beijing preventing Chinese institutions from selling stocks if there is so much foreign investment, and why is there such an increase in the level of capital flight?
Let’s begin with the foreign investment numbers. The Ministry of Commerce claimed not just $126 billion in foreign investment, but that $114 billion was non-financial investment, an increase of 7.9 percent compared to the previous year’s total foreign investment of $119.6 billion. The report also noted that 2014 was the first time that China had overtaken the U.S. as the world’s largest recipient of foreign investment. The report claimed that 24,000 foreign funded enterprises were founded in the first 11 months of 2015, and that an increasing amount of capital was flowing to the service sector and advanced manufacturing.
The first thing to note about these numbers is that they differ from UNCTAD (United Nations Conference on Trade and Development) figures. UNCTAD data supports the notion that China overtook the U.S. in terms of foreign investment last year, but UNCTAD said China received $128 billion in 2014. Meanwhile, the World Bank has a different set of figures, putting the number of total foreign direct investment flow to China at just over $280 billion. These numbers all generally point to the same general conclusion – that investment in China has increased. But we have three different numbers to choose from and that is one indicator of how unreliable these numbers can be.
The second thing to note is that no matter which set of data you decide is most reliable, there is another wrinkle. The World Bank figure is so much larger than UNCTAD and Chinese government data likely because it combines foreign investment flow into China and Hong Kong into one number. China’s Ministry of Commerce reported last month that by far the biggest source of foreign investment in China was Hong Kong at $83.8 billion, or over 66 percent of total foreign investment in China. The next largest was Singapore, at $5.8 billion. That is because it is still far easier to structure investment bound for China in Hong Kong as a result of the regulatory challenges one would face in China.
Some of this investment is no doubt foreign investment in the traditional sense. But some of it isn’t. Some of the foreign investment into China from Hong Kong is actually from China itself – a result of domestic Chinese individuals or companies seeking to receive incentives reserved for foreign investors. It’s impossible to know just how much of investment in China from Hong Kong falls into this category. But if we look at data from the Hong Kong Census and Statistics Department for the year 2013, we see that China was the largest source of direct investment flow into Hong Kong, which was reported at 8 percent, or approximately $6 billion – and that’s just the money that is on the books. The best thing one can do to try to figure out how much of the money from Hong Kong is actually money rerouted from China is guess.
This has been a statistics heavy explanation, but bear with us for two more examples before we conclude. Back on July 8, when China’s stock market was in the midst of a rout that would result in the loss of over $5 trillion worth of value, rules were put in place preventing major shareholders and executives of Chinese companies from selling stock. Those rules were set to come off the books on Jan. 8 – but the prospect of those sales being legal were enough to send the Chinese markets into a nosedive on Jan. 4. Goldman Sachs reported that the ban may have resulted in at least $185 billion of shares being kept off the market, but that seems like a relatively small number compared to Monday’s fire sale. Here again though, we have no clear way of knowing just how much money those who were forced by the government to hold on to their shares lost.
China has also expressed concern in recent months about the huge levels of capital flight leaving the country. Chinese government data indicates that in the past year, over $600 billion worth of assets in Chinese Yuan were converted into a foreign currency. After the summer stock market scare, in August and September, that number reached over $100 billion a month. This is again a terribly tricky thing to try and estimate. For example, it is difficult to know how much is capital flight, and how much might simply be foreign investment – which has been Chinese government policy to increase in recent years. The U.S. Treasury Department, using Chinese balance of payments data, calculated that in the first half of 2015, non-foreign direct investment outflows from China totaled $250 billion, a massive increase from the $26 billion of the same period in 2014. But here, much of what goes into the statistics relies on guess-work. China reportedly broke up an underground banking network this past November which handled some $64 billion in illegal foreign exchange transactions – and that was just one such network.
Now that we have sufficiently muddled the seeming clarity of the situation, we return to our initial question. How does it make sense that foreign investment in China is reaching new highs at the same time that capital flight is reaching new highs and the Chinese Securities Regulatory Commission is preventing Chinese executives and businessmen from selling shares on the stock market? To our view, it does not make sense, which means the stats about foreign investment are wrong, or the stats about capital flight are wrong, or both are wrong. All are viable explanations. What we can say is the Chinese are touting high levels of foreign investment at the same time that there are reports of extremely high sums of money leaving the country and restrictions on what individuals can currently do with assets they own.
The problem of accurate statistics is an old problem for China. When Emperor Yongzheng ascended to power in the Qing dynasty in 1723-1735, his first step in attempting to reform and streamline the tax system began with accumulating accurate information – something to which he did not have access. It is a problem that plagues all statistics that come out of China to this day. There is no unified statistical reporting system in China. Statistics are gathered at the local level and passed upwards until they reach the central government. The bureaucrats involved in running this system enjoy professional success and advancement when their numbers are good – and therefore have an incentive to manipulate them – to inflate them to appear successful, to moderate them in order to avoid attention. This is to say nothing of the fact that the central government has reasons of its own to manipulate the figures it presents to the public. China releases its GDP numbers for the previous year usually in the third week of January – this despite the fact that any one who appreciates the complexity of calculating such a figure takes far longer than three weeks.
The point here is not to join the chorus of glib naysayers about Chinese economic statistics. Indeed, China is not unique among world nations when it comes to the unreliability of statistics about its economic performance or its demography. All nations have difficulties with economic statistics. It is extraordinarily difficult to measure economic activity in countries with millions of people and trillions of transactions. We are also not saying that it is impossible to say anything with certainty and that all is vanity. There are some things we can say with confidence – like the fact that the People’s Bank of China pumped $20 billion into the country’s financial system on Tuesday to prop up the struggling Chinese stock market, and that the Shanghai Composite responded by closing down just 0.26 percent on the day as a result.
So while there are such things as concrete facts, there are many more things we cannot say with confidence, and it is important to be honest about what those things are. It also happens to be why we believe our model-based approach is effective. Rather than looking at numbers we know are faulty and chaining our analysis to divining an incomplete understanding from them, we take the numbers into account – both what they say and what the person who published them might want us to conclude. That is the point at which you can begin to decide what they really mean. | <urn:uuid:24108862-e0ac-4315-8cd7-626058d798cf> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://geopoliticalfutures.com/the-inadequacy-of-chinese-statistics/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572198.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815175725-20220815205725-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.972917 | 1,777 | 2.328125 | 2 |
General categories include anything not specifically covered by Applied or Other. Some examples are shown below. All are eligible for the General competitions and in these they are shown all together. In some years there may be specific competitions for some categories.
In all cases, the final image and all its components must only be the work of the author.
A photographic creation by the author, including the use of manipulation through the camera, or digital techniques. Computer generated images are accepted.
Special effects may be carried out to the original image and other pictures/imported photographs may be added to provide extra detail.
This is your opportunity to show what you can do in any way you wish. Let your imagination run riot!
An abstract image is an image that does not attempt to represent a recognisable object or external reality, but rather seeks to achieve its effect using shapes, colours, patterns or textures. This may be created in camera and/or by use of post-processing.
Although the trophy is the Portraiture Cup you do not have to confine yourself strictly to a portrait. But the main focus of your images should be on people. An emotional content or interaction between any subjects should also be considered important to show Humanity in all of its forms.
We encourage creative work in this section which could, for example, include: portraits, sports, cultures, fine art nudes, street photography, re-enactments, theatre, dance, goths and photo-journalism.
Journalism, Sport and Documentary
These images cover news or sporting events or provide information about a particular subject. They will be presented with truth and integrity, and be suitable for publication or an historical record.
Sport photographs will usually feature the sport being played, but might include sports people immediately before or after playing. Journalism photographs may cover just one aspect of a subject: they will record the actual scene but not necessarily give the full story (eg a performer on stage). Documentary photographs will contribute to a balanced view and understanding of a subject (eg a sequence showing a performer at work and at leisure and perhaps comparison with other performers).
Includes recreations, domestic animals and gardens.
Pictorial Colour and Pictorial Mono
The object of pictorial photography is to produce a picture that arouses an emotional response in the viewer. The “WOW” factor. The “I would like to have that picture hanging on the wall” reaction. Emotions are not all pleasant: anger, greed, fear and despair are all emotions which can be aroused by a picture as well as pleasure, joy, nostalgia, etc.
The intensity of the response is the primary criterion for judging the picture. Technical matters such as definition, exposure and contrast may (or in some cases may not) contribute to an overall effect, but they are secondary to the emotional response.
A ‘scape’ image shows us a vista. This can include, but is not restricted to, landscapes, cityscapes, seascapes, waterscapes and skyscapes. Individual elements such as a single tree, boat, building or a person must not dominate but rather be part of an overall image adding to the mood or atmosphere of the environment captured.
An arrangement of ordinary objects by the author. These objects will predominantly be inanimate and may include dead animals, fruit or flowers. The photographic approach may range from record to artistic to include added textures and composites. Images may feature interesting patterns, colours and shapes.
Images that capture spontaneous (not posed) chance encounters and random incidents, in public spaces (not necessarily a street) all around the world. People will usually feature. A scene without people must project a decidedly human character.
Themed competitions such as Water, Weather and Seasons require us to interpret and explain the competition theme in our images. The theme should be the key component of the image whether it, for example:
- celebrates the magic of a season (winter, spring, summer or autumn);
- explores the ways in which water occurs in nature (water, ice, steam) or in the interaction of water with mankind;
- describes an example of the huge variations in our weather and its impact on us, the environment or the landscape.
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Why the WHO is strengthening its warning on sugar substitutes
food browser reports that the World Health Organization (WHO) draft guideline advises against the consumption of nutritive sweeteners for a number of reasons. It says these sweeteners are often used in foods with poor nutrient profiles and often replace more nutrient dense options. Individuals can consume diet soda instead of low-fat milk, for example.
The Harvard Medical School notes that nutritious sweeteners are much more potent than sugar or high fructose corn syrup. This potency can alter our perception of taste and make nutrient-dense foods like fruit taste bland in comparison.
The WHO also noted that while sugar substitutes may be helpful for short-term weight loss, they also carry other long-term risks. He cites systematic meta-analyses that have shown that nutritious sweeteners tend to coincide with weight gain and high BMI over long-term periods. He also noted that although the evidence was limited, some data showed an increased risk of “type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease and mortality in adults”. The American Heart Association notes that some people may use dieting or calorie-free options as a way to justify eating high-calorie foods later in the day as a “reward” for their “healthier” choices.
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Malawi’s laws should clearly stipulate how the country engages with investors in the extractive industry—minerals, oil and gas—by providing for local participation and to avoid suspicion of corruption.
Speaking in a telephone interview on Sunday, in relation to the review of the Minerals and Mines Act 1981, the Institute for Policy Interaction (IPI) executive director Rafik Hajat said agreements in the extractive industry must be standard to benefit locals and avoid suspicion.
Hajat pointed out that laws must ensure that companies that invest in the extractive sector must also provide for local participation as the case has been in other countries including Tanzania and Zimbabwe.
“A template should be appended to the Act that provides on the requirements that the investor should meet. This will remove suspicions of corruption having taken place,” said Hajat.
He further called for the renegotiations of previous contracts.
Analysts and activists have been crying foul over some of the contracts that the country negotiated including Kayerekera’s Paladin Africa Limited agreement in which government has 15 percent stakes—which is far below what other companies offer in the region.
Hajat noted that to ensure that locals participate in the extractive industry the investors must be required by statute to list on the Malawi Stock Exchange (MSE) and offer a certain amount of shares to the public within a particular time.
He added that to ensure that the public has access to the shares the government should provide a loan scheme to those that
He, however, noted that care should be taken to ensure that not only politicians benefit from the scheme.
The World Bank and the European Union are providing support to the development of the mining sector through the Mining Governance and Growth Support Project (MGGSP).
The project is meant to help improve efficiency, transparency and sustainability of mining sector management.
Minister of Natural Resources, Energy and Mining Atupele Muluzi was quoted in The Weekend Nation last week having said that in order for mining to make tangible economic contribution to the country’s economic growth, there is need for concerted efforts, consistent and spirited efforts towards promotion of sustainable mining.
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lmost every job carries with it certain threats to health. In some especially dangerous jobs the risks are obvious (think of firefighting or being a police officer). But even being an office worker has its own health risks. While these risks are not of a violent or immediate nature, anyone working an office job should be aware of them. More importantly, they should be aware of how to mitigate the risks and keep themselves in good health. Here are the six biggest risks to health of working at an office job.
The Six Greatest Risks to Health of an Office Job
Protection & Suggestions
Carpal tunnel syndrome
Repetitive hand movements, such as typing, can cause carpal tunnel syndrome. Carpal tunnel syndrome is more than a little stiffness in your finger joints. It is marked by tingling, numbness, and weakness in the hands, and is caused by pressure on the median nerve that runs through the wrist. Avoid the condition by resting your hands more often and limiting time spent typing. When you are typing, keep your wrist straight, relaxed, and slightly below your hands.
Lower back pain
Sitting in a chair all day will cause back pain if, like most people, you have poor posture. The lower spine is naturally designed to have a forward curve to it. But, slouching forward will reverse this curve and, if habitual, will result in significant pain and perhaps even spinal damage. Avoid lower back pain by correcting your posture: hold you shoulders high, and keep a forward curve to the lower spine. Putting a pillow or lumbar support product between your back and the chair can help, as can buying a supportive, ergonomic chair. Exercising to maintain a strong core is also a good idea.
Staring at a computer eight hours a day is bad for your eyes. Gaze at your monitor for long enough and your vision will become blurry; your eyes will be irritated and sensitive. Eyestrain can also cause painful headaches. Relieve the symptoms by increasing font sizes and turning down the brightness of your computer. The best solution, however, is taking regular breaks every few hours: a few minutes away from the computer will give your eyes time to recover.
Too much stress
Excess stress can make you unhappy, irritable, anxious, and even contribute to conditions like obesity and heart disease. Unfortunately, offices tend to be very stressful environments. Not only will you be busy with difficult, time-consuming responsibilities, but personal conflicts with bosses or coworkers can also be sources of stress. Alleviate tension in your life by maintaining a healthy work-life balance and keeping your workload at a level you can handle. Getting exercise and enough sleep, and having loved ones you can vent to will help as well.
Working in an office means being surrounded by other people all day. These conditions are ripe for the spread of illnesses. The common cold and -- more seriously -- the flu are the sicknesses most likely to be contracted at work. The diseases you can catch at an office job are unlikely to threaten your life, but can definitely make you miserable. Protect yourself by washing your hands regularly and avoiding contact with the infected -- in fact, encourage sick people to stay at home.
The sedentary lifestyle
Perhaps the biggest health risk of having an office job is the sitting itself. A sedentary lifestyle is unnatural -- humans were not designed to stay seated for long periods on a regular basis. Doing so has been connected to a multitude of diseases, including heart disease, depression, diabetes, obesity, anxiety, and osteoporosis. Generally, a sedentary lifestyle has been linked to earlier mortality.
Protecting yourself from this health risk is exceptionally difficult, since to be an office worker is almost by definition to live a sedentary life. However, regular exercise in your free time can greatly decrease the dangers. At work, don't remain seated the entire day. Get up and move around at least every few hours, even if only for a few minutes. If possible, consider getting a standing desk.
An office job has its own share of dangers to health. These dangers are not of an immediate variety, but that doesn't mean you can ignore them. In fact, many of the risks are the sort that you will have to watch out for on a daily basis. Stay alert and keep a watch over your own behavior -- that way if you notice yourself slipping into unwise behavior (like sitting slouched over or staying seated at your desk all day) you can adjust and avoid suffering any harm. Luckily, a little care and attention should be enough to greatly mitigate the health risks of an office job. | <urn:uuid:3c92eb42-5a16-48ea-89ca-4fa9c86a1b33> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.yellowkord.com/blog/the-six-greatest-risks-to-health-of-an-office-job | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571909.51/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813051311-20220813081311-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.968003 | 954 | 2.15625 | 2 |
If you have been using Google Maps for a long time to navigate, you may need to export existing data as backups, or use it in other applications.
Fortunately, Google provides an easy option for those of you who want to download data on a Google Map.
Export Data from Google Maps
- Go to Your data in Maps page in a web browser.
- Scroll down and click the option Download your Maps data.
- Choose which data you want to include in the download process. Place a tick on the options Location History, Maps (your places), and My Maps. If you have clicked Next step.
- On the menu Delivery method, you can choose where the data will be stored. You can choose it in the form of a direct link via email or send data directly to cloud storage.
- In the menu Frequency, select Export once (once) or export periodically in 1 year.
- On the File type & size menu, select the file format and size you want. If you have clicked Create export.
- Wait for the process for a while (depending on how big the file is to be exported) and you will find a download link to download the Google Maps data file.
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Association between dietary fiber intake and atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease risk in adults: a cross-sectional study of 14,947 population based on the National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys
BMC Public Health volume 22, Article number: 1076 (2022)
This study aimed to investigate the association between dietary fiber intake and long-term cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk based on the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) database.
A total of 14,947 participants aged 20–79 from the NHANES database were included in this study between 2009 and 2018. The atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ASCVD) score was utilized to predict the 10-year risk of CVD in individuals (low, borderline, intermediate, and high risk). Weighted univariate and multinomial multivariate logistic regression analyses were used to analyze the association between dietary fiber intake and long-term CVD risk.
Higher dietary fiber density may be associated with a reduced ASCVD risk in participants with intermediate risk [odds ratio (OR) = 0.76; 95% confidence interval (CI), 0.61–0.94] and high risk (OR = 0.60; 95%CI, 0.45–0.81) compared with those in the group with low risk. Higher total dietary fiber intake may also reduce ASCVD risk in participants with high risk (OR = 0.84; 95%CI, 0.75–0.95). Subgroup analyses showed that higher dietary fiber density may be related to reduced ASCVD risk in intermediate-risk participants aged 20–39 (OR = 0.62; 95%CI, 0.43–0.89) and 40–59 (OR = 0.67; 95%CI, 0.49–0.94). In high-risk participants, higher dietary fiber density may reduce ASCVD risk in 20–39-year-old (OR = 0.38; 95%CI, 0.19–0.77), 40–59-year-old (OR = 0.37; 95%CI, 0.20–0.70), male (OR = 0.47; 95%CI, 0.23–0.97) and female (OR = 0.57; 95%CI, 0.38–0.86) participants.
Higher dietary fiber density and total dietary fiber intake were associated with a lower long-term CVD risk, especially in the 20–39 and 40–59 age groups, where the reduction was most significant.
Cardiovascular diseases (CVD), the world’s leading cause of death, are a group of disorders of the heart and blood vessels, including coronary heart disease, cerebrovascular disease, rheumatic heart disease and other diseases, claiming an estimated 17.9 million lives each year [1, 2]. CVD presents a heavy burden for the world due to its high treatment cost and extensive preventive interventions [3, 4]. Evidence demonstrated that the occurrence of most CVD can be attributed to a series of factors, such as smoking, obesity, diabetes, dyslipidemia, hypertension, diet, excessive alcohol consumption, and mental state [5, 6]. Early prevention can effectively reduce the incidence of CVD, but CVD-related deaths still account for a large proportion of all-cause deaths.
Dietary fiber can affect the cardiometabolic pathways, improve lipid or lipoprotein metabolism, insulin homeostasis, and so on . Epidemiologic studies have shown that dietary fiber intake is associated with the CVD risk in short and medium-term follow-up [8,9,10]. Murai et al. indicated that seaweed intake was inversely associated with the risk of ischemic heart disease . Song et al. found that total fruit and whole fruit intake were inversely related to cardiovascular risk factors such as obesity, metabolic syndrome and hypertension . Wang et al. showed that higher fiber intake and fiber intake density may be associated with a lower risk of major adverse cardiovascular events . An in-depth understanding of the role of dietary fiber intake in predicting the long-term CVD risk can help the public identify optimal dietary patterns and improve long-term survival. The atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ASCVD) score, recommended by the American College of Cardiology (ACC) and American Heart Association (AHA), is a commonly and widely used to evaluate the 10-year CVD . In this study, we applied this score to identify people at high risk of CVD over the next ten years and assessed the association between dietary fiber intake and the CVD risk based on the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) database.
Data in this study were extracted from the NHANES database between 2009 and 2018, which is a cross-sectional survey of the health and nutrition status of the U.S. civilian and non-institutionalized population conducted by the National Center of Health Statistics (NCHS) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Subjects were randomly screened based on a complex, stratified multi-stage cluster sampling design. The information collection was carried out through interviews. Additional information was available at: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/tutorials/dietary/SurveyOrientation/Resource Dietary Analysis/intro.htm. A total of 14,947 participants with complete data were included in this study.
Participants’ information including age (20–79 years old), gender (male and female), body mass index (BMI, kg/m2), race (Mexican Americans, Hispanics, non-Hispanic whites, non-Hispanic blacks, and others), marital status (married, widowed, divorced/separated, and unmarried), education level (< high school, high school/GED, and > high school), family income (< 20,000$ and ≥ 20,000$), smoking status (yes and no), hypertension (yes and no), diabetes (yes and no), metabolic syndrome (yes and no), use of high blood pressure medication (yes and no), now increasing exercise (yes and no), systolic blood pressure (SBP), diastolic blood pressure (DBP), high-density lipoprotein (HDL), total cholesterol (TC), total bilirubin, creatinine (Cr), total energy, total dietary fiber intake, and dietary fiber density was collected.
The data on dietary fiber intake were obtained through two 24-h dietary recall interviews. The first dietary recall interview was conducted in the mobile examination center (MEC), and the second interview was conducted using phones 3 to 10 days later. The first dietary recall interview was a face-to-face interview. A set of measurement guidelines (various glasses, bowls, mugs, bottles, household spoons, measuring cups and spoons, a ruler, thickness sticks, bean bags, and circles) was available in the MEC dietary interview room for participants to use to report the amount of food. There were more checks on weekends than on weekdays, and food intake may vary between weekdays and weekends. Therefore, the use of the MEC weight disproportionately represents weekend intake. Dietary fiber intake was calculated according to the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) food and nutrient database for dietary studies . Total dietary fiber intake was obtained based on an average of the two interviews. Dietary fiber density (10 g/1000 kcal) was defined as the ratio of dietary fiber intake to total energy intake.
Smoking status was confirmed according to two items, including SMQ020 (Have you smoked at least 100 cigarettes in your lifetime?) and SMQ935 (Do you smoke cigarettes now?). The subjects were divided into a smoking group (meeting the two items) and a non-smoking group (meeting items ≤ 1).
The ASCVD risk score was utilized to predict the 10-year risk of CVD in individuals based on the age, sex, race, cholesterol levels, blood pressure, medication use, diabetic status, and smoking status of the participants . The predictive criteria of the 10-year risk of CVD were as follows: (1) low risk (< 5%); (2) borderline risk (5% to 7.5%); (3) intermediate risk (≥ 7.5% to < 20%); (4) high risk (≥ 20%). The participants with low risk served as the control group for CVD, and others with borderline/intermediate/high risk served as the case group.
Shapiro–Wilk test was conducted to test the normality of the data. Measurement data with normal distribution were described by mean ± standard deviation (SD). The t-test was used for comparison between the two groups, and analysis of variance was used for comparison between multiple groups. Data with abnormal distribution were presented by the median and interquartile range [M (Q1, Q3)]. The Man-Whitney U rank-sum test was used for comparison between two groups, and the Kruskal–Wallis H rank-sum test was used for comparison between multiple groups. Enumeration data were described by the numbers and percentage [n (%)]. Chi-square test or Fisher’s exact probability test was used to perform the comparison between groups. All statistical analyses were performed by SAS9.4 software (SAS Institute Inc., Cary, NC, USA) using a two-sided test. P-value < 0.05 was considered statistically significant.
Differences between the low-risk, borderline-risk, intermediate-risk, and high-risk groups were analyzed to find possible confounders. The association between dietary fiber density and total dietary fiber and long-term CVD risk was analyzed in different CVD risk groups. Model 1 was a weighted univariate multinomial logistic regression model. Model 2 was a weighted multinomial multivariate logistic regression model that adjusted for age, gender, family income, education levels, and marital status. Model 3 was a weighted multinomial multivariate logistic regression model that adjusted for age, gender, family income, education levels, marital status, total bilirubin, creatinine, and metabolic syndrome. The normality test for continuous variables was shown in Supplement Fig. 1. The multicollinearity diagnosis for weighted models was presented in Supplement Table 1.
Baseline characteristics of participants
A total of 19,693 participants were extracted from the NHANES database, 1,231 participants aged < 20 or ≥ 80, 601 participants diagnosed with CVD, and 2,914 participants with incomplete data were excluded. Finally, 14,947 participants were included in the study (Fig. 1). Among the included participants, the median age was 46.00 (33.00, 60.00) years, including 7,183 (48.06%) males and 7,764 (51.94%) females. The median total dietary fiber intake and dietary fiber density were 15.45 (10.75, 21.85) g and 0.78 (0.58, 1.06) 10 g/1000 kcal, respectively. According to the ASCVD, the predicted number of participants at low risk, borderline risk, intermediate risk, and high risk for CVD over the next 10 years were 5,735 (38.37%), 1,082 (7.24%), 3,329 (22.27%), and 4,801 (32,12%), respectively. The characteristics of individuals were shown in Table 1.
Difference analysis between the low-risk, borderline-risk, intermediate-risk, and high-risk ASCVD groups showed statistical difference in age, gender, BMI, race, marital status, education level, family income, hypertension, diabetes, metabolic syndrome, use of high blood pressure medication, SBP, DBP, HDL, TC, total bilirubin, creatinine, total energy, and dietary fiber density among the four groups (all P < 0.001). However, no statistical difference was found in total dietary fiber intake among the four groups (P = 0.776; Table1).
Association of dietary fiber density and total dietary fiber with ASCVD risk
The relationships between dietary fiber density and ASCVD risk were shown in Fig. 2. There were no statistically significant between dietary fiber density and ASCVD risk in different risk groups (model 1; P > 0.05). After adjustment for age, gender, family income, education levels, and marital status (model 2), higher dietary fiber density may reduce the ASCVD risk in participants with intermediate risk [odds ratio (OR) = 0.70; 95% confidence interval (CI), 0.57–0.86] and high risk (OR = 0.53; 95%CI, 0.40–0.71) compared with those in low-risk group. After further adjustment for total bilirubin, creatinine, and metabolic syndrome (model 3), higher dietary fiber density was still associated with a reduced ASCVD risk in participants with intermediate-risk (OR = 0.76; 95%CI, 0.61–0.94) and high-risk (OR = 0.60; 95%CI, 0.45–0.81).
The association between total dietary fiber intake and ASCVD risk was also analyzed (Fig. 2). Compared with participants in the ASCVD low-risk group, higher total dietary fiber intake was related to a reduced ASCVD risk in participants with intermediate risk (OR = 0.89; 95%CI, 0.82–0.97) and high risk (OR = 0.81; 95%CI, 0.73–0.91) when adjustment for age, gender, family income, education levels, and marital status. After further adjustment for total bilirubin, creatinine, and metabolic syndrome, higher total dietary fiber intake may still reduce ASCVD risk in participants with high risk (OR = 0.84; 95%CI, 0.75–0.95), while no statistical significance was found among participants in the intermediate-risk group (P = 0.058).
Further analysis of the relationship between dietary fiber density and ASCVD risk based on age and gender
As summarized in Fig. 3, subgroup analysis was to further explore the relationship between dietary fiber density and ASCVD risk in age and gender subgroups. The results showed that higher dietary fiber density was associated with a reduced ASCVD risk in intermediate-risk participants aged 20–39 (OR = 0.62; 95%CI, 0.43–0.89) and 40–59 (OR = 0.67; 95%CI, 0.49–0.94) after adjustment for all confounders, while no statistical significances were observed in participants aged ≥ 60 (P = 0.405), males (P = 0.062) and females (P = 0.279). Compared with participants in the low-risk group, higher dietary fiber density may also reduce ASCVD risk in high-risk 20–39-year-old (OR = 0.38; 95%CI, 0.19–0.77), 40–59-year-old (OR = 0.37; 95%CI, 0.20–0.70), male (OR = 0.47; 95%CI, 0.23–0.97) and female (OR = 0.57; 95%CI, 0.38–0.86) participants after adjustment for all confounders, while no statistical significance was found in participants aged ≥ 60 (P = 0.498).
In this study, we analyzed the association between dietary fiber density and total dietary fiber and long-term CVD risk in different ASCVD risk groups based on a large sample from the NHANES database. Our results found that both higher dietary fiber density and total dietary fiber were associated with a reduced long-term ASCVD risk in the intermediate-risk and high-risk groups. Subgroup analyses showed that higher dietary fiber density was still related to a reduced ASCVD risk in intermediate-risk and high-risk participants aged 20–39 and 40–59, as well as in high-risk male and female participants.
Dietary fiber has been shown to have multiple health benefits, but the average daily intake for most Americans is 15 g/day, which is below the recommended amount . According to the results of epidemiological studies on the protective effect of dietary fiber intake, the recommended dietary reference intake of dietary fiber is 14 g/1000 kcal . Our results showed that higher dietary fiber density and total dietary fiber intake were associated with a lower long-term CVD risk. Previous studies have focused on the association between dietary fiber intake and short-term and medium-term CVD risk [8,9,10], while our results provided the relationship between dietary fiber density and total dietary fiber intake and long-term CVD risk. Numerous studies suggested that total dietary fiber was inversely related to the risk of weight gain , coronary heart disease , high blood pressure , and CVD death . Several biological mechanisms may explain the association between higher dietary fiber intake and lower CVD risk. First, dietary fiber may reduce the CVD risk by reducing the coagulation activity of type 1 plasminogen activator inhibitor and coagulation factor VII [18, 19]. Second, higher dietary fiber intake may be related to lower inflammatory response. Several studies have reported that higher dietary fiber intake can reduce the levels of inflammatory markers such as C-reactive protein [20, 21]. Third, the protective effect of dietary fiber on CVD may be associated with metabolic diseases, that is, dietary fiber may regulate the intestinal microbiota, which plays an important role in the development of metabolic diseases such as atherosclerosis, obesity and type 2 diabetes [22,23,24].
Our results found that higher dietary fiber density was significantly associated with a lower CVD risk in participants aged 20–39 and 40–59. The possible explanation was that the relationship between high dietary fiber intake and low CVD risk was related to the general health of the population, the absorption of fiber, and the incidence of obesity. Edwards et al. demonstrated that young people in many countries had insufficient intake of dietary fiber . Yamada et al. indicated that adults aged 30–40 had a rapid increase in BMI . These may be due to the fact that the consumption of a large number of refined carbohydrates, lipids, and low dietary fiber foods was conducive to weight gain [27,28,29]. In addition, dietary fiber has been used for the prevention and treatment of obesity [30, 31]. Studies have shown that obesity is an important risk factor for CVD [32, 33]. The type and absorption of dietary fiber may also affect the CVD risk. McKeown et al. demonstrated that cereal fiber intake was associated with a reduction in the prevalence of metabolic syndrome, but not with total fiber and fruit fiber intake . Mirmiran et al. found that the intake of different types of dietary fiber was related to a reduced CVD risk, especially soluble dietary fiber . Our results may also indicate that the earlier intake of high dietary fiber, the better the protection against CVD.
Some strengths were presented in this study, we analyzed the impact of dietary fiber density and total dietary fiber on long-term CVD risk in different risk groups based on ASCVD. Dietary fiber density considered the factor of energy, which can better reflect the overall situation of individual dietary fiber in daily diet. Therefore, further analysis was performed to explore the relationship between dietary fiber density and ASCVD risk in age and gender subgroups. However, this study had some limitations. First, the effect of insoluble and soluble fiber intake on CVD risk could not be analyzed because of the lack of data. Second, we did not analyze the effect of different dietary fiber intake doses on CVD risk. Third, a dietary fiber intake of 14 g/1000 kcal had a better protective effect [12, 13], while the median dietary fiber intake of our study population was 7.81 g/1000 kcal, which may reduce the accuracy of our results. Fourth, some variables related to CVD, such as genetic factors could not be analyzed due to the database limitations. Fifth, mental state and sleep duration were associated with CVD risk [36, 37], but we did not analyze the effects of these variables, which may be potentially confounding.
Higher dietary fiber density and total dietary fiber were associated with a lower long-term CVD risk. Higher dietary fiber density was most significantly related to a lower ASCVD risk in people aged 20–39 and 40–59. Young people may benefit more from a high intake of dietary fiber to protect against CVD.
Availability of data and materials
The datasets generated and/or analyzed during the current study are available in the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey public database, https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nhanes/index.htm.
National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey
National Center of Health Statistics
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Mobile examination center
United States Department of Agriculture
Framingham risk score
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Zhang, S., Tian, J., Lei, M. et al. Association between dietary fiber intake and atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease risk in adults: a cross-sectional study of 14,947 population based on the National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys. BMC Public Health 22, 1076 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-022-13419-y
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Data Science in Business
What is Data Science? According to Wikipedia, “Data science is an interdisciplinary field that uses scientific methods, processes, algorithms, and systems to extract knowledge and insights from many structural and unstructured data. Data science is related to data mining, machine learning, and big data.” In simple terms, it is a discipline to predict the future, based on past data using computer algorithms where statistical methods are used in the hidden side.
Data Science is rapidly becoming a prominent and powerful marketing tool in business, offering a wide range of benefits for organizations looking to take advantage of market opportunities and increase their profits. Data Scientists provide strategic and tactical advice based on past data while integrating multiple disciplines to identify new opportunities and improve business performance. They use a combination of data mining, predictive data analytics, and machine learning algorithms to provide insight to businessmen about how human habits, processes, and technologies affect business performance. Their actionable outputs allow companies to harness new information, process it in an organized manner, and ultimately improve business performance.
So, in which areas are data science used in the business? To find an answer to this question, we will briefly mention the uses of data science in the e-commerce, natural language processing, image processing, and finance sectors.
E-Commerce Use Cases in Business
E-commerce (electronic commerce) is the activity of electronically buying or selling products on online services or over the Internet. Data science has important uses in the e-commerce sector as well as many other fields. Some uses of data science in the field of e-commerce are given below.
Personalized Product Recommendation: Information collected from customers provides significant clues about their purchasing habits. The more data can be collected from people in the world, the more advertising expenditures can be made to the right people. For example, the great effort the WhatsApp company has recently made to transfer its data to the Facebook company is purely about providing the right advertisements to the right people. In other words, it is to get the maximum benefit from advertisements by making personalized product recommendations.
Forecasting Extra Purchases: Thanks to data science, it can easily be predicted which other products a shopper can buy. This method enables e-commerce platforms to offer the most likely products to the customer. For example, a customer who buys a mobile phone can be immediately recommended mobile phone case models.
Identifying purchasing trends and customer behaviors: The use of data science in e-commerce allows for the discovery of purchasing trends and customer behaviors. Which age group is doing what kind of shopping? What kind of advertisements affect which customer groups? What kind of products are needed in the market or which products are out of date? These questions can be answered by data science.
Customer Segmentation/Customer Lifetime Value Prediction: Customers using the e-commerce platforms have different behaviors and requirements. If e-commerce platforms do segmentation and adjust their implementations according to customers’ needs and behaviors, that will have a positive effect on sales. Based on customers’ past data, the RFM (Recency-Frequency-Monetary) method can be used to divide customers into Low-Value, Medium-Value, and High-Value groups. Thus, different approaches can be created for different groups.
Predicting Future Sales: Predicting future sales has very important benefits for e-commerce companies in terms of stocks and personnel planning. In this respect, time-series prediction is one of the major fields of Data Science. Thanks to LSTM (Long Short Term Memory) which is one of the popular deep learning methods used for time-series predictions, future sales can be predicted very accurately.
Use Cases of Natural Language Processing in Business
NLP or Natural Language Processing is a subfield of Artificial Intelligence that gives machines the ability to understand and extract meaning from human languages. NLP is an area that focuses on the interaction between data science and human language. It allows data scientists to derive meaningful results in areas like media, healthcare, finance, and human resources, etc. Nowadays NLP is booming thanks to the huge improvements in acquiring the data and the sharp increase in computational power. NLP can help businesses with many tasks. Some cases are given below.
Diagnosing: Diagnosing means the prediction of diseases based on the patient’s speech and electronic health records. This method allows the patient to be diagnosed with great accuracy before seeing the doctor.
Sentiment Analysis: Determining what customers are feeling about a product or service by extracting information from sources like social media is called sentiment analysis. Today, the major e-commerce companies can extract emotions from millions of comments with this method.
Translator: In the last 5-10 years, a great improvement has been achieved in translation quality with the transition of online translation services from classical methods to NLP-based translation method. Online translators like Google Translator have never been so successful before until NLP was used in that field.
Chat-Bot: Communicating with the customers like an actual employee is achieved by chat-bots. The messaging boxes opened in the lower right corner of the web site you visit are chat-bot examples. In this way, customers are assisted at low cost at all hours of the day.
Classifying emails: This service means classifying emails as spam or ham and stop spam before they even enter the inbox. It is very crucial to automate this action if the company receives millions of emails.
Detecting the Fake News: To determine if a source is politically biased or accurate, detecting if a news source can be trusted or not is very important because there can be lots of fake news in the virtual world.
Voice-Driven Interfaces: Intelligent voice-driven interfaces that use NLP to respond to humans like Apple’s Siri or Android’s Iris is very popular in recent years.
