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The UK’s record number of self-employed are fast becoming a pension and protection underclass, as they fall behind their employed peers when it comes to pension provision, according to new research.
Nearly half (46%) of self-employed Britons believe they’ll never be financially secure enough to retire, compared to 19% of those who are employed, revealed the study by Drewberry.
While there is a surging growth in the number of self-employed workers in the UK, thanks to the growth in what’s being called the ‘gig economy', today’s increasingly aged self-employed have fallen behind when it comes to everyday protection planning and pension provision.
In an annual survey of 2,000 British workers, 32% of self-employed don’t know how they’re going to fund retirement, compared to 16% of employed Britons, whilst 38% of the self-employed don’t have a pension, compared to 10% of employed Britons.
Being self-employed means you’re also around 50% less likely to have individual protection or medical insurance. Almost 22% of the self-employed participants admitted they had no idea how they’d cope in the event of a long-term illness while, almost half said they’d be forced to rely on their savings – even though very few have anything like the savings this would require.
Tom Conner, director of Drewberry, said: “Our findings suggest that employed Britons are almost three times more likely to have income protection insurance [8.4%] and around twice as likely [8%] to have critical illness cover than their self-employed peers. Meanwhile, more than twice as many employed people [9%] currently have private medical insurance.
“What’s probably most worrying is that it’s difficult to see anything that will counteract this disparity going forward. Recent employment trends, coupled with auto-enrolment, suggest that the gap between the employed and those who work for themselves is only going to grow from here.”
Recent employment trends
The number of self-employed people in the UK increased by 273,000 to 4.79 million from June to August 2016, equivalent to 84.3% of all people in work, according to the Office for National Statistics.
Mr. Conner said: “The number of self-employed workers is growing almost four times faster than the number of employed and the great weight of this growth is coming from the part time self-employed. This reflects the fact that so many Britons are being forced to work well into their dotage.
“The number of self-employed people over 65 has more than doubled in the past five years alone while there’s now an estimated 3,000,000 UK workers over the age of 60. For a great many, this is the legacy of failing to address their retirement earlier in life and it’s a trend that we expect to grow based on the findings of our latest survey.” | <urn:uuid:c806e3dc-69ab-4ea6-a4ba-ea62cb4c1bc6> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.freshbusinessthinking.com/purpose/growing-number-of-self-employed-becoming-pension-and-protection-underclass/43730.article | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573699.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819131019-20220819161019-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.980729 | 624 | 1.851563 | 2 |
The Omo Valley Research Project was established in 2019 and draws on the combined 15+ years of experience conducting research in Southwest Ethiopia by co-directors Dr. Luke Glowacki and Dr. Zachary Garfield. Glowacki began working with pastoralists in the Omo in 2009 and Garfield with forager-horticulturalists in the Sheka forest in 2015. Through the OVRP Glowacki and Garfield established new field sites among distinct populations across the region and developed infrastructure to collect cross-cultural and longitudinal data. The OVRP integrates empirical and ethnographic field data from distinct ethnolinguistic groups across the Omo Valley.
The Omo Valley Research Project is a 501(c)(3) tax exempt non-profit organization. We work to advance scientific research, training, and education about the peoples and cultures of Southwest Ethiopia and to make philanthropic contributions to the health, education, and development opportunities across the region.
Contact us and see below for more information.
The OVRP maintains affiliations with several institutions in Ethiopia.
SOUTH OMO RESEARCH CENTER
The South Omo Research Center (SORC) was established with the objective to undertake basic and applied research, maintain an ethnographic museum, and promote intercultural understanding. SORC is located in Jinka, the capital of South Omo Zone and it is managed by Arba Minch University.
Hawassa University (HU) is a residential national university in Hawassa, Sidama Region, Ethiopia which offers 81 undergraduate programs, 108 Masters programs, and 16 Ph.D. programs. In March 2018, the student population was 48,558. HU is also home to the largest anthropology department in the country.
ARBA MINCH UNIVERSITY
Arba Minch University is a residential national university in Arba Minch, SNNPR, Ethiopia. Established in 1986 the university has a student body of approximately 40,000 individuals and offers 74 undergraduate programs, 83 graduate programs, and 13 Ph.D. programs.
TURMI HEALTH CENTER
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Trichomoniasis in women: the first signs and treatment regimens
Trichomoniasis – illness, sexually transmitted diseases, occupies one of leading places among the diseases of this kind. There is a horrifying statistic that one in five people on Earth, one way or another, is faced with trichomoniasis.
According to the same statistics ten percent of this number of people – pregnant women. And worst of all, this disease during pregnancy can cause complications, premature delivery and adversely affect the fetus.
The cause of
The causative agent of this disease is the simplest one-celled animal, Trichomonas vaginal (Trichomonas vaginalis). Based on the fact that it is not a bacterium, antibiotics ineffective in the treatment process.
Trichomonas vaginalis does not need oxygen and very well to move on their own, using their flagella, penetrate into the uterine cavity through the cervical canal and form inflammatory process.
This parasite feeling very well in a humid environment and immediately dies when the temperature increases, when hit by sunlight or by drying. Also, leaving the human organism, Trichomonas in a few hours dies. Considering all the above, Contracting sexually transmitted trichomoniasis is not very difficult, although it is likely, even in theory.
Trichomoniasis and its symptoms
The incubation period of the disease from 10 days to 2 months, that is, a period of time can pass between infection and the appearance of the first symptoms. In some cases, manifestations of trichomoniasis may not be observed, then the person becomes just a carrier of Trichomonas and is a carrier of the disease.
A carrier, unaware of the danger, can transfer the pathogen to their sexual partners. In most cases, the vectors (carriers) are men, but sometimes this happens with women.
Unfortunately, it can last quite a long time until you identified the causative agent – this can happen for example during a routine examination, which can detect the presence of the disease. Therefore, to avoid unpleasant moments, it is important to remember surveys. More details can be found in the material In the first place it is worth noting secretions, emerging from the vagina. They can be light yellow, gray-yellow and yellowish-green. In certain cases, highlight in large quantities and unpleasant smell. They also foam is characteristic of trichomoniasis and it is necessary to pay attention, because the allocation accompany all inflammatory processes, but only foaming this disease.
- Itching and burning in the genitals anddirectly into the vagina.
- During urination there are unpleasant sensations, and the frequency of urination increases.
- Appears redness and swelling of the external genitalia (vulva).
- During intercourse the victim may experience discomfort, and in some cases severe pain.
- You may experience aching pain in the lower abdomen.
I would like to draw attention to the fact that trichomoniasis it is imperative to be treated under the strict supervision of a specialist and in any case not to do it yourself at home using traditional methods. At the first signs you need to seek the assistance of a gynecologist or venereal diseases, and for best results need to address two specialists.
At diagnosis the main role is played by laboratory studies, for which patient swabs taken. The material for analysis is taken from the vagina, rectum and urethra. There are several methods that determine if Niaz is transmitted sexually and, based on this, a precondition is the need to treat all partners who were women. Also it is necessary to refuse for the period of treatment to refuse sex or, at least, use condoms.
After the consultation with an expert you need to take medicine the so-called group of 5-nitroimidazoles. It can be Tinidazole, Ornidazole, Metronidazole and others. To take these medicines within two weeks.
The first day of taking one pill three times a day, and in the future, the frequency of administration is reduced to two times. Within seven days you need to carry out reorganization of the vagina with candles Macmiror complex. Learn more about the treatment of this type can be found in our material — Candles from trichomoniasis.
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There are several methodologies which follow agile methods. Scrum, Kanban, XP and RUP are main types. However while creating a project in Azure boards, and selecting process, it has Agile , Basic,CMMI and Scrum. If Scrum is one type of Agile method , then how come Azure board has scrum and Agile process different ? and why only Scrum?
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Observe rules of conduct at high outside temperatures
The high outside temperatures generally harbor certain health risks, with older people and children being particularly at risk. In the case of children, it is primarily the parents' responsibility to ensure that certain rules of conduct are observed as soon as the temperature rises above 25 ° Celsius, according to the professional association of pediatricians (BVKJ). The association has summarized the most important of these rules of conduct in a current communication.
Children especially suffer from extreme heat, emphasize the BVKJ experts. In the worst case, this could also cause serious physical complaints. "In the past few days, we have treated a lot of children in our practices who have suffered from weaknesses due to heat," emphasizes Dr. Josef Kahl, spokesman for the BVKJ, in a message on the portal www.kinderaerzte-im-netz.de.
Which rules have to be observed?
By observing some rules of conduct at high outside temperatures, the health risk for the children can be significantly reduced, according to the BVKJ press officer. As a preventative measure, parents should pay attention to these rules of conduct for their children if the temperature rises above 25 ° Celsius, Dr. Bald on. For example, strenuous physical activities should only be carried out outside in the morning before 11 a.m. and in the afternoon from 4.30 p.m. Also, infants and toddlers under three years of age are never allowed in the direct sun and should only be in the shade, the expert emphasizes. Even there, the headgear remains mandatory, just like in the paddling pool.
Drink a lot, consistent sun protection, light food
According to the BVKJ, further rules of conduct to be observed are:
- Double or triple the amount of drink at temperatures above 30 ° Celsius, whereby drinks such as water, unsweetened fruit tea or apple spritzer are suitable.
- Eat only light, low-fat foods such as salads, low-fat yoghurts or curd cheese dishes, and do not consume heavy meals (many children have no appetite when the heat is on and should not be forced to eat).
- Consistent sun protection with appropriate UV protective clothing and sunscreen with a sun protection factor of over 20, even when the sky is overcast. Apply a particularly thorough cream to the nose, ears, feet and shoulders.
- Never leave babies in the car!
- In the event of sunburn, take the child out of the sun immediately and, if necessary, alleviate the symptoms with cool envelopes, lukewarm showers and anti-inflammatory gels. In the event of severe sunburn with severe skin tension, blistering or fever, see a doctor.
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The Lane Arts Council’s Design Arts Apprenticeship program has been running in Lane County since its inception but this year will be the first time a location in Cottage Grove will be a part of the program. The Opal Center for Arts and Education will host mentors and students this year as the Cottage Grove expansion gets underway.
The Opal Center was “an accessible and large enough space,” said Michele Rose, executive director of the Opal Center and owner of The Crafty Mercantile.
This year’s program offers multiple opportunities for students in middle and high school to participate with virtual and in-person options. Since students usually gather in groups of 3-4 with a mentor, it’s possible to maintain safe practices while providing in-person activities.
The 10-week apprenticeship lasts from Sept. 22 to Dec. 3, with the final showcase of students’ work on Dec. 3, according to the Lane Arts Council’s website.
Mentors may choose to work in the field and explore the outdoors with students but the Opal Center will be a meeting place, and the window display will be used to showcase final projects, said Rose.
Participants in the program are also encouraged to use a variety of mediums and offered guidance on how to create professional portfolios and correspond with people in certain fields professionally.
One of the featured mentors for Cottage Grove is Heather Greene, who will be focusing on biomimicry, which is the practice of observing wild organisms and emulating their abstract functions in man-made designs.
“I love working with middle and high school students because they’re changemakers... and especially right now they’re so eager to have that tool to make those changes and to really make a difference and I see biomimicry as that tool,” said Greene.
Greene has been making art since middle school. Her art has shifted over the years from metalworking and welding to sculpting to poetry and writing to arts and crafts with her kids. She became more aware of biomimicry after seeing a TED talk by the pioneer of the concept she said, a woman named Janine Beynus. As a strong believer in protecting the environment, Greene saw it as an opportunity to learn more. Now she’s about to graduate with an MS in biomimicry at Arizona State University.
She became involved with the apprenticeship program back in winter of 2021 and is glad to be back working with kids, and empowering them to create.
“That is really what I want to achieve, empowered and informed people [of all ages] that are reconnected and ready to take on an uncertain future that requires innovative, informed thinking to change the paradigm and bring the built and natural world back from the brink of extinction,” said Greene.
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Blessed be the Lord,
Who daily loads us with benefits,
The God of our salvation!
