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Globalization has brought tremendous benefits to human society, in terms of quality of life, but as with anything, it comes with costs. Many authors have argued that there are both positive and negative effects of globalization, and to evaluate the merits of globalization is simply to balance these effects. Do the benefits outweigh the costs? This ends up being a matter of perspective, and it also often compels one to analyze the existing state of the world vs. An imaginary non-globalized state. Globalization is cited for increasing the wealth of many -- living standards have increased for billions. It is also criticized for increased wealth inequality. This paper will demonstrate that the costs of globalization do indeed outweigh the benefits. The costs are not trivial, but they are also overstated in a few key respects. A lot of these costs reflect flaws in the system design of globalization, but since perfect system design is utterly unrealistic, we have to take those flaws for what they are, and evaluate them in order to understand if the great globalization experiment is truly worthwhile. The evidence will show that globalization brings with it more problems than it solves, and bigger ones, too.
Globalization is a complex set of interrelated processes involving the facilitation of greater interaction on communication, transportation, trade, politics, cultural and capital exchange than was ever possible before. It originates from advances in technology -- combustion engines being a key one -- and in communication. The processes by which globalization has spread are much criticized. International institutions formed in the middle of the 20th century bring with them a neoliberal outlook that promotes progress though cooperation and understanding -- a far cry from the violent realism of days past. Globalization has created a world where people have more in common with each other than ever before, and we are better able to see and understand out key similarities and differences.
Beware the straw man of rampant consumerism. The trope that the main outcome of globalization is the rise of the consumer society, opiated on hamburgers and blinded by banal luxury brand bling is a falsehood. Most of the products that have spread rapidly throughout the world are beneficial. Consider the rapid diffusion of new communications technology to bring people together, or the use of drugs developed in the West to manage illness around the world. People's lives have improved the world over -- standards of living almost everywhere are higher. More people have access to clean water, to education, to health care and to upward mobility under globalization, because there is more opportunity.
This is the fundamental benefit of globalization. Where there is opportunity, there is hope, and both of these are powerful transformative forces in human society. A person in sub-Saharan Africa or the mountains of South America is not condemned to a life of poverty in a world where there is hope. Foreign direct investment, fostered by the institutions of globalization and their policy of trade liberalization, creates jobs in countries that otherwise lacked the capital to create their own. China's economy skyrocketed, for example, after it joined the World Trade Organization. That is direct evidence of how globalization works -- hundreds of millions of people in China and India have been lifted out of poverty in recent years because of the opportunities that have been created with the easy movement of capital and goods around the world.
There is a natural criticism here, which is that wealth might be created, but it is also distributed unequally. Inequality remains a major issue in many societies. Those who have wealth are, after all, better equipped to gain more. The issue with this criticism is that it ignores two realities. The first is that people are not born with a right to equal wealth -- many factors contribute one's opportunity to gain a financially-secure life. Globalization was never intended to instantly life billions out of poverty. Poverty is their default, they were born into it, and every society needs to work its way out of it. Societies that have high...
Globalization is not a magic wand to be waved and magically lift people out of poverty, but a framework and you still have to build out that framework and work within it in order to enjoy its benefits. Complaints about inequality not only miss the big picture of the billions already lifted out of poverty, but they also grossly misunderstand the nature of globalization as both a process and a tool, judging it against outcomes it never promised to deliver on its own.
The benefits of globalization, primarily related to growing economies and improved quality of life, are impressive, but the costs can be quite steep.
One such category of cost is environment. Globalization makes it easier to transport goods around the world, but this results in more rapid depletion of natural resources (Rees, 2002), and exacerbates the conditions for climate change. The latter in many cases creates double exposure, where countries negatively affected by climate change also face negative economic consequences (O'Brien & Leichenko, 2000). The feedback loop will eventually bring down the economies of all nations, unless dramatic solutions are found.
Climate change is also creating the conditions for resurgent diseases, with predictably negative implications for human health (Epstein, 2005). Another major environmental impact is with respect to water, where economic globalization encourages the globalization of water resources -- have countries are unaffected by many nations find themselves unable to meet their water needs as the result of increasing globalization of water sources and the stresses that economic growth places on water resources (D'Odorico, Liao & Ridolfi, 2010).
The environment is basically an externality -- it is not priced into the cost of goods and services. This is one of the structural flaws of globalization. The way it is implemented does not account for all of its costs. What this really means is that the economic wealth that is created represents a trade-off; the profits are possible because the costs have not fully been paid. Somebody does end up paying those costs, however, associated with environmental degradation, and ultimately through climate change that bill is going to be rather high, and paid by all.
There are also costs associated with income inequality. While many of the costs associated with globalization are felt by everybody around the world, the benefits only accrue to a small segment of humanity. Some nations have seen good development as the result of globalization, but other nations seem to fall further behind, their human development indices flatlining (Cook & Kirkpatrick, 1997). Many developing nations, in particular those devoid of any meaningful competitive advantage, will suffer a decline in real income in a world where all countries compete with all others -- only those with absolute competitive advantage will be able to compete (Krugman & Venables, 1995). In particular, poor nations that are unable to compete in terms of education -- a critical input in the globalized world for economic success -- are at a perpetual disadvantage (Lauder, et al., 2006). As it happens, many of these nations are the same ones that are going to feel the environment impacts of globalization as well.
This might just mean that the system by which globalization has been implemented is fundamentally flawed, in fact that is the case. Globalization is a great tool for creating wealth; what it is not is a great tool for distributing wealth. Nations come together to create wealth, but then they leave the distribution to each nation on its own, and unfortunately the standard of governance in most parts of the world is not all that high. The flaw here is probably in the wealth distribution design, because the people driving globalization are only really structuring the global system in line with their interests, and not the interests of everybody. Many people, as has been noted by almost every globalization critic, simply do not have a seat at the negotiating table. Can this flaw be remedied? It is entirely possible that it can, but that vision has yet to be given serious consideration by the architects of globalization.
A further cost of globalization is that economic liberalization was always going to come with costs attached. Karl Marx predicted that, as have most halfway intelligent economists since then. Liberalization of capital flows only exacerbates the problem, especially when there is a correlation between the lack of regulation and the amount of capital flows. Countries like the United States that have weak regulatory regimes also happen to be champions of globalization and attract capital flows. The result is an intertwined financial system where multiple parts of the world can all be susceptible to the same contagion, bringing down multiple economies at once (Calvo & Mendoza, 1999). Most people, unfortunately,…
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The policy reform that are put in place are deigned in such a way that they increase the economy's growth as well as the stability are likely to bring an influence to the speed of integration in a country directly and through how they impact growth (Mrak,2004). We can not deny that globalization has some benefits to the world but it is also important to take not of some of
As observed by no less a personage than Joseph E. Stiglitz, 2001 winner of the Nobel Prize for Economics "there needs to be a better balance between the role of markets and the role of government. Simplistic reforms based on free-market ideology don't work. The way that East Asia managed globalization, which combined an export-orientation with policies aimed at poverty reduction, worked even for the poor people. These countries did
Globalization and American Health Care What explains the directionality of flows in health care? Patients, health workers, managerial practices? Globalization has brought in the information revolution and this has again brought changes in the medical profession and the way health care is being administered. It has also brought in unforeseen problems and expansion of the health care issues and running debates on health care is still strong. The flows of healthcare primarily
Globalization and Environment The driving force behind the phenomena that has become known as globalization is technology (Bhagwati, 2004). Improvements in computer hardware, software, and telecommunications have caused a geometric increase in access to information that has caused a corresponding increase in economic potential. Because of improvements in technology businesses throughout the world have been able to more easily expand their access to new products, ideas, and resources. The advances in technology
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Normalized Ratio (INR)
PROTHROMBIN TIME (089-0106)
Synonyms: PT, Pro-Time
CPT 4 Code: 85610
Test Order Mnemonic: PT
Applies To: Useful in monitoring
Warfarin/Coumadin therapy and detecting abnormalities of the extrinsic clotting
Test Includes: Patient results, INR
(International Normalized Ratio)
Request Form: Hematology A
Collection: Routine venipuncture; discard 1st mL of
blood or collect other tubes (EDTA, red-topped) prior to collecting sample in
blue-topped (citrate) tube.
Storage Instructions: Viable for 24 hours at room
temperature. If time from draw to receipt in the laboratory is to be greater
than 24 hours, centrifuge the specimen; remove the plasma from red cells and
snap freeze (-70°C) plasma. Snap frozen plasma is viable
Causes for Rejection: QNS, clotted, severely hemolyzed
specimen, specimen greater than 24 hours old, identification error, sample
processed and/or stored improperly.
Availability: Samples are accepted 24 hours per day at
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Turnaround Time: STAT: 1 hour; ROUTINE: 4
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Volume: 4.5 ml
Min Volume: Call Lab
Container: 3.2% Sodium citrate tube (light Blue top
Reference Range: 11.7 - 13.5 seconds
Therapeutic Range: Using the INR:
Standardization of the Prothrombin Time (PT) with the International Normalized
Ratio (INR) allows for uniform measurement of the anticoagulation status of
patients on oral anticoagulants (Warfarin/Coumadin/Coumarin). The use of the
INR has permited development of effective recommendations for use of oral
anticoagulants in a variety of clinical setings. Most published studies
indicate that in most cases an INR of at least 2.0 is required for effective
anticoagulation. The risk of bleeding increases with an increasing INR, and may
increase dramatically above an INR of 4.5 - 5.0. Refer to Monitoring Oral Anticoagulant Therapy
(and/or contact laboratory for further
Critical Value: PT > 24 seconds; INR >
Test Method: Photo-Optical Detection
Interfering Substances: Anticoagulant
therapy, barbiturates, oral contraceptives, anabolic steroids.
LABORATORY MONITORING OF ORAL ANTICOAGULANT THERAPY
RECOMMENDED LABORATORY TEST
The Prothrombin Time (PT) is
the laboratory test of choice for monitoring the anticoagulation status of
patients treated with oral anticoagulants (Coumarin, Warfarin, Coumadin).
THERAPEUTIC RANGE USING THE INR
The activity of the thromboplastin reagent used in the
Prothrombin Time (PT) test varies from lot to lot. Standardization of the
Prothrombin Time (PT) with the International Normalized Ratio (INR)
allows for uniform measurement of the anticoagulation status of patients
on oral anticoagulants. The use of the INR has permitted
development of effective recommendations for use of oral anticoagulants in a
variety of clinical settings. Most published studies indicate that in most cases
an INR of at least 2.0 is required for effective anticoagulation.
The risk of bleeding increases with an increasing INR, and may increase
dramatically above an INR of 4.5 - 5.0.
FREQUENCY OF MONITORING
INITIATION PHASE: During the initiation phase of oral
anticoagulant therapy, the patient's status should be monitored 4-5 times per
week until some degree of consistency in the INR response is noted.
STABLE PHASE: Once the anticoagulant dose and INR response
stabilizes the INR should be determined on an individual patient basis. But, in
general, the INR should be monitored at least once each 4 weeks.
TRANSITION PHASE: A transition phase occurs whenever there
are changes to medication or medical condition. A variety of drugs as well as
significant dietary changes can significantly alter the response to oral
anticoagulant therapy. Therefore, it is very important to more closely monitor
the INR when patients in the stable phase experience changes to medication or
CONCURRENT HEPARIN THERAPY: During periods in which
patients are treated with both heparin and an oral anticoagulant, the effect of
heparin upon the Prothrombin Time (and INR) can lead to over-estimation of the
therapeutic level of oral anticoagulation. During this time, it is important to
closely monitor the INR during the transition to oral anticoagulation especially
if this time occurs during the early outpatient period.
- The presence of anti-phospholipid antibodies (lupus anticoagulants) can
alter the PT and give rise to INR values that can result in incorrect dosing.
Contact the laboratory for recommendations if a lupus anticoagulant is suspected.
- The INR is specifically intended to improve the management of orally
anticoagulated patients. Since it is not known how well the INR correlates with
diagnosis or outcome in other clinical settings its use in these situations
should be restricted. In most other clinical settings in which identification of
defects in the extrinsic clotting cascade is important, the Prothrombin Time
(PT) is likely to be the more appropriate test.
Recommended Therapeutic Range for Warfarin/Coumadin
INTERNATIONAL NORMALIZED RATIO
|Treatment of venous
2.0 - 3.0
|Treatment of pulmonary
|Prevention of systemic
2.5 - 3.5
thrombolitic disorders i.e.. Antiphospholipid
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the case hypothesised an INR of 3.75 would prove beneficial)
*Hirsh J, Dalen JE, Deykin D, Poller L, Bussey H. Oral anticoagulants:
mechanism of action, clinical effectiveness, and optimal therapeutic range.
Fourth ACCP Consensus Conference on Antithrombotic Therapy. Chest. 1995;
+Many investigators believe that antiphospholipid antibodies are an
indication for high-intensity warfarin therapy.
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|Year : 2015 | Volume
| Issue : 1 | Page : 9-14
Groin Hernias at the Wesley Guild Hospital Ilesa, Nigeria: Characteristics and emerging patterns of repair
Amarachukwu C Etonyeaku1, Olalekan Olasehinde2, Ademola Talabi3, Akinbolaji A Akinkuolie1, Elugbaraonu A Agbakwuru3, Rotimi A David2
1 Department of Surgery, Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching Hospital Complex, Wesley Guilds Hospital Unit, Ilesa; Department of Surgery, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria
2 Department of Surgery, Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching Hospital Complex, Ile-Ife Hospital Unit, Ile-Ife, Osun State, Nigeria
3 Department of Surgery, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife; Department of Surgery, Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching Hospital Complex, Ile-Ife Hospital Unit, Ile-Ife, Osun State, Nigeria
|Date of Acceptance||12-Jan-2015|
|Date of Web Publication||20-Jul-2015|
Dr. Amarachukwu C Etonyeaku
Department of Surgery, Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching Hospital Complex, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Osun State
Source of Support: None, Conflict of Interest: None
Objectives: We sought to determine the current trends in groin hernia characteristics and surgical care in our hospital. Materials and Methods: A prospective descriptive study from Wesley Guild Hospital Ilesa Nigeria: A tertiary hospital unit in a semi-urban community. All adults who had groin hernia repair between September 2008 and August 2013 were reviewed for age, gender, occupation, hernia type, repair technique and anaesthesia, complications of surgery and duration of hospital stay were analyzed for descriptive and inferential statistics. The main outcome measures were post-operative complications and recurrence. Results: Totally, 270 patients with 296 hernias were treated. Majority were males (256; 94.8%). The modal age group was 51-60 years (20.4%). Hernias were unilateral in most patients (251; 93%) with the majority of them right-sided (162/270; 60%). There were 295 inguinal hernias and one femoral hernia. Indirect inguinal hernia was most common (205 patients; 73.3%); while 79 (27.7%) were direct and 11 (4%) pantaloon hernias. Repairs were for recurrent hernias in 17 cases (3.8%) while 64 patients (23.7%) presented with complications requiring emergency operation. Local anesthesia (LA) was most commonly used (80.7%), and day-case surgery was common (206, 76.3%). Nylon darn (155; 52.4%), mesh hernioplasty (94, 31.8%) and Bassini (43; 14.5%) techniques were commonly used. Morbidity (17, 6.3%) was mainly from the surgical site infection (6, 2.2%). Mortality rate was 0.7%. Follow-up ranged from 3 to 30 months (mean = 9.8 months); no recurrence was recorded. Conclusion: Most repairs are now done using LA as day-case procedures. Mesh hernioplasty is becoming popular.
Keywords: Groin, hernia, patterns, repair
|How to cite this article:|
Etonyeaku AC, Olasehinde O, Talabi A, Akinkuolie AA, Agbakwuru EA, David RA. Groin Hernias at the Wesley Guild Hospital Ilesa, Nigeria: Characteristics and emerging patterns of repair. Niger J Surg Sci 2015;25:9-14
|How to cite this URL:|
Etonyeaku AC, Olasehinde O, Talabi A, Akinkuolie AA, Agbakwuru EA, David RA. Groin Hernias at the Wesley Guild Hospital Ilesa, Nigeria: Characteristics and emerging patterns of repair. Niger J Surg Sci [serial online] 2015 [cited 2022 Aug 15];25:9-14. Available from: https://www.njssjournal.org/text.asp?2015/25/1/9/161215
| Introduction|| |
Groin hernias are common reasons for general surgical referrals by general practitioners. It constitutes a significant portion of the general surgeon's workload. Hernia repair is acclaimed as one of the most commonly performed elective surgical operations worldwide with up to a million repairs performed in Europe and USA annually. ,,, Over the years, groin hernia repair has undergone several modifications aimed at reducing recurrence and other morbidities while maintaining cost effectiveness. This includes: Changes in technique, (tissue based versus tension free/prosthetic repairs), protocol for care (day-case versus short stay), method of anesthesia, (local versus regional/general anesthesia), and the Surgical approach (open versus laparoscopic). ,,,,,,,,,, Currently, the goal of groin hernia repair is to achieve a cost-effective, tension free repair that allows for early return to work with little or no morbidity.
This study set out to evaluate the trend of groin hernia repair in our practice over a 5 years period.
Our facility is a tertiary (referral) hospital in Southwest Nigeria with two hospital units in Ile-Ife and Ilesa (about 30 km apart). It enjoys clientele from the coastal city of Lagos to the hinterlands of South Western, North Central and Eastern Nigeria. Over years, the care of the patient with groin hernia has changed mirroring global trends and best practices. We aim to share our experience over the last 5 years.
| Materials and Methods|| |
This is a descriptive, prospective study conducted between September 1, 2008 and August 31, 2013. The study involved all consecutive patients 15 years and above who had groin hernia repair at the Wesley Guild Hospital Ilesa, a hospital unit of the Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching Hospitals Complex Ile-Ife. Data on age, gender, occupation, type of hernia, repair technique and anesthesia, complications of surgery and duration of hospital stay were entered into a preformed datasheet by the unit resident doctor. The data were collected in three stages: Preoperative (in the outpatient clinic or emergency room during routine work-up for surgery: Addressing the socio-demographic characteristics), postoperative (in the recovery room or shortly before discharge: Addressing the operative findings and techniques) and in the outpatient clinic, for day-cases, and ward for those admitted (information on postoperative complications, and updating of missed data set). The data thus obtained were analyzed for averages and simple percentages and inferential statistics using the Statistical Package for the social sciences (SPSS) version 20 (property of IBM corporation: © copy right IBM Corporation and its licensors 1989, 2011). Para-metric test for statistical significance amongst variables was done. P ≤ 0.05 was taken to be significant. The results are presented as tables and charts.
| Results|| |
A total of 296 hernia operations and 270 patients were studied during this period. This constitutes 24.8% of all surgeries done within the study period. 206 patients (73.3%) had elective surgery while 64 (23.7%) others were done as emergencies: Representing 21.3% of all emergency operations performed during the study period. Of those who had elective repair, eight (3%) were done during elective open prostatectomy for benign prostatic hyperplasia.
Of the 270 patients, there were 256 males (94.8%) and 14 females (5.2%) with a male: female ratio of 18:1. Their ages ranged from 15 to 87 years with a mean age of 50.1 (±18.1) years. [Table 1] shows the age and gender characteristics of the patients.
One hundred and fifty-four (57%) patients were engaged in vocations which involved physical exertion or lifting of heavy items (mainly farmers, laborers, mechanics, sawmill operators) while the remainder (n = 116, 43%) were engage in sedentary activities (students, teachers, clergy, civil servants). Although hernias were relatively more common in those engaged in laborious tasks, this relationship was not statistically significant (P = 0.577). 79 (29.3%) had a family history of groin hernia while the 191 (71.7%) patients had no positive family history. The presence of a positive family history did not have any statistically significant relationship with the age of occurrence of the hernia (P = 0.949) or the type of hernia (P = 0.203).
In majority of patients, the hernias were unilateral (251/270; 93%), of these, 162 (60%) were on the right side, 89 (33%) were on the left side, while 19 patients (7%) had their hernias on both sides of the groin [Table 2]. Bilateral hernias were common in patients above 50 years and those engaged in laborious vocations but not so in those with positive family history of hernia. Indirect hernias were most common accounting for 69.3% of cases while direct and pantaloon hernias were found in 26.7% and 3.7% of cases respectively. Direct hernias were found to be more common after the sixth decade of life although this did not reach statistical significance. Similarly right sided preponderance was more common in the first five decades of life while there was no predilection for side after the sixth decade of life; and this was found to be statistically significant (P = 0.001). Most of the repairs were for primary hernias (253; 93.7%) while only 17 patients (6.3%) presented with recurrent hernias. The 17 patients that presented with recurrent hernias had their first surgery either at a private hospital (n = 10) or in a general/district hospital (n = 7). At presentation, majority of the patients (206; 73.3%) had reducible hernias, while 26 (9.6%), 24 (8.9%) and 14 (5.2%) had incarcerated, obstructed or Strangulated hernias respectively. Obstructed hernias were more common in the first five decades of life, but this was not statistically significant (P = 0.075).
Local anesthesia (LA) was the anesthesia of choice in most instances 216 (80.0%), followed by general and spinal anesthesia in 48 (17.8%) and 6 (2.2%) of cases respectively.
Nylon darn was the most commonly used technique followed by Lichtenstein mesh repair, both exceeding the traditional Bassini repair method [Figure 1]. Overall complication rate was about 7% with surgical site infection and scrotal hematoma being the most common complication [Table 3]. There was a statistically significant relationship between the complications and the method of hernia repair (P < 0.005); with relatively more complication rates with Bassini (14.3%) when compared with nylon darn (5.6%) and mesh (4.6%) techniques. Complications were also more common among patients with indirect hernias compared with those with direct hernias (P < 0.05). Similarly, patients with complicated hernias at presentation had more postoperative complications (P < 0.05) and longer hospital stay (P < 0.05) than those with reducible hernias.
Most of the patients were managed as day-cases (209, 77.4%) while the 61 patients (22.6%) required hospital admission for variable periods of time ranging from 1-day to 20 days (mean = 2.1 ± 2.8). There were two mortalities accounting for a mortality rate of 0.7%. Both patients had strangulated hernias (one each of inguino-scrotal and femoral hernia). The remaining 268 patients were followed-up for 3-30 months (mean = 9.8 ± 6.6). There were no cases of recurrence recorded within this period.
| Discussion|| |
Inguinal hernia repair occupies a major place in surgical practice in terms of volume and prevention of avoidable morbidity and mortality. The number of inguinal hernia operations in our study representing about a quarter of all operations reflects this fact. The low overall number of patients treated per year is comparable to earlier work by Irabor. (Ibadan) and Garba. (Zaria). There has been a steady rise in the number of private hospitals offering specialist surgical care, and more patients enroll for free surgeries at district and basic health centers that are sponsored by politicians and nongovernmental organizations and faith-based groups. All these could have limited the number of patients seen and the frequency of surgery within the period of study. The age and gender distribution observed in our study is congruent with the earlier series on the disease. ,,, The reason for this propensity particularly among males may be due to the congenital weakness of the inguinal rings occasioned by the descent of the testes. The involvement of more males in laborious activities may also be a contributory factor. The type of vocation one engages in and presence of a family history of groin hernia had been suggested as probable risks for development of the disease. , We were able to establish this association in 57% (154) and 29.3% (79) of our patients respectively, but the fact that none of these reached statistical significance may be a pointer to the multi-factorial or complex nature of the etiopathogenesis of hernia; and the limitations inherent in the small sample size. Similarly, we could not establish that a positive family history of hernia influenced the age at which hernia occurred in our patients (P = 0.949). Some researchers have however reported a strong relationship between family history and nature of vocation on occurrence of inguinal hernia. , We believe a large scale population based study could help elucidate the epidemiological risk factors in our populace.
Most hernias were unilateral and on the right side (about 53% of all hernias treated). This has been thought to be due to the late descent of the right testis and thus delay in the obliteration of the processus vaginalis. The reasons for the preponderance of bilateral hernia in patients older than 50 years and in those engaged in laborious vocations, but not so in those with positive family history of hernia, may be due to a high intra-abdominal pressure from lifting heavy objects, bladder outlet obstruction that is more common in that age group and a probably weak anterior abdominal wall from ageing. This observation is reinforced by the larger number of direct hernia amongst this age group in our study. The relatively low prevalence rate of recurrent hernias (n = 10; 3.4%) can be attributed to under-reporting. All our patients with recurrent hernia had their previous surgery at a private hospital or a General hospital. While this may be a reflection of poor technique, we opine however that any recurrence of hernia done in our facility may well have presented at another facility for re-operation. In the absence of a hernia registry, tracking of patients for a recurrence rate would be difficult if not impossible, as most patients would be lost to follow-up. This may account for the dearth of research on the epidemiology of recurrent hernias in Nigeria. Surgical emergencies occasioned by hernia complication remains rife in our center as 21.3% of all hernias treated were done on an emergency basis. The high rate of emergency surgery was occasioned by the late presentation of patients that had been attributed to ignorance and poverty. ,
Local anesthesia has progressively attained the status of the preferred anesthetic technique for uncomplicated hernia as it has been demonstrated to be effective and well tolerated. ,,,, Spinal anesthesia was reserved for those done as an adjunct to an open prostatectomy, or recurrent hernia. Patients requiring surgery for intestinal obstruction and suspected bowel gangrene had general anesthesia. Ambulatory ("day-case") surgery was achieved in all patients with uncomplicated hernia, whereas patients with complicated hernias had to stay a variable length of days beyond 24 h.
Nylon darn technique of inguinal hernia repair is the most commonly used method of repair and probably reflects the preference of the surgeon and the surgical unit. Many more cases of mesh hernioplasty are being done. This may be due to the availability and perhaps affordability of the mesh; and possibly the acceptability of the practice by the surgical unit. However, it had been advocated that there is a need for caution with the use of mesh: As not all hernia require mesh for repair. In our hospital fewer hernia repairs are being done using Bassini and Shouldice repair; it appears to be that the techniques are applied for teaching purposes nowadays. The fact that nylon darn was the most commonly used tissue based method in our study may perhaps indicate a departure from the traditional Bassini technique that is associated with high recurrence. The search for a suitable alternative in the absence of mesh, or when mesh is not advisable as in complicated cases, may have led to the choice of darning as an alternative being relatively easier to perform with lower recurrence rates. Its ease of execution may also have given it an edge over the Shouldice technique that is technically more demanding, though with the best outcome amongst the tissue-based methods. ,,, Mesh repair technique is currently gaining more acceptances in our setting as reflected by the increasing number of cases done. Thus, one would expect fewer cases of recurrent hernias in our practice as the years go by.
However, it is worthy of note that the number of complicated hernias at presentation has not significantly changed when compared with the earlier report from the center by Adesunkanmi et al. This subset of patients may not be suitable for mesh repair due to the potentially higher risk of surgical site infection.
Earlier works on groin hernias had identified factors that promote adverse outcome of surgery. These include advanced age, complicated hernia especially those requiring bowel resection, and co-morbid diseases. ,, Our postoperative complication rate of about 7% was comparable to studies done in other centers but lower than the study reported by Mabula and Chalya It is not surprising that complication occurred more with indirect inguinal hernia which may extend into the scrotum; thus increasing the risk of incarceration, obstruction or gangrene which are known to have adverse impact on surgical outcome. ,, The mortalities recorded were from patients who had emergency surgery for strangulated hernia: Which required bowel resection. The procedures were complicated with intra-abdominal sepsis and septicemia that progressed to multiple organ failure and death. There was no mortality from direct hernia that is in consonance with works by Nilsson et al. this may be due to the wide neck of the hernia sac which reduces the risk of obstruction or gangrene of the hernia content(s).
Though we did not record any recurrence amongst the patients we managed, including those who presented with recurrent hernia, we do believe that the mean follow-up period (9.8 ± 6.6 months) was rather short to make a categorical statement on recurrence. And as earlier mentioned the patient might elect to seek a remedy elsewhere in the event of any recurrence. The zero recurrence rates may also be a reflection of the trend toward a tension free repair and the rather small sample size.
| Conclusion|| |
Most of our groin hernia repair was done as day-case procedure using LA. Nylon darn technique and mesh hernioplasty were the preferred methods of inguinal hernia repair in our center. There is need to evaluate those who really need mesh hernioplasty. There is also need for a large scale population-based study on the epidemiology and epidemiological risk factors for hernia in Nigeria, and a long-term study to ascertain recurrences rates amongst the various repair techniques in Nigeria. This can be achieved through establishing and promoting a hernia society and a hernia register.
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Share your wisdom. This is not a time for you to lay low and keep quiet. Take the time to assert your knowledge in a non threatening way.-Gorilla
Gorilla Meaning and Messages
In general, Gorilla symbolism is a signal for us to raise our heads and recognize the nobility within us. This type of Gorilla meaning does not represent prideful or boastful behavior. Instead, this spirit animal exudes a quiet honor and a calm dignity that makes a much more profound statement than any boast. We humans (particularly this day and age) would do well to mimic such regal behavior.
Similar to the Cougar, Gorilla symbolism also gives us a message of leadership, however not of the aggressive kind. Instead, this ape manages other members within the troop with temperance, understanding, compassion, and balance. Very seldom is aggression or violence required to get the point across. The Gorilla meaning also reminds us that tyrannical leaders will never win respect. In other words, the message is that decency, honesty, and quiet charisma gain loyal followers.
Alternatively, Gorilla symbolism could be a confirmation that your endeavors are stable and steady. Therefore you must stay grounded and handle your responsibilities. This animal totem will help you find your inner strength.
Gorilla Totem, Spirit Animal
Similar to the Cardinal totem, the Gorilla totem person is a leader. They effortlessly command groups of people through the strength of will, decisiveness, and the mediation of conflict. Also, with this type of leadership, they understand responsibility. Gorilla totem people always take full protective responsibility of those within their command. Moreover, these folks fully understand that a good leader is a leader who serves the needs of the followers. They also lead by example and with integrity.
With this Great Ape as your spirit animal, you have the power to marshal the strength of community to your cause. There is nothing you cannot accomplish.
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When you have a Gorilla dream, it suggests that you may be too “over the top” in your behavior. In other words, you are overcompensating for your rigidity and awkwardness. Alternatively, the Gorilla dream symbolizes your primitive impulses, wild nature, and repressed sexual energy. If this animal is hiding, it indicates that you are looking for a sense of security or protection.
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What Is The Difference Between A Hard And Soft Brexit?
19 May 2017, 13:46 | Updated: 28 October 2019, 15:53
Confused about what a "Hard" or "Soft" Brexit it? Here's what we know.
On June 23 2016 Britain voted to leave the European Union, with an impressive voter turnout of 72 per cent.
52 per cent voting to Leave, and 48 per cent voted to Remain.
Since the vote, Britain has been plunged into a wealth of debate about how the UK should leave the EU – and thus the terms “Soft Brexit” and “Hard Brexit” were coined.
But what do they actually mean? The answer: no one is 100 per cent sure.
It was all speculation up until Article 50 was triggered by Theresa May on March 29, but even now Brexit negotiations have officially begun, there’s still a level of uncertainty around the terms.
Here’s what we understand.
Hard (or Clean) Brexit
Britain will leave the EU by March 29 2019, and Theresa May has said she would rather take the UK out of the EU with no deal rather than a “bad deal”.
The Prime Minister is pushing for what she is calling a “Clean Brexit” - also known as a “Hard Brexit”.
Prime Minister Theresa May greets European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker Photo: John Stillwell/PA Wire/PA Images
This is thought to involve the UK refusing to compromise on issues like the free movement of people, leaving the EU single market, and trading with the EU like any other country outside of the EU.
If you’re not sure what some terms mean, click here to view our Brexit glossary.
Remaining in the single market is viewed by some, including the Prime Minister, as a “half-in, half-out” means of staying in the EU, without the commitment of the membership.
A Clean Brexit would see Britain leave the trade agreement completely, allowing it to strike up deals with other nations around the globe.
Severing ties with the EU would leave Britain free to negotiate new trade links with countries including USA, China, India and Commonwealth states.
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Companies may have to open new offices in Europe, and some manufacturers and farmers could face high tariffs on products they want to sell to the EU.
Theresa May has insisted: "The United Kingdom is leaving the European Union.
“Not partial membership of the European Union, associate membership of the European Union, or anything that leaves us half-in, half-out."
Pro-EU politicians are calling for a “Soft Brexit”, which means Britain would retain some links with the EU, particularly staying as part of the trade deal.
It would mean Britain could retain the tariff-free trade links with Europe, and allow the free movement of labour across the member states.
Britain would remain within the EU's customs union, meaning that exports would not be subject to border checks.
Other countries, such as Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein, are not members of the EU, but have access to the single market by being part of the European Economic Area.
In return, these countries must make payments into the EU and accept the “four freedoms”. These include free movement of people, goods, capital and services.
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Talk with parents and extended family about sex and relationships can support adolescents' sexual health. However, few studies explore how parent and extended family communication with adolescents intersect. This study used thematic analysis to assess family roles in talk with teens about sex and relationships among a sample of 39 adult extended family members (such as aunts and uncles, and older siblings and cousins) in the United States. Analyses identified four themes in sexuality communication that address: why adolescents talk to extended family about sex and relationships, family engagement in these conversations, consistency of family messages, and family communication about adolescents. Findings identify variation in how family members interact with adolescents and one another regarding talk about sex and relationships. For example, some participants described family coordination of sexual messages to the teen, while others reported no family communication about this topic. Results also showed similarities and differences in how sibling and non-sibling extended family describe these processes. These findings identify the need to examine family talk about sex and relationships in the context of a larger family system, rather than only within dyadic relationships, and suggests possibilities for family-based interventions to support adolescents' sexual health.
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“As Wickremesinghe now assumes office as president, Sri Lanka is under a state of emergency that he proclaimed on 18th July. This suspension of democratic rights vests greater powers in him, including use of the military to clamp down on public protests. “
By B. Skanthakumar
Sri Lanka has a new president. On 20th July, parliament in accordance with the Constitution elected by clear majority the acting president and former prime minister Ranil Wickremesinghe. He succeeds Gotabaya Rajapaksa, who was forced to vacate the presidency on 9th July and flee abroad, after resisting months of demands for his resignation in the public backlash to the island’s worsening economic crisis.
Wickremesinghe had been the pundit’s favourite in what began as a four-horse race, since the majority party in parliament – the Sri Lanka Podujana Party (SLPP – People’s Front) of the Rajapaksa clan – declared in his favour. Hostility to his nomination from within the SLPP, smaller parties once aligned to it, and opposition parties, echoing the sentiments of substantial opinion within the unstructured protest movement, proved inadequate.
This result confirms the lack of public legitimacy of the 225-member parliament, expressed in the slogan of the Janatha Aragalaya (‘People’s Struggle’): “No to the 225!” The ineffectiveness of parliamentarians to arrest and address the breakdown of the economy and provide solutions to the people’s needs had in any case damaged trust and confidence in it. Ranil Wickremesinghe’s election is the last nail in the coffin. It fuels further political instability. The pressure for an early general election to choose new legislators will now grow.
Alongside the Rajapaksas, whose maladministration, nepotism and kleptocracy are now blamed by the ethnic majority Sinhala populace for Sri Lanka’s bankruptcy, Wickremesinghe has no popular mandate. His United National Party (UNP), an affiliate of the International Democratic Union that includes the Conservative Party, was wiped off the electoral map in 2020. It secured one seat through proportional representation. His surprise appointment as prime minister in May, was rightly seen as a deal within the political elite to safeguard the Gotabaya Rajapaksa administration in return for a share in state power
As Wickremesinghe now assumes office as president, Sri Lanka is under a state of emergency that he proclaimed on 18th July. This suspension of democratic rights vests greater powers in him, including use of the military to clamp down on public protests. Already, a court order has been established to begin removing people who have besieged the president’s office in a continuous protest (‘GotaGoGama’) since early April, providing a rallying point to the movement across the island.
Meanwhile, big business, the upper middle class and mainstream media are already calling for the Aragalaya to wind up. It has accomplished their goal of reining in the Rajapaksas and securing a neoliberal in the highest office of state. The new president and the coalition government he will form in the coming days, should in their view now be allowed to stabilise the turbulent political order, as a precondition for economic stability.
The unlikely vehicle for such stability is the International Monetary Fund (IMF). The multilateral agency is expected to provide a funding line to a state whose coffers are empty – usable foreign exchange reserves are around USD250 million, which is under four days equivalent of imports – and that has nowhere left to borrow from.
Sri Lanka has lost access to the international capital markets through which it accumulated almost half of its USD 51 billion external debt. Its sovereign credit rating was downgraded even further following a default on debt repayments in April. China, an important new lender in the Rajapaksa era, has held back on new credit during the crisis. India stepped in with bridging finance for imports of fuel and fertiliser, but this too is now exhausted.
This will be Sri Lanka’s 17th agreement with the IMF since 1965. In the decades in between, the country’s reliance on foreign loans and stock of debt has only increased sharply. Exhausted by the daily struggle of finding transport to move around for want of petrol and diesel; the scarcity of medicines (80% are imported) and cooking gas; the lack of forex to finance inputs in manufacturing, agriculture and services; and soaring food prices accompanied by shortfalls in domestic production; inflation spiking at 60% and wages trailing far behind; the consensus across social classes is that an IMF ‘bail-out’ will somehow rescue the economy.
In anticipation of the IMF’s structural adjustment conditionalities, the government had already increased the pump price for fuel by 300% and abandoned consumers to price-fixing by the cartels that supply the staple food, rice, as well as milk powder and sugar among other basic commodities. Once other reforms begin rolling out, including reduction of the state sector payroll – one in seven of the work force – rollback of public expenditure, user fees in education and health (that are free of charge though under-resourced), and ‘targeting’ of social programmes, the burden on the poor and lower middle class will only become more unbearable.
The election of the new president and evidence of his majority in parliament, along with the achievement of the initial objective of the protest movement to throw out the former president, will likely see some fall in support and intensity of public protest.
However, the co-dependence between Ranil Wickremesinghe and the Rajapaksas is a liability to both. There is no guarantee that the new cabinet of ministers he cobbles together will last long, as everyone schemes to minimise their culpability for what is a structural crisis of dependent capitalism and secure their political future in an upcoming general election.
On the streets and in social media, the activists of the Aragalaya have vowed to maintain their opposition to the Wickremesinghe-led government, including the ongoing occupation of the entrance and grounds of the president’s office and other sites in public places across the island. Their campaign for reduction in the executive powers of the all-powerful presidency will continue, pending constitutional change that abolishes these in toto. The democratic consciousness of the movement is high. There are novel demands for right of recall of elected representatives and the right to have referendums on matters of national importance.
While the largely Sinhala people’s movement has yet to confront the gross violation of human rights during Sri Lanka’s 26-year internal war and reckon with the demands of the Tamil nation for justice for war crimes, truth over the disappeared, and for internal self-determination, this difficult dialogue has begun among its most conscious elements. Already its most recent demands include the release of Tamils in long-term detention and for an end to racism, including the rampant post-war Islamaphobia directed at the ethno-religious Muslim minority. Whatever challenges are ahead, the gains of this moment and movement must be defended.