Trading Algorithms: Tracking news, reports, comments about financing to sell or buy the stocks automatically enables customers to take rapid actions.
Recruiting Assistant: Today, companies have long meetings to find the right employee, and this causes a serious waste of time. Assisting both in the search and selection phases of new employees and identifying the skills of potential hires can help companies with that problem.
Litigation Tasks: Most of the cases in the courts are similar to each other and robots can make a decision to automate routine litigation tasks and help courts save time.
Use Cases of Image Processing in Business
Image processing is the technique of manipulating an image to either improve the quality or extract key information from it. Artificial intelligence image processing services combine high-order artificial intelligence with powerful computer vision and neural networks to rapidly and accurately process terabytes of images from all over the world with high accuracy. The most popular uses of this technology are for visual Search Engine Optimization (SEO) services, content discovery, facial recognition, image retouching, image stabilization, real-time facial analysis, rapid prototyping, and many more. It can be used for training programs for websites, facial image analysis, product catalogs, e-commerce websites, marketing promotion, surveillance detection, manufacturing automation, manufacturing inspection, healthcare product precision, surveillance camera positioning, weather prediction, etc.
Finance Use Cases in Business
So far, we have examined the usage areas of data science in e-commerce, natural language processing, and image processing. Another area where data science is effectively used is the finance sector. In finance, data science can be used in risk analytics, real-time analytics, customer analytics, personalized product recommendation, fraud detection, trading algorithms, etc.
Risk Analytics: Analyzing risk is very important for large companies to make strategic decisions. Data science has a significant role to analyze the risk specific to the customer.
Real-Time Analytics: Thanks to the integration of data science models into live databases, real-time analysis, and accurate decisions can be made. The dynamic data pipelines link the artificial intelligence algorithms and the databases, this allows rapid analysis. This method enables data science to be used effectively particularly in the banking sector.
Customer Analytics: Customer Segmentation/Customer Lifetime Value Prediction methods have already been described under the e-commerce title. The same methods can also be used in the finance sector.
Personalized Product Recommendation: Offering products that can be of interest to the customer is an action that will increase the profit of every business. This is made possible by analyzing the customers’ data.
Fraud Detection: As the number of transactions in financial institutions increases, the number of fraud transactions will inevitably increase. It is impossible to manually find out which are fraud transactions among billions of transactions every day. Thanks to the integration of artificial intelligence’s algorithms for fraud detection, these problems are solved to a great extent.
Trading Algorithms: Financial markets are extremely sensitive to daily events and stockholders want to sell their stocks or buy new stocks in the face of these daily events. Today, trading algorithms can perform these transactions on behalf of customers according to the information they gather from the daily broadcast stream. Thus, customers do not miss daily opportunities thanks to machines that operate in a much shorter time than their action time.
There are many implementation areas of data science for companies and these areas are increasing day by day. Data Science helps companies take actions to mitigate risk, strengthen their competitive position, and increase their profits. Businesses that benefit from the power of data in their services provide significant advantages over businesses managed with conventional methods and that’s what we are giving utmost importance to data science implementations in our solutions, here in Nioya Tech.
In this article, we mentioned the uses of data science in e-commerce, finance, natural language processing, and image processing areas. However, the uses of data science in the business world are of course not limited to these fields, and the number of businesses that benefit from the power of data science is increasing continuously. | <urn:uuid:6efe9f77-dbfb-40e2-a04d-e249403fedb6> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://sigma-tech.co.uk/a-guide-to-google-seo-algorithm-updates/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572198.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815175725-20220815205725-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.924785 | 2,032 | 3.09375 | 3 |
Street hawking: girl child education and academic achievement
Street hawking is one of the fastest growing events in Nigeria; in every street, there are children both boys and girls hawking just to make a living. Street hawking started as a result of poor socio economic status or background of parents; it could also be the issue of child trafficking or death of one’s parents. But from the findings from most undergraduate projects, street hawking tend to have a correlation with the socio-economic status of parents or guidance.
Street hawking is seen as a form of child labor that is caused by greed- the quest to get riches propels young boys and girls into doing a lot of things they are not supposed to do all in the pursuit of livelihood instead of employing their youthful strength on farming to produce enough food for the family. Street hawking is also exposed to a lot of risk and dangers, like in most city centers, traders could easily be knocked down by moving vehicles. Beside, street hawking has denied many children of school despite their ripe age of going to school. Teenage pregnancy is very common among street hawkers in terms of girl-child; teenage girls who hawk are gradually introduced to some anti-social vices; street hawking among young school students have psychologically imposed other problems, like sex networking behavior, juvenile delinquent behavior, which takes most of the student school time that necessitated the poor academic performance and drop-out syndrome noticed among young school students. The children who work suffer from fatigue, irregular attendance at school, lack of comprehension and motivation, improper socialization, exposure to risk of sexual abuse and high likelihood of being involved in crime. During hawking, children reached the most interior part of every street in urban setting thereby exposing them to dangers. She further went on to say that the consequences street hawking has on the family and society are that this children that hawk may have dubious character especially the boys as they come in contact with other children or adult with questionable characters in areas like motor parks, stadiums and in uncompleted buildings in the town. Sexually transmitted diseases are on the increase as these teenage hawkers want to be on the reigning fashion will embark into prostitution in other to make money. As they engage in this pre-marital sex, they count all on their gains without counting on the after effect. As these children who are still growing continue to carry goods on their head though the day and some of these loads may be too heavy for their ability, this can affect their growth which could result to stuntedness.
Girl child education
Girl child education is an act of training the female folks, intellectually, morally and physically, so that they can fit into the present day society. Education is the most valuable possession and the best legacy any parent can give to his or her daughter. Girl child education is that education given to female children at different stages and ways it is the acquisition of knowledge, skills and abilities to become effective participants of a given society group. Girl child education is the process that brings about well esteem, which helps in promoting participants that reflects in the society at large. Girl child education is the development of skills, knowledge, ability and character by the female child through teaching, study or experience in a formal place of acquiring knowledge. Girl child education as the gradual acquisition of what is worthwhile from birth till death by the female children; therefore, girl child education in a nutshell is the skills, knowledge and values acquired both informal and non formal ways by the female folks that enables them contribute meaningfully to the development of the society at large.
Academic achievement is often referred and debated in educational policies and discourses. A deep and empirically tested knowledge about the factors that lay on the basis of school learning processes and which impact its development, but mainly about the learning processes difficulties. Both national and international researchers talk about academic achievement but also about educational attainment, giving to these expressions different meanings. Academic achievement is often linked with successful student’s individual capacities and abilities and is defined as the student’s school results, i.e., a student who being in the school system, public or private, with the convenient age, finishes a high school degree or equivalent, successfully, without neither interruptions nor failings”. Educational attainment is a wider concept when compared with academic achievement, as it also embraces other complex variables that are linked with the process of progressing through all schooling levels. Through a literature review, several factors contributing to academic achievement and educational attainment were identified. Collaborative work between qualified full time teacher librarians and curriculum teachers also impact students’ literacy, learning and problem solving. The work developed by school librarians could be an important predictor of students’ academic achievement and / or educational attainment as they can provide access to information, instruct students on information literacy competencies and build a stronger relationship with the whole educational community.
Street Hawking, Girl Child Education And Academic Achievement
Street hawking has a negative effect on the level of education attained, school attendance, school grades, literacy, and overall human capital formation. It is also found to results in low school enrolment with developmental and performance implications. In Africa, and particularly in rural Nigeria, it has been observed that child labourers generally have lower school attendance. When will the children have time to go school when they are busy making money for their parents are guardian who sent them out to the street? In fact, attending school is history for most street children as their parent or guardian are only interested in the money they make. Furthermore, those that are opportune to attend schools lose concentration. During school hours, they sleep in the classroom due to exhaustion and after school hours, they take to the street to engage in their trade. This results in poor grades and lack of interest in furthering their education.
Street hawking is highly detrimental to children’s physical, mental, psychological and social development which cannot be over looked. However, in Nigeria, it appears that child development is grossly abused through the increasing display of hawking in almost all the streets in Nigerian towns. In fact, the proportion of hawking and its attendant consequences has uncontrollably assumed an alarming stage as children between 6–15 years are seen everywhere in the cities hawking wares | <urn:uuid:3554c31f-b293-497d-ade6-26c2522a63b6> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://imperialwriters7.medium.com/street-hawking-girl-child-education-and-academic-achievement-614c071c7b1e?source=post_internal_links---------3---------------------------- | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817001643-20220817031643-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.970726 | 1,278 | 2.484375 | 2 |
TIDE: Tidal River Development
|2010 - 2013
TIDE is an INTERREG IVB North Sea project for an innovative approach to integrated management of European estuaries with strong tidal influence: Elbe and Weser (Germany), Scheldt (Belgium/Netherlands) and Humber (UK).
All show similar characteristics:
All these estuaries show similar characteristics:
- They are used as shipping channels leading to large ports
- They are characterised by a strong tidal influence
- They transport large quantities of sediment
- Most estuarine areas are designated Natura 2000 sites
... and similar challenges:
- Sediment transport is steadily increasing
- Estuarine ecosystem functions are endangered
- Decision makers are faced with an increasingly challenging legal and global economic framework. EU Directives such as the Birds and Habitats or the Water Framework Directives have to be implemented.
- In order to maintain their competitive position and ensure the economic prosperity of the region, the large ports need to be further developed.
- Climate change is likely to worsen these problems in the future, unless appropriate compensation and mitigation measures are found.
TIDE takes into account the ecological, economical and societal needs of the regions involved, and interlinks the multiple processes and large scale efforts taking place in the estuaries.
TIDE integrates the knowledge and solutions generated by previous projects such as HARBASINS, SedNet, and New!Delta (e.g. optimised sediment management strategies, revitalisation scheme of side river arms).
TIDE also draws from the numerous management plans that have been or are being prepared as a response to urgent issues like flood prevention or sediment increase, and/or in compliance with EU directives.
TIDE looks for effective integration of the substantial investments that are realised or in the planning process in these estuaries.
| TIDE Times |
|TIDE is excited to share the first issue of its publication "TIDE Times". This issue serves as an introduction to the project, as well as documentation of the presentations and discussions held during the project's Kick-Off Conference. It contains articles about the project, the estuaries of the Elbe, Weser, Scheldt and Humber rivers, the theory behind the project's approach, as well as case studies and lessons from other estuaries.|
|Ms. Annedore Seifert
Tidal River Development / german (TIDE)
Hamburg Port Authority (HPA)
Neuer Wandrahm 4
Telephone: +49 (0)40 428473058
|Hamburg Port Authority (www.hamburg-port-authority.de)
Lower Saxony Water Management, Coastal Defence and Nature Conservation Agency ( www.nlwkn.de)
Free Hanseatic City of Bremen (www.wuh.bremen.de)
University of Bremen (www.uni-bremen.de)
Flemish Authorities, Department of Mobility and Public Works (www.maritiemetoegang.be)
Antwerp Port Authority (www.portofantwerp.be)
University of Antwerp (www.ua.ac.be/ecobe)
Environment Agency (www.environment-agency.gov.uk)
Institute of Estuarine & Coastal Studies, Hull (www.hull.ac.uk/iecs)
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In-lab sleep tests have advantages and disadvantages. Talk to your doctor about your test preference and contact Houston Sleep Solutions to discuss a treatment plan.
- It is the most accurate test currently available. The in-lab sleep test is considered the benchmark of testing and diagnosis of sleep apnea.
- Flexible options to maximize time. Split-night tests include diagnosis and treatment in a single night, unlike full-night or at-home tests.
- Best test for at-risk employees. Employees who can pose a serious risk to safety if they fall asleep on the job should preferably participate in an in-lab sleep study to ensure an accurate diagnosis. These people usually work in areas such as taxi driving, bus driving, other driving, as well as being pilots and police officers.
- Best option for sleep disorders or complications. In-lab monitoring is better suited to people with other health conditions, including sleep disorders and heart and pulmonary disease.
- Cost. In-lab sleep apnea tests can cost upward of $1,000. If you have insurance, they may cover a portion of the cost, but not all providers cover this test. Some insurance companies require the results of an at-home test before you can take an in-lab test.
- Accessibility. In-lab studies will need transportation to and from a sleep lab. Depending on where you live, this may be time-consuming or costly.
- Wait times are long. Depending on where you live, and the popularity of this kind of test, you may have to wait a few weeks or even months to take the test.
- Not as convenient. Taking an in-lab sleep test is more likely to disrupt your work schedule or interfere with your daily routine and responsibilities.
- Fixed sleep study hours. Many sleep studies take place between 10 p.m. and 6 a.m. If you have a different sleep schedule, an at-home test may be a better option.
Contact Houston Sleep Solutions to discuss a treatment plan:
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Aluminum Diamond Plate Sheets
Aluminum diamond plate sheets are economical product and widely used in decorative, cosmetic and architectural applications. Aluminum diamond plate sheet metal has good forming, drilling and welding ability, Diamond Plate aluminium sheet is easy to fabricate and its raised diamond lug pattern provides good slip resistance, so it is widely used for truck beds and trailers, walk ways and cat walks, flooring, wall panels, tool boxes, decorative trim, architectural uses.
Specification of aluminum diamond plate sheets:
|Item||aluminum diamond plate sheets|
|Grade||1050, 1060, 1100, 3003,5052, 5083, 5086, 6061 etc.|
|Temper||O, H12, H14, H16, H18, H24, H24, H26, H32, H34|
|Standard||ASTM-B209. EN573-1, GB/T3880.1-2006|
|Thickness||0.8 – 12mm|
|Length||max 6000mm for sheet or as required for coil|
|Pattern||big 5 bar / small 5 bar / 3 bar / diamond / pointer|
|Surface treatment||polished, mill finished, power coated, sand blast, anodized, brushed.|
|Surface Protection||Oleo phobic coating,protective film,paint coating.|
|Packing||Export wooden pallets. The bundle weight not exceed 2MT. Loading:by 1x20GP.|
|Quality||Totally free from defects like white rust, oil patches,roll marks, edge damage, camber, dents, holes, break lines, scratches and free from coil set.|
|MOQ||1-2 Metric ton|
|Delivery time||20-30 days after deposit|
Features of aluminum diamond plate sheet metal:
Resist corrosion and long life.
Lighter than other material.
Remain high value after being replaced.
Application of thin diamond plate aluminum sheets:
The diamond texture of aluminum diamond plate sheets gives excellent anti-skid properties, and it is often used in industrial settings for stairways, catwalks, ramps, and walkways where wet conditions may otherwise pose a risk of sliding or falling. These non-slip properties also make it a common solution for ambulance floors and for the footplates of firetrucks, as well as domestic truck beds and trailer floors.
Diamond plate aluminum sheet can also be used for wall panels, counter tops, tiling for other surfaces, and various architectural uses. Since it is easy to machine along with being robust and attractive, diamond plate tool boxes are another popular application. It is frequently employed to finish edges and corners of items made of other materials, where an extra element of wear-resistance is required.
Producing Line of diamond plate aluminium sheet:
Haomei have one 1+2 hot rolling production line, six 2450mm, 2050mm, 1650mm, 1450mm cold rolling lines, two 1650mm foil rolling production lines, two 1850mm continuous rolling production lines and one roll coating production line. These equipment enables us to provide quality checkered plates products for our customers.
– Standard seaworthy export packing,wooden pallets with plastics protection for the aluminum sheet/plate.
– 15-20 MT can be loaded into 20′ container and 40′ container.
– The other packing can be made base on the customer requirement.
– We have successfully worked with several shipping compaines that give us best price.
– Delivery Time: 1~7days workdays( in Stock);10~25days workdays( our of Stock).
-By express:DHL/UPS/FEDEX/EMS and our own express line.
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Concerning individuals, who are keen on figuring out how to play Backgammon, a rudimentary comprehension of the backgammon set and backgammon rules is required. Backgammon is a two-player tabletop game, that incorporates 24 triangles called pips. The focuses are quartered similarly on each side of the table. The tone between pips pivots, and they are numbered for every member. The table is partitioned into 4 quadrants, considering what is alluded to as the external board and the inward board for every adversary. The ” segment” is in the middle of between the home sheets and the external sheets. The numeration begins the endmost triangle of every contender’s internal board, starting at 1-point and completing at 24, the opponent’s inward board.
While playing the game, players have 15 checkers of their own variety that are requested toward the beginning as is made sense of here: 5 checkers spot on 6, 3 checkers right on track 8, 5 checkers on triangle 13, and several pieces on triangle 24. A bunch of dice with shaking cups are given out to every contender, and one multiplying block, which shows the bet, is likewise accessible on the table.
The objective of Backgammon is for every contender to bring each of their pieces into their confidential internal board and afterward progress with the last stage, which is classified “bearing off”, where the pieces are taken out from the board. The principal member to polish the bearing off of checkers dominates the game. From the outset, a solitary kick the bucket is thrown by every member to figure out who has the main move . The two dice are then tossed, concluding the quantity of pips a player can move 1 or 2 of the checkers. For instance, in the event that a player rolls one bite the dust as a 3 and the other as a four, one checker might be moved seven stages, or two checkers might be moved three stages and 4 stages, correspondingly, as each pass on considers an alternate movement. Notwithstanding, a checker may just be moved to an open point. An open spot is a triangle that is populated by no more prominent than one of the rival’s pieces. Checkers are moved from point 24 towards point 1 on every player’s internal board.
A pip that has just a single checker is known as a “smear”. On the off chance that a smear tumbles to become populated by a rival’s checker, it is thought of “hit.” The player’s checker that made the smudge is limited onto the bar. To enter hit checkers once again into the game, the roll of one bite the dust decides to which point on the adversary’s internal board the checker will be returned. Not long before one movements different checkers, the checkers on the bar should totally be placed once again into the game.
When a member has every one of his pieces on his inward board, he ought to get bearing them going, which represents eliminating them . Players clean up checkers in view of the numbers that are displayed on the dice. On the event that the number on a moved kick the bucket is greater than or equivalent to a point which incorporates a checker, that checker might be taken out. At the point when all checkers have been taken out by one player, that member has dominated the backgammon game.
These are the fundamental principles and methodology on the most proficient method to play Backgammon. Contingent upon how one decides to play the game, the multiplying block can be utilized to decide a concurred up stake for each point. There are likewise more mind boggling and inside and out rules including hitting smears and entering checkers, the legitimateness of specific moves, the relinquishment of turns, and abnormalities that might come about while playing the game. | <urn:uuid:5512dcf5-a41d-44c9-880d-58d442212bcf> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://qwinsla.com/a-guide-on-how-to-play-backgammon/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572198.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815175725-20220815205725-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.96142 | 810 | 1.984375 | 2 |
“Switch off a bulb at your home during peak hours and save electricity,” a message widely promoted by the Ministry of Energy, as a measure of conserving domestic electricity, is receiving a good response, but is often blatantly ignored by commercial establishments and State institutions, the Sunday Times learns
From casinos to shopping complexes, bright lights are on throughout the night.
Street lights illuminate not only at nights, but even during the day, ceiling fans rotate above empty chairs in halls in State institutions, at night, computers, printers and photocopiers are not switched off in offices, resulting in electricity wastage.
According to statistics, domestic consumption is about 3,651 Giga Watt-hours (GW-h) followed by industrial consumption of 3,148 GW-h and commercial consumption of 2,224 GW-h. Street lighting takes 130 GW-h.
The highest consumption of about 1,900 Mega Watts (MW) is between 6.30 p.m. and 9.30 pm, and this is the reason why officials are appealing for thrifty domestic usage during these hours. Even during the day, between 8.30 a.m. and 4.30 p.m., consumption peaks to about 1,500 MW, the Sunday Times learns.
The rapid increase in energy drain in commercial establishments and State institutions has prompted the Ministry of Energy to enlighten State and private sector employees on electricity usage.
Minister of Energy- Champika Ranawaka this week said about 12% of the national income of the country was spent on the import of fossil fuels for electricity generation, and that, 25% of the energy supplied to meet user demand is being wasted due to inefficient use of the resource.
Minister Ranawaka also stated that municipal councils and pradeshiya sabha’s should strictly enforce the lighting of street lamps from 7 p.m. to 5 a.m.
He said that the normal selling price a unit of electricity was Rs 13.37, while electricity generation cost Rs. 21 a unit.
|Waste: A street light on in broad daylight
| Unnecessary lighting at a casino.
Pix by Indika Handuwala and Susantha Liyanawatte
“Air conditioning accounts for 70% of the energy consumption of an office building. Therefore, special attention should be given to energy conservation,” the minister said.
In an interview with the Sunday Times, Chairman- Sustainable Energy Authority, Eng. Dr. Kithsiri Dissanayake said, “Though the public are responding to our request, the message of saving energy is not being taken seriously by State and private institutions. The argument often is that they pay for the poswer and therefore, they can use as much as they want,” he said.
According to him, in many State institutions, ceiling fans operate for many hours and are not switched off during lunch breaks or meetings outside the institution. “Pedestal fans and table fans are more energy efficient than ceiling fans. Therefore, those working in offices with ceiling fans should be concerned about electricity wastage,” he said.
He said teams from the Authority will make surprise visits to such offices and instruct them on proper energy usage techniques.A circular was issued recently to ministry secretaries, provincial council secretaries, heads of departments and corporations to appoint a staff officer as energy manager to monitor energy consumption patterns. According to the circular he/she will have to maintain monthly reports of electricity consumption and submit the reports to the authority.
"If electricity consumption or fuel consumption of a particular month does not show a 10% reduction from the average monthly consumption, the reasons for that have to be identified and the target has to be met the following month,” the circular said.
Heads of institutions were also asked to promote awareness among the staff.
He said It was the practice of local council politicians to put up street lights but some of them were unnecessary leading to wastage of electrity.
The Sunday Times learns that of an average domestic consumption 43.58% is for lights, 21.35% for television and 17.49% for refrigerators, According Energy Management, Sustainable Energy Authority Director R. Padmasiri, Compact Florescent Lamps (CFL) bulbs should be used to light up households and there is a growing demand for them. In 2011, 22.5 million CFL bulbs were imported into the country.
He said domestic power saving had an instant impact on the national grid--switching off one 60 watt (W) bulb during peak time from 6.30 p.m. to 9.30 p.m. can save the country Rs. 640 million a month. “In washing machines, it is advised to use the spinner only if it is essential, otherwise, opt to dry clothes in the sun. We have visited several houses to find that refrigerators contain only a bottle of water or a can of ice cream,” Mr. Padmasiri said.
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Owing to the similarity in the name of the games, you might be thinking that Flappy Bird and Angry Birds have a lot to do with each other.
It would be wrong to say that there are no similarities; however, the games are as distinct as they can possibly get.
If you look at the history of both these apps, Flappy Bird was discontinued by the developer because he was of the opinion that the game took away his peace of mind. The game was developed by Nguyen in his spare time and it was known for being extremely difficult. Owing to the extremely difficult levels, it created a growing sense of frustration among gamers.
The developer too got frustrated with the inability to clear the levels and despite the fact that he piled up huge money from the game; he discontinued it and removed it from both Apple app store and Google play store as well.
Angry Birds on the other hand can still be found on the app store. Different versions and updates were launched and even today, you can find an uncountable number of people who are hooked to this game.
There are various versions of the game which are found in the app store. Some of them are available for free, while there are others that can come at a premium. Some of the games are freemium too. Hence, if you look at the app history, you will find that Angry Birds is a game that was launched way back and is still available. Flappy Bird, on the other hand, had a shorter life.
Challenging and Frustrating
While this is a subjective opinion, mostly, you will find the masses would concur to it. Flappy Bird is hailed to be an extremely frustrating game. People often got stuck at some levels and regardless of the number of times they played it; they failed to clear them. This added to their frustration significantly.
Angry Birds, on the other hand is aptly categorized as a challenging game. The game isn’t the easiest to play, but the challenges are not impossible to complete. You have to try hard but you should be able to succeed at it after repeated trials.
When we compare the graphics, Angry Birds seems to have an upper hand. The graphics offered by Angry Birds are captivating and interactive. There is a lot of color in this game and you will love the vibrancy which it offers you.
Flappy Bird only has 2D graphics, which makes it a weak ink. However, the mechanics of the game and its plot are so addictive that people end up playing it regardless of the poor graphics.
These are the key points of similarities and differences and you can assess the same. While Flappy Bird is not available in the app stores, it is likely to make an appearance very shortly. If you are a true gamer, you are likely to enjoy both these games.
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COVID-19: homemade PPE must be produced and tested otherwise only provides false promise of protection - expert comment31 March 2020
Dr Al Edwards, a biomedical technology expert at the University of Reading said:
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“However, such equipment must be produced and tested to a standard that provides frontline workers with the protection they need against Covid-19. Poorly functioning equipment that only gives the false promise of protection could be worse than nothing. Such locally produced equipment must also be carefully sanitised to prevent any risk of infection.
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ClientSunshine Coast Council
LocationSunshine Coast & Moreton Bay regions, QLD
Award2020 AILA QLD Regional Achievement Award for the Sunshine Coast
The Moreton Bay - Sunshine Coast (Northern) Inter-Urban Break is a 63,000 ha regionally significant non-urban area that is of immense importance to the SEQ region due to its internationally recognised iconic landscapes, intrinsic values and role as a tourism and recreation destination.
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LOVE TABERNACLE MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL
BOOK: The Ministry Gifts
Chapter 2: The Five-Fold Ministry Gifts
The greek means "one sent forth". Translated in the King James New Testament:
TYPE OF WORK:
Think of Paul's work as an example to the following:
"work" is not in buildings, organizations, or number of people, but is
in the spirit of men. Therefore, we do not judge by appearance,
but by the heart (spirit). Also, an organization could cease to
exist, and great fruit still remain from its work.
- establishes new churches or works, a founder (1 Cor 3:10, Eph 2:20).
- strengthens existing works, particularly ones they established.
and encourages individuals (particularly other five-fold ministers),
mentors them, and facilitates them in accomplishing their god-given
COMBINATION OF GIFTINGS:
Most likely gifts active in this office:
Motivational: Organization (ruling). Needed to establish works.
Could move in any or all five as needed by God for new works.
Charismatic: Power gifts (faith, miracles, gifts of healings)
(1 Cor 2:4-5, 1 Cor 4:18-20, 2 Tim 1:7
apostolic office is the only one I have noted that men can grow
into. That does not mean that ministers do not grow in ability in
their offices. I mean, that normally, God takes a man through other
offices first before making him an apostle.
had at least 70 disciples with him for sometime. Then he prayed
all night to find God's will for who the twelve apostles would be (Luke 6:12-13).
- Paul and Barnabas were prophets and teachers before moving into the office of an apostle (Acts 13:1-5)
there were in the church that was at Antioch certain prophets and
teachers; as Barnabas, and Simeon that was called Niger, and Lucius of
Cyrene, and Manaen, which had been brought up with Herod the tetrarch,
and Saul. As they ministered to the Lord, and fasted, the Holy Ghost
said, Separate me Barnabas and Saul for the work whereunto I have
called them. And when they had fasted and prayed, and laid their hands
on them, they sent them away. So they, being sent forth by the Holy
Ghost, departed unto Seleucia; and from thence they sailed to Cyprus.
And when they were at Salamis, they preached the word of God in the
synagogues of the Jews: and they had also John to their minister.
24 APOSTLES NAMED IN THE NEW TESTAMENT:
- outstanding spiritual gifts
- deep personal experience with God
- power and ability to establish churches
- ability to provide adequate spiritual leadership
- has a "father's heart. That is, the heart of "the Father"
- Simon Peter (Matt 10:2)
- Andrew (Matt 10:2), Peter's brother
- James, son Of Zebedee (Matt 10:2)
- John, son Of Zebedee (Matt 10:2)
- Philip (Matt 10:3)
- Bartholomew, Philip's brother (Matt 10:3)
- James, son Of Alphaeus (Luke 6:16)
- Judas, son Of Alphaeus (Luke 6:16)
- Matthew, son Of Alphaeus (Mark 2:14, Luke 6:15)
- Thomas (Matt 10:3)
- Simon Zelotes (Luke 6:15)
- Judas Iscariot (Matt 10:4)
- Matthias (Acts 1:26)
- Barnabas (1 Cor 9:5-6, Acts 13:1-3, 14:4, 14:14, Gal 2:9)
- Andronicus (Rom 16:7)
- Junia (Rom 16:7)
- Apollos (1 Cor 4:6-9)
- James, The Lord's brother (Gal 1:19, 2:6, Jam 1:1)
- Silas (1 Thes 1:1, 2:6)
- Timothy (1 Thes 1:1, 2:6)
- Titus (2 Cor 8:23)
- Epaphroditus (Phil 2:25)
- Paul (Gal 1:1, 2:8)
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“Time is the longest distance between two places.”
― Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie
In the past month, you have probably read more about social and physical distancing than you ever thought was possible.
Rest assured, you won’t find the phrase “6-feet apart” anywhere (else) in this post.
Instead, let’s talk about something you may not have heard of before, but are likely already doing.
You are time travelling. Every day.
Well, okay, let me be more specific. We are time traveling…mentally.
Humans have the remarkable ability to engage in mental time travel, where we can reflect on the past or imagine the near and distant future.
It’s easy to take this ability for granted because we do it every day, and it’s often unconscious.
If you are a daydreamer like me, you’ve spent hours living in your head, dreaming about whimsical and fun scenarios that put a goofy smile on your face.
Or maybe you are thinking about finishing your work so you can put your feet up with a cozy mug of tea and finally find out how that crazy good book actually ends.
In this post we will examine this ability, because it may be partially what is getting us through these tough times!
Temporal Distancing: Explained
These days, many of us are thinking about what we are looking forward to doing when it’s safe to engage again with the people and places we love.
This ability to mentally distance ourselves from the stress and emotional toll of this pandemic is called temporal distancing.
Temporal distancing relates to our ability to adopt a broader time perspective.
Here is a relatable example: Say you go in to interview for what seems like your ideal job. Unfortunately, the interview does not go well and it’s pretty clear that you won’t get the position.
You decide not to dwell on how dejected you are feeling in the present. Instead, you reflect on how you might perceive this interview at later time points.
You contemplate telling a friend about it over coffee next week, and how she will surely laugh at how the interviewer offered you tea but then never made it. You may also focus on how you’ll perceive this interview 10 years later as a tiny bump on a long and interesting road.
In other words, adopting a broader time perspective, or temporally distancing yourself from the current distressing events, helps you cope better with tanking the interview.
What is it about temporal distancing that makes it easier to deal with life’s sorrows and stresses?
A group of researchers sought to answer this question. Their work will inform the rest of this post!
Don’t Avoid It, Re-frame It
How exactly does mentally distancing ourselves from the realities of life in the age of COVID-19 help us deal with it? It seems to contradict the idea that we should face our troubles head on, rather than avoid them.
Temporal distancing is NOT the same as avoidance though.
Think of it like re-framing instead!
Here are 3 ways temporal distancing helps re-frame our reality:
Negative Events Are Not Forever
Temporal distancing helps us realize that emotional pain and stress is impermanent.
Adopting a narrow temporal view of current negative events allows them to occupy our headspace more deeply and intensely. Our reactions to stressful events are often concrete in nature. They occupy our thoughts with the specifics of the event, and enable us to relive the negative feelings.
Conversely, using a broader future frame (i.e. thinking about how we will remember these months 5 years from now or how we will show greater appreciation for our health and freedom in the future) opens up the possibility that these difficult days and the struggles they are bringing up will fade with time too.
Temporal distancing allows us to live through our current circumstances more mindfully.
When we understand that the intensity of this pandemic will wane with time, just like anything else, we may find more peace in the present moment.
An important component of mindfulness is the heightened awareness that all thoughts, feelings, and events are transient. Re-framing the pandemic as another event that will pass, encourages us to observe our experience without judgement, much like a feeling that we accept and allow to pass through us.
This perspective is helpful if you are feeling like you are ‘doing quarantine wrong’ unless you are doubly productive, perfecting a skill, or learning a new language.
Lovingly reminding yourself that there is no right or wrong way to live through a pandemic is possible when you can observe your experience mindfully.
You may have heard of rosy retrospection, the tendency to reflect on past events as more positive and meaningful than they felt at the time.
Researchers have found that we also have a tendency to view our distant future with rose-coloured glasses.
We envision our distant future as brighter and more positive than our near futures. This occurs because we tend to emphasize concrete aspects less when thinking about a far future. Instead, we think in more abstract and overarching terms that are not specific to our current stressful circumstances.
To use the job interview example from above, you can still imagine yourself to be happy in 5 years with a rewarding and well-paying career despite having performed poorly in a job interview.
I can PERSONALLY attest to that feeling!
The tendency to contemplate the distant future with hope and optimism may lessen our current distress around COVID-19.
Time Heals All Wounds
This oft-repeated phrase captures the idea that emotional pain fades with time. However, this realization usually becomes clear to us in hindsight.
Can we draw on this insight to help manage our distress while it is occurring? Say, for example, while we are living through a trauma event such as a global pandemic?
Our main study of interest confirms that yes, we can. The results revealed that when asked to reflect on how they would perceive a serious personally relevant stressor, participants who saw the stressor through a distant future lens reported less negative emotion.
Additionally, another study supports the benefits of temporal distancing.
Researchers found that when participants thought about how they would be affected by a negative event (i.e. you fail an important exam) in the distant future, they experienced less emotional arousal and better emotional regulation. In short, they didn't feel so bad about it.
Many of us are having challenging days as we wrap up week 5 of quarantine, anxiously in hopes of the numbers to show us that things are getting better and we can resume normalcy.
We hope this post helped you realize that temporal distancing is something you are likely already doing and could be helping you cope with these tough times.
If not, we invite you to think of a distant future perspective on this situation by focusing on a hopeful vision of the world that may emerge from this passing event.
Doing this may just allow you live through these times with less distress and more compassion for yourself.
What positive futures are you focusing on to get you through COVID-19? I'm curious to know, leave me a comment!
If you need some assistance in navigating this challenging time, feel free to reach out to me and I will help you.
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Aphids, generally known as Greenfly and Blackfly are small soft bodied sap sucking insects. They are probably the most commonly known group of plant pests, infesting almost all types of plants, shrubs and trees.
There are many species of aphids and they can be found throughout the world, on every continent. Generally, they feed in colonies and can be recognised by their plump pear-shaped bodies and two tubes (siphunculii), that project from the rear of their abdomens.
Aphids are usually found feeding on the young leaves, new shoots and flower buds where the plant cells are more pliable and high in nitrogen. They push their long piercing mouth parts deep into the plant tissue and suck up the plant sap . Excess sap and sugars are excreted as sticky honeydew which can then promote the growth of sooty moulds and fungi on the infested plants. However, ants are usually attracted to honeydew where they harvest the droplets and therefore reduce sooty mould problems.
Whilst feeding, many aphid species can also acquire and spread plant viruses. Heavy infestations can also weaken plants and cause leaf curling and even plant death. When aphid infestations become large, the colony produces winged adults which then disperse to new plants and establish new colonies.
During the warmer months, the wingless adult female aphids produce 50 to 100 young clones at a rate of up to 5 young per day without having to mate. Young aphids are born live and can start reproducing within just 1 week. Only in the autumn and early winter months will most aphid species produce males. These mate with the females who then produce fertile eggs that over-winter. Because of the extremely fast reproduction rate of aphids during the growing season, it is often difficult to determine the effectiveness of crop protection products. Even when just 5% of aphids survive an insecticide the infestation could return to its original level in a few days.
Using SB Plant Invigorator to control aphids:
Independent research studies have shown that SBPI can be highly effective at controlling aphids if used correctly.
SBPI will produce a significant reduction in aphid numbers if applied thoroughly (to upper and lower leaf surfaces) and to the point it runs off the leaves. However, certain aphid species are more easily controlled than others.
Studies have shown that almost total control of many important aphid species can be achieved with just one or two thorough applications of SBPI, depending on the severity of the infestation. This includes Pea aphids
[Acyrthosiphon pisum](Figs. 1a and 1b), Bean aphid [Aphis fabae] (Figs 2a and 2b), Apple Grain aphid [Rhopalosiphum padi] (Figs. 3a and 3b) and Woolly Apple aphid [Erisoma lanigerum] (Figs. 4a and 4b). However, the extremely fast reproduction rate of any surviving aphids could rapidly restore the infestation to original levels if further applications of SBPI are not made at regular intervals. Weekly applications to susceptible plants are recommended.
The Peach potato aphid [Myzus persicae] (Figs. 5a and 5b), is a more robust aphid than many of the other species and consequently is more difficult to control by physical means. However, SBPI will control established infestations of M. persicae after 2 or 3 applications at 2 or 3 day intervals. Weekly applications can then be used to maintain control.
If necessary, a x2 recommended dose rate of SBPI could also be used for rapid control of M. persicae. However it is advisable to first test delicate plants for phytotoxic response to a higher rate.
SBPI does not affect aphids in the final stage of parasite development (mummies), so it can be used in conjunction with an IPM system using parasitic wasps.
Spraying as often as weekly may seem excessive but please remember SBPI provides foliar nutrients, comprehensive pesticide and mildewcide all at the same time.
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19 CFR § 10.600 - Accessories, spare parts, or tools.