Carpe diem is a Latin aphorism, usually translated “seize the day”, taken from book 1 of the Roman poet Horace’s work Odes (23 BC).
In Horace, the phrase is part of the longer carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero, which can be translated as “Seize the day, put very little trust in tomorrow (the future)”. The ode says that the future is unforeseen and that one should not leave to chance future happenings, but rather one should do all one can today to make one’s future better. This phrase is usually understood against Horace’s Epicurean background. The meaning of carpe diem as used by Horace is not to ignore the future, but rather not to trust that everything is going to fall into place for you and taking action for the future today.
“Remember that you are mortal, so seize the day.”
enjoy the moment.
“enjoy, seize, use, make use of”
The phrase ?ואם לא עכשיו, אימתי ‘And if not now, then when?’ (Pirkei Avoth 1:14)
n the 1989 movie Dead Poets Society, the English teacher John Keating, played by Robin Williams, famously says: “Carpe diem. Seize the day, boys. Make your lives extraordinary.” Later, this line was voted as the 95th greatest movie quote by the American Film Institute. The television series Community later satirized the movie with the recurring character of Professor Whitman, a comedically eccentric version of Williams’ character who uses “Carpe diem” as his guiding philosophy.
The ability to fast-forward music and movies tempts us to think that we can fast-forward through the parts of our lives that seem boring or too difficult to face. But we really can’t.
Joan Chittister once said, “Dailiness, routine, sameness frees the heart to traffic in more important matters.”
As mens swaar kry, begin mens automaties fokus op, dag vir dag.
“Moet julle daarom nie oor môre bekommer nie. Môre sal sy eie bekommernisse bring. Vandag se moeilikhede is vir een dag heeltemal genoeg.” Die Bybel, Nuwe Lewende Vertaling. (2006). (Mt 6:34). Christelike Uitgewersmaatskappy.
Moet julle dan nie vandag al oor more se probleme kwel nie. As more gekom het, kan julle daaroor dink. Elke dag het genoeg van sy eie probleme.” Die Lewende Bybel. (1982). (Mt 6:34). Roodepoort: Christelike Uitgewersmaatskappy.
In the dailiness of our lives the holy meets the ordinary. Glory intersects with ruin. The sacred meets the routine. The lifelong journey to heaven is often marked with ordinary days where we simply do our work and serve God the best way we believe we can.
Exo 16:4 Manna elke dag
“Gee ons vandag ons daaglikse brood” Luk 11:3
“How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.”
Indian philosopher, cultural reformer, and spiritual leader Gandhi was right when he said, “There is more to life than increasing its speed.”
the Lord’s mercies “are new every morning” (Lam. 3: 23 NIV),
The incarnation of God helps us rethink the myth that we need more. When God became flesh, every ordinary human life was validated as sacred. The fact that God became human and spent most of His life in obscurity as a carpenter in a small village called Nazareth gives us perspective. Through the incarnation, we learn that every life has dignity and significance; every ordinary life matters. The mystery of the incarnation helps us remember that an ordinary life is, in fact, a life worth living or else God would have chosen a different life, a different town, and perhaps a more “relevant” time, like right now.
The abundant life is not based on position or stature. It is not based on the heroic and epic. The abundant life is an ordinary life transformed by the power of God through Jesus Christ living in us. He said that following Him is a daily task, as is bearing His cross “daily” (Luke 9: 23 NIV). Self is our biggest enemy. By choosing to die daily, and continuing to do exactly what he command, it simplifies things. This is our reasonable service. (Rom 12:1) We recon ourselves dead (Rom 6:11) and live to see Christ resurrected daily in us. (Phil 3:10)
Every day they continued to meet together in the temple courts. They broke bread in their homes and ate together with glad and sincere hearts, praising God and enjoying the favor of all the people. And the Lord added to their number daily those who were being saved. (Acts 2: 46–47 NIV) (2 Cor 11:28) (Acts 19:9; Luk 19:47) (Acts 16:5) Bother Lawrence “I believe in the … communion of saints” Now with social media, the website, the Mobile app, and the daily radio programs we as a church are meeting and gathering together daily. There is much protection and safety in keeping close ties with the Body of Christ. (Eph 4:16) It provides nutrients, and growth to all the parts.
The psalmist clearly said, “Seven times a day I praise you” (Ps. 119: 164 NIV). So I will sing praise to Your name forever, That I may daily perform my vows. (Ps 61:8) Praise is part of our ordinary daily routine, altering our focus to remain constantly on God. (Heb 12:2) Praise focus our attention not on what has happened, but on what has not happened. It helps you to keep your focus and have a godly perspective about life. Praise and thanksgiving humbles us, and keep your mood and attitude in the divine.
Exercise daily in God—no spiritual flabbiness, please! Workouts in the gymnasium are useful, but a disciplined life in God is far more so, making you fit both today and forever. You can count on this. Take it to heart. This is why we’ve thrown ourselves into this venture so totally. We’re banking on the living God, Savior of all men and women, especially believers. (1 Tim. 4: 8) In the Catholic orthodox faith the traditional fixed hours for prayer are 6: 00 a.m., 9: 00 a.m., noon, 3: 00 p.m., 6: 00 p.m., 9: 00 p.m., and midnight. This means that there are always someone praying at the same time all over the world. Jesus lived a daily prayer life, making time for separating Himself for times of prayer and reflection.
Dr Brain Adams believes in – “Expecting everyday Miracles” Having an expectation to see God work the supernatural in every day, causes you to think, speak and live right! God does not confirm the person, He confirms His word. The word of our testimony. Declaring the gospel of salvation stirs faith for people to get saved, in the same way declaring God is present to heal, stirs faith for healing. Believe that signs and wonders follows you.
Mark 16:20 And they went out and preached everywhere, the Lord working with them and confirming the word through the accompanying signs.
Acts 4:29-30 grant to Your servants that with all boldness they may speak Your word, by stretching out Your hand to heal, and that signs and wonders may be done through the name of Your holy Servant Jesus.”
Heb. 2:4 God also bearing witness both with signs and wonders, with various miracles, and gifts of the Holy Spirit, according to His own will?
You cannot theorise the work of the supernatural. If you never have done it, you have no right to even an opinion.
The Kingdom is not in words only but power 1 Cor 4:20; 2:4 but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power, that your faith should not be in the wisdom of men but in the power of God. If their is thus no signs and wonders, no miraculous, people put their faith in vain in the wisdom of man.
Then I was beside Him as a master craftsman; And I was daily His delight, Rejoicing always before Him, (Pr 8:30). May your good works glorify your father in heaven (Mat 5:16). Do all to the Glory of God. (1 Corinthians 10:31 ESV). Brother Lawrence “Practising the presence of God” – “That he had always been governed by love, without selfish views; and that having resolved to make the love of GOD the end of all his actions, he had found reasons to be well satisfied with his method. That he was pleased when he could take up a straw from the ground for the love of GOD, seeking Him only, and nothing else, not even His gifts.”
When love motivates our daily work, our work becomes a testament of His love!
DAILY GIVING (SERVING)
Because their widows were neglected in the daily distribution. Acts 6:1 This means the church were active in providing for the poor daily. This is why Deacons were chosen to serve the tables. (Acts 6) Giving and finding ways to serve is the heart and core of Kingdom living. Jesus came to serve. (Phil 2:1-5) Serving another, doing the little ordinary things for another, is an act of love! (Joh 13:5)
Let us therefore be diligent to enter that rest, (Heb 4:11) In other words: make work of finding rest. Living in rest, means also to live without any offence. Scripture demands that we encourage one another to be at peace, lest sin enters in, and disable you walk before God. After you made peace with God. (Rom 5:1) Follow after peace with all men (Heb 12:14) See the emphasis on ‘daily’ and ‘today’ in the following scripture: “Beware, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief in departing from the living God; 13 but exhort one another daily, while it is called “Today,” lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin. 14 For we have become partakers of Christ if we hold the beginning of our confidence steadfast to the end, 15 while it is said:“Today, if you will hear His voice, Do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion.” (Heb 3:12–15)
These were more fair-minded than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness, and searched the Scriptures daily to find out whether these things were so. (Ac 17:11) Plan your day, to make time for the Word. Personal Bible Study is the foundation of a spiritual life exercise regime. You can only grow spiritually to the measure your understanding has been enlightened by the Word, through the Spirit. Moreover, making the Word the first priority in your thoughts is vital, so that you’ll learn to base your thoughts and emotions on the Word. When facing a crisis, go to the Word first! Before analysing and confronting the problem! We should always instinctively turn to the scriptures first, when facing and dealing with life.
Sieze Christ within the hope of Glory, and see Him manifest Himself though your life!
Some of the notes comes from: The Jesus Life: Eight Ways to Recover Authentic Christianity
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The modern workplace is a robust beast. There are tools, platforms, and software for everything. On average, companies use 75 different technologies and with an increase in employees comes an increase in technologies, leaving larger organizations using 200+ tools in their tech stack.
As you input countless data points into your respective tools, "important" data is stored to support your organization's needs. The increase in technologies explains why 90% of the world's data has been produced in the last two years. But have you ever considered what happens when data continuously increases? Well, you experience information overload.
What is information overload?
It's the endless keyword searches into your organization's knowledge base and sifting through countless documents, wasting hours a day on information searches that should take minutes.
It's experiencing Deja Vu because you've seen 30 variations of the same document, many of which are now outdated and don't provide any helpful information.
It's the constant notifications and answering the same three questions 200 times because your colleagues know you're the knowledge holder, but don't know where to access the information.
It's hitting a dead end, with no solution and no idea who to ask - even with a surplus of information.
Every working day, you and your colleagues experience symptoms of information overload. It seems to be a modern-day problem, but the term itself dates back to 1964. It originates from Bertram Gross and The Managing of Organizations, where he defined information overload as:
"Information overload occurs when the amount of input to a system exceeds its processing capacity. Decision makers have fairly limited cognitive processing capacity. Consequently, when information overload occurs, it is likely that a reduction in decision quality will occur."
Organizations are experiencing this today.
- Inputs exceed processing capacities as organizations use only 32% of all data, leaving 68% untouched.
- Employees are overwhelmed by the overload. 62.5% of UK employees say the amount of data they receive and process negatively impacts their work. As well as, 52% of US workers agree the quality of their work decreases because there's not enough time to review information quickly.
- And workers are making compromised decisions, as 29% of employees say they make decisions based on assumptions when they can't find the information and answers they need.
When dealing with information overload, organizations experience many pain points, from negatively impacting employee experience to decreased productivity companywide, but what is the root cause?
What causes information overload in the workplace?
Information overload at work is the result of multiple contributing factors. The most prevalent are growing tech stacks, too much information, a lack of data contextualization, and redundant content and questions.
Growing tech stacks
The way we work has changed drastically with the acceptance of remote and hybrid work. Organizations have adopted new and innovative tools to accommodate your needs and the ever-changing business environment.
Tools like Zoom and Teams have replaced traditional in-person meetings.
These social collaboration tools, and others, support you in interacting within your organization. They're best at allowing you to gain access to the knowledge and experience you need for specific situations. However, social collaboration tools typically limit your scope of interaction with colleagues in your immediate network and teams.
Corporate-wide comprehensive tools like intranets, wikis, manuals, and FAQs, support your organization's entire network. They allow everyone to access the information. However, the knowledge and experience documented here are typically top-level and require lots of effort to maintain and ensure information relevancy.
Between collaboration tools supporting situation-specific knowledge sharing with your immediate network and corporate-wide bases for generalized knowledge, there is a knowledge blind spot where problems are left unresolved due to their limitations or because they are within a silo. And we haven't even covered the tools added departmentally with limited access. Further increasing the data captured, information needing to be exchanged, and silos created.
Too much information
Have you ever taken a bathroom break and returned to 4 new emails from colleagues, 9 Slack notifications and one new meeting invite?