- B. Skanthakumar is a member of the Social Scientists’ Association in Colombo, Sri Lanka. You can follow him on twitter for more information.
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Journal of Applied Rehabilitation Counseling, Volume 50, Number 2, 2019
Rehabilitation Education Model: Preparing
Minority Leaders for Diverse Workforce
Carmela Y. Drake, PhD, LPC, CAADP, ACGC-III
D. Henry Stapleton, EdD, LPC-S, CRC, NCC
Alabama State University
Naoko Yura Yasui, PhD, CRC
University of Southern Maine
This conceptual manuscript introduces a strengths-based undergraduate rehabilitation educa-
tion model. The model was designed with the unique strengths of minority students in mind.
It conceptualizes how students’ strengths are cultivated by faculty-supported career exploration
and development and service learning opportunities. The three pillars, in combination, pre-
pare students for their fieldwork experiences. The three pillars of the model—core curriculum,
leadership training, and concentrations—are supported by a strengths-based platform. The
implementation of the model has the potential to improve student and program outcomes by
more adeptly preparing minority students to be leaders in a diverse rehabilitation workforce.
Keywords: undergraduate rehabilitation education; pedagogy; minority; leaders; curriculum
S ince 2017, the state of URE programs has been the focus of discussions due to the mergerof the Commission on Rehabilitation Education (CORE) and the Council for Accred-itation of Counseling and Related Educational Programs (CACREP). Recently, it has
been announced that the Commission on Accreditation of Allied Health Educational Pro-
grams (CAAHEP) has recognized URE programs as an allied profession and approved the for-
mation of Committee of Rehabilitation Accreditation (CoRA) to assist in the development of
accreditation standards (National Council on Rehabilitation Education, 2018). In the interim
as we await new accreditation standards, the question being posed by many URE programs is:
“Where do we go from here?” We attempt to address our shared concern through this concep-
tual manuscript describing a URE model we created based on our experience in teaching at a
historically black college/university (HBCU).
From the vantage point of serving on the faculty of one of the first accredited URE programs
at an HBCU, the authors now have the freedom to create a program that better suits our
students’ strengths. We envision a program that more fully prepares minority students to serve
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as leaders in a diversifying and evolving rehabilitation services profession in which minority
professionals are currently underrepresented.
Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA, 2015) noted a workforce forecast
of significant shortages of mental health and substance use treatment professionals by 2025.
Additionally, the demographics of the current workforce in mental health and substance use
treatment professionals are mostly older, White women. Ryan, Murphy, and Krom (2012)
found that over 60% of clinical directors in this profession are over the age of 50, White,
and women. They found that the direct care staff fit the same description. The shortages and
lack of diversity in the rehabilitation workforce have also been observed in occupational ther-
apy. There are currently shortages in many states for occupational therapists and forecasted
to increase through 2030 (Lin, Zhang, & Dixon, 2015). Barfield, Cobler, Lam, Zhang, and
Chitiyo (2012) confirmed this barrier to recruit minority students and suggest promoting
program-based experiential opportunities to attract a more diverse group of students.
We propose a model for URE that is firmly grounded in student strengths and reflective
of career development and exploration experiences. The model will prepare a new generation
of competent rehabilitation services professionals. We envision three knowledge-based pillars
(rehabilitation core curriculum, leadership training, and concentrations) infused with service
learning opportunities and culminating with fieldwork experiences that permit full application
and integration of all aspects of the learning model.
The strength-based model (SBM) for URE, depicted in Figure 1, has features similar to a
circular Roman colonnade. The pillars (concentrations, leadership training, and rehabilitation
core curriculum) are embedded firmly in a foundation comprised of student innate strengths
and layered with meaningful, faculty-supported career exploration and development oppor-
tunities. The three pillars are fortified by incessant service learning activities. The pillars serve
FIGURE 1. Strength-based model for undergraduate rehabilitation education.
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as the basis for all fieldwork endeavors. The pinnacle of the colonnade represents the compe-
tent minority rehabilitation professional who is now equipped to become a leader in a diverse
Our model focuses on creating an URE program that utilizes minority students’ strengths as
the foundation of our curriculum to develop competent rehabilitation professionals. In our
URE program, we have witnessed that a great majority of the students are the first in their
families to attend college to pursue professional careers. Most meet the typical description
of first-generation college students: being minority and of low socioeconomic status (Orbe,
2004), being less academically prepared, scoring low on admission tests, and already parents
and spouses (Garrison & Gardner, 2012). At the same time, these students are resourceful,
hopeful, and persistent in fulfilling their goals to earn a college degree. Garrison and Gard-
ner (2012) support the development of a URE model program that would allow students to
cultivate their strengths.
It was our opportunity to create a URE model that develops the strengths in our students
and prepares them to be competent rehabilitation professionals. The importance of an aca-
demic program that helps students discover their strengths and develop and apply the knowl-
edge base training has been discussed (Anderson, 2004). For our strengths-based URE model,
we have adopted the following two principles (Lopez & Louis, 2009):
1. Personalize the learning experience by practicing individualization whereby we think and
act upon strengths of each student.
2. Actively seek out novel experiences; focus practice of their strengths through strategic course
selection, use of campus resources, and mentoring relationships.
Our experience and previous research (Garrison & Gardner, 2012) concur that students at
HBCUs are proactive, goal-oriented, optimistic, reflexive, persistent, resilient, and hopeful.
Our strengths-based URE model allows students to further develop these attributes through
career exploration and development, knowledge base building, and fieldwork experiences.
We aim to actively create opportunities in classroom and advising sessions to discuss stu-
dents’ personal experiences as they relate to disability and rehabilitation. While students’ per-
spectives may be limited to their own life experiences, we, with additional professional and
personal experiences, are prepared to situate their concrete experiences in the larger societal,
political, economic, and historical contexts that involve minority populations. Guthrie and
McCracken (2010) encourage educators to utilize student’s experiences and allow students to
apply expectations to their current learning opportunities and resources. Our intention is to
engage the students along with their peers in conversations about the changes that they would
envision for the future and the roles that they may opt to play in the facilitation of changes
specifically in the field of disability and rehabilitation. Essentially, we are inviting the students
on new journeys of personal development infused with an exploration of new information
(Guthrie & McCracken, 2010). These discussions (based firmly on students’ life experiences
and faculty’s preparation for informed facilitation) are intended to assist students in discover-
ing some meaning in their experiences that can guide them through their career development,
thereby turning their experiences into their strengths.
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CAREER EXPLORATION AND DEVELOPMENT
We argue that career exploration and development activities are central to the evolution of
the competent rehabilitation professional. Innate and emerging strengths of minority students
are solidified through career exploration and development activities. We have observed how
limited exposure to certain circumstances that are typically associated with the White mid-
dle class can suppress career exploration and development outcomes in our students. Barfield
et al., (2012) noted four barriers for minority students enrolling in rehabilitation education
programs and two of those barriers are social influence (diversity of the program) and experi-
ential opportunity (job shadowing). Hence, it is important that efforts are extended to involve
minority students in campus and community events that expose them to career-enhancing life
Students should be strongly encouraged to routinely visit the campus career center for career
exploration. Moreover, the URE program (working collaboratively with the career center and
other campus organizations) can host professional development workshops and career fairs.
Rush (2012) posited that career interventions for African American college students should
include the provision of role models who can speak about careers and discuss environmental
barriers negatively impacting career paths. Barfield et al., (2012) noted that the lack of per-
ceived ability to physically perform a service has also been observed as a barrier for minority
students’ decision to enroll in rehabilitation programs. Those providing career guidance should
proactively address fears students may have in terms of being successful, such as not believing
they have the ability to physically perform rehabilitation services. Rush (2012) emphasized the
importance of networking for career success as well as connecting students with community-
based efforts, such as internships, job shadowing, and service learning.
Students must understand that career exploration and development is an active, evolving
process; thus, program advisers must periodically gauge where students are in the process and
provide needed guidance. Mentoring is vital to the career exploration and development process.
Redmond (1990) identified three benefits of mentoring from students’ perspectives: feeling
respected as individuals, having a role model, and receiving empathy, concern, and feeling.
Redmond (1990) also highlighted the importance of personal connections in creating and
maintaining comfort and cultural validation. Castellanos, Gloria, Besson, and Harvey (2016)
confirmed the important role of mentoring for student development. According to Bettinger
and Baker (2011), students who received coaching displayed long-term persistence and higher
Faculty mentoring is extremely important when assisting students with making initial and
alternative career choices (Lee, 1999). Mentors can assist students with reconstructing and
reframing lived experiences to better clarify career goals and preferences (Brott, 2001). Through
the career exploration and development lens, mentees are encouraged to filter out aspects of the
core curriculum, leadership training, and service learning, and formulate good choices about
concentrations and fieldwork. Thus, students engage in more effective career decision-making
KNOWLEDGE BASE DEVELOPMENT
Knowledge base development will be supported by three pillars: rehabilitation core curriculum,
leadership training, and concentrations.
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Rehabilitation Core Curriculum
In the strengths-based URE model, the core curriculum will preserve those aspects of the field
of rehabilitation that distinguish it from other human services fields. Hence, the core cur-
riculum may comprise the history of rehabilitation services (to include policy, legislation, and
advocacy), medical and psychosocial aspects, diversity and disability, case management, assis-
tive technology, assessment, theories in counseling, and helping skills. Each of the aforemen-
tioned core courses will incorporate components of vocational development. Furthermore, ser-
vice learning is applied as a pedagogical approach throughout the program curriculum as later
As described earlier, many minority students present with varied strengths as a result of their
life experiences. Nonetheless, it is our observation that all too often, minority students do
not validate their unique vantage point as a foundation for their professional development in
rehabilitation services fields.
Thus, the second pillar of the model is leadership training. Leadership training that is
grounded in cognitive, affective, and behavioral foundations will help minority students val-
idate their own sense of injustice and channel their ambition to initiating action toward
social justice through their professional contributions. Minority students will be encour-
aged to develop soft skills capacities relating to social justice, advocacy, policy and ethics,
self-empowerment and determination, cultural competency, community collaboration, and
decision-making. As discussed earlier in the manuscript, the aforementioned capacities are
prominent in the development of effective leadership skills in URE students.
Soft skills are fundamental to professional competence, but are rarely included in the cur-
riculum of URE programs. Soft skills comprise traits, abilities which are essential for personal,
professional, and social success, and include competencies such as decision-making, communi-
cation, negotiation, business etiquette, problem-solving, and conflict management. Soft skills
are enduring and transferable from one work setting to another (Rao, 2010). Finch, Hamil-
ton, and Baldwin (2013) concluded that employers place the highest importance on soft skills.
Robles (2012) described soft skills as determinants of one’s strengths as a leader, facilitator,
mediator, and negotiator. Encouraging the formation of soft skills, most prominently in the
pillar of leadership training, will empower minority students as they prepare for a diverse reha-
bilitation services workforce.
To this end, a systematic approach that integrates classroom-based and experiential learning
is deployed. Building on the social change model of leadership (Higher Education Research
Institute, 1996), which was developed for college students, through a variety of learning activ-
ities to be conducted individually (e.g., reflection paper writing), in groups and classes (e.g.,
discussion and presentation), and in the community (e.g., service for nonprofit agencies), stu-
dents are to develop awareness and appreciation of core values in rehabilitation services, such
as respecting human rights and dignity, appreciating the diversity of human experience, and
emphasizing client strengths as opposed to deficits (Commission on Rehabilitation Counselor
Certification, 2017), and acquire skills that are required to facilitate these values.
Through such training in leadership skills and reinforcement of awareness as their leadership
potential in rehabilitation services, we expect that minority students will be able to tap into
their firsthand experience of disparity and injustice as their resource and be equipped to fulfill
their everyday professional responsibilities in rehabilitation as means to social justice.
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URE students are increasingly interested in attaining postbaccalaureate credentials. Revising
the curriculum to include courses that address certification requirements will enhance students’
skill sets and marketability in the diverse workplace. Due to the varied career paths in rehabili-
tation, the lack of minority representation in the rehabilitation workforce, and the multiplicity
of roles, functions, settings, and projected job growth, we envision the following program con-
centrations in the strength-based URE model: (a) addiction studies; (b) preallied health; and
(c) intellectual/developmental disabilities.
In curricula for these concentrations, we anticipate working with other departments within
the institution to ensure that we are providing minority students with diverse and comprehen-
sive programs of study. Components of learning in these concentrations would be provided
by multiple departments, such as health education, criminal justice, psychology, science, and
mathematics in the form of elective courses. Collaborating with these departments will ensure
that our students are receiving the basic prerequisites for the development of competencies in
the given concentration and avoid course duplications.
Addiction Studies. The concentration-specific courses for addiction studies will follow the
four transdisciplinary foundations as outlined in the Technical Assistance Publication (TAP)
Series 21: (a) understanding addiction, (b) treatment knowledge, (c) application to practice,
and (d) professional readiness (Center for Substance Abuse Treatment, 2006). Courses that will
be offered for this concentration within the URE program will be introduction to addictions,
pharmacology in addictions, and treatment strategies in addictions. The URE will collaborate
with the health education and psychology departments to include curriculum in alcohol and
drug studies and abnormal psychology. Additionally, students in the program that concentrate
on addictions will also take a course on drug and drug abuse through a collaboration with the
criminal justice department.
Preallied Health. Courses that will support the preallied health concentration will be
designed to meet the prerequisites to admission to graduate programs in allied health disci-
plines; hence, collaborating with the sciences and mathematics departments to ensure the stu-
dents are satisfying prerequisite courses to apply for graduate school in occupational and phys-
ical therapy. Specifically, the URE program will collaborate with the biology, chemistry, and
physic departments to include curriculum in human anatomy and physiology, physics, and
chemistry. The URE program will also collaborate with mathematics to provide curriculum in
Intellectual/Developmental Disabilities. This final concentration was chosen in response
to workforce trends reported by our recent URE graduates. Moreover, a report from the Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) indicated an increase in children being diagnosed
with developmental disabilities between the years of 2014 and 2016 (Zablotsky, Black, &
Blumberg, 2017). We anticipate a significant future demand for professionals to serve this
population. Courses that will focus on intellectual/developmental disabilities will be offered
in partnership with the psychology department. The courses specified in the curriculum for
this concentration will be abnormal psychology, introduction to developmental disabilities,
developmental psychology, and applied behavioral analysis.
As we have mentioned, all three pillars of knowledge base building apply the pedagogical
approach of service learning. According to Furco (1996), service learning can be conceptual-
ized as a form of experiential education with an intention to equally benefit the students who
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provide service for the community, and the community recipients of the service, as well as
to equally focus on the service and the learning. Consistent with Furco’s description, Miller
(2012) defined service learning as an instructional method that offers organized service experi-
ence where students are able to identify the needs of the community and reflect on their expe-
rience to better understand the course content, while building a sense of civic responsibility.
In rehabilitation education, in particular, Ortega and Garner (2014) noted that service-
learning opportunities would serve as experiential laboratories, allowing course material to be
applied to real-life scenarios. We envision that service learning will provide minority students
with hands-on experience of the services that are provided, allow them to reflect and build an
understanding of the consumer’s perspective on receiving the service, and receive small, yet
concentrated, skills training before participating in the fieldwork experience, simultaneously
serving their communities. Additionally, service learning can be applied to address a number of
other goals, such as professional networking, advocacy and community involvement, graduate
school acceptance, and employment (Hansmann, Saladin, & Quintero, 2011).
Fieldwork is the capstone that clarifies a student’s career path and solidifies professional com-
petencies and skills. Marlett et al. (2000) described rehabilitation services as a broad-based
and multidisciplinary profession and emphasized how students could be prepared as leaders
and change agents via fieldwork opportunities. In our strength-based URE program model,
the minority student will have completed a number of service-learning courses throughout the
knowledge base building. The student is expected to have a stronger sense of empowerment to
be successful in participating in the fieldwork experience. In our model, the student will now
apply all the skills attained during the service learning experiences. This should the student to
apply course content to practice in a more competent and empathic manner.
Given firsthand experiences of disparities and social injustices, minority students are par-
ticularly well suited for the roles of leader and change agent. The authors agree with Marlett
et al. (2000) that fieldwork should serve as a critical phase in leadership training.
We proposed a SBM for URE. Creating a strength-based URE model for students at histori-
cally Black colleges/universities entailed a thorough assessment of program needs from the per-
spective of minority students. A number of facets distinguish the strength-based URE model.
The program is basic and descriptive enough to be articulated and internalized by faculty, pro-
gram staff, and students. This is a student-centered model with the student’s strengths serving
as its foundation and utilizing their lived experiences as beacons of encouragement as well as
guides to how the facilitation of service learning will be infused throughout every program
The model emphasizes the empowerment of minority students via mentorship and career
development. Through concerted efforts, we envision a program that more fully prepares
minority students to serve as leaders in the ever diversifying and evolving profession of reha-
bilitation services. The incorporation of leadership training will strengthen advocacy capacity
in the students as it relates to rehabilitation policy and service provision. Students’ strengths
serve as a catalyst for career development and exploration and the eventual development of
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Practicing law is stressful. Practicing medicine is stressful, too, but there is a difference, as illustrated in this example we often use in our CLE presentations:
As a lawyer, you are like a brain surgeon. Imagine the patient is laid out on the table in front of you. It is your job to operate and save his life. You are bringing all of your training, knowledge and skills to bear to try to save the patient’s life. Now imagine that you have another doctor standing on the other side of the table – equally skilled, equally trained – and his primary goal is to kill the patient that you are trying to save. Now imagine you have 10 to 12 of these patients a day. And now imagine that after you have saved these patients’ lives (and sacrificed time with your own family to do it), the patients are all complaining about your fee and refusing to pay.
Are you getting the picture? This silly example may seem far-fetched, but in reality lawyers are often under that kind of emotional pressure and stress day-in and day-out.
The sheer volume of work adds another dimension of stress. When we are especially pressured for time, the first activities we discard are those that do not produce a useful end product or advance the ball toward the goal line. Namely, we discard vacations and hobbies and interests outside of our professional life. The reality of practice today is that every day you are out of the office is another day you’re behind; it’s another day you have to catch up upon your return. Yet those outside hobbies and interests and those vacations are what trigger release of all the “good stuff” in our limbic brains that sustains us during times of stress.
Think of your limbic brain like a piggy bank of emotional resilience. Every day you have a client with bad facts, you have to take a penny out. Every day you have a difficult or unreasonable client, you have to take a penny out. Every day you see clients in intense distress, you have to take a penny out. The list is endless. You have to put pennies in that piggy bank every now and then. It is actually more important for lawyers to have hobbies and interests outside of work and to take vacations than for people working in other industries. Other professions are much more collaborative than the legal profession. We, as lawyers, actually need more emotional resilience in the face of our competitive, combative, and conflict-driven professional culture. And like the little kid who smashes the piggy bank looking for those last pennies, if we have not nourished ourselves emotionally, we too will break.
Burnout is a step or two past compassion fatigue. Burnout is a state of emotional, mental, and physical exhaustion caused by excessive and prolonged stress. It occurs when you feel overwhelmed and unable to meet constant demands. As the stress continues, you begin to lose the interest or motivation that led you to take on a certain role in the first place.
Burnout is a gradual process that occurs over an extended period of time. It doesn’t happen overnight, and it can creep up on you if you’re not paying attention to the warning signals. The signs and symptoms of burnout are subtle at first, but they get more pronounced as time goes on.
Physical signs and symptoms of burnout:
- Feeling tired and drained most of the time
- Lowered immunity, feeling sick a lot
- Frequent headaches (migraines), back pain, muscle aches
- Change in appetite or sleep habits
Emotional signs and symptoms of burnout:
- Sense of failure and self-doubt
- Feeling helpless, trapped, and defeated
- Detachment, feeling alone in the world
- Loss of motivation
- Increasingly cynical and negative outlook
- Decreased satisfaction and sense of accomplishment
Behavioral signs and symptoms of burnout:
- Withdrawing from responsibilities
- Isolating from others
- Procrastinating, taking longer to get things done
- Using food, drugs, or alcohol to cope
- Taking out frustrations on others
- Skipping work or coming in late and leaving early
There are many contributing factors that can lead to burnout.
Work-related causes of burnout:
- Feeling like you have little or no control over your work
- Lack of recognition or rewards for good work
- Unclear or overly demanding job expectations
- Doing work that’s monotonous or unchallenging
- Working in a chaotic or high-pressure environment
Lifestyle causes of burnout:
- Working too much, without enough time for relaxing and socializing
- Being expected (by ourselves or others) to be too many things to too many people
- Taking on too many responsibilities, without enough help from others
- Not getting enough sleep
- Lack of close, supportive relationships
Personality traits can contribute to burnout:
- Pessimistic view
- The need to be in control
- Reluctance to delegate tasks
- High-achieving, Type-A personality
Sound like anyone you know? The really good news is that we have some control over healing from burnout. If you recognize the warning signs of burnout in yourself, remember that it will only get worse if ignored. But if you take steps to get your life back into balance, you can prevent burnout from becoming a full-blown breakdown.
Here are some strategies for preventing burnout and maintaining a sense of emotional well-being and balance.
Start the day differently. Rather than jumping out of bed as soon as you wake up, spend at least fifteen minutes meditating, writing in your journal, doing yoga, or reading something that inspires you.
Adopt healthy eating, exercising, and sleeping habits. Proper nutrition, sleep and exercise provides the energy and resilience to deal with the daily demands of a law practice.
Set boundaries. Don’t overextend yourself. Learn how to say “no” to requests for your time. If you find this difficult, remind yourself that saying “no” allows you to say “yes” to the things that you truly want to do. It can take a while to realize clients will not fire you if you do not cater to their every whim and demand. A very successful strategy is to substitute what you can do as an option when you cannot do what a client wants at that moment. For example, you are leaving the office on a Wednesday for some form of travel (business or pleasure) and will not be back until Monday. A client calls just as you are about to leave and says, “It is urgent. I have to see you this afternoon.” Instead of canceling your plans, try telling the client, “I was just about to leave the office and will not be back until Monday. Let’s meet first thing on Monday to get this taken care of for you. What time works better for you: 9:30, 11:30 or 2:00?”
Take a daily break from technology. Completely disconnect from technology when you get home (or after business hours). Put away your laptop, turn off your smartphone and stop checking email.
Nourish your creative side. Creativity is a powerful antidote to burnout. Try something new, start a fun project, or resume a favorite hobby. Choose activities that have nothing to do with work. As explained above, these activities in particular help nourish the limbic brain, which provides greater emotional resilience.
Past the Breaking Point
Sometimes it’s too late to prevent burnout—you’re already past the breaking point. If that’s the case, it’s important to take burnout very seriously. Trying to push through the exhaustion and continue as you have been will only cause further emotional and physical damage.
When you’ve reached the end stage of burnout, adjusting your attitude or looking after your health isn’t going to solve the problem. You need to force yourself to slow down or take a break. Cut back whatever commitments and activities you can. Give yourself time to rest, reflect, and heal.
Burnout is an undeniable sign that something important in your life is not working. Take time to think about your hopes, goals, and dreams. Are you neglecting something that is truly important to you? Burnout can be an opportunity to rediscover what really makes you happy and to change course accordingly.
The most effective way to combat job burnout is to quit doing what you’re doing and do something else, whether that means changing jobs or changing practice areas, and for some lawyers even changing careers. But if that isn’t an option for you, there are still things you can do to improve your situation, or at least your state of mind.
Actively address problems. Take a proactive rather than a passive approach to issues in your workplace, including stress at work. You’ll feel less helpless if you assert yourself and express your needs. If you don’t have the authority or resources to solve the problem, talk to a superior. Or, if you are the supervisor, take the risk to delegate more.
Ask for new duties. If you’ve been doing the exact same work for a long time, ask to try something new: a different practice area, a different focus within your current practice area, a different role within your practice area.
Take time off. If burnout has progressed to the breaking point, take a complete break from work. Go on vacation, use up your sick days, ask for a temporary leave-of-absence—anything to remove yourself from the situation. Use the time away to recharge your batteries and gain some perspective. Most lawyers think they have no choice and that this is not an option, which is usually followed by forced time off in the form of hospitalization. None of us is indispensable. You may be surprised to find more support within your firm than you imagined when taking some time off.
KALAP has helped thousands of lawyers navigate the process of finding better boundaries with our professional lives. At first it can seem really scary – we are sure we will lose our good reputation or our clients. Thousands of lawyers in KS can testify that is not the case. There is a pathway to finding a way to practice law that does not emotionally demolish us in the process. It is a unique pathway for each lawyer. KALAP provides support and assistance all along the way. If we can assist you in this process, call or email us today.
Stress vs. Burnout
|Characterized by over engagement||Characterized by disengagement|
|Emotions are over reactive||Emotions are blunted|
|Produces urgency and hyperactivity||Produces helplessness and hopelessness|
|Loss of energy||Loss of motivation, ideals, and hope|
|Leads to anxiety disorders||Leads to detachment and depression|
|Primary damage is physical||Primary damage is emotional|
|May kill you prematurely||May make life seem not worth living|
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Pandas cost too much, Korea gets ibises instead
Since ancient times, China has used giant pandas as diplomatic gifts to other countries to express friendship. A source informed about the affairs of the Park administration told the JoongAng Ilbo Tuesday that he met with a special envoy from Beijing earlier this year and discussed the panda diplomacy.
“Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Zhang Zhijun visited then-President-elect Park as the Chinese government’s special envoy in January,” said the source. “At the time, I asked him to make a proposal to Chinese President Xi Jinping to send a panda to Korea in time with the Korea-China summit as a symbolic gesture.”
He said Chinese Ambassador to Korea, Zhang Xinsen, was also at the meeting and he was told later that the proposal was relayed to the highest leadership of China.
According to the source, China, through the Chinese Embassy in Seoul, asked if Korea has facilities to raise a giant panda if provided. The inquiry was also sent to the Blue House, the source said.
After a review, the government concluded that keeping a panda in Korea would cost at least 15 billion won ($13 million), including the construction of the special facility and payroll for the keeper. The Blue House, therefore, did not push forward with it.
Panda diplomacy using the cuddly giant bears, however, hasn’t always produced a happy ending. Japan received pandas from China and a baby was born in July last year. However, it died suddenly only after six days, causing an outcry in China.
The short-lived baby panda caused a diplomatic row because Tokyo governor Shintaro Ishihara, an extreme rightist politician, proposed before its birth that the baby bear should be named after the Senkaku Islands. China and Japan have long engaged in territorial disputes over the group of uninhabited islands, and the Chinese government reacted sensitively to Ishihara’s suggestion.
While Korea did not receive pandas from China in time for Park’s trip to the country last week, it still received rare birds from the country. After signing an agreement to cooperate to protect the endangered species of crested ibises, China promised to give two male birds to Korea.
Over the past years, China has sent many animal diplomats to Korea. During his 1994 trip to China, then-President Kim Young-sam received a couple of Siberian tigers, also known as Mount Paekdu tigers, from then-Chinese President Jiang Zemin. The male and female tigers were named “Paekdu” and “Cheonji” and received special care in Korea, but they failed to produce any offspring. They died in 2010 and 2011.
China, then, provided another pair of tigers to Korea. On the sidelines of the November 2005 Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit, Chinese President Hu Jintao presented a pair of tigers to President Roh Moo-hyun. Of them, the female tiger abruptly died the next year.
Another female tiger was sent from China in 2011 and the couple finally produced a female tiger in June last year. The tiger was named “Miho,” or beautiful tiger.
Russia also sent a gift of Siberian tigers after President Lee Myung-bak’s summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin in September 2010. They have been living in the Seoul Zoo since 2011.
Korea also received a pair of polar bears from Russia. In 2011, then Seoul Mayor Oh Se-hoon made a request to Moscow Mayor Sergey Sobyanin in February 2011 and Moscow sent the pair to Seoul.
Japan has also sent some animal diplomats to Korea. Red-crowned cranes are an endangered species and there are about 2,500 of them alive around the world.
Japan sent a pair of the rare birds to Korea in 2008 and the Institute of Ornithology of the Kyungbook National University succeeded for the first time in Korea in artificial incubation in July 2009.
Japan also sent red pandas, also called lesser pandas and red cat-bears, to Korea in 2007 as a symbol of Korea-Japan friendship.
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RUN LGT ALPINE MARATHON - CROSS NEARLY THE ENTIRE COUNTRY!
Annually, 850 brave runners join the LGT Alpine Marathon in the tiny European country of Liechtenstein. The race is a true challenge with an altitude difference of 1870 meters and track along a beautiful, yet demanding alpine area. When you pass the finishing line, you have ran across almost the entire country - how many marathon runners can brag about that?
The first LGT Alpine-Marathon was taking place on June 17th in 2000. It’s based on the idea of Mr. Hannes Willinger, the first president of the organization committee. It was his dream to organize an alpine marathon in Liechtenstein. Himself took the measurement of different routes to find the best possibility for the marathons racetrack. He was also looking for the money to getting started and for the sponsors.
Despite its challenging route, the race is pretty fast. The race´s record for men is held by Jonathan Wyatt 2:56:27 (2008) and the women’s record is held by Aline Camboulives 3:28:23 (2015); two of the world’s best mountain marathon runners.
Experience the best of Liechtenstein
On taking part of the marathon the runners cross almost the whole country. It starts on the lower part of Liechtenstein on about 450 meters above sea level, passes the princely castle (600 MASL) and ends up in the mountains on 1600 MASL.
Most of the runners who joins the race are fascinated of the beautiful mountain scenery and intend to come back for hiking or ski holidays. Along the race route runners pass many sights such as Vaduz; a capital city with a lot of museums, restaurants and other touristic attractions, Triesenberg: traditional mountain village with a beautiful view over the Rhein valley and Malbun: a famous ski and hiking resort
Top recommendations for international participants
• Visit Vaduz and its surroundings before or after the race and spend some extra nights in one of the cosy hotels.
• Enjoy a city train ride, visit the museums and the princely winery or book an individually guided city or country tour.
• Take the chairlift in Malbun to reach the lookout point on 2000 MASL.
• Do the unique eagle adventure hike or any other hiking tour (if your legs are up for it!): Liechtenstein has over 400 kilometers of hiking trails.
Find more information about Liechtenstein and it’s attractions on www.tourismus.li
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UCMAS is a child development program based on Mental Math and the Abacus that boosts brainpower in children aged 4-13. Along with strengthening math skills, the UCMAS approach promotes whole brain development and establishes foundation building blocks like memory, concentration, creativity and problem solving – core skills that inspire greater confidence and success in all subject areas and in life. The program equips them with the skills they need to improve overall academic achievement and to confidently meet life’s challenges and achieve greatness.
Plus, our exciting classes and energetic instructors ensure that our students have fun as they learn! Since 1993, UCMAS has helped over one million children around the world Discover the Genius Within.
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U.S. Partners with Kenya Wildlife Service to Protect Wildlife
The U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Counterterrorism and the National Institute of Justice have partnered with the Kenya Wildlife Service to provide low cost aircraft to assist in the protection of Kenya wildlife. NIJ will take the lessons learned in Kenya to apply to state, local and tribal law enforcement in the United States. The project is funded through the U.S. Department of State counter-terrorism fund.
- Captain Ibrahim A. Ogle, OGW, Assistant Director Special Projects, Kenya Wildlife Service
- Maureen McGough, Policy Advisor, Office of the Director, U.S. Department of Justice, National Institute of Justice
- Matthew William Long, Regional Field Coordinator, U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Counterterrorism
- Michael O'Shea, Senior Law Enforcement Program Manager, U.S. Department of Justice, National Institute of Justice
- Antony Kiroken, Airwing Department Head, Kenya Wildlife Service
Ibrahim: Kenya, as a country, are willing, as a matter of policy dedication from Kenyans, we are willing to sacrifice, we are willing to lose men and officers, in protection of our wildlife. This goes without saying.
McGough: We're here to do a needs assessment for the Kenya Wildlife Service Aviation Airwing, and then we're going to provide low cost aviation technology based on that needs assessment, and we're going to follow it up with an operational evaluation.
Long: This program came about because we had identified that the Kenya Wildlife Service had an airwing, which was capable and which had resources and expertise. We've identified from the State Department's perspective, another U.S. government agency that has real expertise to bring to the table.
McGough: The State Department was looking for a federal agency to partner with, who had the capacity and capability of providing low-cost aviation technology for law enforcement, and the National Institute of Justice has a very reputable aviation technology program, and once we realized that the types of lessons we were learning here could easily be generalized to the United States, and actually any law enforcement agency who has an aerial surveillance mission in an undeveloped vast jurisdiction, with rough field terrain and a tight budget, we were in.
Long: The State Department's perspective is that we support through other programs, anti-poaching efforts or anti-narcotics efforts. This particular program is coming out of our counter-terrorism assistance. The goal here is to trial some of these light aviation technologies that we think will be useful and economical for law enforcement use broadly, in East Africa.
McGough: We tend to focus on the U.S. for solutions to U.S. criminal justice problems and they're problems that are shared around the world... to the extent of which we can work with the State Department and leverage their funds to both fulfill their mission on counter-terrorism, to fulfill our mission, which is to learn lessons for state and local government, and then in the process also help support and build capacity for law enforcement agencies around the world. Why wouldn't we want to operate that way? It's a win-win-win.
O'Shea: What I hope is that the lessons that we learn with Kenya could cross-apply to state and locals here, I hope the technology and equipment that we provide and the research we provide for the Kenya Wildlife Service will help with their mission, which is mainly counter-poaching. It's also looking for insurgents that are coming into their country and trying to do harm. It's also looking for people that are crossing their boarder illegally.
Ibrahim: The mandate of this organization, it's the premiere law enforcement agency inside the country Kenya that is to protect wildlife 24-hours a day.
Kiroken: Kenya conservation is divided into seven regions, which are really vast and huge areas, and it was found to be difficult to do conservation without aerial surveillance.
Ibrahim: We have realized that you cannot cover the conservation area in Kenya, which is a total of 10 percent of the Republic of Kenya, so it is important for us to have aircraft that will not only protect and patrol these parks, but also provide the different small units that we have spread over all the regional parks in protection of the wildlife of Kenya.
McGough: The ultimate goal is making sure we can get the Kenya Wildlife Service Airwing the best aviation technology for them to fulfill their mission in the most efficient and capable way. I personally have been blown-away by the work that the Kenya Wildlife Service does, particularly in light of the challenges that they are facing. Their mission is incredibly important not just for environmental or conservationist reasons but they also play an incredibly important role in Kenya, in terms of anti-terrorism and national security.
Long: National security is very important to the Kenyan people and obviously it's also important to the American people, so helping Kenya secure their boarders and secure their country helps us as well. We want to help the Kenyans protect the wildlife, which is a treasure for all of us, and we want to help them have a thriving economy as a country, which is our friend and our ally and which we want to see succeed. So from all of these perspectives this is a project that both the American people and the Kenyan people can be proud of and happy with.
O'Shea: The real impact that we hope to make here is to support the Kenya Wildlife Service so that they can stop poaching. The work that we're doing with the State Department cross-applies directly because it gives us the opportunity to trial technologies in an area that's like parts of the United States, where it's very rural and agencies don't have a lot of money. So we can trial these technologies with the Kenyan authorities and determine if it's effective or not, and then bring those technologies and this experience and lessons learned to state and local law enforcement here.
Ibrahim: We need these partnerships in order to learn from one another, to exchange experience, because regardless of whether or not a national park is in Africa or in the United States, it is trying to preserve nature and nature, as you are aware, is very important for development of mankind.
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Social Distancing Could Be The New Norm
Maintaining a continuous 6-foot barrier around ourselves is nearly impossible, but after all of this, it seems like more people than ever will probably try. And it may change how we look at crowds, at least for a little while.
Professional sporting events are a blast, but the seats are so close together in most stadiums that your leg ends up being six inches away from the person next to you and you have to share an armrest. After all of the things that we're going through and learning about with COVID-19, I'm wondering how we will ever be able to go back to our normal routines without thinking about respiratory droplets and things.
I've noticed that co-anchors on national TV morning shows have scooted their chairs further apart. And people at meetings might want to sit with a vacant chair between them at the conference table for the next little while. Oh, and I was out for a run a few days ago and one of my neighbors was walking his dog, and as I approached, he looped off the sidewalk into a wide semi-circle and got back on the straight path after I passed. This might be the new social-distancing norm. We weren't thinking about these things a month ago, and now we've got the social willies.
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Citation Information :
Tendulkar P, Pandey P, Panda PK, Bhadoria AS, Kulshreshtha P. Descriptive Epidemiology of COVID-19 Deaths during the First Wave of Pandemic in India: A Single-center Experience. Indian J Crit Care Med 2022; 26 (1):71-75.
Background: With the looming threat of recurrent waves of coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) in the presence of mutated strains, it is of paramount importance to understand the demographic and clinical attributes of COVID-19 related mortalities in each pandemic wave. This could help policy makers, public health experts, and clinicians to better plan preventive and management strategies to curb COVID-19 related mortality.
Materials and methods: This was a hospital record-based, retrospective cross-sectional descriptive study, at a tertiary care hospital in Rishikesh, India. The study included all deceased patients between March 2020 and January 2021 (first wave) who had tested positive for severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) by reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) and were hospitalized. The study was done to describe demography, clinical presentation, laboratory parameters, treatment given, and associated complications of all COVID-19 deaths.
Result: Out of 424 mortalities, 298 (70.38%) were males and 126 (29.62%) were females. Mean age of patients was 55.85 ± 16.24 years, out of which 19.5% were less than 45 years old, 33.6% were 45–60 years old, and 41.8% were more than 60 years old. Comorbidity in the form of type II diabetes mellitus was present in 41.4% [95% CI (41.4–51.1)], hypertension in 39.8% [95% CI (35.1–44.6)], and coronary artery disease (CAD) in 15.2% [95% CI (11.8–18.8)]. At the time of presentation, shortness of breath was present in 73.6% [95% CI (69.1–77.7)], fever in 64.92% [95% CI (60.1–69.4)], and cough in 46.1%, [95% CI (41.1–50.8)]. Deranged laboratory parameters were lymphopenia in 90.2% [95% CI (86.8–92.7)], transaminitis in 59.7% [95% CI (54.8–64.3)], and hypercreatinemia in 37.7% [95% CI (33.1–42.5)]. Complications manifested were acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) in 78.3% [95% CI (74–82.1)] and shock in 54.7% [95% CI (49.8–59.5)]. Median time duration between onset of symptom and hospital admission was 5 days (interquartile range (IQR) = 3–5 days) and median length of hospital stay was 9 days (IQR = 4–14 days).
Conclusion: During the first pandemic wave, COVID-19 related mortality was 2.37 times higher among males, 2.14 times in the age group >60 than <45 years. The most common associated comorbidities (>40%) were type II diabetes mellitus and hypertension. The most common associated symptoms (>60%) were shortness of breath and fever. Lymphopenia was seen in >90% cases while liver involvement in 60% and kidney in 38% cases. Median hospital stay was doubled the prehospital illness.