(a) General. Accessories, spare parts, or tools that are delivered with a good and that form part of the good's standard accessories, spare parts, or tools will be treated as originating goods if the good is an originating good, and will be disregarded in determining whether all the non-originating materials used in the production of the good undergo an applicable change in tariff classification specified in General Note 29(n), HTSUS, provided that:
(1) The accessories, spare parts, or tools are classified with, and not invoiced separately from, the good, regardless of whether they appear specified or separately identified in the invoice for the good; and
(a) Regional value content. If the good is subject to a regional value content requirement, the value of the accessories, spare parts, or tools is taken into account as originating or non-originating materials, as the case may be, in calculating the regional value content of the good under § 10.595 of this subpart.
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Norfolk & Western to Portsmouth - Norfolk Southern, Cincinnati District, Lake Division (Peavine) - Cincinnati Eastern Railroad
Former Cincinnati & Eastern/Cincinnati, Portsmouth & Virginia/Norfolk & Western to Portsmouth
Narrow gauge (3'-0") line opened in stages between 1876 and 1882, converted to standard gauge in 1894
Downtown terminal: Court Street Station (E. Court & Reedy Streets)
In limited local use (no through traffic) east of Clare Yard, closed to all traffic west of Clare as of September 10, 2009
(The following write-up is adapted from the website Abandoned)
The Cincinnati and Eastern Railway (C&E) was a narrow gauge (3'-0") railroad from Idlewild near Xavier University to Portsmouth, Ohio. The C&E was chartered as the Cincinnati, Batavia & Williamsburg on January 11, 1876, but the name was changed and the route was extended to Portsmouth in May. It was projected that the line would carry coal from Jackson County. Construction began almost immediately after the railroad was renamed. On October 18, 1876, the line was opened from Batavia Junction (now called Clare) at the Little Miami Railroad to Batavia, a distance of 15 miles. By August 4, 1877, the railroad had reached Winchester, a distance of 48 miles. On March 1, 1878, the C&E opened the first 5 miles of a branch to New Richmond from Richmond Junction to Tobasco, at the current intersection of Beechmont Avenue and I-275. In June, a 5.5-mile western extension to the Miami Valley Railroad, later the Cincinnati, Lebanon & Northern (CL&N) at Idlewild, was completed and dubbed the Hyde Park Branch. The original Miami Valley Railroad promised a narrow-gauge connection through the Deer Creek Valley to their downtown Court Street terminal via the never-completed deep level Deer Creek Tunnel (Idlewild Junction is just a short distance from the north portal of the incomplete tunnel at I-71 and Blair Avenue). When the Deer Creek tunnel project ran into financial difficulties, the C&E found that its connection to Cincinnati was completely useless for four years. The railroad soon went into receivership on January 27, 1879 due to failures to collect stock subscriptions.
During receivership, little work was completed along the C&E. The branch line had been extended to Blairville, a distance of 11 miles, in 1879, and was completed to New Richmond on March 1, 1880, a distance of 14 miles. The branch had a physical connection with the Cincinnati, Georgetown and Portsmouth (CG&P) at Tobasco Junction on the border of Hamilton and Clermont Counties at Clough Pike. At a meeting on November 21, 1880 the shareholders voted to increase the capital stock from $500,000 to $2 million, and to authorize a bond issue to connect the railroad to Portsmouth and beyond to Gallipolis. In February 1882, the C&E signed a contract with the Cincinnati Northern to utilize its 3.81 miles of track from Idlewild to Court Street via the Deer Creek valley after new tunnels (unrelated to the original Deer Creek Tunnel) were completed. On April 4, 1882, the C&E began operations from Court Street, with one train running to Irvington, 62.2 miles from Cincinnati, another to Winchester, and two to New Richmond. By the end of 1882, the C&E had reached Peebles, 72 miles from Cincinnati's Court Street depot. In May 1883, the railroad had reached Rarden, and Henley in late July. On September 14, the C&E went into receivership again. Nevertheless, the C&E was completed to Portsmouth in August 1884, with a 1,000 foot truss bridge over the Scioto River as its centerpiece.
Almost immediately after the completion to Portsmouth, the C&E began preparations for conversion of the line to standard gauge. The railroad west of Winchester, however, had deteriorated. The C&E could not shake off receivership, and in February 1885, another receiver was appointed to the railroad. By May 1885, the C&E east of Winchester was converted to standard gauge, however, no money was appropriated for standard gauge cars. The court then authorized $180,000 to convert the western front to standard gauge, however, an accident on August 8, 1885 derailed the project. An 800-foot trestle at Nine Mile on the New Richmond Division had collapsed, killing three and injuring nine. The disaster greatly aggravated the company's financial difficulties, started talks of abandoning the branch to New Richmond, and led to another receiver being appointed. This receiver, however, felt it was necessary to reconvert the standard gauge from Winchester to Portsmouth back to narrow gauge in order for the line to generate a profit. By early 1886, the line was once again narrow gauge.
On September 1, 1886, the railroad was sold to a representative of the Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton (CH&D), however, it defaulted on payments and the railroad was resold on January 5, 1887 to H.B. Morehead, who formed the Ohio & Northwestern Railroad. The New Richmond Division was sold on September 1, 1886 to William P. DeVou, who organized it as the Cincinnati, New Richmond & Ohio River Railroad. He planned to extend the railroad to Aberdeen. However, by July 1889, the branch line ceased operations and it was dismantled in 1898.
The Columbus & Maysville (C&M) was incorporated on April 27, 1877 and was proposed between the cities of Columbus and Maysville via Washington Court House, Hillsboro, Sardinia, Georgetown, Ripley and Aberdeen. Construction began on the 19-mile Hillsboro segment in 1878 on a narrow gauge alignment, to conform with the C&E. About 12 miles were completed from Sardinia north in 1878, and another 5.5 miles were laid in 1879 to the junction of the standard gauge Marietta & Cincinnati, about 1.5 miles west of Hillsboro. The first official run was on May 8, 1879, and the line was leased to the C&E. Local parties in 1880 formed the Hillsboro Railroad Company and constructed the Hillsboro Short Line to bring the railroad further into town, and leased it to the C&M. On May 25, 1880, the C&M resolved to convert the railroad to standard gauge and to extend the line to Aberdeen. No work was completed on either task, and the railroad was leased to the C&E. The route between Sardinia and Aberdeen was partially constructed by a separate entity, the Ohio River & Columbus Railroad, at a later date (see the CG&P history for more information). The C&E was sold in 1885 to an eastern group. The new company reported that the railroad had been extended to Ripley, however, it in fact had not. It became insolvent and was sold on February 12, 1887 to the Ohio & Northwestern (O&NW), which had been chartered one week prior.
The O&NW moved immediately to standard gauge the main line from Cincinnati to Portsmouth, completing the task in November 1887. The O&NW also temporarily shifted its western routing to use the Little Miami Railroad as a standard gauge entry into Cincinnati, since the CL&N was still narrow gauge. The trackage rights proved prohibitively expensive, and they resumed operations to the CL&N's Court Street Station after the CL&N added dual gauge tracks between Court Street and Idlewild. The O&NW became insolvent rather quickly, however, and it went into receivership on June 15, 1888. In February 1889, under receivership, the railroad completed five miles of the long-projected Gallipolis extension from Portsmouth to Sciotoville. The O&NW was sold on March 13, 1890, which was reorganized as the Cincinnati, Portsmouth & Virginia Railroad (CP&V) on June 24, 1891. The C&M was sold separately on May 5, 1890, however, the CP&V was unwilling to resume the lease on the line, but continued to operate over it informally. Fearing abandonment, Hillsboro formed the Hillsboro Railroad, which assumed the lease and began to operate over it as a short line. The CP&V completed all standard gauge conversions in 1894.
In December 1900, the shareholders of the CP&V voted to purchase the C&M, but to allow the Hillsboro Railroad to continue to lease the line. In October 1901, the Norfolk & Western (N&W) merged with the C&M. The CP&V became the Cincinnati-Portsmouth segment of the N&W. The Hillsboro Railroad Company (former C&M) was purchased by the N&W on July 1, 1902, and it became the N&W Hillsboro branch. In 1947 the tracks were rerouted around a new gravel quarry at Plum Run east of Peebles. The tracks used to follow Beaver Pond and Jaybird Roads to approximately the confluence of Jaybird Branch and Scioto Brush Creeks. The rerouted track took a more northerly route along Portsmouth Road and OH-73. In 1982, the Norfolk & Western Railway consolidated with the Southern Railway to form the Norfolk Southern Corporation, and the railroad became the Norfolk Southern. The Hillsboro branch was still in operation as of 1984 however it has since been torn up. The N&W in general was always a strong coal hauler, but the twisty and slow Peavine was not well suited to long haul shipments, and as most industries switched away from coal, maintaining a connection through the rough terrain east of Peebles to Portsmouth and the declining coalfields to the east became untenable. The focus shifted to intermodal transfer of agricultural products and gravel. Nicknamed the Peavine due to its torturous hills and curvature, the line was closed to through traffic in 2003 east of Plum Run due to structural problems with the Scioto River bridge crossing and the aforementioned issues running through trains on such a lightweight and curvy route.
Local trains serving remaining online customers are routed over the former PRR Richmond Division through Fairfax to Clare, which was the main, if small, classification and maintenance yard for the line. A few short trains still served the small Idlewild yard at Montgomery Road in Norwood until all customers were shifted to Clare, and the Hyde Park branch was closed to traffic on September 10, 2009. The last train ran on August 28 of that year, and work has begun converting it to the Wasson Way bike path. Even before closing of the Hyde Park branch, most traffic was east of Clare anyway. The operational limits of this railroad seem to change on a frequent basis, but as of January 2020 here is the current situation. Starting on April 28, 2014, a new operator, the Cincinnati East Terminal Railway (CCET), leased the line from Norfolk Southern to provide three runs per week between Clare and Williamsburg. In 2018 CCET was renamed the Cincinnati Eastern Railroad, a nod to the original name of the company from nearly 150 years ago. They indicate that service is available to the quarry at Plum Run (Hanson Aggregates), which has been the effective eastern limit of operable track since the elimination of through running in 2003. While the end of active track is technically just west of Jaybird Road, it is only used for car storage between Plum Run and there, and the crossing at the entrance to Hanson Aggregates is of questionable passability at best. As a customer, the quarry has generally only provided gravel for the railroad's own use, rather than shipping it to other customers. Winchester Agricultural Services appears to be the current easternmost customer, though they had apparently stopped using the railroad at times in the past. The Huhtamaki packaging plant east of Batavia, formerly Ford's Batavia Trasmission factory, is their primary customer, with about a dozen total customers along the route.
The rest of the line from Jaybird to Portsmouth is railbanked, with some washouts along the way, and the Scioto River bridge needing major repairs. NS has recently removed the switch at Vera Junction in Portsmouth next to the Scioto River and US-23. The CPL signals along the route are still in place, but even on the operating part of the line they have been turned off and are covered in plastic. Round Bottom and Binning Roads closely parallel the tracks from Newtown to Stonelick, and in many places, the old utility poles and scruffy nature of the right of way makes for an interesting glimpse at what the railroad looked like in the past. The future of this stretch of railroad is dubious at best, but its abandonment would leave a huge area of southern Ohio without any railroad whatsoever, and Norfolk Southern is unwilling to let it be officially abandoned. With the CG&P, O&NW, and most of the CL&N gone, the Peavine is the only relatively complete remnant of the narrow gauge railroad network left in southwest Ohio.
Main Line Photographs from Norwood to Williamsburg
New Richmond Branch Photographs from Newtown to New Richmond
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Hot or Cold ? It is a good idea to use coasters when you want to avoid marks on the table that happen because of the condensate on drinks. I like customised or things made especially for me. Buying a ready coaster off the shelf was boring, making one myself sounded more fun.
That is why I decided to make my own coasters. And what is a project without a challenge? For this project, my challenge was to clear coat the coasters. The first thought for anyone when I say ‘handmade coasters’ is to think of them as school crafts made by children. This isn’t that. We want something professional looking and long lasting. Just because it is handmade does not mean it should be any less. Isn’t it?
These are coated and exactly like those available in the market. They are durable and stand various temperatures. The coating protects the colour and design as well.
Materials Needed :
- Pieces from MDF Board – These could be any size and shape. We get ready ones at all art and craft stores. The quantity depends on your table. I picked six square shape boards of 3.5 x 3.5 inches
- Chalk Paint – I picked the frozen blue shade of chalk paint by a company called ‘Little Birdie’
- Acrylic Paints – I used acrylic paints in bottles. Pearl finish teal blue and regular finish persian blue colour. One has a glitter finish while the other has a plain finish. The brand for my acrylic paints is ‘Fevicryl’
- 3D liner White Pearl by ‘Fevicryl’ for highlights (optional)
- Permanent Markers to draw or outline the design
- Design Stencil – You can use a readily available one or make one with paper yourself for the design. To get the exact same design on all coasters it is important to have a stencil. It makes replicating the design easier.
- Acrylic Varnish – I used the spray from the brand ‘Camlin’
- Art Resin – comes in two bottles (resin + hardener) to be mixed and used. The resin to hardener proportion is different for different brands but will either be 1:1 or 2:1. This is for the coating. I used epoxy art resin by the company ‘Little Birdie’
MDF Board is thick board made from wood fiber. For art and craft the material is handled just like plywood or wood. Ready pieces of different shapes and sizes are available in the market for various arts and crafts. For coasters they are available as multiple packs or single pieces, with and without a stand to complement it. The choice is yours.
I had picked six square shaped board pieces with rounded corners. They don’t have a wrong side or right side. We can paint on either. Select the side you feel looks good and make that the top side. I painted them on both sides with chalk paint using a flat brush.
What is chalk paint? Most acrylic paints leave a self texture and gloss after drying. Further, we need to prime the base before using them. Chalk paint is also an acrylic paint but it gives a matt finish and better coverage. There is no need to prime the base. Can be applied directly to any wood or wood like surface. I have applied two coats of chalk paint on both the top and bottom of all coasters.
It is quick drying. An interval of 15-20mins between coats is sufficient for it to dry. On the side rim as a dark colour and just to have a contrast I applied Persian blue colour from the acrylic bottle paints. These are liquid and of pouring consistency. Work very well for Dot Painting as well.
After drying I secured the stencil with a paper tape on the top side of the coaster. I traced the design using a blue permanent marker. Did this for all the coasters. Painted the design using acrylic paints in bottles. Highlighted using a 3D liner – white pearl colour. You can use the permanent marker on dried acrylic paint for touch up of the design.
Now we need to let this dry completely. Acrylic Paints are fast drying. We may feel it is dried after an hour but before the next process let it dry completely to the last particle for at least 24hours. Apply two coats of acrylic varnish after that and leave it for another day 24hours after that. I sprayed varnish on the backside as well. Makes an easy clean surface in case it gets dirty.
It is usable after this but I wanted to coat it with resin. Resin is a thick clear coat making it durable against extreme temperatures and gives a reflective glass like finish. Even a small piece of dust will sit and stick to it. The acrylic varnish makes it easy to clean the dust and locks the paint. That is why, the colours don’t smudge or bleed when we pour the resin.
Now for the challenging part – applying the coat of resin. Working with resin can be messy. The clean up is very difficult. Make sure you do this at a place well protected with paper or plastic for any unwanted spills.
Resin is like lacquer. Art resin is a slightly milder form and better to work with at home. Use masking tape or paper tape and pack the edges of the coasters. So in case the resin spills you can remove it with the tape after it dries. Put the coasters on a levelled lifted surface. I placed a paper cup upside down and put the coaster on it.
Wear silicon gloves or plastic bag as gloves. Resin sticks to the hand. It becomes sticky and is difficult to remove. In case you get some on your hand while working use an alcohol based solution or acetone or sanitiser to remove it. It does not go with soap water. I haven’t clicked pictures of the process as both my hands were occupied and I couldn’t touch the camera with dirty hands.
In another paper cup I mixed resin in the ratio 2:1 (resin to hardener) as mentioned in the description on their bottles by ‘Little Birdie’. The next process is same for all resins. We have to stir it continuously using a wooden stick for 3 mins till it becomes transparent and then pour on the surface to coat. 40ml + 20ml = 60ml was sufficient to nicely coat six coasters. The proportion has to be correct else it will not harden upon drying.
I poured the resin mixture at the centre and spread it to the edges using another wooden stick. The excess drips. I cleaned it using the stick. It is a self setting liquid and any craters will level out as it dries. Lightly pop the bubbles that come up using the pointed side of a toothpick. Also use a heat gun or a hair dryer or blower over it once. This pops the bubbles too.
Let it dry in a dust free environment. It gives out a mild smell or fumes as it dries. Hence best to leave it at a spot not frequented by anyone. It takes 12 hours to set and 24 to 48 hours for curing. The surface will be hardened, clear and reflective like a glass. Easy to clean and protective for coasters. We get food grade resin also. They use it for making trays and other kitchen items.
Think creatively and make your own design. Coasters made entirely from resin using silicon moulds and fluid art as also popular. They mix a paste called resin pigment to add an opaque colour, alcohol inks for transparent colours, decorative elements like glitter, stones and dried flowers to the resin and make many artistic home decor items.
Do try it out and share your experience. Have a creative weekend!
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Neil Irwin notes today that consumer confidence took a sharp downward turn in October. But it’s not clear if this will have any real effect on the broader economy:
Turns out, shutting down the government for 16 days while using the threat of a government debt default to battle over the nation’s budget isn’t great for peoples’ psyche
….It’s worth remembering that measures of confidence are always far more volatile than the actual amount of money Americans spend….So there are no guarantees that the plummeting consumer confidence will materialize into worse economic results for October. Still, coming off of a slew of weaker-than-expected data, it’s hard to imagine that the wallop that consumer confidence took in October will help matters.
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We were delighted when pioneering iSpace Wellbeing school, Copthorne Prep allowed us a sneak peek behind the scenes at their iSpace lessons.
This week, the class had been visiting the planet of “Relationships” and learning all about kindness and gratitude.
Kindness is defined as: “the quality of being friendly, generous, and considerate.” It has had much press over recent months and years as the rise in trolling and online bullying continues, with the hashtag #BeKind often trending.
Our curriculums teach that taking a little time out of our day to share some kindness and appreciate the relationships and friendships we have in our lives goes a long way to building relationships. We also strengthen our own resilience and self belief when we are kind and express gratitude in our lives, creating a positive healthy habit.
We especially loved the ones they have placed in the school corridor, placed by the door as people come in. It is great to see Copthorne Prep School school encouraging learning beyond the classroom, and integrating these valuable lessons into the culture of the whole school.
The pictures also show demonstrate how the children are developing their self awareness, with the recognition and understanding of the relationships around them by telling their friends how special they are.
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IN THE SUPREME COURT OF INDIA
CIVIL APPELLATE JURISDICTION
CIVIL APPEAL NO. 5876 OF 2009
State of Uttaranchal
(now known as State of Uttarakhand) & Ors. ...... Appellants
M/s. Khurana Brothers ...... Respondent
CIVIL APPEAL NO. 5878 OF 2009
CIVIL APPEAL NO. 5879 OF 2009
CIVIL APPEAL NO. 5880 OF 2009
R.M. LODHA, J.
These four appeals at the instance of the State of
Uttaranchal and the Officers of its Forest Department are directed
against the judgment dated December 27, 2007 passed by the High
Court of Uttarakhand whereby the Division Bench allowed the review
petitions filed by present respondents (writ petitioners) and reviewed
its earlier judgment dated April 13, 2004 and thereby allowed the writ
petitions filed by the writ petitioners holding that they were not liable
to pay stamp duty on the documents pertaining to contract of sale for
crude resin. Since the facts and documents involved in this group of
appeals are identical, for convenience, we shall refer to the facts and
documents in Civil Appeal No. 5876 of 2009. The controversy arises
in this way.
2. The Divisional Forest Officer, Nainital Forest Range,
Nainital notified public auction of resin at Bhuwali Forest Rest House
on March 24, 2001. The writ petitioner (Khurana Brothers)
participated in that public auction. Its bid in the sum of Rs. 3,90,000/-
being the highest bid was accepted by the Divisional Forest Officer,
Nainital and the formal contract of sale for crude resin was entered
into between the competent authority of the State Government in the
name of the Governor and the writ petitioner on March 24, 2001.
Subsequently a letter was issued on April 7, 2001 asking the writ
petitioner to lift the contracted resin within 60 days therefrom.
3. The contract of sale for crude resin between the parties
reads as follows :
"FORM OF CONTRACT OF CRUDE RESIN
Lot No. 7 to 10/2001
Value of the Deed Rs. 3,90,000.00 (Rupees Three
Lakh, Ninety Thousand Only)
This indenture made this 24th day of March 2001
between the Governor of the Uttaranchal (hereinafter
called "Seller" of the one part and Shri Khurana
Brothers, Rishikesh (hereinafter called the "Buyer"
which expression includes its executors, administrators,
successors and assigns) of the other part witnessed as
The seller in considerations of payment to be made by
the buyer as hereinafter provided at the rate of 1950.00
(Rupees One Thousand Nine Hundred Fifty Only) per
quintal calculated at per quintal naked (without
container) and in addition the buyer shall have to pay
sale tax on the total sale value of the resin 79% or the
rate applicable at the time of sale subject to the
following terms and conditions :
(A) Approximately 1160 (One Thousand One
Hundred Sixty) tins 200 (two Hundred) quintals of crude
resin (net weight) will be delivered at resin depot Sultan
Nagri. The quantity may increase or decrease by 10% &
the buyer will have to accept the quantity made
available by the seller. The weight of resin will be the
same as has been recorded in the books of the seller.
The seller reserves the right to reject the claim of the
purchaser for weighment at the time of taking delivery.
(B) The resin sold will remain at purchaser's risk from
date of acceptance of his bid and the seller will not be
responsible for any loss and damage which may occur
thereto from any cause whatsoever.
(C) All the resin will have to be removed by the
purchaser within 60 days of the date of approval of the
sale. It will be removed in not more than 60 installments
as follows :
1. Within Days of approval of sale.
2. Within Days of approval of sale.
3. Within Days of approval of sale.
4. Within Days of approval of sale.
The purchaser can remove resin only with the written
permission of the Divisional Forest Officer, Nainital
Forest Division, Nainital and on payment is advance of
the full cost and sale tax of resin.
The seller does not take any responsibility for the quality
of resin contained in the tins and will not give any resin
2. The amount of sale price of the lot calculated on the
basis of per quintal bid at the time of auction shall be
payable by the buyer irrespective of the fact whether he
lifts the material or not.
3. Any resin or tin left within the depot after the last
date of lifting shall vest in the Govt. and shall be
confiscated and refund in lieu of such resin or tins shall
be due to the buyer.
4. No crude resin will be exported by the buyer from
the resin depot specified in clause I accept by such
routes and via such chaukies as may be decided upon
and recorded in written by the Forest Office. The resin
tins may be counted and weighted by any Forest Officer
at any time during transit.
5. The buyer shall furnish the Forest Officer in
writing with the names of all the agents and servants it
proposes employ for it before they are employed and
the Forest Officer shall be at liberty to forbid the
employment of any person whom he may consider
6. The buyer shall not drag the resin tins from the
Sultan Nagri Depot.
7. In the event of a breach of any of the conditions
of this indenture by the buyer or by agents or servants
the M/s. Khurana Brothers, Rishikesh shall be liable to
pay of fine which may extend to fifty rupees at the
discretion of the Forest Officer for each such breach.
8. In the event of breach of this agreement or of any
forest law or rules the export of the buyer may be
stopped under the orders of the Forest Office, pending
any investigation and decision of the case.
9. Nothing in this indenture shall be held to exempt
the buyer or its agents or servants from liability to
criminal proceedings for breach of the forest laws and
rules committed by it or them.
10. In the event of dispute concerning any of the
terms of this indenture the same shall be referred to the
sole arbitrator appointed by the Chief Conservator of
Forest, Uttaranchal whose decision shall be final and
binding the parties.
11. The seller has received from the buyer the sum of
(Rupees 39,000.00 Thirty Nine thousand) only receipt of
which is hereby acknowledged as security for the due
fulfillment of all the covenants herein before contained.
The Forest Officer in empowered to deduct from such
security money any sum, which may be due from the
buyer whether in respect of any of the price payable by
it or any fine or liability incurred by it under the provision
of this indenture. The security money or such balance
thereof as may be after making the deductions
aforementioned will be returned to the buyer on the
expiration or sooner determination of this agreement as
after the Forest Officer shall have satisfied himself that
all the terms of this indenture have been duly and
faithfully carried out by the buyer.
12. The stamp duty payable on this deed and the fee
for registration of this deed shall be borne by the buyer.
13. Any tax imposed by any law on the present sale
shall be payable by the buyer.
14. Any sum of money, either of sale consideration or
fine or other kind of due, payable by the buyer under
this deed to the seller shall be recoverable as arrears of
In witness where of the Conservator of Forest, Southern
Kumaon Circle, Uttaranchal on behalf of the Governor
of the Uttaranchal and the M/s. Khurana Brothers,
Gopal Mandir, Rishikesh aforesaid have there to set the
BUYER : CONSERVATOR OF FOREST
4. The letter issued by the Divisional Forest Officer to
the writ petitioner on April 7, 2001 is as follows :
"Office of Divisional Forest Officer
Nainital Forest Division Nainital
Letter No. 4566/39-8.9 Dated Nainital 7-4-2001
Khurana Brothers Rishikesh
Gopal Mandir Rishikesh
Subject : Acceptance of Lisa lots purchased on 24-3-2001 in the
public auction held at Bhuwali Forest Rest House.
Ref : Letter No. 2955/39-8 Dated 31-0-2001 of forest conservator,
southern Kumaun circle, Uttaranchal Nainital.
The Bid given by you in the public auction held at Bhuwali
Forest Rest House on 24-3-2001 for the following resin lot is
accepted in your name.
Name Lot No. Resin BID Total Name
of PURCHASED Accepted price in of
Division Tin No. Quantity Per QTL. rupees Depot
In rupees from
Quintal is to be
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
East 314 to 1740 295 1956/- 586800 Sultan
319/2001 300 Nagri
You are therefore to arrange for lifting of aforesaid resin within
60 days of the date of issuance of the letter after having the
following conditions of auction notice completed by depositing in
advance with the Depot, Sultan Nagri Kathgodam.
1. Submitting challan of the total amount of purchased resin in
favour of concerned Divisional Forest officer.
2. Submitting certified the photocopy of certificate of registration
with department as required for registration in accordance with
section 10 of Uttar Pradesh Rosin and other Forest produce (Trade
Regulation) Act, 1976.
3. Payment of total price of Rosin & Trade tax at the prevailing
rates at the date of auction shall be compulsory prior to lifting the
4. The details of resin obtained from all sources along with
details concerning utilization fuel and further details of payment of
Trade tax on the products manufactured from previously obtained
rosin prior to lifting the rosin be submitted with Depot officer Rosin
5. Stamp Duty shall be payable on such purchase as per rules
and Government order.
6. The contribution for District Board at the rate of Rs. 5/- per
quintal on the purchased rosin shall be payable.
7. Prescribed Income tax and surcharge according to rules shall
Divisional Forest Officer
Nainital Forest Division"
5. The short question that arises for consideration is whether
the above contract of sale for crude resin amounts to `conveyance'
as defined under Section 2(10) of the Indian Stamp Act, 1899 (for
short, `the Stamp Act') and, if answer is in the affirmative, whether
stamp duty is chargeable thereon. In order to answer the aforesaid
question, the true and real meaning of the document needs to be
ascertained. When we look at the contract, it would be seen that in
consideration of the price stated in the contract, the State
Government agreed to deliver the specified quantity of the crude
resin to the writ petitioner (`purchaser'). The parties agreed that
quantity may increase or decrease by 10% and the resin will have to
be removed by the purchaser within 60 days from the date of
approval of sale and it will not be removed in more than 60
installments. As per the terms of the contract, the purchaser was
required to pay the amount of sale price irrespective of the fact
whether the contracted quantity of resin was lifted by it or not. By a
subsequent communication dated April 7, 2001, the purchaser was
informed of the acceptance of the bid for the stated resin lot/s in its
favour and it was asked to arrange for lifting of the same within 60
days of the issuance of that letter.
6. Section 4 of the Sale of Goods Act, 1930 reads as
"S.4. Sale and agreement to sell. - (1) A contract of
sale of goods is a contract whereby the seller transfers
or agrees to transfer the property in goods to the buyer
for a price. There may be a contract of sale between
one part-owner and another.
(2) A contract of sale may be absolute or conditional.
(3) Where under a contract of sale the property in the
goods is transferred from the seller to the buyer, the
contract is called a sale, but where the transfer of the
property in the goods is to take place at a future time or
subject to some condition thereafter to be fulfilled, the
contract is called an agreement to sell.
(4) An agreement to sell becomes a sale when the time
elapses or the conditions are fulfilled subject to which
the property in the goods is to be transferred."
7. The essence of sale is the transfer of the property in a
thing from one person to another for a price. As per Section 4, the
contract of sale includes an agreement to sell. It is not necessary
that contract of sale must be absolute. It may be conditional as well.
The essential feature that distinguishes the contract of sale from an
agreement to sell is that in a contract of sale the property in the
goods is transferred from the seller to the buyer immediately whereas
in an agreement to sell property is transferred on a future date/dates.
An agreement to sell becomes a sale on fulfillment of the conditions
or when the time provided in the agreement elapses.
8. Section 2(10) of the Stamp Act defines `conveyance' as
"S.2(10). - `Conveyance'.--`Conveyance' includes a
conveyance on sale and every instrument by which
property, whether movable or immovable, is transferred
inter vivos, and which is not otherwise specifically
provided for by Schedule I, Schedule I-A or Schedule I-
B, as the case may be;
9. Section 2(14) as was existing at the relevant time prior to
amendment vide U.P. Act 38 of 2001 reads as follows:
"S. 2(14). -- "instrument" includes every document by
which any right or liability is, or purports to be, created,
transferred, limited, extended, extinguished or
10. Section 3 is the charging Section. To the extent it is
relevant, it reads as follows:
"S.3. Instruments chargeable with duty. - Subject to
the provisions of this Act and the exemptions contained
in Schedule I, the following instruments shall be
chargeable with duty of the amount indicated in that
Schedule as the proper duty therefor, respectively, that
is to say--
(b) . . . . . . . . . . ..
Provided that, except as otherwise expressly
provided in this Act, and notwithstanding anything
contained in Clause (a), (b) or (c ) of this section, or in
Schedule I or I-A, the following instruments shall,
subject to the exemptions contained in Schedule I-A or
I-B, be chargeable with duty of the amount indicated in
Schedule I-A or I-B or as the proper duty therefore,
respectively, that is to say-
(aa) every instrument mentioned in Schedule I-A or I-
B, which, not having been previously executed
by any person, was executed in Uttar Pradesh :
(ii) in the case of instruments mentioned in
Schedule I-B, on or after the date on
which the U.P. Stamp (Amendment) act,
1952 comes into force:
(bb) every instrument mentioned in Schedule I-A or I-
B, which, not having been previously executed by
any person, was executed out of Uttar Pradesh :
(ii) in the case of instruments mentioned in
Schedule I-B, on or after the date on
which the U.P. Stamp (Amendment) Act,
1952 comes into force and relates to any
property situated, or any matter or
thing done or to be done in Uttar Pradesh, and
is received in Uttar Pradesh :
Provided also that no duty shall be chargeable in
respect of :
Explanation.--Where the amount of duty
prescribed in Schedule I-B contains any fraction of a
rupee, below twenty five paise, or above twenty five
paise but below fifty paise, or above fifty paise but
below seventy five paise, or above seventy five paise
but below one rupee, the proper duty shall be an
amount rounded off to the next higher quarter of a
rupee, as hereinafter appearing in the said Schedule."
11. Schedule I -B appended to the Stamp Act provides for
the rates of stamp duty in respect of instruments described
thereunder. Article 23 thereof provides for rate of stamp duty on the
`conveyance' as defined by Section 2(10) which are not exempted
under Article 62.
Description of instrument Proper stamp duty
23. Conveyance - as defined by
Section 2(10) not being a Transfer
charged or exempted under No.
(a) . . . . . . . .
(b) If relating to moveable
[See item 136 Appendix II]
where the amount or value
of the consideration of such Twenty rupees
conveyance, as set forth
therein, does not exceed
and for every Rs.1000 or
part thereof in excess of Twenty rupees
Assignment of a copy-right for
musical works by resident of or
first published in India
For the purposes of this Article, in
the case of an agreement to sell
an immovable property, where
possession is delivered before the
execution, or at the time of
execution, or is agreed to be
delivered without executing the
conveyance, the agreement shall
be deemed to be a conveyance
and stamp duty thereon shall be
Provided that the provisions of
Section 47-A shall, mutatis
mutandis, apply to such
Provided further that when
conveyance in pursuance of such
agreement is executed, the stamp
duty paid on the agreement shall
be adjusted towards the total duty
payable on the conveyance.
12. The expression `document' is not defined in the Stamp
Act. However, the General Clauses Act, 1897 defines `document' as
"S.3(18). - `document' shall include any matter
written, expressed or described upon any substance
by means of letters, figures or marks, or by more
than one of those means which is intended to be
used, or which may be used, for the purpose of
recording that matter."
13. Under Section 2(10), inter alia, every document by which
movable property is transferred is `conveyance'. Does the contract
of sale for crude resin entered into between the parties amount to
transfer of movable property? In our opinion, it does. In the contract
under consideration, all essential conditions of transfer of movable
property are satisfied. By this document right in auctioned lot of
crude resin has been created in favour of the writ petitioner.
Correspondingly, the State Government is under obligation to
deliver the quantity of crude resin specified in the document.
Pertinently, clause 1(B) provides that resin sold will remain at
purchaser's risk from the date of acceptance of its bid and seller will
not be responsible for any loss and damage which may occur thereto
from any cause whatsoever. The document read as a whole leaves
no manner of doubt that property in the auctioned lot of crude resin
vested in the purchaser as a result of the subject contract and, thus
amounts to transfer of movable property. Even if the document dated
March 24, 2001 is treated as an agreement to sell, in view of the
acceptance letter dated April 7, 2001 whereby the writ petitioner has
been informed that public auction is accepted in its name and that it
must arrange for lifting of the auctioned resin within 60 days from the
issuance of this letter, it is very clear that the contract of sale dated
March 24, 2001 read with the letter dated April 7, 2001 amounts to
`conveyance' within the meaning of Section 2(10) and is chargeable
to stamp duty under Article 23, Schedule I-B as admittedly there is
no exemption from payment of stamp duty in respect of such
conveyance under Article 62.
14. It is true that the contract document dated March 24, 2001
records the receipt of Rs. 39,000/- as security from the purchaser for
due fulfillment of all the covenants but a clause like this does not
make it a `Security Document' as held by the Division Bench in the
15. The Division Bench travelled beyond scope of review in
reviewing the judgment dated April 13, 2004. In our view, the view
taken in the judgment dated April 13, 2004 did not suffer from any
error apparent on the face of the record justifying its review.
16. The appeals are, accordingly, allowed and the impugned
judgment dated December 27, 2007 is set aside. The parties shall
bear their own costs.
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It is said that acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS) represents 10.4% of all patients admitted to intensive care units (ICUs) and 23.5% of all patients in need of mechanical ventilation. The effects of comorbidities on ARDS mortality are still unknown, although some studies suggest that liver disease, gastrointestinal ulcers, and autoimmune disorders are the leading cause of adverse outcomes in patients with ARDS.
Repeated research on US hospitals that included patients over the age of 18 and those diagnosed with ARDS by the ICD-10 group between 2016 and 2018. The risk factors (non-medical) were high blood pressure, diabetes, obesity. , hypothyroidism, alcohol and drug abuse, kidney disease (CKD), heart disease, liver disease, chronic lung disease and disease.
After removal, 1,046 records were reviewed. Survivors were significantly younger than non-survivors (52.1 vs 62.8; p <0.001) and females (49.1% vs 53.2%; p = 0.004). Hypertension was the most common comorbidity, as well as diabetes and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. In most studies, it was found that ulcers (OR 2.26, 95% CI 1.84–2.78, p <0.001), heart disease (OR 1.54, 95% CI 1.23–1.92, p <0.001), and CKD (OR 1.75,001) , 95% CI 1.22–2.50, p = 0.002) increased the risk of death. In a combined study, cardiovascular disease combined with gastrointestinal ulcers or CKD provided a significantly higher risk of death compared to the risk alone. Numerous studies have shown serious kidney injury as a major risk factor for ARDS death, but the role of chronic kidney disease has not been well documented.
All illnesses have been shown to increase the frequency of hospitalization after ARDS, and the increase in morbidity increases the number of comorbidities. During the COVID-19 epidemic, age, hypertension, diabetes, obesity and several other diseases were also linked to adverse effects. Among the failures, the recurring nature of the study hinders the founding relationship. In addition, risk factors such as sepsis and aspiration were not considered.
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Survivors of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) may experience persistent symptoms, abnormal diagnostic test findings, incident disease in specific organ systems, or progression of existing disease. Post-acute COVID-19 syndrome (PACS) is defined by persistent, recurrent, or new symptoms, findings, or diagnoses beyond four weeks after the initial infection. PACS has been characterized as a multi-organ syndrome, often with cardiopulmonary symptoms that include fatigue, dyspnea, chest pain, and palpitations. Cardiovascular pathologies in PACS include new-onset arrhythmia, myocarditis, unmasked coronary artery disease, and diastolic dysfunction as well as abnormal findings on electrocardiogram, troponin testing, and cardiac magnetic resonance imaging. In this review, we discuss the cardiovascular symptoms, pathophysiology, clinical investigation, and management strategies for cardiopulmonary symptoms of PACS. We offer a treatment algorithm for primary care clinicians encountering patients with cardiopulmonary PACS and discuss ongoing research on this topic.