With growing tech stacks and silos, you and your colleagues may not have access to the information you need when the time comes. Silos make even explicit data and knowledge already captured within your organization inaccessible. Meaning you and your colleagues must actively find each other and facilitate the exchange of information. As a result, you step away from your work to answer colleagues' questions (emails, notifications, attend meetings) or are left searching for someone who might have the answer.
Redundant data, content and questions
Have you ever input the same information into separate documents and tools? Or sifted through several resources that shared the same information? Or how about answering the same questions for multiple colleagues?
Information overload from redundant data, content, and questions has us all thinking. There has to be a better way!
Inputting data into several sources is time-consuming and a nightmare to maintain. It becomes increasingly complex and confuses everyone if forgotten, not linked, or ignored. What would you do if you found two different documented answers to the same question? Ask a colleague?
When internal documentation fails to give us the answers we need, we are left asking colleagues for help, or worse, we are stuck answering the same redundant questions to help our colleagues. Since business constantly changes and answers become outdated, this becomes a never-ending cycle.
Again, there has to be a better way!
Lack of contextualization
Data is important. But, when organizations only use 32% of theirs, and much of it lies within silos, organizations don't get a complete picture of their business and instead experience information overload.
Your organization's information becomes redundant, outdated, and useless without contextualizing data. With information trapped in silos, data goes unused, and pieces to your organization's puzzle go missing. So how do you contextualize your data and access your complete picture?
Dealing with information overload at work
Your employees should not be stuck dealing with the effects of information overload. Everyone should have the ability to complete tasks and solve problems on time, focus on and hit business targets, and increase overall productivity.
New technology has provided (limited) support while creating new problems. It's time for a system that reduces information overload and actively manages and contextualizes the information, enables employees to find answers fast, and allows everyone to access the experts within their organization.
How to prevent information overload with AI
Preventing an overload means actively managing the volume of information produced and kept while verifying the quality, making information within your organization accessible to everyone, and decreasing the time it takes for employees to access information.This can reduce information overload with the support of AI.
Manage and contextualize data
As much as we love data, it's time to stop hoarding it and start managing it. An effective way is with artificial intelligence. AI can recognize when and what information is outdated or redundant. AI repairs data overload by forgetting unnecessary data and recycling useful (quality) information to manage data and prevent an overload. In addition, AI can provide a better picture of your business because, with permission, it can see through silos and access non-sensitive information from your internal tools. Accessing information from more points draws better conclusions at scale, limits the number of sources to search to find information, and creates a centralized location to map your organization's knowledge and the contributing people.
Contextualization helps everyone better understand and use the information available.
Find a system to answer questions effectively
Employees find answers faster when you actively manage organizational data and information overload. However, when answers to questions reside within your organization's knowledge blindspot, everyone wastes too much time searching for the information or people to solve their business problems.
Having a system to answer questions effectively shrinks your organization's knowledge blind spot. For example, the Starmind AI knowledge management system provides a central location where employees can ask questions anonymously and creates a repository of questions and answers within your organization. The AI automatically tags related topics and generates a list of previously asked and answered questions when writing a query. If your question doesn't currently exist, you can post your question. Because of the AI-generated tags, the colleagues who are most likely to know the answer are instantaneously notified to answer the questions quickly.
Another benefit to a system like this is that you can ask (anonymously) and answer the redundant questions you receive from colleagues daily. And when the answer is no longer correct or outdated, instead of colleagues coming back to you for an updated solution, you can edit your original response and avoid re-answering hundreds of questions from colleagues. This reduces the number of notifications you receive from colleagues with questions, saves you time from answering unnecessary queries, allows you to focus more on completing the work that matters, and alleviates information overload.
But what about more complex questions or tasks, where more support is required?
Find the experts within your organization
When business problems require more complex answers or need support from experts, it's not so simple.
In organizations with 20,000+ people, finding the colleague you need would require sifting through documentation files, emails, or your entire organization's network. At this point, you have experience information overload. For times like these, having a source to find the experts within your organization will help speed the process of answering a question, completing a task, or even staffing a scrum team for a larger pressing project. A system backed by AI, like Starmind, enables you to gain visibility to everyone within your organization, even if they are outside of your immediate network, team, or location.
Starmind's AI tracks who answers what, the quality of their answer, and the topic associated with their response, creating a comprehensive neural network of your organization in real-time. When it is time to find the best person to help solve your problem, you have access to all the experts within your organization.
For example, when you are on looking for an expert, you would complete the following within Starmind:
- Describe what you need support with, and
- Select the topic(s) associated with what you need
Starmind automatically generates a list of people in your organization's best fit to solve your problem. If integrated with your existing communication tools, you can contact them simply with a click.
Finding the experts used to take days and weeks, but now it can take only minutes with the right tool and AI.
Find the right tools for supporting your team
Finding the right tools or system that supports your employees and tackles the information overload is necessary for the modern workplace.
Here are features that you should look for in tools to help eliminate information overload:
- Serves multiple functions; a new tool can have the ability to replace various tools in your tech stack and minimize the number of sources your employees need to search through
- Integrates with existing tools to break down the digital silos and connect your data
- Manages and contextualizes data to eliminate redundant and outdated information, give more context, and enable employees to find the best answer fast
- Shrinks your organization's knowledge blindspot
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When we say that we want bullying to stop, what we’re in large part saying is that we want bullying to stop happening in our children’s schools. Which means we want teachers to put a stop to bullying.
Teachers aren’t paid to get involved in the personal lives of their students. To do so is to invite trouble — literally. For one, the parents of bullies tend to be bullies. The teacher who attempts to control or censure a bully outside the classroom knows how likely it is that shorty thereafter that kid’s parents will be in their face, hollering — and usually doing so in the principal’s office. And principals just love it when their teachers bring down upon them the wrath of a kid’s parents.
Also, a junior-high or high school bully can be a terribly frightening person. These can be big, mean kids—who are usually perfectly aware of which teachers, for instance, drive which cars. It’s safe to include teachers in the ranks of those who are not eager to become the focus of the anger of a hormonal teenage psychopath.
Teachers are teachers, not life coaches. That’s what parents are for.
But bullying at schools must stop; that’s where most of it happens. If we don’t stop bullying in our schools, then we don’t stop tragedies such as Jamey Rodemeyer.
So what to do?
Like all problems, solving this one takes, first and foremost, resolve. We must determine that, come hell or high water, we will stop bullying in our schools. That we will do what it takes. That we will spend the money necessary to identify, create, initiate and see through whatever programs we must to stop this seemingly intractable problem.
End of resolve.
Schools don’t have money. And they sure don’t have it to spend on teaching kids how to properly socialize. Schools need things like classroom supplies and roof repair.
The Jamey Rodemeyers of the world are on their own.
They are, that is, unless we redefine the problem of school bullying. What if it were true that it cost ten times the money not to stop school bullying than it would to stop it? What if we understood that we literally cannot afford not to stop bullying in our schools?
Well, guess what? It does cost ten time more money not to stop bullying in schools than it would to prevent it.
Consider my home state of California. In California, it costs $47,000 a year to keep a prisoner. California state prisons hold 144,000 inmates. So the state of California is spending $6,768,000,000 per year on prisoners.
The kinds of people who grow up to become criminals are the kinds of people who as kids were bullies. Not every prisoner was a childhood bully, of course. But let’s say that twenty percent of them were. I think it’s reasonable to say that one out of five prison inmates were, as kids, known by their teachers and other kids to be recalcitrant bullies.
Twenty percent of $6,768,000,000 is $1,353,600,000.
$1,353,600,000 is how much it’s costing California per year to care for prisoners who wouldn’t be in prison if, when they were kids, they had received the kind of attention bullies need in order to be cured of their desire to cause suffering in others.
Ten percent of $1,353,600,000 is $135,360,000.
If the state of California spent $135,360,000 per year to stop bullying in its schools, it would save ten times that in costs spent caring for people who will end up in its prison system because it was too shortsighted to spend that money.
There are 1,341 middle schools in California. Middle schools are the ideal place to implement programs designed to address and solve the problem of kids bullying other kids.
$135,360,000 divided amongst 1,341 middle schools means each school would get $100,940 per year to spend on the prevention of bullying.
For that amount you could train all your teachers and staff on how to identify and prevent bullying, implement solid anti-bullying programs and teaching models, and have on staff at least one full-time person whose job it is to handle All Things Bullying, including community outreach, and the training of adult volunteers to patrol all over the school making sure no student is ever being bullied or picked upon.
Imagine the money and resources that would be saved if kids who were bullies learned to stop being bullies before they grew up, went out into the world, and continued their anti-social behavior. Adult criminals—muggers, thugs, perpetrators of assault and battery, wife abusers—don’t just wake up one morning and decide they get off hurting others. They’ve always hurt others. As kids they tortured animals, and stole things, and picked on weaker kids: they were the bullies. And they got away with being bullies, because no adults at their school had the training or motivation to help them unlearn the terrible things they learned somewhere along the line of their young lives.
Well, now the adults at their school—now all we adults—have the motivation to stop bullying in schools: money. Once you make the simple connection between the kinds of kids who bully and the kinds of adults who end up in prison, you realize that not investing in programs that prevent bullying in schools isn’t just a moral failure. It’s a financial failure.
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- 1 What is madeira sauce made of?
- 2 What is the main ingredient in Perigord?
- 3 Which leading sauce is Madeira sauce derived from?
- 4 What is the best truffle sauce?
- 5 What Madeira wine is best to cook with?
- 6 What can I use as a substitute for Madeira?
- 7 What meat goes good with truffles?
- 8 What is a traditional demi glace?
- 9 Where in France is Perigueux?
- 10 What are the 3 mother sauces?
- 11 What are the daughter sauces?
- 12 What are the 5 major sauces?
- 13 Why do chefs not like truffle oil?
- 14 Is truffle sauce healthy?
- 15 Which is better white or black truffle?
What is madeira sauce made of?
Madeira sauce is one of the classic French brown sauces prepared with Madeira wine, peppercorns and a few other important ingredients. Basically, it can be looked at as a pepper sauce with Madeira wine added to it.
What is the main ingredient in Perigord?
What is the main flavoring ingredient in the classic Sauce Perigord? Black Truffles. Sauce Perigord is named for the Perigord region of France, where the black truffle is harvested with the help of pigs or dogs.
Which leading sauce is Madeira sauce derived from?
Chasseur is a classic hunter’s sauce using fresh ingredients such as mushrooms, shallots, chunks of tomato, and fine herbs. It is a simple sauce to make and goes well with grilled or roast chicken. Madeira sauce is made from demi-glace or Espagnole and Madeira wine, which is a fortified wine from Portugal.
What is the best truffle sauce?
- Black Summer Truffle Sauce. from Italy by Eugenio Brezzi. An easy way to add truffle flavor to any dish.
- White Truffle and Porcini Sauce – Truffle Thrills. from Italy by Urbani.
- Artichoke and Truffle Sauce – Truffle Thrills. from Italy by Urbani.
- Marinara Sauce with Truffles. from Italy by Urbani.
What Madeira wine is best to cook with?
Malmsey is the sweetest type of Madeira and it has distinctive aromas of burnt caramel, chili pepper and raisins. This wine is an excellent dessert wine and is often used in sweet recipes. Sercial and Verdelho are recommended for savory recipes.
What can I use as a substitute for Madeira?
Madeira Substitute Like Madeira, Marsala comes in dry and sweet varieties—but the ones typically used for cooking tend toward dryness. Unless your recipe specifically calls for a sweet Madeira, opt for a dry substitute. Other acceptable alternatives are dark sherry, port, or red vermouth.
What meat goes good with truffles?
Many types of fish, red meat, and even chicken, rabbit and other white meats pair well with fresh truffles, which means, they also pair well with truffle oil as well.
What is a traditional demi glace?
Demi-glace (French: [dəmi ɡlass], ‘half glaze’) is a rich brown sauce in French cuisine used by itself or as a base for other sauces. The term “demi-glace” by itself implies that it is made with the traditional veal stock.