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Critical thinking is the route to arrive at a conclusion. That is unbiased, logical, honest, and is supported by strategically structuring thoughts with the information gathered and judged. So in this blog, I shared a critical thinking process that may help you to develop this skill.
It is analyzing, studying, verifying an issue, or subject for taking a proper decision, taking into account all issues involved.
This requires sufficient knowledge or information on the subject on which the decision had to be taken.
It is often argued that critical thinking should be taught very early in life, but with one narrow exception, that’s quite impossible.
Now there is a process of This skill. So if you follow this process step by step then you can easily develop critical thinking skills in you.
- What do I know?
- Now, what is important?
- What is missing?
- What is my plan of action?
- Some important tips
What do I know
The first thing is that too aware of your knowledge. Ask yourself what I know about the situation. What information I have about this. It will help you to go in-depth and know very well.
So before making any decision you always have to think about in what brief you know your situation. Now its time to think outstanding and become a critical thinker by applying this critical thinking process.
What is important
When you make a decision then you should think about it. What is important is based on your individual choices.
So, based on your goals, the things that would be important to you at different times and different stages of your life may differ. So, you can know what is important in some activities:
i. Being sincere to yourself about your needs, dreams and desires
ii. Separating your daily activities into the needs, dreams and desires.
These two activities will help you to know what is important and aid you in doing first the activities that will get your needs fulfilled, before moving to your wants and desires.
Now it depends on you. I know what is most important to me. Everything else comes way behind. I employ the practice of looking at the worst-case scenario when making important decisions.
What is missing
When you make a decision but not feel secure than back a step and see what is missing? Also in your life, Make a list (on paper) of what you think would comprise a ‘full life’. Compare your life to that list. Find the gap, if there are then determine if these have any appeal to you. Make a plan to do what’s needed to fill those gaps.
Now Close your eyes and envision what you have in life. Picture the people that matter to you. Picture your home, the roof that keeps you warm at night. Think about your health & personality. Now picture not having what you have. Picture being homeless, unhealthy and you will realize that nothing is missing. You will realize, all you are missing is your state of mentality. Maybe it’s a simple thought.
- Action helps you to get your dreams into reality. After all, it assures your dream is to make concrete. It describes the route your group will use its strategies to get its objective. In a simple way, a plan of action consists of a number of steps.
- Each action step to be sought should include the following information’s:
- What actions and changes will occur?
- Who will carry out these changes?
- When they will take place it, and for how long time
- What resources (i.e., money, staff) are needed to carry out these actions and changes?
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Some important tips for critical thinking
First and most important eliminate your assumptions
biases and prejudices about something. They are the enemies of critical thinking. It is all about being clear, accurate, and logical. Your assumptions, biased will make you come up with inaccurate conclusions.
Never accept anything that comes to your face as is. Critical thinking starts and driven by the why, what, how, when, and where behind things.
Just start questioning everything, even if it appears very clear. Why is tiers’ color black? Why is the tractor’s front wheel small?
Start with the basics
It is the best one in the critical thinking process and works your way up. You need basic knowledge about something first before you get to the more specific complex issues.
Elon Musk says, treat knowledge as a semantic tree make sure you always understand the fundamental principles. If you don’t structure your knowledge, critical thinking would fail.
This is absolutely crucial for all aspects of critical thinking. You should be able to identify the relationships behind things rather than getting hook up with this thing themselves. This is how innovative ideas are generated and problems are solved. you can also know what is abstractly thinking?
Zoom in and out on the things
that you are critically thinking about. In a sense, don’t be just very specific. The value of anything is determined by individual units that make up it.
And how well these units are related and work together. So you need to be in grips with the deep information and also well picture.
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A critical thinker is observant, curious, and also confused always, but he can understand the problems or situations in different ways and give the best solutions. and I think this critical thinking process will be helpful for you.
He has the best point of view or opinion. Also, he has the simplest life on earth. A critical thinker is just like a monk who has a vision, ideas, and a Beautiful Mind.
When you start thinking logically and critically, there will be fast responses to your problems that you are encountering or you were about to encounter.
You would think of logical solutions and alternatives. Chances would become high that this world may become better.
Without thinking critically, you would be at the state that existed thousands of years ago, where people believed in everything that they saw and experienced as magic, not as natural phenomena.
Critical thinking gives you the ability to form clear judgments to separate what is true and what is imaginary. It takes into account both your own internal experience and the external world.
The critical thinker is consistent, connects ideas, uses facts and logic judges the relevancy and irrelevancy of dreams and ideas, recognizes and avoids mistakes and preconceptions, form sound argument, analyzes and solve problems, and is able to explain and justify your own beliefs and conclusions to others.
I think there is no single formula to develop critical thinking skills in you but there are some best tips and tricks which you can follow –
1) Collect all information
2) Understand terms and concepts
3) Question how this fact was derived.
4) Question the source of information?
5) Question the conclusion
6) Learn to be comfortable with a lack of knowledge.
7) Examine the big picture.
8) Study and analyze the whole system.
9) Look for hidden causes and effects.
10) Avoid simplistic thinking.
Critical thinking is an attempt to analyze and evaluate conclusions and arguments. It means to make the right judgment or decision.
Critical thinking is all about to analyzation of facts and information. Is it true, useful, complete, relevant, or does it affect what I currently believe or know? It is a set of processes in experiences and observations that inform your actions.
Problem-solving is all about solving, relieving, or correcting a condition that interferes with achieving desired or normal results. Problem-solving may require critical thinking in acquiring the knowledge or information needed to solve a problem.
Yes it is soft skill; it is also a part of personality development.
I think the best way to learn this skill is – after every important lecture, meeting, or life event, take 30 seconds and prepare a summary of what happened in that meeting or lecture. Don’t just list the details of what happened.
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Dental implants are a common choice for bringing back lost teeth. Many patients are extremely pleased with their new implants, thanks to their numerous benefits. However, the implication and the treatment for placing them are not well comprehended by the general public. Therefore, there are numerous misunderstandings about them.
Myths Surrounding Dental Implant
Dental implants have entirely changed the game when it involves tooth replacement. However, although this sophisticated dentistry strategy has assisted numerous patients in regaining beautiful, full smiles, numerous myths continue about it in public awareness. Here are four misunderstandings regarding dental implants you can dispel relating to restoring lost teeth.
Use these details in conjunction with valid data to effectively restore your smile’s health, fullness, and beauty.
Myth 1: Dental Implant Procedure Is Risky
The success rate of dental implants is exceptionally high, ranging from 95% to 99%. However, a detailed consultation, exam, and planning process will happen before the implant procedure to ensure a satisfying outcome. Therefore, it is essential to find a dentist from Las Vegas dental care clinics you can trust and have them perform a detailed evaluation to ensure your oral health is in good working order before they even consider suggesting this operation.
Myth 2: Dental Implant Surgery is Painful
Dentists utilize current anesthesia, sedation, and surgical procedures and technology to let patients recover from dental implant surgery as quickly as possible. In many cases, implantation is an outpatient procedure that can be completed under local anesthetic using sedation dentistry.
Regular doses of over-the-counter pain medication, paired with easy self-care activities like washing with salt water, are often all that is needed in the first couple of days. Many individuals return to work and normal tasks within two to three days of the surgery. If you have still doubts about the procedure, you can look for tooth implants testimonials to know their experience with this surgery.
Myth 3: Dental Implants Are Pricey
“It’s extremely costly to get implants for your teeth” That’s what every person assumes, all the time. Although dental implants are much more pricey at first than other tooth-replacement selections, there are substantial advantages that make dental implants less expensive over time. Dental implants are a long-lasting choice for people who have lost their natural teeth. Dental implants keep your jawbone from atrophying, sparing you money in the long run.
There will be no more dental consultations that are as well pricey. If you can not spend for dental implants ahead of time, many flexible financing choices are offered to you, including short- and long-term programs. On the other hand, if you do not have a sufficient budget, you can have the best dentures for the meantime while saving up to get a dental implant.
Myth 4: It Looks Unnatural and Feels Fake
Dental implants are nearly indistinguishable from natural teeth in both look and function. The titanium rod is put into the jawbone immediately. As the roots of a normal tooth do, the two turned into one with time. Prosthetic teeth consist of lasting products that thoroughly copy the appearance of your real teeth, so even someone checking out them attentively should not see the difference.
It is difficult to compare dental implants and natural teeth while eating and speaking.
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As the sunlight streams into the top-floor cafe at the offices of the Department of Communications, Marine and Natural Resources on Adelaide Road, poverty-stricken villages in India and Namibia seem a long way away, but decisions being made in this building could have far-reaching consequences for these and other countries over the coming years.
This much is clear after a lengthy discussion with Terry Culver, director of global partnerships and communications at the Global e-Schools and Communities Initiative (GeSCI), a little known non-governmental organisation (NGO), which operates out of the government department’s offices.
GeSCI (pronounced ‘Gessy’) seeks to raise the educational standards of communities in the developing world through the application of ICT and help achieve the Millennium Development Goals agreed by UN member states.
The concept of GeSCI was established by the UN ICT Task Force in 2003, but it is not a UN body as such. “Our role is complementary to the task force; we’re a manifestation of many of the ideas that came out of it but we’re not part of it,” says US-born Culver, who moved from New York earlier this year to join GeSCI.
The organisation is modest in scale. It has eight people based in Dublin plus a further two working on the ground in Namibia and India. It is funded by the Irish, Swedish and Swiss Governments, each of which has committed funding of €1m over three years. A fourth core backer of the project, Canada, is also expected to pledge funding.
GeSCI had its official launch at the global forum of the UN ICT Task Force, when it met in Dublin for the first time in April this year. At that event, GeSCI held two round-table discussions on its current projects. “We emerged with a roadmap of the needs, ambitions and awareness of the challenges. We used the event as an accelerator — a good excuse to get everyone to the table and focus on the issues at hand,” says Culver.
GeSCI buys heavily into the partnership model, believing it can be most effective by working alongside developing countries rather than trying to impose solutions from the outside. “Our most effective role is to help a government in a particular country come to its own understanding of what it wants to do,” Culver explains.
There is also a clear recognition that each country is different and will therefore require tailored solutions rather than off-the-shelf technology. “For instance, Namibia has a relatively small population spread out over a great distance, so connectivity is going to be the big problem. In India, a densely populated country, the challenges will be different,” notes Culver.
GeSCI has helped the Namibian Government formulate its first ICT in education policy, which was formally launched last month. There is also a number of working groups in that country exploring issues such as access, connectivity and content. The programmes developed have to take account of unique local conditions. For example, in Namibia, as with most sub-Saharan countries, AIDS is widespread and many young teachers are among the victims. “We’re going to lose a whole generation at the peak of their productive lives,” notes Culver with sadness. “With teachers dying, the solution we come up with might include remote learning for students.”
In India, GeSCI’s work is less well advanced. The plan there is to choose two states — perhaps one mainly rural, the other urban — which will be the focus of regional ICT-in-education efforts. Discussions are under way with several candidate states and GeSCI expects to have chosen its partner states and signed memorandums of understanding with them by September.
But these initiatives are only the start, says Culver, who predicts GeSCI’s growth over the coming years will be “exponential”. He says the organisation hopes to be working with three to six developing countries by the end of 2006 and eight or more by 2010.
Getting to this scale of activity will of course require enormous resources, he concedes, which is where the idea of partnership really kicks in. The reality is that GeSCI cannot act in isolation — it will be a member of a consortium of interested parties involved in a project including national governments, donor countries, the private sector, local communities and international organisations such as the World Bank.
“The concept of multi-stakeholder partnerships has caught on in development circles but has not yet prove itself. Managing such partnerships is going to be one of the biggest challenges we face,” notes Culver.
He also acknowledges that GeSCI will have to establish its reputation by creating a track record of successful projects. “Proven projects will help catalyse other projects,” he says.
What defines a successful project is open to question however. Culver points out that “it is easy to drop technology into a developing country and show results” but GeSCI, he says, is more interested in achieving lasting success, not just ticking boxes here and there.
One criticism that could be made of organisations such as GeSCI is that they seeking to deploy technology in countries where more basic human needs such as food and healthcare are not being met. Culver is quick to respond: “Yes, there are immediate interventions needed for life and death issues, but at the same time there has to be room for long-term projects to try to solve the problems.
“ICT is the tool,” he adds. “Our role is to figure out how ICT can help — if at all.”
Perhaps the most refreshing aspect of GeCSI is that it is not just another UN offshoot based in a big metropolis. That Dublin rather than New York, Paris or London should be chosen as its international headquarters may seem surprising but it was quite deliberate, says Culver. “Ireland has established a reputation in moving from an agrarian to a knowledge economy and there’s lessons there that can be applied to the developing world. Secondly, we wanted to demonstrate a degree of independence from the UN. We also wanted to make a statement that development doesn’t have to happen in New York; it can happen all over the world.”
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Pet owners want their furry buddies to live a long life, so they try to give them the best quality foods and shower them with lots of love each day. However, raising happy and healthy pets includes excellent hurdles. In addition, most pet parents are not really that informed in looking after their fur friends. As we get going, we will talk about the typical mistakes of most pet owners that lead to their pets dying earlier.
What Shortens Your Pet’s Life?
While most pet parents want the best for their dearest furry companions, some decisions they believe are safe and nontoxic can really lessen their pet’s life expectancy. Here are five habits that can shorten your pet’s life without you realizing it.
1. Avoiding sterilization
Not spaying or neutering your pet can put their health in danger. According to investigations, sterilizing your pet despite gender can help prevent some reproductive cancer types and behavioral problems. Furthermore, sterilizing your pet features many benefits and health advantages you might not even know yet. Taking your furry companion to veterinary surgeons to get the solution done deserves the time and money if you know its benefits and significance to your pet’s life.
2. Not preventing parasites
Fleas, ticks, lice, and internal parasites are common pests that infest most pet dogs and cats. Neglecting these pesky critters can trigger illnesses in your pets and even put their life at risk. Sadly, these pests are resilient, and sometimes the most available herbal or treatment products can not eradicate them all at once. So ask your veterinarian about the most reliable parasite prevention products and effective deworming medicines to guarantee your pet’s safety.
3. Skipping annual medical checkups
While taking your pets to a dog vet in Long Beach for their yearly or routine examinations is annoying, it could help lengthen their lives. Getting your dog examined at least once or twice a year can conserve their life. However, even healthy and lively pets still have to see a vet, as you never know if something within them is brewing.
While there isn’t much you may do when symptoms of certain conditions appear on your pet, immediate treatments can help boost their quantity and quality of life. However, this is just possible with yearly or routine checkups as vet prescription medications are the only ones recommended to use for pets.
4. Neglecting their oral health
Periodontitis or gum disease in pets can affect their health and even cause many health problems. The accumulation of germs in their mouth can damage their teeth’s health and might trigger kidney and heart diseases when disregarded. Caring for your canine’s oral health is a simple task to protect their teeth and maintain their eating habits.
Bringing your pet to a pet dentist for their routine vet dental cleaning, buying them safe chew toys that can help remove tooth plaque, and brushing their teeth every day can help keep their dental and entire health.
5. Feeding them unhealthy table scraps
Many foods are healthy for humans but not for pets. There are foods you should never give to your dogs, especially if it’s table scrap and not their normal dog food diet. Human foods that are high in fats and sugar are dangerous to them. Foods like chocolate, onion, garlic, and grapes must never be fed to dogs as these are toxic even when taken in small amounts. | <urn:uuid:c62e9d76-6b6b-4879-a19e-3e6b3e887c8a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://millennialmotivator.ca/five-ways-you-could-be-shortening-your-pets-life/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572198.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815175725-20220815205725-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.960917 | 696 | 2.375 | 2 |
Taste Real Flavors
The fruits and vegetables you buy at the farmers market are the freshest and tastiest available. Fruits are allowed to ripen fully in the field and are brought directly to you—no long-distance shipping, no gassing to simulate the ripening process, no sitting for weeks in storage. This food is as real as it gets—fresh from the farm.
2. Enjoy the Season
The food you buy at the farmers market is seasonal. It is fresh and delicious and reflects the truest flavors. Shopping and cooking from the farmers market helps you to reconnect with the cycles of nature in our region. As you look forward to asparagus in spring, savor sweet corn in summer, or bake pumpkins in autumn, you reconnect with the earth, the weather, and the turning of the year.
3. Support Family Farmers
Family farmers need your support, now that large agribusiness dominates food production in the U.S. Small family farms have a hard time competing in the food marketplace. Buying directly from farmers gives them a better return for their produce and gives them a fighting chance in today’s globalized economy.
4. Protect the Environment
Food in the U.S. travels an average of 1,500 miles to get to your plate. All this shipping uses large amounts of natural resources (especially fossil fuels), contributes to pollution, and creates trash with extra packaging. Conventional agriculture also uses many more resources than sustainable agriculture and pollutes water, land, and air with toxic agricultural by-products. Food at the farmers market is transported shorter distances and is generally grown using methods that minimize the impact on the earth.
5. Nourish Yourself
Much food found in grocery stores is highly processed and grown using pesticides, hormones, antibiotics, and genetic modification. Some of it has been irradiated, waxed, or gassed in transit. These practices may have negative effects on human health. In contrast, most food found at the farmers market is minimally processed, and many of our farmers go to great lengths to grow the most nutritious produce possible by using sustainable techniques, picking produce right before the market, and growing heirloom varieties.
6. Discover the Spice of Life: Variety
At the farmers market you find an amazing array of produce that you don’t see in your average supermarket: red carrots, a rainbow of heirloom tomatoes, purple cauliflower, stinging nettles, green garlic, watermelon radishes, quail eggs, maitake mushrooms, and much, much more. It is a wonderful opportunity to savor the biodiversity of our planet.
7. Promote Humane Treatment of Animals
At the farmers market, you can find meats, cheeses, and eggs from animals that have been raised without hormones or antibiotics, who have grazed on green grass and eaten natural diets, and who have been spared the cramped and unnatural living conditions of feedlots and cages that are typical of animal agriculture.
8. Know Where Your Food Comes From
A regular trip to a farmers market is one of the best ways to connect with where your food comes from. Meeting and talking to farmers and food artisans is a great opportunity to learn more about how and where food is produced. CUESA’s seller profiles that hang at the booths give you even more opportunities to learn about the people who work hard to bring you the most delicious and nutritious food around. Profiles, articles about sellers, and a map of farms are also available on this website.
9. Learn Cooking Tips, Recipes, and Meal Ideas
Few grocery store cashiers or produce stockers will give you tips on how to cook the ingredients you buy, but farmers, ranchers, and artisans at the farmers market are often passionate cooks with plenty of free advice about how to cook the foods they are selling. You can also attend free seasonal cooking demonstrations by leading Bay Area chefs and evening classes on food preservation and other kitchen skills.
10. Connect with Your Community
Wouldn’t you rather stroll amidst outdoor stalls of fresh produce on a sunny day than roll your cart around a grocery store with artificial lights and piped in music? Coming to the farmers market makes shopping a pleasure rather than a chore. The farmers market is a community hub—a place to meet up with your friends, bring your children, or just get a taste of small-town life in the midst of our wonderful big city. | <urn:uuid:edff703f-b46e-46e5-a4f4-c03f9de87b1e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://midtownfarmers.com/10-reasons-support-farmers-markets/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817001643-20220817031643-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.932564 | 914 | 2.234375 | 2 |
On March 1, 2013, sequestration-fueled across-the-board federal budget cuts have had a profound impact on on the most vulnerable of our society, American seniors.
Nearly one in every 12 seniors over the age of 60 is “food insecure”, according to new research released this week in partnership with the National Foundation to End Senior Hunger (NFESH). That number represents 4.8million seniors, double the number of elderly going hungry in 2001.
Feeding America, the nation's leading domestic hunger-relief charity, estimates that the number of food insecure seniors is projected to increase by 50% when the youngest of the Baby Boom Generation reaches age 60 in 2025.
But even in the face of these staggering numbers, budget cuts have caused the vital programs for seniors in need, like Meals on Wheels, to cut back their assistance. In a new survey released by MOWAA, here’s how the budget cuts are affecting Meals on Wheels programs around the country:
- Programs have been forced to cut, on average, 364 meals per week;
- Over 70% are establishing or adding to existing waiting lists;
- Programs have increased their waiting lists on average by 58 seniors;
- 40% of programs responding have eliminated staff positions; and
- One in six are closing congregate meals sites or home-delivered meal programs.
Credit: Meals on Wheels Association of America
Ellie Hollander, President and CEO of the Meals On Wheels Association of America, testified on June 19, 2013 at a U.S. Senate hearing on senior hunger and poverty. At that hearing Ms. Hollander explained that for every $1 invested in Meals on Wheels programs, Medicaid sees a $50 savings because seniors are able to remain healthy and independent in their homes as opposed to needing nursing home care.
Caregiverlist has long championed Meals on Wheels, the national organization dedicated to eradicating senior hunger in America through community-based programs. In addition to providing what could be a senior’s only hot meal for the day, Meals on Wheels, in many instances, provides the only opportunity for human interaction to many elderly shut-ins. To learn more about MOWAA or to locate a local Meals on Wheels program, visit the MOWAA website.
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The academic behind an app that harvested data from millions of Facebook users said Wednesday he was being scapegoated in an online privacy row that has rocked the social media giant.
British data firm Cambridge Analytica (CA) and Facebook are accused of improperly using the data for US President Donald Trump’s election 2016 campaign.
The scandal, which has seen the suspension of CA’s chief executive, wiped out $60 billion of Facebook‘s market value since the start of the week, Bloomberg News reported Wednesday.
However, both firms have denied any wrongdoing and instead blamed the app’s inventor, Aleksandr Kogan, for misusing the information.
But Kogan hit back Wednesday, saying that CA had assured him his activities were “perfectly legal and within the terms of service” of Facebook.
“I’m being basically used as a scapegoat by both Facebook and Cambridge Analytica,” he said.
“We thought we were acting perfectly appropriately. We thought we were doing something that was really normal.
“We were assured by Cambridge Analytica that everything was perfectly legal and within the terms of service.”
The University of Cambridge psychologist behind the personality survey This Is Your Digital Life told the BBC that around 200,000 people used his app and around 30 million US Facebook users’ details were harvested.
The app’s vast reach beyond its users happened by scooping up data from their friends on Facebook, which says the data was taken without its knowledge.
Kogan said CA approached him to do the work but did not know how the firm would use the personal data collected, leaving him “stunned” by the allegations against him.
Kogan said he strongly regretted not asking more questions about the work he did for CA.
“One of the great mistakes I did here was I just didn’t ask enough questions,” he said.
“I had never done a commercial project, I didn’t really have any reason to doubt their sincerity.
He added: “My motivation was to get a dataset I could do research on; I have never profited from this in any way personally.”
Pressure on Facebook, CA
The scandal erupted over the weekend after a CA whistleblower said the CA was able to create psychological profiles on 50 million Facebook users via a personality prediction app developed by Kogan and downloaded by 270,000 people.
Lawmakers on both sides of the Atlantic have demanded answers in the scandal, which has ratcheted up the pressure on Facebook — already under fire for allowing fake news to proliferate on its platform during the US presidential election.
Kogan said he would be prepared to appear before British or US lawmakers if requested.
CA suspended its chief executive Alexander Nix on Tuesday over the row as recordings emerged of him boasting that the firm played an expansive role in Trump’s 2016 election campaign, doing all of its research, analytics as well as digital and television campaigns.
In undercover filming captured by Channel 4 television, he is also seen boasting about entrapping politicians and secretly operating in elections around the world through shadowy front companies.
In the footage, Nix slights US representatives on the House Intelligence Committee to whom he gave evidence last year, claiming its Democrats are motivated by “sour grapes” and Republicans asked few questions.
“They’re politicians, they’re not technical. They don’t understand how it works,” he told an undercover reporter.
He also outlines the use of a secret self-destructing email system.
“There’s no evidence, there’s no paper trail, there’s nothing,” he said of the tool, which deletes emails two hours after they have been read.
US media reported Tuesday evening that the Federal Trade Commission is investigating Facebook over the data scandal.
Facebook said its top executives were “working around the clock to get all the facts”.
“The entire company is outraged we were deceived. We are committed to vigorously enforcing our policies to protect people’s information and will take whatever steps are required to see that this happens,” the firm said.
Facebook shares fell 2.6 percent on Tuesday to close at $168.15, adding to Monday’s big decline.
European Union officials have called for an urgent investigation while British, US and EU lawmakers have asked Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg to give evidence.
Andrea Jelinek, chair of the EU’s WP29 data protection regulator, said: “Personal data cannot be used without full transparency on how it is used and with whom it is shared.
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Our goal is to have a trap in every 5th backyard in communities who want to protect native species and make their neighbourhood predator free.
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We select outstanding predator free communities from around the country and give them funding to purchase trapping equipment. We also offer these groups ongoing support, information and advice.
We support over 90 backyard communities around the country, find out where they are working on our map.
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- Applications open on August 2 and close on August 21.
- Applicable groups receive between $1,000 and $5,000 funding based on need and size of the community .
- Only one application per community.
- To be eligible for funding you need to be targeting backyards, not lifestyle blocks or farms.
13 communities were funded in our April 2022 funding round.
About our funding
At a glance:
- Funding is available to backyard trapping groups only.
- Funding can be used towards community spaces (marae, schools, RSA’s etc).
- School-led groups are not eligible to apply for funding.
- Reserves, lifestyle blocks, farms, council and government land are not covered.
- Programmes must target at least one of the following rats, stoats, ferrets, weasels or possums.
- Trap libraries are not covered.
To be eligible to apply for funding a community needs to be a suburb or town, or a community of rural houses clustered together. The programme specifically targets rats, stoats, ferrets, weasels and possums. It doesn’t cover predator control on reserves, lifestyle blocks, farms, councils or government land. If you are a backyard trapping group, you can also use this funding towards trapping in community spaces such as schools, marae, community and scout halls, bowling clubs and RSA’s.
Funding covers the purchase of humane traps, pre-made tunnels and materials to make your own tunnels. Humane traps are those that have been tested and meet the National Animal Welfare Advisory Committee (NAWAC) standard.
Please take the time to review the FAQ’s below.
What support do selected communities receive?
If you are selected as one of our Predator Free Backyard Communities, you will receive:
- Funding to enable the purchasing of equipment (traps and monitoring) and support material.
- Support to access best practice (people and information), capturing data/information etc, networks and connections with other predator control communities and leaders.
- Promotion through local and national media (where possible).
Who can apply for funding?
Any community with a plan to control predators throughout their neighbourhood can apply for funding – you don’t have to be a registered charity or conservation group. You just need to get together with a few like minded people in your community with urban backyards, work out what you’re aiming to do and how you plan to do it BUT make sure you answer the quick funding test below.
Quick test to see whether you qualify for funding
Given we run a residential backyard programme, it’s important that the size of your backyard isn’t too big! The easiest way for us to know whether you may qualify for funding is by answering the question below and whilst it may seem somewhat random, it’s a great indicator of how big your backyard really is!
How do you mow your lawn?
- mow it by foot, you’re residential, so yes
- need a ride-on mower, we consider you a lifestyle block, so unfortunately you’re not eligible for this funding.
- need a tractor, you’re probably a farm, so unfortunately you’re not eligible for this funding.
What support will we receive?
We are here to help you facilitate and set-up your predator free backyard community programme.
Support may include enabling you to organise community meetings, setting up a Facebook page, account management services, purchase of products and provision of support materials. We will work with successful communities to figure out the best support for them.
What introduced predators are targeted as part of this funding?
Our programme focuses on the removal of rats, possums, stoats, ferrets and weasels.
What does the funding cover within the community?
The funding is primarily for urban backyards but if you are a small rural village with houses close together then you may be eligible. If you are a backyard trapping group, you can also use some of your funding towards placing traps in other parts of your community such as your school, marae and other community spaces e.g. community and scout halls, bowling clubs and RSA’s. This programme doesn’t cover trapping on reserves, lifestyle blocks, farms, Council, Government land. Trap Libraries are not eligible for this fund.
How much funding could we potentially receive and what will it cover?
Successful applicants will receive between $1,000 and $5,000. The amount you receive will depend on the size of your community and what you are trying to achieve. We will discuss individual needs with each successful community.
Funds can be used for the following:
- pre-trapping accessories such as chew cards, tracking tunnels etc.
- traps and pre-made tunnels
- building supplies for making tunnels (if required)
- advertising & marketing materials and some event costs (these by negotiation).
In New Zealand, trap use is regulated by the Animal Welfare Act 1999. To enable the welfare performance of traps to be assessed in a standardised way, the National Animal Welfare Advisory Committee (NAWAC) has developed a trap-testing guideline.
All traps available under our programme have passed/met NAWAC testing guidelines.
Can we sell our traps to our community?
We recommend you sell your traps at a reasonable and affordable price to your community. Prior experience has shown us that if people have to invest a small amount in their equipment they show more ownership and continue predator control for longer than if they are given free equipment. Selling your traps also enables you to invest in more equipment to make them available to more people.
How do we source products?
We will provide account management services to successful communities, including the purchase and supply of products.
What are the Trust’s expectations?
We are keen to share your stories about your predator activities – the good, the bad and the ugly. This helps others learn from your experiences and may encourage other communities to take up the predator free challenge.
We are keen to know how you are doing, what progress you’re making and what we can do to help. We ask you to share the successes you have, your results, the changes you are noticing and anything else you think might be of interest. We love hearing your progress.
What about pets?
We take great care to avoid any harm to pets. All the rat traps we supply come in tunnels that protect pets (and kids) from the trap itself. If you’re concerned about anything in particular please talk to us.
As the leader/coordinator of the group, what if my circumstances change or I want to hand over responsibility?
This is a great question and something worth considering when setting up your community group and making your plan. You need to think about the support around you. It often works if there are a couple of leaders so there is a bit of backup. We recommend you have a few people around you to help encourage others to get involved. | <urn:uuid:becaf5fe-003f-4d49-8796-41c8aa29d11c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://predatorfreenz.org/about-us/our-programmes/predator-free-backyard-communities/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817001643-20220817031643-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.940523 | 1,564 | 1.59375 | 2 |
We are thrilled that Fenghuang “Frank” Zhan, M.D., Ph.D., Myeloma Center research director at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS), has received two grants totaling almost $3.14 million to study the molecular genetics and drug resistance of multiple myeloma.
One $1.4 million grant from the US Department of Defense will allow Dr. Zhan to study the biology of myeloma cells that survive beyond intensive chemotherapy given during stem cell transplant. His goal is to find an immunotherapy treatment that could be given after stem cell transplant to kill the remaining drug-resistant cells. He believes that relapses of myeloma are caused by these drug-resistant cells that could have CD24 present on their cells. He has identified a therapeutic antibody called SWA11 that could be used to target the remaining cells. This is the same research funded in part by a prior Myeloma Crowd Research Initiative. Dr. Zhan holds the Morrison Family Endowed Chair in Myeloma Research. He noted:
“Once the biology of myeloma stem cells is better understood, more novel therapeutic targets can be created and tested, with the ultimate goal being to develop a novel therapy and prevent myeloma relapses.”
The additional $1.74 million grant from the National Institutes of Health will look at two genes (NEK2 and PD-L1) to discover how they potentially drive the growth of multiple myeloma. Patients who have genes mutated genes are usually at high risk of relapse. We know that PD-1 and PD-L1 checkpoint inhibitors have been successfully used in other blood cancers, but not in myeloma to date. Dr. Zhan believes that PD-L1 is most common in myeloma patients who are considered "hyperdiploid" or who have extra copies of chromosomes. PD-L1 studies have not targeted these types of myeloma patients. For patients with low PD-L1 levels, the combined NEK2 and PD-L1 treatment could be effective.
Dr. Zhan's decades-long former research contributions at UAMS, Huntsman Cancer Institute and the University of Iowa in partnership with Dr. Guido Tricot has focused heavily on myeloma genetics. Clinical Director of the Myeloma Center at UAMS Frits van Rhee stated:
“Dr. Zhan’s research in identifying and targeting myeloma stem cells and the genomic classification of the disease has and will continue to help us to further the innovative treatment we have offered for more than 30 years now.”
Dr. Zhan received his medical degree and Ph.D. in cancer molecular genetics from Hunan Medical University in Changsha, P.R., China, and his dental degree from West China Medical University in Chengdu, P.R., China. He is a professor of medicine in the UAMS College of Medicine. He previously worked at UAMS from 2002 to 2008 as an assistant professor in the College of Medicine.
Before returning to UAMS in early 2020, Zhan was a professor of medicine at the University of Iowa and an adjunct professor with the University of Iowa’s College of Dentistry and Dental Clinics. He also previously worked at the Utah Blood and Marrow Transplant and Myeloma Program at the University of Utah’s Huntsman Cancer Institute and the Holden Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of Iowa Health Care in Iowa City, Iowa.
We congratulate Dr. Zhan on this major research award and hope it will bring important knowledge from the bench to the clinic for the treatment of relapsing patients.
about the author
Myeloma survivor, patient advocate, wife, mom of 6. Believer that patients can help accelerate a cure by weighing in and participating in clinical research. Founder of Myeloma Crowd by HealthTree and the HealthTree Foundation. | <urn:uuid:4ed36c9c-4c51-45c7-aa83-c9106f7f05ef> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.myelomacrowd.org/myeloma/community/articles/dr-fenghuang-frank-zhan-m-d-ph-d-awarded-nearly-3-14-million-to-study-myeloma-genetics-and-drug-resistance | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571909.51/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813051311-20220813081311-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.952378 | 813 | 1.53125 | 2 |
This bronze lamp, mounted on an eagle's claw was made in the second half of the 19th century after Severo da Ravenna in Padua or Ravenna who was well known for producing lamps in the first half of the 16th century. The lamp is the head of a person of African descent with a slave collar. Their mouth forms the burner and a hinged cover to the oil hole is on the crown of the head. The claw of an eagle cast from nature represents a particularly popular element for oil lamps in the Paduan Renaissance. Apart from the decorative purpose, it also provides good stability of the object, comparable to an antique tripod. | <urn:uuid:4a985a9f-837a-409b-8d06-7f1098052502> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/artifact/oil-lamp | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572198.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815175725-20220815205725-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.960559 | 142 | 2.90625 | 3 |
Remote sensing in support of artisanal and small-scale gold mining (ASGM) policy development, implementation and evaluation
This project is being settled in the frame of a wider study that aims to support: (1) national and regional artisanal and small-scale mining (ASGM) policy development and evaluation; (2) environmental risk assessment in aquatic environments affected by ASGM activity; (3) the further development of the guidance for national action plans (NAPs) on ASGM; and (4) the monitoring guidance work advanced by the Secretariat of the Minamata Convention for the effectiveness evaluation. Guidance is provided in the form of a technical background-document that discusses the influence ASGM activity has on the aquatic environment; discusses the benefits and challenges in using remote sensing technologies and in-situ environmental monitoring of mercury (and related support parameters) in water, sediment and selected biota, individually and together; and suggests a strategy and methods for ASGM site-identification and prioritization, as well as, environmental sampling, chemical analysis and data-treatment, including SOPs, in support of the study's objectives.
More specifically the tasks of the MapX team in this project are the following: - Contribute to the drafting of a technical guidance document aiming at showing the benefits and challenges of using remote sensing technologies to support artisanal and small-scale gold mining (ASGM) policy development, implementation and evaluation. These guidelines are designed as a supplement to the UNEP guidance document on "Developing a National Action Plan to Reduce, and Where Feasible, Eliminate Mercury Use in Artisanal and Small-Scale Gold Mining", which offers overarching guidance to countries formulating ASGM national action plans (NAPs) for the Minamata Convention. - Implement remote sensing methods to illustrate the technical guidance document with concrete use cases. - Develop a story map into MapX in order to showcase the results of the use cases. - Coordinate with a Ghanaian African researcher to get a regional and a national perspective on the study. - Disseminate the results of the project in international conferences. | <urn:uuid:69e2173d-2fb9-40ed-be69-9cf00c8b134d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.mapx.org/projects/remote-sensing-for-asgm/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572198.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815175725-20220815205725-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.899665 | 433 | 2.40625 | 2 |
Martifur 100mg ?
What is Nitrofurantoin?
Nitrofurantoin is an antibiotic drug that is mainly prescribed for the treatment of urinary tract infections. This medication may also be used against other conditions not listed here. Nitrofurantoin is sold under various trade names, a couple of which are Macrodantin and Martifur (made by Walter Bushnell)
Important Information about Nitrofurantoin
You should not take Nitrofurantoin (Macrodantin, Martifur) if you allergic to it, or if you have severe kidney disease, urination problems, or a history of jaundice or liver problems caused by Nitrofurantoin. Women in their last 2 to 4 weeks of pregnancy should also not take this medicine.
Before taking Nitrofurantoin, notify your doctor if you have or have ever had kidney disease, anemia, diabetes, an electrolyte imbalance or vitamin B deficiency, a genetic enzyme deficiency, or any type of debilitating disease.
It is recommended that you take Nitrofurantoin with food. Do not use any type of antacids while taking this medicine. Ask your doctor if you need to use an antacid during treatment with Nitrofurantoin.
Use Nitrofurantoin medication regularly and for the complete duration of time as prescribed. Symptoms improve usually before the entire course of the medication is over.
Before taking Nitrofurantoin
To be sure that Nitrofurantoin (Macrodantin, Martifur) is safe for you, let your doctor known in advance if you have any of these conditions: kidney disease, anemia, diabetes, an electrolyte imbalance or vitamin B deficiency, glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD) deficiency, or any type of debilitating disease.
How should I take Nitrofurantoin?
All medications must be taken exactly as prescribed by the doctor or as mentioned in the medication label or patient leaflet which comes along with the medication. Directions may defer for different conditions and may depend on other factors. Always store Nitrofurantoin in a cool and dry place.
What if I miss a dose?
Missing even a single dose of Nitrofurantoin can be detrimental for your condition. But if you miss a dose due to uncontrollable reasons, take it as soon as you remember it. However, skip the miss dose if it is too long since the original time to take the dose and very close to the time for the next scheduled dose. Do not take extra medicine to compensate for the missed dose.
What if I overdose?
If you think that you have taken an overdose of Nitrofurantoin, contact the Doctor immediately for further course of action.
What should I avoid while taking Nitrofurantoin?
Antibiotics medicine can cause diarrhea. Do not take any diarrhea medicine without asking your doctor. Also, do not consume any type of antacids while taking Nitrofurantoin. Ask your doctor about the proper type of antacid to be had.
Nitrofurantoin Side Effects
Some common side effects of Nitrofurantoin are nausea, vomiting, loss of appetite, or headache. To minimize nausea, take this medication with food. If any of these conditions do not vanish after sometime or deteriorate further, seek medical attention right away. Dark yellow or brown urine may result while taking this medicine. This effect is not harmless and will disappear when you stop taking this medicine.
Nitrofurantoin may cause rare but serious side effects such as lung problems (rarely fatal). Symptoms of lung problems include chest pain, shortness of breath, or unusual/persistent cough. Other serious side effects are new signs of infection (fever, persistent sore throat), easy bruising/bleeding, mental/mood changes, persistent or severe headache, or vision changes. Contact your doctor if you experience any serious side effects.