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Should regulators take into account harm to people in other countries? What about harm to future generations? Should we give special attention when the disadvantaged are harmed? These questions are central to climate policy and some other important environmental issues. I’ll use cost-benefit analysis as a framework for discussing these issues. You probably don’t need my help in thinking about the ethical issues, so instead I’ll focus on legal and economic considerations.
Other countries. When the Trump administration estimated the harmfulness of climate change, its answer was about a tenth of the Obama administration’s estimate. The main difference is that Trump counted only impacts within the borders of the United States. There’s been considerable discussion of this issue among academics. Generally, cost-benefit analysis of government regulations has focused on harm within the United States.
On the other hand, it’s quite common for U.S. regulators to coordinate with regulators in other countries and to take the benefits of coordination into account in issuing their own regulations. The case for doing so is especially strong regarding climate change in legal terms. The U.S. has signed and ratified the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, a binding agreement to cut emissions and to cooperate with other countries.
Putting that aside, a consistent focus on U.S. economic welfare would require ignoring regulatory costs that are passed on to foreign investors or foreign consumers. It would also require taking into account the ways that climate impacts abroad might harm Americans who invest or live in foreign countries, as well as those who benefit from foreign imports and exports. So far as I know, there are no good models along those lines.
Future generations. In cost-benefit analysis, the weight given to future generations is controlled by something called the discount rate. A low discount rate puts much more weight on future generations than higher ones. The Trump administration, not surprisingly, used a substantially higher discount rate in the context of climate change — another reason its estimate of the harms caused by climate change was so low. Economists generally think the discount rate should be low in assessing long-term climate impacts. However, there is significant disagreement about the proper rate.
Environmental statutes are largely silent on this issue. However, the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) does provide some guidance. According to section 102 of NEPA, “It is the continuing responsibility of the Federal Government to use all practicable means, consist with other essential considerations of national policy, to . . . fulfill the responsibilities of each generation as trustee of the environment for succeeding generations.” Although the U.S. Supreme Court has held that this provision is not legally enforceable, it does signal Congress’s desire that regulators take the interests of future generations into the account. Using too high a discount rate would fly in the face of this legislative guidance.
The disadvantaged. Many environmental issues have their most serious impacts on disadvantaged communities. Cost-benefit analysis is in principle concerned only with monetized costs, not on where they fall. Moreover, the “cost” of a non-financial harm is based on what an individual would be willing to pay to avoid it. In assessing impacts on health and mortality, however, cost-benefit analysis in practice has used uniform figures for everyone. This is questionable in terms of economic theory, however, since presumably the poor would be less willing to pay to reduce those risks than the rich would be. In this respect, cost-benefit analysis in practice has a tilt toward protecting the disadvantaged.
An increasing number of economists believe that it would better to use “equity weighting” of monetized risks, which puts more weight on the same cost if the person in question is poor. The use of the same cost figure for the rich and the poor may accomplish something similar indirectly. In effect, it deflates the valuation of risks to the rich and inflates those to the poor, just as equity weighting would do.
The Clean Air Act does not speak specifically to this issue. The approach currently taken seems permissible. The Clean Air Act’s central focus is protecting public health, which has traditionally been thought to give equal weight to everyone’s life and health. The statute also repeatedly references risk levels, which are inherently indifferent to which individuals suffer harm. There is no indication anywhere in the statute that the lives and health of the rich deserve greater attention.
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People are consistent. It’s hard to argue that.
They may be consistently inconsistent but that’s still being consistent.
Mostly, the word consistency gets spoken about in a positive light. “Someone is consistent with doing X.”
However, we can be consistent at being rude, consistent at never returning messages, consistent at showing up late for every meeting, etc.
I created a simple formula to articulate it more and how to determine if we can change it or not.
Consistency = patterns / priority
What patterns have we established that are tried and true and won’t change without a ton of work? Think about what our friends or colleagues are “known” for. What labels can we put on them? Those are their patterns.
What are we known for?
Now, people can change. It’s true. And that is where priority comes in. The patterns never change until the priority level rises.
Once we can reprioritize what is important then we have the opportunity to alter our patterns and build consistency with new habits or routines.
That’s the only way it works.
It starts from the inside. From the belief that we can change and we want to change. Whatever the motivator it generally won’t matter until we make the tough decision to prioritize first.
When it has more priority it gets done. It gets focused on. There is a chance it can change.
But, let’s not forget. Consistency isn’t always good if it’s for the wrong things. If we prioritize things that are unhealthy or detrimental to our life then it can work in the other direction as well.
We have to continually focus on managing our priority list and making the most important things higher. We have to build better routines and habits off of those priorities. We have to be consistently good at sticking to those newly formed habits to create change.
That change can build a new foundation for us. One we can build consistent patterns off of going forward.
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Last month, the NITI Aayog released the Three Year Action Agenda (TYAA) for the government, a roadmap for reforming the various sectors of the economy. Here we look at its agenda for the agriculture sector, and how best it can rescue the sector whose growth has plunged to just 1.8 per cent annually in the first three years of the NDA government.
In doing so, we also touch upon the recommendations of some important committees constituted by the current government in the realm of agri-food. These are the High Level Committee (HLC) on Management of Foodgrains and Restructuring FCI (headed by Shanta Kumar, January 2015), the Task Force on Agriculture headed by the Vice-Chairman of the NITI Aayog (May 2016) and the four volumes (out of 14) of the Committee on Doubling of Farmers’ Income (August 2017). The government, thus, has ample reference points for reforming the food and agriculture sector.
The TYAA basically talks of action pertaining, first, to increasing productivity of land and water, second to reforming agri-markets on the lines of e-NAM, third, reforming tenancy laws, and finally, relief measures during natural disasters. There is nothing new — and nothing wrong — in these recommendations; they have been made by the committees cited above. The TYAA, however, does not prioritise policy actions, nor does it talk about the role of trade policy in agriculture, or reforming the massive system of food and fertiliser subsidies. Nevertheless, the hard question is whether the government is ready to bite the bullet.
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We think urgent action is needed on five fronts and list them in order of priority. First, the government needs to improve the profitability of cultivation by “getting markets right”, second, it needs to invest in water to fulfil its slogan of “har khet ko pani” and “more crop per drop”, it’s third priority should be Direct Benefit Transfer (DBT) of food and fertiliser subsidies to the accounts of targeted beneficiaries, which can release resources for investments, fourth it should ensure that the new Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana (PMFBY) delivers compensation to farmers in time, and finally, it should free up land lease markets. Let us elaborate on these points a bit.
By now it is clear that the policy of minimum support prices (MSPs) — and the promise of 50 per cent profits over costs in the BJP’s election manifesto of 2014 — has not improved profitability of cultivation in the last three years. In fact, farmers’ returns have gone down in the case of most crops. The situation is worse for producers of basic vegetables like potatoes, onions and tomatoes. Prices of these crops during harvest time plunged to about Rs 2 per kg in the last season while the consumers were still paying Rs 15 to Rs 20 per kg. Attempts to reform the Agricultural Produce Marketing Committee (APMC) markets on the lines of the model act of 2003, and now through the Agricultural Produce and Livestock Marketing Act, 2017, have not achieved much success.
However, India has shown in the case of milk, through Operation Flood — a la the AMUL model — that farmers can get 70-80 per cent of the price paid by consumers. Why then can’t we have “Operation Veggies” on similar lines? A beginning can be made with at least onions, potatoes and tomatoes. That would require buying directly from farmers’ groups (FPOs), setting up logistics from grading, storage to movement, and linking them to organised retail (including e-retail), large processors and exporters. But to do all this, the government will have to commit not only enough resources as it did for Operation Flood but also change certain laws, including the Essential Commodities Act (ECA).
The e-NAM scheme, which is supposed to create an all India market, in order to ensure better prices to farmers, has not succeeded in its endeavour so far. Software is still being installed in mandis to enable them to switch auctions from the shouting platform to the electronic ones. Inter-mandi and inter-state transactions are very rare. However, an easier way to improve farmers’ profitability is to open up exports of all agri-products, without any restrictions, and allowing private trade to build global value chains, keeping the ECA in abeyance. This would require a change from the current pro-consumer approach to one that is focussed on farmers.
Second is the issue of investments, especially in water. The Pradhan Mantri Krishi Sinchayee Yojana is mandated to complete 99 irrigation projects by 2019, which will bring 76 lakh ha additional area under irrigation. NABARD, with Rs 40,000 crore as Long-Term Irrigation Fund, is to help states in completing these projects. It would be a commendable achievement for the government if it can complete these projects as planned. But open canal systems with flood irrigation don’t give high water-use efficiency.
It is time to accord higher priority to micro-irrigation (drip and sprinklers) to achieve the objective of “more crop per drop”. Israel and the US could be good examples to follow: Israel has the highest proportion (99 per cent) of its irrigated area under micro-irrigation while the US has largest absolute area (15 m ha) under micro-irrigation (See graph).
The third area for action should be DBT of food and fertiliser subsidies. The HLC has already provided a roadmap in this respect. Rs 30,000 to Rs 50,000 crores can be saved each year, which can be invested in water resources and upgrading marketing infrastructure.
The fourth area is ensuring that the Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana (PMFBY) delivers. Currently, several states don’t pay premium in time, don’t conduct crop cutting experiments, and as a result, farmers suffer long delays in getting any compensation. These lacunae can be fixed through modern technology and better governance, provided there is a champion in the government to deliver.
The last suggestion would be to free up land lease markets for long periods. China allows land lease for 30 years so that corporate bodies can work with farmers, bringing in their best expertise, inputs and investments. Can India do it?
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xtreme financial crisis in Pakistan. Added to this is the energy crisis. There is no electricity in Pakistan. The capital Islamabad is also in darkness after 9 pm. Meanwhile came another bad news. Internet service may also be shut down. Telecom operators have already responded. They fear that the internet and mobile services will be cut off at any moment due to the power crisisLast Thursday, Pakistan’s National Information Technology Board said, “Pakistan’s telecom operators have warned of a shutdown of mobile and internet services.”
Day after day, the power crisis has severely affected mobile and internet services. In his speech, Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif said the power crisis could escalate in July. Load shedding may also increase. The amount of liquefied natural gas required is also not available in sufficient quantities. Even if the government of Pakistan tries, it is not enough. Therefore, the Prime Minister thinks that the situation in Pakistan may get worse.
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Incidentally, in June, Pakistan’s monthly fuel imports were the lowest. Despite strong demand for electricity, Pakistan cannot afford to buy LNG. Pakistan has taken several steps to tackle the power crisis. The office court is open four days a week. Multiple shopping malls have also been closed. Pakistan has borrowed a lot of money in the world market. So the possibility of getting new money is less. In this situation, many people are fearing that they will be cut off from communication as well as drowning in darkness | <urn:uuid:becabd99-a53b-4507-aea8-a9fe0d9bc8c3> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.newshub18.com/mobile-service-internet-will-not-work-in-the-whole-country/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572198.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815175725-20220815205725-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.962012 | 335 | 1.515625 | 2 |
Ecuador’s Undersecretariat of Fisheries Resources this week launched a new management plan for the country’s multi-species small pelagics fishery. Sustainable Fisheries Partnership (SFP) recognized it as an important milestone in national fisheries management in Ecuador. It is the first national-level fishery management plan with established objectives, goals and management measures that have been agreed upon by relevant stakeholders through a participatory and inclusive decision-making process.
“The management plan for small pelagics is the result of collective action between the government authority and different stakeholders involved in the fishery’s supply chain,” said Ecuador’s Undersecretary of Fisheries Resources Ricardo Perdomo. “We were able to demonstrate that we can set goals and objectives that allow us to conserve our fishing resources, maintain the ocean’s health, and ensure sources of work and livelihoods for our fishermen through transparent dialogue and scientific evidence. Building this management plan collectively helped us agree on quantitative management rules that we can meet and monitor, to assess progress and compliance.”
The plan will enable more sustainable exploitation of the small pelagics fishery, ensuring greater social and economic returns in the long run. The new management plan is the first to be approved under a stipulation in Ecuador’s new national fishing and aquaculture law that requires management plans to be developed for fisheries that are not regulated by Regional Fisheries Management Organizations (RFMOs).
“We are pleased to see the government establishing an official management plan for the path to sustainability of small pelagics,” said Carlos Cacao, executive director of Empresa Pesquera Polar and president of the Small Pelagic Commission of the National Fishery Chamber. “Many of the actions in this management plan complement and are derived from the Small Pelagics Sustainability Fishery Improvement Project. This fishery could not continue to be handled without a clear plan. We needed targets and goals to guarantee effective fishing management. There is still a need to allocate more resources to research and management for small pelagics, and our vision is to work collectively with the government and other stakeholders to respond to the challenges of global food security for present and future generations.”
The small pelagic fishery is the second-most important fishery in Ecuador (after purse seine tuna). It includes species such as chub mackerel, thread herring and frigate tuna that are mostly used for fish feed. Two years ago, this fishery was plagued by illegal fishing, little government oversight or regulation, weak stakeholder participation and lack of a coherent management strategy. In 2019, the European Union issued a Yellow Card to Ecuador as a warning and need for further action to combat illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing. The new management plan includes actions to combat IUU fishing, to raise management standards and ensure compliance with EU market requirements.
The management plan was developed through the Small Pelagic Dialogue Platform (SPDP), a co-management mechanism that facilitates active engagement of fishery stakeholders, including the industry-led Ecuador Small Pelagics Sustainability Fishery Improvement Project (SPS-FIP).
The SPDP was developed and implemented by the Undersecretariat of Fisheries Resources. It is supported by the Global Marine Commodities (GMC) project, an interregional initiative funded by the Global Environment Facility (GEF) that receives technical support from the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and is facilitated by Sustainable Fisheries Partnership (SFP). The SPS-FIP, comprised of major players in the marine ingredients catch and processing sectors, is led by Ecuador’s National Fishery Chamber with the support of GMC and the technical backing of SFP.
Over the past two years the SPS-FIP has resulted in significant improvements in the fishery. A 2018 stock assessment found that all of the six small pelagic stocks in the fishery were overexploited and half were overfished (2017 data). In October 2020, new stock assessments showed a one-third reduction of the stocks that are overexploited and none of the stocks as overfished (2019 data). These improvements resulted from the implementation of voluntary management measures, including extended fishery closures, developed by the SPS-FIP.
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The World of Dungeons and Dragons
Dungeons and Dragons is a role-playing game that has not only attracted but captivated a considerable amount of audience since the past few years due to the way this game is played.
The game is based solely based on the imagination (but not completely) since it is a table-top game. Players can also get 3D figures or can draw the scenario of their campaign on something which is quite big as a table at home.
To Dungeons and Dragons, one needs a few things which are necessary to get your game going. Among those things is the DM (Dungeon Master) who will lead the campaign, pose challenges to the players, and control the world/ campaign.
While the rest of the things are associated with players, and they need a Character to play with, a character sheet, Dices (up to D20), ability to imagine at his best, and cunningness to tackle the challenges posed by the Dungeon Master.
When it comes to the Character of a player, it is required for a player to give an ample amount of thought and time to give it to his/her player. Since the player will play with it so Characters and things pertaining to a Character are of utmost importance.
One of the many things regarding the Character of a player that we will discuss here is its ‘Background’.
While thinking of a Background, one might think of something happening at the back of the character; since many of us might arrive at this conclusion then we are almost there to understand what background/s is actually is?
Background in Dungeons and Dragons refers to the back story or to say in other words the past of your Character. What was your character in its past? What does he/she do? What made him decide that she/she will go on an adventure? Where did he get all the money necessary for the campaign, any event in his/her life that made her mind that he will go on an adventure?
These questions and many other questions like these are in the Background sections of the ‘Player’s handbook’ when one will go through the chapter of the background. Besides these, players can also go through the example mentioned in the book as well to have a better understanding of what background actually is?
Since the discussion of background does not end here there are other things that are included in the background that needs a player’s attention as well. And that includes the Proficiencies, Languages, Equipment, and suggested characteristics. Without these, the background of a character is not complete, since all these are the basic elements that make up a background in Dungeons and Dragons.
While the book has given players 13 sample DND 5e Backgrounds for their characters with ample information in the book, players can also customize backgrounds of their own. There are no restrictions when customizing a background for a character.
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Hospitals lost 5,800 jobs in April, marking the fourth month of job loss this year, according to the latest jobs report from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
The April count compares to 600 hospital jobs lost in March, 2,200 jobs lost in February and 2,100 jobs lost in January. Before January, the last job loss was in September, when hospitals lost 6,400 jobs.
Overall, healthcare lost 4,100 jobs last month — compared to 11,500 jobs added in March — and employment in the industry is down by 542,000 since February 2020.
Within ambulatory healthcare services, dentist offices saw 3,700 added jobs; physician offices saw 11,300 job gains; and home healthcare services lost 6,700 jobs in April.
Nursing and residential care facilities lost 19,500 jobs last month, compared to 3,200 jobs lost the month prior.
The U.S. gained 266,000 in April after gaining 916,000 jobs in March. The unemployment rate was 6.1 percent last month, compared to 6 percent in March.
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Adding support for other programming languages¶
We’d like Xapian to be usable from as many languages as possible. However, this means more than just having bindings code. To truly support a language, we need to have:
- working bindings that can be built against a recent release of Xapian or git master, as well as against the latest version of the target language
- documentation to help people familiar with the target language to start using the bindings
- example code – ideally translations of the code in the Xapian user guide. You can start from the user guide source code, which already supports a few languages.
- automated tests for the bindings; at least a “smoketest” hooked into the tests for the build system, so we’ll notice if something significant breaks. See the section on testing bindings.
Some things you need to know¶
Many languages can be done using SWIG, and it’s probably easier to do so even though some languages may have better tools available just because it’s less overall work. SWIG makes it particularly easy to wrap a new method for all the supported languages at once - in many cases just adding the method to the C++ API is enough, since SWIG parses the C++ API headers.
To give an idea of how much work a set of bindings might be, the author of the Ruby bindings estimated they took about 25 hours, starting from not knowing SWIG. However, the time taken could vary substantially depending on the language, how well you know it, and how well SWIG supports it.
What’s really needed is someone interested in bindings for a particular language who knows that language well and will be using them actively. We can help with the Xapian and SWIG side, but without somebody who knows the language well it’s hard to produce a solid, well tested set of bindings rather than just a token implementation.
Experiments and partially-completed bindings¶
XS bindings for Perl have been contributed for Perl, and these are available
on CPAN as
Search::Xapian. We also have SWIG-based Perl bindings which are
perl subdirectory here, as a
Xapian module. These are replacing
Search::Xapian, and will eventually be on CPAN.
These are languages which SWIG supports and which people have done some work on producing Xapian bindings for:
- There are some basic Go bindings written by Marius Tibeica in the
“golang” branch, which is currently based on the
- Dan Colish did some initial work on Ocaml support.
Bill Welliver has written some Pike bindings for Xapian covering some of the API.
These bindings appear to be hand-coded rather than generated using SWIG. SWIG 4.0.0 has disabled Pike support due to lack of recent maintenance, so SWIG is probably not a good option here.
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Breaking the cycle of poverty is at the core of ICF’s mission. Across all of the geographical contexts where we work, factors such as food insecurity, shrinking education budgets, corruption, and lack of access to basic resources such as water, electricity or health care perpetuate this cycle and serve as insurmountable obstacles for the hardworking people trying to get ahead in life.
The good news is that many civil society organizations are collaborating to combat this multifaceted issue. While each organization focuses on a certain issue within their specific program or geographic areas of expertise, ICF takes a broader-view, connecting them to critical resources, offering expertise from solutions being proven across regions or even around the world, to address the systemic barriers to improving lives and livelihoods in Mexico. Below are just five of the organizations ICF supports that are doing tremendous work to help the people of Mexico.
1. Improve the Quality of Education
Enseña Por México (Teach for Mexico) has been developing strong leaders and improving educational attainment amongst young people in Mexico since its founding 2013. The program seeks to maximize the potential of youth regardless of their background or economic level. This involves mitigating the issue of student dropout rates — every day, 5,000 students in Mexico dropout of school for good. For children who stop going to school, it not only limits their academic growth, but also reduces opportunities to build successful and lucrative careers and go on to lead healthy and fulfilling adult lives. Ensuring that citizens have the opportunity for education can be a solution to poverty.
Enseña Por México aims to bring personal, educational, and social transformation to the young people in the country through a comprehensive leadership and education program. Within just 6 years of operation, Enseña Por México has helped more than 60,000 students and currently offers aid in 8 states. You can help Enseña Por México keep more impoverished kids in school and improve their opportunities by donating to ICF’s education fund here.
2. Provide a Home for Abandoned Children
With around 100,000 Mexican orphans living on the street, improved housing is desperately needed for parentless, abused, and other vulnerable children. Due to a lack of funds and accountability, many orphanages in Mexico cannot provide even basic care let alone the emotional and mental health services they critically need. The lack of housing may increase child poverty in Mexico.
Fortunately, Mexico has a strong system of nonprofit orphanages, known as hogares, who are making a real difference. Casa Hogar Cabo San Lucas and Casa Hogar Alegría are two such hogares providing a safe home for abandoned or vulnerable boys and girls in Mexico. Casa Hogar Cabo San Lucas in Baja California Sur housed more than 180 children in 2017 alone. In addition to basic needs, through leadership training, education, and emotional mentorship and care, these centers give kids a chance to learn essential life and job skills, under the supervision of close mentors, and in a safe space.
With the help of ICF and our generous donors, these organizations are changing lives by offering hundreds of kids the chance to grow up with love and security, when they may otherwise have been on the streets. You can help Mexican children achieve the lives they deserve by donating to Casa Hogar Cabo San Lucas or to Casa Hogar Alegría through ICF.
3. Improve Access to Healthy Food
Families that are food insecure don’t have routine access to adequate amounts of nutritious food. Food insecurity can sometimes result from a lack of food availability, but more often in Mexico, it is the result of poverty — fresh and nutritious food exists, but people can’t afford it or access it. This is the case among more than 10% of the Mexican population.
To combat this issue, the Southern Baja Food Security Alliance (SBFSA) aims to connect local stakeholders in areas like Los Cabos — where a staggering 52% of residents experience food insecurity. By offering gardening and nutrition programs, this multi-sector community group educates Mexican families on healthy eating and helps them access the fresh food they need. In 2017 alone, the SBFSA provided classes to 682 community members and ensured 69 garden plots could be harvested.
Help us improve food security on a regional level in Baja California Sur by donating to the SBFSA here.
4. Provide Medical Care to Children
Given that around half of all Mexican children are living in poverty, access to regular medical care is not possible for a significant percentage of the young population — unless local initiatives step in to help.
Amigos de Los Niños is a nonprofit that provides free healthcare services to children up to the age of 18 who are experiencing a deficiency in the quality of their care. The organization’s Free Clinic handles everything from cardiology to dentistry, and they provide special cases program for children with serious illnesses. You can help more impoverished children get the healthcare they need by donating to Amigos de Los Niños here.
5. Support Childcare for Families in Los Cabos
Most households in Mexico are either single-parent or require both parents to work full-time jobs in order to provide for their families’ needs. And without guaranteed free pre-school or daycare, childcare becomes a critical economic hurdle. As a result, many families decide to pull their oldest children from school in order to help care for younger siblings. And despite some progress in gender equality on a policy-level, the reality is that girls are more likely than boys to be pulled or drop out of school by 12 years old, and child marriage rates continue to rise in some parts of Mexico. Unfortunately, this creates a cycle of impoverished, under-educated parents and kids who don’t stay in school because they can’t afford to.
To address this problem, since 1999, Los Niños del Capitán has offered a nursery, a pre-school, elementary school support, and a parenting program to bolster educational opportunities for families near Cabo San Lucas, many whom work in the service and hospitality industries. They also provide on-site pediatric dental care to ensure that children get the care they need, regardless of their families’ financial situation. You can support high-quality childcare for families in Los Cabos by donating to Los Niños del Capitán here.
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albumin is a protein found in the blood, and is essential in maintaining growth and repairing tissues. you can maintain or improve albumin by knowing how much protein to eat, and by including protein-rich, kidney-friendly foods each day. if you’re not on dialysis and are on a lower-protein kidney diet, at least half your daily protein allowance should come from high-quality protein sources. a 3-ounce cooked burger has 21 grams of good-quality protein. this excess sodium and phosphorus isn’t good for patients with chronic kidney disease. compared to milk, yogurt and cheese, cottage cheese is lower in potassium and phosphorus. egg whites are 100 percent albumin, the best quality protein you can eat. a 3-ounce portion of cooked fish has approximately 15-21 grams of protein. when eaten as a meat replacement, greek yogurt may work into your meal plan, with a cup adding 22 grams of protein to your diet.
in addition to your favorite fruit, include a low-potassium milk substitute and protein powder or pasteurized egg product. be sure to watch out for higher sodium, potassium or phosphorus, and check with your dietitian to learn about the best choices. often these products are used as dietary supplements when a person is unable to eat enough. in addition to high-quality protein, pork chops are a good source of iron and thiamine. look for bars that contain more than 15 grams of protein, below 150 mg phosphorus and less than 200 mg potassium and sodium. protein powders and liquids provide a concentrated protein source that can be added to foods or beverages. a 1/2 cup of tofu can have 7 to 13 grams of protein. see kidney-friendly food and drink choices to consider when eating out at your favorite restaurants. this site is for informational purposes only and is not intended to be a substitute for medical advice from a medical provider.
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Among patients presenting with acute myocardial infarction (AMI), the proportion of young individuals has increased in recent years. Although coronary atherosclerosis is less extensive in young patients with AMI, with higher prevalence of single-vessel disease and rare left main involvement, the long-term prognosis is not benign. Young patients with AMI with obstructive coronary artery disease have similar risk factors as older patients except for higher prevalence of smoking, lipid disorders, and family history of premature coronary artery disease, and lower prevalence of diabetes mellitus and hypertension. Smoking cessation is by far the most effective secondary preventive measure. Myocardial infarction with nonobstructive coronary arteries is a relatively common clinical entity (10%-20%) among young patients with AMI, with intravascular and cardiac magnetic resonance imaging being key for diagnosis and potentially treatment. Spontaneous coronary artery dissection is a frequent pathogenetic mechanism of AMI among young women, requiring a high degree of suspicion, especially in the peripartum period.
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This giant formation of rock rises out of nowhere towering over every thing in its vicinity. It is kind of a climb to the top however once up there you’re going to get to see a panoramic view of the nearby sights and the Sigiriya fort. The rock fortress is a slice of history perched on a rock and is really value a go to. Missing Yala National Park while Sri Lanka sightseeing might bring regret to wildlife lovers. It is residence to a host of wildlife and birds you’re certain to run into a bunch of elephants bathing in streams, tossing their trunks wildly or leopards nestling lazily on tree branches.
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It is likely one of the greatest places to visit in Sri Lanka for a memorable vacation. This is likely one of the top Sri Lanka vacationer spots which can be claimed to be one of many world heritage sites. The place gained its significance after the arrival of the Bodhi Tree which is also called the “tree of enlightenment”. The place protects the tree and keeps it away from the wild elephants through the reign of King Kirthi Sri Rangasingha. Another picturesque destination for sightseeing in Sri Lanka is the Japanese Peace Pagoda. Quite close to the Unawatuna seashore, it’s a white dome of serenity. Sigiriya or the mount of remembrance is a World Heritage Site and some of the gorgeous places to see in Sri Lanka.
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The islands are home to dramatic landscapes, plentiful wildlife, and some of the world’s richest heritage treasures with more than 500 archeological websites. Haida Gwaii’s local weather produces lush vegetation and abundant wildlife. Groups of Sitka deer feed on the grassy clearings along the Queen Charlotte Highway, and eagles—often hundreds at a time—could be seen flying overhead in spring and summer season. This storm battered archipelago of 150 rocky islands off British Columbia’s West Coast is Haida territory and tough to access, solely including to its allure. The space is nicknamed Canada’s Galapagos for its diverse plant and animal life, and the totem pole and longhouse stays are a number of the oldest genuine examples of coastal First Nations villages. Travel back in time to 1867 and expertise life as it was. Discover our 40 heritage buildings, meet the pleasant farm animals, and more!
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The history of the Belgorod Hotel Complex begins on January 8, 1956. For more than 60 years, the hotel has witnessed all the memorable, festive and historically important moments in the life of the city.
Today GC Belgorod is a modern 4-star hotel-a bright example of Stalinist classicism, rich architectural and artistic performance with an excellent location, a wide range of services and hospitable staff.
The room Fund consists of 110 comfortable rooms of various categories: single, single with a large bed, standard double room with two beds, Junior Suite, Suite, apartment. It offers a restaurant, an outdoor terrace, a lobby bar, a fitness room, and 2 conference rooms for seminars, presentations, and corporate events.
A buffet Breakfast is served in the Belgorod hotel’s restaurant. From 12:00 to 00:00 there is a wine restaurant “Square”, offering you European cuisine and original dishes from the chef, as well as an extensive wine list In the warm season there is a summer Playground “Verandah and Wine”, which overlooks the main square of the city.
The hotel Complex is located with a beautiful view of the Cathedral square (the first mention of the end of the XVIII century), forming together with the buildings of the regional administration, the Department of agriculture, the drama theater named after M. S. Shchepkin a single Architectural ensemble. Within walking distance of Victory Park, the beautiful embankment of the Vezelka river, Masterslavl, Gorsad, Belgorod Arbat, art Museum, historical and art Museum-Diorama ” battle of Kursk. Belgorod Direction”, Museum of local lore, Transfiguration, assumption of Smolensk and St Nicholas cathedrals. After getting acquainted with these sights of the city, everyone is saturated with the warmth, comfort and kindness of Belgorod. | <urn:uuid:42fa57f5-05e3-4419-91a9-c7549e011150> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://hotelbelgorod.ru/en/about-hotel/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572033.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814113403-20220814143403-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.918049 | 413 | 1.664063 | 2 |
Neuropathy refers to nerve damage leading to numbness, tingling sensations, and even pain in the affected area(s). Though it has many causes, diabetes is a major neuropathy contributor that damages blood vessels to cut off the nerves’ blood and nutrient supply, particularly those of the extremities (hands and feet).
Although incurable, the pain and damage of diabetic neuropathy can be minimized, even reversed, through various natural solutions, with the most effective being soothing essential oils. So, here are some of the best essential oils for long-lasting DN relief which hopefully work before you book an appointment with a top diabetologist in Lahore.
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Extracted from its namesake leaves, the menthol in peppermint oil helps control muscle spasms by warming and relaxing the skin and muscles of the affected areas, while still producing an overall cooling effect. It also improves blood circulation to relieve numbness and discomfort in neuropathic areas. However, its stimulant nature and strong scent make it suitable for use before bed and around the eyes. Simply mix a few drops of peppermint and a carrier oil (e.g. coconut) and massage the effective parts using circular motions.
An aromatherapy staple that acts as an anti-stress and antidepressant, its anti-inflammatory and antispasmodic properties make it excellent for treating diabetic neuropathy. Lavender oil also helps restore the nervous system’s functioning and damaged nerve endings. You can use lavender oil directly by diluting it with a few drops of carrier oil, or mix it into cocoa butter with 2 drops rosemary oil.
Like peppermint, the strong-scented eucalyptus oil not only improves respiration, but also reduces muscle spasms and inflammation by promoting muscular and skin relaxation. It is also a highly effective painkiller, antiseptic and antibacterial solution. Simply add a few drops to an unscented lotion to simultaneously keep your skin moisturized and combat neuropathy.
A thousand-year-old neuralgia (intense nerve pain in the head or face) treatment, this apple-scented essential oil helps reverse diabetic neuropathy by de-constricting blood vessels and improving blood circulation. Roman chamomile can be used on its own after diluting with a carrier oil, combined with ylang-ylang for maximum effect. Make sure to consult a neuro physician in Karachi before deciding on any of these oils.
Native to the mountain plains of Pakistan, lemongrass is an excellent digestive when decanted as tea, and provides efficient neuropathic pain relief by sedating the affected nerves when used as an oil. It is also a powerful anti-inflammatory agent that can be used by combining with a few drops of a carrier oil.
Extracted from the petals of the yellow Ylang-Ylang flower native to the Far East, this particular essential oil helps repair damaged nerves soothes neuropathic nerve pain. Its sweet, floral aroma adds to the oil’s appeal, and can be combined with similarly fragrant carrier and essential oils like almond, citrus, and lavender.
Essential Oil Tips:
- Watch out for potential allergens. Carefully read the ingredients when buying a bottle of essential oil.
- Always dilute an essential oil with a carrier like olive, almond, and coconut oil as undiluted essential oils can irritation and inflammation.
- Do a patch test prior to applying over large areas of skin to check for signs of allergy like red patches, itchiness, and acne breakouts.
- For topical application, mix 1 ounce of a carrier oil to every 12 drops of essential oil to avoid inflammation.
- For an optimum neuropathy-friendly massage experience, mix an essential oil with a massage oil like avocado, cocoa butter, olive, and sesame oil.
- Essential oils can also be diluted by adding small amounts into bathwater for a body-wide pain relief in case of multiple neuropathy.
- Add a few drops of essential oil into a diffuser for dealing with associated neuropathy symptoms like insomnia, stress, and anxiety.
- Pregnant women should always consult with their doctors before using essential oils.
While most cases of neuropathy are due to diabetes, nerve pain can also result from other factors like infections, physical trauma and autoimmune disorders. So if you feel your hands, feet, or other body parts going unexplainably numb, contact your doctor to determine the root cause.
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Sharing a step-by-step tutorial on how to make a mood board for interior design projects!
Mood boards are essential when designing a room in your home.
They are useful for interior and exterior updates, home renovations and room remodels!
A question I always get asked as a designer is how to create a mood board for interior design projects.
They are so fun to make and a critical step for success -whether you are refreshing a room, renovating a kitchen or designing a room from scratch!
I create a lot of mood board for my interior design clients!
Today I’m sharing the easiest and fastest way to make them!
I’ve created a step tutorial on how you can create your own mood boards – so follow along!
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First let’s go over some Frequently Asked Questions and background on Mood boards!
What is a mood board?
A mood board is a visual presentation, a ‘collage’, that consists of images of furniture, lighting ect, plus text to demonstrate a room design.
A mood board can be for any room, for interior and for exterior spaces.
Mood boards can also be called design boards.
Why make a mood board?
Mood boards are essential in the design process!
They demonstrate the style, feeling of a room as well as the colors, fabrics and materials used in a room design.
They are also editable so changes can be made until the final design is achieved.
Creating a mood board before purchasing furniture, lighting and decor will save you money and time.
The mood board is the place to edit everything until the right look is created.
It’s also essential to creating a cohesive, pulled together space.
Mood boards are helpful if you are:
- building a new home
- renovating a kitchen or bathroom
- buying new furniture for a living room
- refreshing a bedroom
- designing an outdoor patio
- selecting new flooring for your home
- picking paint colors for a home
- choosing new shingles to coordinate with your home’s exterior
- painting the exterior of your home
Do you need help with furniture layout, room design, selecting furniture or choosing paint colors?
Email me at [email protected] for more info!
How do you create a mood board?
Mood boards can be created in many different ways.
Here are some of the methods:
- Microsoft Word
- Mood board Apps
Today I’m going to show you how to create a mood board in Picmonkey – which is a user friendly tool that’s perfect for beginners!
How to make a mood board for Interior Design
Picmonkey is an easy to use design and photo editor that can be used on your computer, iPad or through a mobile app on your iPhone or Android phone.
It’s not free, but it is inexpensive – and there is a FREE 7 day trial!
1. Collect and save the images you want to use in the mood board
The first step in mood board creation is to collect the images that you want to put in it.
Find the images on Pinterest or on the web and save them to a folder on your computer where you can easily find them.
I recommend that you name the folder with the name of the room, so you can easily find it later.
To save an image on the web, you can right click on it and click ‘Save Image As’. Give the image a name then save it to your folder.
Saving an image will be different for every type of computer and device.
You can Google how to save images for your specific device.
2. Create Your Picmonkey Account
- Go to Picmonkey.com and create your account.
I highly recommend creating a Pro account because it has a background remover tool, so you can instantly remove the background of an image!
Removing the background of an image is essential for layering items on top of each other, such as layering pillows on a sofa.
The Pro plan has other amazing powerful design tools too!
How to Create your Blank Mood Board:
- To start a new design project in PicMonkey you can either use one of their templates or start with a blank canvas. I recommend that you create a blank canvas.
- Click on the ‘Create New’ button on the top left hand side, by the Picmonkey logo. When you click on the ‘Create new’ button, a dropdown menu appears called ‘open image from’.
- Select the second option in the list called ‘Blank Canvas’
- A new window appears. Go the top right and type in the pixel length and width. I recommend 2200 x 1600 pixels.
- Click on the blue ‘Make it’ button on the top left side. This will create a large rectangular mood board.
- This is what your empty mood board will look like:
- Give your mood board a name so you can easily find it later. For example you can name it ‘My Living Room Makeover’.