Where in France is Perigueux?
listen); Occitan: Peireguers [pejɾeˈɣɥes; pejɾeˈɡœː] or Periguers [peɾiˈɣɥes; peɾiˈɡœː]) is a commune in the Dordogne department in Nouvelle-Aquitaine in southwestern France. Périgueux is the prefecture of the départment. It is also the seat of a Roman Catholic diocese.
What are the 3 mother sauces?
The five French mother sauces are béchamel, velouté, espagnole, hollandaise, and tomato. Developed in the 19th century by French chef Auguste Escoffier, mother sauces serve as a starting point for a variety of delicious sauces used to complement countless dishes, including veggies, fish, meat, casseroles, and pastas.
What are the daughter sauces?
- White wine sauce. Begin with a fish Velouté, add white wine, heavy cream, and lemon juice.
- Sauce Allemande. This sauce is based on a veal stock Velouté with the addition of a few drops of lemon juice, cream, and egg yolks.
- Sauce Normandy.
- Sauce Ravigote.
- Sauce Poulette.
- Supreme Sauce.
- Sauce Bercy.
What are the 5 major sauces?
The five mother sauces include béchamel sauce, veloute sauce, brown or Espagnole sauce, Hollandaise sauce and tomato sauce.
Why do chefs not like truffle oil?
Why does Chef Ken dislike truffle oil as much as he does? In his words, it’s not only fake, and dishonest, and allows people to cheat, but it also tastes bad. As he explains it, truffle oil is one dimensional and even in small amounts it desensitizes your palate to fresh truffles. Says Frank, “It’s a huge rip off.
Is truffle sauce healthy?
Truffles are a great source of antioxidants, compounds that help fight free radicals and prevent oxidative damage to your cells. Studies show that antioxidants are important to many aspects of your health and may even be linked to a lower risk of chronic conditions, such as cancer, heart disease and diabetes ( 2 ).
Which is better white or black truffle?
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Digital Walters Manuscript Collection Now Accessible via Eight Centuries
25 November 2020 by Paratext Editorial
Product Updates | Eight Centuries | History | Art History | New Collections | 8C Product Updates
Paratext is pleased to announce that data from the Walters Art Museum’s “Digital Walters” manuscript collection is now accessible via Eight Centuries.
This data—made available through the museum’s Digital Walters initiative—comprises over 150,000 records of folio that make up the nearly 900 illuminated medieval manuscripts in the Walters collection.
Records includes full text links leading to high resolution scans of each page. Explore the Islamic world, medieval Flanders, France, Italy, England and more through this remarkable collection.
This update will further augment Eight Century’s robust silo of art historical content. Users will be able to search Walters Museum data alongside ARTstor records, the extensive ALA Portrait Index, our suite of Algernon Graves’s invaluable Royal Academy exhibition catalogs, and the printed and photographic content housed in the Library of Congress Multimedia and NYPL Public Domain collections.
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23. Aesthetic Gymnastics.
Mrs. MORGAN. Aesthetic and Rhythmic movements used for the development of
grace and finer co-ordination. 1 unit. Tu Th, 10.
24. Practice in Teaching.
Miss HAGELTHORN, Dr. BEACH. Three hours, three days a week, on model playground or in
connection with other courses. 1 unit. Nine hours.
25. Recreative Gymnastics.
Miss HAGELTHORN. A course designed for students in other departments who wish
to receive instruction and participate in recreative gym
nastic games and play. 1 unit. MWF, 4.
26. Playground Festivals and Pageants.
Miss HOFER A. This course will consist in the discussion of Play and Folk
Festivals for the playground, how to celebrate National and Civic birthdays. The Pageant, its artistic and historic sig. nificance, illustrated materials and subjects, dramatizing history dances and ceremonials, costume and presentation. Students will have opportunity to take active part in prep aration of both festival and pageant during the summer session. One special hour of practice will be required for
the latter. B. Practice ('ourse. Folk dances for Pageants and Festivals.
Dances for Seasons: Spring, Harvest and Christmas. Dances
to illustrate different countries and historic periods. 1 unit. M W F, 10.
Teachers interested in school garden work relative to the play: ground movement, see Agricultural Education 3.
STENOGRAPHY AND TYPEWRITING.
Mrs. L. L. HARFORD, Instructor in Stenography and Typewriting in
the Summer Session. LUCIA M. WALLACE, Assistant in Stenography and Typewriting in the
Mrs. HARFORD. Theory; dictation from letters; examination based on knowl
edge of the manual, and the rapid reading of shorthand notes.
No previous knowledge of the subject necessary. 2 units. M Tu W Th F, 10. 10 North Hall.
2. Advanced Stenography.
Mrs. IIARFORD. Review of principles; speed practice; dictation from 75 to 125
words per minute; skill test, reading of notes at the rate of
125 words per minute. 2 units. M Tu W Th F, 9. 10 North Hall,
3. Expert Stenography.
Mrs. HARFORD. Reporting; special phrasing; rapid reading; dictation from 125
to 170 words per minute. 2 units. MWF, 11. 10 North Hall.
Mrs. HARFORD. For students taking Stenography 1. Touch method; concen
tration; mastery of keyboard; forms; copying from print;
care of machine. 1 unit.
Mrs. HAR FORD. For students taking Stenography 2 or 3. Rapid copying from
print; speed drills from dictation; transcription of shorthand
notes. 1 unit.
6. Course for Teachers.
Mrs. ILARFORD. Methods of teaching commercial subjects; development of com
mercial work in high schools. Lectures by principals and
teachers of commercial high schools and colleges. 2 units. Tu Th, 11. 10 North Hall.
PAUL LLEWELLYN EVANS, Head of Commercial Department in the
Berkeley High School.
The following courses are especially designed to meet the needs of prospective teachers and others desiring familiarity with modern methods of teaching the subject, while mastering the theory. 1. Elementary Bookkeeping.
Mr. EVANS. An introductory course; previous knowledge of bookkeeping not necessary.
The end in view is to attain a working knowledge of the fundamental principles of the subject. Training in the making and disposition of business papers is
afforded. M Tu W Th F, 9-11. 114 California Hall. 2. Advanced Bookkeeping.
Mr. EVANS. A knowledge of elementary bookkeeping prerequisite. Atten
tion given to modern differentiated and specialized forms.
Accounting in its simpler phases and applications reviewed. M Tu W Th F, 10-12. 114 California Hall.
3. Conferences for Teachers.
Mr. EVANS. The literature of bookkeeping; methods of teaching the subject;
office practice; equipment and other important problems. Tu Th, 11. 114 California Hall.
SCHEDULE OF EXERCISES FOR THE SUMMER SESSION, 1911.
All classes meet Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, unless otherwise specified. Recitations and lectures last fifty-three minutes, with intervals of seven minutes. The periods begin at seven minutes past the hour, and end on the even hour.
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French 103, Prof. Child, 150 North Hall.
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Lagos State once again has proven itself to be the hub of innovation and economic development as it officially unveiled a new transportation Initiative Called “Lagos Ride” an e-hailing taxi in Lagos state Nigeria.
It’s not a secret that Lagos is one of the most populated States not just in Nigeria but in West Africa and over the years the government has come up with different initiatives to combat the challenges facing the transport sector.
Lagos Ride e-hailing taxi is the latest effort of the government to ease the pain in the mobility industry. You may be wondering what exactly this means and how does it Concern you?
Lagos Ride- is a new e-hailing taxi scheme aimed to redefine road transportation in Lagos State.
The Lagos Ride scheme is a partnership agreement between the Lagos State government and Choice International Group (CIG) Motors Company Limited. The scheme begins with a pilot fleet of 1000 units of brand new Sport Utility Vehicles (SUVs), At the unveiling and flag-off ceremony which happened on Thursday 4th of March 2020, at the State House in Marina.
The State Governor, Mr. Babajide Sanwo-olu formerly made the announcement of the partnership and sealed a joint venture agreement with the Chinese automobile company for the establishment of a Vehicle Assembly Plant in the state, to be created in the next 24 months. The Governor also announced that Lagos will have a jointly-run factory for the production of different classes of brand new cars.
Sanwo-Olu said that the establishment of the Vehicle Assembly Plant in Lagos was part of the Bilateral agreements reached between the State government and the Chinese investor’s community when He visited China back in November 2019. The Governor also noted that IBILE Holdings Limited which is a State-owned company will be in charge of the two Investment agreements on behalf of the Lagos State Government.
In his address, Mr. Sanwo-Olu said the new e-hailing taxi ride scheme was a social intervention program initiated with an objective to create jobs and economic opportunities for the people of Lagos.
He said the “Lagos Ride” scheme was in fulfillment of his administration’s desire to give residents a better choice in road transportation by offering a safe, efficient and modern cab model in line with the policy thrust of his Government’s T.H.E.M.E.S agenda.
In his words, “Our social intervention programs are tailored towards the eradication of poverty, provision of jobs and other employment opportunities as well as the provision of basic necessities, that make good governance our people’s reality. A major attribute of a modern mega-city is a world-class transportation system with inter-connected services and mobility choices for the citizens. The task of bequeathing a safe, efficient, quick, and modern public transportation system is a key thrust of our administration’s development agenda. We are guided by the need for an equitable transportation system with mobility choices for our people.”
The Governor said the taxi scheme, which is expected to fully be operational in the next 6 months, had been structured along with a profitability model and designed to be self-sustaining for expansion and growth.
Under the new e-hailing taxi scheme
Cooperative Societies in the Ministry of Wealth Creation and Employment would give operators brand new SUVs for a period of four years, during which they would pay a monthly installment. At the end of the credit tenure, the operators will have the opportunity to fully own the cars.
According to the Governor, the scheme would offer operators flexible repayment plans and affordable savings for vehicles’ maintenance.
Also, the establishment of the Vehicle Assembly Plant was in furtherance of the administration’s economic growth blueprint, noting that the Joint Venture Agreement would revive industrialization, drive up skilled youth employment and create wealth, boost tourism, and encourage technology sharing, adaptation, and advancement in the State.
Speaking at the event, The Commissioner for Transportation, Dr. Frederic Oladehinde, said the e-hailing taxi scheme was initiated, following the proposal presented by the IBILE Holding Limited Company and approved on August 31, 2020, at the State Executive Council meeting. He said “the Assembly Plant and the taxi scheme would boost socio-economic activities and support the development of ancillary enterprises in the transportation sector”
Diana Chen, Chairman of CIG Motors, who is also the Vice-Chairman of China-Africa Business Council (CABC) pledged the full commitment of the automobile company to the agreement, disclosing that the automobile firm would sponsor 50 students for a two-year engineering training in a vocational school in China to strengthen its partnership with the Lagos Government. In her words: “My teams are ready to work with 100 percent effort to build GAC MOTORS in Nigeria in the highest level of a brand. This international Joint Venture Project will soon bloom up in the Chinese business communities both in Nigeria and China. I assure you that, we will use this partnership as the best example to introduce and promote a Greater Lagos where greater opportunities abound.”
Notable Personalities at the unveiling
Present at the unveiling ceremony in Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu, Deputy Governor, Dr. Obafemi Hamzat, Lagos Attorney-General & Commissioner for Justice, Mr. Moyosore Onigbanjo (SAN); Group Chairman, CIG Motors Ltd, Chief Diana Chen and Vice Chairman, CIG Motors, Mr. Linus Idahosa, Managing Director, Ibile Holdings, Mr. Abiodun Amokomowo and other notable Personalities who witnessed the signing of the agreement for the establishment of the Vehicle Assembly Plant in Marina, Lagos. | <urn:uuid:ca39af23-53c5-4fa8-9ebf-68d7dc401c0e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://techibytes.com/lagos-ride-sanwo-olu-unveils-e-hailing-taxi/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573172.64/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818063910-20220818093910-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.95266 | 1,200 | 1.835938 | 2 |
Multidex and the Dex Method Limitsuggest change
DEX means Android app’s (APK) executable bytecode files in the form of Dalvik Executable (DEX) files, which contain the compiled code used to run your app.
The Dalvik Executable specification limits the total number of methods that can be referenced within a single DEX file to 65,536 (64K)—including Android framework methods, library methods, and methods in your own code.