The list of side effects mentioned may not be comprehensive.?
Nitrofurantoin Dosing Information
You must follow the exact dosage of Nitrofurantoin as advised by your doctor. Do not alter it under any circumstances without your doctor’s advice.
Interaction with other drugs
You must share in advance with your doctor, the list of all medications which you may be using, especially these: magnesium salicylates, choline magnesium, and probenecid. These drugs may interact with Nitrofurantoin. However, this is incomplete information as mentioning all the details here is out of scope for this guide. There may be other medications. Never start a new medication with consulting a doctor. | <urn:uuid:5bfcedf3-8827-4247-b852-c1d445dc6d25> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://ourmedilife.com/product/martifur-100mg-tablet-14s-2/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572198.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815175725-20220815205725-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.885632 | 969 | 1.96875 | 2 |
AWS Shield is a managed Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) protection service that safeguards applications running on AWS. AWS Shield provides always-on detection and automatic inline mitigations that minimize application downtime and latency, so there is no need to engage AWS Support to benefit from DDoS protection. There are two tiers of AWS Shield - Standard and Advanced.
All AWS customers benefit from the automatic protections of AWS Shield Standard, at no additional charge. AWS Shield Standard defends against most common, frequently occurring network and transport layer DDoS attacks that target your web site or applications. When you use AWS Shield Standard with Amazon CloudFront and Amazon Route 53, you receive comprehensive availability protection against all known infrastructure (Layer 3 and 4) attacks.
For higher levels of protection against attacks targeting your applications running on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), Elastic Load Balancing (ELB), Amazon CloudFront, AWS Global Accelerator and Amazon Route 53 resources, you can subscribe to AWS Shield Advanced. In addition to the network and transport layer protections that come with Standard, AWS Shield Advanced provides additional detection and mitigation against large and sophisticated DDoS attacks, near real-time visibility into attacks, and integration with AWS WAF, a web application firewall. AWS Shield Advanced also gives you 24x7 access to the AWS Shield Response Team (SRT) and protection against DDoS related spikes in your Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), Elastic Load Balancing (ELB), Amazon CloudFront, AWS Global Accelerator and Amazon Route 53 charges.
AWS Shield Advanced is available globally on all Amazon CloudFront, AWS Global Accelerator, and Amazon Route 53 edge locations. You can protect your web applications hosted anywhere in the world by deploying Amazon CloudFront in front of your application. Your origin servers can be Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3), Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), Elastic Load Balancing (ELB), or a custom server outside of AWS. You can also enable AWS Shield Advanced directly on Elastic Load Balancing or Amazon EC2 in the following AWS Regions - Northern Virginia, Ohio, Oregon, Northern California, Montreal, São Paulo, Ireland, Frankfurt, London, Paris, Stockholm, Singapore, Tokyo, Sydney, Seoul, Mumbai, Milan, and Cape Town.
Seamless integration and deployment
Your AWS resources automatically have AWS Shield Standard and are protected from common, most frequently occurring network and transport layer DDoS attacks. You can achieve a higher level of defense by simply enabling AWS Shield Advanced protection for Elastic IP, Elastic Load Balancing (ELB), Amazon CloudFront, AWS Global Accelerator, or Amazon Route 53 resources you want to protect using the AWS Management Console or APIs. No routing changes are required for enabling these protections.
With AWS Shield Advanced, you have the flexibility to choose the resources to protect for infrastructure (Layer 3 and 4) protection. You can write customized rules with AWS WAF to mitigate sophisticated application layer attacks. These customizable rules can be deployed instantly, allowing you to quickly mitigate attacks. You can set up rules proactively to automatically block bad traffic, or respond to incidents as they occur. You also have 24x7 access to the AWS Shield Response Team (SRT), who can write rules on your behalf to mitigate application layer DDoS attacks.
Managed Protection and Attack Visibility
With AWS Shield Standard you get always-on heuristics-based network flow monitoring and inline mitigation against common, most frequently occurring network and transport layer DDoS attacks. AWS Shield Advanced provides enhanced resource specific detection and employs advanced mitigation and routing techniques for sophisticated or larger attacks. You also get 24x7 access to the AWS Shield Response Team (SRT) for manual mitigation of edge cases affecting your availability. AWS Shield Advanced also provides visibility and insights into all your DDoS incidents through AWS CloudWatch metrics and attack diagnostics. Finally, you can also see the DDoS threat environment on AWS with the Global threat environment dashboard.
AWS Shield Standard is automatically enabled for all AWS customers at no additional cost. With AWS Shield Advanced, customers get AWS WAF and AWS Firewall Manager at no additional cost for usage on resources protected by AWS Shield Advanced as described on the Shield pricing page. Additionally, you get "DDoS cost protection for scaling", a feature that protects your AWS bill from usage spikes on your AWS Shield Advanced protected EC2, Elastic Load Balancing (ELB), Amazon CloudFront, AWS Global Accelerator, and Amazon Route 53 resources as a result of a DDoS attack.
Protection use cases
Web applications and APIs
When using Amazon CloudFront, AWS Shield Standard automatically provides comprehensive protection against infrastructure layer attacks like SYN floods, UDP floods, or other Reflection attacks. AWS Shield Standard’s always-on detection and mitigation systems automatically scrubs bad traffic at Layer 3 and 4 to protect your application. Over 99% of infrastructure layer attacks detected by AWS Shield Standard are automatically mitigated in less than 1 second for attacks on Amazon CloudFront.
Learn how to use Amazon CloudFront to Protect your Dynamic applications from DDoS attacks.
For additional protection against large and sophisticated DDoS attacks, you can also use AWS Shield Advanced on Amazon CloudFront. With Shield Advanced, customers get 24X7 access to the AWS Shield Response Team (SRT), who proactively apply any mitigations necessary for any sophisticated infrastructure layer (Layer 3 or 4) attacks using additional techniques like traffic engineering. In addition, AWS Shield Advanced also protects you against application layer attacks, like HTTP floods. AWS Shield Advanced’s always-on built-in detection system baseline’s customer’s stead state application traffic and monitors for any anomalies. AWS Shield Advanced includes AWS WAF at no additional cost, allowing you to customize any application layer mitigation.
Alex Graham, Sr. Operations Engineer, Slack Technologies, Inc.
AWS Shield Standard automatically protects your Amazon Route 53 Hosted Zones from infrastructure layer DDoS attacks at no additional cost. This includes attacks like Reflection attacks or SYN floods that frequently target your DNS. AWS Shield Standard automatically uses various techniques like header validations and priority-based traffic shaping to automatically mitigate these DDoS attacks.
In addition, AWS Shield Advanced provides additional protection for extreme scenarios when manual intervention via the 24x7 access to the AWS Shield Response Team is required. Further, AWS Shield Advanced also provides visibility into the attacks on your Route 53 infrastructure.
Learn more about How to Reduce DDoS Risks Using Amazon Route 53 and AWS Shield.
Other applications (like UDP-based applications)
For other custom applications, which are not based on TCP (like UDP, SIP, etc.), you cannot use services like Amazon CloudFront or Elastic Load Balancing. In these cases, you often need to run your applications directly on internet-facing Amazon EC2 instances. AWS Shield Standard also protects your Amazon EC2 instance from common infrastructure layer (Layer 3 and 4) DDoS attacks like UDP reflection attacks, such as DNS reflection, NTP reflection, SSDP reflection, etc. AWS Shield Standard uses various techniques like priority-based traffic shaping that are automatically engaged when a well-defined DDoS attack signature is detected.
You can also get advanced protection against large and sophisticated DDoS attacks for these applications by enabling AWS Shield Advanced on Elastic IP address. AWS Shield Advanced’s enhanced DDoS detection automatically detects the type of AWS Resource and size of EC2 instance and applies appropriate pre-defined mitigations. With AWS Shield Advanced, customers can also create their own custom mitigation profiles by engaging the 24X7 AWS Shield Response Team (SRT). AWS Shield Advanced also ensures that, during a DDoS attack, all your Amazon VPC Network Access Control Lists (ACLs) are automatically enforced at the border of the AWS network, giving you access to additional bandwidth and scrubbing capacity to mitigate large volumetric DDoS attacks. With AWS Shield Advanced, you can get additional protection against DDoS attacks like SYN floods or other vectors like UDP floods.
Learn more about Attaching Elastic IP to an Amazon EC2 Instance.
Case study: High-performance DDoS Protection
William Hill has built a high-performance DDoS and Edge Protection platform using AWS services (Amazon CloudFront, AWS Shield Advanced, AWS WAF, Amazon EC2 R5 Instances, AWS Lambda, Amazon DynamoDB and Amazon Kinesis Data Streams). The solution has been effective in mitigating a 177 Gbps DDoS attack and 48 million attempted exploits (so far in 2019) from across 121,000 IP addresses and 196 countries. In addition, their build successfully blocked 63 million requests from 180,000 IP addresses from 202 countries - all trying to scrape pricing and event data, which if successful would have been highly detrimental to the business and customer experience.
Ryan Algar, Technical Specialist, William Hill
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Ball’s Bluff Battlefield Requiem
I reported on the geology of this area in a previous post, but I didn’t have much time to explore the area on that outing, so this trip I followed trails all the way around the park. This was the site of a battle early in the American Civil War, October, 1861. The cannon (Fig. 1) is a metaphor of how geology is always in front of us; it isn’t just about really old rocks, but also rivers and beaches, even gas and lava being belched out by volcanoes. That’s all geology too. For example, this battle took place in a field (Fig. 2) .
There isn’t much arable land along the Potomac River here because of the rocky soil, but there are a few pockets of land suitable for farming–flood plains left as reminders of the ancient river’s meandering, while it cut its way through rock, gravel, and mud to reach its current position (Fig. 3).
The bottoms of the gullies were paved with tilted layers of sandstone and siltstone (Fig. 4), sediment originally deposited in intermontane basins like those that occur in western North America (Fig. 5).
I’d like to finish this post with a thought experiment: Imagine the sediments being carried away from the camera in Fig. 5, passing into the distance to collect in the wide valley that fronts the major fault-block mountain range, seen in the distance; now, imagine everything you see in Fig. 5 being worn down by water and wind and ice, until the sand and silt filling the lowlands in front of the camera is buried beneath the erosional product of Piestewa Peak; imagine that pile of sand and silt and clay being buried many miles beneath the surface, for millions of years.
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So this is my second post in this series and I originally thought I'd only be posting about the great books I've found by you sharing on your sites. But today I'm going to change that format and share some fun St. Patrick's Day activities that I've found in my blog reading. We've already rolled up our sleeves and done a few of these ourselves.
So first up I loved this rainbow xylophone that was done over at Meet the Dubiens. And here's our attempt:
We didn't have the oh so cute honey dipper sticks but we did have some drum sticks from the kids' musical instruments. I think a spoon would also work just fine. We paired this activity up with one of the St. Patrick's books we picked up from the library. It's an illustrated children's picture book to the lyrics of the song 'Somewhere Over the Rainbow' and came with a music CD of that song preformed by Judy Collins. There are actually three songs on the CD. The book is titled, Over the Rainbow and is illustrated by Eric Puybaret. I loved that the book had that musical tie into the musical activity.
I'm letting the kids enjoy it here for a little while but before I dump the rainbow water, I plan to level them out and do this fun experiment of creating a rainbow in a glass. The experiment can be found at scifun.org.
Next up is this fun felt shamrock matching game from Along the Way. I had a limited colors of felt to choose from in my stock when I created my version but I still think they turned out fun.
I loved the craft that Helping Little Hands did with Good Luck Bear by Greg Foley. We did a scaled back version. Smaller clovers in a picture field with our blessings that make us feel lucky. I'm always looking for crafts that incorporate being thankful, counting our blessings and topics along those lines. Here's the craft from Helping Little Hands.
And here's our scaled back version. I didn't have two contrasting colors of green so I dug through my scrap book papers to see what I could find and we used pastels to color in the grass.
Last up is St. Patrick's Day play dough cookies, which I'm saving to do on St Patrick's Day as one of our activities. This comes from Amanda's Cooking. Since I'm saving this for Thursday I don't have any pictures of our attempt at this but here's one from Amanda's site.
Aren't the fun and amazingly beautiful! I'm so excited to try these!
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Sihanoukville Municipal Court has charged seven farmers with illegally clearing more than 10 hectares of protected mangrove forest in Prey Nob district, officials said Monday.
Officials from the municipal agriculture department’s fisheries office arrested the seven on Feb 11 as they were allegedly clearing the mangrove forest in Andoung Thmor commune to use for farm land, said fisheries office chief Duong Sam Ath.
“They have been charged with destroying more than 10 hectares,” said Deputy Prosecutor Chhun Ngorn, adding that they were charged the same day. “The court charged them at the fisheries office’s request,” he said.
An investigating judge has been assigned to the case, he said, and the accused are now in pre-trial detention.
High-ranking government officials hire locals at between $24 and $37 to cut down the forest, which is a crucial spawning ground for fish, Duong Sam Ath said. He declined to identify the officials.
The fisheries office has so far only been able to make low-level arrests, he added.
People are frequently told not destroy the protected forests, Duong Sam Ath said. “We often educate them but still they continue.”
His office fears the mangrove forest, which acts as a natural barrier to sea winds, could be lost altogether if strong actions are not taken.
Prey Nob Deputy Governor Nob Phean agreed.
“We already have land for farming,” he said. “But they still clear the protected forest. It will be a disaster if we don’t stop it.”
Por Try, Ministry of Agriculture secretary of state, said the ministry is working hard to protect both salt- and freshwater flooded forests.
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Oxfam urged Jim Yong Kim, the lender’s new president, to announce a six-month moratorium on land investments by the bank at meetings of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank in Tokyo next week.
But senior bank officials said it would be a mistake to suspend the World Bank’s involvement at a time when global food prices are rising and there is growing interest by foreign investors in buying farmland in Asia, Latin America and Africa.
The 2008-2009 global food price crisis prompted a scramble for land in parts of Asia, Africa and Latin America, and widespread fears of land grabbing. Madagascar’s president was toppled in 2009 after he negotiated a deal with South Korea’s Daewoo Logistics to lease half the island’s arable land to grow food and ship it to Asia.
The World Bank has long argued that Africa needs more investments in agriculture that would not only help modernize farming practices but also create jobs and new markets for local farmers. The lender has boosted its investment in agriculture to $9.5 billion a year from $2.5 billion annually in 2008.
Oxfam said the World Bank was in a unique position as both a financier, through its private-sector lending arm the International Finance Corp, and adviser to developing countries to ensure land deals are transparent and not forcing local communities off land they have farmed for generations.
According to Oxfam more than 60 percent of investments in agricultural land by foreign investors between 2000 and 2010 were in developing countries with serious hunger problems.
“The bank can set an example to investors and government that could help put a stop to these human rights abuses and ensure that investors genuinely help boost development in some of the poorest communities,” Jeremy Hobbs, Oxfam’s executive director, said.
Juergen Voegele, director of the World Bank’s Agriculture and Rural Development Department, said the bank could be more effective by remaining involved while helping governments address the problem.
“We do not believe that Oxfam’s call for a moratorium on World Bank Group-related investments is an appropriate course of action at this point, particularly not at a time of rapidly rising and very volatile food prices,” Voegele told Reuters.
“We certainly do not believe this will help reduce instances of abusive practices that are out there; we do know that, because it would clearly target the wrong stakeholders and the wrong audiences,” he added. “We are the ones who are doing everything we can to improve these poor practices”.
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Oxfam said, however, a moratorium would give the World Bank time to “put its own house in order” and send a clear signal to governments and investors it would not tolerate land grabbing.
It said the World Bank should insist on more transparency in land deals to limit abuses, ensure communities are informed so they can accept or refuse projects; and make sure that communities’ land rights are protected.
Many of the deals are government to government and there are questions whether investors pay fair prices for the land.
Voegele said over the past two years the World Bank had worked with foreign agencies and governments to draft voluntary guidelines on land investments.
“Just like Oxfam we are concerned these practices are not transparent and they are sometimes hurting poor farmers. Almost 90 percent of what we do is helping smallholders get access to markets and increase productivity,” he added.
Contrary to reports that China was leading the rush for land in developing countries, Voegele said investors from the United States, Canada and Europe were also scooping up land abroad.
“Two or three years ago we found there was a lot more hype than actual action on the ground. Now that is changing a little bit, but at that time a very significant number of those deals were speculative deals — an announcement but nothing happened,” he added.
“Speculative land investment is something neither the Bank nor the IFC supports because it does not help anybody.”
Atul Mehta, IFC director for global manufacturing, agribusiness and services, said a moratorium could dissuade responsible investors and lead to more widespread abuses.
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The Introduction to Health, Social Care and Children’s and Young People’s Settings course is designed to teach students the development of humans from early to elder years.
This units of this course teach students to develop a broad range of skills such as:
- Development of babies children – covering birth and pregnancy,
- Childhood and Adulthood Development – healthy lifestyles and safeguarding,
- Caring for the elderly – including living with Dementia
The course is theory based, but practical tasks have been introduced to make it as hands on and practical as possible. Students will use realistic dolls to dress and learn how to deliver personal care. They will learn how to make up baby bottles for safely feeding a new born, and they will learn techniques to support dementia patients.
The assessments of the course are in the form of creative displays, rather than lots of essay writing.
This course can set students up for further Level 2 study in Health and Social Care or apprenticeships in the industry. It is designed to introduce students to careers in Childcare, Paramedics, Nursing, Caring, Midwifery and other Healthcare.
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Wendy is the Vocational Tutor for Health and Social Care at St Eds. Wendy worked in the sector for 28 years, predominantly in residential and nursing homes, so she is extremely experienced. She completed her nursing exams and was lucky enough to travel the world as a nanny for an Australian family. Following this, she started training staff at care homes across Norfolk and Suffolk. She realised her passion was to capture the minds of students at a young age. She believes that everyone can learn and develop given the right learning environment, support and encouragement. She believes there is nothing more rewarding than seeing a learner realise their potential, work towards a qualification and then achieve it. | <urn:uuid:5cdd690f-b46b-41d0-9aa1-aea844274a9c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://st-eds.org/courses/health-and-social-care-course/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572198.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815175725-20220815205725-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.967419 | 380 | 2.96875 | 3 |
Newswise — An analysis of research on the Nurses Improving Care for Healthsystem Elders (NICHE) program finds that it improves older adult care, including preventing falls, improving patient safety and quality of care, reducing potentially inappropriate medications, and helping healthcare providers to care for patients with dementia. The study is published in the journal The Gerontologist.
The NICHE program at NYU Rory Meyers College of Nursing is a nurse-led education and consultation program designed to help healthcare organizations improve the quality of care for older adults. When member organizations—which include hospitals, long-term care facilities, and other healthcare facilities—join the NICHE program, they gain access to clinical education and resources, guidelines, and nursing practice models designed to improve nurses’ abilities to provide patient- and family-centered care for older adults. To date, there are 580 acute care hospitals and nursing homes that are NICHE program members in the United States, Singapore, Canada, and Bermuda.
“Nurses are at the forefront of providing care to complex older adults in the United States and many countries around the world,” said Mattia Gilmartin, PhD, RN, FAAN executive director of the NICHE program at NYU Meyers. “The NICHE program emphasizes education and practice development for front-line clinical staff through leadership training, mentorship, and educational programming, which promotes the role of the clinician as paramount to implementing high-quality care.”
In the new study published in The Gerontologist, the researchers reviewed existing research on the NICHE program to better understand how the program influences patient outcomes, nursing professionals, and the work environment. The researchers identified 43 studies published between January 1992 and April 2019 to include in their analysis. The collective findings represent NICHE program-related evidence across settings involving 12,254 patients and more than 50,000 nurses and other healthcare professionals.
Using a content analysis, the researchers identified four thematic categories in the research: specialized older adult care, the geriatric resource nurse model, work environment, and NICHE program adoption and refinement.
The researchers found that specialized older adult care, a key feature of the NICHE program, resulted in improved quality of care and patient safety, and decreased complications and length of hospital stay. The studies showed how the NICHE program helps member sites improve the care of hospitalized older adults by addressing issues specific to this population including falls, potentially inappropriate medications, catheter-associated urinary tract infections, and dementia symptom management.
Another theme that emerged was the geriatric resource nurse model, which assists nurses in becoming unit-based leaders through continuing education in order to provide specialized care of older adults. Research showed that implementing the geriatric resource nurse model resulted in significant culture changes within organizations and improved nursing knowledge about specific health issues in older adults, including incontinence and sepsis.
To measure the geriatric nurse work environment, studies looked at perceptions of the quality of care, aging-sensitive care delivery, resource availability, institutional values, and capacity for collaboration. Research shows that after implementation of the NICHE program, these factors improve.
“In the face of a robust increase in the number of older adults globally, which is projected to continue to rise sharply over the next 50 years, organizational stressors will only increase. The evidence on NICHE program is promising, though more research examining patient outcomes and the impact on healthcare professionals is needed to better help healthcare organizations to meet their goals and improve outcomes for older adults,” said Allison Squires, PhD, RN, FAAN, associate professor at NYU Meyers and the study’s lead author.
“In light of the growing needs in the U.S. and around the world, it has never been more important for NICHE and other programs geared toward improving health outcomes for older adults to have strong evidence on how to empower geriatric specialists to provide the best care,” said Catherine D’Amico, PhD, RN, NEA-BC, director of programs and operations at the NICHE program at NYU Meyers and one of the study’s authors.
In addition to Squires and D’Amico, study authors include Komal Patel Murali and Linda L. Herrmann of NYU Meyers, as well as Sherry Greenberg of Seton Hall University.
Nurses Improving Care for Healthsystem Elders (NICHE) is a nursing education and consultation program designed to improve geriatric care in healthcare organizations. The NICHE program of NYU Rory Meyers College of Nursing provides resources for nursing and interdisciplinary teams to achieve organizational goals for the care of older adult patients. Connect with NICHE on Facebook and LinkedIn.
About NYU Rory Meyers College of Nursing (@NYUNursing)
NYU Rory Meyers College of Nursing is a global leader in nursing and health. Founded in 1932, the College offers BS, MS, DNP, and PhD degree programs providing the educational foundation to prepare the next generation of nursing leaders and researchers. NYU Meyers has three programs ranked in the top 10 by U.S. News & World Report and is among the top 10 nursing schools receiving NIH funding, thanks to its research mission and commitment to innovative approaches to healthcare worldwide.
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People who wish to manage their money well should learn about investments. Should you be troubled with understanding the basics, then help is what you need. Fortunately, you are reading this article. Keep reading for solid advice on making investments work for you.
When deciding to invest in real estate, create something like an LLC. This will allow you to be protected along with any investment you may make. It can also help boost your chances of getting tax benefits thanks to your business dealings.
Always try to find out what the local values are like. Knowing what the rent and mortgage if other properties is will give you a better idea of what the value of your property is. You can make better decisions when you think about all of this.
Consider hiring a real estate management company. It is worth the investment it takes. This company will handle repairs and screen potential renters. This will give you more time to look for other lucrative real estate opportunities.
If you are thinking about purchasing real estate to rent, hiring someone to manage the property to help screen good solid tenants is a must. Since their rent is really your mortgage, you want to know they can keep up with your payments. Otherwise, you may be forced to sell your rental property.
Be certain to buy properties in familiar areas. Since you are familiar with the neighborhood already, it won’t be as big of a risk for you. You will live near your rental property so you won’t have to constantly worry about it. The true way to control the investment is through self-management because it is nearby.
Learn to get along with others. Instead of seeing fellow real estate investors and buyers as competition, try working together. When you do this, you can start sharing resources and your client lists while pooling the collection of properties you all have to offer. By helping one another, together you can create a great pool of satisfied clients. This helps your reputation.
Always research any city, it’s government and growth potential before investing in the area’s real estate. The city should have an official website. You can look over details about planning for the city to see what kinds of real estate values will be there in the future. If the city is growing, it’s a good place to invest.
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It’s easy to be successful with real estate investing. But, that will only occur once they’ve spent the time to find out how the process works. The information here is intended as a guide for anyone who’s ready to embark into the market of real estate.
Remember that reputation is key in this realm of business. This means sticking to your word and not lying to your clients. Your reputation is what will make you a success or will quickly put you out of business.
If you’re going to try getting into real estate, you need to consider how much time you’re able to spend on property management. Issues with tenants can take up a lot of your time. A good property management company can be very helpful if you are pressed for time.
Make sure you take the time to learn the ropes before making your first purchase. Mistakes in this business can cause you to lose a ton of money if you don’t watch closely. Investing in the right type of training is one of the best things you could do.
Choose wisely who you allow to live in your rental property. Ensure the tenant can pay a deposit and the first month’s rent right away. If they tell you that is not possible, they may not be able to pay rent either. Pass them up for somebody else instead.
Make sure that any property you invest in will return your money to you, plus some. If you’re just investing to earn back your money, you’ll have wasted a lot of time on that property. Renovate the property, then list it for a higher price.
When you first start out you should have some patience. It takes patience if you want to invest in real estate. Be as patient as possible if things do not work out. Don’t settle for something that you don’t really want. That’s a poor use of your funds. Wait for the perfect opportunity.
When thinking about how much money you can make off a property, make sure you understand what repairs will be required. Repairs will need to be made before selling the property. If you plan to rent your property, you need to factor in maintenance costs. Allow a little padding room to figure out what your profit will be.
Never invest more money that you can comfortable afford to lose. If you are looking into buying property to rent, you should be able to handle the monthly note even if it is unrented. It’s not smart to expect your rental income to pay your mortgage payment.
A great way to build a solid income is through investing in real estate. However, you need to know the market’s intricacies before you get started. Using the advice from this article can help you get started.
There are tremendous opportunities for small businesses and social entrepreneurs to support their communities through community foundations, donor advised funds and other means of giving back. Find the neighborhoods in
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The Persian Sassanids Empire, were the originators of a magnificent culture and art representing the ‘Parthian’ and ‘Achaemenid’ legacy with all its naturalistic manifestations. There are numerous architectural works, reliefs, paintings, woven fabrics, antique dishes, metal objects, glass things and war ordnances that have been remained from this era due to the presence of treasured coins with symbolic engravings and the calligraphy of Pahlavi era. The Sassanid art is considered as the ‘Modern Persian Art’ comprising the past traditions, and has established the Persian Paradise or Earthly Heaven in the history of world architecture by presenting the magnificent and distinctive landscapes in the form of holy sanctuaries/worship places, palaces and hunting grounds.
Additionally, in the fields of architectural decoration, relief, fabric designs, ancient utensils and objects, the Sassanids were applying the natural elements in a symbolic form. The Sassanid art has been appeared in a wide range of lands from ‘Fars’ (Persia) to ‘Ctesiphon’, ‘Kermanshah’, ‘Sistan’ and ‘Azerbaijan’, relying on the naturalistic ideas and believes in the goddess of Mehr and Anahita, and following the Zoroastrian believes, as valuable works in various branches of art has been remained accordingly. Most of the architectural works of this time, including worship places, palaces, hunting grounds and 34 ‘reliefs’, have been established t next to the Natural elements such as mountains, water and trees in the heart of Nature. The Sassanid can be considered as the greatest landscapers in the history of Iran (Persian land), as the worship places, palaces and hunting grounds, and their ‘relief’ on mountain walls and cliffs can be referred to as the great indication of these architectural works. | <urn:uuid:7fd31b6c-63cc-4b95-92fa-287b1bc9b39e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.manzar-sj.com/article_123091.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817001643-20220817031643-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.931461 | 485 | 3.4375 | 3 |
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Intermediate Guitarist Worksheet 9 ~ Timing, Phrasing and Groove
So you have learned all those scales and chords and you are starting to be able to play quite a few songs and maybe even a few tasty guitar solos. Now we should consider your position as a guitarist in a band. No matter how good you get you will only sound as good as the band you are playing with ~ maybe a bit of an over simplification but stick with me for a while and I’ll try and explain……Imagine you are a top surfer with all the right gear ~ wet suit, “boutique” surf board etc. You take yourself along to the beach at Saltburn (a small seaside town near us) on a calm day with the “surf” barely reaching 2 foot. Will anyone watching be able to tell how good a surfer you are?Now take yourself off on a brief and imaginary trip to a sun kissed exotic beach in Honolulu where the breakers are bigger than your house. The scene is set and now with your skill and expertise you will be able to ride those waves effortlessly and you will amaze anyone watching with your undoubted courage, skill and prowess.
Let’s to return to your band ~ consider the groove being pumped out by your bass player and drummer, and maybe some tasty chops from your rhythm guitarist or keyboard player. The singer has done his / her thing in setting the scene for your guitar solo and everything is sounding great ~ now it’s over to you and everyone is watching and listening in anticipation for your guitar solo ~ time for you to “ride the wave”.
Now you have to take all that you have learned and apply it to the special and unique moment you find yourself in. Like the time you were the imaginary surfer on that giant breaker in Honolulu you must now apply all that you know to “riding the wave” created by your band. You must use what they are giving to you, the platform they have built, to your advantage. You will do this by taking all the scales, licks, arpeggios, chords that you know and applying them to the groove, pulse and rhythm of the music ~ locking everything you do into the sound being created by the band as a whole ~ “riding the wave”.
All those hours of practicing your scales, licks and arpeggios mean that you are (hopefully) now able to deliver them without thinking too much. So now your brain has the spare capacity to listen, feel and respond to the groove, pulse and rhythm of the music ~ to be CREATIVE.
So how do you develop your sense of timing, groove and rhythm?? Let’s start by thinking back to when you were learning to play one of your favourite guitar solos. You will have spent, hours, months, years (yes I’m still doing it!) figuring out all those notes then trying to apply them through your fingers to your guitar – not easy. Well let’s take a look at it all from a number of different perspectives. Firstly, put yourself in the drummer’s position ~ try to understand the music from their perspective. Listen to what they are doing ~ are they playing anything different during the guitar solo? Now do the same for the bass player and any other instruments in the band. Finally, listen to the guitarist again and see how they are using the music created by the band to their advantage – how they are “riding the wave”.
Finally, there is a term originating from Psychoanalysis which you may have come across ~ Gestalt ~ loosely translated as “the whole is greater than the sum of all the parts”. Consider that in relation to your playing in a band setting……..
Well after that brief period in imaginary projection and reflection it’s back to real work again I’m afraid….
Firstly, you could return to playing the solo in question along with the original track ~ over and over again. Then maybe record yourself playing it, take a break then sit back and listen critically to your playing ~ don’t be too hard on your self but try to hear any subtle difference between the sounds you are making and the original. I find in my teaching that this is the most difficult thing to get across. The student knows the scale and they can play the notes for the solo in question ~ but it just doesn’t sound right. The difference in one sense is tiny ~ down to very fine touch, subtle feel and correct phrasing. However, in another sense these details are precisely what makes a great guitar solo ~ so ignore them at your peril!
If all else fails ~ try this……..
Here’s the old music-talent coordination test used by Carnegie-Mellon’s School of Music (CMU), believed to have originated at either its predecessor Carnegie Tech, or at Rochester (Kodak?) School of Music,USA
- Use one foot to stomp quarter-notes in 4/4 time,
- Use the other foot to stomp half-notes (either 1 & 3 or 2 & 4, your choice),
- Use one hand to tap 8th-notes.
- The other hand does triplets, while maintaining the first three………good luck!!!
Or if you think this is too hard maybe you’d like to try drumming??
I hope this gave you some food for thought?? You will find many other free worksheets, and videos for all levels here
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Raccoons range in size from 12 to 36 pounds having a body 26 to 38 inches long including a 10 inch tail. Their coat is long and thick, grizzled, grayish brown, black mask below white eyebrows. Legs are medium in length; paws are puffy and they have flexible toes used for climbing.
Read more about Raccoons.
The skunk is 20” to 30” long including a 10” to 15” tail weighing 6 to 12 lbs. There coat is thick, fluffy, mainly black with a large white nape patch that continues and becomes two stripes along sides of back, usually reaching the tail (occasionally mostly white above).
Read more about Skunks Facts.
Woodchucks range in size from 20” to 27” long, excluding the tail, weighing 5 to 12 lbs. Woodchucks are grizzled brown on the top part of their coat, some with blackish or rufous tones and they are buffy below. Ears are short, rounded and their face has pale puffy patches. Legs are short and powerful and their tail is bushy.
Read more about Woodchucks / Ground Hogs.
There are two types of Voles found in our service area, the meadow vole and the pine vole. They are 4” to 7 1/2 “ long weighing ½ to 2 ½ ounces. The meadow vole is larger than the pine vole. In general, voles are brown or gray in color with dense fur. They are a compact rodent with a stocky body, short legs and a short tail. They look very much like a mouse.
Read more about Vole Facts and Information.
There are three types of moles found in the state of New York, the hairy tailed mole, the star nose mole and the eastern mole. The eastern mole is the most commonly found mole in the Hudson Valley of New York. Therefore we will focus on the eastern mole. Moles love to reside in lawns, meadow, orchards and woods with moist loose soil. They mostly eat insects, ie grubs, beetle larvae, earthworms and some carrion.
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Muskrats range in size from 18 to 36” long, including the 10 to 12” tail. They typically weigh between 1.5 to 4 lbs. The muskrat is classified as a rodent because of its four incisor teeth in the front of the mouth. The two upper and two lower incisors overlap, allowing them to self-sharpen as they are used. Folds of skin behind the incisors allow a submerged muskrat to cut vegetation without getting water into its mouth.
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Below is a list of things that will help protect Area Streams and the Monongahela River.
Don’t litter: Always put litter in trash cans or recycle when possible. Litter and debris can cause storm drain blockage that leads to flooding, impaired water quality, and hazards to wildlife.
Clean up pet waste to reduce harmful bacteria, parasites, and viruses in streams. Pick up and bag pet waste and place it in the garbage.
Properly Manage Yard Waste: grass clippings, leaves, and garden debris should be reused as mulch or put in a compost pile. Use a composting mower that will grind grass and leaves that will stay on the yard and add nutrients. WVU Ag Department offers a mulch program at its animal farm on Stewartstown Road. Call 304-293-7092 for details.
Use fertilizers and other yard chemicals in accordance with manufacturer’s recommendations or use a natural alternative. Do not apply when rain is expected and never pour down a storm drain, manhole, toilet, or household sink. Take unused fertilizers and chemicals to an approved disposal site – contact the Mon County Solid Waste Authority for more information.
Minimize Salt Use along with other de-icing material: use limestone chips for traction; sweep up residual materials and dispose of properly.
Don’t wash your car in the driveway which drains soap, oil, dirt, and engine grease into local waterways. Wash the car in the grass or better yet, take it to a commercial car wash. Most facilities recycle their water and excess water goes in the sanitary system.
Recycle waste motor oil: Town of Star City will take your used oil. Call the city garage 304-599-2818 for drop off details or leave your name & number so the Public Works Department can contact you.
Recycle plastic, aluminum and steel cans, cardboard, and newspapers/magazines. Star City has recycle drop off bins at Town Hall; bins can also be found at both Wal-Mart locations and at the Mon County Community Recycling Center off River Road.
Recycle other household/automotive materials: contact the Mon County Solid Waste Authority (304-292-3801) or check the following web sites: Morgantown Recycling or WV State Stormwater Site
Be the Neighborhood Watch for any illegal or suspicious dumping into our storm drains, streams, or the river and report it to Star City Town Hall.
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Today on The Startup Chat, Steli and Hiten talk about how to notice your own bias.
As humans, it’s natural for us to have biases in different ways. However, not noticing these biases can be detrimental to us and cause us to make bad decisions in business and in life in general.
In today’s episode of the show, Steli and Hiten talk about the importance of noticing your own biases, examples of how people can be biased, how people can be irrational during uncertainty and much more.
Time Stamped Show Notes:
00:00 About today’s topic
00:36 Why this topic was chosen.
01:31 The importance of noticing your own bias.
02:32 Examples of how people can be biased.
04:16 How people can be irrational during uncertainty.
05:09 How every prediction can be right at some point.
06:34 How people don’t like to uncertain.
08:40 Examples of how people can be irrational.
09:13 How people can be unhelpful with their bias.
10:04 How biases can be a defense mechanism against being wrong.
3 Key Points:
- Noticing one’s bias is sort of a superpower
- There’s irrationality that comes up when we have uncertainty.
- Every prediction can be right at some point.
Steli Efti: Hey everybody, this is Steli Efti.
Hiten Shah: And this is Hiten Shah.
Steli Efti: And today on The Startup Chat we’re going to talk about how to notice your own bias and how to ensure that you don’t make bad decisions because of a rigid internal bias that you might have. The reason why we wanted to talk about this, at a prior episode we were just talking about how to negotiate with oneself and we had shared a little bit about this idea that the one thing that I recently noticed of people wanting to believe something because of self-interests and then trying to selectively find the information, the experts, the articles, the data that confirms their bias and continuously defending their mind against everything that would attack their thought process and collecting the things that confirm that thought process. And how big of a waste, to me that seems such a… I mean, we always do this, but right now it’s such a heightened environment that I just notice this so much and just… I’ll give you one quick example and then let’s talk about this because noticing one’s bias, I feel like, is a superpower in avoiding making avoidable mistakes.
Hiten Shah: Absolutely.
Steli Efti: One thing that was really interesting at, I don’t know, maybe six weeks ago or so, five, six weeks ago when we were in the Western world in Europe and the U.S. Much earlier in the pandemic timeline. And it seems still very far away, like a problem that was in Asia and in China and maybe there are a few, a couple of cases in Germany, a couple of cases in the U.S. But there were still a lot of debate of it would ever become a problem in the Western world. I remember talking to a friend of mine in the U.S. And then I remember talking to a friend of mine in Germany. What was interesting was how both of them, my friend in the U.S. Was like, “Well, I’m sure I’m in the U.S., I wouldn’t want to be in Germany right now because…” I was like, “Oh, why is that?” “Well, if a pandemic would happen, I’d much rather be in the U.S. Than in Europe or Germany.” And I said, “Oh, why is that?” He was like, “Well, the U.S. Healthcare system is really amazing and it’s not as population dense and…” He brought up a number of reasons why. He was like, “You know what, I feel pretty safe, this is probably around the world, not the worst place to be at a pandemic and Germany would be much worse.” And then I talked to my German friend a couple of days later, without prompting it, he was telling me, “Well, I’m glad that you’re in Germany, Steli, right now and not in the U.S. Because you’re much safer here if there’s a pandemic.” I was like, “Really? How?” He was like, “Well, you know the German healthcare system, much better than the U.S. Healthcare system, it is a catastrophe. Then the politician…” And I was like, and that was the moment where I was thinking, “Wow, we are all so full of shit and everybody’s-
Hiten Shah: Yeah, either way.
Steli Efti: … Trying to convince themselves that their situation in this setup is probably going to be better than other people’s.” I’m like, “Holy fucking shit. This is so interesting.”