- To name the mood board – Go to the top middle of the screen and click on ‘Blank 2200 x 1600’. You can type in the name of the mood board ‘My Living Room Makeover’ ….or whatever name you want to give to it.
- You can also use one of Picmonkey’s templates to create a mood board collage for Instagram, Pinterest, LiketoKnow.it, Etsy and other social media platforms using their templates, which are perfectly sized for these different platforms!
- Go to the Picmonkey home page and scroll through all of their templates to select the one you want. Click on it and a blank mood board will appear in the correct size for the platform.
3. Add images to the mood board
Next step is to add the images to the mood board to create your room design.
How to add images to the mood board:
- Click on ‘Photos and Video’ tab (left side) then click on ‘add photo or video’. A drop down list appears.
- Click on ‘Computer’
- Select the images on your computer, that you’ve saved in your folder, to add them to your mood board.
- The photos will appear under the ‘uploaded’ tab (under ‘add photo or video’).
- Select all of the images you want to add to your mood board.
- They will all appear under the ‘uploaded’ tab.
- Starting with one image, click on it to add it to the mood board.
- After you’ve clicked on it, it will automatically be added to the mood board.
- It will appear with a blue outline and blue circles at the corners and each side of the blue lines.
4. Remove the background from images
For a professional looking moodboard it’s important to remove the background from images.
This will give you a true look and feel of the room design.
Removing the background will also allow you layer images on top of each other, such as layering pillows on a sofa.
To remove the background from your images:
- Click on the ‘Remove Background’ tab (it has a scissors icon), located on the left menu.
- This will instantly remove the background of the image! I LOVE this feature!
- Repeat the steps to add images – until you have all of the images uploaded and added to the mood board.
- Use the ‘Undo’ and ‘Redo’ tool at the bottom of the screen to make changes as you go along.
5. Resize and move images
Now it’s time to move your images around the mood board and resize them!
To move an image:
- Click on the image and drag it to the location on the moodboard that you want it to appear.
To resize an image:
- Click on the image – you will see a blue rectangle outline with blue circles on the corners and sides.
- Click on any corner circle and drag it so the image becomes bigger or smaller.
6. Arrange the images into a collage
- Add all of your images to the mood board following the above steps.
- Remove the background, move and resize according to how you want the mood board to look.
Shop this living room – click on the images below:
7. To layer, crop or delete an image:
- Right click on any image in the mood board (in the image below I clicked on the wood end table).
- A drop down menu appears.
- Select ‘move layer to front’ or ‘move layer to back’ to move it to the front or back, to layer it.
- You can also select ‘Crop image’ to crop it.
- If you want to delete the image click on ‘Delete layer’.
8. Download your mood board
The beauty of Picmonkey is that it automatically saves as you work! I love that!
When your design finished and looking the way you like it you can download it.
To download your mood board:
- Click on the ‘Download’ button on the top right side.
- You can download your moodboard as a .jpg, .png, or .pdf file.
- Also you can select the quality of your graphic.
- How you save your mood board is completely up to you!
9. Help and support for Picmonkey
Another reason I love using Picmonkey is that they have a lot of helpful articles that can give you advice if you get stuck!
To access help and troubleshoot:
- go to the top right where you’ll see a blue question mark with a blue circle around it.
- click on this blue question mark button.
- A ‘How can we help you?’ drop down menu appears.
- You can type in your question in the search bar or click on their articles, guided tour, tutorials or troubleshooting page for more help.
- In this drop down menu you can also submit a support ticket to Picmonkey’s support team if you’re stuck. They are very helpful and quick to reply!
10. Your mood board is finished!
Now you are finished making your moodboard!
You can go back and make changes to your moodboard, move items, add more items ect.
You can also make a copy of your moodboard so you can make changes to it, but still keep the original intact.
Picmonkey is really easy to use – just take some time to play around with it and you’ll get the hang of it in no time!
I love using Picmonkey to:
1. Create 2D design boards for my design clients!
Here’s one that I’ve recently completed to give you some inspiration.
2. Make design boards for my LiketoKnow.it page
I love creating mood boards – like this kitchen styling mood board for my LiketoKnow.it page!
Did you know that my LiketoKnow.it page is a fabulous place to shop my favorite furniture and decor finds?!
Kitchen Styling and Lighting Ideas
Shop these kitchen styling ideas! Click on the images below.
3. Make mood boards for my Instagram page
I also make moodboards for my IG page – to showcase room design inspiration.
Shop this bedroom – click on the images below!
4. Create design boards for the rooms in our home that we plan on updating
Here’s an example of a bedroom refresh I’m working on.
Shop this bedroom – click on the images below!
Have fun and enjoy making beautiful design boards for your spaces!
If you have any questions about creating mood boards, please leave a comment on this post and I’ll respond as soon as I can!
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FUNAFUTI, Tuvalu, Aug 15 (Reuters) - Pacific Islands leaders began negotiations over climate change and other policies at an annual summit on Thursday, talks that will test Australia's relationship with the region as it refuses to embrace tougher emission reduction targets.
Negotiations among leaders from the 18-member Pacific Islands Forum in Tuvalu are expected to be protracted after Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison signalled he would not accept climate targets sought by other countries.
"It would be symbolic, it would be very unfortunate," Tuvalu Prime Minister Enele Sopoaga told Reuters of any potential Australian blocking of tougher climate targets.
Many Pacific islands are pressing for the region to embrace limiting global temperature rises to no more than 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) above pre-industrial levels and an immediate end to coal mining.
Australia, which has a large coal mining industry, opposes the proposal. New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said on Wednesday that Canberra would have to "answer to the Pacific".
The low-lying Pacific islands are on the frontline of global climate change, battling rising sea levels and related crises that have forced some residents to move to higher ground.
Australia has historically enjoyed significant sway in the Pacific, but it has been challenged in recent years by China which has won support through its financial assistance and calls for strong global action on climate change.
Morrison is a firm supporter of the coal industry, and his strong backing of a large coal mine planned for the state of Queensland by was seen as a key factor in his government's surprise re-election at polls in May.
In 2016 Australia signed the Paris Agreement that commits signatories to policies that limit temperature increases to no more than 2 degrees Celsius. Morrison has said Australia will meet its climate change commitments.
Seeking to improve its credentials in the Pacific, Australia this week offered A$500 million ($337 million) to the region to invest in renewables and prepare for the impacts of climate change, although leaders said that was not enough.
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14ymedio, Bertha Guillen, Candelaria (Artemisa province), 23 July 2017 — “Where is my laptop?” a dentist at the Candelaria polyclinic in Artemisa province asked Friday while attending a patient. The sale of laptops to doctors – at subsidized prices – does not include graduates in dentistry, by a decision of the Ministry of Public Health that is being strongly questioned.
As of the end of last year they have began to sell the laptops for 668 Cuban pesos (CUP), around 25 dollars, for doctors who obtained a diploma before the end of 2015. The list of beneficiaries includes those who have completed a medical mission abroad and requires that they pay the full amount all at once, not in installments.
The public health system employs a total of 262,764 workers in the island, of which 87,982 work as doctors, according to data from the Statistical Yearbook of 2015. The doctors receive the highest wages in the country, a total of between the equivalent of $50 to $70 US per month.
However, the sector is seriously affected by the desertions of professionals during their missions abroad and the exodus towards other better-paid economic spheres such as self-employment or tourism, of doctors who remain on the island. In addition, physicians must deal with long work hours, material deficiencies and the dissatisfactions of patients.
Since the beginning of this year the doctors have been able to buy laptops in the store for public health workers in the provincial capital. The offer has brought long lines outside the premises and complaints about the capabilities of the equipment.
Since the beginning of these sales, an indeterminate number of laptops has ended up in the informal market, where they are sold for a price ranging between 200 and 300 CUC, between eight and 12 times the original cost.
Recently the official newspaper Granma revealed that each year Cuba collects more than 8.2 billion CUC (roughly the same in dollars) for “the export of health services.”
This month, several meetings in the province of Artemisa notified staff working in polyclinics, hospitals and other health centers that only doctors are entitled to acquire these computers. X-ray technicians, lab workers, and even dental graduates “are not included in this offering,” ministerial authorities said.
The information has generated a barrage of criticism and discontent among dentists and other professionals in the sector. None of them, except graduates in medical sciences, will have access to the merchandise sold in stores authorized for public health personnel. Among these products are also the white coats that are currently distributed on a staggered schedule in Artemisa province.
“This has gone beyond a lack of respect,” said the dentist from Candelaria. “Now it turns out that we are not the same as doctors, but when it comes time to participate in acts of repudiation against the words of Donald Trump, we are.”
Raiza Machín, a dentist from the province, does not speak half-heartedly. “I feel offended, even the self-employed who work in coffee shops wear white coats, how is it possible that as a public health worker we cannot buy them in a store dedicated to us?” asks the professional.
According to the head of the Public Health Workers Union in Candelaria, the information came from the Ministry itself and applies to the whole country. In response to the workers’ discontent, the union representative demanded a meeting with “the highest authority” but has not yet received a response. “For the moment we are not doctors and therefore we can not use the same facilities as they can,” says Machin sarcastically.
“At first they told us that they had to wait until they finished distributing the laptops among the doctors in the hospitals, then it would be the clinics’ turn, and then finally our turn,” says Araceli, a dentist with several years of experience.
“They have strung us along and now that say that we are not doctors, that’s why we don’t get the computers,” complains the dentist. The refusal to allow dentists to buy them became known shortly after the official media assured that the dentists were “guaranteed” laptops.
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For many of our customers, metaphactory is a key component of their data landscape: their knowledge graph ties together various data silos, provides a semantic access layer based on semantic models, and becomes one of the key systems to support decisions and processes from research to sales.
Keeping all involved systems up and running is a big task that requires many different skills. Besides the operational perspective of working with infrastructure, development and deployment processes, security plays a growing part in this story.
metaphactory provides a number of features to make it a well-behaving and secure part in today's complex software deployments. This blog post gives a quick overview of the overall picture and dives deeper into ensuring a secure network and environment which provides the foundation for any application deployment in an enterprise IT landscape.
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Speaking Tips from the Big Leagues
With thousands of people attending last week's Boston LinuxWorld
Conference, speakers were under the gun to give top notch
presentations. Because everyone has to give presentations at one point
or another, it's good to see how the big boys handle things, especially
in front of some of the most knowledgeable audiences in information
technology. You better know your subject if you're going to address a
Even at the LinuxWorld level, things sometimes go wrong during
presentations. While at last week's event, I recorded a few of the hiccups
that can happen during a talk. The speakers at LinuxWorld all performed
admirably, even in the face of occasional technical adversity. To help
others in the future, several presenters had practical suggestions to
pass along to readers. The conference A/V support project manager also
gave me the scoop on how to squash a few of those butterflies before a
speaker steps into the spotlight.
Scott Mewett, of Packable Systems, gave a talk on booting machines
with PXE Linux. Mewett ran his presentation under Fedora Core 5 on a
Sony VAIO laptop, and he used OpenOffice.org 2.0 Impress to show his
slides. At one point in the demo, he inadvertently put in a errant IP
address. After a couple of minutes, Mewett resolved the problem and
continued. As any speaker knows, this is a stressful moment, and the
audience, numbering about 40, patiently waited until it worked. Even
though LinuxWorld attendees can be tough customers, they still tend to
be courteous to session speakers.
Tip: Make sure to cover every contingency during planning, so you identify
areas that may cause problems. You also should know the material cold,
so you can pull a rabbit out of the hat if a demo goes south. Mewett
confidently handled the issue and didn't get spooked.
Rich Megginson of Red Hat naturally runs only Red Hat Linux and used a
Dell Latitude D600 for his presentation. His talk covered migrating from
legacy environments, such as NIS to LDAP. A weird problem cropped up
for Megginson when he plugged his laptop into the display connector. His
desktop switched over to a virtual display of 1280 x 1024, while his
actual display showed only 1024 x 768. That forced him to scroll around
a distracting virtual screen. He was able to tweak his desktop settings
so everything worked at 1024 x 768.
Tip: Know how to change video
display settings on your particular desktop in a flash. Wide-screen
and high-resolution laptop users definitely should test their machines
ahead of time, because older projectors cannot always display beyond
1024 x 768.
James Schweitzer of IBM Global Services gave a talk on enterprise
provisioning, management and monitoring. Although the presentation went
well, he initially couldn't get the display going under Linux. As a
last ditch effort, he booted into Windows and ran his presentation on
Tip: Test your machine with the projector
ahead of time. The rooms usually are open early in the morning, at lunch
and after the last speaker's talk each day. Tell the conference staff
person at the door that you will be speaking later and you need to
test the projector.
I happened to talk to Alan Boda from HP, who had given a presentation on
how administrators can gather crash data. His presentation was a part of
the Kernel and Driver Development track. Boda told me that his
standard-issue corporate laptop is an HP Evo running Windows, and so had
to run the presentation on PowerPoint. He offered some real gems for
would-be tech showmen, stressing the importance of rehearsal before a
performance. His technique is to rehearse the entire talk three times in front
of a group of his peers. He said that the practice helps him fine tune
Boda also recommends speaking to people in one's target audience while
researching a presentation, which is something he himself does. This nails
down the technical content that truly interests conference attendees,
and it helps eliminate questionable, time-wasting topics.
Sometimes really serious things happen to a speaker during a
presentation. Such was the case for Dan Cox of HP, whose topic covered developing a
practical Linux integration stack. For various reasons, Cox didn't have
his laptop available when he was scheduled to speak. Linux speakers are
just as resourceful as their audience, though, and Cox immediately proceeded to
solicit a laptop from an attending colleague. Thinking fast, he popped
in a conference CD (furnished to attendees as part of their educational
package) and was up and running, without breaking stride. Although it was
a scary situation, Cox remained cool and came up with a quick solution.
Make sure you have a backup plan, in case the worst happens. Although the
conference organizers sometimes can provide emergency presentation
hardware, it may be loaned out already.
Speakers should meet with the conference organizers when they first
arrive at the event to double-check that everything is in place for
their talks. Also, speakers should swing by their meeting rooms and pre-check
the stage, lighting, video feeds, microphone operation and so on.
Dead microphone batteries were a common thing at LinuxWorld, simply due
to high usage. One speaker said he always is ready to step up his volume,
should he suddenly be faced with no audio during a session talk.
Manny Marquez of A/V Images is the audio/video technical project manager
for the US LinuxWorld and MacWorld shows. He travels to various venues,
supervises room set up and coordinates problem resolutions for the
speakers. He has nine years of experience in the field and works with
all equipment manufacturer's products.
Marquez and his technical support team are some of the unsung heroes
of these conferences. Although Cox resolved his own laptop issue, Marquez
had a machine in the room within a couple of minutes of the request. His
team is tied to the conference coordinators via two-way radios, and they
have a well-rehearsed operation.
By far, the biggest problem Marquez has seen is with oddball hardware,
such as Macs and tablet PCs. These machines frequently need a special
adapter to connect to the projector feed. Even though he carries his
own little private stock of adapters, speakers should bring their own
if they want to present using non-mainstream computers. And if you do
borrow one, be sure to return it.
Marquez said that some presenters try to use high resolutions and have
trouble with projectors as a result, which I talked about previously.
1024 x 768 is the most common resolution size, and if speakers keep that
in mind when crafting their slides, it will save extra work and
scrambling later on. Overall, though, Marquez commented that he has fewer
tech issues at LinuxWorld than at other conferences.
And that's how the big boys do it. Although it's best to do some research
and planning beforehand, weird things occasionally happen that threaten
to derail a talk. Take it all in stride, stay calm and have fun. Now
get out there and work on your next talk.
Rob Reilly is a technology consultant, writer and speaker. His
articles appear in various Linux media outlets. He also was track
chairman for the Managing Mixed Environments sessions at the
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Use IIoT to improve OEE, increasing ROI
Case-use examples illustrate the point
In the year 2020 discussing overall equipment effectiveness (OEE) seems a little out of date. Whatever it’s called — OEE, downtime reporting or asset utilization — it’s not a new topic. It might also have scenario-specific names like clean in place (CIP), a variation on a theme: how to quickly cycle a process and return assets to availability.
Articles a decade or two old describe how to calculate OEE or measure asset downtime. It’s been a foundation of Lean or Six Sigma methodologies for years. So, what has it to do with the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) and analytics?
Use of OEE as a metric and OEE results improve with IIoT and advanced analytics.
First comes relief from years of misery mired in spreadsheets investigating downtime issues. Second, significant savings arise from insights uncovered on downtime analytics. Finally, accelerated decision making and taking action leads to business transformation. These substantial benefits reinforce both the importance of downtime reporting and the opportunities to improve it.
But before we look at success stories, let’s take a deeper dive into downtime reporting and OEE.
Downtime is descriptive
Downtime reporting is an example of “descriptive analytics” because it describes what happened, a term associated with reports and data visualization: static and historic. Even if the reports are updated periodically, often using a dashboard, they are still descriptive analytics. Although the numbers may not be static, the calculations and parameters (fault codes, measurements, etc.) are fixed at the point of design (Figure 1).
Therefore, descriptive analytics is considered basic. It defines what is looked for, defines calculations in advance and then measures and presents in past or present form. But as we all know, things are always changing in industrial plants and facilities, with various factors laying waste to the best laid plans. As Helmuth van Moltken famously said back in 1880, “No plan of operations reaches with any certainty beyond the first encounter with the enemy’s main force.”
The enemy here is change and its potential negative effects on OEE, downtime and asset utilization. The fact that downtime reporting is based on a calculation determined in advance of plant operations means that as soon as something interesting happens — as soon as there is an encounter with the enemy — then the report’s value as a picture of the past rapidly decreases.
A new approach is therefore required to deal with the enemy, with process engineers leading the charge.
Engineers into the breach
When insight is needed to solve an unknown issue — for example to figure out what happened that wasn’t expected, why the metric is below plan or to understand causation — then downtime analysis is required, along with a subject matter expert such as a process engineer. This approach puts process engineers where they should be, at the frontlines of insight and with advanced analytics they have a solution that is radically faster than the spreadsheet approach.
In analytics terms, what has happened is a transition from descriptive analytics to diagnostic analytics (Figure 2). If descriptive analytics is a report, diagnostic analytics is interactive investigation and discovery, in some cases a root-cause analysis. Diagnostic analytics is how cause is determined and correlations found, and it can include discoveries of best practices and comparisons. All these insights are arrived at very quickly by leveraging computer science innovations (big data, machine learning, etc.) that enable the “advanced” in advanced analytics applications.
Diagnostics in action
To take one example, when drying different products, to identify the optimum endpoint, it is important to understand the impact of various parameters on drying time. According to Dr. Robert Forest, a development engineer with Bristol-Myers Squibb (BMS), the fundamental question is: “How long should we dry the wet cake to meet our drying endpoint?” If the product is dried for too long, it increases cycle times unnecessarily. But if the product is not dried long enough, it could fail the process control sample, which is a waste of analytic resources.
Prior to using Seeq, BMS collected many different data points from the OSIsoft PI tag data, using a simple summary of the statistics to help determine drying times. The company would review the minimum, maximum and average product temperatures; agitator speed; jacket temperature; and drying time. BMS would then compare these data points to the actual solvent loss measured by taking samples throughout the drying process. Manually collecting the data was tedious, time-consuming and error-prone, so BMS needed a more automated way to collect and analyze these data.
The typical filter drying process goes through three distinct drying process stages (Figure 3). Stage 1 (static drying) starts out by heating without agitation. Stage 2 continues to heat, but with intermittent agitation. In stage 3, heating continues with continuous agitation. BMS wanted to identify some of the key parameters for each drying stage to optimize drying for a range of different batches. To do this, the company needed to automatically find when the dryer was operating by associating the drying phase with the drying time, jacket temperature, product temperature (maximum, minimum and average) and agitator speed.
The next step was to separate the operations data by the distinct drying stages. For stage 1, where there is no agitation, Seeq was used to find the needed data by simply searching for periods of time when the agitator was turned off for extended time periods (rather than intermittently) and combining these data with search results with a high jacket temperature (to indicate that the dryer was operating).
To find the summary data for stage 3, search was set up to first find those periods of time when the agitator was turned on for an extended period, and then combine these with high jacket temperatures. Identifying the parameters for stage 2 was a little trickier because the agitator is turned on and off intermittently, so there is no constant signal value upon which to base the search.
To find stage 2 data, BMS uses the system’s pattern-searching capability to find all batches in which stage 2 agitator on/off behavior is displayed. Seeq enables BMS to create a pattern search for the square waveform of the agitator intermittently cycling on and off. This pattern search allows the user to specify a similarity heuristic to hone the search results. It also enables the users to combine the pattern search results with the jacket temperature. With the combined results, BMS could exclude periods of time before drying actually started, i.e., stage 2.
As illustrated above, Dr. Forest’s team at BMS, in their journey of diagnostic discovery, was able in particular to separate the data into all three stages and automatically calculate the needed statistics. According to Dr. Forest, the ability to use Seeq to search by specific data and overlay batches reduced the time needed to collect the data and saved on average one hour of analysis time per batch.
Using advanced analytics, as insights are found they can be published to colleagues as web pages, PDF documents or updated images. Engineers using advanced analytics thus have an integrated approach to both diagnostic (investigation) and descriptive (publishing) analytics.
Of course, integrated investigation and publishing is a benefit as compared to using two different tools, but just as important is the fact that engineers can create, publish and update the analytics — without any required intervention from IT personnel or specialists.
Unlike traditional OEE reports which are set up by IT departments or plant administrators based on a design that can drift away from plan (new assets, new recipes, new season, new raw materials, etc.), advanced analytics enables the front-line process engineer to quickly iterate the underlying calculations and source data as necessary to represent current plant conditions and associated opportunities. The investigation is faster, publishing is integrated and usage is self-service for the employee closest to the process or asset.
Predicting the future
Process engineers take the next step in their efforts by incorporating predictive analytics (Figure 4). Predictive analytics completes the range of data from historical (diagnostic) and present (descriptive) to what is expected to happen. Instead of an unplanned downtime event, engineers can avert downtime with an early warning system that provides anything from hours to weeks of advanced notice, depending on the process, the data and the engineer’s expertise.
For customers interested in moving from scheduled to predictive maintenance, for example, the ability to evaluate when maintenance is required and what parts to order is critical. The goal isn’t to measure the history of asset failure in downtime or OEE reports, but rather to avoid unnecessary downtime to the greatest extent possible.
Fixed bed catalyst prediction
The challenge for this refinery was to optimize near- and long-term economics by predicting end-of-run for a fixed-bed catalyst system. This required selection and examination of historical data for training the correlations, which were auto-updated as new data became available. Another challenge was to provide insights to enable collaborative analysis and investigation between the refinery licensor and the catalyst vendor.
The solution was to use Seeq formulas to implement first-principles equations to calculate normalized weighted average bed temperature (WABT) for the fixed-bed reactor system. The next step was to normalize WABT for feed rate, feed and product quality, treat gas ratio and so forth. Seeq prediction features were then used to create a model to predict normalized WABT as a function of time within steady state conditions. This enabled the refinery to determine the end-of-run date versus the known WABT performance threshold, and to apply this methodology to their other fixed-bed catalyst processes.
Benefits included monitoring of catalyst deactivation to allow co-optimization of near-term economics and risk-based maintenance planning. Better prediction of end-of-run allowed more effective analysis of the tradeoff between rate reduction and maintenance costs. Calculation of end-of-life for the catalyst enabled rapid detection of unexpected changes and performance of corrective actions.
Diagnostic, descriptive and predictive analytics can be performed on existing data from SCADA, historian and other manufacturing data sets — and there’s one more form of analytics. Unlike the other terms, this last analytics type doesn’t have an established name, but is the ultimate objective of all analytics: do the right thing.
Yes, it sounds silly, but engineers using Seeq have been emphatic on their enthusiasm for its effectiveness for quickly figuring out the right thing to do to improve operations. In the past, the time to insight in a spreadsheet was ominously long and the work was onerous, so they simply were not able to do the necessary calculations in time to impact and improve production outcomes.
But with Seeq applications, days and weeks become minutes and hours, enabling analytics over time to make a difference, consider tradeoffs and optimize for the big picture.
Downtime reporting and its variants like OEE are not a new concept. They are a staple of every operations playbook. But that doesn’t mean there isn’t an opportunity for a fresh look at the potential of advanced analytics applications to improve all types of analytics.
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Get in the mood for Christmas with Where Treetops Glisten: Three Stories of Heartwarming Courage and Christmas Romance During World War II. Written by Tricia Goyer, Sarah Sundin and Cara Putnam, these stories follows three siblings through the Christmases of World War II, from December 1941 to 1945.
In “White Christmas,” Abigail has vowed never to feel anything after her fiance’s death at Pearl Harbour. She’s focusing on her studies to become a teacher and her job at Glatz Candies when she runs into Jackson. He’s left his family farm to work at the local toy factory, but the money he’s sent home to pay the mortgage hasn’t made it and the bank is about to foreclose. As Abigal’s father helps Jackson sort through the problem, she finds herself falling in love with the handsome, caring young man.
In “I’ll Be Home for Christmas,” Pete is struggling with the horrors he saw as a fighter pilot in Europe. His pastor challenges him to give, but Pete doesn’t know how to—or how it will help. Then he runs into Linnie, a precocious 6-year-old who decides Pete is her new daddy. Linnie’s mother Grace is struggling to support her daughter, but Linnie’s escapades have chased off every babysitter. Can Grace trust Pete—the guy who used to throw snowballs at her—with her daughter?
In “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas,” Meredith is a nurse on the front lines in France, hoping to find a piano to plan some Christmas music for the wounded soldiers. Every German soldier she sees reminds her of David, the man who shared a summer of love with her in Florida before he disappeared when the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbour.
I enjoyed following the Turner family through each story, getting each siblings’ perspective on the war. Faith is a constant theme in the stories, yet doesn’t come easily for any of them. Grandma Louise appears in the prologue and epilogue and is a constant presence in the story, offering wisdom and love to her grandchildren.
Sarah Sundin’s story “I’ll Be Home for Christmas” was my favourite in Where Treetops Glisten. I thoroughly enjoyed the interactions between Pete, Grace, and Linnie, and may have even laughed out loud at some of Linnie’s antics. I could understand the hurt that both Grace and Pete felt, the things that pushed them apart and yet drew them together. Even though I knew Linnie would get her wish of a new daddy, there were enough surprises along the way to keep me reading and enjoying the story.
I found the other two stories a little bit cliche, particularly with the theme of broken hearts. I found some of the girls’ emotions unbelievable, like Abigail’s desire to help Jackson when she’s told herself not to fall in love again. Pearl Harbour happened in 1941, yet three years later, Meredith is still thinking every few minutes about the guy who left her that day. And the endings seemed to obvious, leaving little suspense.
Tricia Goyer is one of my favourite authors; she’s written numerous books, including Blue Like Play Dough (for moms), Praying for Your Future Husband, Love Finds You in Glacier Bay and the novelization of Mom’s Night Out. She and her husband have six children, including three adopted children. Sarah Sundin is the award-winning author of several World War II novels, including A Distant Melody. She’s also an on-call hospital pharmacist. Cara Putnam has a law degree and is a second generation homeschooling mom (like me!). She’s written twenty novels and is currently pursuing her Master’s degree (I’d like to know how she does it all!).
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“HEAL THE SICK…” These words of Christ Jesus encircling the Cross and Crown seal on this book are a sweet promise that we all possess the ability to heal ourselves, our families, our world.
Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures explains the spiritual teachings of the Bible, revealing the divine Science that, when understood, brings healing to all aspects of our lives and the world.
For over 135 years, readers have testified that this book has given them a spiritual sense of the Bible and their permanent relationship to God, which resulted in physical healing and spiritual uplift. The last one hundred pages of this book are letters from just a few of those readers. One such letter notes that in reading this book, “I have found a God whom I can love and worship with my whole heart, and I now read my Bible with interest and understanding. I was healed of very bad rheumatism simply by reading Science and Health.”
Author, teacher, and healer, Mary Baker Eddy questioned conventional views about science, theology, and medicine, and for years searched the Bible for answers. She writes, “In the year 1866, I discovered the Christ Science or divine laws of Life, Truth, and Love, and named my discovery Christian Science.” From that time forward, she devoted her life to practising this healing Science of Christianity, teaching others how to heal in the same way, and sharing her profound insights with the world.
Science and Health – Sterling Edition
Paperback, 736 pages.
Dimensions: 6″ x 9″ (15.24cm x 22.86cm)
Weight: 1.187 lbs.
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Salles-Curan Beauty of the lakes
The village of Salles-Curan is famous for the Pareloup lake, one of France’s biggest artificial lakes. Perched atop a 800m hillock, Salles-Curan once was Rodez’s bishops favourite summer residence. The city’s rich past is reflected by its beautiful Renaissance houses, its 15th century collegiate church and the episcopal castle algonside it.
The Lévézou region has become a highly praised touristic destination. With its ports, beaches and many water activities, it now looks like a collection of fully-fledged seaside resorts. In many places along the lake’s 100km of coasts, you will be able to jet-ski, windsurf, pedalo, catamaran, drive a boat, enjoy fresh water fishing or swimming. A splash of blue surrounded by so much green: that’s the seaside meeting the countryside. Thousands of visitors from all over Europe are drawn by the grandiose landscape.
Lovers of military and religious history should head to Canabières (South-East of Salles-Curan) to admire remnants of the Order of Saint John of Jerusalem commander’s residence, in Notre-Dame church. The Gothic building features a Romanesque gate. In recent years Salles-Curan has also become one of the biggest windfarm in France.
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I believe that each of our elected federal Senators and Representatives in Washington D.C. needs to have at least one qualified natural resource staffer to help them understand the problems we face in our counties and state. Idaho is a very wealthy state when it comes to natural resources but a very poor state when it comes to using those natural resources because 62% of our land is controlled by the federal government. Our senators and congressmen need to be aware of things like the fact that ranchers own split estate rights and what those rights entail on federal land. They also need to have a good working knowledge of our water laws and the laws that govern our forests.
The importance of this lies in the fact that most of these rules and laws are not followed as they have been written. We need help in getting back control of our natural resources and the only way that is going to happen is if our representatives in Washington have a clear understanding of how oppressive the federal government’s regulations have been in killing jobs and misusing our resources. Most people don’t understand that if the Forest Service followed the law we would be in great shape. The forest reserves were meant to help our counties prosper but what they have done by their misinterpretation of rules and regulations is to eliminate prosperity and lock it up in Wilderness or WSA.
The only answer to fix these policy misinterpretations, which pollute our air with out-of-control forest fires and too many “controlled burns” that cause respiratory problems, is to require the Forest Service to use best management practices as we do with the rest of agriculture. Trees are a crop, which is why the forest service is in the Department of Agriculture. The grass that grows in the fields and forests is an important crop as well, perfect for cattle and sheep. Allotment owners own the grass, water, and roads on their allotments.
The question is why do we allow the federal land managers to keep beetle-infested or the Tussock moth infected trees in our forests? Why aren’t they removed? These infestations on private and state land kill off many more trees in our forests because they are not removed or treated.
If you were a private landowner and had an infected potato crop, or pigs that had the swine flu, or a cattle herd with mad cow disease, they would be quarantined and slaughtered before they infected other farms or ranches. Why is it that the Forest Service can get away without using best management practices when it comes to keeping our forests healthy? If a Dairyman polluted the water by not following his nutrient management plan, they would be fined and lord only knows what the EPA would do to them in terms of penalties. Unfortunately, when it comes to the Forest Service they can get away with doing all of these things and more without any penalty or retribution.
They fill our forests with wolves (that never belonged there in the first place) that carry hydatid disease in their feces, knowing that just disturbing the feces can cause extreme illness and even death in humans. When we confront the Forest Service and the BLM with these facts, all they do is tell us that this is naturally occurring.
Well, the Canadian Wolf was not naturally occurring in our Idaho forests! They were transplanted here with seemingly no thought of just how much trouble they would cause. It is just like the Forest Service believing that prescribed burns are a natural right—regardless of the havoc they reek with the pollution and respiratory problems they cause along, with burns that turn into full-blown forest fires. Apparently, it’s ok when the Forest Service does it, but heaven forbid a private landowner should burn anything without a permit. Most people don’t realize that emissions testing is no longer necessary but they are continued because of the forest fires.
We need to talk about solutions to all of the problems that are facing us as Idahoans and, for that matter, the Western States in general. Best management practices are the answer, but the Forest Service does not understand the meaning of these words. They believe that they are in control of our land and can do pretty much whatever they want. We need to enlist the help of our senators and congressmen to help us resolve these problems that are critical to the future economic viability of our state.
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We’ve been testing 3D printers — shoot out style — for four years now. You’d think we’d have it down (and I’m not saying we don’t), but each year we come up with new and better ways to get the most out of the printers we test in the three days we have them. They run almost constantly.
Like before, we’ve brought in some of the best 3D printers around — and by printers, we’re talking not just the devices, but the people who run them. They’re here from near (San Francisco) and far (Paris) and the Maker Media Lab is buzzing with their expertise as they select printers and fire them up.
New for this year, we’re expanding our testing beyond 3D printers: For the first time, we’ll also review CNC machines, vinyl cutters, and laser cutters. These non-printer fabrication tools are decreasing in size and cost, and as a result are proliferating throughout Makerspaces and garages and shops around the world.
“I’m actually happy they expanded to include more digital fabrications, because generally not every project can be solved with a 3D printer,” says veteran tester Luis Rodriguez, who runs the Maker Studio at Kansas City’s Science City, as well as the Mini Maker Faire there. “It’s good to show alternative machines.”
It’s one of the questions he fields often: When visitors to the Maker Studio want to build something structural, like brackets for furniture, or just something that’s too big for a desktop machine, he often steers them toward CNC. “It’s just crazy that we have so many options,” he says. “These have all appeared in the last year, so there’s really a lot to choose from.”
Around the time Rodriguez was testing printers for us last year, Claudia Ng began experimenting with 3D printing. A Bulbasaur planter, based on the Pokemon character, catapulted Ng into 3D printing notoriety, and introduced her to the inherent copyright issues, and since then she’s been working with Shapeways and on commissioned pieces.
“I’ve had my own personal methods of testing my own prints and trying to quantify them, but a lot of it was subjective,” she says. “Going through this whole rigorous process … that’s interesting to me. So in the future I can be a little more scientific about my own prints.”
A big part of that process is in the role of Kacie Hultgren. A set designer in the New York City theater scene, she uses 3D printing for scale models of sets. She’s been at our testing events for three years, and this year is judging the models from all the 3D printers, in addition to helping refine the process of logging prints and collecting data. While other testers put the printers through their paces, she’ll be working with the CNCs and cutters, so that when she sees the final prints, she’s coming at them with a fresh, impartial eye.
“That opens me up to have some hands-on time with the other digital fabrication techniques that we have in the room, and I’m really excited to check them out,” says Hultgren. “I learn so much every time I’m here, and it’s fun to get a really good picture of what’s happening in the digital fabrication space.”
The shootout features 14 printers, 8 CNC machines, 2 laser cutters, and 2 vinyl cutters.
“We know we don’t have every machine that’s on the market, but we feel like we have some very important key players,” says Make: contributing editor and test coordinator Matt Stultz. “We’re putting them through their paces, and hoping that we can see some really great results to find out how these machines perform.”
Interested in the results? We can’t share just yet, but you can see them in full in Make: Volume 48, and online in late November. And tune in on Sunday, for our wrap-up Meetup, in person or on our live stream (on our YouTube channel). There, you’ll hear from testers on trends and experiences from the shootout, and they’ll take questions from the audience.
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Check out the report on ETN’s Business case for sCO2 Waste Heat Recovery System first released in October 2020.
The “Business case for sCO2 Waste Heat Recovery System” report was issued by European Turbine Network (ETN), as part of the activities within ETN’s Supercritical CO2 (sCO2) Working Group. The sCO2 Working Group aims to bring together manufacturers, end users, suppliers, and academia to assess the development and the current state of the art of sCO2 technology.
The objective of this business case is to investigate the techno-economic feasibility of a sCO2 closed loop waste heat recovery system coupled with heavy-industrial processes (e.g. cast-iron, cement production, aluminium production, etc.), which have available flue gases at high temperature (above 400°C) in reference to a specific business case.
Industrial facilities release a large amount of heat in the atmosphere as a by-product of their processes. To improve environmental performance and increase the process profitability, a portion of the waste heat can be recovered and employed for power generation by recovery systems.
Supercritical CO2 systems are emerging as potential alternatives to the well-established technologies for Waste Heat Recovery (WHR) power generation in heavy industry. Such systems are characterised by high performances, reduced footprint, reduced water consumption and they are suitable for a wide range of heat sources.
Currently, technologies like Organic Rankine Cycles can be applied only to low-medium temperature heat sources, while steam plants cannot be downscaled to be applied in many WHR cases. In this respect, sCO2 plants could be an interesting alternative to conventional technologies, or a solution for a market share currently underserved.
The business case started with the assessment of the available waste heat in a specific industrial site. Consequently, a thermodynamic analysis has been carried out to define the most suitable cycle. Some preliminary plant layouts have been designed where the main plant components such as turbomachinery and heat exchangers have been taken into consideration.
Finally, plant economic performance indicators, such as NPV, PBP, LCOE, IRR etc., have been evaluated and discussed as results of the analysis.