To overcome this limit requires configure your app build process to generate more than one DEX file, known as a Multidex.
What is dex?
Dex is the name of the file format and encoding to which Android Java code is compiled. Early versions of Android would load and execute
dex binaries directly in a virtual machine named Dalvik. More recent versions of Android use the Android Runtime (ART), which treats
dex files as an intermediate representation and performs further compilations on it prior to running the application.
Dex is a very old file format, in terms of the lifespan of smartphones, and was designed for devices whose main memory was measured in tens of megabytes. The design limitations of those days have remained with us to this day.
dex file format encodes a limit to the number of methods that can be referenced in a single binary. Because the portion of the file format that stores the number of references is two bytes long, the maximum number of method references is
0xFFFF, or 65535. If an application contains more than that number of method references, it will fail to compile.
What to do about it:
Google has provided a way around this problem, called Multidex. It has compile-time and run-time components. As its name implies, at compile-time it will divide code between one or more
dex files. At runtime, it will teach the default
ClassLoader how to look up classes from these files.
This approach works well on newer devices, but has some substantial drawbacks. It can increase application startup time dramatically, and on older devices can cause
Application Not Responding failures.
Multidex, while effective, should be avoided if possible.
How to avoid the limit:
Before configuring your app to enable use of 64K or more method references, you should take steps to reduce the total number of references called by your app code, including methods defined by your app code or included libraries. The following strategies can help you avoid hitting the dex reference limit:
- Review your app’s direct and transitive dependencies - Ensure any large library dependency you include in your app is used in a manner that outweighs the amount of code being added to the application. A common anti-pattern is to include a very large library because a few utility methods were useful. Reducing your app code dependencies can often help you avoid the dex reference limit.
- Remove unused code with ProGuard - Configure the ProGuard settings for your app to run ProGuard and ensure you have shrinking enabled for release builds. Enabling shrinking ensures you are not shipping unused code with your APKs.
The first point requires diligence and discipline on the part of the developer. When incorporating third-party libraries, one must consider the size of the library. For example, two popular JSON libraries are Jackson and Gson. Functionally they are quite similar, but Gson tends to see greater use in Android. One reason is that Jackson weighs in around 9,000 methods, whereas Gson contributes 1,900.
There are several tools available to help developers keep track of the size of their application:
- dexcount-gradle-plugin reports the number of method references in your APK or AAR on each build
- dex-method-counts is a commandline tool that counts the number of method references in an APK
- www.methodscount.com is a web service which will count the method references in any APK that you upload. | <urn:uuid:d118a50b-35d5-424e-8c66-28300483b534> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.programming-books.io/essential/android/multidex-and-the-dex-method-limit-378f2fc65c25464c874d9f1d9212fd51.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573699.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819131019-20220819161019-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.912805 | 957 | 2.78125 | 3 |
Modelon’s Hydraulics Library is valuable for all industries that develop hydraulic components and applications, including automotive, aerospace and industrial equipment.
The Hydraulics Library provides models of pumps, motors and cylinders, restrictions and valves, hydraulic lines, lumped volumes and sensors. No special components for splits or mergers are required — users connect hydraulic components by simply drawing connection lines, making it easy to model non-standard configurations and component designs.
- Conditional thermal effects to catch temperature dynamics and heat transfer
- Over 70 ready-to-use front end components. The library covers everything from standard valves, restrictions, lines, accumulators, pumps, sensors and more
- Components have standard ISO hydraulic schematic icons to easily recognize the environment for application engineers
- Geometry based valve design using Elements. Includes building blocks like different poppet geometries (conical, ball, etc.), spool valves with flow forces and pistons
- Visualize system behavior with neat animation feature of hydraulic components (e.g. valves, cylinders, volumes), by varying icon position and color brightness for pressure
- Real time capable hose, line and pipe models to catch delays, pressure spikes and water hammer effects. They use different approaches like frequency dependent friction, delay based or distributed lumped
- Use a large range of predefined standard hydraulic fluids or simply define your own
- Detailed models for variable density, bulk modulus and viscosity
- Gas fraction mixture equations in the hydraulic fluid
- Employ resistance models covering both laminar-, transition- and turbulent region as well as cavitational effect
- Interact with models from other domains like controls, pneumatics, vehicle dynamics, liquid cooling and mechanical
- Simulate, modify or extend any of the 18 complete system examples for different application area
Export & Co-simulation
- Export sub-systems using FMI to use within different tools without the need of Hydraulics license
- Co-simulate several subsystems using various fluids.
Hydraulics don’t exist in a vacuum. They are a part of industrial systems that require cross-domain expertise, combining mechanical, electrical, thermodynamic, hydraulic, pneumatic and other components.
Modelon provides tools and expertise for most types of mechatronic systems that incorporate hydraulics, including:
- Industrial manufacturing machinery
- Heavy mobile machinery and equipment
- Installed equipment
- Mechanical power equipment and products
- Fabricated metal products.
Typical component-level applications include:
Whole system applications include:
Vehicle shock absorbers
The Hydraulics Library fits a large range of hydraulic applications, including vehicle shock absorbers. Shock absorbers built with the Hydraulics Library are compatible with suspensions in the Vehicle Dynamics Library, enabling full-vehicle dynamic analysis. This makes it possible to analyze dynamic behavior such as damping force with respect to damper acceleration. The Hydraulics Library also accommodates variable temperature effects, enabling users to analyze the impact of temperature on performance.
Power steering adds extra hydraulic energy to a vehicle’s steering mechanism. The Hydraulics Library contains all the required components for this type of application, such as power steering valves and pump. It is fully compatible with 3D-mechanics and the Vehicle Dynamics Library, allowing users to model the entire steering mechanism. | <urn:uuid:c2d1676e-6af6-442e-9c6a-b7695fa243b6> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://modelon.com/library/hydraulics-library/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572198.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815175725-20220815205725-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.863404 | 725 | 1.96875 | 2 |
VIDEO: Ballot issue forum
With 10 ballot issues facing South Dakota voters this fall, it can be confusing to keep all of the initiatives straight. That's why the League of Women Voters and the Sioux Falls Area Chamber of Commerce is hosting a Ballot Issue Forum tonight.
The event will be held at 5:30 p.m. at the Sioux Falls School District's Instructional Planning Center (201 E. 38th Street).
You can attend the event in person or watch it in the video player below.
Attendees will provide written questions to a moderator, who will state question to the panelists. Five minutes are allowed for opening remarks. Panelists will have two minutes for a closing statement.
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Getting older is a part of life and comes with both its benefits and challenges. It is finally time for the elderly to settle down, relax and not rush to work – however, this is also the time when they face physical and mental health issues. Apart from mobility issues bogging them down, it is time that they face physical ailments due to age. At this age, they also find themselves suddenly free and thus may wonder about the things to do around them. Empty nest syndrome or the children leaving the parents’ home is also another cause of aggravating anxiety or depression in the elderly. Moreover, the elderly’s generation is not as exposed to the perils of mental health and often don’t know the symptoms. While physical ailments are noticeable, social stigma and unawareness cause mental health issues to be brushed under the carpet, thus making the elderly suffer in silence. Thus, it is very important to keep an eye on their behaviour and any changes, so timely intervention with counselling and therapy can help take better care of the loved ones.
There can be many causes apart from ageing, which can lead to mental health concerns in the elderly and thus call for many types of counselling. Families where three generations live together can sometimes find it difficult to find a middle ground when it comes to adjusting – in such cases, family counselling can help everyone out. Through family counselling, every member can voice their opinions and feel heard and not ignored. It is a safe and non-judgemental space to talk about things that have been causing discord among the members or just making them unhappy. Oftentimes, these causes are a part of everyday life like different values, different styles of parenting, lagging behind in technology etc. Family counselling can not only help recognize the issues, but also teach the importance and implementation of open communication, through which most family matters can be solved.
Early signs of memory loss or the onset of dementia or Alzheimer’s also are other concerns in the elderly. While these are mental health concerns, their impact can be found in the daily lives of the elderly. Owing to lack of coordination, weakened cognitive skills and memory loss, the elderly may find it difficult to do everyday tasks. They may lose their way or find it cumbersome to grasp things or engage in conversations. In all of these circumstances, psychological assessment and timely treatment can help the elderly lead a better life. Through counselling, group therapy sessions and cognitive skill-building exercises, the elderly can find new hope in the form of self-confidence and dignity. Thus, the effects of counselling can drastically improve the mental health of the elderly.
Counselling services for the elders can also be helpful when taking care of elders who are grieving. The sudden loss of a partner or friend can deeply impact the mental health of the elderly. After a lifetime of shared life and responsibilities, they suddenly find themselves alone and unable to cope with the loss. They may have trouble accepting the truth and even when they do, it is difficult to move beyond the coping and grieving stage. In these circumstances, counselling can help give the elders a new meaning to life. Through the help of specialized therapists and attendants, they can find new things to look forward to in life. Counselling or just talking to an expert can give the elders a fresh perspective, which their family members in spite of the best interests at heart, cannot always do. The effectiveness of peer counselling is also very much established and helps the elderly find friends or form a social circle in their age group. This can prove to be a boon for many, and treat depression and loneliness.
Counselling or psychotherapy is often used by professionals trained in elder care to treat many common mental health concerns. Expert counselling service in New Delhi like Samvedna Care provides many such treatments which can take care of elderly members suffering from bereavement, depression, anxiety, dementia, memory loss and more. In these times, where social contact is limited and people cannot step out as freely, you can opt for online counselling services to look after the elders in the family. Through counselling and peer groups, many elders have benefitted by renewing their sense of confidence, finding friends in the golden years and thus expelling loneliness and depression. By talking to an expert and following the recommended treatment, one can expect to find a new perspective on life, which can help in these times. Counsellors may also provide cognitive exercises and group therapy to reverse and slow down degenerative diseases. Thus, if you know someone or if you have a loved one suffering from any mental health issues, it is time to get help for them. | <urn:uuid:81215ba4-66d0-41ed-8e2e-7c87a8bfecf2> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.samvednacare.com/blog/how-does-counselling-help-improve-mental-health/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573699.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819131019-20220819161019-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.962341 | 931 | 2.75 | 3 |
WHEN MEDIATION WORKS, As Well As WHEN TO PREVENT IT
- WHEN MEDIATION WORKS, As Well As WHEN TO PREVENT IT
- Mediation: what is mediation, as well as how can I begin?
- What is mediation?
- Who is the mediator?
- Family Mediation – Expert Family Mediators
- The benefits of mediation in resolving – family disagreements
- The family mediation process
- The benefits of family mediation
- Family Mediation – Expert Family Mediators
- What Does Mediation Cost?
- Child Mediation London – Resolution Specialists
- Exactly how to Plan for Your Initial Mediation Session
- Are you in urgent need of a MIAM? Look no further! We’ve helped 1000s of satisfied clients
- Family Mediation FAQ
- More From Capitol Family Mediation
- Areas We Cover
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Mediation: what is mediation, as well as how can I begin?
If you have a lawful dispute with another person, whether a family dispute, or involving an agreement or customer issue, litigation is ideal avoided if possible. Litigating can be much too costly, incredibly stressful, and also take a very long time. Alternatives to head to court are working out a settlement- as well as different dispute resolution such as mediation.
What is mediation?
Mediation is the most typical type of different dispute resolution. Mediation is a process where an independent, neutral mediator is designated to aid the events come to an agreement. The mediator will assist you pay attention per various other, to go over the problems, and motivate you to negotiate a settlement. Mediation does not, however, assure any type of resolution or settlement. It will be up to you and the other party to make a decision whether you will enter into an equally agreement settlement agreement.
Most importantly, both events must agree to mediation. One celebration can not require the other to participate in the mediation process. If one party does not wish to go to mediation, you will need to either try to settle the dispute or go to court.
When is mediation not ideal?
Though numerous legal events are called for to enter mediation in the event of a dispute under a mediation clause in the contract, mediation is not constantly ideal. As an example, if either celebration does not have the lawful right to become part of an agreement to mediate; if you need immediate injunctive alleviation; or if the constitutional rights of one of the celebrations are affected; or if there is no authentic commitment to deal with a dispute, mediation will certainly not be available.