Hiten Shah: No, and I have a good friend and she’s… Basically maybe every two or three days, she’s like, “Should I get out of the city?” She lives in San Francisco. She’s like, “Should I get out of the city? Should I get out of the city? My friends in New York have gotten out of New York.” I’m like, “Yeah, but that’s New York.” Then she’s like, “Yeah, maybe a small city, of course. There’s more stuff here, more hospital, et cetera.” I’m like, “Yeah, sure, okay.” I don’t know what to say, right? There’s no right answer to her thought, right? There’s no like… I wanted to tell her, “Hey, don’t go anywhere. Please just don’t go anywhere. Don’t do anything. Just stay where you are. Everything will be okay just stay where you are.” You know what I mean?
Steli Efti: Yeah.
Hiten Shah: It’s going to be okay. Okay, in the sense of like, it’ll be the best it can be, right? It’s same thing, it’s like there’s a irrationality that comes up when we have uncertainty. And when we have that irrationality and that uncertainty, we’re trying to justify that we know what to do. And in a situation like this, the number one thing I can tell you is nobody knows what to do. And if you think you do, you’re already bias. Because the level of clarity for our situation does not exist. There isn’t somebody who can tell you today and has any kind of crystal ball on this. You can’t say, this is what’s going to happen next. And you could even think that, “Oh, this person, they predicted what was going to happen or this and that.” But it’s like, every prediction can be right at some point. It’s just a matter of… What I mean by that is even people who seemingly are right, they didn’t know anything. They’re just guessing too. I think it’s like you’re making it up as you go. And the level of comfort we have as humans, on making things up as we go is very low. And so, this whole thing about Germany or America, whatever, wherever you are, there are people that are okay, literally, and there are people that are not. And in some places there’s more people that are not okay and they are like… If you ask me right now, I’m kind of worried about Florida to be honest. The pictures I see, the things I see. That being said, I don’t know if that matters, right? I don’t know if that’s rational or not. All I know is that there’s people out and about and they might be spreading these thing to each other. Now, is that factual? Yeah. Do I need to have a fear for my friends in Florida or anything like that? Probably not because whatever’s going to happen is literally going to happen. So, a lot of this has to do with just the acceptance that we controlled nothing.
Steli Efti: I think-
Hiten Shah: And this pandemic helps us do that, yeah.
Steli Efti: Sorry about interrupting. I think there’s an insane level of discomfort with the thought, “I don’t know and I’m still figuring it out while I’m trying to figure it out or…” Just like people don’t like to be in the, “I don’t know what’s going to happen or I’m not sure which side to take yet.” This friend of mine. And then they come up with these narratives. The other thing that’s been so interesting, it’s so interesting to see for me is that there are all these people that I know that, in hindsight, are changing the events in their life to fit a narrative that they’ve been hyper prepared or they saw this coming.
Hiten Shah: Really?
Steli Efti: Yeah. I had a friend that in the beginning of the January, he took a big loan. He has an E-Commerce business that’s doing quite well and then he took out a big loan to have extra cash. But back then I remember him telling me that his margins are not high enough and he might want to invest more in having just more stuff in stock. And so he felt he needed some cash cushion. And then now his story is that he knew hard times are coming, he didn’t know about the pandemic. He knew an economic downturn might be coming, our hard times might be coming. And he’s done everything right. Look at him, he has already some cash in the bank and he’s prepared for the downturn. I’m like, “That’s so interesting. Four months ago you told me something else.” But now he made these little edits in his own mind to fit a different narrative, to fit the narrative. I was ahead of the curve and I was prepared, right? I have told the brothers, both of them I love, but they’re idiots at times and my oldest brother is into some weird conspiracies at times. And I remember, I don’t know, two years ago we had a discussion, he was saying, “The population of the world, they can’t grow forever and eventually something needs to happen to do population control and who knows.” And now he’s like some degree convinced that this might be a government thing to do population control. All the old people die, right? This is, to me, thinking about everything that I’ve ever thought, to me, it’s such an obviously childish way of thinking about the world. How can I make myself feel like I’m smart or I was prepared? Why saw this coming? As if that is helpful, to me that’s not helpful at all. If I was walking around… I don’t know, what would… And saying, “You know, I started a remote company because I saw this company.” Like what the fuck? Right?
Hiten Shah: Yeah. That’s how I started.
Steli Efti: Yes. They always started it or even just like, “I knew that we have to be location independent and so, I’m so happy that five years ago I already did this.” First of all, even me thinking of a version of myself saying this, I’m like, “I want to punch myself in the face.” I’m like, “Shut the fuck up, you hassle.” Right? It’s A not true at all, and B it’s not helpful. Who would I help with? If I called my brother and be like, “Ha, you have local stores? I run a remote company, I was so smart.” How is this helping anybody? This is just, to me, it’s just dumb bragging or trying to convince myself that I’m smarter than I really am, right? That I’ve done something smart or was prepared or was ahead of other people when in reality I wasn’t.
Hiten Shah: I think it’s just a defense mechanism, right? It’s a defense mechanism when we have no control. All we’re doing is defending ourselves against being wrong, defending ourselves against something we don’t control, something we have complete lack of control over… A pandemic like this, we don’t have any control over it. There’s only maybe a few things we can do depending on who we are and what our capabilities are that might help. But at the end of the day, the world is in upheaval. There’s a tremendous amount of uncertainty and this is the time when people want us to feel, even in some resemblance of control, and there is none. You’re not going to get it. Good luck trying to find it right now.
Steli Efti: Good luck if you find it right now, I love that. All right, we’ll wrap up this episode on this point. If you have… You know what, maybe this is a weird call to action, but if your family has been especially point of frustration or weird lessons learned over the past couple of weeks, it surely has been mine, send me an email and Hiten, email@example.com, firstname.lastname@example.org. Tell us how you’ve learned new things about your family during this pandemic or they show you patterns that you now are determined to surpass, improve, or change. I find that with most people that I talked to, the number one source for worry and also the number one source of interesting things that are going on that they notice, it’s much more that families at this point than it is yet the global markets or politics or an industry or customers, lots of people are telling me stories about their family members and what’s going on with them right now. Super, super interesting. All right, this is it from us for this episode. Stay safe and we’ll hear you very soon.
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The Exercise Effect: How Exercise Can Boost Your Sales Performance
When was the last time you got up from your desk to move around a bit? And no, walking to the kitchen for that fourth cold brew doesn’t count.
Sales professionals looking to gain a professional edge have realized that some solutions lie far outside the box of traditional sales techniques and strategy. In fact, simply moving outside the box can be the solution itself.
“There are many plausible and physiologically supported reasons why you would expect to see improvements in job performance because of exercise,” says Cedric Bryant, Chief Science Officer of the American Council on Exercise (A.C.E.). “You are promoting better blood flow, which helps in terms of neurological function. Exercise has been consistently shown to enhance and elevate mood, so it will help you cope with the stressors of work.”
The A.C.E. also cites evidence that:
- A daily 10-minute stretching program among assembly-line workers resulted in significant improvement in joint flexibility, fatigue, anger, depression, and overall mood.
- A nine-month study of 80 executives proved that exercisers experienced a 22% increase in fitness and a 70% improvement in the ability to make complex decisions compared to sedentary peers.
Here’s how it works: As you start exercising and your heart rate increases, your body interprets this sudden burst of activity as a ‘fight or flight’ moment of stress. To protect your brain from this stress, you release a protein called BDNF (Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor), which acts as a reparative element to your memory neurons. Exercise floods the brain with BDNF, providing the infrastructure it needs to absorb information, process, remember and use it.
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While exercise can’t change your IQ, it can “change your cognitive performance,” says Dr. Steven Masley, a physician, nutritionist, and author with a health practice geared towards executives.
“If we’re talking about brain performance, the best predictor of brain speed is aerobic capacity—how well you can run up a hill is very strongly correlated with brain speed and cognitive shifting ability,” Masley says.
Masley has designed a corporate wellness program based on the work he’s done with more than 1,000 patients. “The average person going into these programs will increase brain speed by 25% to 30%. From the corporate perspective think about it; if you could take your top employees and improve brain speed by 25%, that would be huge.”Speed up your inboxTools that will help you boost productivity & close more deals
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Drew Stevens Ph.D., a business development consultant to the medical industry and the author of “Split Second Selling,” worked with a team of over 300 employees to see if exercise would make a difference.
“Our professionals were mostly selling professionals and marketing managers that travel frequently, eat deplorably and work out when possible,” Stevens says. “We reviewed diet, nutrition and exercise programs. After six weeks on the program of proper nutrition and exercise, there was an 81% difference in performance.” He adds: “There was less dozing at meetings, better closing rates on sales calls and less customer service issues.”
How to Start Seeing the Positive Effects of Exercise (Hint: No Guilt Trips)
Not only can exercise help you improve your mental performance, research shows us that physical activity and happiness are also inextricably linked. Of course, while that may sound well and good, it’s no secret that integrating exercise into our daily routines is often easier said than done. Here are some tips from the experts to help you get into the habit of exercising daily:
1. Don’t Do It Out of Guilt
Karol DeWulf Nickell, the former Editor in Chief of Live Happy Magazine, argues that any exercise goals will fail if they come out of an overwhelming sense of obligation or guilt. “Exercise has been a part of my lifestyle for some time,” says Nickell. “I’ve biked across Iowa, climbed a ‘fourteener’ [14,000 ft. mountain] and done Zumba. I walk around my neighborhood, garden with zeal, and love tennis and golf. Our story, however, changed my outlook on fitness. Now I understand that if I’m happier, chances are I’ll also keep on exercising. The emphasis changes from the stressful need to be fit to a simple idea of being happy.”
2. Start Low and Go Slow
Like muscle growth, the growth of willpower happens slowly. Bryant’s advice for starting out is to “start low and go slow. Start with 10 minutes and maybe take a walk around the block at the office, rather than going to the break room. See what a difference it makes. A lot of people don’t realize how much more energetic they’re going to feel. Look for opportunities to move during the workday, to get away from your work-station and move; even if it’s to go over and talk to another colleague.”
3. Know Your ROI
Try using the same psychology on yourself that Masley uses on his corporate clients. “I talk to a lot of investors and I like to phrase it in terms of ROI: How do you get the best out of the time in your workout? How much return on investment are you getting? It’s essential.” To do that, Masley says that eventually, you should exercise at your target heart rate, though he calculates that differently than others. Using a heart rate monitor, push yourself on a treadmill until you can’t talk in two complete sentences. “That’s your maximum heart rate, and most people should be working out at 70% to 80% of that,” he says. “You can hire almost any trainer at any gym, or you can do it at home with your own equipment. It doesn’t require anything fancy, but please talk to your doctor before you do a fitness test.”
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In Australia, increasing living standards have led to a significant reduction in the rates of infectious diseases. The benefits of abundant resources have also led to a high prevalence of preventable diseases arising from lifestyle patterns. Because of these trends, lifestyle dependent diseases will likely be a greater threat to Australian public health than infectious diseases in the future. This report will investigate AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome) and CVD (cardiovascular disease) to compare the threats posed by infectious and lifestyle dependent diseases. Recent advances in medicine have made AIDS a treatable condition, lowering the mortality rate substantially. To the contrary, the Australian lifestyle is conducive to CVD, because of lifestyle factors, like diet and exercise. The following information to highlight HIV and CVD effect Australian mortality.
HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus) has always been a matter of global concern. When highly active antiretroviral therapy has not been developed, patients who suffered from HIV always infected tumor problem and opportunistic infection, including cardiovascular effect. Since the advent of antiretroviral drugs in the mid-1990s, AIDS cases in Australia have decreased dramatically, HIV patients can take medicine to control the condition. Advances in medicine have made AIDS a treatable situation, medicine can be taken to prevent HIV to worsen and reduce the risk .
In CVD, global CVD kills about 17.5 million people each year, WHO estimated that by 2030, the death toll will be increased to about 24 million. (REF. WHI) Due to the Australian lifestyle is conducive development of CVD which affects one in six Australians. Also, CVD was the main cause of more than 575,800 hospitalisations in 2016/17. (REF. HEART FOUNDATION)
Therefore, this report proposes the following research question:
Will cardiovascular disease affect the mortality in Australia more than AIDS in 2030?’
AIDS is a set of symptoms caused by HIV. When HIV gets inside a person’s body, it attacks the human immune system. HIV attacks CD4 cells of immune system cell in the body. (REF. HEALTHLINE) Most commonly, people get or transmit HIV through sexual behaviours and needle use. Also, HIV may be spread from mother to child during pregnancy, birth, or breastfeeding. (REF. UNAIDS) Gay men and other men who have sex with men are more easily to receive AIDS than the ordinary person. The importance reasons to HIV among this group is that unprotected anal sex. Anal sex is higher risk to transmission AIDS than vaginal sex. In Australia, men who have sex with men is most risk, overall men who have sex with men comprise around two-third of new HIV diagnoses. (REF. MSM)
CVD (Cardiovascular diseases) is the number 1 cause of death globally, was the underlying cause of death in 45,400 deaths in 2015 (29% of all deaths) according to the AIHW National Mortality Database. (REF. AIHW) CVDs are a group of disorders of the heart and blood vessels and they include coronary heart disease, cerebrovascular disease, peripheral arterial disease, rheumatic heart disease. As a result of Australian abundant sources, many people overtake the unhealthy diet and obesity increase the incidence of heart disease. Also, fast food is easy to be purchased at the street. Saturated fat such as meat, butter and fried food will block the artery of heart. Smoking, overweighting and lack of exercises will also be led to CVD. Australian may have a wrong concept that drug abuse and heavy drinking can relieve their stress in life. However, these behaviours will actually cause CVD. Furthermore, low-density lipoprotein (LDL) and high blood pressure to raise your risk for heart disease and stroke. LDL is something called “bad” cholesterol, can build up on the walls of your blood vessels. As of build up over time, the insides of the vessels narrow. This narrowing block blood flow to and from your heart and other organs, it can cause strokes and heart attacks. (REF. CDC)
Figure 2: People living with HIV (all ages)
As evident from the data in Figure 1 which shows trends in CVD hospitalisation rates in 2005-06 to 2015-16. Obviously, males have CVD is more than females that shown in figure 1. Between 2005-06 to 2015-16, males and females have been a slight increase in the hospitalisation rate.
As evident from the data Figure 2 which shows trends from 1990 to 2018. Between 1990 and 1996 have remained constant. Between 1998 to 2918 have increased sharply. Compare to Figure 1 and Figure 2, trends in HIV are increased noticeably.
Figure 3: Trends in CVD deaths, by sex, 1985-2015
As evident from the data in Figure 3 which shows trends in CVD death, by sex from 1985 to 2015. In 1985, CVD death in males is around 610 (per 100,000 population); in 2015, CVD death in males is around 180 (per 100,000 population), there has been a sharp decrease between 1985 to 2015.
In 1985, CVD death in females is around 410 (per 100,000 population); in 2015, CVD death in females is around 140 (per 100,000 population), there has been a sharp decrease between 1985 to 2015.
Nowaday, medical advances can decrease the trends in CVD deaths. On the contrary, medical advances is not developed in 1985.
As evident from the data in table 4 which shows AIDS relater deaths in Australia in1990 to 2018. Between 1990 and 1995, AIDS-related mortality rate has increased sharply. In 1996 and 1997 AID-related mortality rate plummeted. Between 1998 and 2018, have remained constant. It can show AIDS relater deaths in Australian has been a slight decrease. As medicine has made AIDS a treatable condition, lowering the mortality rate substantially. Between 1985 and 1987, FDA (Food and Drug Administration) approved first ELISA ( Enzyme Linked Immunodeficiency Assay) test kit to screen for antibodies to HIV and become the first drug approved for the treatment of AIDS. (REF. FDA) therefore, morality plummets more than 500 people.
Compare to Figure 3 and Figure 4, it can show the medicine have made both of the disease a treatable condition. By contrast, AIDS-related mortality rate is decreased by 2030.
There are issue associates with the evidence presented however. The Australian mortality rate in CVD death is higher than AIDS-related. It could be Australian to have a high quality of life, and having an unhealthy diet increase the incidence of heart disease. CVD is a global concern and the age of patients are gradually became younger. Due to the increased rate of obesity and decreased exercise levels, cardiovascular disease is one of Australia’s largest health problems. It could be assumed that Australian disregard obesity and exercise, the mortality rate in CVD continuously rising. By contrast, AIDS can control by the drugs, expected can ending AIDS by 2030.
In conclusion, cardiovascular disease affects the Australian mortality is more than AIDS in 2030. In various results, the trend of CVD development is high than AIDS. Due to Australia is a development country, abundant resources can lead to increased risk of CVD. Also, advances in medicine have made AIDS a treatable condition, can decrease mortality of AIDS and become a treatable, chronic disease. As a result, the mortality of CVD will continue to rise until 2030.
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Learning another language traditionally was exclusive to the textbooks, but as a child, this may not be an option. Teaching your child another language can be pretty tough and that is why it is recommended to start teaching around 3-4 years of age, when they have their first language down pat. It is of no surprise that English is the number on spoken language in the United States, but did you know, as of 2019, 61.6% of households in the USA also spoke Spanish? In this post, I am sharing a few tips for teaching your child another language, and also sharing my favorite source for learning Spanish at a young age.
Tips for Teaching Your Child Another Language
Play Cartoons in a Foreign Language
There is a huge difference in learning and exposure when it comes to new languages. When teaching your child, you are focusing on the particular sounds and spellings of foreign words, however when your child is in an environment where the language is being used freely, they are able to hear different tones and inflections in conversations, along with body language, to gain a better understanding of how the language is used.
Try Digital Classes from Home
Sure, an in person class setting is a great way to learn, but I have found that that my children excel when they learn a new skill in the comfort of their own home, without the pressure of peers being present. We love Sarah’s Spanish School for in home learning. Did you know that Sarah’s Spanish School is the most trusted elementary Spanish enrichment provider in the USA, partnering with more than 50 school districts? The kiddos love how interactive the program is as they get to acquire Spanish through stories, games, songs, repetition, movement, and other fun activities such as cooking, dancing, yoga, workouts, and crafts, which are performed in Spanish! Sarah’s Spanish School makes it a priority to promote bilingual education in America, show young students that they can speak a second language, and give schools and parents the opportunity to easily offer Spanish to their students.
“Sarah’s Spanish School’s founder, Sarah Urban, was a small-town high school Spanish teacher. She used her unique techniques to teach her students, and the response was incredible. Almost all of her high school students were speaking the language and loving the class after just a few sessions. She loved teaching high school, but she wanted to reach more students with this way of teaching and start them at an earlier age. So, Sarah started Sarah’s Spanish School in 2016 in her hometown of Eureka, MO as a way to give this opportunity to “a few” local kiddos. Since then, the program has helped more than 3,500 kids acquire Spanish as a second language in more than 250 elementary schools and online.” –Sarah’s Spanish School
Sing Songs in a Foreign Language
Catchy tunes and melodies are great ways for learning languages. I remember in my middle school Spanish class, we learned La Bamba. The whole class learned the entire song by heart before really understanding what the song was about. Once we had the song down pat, our teacher would explain the meaning word for word. Because songs often tell stories or describe feelings, it was easy to remember the song’s meaning and therefore the meaning for each memorized word.
Include the Language in Your Daily Activities
Including a foreign language in daily activities with your children is a fun way to further their education on the topic. Time spent in the car is the perfect opportunity to play a little foreign language eye spy! When riding down the road, pick out something you spy and say it out loud in the language you are studying. Have your child point out the item that you have spied. Then, let your child be the spy.
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The 16th of June marks World Sea Turtle Day – a day where we get the chance to appreciate these amazing creatures, find out more about them and learn how we can make changes to help their species.
For over 100 million years sea turtles have travelled vast distances; they spend the majority of their lives in the water, only coming ashore to breed.
According to the Sea Turtle Conservancy, the earliest known sea turtle fossils are actually around 150 million years old.
These magnificent creatures play a fundamental role in marine ecosystems by helping to maintain the health of seagrass beds and coral reefs, but they are now considered to be endangered.
Sadly, according to National Geographic, six out of the seven species of sea turtles are classified as threatened, endangered or critically endangered, which is mostly due to human impact.
They are poached for their eggs, meat, skin and shells and suffer from over-exploitation, or they even fall victim to bycatching (accidentally being captured in fishing gear). The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) believe that 8 million tonnes of plastic are being dumped in the oceans every year, meaning sea turtles’ habitats are being destroyed as pollution wracks the world’s oceans. Meanwhile, climate change has impacted nesting sites by altering sand temperatures, which affects the outcome of the hatchlings’ sex.
WWF are working hard to help these endangered animals by working with the local communities to reduce turtle harvesting and egg collection. They have been supporting a campaign led by TRAFFIC to combat illegal trade and to reduce demand in China.
The charity have been studying how climate change has affected the turtles and trying to work with communities to monitor and protect nesting beaches. They also tag sea turtles to allow researchers to track where they swim and to understand migration patterns.
How can you make a difference?
Contact your elected council or political representatives (or potential candidates) to enquire about what their beliefs and actions are for the safeguarding of sea turtles. You always have a voice and can use it.
Parents, guardians and teachers can educate young people in a fun way, inspiring them to think about their impact on the world around them. Look up events for World Sea Turtle Day on 16 June which can help us to learn more while still having fun.
When travelling, search for eco-friendly hotels that are committed to protecting local animals. Here at Charistay, you’ll soon be able to book with our partners who are passionate about protecting the land and wildlife around them. Until then, make sure you check out a hotel’s website to see what they’re doing to help. When looking for things to do while you’re away, try to avoid any tour operator or excursion that involves touching, holding or swimming with turtles or other wild creatures. While getting a photo taken with a cute or dangerous animal might seem Instagram worthy, not only is it stressful for the creature but it also creates a demand for this type of cruelty to continue. Also, choose restaurants that don’t serve turtle or other endangered creatures on their menu.
If you’re looking for ways to support from home, take a look at WWF’s Pledge for Our Planet which includes committing to reducing your carbon footprint where you can. This could be monitoring the electricity you use, reducing the amount of fossil fuels you use and reducing food waste at home. It can also mean you make more conscious efforts when shopping to buy from sustainable fishing practices by purchasing items with the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) label.
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I fully support liberating any animal from abuse. It does not follow however, that rescued animals — pit bulls in particular — should be pushed as companion pets by shelters and rescue organizations.
Terry Douglass of Baltimore became the 25th dog bite related fatality nationally this year when she was mauled to death by her own pit bull on Nov. 1. In the days since her passing there have been three more of these gruesome deaths, according to DogBites.org. Nearly all of the 28 people killed by dogs — 15 of them children ranging in ages from 14 months to 7 years — were killed by pit bulls.
My wife Irene and I have spent the last six years of our lives advocating for dog bite and mauling victims. In 2007, our then 10-year-old son, Dominic, and his 9-year-old playmate, Scotty, were mauled by a neighbor's pit bull in an alley behind our Towson home. Dominic was critically wounded, suffering a femoral artery tear when he and two other children attempted to assist Scotty. He was in the hospital for 17 days and went through a year of rehabilitation.
Our advocacy to bring awareness to the dangerous dog breeds issue has led us through a hearing in Baltimore County to have the offending pit bull euthanized; a failed attempt to compel a still completely indifferent Baltimore County executive, council and health department to sponsor sensible breed regulations; a criminal trial and conviction against the dog's owner for child endangerment in circuit court; and a civil trial against the dog owner's landlord.
That civil case led the Maryland Court of Appeals, the state's highest court, to label pit bulls as "inherently dangerous," which broadened the liability of the dogs' owners and others, including landlords who rented to people with pit bulls, in the event of an attack.
Before acquiring or rescuing any shelter dog as a pet, one needs to consider the nature of the breed and what that specific animal may have been exposed to — especially when the breed is frequently chosen to train for blood sport.
All dog breeds are the result of unnatural selection, man's intentional over-concentration of selected instincts to produce animals that would be otherwise unattainable or unsustainable if left to the domestic canine's natural mating instincts. Breeding is done to refine the dog breed's physical ability to perform tasks and more importantly to promote an aptitude to instinctively respond to those tasks we aspire to train our pets to accomplish.
Pit bulls were bred to be fighters, both physically and in their instinctual behavior, making them a dangerous choice as a companion pet.
Shelter volunteers unfortunately are not dog experts, they are animal advocates — most of whom are completely debilitated by their own empathy for an abused dog's plight. In their zeal to find dogs quality homes, they could not possibly be expected to make an objective, rational or reasonable assessment of a dog's suitability as a pet, especially when viewed from a public safety and welfare perspective.
And the health departments, which oversee animal services, have abdicated their responsibility to ensure human safety by allowing animal-welfare organizations, often privately funded, to run the show.
These type of operations and rescues, including BARCS here in Baltimore, and their political supporters are beholden to their donors, who support an animal-first doctrine. Otherwise they would first inform potential pet parents from a public welfare perspective at the time of application of the hazards associated with owning a dog or dogs of any breed and certainly pit bulls.
According to the Centers for Disease Control, as many as 5 million people are bitten by dogs each year. Children make up the largest at-risk group followed by the elderly and disabled. Protecting them should be our first priority.
It is better to be our brother's keeper, rather than residential zoo keepers.
Tony Solesky is an advocate for victims of dog mauling and author of the e-book "Dangerous by Default." His email is email@example.com.
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Extreme wildfires are transforming Sierra Nevada forestlands into shrublands
Special to the Sierra Sun
Sierra Nevada forests are losing plant diversity due to high-severity fires, according to a study from the University of California, Davis.
These fires are turning patches of forest into shrub fields — indefinitely, in some cases.
For the study, published in the journal Ecosphere, scientists analyzed plant diversity across a spectrum of fire severity — from low to moderate to high. They found the sweet spot for plant diversity exists where tree stands burned with low-to-moderate severity, as mixed conifer forests did in this region for millennia before the imposition of fire suppression policies in the early 20th century. Such policies have greatly increased forest density and the amount of woody fuels in many California forests and led to more severe, stand-replacing fires.
On the extreme ends of the spectrum, unburned areas and high-severity burn areas showed relatively low plant diversity. Five to 10 years or more after experiencing high-severity burns, many forest stands were replaced by shrub fields that supported few plant species.
‘A different kind of fire’
The results suggest these forests, which are used to living with and even benefiting from fire, have not yet adapted to this newer regime of intense, high-severity fires.
“This system is experiencing a different kind of fire,” said lead author Clark Richter, a doctoral candidate at UC Davis. “The species are outside of their limits. More high-severity fires greatly change a diverse and highly varied forest to one where all the trees are dead and what’s left is often just a few species of shrub, not the herbs and wildflowers you may be used to seeing.”
The researchers examined postfire plant response in eight areas of yellow pine and mixed conifer forests that burned in California’s Sierra Nevada between 2001 and 2012. These areas have experienced among the biggest increases in wildfire size and severity over the past 30 years in the continental United States. The areas stretched from the site of the Moonlight Fire (2007) in Lassen County southward to the Power Fire (2004) in Amador County.
The study states that under climate change and current fire trends, “there is a real possibility that large portions of the Sierra Nevada landscape could be caught in a feedback-loop” that prevents recovery of former forest.
“We will need enhanced management tools and resources to help forests adapt if we want to preserve plant diversity for soil, animal and ecosystem health,” Richter said.
The paper suggests a multifaceted management approach that combines forest thinning with a major expansion of prescribed burning and allowing naturally ignited fires to burn under moderate weather conditions.
Additional co-authors include co-leading and senior author Marcel Rejmánek from the UC Davis Department of Evolution and Ecology, Jesse E.D. Miller from Stanford University, Kevin Welch from the UC Davis Department of Plant Sciences, JonahMaria Weeks from the UC Davis Department of Environmental Science and Policy, and Hugh Safford from UC Davis and the USDA Forest Service.
The study was funded by the USDA Forest Service Pacific Southwest Region and the Eldorado National Forest.
Kat Kerlin is a staff member for the UC Davis News and Media Relations department.
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The Health Council of the Netherlands has advised that all women over the age of 30 receive an at-home self-testing kit alongside their invite to be screened for cervical cancer.
Cervical cancer and HPV screening in the Netherlands
According to the National Institute for Public Health and Environment (RIVM), over 200 women die from cervical cancer in the Netherlands every year. The Health Council has issued new advice in order to improve the national cervical cancer screening system and ensure more women are tested and can be diagnosed as soon as possible.
For example, the Council recommends looking into faster, less labour intensive ways in which to process testing samples, and minimising the number of unnecessary referrals by distinguishing between different types of HPV to ensure women are not “burdened with unnecessary anxiety.”
Dutch Health Council believes women should receive a testing kit
Since 2017, women have been given a choice when they receive their letter inviting them for their cervical cancer screening: they can book an appointment with their GP, or they can apply to receive an at-home testing kit that can be used to detect an HPV infection.
The key aspect of the Council’s advice states that, while the current system does give women a choice, it would be better if all women automatically receive a testing kit when they receive their screening invite.
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- 1 Is EOS bad for chapped lips?
- 2 Is EOS actually good for your lips?
- 3 Why you shouldn’t use Eos lip balm?
- 4 Does lip balm make your lips dry?
- 5 Why is Carmex bad?
- 6 Why is my EOS lip balm gritty?
- 7 Why is EOS so bad?
- 8 Is Vaseline bad for your lips?
- 9 Is Eos lip balm safe?
- 10 Is Eos lip balm all natural?
- 11 Which lip balm is best?
- 12 What happens if you eat Eos lip balm?
- 13 Does Burt’s Bees lip balm dry out lips?
- 14 How do you fix chapped lips overnight?
- 15 Can you overuse lip balm?
Is EOS bad for chapped lips?
While the formulation of this product does contain moisturizing ingredients, it also contains ingredients that are known to potentially trigger allergic contact dermatitis of the lips, including flavors and lanolin. This is why I don’t recommend this product for those with dry, chapped lips.
Is EOS actually good for your lips?
Eos lip balms are just too darn adorable! Luckily, what’s inside that colorful packaging is just as awesome as what’s outside. From organic ingredients to top-notch moisturizers, here’s why our lips absolutely love them. They’re 100-percent natural.
Why you shouldn’t use Eos lip balm?
A lawsuit alleges EOS lip balms cause rashes, bleeding, and blistering. According to the suit’s plaintiff, Los Angeles resident Rachel Cronan, EOS lip balm caused her to break out in “boils and blisters on and around her lips requiring medical attention.” (Photos of Cronan’s reaction are below.)
Does lip balm make your lips dry?
“Lip balms containing ingredients like phenol, menthol and salicylic acid actually make your lips drier. So you apply more, and it becomes a vicious cycle.” Some of these product also cause a tingling feeling when you apply them. This either causes irritation or removes outer layers of the skin, like an exfoliant.
Why is Carmex bad?
Besides the camphor and menthol, Carmex also includes several other ingredients that can cause sensitivity. The irritation creates a never-ending cycle of Carmex addiction. Bowe says, “Carmex has many irritating ingredients that can cause inflammation in the lip area in people with sensitive lips.
Why is my EOS lip balm gritty?
As the butter is exposed to temperature fluctuations, some of the fats melt and then re-crystallize at different rates which results in a sandy texture. This happens when balm is exposed to extreme temperature changes (like in your car or directly exposed to the elements).
Why is EOS so bad?
Eos became the center of a controversy when customer Rachael Cronin filed a class action lawsuit against the brand, stating that the lip balm caused her lips to suffer from “ severe rashes, dryness, bleeding, blistering, cracking and loss of pigmentation.” But she wasn’t the only one.
Is Vaseline bad for your lips?
If you’re not allergic, Vaseline isn’t likely to cause harm or make your lips drier — it just may not be the best option for hydrating lips and preventing the delicate skin from becoming chapped. Other things to try for dry lips include: Try lip balms that contain: argan oil.
Is Eos lip balm safe?
Yes, the lawsuit has been resolved, confirming that eos lip balms are safe. Our lip balms are hypoallergenic, dermatologist tested, made with the highest quality ingredients, meet or exceed all safety and quality standards set by our industry and are validated by rigorous safety testing conducted by independent labs.
Is Eos lip balm all natural?
eos Organic lip balms are 100% Natural and Certified USDA Organic, paraben & phthalate-free, gluten-free and not tested on animals. We make our Natural & Organic balms with antioxidant-rich vitamin E, soothing shea butter, nourishing coconut and jojoba oils to keep lips soft all day and lock-in moisture.
Which lip balm is best?
The Best Lip Balms on Amazon, According to Hyperenthusiastic Reviewers
- Burt’s Bees.
- ChapStick Classic (3 Sticks) Original Lip Balm.
- Aquaphor Lip Repair Ointment.
- Blistex Medicated Lip Balm SPF 15.
- Burt’s Bees 100% Natural Moisturizing Lip Balm.
- Maybelline Baby Lips Moisturizing Lip Balm.
What happens if you eat Eos lip balm?
If enough is swallowed, they could have a minor upset stomach or a loose stool. If you find your child with chap stick, do not panic. Take the tube away from them, wipe out the mouth with a soft, wet cloth and give them some water to drink.
Does Burt’s Bees lip balm dry out lips?
According to this Journal of Pharmacy and Bioallied Sciences study, it seems to be one of the most frequent contact sensitizers, with possible reactions including chelitis and peeling lips. I guess this is why I didn’t got the hype over the original Burt’s Bees lip balms!
How do you fix chapped lips overnight?
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Herbivores Carnivores Omnivores Animals Name List
Identify and name a variety of common animals that are carnivores herbivores and omnivores.
Herbivores carnivores omnivores animals name list. The organisms which eat other animals or meat only are called carnivores. Identify and name a variety of common animals that are carnivores herbivores and omnivores. Large carnivores include wolves and mountain lions.
While carnivores have long sharp teeth to help them tear flesh herbivores have broad molars which help them grind leaves shoots and even twigs. Omnivore animals get their energy from animals and some parts of the plant like fruit and vergetables. Following is an omnivorous animals list detailing other opportunistic feeders.
List Of Extended Omnivorous Animals. As I mentioned earlier that some animals eat fruits and leaves they are often called frugivores and folivores respectively. Herbivores are animals that eat only plants.
Herbivores carnivores and omnivores. The organisms which consume or eat only plants as their source of food are called herbivores. List of omnivores animals and their food Bear.
And as for the insects the herbivore animals list includes butterflies treehoppers grasshoppers etc. Some of them provide food for carnivorous or omnivorous predators of the deep. Some of the deadliest carnivorous animals are bobcats hawks mountain lions red foxes fishers wolverines coyotes eagles and many more.
In this list of omnivorous animals there was 114 animals that I can found scroll down your mouse to see all of these omnivorous animals and if you thinks this animals list is useful you can help to spread it to the world via social bookmarking on the bottom of this pages. There are three types of animals. This list of 50 or more animals includes carnivores omnivores and herbivores.
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Brunswick 78 rpm issue of Raymond Scott's "Powerhouse"
|Single by The Raymond Scott Quintette|
|B-side||"The Toy Trumpet"|
|Recorded||February 20, 1937|
In scripted comments read on the First Anniversary Special of CBS Radio's Saturday Night Swing Club, on which the Raymond Scott Quintette performed, host Paul Douglas announced that "Powerhouse" had been premiered on that program in January or early February 1937.
Scott's Quintette (actually a sextet) first recorded "Powerhouse" in New York on February 20, 1937, along with three other titles. This recording was first commercially issued on the Irving Mills-owned Master Records label as Master 111 (mx. M-120-1), coupled with another Scott composition, "The Toy Trumpet". After the demise of the Master label late in 1937, "Powerhouse" was reissued on Brunswick 7993, and subsequently on Columbia 36311 (after the CBS purchase of ARC, which included the Brunswick catalog). The same take was issued on all releases. (An unreleased 1939 recording by the original Scott Quintette was issued in 2002 on the 2-CD Scott compilation Microphone Music.)
Both "Powerhouse" and "The Toy Trumpet" remained in Scott's repertoire for decades, both were adapted for Warner Bros. cartoon soundtracks by WB music director Carl Stalling along with a dozen other Scott titles, and both have been recorded by numerous other artists. Stalling, who spiced his scores with "Powerhouse" dozens of times, never created a complete version of the work, with all his adaptations existing as excerpts.
Structurally, "Powerhouse" consists of two distinct - and seemingly unrelated - musical themes, played at different tempos. Both have been used in numerous cartoons. The first theme, sometimes referred to as "Powerhouse A," is a frantic passage typically employed in chase and high-speed vehicle scenes to imply whirlwind velocity. The slower theme, "Powerhouse B," is the "assembly line" music, which sometimes accompanies scenes of repetitive, machine-like activity. "Powerhouse" in its entirety places "B" in the center while "A" opens and closes the work in the sequence A-B-A (Ternary form).
- Raymond Scott - piano
- Dave Harris - saxophone
- Pete Pumiglio - clarinet
- Dave Wade - trumpet
- Louis Shoobe - double bass
- Johnny Williams - drums
Acquisition of Scott catalog by Warner Bros.
In 1943, Scott's music publishing company, Circle Music, was sold to Warner Bros. Because Scott's titles were now controlled by Warner, Stalling was given access to the composer's catalog to adapt his popular melodies in Warner cartoon scores. Research has not yet determined whether the acquisition of Scott's catalog and subsequent adaptions by Stalling were intentional or serendipitous. Many of Scott's late 1930s compositions had an animated, frenetic quality, and his titles were humorous and absurd (e.g., "Boy Scout in Switzerland," "War Dance for Wooden Indians," "Reckless Night on Board an Ocean Liner," and "Dinner Music for a Pack of Hungry Cannibals," all of which were quoted by Stalling in various cartoons).
There is a prevalent misconception that Scott composed music for Warner cartoons. However, the Scott titles adapted by Carl Stalling were originally composed between 1936 and 1942 for Scott's small jazz ensemble (his "Quintette") or his expanded big band. Scott had no involvement with Stalling's usages, he never worked for Warner Bros., and except for a one-minute TV commercial for County Fair Bread in the 1960s, he never composed music for animation.
Use in cartoons
The first use of "Powerhouse" in a cartoon occurred in the 1943 Warner Bros. Looney Tunes short Porky Pig's Feat, directed by Frank Tashlin. Also in 1943, it was used in the Private Snafu shorts Gripes, Spies, and Rumors. It was subsequently featured in over 40 other Warner Bros. cartoons. The most well-known "assembly-line" usage of "Powerhouse B" occurs in Bob Clampett's Baby Bottleneck (1946), in which newborn babies (of various species) are processed on a conveyor belt in time to the melody.
The "Powerhouse A" section featured prominently during Bugs Bunny's altercation with a gremlin in Clampett's 1943 Merrie Melodies cartoon Falling Hare. The 1953 Merrie Melodies cartoon Duck Dodgers in the 24½th Century, directed by Chuck Jones, contains Stalling's lengthiest adaptation of the "Powerhouse A" section, clocking in at one minute and twenty-five seconds.