ETN’s “Business case for sCO2 Waste Heat Recovery System” report was published in October 2020.
The full report can be downloaded here.
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CAMBRIDGE, United Kingdom — The vast majority of people dealing with “long COVID” are experiencing memory and concentration problems — months after their actual coronavirus infection, a new study warns. Researchers at the University of Cambridge say seven in 10 people experiencing the lingering effects of COVID are now struggling mentally.
The study finds long COVID patients are also performing worse on cognitive exams. Moreover, three in four people with a severe case of long COVID say they have been unable to work because of it.
The team also found a link between the severity of symptoms and how much fatigue, dizziness, and headache pain patients experienced during their initial bout with the virus. Worryingly, half of long COVID sufferers claim they’ve struggled to get doctors to take their condition seriously.
“Long COVID has received very little attention politically or medically. It urgently needs to be taken more seriously, and cognitive issues are an important part of this. When politicians talk about ‘Living with COVID’ – that is, unmitigated infection, this is something they ignore. The impact on the working population could be huge,” says study senior author Dr. Lucy Cheke in a university release.
“People think that long COVID is ‘just’ fatigue or a cough, but cognitive issues are the second most common symptom – and our data suggest this is because there is a significant impact on the ability to remember.”
Long COVID patients dealing with brain fog, forgetfulness
Researchers say there is growing evidence that COVID-19 impacts the brain, with multiple studies likening its impact to Alzheimer’s disease.
“Infection with the virus that causes COVID-19 can lead to inflammation in the body, and this inflammation can affect behavior and cognitive performance in ways we still don’t fully understand, but we think are related to an early excessive immune response,” says Dr. Muzaffer Kaser.
“It’s important that people seek help if they’re concerned about any persistent symptoms after COVID infection. COVID can affect multiple systems and further assessment is available in long COVID clinics across the UK, following a GP referral.”
Of the 181 people who took part in the study, 78 percent reported difficulty concentrating, 69 percent said they experienced “brain fog,” 68 percent had moments of forgetfulness, and three in five had problems finding the right words while speaking. These self-reported symptoms were confirmed by the significantly lower ability among long COVID sufferers to remember words and pictures in cognitive tests.
Severe cases of COVID leading to more cognitive issues
During the study, participants took part in several tasks to assess their decision-making abilities and memory. These included remembering words in a list and remembering which two images appeared together. Results revealed a consistent pattern of ongoing memory problems in those who previously suffered a coronavirus infection.
Study authors say these problems were more pronounced in people whose overall ongoing symptoms were more severe. The researchers investigated other symptoms that could have a link to long COVID to help them pinpoint their causes.
They found people who experienced fatigue and neurological symptoms, such as dizziness and headache, during their initial illness were more likely to have cognitive symptoms later on. They also found that those who were still experiencing neurological symptoms particularly struggled on cognitive tests.
Results show that, even among people who did not need to go to the hospital, those with worse initial symptoms of COVID-19 were more likely to have a variety of ongoing long COVID symptoms including nausea, abdominal pain, chest tightness, and breathing issues weeks and months later. Those symptoms were likely to be more severe than in people whose initial illness was mild.
‘A huge impact on my life’
Study authors also found that people over 30 were more likely to have severe ongoing symptoms than younger COVID patients. The findings are of particular concern given the prevalence of long COVID, which health experts estimate could affect between 10 and 25 percent of people who test positive for COVID.
“Having been fit and active all my life, after catching COVID-19 during the first wave, my son (then 13) and I didn’t seem to recover. We were left with debilitating fatigue and a confusing mix of strange and life changing symptoms. I was also left with significant neurological symptoms, including speech and language issues, which had a huge impact on my life,” explains long COVID patient Lyn Curtis.
“My other children also experienced significant ongoing symptoms every time we were re-infected, such as changes to periods, fatigue, insomnia, changes in mood, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, and nose bleeds,” Curtis continues. “The acknowledgement of long COVID and a greater understanding of the associated symptoms is essential both for identifying treatments and the management of existing symptoms. The work into the effects on cognition are especially important to me, as this is the ongoing symptom that impacts the most on my quality of life and ability to work.”
The researchers add long COVID is causing and will continue to cause high rates of workplace absences and disruptions to society. They say it is important not just for sufferers themselves but for society as a whole to understand what causes the condition and how to treat it.
The findings are published in the journal Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience.
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Today, I could not decide whether I should post anything or not, because I’m feeling a little bit guilty for neglecting the feast of the Assumption yesterday, though, if you think about it, I shouldn’t. After all, what is Mary’s Assumption about if not hope? Yes, there’s hope for all of us.
… which brings me to my second point. I also could not decide whether I wanted to reblog this illuminating post from a fellow blogger and friend, Trebor Fairwell (pronounced: //’Lĕh-‘nérd ‘Skin-‘nérd//), or just link to it, which would allow me to elaborate on it here. As you can see, I ended up choosing the latter.
Trebor asks, “Are you smarter than an eighth-grader?” In 1912, that is. To find out, click on this link and see how well you do on this high school entrance exam — not college, high school.
I’ll share here what I commented there:
There are numerous causes of the dumbing down of public education in this country. I think they can mostly be boiled down to one main contributor, two if we are cynical.
The cynic would insist that education’s demise in this country was simply a matter of orchestrated social engineering. I’m not ruling that out, because in part I think that’s true. But I can’t bring myself to say that’s the primary factor, since it makes more sense to believe that most educators want to optimize student’s learning potential, not inhibit it.
When you look at what has been lost over time and how the standards have been dropped in just over 100 years (as evidenced by this exam), you see a dramatic loss of faith in the mind’s potential, especially with regard to the young person’s mind. As a result, we’ve become skeptics about… just about everything.
Why? Not only because we can’t know (because we haven’t been properly taught); more importantly, because we no longer have the whereabouts to know that we can even know things that used to be taken for common knowledge. For example, just basic knowledge of things like pythagorean triads makes the first question you posted a no-brainer.
That’s why this is scary. We are no longer being taught to use our brains. Then again, why should we anymore? This is why we have Wikipedia, after all.
On the positive side, this exam reflects what we once knew for certain — that we can still be a smarter society if we teach our citizens to apply their mind’s full potential.
Back to my original point, there’s hope for all of us, still.
A third reason I could not decide is that today is the anniversary of the death of “The King.”
The King of Rock and Roll, that is, in case I needed to specify.
Now I’m faced with the problem of tying all this together, and… I can’t. But still, I can’t help ending with a small tribute to Ea-yell-vuhs (that’s Graceland dialect for Elvis).
And that’s why they call him “The King.”
While we’re on the topic of Elvis, take time to watch this cute baby video. You have to watch it to the end. And try not to smile!
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Machine Tech’s focus is on close-tolerance parts specializing in complex CNC milling, using the latest computer technology and equipment. We have grown to specialize into various industries and technologies including medical, defense, aerospace, robotics, military, process equipment, and industrial. We are able to service our customers with highly-skilled vertical and horizontal milling, turning, and sinker EDM manufacturing, as well as complex and close-tolerance assembly. Our capabilities include the operation of 3rd, 4th, and 5th axis CNC vertical and horizontal mills.
THE BENEFITS OF 4TH AND 5TH AXIS
The purpose of all rotary tables is to rotate the piece being shaped by a set number of degrees, which allows shaping of material at exact intervals. Rotary tables can be used in all types of applications, the most basic example of their use would be to create regular grooves or holes in an object. Through rotation of the rotary table you are able to shape the object on a 4th axis, in addition to the three that a standard milling machine provides.
Now, Machine Tech has rotary tables with a tilting mechanism providing the ability to apply the milling machine on an additional 5th axis. Tilting the object either up or down, the tool is able to approach the object at varying angles. The use of 4th axis rotary tables greatly reduces the amount of time that it takes to shape an object; without it, you would be forced to reposition the object several times for the same results.
5th axis rotary tables are used for the manufacturing of more complex parts that are needed. These machines also save time in the same fashion. Their precision helps to promote uniformity in components and provides a quality that otherwise could not be achieved, because machines with a 4-axis or 5-axis component can create complex geometries faster, as well as cheaper. These machines provide vast improvements in efficiency by reducing setup times, cycle times, tool wear, and by increasing capability. That is why when it comes to Machine Tech’s 5-axis CNC machining, the part that generally comes to mind is a turbine or impeller. Machining a turbine requires the simultaneous movement of all 5 axes to create the desired geometric shape. For example, in the aerospace industry there are contours that can be machined by a 3-axis machine, but the process becomes much simpler with a 5-axis machine, ultimately saving the company money.
3 – Axis Machines
To fully understand the need for 4-axis or 5-axis machining, knowledge of 3-axis milling is required. The 3-axis machine is the most commonly used CNC milling machine. The 3-axis system consists of 3 vectors in space, two perpendicular to each other and in the same plane commonly known as the x and y axis with the third being z.
4 – Axis Machines
4-axis is the next level of capability in milling. Defined by rotation about one of the 3 primary axes. Depending on which axis the rotation is about, the 4th axis is called A if about the X-axis, or B if about the Y-axis, or C if about the Z-axis. To be considered 4-axis, the machine must be capable of simultaneous motion in each axis. The 4th axis may be used while cutting or to rotate the part to machine a different surface. Many of Machine Tech’s machines can mount a separate piece of equipment to add a 4th axis, or machines can be purchased with 4-axis built into the machine.
5 – Axis Machines
To increase the capabilities of our CNC mill a 5th axis is incorporated. Our 5-axis setup is more complex and there are two main methods of achieving 5th axis capability.
The first method consists of a 4-axis set-up with using the A-axis or B-axis with the spindle unit tilting. The second method in a 5-axis setup is called a trunnion. A trunnion system is generally less expensive than a tilt head system. Even though less expensive, a trunnion system adds some complexity. If the part clamped to the rotary is not centered on the A-axis, a 5-axis set-up provides greater control of orientation of the machining envelope. This allows for less re-fixturing of all parts and allows machining of very complex geometries, such as an impeller in a single setup, using 5-axis simultaneously where the tool does not leave the part until complete. By using 5th axis machining, most parts can be manufactured in one or two setups, eliminating the need for extra placement. With our reduction of time, we can reduce the cost per parts we are manufacturing, while increasing part quality, with no need to move the part the risk of misalignment is void.
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Preached December 11–25, 2016
In the last edition, Bro. Allen was going over the scriptures which let us see the rapture of the Bride of Christ will come before the tribulation begins. We are picking up now where he left off.
Changed in the Twinkling of an Eye
In my last message I touched on something that may not seem to be a part of the message, but really it is. I am looking at the rapture. I have some more scriptures I will go over on this topic. I was thinking about something I heard this week on the television. There was a certain program that came on and Jonathan Cahn was on it. He was talking about a Jewish wedding which is typed in Jesus’ illustration about the marriage supper. As we look at that, I thought I would deal with that a little bit, from the scriptures, to see what is promised for the saints of God in this hour. I am going to start my reading in Matthew 25. I was in Matthew 24:27-21 before, talking about one being taken and one left, and showing you that there are two different comings. Remember that. That is not a single coming of the Lord. There are two comings. It said, “for as the lightning cometh out of the east and shineth even unto the west, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.” That is the first coming, when he comes to take his Bride home. It will happen in a flash. The next coming is when he returns with his Bride to rule and reign. That is not going to be in a flash, because that coming is a twenty four hour event when it encircles the whole earth. Every eye shall see. But for the Bride it will be quick. As the lightning shines from the east to the west: lightning is quick. That is your exit from this earth, the quickness of this resurrection. Paul explains it in the same way as Jesus explained it in the Matthew 24:39 verse. “And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.” They knew not: that talking about the final coming because he is talking about the flood there, how it takes them all away. That is going to be an earth shattering event whenever this happens. But it goes on to say in the 40th verse, “Then shall two be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left.” This shows farming. There is going to be a farmer that goes. “Two women shall be grinding at the mill; the one shall be taken, and the other left.” Look at what he is looking at. He is looking at this endtime when there are women factory workers. That is the job they have in this endtime in order to survive. It is not grinding like they used to but it is factory work. He said two, so there is more than one grinding. One is a believer and another is an unbeliever that is working with them. When Bro. William Branham spoke on this, some people had done give up their jobs. They said that they were not going to work anymore because they had enough to last until the Lord came. Then Bro. William Branham said, “if you are digging tatters, keep digging tatters.” He meant potatoes, of course. Busying ourselves with things that is going to keep our mind off of things of the world, it shows that there is a people that are going to be busy, they are not just going to be sitting around, waiting. They are going to be busying themselves about something. He is making it definite how it will happen. You can see how it will be: one taken and the other left. It is as the lightning. What does Paul say? “In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, we shall be changed.” Whenever he said it that way, he is saying it is like the lightning. Somebody said, “I want to know how I am being changed.” I just want to be changed. It is only going to take an instant. You are not going to know it even what is going on. It just happens and you are changed. This body will not even realize what has happened, it will be so quick. We will not be thinking about it. We are just going to be living right, according to the word of God, that we may receive that change.
Wise and Foolish Virgins
Matthew 25:1. “Then shall the kingdom of heaven be likened unto ten virgins, which took their lamps, and went forth to meet the bridegroom.” That is showing that those who go to the wedding supper is going to be a group of people. He expresses it as ten, five will be foolish and five will be wise. So it is a group. It is going to happen the world over wherever believers are. I mean those that believe this word that we have heard for a number of years now. It started out with a prophet. But it did not end there. If you were living in that time and the Lord took you home, you are just required for what you had then. You were only responsible to the degree of revelation and understanding God had brought to light at that time. Our revelation has grown. When Bro. Jackson went to explain the Godhead, we were more able to understand it. Then we became responsible for that. The explanation was that Jesus is not God. Jesus said I and my Father are one. That takes it to Matthew 1:23. “Behold, a virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son, and they shall call his name Emmanuel, which being interpreted is, God with us.” Now God was with us in Jesus. God is with us today in His word. The word is Christ, the hope of glory. So people have interpreted that as Jesus was God. He was not God, He was the Son of God. He said, I and my father are one. In John 17 he goes ahead to say, “that they may be one as we are one.” What is He saying there? He is saying that the church may be in one accord, one body, one spirit, one Lord, and one God. That is what it says in the 1st Corinthians 12 and in Ephesians 4. One Lord, one Spirit, one God and Father of us all. So if it says one Lord and one God, it is still the same thing. “Then shall the kingdom of heaven be likened unto ten virgins, which took their lamps, and went forth to meet the bridegroom.” Then. I remember Bro. Jackson going over this and he went over the thens that are in here. Then talks about a certain time. We are in Then. We are in the end of Then. “Then shall the kingdom of heaven be likened unto ten virgins, which took their lamps, and went forth to meet the bridegroom.” See? This would have happened years ago in the early 1960’s. This began to happen in 1963 when the seals were preached. This is when the foolish virgins separated. They did not receive the message, “come out of her my people.” They heard it but they did not get it.
There are people today who think you can associate with anything. That is not so according to the truth we have heard. Do not fool with the worldly things. Do not connect yourself with it. People sometimes are so family oriented to where they just cannot let go. It has been hard on some here. But God is the chooser. It is not our choice. We cannot take one person out and cannot put one person in. When I was thinking about this, I was thinking about Saul, whenever he brought forth Agag, what was he going to do with him? He was commanded to even kill the cattle. But Samuel, when he hears it, Saul said, I have obeyed the Lord. What is this lowing of the cattle I hear in my ears? This thing is getting close, getting close to the flesh. Saul thought he would pull one over. He was not expecting Samuel to say what he did. Saul had to come up with an excuse. “Oh, I will make a sacrifice for the Lord out of cattle.” Unclean cattle. This goes a lot further than what we think it does. What did Paul say? Touch not the unclean thing. We could go deeper in this, but I think you understand. In this endtime, our lives are more than just living in the flesh. There is that spirit life that does not connect with the world. It do not connect. Saul, the last thing he does is to say, “Pray for me.” Samuel prayed and left. What does it say? He never sees him anymore. He is never connected to him anymore. He is dismissed. This is past. He goes off and cries. He cries all night. But he never sees him again.
Five of them were wise and five were foolish. He did not stop there. “They that were foolish took their lamps, and took no oil with them.” No oil, just lamps. They had oil in them at one time because it said they had gone out. They had to have had some. “But the wise took oil in their vessels with their lamps.” A supply. They took that revelation with them. That oil, revelation, that spirit filled revelation, they took it with them, they did not lay it down. They did not turn it aside. They did not spill it. “While the bridegroom tarried, they all slumbered and slept.” Some slumbered, some slept, some died, that is what he is talking about. Because they were waiting, the slumber was a time of” waiting. They had the oil, but they were waiting for something. They were waiting for a voice. They were waiting for a cry. They were waiting for that prophetic message, that eagle of the endtime. “And at midnight there was a cry made, (What did the cry do? It said, “Come out of her my people, that ye be not partaker of her sins.” Come out of that Baptist church, that Methodist church, that Catholic system, that old pope. The pope said that Jesus and His parents were homeless people. But he went further. He said they were like Muslim Jihadists. What I will say about the pope is this: you are a slow belly. That is a scriptural name for what? Serpent seed. You are a devil, dressed up in something that you will wish you had never worn. Do you know what a slow belly is? It is the same thing that happened to the serpent whenever his arms and legs left him, he crawled away. They are making him to look like something. The Catholic Church has built a great observatory out in Graham Mountain in Arizona. They are looking for aliens. It is not aliens they will find, but devils. They named the observatory Lucifer. Come out of her my people, he said.) Behold, the bridegroom cometh; go ye out to meet him.” Did he say, come in to meet him? No, go out to meet him. He is not in these churches. You have to go out. Whenever you go out, you come to Revelation 3:19. “As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.” We go through things, terrible things sometimes. Sometimes it is things to shape us. We have a lot of plans. I have plans. You have plans. But sometimes our plans are halted for a reason. Why? We are not our own boss. We have to give way because there is a boss higher than us. He is the one that runs the ship. He is the chief engineer. “Behold, I stand at the door and knock: (See? He is standing there. He was standing at that Methodist door. He was standing at that Baptist door, that Catholic door, that Pentecostal door, that UPC door, every one of these church doors, because they shut him out. Whenever it all comes to a climax, they will be with that Catholic system that will kill people. There are countries today where the Catholics work with the Communists to kill people. What the Muslim’s are doing today, the Catholic church once did the same. What did it say, “Behold I cast her children in a bed, and they that commit fornication with this Jezebel. I gave her space to repent.” He is talking about that Catholic system. “I gave her space.” He did. Then the Methodists and the Lutherans and others, they heard a message that pulled them away from that system, Luther’s message pulled them away. Wesley did too. But what did they do? They did not follow on. If they had, they would have got rid of that trinity doctrine. It was not Luther’s fault. It was not Wesley’s fault. They were just responsible for their time that they were in. People came out of those systems then and became a part of the Bride of Christ, as you will see one day. God, if we can look at it in the right way, God has got the cream of the crop here at the endtime, the icing on the cake. That is what we are. Why? We have a full truth to stand on because we are learning. What did He say? Come and learn of me, I am meek and lowly. Behold, I stand at the door and knock…) if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me.” It is an individual walk in this hour, but we are joined together. “To him that overcometh (Overcome what? When they hear the knock, when they hear the voice. He wants fellowship. This is what it tells me. He wants fellowship. He wants fellowship when we are at home. He wants us to feel Him. They say, well it is not all in feeling. Feeling goes a long way sometimes whenever you are down, and you need lifting up. It is good to feel him. As a sister came in the door of the church, she said, “I am just so happy to be here.” She said it to me two or three times. “I am just so glad, I feel so good this morning, so glad to be here.” Here is your promise, to him that overcometh…) will I grant to sit with me in my throne, (He is talking about His throne which is worldwide. If His throne would be in Jerusalem, His Spirit goes to the rest of the world, to where we feel the same thing and we are anointed by the same Spirit that He is, and we have the same knowledge. He has said, “Open the door, let us sup together.”) even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in his throne.” What does the Father do? He delegates his authority to his son. What does his son do? He delegates the authority unto the body of Christ. That is why it says, “Christ in you.” It is the anointing in you. Christ in you, the hope of glory. What God was, He has put in Christ, and what Christ was, He has put in the church. We are all one in the name of Jesus Christ. That is why we are baptized in His name, so that we may have fellowship with Him, because we have become a part of Him. As Paul said, “We are bone of His bone, and flesh of His flesh,” when he talked about the wedding supper in Ephesians 5. Let me read this again, “To him that overcometh will I grant sit with me in my throne, (See? The throne is His in the Millennium, the Father has entrusted Him with that. You find that in 1st Corinthians, 15th chapter.) even as I also overcame, (He is telling us here “As I overcame, you can overcome, that we may be able to sit together in the throne of God with Christ.” That is what He is saying. Sit with me in my throne, as I overcame…) and am set down with my Father in his throne.” It is all one big happy family, the family of God. I love this family of God. Then He said, “He that hath an ear, (Do you have ears? Can you hear God speak to you. He says, come up a little higher. Move up a little more.) let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches.” That is why we come to church, to hear from him. He said, learn of me. That is why we gather, that is why saints listen online, that is why The Contender is read: to learn of Him. If you can understand these things, it will give you joy.
John 14:1. “Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me.” That is Jesus speaking. “In my Father’s house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.” The preparation was done on the cross. He has not been up there laying down golden streets, we are the ones doing that. What is Revelation 21 talking about? It is talking about the Bride of Christ. Do you believe that? Do you believe we are making up that street, that golden street that is transparent like glass. Gold there is a different color. “In my Father’s house are many mansions, if it were not so, I would have told you.” In the 3rd chapter of Revelation, what did he say? “Sup with me.” That is the building process, it is a good process when we sup with him. What are you doing? You are enjoying your salvation. Whenever you are supping with Him, it takes all the sarcasm away, all the ill feelings, all the mully-grubs. “And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.” What He is talking about is a wedding. Jonathan Cahn was talking about a Jewish wedding. I had heard this years ago, but not all the details as he gave them. A young Jewish man, he does not even make the choice who he is marrying. His father does. That is just like God. Then that young Jewish man makes a choice. He sends out an invitation for the girl to be betrothed to him. She has to accept it. She has to accept the invitation. He sends out the wedding invitation. Many are called, but few are chosen. He sends out this invitation and if she accepts, they drink a glass of wine. Then he does not see her any more for a year. He contacts her and communicates with her, but he does not see her. What is he doing? He is building a place for them to live in. Did you know a young Jewish man, if he gets married and is in the army, there is a whole year that he is let out of that army? One whole year. You see, this is still honored in Israel today. What happens while he is building their home? She is getting herself ready. He sends her gifts. I am describing a Jewish wedding and courtship. That is what Jesus is talking about in Matthew 25. She takes these gifts, this is a part of her acceptance. Then she waits. She knows it is going to be a year because he has gone to prepare a place. He said, I will come and get you in a year. This is a Jewish custom. At the end of that year, she sees the lights coming, she hears the wedding procession. She puts her lamp in the window. She trims her lamp and puts it in the window because she is saying, “I have accepted.” She hears him coming down the street. As she does, what does she do? She arises, makes sure her garments are ready. This is the greatest day she has ever had on earth. She has changed her clothing. Finally, he arrives. She does not know what day or what hour he would arrive, but she just kept listening for the coming. When that year is up, she does not know exactly which day, it may be a day or two different, but she is ready. She is ready!!! When he arrives, she goes out to meet him. She gets in the carriage with him. They go on a honeymoon for seven days. Seven days. This is a Jewish wedding. Then they come back. That is the wedding vow of a Jewish wedding, which Jesus is talking about here. “I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also. And whither I go ye know, and the way ye know.”
Go back to Matthew 25:6. “And at midnight there was a cry made, Behold, the bridegroom cometh; go ye out to meet him.” This was the message. This was 1963. What happened then? The door of the churches are closed to Christ. He stands at the door and knocks then for that individual. It is an individual now. He that sups with me, I will sup with him. “Then all those virgins arose, and trimmed their lamps. And the foolish said unto the wise, Give us of your oil; for our lamps are gone out.” That is when those foolish virgins realized that something was wrong, something was missing, we must do something about this. This happened in 1963 into 1964. The Catholic church in South Bend, in Canada, in their schools, and in their colleges, they began to speak in tongues. Nuns began to speak in tongues. Then foolish virgins went out to those denominations and began to hunt for oil there, because it appeared the spirit was moving in those places. I wonder why it did not last? Because there was no repentance, there was no getting away from that thing. They held on and you cannot hold on to the past and expect anything for the future. These things have already happened and what is next? The door is going to be closed. Get in little children, come on. The pool can be filled. Come on little children, get on board. “But the wise answered, saying, Not so; (Back in 2008 those that left did not walk away from me, they walked away from truth. Why? The answer may make some mad. The truth was not in you. You had your eyes on a man just like in the 1960’s. They had their eyes on a man. I remember being in a place eating with Bro. Jackson. This was in 1983, and some of the people from the Tabernacle came up and met us. They began to say, “Bro. Branham is coming back, he is coming back.” Bro. Jackson said, “1977 is already past.” They replied, “according to us it is not passed.” It was 1983 and they were still looking for 1977 and most of them are dead now. I may be judging, but the rest of them are spiritually dead. You have no life in you, you are just walking skeletons because you are empty. You entrails are gone, the inside that would cry out for help is already missing. The wise answered, saying, not so. The Bible says not to have fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness. Do you understand what I mean?) lest there be not enough for us and you: but go ye rather to them that sell, and buy for yourselves. And while they went to buy, the bridegroom came; and they that were ready went in with him to the marriage: and the door was shut.” Before the Bride leaves here, the door will be shut. It will be. Could it be that it is closing now? Someone had a dream and gave it to me, that it was ready to close. After it closed, it opened again and all that came out of it was caskets. Because that was all that was left. We are in the endtime this morning. They that were ready went in with him to the marriage and the door was shut. Jesus is saying something here, it is not a pleasant thing. It is not a pleasant thing to see family members and people that used to be your friends walk away from truth. One day the door will be shut and no more will be able to enter.
I had already gone over Zephaniah 2:1-2, Isaiah 24, Isaiah 4, and many more places in Isaiah, but I want to go continue looking at those scriptures. Much of Isaiah’s writing is on the endtime and the Millennium. So, for the rest of this series of message we are going to go continue to look at the rapture, and then beyond that. I know I have already ready preached many messages under this title, but we can just keep going in this because there is so much in it. Where do you stop in the word of God? There is enough there to keep us until the end, and then beyond. I went into Revelation 4 in the last message. The 4th chapter is really pertaining to the Bride of Christ as John is taken away and he is carried up. First he is shown the church ages, then he is caught up. When he sees the four beasts, then those twenty-four elders, he was one of them. Maybe he did not recognize himself, being an old man like that, because he would have seen a younger man. Because he started out very young with Christ and was ninety years old or more at the time he wrote the Book of Revelation. So, he had a good long life. He had a lot of persecutions. He was boiled in hot oil, yet he survived that. Because God had another message for him, which was the book of Revelation. You had different ones that followed John: Polycarp and others. But the message began to wane. It began to go into a political sphere. That did not come from John. I would have to say in this hour, woe be unto the people that would not follow the teachings of what we have heard, coming from a prophet, and an apostle. But you begin to see that they will go astray as you go on into Matthew 24. The Lord does not speak well of those who go astray at the end.
The Evil Servant Shall Say: My Lord Delayeth His Coming
Matthew 24:40, “Then shall two be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left. Two women shall be grinding at the mill; the one shall be taken, and the other left.” Then he tells you to watch. “Watch therefore: for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come. But know this, that if the goodman of the house had known in what watch the thief would come, he would have watched, and would not have suffered his house to be broken up.” That is a warning there. If he had known, but he did not know. We do know, we are children of light. We are not the children of darkness. Then He goes ahead to say, “Who then is a faithful and wise servant, whom his lord hath made ruler over his household, to give them meat in due season?” Which connects back to the 28th verse. That is what it is, meat in due season. “Blessed is that servant, whom his lord when he cometh shall find so doing. Verily I say unto you, That he shall make him ruler over all his goods.” In other words, in the Millennium, he is going to be ruler over all His goods. It is going to be delegated authority by Jesus Christ. The Bride of Jesus Christ is going to know what to do in that Millennium time. They are going to know exactly what to do because they have their instructions already. Part of it we are learning now. And then the marriage supper is going to give further insight into what is expected. It is not that Jesus Christ is going to be some kind of overbearing ruler, but He is going to be an instructor. When He instructs, when he delegates responsibilities to his Bride, He will not have to be an overseer of it. That is why He said this, “Blessed is that servant, whom his lord when he cometh shall find so doing. Verily I say unto you, That he shall make him ruler over all his goods. But and if (IF) that evil servant shall say in his heart, (He does not have to speak it openly.) My lord delayeth his coming. (That is the same thing it says in 2nd Peter 3:1-8. That is all he has to do. Then what does it say.) And shall begin to smite his fellow-servants, (Is he just going down the aisle, smiting people? No. He is going to smite them with words. They are going to talk against truth. We have more than you have. We have more preachers than you have. They did at one time, now they cannot get along.) and to eat and drink with the drunken; (They begin to mingle with the world. That is what it is whenever they begin to pull away. They dress wrong. They look like everything but a Christian. Some of them that have left us have even joined up with the Amish. These verses are being fulfilled by those who have left truth.) The lord of that servant (See? At one time he was serving the Lord, to a certain extent. There was always something in the back of his mind. I am talking about a servant. There was always something in the back of his mind that he wanted more. “They do not give me the attention that they should. I am not as popular as I should be, they do not brag on me enough.” The lord of that servant…) shall come in a day when he looketh not for him, (See? He has already said he has delayed his coming, so he is not looking for him. Shall come in a day when he is not looking for him,) and in an hour that he is not aware of.” What is it that the Bible says? We are children of light, we are children of the day, and that coming will not catch us unaware. We are not in the same category as these wicked servants. “And shall cut him asunder, and appoint him his portion with the hypocrites: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.” That is not funny. That will not be a fun day. That is not a fun hour.
The Millennium Begins during the Third Day
Read more in the August 2010 edition of The Contender: The Third Day
I will go back to Hosea. Who is God talking to here? He is not talking to the Bride. He is talking to Israel. 5th chapter, 14th verse. “For I will be unto Ephraim as a lion, and as a young lion to the house of Judah: I, even I, will tear and go away; I will take away, and none shall rescue him.” There has been about two thousand years of time that passed. Up until 1948. That was the beginning of Israel becoming a nation. Since that time, everything that goes wrong in the Middle East has been blamed on them. They are blamed today because they are not seeking peace with the Arabs, but they have. You cannot have peace with that Muslim religion. There is no way you can have peace with them unless you are one of them; it does not work. It is like water and oil, they just do not mix. “I will go and return to my place”, in other words, he is withdrawing His spirit away from them and back unto His domain. But in that time that he has been withdrawn from them, He has been dealing with a Bride people for two thousand years. Why did that happen? What does it say in Matthew 22? He makes a wedding for His Son, but none of the guests would come. Go into the highways and hedges, and compel guests to come in. In other words, the Holy Spirit has grabbed people’s hearts. He brought in a Gentile people to fill the seats. “I will go and return to my place, till they acknowledge their offence, and seek my face: in their affliction they will seek me early.” It has not really happened yet. They are there in the land, but their revival has not come because it was not time. Everything is timed out by God. In their affliction they will seek me early. “Come and let us return unto the Lord: (This is Israel talking.) for he hath torn, (That is what He said He would do. To Ephraim, He was a lion. To Judah he was a young lion. Even I will tear and go away. Come and let us return unto the Lord, for he hath torn: it is looking now to the revival. Because it is them saying, “he hath torn.” He said, “I will tear and go away.” But there they are looking at their circumstance, for he hath torn…) and he will heal us; he hath smitten, and he will bind us up.” That is all their revival. As you look into the 14th chapter of Zechariah, you will see how Israel goes and they begin to mourn for Him. “After two days will he revive us; (Right there, two days, count it out, two days. We are living in the after. What are you going to do? Keep stretching it? To a lot of people, it is just like a rubber band. If you stretch this out until the time come for seventieth week of Daniel, you have gone too far. After two days, he will revive us. They will have their revival. Those two prophets, some of them call them teachers. They are not teachers, they are prophets. They are going to go back to this part of scripture, just like they will to the last part of Ezekiel. They will be men that will know what the temple is to look like. As I have said before, that place is going to be leveled off. After two days he will revive us…) in the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live in his sight.” Then it will be Millennium, when they live in his sight. They are in that third day now, but they do not know it. The third day began about twelve years ago. I hope you understand that.
Let’s go to Isaiah 24:22-23. “And they shall be gathered together, as prisoners are gathered in the pit, and shall be shut up in the prison, and after many days (This thing that happened to the Jewish people was like a prison house. They were made to live under other gods, other nations. The other day I seen in Denmark they are going to stop anybody under eighteen years from being circumcised. They are closing in a little all the time on the Jewish people. This is one of the things that Jews do from Abraham. This is one of the things they feel they have to do as children of Abraham. After many days…) shall they be visited. Then the moon shall be confounded, and the sun ashamed, (It is the same thing you read in Matthew 24. Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light. Whenever those four different times of the blood moons come, the critics said, “See there, nothing happened.” That was not this scripture, but another. What does this scripture say? What does Matthew 24 say? It says they refuse to shine. If they refuse to shine, you will not see a blood moon. Then the moon shall be confounded, and the sun ashamed…) when the Lord of hosts shall reign in mount Zion, (when He comes back) and in Jerusalem, and before his ancients gloriously. Thy dead men shall live, together with my dead body shall they arise. Awake and sing, ye that dwell in the dust: for thy dew is as the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast out the dead.”
God Overshadows Israel in the Millennium
Isaiah 4:1. Those that left us say I was all wrong about this. “And in that day seven women shall take hold of one man, saying, We will eat our own bread, and wear our own apparel: only let us be called by thy name, to take away our reproach.” See? Polygamy happens one more time, but it is not just somebody living together. There is a marriage that takes place. There has to be marriage to take on somebody’s name. This will not last all through the Millennium, but it will be in the start, and mostly in the Middle East is where it will be necessary. They are saying, “We will do our own job, we will earn our own living, only let us be married to take away our reproach. Why? Because of repopulation. What does the second verse say? “In that day shall the branch of the Lord be beautiful and glorious, (What day is that? The Millennium. The Bride of Jesus Christ will be ruling and reigning in this part. In that day shall the branch of the Lord be beautiful and glorious. It says the same thing: in that day.) and the fruit of the earth shall be excellent and comely for them that are escaped of Israel. And it shall come to pass, that he that is left in Zion, and he that remaineth in Jerusalem, shall be called holy, even every one that is written among the living in Jerusalem.” In that day. He is talking about the same day as he goes on. “When the Lord shall have washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion, and shall have purged the blood of Jerusalem from the midst thereof by the spirit of judgment, and by the spirit of burning.” When He shall have gotten rid of wickedness of the tribulation period through burning and judgement. “And the Lord will create upon every dwelling place of mount Zion, and upon her assemblies, a cloud and smoke by day, and the shining of a flaming fire by night: for upon all the glory shall be a defence. And there shall be a tabernacle (there shall be a temple, as we have gone over) for a shadow in the daytime from the heat, (That is God’s overshadowing. What did He just say? I have something I will show you later on. There shall be a tabernacle for a shadow in the daytime from the heat. What is He talking about in the 5th verse? The Lord will create upon every dwelling place of mount Zion and upon her assemblies, a cloud and smoke by day, and the shining of a flaming fire by night, for upon all the glory shall be a defence. And there shall be a tabernacle for a shadow in the daytime from the heat…) and for a place of refuge, and for a cover from storm and from rain.” In other words, God will be Israel’s protector. That is what He is saying. From the storm and from the rain. Can you see the 4th chapter a little better and a little plainer? It is all in that day. It is not now. Where is that woman out there in the world today that wants to do this? In that day seven women shall take hold of one man, saying we will eat our own bread and wear our own apparel, only let us be called by thy name to take away our reproach. This cannot be today. They feel no reproach today. There is only one people that do not want to be a reproach today, and that is the true believer. Even the church world does not care. Women preachers out there in their tight pants and low cut dresses, men who are so evil, preaching. I saw one the other day, preaching, he had on tight pants, he did not have any socks on. They were short pants. I think women used to call them pedal pushers. It just irks you. Their short sleeves are short and arms with tattoos, muscular. If that is all that God has got, which it is not, I would not want it. If that is the church of the living God, I do not want it.