Who is the mediator?
If you and also the opposite side consent to enter mediation, you need to assign an appropriate independent mediator. It is essential to consider their experience, knowledge and also professional history as you will need a mediator that comprehends the topic moot. Mediators are typically lawyers, however might be or else educated at mediators.
The mediator will typically be safeguarded against breach of contract or oversight by an exclusion of obligation condition in a mediation contract. After the visit of an independent mediator, you and also the other event to the dispute will certainly be needed to participate in a mediation contract with a mediator. The mediator will normally be asked to keep all the info confidential. If your mediator is a solicitor, they have to abide by the Solicitors’ Standard procedure rules. A solicitor is usually the very best sort of mediator as they will invariably have the best understanding of the lawful issues involved in the dispute.
What is the mediation process?
At the start of the mediation procedure, the celebrations should agree on some kind of structure or framework that mediation should adhere to, including a proper timetable. An ideal venue should be picked, preferably a neutral area. There need to be an adequate variety of spaces available for each event to go over the concerns secretive and in confidence.
If a dispute is intricate, the parties will certainly require to agree on some instructions before the mediation starts. Each party may be needed to prepare and also send a form of ‘statements of case’ to the mediator so that the mediator has breakthrough notice of each party’s setting.
The parties may additionally be needed to prepare a package of relevant documents to be revealed to the mediator, and per other, before mediation commences. The parties need to then choose that will go to the mediation (eg. the representatives of each celebration).
The mediation usually starts with a ‘plenary’ session. The mediator will certainly present the nature of the dispute, and also recognize and also clarify the objectives of mediation. The mediator will likewise handle other concerns, for instance, impartiality, step-by-step guidelines, discretion as well as advantage, as well as lawful status of the agreement reached.
Each celebration will certainly provide their instance to the mediator without disturbance by the other party. The events will certainly after that try to reach settlement, and also each celebration might make its own proposal for settlement. The mediator may attempt to tighten down the problems to promote the negotiation in between the events.
What is the end result of mediation?
The outcome of the mediation may be a full or a partial settlement- or one or both of the events (or perhaps the mediator) can end the mediation. If mediation is unsuccessful, the celebrations can after that litigate.
If a complete resolution is reached, a settlement agreement will be prepared. Generally, this is prepared by an attorney but can be done by a mediator. If the settlement was only partial, a settlement agreement will certainly be prepared, yet just in relation to those dealt with as well as worked out issues.
How is a settlement agreement applied?
A settlement agreement can only be implemented if the parties get in right into a legitimately binding agreement. For this reason, the mediation contract ought to make it clear that the events intend to be bound by any type of settlement agreement adhering to the mediation.
Family Mediation – Expert Family Mediators
The benefits of mediation in resolving – family disagreements
Today marks the end of family mediation week. In this blog site we recaps the mediation process as well as, as considered in our historical blog sites, analyze the essential benefits of mediation as well as other methods of dispute resolution as a way of resolving the practical plans complying with splitting up.
The family mediation process
Phone call – mediation normally begins with the mediator having a brief initial phone call with each of the celebrations. The purpose of this phone call is to speak to the events concerning the mediation procedure as well as think about individually with them whether there are any type of concerns which would suggest that mediation is not appropriate.
Individual meetings – following the preliminary telephone calls, the mediator will certainly have a meeting with each celebration independently (this is frequently called a Mediation Info Analysis Meeting (MIAM)) to talk about the background briefly and also describe a little bit a lot more about the mediation process. The first conferences are personal therefore the material will certainly not be gone over with the various other party.
Joint meeting – complying with the private meetings, if the parties desire to proceed with mediation, they will arrange a joint session with the mediator. The initial meeting is made use of to undergo the Agreement to Mediate form, manage any acting or pressing issues and to set the agenda for future sessions.
Further joint conferences – the emphasis of future conferences will depend on the concerns the celebrations want to cover however this will normally involve conversation around the setups for the youngsters followed by a review of the parties’ financial disclosure and also an exploration of possible financial settlement.
In case an agreement is reached, the mediator can record the relevant details and choices in a number of papers called:
Open Financial Statement- this records the celebrations’ financial details as set out in the economic disclosure offered. This is an open instead of without prejudice paper.
Memorandum of Comprehending- this documents the conversations in mediation as well as the overall decisions got to. This is a without prejudice document and also can not be revealed in any court process.
Parenting Strategy- this documents the setups for the kids and any other issues moms and dads intend to document in regard of the day to day care of their kids.
Any kind of agreement reached in mediation is not legitimately binding up until the parties have had independent lawful recommendations on it. As soon as this has taken place, one of the celebration’s legal representatives will generally turn the Memorandum of Understanding right into an order which can be lodged at court for authorization by a judge.
The benefits of family mediation
There are a variety of advantages to the mediation process, some of which are set out listed below. Mediation is wrong for every person as well as the mediator and an event’s own solicitor will think about any type of issues which might make mediation challenging or inappropriate. The advantages consist of:
The mediator will encourage the events to set the schedule and also verify what they wish to cover in mediation. You can resolve matters essential to your very own family and those which might not or else matter in a court process.
Mediation sessions can be arranged for a time and also location convenient to you and the mediator. You pick the length of time between sessions as well as handle its speed. You will not have to wait months for the following day as can take place in a court procedure, as well as just as you can ensure you each have adequate time to collate monetary disclosure as well as review ideas made.
Decisions reached in mediation can be tailored to fit your family. This remains in comparison to court enforced decisions where the court may not have the power to impose similar plans or has disliked the subtlety of why a certain pointer may be better.
When a decision is made together in mediation, it is more likely that celebrations will certainly be content with and also stick to it. Mediation is created to promote communication and also an on-going co-parenting relationship.
Privacy – mediation is an exclusive and confidential process which suggests that parties are motivated to be open regarding options they want to think about. This usually leads to events making recommendations they would hesitate to make in court proceedings. For high profile clients, it is additionally a way of keeping details of your relationship out of the general public eye.
Expenses and rate – if effective, mediation can be less expensive as well as quicker than court proceedings. By establishing the agenda and also choosing the variety of sessions you have, parties have a lot more control over the process than when they become part of court process. The mediator will also take care of the process and ensure that mediation does not continue if it is ineffective or making matters worse.
Although family mediation has actually been in emphasis today with #FamilyMediationweek, in appropriate instances it can supply an indispensable way of settling family disputes effectively and also amicably and it ought to be something that is urged all year.
Family Mediation – Expert Family Mediators
What Does Mediation Cost?
If you are qualified for lawful aid, family mediation will certainly be complimentary. If your companion has lawful aid for family mediation, you will be billed only for the 2nd as well as any type of subsequent mediation sessions- the information and analysis conference, and also initial mediation session will certainly be totally free for you, also.
If you need to spend for mediation, ask your FMC Registered Mediator what their fees are when you initially contact them. You could intend to telephone a few local mediators to compare fees, as these can differ.
As an overview, FMC Registered Mediators bill approximately ₤ 140 each per hour for mediation sessions and drafting documentation, however this will certainly differ depending on the where in the nation the mediator is based, and also the sort of concerns you need to talk about.
At the initial conference (usually known as a MIAM), the mediator will allow you know if they assume you may get approved for lawful help. Mediators that have a contract to provide Lawful Aid will have the ability to perform a formal assessment. You can locate an FMC Registered Mediator that uses lawful help by searching here.
The mediator will certainly also have the ability to give you an extra exact estimate of how much mediation is most likely to set you back (based on the variety of sessions that the mediator assumes that you will require to get to an agreement), as well as the price of composing any kind of required paperwork.
Can I get lawful aid?
If you’re on a low income, you might have the ability to get lawful help to help spend for one or more of:
- The Mediation Info & Evaluation Fulfilling (MIAM).
- Mediation sessions.
Legal assistance in assistance for mediation.
If your case isn’t suitable for mediation, in some scenarios you might obtain legal help for other type of legal aid.
Lawful aid may be offered to one or both of you, as well as each person will be evaluated separately. Even if only one individual can get legal help, the charge for the MIAM and also the price of the very first full mediation session will be covered for both individuals.
Child Mediation London – Resolution Specialists
Exactly how to Plan for Your Initial Mediation Session
We’ve gone over in this blog whether you must or should not utilize mediation, what it is, just how it can assist, etc. Divorce Mediator Michelle Nix recently shared these eight things you should do prior to your initial mediation session, and also we want to share them right here with you:
- Bring arranged economic papers. This consists of a listing of your possessions, equilibriums of your checking account, retired life funds, and so on. For your financial obligations, you require to know the balance and also monthly repayment of each. Bring proof of all accounts as well as financial obligations. Attempt making a spreadsheet to maintain your assets/debts organized.|For your financial debts, you require to know the equilibrium and month-to-month repayment of each. Bring evidence of all accounts as well as debts.}
- Get your emotions under control. This is NOT the time to be upsetting, terrible, impolite, and so on. A successful mediation will certainly be carried out in the most positive light that both events can bring.
- Prepare to bargain, not say. Arguing is not going to get either event anywhere. Allow the mediator aid you work out.
- You can ask to talk independently with the mediator. If you have worries that you can not share in front of your spouse, you have choices. Do not let that get the most effective of you, yet rather, ask to talk to your mediator separately.
- Select a competent attorney to advise you. Select a family divorce attorney who will certainly have your benefit in mind as well as completely understands your goals is having a brief, affordable hassle-free divorce procedure.
- Plan a budget plan. If you do not know just how much cash you require and also just how much you invest, it will be tough to have a strong understanding of what you’re discussing for.
- Learn your rights/obligations. Inform yourself on the procedure. Your attorney should be able to assist you in coming to be knowledgeable concerning what you’re undergoing and what you need to be familiar with.
- Place your worries on the table. You might do this in creating, actually, it’s advised. Just because you’re not seeking to suggest does not suggest you shouldn’t feature a list of points that you strongly believe you shouldn’t back down from. | <urn:uuid:33bcd050-46bb-42e5-91d5-6458f4213228> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://capitolfamilymediation.co.uk/when-mediation-works-as-well-as-when-to-prevent-it/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570767.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808061828-20220808091828-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.961398 | 3,244 | 2.5 | 2 |
By Xander Brett, Third Year, History of Art and French
The Croft Magazine // In this week's Letter from Paris, Xander Brett reflects on the death of Princess Diana.
2nd May, 2021
If you go down to the Pont de l’Alma, there’s a golden flame. It’s a memorial to Diana, Princess of Wales, who crashed in that tunnel in the early hours of 31st August 1997. When day broke, the sun was shining, the Seine was shimmering, and Parisians were supposed to be enjoying their last day of the holidays. Instead, forensic teams were picking up wreckage and analysing remains. Diana had died in hospital at 4am.
Diana was with her boyfriend, Dodi Al Fayed, switching between a suite in the Ritz and his address on the Rue Arsène Houssaye. When the crash occurred, they were on their way to Al Fayed’s apartment. Their usual chauffeur had been instructed to drive a decoy car, so the couple left the Ritz in a Mercedes driven by Henri Paul. He was the Ritz’s deputy head of security and was accompanied in the front seat by Trevor Rees-Jones, the couple’s bodyguard. They travelled along Cours-la-Reine and Cours Albert-1er before, around 00:23, swarmed by photographers and travelling at 105 km/h, they entered the tunnel. They chipped another car, hit the thirteenth pillar and spun into the opposite wall. Photographers were first on the scene, before an off-duty doctor arrived to await emergency services. What happened next is grim, and I see no reason to dwell on it. Suffice to say, there is one survivor: Rees-Jones, who can no longer remember the crash.