Other Warner cartoons which contain quotes from "Powerhouse" include Birdy and the Beast (1944), Cat-Tails for Two (1953), Early to Bet (1951), Falling Hare (1943), His Bitter Half (1950), House-Hunting Mice (1948), It's Hummer Time (1950), Jumpin' Jupiter (1955), Rocket Squad (1956), Sheep in the Deep (1962), Compressed Hare (1961), and dozens more.
The original Raymond Scott Quintette recordings, including "Powerhouse," were licensed in the early 1990s for soundtrack usage in twelve episodes of The Ren and Stimpy Show. Various passages of the tune have been arranged for use in The Simpsons, Duckman, The Bernie Mac Show, and The Drew Carey Show (in a brief scene involving an animated character). An entire 1993 episode of Animaniacs, "Toy Shop Terror," was set to Warner Bros. music director Richard Stone's arrangement of the composition. "Powerhouse" also served as bumper theme music for Cartoon Network from 1997 to 2003, and can be heard as a systematic rock theme in the 2003 feature film Looney Tunes: Back in Action.
"Powerhouse" has been used In The Simpsons four times. The first occurs in "And Maggie Makes Three" (Season 6, Episode 13) during a scene at a bowling alley. In the episode "Bart Has Two Mommies" (Season 17, Episode 14), "Powerhouse" B is adapted in a scene that pays homage to the 1937 Disney short The Old Mill, when Homer Simpson gets caught in the Old Mill while trying to save his Rubber Duckie. In the episode "Little Big Girl" (Season 18, Episode 12), "Powerhouse" was used during the sequence where the fire at Cletus' farm is lit. In the episode "The Fool Monty" (Season 22, Episode 6), "Powerhouse" was adapted as background music for a construction scene in which Charles Montgomery Burns, having lost his memory, is led to a dangerous construction site by Homer Simpson, who seeks revenge for Burns' years of cruel behavior. Burns walks along moving girders, narrowly avoids flying rivets, and other well-worn cartoon construction site gags. Simpsons creator Matt Groening once ranked "Powerhouse" as #14 on a list of his "100 Favorite Things."
Recent performances, recordings, and usages
"Powerhouse" was adapted without attribution by composer James Horner in the soundtrack of the 1989 film Honey, I Shrunk the Kids. The Horner composition, titled "Power Play," resulted in legal action by Scott's U.S. publisher, Music Sales Corporation, against Walt Disney Pictures for failure to credit the work's original composer. The dispute was ultimately settled out of court.
In recent years, Powerhouse has been recorded by jazz clarinetist Don Byron on his album Bug Music, jazz pianist Ted Kooshian on his 2009 CD Ted Kooshian's Standard Orbit Quartet: Underdog, and other Stories..., pedal steel guitarist Jon Rauhouse, The Metropole Orchestra, The Beau Hunks Sextette, The Coctails, and jazz guitarist Skip Heller. The title, as arranged by Michelle DiBucci, has been in the repertoire of Kronos Quartet since 1994.
The rock band Rush adapted part of "Powerhouse" in their 1978 instrumental "La Villa Strangiato" (5:49 into the track) on their Hemispheres album, as did ska/soul band The Pietasters in Factory Concerto on their 1993 self-titled album, and alternative band Soul Coughing featured it in their song "Bus to Beelzebub" from their 1994 album Ruby Vroom. The tune has also been appropriated by They Might Be Giants (on the song "Rhythm Section Want Ad"), Devo (on "Fraulein"), and others. Other contemporary artists who have recorded versions of "Powerhouse" include Thelonious Moog, The Tiptons (with Amy Denio), the Grammy Award-nominated string ensemble Quartet San Francisco, and Steroid Maximus (featuring J. G. Thirlwell). Lee Presson and the Nails included the song on their album Jump-swing from Hell: Live At the Hi-ball Lounge.
In 2006-2007, the "assembly line" theme was used in a highly choreographed commercial for the Visa check card. The commercial, entitled "Lunch", was staged in a manner intended to be reminiscent of the song's cartoon uses.
In August 2009, Sinking Ship Productions staged a musical portrait of Raymond Scott entitled Powerhouse at the New York International Fringe Festival. The composition "Powerhouse" was used as a recurring theme.
On August 8, 2013, the Raymond Scott Orchestrette performed an arrangement of "Powerhouse" to accompany Dance Heginbotham's choreographic work Manhattan Research at New York's Lincoln Center Out Of Doors summer concert series.
"Powerhouse" was also used in some PBS commercials in 2000 urging viewers to shop.
In 2014, the Dubuque, Iowa, Colts Drum and Bugle Corps included "Powerhouse" as part of their show, "Dark Side of the Rainbow." In 2016, Bethesda Softworks used the Scott Quintette's original 1937 recording in a showcase presentation for their Fallout 4 and Fallout Shelter games.
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- 78discography.com MASTER Records numerical listing discography
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- ViolinJazz.com Quartet San Francisco
- "Lunch" on YouTube
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- Irwin Chusid. "Raymond Scott Archives Blog: Would Daffy Approve?". raymondscott.blogspot.com. Retrieved 21 June 2015.
- 2014 Song Listing for Colts Drum and Bugle Corps
- Fallout 4/Fallout Shelter/Skyrim Special Edition: 2016 #BE3 Showcase Presentation, June 12, 2016 (music begins at 0:36)
- Montage of "Powerhouse" in Warner cartoons on RaymondScott.com's YouTube channel on YouTube
- Raymond Scott performs "Powerhouse" on TV's Your Hit Parade, April 16, 1955 on YouTube
- Seventy-five "Powerhouse" adaptions and performances compiled on YouTube by the Raymond Scott Channel
- Raymond Scott's "Powerhouse" at Jazz.com
- Choreographed sketch on YouTube from Sinking Ship Productions' theatrical presentation Powerhouse, recorded during the New York International Fringe Festival Opening Press Conference, August 12, 2009
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A tumor is an abnormal mass of body tissue that may be cancerous (malignant) or noncancerous (benign). Tumors occur when cells divide and grow, invading surrounding tissues and spreading to other organs if left unchecked.
Growths can be divided into different categories. A neoplasm is an abnormal growth of tissue that grows faster than normal cells, competing with them for nutrients. It is another word for tumor.
A benign tumor is one that is localized, does not spread to other parts of the body and can be successfully treated. A malignant tumor continues to grow and spread and does not respond well to treatment. It is classified as cancer.
What Causes Tumors?
Tumors are the result of problems with the body’s immune system. There are many causes, including:
- Excessive alcohol consumption.
- Environmental toxins.
- Genetic problems.
- Exposure to sunlight.
Symptoms vary depending on the type of tumor. Some cause no symptoms until they have reached an advanced stage, while others exhibit signs early on. Generally speaking, symptoms associated with tumors include chills, fever, fatigue, malaise, loss of appetite, weight loss and night sweats.
Testing & Diagnosis
Unless there is an obvious lump, most cancers can’t be seen during a physical exam. If a tumor is suspected, a biopsy (tissue sample) will be examined beneath a microscope. This will help determine whether the cancer is benign or malignant. Further testing – a CT scan, MRI or PET scan – will determine the location of the tumor and the extent to which it has spread.
Treatment varies depending upon the type and location of the tumor and whether it’s benign or malignant. If cancerous, treatment options include radiation, surgery, chemotherapy or a combination of the three.
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From the fig tree learn its lesson: as soon as its branch becomes tender and puts out its leaves, you know that summer is near. So also, when you see all these things, you know that he is near, at the very gates. Truly, I say to you, this generation will not pass away until all these things take place.Matthew 24:32
This was Jesus’ only mistake, but it was a whopper: his generation passed away 2 thousand years ago and nothing much happened. So much for the “Kingdom of Heaven.” If Jesus was a prophet he’s a pretty terrible one. His prediction was justifiably ridiculed for ages.
Or perhaps as with other biblical conundrums and paradoxes, we just have to forget everything “they” taught us and re-read the verses with fresh eyes and a little less cynicism.
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ACX Plywood products are classified as a high grade type of plywood, due to its strength and durability. ACX refers to the grade of wood and the quality of glue used to make the Plywood.
What Does ACX Stand For?
The letter “A” in ACX, refers to the side of the plywood that is considered the “face”, which is most often the preferred side of the plywood. The preferred side of the plywood will have fewer knots and defects than the other side. The “A” side of the plywood is the visible side of the plywood when used in projects.
The letter “C” in ACX, refers to the side of the plywood that is considered the back side and typically will not be visible. Most often the back sides of the plywood have a few more knots and cracks than the “face” side of the plywood.
The letter “X” in ACX, refers to the exterior adhesive used to join the two separate woods panels together. The exterior adhesive is waterproof, which enhances the quality of the plywood and protects the plywood from outdoor elements.
ACX Douglas Fir Plywood Features
ACX Douglas Fir Plywood is most commonly used for projects which require a higher level of durability as well as a professional look. Some of the most common projects where ACX Douglas Fir Plywood is used include flooring and wall building.
ACX Radiata Pine Plywood Features
ACX Radiata Pine Plywood is a nearly defect free, smooth grain plywood product, and is most commonly used for projects which require lamination. Some of the most common projects where ACX Radiata Pine Plywood is used include shelving, cabinets and other projects which require a defect free, high quality appearance.
ACX Plywood Sizes
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I've been thinking about this for a long while. I often discuss it in class with my students. Yesterday, I ran across a recent (January 2017) example of the perennial "scientists discover that the appendix has a function" headline: Your Appendix Might Serve an Important Biological Function After All
That example actually has a pretty good article about a study analyzing the evolutionary appearances and reappearances of the appendix in mammals and what that may tell us about this organ's function. But we already know enough about the functions of the vermiform appendix in humans that it's hardly true that its functions are completely unknown. The article clearly acknowledges that fact within the content, despite that attention-grabbing headline.
|Megakaryocyte producing platelets|
The journal article that prompted this wave of tweets and posts described some research in mice that expands our knowledge about this phenomenon—turns out that more is going in the lungs than we thought. The lungs may be the primary site for thrombopoiesis (platelet development), if human lungs work like mice lungs. But the fact that the lungs are sites of hematopoiesis—specifically platelet formation—is not new.
I've shared these and other posts with exaggerated headlines myself—mostly on Twitter, Facebook, or my new daily newsletter from Nuzzel.
However, I think it's way to easy to succumb to the excitement of a potential "new discovery" that turns out to be not new, or even a discovery, at all. As a blogger I know full well that exaggerated headlines get more "engagement", which leads to more "followers," which leads to better "brand recognition" and thus, more future "engagement." Who wants to spend time researching and writing when nobody is reading?
But in science, maybe the public perception of how science works is better served by a more toned-down approach that recognizes what we already think we know, why we think we know it, and what any new studies can do to clarify, correct, or extend what we know.
I know that none of us individuals can stop the tide of exaggerated science news headlines. I'm just using a platform I have to express my concern that we may be making a mistake by doing so. If everything is a "breakthrough" or even a "huge breakthrough," then maybe casual observers will miss those truly game-changing ideas when they come along.
At least it's something to keep in the back our minds and we do our daily scan of science new headlines.
What can we use from this in teaching undergraduate A&P?
- Consider challenging your student to find the first new "science discovers the function of the appendix" article or post of the semester. (or spleen or gallbladder or any organ).
- Find some posts or articles that have exciting "new discovery" headlines and analyze them as a class. The may help us all learn better the critical analysis needed when reading science content.
- Have a class discussion regarding the balance between the excitement of discovery that drives science and the exaggerations of discovery that may mislead.
- Consider making sure that your students know that the appendix has functions (and that the lungs make platelets). Just in case they become science journalists.
- Consider throwing out science journalism or science writing as career options. They already have an interest in human biology—and they may soon discover they don't like the career path they first chose, after all.
Want to know more?
Your Appendix Might Serve an Important Biological Function After All
- BEC CREW Science Alert 10 JAN 2017
- Article about an evolution study of the appendix in many organisms and how that may relate to the organ's function.
An Unexpected New Lung Function Has Been Found - They Make Blood
- This article, with the subtitle Things just got complicated, outlines the recent work done in mice to show that most platelets (not just some platelets) may form in lungs.
- BEC CREW Science Alert 24 MAR 2017
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What Is Constructive Contract15 Apr 2022
One owner, Janice, has no idea that her brother Larry has agreed to let Tom, a house builder, build a house on his property. Larry can`t pay Tom, so he sends the bill to Janice, who refuses to pay. Although Janice and Tom do not have a formal agreement, the court could argue that Janice must pay Tom for her time and equipment so as not to be unfairly enriched. The amount Tom receives from Janice would be limited to the payment of goods and services and not to the profits from the sale of the house, since Janice did not enter into a formal contract with him. Unjust enrichment occurs when one party profited inappropriately or at the expense of another party. Since a party has not paid or exchanged a benefit in exchange for the benefit received, it should return the goods or pay for the services provided. A quasi-contract allows the judge to enforce this idea. The contract is intended to prevent one party from unfairly taking advantage of the situation at the expense of the other party. Such agreements may be imposed when goods or services are accepted by a party but not requested. Acceptance then creates an expectation of payment. A quasi-contract (or implied legal contract or implied contract) is a fictitious contract recognized by a court. The concept of quasi-treaty dates back to Roman law and is still a concept used in some modern legal systems. In the Middle Ages, there was a practice called “indebitatus assumpsit”, in which a judge executed a payment between two parties as if they had agreed on a contract.
The court could force the defendant to pay the plaintiff, the party suing for payment for services or a return of goods, an amount determined by the court. The court could claim that the defendant and the plaintiff had reached an agreement because the defendant`s conduct implied that the defendant had accepted a contract to pay the plaintiff even though no such contract had been concluded. Constructive contract — A type of contract that arises not from the intention of the parties, but from the application of the law to avoid injustice. These are sometimes referred to as quasi-contracts or legally implied contracts, as opposed to contracts that are in. . Mutual consent or agreement between two parties who intend to enter into a contract is not a problem for the court in quasi-contractual cases, as the court establishes an obligation between the defendant and the plaintiff without both parties agreeing to a contract. This lack of mutual agreement is different from other contracts where two or more parties must agree that they will benefit from each other through the exchange or supply of goods and services. The idea is that the defendant must accept a contract for reasons of fairness, including to avoid unjust enrichment. A quasi-contract was different from an implied contract. In common law jurisdictions, quasi-contractual law dates back to the medieval form of action known as indebitatus assumpsit. Essentially, the plaintiff would claim a sum of money from the defendant as if the defendant had promised to pay it, that is, as if there were a contract between the parties. The defendant`s promise – her consent to be bound by the “contract” – was implied by law.
Quasi-contractual law was generally used to enforce restitution obligations. Contract — An agreement between two or more persons that creates an obligation to do or not to do a particular thing. As defined in restatement, second, contracts No. 3: A contract is a promise or set of promises for which the law is one. . The quasi-contractual acts of Black`s law dictionary were generally (but not exclusively) used to remedy what is now called unjust enrichment. In most common law jurisdictions, the law of quasi-contract has been replaced by the right of unjust enrichment. A quasi-contract is a document imposed by a court to prevent a party from making an unfair profit at the expense of another party, even if there is no contract between them. Constructive dismissal – An employee resigns if he or she voluntarily leaves his or her employment relationship. However, in the event of a serious breach of the employment contract by the employer, the employee may have the right to resign and demand a disguised dismissal. Before the. .
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eSource: Chernobyl's Wild Kingdom
After the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear explosion in Ukraine, scientists believed radiation had created a vast and barren wasteland in which life could never resurface. But the Dead Zone, as the contaminated area is known, doesn’t look dead at all. In fact, wildlife seems to be thriving there. The Zone is home to beetles, swallows, catfish, mice, voles, otters, beavers, wild boar, foxes, lynx, deer, moose—even brown bears and wolves. Yet the animals in the Zone are not quite what you’d expect. Every single one of them is radioactive.
In Chernobyl’s Wild Kingdom, you’ll meet the international scientists investigating the Zone’s wildlife and trying to answer difficult questions: Have some animals adapted to living with radiation? Or is the radioactive environment harming them in ways we can’t see or that will only show up in future generations? Learn more about the fascinating ongoing research—and the debates that surround the findings—in one of the most dangerous places on Earth.
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Passive vs Active Transport
Thanks to bandwidth hungry devices and applications for private and business customers data traffic in metro networks is still exploding. Whether the metro network is used to backhaul mobile data (UMTS, 3G, LTE etc), residential broadband connections (FTTx, xDSL, Active Ethernet etc), connecting data centers, transporting enterprise customer's traffic or a mixture of all, the bottleneck in the metro core network is an increasing challenge for the operator. Regardless of data rate and protocol the transport of this data over "typical" metro distances, which can be some kilometres in some areas to hundreds in others, can be done by either an Active or a Passive Transport solution.
Active Transport Systems
The "classic" but higher cost means of transport solutions are based on active transport systems. Here the signal generation (e.g. Ethernet Switch or DSLAM) and signal transport is physically separated on two platforms. The data signal will then be send via a local (client) transceiver to the transport system. This then has the same counterpart of transceiver (in terms of protocol, data rate and media type) to communicate locally to the terminal equipment.
The transport system is based on transponder cards hosting the local (client) transceivers from which the data signal will be O-E-O (Optic-Electronic-Optic) concerted to line side transceivers. If more than one line signal is generated the line side transceiver signals are then multiplexed via an Optical CWDM or DWDM mux to the transport fiber. Since transponder cards and transceivers need to be hosted and powered a costly chassis with redundant power supplies is necessary. As this active equipment may not be operated "blind" monitoring and control through a Management Software (e.g. SNMP) addressing the elements via an integrated Management Card becomes inevitable.
Passive Transport Systems
A much simpler and therefore, inherently CAPEX and OPEX saving form of transport is to do this passive. Here signal generation and signal transport is done within the same equipment, e.g. an Ethernet Switch. Since signal conversion by itself does not add any benefits but only tremendous costs, risk of failure and in the best case only maintains the signal quality (but does not approve it) it is avoided. So instead of using local transceivers and converting their signals in a rather complicated manner via transponder cards to the line transceivers, the line transceivers are directly plugged into the terminal equipment (e.g. the Ethernet Switch). Doing so makes everything but the line transceivers and the passive optical multiplexers obsolete and is therefore, taken out.
It is evident that this mean of transport not only saves >50% of CAPEX by eliminating mandatory parts (chassis, power supplies, transponder cards etc.) but that savings on the OPEX side are even bigger: No transport equipment software (SNMP management) needs to be integrated, operated, maintained and updated, much fewer electronic parts exponentially increase MTBF (Meantime Between Failure) numbers reducing down times and costly maintenances and support services. Last but not least, electric power consumption can be reduced by easily 50%: First of all as there is no extra transport system to power, second, since there is no extra heat generated cooling through air-conditioning can be largely reduced.
As there is no extra monitoring of the transport system, the remaining active parts (the coloured line side transceivers) are managed via existing monitoring (e.g. SNMP) in the terminal equipment. The passive Muxes, inherently without electric circuits, remain un-monitored like in most active transport solutions anyway. They are in the same manner monitored as the passive ODFs, connectors, patch cables, transport fibers or any other passive element in the network - in an indirect manner.
Apart from CAPEX and OPEX savings aspects a Passive Transport Solution inherently also reduces latency times in the network and will provide a better network performance than the active counteparts.
Passive WDM Solutions not only provide the lowest cost option for data transport but also proofed a much higher reliability than the active counterparts. The passive WDM systems are indirectly monitored via the Ethernet Terminal equipment (e.g. Switch) without losing network management options. In contrast the absence of additional software reduces OPEX as well as lower maintenance efforts are needed. Last but not least, a passive WDM solution drastically reduces energy consumption as it needs no additional active parts but most of all since it makes air-conditioning obsolete. | <urn:uuid:1e606d0f-0101-4a59-8309-19d55eeac9bd> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.hubersuhner.com/en/solutions/cube-optics/applications/carrier/passive-vs-active-transport | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571198.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810161541-20220810191541-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.927638 | 939 | 2.59375 | 3 |
The Entrepreneurship and Innovation (ENTI) research team members work on several topics around two main research domains:
• How dyadic relationships as much as the structural effects of social networks influence individual performance, job satisfaction or even company performance.
• How entrepreneurs develop their networks to increase their credibility and how this aspect is linked to the acquisition of the necessary resources for the realization of their projects.
• The impact of inter-organizational relationships on the behaviour and performance of companies.
• Female entrepreneurship
• Emotional and cognitive micro-foundations of entrepreneurial behaviour
• Drivers and outcomes of entrepreneurial health and wellness
• Social and sustainable entrepreneurship
• The effect of networks of strategic alliances on the international expansion strategies of companies and the creation of value from national and international strategic alliances.
• How companies encourage the creation and commercialization of innovation.
• The role of interpersonal networks in the functioning of organizations, in particular innovative companies
• Team collaboration and how this collaboration can improve research performance and help the diffusion of knowledge
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With the new regulations for 2017, the WRC undercar aerodynamics have been the object of deep study from all teams, in order to improve speed both through corners (by higher downforce or lower lift) and straight lines (by reducing drag).
Teams have opted for different and more or less developed strategies, incorporating elements such as a front splitter, side skirts, wheel diffuser, flaps or rear diffuser, in addition to a flat underbody.
To better understand how aerodynamics work under the car and the role of each element, let’s imagine we travel with air, over an asphalt stage of the 2017 WRC Championship.
One important point before the start is Bernouilli’s principle: the higher the airspeed, the lower the pressure. And, conversely, low speed means higher pressure.
Suddenly, a noisy and strange car approaches us and…. if we’re able to keep close enough to the asphalt, we will see a kind of platform (front splitter) approaching us and trying to split air into two fractions: a massive portion is directed to flow over the car body, while a selected, small portion is allowed to enter below the car.
Rally Argentina 2017 – picture by Michelin
Although all cars incorporate similar front splitters, it is worthy to point out that, while the Fiesta and the C3 splitters seem to be completely flat, that of i20 and, especially of the Yaris point upwards. This could be done to protect the splitter on rough terrains.
Detail of inclined front splitter from Toyota Yaris WRC, Rallye Deutschland 2017 – picture by Michelin.
If we are lucky to be part of the second option (air below the car), we can consider ourselves very happy, as we will enjoy an unforgettable journey only a few can experience (most of the air will be sent over the car). Reduced air content flowing and a lot of space available, there is no option….we can go faster, let’s accelerate!
If we have no choice but to flow above the front splitter, as much of the air, we will contribute, by increasing pressure over the (big) upper surface splitter, to lower it down, and so still less air will be able to flow below it.
We are flowing between a smooth asphalt (let’s say in Rally Catalunya) and a smooth flat surface over us (underbody), belonging to a car flying at more than one hundred km/h, so rugosity is not a problem, we can keep accelerating!
In some cars, it is even normal to tilt the flat surface at a small angle (between 1 and 2º) in the front part, and then it acts as a Venturi, as it contributes to accelerating the air even more. Due to the very small angle, it is difficult to verify it on WRC cars just from pictures.
Underbody of Toyota Yaris WRC, Hyundai i20 Coupé WRC, Ford Fiesta WRC and Citroën C3 WRC – pictures by Michelin (1, 2 and 4) and Jakob Mazim (3)
The picture above shows that all current WRC cars’ underbody is almost completely flat. This means lower drag.
When approaching to suspension arms, we will find that somebody installed some protections that, apart from protecting the suspension, will allow us to smoothly flow over them, with much lower rugosity than in other cars without such protection.
From the car sides, some air tries to join us, but it is slower and do not follow our direction, so if it managed to join us, it would make us to lose energy and to decelerate. Fortunately, somebody placed some structures on the sides of the car (side skirts) which prevent side air from entering and disturbing us so we can keep flowing. Also, the presence of dive planes in all cars contributes to blocking air from entering, as dive planes generate some vortices that flow alongside the car, thus acting as a barrier that blocks the air trying to flow down the car from both sides.
All 2017 cars have side skirts; most are almost flat, except those of the Toyota Yaris WRC, in which the last section has a curved shape to send the air upwards, helping airflow over the rear wheel arch, thus reducing drag.
In case we travel with air flowing on any of the sides of the undercar, violent impact on rear wheel seems unavoidable, which is going to reduce car (and air) speed. But this is not true for all the cars.
Diffuser in front of the rear wheel on Toyota Yaris WRC – picture by Michelin
If we are flowing below a Toyota Yaris WRC, such airstream will find a channel, under the side skirt, which will send air towards a diffuser, located in front of the rear wheel. Deceleration caused by such a diffuser will reduce the force of the impact of air against the wheel, and speed loss will be significantly reduced.
Diffuser in front of the rear wheel on Hyundai i20 Coupé WRC – picture by Michelin
If it’s under a Hyundai i20 Coupé WRC, we will find no channel, but a sudden diffuser in front of the rear wheel which will also decelerate air and reduce impact consequences.
K.Al-Qassimi/D.Patterson, Citroen C3 WRC, Rally Catalunya 2017, 17th – Note the flap in front of the rear wheel
If it’s a Citroën C3 WRC, we won’t find any diffuser, but a flap in front of the rear wheel. The impact of air against flap is also violent but produces less drag than impacting over a rolling wheel, so speed reduction is lower.
If it’s a Ford Fiesta WRC…..nothing seems to prevent air from impacting over rear wheels so we will notice the impact and car speed will be reduced, with respect to the other cars.
In case we flow by the center of the car, and as soon as we progress in our path, we will feel like something is sucking us from the rear of the car. It is the Venturi effect caused by the presence of the rear diffuser. It will help us to flow even faster, that is, at lower pressure, and we will notice that the car gets even closer to asphalt, due to the additional downforce generated. In all cars, we will be conducted into channels by vertical, flexible streaks, which contribute to a more ordered, less turbulent flow. Also, the rear wing contributes to generating low pressure below so we will accelerate even more on these cars with higher wing effectiveness.
K.Meeke/P.Nagle, Citroën C3 WRC, Rally Catalunya 2017, 1st – picture by Michelin
When we finally reach the end of the car, we will find that available space suddenly increases, and as a consequence, we will decelerate. Probably we would have liked to continue flowing so fast, but somebody thought we would also appreciate a smooth mixing with air coming from over the car at low speeds, in order to avoid sudden and violent mixing. And it works! Mixing is smooth and the flow behind the car results to be smoother and with less turbulence (smaller vortices), which allow the car to keep his high velocity without energy loss, and very quickly it walks away from us. Yes, it’s a pity such an amazing journey finished so fast, but if we remain close to the asphalt, in less than two minutes we can repeat the experience, another car is coming!
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DR. ROACH | Wine each day unproven wisdom
Dear Dr. Roach: Alcoholism runs in my family. I do not drink. For years I've read studies showing how good a glass of red wine is for you. Just recently something came out on the local news that "wine is good for your gut."
On a far less frequent basis, news appears that grape juice is also good for you. Is it the alcohol that makes wine good for your health, or the grapes? Many people cannot control their desire for alcohol, which is a mind-altering substance that can wreak havoc on marriages and the highway, just to name two. Can you clarify whether it's wine or grape juice that's good for your health? -- H.J.H.
Answer: The common wisdom that a glass of wine a day is good for you is unproven. It is certainly true that people who drink moderately tend to be very healthy, but it is not clear that it's the wine drinking that causes the benefit. People who drink moderately tend to have many other healthy behaviors, and despite great efforts on the part of researchers, it is not possible with the current evidence to be sure if moderate alcohol is really of benefit.
On the other hand, it is abundantly clear that moderate to heavy drinking is extraordinarily dangerous, and I would add liver disease and many cancers to your short list of the dangers of excess alcohol consumption. There is some evidence that even modest drinking increases risk of dementia.
Grape skins contain quantities of several natural compounds that are purported to have benefit to the body. Since only red wine uses the skins of the grapes, red wine has long been considered the best for health reasons. However, epidemiological evidence suggests that modest drinkers (a standard drink a day or so for men, half a drink for women) have a lower risk of heart disease than nondrinkers, regardless of the type of alcohol they consume. Unfortunately, trials of the individual components of grape skins have not shown a significant benefit.
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Today when we think of teaching English as a Second Language in Ontario, we think in terms of teaching immigrants new to the province. But there is a long history of teaching English as a Second Language to people who are old to the province: 11,000-years-plus old.
The schools that first taught English as a Second Language to Aboriginal people were established in the first half of the 19th century. Their students spoke one of nine Aboriginal languages, all of which still have speakers today,
although in some cases there are very few left. These languages belong to two different language families: Algonquian and Iroquoian (see Figure 1, and ). The Algonquian languages are Ojibwe, Continue Reading →
Whether it is ESL, EAP, LINC, or any other form of TESL, our job is a big one. We are language teachers, and with that comes culture. There is no way to separate the two. Our students need social and cultural survival skills in order to be successful. These sociocultural competencies vary as far and wide as English grammar does, and just like grammar, sometimes those rules need to be explicitly taught. Our students are not trying to be successful in a language, they are trying to be successful in a culture, in a career, in a country. Unfortunately, sociocultural competence is not as well laid out as linguistic competence. There are no Canadian Cultural Benchmarks to act as a guide. Continue Reading →
Whenever I talk about Indigenization, I recognize that it’s often customary, in an Indigenous paradigm, to ‘situate’ myself in the work (Wilson, 2009)—I might talk about where I’m from, or my family, but I’ll give you the Coles Notes version. I’m originally from Newfoundland, traditional territory of the extinct Beothuk people. I grew up in Nova Scotia on the edge of a Mi’kmaq community; the Mi’kmaq are considered the founding people of Nova Scotia and are one of the signatory nations to the Peace and Friendship Treaties of that area. I’m living in Treaty 6 territory, which is a traditional gathering place for diverse Indigenous peoples; the Indigenous peoples of the Cree, Nakota Sioux, Dene, Blackfoot, Tsuu-t’ina, Iroquois, Ojibway, Continue Reading →
Core Concepts from Multiliteracies for Language Teachers in Contemporary Times
Three nine-year-old boys are sitting on a porch in urban Canada. They are engaged in a multiplayer session of Terraria, a video game that purports to combine the creativity and freedom of a sandbox environment with the strategic requirements of an action game. Each child is holding his own device—an iPod Touch, an iPad, an android tablet. Their eyes are xed on their own screens, sometimes scanning over to the others’, ngers busily pushing and swiping as they build biomes. During the game, one of the boys opens an Internet browser, types in a term from the game, and the children collectively research how to nd an element they want. Through the search results they read blog posts from other players and add their own information to the mix. Continue Reading → | <urn:uuid:1100ee72-bcaa-4120-aec3-5b4d02c2d071> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://contact.teslontario.org/tag/critical-framing/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572033.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814113403-20220814143403-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.954835 | 690 | 3.203125 | 3 |
“The human voice is the most beautiful instrument of all, but it is the most difficult to play.”
Teachers spend hours preparing learning materials. When this material is presented to students, we want to make sure students make a connection to the material and fully evaluate and consume the material. This means all students must have the opportunity to voice their opinions, perspectives, or ideas about the material. Even if class time is limited, the use of collaborative web tools and apps allows every student in class to contribute their thoughts, questions, and ideas extensively. Real-time online conversations that take place while you are teaching are possible through backchanneling.
Below is a list of free web tools your students can use to carry on a class discussion while you lecture, show a video, or present reading material. This allows you to share your ideas and points about the material and make sure your teacher talk time doesn’t limit your students’ opportunities to exchange ideas and opinions with each other about the material.
Online Class Discussion Tips
Online discussions with peers can be rich and meaningful, because everyone contributes and peers offer feedback to one another. However, online exchanges can also quickly go awry. Students may go off topic, be reluctant to post their opinions, not know how to disagree respectfully, or not have the vocabulary, grammar, or fluency to express themselves comfortably. The following tips will help ensure your online discussions are successful:
As a class establish norms and expectations. Let students know they will participate in an online discussion that is visible to you and peers. Ask them to come up with at least 10 good expectations for ensuring the discussion is successful. All students should feel that their opinions and values were heard and respected. You can compare their list to the expectations outlined in this document. Ask students if they would like to change their norms and expectations with ideas from the document.
Define consequences. Outline consequences if students go off topic, fail to participate, bully, disrespect others, or post something offensive. One consequence (with grade schoolers) should be that you will highlight the inappropriate behavior and send this to their parents. Students should be aware that what they post online is recorded and they will have to take responsibility for the consequences. This is also an important digital citizenship lesson.
Provide examples of how to contribute to the discussion. Show students examples of rich online discussions or do a practice round where you highlight meaningful exchanges or sharing. Let students know they should feel free to ask questions, contribute prior knowledge, share experiences related to the topic, express ideas, share links to articles, share why they agree or disagree and the reason behind their opinions.
Help students feel confident and safe expressing themselves. Don’t grade for grammar or spelling. Do encourage students to do their best. Allow them to use emojis or stickers when they can’t figure out the right word. Also, provide a list of useful phrases and vocabulary words before the chat for students to reference. You might also want to give them a few minutes before the chat to jot down ideas about the topic to share in the discussion. You might also want to provide sentence frames. Here is a PDF full of sentence and question starters to help students frame their ideas. You could print this out or create these as a class poster for students to reference.
Show students how to disagree/agree respectfully. Most students don’t understand how to debate or disagree respectfully. They might see an opinion and react emotionally or heatedly. Students aren’t often exposed to different ideas and may tell another peer they are wrong or cast judgment. We need to prepare our students to listen to opposing views and teach them how to consider them and come up with healthy responses and reactions that spur the conversation instead of stopping the discussion. Help students understand that they learn more from disagreement versus everyone contributing the same beliefs or ideas.
Collaborative Discussion Tools
Now that your students are prepared for their online discussion, introduce them to the web tool they will use. Show them how to register, log on, and create a username. If you are giving a participation grade then you might want to create usernames for your students. Also, introduce students to key features, such as how to specifically reply to someone, use any emojis or stickers, or how to highlight parts of the material and add notes. You might want to direct them to tutorials to learn more about the tool. The following are some web tools your students and you can use for meaningful online class discussions and collaboration.
Backchannel Chat is a very basic backchanneling tool designed with teachers in mind. Teacher scan control all aspects of the online discussion, such as removing messages, preventing posts, or managing the pace of the discussion to allow time for students to respond. You can provide students with a code to join the conversation.
With NowComment, anyone can see comments, but to add to the discussion students must register for a free account. Any sentence, paragraph, image, or video can have multiple conversations. The interface is very easy to use. Check out this detailed description about NowComment with screenshots in the Life Feast blog.
Hypothes.is and Genius
Hypothes.is and Genius are both tools that allow students to annotate any website as well as have a collaborative discussion. Students can highlight parts of the website, respond to peers, and vote up really great responses from peers. Both require registration and signing in.
Teachers register for a free LinoIt account and create a web wall where they can share pdfs, files, audio, video, images, and more! Teachers share the link to the wall with students who can choose between different colored sticky notes and add video, pdfs, links, and more. Students don’t have to register and can access the web wall on any device.
Padelt is also accessible on any device and similar to LinoIt with more features, but educators only get 3 padlets free. Teachers can upload videos, images, pdfs, audio clips, and more! Students only need the link to the web wall to contribute via text, sticky notes, chatting, liking, upvoting, and more. Students can share audio, images, files, links, and video.
Flipgrid is a video response tool designed for schools. Students contribute a short video response to the discussion you start with a video. Students will enjoy their selfie videos they can decorate with stickers. Registration is free and students can also contribute with a mobile device. Create a Grid (group), add your question or topic, and students contribute short video responses. You send students a code or link to make the discussion private. You can determine the length of the video, embed the videos, and download the videos. This is an example of children replying to the question, “What does a quality education mean to you?”
GoBubble is a social networking tool designed for schools that looks similar to Twitter and other messaging apps so students must sign up. Students can respond with images, stickers, or text. They can also upload videos. They can participate in groups, add friends, and more!
With Active Textbook, students can respond to each other in comment threads added to any text as well as highlight. Teachers can enrich the discussion by adding videos, songs, and images for students to also engage with. Check out this detailed description about Active Textbook with screenshots in the Life Feast blog.
With Google Docs students can sign in with their Google accounts or you can provide them a link where anyone is able to participate with no sign-in required. Students can highlight parts of any text and add comments on the side. Students can reply to specific comments by clicking on the comment box. You can add visuals, charts, links and more. Check out other GSuite tools that offer collaborative discussion and contribution to slide presentations, spreadsheets, and more!
Similar to Google Docs in that you can provide a link or invite others through email, OneNote looks more like a digital notebook with sections. You can add images, links, drawings, and more. Check out other Microsoft 360 tools that offer collaborative discussion and feedback to slides, spreadsheets, presentations, and more!
Voicethread is a multimedia discussion web tool and app that allows teachers to add slides or images to spark a discussion. Around the border of the slide, students contribute ideas through audio, video, text or doodling. Students can use avatars to protect their identities, but need to register.
What other tips or tools do you recommend for facilitating engaging class discussions?
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Invest in some cybersecurity insurance
Cybersecurity almost seems to be a buzzword among companies recently. People are talking about the dramatic increase in cyber threats and the scary statistics left and right.
But cybersecurity insurance is not as often talked about. Yet, this is a crucial part of any business’s risk management program. No cybersecurity program can remove all your cyber risks. At some point, something is going to go wrong. Then what is your business going to do? You either have a cybersecurity insurance plan to fall back on, or your business is in trouble.
So, you need to invest in some cyber security insurance. This is a form of insurance that provides businesses with financial security when faced with the risks in a digital world, from cyber attacks to data breaches.
There are different types of cyber insurance that you could choose from, including first-party coverage, third-party coverage, and cybercrime costs. There are also many different cyber insurance companies you could use, and they each offer some alteration of the three types of cyber insurance.
But before you jump into choosing policies for your business you should consider the complex history of cyber insurance and the drastically changing landscape of the cyber insurance market 2022.
That data, along with knowledge of cyber security insurance coverage and benefits, should drive your decision-making as you look for the best insurance policy for your business.
To start, you need to know what an insurance policy can cover and what it doesn’t. With this information, you can structure your cyber security so it compliments your cyber insurance policy—and you reduce your breach risk as much as possible. So, what does cyber insurance cover?
Cyber insurance has three possible areas of coverage: first-party coverage, third-party coverage, and cyber crime cost coverage.
First-party coverage is the most basic policy level you can get. This cyber insurance will typically cover the immediate effects of cyber attacks, including data recovery costs, court costs, customer reparations, and forensic specialist services. It also may provide for credit protection costs, PR services, and loss of income due to an interruption in services.
Third-party coverage will provide for costs related to the breach of personal information like social security numbers, bank account information, or personal health information. This coverage could also provide for third-party cybersecurity insurance claims—legal fees, fines, or claims for breach of contract or negligent protection of data.
There are some additional costs that a cyber security breach could cause, like direct cyber crime costs. So, insurance companies often provide additional coverage plans that cover cyber crime costs, including loss of funds due to digital theft or digital asset damage.
Unfortunately, cyber insurance will not cover all the potential risks your business could encounter.
What does cyber insurance not cover? If you upgrade your cyber security system after you have purchased a cyber insurance policy, your policy may not cover the new upgrades. You cannot make cyber claims to your insurance for profit loss after the breach either. For example, once your business is running after a cyber breach, you may suffer profit loss because your customers do not trust you. Most cyber insurance companies will not cover this profit loss.