Isaiah 35:1, “The wilderness and the solitary place shall be glad for them, and the desert shall rejoice, and blossom as the rose.” That is because of God’s canopy. All they need is water. What do you think is going to help that desert bloom? Ezekiel 47 has the answer: whenever that earthquake comes and opens up the Mount of Olives, then the river will flow both ways from sea to sea, with pure water. Clean water to water the desert. Somewhere under Jerusalem today there is a well of water waiting for God to remove its cork. “It shall blossom abundantly, and rejoice even with joy and singing: the glory of Lebanon shall be given unto it, the excellency of Carmel and Sharon, they shall see the glory of the Lord, and the excellency of our God.” In other words, they are going to respond to the blessings of God. “Strengthen ye the weak hands, and confirm the feeble knees.” That is talking to Israel there. Paul is talking to the church the same words, the same words to the church because the blessings on Israel are natural. The blessings on the church are spiritual. Bless the Lord, O my soul, and all that is within me, bless His holy name. It comes from within, the blessing. “Say to them that are of a fearful heart, Be strong, fear not: behold, your God will come with vengeance, even God with a recompence; he will come and save you. Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears of the deaf shall be unstopped.” When they go into the Millennium, the people that have problems will be healed. This is mainly talking of Israel here, but it is going to reach out into the other nations as well, because the blessings of God cannot be harbored in one little place. Israel is not big enough. But from Israel it will spring forth, from Zion. “Then shall the lame man leap as an hart, (There is going to be some healings take place among the ones that are left, especially among the Jews.) and the tongue of the dumb sing: (They have their voice back.) for in the wilderness shall waters break out, and streams in the desert.” What did Abraham do when he ran out of water? He dug a well. The water is already there. It will spring forth out of the ground and they will know how to harbor it. They already know. Seventy percent of Israel’s water that is used is regathered and put into big pools. They irrigate with it. “And the parched ground shall become a pool, and the thirsty land springs of water: in the habitation of dragons, where each lay, shall be grass with reeds and rushes. And an highway shall be there, (This is a spiritual walk, a highway shall be there.) and a way, and it shall be called The way of holiness; the unclean shall not pass over it; but it shall be for those: the wayfaring men, though fools, shall not err therein.” That is talking about that day when the Lord is bringing everything back. The foolish man, the one who has not known too much, will be healed. The tongues that have never talked shall speak. The eyes that have never seen shall be healed. The ears shall be unstopped. It just makes us glad to think about it. What about the Bride? She is going to be over it all. She is going to see it all. She is going to see those miracles because she is going to be a part of it. She is not going to need the miracles for herself, but she is going to a part of it because she is going to be over this world, over this land. Delegated out by Jesus Christ. “No lion shall be there, (That is talking about in the highway.) nor any ravenous beast shall go thereof, it shall not be found there; but the redeemed shall walk there.” The redeemed of Israel. It has been preached for years and years that this is something that is happening now, but it will not happen now. It will happen in the Millennium. “And the ransomed of the Lord shall return, and come to Zion with songs (That Jewish nation shall return to Zion with songs.) and everlasting joy upon their heads: they shall obtain joy and gladness, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away.” This will last right on through the Millennium into the Eternal Age, nonstop. In the Eternal Age, everyone will have eternal life. There will be no more growing old.
|Cloud of dust and rain ‘act of G-d’ to save Israel from ISIS Arutz Sheva Staff, 11/12/16 09:07 According to the Mirror, A huge storm which stopped on the border between Syria and Israel was “unable” to enter Israel’s Golan Heights region. The storm was allegedly “sent by G-d” to protect Israel from ISIS. It is believed that the storm occurred last Thursday, December 1, at around 8am. Israel News Online wrote on Facebook, “A weather phenomenon occurred at 8am Thursday on the other side of the Syrian border, in the same place where ISIS attacked Israel. “This strange storm of what appears to be dust, cloud and rain did NOT cross the border fence into Israel. It sat like a barrier between ISIS and Israel.” One Facebook user replied: Absolutely the divine intervention of God protecting Israel. Amen!” Other more cynical viewers disagreed, adding: “Actually, sorry to be boring, but it’s simply a weather phenomenon.” ButIsrael News Online hit back almost immediately, writing: “Yes it is of course. Now do we ask who controls the weather? Whatever the cause it sat between ISIS and Israel and did not enter Israel.” Bro. Allen shared this news story and video with the church after preaching this message.|
Let us go to Isaiah 40. “Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God. Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem, and cry unto her, that her warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned: for she hath received of the Lord’s hand double for all her sins.” God has put upon Israel double their sins. It would be like getting down to pray and never getting an answer, never have a problem solved. It is like going through a holocaust without an answer. You see in Revelation 6, the fifth seal, they begin to cry, how long O Lord dost thou not avenge our blood upon those that have afflicted us. They do not yet have white robes when this is spoken, but they do now. White robes were given to every one of them. God eased their burden. All that they had gone through, through the ages of time, God answered. “The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness, (which is John) Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make straight in the desert a highway for our God. Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made low: and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough places plain: And the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together: for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it. The voice said, Cry. And he said, What shall I cry? All flesh is grass, and all the goodliness thereof is as the flower of the field: The grass withereth, the flower fadeth, because the spirit of the Lord bloweth upon it: surely the people are grass. The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: but the word of our God shall stand for ever.” All the kingdoms of the earth pass away. The only kingdom that has been snuffed out and has been revived has been Israel.
Go to Isaiah 66. “O Zion, that bringest good tidings, get thee up into the high mountain; O Jerusalem, that bringest good tidings, lift up thy voice with strength; lift it up, be not afraid; say unto the cities of Judah, Behold your God!” Obama, and other men, have tried to force a peace treaty between Israel and the Palestinians. It is not going to work. The village of Amona, they are talking of uprooting them, even Netanyahu is, because it is in the west bank. The U.N. says they cannot build there anymore. “Behold, the Lord God will come with strong hand, and his arm shall rule for him: behold, his reward is with him, and his work before him. He shall feed his flock like a shepherd: he shall gather the lambs with his arm, and carry them in his bosom, and shall gently lead those that are with young.” This goes with Isaiah 49 where it said that kings and queens will carry them in their arms. “Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted out heaven with the span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance? Who hath directed the spirit of the Lord, or being his counsellor hath taught him?” Who has? Who has taught him? “With whom took he counsel, and who instructed him, and taught him in the path of judgment, and taught him knowledge, and showed to him the way of understanding? Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and counted as the small dust of the balance: behold, he taketh up the isles as a very little thing. And Lebanon is not sufficient to burn, nor the beasts thereof sufficient for a burnt offering. All nations before him are as nothing; and they are counted to him less than nothing, and vanity.”
New Heavens & New Earth
I want to go to Isaiah 65:17. “For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth: (That will be a process. It will not take place in one day, it will be a process. The Millennium is a process. It will be a progressive thing. We know at the start of the Millennium, this will not instantly be fulfilled, because the Bible speaks in Isaiah chapters 13 and 24 about what the start of the Millennium will be like. After Armageddon there will be few men left. The world is going to be sparsely populated whenever the Millennium begins. But God is beginning the process of bringing the world back at that time. Behold I create a new heaven and a new earth. Whenever I was in the Methodist church, back in that time, they thought God was just going to get rid of this earth and the heavens, and he would start all over with something else. No. He is going to renew it. At one time it was destroyed by flood, but even before that there was an Ice Age that destroyed it. But God brought it back in time, and after He rested on the seventh day, He looked at everything and said, “It is good.” At that time it was good. Then God created man and woman and put them upon the earth. They were unaware that they were even naked. In that knowledge, they were like the animals of the field, because they did not look at each other in a lustful way, like it is today. But they looked at each other as just human beings, with no guilt. There was no guilt in Adam and Eve until sin came. Then when sin came, that brought the guilt. Because God created in man a knowledge. Then He put in him a knowledge of good and evil after they sinned. That is the reason why Adam and Eve recognized they were naked and they hid before God. Behold, I create new heavens and a new earth…) and the former shall not be remembered, nor come into mind.” See? That goes all the way into the Eternal Age. There is still a remembrance of things during the Millennium. There is animal sacrifice, and it is all in remembrance that man was fallen. But when you come to the Eternal Age, man’s mind is changed. The Bride of Christ will be changed. You will not look at things like you do now. You will still recognize one another, but you have done passed from death unto life. This body is alive with the spirit that is in you. The Bride is all changed whenever the rapture happens. But then you have a world full of natural people going into the Millennium, who were not changed into glorified bodies. Then as you go along in the Millennium, then things begin to happen, and begin to happen. When you get closer to the end of the Millennium, then you have that last rebellion against God, Gog and Magog rise up and come up against Jerusalem, but God puts a quick stop to it and destroys them all. After that, it is time for the final judgement. He raises everybody from the dead that has ever lived. Then it is time for second death, which the wicked will go into. When they go into that second death, then you come to Revelation 21. In the first part of it, it talks about all the wicked being taken out of the world, that man once was in, then you at last have a perfect world, a new heaven and a new earth. The former things are passed away, behold I make all things new. He said “Behold I create new heavens and a new earth, and the former things shall not be remembered, nor come into mind.” That is talking of everybody. They will not even come into mind, they are erased. It is God’s ability to be able to erase it. Even the Bride, when she is taken away from here, the former things are passed away. It is erased. You do not go to heaven with a bunch of sad things on your mind. Jesus said, “Come unto me all ye that labor and are heavy laden, I will give you rest.” But this is a different rest. “But be ye glad and rejoice for ever in that which I create: for; behold, I create Jerusalem a rejoicing, and her people a joy. And I will rejoice in Jerusalem, and joy in my people: and the voice of weeping shall be no more heard in her, nor the voice of crying.” That takes you all the way into the Eternal Age, because there will be weeping in the Millennium. A man and woman that has an unruly child, God gives the child a hundred years to grow up and be a righteous person. After that hundred years, if they have not learned their lesson, it says the child shall die at a hundred years. If they have not learned their lesson, then the mother and father are brought before a Supreme Court and the mom and dad has to take the child and thrust him through. We see that in Zechariah 13:3. Do you think they will be crying when they do that? Do you think they have no feeling? But when you come to the Eternal Age, there will be no more death. I will read that 19th verse again. “And I will rejoice in Jerusalem, and joy in my people: and the voice of weeping shall be no more heard in her, nor the voice of crying. There shall be no more thence an infant of days, nor an old man that hath not filled his days: for the child shall die an hundred years old; but the sinner being an hundred years old shall be accursed.” This is the same thing, both of them a hundred years, the same thing. “And they shall build houses, and inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, and eat the fruit of them. They shall not build, and another inhabit; they shall not plant, and another eat; for as the days of a tree are the days of my people, and mine elect shall long enjoy the work of their hands. They shall not labour in vain, nor bring forth for trouble; for they are the seed of the blessed of the Lord; and their offspring with them. And it shall come to pass, that before they call, I will answer; and while they are yet speaking, I will hear.” See? It is not going to be a prayer line. Before they even speak it, I will hear. “The wolf and the lamb shall feed together; and the lion shall eat straw like the bullock: and dust shall be the serpent’s meat.” That is going into the Eternal Age. God did not lose the serpent. The serpent in the garden was changed. But God does not lose anything. The devil cannot defeat God. The mind of God is greater than the devil. It talks about that in the Bible, that the devil meant to do evil, but God turned it into good. All things work together for good to them that love the Lord, to them that are called according to His purpose. If we look at it right, it will all work to our good, our benefit. Dust shall be the serpent’s meat. He will still be there. He will still be there when the Eternal Age comes, but he will still be eating bugs. “They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain, saith the Lord.” His holy mountain, to the Jews, is Jerusalem, but “in all His holy mountain,” what is that? The Bride of Jesus Christ. That is what John sees coming down. He sees things that look like beautiful mansions. Jesus said, “In my Father’s house are many mansions, if it were not so I would have told you.” The mansions are people. What does the Bible say? You are the temple of the Holy Ghost. God lives in many mansions, and we are the mansions he lives in.
Missionaries of God
Let’s go on into Isaiah 66:19. “And I will set a sign among them, and I will send those that escape of them unto the nations, to Tarshish, Pul, and Lud, that draw the bow, to Tubal, and Javan, to the isles afar off, that have not heard my fame, neither have seen my glory; and they shall declare my glory among the Gentiles.” This is talking about people that have not seen His glory, that have not heard of His glory. He is going to send them as missionaries. This will happen during the Millennium, not now. It will done be done by Jim Baker’s program, or John Hagee. Those people are so blind, there are no glasses that will help them see. They just do not have it. They have lost it. What they had, they have lost. What they once saw, they have lost. Television ministry has just become programs for money, for gathering in whatever they can to build a great name for themselves. “And they shall bring all your brethren for an offering unto the Lord out of all nations upon horses, and in chariots, and in litters, and upon mules, and upon swift beasts, to my holy mountain Jerusalem, saith the Lord, as the children of Israel bring an offering in a clean vessel into the house of the Lord. And I will also take of them for priests and for Levites, saith the Lord. For as the new heavens and the new earth, which I will make, shall remain before me, saith the Lord, so shall your seed and your name remain. And it shall come to pass, that from one new moon to another, and from one sabbath to another, shall all flesh come to worship before me, saith the Lord. And they shall go forth, and look upon the carcases of the men that have transgressed against me: (This is the Millennium. The dead bodies of the wicked will lay out there and they will stink. Their skin worms will eat them, along with the ravenous beasts and birds. So, as we look here, you know the Bible, from one place to the other, does not lose its connection. Most of the scriptures I will use in the remainder of this message are from what man calls “the minor prophets”. But whenever I look at it, they are not minor. They have major understanding. They just did not prophesy very long. But most of them that I have here would be in the time of Kingdom of Judah. They shall go forth and look upon the carcasses of the men that have transgressed against me…) for their worm shall not die, (In other words, they are dead as far as the body is concerned, but in hell, the rich man lifted up his eyes, being in torment. That worm is remorse. Just to think about it, laying there in darkness, with the flesh rotting off their bodies. Then that remorse, that worm, as it says here: their worm shall not die. That is sorrow in their conscience. See? They have two deaths to die. The wicked are still alive hell in right now.) neither shall their fire be quenched; and they shall be an abhorring unto all flesh.” That makes us want to live right, because no one wants to go there. We want to see what is on the other side.
Now we will go to Genesis 8:20. “And Noah builded an altar unto the Lord; and took of every clean beast, and of every clean fowl, and offered burnt offerings on the altar.” This is after the flood is over with. He did not wait a long time after getting off the ark to offer this sacrifice because he knew that God had preserved that seventh clean animal for some reason. God loves numbers, if they are the right numbers. “And the Lord smelled a sweet savour; and the Lord said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for man’s sake; (See? He takes the curse off the ground. It is coming back today from north to south, from east to west.) for the imagination of man’s heart is evil from his youth; neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have done. (This is a promise of God.) But while the earth remaineth, (That goes on into the Eternal Age because the earth is going to still be here.) seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.” That goes all the way into the Eternal Age. You may say “Well, I read over there in 21st chapter of Revelation where there will be no night.” That verse is talking about Bride people. That is what the whole story is about, it is about the Bride. You will not need a flashlight. You will not need sleep. The things of this natural world will no longer affect you in that way.
The Millennial Kingdom
Let’s go to Micah 4:1 now. “But in the last days it shall come to pass, that the mountain of the house of the Lord shall be established in the top of the mountains, and it shall be exalted above the hills; and people shall flow unto it.” It will be established, it will be built. You see the temple in Revelation 11. It is going to be built. “And many nations shall come and say, Come, and let us go unto the mountain of the Lord, (This is in time of Christ’s kingdom, which is the Millennium. Remember, we have two kingdoms, Christ’s kingdom and God’s kingdom after that. God’s kingdom will be the Eternal Age.) and to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for the law shall go forth of Zion, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.” This is the Millennium. This is to the natural people of the earth who live in the Millennium. “And he shall judge among many people, and rebuke strong nations afar off, and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up a sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more. But they shall sit every man under his vine and under his fig tree; (This is to the natural people, not to the glorified people. This is something personal God offers to each one.) and none shall make them afraid: for the mouth of the Lord of hosts hath spoken it. For all people will walk every one in the name of his god, and we will walk in the name of the Lord our God for ever and ever.” This is all going to be cut out as far as gods are concerned, they will be cut out. “In that day, saith the Lord, will I assemble her that halteth, and I will gather her that is driven out, and her that I have afflicted; (talking of the Jews) And I will make her that halted a remnant, and her that was cast far off a strong nation: and the Lord shall reign over them in mount Zion from henceforth, even for ever. And thou, O tower of the flock, the strong hold of the daughter of Zion, unto thee shall it come, even the first dominion; the kingdom shall come to the daughter of Jerusalem.” See? He is talking about the kingdom. It Is a future kingdom, in the Millennium.
I want to go to Matthew 6:8 next. “Be not ye therefore like unto them: for your Father knoweth what things ye have need of, before ye ask him. (Now listen to this prayer.) After this manner therefore pray ye: Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. (They have sung that song, they have prayed that prayer without even knowing what they were talking about. It has become a standby, something easy, without knowing what they are talking about.) Thy kingdom come. (He is talking about the Eternal Age there. Jesus is praying to the Father, listen to what He says.) Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven. (This will never be until the Eternal Age. I have not spoken to much on the Eternal Age yet, but we will see some scriptures on that now. Then He goes ahead and tells them how to give thanks.) Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors. (He is talking forgiving people when they do us wrong.) And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil: For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen.” Jesus did not just pitch out words there. The disciples did not understand what He was saying, neither did I until I got into looking at this because the key is, thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. It cannot be that way until after the rebellion of wicked mankind. Gog and Magog will come against Jerusalem one more time, that old atheistic spirit, at the end of the Millennium. God will defeat it without firing a shot. Man will have done beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks. There will be no atomic weapons, they were destroyed. God knows what to do with them. He will bury those things because they will not be needed. God will just send fire down from heaven, like a bolt of lightning, and destroy those who come up against Jerusalem.
A New Creature
I have another scripture now, 2nd Corinthians 5:17. “Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.” See? He is talking about the inward man. We still have the body, the body that has committed sin. We still have that, but the spirit is renewed, day by day. “And all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, (See? It is all reconciling us to God by Jesus Christ.) and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation; To wit, (or witness) that God was in Christ, (He did not just stop there. This should say something to somebody, but it looks like it did not to a lot of people. God was in Christ…) reconciling the world unto himself, (which will be completed when the Eternal Age begins. It is to bring back. It reconciles it. It bring it back into a perfect state like it would have been in the Garden of Eden if sin had never entered. God is going to do away with sin. The very thought of sin will be removed. There will be no more sinful thoughts because the devil is gone. He is not just tied down in the Eternal Age: he is gone.) not imputing their trespasses unto them; (not remembering them. He will not remember what you did when you were a sinner. But God in Christ has reconciled us unto God. Here to witness that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself. Not imputing their trespasses unto them…) and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation. Now then we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God did beseech you by us: (God worked through Christ, through His death, burial, and resurrection, to bring us back in our minds, in our hearts, in our spirits, unto himself. Man has a spirit, but then God’s spirit comes in and the spirit of man is subject unto God by Jesus Christ. Now we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God did beseech you by us: it is the same thing. It is the same word. The anointed word is the same as if God were here speaking. You go all the way to the top, you do not bypass Jesus Christ, but you go through Him unto the Father, because He hears your petition. Jesus is our Mediator, He mediates. He is our lawyer. He is our doctor.) we pray you in Christ’s stead, be ye reconciled to God. For he hath made him to be sin for us, (Who made him to be sin for us? God did. Jesus left himself out of the matter. He just followed and obeyed. He followed Him into death. Then on the cross He cried out, “My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?” But in another place, He said, “For this cause was I brought into the world.” The only cause was to reconcile man back to God. It took a perfect sacrifice, not a wimpy little man. No, He took the cross like a man, went before the judges and all them at that time as though He were a lamb, headed for slaughter. They put a lamb upon the altar and that priest has to slay that lamb. There he waits until he bleeds out. I remember an article a few years ago. Someone claimed they found Jesus’ blood in a crevice where it ran down from the cross, and the blood was still liquefied. People look for that kind of thing. There were some that were still with us at that time: you were fooled. You thought it was real. That is idiotic. Jesus rose, what did He do? He took the blood to the Father. He became sin, who knew no sin. He became sin for us.) that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.” In Christ. In Him.
Micah Speaks of the Millennium
Let’s go back to Micah 5:7. “And the remnant of Jacob shall be in the midst of many people as a dew from the Lord, as the showers upon the grass, that tarrieth not for man, nor waiteth for the sons of men. And the remnant of Jacob shall be among the Gentiles in the midst of many people as a lion among the beasts of the forest, as a young lion among the flocks of sheep: who, if he go through, both treadeth down, and teareth in pieces, and none can deliver. Thine hand shall be lifted up upon thine adversaries, and all thine enemies shall be cut off. And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord, that I will cut off thy horses out of the midst of thee, and I will destroy thy chariots: And I will cut off the cities of thy land, and throw down all thy strong holds: And I will cut off witchcrafts out of thy hand; and thou shalt have no more soothsayers: (Talking of the Millennium.) Thy graven images also will I cutoff, and thy standing images out of the midst of thee; and thou shalt no more worship the work of thine hands. And I will pluck up thy groves out of the midst of thee: so will I destroy thy cities. And I will execute vengeance in anger and fury upon the heathen, such as they have not heard.” He is getting ready to do just that. It is later than what we think.
One more place I will go to. Micah 7:18-20. “Who is a God like unto thee, that pardoneth iniquity, and passeth by the transgression of the remnant of his heritage? He retaineth not his anger for ever, because he delighteth in mercy. He will turn again, he will have compassion upon us; he will subdue our iniquities; and thou wilt cast all their sins into the depths of the sea. Thou wilt perform the truth to Jacob, and the mercy to Abraham, which thou hast sworn unto our father from the days of old.” Then you are in the Millennium. He is going to put all that behind him. They have the temple to build. Could that happen in the next year? We have to be ready. Are you ready? We have to be waiting because He said, “When you see all these things begin to come to pass, then lift up your heads, your redemption is drawing near.” What we are seeing in this time could very well be the beginning of it all. There is great turmoil in the Middle East. There are many preachers who preach about the endtime, but they do not know where to place it. They do not know what is coming. They are looking for a revival, a great revival such as never has been. The revival is over, and the door is closing. They missed it. They rejected it. Somebody is going to be left outside and they will not even know it. The Bride will leave, and they will go on. They will go on as before. We are not just speaking words. This is God’s word. We thank Him for it.
… continued in the next edition.
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Generally, loneliness is definitely linked to getting actually alone. Back when we visualize someone who’s unhappy, all of us picture someone that happens to be socially separated. But there’s in addition a different sort of loneliness, which represent people who are feeling by yourself, despite are encompassed by people.
“It’s far better become unhappy by yourself than disatisfied with some one.” Marilyn Monroe
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“The stronger and earliest a notice, the greater amount of it incline towards the faith of privacy.” Aldous Huxley
“Loneliness includes charm alive. They puts a particular eliminate on sunsets and tends to make nights environment smell best.” Henry Rollins
“If a person discover how to truly stay with loneliness and grasp it when it comes to present that it’s… an opportunity to know your, to determine just how stronger you really are, to be based upon no one nevertheless for your own contentment… may realize that somewhat loneliness go a long way in starting a deeper, better, further vivid and multi-colored an individual.” Mandy Hal
“Loneliness is the human disease. Develop they. How it tunnels into we let the spirit room to cultivate. Never anticipate to outgrow loneliness. Never ever hope to line up people that will understand we, someone to fill that place. An intelligent, delicate guy will be the exception, the very close exemption.” Janet Fitch
“A solitary week is actually God’s methods of saying that they desires allocate premium time period along.” Criss Jami
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“I find it wholesome are all alone the greater part of the time. To get into vendor, despite the best, is definitely before long wearisome and dispersing. I love to end up being alone. We never discover the companion that has been therefore companionable as privacy.” Henry David Thoreau
“The strongest the male is likely the most all alone.” Henrik Ibsen
“Solitude brings beginning with the first in people, to appeal unfamiliar and perilous – to poetry. Within, it gives start with the contradictory: to the perverse, the immoral, the ridiculous.” Thomas Mann
“My home is that solitude which happens to be distressing in teens, but delicious in a great deal of maturity.” Albert Einstein
“I experienced already discovered that it was not advisable that you become alone, and so generated friendship with what there seemed to be around me personally, at times making use of galaxy and quite often using personal trivial personal; but my personal guides were often my friends, permit be unsuccessful everything else.” Joshua Slocum
“The soul that sees beauty may often walk by yourself.” Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“The just time most people spend is the time we devote thinking we’ve been alone.” Mitch Albom
“A guy may be themselves best providing they are on your own; if in case he does not just like solitude, he will not adore choice; because of it is only when he was alone that he’s actually no-cost.” Arthur Schopenhauer
“Remember: the time you sense lonely is the time a person more must on your own. Life’s cruelest paradox.” Douglas Coupland
“Accept your personal aloneness and stay with it, all your life. Immediately after which accept the times whenever distance is stuffed in, when they are offered. But they’ve got to come. We can’t make all of them.” D.H. Lawrence
“The greatest part of globally should discover how to are members of oneself.” Michel de Montaigne
“We must be so all alone, thus totally all alone, that we withdraw into the innermost personality. It’s a method of intolerable suffering. And Then our very own privacy try defeat, we are now no further all alone, for we discover that our innermost personality may character, that it can be Jesus, the indivisible.” Hermann Hesse
“You is not lonely should you want the person you are all alone with.” Wayne W. Dyer
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“i must become all alone commonly. I’d be fairly delighted basically invested from Saturday-night until tuesday morning by yourself during my home. That’s how I refuel.” Audrey Hepburn
“Music ended up being simple refuge. I Possibly Could spider inside room within information and curl simple returning to loneliness.” Maya Angelou
“I am just stronger than melancholy I am also braver than loneliness and nothing will fatigue me.” Elizabeth Gilbert
“Many individuals suffer with worries of finding yourself all alone, and they also dont find themselves in any way.” Rollo May
“All big and valuable everything is solitary.” John Steinbeck
“To online a spiritual daily life we have to first obtain the bravery to penetrate into the wasteland of our loneliness and also change it out by mild and continual campaigns into an outdoor of solitude.” Henri J.M. Nouwen
“If you’re never all alone, you should not realize by yourself.” Paulo Coelho
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We are lucky to call Colchester our home. The town is well-managed and staffed by skilled professionals. We have top-tier schools, dedicated teachers and our police, fire and rescue services are the envy of the state. Unfortunately, we have not been immune to the Opioid crisis and the wider mental health and substance addiction problems that have ravaged Vermont communities in recent years.
Despite recent efforts, accidental and undetermined deaths from drug overdoses have not shown significant declines in Vermont. These entirely preventable deaths are a tragic loss that far too many Vermont families and communities are being forced to bear. In addition, not captured by any measured statistic is the life-altering devastation and seemingly endless sense of helplessness felt by so many families affected by addiction and mental health disorders.
The State of Vermont has a compelling interest to solve this problem, and we are way past the point where a band-aid solution could be effective. The patchwork of mental health, substance abuse treatment and recovery programs is not adequate.
We can do much better and we must.
I propose immediate action in the following areas:
— We need criminal justice reform. The scientific evidence is irrefutable that the susceptibility for Opiate addiction has a significant genetic factor. Through no fault of their own, some people are simply far more prone to become addicted to Opiates and other psychoactive substances than others. It is an immoral and shameful failure of our society that we treat addiction as a criminal offense instead of addressing the complex medical, physiological and psychological problems that invariably underlie it. Nobody wants the hellish life of drug addiction, and no one should be punished for the rest of their lives for falling prey to it. Let's have some compassion and spend more of our corrections money on rehabilitation. We can help people get back to fulfilling, productive lives instead of being stuck in the downward spiral of addiction. It is not only the moral thing to do, it's also the right choice for the economy.
— We need a newly restructured state-wide system of diagnosis, treatment and recovery that is geared specifically towards mental health and substance abuse. Families are not getting the professional help they need.
— I would support legislation that establishes stiffer penalties for drug traffickers in Vermont. Vermont has become a target for dealers from New York City and other hubs due to our known leniency on offenders - even multiple repeat offenders. We need to send the clear, unambiguous message that if you traffick drugs to Vermont, you will be caught and punished harshly.
— We should provide support and funding for the excellent Vermont Certified Recovery Coach program. With prerequisites met, this training program should be offered at no cost to any person willing to offer demonstrated support in their community. The more able counselors and coaches we have in our communities, the earlier we can identify problems and intervene.
— The best cure is always prevention. I would support legislation that offers incentives to towns to enhance prevention programs and provide more recreational opportunities for our youth. Strong communities with engaged parents, teachers, and physically active, busy kids who see bright futures ahead of them are going to be much more resilient.
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Do you know Fasting has many benefits?
Continuation for Vocab in News from Squline.
In this holy month of Ramadhan, of course we all do our own Fasting, but how many of you know benefit of Fasting?
Without further ado, please:
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contoh: Fans of The Harry Potter series are eagerly awaiting the new book.
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contoh : The scorching heat of July sun.
kata dasar : gainsay
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contoh : The impact of the railroads cannot be gainsaid.
hilang atau berkurang
contoh : You should consider to have the willingness to shed the arrogance of the past.
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Article : 7 Health Benefits of Fasting
While some people eagerly await the month of Ramazan, others are rather hesitant to fast in the scorching heat due to fear of dehydration, lethargy and a drastic change in routine.
On the same note, while the Holy month is unique due to the spiritual virtues attached to it, there’s no gainsaying everyone certainly needs something to pull them through the long fasting hours, especially with temperatures tilting towards 40°C.
Compiled from Dr Axe, here is a list of seven health benefits of fasting to keep you going healthy and strong.
1. An excellent tool for weight loss
There have been studies that support fasting as an excellent tool for weight loss. In one study, non-obese patients lost an average of 4% of total fat when they fasted alternately for a 22 day period. It must also be noted that their fasting insulin levels also decreased. In another study conducted on obese individuals, fasting, meaning consuming only 25% of their daily calorie needs yielded an average 5.5 pound weight loss in an eight week period. Three-percent of body fat was also lost, along with a decrease in total and LDL (bad) cholesterol levels.
2. It promotes the secretion of Human Growth Hormone
This is important for burning fat. Fasting can also promote muscle building, while decreasing insulin levels. When you combine all of these, fasting can in fact, transform the human body into an effective fat burning machine.
3. It may be good for athletes
Fasting has been found to have good effects on body mass as well as other health markers in professional athletes. This is because, as previously mentioned, fasting can effectively shed excess fat, while optimize muscle growth, because of the production of HGH. Athletes are advised to consume high quality protein half an hour after finishing their workouts to simultaneously build muscle and reduce fat. Fasting is advised for training days, while athletes are encouraged to eat on game days.
4. It normalises insulin sensitivity
When your body gets too much carbs and sugar, it can become insulin resistant, which will then lead the way to a host of chronic diseases. If you don’t want to go down this route, then you’ve got to keep your body sensitive to insulin. Fasting is an effective way to do this. When insulin sensitivity is up, you can better prevent diseases such as diabetes, cancer and heart complications.
5. It can normalise ghrelin levels
What is ghrelin? It is actually also known as the hunger hormone, because it is responsible for telling your body that it is hungry. When you fast, the ghrelin levels in your body normalises, so it actually becomes more accurate in telling you if you should really eat, or leave off having a snack until later.
6. It lowers triglyceride levels
When you consume too much cholesterol, your triglyceride levels may shoot up, making you more prone to heart disease. Fasting has been known to decrease levels of bad cholesterol in the body, which means that it also decreases the formation of triglycerides. Another interesting thing to note is that fasting does nothing to the levels of good cholesterol of HDL in the body.
7. It can slow down the ageing process
As previously mentioned, fasting can cause the body to produce more Human Growth Hormone. This hormone is actually closely connected to the aging process. When the body produces less HGH, it tends to age faster too. So in effect, it is safe to conclude that fasting can help the body age more slowly.
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At this writing, Dubai Expo 2020 has less than two years to opening day.
In 2013, the city of Dubai was selected to host a six-month world’s fair – the first such to be held in the Middle East, Africa and South Asia region in the 170-year history of world’s fairs. The United Arab Emirates government is investing $7 billion in this Expo which will cover 1,200 acres and include pavilions from 192 countries (see InPark’s video previews of many Dubai 2020 pavilions; part 1, part 2 and part 3). The Dubai 2020 theme is “Connecting Minds, Creating the Future”; sub-themes are Sustainability, Mobility and Opportunity.
Photo at top: An Emirates plane bears the Dubai 2020 logo. Photo from http://www.aeroprints.com/
Story by world’s fair specialist and consultant James Ogul, author of “Tales from the Expo,” published online by InPark.
The Dubai 2020 organizers have brought a creative approach to the project. During its six-month run (October 20, 2020 – April 10, 2021) organizers project 25 million visits, 70% of those to come from outside the United Arab Emirates. No other world’s fair has factored in such a high percentage of foreign visitors (see https://www.inparkmagazine.com/dubai-2020-the-tourist-destination/).
There are two types of world’s fairs sanctioned by the Bureau International des Exhibitions (BIE) – larger ones that last six months and occur every five years, and smaller, three-month fairs that occur between the larger ones. Most recently there was a three-month expo in 2017 at Astana (now Nursultan), Kazakhstan, preceded by Milan’s six-month event in 2015, which drew 23 million visits. Although the United States has not hosted a World’s Fair since 1984 in New Orleans, since then there have been 14 such events in other parts of the world.
Unique architecture and exhibits
So far, at least 35 countries participating in Expo 2020 have published pavilion designs. One of the things that distinguishes a six-month world’s fair is that most international exhibitors design their own pavilion buildings in addition to the exhibits those buildings will house, to present themselves to the world in the context of the expo theme. Each strives to make a unique statement and stand out among the others, which results in the event being something of an architectural competition. The intense competition and the remarkable, often pioneering pavilion designs that result are part of the attraction of world’s fairs. Out of the 192 participating countries, 81 will build their own pavilion and 111 will lease space in Expo-built buildings. A joint venture between UK engineering firms Jacobs and Mace has been named Expo 2020 Dubai’s Official Programme Delivery Management Provider and will monitor the plans and construction of the 81 self-build pavilions by other contractors.
Visitors can expect to see innovative exhibitions as well; world’s fairs have always been a laboratory for creative storytelling and new applications of technology – sometimes, the first large-scale public introduction of something that is later widely adopted. For example, back in 1982 the US pavilion at Knoxville worked with MIT to introduce touch screens to the public. These interfaces, so common today were so novel then that the staff had to tell visitors it was OK to touch the screens.
A major milestone was recently achieved when Expo 2020 completed construction on its three Thematic Districts. Opportunity, Mobility and Sustainability. Forming the largest built-up area of the site and including 86 low-rise buildings that will house dozens of country pavilions, food and beverage outlets, retails, performance spaces and leisure areas, each district will be anchored by its own thematic pavilion and connected to the central Al Wasl Plaza. The three districts include facades resembling traditional Emirati wind towers and walkways lined with plants indigenous to the UAE. They incorporate smart shading, solar cells and moisture capturing devices, as well as an underground network for logistics support.
The next major construction milestone will be the completion of Al Wasl Plaza, the site’s iconic centrepiece. Designed by Adrian Smith – Gordon Gill Architecture, it is being built by Cimolai Rimond Middle East Contracting. The structure, has been designed to resemble the Expo 2020 logo and is a long-span shell structure that surrounds the central plaza area and rises to a height of 67 m. Al Wasl Plaza was more than 60% complete at this writing and due to be finished within a few weeks.
“Arabian Business” recently reported that approximately 40,000 workers are expected to be on-site at the peak of construction activity this year and over 25,000 suppliers from 149 countries are registered to do business with Expo 2020. Several countries have already begun building their pavilions, including the Czech Republic, the U.K., the Netherlands, France, Germany, New Zealand and Thailand. No word yet on the United States as its pavilion is dependent on raising $60 million from the private sector and construction cannot be started until sufficient funding is assured. The U.S. is the only G7 country with no government financial support, a policy going back to 1994.
142,000 daily visits
When the Expo opens in Dubai, organizers have to be prepared for 142,000 expo visits a day through the six months of the expo, If as predicted, 70% of the visits are from overseas, a large component will come from airport traffic. At present, 79 million travelers pass through Dubai’s airports each year, but most do not stay over. Expo officials intend that the attraction of the fair will change that.
Local transportation needed to move the large influx of visitors has stimulated road improvements, airport upgrades , and a new dedicated metro line. In all, Dubai’s government has spent over $40 billion on infrastructure improvements. Hosting a world expo positions a city and a region to accomplish infrastructure improvements of this kind and is one of the big incentives that drive cities to compete for the hosting privilege.
Naturally, the influx of visitors for a world expo means that overnight lodging demands will grow, and the host city must prepare for these. At the beginning of 2015, Dubai had approximately 94,000 hotel rooms available, according to the GCC Hospitality & Leisure-Recreation 2016 report. In June 2019, that number had grown to 100,000 rooms, with some 164,000 rooms projected by the time the Expo is underway.
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Starting Prepping and Why We’re Doing It
Starting prepping… Prepping has become a ‘thing’, it’s been around for a while – actually it’s been around for decades since the end of the second world war, people became aware of nuclear power and potential of nuclear weapons so they started building underground bunkers.
These days, while some preppers go to the extreme prepping is done for a variety of different reasons so what exactly is ‘prepping’?
We, like many others became aware of prepping after stumbling across a few Youtube videos, now some are pretty extreme and others take a more level headed approach to being prepared. Essentially prepping is gathering all the tools, food, knowledge and skills you may need in the event of a disaster or an event which is likely to significantly change everyday life, a few examples could be:
- Power outage/EMP, the grid goes down for an extended period of time, scientists are warning that a sun flare could knock out the grid and cause damage that would take months or even years to repair.
- Pandemic, we’re all aware of this, lockdowns, PPE and the affect that Covid has had on the world. Health care systems [despite what government will tell you] were/are at breaking point, consider what happened in India in late 2021. All it would take would be a new strain [perfectly possible] that has a higher mortality rate or a strain where the vaccine has no affect. We all know what happened to toilet roll supply at the beginning of the pandemic, being a prepper means you already have it.