Behind the scenes, officials were in a frantic search for President Chirac. He’d been rumoured to have slipped security in order to spend the night with Italian actress Claudia Cardinale. He resurfaced at breakfast to contact staff, and they quickly added him to plans. By 5pm, Diana’s sisters and the Prince of Wales had landed. Foreign reporters flocked to Paris and Lorient, where Paul’s parents lived. The eighteen-month French investigation found Paul three times over the legal alcohol limit, and that he’d been taking anti-depressants. Around the time of the twentieth anniversary, reports emerged that the remains of the crashed car were stored at a police compound in Bonneuil-sur-Marne, ten miles south-east of Paris. The French police, apparently, had demanded them back after Scotland Yard concluded their investigation. This is unconfirmed, but the fateful tunnel remains open, and I believe there’s a small memorial on the thirteenth pillar. The public co-opted the Flame of Liberty to be put outside the tunnel and, while the condolences have vanished, the French remain upset and embarrassed. The atmosphere at the Pont de l’Alma is still, twenty years on, incredibly sombre.
My sister has taken on the apartment as my semester comes to an end. Having someone else arrive, I felt the excitement at arriving in Paris for the first time. I also saw the pandemic with fresh eyes, realising how absurd things are. The prime minister has been receiving strange things through the post in protest at the closure non-essential shops (record shops, for example, can stay open while clothes shops close). As I depart, the pandemic is something I’m glad to escape. This, indeed, is the last letter written in Paris, though the pre-recorded letters and written articles will continue until 30th May.
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Electric bikes or e-bikes are more popular than ever, with older riders driving much of the demand. Proponents have touted e-bikes as a way to make cycling more accessible to people more people in general such as the elderly and those with disabilities, to car-free households in urban environments, and to anyone who might hesitate to hop on a conventional bike.
Yet as more riders adopt this new technology, new safety concerns have cropped up. A worrying statistic out of the Netherlands in 2018 sounded some alarms: E-bike deaths in the famously bike-friendly country nearly doubled between 2016 and 2017. About 75 percent of the victims were men aged 65 and older. Peter van der Knaap, director of the Dutch Road Safety Research Foundation, told The Guardian that many incidents involved riders simply failing to properly mount or dismount their e-bikes. And a more recent study showed that those trends continued into 2019.
In 2019, dozens of riders reported injuries while riding electric Citibikes in New York City, prompting Lyft, the company that owns Citibike, to temporarily pull all of the approximately 1,000 electric bicycles from the city’s streets amid safety concerns, as the New York Times reported.
Of course, as e-bikes make up a greater share of the bicycle market, they’ll also be involved in more crashes and cyclist fatalities. But riders interested in going electric should learn how to handle this new kind of bicycle to ensure their safety. E-bikes are often much heavier than regular commuter bikes, reach higher top speeds, and make usually manageable corners and obstacles more dangerous. Here are six e-bike safety tips you should know.
Every cyclist should pay attention to the flow of traffic, but it’s even more critical on an e-bike. Drivers may not expect a cyclist to reach 20 mph on the road, and that disconnect can lead to potentially dangerous scenarios.
“As electrical bicycles become increasingly popular, other road users may need to recalibrate their expectations to maintain a safe interaction with this new type of bicycle,” Chalmers University of Technology researcher Marco Dozza wrote in a study for the International Cycling Safety Conference. That means not only thinking about what you’re doing on the bike, but also how drivers perceive you.
Part of the issue with traffic is that drivers don’t know how to look out for bikes zipping by with an extra 200 watts of power behind them. To make sure you’re seen, Hong Quan, founder of the e-bike company Karmic Bikes, recommends outfitting your bike with lights and a bell. And it’s not only drivers—you might be too fast for pedestrians or other cyclists who won’t hear you coming without a polite warning.
[Related: The Best Bikes Lights For Every Kind of Ride]
Quan adds that the biggest mistake he sees new e-bike riders make is to go for the fastest assist setting right out of the gate. Anyone would be excited to see what their new set of wheels can do, but Quan recommends that riders take time to learn how the bike feels at lower speeds before cranking it to turbo.
[Related: 13 Reasons to Get Stoked About E-Bikes]
Because you have a lot more speed and power behind you, braking becomes all the more important. Even at the lightest assisted gear, Quan says, a Karmic e-bike will add around 50 watts to your pedal stroke. That means you’ll want to slow down well ahead of stop signs and road crossings, and far earlier than you would on a slower-moving bike. Get to know your brakes and their relative power, so you can better assess the safest time to start slowing down.
For some older e-bike riders, or younger riders with mobility issues, mounts and dismounts are where many injuries happen. This is partially because of the bike’s heaviness—the extra 20-plus pounds could cause it to tip over and injure the rider. Make sure the frame you buy is one that’s comfortable to get on and off easily. For some, that may mean seeking out a step-through frame (which aren’t just for women!) or a standard frame with a more sloping top tube.
Crashes can happen on any bike, but e-bikes are noteworthy because of the higher speeds involved. That said, Quan notes that the crashes he’s seen likely would have happened on conventional bikes as well.
In fact, a 2018 survey found that only 20 percent of e-bike riders said they had experienced any type of crash. Of those, 19 percent reported that the e-bike contributed to the crash in any unique way. So when you’re out zooming around town, make sure to keep standard bike safety in mind. | <urn:uuid:a3a8a42c-5715-41b8-bd4f-8ec176789cb7> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://izradasajta-webdizajn.com/index-36.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570767.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808061828-20220808091828-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.960512 | 1,000 | 2.75 | 3 |
Staying in the job of Photography can be quite fulfilling and opens the entrance doors to many prospects. As a photographer there are no agelimits and requirements, racial preferences, experience needed, and there are no restrictions on your creative flow. You have the liberty to get your own and make what you would like.
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If there is anywhere on earth a lover of God who is always kept safe, I know nothing of it, for it was not shown to me. But this was shown: that in falling and rising again we are always kept in that same precious love.
~Julian of Norwich
Truth is this life is not easy.
There is joy.
Absolutely amazing awe-inspiring, breath-taking joy.
But there is also suffering.
Utterly devastating, heart-breaking suffering.
Mark then, Christian, Jesus does not suffer so as to exclude your suffering. He bears a cross, not that you may escape it, but that you may endure it. Christ exempts you from sin, but not from sorrow. Remember that, and expect to suffer.
~C. H. Spurgeon, Morning and Morning
When I ponder the pain of child loss, it helps to remember that Jesus suffered too.
Not just at the end, when He allowed evil men to crucify Him, but throughout His life when friends abandoned Him, people tried to kill Him, religious leaders mocked Him and sought to destroy His reputation and work.
It helps me to know that my wounds and scars, like His, will be transformed from evidence of pain and loss into a testimony of grace and redemption.
The cross is both the symbol of our salvation and the pattern of our lives. Everything that happened to Christ in some way happens to us. When darkness envelops us and we are deaf to everything except the shriek of our own pain, it helps to know that the Father is tracing in us the image of his Son, that the signature of Jesus is being stamped on our souls. For Jesus, the darkness of night gave way to the light of morning.
~Brennan Manning, The Signature of Jesus
When Thomas doubted, Jesus didn’t perform another miracle or call down angels from Heaven to testify on His behalf. He said, “Here, touch my wounds.”
I don’t know what that felt like for Thomas, but it was the only proof he needed to believe.
And while Christ accommodated Thomas, He spoke a special blessing on those who would not have such proof.
I have doubts some days too.
There are moments when suffering washes over me like a flood and I am swept under with the tide.
It’s then I cling tenaciously to the promise that my wounds, like Christ’s, will one day not only be proof of pain but also evidence of God’s redemptive power.
Could it be that God will wipe the tears from our eyes, but not from our memories, that the renewed experience of the glorified saint will be to recall those sadnesses with the transforming joy which God’s presence and God’s disclosed providence will bring? Surely part of our praise in heaven will not merely be that we are now saved, but that we have been saved, that the very title of being those who have conquered means that our memory of victory will include a transformed awareness of what the whole battle meant.
What a difference this could make to my suffering. The scars I bear in my body, my mind, my soul, the adversities and setbacks, the pains that may yet await me before I get to heaven, the relational wounds, the memories from which I struggle to recover, the darkness of doubt and the battles with unbelief, will not necessarily be removed when I get to heaven, but they will be redeemed, they will be transformed by the long view that being perfected in the presence of my perfect God will bring. What an experience it will be to probe the scars, but to no longer feel their pain – to see them as contour lines of God’s grace by which I ascended into glory. What could it mean for my wounds to sing his praise, for my scars to record his perfections, for my memory of old pains to be set in the context of a new and never failing joy. That makes suffering sufferable now, and glory all the more glorious then.
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The Gibson Girls of America’s Victorian Age – the late 19th and early 20th century, had a style and sophistication that paved the way to today’s popular Vintage Revival. Long tresses piled high on their heads with sexy tendrils innocently escaping those seemingly impossible coifs, the women of the era possessed an alluring mystique.
With decorated necklines and tiny corseted waists, Gibson Girls were quite the rage in their day; incredibly sexy, despite their turn of the century moral standards.
When I say, “Gibson Girls” I refer to the fair creations depicted in the wildly popular drawings of American artist Charles Dana Gibson. These clever young women were considered “hot” when the word “hot” still referred to the state of your porridge.
Before I get down to the suggestions on how you too can become a modern-day Gibson Girl goddess, I feel compelled to offer a brief glimpse into the era in which Charles Dana Gibson became so popular.
Victorianism in America
American Victorianism was trendy chiefly in the New England states from roughly 1875 to 1910. During these puritanical times, sex was never discussed in polite company. Even the word “leg” dare not be mentioned for fear that gentlemen overhearing such conversation might lose control of their bodily functions.
Sexual feelings and non-marital “relations” were barely acknowledged by people of good breeding, save for one or two goateed Viennese psychoanalysts. That’s not to say people of the day were asexual; quite the opposite. Brothels flourished and were widely frequented by gentlemen (mostly) from all walks of society both in Europe and the U.S., while thousands of pornographic pamphlets, photos and novels were fervently snatched up by a sexually repressed populace.
The talented New York art student, Charles Dana Gibson got a career break in the fall of 1886 when he managed to sell a drawing of a dog chained to his doghouse to a little publication called Life Magazine. He continued to produce drawings for Life for the next 30 years and became a veritable media superstar of his day. The dog had nothing to do with it.
It was Gibson’s representation of the ideal woman that made him famous. Soon labeled “The Gibson Girl”, this innocent sex goddess was to the printed page, what Betty Grable, Marilyn Monroe and Brigitte Bardot would later be to the silver screen.
In Victorian times, it was the illustrators of popular magazines that influenced people’s esthetic values.
Life magazine’s Gibson Girls were spirited, well bred, independent and utterly feminine, yet underneath it all, there was that Scarlet O’Hara flash of mischief in their eyes.
That naughty characteristic was what made the Gibson Girl so alluring. Coy, mischievous, intelligent; those sexy attributes of the Victorian era are still sexy today.
Gibson Girls on TV
If you’ve been enjoying some of the popular turn-of-the-century genre programs on television, such as Public Broadcasting’s “Downton Abbey”, and “Mr. Selfridge”, you may also have been lusting after the vintage fashions featured within those series such as the decorative mesh handbags, the alluring lingerie and the choker necklaces.
How to Become a Modern Day Gibson Girl – Here Are My Savvy Suggestions:
We need to sport more Gibson Girl hairstyles. Curling irons, flat irons, hair rollers and the like are as cumbersome as corsets. Just let your hair do its thing and pile it on top of your head. If a few tendrils escape, all the better.
If your hair lacks volume, there are two ways to create the Gibson Girl look.
1- Buy a handful of synthetic hair from a beauty supply store and pin it behind your front hairline.
2- Lift all your hair, (natural and synthetic) loosely on top of your head. Swirl the ends into a bun and secure it with bobby pins.
For a Fuller, More Constructed Gibson Hairdo Effect….
1- Cut off the leg of an old panty hose.
2- Fill it with cotton or any soft material. Make it the same length as the circumference of your head and sew the ends together to form a big, soft donut.
3- Now comb the front of your hair down from the top of your head, with bangs or long front hair hanging over your eyes. The rest of your hair hangs down over your ears and neck.