An insurance policy also typically does not cover the loss of company value after some of your intellectual information has been stolen. Some policies will have underwritten exclusions as well, like not covering internal attacks or business interruptions from systems owned by a third party.
When looking for cyber insurance, it is important to know something about the state of the cyber insurance market that you will be working in.
The cyber insurance market has been steadily hardening over the past couple of years. As cyberattacks readily increase, more and more companies have been making cyber insurance claims. This high demand has forced providers to limit what risks they will cover, hardening the cyber insurance market.
The global cyber insurance market has increased its premium rates as well—some rates were increased by 50% or more. This increase happened in all industries, including both cyber insurance for individuals and cyber insurance for enterprise companies.
Cyber insurance claims examples also show that insurance providers have limited their coverage. More and more insurance companies are adding exclusionary language for specific vulnerabilities, or they have revised their coverage terms to restrict how much risk businesses can transfer to their insurance.
But despite the market’s hardening, it is still growing. In the U.S., the cyber insurance market grew to $4.1 billion in direct written premiums in 2020. That is a 29% increase from the cyber market in 2019.
The combination of market growth and hardening makes the future of the cyber security market uncertain. However, cyber insurance underwriters will certainly be key players in guiding the market’s direction. If they continue to underwrite more conditions for policies, they will leave some of the cyber security risks with non-renewals. They will also define a company’s ability to transfer cyber risk to insurance in the future.
All in all, the market is rapidly changing as policies become more restrictive and rates steadily increase. You need to remember this as you search for insurance policies in this rapidly growing and hardening market.
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Should you even bother to navigate the difficult cyber security insurance market? Is cyber insurance worth all the effort and time it takes to find it? Yes. There are so many cyber insurance benefits, and they are all well worth your effort.
Here are just some of the benefits of cyber insurance:
Of course, the benefits you receive from cyber insurance will fluctuate based on the policy that you choose. But no matter what level or type of insurance you get, they all come with the benefit of a cyber insurance claims process to cover some of your financial losses from cyber security breaches.
There are even more benefits of cybersecurity insurance for small businesses. In a report by Information Security Buzz, 55% of the small business leaders surveyed admitted that cybersecurity issues were regularly deprioritized in favor of other business activities. Additionally, a third of small businesses don’t have time to monitor every threat or alert.
Cyber security simply cannot be the top priority in a small business. So, they are at a higher risk for cyber attacks, which means they need insurance even more than large corporations do.
To make matters worse, nearly a quarter of small businesses in the UK are likely to go bankrupt if they had to deal with the average cost of a cyber attack.
Insurance can cover some of the cost of cyber attacks though. If cyber insurance for your business will make the difference between bankruptcy or survival after a cyber security breach, your small business needs cyber insurance. That is one huge benefit that cannot be ignored.
After learning all this information about cyber insurance, you should be ready to get cyber liability coverage or privacy liability insurance. It will protect your business from some of the costs of cyber threats and data breaches, and it may even save your small business from going under.
But you should not purchase just any cyber liability insurance. You need something that will cover your business sufficiently. So, you need to scrutinize the details of any cyber liability coverage you are considering. Some companies will sell policies that have exclusions or situational clauses that could prevent your small business from receiving a payout.
Below is a cyber insurance coverage checklist. These are things you want to ensure are included in your policy.
Wondering how to determine cyber insurance coverage? Talk with an insurance provider agent and ask direct questions about their policies. You can ask for information on their policy exclusions. You should also ask if their policies require your business to use certain data security tools or perform certain security practices.
You can also partner with Trava for help finding the right policy coverage for your specific cyber risks. We offer a range of tools that can help you identify the weaknesses in your security system and show you what insurance policy you need to successfully transfer your cyber security risk to someone else.
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What started as a delightful childhood indulgence, followed by a yearning for a signature scent,
turned into a passionate vision and dream to be shared…
It was in 1939 when Florence Gunnarson, America’s first female perfumer, created the perfumed bath oil category and began hand-blending her coveted oils. Only a discreet clientele of film stars, famous first ladies and the sophisticated set were privy to the luxurious bath blends. Luckily, the Florence Gunnarson secret was passed down from generation to generation.
As a young girl growing up in the early 1900s, Florence Gunnarson was fascinated by the collection of exquisite perfume bottles set out on her mother’s dresser in their home on Chicago’s Lake Shore Drive. She was intrigued by the mysterious scents and intoxicating aromas.
Born into a family of privilege, Florence traveled extensively throughout Europe and the Far East. From the fir trees of the Black Forest to the aromatic bazaars of Turkey and the white-flowered fields of the French countryside, these trips, combined with her love of perfumes and their accouterments, inspired Florence to mix her own perfume blends.
Encouraged by her mother’s philosophy that a woman should pursue her dreams, Florence Gunnarson Fine Perfumes was launched in 1939. The glamorous film stars, famous first ladies, and stylish women adored her exclusive collection of hand-blended perfumes.
Florence’s ideas flourished. She went on to create a perfume that women could bathe with⎯a luxurious true perfume infused into a bathing base that would leave women cleansed, moisturized and wonderfully scented. Always ahead of her time, Florence Gunnarson, credited as America’s first female perfumer, was also the inventor of the perfumed bath oil category.
A cult-like following developed; everything was sold by word of mouth. Her clients truly appreciated the incredible quality of her products and treated them like a treasured heirloom to be passed down from generation to generation, friend to friend. In fact, you could not purchase her fabulous scents unless you happened to have Florence’s private phone number. Today, privy perfume lovers are still clamoring to purchase these vintage oils.
Treat yourself to a truly aromatic experience. Disperse one or two capfuls under running
water for a delightful bath. Pour a small quantity on a mesh body puff for a refreshing
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When those of us who are critical of our society’s obsession with immigration, multiculturalism, and diversity say, ‘Increased diversity, equals an increase in division,’ this is not just a right-wing talking point. It is not just a conservative platitude. It is not just a point driven from the similar root origins of the words diverse and division. It is a fact. Diversity equals division. Increasing diversity, increasingly so.
This is the future of this nation, because of diversity policies: increasing division. If you read the New Testament you will see how much division there was in the churches, because of diversity. Now, the Church is commanded to accommodate it to a degree, and is supposed to be filled with regenerate believers to help accommodate a level of difference. Galatians teaches this clearly. But nations are different to the Church. They run according to different basic principles. How much more do you think this increasing diversity will cause division in a society filled with a mix of believers and unbelievers? If you are celebrating diversity, you are playing with a dangerous fire, one which will have deep ramifications around you.
The fallout from the Manly gay pride jerseys exemplifies this:
The fallout from the Manly pride jersey seven could extend deep into the 2023 season after their absence led to a crucial loss that might have derailed the Sea Eagles’ NRL finals ambitions…
…Some players have spoken to the coaching staff about their grievances, some of the seven have reportedly bristled at claims they will wear the pride jersey next season and many feel the issues will continue to be a problem long into 2023 – especially if Manly miss the finals.
The Daily Telegraph’s Phil Rothfield said on Big Sports Breakfast that a professional mediator had been brought in to help deliver an ‘uneasy truce’.
‘The club brought in a professional mediator to get the group of players to get together to try and get a sympathetic understanding from both sides,’ he said.
‘I don’t think they’re ever going to agree on the fact that the players did the right thing by withdrawing from the match last week but what they want is for the players who did play to get a better understanding of what and why they did it.’
Western society was not always so stable and peaceful as it was until recently. The collapse of Rome led to tumults and wars. The collapse of Christendom during the reformation did too. The collapse of Colonialism caused even worse wars in the early 20th century, but we learned over time to leave each other alone and create stable, peaceful, and moderate societies.
But these lessons are now being forgotten. In the last 20 years, the West has ramped up diversity at a rate the like of which has not been seen since the splitting of the languages at Babel, where an instant increase in diversity led to instant division.
This football spat is a minor affair but a big warning: you cannot smash every group together and expect perpetual peace. It’s not how people work. | <urn:uuid:0d87a991-dd1c-4866-b7c0-2947e3bd4d0c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://caldronpool.com/let-the-diversity-games-begin/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817001643-20220817031643-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.966055 | 634 | 1.617188 | 2 |
Cardiac Alterations’ New Imaging Signatures in Ischaemic Heart Disease and Cerebrovascular Disease Using CMR Radiomics
This study analysed cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) images of UK Biobank’s subjects with pre-existing ischaemic heart disease (IHD), ischaemic cerebrovascular disease, myocardial infarction, and ischaemic stroke. Each disease group was compared with an equal number of healthy controls. The discriminatory power achieved by the radiomics signature was compared with conventional indices for each disease group, using the area under the curve (AUC), receiver operating characteristic (ROC) analysis, and paired t-test for statistical significance. A third model combining both radiomics and conventional indices was also evaluated. In all the study groups, radiomics signatures provided a significantly better disease discrimination than conventional indices, as suggested by AUC. | <urn:uuid:c1df1b31-df14-4f6a-8cff-bf02a406d908> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.eucanshare.eu/cardiac-alterations-new-imaging-signatures-in-ischaemic-heart-disease-and-cerebrovascular-disease-using-cmr-radiomics/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572033.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814113403-20220814143403-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.895029 | 183 | 1.515625 | 2 |
In the world of corporate financial management, certain situations may call for large scale decisions to be made by the company’s director or board of directors. This is particularly noticeable in the unfortunate event that a company is found to be incapable of paying back their creditors.
A rather unfortunate circumstance, the company is therein dubbed as insolvent and as such must make executive decisions so as to decide the future of said insolvent company, with two among these possible routes being referred to as administration and liquidation.
Though often confused or thought of as practically the same thing, administration and liquidation are actually quite distinct routes that can have drastically different outcomes if performed successfully, and as such it is important for all individuals involved to understand said distinction prior to making a decision.
What is Liquidation?
Future Strategy outlines that liquidation is a formal procedure utilized in the event that a company has reached the point of insolvency, liquidation is the subsequent conversion of the company’s assets to more liquid forms of value such as cash or similar financial implements that allow the company to pay back their creditors.
The decision to liquidate the company’s assets so as to undo its insolvency can have a myriad of benefits, drawbacks, and a drastically different end result to that of administration if performed successfully – and as such, should be fully evaluated as a potential option prior to being pursued.
Often, the primary benefit to entering liquidation for the company is that the affairs of said company are ceased once the process is complete, allowing its directors and other interested parties to move on with their business with the assurance that the matter of insolvency is now closed.
Another benefit to the usage of liquidation as opposed to administration is the relatively simpler strategizing and processing involved therein, with liquidation most often simply requiring the cataloguing and subsequent selling of the insolvent company’s assets.
Finally, there is the fact of legal time limits, wherein liquidation is (usually) unconstrained in terms of how long a company has to liquidate their assets and pay back their creditors, a stark contrast to the relatively short time that administration is allowed to occur within in order to achieve its purpose.
The primary drawback to liquidation is dependent on the nature of the company, its assets, and the value of said assets as they are being liquidated.
Such factors, when in the incorrect parameters, can result in creditors, partner corporations and suppliers losing significant amounts of money as the insolvent company goes under, an extension of the fact that the directors and the employers will also lose money as they lose their employment.
This will often result in an enforced ceasing of company trading, the usage of said company’s trading license, as well as a loss in informal reputation among associates of said insolvent company.
The most distinct difference between liquidation and administration is in the end result of said processes.
In the case of liquidation, this will equate to the insolvent company being entirely shut down, both legally and informally as its assets are sold off or otherwise seized by creditors and regulatory bodies.
For the director, liquidation is often the end point for their company as it enters a stage of bankruptcy or debt defaulting, with the company being lost to the director and any other ownership related parties therein.
Liquidation is best utilized as a final resort after all avenues have been explored – save for the rare situation wherein the director or board of directors of a company wish to close it down for certain reasons, such as personal health or projected but as of yet unrealized insolvency in the future.
What is Administration?
Also a formal legal procedure performed by a company that has reached the point of insolvency or has become aware of a looming insolvency status, administration involves complex strategizing and analysis of said insolvent company and its financial situation so as to formulate a plan that may rescue the business and prevent it from shutting down or entering liquidation.
This is usually done with the aid of a third party firm who specializes in such procedures and is capable of analyzing the pertinent data provided by the insolvent company so as to provide advice and restructuring to the director or directors of said insolvent company.
Unlike liquidation, a benefit of utilizing the administration process is the fact that the directors of the insolvent company as well as any of its employees have a chance of retaining their employment and position within the company, allowing them to continue with their lives in the majority of cases.
This is even further reinforced by the fact that creditors and their subsequent claims against the insolvent company will be placed under a temporary moratorium, preventing them from undergoing further legal procedures against said insolvent company for a certain period of time.
The moratorium is considered automatically in place the moment the insolvent company enters a state of administration, but may be undone in certain situations if granted by an administrator of the law, likely during the proceedings of a court session.
In the event that the only alternative to administration is compulsory or enforced liquidation of said insolvent company and its assets, it is likely that the total cost of performing a successful administration procedure would be significantly less expensive than what would be spent during a compulsory liquidation of company assets.
Much like liquidation, the procedures of administration also come with their own set of negative characteristics that may make performing administration impossible or rather problematic for the insolvent company and its employees.
The first of these is a loss of legal control of the insolvent company, with the director placing the care of said insolvent company in the hands of a court appointed executive.
This is not to be confused with a loss of ownership, however, as the director or board of directors will still retain legal ownership and liability in relation to their company.
By extension of this, the court appointed administrator and the insolvent company itself must be capable of demonstrating not only their willingness to perform administrative restructuring of the company but also of their capacity to do so – both to the court of law as well as to any creditors wishing to pursue other legal proceedings.
This can have the negative effect of damaging the company’s future reputation, especially if the administration process is successful and the company exits the state of insolvency – essentially rescuing itself at the cost of public image.
And finally, there is always the case of the administration proceedings being rejected by the court of law, governing bodies, or creditors of particular tenacity, and as such it is possible for the company to enter even further into debt as the monetary value lost to the administration process is still charged despite its failure.
This can result in the company entering compulsory liquidation despite the filing of a voluntary administrative arrangement to the concerned regulatory bodies.
In the fortunate event that the insolvent company has been successfully administered to and the creditors have been satisfied sufficiently, legal control of the company will be returned to the board of directors and the company’s shareholders.
This will allow the company to continue to operate in a legal and financial capacity, of which is usually considered the best case scenario for the majority of companies that become insolvent.
Though some minor liquidation of assets may be factored into the administration process, it is quite likely that the majority of the formerly insolvent company’s assets will still be under their ownership, allowing it to continue internal function in a similar manner to before the insolvency.
Is Administration Better than Liquidation for the Company?
This will depend on the goals and projected future of the company, as a board of directors that no longer wishes to continue the function of the insolvent company may find that liquidation and subsequent ceasing of operations to be far more preferable than administration.
However, in the event that the company has simply fallen on hard times or poor management has resulted in the financial failure of an otherwise profitable enterprise, administration is a far more advisable route to take so as to not only retain potential future profits but to also restructure said company in such a way that it functions even better than before entering insolvency.
For creditors pursuing compensation and dues, administration is likely to result in more of their money being returned as either the company continues trading and returns to a steady flow of income or is otherwise liquidated in a more profitable manner than simple compulsory liquidation will yield.
What Comes First – Liquidation or Administration?
Though the choice of whether to perform liquidation or administration is usually a binary one, the particular order in which one process is performed before another is usually dependent on the opinions of the board of directors as well as the majority shareholders.
This is still applicable even in the case of compulsory liquidation being placed against the insolvent company by creditor parties, as the choice of entering administration is still applicable and seen as a valid rescue strategy to prevent compulsory liquidation of the insolvent company’s assets.
In most cases where the majority shareholders and company directors wish to continue the existence and function of the insolvent company, administration is performed, making it the process that “comes first” so to speak.
Can Administration Result in Subsequent Liquidation?
Yes, administration can result in liquidation as an end result, either due to the failure of the administration process or the decisions of the administrator.
Such factors like an impossible administration or unethical or illegal practices being found in the insolvent company will often result in the administration procedure being terminated and the insolvent company entering a state of compulsory asset liquidation.
This may also be reinforced by the opinions and reports of the licensed insolvency practitioner, who will be present throughout all the processes and negotiations involved in the procedure of company administration.
Can Administration Cancel Out Compulsory Liquidation?
Compulsory liquidation is considered the end point of a creditor’s lengthy pursuance of justified compensation towards an insolvent company, wherein they have petitioned a court of law and other regulatory bodies to forcefully liquidate a company and its assets in order to have the creditor’s debts fulfilled.
Though a dire situation wherein the director’s company is put at risk of being shut down, one possible alternative is the filing of a CVA or company voluntary arrangement, also known as placing the company in a state of administration so as to place a moratorium on any subsequent claims made by creditors as well as place the compulsory liquidation order on hold.
In the event that the administration is unsuccessful, however, it is possible for the director or directors of said insolvent company to be investigated by the court and its agents, as well as a further loss of monetary value due to the fees and processes involved in said administration – even if ultimately found to be unsuccessful.
As such, choosing to pause or cancel a compulsory liquidation order by way of entering administration should be done with caution and data-driven decision making, as a company with little to no projected profitable future in its market sector may in fact be better off liquidated and subsequently shut down instead.
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Using a new bioinformatic method to analyze ribosome profiling data, we show that 40% of lncRNAs and pseudogene RNAs expressed in human cells are translated. In addition, ~35% of mRNA coding genes are translated upstream of the primary protein-coding region (uORFs) and 4% are translated downstream (dORFs). Translated lncRNAs preferentially localize in the cytoplasm, whereas untranslated lncRNAs preferentially localize in the nucleus. The translation efficiency of cytoplasmic lncRNAs is nearly comparable to that of mRNAs, suggesting that cytoplasmic lncRNAs are engaged by the ribosome and translated. While most peptides generated from lncRNAs may be highly unstable byproducts without function, ~9% of the peptides are conserved in ORFs in mouse transcripts, as are 74% of pseudogene peptides, 24% of uORF peptides and 32% of dORF peptides. Analyses of synonymous and nonsynonymous substitution rates of these conserved peptides show that some are under stabilizing selection, suggesting potential functional importance.
- Nahum Sonenberg, McGill University, Canada
© 2015, Ji et al.
This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License permitting unrestricted use and redistribution provided that the original author and source are credited.
DBC1 has been characterized as a key regulator of physiological and pathophysiological activities, such as DNA damage, senescence, and tumorigenesis. However, the mechanism by which the functional stability of DBC1 is regulated has yet to be elucidated. Here, we report that the ubiquitination-mediated degradation of DBC1 is regulated by the E3 ubiquitin ligase SIAH2 and deubiquitinase OTUD5 under hypoxic stress. Mechanistically, hypoxia promoted DBC1 to interact with SIAH2 but not OTUD5, resulting in the ubiquitination and subsequent degradation of DBC1 through the ubiquitin–proteasome pathway. SIAH2 knockout inhibited tumor cell proliferation and migration, which could be rescued by double knockout of SIAH2/CCAR2. Human tissue microarray analysis further revealed that the SIAH2/DBC1 axis was responsible for tumor progression under hypoxic stress. These findings define a key role of the hypoxia-mediated SIAH2-DBC1 pathway in the progression of human breast cancer and provide novel insights into the metastatic mechanism of breast cancer.
Multiciliated cells (MCCs) are terminally differentiated epithelia that assemble multiple motile cilia used to promote fluid flow. To template these cilia, MCCs dramatically expand their centriole content during a process known as centriole amplification. In cycling cells, the master regulator of centriole assembly Polo-like kinase 4 (PLK4) is essential for centriole duplication; however recent work has questioned the role of PLK4 in centriole assembly in MCCs. To address this discrepancy, we created genetically engineered mouse models and demonstrated that both PLK4 protein and kinase activity are critical for centriole amplification in MCCs. Tracheal epithelial cells that fail centriole amplification accumulate large assemblies of centriole proteins and do not undergo apical surface area expansion. These results show that the initial stages of centriole assembly are conserved between cycling cells and MCCs and suggest that centriole amplification and surface area expansion are coordinated events. | <urn:uuid:fe49b76c-4b68-414c-be62-5ed2b800ad22> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://elifesciences.org/articles/08890v1 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817001643-20220817031643-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.925543 | 764 | 1.71875 | 2 |
Dr. Francis Valloor
Consultant Clinical Psychologist
Exceptional situations like recessions and depressions often replace existing businesses with new ones. A significant number of them fold up while others survive, and a few thrive. And new ones emerge and flourish.
Survivors and new ones have one common factor. They have wise leaders, often just one person, who leads his business out of trouble and turns the problem into an opportunity. Where others saw disaster, they saw opportunities. Facing emergencies wisely leads to the emergence of new businesses or reinvention of old ones.
It is interesting to briefly discuss some common qualities that makes a leader who responds to unfamiliar problems and adversities in uncommon ways.
As in driving, where your eyes go, there you go in life and business. There are many significant parts to this vision such as the connection to purpose, attitude and the ability to shift patterns of thought and action towards purpose.
Apple had started in the downturn of 1975 and in 2001 Steve Jobs launched the iPod amidst the debris of the dotcom bubble and revived Apple’s fortunes. Similarly, to use another American example, Ted Turned started CNN as the world’s first 24-hour news channel in 1980 as America sank into a serious recession and people were eager to get fast news.
Self-awareness is another significant quality, which is vital to success in challenging times. It is important to know one’s weaknesses and strengths. It is necessary to be present in all one does. It is essential to know the limits of one’s self-definition, attitudes, values and thought patterns. We can be blind-sided by unseen dangers. And unawareness closes doors to opportunities that come knocking for admission.
An important part of self-awareness is to be in our bodies, to care for ourselves, and to embody leadership and give expression to our values in our bodies. An executive has to show executive presence, which is not a concept but a somatic reality. A true leader embodies leadership qualities and values. That is not only necessary but surer and quicker to shows results.
My experiences in life, work and spirituality have taught me that if we take the path of compassion, we are much better equipped to deal with the challenges that appear. It is most inspiring to see the powerful impact of compassionate actions by governments, business leaders and influencers which inspire many others to action. A compassionate leader communicates that compassion and it spread faster than any virus. Besides, every communication that comes from such a leader is bound have exceedingly beneficial outcomes including the creation of a more secure, stronger and positive atmosphere in businesses and countries.
Compassionate leadership pays attention to factors that the exceptionally difficult and uncertain situations create anxiety, stress and havoc in the lives of people and help create resilience. Like successful military leaders, they take care of their men first. They are aware of their assets and vulnerabilities and employ them wisely.
Most people respond to challenges as they are and based on what they know, not on what the situation is. Visionaries face situations based on what every new situation demands. So their approach is solution-focused and not problem-centred. They also show a perspective that wisdom gives, like faith in oneself, faith in life and the understanding that this too shall pass. | <urn:uuid:1c2c6f20-2772-4609-a8e7-2dfda4934c9a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://thealternativeboard.ie/compassionate-leaders-are-more-effective-in-turbulent-times/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817001643-20220817031643-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.962147 | 694 | 2.3125 | 2 |
Trouble shoot a variety of Arduino Errors & code problems with Jameco's selection of Arduino based kits & products. The Beginner Kit for Arduino comes with more useful components, more handy projects and higher quality parts - so you can make it faster & minimize errors. All the components inside are extremely easy to locate & relocate quickly with our customized black labels.
Arduino Uno SMD Rev. 3
Surface Mount Edition
The Arduino Uno is a microcontroller board based on the ATmega328 (datasheet). It has 14 digital input/output pins (of which 6 can be used as PWM outputs), 6 analog inputs, a 16 MHz crystal oscillator, a USB connection, a power jack, an ICSP header, and a reset button. It contains everything needed to support the microcontroller; simply connect it to a computer with a USB cable or power it with a AC-to-DC adapter or battery to get started.
The Uno differs from all preceding boards in that it does not use the FTDI USB-to-serial driver chip. Instead, it features the Atmega16U2 (Atmega8U2 up to version R2) programmed as a USB-to-serial converter.
Revision 2 of the Uno board has a resistor pulling the 8U2 HWB line to ground, making it easier to put into DFU mode. Revision 3 of the board has the following new features:
1.0 pinout: added SDA and SCL pins that are near to the AREF pin and two other new pins placed near to the RESET pin, the IOREF that allow the shields to adapt to the voltage provided from the board. In future, shields will be compatible both with the board that use the AVR, which operate with 5V and with the Arduino Due that operate with 3.3V. The second one is a not connected pin, that is reserved for future purposes.
Stronger RESET circuit.
Atmega 16U2 replace the 8U2.
"Uno" means one in Italian and is named to mark the upcoming release of Arduino 1.0. The Uno and version 1.0 will be the reference versions of Arduino, moving forward. The Uno is the latest in a series of USB Arduino boards, and the reference model for the Arduino platform; for a comparison with previous versions, see the index of Arduino boards.
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Last week, Sri Lanka’s finance minister, Ravi Karunanayake, announced that Sri Lanka would sell an 80 percent stake in Hambantota port in the country’s south. The $1.5 billion port project, which has long been the subject of attention by Chinese state-owned firms, will also become a Chinese investment zone. The deals are expected to be finalized in November. “The value will be more than $1 billion and the deal will be signed around the second week of November,” Karunanayake said, speaking to reporters.
The announcement resolves uncertainty about the final status of Chinese investment in Hambantota port in the aftermath of Sri Lanka’s change-in-government in early 2015, when President Maithripala Sirisena unexpectedly defeated former President Mahinda Rajapaksa. Under Rajapaksa, China Harbour Engineering Company (CHEC), a subsidiary of state-owned China Communications Construction Company (CCCC) with interests in Hambantota today, was accused of having offered bribes to the former Sri Lankan president during his reelection bid to win the $1.4 billion Colombo Port City contract. (Interestingly, Karunanayake did not mention any Chinese firm by name during his announcement of the upcoming deals, according to Reuters.)
Under the Sirisena government, Chinese investment projects initiated in Sri Lanka under the Rajapaksa days came under scrutiny. The first phase of Hambantota port was built with Chinese loans and facilitation, but progress on the second phase was temporarily frozen as CHEC came under investigation. That changed earlier this year with Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremsinghe’s visit to China, where he first brought up the idea of an equity swap in a range of infrastructure projects, including Hambantota, against Sri Lanka’s existing debt to China. While the proposal was originally met with skepticism by China, the finance minister’s announcement confirms that Beijing has now come around.
For China, Sri Lanka stands as an important node in the Maritime Silk Road, the maritime component of Beijing’s broader One Belt, One Road initiative to improve infrastructure and connectivity across Asia. Additionally, given Sri Lanka’s proximity to India and strategic location in the Indian Ocean, Chinese investment in the country has taken on geopolitical relevance, particularly as Chinese naval assets, including warships and submarines, were seen docking in Colombo during Rajapaksa’s final months in office.
Sirisena came to office vowing to rebalance Sri Lanka’s foreign policy between India and China, but as Wade Shepard recounted in The Diplomat earlier this summer, increasingly, Colombo has gone back to realizing the necessity of Chinese capital. “They are going back because they’ve woken up to the realities of geopolitics,” one Sri Lankan scholar told Shepard. The upcoming signing of the equity swap and investment zone deals for Hambantota will underline that. | <urn:uuid:1bf8dca0-2238-4804-a0d1-1fae19e81069> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://thediplomat.com/2016/10/china-sri-lankan-set-to-finalize-agreements-for-hambantota-port-phase-2/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572198.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815175725-20220815205725-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.962785 | 619 | 1.9375 | 2 |
Crowded highways and traffic backups at times cause drivers to lose control and become extremely aggressive. Road rage is a real problem that can lead to serious accidents or even incidents of violence on the road.
It's important to realize that road rage is listed as an exemption in many auto insurance policies. This is because any damage or liability stemming from aggressive driving isn't considered an accident but rather as having been caused by risky behavior.
Rather than risk paying the consequences of road rage—one of which may be not having your auto insurance claim paid—it's best to avoid a dangerous and costly aggressive driving incident in the first place.
If you encounter an aggressive driver on the road…
- Stay as far away as possible. Slow down or change lanes if need be, let the driver pass you and give yourself room at intersections to drive away.
- Record a description of the car and note the license plate number if possible so that you can report him or her to the police for the sake of everyone's safety.
- Do not engage with or challenge the offender in any way. Ignore the driver's rudeness and don't give into the temptation to react in kind or you might escalate the risky behavior.
- Put your safety first. If an aggressive driver starts to follow you, keep your doors locked, and head to the nearest police station. Never stop and confront an aggressive driver.
If you have a short fuse yourself stay cool and…
- Leave plenty of time to get where you need to go. When you're in a hurry, your patience is short and you are much more likely to become aggravated.
- Remember other drivers are not annoying you on purpose. People make mistakes or they might be driving more slowly for a reason—they might be lost, or their sight might be impaired by sun glare.
- Don't use hand—or single finger—gestures other than a wave to someone who lets you into your lane.
- Don't tailgate slow drivers. Hanging on another car's back bumper is dangerous. If the car in front of you has to stop short and you rear-end it, the accident would be considered your fault.
- Don't honk your horn insistently. Leaning on your horn is a bad practice. While it might make you feel better to express your frustration in a traffic jam, it won't make anyone go any faster, it's annoying to other drivers and passengers and it increases everyone’s stress level, which may lead to more aggressive behavior.
- Never stop to confront another driver. It could lead to a dangerous situation for all concerned.
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In Smash and Grab, an action-packed, sci-fi Sparkshorts film from Pixar, two robots work diligently to power the engine car of a locomotive. Together, they make the best of the grind, until one discovers that there are happier existences outside of the train. In the following fast-paced moments, they risk everything for freedom and friendship, facing the dangerous, gun-toting bots who try to stop them.
Next, watch Escape, a sci-fi animated short from Moonbot Studios. Then watch some soccer-playing robots.
Sparkshorts is an experimental storytelling program at Pixar that’s fostering new stories, storytellers, and filmmaking processes outside of the company’s usual workflows. Go behind-the-scenes with writer-director Brian Larsen:
This Webby award-winning video collection exists to help teachers, librarians, and families spark kid wonder and curiosity. TKSST features smarter, more meaningful content than what's usually served up by YouTube's algorithms, and amplifies the creators who make that content.
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Weed legalization bill passed in House of Representatives
The House of Representatives just passed the MORE bill, the first law to legalize cannabis to make it into Congress. The law was passed on Friday, December 4th, by 228 votes to 164. The vote was largely split across party lines, with all but six Democrats voting for the bill and all but five Republicans voting against.
The MORE bill would decimalize marijuana at the federal level and begin giving back to the communities hardest hit by the war on drugs. When the Democrats took the house in 2018, cannabis advocates knew that there was still much to be done and that there was limited time to do it. Every few years, more states are legalizing cannabis, whether for medicinal or recreational use. That number rose again after the November elections, making federal decriminalization inevitable. With the first Democratic majority since 2011, home and cannabis justice attorneys saw their best chance of aligning federal law with state law. The result was the Marijuana Opportunity Reinvestment and Expungement (MORE) Act.
This landmark bill marks the first time any Chamber of Congress has voted on a law to legalize cannabis, but the law goes way beyond decriminalization. The bill includes several social and judicial measures that would help the communities that bear the brunt of the war on drugs while creating an equitable industry where those hardest hit by the ban have a seat at the table.
This law has been a long time coming since public opinion shifted towards legalized cannabis in the early states. In a 2019 study by the Per Research Center, 67% of those surveyed were in favor of legalization. The conservative Congress has been slow to adjust its views on this, and cannabis is still considered a Schedule I narcotic at the federal level. This has made it difficult for the cannabis industry to access financial services normally available to other small businesses, even in places where cannabis is legal at the state level. The result restricted the industry and meant that these new companies such as pharmacies, head shops or weed growers had to have the start-up capital in advance. The result is that these businesses are disproportionately owned and operated by wealthy whites. If the MORE law can be incorporated into the law, that would change and create a level playing field for cannabis entrepreneurs.
The MORE bill that passes the House of Representatives is just a hurdle, it has yet to come through the Republican-controlled Senate, and Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has made his opposition clear. In May, he mocked the cannabis bank Democrats who pouted at their coronavirus relief proposal, and has since made it clear that he will not stand the bill before the Senate.
But that may not matter if the Democrats can win the two seats in the Georgia Senate in January. You could well get this legislation through both houses, which would be monumental. Even when it doesn’t, the fact that this law got through the First House shows the changing minds about legalizing cannabis. Senators’ opinion won’t be too far behind if they want to keep their seats, especially in places like Arizona, South Dakota, and Montana, which just legalized recreational cannabis back in November. | <urn:uuid:3b1f4030-e7d2-4a93-962a-54c6df09a649> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://fifthavegreenhouse.com/weed-legalization-bill-passed-in-house-of-representatives/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572198.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815175725-20220815205725-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.971773 | 629 | 1.875 | 2 |
Before the term “ESG” was cool, WaterFleet was addressing ESG issues on remote work sites and in emergency response scenarios.
In fact, the ideals behind ESG are what our products and business plan were designed to address!
The ESG ‘movement’ has gained in popularity since our origins and has given us words and a matrix of goals to help us communicate what we already do for our customers and our communities. And the good news is, we can measure the ESG impact for our clients when they choose WaterFleet’s services.
WaterFleet’s systems help our clients decrease their greenhouse gas and carbon emissions – and we can quantify and report it.
Greenhouse Gas Pollutants
Across our customer base, WaterFleet’s on site services save an estimated total of 12,000,000 pounds a year of harmful greenhouse gas pollutants from being emitted into the atmosphere.
Treated Water & Wastewater Reuse
To date, WaterFleet has processed over 200 million gallons of on-site water to potable drinking water standards and has successfully treated over 150 million gallons of wastewater on site for reuse.
Reduce the Reliance on Bottled Water And The Related Waste
WaterFleet’s services help our clients reduce or eliminate the need for plastic bottled water and the related trash collection and disposal issues at work sites by providing access to clean drinking water and ice for workers on demand via the WaterRig.
WaterFleet tracks the emissions from our operations and utilizes the data to set internal performance standards.
Reduced Trucks On Our Roads
Heavy Haul trucking is a vital part of the infrastructure of America that moves goods all around our country, but unnecessary trucking comes with an expensive environmental and social cost! By utilizing WaterFleet’s systems, our customers positively engage with their communities by significantly decreasing their impact on the local infrastructure by reducing the amount of heavy haul truck traffic on the road, all while bringing a better quality of life to their workforce.
- Over 11 million Heavy Haul truck miles saved to date.
- Fewer Heavy truck miles reduces road wear and tear.
- Fewer Heavy Trucks on the road promotes less traffic and brings a higher level of comfort and safety to those sharing the roads.
Improved Quality Of Life
WaterFleet improves the quality of life of our end users by bringing utilities, sanitation and health & wellness solutions to those that previously did not have access.
- Providing verifiable clean potable drinking water in remote areas with the WaterRig and Refresh’Rs.
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- Using our Raft and Reliever Rigs, clients can provide clean, working restrooms, breakrooms and hand washing facilities in lieu of port-a-potties, no running water for washing hands, and flimsy “cooling trailers”.
WaterFleet is proud to have a dedicated ESG Committee that is responsible for our long term ESG strategy as well as implementing policies that drive accountability within our company, for our clients, and in the communities we serve.
WaterFleet’s compliance department works hand in hand with regulators and customers on a daily basis to ensure that our internal standards of excellence are upheld. WaterFleet maintains a strong relationship with regulators and views them as members of our team that are critical to our success and yours.
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Laughter therapy, as conceived by World Laughter Tour, has several components. Here is one.
Start on the path of GOOD-HEARTED LIVING by making WEEKENDS FOR CHOCOLATE. This does not mean you should necessarily eat actual chocolate. The gist of this practice is to make ‘chocolate’ a metaphor for anything that is ‘sweet’ to you. Especially in stress-filled times, you will better off scheduling sweet activites -pleasures & joys, emotional, physical, spiritual- and the time to enjoy them. This practice is so important that we devote two days for it, whereas the other practices are scheduled for only one day each.
Part of the ‘chocolate’ practice is to savor life’s joys. — Deep happiness cannot exist without slowing down to enjoy the joy. It’s easy in a world of wild stimuli and omnipresent movement to forget to embrace life’s enjoyable experiences. When we neglect to appreciate, we rob the moment of its magic. It’s the simple things in life that can be the most rewarding if we remember to fully experience them. Start with one of the six practices and soon, all six will feel like your natural way of being in the world, and you can do any of them every day, as often as the opportunities present themselves.
If you can maintain your sense of the cosmic joke, too, all the better.
A summary of all 6 practices of Good-Hearted Living is available free in dozens of languages at the World Laughter Tour website. Resilience through learned optimism is enabled when laughter and humor are used together with Good-Hearted Living. All of this and more is taught in our laughter therapy course, “How to Create Therapeutic Laughter.”
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TCP keepalive for a better PostgreSQL experience
© Laurenz Albe 2021 If you’ve heard about TCP keepalive but aren’t sure what that is, read on. If you’ve ever been surprised by error messages like: server closed the connection unexpectedly SSL SYSCALL error: EOF detected unexpected EOF on client connection could not receive data from client: Connection reset by peer then this article […]
WITH HOLD cursors and transactions in PostgreSQL
© Laurenz Albe 2021 Both cursors and transactions are basic ingredients for developing a database application. This article describes how cursors and transactions interact and how WITH HOLD can work around their limitations. We will also see the dangers involved and how to properly use WITH HOLD cursors in a PL/pgSQL procedure. Cursors in PostgreSQL […]
SHOW TABLES in PostgreSQL: what’s wrong with it?
In this article, I will answer the questions: why isn’t there a SHOW TABLES command in PostgreSQL, when will SHOW TABLES in PostgreSQL be available, and how do I list tables with native PostgreSQL methods? Why isn’t there a SHOW TABLES command in PostgreSQL? People who come from MySQL are always asking the same question: […]
OpenStreetMap service by CYBERTEC
In response to repeated customer requests seeking spatial datasets based on the OpenStreetMap service, CYBERTEC decided to start an initiative to address this demand. CYBERTEC implemented a “download OpenStreetMap” service which periodically generates extracts of OpenStreetMap data in various forms, and outputs the data as an sql dump to streamline and simplify its usage. Extracts […] | <urn:uuid:abf254e1-3c5a-4a75-b175-b1f66bc67235> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.cybertec-postgresql.com/en/2021/10/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817001643-20220817031643-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.874194 | 362 | 1.953125 | 2 |
Alternative Libertaire in French Guyana
For several months now, Alternative Libertaire has had a presence in Guyana where a they have established a group. This short interview serves to give an idea of the specific nature of militancy in French Guyana
Interview with Alternative Libertaire in French Guyana: Anti-colonisalists and libertarians
For several months now, Alternative Libertaire has had a presence in Guyana where a they have established a group. This short interview serves to give an idea of the specific nature of militancy in French Guyana.