- Natural disaster, being a prepper does not mean getting ready for the zombie apocalypse, there are valid reasons for having the likes of food stocks etc if you live in a country where you may be affected by earthquake, Hurricane or other natural occurrences that would affect power supply, medical facilities, food stocks etc
- Climate change, we all know it’s happening but any progress being made appears painfully slow, by 2030 in some areas the heat and UV will be so extreme workers will no longer be able to task outdoors resulting in shortages of many things we take for granted.
- Food shortage/hyperinflation, food shortages are a fact, distribution has been affected by Covid 19, Brexit in the UK and if we look at container ships in late 2021 they are all gathered around the US coast with supermarket shelves becoming empty. Demand fuels supply and if the supply is not there then prices rise.
- Financial collapse, history has shown that every superpower declines, nothing lasts forever and the US will be next, a financial collapse is not a matter of ‘if’ but ‘when’, it is inevitable, what will be the determining factor will be how severe, the repercussions it has around the globe and how quickly. The financial crisis in 2008 and all those before it are a taster, what would happen if we had a modern day great depression like in the 1930’s?
What is the goal?
Our own main goal starting prepping is to build up a supply of all the items we need to last for three months. Prepping is about being pro-active and not ‘reactive’, if a scenario quickly becomes a reality then we can batten down the hatches knowing that we’ll be ok instead of rushing to the supermarket to compete with hundreds of others in a last minute panic buy – by this time it’s too late.
Safety is crucial so putting yourself in a position where you have contact with others in a pandemic situation is far from ideal, prices may go through the roof and after 72 hours there is the potential for violence, none of which we intend to be involved in. Anyone from the UK may remember the fuel crisis in 2000, vehicles queuing for miles just to fill up hoping that there would be fuel left at the pumps or the ten pound ration which was all you were allowed… A couple of 20ltr drums of fuel [used and stock rotated every 12 months for diesel/6 months for petrol] eradicates the need for any of this and involvement with the maddening crowds.
Post [update] – fuel prices knock on affect from Russian invasion of Ukrain 2022
Prepping & Overlanding
If you enjoy your overlanding then you already are a ‘prepper’, this is advantageous from a vehicle perspective. You already have your vehicle kitted out, you can live from it and be self sufficient for an extended period of time and it will get you places most others can’t if needs be.
Our own vehicle is ready to leave at a moment’s notice, all we’d need to do is throw some boxes of food in there and off we go for a minimum of 72 hours, spare clothing, tools, power, sleeping, fuel and water are all in there ready.
What we are buying
Being prepared is not just about food although food is one of the main things to have in your arsenal. We are also upgrading and stocking up on the likes of fuel for the 4×4, ignition sources, firewood, lighting and other items. Here is a brief list:
|Canned fish||Diesel [20ltr drums]|
|Tinned vegetables||First aid|
|Cooking oil/olive oil||Tools|
|Coffee/Tea||Hard copy maps|
|Tinned & dried fruit||Tape/Rope/Cord|
The above is just a taster of what we are buying initially to get started but it is just that – a start.
We are collecting glass jars with the intention of jarring, pickles, jams and salsas, these are kinds of food items which are cheap and easy to make with the bonus of a long shelf life.
Knowledge is power, there is little point in getting prepared with all the gear if you don’t know how to use it. There are a myriad of things to learn and many are worth knowing anyway such as first aid skills and what to do in a medical emergency. Emergency fire starting, communications, weather, water supply etc etc.
As such we armed ourselves with a couple of good books, there are many books on the subject but if you only buy a handful then these should be at the top of your list
- Just in Case: How to Be Self-Sufficient When the Unexpected Happens
- SAS Survival Guide: The Ultimate Guide to Surviving Anywhere
‘Prepper’ or just well prepared?
‘Preppers’ have been tarred with the same brush to a certain extent, people imagine underground bunkers, Rambo type nutballs preaching the end of the world and zombie apocalypse.
The thing is, if that’s what you want to do then fine, go for it. For us though we need to be prepared for us and organize that in a way that works.
Everyone thinks preppers are crazy until something happens then they’re the most sensible people they know
We mentioned a level headed approach at the beginning of this post, an approach which does not overtake your daily life or become an obsession, simply a behind the scenes practice that makes sense to us as a family and gives us peace of mind and security should something happen.
In some ways we look at it like preparing the home like we prepare our rig for an overlanding trip, just the scale and the duration of the intended excursion is more lengthy.
Starting Prepping? Here are some terms:
- Bug in – Stay at home, hunker down in a well stocked home for a period of time in the event of a dangerous situation
- Bug out – To leave your home quickly in the event of an emergency or dangerous situation
- Gray man – Someone who blends in/hides in plain site [gray man theory]
- Rule of 3 – 3 minutes without air, 3 hours without shelter in adverse conditions, 3 days without water, 3 weeks without food
- SHTF – S**t hits the fan
- BOB – Bug out bag
- BOV – Bug out vehicle
- EDC – Every day carry
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Today we will look into Scala slice function.
Scala slice function is available in the following API classes:
We will pick-up each API and discuss them in-depth with suitable examples in next section.
In Scala API, ‘slice’ function is used to select an interval of elements. It takes two parameters of “Int” type and returns subset or whole or none element(s) of original Collection (or String or Array). Real-world slice scenario:- We can use this slice function in our regular real-world life too as shown below. Here Bread.slice(0,10) means take bread slices from 0 to 9 so total 10 Bread slices.(Just to resemble Scala’s slice function here I’m using zero, but assume this as one.) slice function syntax: In Scala Standard Library (API), this slice function is defined as follows:
def slice(from-index: Int, until-index: Int): ScalaAPIClass[A]
Here “ScalaAPIClass” means any Scala Collection class (which supports index based access like Seq, List etc), String, Array classes. Example:- The following function is defined in Scala API’s Seq class.
def slice(from-index: Int, until-index: Int): Seq[A]
slice function Parameters: The “slice” function parameter’s usage are described in the following table:
|1.||First Parameter||Starting index (Inclusive). It should be zero or any any positive integer less than the length of the Collection or String or Array.|
|2.||Second Parameter||Ending index (Exclusive).|
slice function extract elements starting from ‘first-index’ (Inclusive) to ‘until-index’ (exclusive). Here elements numbers for an Array of Numbers, Characters for a String, an object for a Collection.
In Scala API, Array class defines slice function as follows:
def slice(from: Int, until: Int): Array[T]
Here ‘from’ is the starting index (Inclusive) of the Array and ‘until’ is the ending index (Exclusive) of the Array. Array slice Function Examples:
scala> val marksArray = Array(56,79,60,99,71) marksArray: Array[Int] = Array(56, 79, 60, 99, 71)
Int of Array with 5 values are created so it’s index start value is 0 and index end value is 4. It’s length = 5 Let us play with slice function now.
scala> marksArray.slice(0,2) res0: Array[Int] = Array(56, 79)
It starts with 0 index that is first element and retrieves all elements until 2 means index = 1 that’s why we got 0th element and 1st element here.
scala> marksArray.slice(3,4) res1: Array[Int] = Array(99)
We can access with any indices range.
scala> marksArray.slice(3,3) res2: Array[Int] = Array()
If we give same values for start and end like above we will get empty array why? Start index = 3 End index = 3 - 1 = 2 It’s not possible to retrieve a set of elements from an array from 3 to 2 indices right.
scala> marksArray.slice(-1,3) res3: Array[Int] = Array(56, 79, 60)
If we give -ve values, it just starts with available index as shown above.
scala> marksArray.slice(0,5) res4: Array[Int] = Array(56, 79, 60, 99, 71)
If we give 2nd parameter value in beyond it’s available index as shown above (Available max index value in marksArray is 4 only as it’s length = 5), it just ignores that value and returns up-to available index only. NOTE:- Unlike Java, it does not throw any ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException.
In Scala’s Standard API, most of the classes defines this slice function which supports index based elements access. For instance, List class defines this function as shown below:
def slice(from: Int, until: Int): List[A]
List slice function examples:- Same as Array examples, we will get same results for any Collection API.
scala> val list = List(56, 79, 60, 99, 71) list: List[Int] = List(56, 79, 60, 99, 71) scala> list.slice(0,2) res5: List[Int] = List(56, 79) scala> list.slice(3,4) res6: List[Int] = List(99) scala> list.slice(3,3) res7: List[Int] = List() scala> list.slice(-1,3) res8: List[Int] = List(56, 79, 60) scala> list.slice(0,5) res9: List[Int] = List(56, 79, 60, 99, 71)
If we access an empty list, we will get empty list only as shown below
scala> val list2 = List() list2: List[Nothing] = List() scala> list2.slice(0,1) res10: List[Nothing] = List()
In Scala API, “StringOps” class is defined in scala.collection.immutable package. It defines slice function as shown below:
def slice(from: Int, until: Int): String
NOTE:- In Scala, we use Java’s String class. But this class does NOT have slice function. When we use slice function on Java’s String objects, Scala Compiler internally converts this String object into StringOps class object to use this slice function. (Not only slice function many more. See Scala API for more information.) That means “StringOps” is an implicit class of String class. String slice’s function examples:-
scala> val str = "Hello I'm doing good. How are you?" str: String = Hello I'm doing good. How are you? scala> str.slice(6,9) res8: String = I'm
As we know, String index starts with zero. Here from-index = 6 means until-index = 9 (It’s exclusive so we need to consider till index = 8 only) String’s substring function works same as it’s slice function as shown below:
scala> str.substring(6,9) res12: String = I'm
Here both str.slice(6,9) and str.substring(6,9) are returning same value. slice Vs substring Difference between slice and substring functions of String class
NOTE:- In Scala, We can access String characters just like an Array elements as shown below:
scala> str(0) res0: Char = H
Here it returns a Char, but not a String
scala> str(-1) java.lang.StringIndexOutOfBoundsException: String index out of range: -1 at java.lang.String.charAt(String.java:658) at scala.collection.immutable.StringOps$.apply$extension(StringOps.scala:38) ... 33 elided scala> str.length res2: Int = 34 scala> str(34) java.lang.StringIndexOutOfBoundsException: String index out of range: 34 at java.lang.String.charAt(String.java:658) at scala.collection.immutable.StringOps$.apply$extension(StringOps.scala:38) ... 33 elided
NOTE:- If we try to access String characters in out of range, we get StringIndexOutOfBoundsException as shown above. String’s character access returns Char where as substring & slice functions returns String as shown below.
scala> str(0) res4: Char = H scala> str.substring(0,1) res5: String = H scala> str.slice(0,1) res6: String = H
That’s it all about “Scala’s slice function” usage. We will discuss some more Scala concepts in my coming posts. Reference: Scala API Doc
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You can easily grab the latest version of any Sysinternals tool pointing your browser to https://live.sysinternals.com
Say you want to run Process Monitor, point your browser to:
All browsers will download the file to your system, but Internet Explorer and Edge will give you the option to run the tool automatically as soon as it finishes downloading.
But here’s a neat trick I learned today while reading the first chapter of Troubleshooting with the Windows Sysinternals Tools (2nd Edition):
You can run any Sysinternals tool directly from a UNC path such as the following:
Being a UNC share, you can map it as a local drive and use it from Windows Explorer, from the command line or from PowerShell.
The book goes on to tell that for this to work, a Windows Service called WebClient needs to be running.
On recent versions of Windows it is stopped by default. There are a handfull of ways to start the service – both explicitly and implicitly. Some of them require user elevation, others don’t, but the neatest way I didn’t find in the book:
pushd will map the share to the first available drive starting from z: and change the current directory to it.
Although running this way is kind of slow (the files are being downloaded from the internet after all…), it is still usefull for those situations where you wanna get in, do whatever you gotta do, and leave without having to worry about deleting any files later.
When you’re ready to remove the mapping, popd will remove it and change the directory back to the one that was current when you pushd in. | <urn:uuid:f230e772-71d3-4796-a598-a4a3ef9b5c5d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://alfredmyers.com/tag/sysinternals/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572198.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815175725-20220815205725-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.903154 | 384 | 1.515625 | 2 |
Large, chickenlike rail of mangroves and fresh marshes in lowlands. Heard more often than seen; its main call is a rhythmic dry chatter. No similar large rails in its range. Note the large size, rusty neck and breast, barred flanks, and long, mostly orange beak. Virginia Rail is much smaller, with blue-gray cheeks. | <urn:uuid:5a9f4707-d981-4c12-b3b1-6a8ef05d5a51> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://ebird.org/species/ridrai1/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817001643-20220817031643-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.962325 | 78 | 2.015625 | 2 |
How to achieve sustainable development?
No producer responsbile scheme and almost zero landfill cost
Comparing with other regions, we do not have waste charging, ladnfill tax. While dumping is free, people do not have the obligation to handle their waste and therefore, waste are all going to landfill site.
Without treating recycling serisouly, we are in the very difficult position to run recycling operation in Hong Kong.
We hope our administration can pass the law of MSW charging and PRS for plastic waste so as to regulate the eco unfairness situation in Hong Kong | <urn:uuid:fad40202-cdf6-498b-8e87-1ca5b3c789ba> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.chunshing.hk | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572198.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815175725-20220815205725-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.926341 | 118 | 1.679688 | 2 |
Working Paper Number
Two important features of agricultural quarantine inspections of shipping containers for invasive species at U.S. ports of entry are the general absence of economic considerations and the severe uncertainty that surrounds invasive species introductions. In this article, we propose and illustrate a method for determining an inspection monitoring protocol that addresses both issues. An inspection monitoring protocol is developed that is robust in maximizing the set of uncertain outcomes over which an economic performance criterion is achieved. The framework is applied to derive an alternative to Agricultural Quarantine Inspection (AQI) for shipments of fruits and vegetables as currently practiced at ports of entry in the United States. | <urn:uuid:5082ade5-ff7b-4fd5-8be2-d60b6f1e8001> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://scholarworks.umass.edu/peri_workingpapers/220/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572198.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815175725-20220815205725-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.905336 | 155 | 1.953125 | 2 |
The Night before Christmas - or A Visit from St. Nicholas
Clement Clarke Moore
(e-artnow, Nov. 20, 2013)
This carefully crafted ebook: "The Night before Christmas - or A Visit from St. Nicholas (with the original illustrations by Jessie Willcox Smith)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. The poem, which has been called "arguably the best-known verses ever written by an American", is largely responsible for some of the conceptions of Santa Claus from the mid-nineteenth century to today. Prior to the poem, American ideas about St. Nicholas and other Christmastide visitors varied considerably. On Christmas Eve night, while his wife and children sleep, a man awakens to noises outside his house. Looking out the window, he sees St. Nicholas in an air-borne sleigh pulled by eight reindeer. After landing his sleigh on the roof, the saint enters the house through the chimney, carrying a sack of toys with him. The man watches Nicholas filling the children's Christmas stockings hanging by the fire, and laughs to himself. They share a conspiratorial moment before the saint bounds up the chimney again. As he flies away, Saint Nicholas wishes everyone a "Happy Christmas to all, and to all a good night." Clement Clarke Moore ( 1779 – 1863) was an American Professor of Oriental and Greek Literature, as well as Divinity and Biblical Learning, at the General Theological Seminary of the Protestant Episcopal Church. Located on land donated by the "Bard of Chelsea" himself, the seminary still stands today on Ninth Avenue between 20th and 21st Streets, in an area known as Chelsea Square. Moore's connection with that institution continued for over twenty-five years. He is the author of the yuletide poem "A Visit from St. Nicholas", which later became famous as "'Twas the Night Before Christmas". | <urn:uuid:7dad8174-0235-49fb-b930-41c8443e8430> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://readu.io/book/?author=Clement%20Clarke%20Moore | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572198.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815175725-20220815205725-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.966502 | 397 | 2.34375 | 2 |
Why Microwave Networks?
Clients are increasingly requiring higher capacity connectivity at remote locations. Microwave radio will deliver a high-throughput, low-latency solution, and is suitable for any network scenario:
- New mobile backhaul networks
- Evolution of existing networks
- Fixed broadband over microwave
- Private networks
- Resilience to fibre connectivity
- High throughput ‘last-mile’ connectivity
Microwave radio supports all transport technologies (IP, MPLS, Ethernet and TDM), all deployment types, and all applications, all under a common management system. Microwave also supports all migration scenarios from TDM via Ethernet to IP and MPLS. It supports both Line-of-Sight (LOS) and Non-Line-of-Sight (NLOS) configurations for efficient outdoor small cell deployments. | <urn:uuid:b231ff59-efd3-4d6b-afdd-2cc866f88ead> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://emrsolutions.com/solutions/wireless-communications/microwave-networks | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817001643-20220817031643-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.862704 | 175 | 2.09375 | 2 |
We all try to specialize in something and after specializing we later become professionals in the art. Every member of this country simply requires to apply as long as they are qualified. However some members of the public are disabled and for this reason they require to be treated more special when such opportunities arise. Some of them are fully qualified and they possess all the requirements and some of them are also dedicated to their professions. For the sake of those disabled and yet they are very fit to provide human labor, they have to be provided with resources and facilities which will enable them to have a smooth time while at work. Among the way these individuals are treated in a special way is through the occurrence of communication procedures which they are conversant with at all times. Some of the communication ways that can be employed include the use of ADA signs. These signs are simple symbols or signs that pass on some given message with juts a simple touch or glance at them. This ADA signs need to be present in construction sites and in other regions depending on the operation being carried out and it is a rule that is advocated by the America with disability act. This particular act is very clear and it has been there for quite sometimes now and thus the public is well informed about what it dictates. ADA signs are identical to braille signs although they are somehow differentiated. These signs have been used for various functions but they mainly execute the role of informing.
One can get all about the Ada signs from different sources. All the sources are functional and dependable upon at all times. Despite there being so many sources which one can use, one is required to first check the credibility of each and every source before making any purchases. In most cases, the sources of these signs mainly offer the signs and also guidance on when the sign should be used and when it should be used. Among all occurring sources, websites have been the most convenient sources as they offer info and signs which are up to date.
The websites that offer these set of info to the general public are open for hire at all times and they are dependable upon at all times. You can learn all about ADA signs from any location using any internet enabled device. This could either be a smart phone or a laptop. In all occurring sites, there occur a lot of info that is reliable. These sites are very easy to use and as example is the image 360 which has been functional for quite sometimes now. | <urn:uuid:86221d08-a4bb-444a-891e-dbf067b5b4ae> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.mamatg.com/what-you-should-know-about-signs-this-year.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572198.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815175725-20220815205725-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.977385 | 486 | 2.203125 | 2 |
Area fires provide hazy days in Grant County
SILVER CITY — It’s been hazy around Grant County with the smell of smoke lingering around. Several fires that are in the Gila National Forest have contributed to this.
The latest fires to hit the forest are the Corral Fire and Straw Fire. The Corral Fire was estimated at 16,924 acres as of Friday and is burning with low to moderate intensity in pinon, juniper, grassland and some pine stringers. The fire has received some precipitation and operations for the next several days include continuing to prep Forest Road 150 and Middle Mesa Trail to the boundary of the Gila Wilderness.
The strategy for the Corral Fire is to reduce live woody fuels, reduce fuel loads on the ground, improve forest health and watershed conditions, and support the reintroduction of fire in the natural ecosystem. The fire is under a Type 3 Organization.
The Straw Fire is estimated at 7,000 acres as of Friday and is also in the Gila Wilderness. This fire is around 2.5 miles east of the Cliff Dwellings. The management of this fire includes fuel reduction, reduce live wood density in the pinon-juniper mountains and to maintain the natural role of fire in the Wilderness.
The fire is being monitored from Mogollon Baldy Lookout and at some high points on Hwy 15. There is also some aerial reconnaissance occurring.
The Round Fire was caused by lightning June 6 and is estimated at 6,577 acres. It’s located in the Aldo Leopold Wilderness in the Black Range Ranger District. Five wildland fire modules, four engines, two EMT’s, one water tender and fire personnel, totaling 96 are fighting this fire.
Again, the fire is being managed for multiple objectives which include maintaining and restoring fire in the natural role of the forest. The fire will restore and enhance diverse ecosystems including Mexican Spotted Owl habitat.
Resources are mopping up and holding Forest Road 500 and also monitoring the back portion of Diamond Creek.
The Gravel Fire was caused by lightning and is in the area of Snow Lake and the Reserve Ranger District. The size as of Friday was at 2,873 acres. There are 77 personnel assigned to the fire as well as two Type 6 Engines.
The northern edge of the fire is the Turkey Creek drainage, while the eastern portion of the fire has reached the Gilita drainage. The south edge is at Indian Creek, while the western edge is Forest Road 153S
Snow Lake is still open as are the Dipping Vat, Willow Creek and Ben Lilly Campgrounds. Smoke continues to be visible from all main roads in the area.
The smoke in the area can irritate eyes, the respiratory system, and intensify chronic heart and lung problems. If the visibility is over 5 miles, the air quality is generally good. But, if you are having health effects from smoke exposure, extra care should be taken to stay indoors. | <urn:uuid:5236ebad-c4ff-4be2-a526-ee0148158c19> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.scsun-news.com/story/news/local/2017/06/26/area-fires-provide-hazy-days-grant-county/429139001/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571909.51/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813051311-20220813081311-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.955218 | 611 | 1.757813 | 2 |
PAMECA V delivered a training on Improvised Explosive Device (IED) recognition and examination for the National Forensic Institute, the RENEA Bomb squad and the AT Directorate. This training was delivered in four days in collaboration with an international STE, who was deployed by PAMECA V. Throughout the duration of the training the participants had the opportunity to be introduced to various theoretical related topics and practical examples and real-life cases. The experts shared with the trainees best European practices on Bomb Squad Operations, information on explosive substances and explosive methods, danger areas, DNA fingerprints traces, etc. The trainees had the opportunity to discuss concrete cases such as Paris attacks. In the end of this training program the participants stated they found very useful this collaboration with PAMECA V. | <urn:uuid:8ac0e812-5fec-4a20-9b3a-cbbd8c79e6fe> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://pameca.org.al/5316/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817001643-20220817031643-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.943129 | 155 | 1.804688 | 2 |
June 12, Stocksy When we were younger, we were most likely warned by our parents to be careful of whom we choose to spend our time with. They said this in reference to the way others would judge us in accordance to our friends, in addition to the influence our friends would have upon us. We have all heard the saying that birds of a feather flock together, meaning that the company you keep reflects your personality. A smart person surrounds himself with other smart people. If you hang out with trash, you will be perceived as trash. As you go through life, you begin to realize how important having true friends really is. Navigating your 20s is a difficult and confusing time and one better traveled with wholesome, close friends by your side. Unfortunately as we go through this time, we realize the people we once counted on are no longer the people we once thought they were. The type of people you surround yourself with speaks of your values and what you stand for.
Can you repeat that? does that even mean? After altogether, friendships are platonic by definition, right? Platonic friendship specifically refers to acquaintance between two people who could, all the rage theory, feel attracted to each erstwhile. If you experience these feelings after that decide to keep what you allow, your friendship remains platonic. You attempt to concerts, have similar taste all the rage movies, and enjoy cooking and climbing together. You also have sex arrange occasion. Neither one of you wants a relationship, and romantic feelings allow never come up. | <urn:uuid:0495b0e9-498b-4dce-a7cb-5627d3a27f6b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://ksquaredglamour.org/category-glamour/looking-for-sometong-to-hang-out-keep-you-company-2021-10-23.php | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571909.51/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813051311-20220813081311-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.979099 | 310 | 2.015625 | 2 |
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Tip 1: coffee to keep wasps away
And yes ! The smell of coffee is frankly unpleasant for wasps so we do not hesitate to use this trick when they are boring us. Burn ground coffee, not used, in a small cup and the smoke from it will make them run away in no time. It is still important to repeat the operation regularly at the risk of seeing them again point the tip of their tail!
Tip # 2: essential oils to repel wasps
To repel wasps, some essential oils such as lavender, lavandin or lemongrass are ideal. Add ten drops of oil to 10 cl of water and spray around you and around the house so that you don't see them coming back.
Tip 3: a tomato plant
After the smell of coffee, it is that of the tomato plants which the wasps do not like very much. To be quiet on your terrace, plant a few feet of tomatoes all around, you will protect yourself from their invasion. Another tip: you can also cut a branch or a few leaves of a tomato plant and position them on the garden table to prevent them from coming.
Tip # 4: cloves
Crushed cloves on the table can also keep wasps away. Another method: prick a lemon or an orange cut in half with several cloves and place them where the wasps invite themselves. Guaranteed result! | <urn:uuid:d4e5def9-e116-40e0-ba2d-f66d34fb09bd> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://ug.janevsound.com/1791-4-grandmothers-tips-to-keep-wasps-away.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817001643-20220817031643-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.962368 | 310 | 1.835938 | 2 |
Germany calls on the Chinese authorities to clarify the circumstances of the spread of coronavirus in the country, said Minister for economic cooperation and development of Germany Gerd Muller.
“the Chinese side in a situation of world crisis needs to demonstrate complete transparency, especially in the question of the origin of the virus,” said Mueller, Deutsche Welle reports.
According to him, it is necessary to clarify the theory of the possible laboratory origin of the pathogen of the virus.
Epidemic COVID-19: when Russia will return to a normal life
In turn, Australian foreign Minister Maris Payne calls for an independent review of the situation with the spread of the virus. The Minister stressed that countries need to provide details about the origin of the virus, as well as their strategies to combat it.
In addition, the Australian foreign Minister insists on the inspection of the activities of the world health organization (who).
According to health Minister Greg hunt, Australia managed to contain the spread of the virus, as the country did not adhere to all who recommendations.
Earlier, the head of the Wuhan Institute of Virology yuan Jimin stated that humanity has not yet the necessary knowledge for the artificial creation of virus is similar in characteristics to the new type of coronavirus.
In early April, the Daily Mail, citing British intelligence wrote that the cause of the spread of coronavirus infection supposedly could be a leak from the Chinese laboratory in the Chinese city of Wuhan.
American TV channel Fox News later said that “patient zero” allegedly worked in the laboratory of Virology in Wuhan, China. The official representative of the Chinese foreign Ministry Zhao Lijiang stated that the assumptions about the leak of a coronavirus from laboratory in Wuhan lack scientific evidence. | <urn:uuid:9c4d55ef-dd5a-4c4b-b71a-41be80f1b03e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.kxan36news.com/germany-demands-from-china-explanations-of-coronavirus | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572198.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815175725-20220815205725-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.94152 | 368 | 2 | 2 |
Because of spatial resolution, each pixel in hyperspectral images usually contains more than one material. Linear mixture model is developed for this problem and has been widely studied. This model assumes the spectrum of a pixel is linearly combined by all the resident materials, and it ignores the interaction between materials. Nonlinear models have recently drawn lots of attentions for spectral unmixing. The generalized bilinear model (GBM) has been proposed for nonlinear mixture which considers the second order interactions between two different endmembers. However, it neglects the possibility of second order interactions between the same endmembers. In this study, we propose a modified GBM (MGBM) by considering second order reflection between all the endmembers. The positivity and sum-to-one constraints for the abundances are ensured by the proposed algorithms. The performance of the resulting unmixing strategy is evaluated via simulations conducted on synthetic and real data. | <urn:uuid:47c5d71f-4685-4eb6-a445-3ae7c00aa69d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://scholars.ncu.edu.tw/en/publications/nonlinear-unmixing-with-multiple-reflection-for-hyperspectral-rem | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572198.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815175725-20220815205725-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.961313 | 188 | 1.5 | 2 |
Tiny Garden: Microgreens
Delicious, easy-to-grow microgreens bring miniature gourmet to your garden
In the spring of 2010, Kate Brun knew she had to take action. As a real estate agent, she hadn’t had a closing in almost twelve months and her husband’s construction business was the slowest it had been in years. “Both of us were really struggling,” she says. So instead of sticking with real estate, Brun turned to a favorite pastime: gardening. “We’d heard about growing microgreens from a friend who lives in California and thought, ‘Let’s give it a shot,’” she says. Her new venture, Lucky Leaf Gardens, is housed in her backyard greenhouse at her home in Harrisburg. She specializes in microgreens—tiny vegetables and herbs that are harvested when they’re still juvenile (about five days after sprouting). “Microgreens have a much higher concentration of flavor and aromas [than their more mature counterparts]. They taste so fresh,” says Brun.
Brun’s first attempt was one batch of mixed microgreens, which she now refers to as “Lucky Mix”—a blend of broccoli, radish, kale, and cabbage. She sold that first harvest to The Brass Button Restaurant in downtown Concord. “It escalated from there, and soon we were selling our microgreens to restaurants from Ballantyne to Davidson and everything in between.”
Now, two years later, Lucky Leaf Gardens’ microgreens are on plates at hot spots such as Halcyon, Pewter Rose, Flatiron Kitchen + Taphouse, Enzo Sushi, Harvest Moon Grille, and dozens more. And the options have expanded from the flagship Lucky Mix to forty other veggies, herbs, and even edible flowers. We sought out Brun’s expertise on why microgreens are the perfect garden for a novice and why so many nutritionists advocate eating them.
What’s the best way to grow microgreens?
Brun suggests purchasing organic seeds at a local store such as The Bradford Store in Huntersville. Fill a small container with holes in the bottom (for drainage) with organic compost or organic feed starting soil. Plant your seeds, spritz with water, and then place on a sunny windowsill. There are no exact requirements for how much sun per day microgreens need, adds Brun. “After five days of growth, you can harvest them,” she says. “It’s that easy.”
What if I want to grow them outside?
“No problem,” says Brun. Find a container with holes in the bottom—microgreens don’t like wet feet—and plant the seeds. Microgreens can’t tolerate frost or heavy sun, so bring them inside if the temperature dips and place them in indirect sunlight during the summer months.
What about pesticides if the microgreens are grown outside?
“There’s no need to fertilize or spray with pesticides because the plants grow for such a short period of time,” says Brun. “There’s not enough time for insects or bugs to attack. It’s a foolproof garden.”
What microgreens are best for beginners to grow?
The Lucky Mix. It’s a combination of radish, broccoli, cabbage, and kale. “Plant all four and mix them up in a batch. They’re easy to germinate, harvest, and grow,” says Brun. “Plus, they have a great shelf life.”
Can I cook or steam my microgreens?
Brun doesn’t suggest it. “There’s no need,” she says. “Put them on top of cooked salmon, throw them in omelets, put them in wraps, or toss them with a very light vinaigrette.”
I don’t want to grow my own microgreens. Where can I buy yours?
Lucky Leaf Gardens will grow a batch of whatever microgreens you want—in fact, “we only harvest what’s ordered so there’s never anything sitting around waiting to be sold,” says Brun. You can pick up your order at Atherton Market or at any Piedmont Farmers Market for $3 per ounce. | <urn:uuid:46d0c657-2573-4ee1-b170-927a3e37a770> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.charlottemagazine.com/tiny-garden-microgreens/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572198.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815175725-20220815205725-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.942182 | 945 | 1.703125 | 2 |
Franchising for buses in Wales and the creation of local authority (LA)-owned operators in the country are among powers that are proposed in the Bus Services (Wales) Bill, which was published on Monday 16 March.
Documentation accopanying the Wales buses bill says that the country “does not have the bus service that the Welsh Government wants to see,” and that “communities do not have the public transport connectivity that they need.”
Skates: Deregulation ‘an abject failure’
Minister for Economy, Transport and North Wales Ken Skates adds that deregulation has been “an abject failure” in Wales. He claims that “the free market model simply does not work,” although the Bill will permit the creation of partnership schemes.
The proposals allow for each of the 22 LAs in Wales to develop franchising proposals. It also permits multiple LAs to work together to create a combined area. All franchising proposals must be made via a “detailed business case” that will be subject to audit and consultation.
Where LAs establish their own operating arm, services that they run may extend both beyond their own county and outside Wales, as long as one or more stopping places are within the country.
The Confederation of Passenger Transport (CPT) Cymru has criticised the Wales buses bill, calling it “a great disappointment and a missed opportunity.”
CPT Cymru Director John Pockett says that while potential for partnership working is welcome, the Welsh Government should make significant investment in bus priority. Mr Pockett adds that the Bill “is silent on whether that investment will be forthcoming.”
He continues: “Simply focusing on the regulatory regime will not deliver the quicker journeys that will benefit passengers in Wales. Nor will it encourage people to switch car journeys to the bus.”
Bill also to give powers over info
The legislation also proposes powers for LAs to require operators to submit information, including passenger number and revenue obtained, when applying to vary or cancel a service. Increased information sharing with passengers may also be mandated by LAs. | <urn:uuid:affc3ca8-3e2e-4102-8897-a1aeadc19719> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.route-one.net/legislation/wales-buses-bill-franchising-among-proposals/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572198.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815175725-20220815205725-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.950677 | 448 | 1.53125 | 2 |
Over 4,000 years of history
Chinese medicine is a complete healthcare system that has been practiced for thousands of years. Since TCM treats the whole person rather just specific symptoms in isolation, it can offer benefits to a vast range of physical and mental conditions. For the latest information and research into acupuncture for specific conditions, you can visit the British Acupuncture Council website.
By looking the body as a whole and considering all of the signs and symptoms together, TCM aims to treat any complaint and prevent recurrence. In treating the body as a whole, patients will often report ‘positive side-effects’ to treatment such as improved sleep or less headaches. Acupuncture can be used alone, or alongside other therapies and treatments from physiotherapy to chemotherapy. Here are a few examples of conditions for which acupuncture is commonly used to treat:
- Migraines and tension headaches
- Fertility issues and pregnancy support
- Respiratory conditions
- Auto-immune disorders
- Gynaecological issues such as irregular or painful menstruation
- Injuries and pain such as back pain and Sciatica
- Digestive problems such as IBS
- Insomnia and tiredness
- Menopausal issues
- Mental and emotional issues such as stress, anxiety, panic attacks and depression
- General well-being and immune support
There is a growing body of evidence supporting Acupuncture
The British Acupuncture Council produced a documentary (To The Point) that highlights the growing body of scientific evidence that acupuncture is an effective treatment for a variety of health conditions. If you want to find out more about how Acupuncture can help you, please get in touch to discuss treatment options and appointment availability. | <urn:uuid:26f1f247-c1dd-4d1a-8c7b-9ecf3d9d5051> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.wholebody.je/acupuncture | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572198.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815175725-20220815205725-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.933226 | 344 | 2.640625 | 3 |
Hi, Mike here with SRQ Computer Services. Offering tips on Computer Repair in Sarasota, FL.
Today I want to start out by discussing speed problems with both Laptops and Desktop computers. So many Customers ask me how they can speed up their computer and I give them the same advice every time…
There are the traditional methods such as removing bloatware, taking out un-needed startup items, running Defrag and registry cleanings. While this may work to speed the computer up temporarily all it does is mask the underlying problem of why the computer was slow in the first place.
Many customers think they need a faster CPU/Processor or a bigger hard drive or more memory, but the primary reason people complain about slowness is due to their Hard Drive. Even the most basic new computers have amazingly fast processors and huge amounts of memory in comparison to 10 years ago, but Hard Drive technology has barely advanced at all since the 60’s.
Let’s take a look at this picture. What you see is three Hard Drives, one from the 80’s, one from the 90’s and one from just a few years ago. Notice any difference? Size… that’s about it. Other than size they work the same way as a record player, it’s a large disc with a needle that goes back and forth. Herein lies the problem, while modern computers are going a million miles an hour your hard drive is relying upon century old technology and slowing the whole thing down. It’s like putting old wooden wagon wheels onto a 500 horsepower sports car. It’s not going to get anywhere fast. Whats the solution? Solid State Drives, commonly known as SSD Drives.
This new technology has just become popular over the past few years, but is catching on very rapidly. They have gone from being nearly $1000 in price just a few years ago to under $100 for a 128GB model. High end laptops over $1,000 in price typically come with an SSD drive already in them from the factory but many users simply can’t or don’t want to spend that much on a computer.
The secret I have discovered to a fast budget computer is that even your most basic Pentium processor in a $350 Laptop is plenty powerful for 90% of users. Add an extra $100 in price for a 128GB SSD drive and you have got yourself a super fast laptop for only $450. A Cost savings of nearly $750 in comparison to models that already come with SSD drives in them. You can even take a 3 or 4 year old computer and install an SSD drive in it and the performance improvement is astounding.
Performance benchmarks mean little to the end user, it’s all about how it works for them, and SSD drives deliver. You can expect 15 second bootup times instead of a minute and a half. When you click to open programs they pop up like popcorn instead of waiting and waiting, it absolutely transforms the computing experience. It’s like going from Dialup to Cable Modem Internet, once you’ve tried it you can never go back. Another additional benefit is battery life, SSD drives do not have any moving parts and therefore consume far less battery than traditional hard drives.
This is a late 2011 Macbook Pro which we upgraded from the original 500GB traditional drive to a 256GB SSD drive. The Customer did a lot of photo editing and was tired of waiting for the computer to reload picture databases. The SSD drive greatly improved the performance of the computer and also saved the Customer battery life while doing so. | <urn:uuid:b7058539-743c-4288-8a75-a72052f30425> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.srqcomputerservices.com/tech-blog/solid-state-ssd-hard-drive-upgrades/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817001643-20220817031643-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.955298 | 747 | 2.140625 | 2 |
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