Alternative Libertaire: How and why did you make the decision to create a branch of AL in Guyana?
Alternative Libertaire Guyane: First of all as a pole of information and anarchist propaganda. It seemed to us interesting to create an area for debate and discussion for Guyana's libertarians. Then, we wanted to appear as a specific organization in order to participate in local struggles and fights, to become an active part of the local social struggles and participate in their development. Thanks to the newspaper "Alternative Libertaire", which is distributed in Guyana, a group of comrades made contact with AL and organized a meeting between all those who were interested.
AL: What struggles are you involved in or hope to get involved in?
ALG: For the moment, we are concentrating on building the AL group. The people who are part of it are all involved individually in the struggles against precarious labour, the struggle of the "sans-papiers" and the housing struggle, in collectives which deal with the schooling of children and young people, etc. For example, a solidarity action with the UGTG (General Union of the Workers of Guadeloupe) was held in July 2004. These militants also participate actively in the labour movement, and are developing links of solidarity with the Amerindian people who have been victims of mercury poisoning. The collective investment in these struggles, the involvement in other movements such as the struggle for access to land or prisoner support will certainly become part of AL's work.
AL: What is your opinion on the anti-capitalist struggle?
ALG: It includes support for and involvement in the local anti-colonialist movement, but also solidarity with other colonized peoples, in particular with the Caribbean peoples due to our geographical proximity. We act as mediator between local anti-colonialist initiatives and the metropolitan libertarian movement. We are engaged in information and libertarian propaganda among the people and educate the Guianan anti-colonialists on the specific contribution of anarchists to the anti-colonialist movement throughout the world and history. Finally, we participate in the regional social forums and work for the coordination of anti-colonialist, anti-imperialist and anarchist groups and movements in neighbouring countries such as Surinam, Brazil, Guyana and Venezuela.
AL: Can you describe for us quickly who is involved in the social and anti-colonialist struggles in French Guyana? Is there a certain unity or prospects of unity among the various activists and their groups?
ALG: The two biggest anti-colonialist organizations in Guyana at present are the UTB (Union of Guianan Workers) and the MDES (Movement for Decolonization and Social Emancipation). The UTG is Guyana's biggest labour union, with a great capacity for mobilization and a presence in almost every sector of activity. It pronounced itself in favour of independence at its Congress in Sinnamary in 1973 and has fraternal relations with the CGT. The MDES is the biggest pro-independence political party. Its members are often also members of the UTG. As anarchists, however, we strongly disagree with its electoral stance. There are other pro-independence organizations in Guyana, but their level of membership is quite low. There are also many serious individuals who are not members of any party. Any unity of the Guianan social movement is around the need for national independence but no precise progressive social content is given to this demand.
AL: Finally, how visible are anarchists in the movement?
ALG: We will be acting in the public arena with libertarian propaganda directed at the people. We will also address the militants of the Guianan social movement, and will be proposing that they link up with the libertarian movement in France.
Article from the November 2004 issue of the French libertarian communist monthly "Alternative Libertaire".
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EYE ON THE SKY: SUN INTO PURVABHADRAPADA/PEGASUS: March 5-17th
The Sun transited into a new constellation on March 4th and stays until March 17th which is known by Western astronomers as Pegasus (sidereal Aquarius 20-Pisces 3.20) and the in the Vedic lore is called Purvabhadrapada. The symbols for this unique nakshatra are a sword, the first two legs of a funeral cot, and a two-faced man. The sword represents the ability to cut through negativity to get to the truth. The two-faced man indicates the ability to see both sides of an issue but also may be symbolic in Western psychology of our dark side or shadow. This nakshatra is ruled by the benefic Jupiter, which reflects the high idealism of this star but for a star ruled by Jupiter, it has an unusual dark quality to it. On the positive side, this constellation teaches us to lead a life of personal sacrifice with no expectation of glory. On the dark side, it can bring out sexual obsessions and greedy power struggles. With Jupiter strong in transit in Sagittarius now, it’s higher energy can come out now for personal sacrifice for a Divine cause.
The highest aspect of this constellation is learning to purify our dark side and surrender our ego and find our highest calling for more service and philanthropic action. We can feel anxious about the world and the welfare of others and need to use the energy of this constellation in service to help those in need.
The deity of this constellation obscure and is called Aja-Ekapada or the one-footed goat that is part of the entourage of Shiva and in Tarot it is connected to the devil card. It is troubling that secret societies like the Illuminati consider the goat god their main deity and this constellation is connected with black magic. On a symbolic level, this is a constellation where the fires of Shiva can destroy those aspects of a decaying society. Given the power struggles going on between the Deep State, The CIA and the FBI and the President, we wonder what fireworks develop as the Sun transits through here this spring until March 17th.
For a constellation ruled by Jupiter, this star is connected with negative human traits including paranoia, pessimism, debauchery, violence, cruelty and erratic sexual behavior. It is by far the most intense constellation in the zodiac. If you were born with the Sun here between March 4-17th or have the ascendant or moon here, the major lessons are learning humility and not getting caught in the ego. If you are born under this star, it is important to get devoted to the light right away. Still, people in this constellation are sincere, hard-working and will do anything to achieve their goals. Of course, if Jupiter, the lord of this star, is well placed and strong in your natal chart like in Pisces or Sagittarius or Cancer or in strong houses like the 1st, 5th or 9th, the higher qualities of the star will emerge. Still, people born with this star will have extremes in sexual behavior that may be viewed by society as abnormal or out of the box.
The Sun here can reveal deep spiritual truth if you undertake the journey. The transit is strong because the Sun is transiting a very strong Jupiter in its own sign of Sagittarius this year so it will bring out the deeper quest. The first three days of this transit March 4-7th, the Sun is exalted here so people will be able to find their spiritual connection and remain true to themselves, their ideals, and find the confidence to move forward. The Sun moves into Pisces on March 14th I always enjoy this transit as I like the Sun/Jupiter connection and a break from the Sun/Rahu connection in Shatabisha (Aquarius 6.40-20.00)
It will be interesting to observe if a lot of aggressive and sexual energy emerges with this transit and Neptune is back in the constellation and will be stirring the pot. The Sun also gets a malefic aspect from Saturn (60 degrees) which is exact on March 19th but will be felt March 16-22 h so watch conflicts with bosses and supervisors and government officials in March.
Special thanks to my teachers Komilla Sutton and Prash Trivedi for their insights on this constellation.
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Cypress Development Corp. (TSX-V: CYP) (OTCQB: CYDVF) (Frankfurt: C1Z1) (“Cypress†or “the Companyâ€) reports the completion of additional metallurgical testing following the positive Prefeasibility Study (PFS) published on the Company’s 100%-owned Clayton Valley Lithium Project in Nevada, USA. The testing was conducted at Continental Metallurgical Services in Montana and NORAM Engineering in British Columbia, in preparation for the Company’s pilot plant program as outlined in the PFS.
- Testing resulted in 80.2% extraction of lithium when a sodium chloride solution was used instead of distilled water in leaching claystone under Cypress’ sulfuric acid leach process.
- Lithium in the resulting leach solution was successfully concentrated at levels comparable to the PFS with limited interference by chlorides and other minerals present.
- The ability to tolerate high chloride levels in the process is significant because it allows the consideration of a wider range of resources for water supply including geothermal solutions and lithium-bearing brine.
- An alternate approach was tested using hydrochloric acid instead of sulfuric acid in leaching the claystone. A lithium extraction of 85.3% was obtained, suggesting hydrochloric acid may be a more effective reagent if high chloride levels are present in the water used in leaching.
“The test results are significant and demonstrate the Cypress process will work with high saline water sources†said Cypress CEO Bill Willoughby.
“The observation that leaching clay is more efficient when using hydrochloric acid with a saline brine is intriguing as it suggests a way to eliminate sulfuric acid from the process. This would benefit the project by eliminating the purchasing and transportation of sulfur which are limiting constraints on increasing the scale of production. Further work, however, is needed.† The Company is conducting additional tests and analyses to determine if there is an alternate process that could be tested in parallel with the pilot plant program.
“We continue working toward the next stage of development with the pilot plant program.†said Bill Willoughby. “Our objective remains to initiate the program and work to advance the project to a full feasibility study. We have now shown we have a lithium deposit and an extraction process which are compatible with high saline water sources.â€
Todd Fayram, MMSA-QP, is the qualified person as defined by National Instrument 43-101 and has approved the technical information in this release.
About Cypress Development Corp.:
Cypress Development Corp. is a publicly traded exploration company focused on developing the Company’s 100%-owned Clayton Valley Lithium Project in Nevada. Exploration and development by Cypress discovered a world-class resource of lithium-bearing claystone adjacent to the Albemarle Silver Peak mine, North America’s only lithium brine operation. The size of the resource makes the Clayton Valley Project a premier source that has the potential to impact the supply of lithium for the fast-growing global energy storage battery market.
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Cypress Development Corp. has approximately 98.4 million shares issued and outstanding.
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Chocolate is poisonous to dogs mostly because of its theobromine content, which dogs are unable to metabolize effectively. If your dog eats chocolate, you should monitor them closely and seek veterinary attention if they show any symptoms, or if they are very young, pregnant or have other health concerns.
- 1 How much chocolate does it take to kill a dog?
- 2 Does chocolate kill dogs instantly?
- 3 Can a lick of chocolate kill a dog?
- 4 What happens if a dog eats KIt Kat?
- 5 Can dogs eat bananas?
- 6 Why can’t dogs eat grapes?
- 7 Can Oreos kill dogs?
- 8 Can peanut butter kill dogs?
- 9 Can 1 M&M kill a dog?
- 10 Can a chocolate chip muffin kill a dog?
- 11 What happens if a dog eats 1 M&M?
- 12 Can a dog eat Snickers?
- 13 Should I make my dog throw up if he ate chocolate?
- 14 Do dogs get hyper if they eat chocolate?
How much chocolate does it take to kill a dog?
Merck warns that deaths have been reported with theobromine doses as low as 115 milligrams per kilogram (2.2 pounds) of body weight. So 20 ounces of milk chocolate, 10 ounces of semi-sweet chocolate, and just 2.25 ounces of baking chocolate could potentially kill a 22-pound dog, Fitzgerald says.
Does chocolate kill dogs instantly?
In short, a small amount of chocolate won’t kill the average-sized dog (but don’t make it a habit of feeding it to them!). In the event that your dog has ingested more than a few chocolate chips, it’s best to induce vomiting through hydrogen peroxide (one teaspoon for every 10 lbs of your dog’s body weight).
Can a lick of chocolate kill a dog?
Any ingestion of chocolate is bad for a dog; whether it eats a toxic dose, your dog could suffer some serious adverse reactions. Since even a small dose of theobromine is potentially toxic and possibly lethal for dogs, it is recommended that you contact your veterinarian immediately for advice.
What happens if a dog eats KIt Kat?
The issue is that Kit Kat bars contain chocolate, which is toxic for dogs. The dog may develop nausea and vomiting, or even diarrhea, but he will be OK. However, if a 50 lb dog eats 3 oz of dark chocolate, then it is a medical emergency.
Can dogs eat bananas?
Yes, dogs can eat bananas. In moderation, bananas are a great low-calorie treat for dogs. They’re high in potassium, vitamins, biotin, fiber, and copper. They are low in cholesterol and sodium, but because of their high sugar content, bananas should be given as a treat, not part of your dog’s main diet.
Why can’t dogs eat grapes?
Grape toxicity in dogs can cause serious kidney damage that can lead to acute (sudden) kidney failure, which can be fatal. The exact toxic substance in grapes is unknown, but it’s believed that it could be the inability of dogs to metabolize flavonoids, tannins, and monosaccharides from the grapes.
Can Oreos kill dogs?
Will Oreo cookies kill my dog? If your pup ate a a single Oreo, they are highly unlikely to die. However, since Oreos contain chocolate and sugar and fat in high levels, they may cause your pet to be sick if eaten.
Can peanut butter kill dogs?
A: Yes, provided you use peanut butter that is free of xylitol, an artificial sweetener found in many products. Xylitol poisons dogs two ways: It induces liver failure, and it releases insulin, which lowers blood sugar levels enough to cause loss of coordination, seizures and death.
Can 1 M&M kill a dog?
Do I have to rush him to an emergency vet if he ate one of my M&M’s? The truth is chocolate contains theobromine that is toxic to dogs in sufficient quantities.
Can a chocolate chip muffin kill a dog?
Dog owners often ask how much chocolate can kill a dog. While there is no right or wrong answer to this, we know dogs show symptoms of poisoning when they eat 20mg of theobromine (the toxic chemical in chocolate) for every kilogram they weigh. These symptoms become severe at 40 to 50mg per kg.
What happens if a dog eats 1 M&M?
Pets that ingest a few M&Ms or 1-2 bites of a chocolate chip cookie are unlikely to develop chocolate poisoning. For milk chocolate, any ingestion of more than 0.5 ounces per pound of body weight may put dogs at risk for chocolate poisoning.
Can a dog eat Snickers?
A 20 lb dog could eat a few full size Snicker’s bars or 1.5 pack of regular M&Ms and not require a visit to the vet. Half of a bar of dark chocolate (1.5 oz) would give your dog some impressive vomiting and diarrhea.
Should I make my dog throw up if he ate chocolate?
Even if you don’t see your pet consuming chocolate but find suspicious evidence such as chewed-up candy wrappers, it’s a good idea to get your pet to vomit. It can be dangerous to induce vomiting if the pup acts lethargic or it is otherwise dehydrated or sick.
Do dogs get hyper if they eat chocolate?
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The goal of this study is to investigate the roles and effects of extracurricular activities in the short-term immersion English program for Korean students. This study explains the roles and effects of extracurricular activities and makes some suggestions to improve the extracurricular activities and special events in the five-week immersion English program implemented by KAIST in summer 2001. The immersion English program is designed to develop the students` communicative competence in speaking English with native speakers at the age of globalization, by providing students with the English-speaking immersion setting. The results of the students` survey concerning the extracurricular activities reveal that extracurricular activities including special events are very significant in improving students` communicative competence by performing the student-centered and task-based activities and in attaining the high motivation for the natural English communication by providing students with the interest, comfort and confidence in speaking English. Hence the extracurricular activities and special events have the effects on the students` creative, interactive, and positive attitudes in enforcing and improving the learning of communicative English. | <urn:uuid:3c353121-3658-469e-86ef-c694a35087a6> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://papersearch.net/thesis/article.asp?key=1921383 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817001643-20220817031643-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.944519 | 218 | 2.875 | 3 |
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It’s hard to imagine the rich vein of sports documentaries we’ve seen of late – everything from Senna to The Last Dance – without acknowledging the debt they owe to Steve James, Frederick Marx and Peter Gilbert’s 1994 seminal film, Hoop Dreams, a restoration of which has just been released on Blu-Ray. When it comes to filmmaking that both exploits the natural jeopardy of sport (you lose some games! And also you win some!) while simultaneously showing just what influence sport can have – both good and bad – on the shape of a life, Hoop Dreams really can’t be beat.
In this instance it is two lives – Arthur Agee and William Gates, two African-American 14-year-olds from Chicago who show a gift for basketball that brings them to the attention of many interested parties, not least the three producers, who follow them and their families for five years. Both boys are scouted by St Joseph’s, a prestigious high school in Westchester, Illinois, and alma mater of legendary Detroit Pistons point guard Isiah Thomas. But once there, their fortunes quickly diverge. Gates seems to thrive in the system, making the varsity team while still a freshman; Agee is small, and struggles, and when his parents fall behind on the fees he is put back into a state school, his confidence battered.
What makes Hoop Dreams so engrossing, however – and the fact that it didn’t get an Oscar nomination has long been a point of contention – are the subtle shifts of fate that each boy experiences. Agee’s return to the public school system isn’t the dead-end that it seems at first, while Gates’ elite fast-tracking may, in fact, be a curse in disguise. As director Spike Lee tells Gates and his fellow attendees at a Nike summer camp: “You have to realise that nobody cares about you. You’re black, you’re a young male, all you’re supposed to do is deal drugs and mug women. The only reason why you’re here – you can make their team win. If their team wins, these schools get a lot of money. This whole thing is revolving around money.”
You could argue that by today’s glossy standards, Hoop Dreams lacks polish. It was mostly shot on videotape so the footage is far from crisp, the sax-heavy musical cues can feel cheesy, and it’s no surprise that director Steve James’s narration didn’t turn him into the next James Earl Jones. What it does have, that Senna and The Last Dance do not – and perhaps most production schedules do not afford – is intimacy. Observational documentaries take time and patience and perseverance, but when you establish real trust (Agee later said the filmmakers became like “uncles”) they can yield moments of astonishing honesty and rawness.
Over three utterly absorbing hours – cut down from 300 hours of footage – we watch the boys transform into young men. Their voices deepen; they grow taller and bulkier; they start to weigh their own desires against those of their coaches and families. Gates bristles under the pressure exerted by his older brother, Curtis, once a promising player himself, now overweight and underemployed; we feel the pull of the Oedipal undercurrents during a pick-up game between Agee and his troubled father, Bo, while his mother, Sheila, looks on. (Years later, both Curtis and Bo met tragic ends.)
Roger Ebert named Hoop Dreams the best film of the Nineties, but its reach goes further than that. It was – and is – the perfect confluence of a dedicated, labour-intensive approach to filmmaking and, in Agee and Gates, two deeply empathetic subjects. You see how high the stakes are. You see the societal pressures that are buffeting them every which way. You see them striving to carve out a sense of self somewhere in the middle. Even if you’ve seen the film before, even if you know what happens, you can’t stop yourself wanting them, willing them, to make it.
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Kindergartners are trying to find ways to change the motion of a car. How can we get it to go farther? Faster? Closer? Slower?
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Considering many issues that have assumed prominence in recent years because of their quickly changing and wide-reaching impacts — think pandemic, supply chain, broadband access, 5G, data privacy, cybersecurity to name a few — net neutrality might seem to have taken a slight back seat.
That does not negate that a debate still exists on open internet access and how it affects telecom, mobility, and IT decisions, both within the United States and globally. Back in 2017, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) repealed rules instated during President Barak Obama’s presidency that both prevented broadband providers’ ability to charge enterprises a premium to receive faster content and to slow or block website access. Obama has pushed to treat internet access with a more regulated approach, much like a utility, with open internet access. Trump’s position fell square on the side of free-market competition.
This political ping-pong is a prime example of the debate over net neutrality and the many viewpoints on how it should/should not be treated. In the interim, many people are still waiting to see in what form President Joe Biden will make his views be known. We reached out to several experts to discuss how they see this issue, in and away from US borders.
Lauren Van Wazer is the VP of Global Public Policy and Regulatory Affairs with Akamai Technologies, a content delivery network and cybersecurity provider headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She’s frank in her assessment that net neutrality has a fluid definition that, “depends on the region you’re in and how the regulators define it.” Stateside, she doesn’t anticipate a renewed political push for regulations to ensure net neutrality in the U.S. in wake of the pandemic and changing work environments, especially as it relates to healthcare. She does caution enterprises to be thoughtful of the regulatory potential as it relates to their healthcare applications and provider connections.
“The internet has flourished having a light regulatory regime. The yo-yo nature of the regulations engenders uncertainty, which is problematic. Look at the universe of what all players in the ecosystem would agree to, for example, the consumer bill of rights in the last go-around on net neutrality. Players said they would adhere voluntarily.
“Fundamentally, we’re at a different place on this issue. The pandemic has pushed the migration of services online and stress-tested the industry. Traffic has grown but there have been no massive internet outages. That’s part of a story we need to consider with the U.S. with additional interests in net neutrality.
“Telehealth before the pandemic was a theoretical set of services; specialized services, like 911, do not have to wait for connection or have slow experience. Telehealth is not theoretical anymore and most people have experienced online appointments. We’ve had experience with a whole host of services we haven’t before, and it’s worked out well.”
Van Wazer said efforts to formally define and regulate net neutrality would better be served to focus on what is creating the largest inequities in terms of digital access services online, like telehealth and education, and whether any regulations in place have created unintentional impediments. Maximizing access to essential services by increasing broadband and providing federal subsidies for online education should be government priorities, she said.
“It’s critical for regulators to approach with the first thought of ‘Do no harm,’” she said. “Regulations do not evolve at the speed of technology and unintentional consequences could occur.”
Enterprises that can buy the type of services that fall into specialized services should look closely at these issues, Van Wazer said. “It’s a concept that is international, but every country defines this differently. Telehealth providers should focus on net neutrality regulations and how it impacts services such as latency. For latent sensitive applications that could be impacted inversely from net neutrality regime, I would really be paying close attention to what happens in that space.”
“Is there a need for regulators to govern private contractual obligations? The U.S. has no rules. You’ll find people who are advocates for new net neutrality regime in the U.S. who will say, ‘We have to take a broader lens, look around the world and see everything has migrated online with widely varying regimes.’
“We can discuss the problems we’re trying to fix and what we would like to see happen. Are there new technologies that come into play that mean is it less or more important or lessons that help militate a new position? Regimes around the world share an interest in making sure their citizenry has appropriate access to services online. It’s interesting in the sense there are so many different approaches.”
Peter Hum, managing director for Singapore-based StrateValue, strictly defines net neutrality as “at its most fundamental, the implied basic idea of whether you have physical access to the internet or not,” but said also maintains, “It is a topic that is interesting, diverse, and contentious.”
He said while some may define it as 100% access, others may debate that physical access aside, it broadens to include how much it costs and what can be accessed. Hum said the dividing line between the different approaches is that “the process of the internet doesn’t exist without access.” He maintained the responsibility to define and maintain net neutrality is enforced by the ISP and can be discriminatory in terms of service costs.
“The APAC region is more disparate and net neutrality is about logical access. The European Union differs from APAC because its laws are more homogenous.
“Globally, every country has their own laws and regulations. Every country has their own definition. Even if you see countries that say they enforce net neutrality, they might differ regarding how they charge and what is seen.
“In the end, it’s about defending the international rule of law to ensure society is stable. That’s what it all comes down to.”
Having a globally accepted definition for net neutrality is not in the near future, if ever, Hum said.
“That won’t happen. Every country has its own sense of rule. Having a blanket rule will not happen in my lifetime. The interpretation is too diverse. China will have a heavier hand than Singapore. Malaysia will have a heavier sense of filtering than Taiwan. Cultural sensitivities define it.
“The most important thing is net neutrality takes on different forms and definitions. It’s not 100% enforceable. Every government has different priorities, sensibilities, and sensitivities towards its national interest. In the end, the internet represents an opportunity and a threat to a government. It’s an influential tool that can impact different ages, races, personal interests, and it affects you.”
Dan Rayburn, a principal analyst at Frost & Sullivan who has been invited to testify before Congress as an expert on telecommergers and internet infrastructure, said when it comes to net neutrality.
He pointed to regulatory issues and an essential misunderstanding of how net neutrality is defined as the reasons driving the debate.
“One of the issues we have is people complaining about high prices and lack of competition with internet services. But what they don’t understand is that it’s the FTC (Federal Trade Commission), which has regulatory authority over those specific issues, not the FCC. When I broke the news that Cogent was favoring traffic on its network and impacting the delivery of third-party content, without disclosing it, the company was not penalized under the net neutrality rules because it is not considered an internet service provider (ISP) or wireless carrier, which are the only type of companies the rules applied to.”
This is a reference dating back to 2014 and Netflix’s relationship with Comcast and other ISPs, who were using transit providers like Cogent to connect their networks and deliver Netflix content into ISP networks. Netflix argued it should get free access to any ISPs network and as much capacity as it needed, without having to pay.
“Netflix was just trying to lower their transit and peering costs and were disguising it as a ‘net neutrality’ issue. But in reality, actual net neutrality violations from wireless carriers and ISPs were isolated. If a public company slowed or prioritized traffic in any way on purpose, it would be crushed on Wall Street. It’s just bad for business and there is no reason for them to do it.”
With Biden’s 2021 executive order, many expected it to specifically address topics like competitive pricing for internet access, which Rayburn says has “nothing to do with net neutrality, from a legal standpoint, and only further highlights the misunderstanding of net neutrality.”
He defines net neutrality as, “The idea and principle that no network operator, backbone provider, ISP, carrier, or transit provider can prioritize and degrade — on purpose — the quality of one service over another.
These entities should be allowed to do network management in real time, but not allowed to do what Cogent did, which he termed “a middleman,” and prioritize data based on user type, favoring their “retail customers.”
“If an internet service provider or wireless carrier raises prices, that falls under the FTC, not the FCC. They are the ones to blame. Facebook had to get regulatory approval from the FTC to acquire Instagram. They were given permission and now are being sued over being too large. It’s the same idea of these other companies that were allowed to get larger. If you want to complain about it go ahead, but that is an FTC issue.”
“On the topic of data caps, they don’t have anything to do with net neutrality either. The bottom line is Americans don’t like being told they can’t do something — even if they weren’t going to. Outside of the US, it’s different; the vast majority of content owners and ISPs are willing to work together and trade traffic differently.”
Telecom and media regulatory expert Deborah Lathen, president of Lathen Consulting, is a former FCC cable bureau chief. Beyond net neutrality she said, the arguments have mostly been about defining non-discrimination.
“Proponents of net neutrality argue that large ISPs should not be able to favor one company over another by charging higher rates to those who can pay more, thus stifling the competitiveness of smaller players to utilize the internet,” Lathen said. “The ISP response has been that large edge providers such as Netflix who use massive amounts of bandwidth should not get a free ride. Netflix eventually entered into contracts with ISPs. The ISPs assert that they have always adhered to nondiscriminatory Internet fundamental principles. They do not slow down or buffer traffic or favor one competitor over another.”
Lathen directed her thoughts to people now working at home and using their home networks, which are for consumer use. “Are businesses getting a free ride?” she questioned. She pointed out consumer networks aren’t always acceptable for remote work because of privacy and adequate encryption concerns, for this reason, some businesses may require home workers to utilize company or VPN networks. She recognized telework and high-speed internet access differ from net neutrality and that philosophically the country is content with its current status.
“We’ve moved beyond this,” Lathen said regarding net neutrality’s place on the playing field. “Net neutrality has had its street fights, then things calmed down because people move on to other regulatory issues like the infrastructure bill and getting broadband deployed to Tribal and rural communities.
With an open spot waiting to be filled within the FCC, Lathen forecasts digital literacy, broadband deployment, cellular mapping, and Telehealth as the next issues to be tackled.
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Join artist DeLesslin George-Warren for an indigenous retelling of westward expansion, frontier violence, and indigenous dispossession through the Go West! Art of the American Frontier from the Buffalo Bill Center of the West exhibition. Drawing on personal experiences as a citizen of the Catawba Indian Nation in South Carolina and his research into American history, George-Warren will tell hidden stories from the United States’ theft of Indian land and the big ideas that made it possible.
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- Yesterday, Jared Foreman was a normal sixth grader. Today he’s already been kidnapped from school by Channel 5 News and interrogated by a weird scientist with a giant tree hand – and it’s not even noon. Can Jared use his newfound superpower to save the day before time runs out?
- Superhero for a Day: The Magic Magic Eight Ball is the latest book from Dustin Brady, author of the popular Trapped in a Video Game series for boys. Like that series, Superhero for a Day is a funny thriller for kids age 9-12 who hate reading but love a good story.
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Gold, pearls, glass, and emeralds
Overall: 10.2 x 4.5 cm (4 x 1 3/4 in.)
Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1947.178.a
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An evaluation of the “Daybreak” program: A digital intervention addressing alcohol use problems
Why did we undertake this research?
The role of alcohol as a risk factor for a wide range of health conditions is well documented, such that the most recent Global Burden of Disease study listed alcohol use as the seventh leading risk factor for disease burden and deaths (1). Importantly, in addition to the consumer, the harms that arise from alcohol use also impact on other people. In Australia, alcohol consumption including harms to others is estimated to cost society about AUD 30 billion per year (2).
Only about one-fifth of those with an alcohol use disorder report using a treatment service for any mental health problem in the previous year (3). To overcome this reticence, and to identify people with less severe alcohol problems, there has been increasing emphasis on finding those with risky patterns of alcohol use through opportunistic screening in settings where people are not seeking treatment for alcohol-related problems (4, 5). Those with less severe problems receive brief or less intensive interventions, while those who appear to have more entrenched problems can still be referred for more traditional treatment methods. The importance of this approach has resulted in screening, brief intervention, and referral to treatment (SBIRT) being mandated in the USA for level 1 and 2 trauma centres (6).
Nevertheless, SBIRT has not been widely adopted in either hospitals or primary care in Australia. Alternative models for reaching people with risky patterns of alcohol use via the internet have been tested in both university student and general population samples and found to be effective in reducing alcohol consumption and harms (7-9). In the general population (e.g. excluding studies based on university students) significant reductions in problem drinking were found at 6 and 9 months, with more intensive interventions having greater effects than single session interventions (8). Compared with control participants, those in the Intervention group were drinking about two standard drinks per week fewer and were more likely to be drinking within low-risk guidelines, but the inclusion of professional guidance did not increase the effect of interventions compared with unguided trials (7). However, again the reach of these programs has generally been limited.
Hello Sunday Morning
Hello Sunday Morning is an Australian non-profit that builds technology to support people to change their relationship with alcohol. In 2010, Hello Sunday Morning released an online blogging platform that supported people to reduce their alcohol consumption or abstain from alcohol for a period of three to twelve months. Within this platform, participants relate their experiences with alcohol and their changing relationship with alcohol. This involves both a public commitment, for example, a period of abstinence or reduced alcohol use, and a supportive environment where others have encountered similar challenges in changing their use of alcohol. In addition to potential benefits of peer-to-peer support (10), Hello Sunday Morning also provides an evidence-based set of resources in the background. These resources encourage and support participants in learning and implementing new skills, for example in developing resilience to setbacks.
A recent evaluation of the original Hello Sunday Morning’s combined blog platform, supportive online community and learning resources reported on the three-month outcomes for nearly 2000 participants (11). Notably, there were significant reductions in alcohol risk scores (Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test (12)), including for those in the highest risk category. In August 2018 the ‘legacy’ version of the Hello Sunday Morning web program was closed, having registered over 100,000 members since 2010. New participants join the Daybreak program, which is accessible via mobile app and desktop.
What was the objective of the research?
The objective of the research was to evaluate the new Daybreak program, which was developed by Hello Sunday Morning to support high-risk drinking individuals looking to change their relationship with alcohol. In particular, we compared the effect of adding ‘online coaching’ via real-time ‘chat’ messages (Intervention group) to an otherwise self-guided program (Control group).
What did we do?
We designed the intervention as a randomized control trial, but as some (48, 11.9%) people in the Control group were able to use the online coaching, the main analysis comprised all participants. We collected on-line surveys at one and three months. The primary outcome was change in alcohol risk (measured with alcohol use disorders identification test – consumption (AUDIT-C) score). Other outcomes included the number of standard drinks per week, alcohol-related days out-of-role, psychological distress (Kessler-10), and quality of life (EUROHIS-QoL). Markers of ‘engagement’ with the program included posts to the site and comments to others’ posts. The primary analysis used Weighted Generalized Estimating Equations.
What did we find?
We recruited 398 (50.2%) people to the Intervention group and 395 (49.8%) to the Control group. Most (71%) were female and the mean age was 40.1 years. Most (550, 69%) participants were classified as ‘probably dependent’ on the AUDIT-10 with 243 (31%) classified with ‘hazardous/harmful’ consumption. We followed-up 334 (42.1%) participants at one and 293 (36.9%) at three months. By three months there were significant improvements in AUDIT-C scores (down from mean 9.1 (SD 1.9) to 5.8 (SD 3.1)), alcohol consumed per week (down from 37.1 (SD 28.3) to mean 17.5 (SD 18.9)), days out-of-role (down from mean 1.6 (SD 3.6) to 0.5 (SD 1.6)), quality of life (up from 3.2 (SD 0.7) to 3.6 (SD 0.7)) and reduced distress (down from 24.8 (SD 7.0) to 19.0 (SD 6.6)). Figure 1 shows the change in alcohol consumption and AUDIT scores by study group.
Accessing online coaching was not associated with improved outcomes, but engagement with the program (eg posts and comments to the posts of others) was significantly associated with improvements (eg in AUDIT-C, alcohol use and EUROHIS-QoL). Reduced alcohol use was found for both ‘probably dependent’ and ‘hazardous/harmful’ alcohol users (respective estimated marginal means 40.8 to 20.1 drinks: 22.9 to 11.9 standard drinks). For full details, please see the open access paper (13).
Figure 1: Change in alcohol measure by study group
What does it mean?
Use of the Daybreak program resulted in significantly improved outcomes in terms of alcohol measures, mental health and quality of life. An important finding was that the program was effective in those who were classified as ‘probably dependent’ at baseline. Face-to-face brief interventions are recommended for those with ‘at-risk’ alcohol use but are regarded as ineffective for those with alcohol use disorders (14, 15). It is therefore important to determine the range of alcohol use for which ehealth interventions are effective. Overall, these findings need to be tempered with the fact that the trial was not implemented as designed and the longest period of follow-up was only three months.
Where to next
The Daybreak’ program contains many ‘active’ components including peer-support, online coaching and access to evidence based training modules. However, we currently do not know which elements or combination of elements assist which people in changing their behavior and how to successfully engage those who at the moment drop out of the program. A greater understanding of the drivers of behavioural change would enable further improvements in the program.
Since October 2016, Daybreak has reached more than 50,000 participants. Therefore, there is potential to impact on alcohol-related problems at a population health level, importantly including ‘probably dependent’ drinkers.
Robert Tait 1; Raquel Paz Castro 2; Jessica Kirkman 3; Jamie Moore 3; Michael P Schaub 2.
- National Drug Research Institute, Curtin University
- Swiss Research Institute for Public Health and Addiction, associated to the University of Zurich, Switzerland
- Hello Sunday Morning
The trial was funded by Hello Sunday Morning under support from the nib foundation and Ian Potter Foundation.
- Griswold MG, Fullman N, Hawley C, Arian N, Zimsen SRM, Tymeson HD, et al. Alcohol use and burden for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2016: A systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016. The Lancet. 2018;392(10152):1015-35.
- Laslett A-M, Catalano P, Chikritzhs Y, Dale C, Doran C, Ferris J, et al. The Range and Magnitude of Alcohol’s Harm to Others. Fitzroy, Victoria: AER Centre for Alcohol Policy Research; 2010.
- Teesson M, Hall W, Slade T, Mills K, Grove R, Mewton L, et al. Prevalence and correlates of DSM-IV alcohol abuse and dependence in Australia: findings of the 2007 National Survey of Mental Health and Wellbeing. Addiction. 2010:2085-94.
- Landy MSH, Davey CJ, Quintero D, Pecora A, McShane KE. A systematic review on the effectiveness of brief interventions for alcohol misuse among adults in emergency departments. J Subst Abuse Treat. 2016;61:1-12.
- O'Donnell A, Anderson P, Newbury-Birch D, Schulte B, Schmidt C, Reimer J, et al. The impact of brief alcohol interventions in primary healthcare: A systematic review of reviews. Alcohol Alcohol. 2014;49(1):66-78.
- American College of Surgeons Committee on Trauma. Resources for Optimal Care of the Injured Patient. Chicago, Il: American College of Surgeons; 2014.
- Riper H, Blankers M, Hadiwijaya H, Cunningham J, Clarke S, Wiers R, et al. Effectiveness of guided and unguided low-intensity internet interventions for adult alcohol misuse: A meta-analysis. PLoS ONE. 2014;9(6):e99912.
- Riper H, Spek V, Boon B, Conijn B, Kramer J, Martin-Abello K, et al. Effectiveness of e-self-help interventions for curbing adult problem drinking: A meta-analysis. J Med Internet Res. 2011;13(2):e42.
- White A, Kavanagh DJ, Stallman H, Klein B, Kay-Lambkin F, Proudfoot J, et al. Online alcohol interventions: A systematic review. J Med Internet Res. 2010;12(5):e62.
- Ziebland S, Wyke S. Health and illness in a connected world: how might sharing experiences on the internet affect people's health? The Milbank Quarterly. 2012;90(2):219-49.
- Kirkman JJL, Leo B, Moore JC. Alcohol consumption reduction among a web-based supportive community using the Hello Sunday Morning Blog platform: Observational study. J Med Internet Res. 2018;20(5).
- Babor TF, Higgins-Biddle JC, Saunders JB, Monteriro MG. AUDIT The Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test: Guidelines for Use in Primary Health Care, 2nd Ed. Geneva: World Health Organization; 2001.
- Tait RJ, Castro RP, Kirkman JJL, Moore JC, Schaub MP. A digital intervention addressing alcohol use problems (the “Daybreak” program): Quasi-experimental randomized controlled trial. J Med Internet Res. 2019;21(9):e14967.
- Moyer A, Finney JW, Swearingen CE, Vergun P. Brief interventions for alcohol problems: A meta-analytic review of controlled investigations in treatment-seeking and non-treatment-seeking populations. Addiction. 2002;97(3):279-92.
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In martial arts, you come face to face with any weaknesses you may have. You’re given a choice to strengthen or turn away.
The choice of equipment you use in martial arts and the type of custom workout plan you follow often reflects personal strengths and weaknesses as well as mental bias. I leave the benefits of discussing what is right or what is wrong to the students of philosophy and ethics. Here, we are concerned with what is effective.
Stability ball is effective, and it can be downright dangerous if you don’t know what you’re doing. And the value of stability ball exercises is often lost to serious athletes because of the pictures they see and internal bias. Try these two exercises yourself and see how effective they are.
I chose these exercises for intermediate level of fitness. Be careful in how you use them. Remember that stability ball it’s supposed to be unstable and your first order of business is to position your body in a way that does not mask instability. For example, you could widen your stance that essentially creates a very stable tripod between your feet and the stability ball. That positioning is not very challenging for intermediate level fitness. Bring your feet together and form a straight line between your feet and the ball. In this straight-line position, you need to engage your core and your neuromuscular control to benefit from exercise.
The first exercise is a plank the second one is a push-up.
For the plank, place elbows on top of the ball and form a straight line between the ball and your feet. Straight-line means that you don’t push your butt up in the air and form a tent or let your hips sage down towards the floor. One straight-line also means that you keep your feet together and not apart. Try to hold this position for one minute. You’ll notice how your entire body including your obliques and glutes fire to keep you balanced.
For the push-up, use the same set up. Instead of your elbows, place your hands on the ball in close diamond configuration you may be familiar with for triceps workouts. The purpose of this narrow hand position is to narrow your base of support. A narrow base of support with your hands and a narrow base of support with your feet creates maximum stability and balance challenge for you to even hold this position. Now try to do push-ups from this position. These exercises are designed for those at intermediate level fitness to move to advance level exercises. These stability ball exercises are not designed to hurt you. If you feel any pain or discomfort other than muscular exertion stop and have your condition checked by health professional. | <urn:uuid:dc1c6aa0-0bf0-4df3-9064-c67d0e2fc79b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.moncleroutdoors.com/core | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571536.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811224716-20220812014716-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.949165 | 543 | 2.359375 | 2 |
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