4- Slide the donut over your head but don’t go past your ears or forehead.
5- Lift all your hanging hair over the donut and tie it into a pony tail on the top of your head.
6- Wrap the tail into a bun. If your hair isn't long enough to tie, just pin it and secure a fake bun on the top of your head.
7- Pull out some hair tendrils from the roll, in front of your ears and down your neck. That’s it!
More suggestions for a Gibson Girl Revival:
1- Design and market a Gibson Girl swim suit complete with black stockings. I’m sure Gortex has some newfangled material that keeps you cool in 90 degree temperatures. When you’ve developed it, let me know and I’ll advertise it on this page.
2- Wear a shirtwaist blouse with a sexy bustier, or camisole. Sport a flowing skirt with just a hint of a bustle. If you’re natural bustle is already built in, more power to you.
3- Buy some vintage silk lingerie. There is nothing sexier.
5- Continue to trust your feminine intuition. It will help you screen out deadbeat suitors.
6- Don’t be afraid to be “mischievous”. It worked for the Gibson Girl and it will work for you. Just don’t get arrested.
6- Read Victorian sex novels. They're the real thing and your partner will thank you for it.
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File a Complaint
File a Complaint
- The Bureau of Community and Health Systems receive and process complaints for:
- Adult foster care and home for the aged.
- Children's and adult foster care camps.
How to Make a Complaint
When making a complaint, it is important that you fill out the complaint form as completely as possible. Your name will be kept confidential and will not be released unless ordered by the court. You are not required to give your name or contact information. However, if you do not provide it, a licensing consultant will not be able to contact you if additional information is needed. Your complaint may not be assigned or may be unconfirmed due to an inability to reach you for follow-up.
To make a complaint, fill out the Online Complaint Form. If you cannot complete the online complaint form, you can either:
- Print and complete a paper Complaint Form:
Mail it to:
Bureau of Community and Health Systems
Adult Foster Care and Camps Licensing - Complaint Intake Unit
611 W. Ottawa, 1st Floor
PO Box 30664
Lansing, MI 48909
- Fax it to: 517-284-9739
- Call 866-856-0126
A complaint must allege violations of the facility's governing act and rules. To review a facility's governing act or rules prior to making a complaint, go to:
- Adult Foster Care Facilities - Adult Foster Care Facility Licensing Act (1979 PA 218), Licensing Rules for Adult Foster Care Family Homes, Licensing Rules for Adult Foster Care Small Group Homes (12 or less), Licensing Rules for Adult Foster Care Large Group Homes (13-20), Licensing Rules for Adult Foster Care Congregate Facilities (21 or more).
- Homes for the Aged - Homes for the Aged Public Health Code (excerpt) Act 368 of 1978 - BCAL PUB-338 and Licensing Rules for Homes for the Aged.
Note: It is a crime to make a false complaint against a children's camp punishable by up to a $5,000 fine or imprisonment for up to four years or both. See the Child Care Organizations Act MCL 722.115l.
Abuse and Neglect Complaints
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As a child in my father’s house, we were not to speak until we were spoken to. It was a taboo to open your mouth when father is giving marching orders, it was around the time I became a teenager that one of our older sisters had the courage to bell the cat.
We all learnt to say “permission to speak sir?!”, we would employ all timidity, remorse and contriteness. The speaker would silently appeal to the only God that was allowed and hope that his/her appeal was granted favour.
It has become quite the norm that bloggers, young Nigerian writers are attacked or detained for writing, is the nation calling for our silence? Injustice to one is injustice to all, and a nation cannot be establish on the faulty notion that fundamental human rights can be set aside to foster growth.
August 2016 – Musa Azare, Arrested and detained somewhere in Nassarawa, he is simply a political critic!
Emmanuel Ojo Adediran, was arrested a while back over a Facebook post alleging that governor Amosun’s wife was involved in money laundering in London. Emmanuel is also a blogger.
Management of the University of Lagos (UNILAG) has trailed and arrested Adeyeye Olorunfemi; a vocal student recently rusticated from the same school over Facebook post accusing the school management of incompetence.
The list is endless, we could talk about the man who named his dog “Buhari”, but restraint is key!
noun: Defined as a right which is believed to belong to every person. Every human should be free to speak in such a manner as they seem fit since no consensus has yet been made to outlaw some manner of expression. Are we choosing the path of North Korea where Sarcasm has been declared illegal?
Can the state and the nation’s peace be threatened be sound? Can bombs be detonated by sounds? Can blood be spilled when people are allowed to air their opinions and everyone is given a platform to be heard?
The African Silence
It has been a culture passed down through generations, intellect and capacity is measured by either age, gender or social status. The Yoruba says “if a child learns to wash, he gets to eat with elders”. There is a limit to discussions that a Nigerian child would be allowed to engage with. He is not even allowed to choose his meal, not until he probably disvirgins a woman.
We must arise as a people and let every human voice have a say! Let every living soul have a platform, because without these, there can be no peace.
Nnamdi Kanu may well be another scape goat for the fight against human rights. In the past week, the month of September 2016, the South East sat home to protest his detention. We may well be approaching a break down in communication, we may well be approaching anarchy, we may be approaching bloodshed. Because injustice to one is outright injustice to all and it may be my turn tomorrow.
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Only a few years ago, governments began to open their data. Portals like data.gov and (it’s Dutch equivalent) data.overheid.nl are just two examples of the many similar services that have been established in jurisdictions around the world to make public sector data available directly on the Web. Often this is in the form of CSV files but at least some is available as linked data. As strong advocates of the publishing of data in this format, W3C set up the Government Linked Data Working Group in 2011. Its charter is divided in two parts.
First it is defining a set of Best Practices in this area — guidelines designed to make it easier for the public sector to make more of its data available as 5 star linked data. The document is evolving and, like most W3C standards, the editor’s draft is publicly visible.
Secondly, the GLD WG is chartered to standardize or, where necessary, create vocabularies that help to increase interoperability of data sets. The choice of vocabulary terms can make all the difference between data sets being interoperable and impenetrable. If you are describing a creative work the chances are you’ll use Dublin Core‘s terms for things like title and creator. But where are the equivalent stable vocabularies for public sector data?
Several exist and are in use, but governments generally require a level of reassurance on the quality and stability of vocabularies that only standards bodies can provide. It is for this reason that the Organization Ontology and Data Cube Vocabulary — both in use by the government that commissioned Epimorphics to create them (UK) — are being put through the W3C Recommendations Track. Joining these two is DCAT, the Data Catalog vocabulary, in widespread use amongst existing data portals (it’s used in CKAN for example).
Alongside this work, in September last year W3C began working with PricewaterhouseCoopers on the development of a number of vocabularies on behalf of the European Commission under it’s ISA Programme (see promotional video). Work on three ‘Core Vocabularies’ is now close to completion:
- people — a vocabulary for describing a natural person (things like name, family name, date and place of birth etc.);
- business — a vocabulary for describing legal entities as found in company registers;
- location — geographical locations and addresses, noting the importance of interoperability with the EU’s INSPIRE Directive on spatial information.
These vocabularies are being developed to a good degree of maturity by working groups comprising EU Member State representatives and others.
But in this field, as in so many others, we quickly run into the problem of discoverability. Not just discovering what vocabularies are available, but which ones are being used by others. What code lists are available and being used? What standards should I choose? To help solve this, a further important vocabulary is being developed. Called the Asset Description Metadata Standard, ADMS, it provides terms for describing these Semantic Assets — the infrastructure elements needed to make data interoperable. It’s designed for use in portals that serve public sector data publishers such as Denmark’s Digitaliser, vocab.data.gov and the EU’s own Semantic Asset portal Joinup which launched recently.
Following agreement between the W3C and the European Commission, and the chairs and members of the working group itself, ADMS and the three ISA Programme Core Vocabularies will join DCAT, the Organization Ontology and Data Cube Vocabulary as Government Linked Data WG work items. Furthermore, we expect to enrich our own RDF description of W3C TR space using ADMS in the near future.
This does not mean that W3C is rubber stamping any of this work. On the contrary, the “completed” vocabularies will be published by the GLD WG as First Public Working Drafts and, like any other draft, they may change through working group agreement, public comment and/or implementation experience. Furthermore, all four of these ISA Programme outputs are within the scope of the existing WG’s charter. In other words, the working group can achieve more of what W3C has already asked it to do by taking the ISA Programme’s work as input to its own.
What really makes this such a positive development in my mind though is that the combined efforts of a variety of public administrations look as they’re coming together to create stable, well tested infrastructure elements that will maximize the interoperability of open data sets. It’s no more than another step along the road but, I hope, an important one.
A final thought. With so much effort going in to publishing data and making it interoperable, what are people doing with it? That’s the subject of a workshop we’re running as part of another project, Crossover, in June: Using Open Data: policy modeling, citizen empowerment, data journalism. | <urn:uuid:b1d28060-3514-4755-8d24-91c0c07d5964> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.w3.org/blog/2012/03/interoperable-governments/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817001643-20220817031643-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.930836 | 1,060 | 2.671875 | 3 |
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SIMDEGA- a true manifestation of Tribal Life
Situated in the state of Jharkhand, various locations of Simdega remain unexplored till date. Consisting of a large tribal population, visitors usually plan a trip to this town to experience its tribal culture. Amidst the greenery of the region, tourists can spend their time by taking a walk with their loved ones or friends.
Ruins which are present in the city can be explored by adventure lovers while on a trip to Simdega. This city has a lot to offer to its travelers. The Kelaghagh Dam which is surrounded by hills is an important destination of the city. A park located near the dam serves as an ideal picnic spot for the visitors.
Adventure sport lovers can indulge in parasailing or motor boating which is available at this place under the supervision of experts. A visit to Panch Gagh Falls can also be planned to experience the beauty of these cascades. Five waterfalls which are located next to each other, offer a breathtaking view to its visitors.
People who are religiously inclined can visit the ancient temples which are dedicated to Lord Ram, Lakshmana and Goddess Sita and these are beautifully carved. Another historical location that remains on the must visit list of every traveler is the Ketunga.
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It was Friday 13th of Rajab 30 Amulfeel Hazrat Fatima binte Asad, the wife of Hazrat Abu Talib entered the precincts of the Holy Kaaba and prayed to Allah saying O' my protector ease my pain. All of a sudden the wall of the Kaaba opened up and she, as if by some unseen force went inside the Kaaba and the wall closed. Ali (AS) the youngest son of Abu Talib was born inside the Holy Kaaba. She stayed inside for three days. On the 3rd day she came out through the door and Muhammad (SAW) was waiting outside. She told Muhammad (SAW) that the boy had not taken any milk. Muhammad (SAW) gave him the first feed from his mouth and afterwards asked his uncle Abu Talib that he wished to adopt the baby. Ali entered the house of Muhammad from the very early age. Ali's mother Fatima binte Asad also lived there who looked after his own son as well as Muhammad (SAW) so much so that later the Holy Prophet used to say that she was like his own mother.
Shah Waliullah, Mohadith-e-Dehlvi writes in the book "Izalatul Kholafa" giving reference from Imam Hakim in his Mustadrak Part 3, Page 483. "Qud Tawatarul Akhbar Inna Fatimah Binte Asad woledat Aliyan Fi Jaufil Kaaba". Another writer of the old school Sibtel Jauzi in his book Tazkeratul Khawas ul Umma, page 7 mentions the same fact that Ali was born inside the Kaaba.
Khawja Moinuddin Chishti Ajmeri mentions this fact in his famous Quartet saying that when Ali was born inside the kaaba the Sky and the earth was filled with a light and Angel Gabril announced that a child was born in the house of God.
Maulana Rume in his Mathnawi writes, "O one who travels to Najef to visit the tomb of Ali must know the fact that the pearl of the Kaaba lies there to give us security because of our intense love for him."
Masoodi the famous historian writes in his book of history Muruj el Zahab, that Ali was born inside the Kaaba on the orders of Muhammad the Messenger of God.
It was after the adoption of Ali (AS) that he lived with the Holy Prophet in his house.
Wherever Muhammad (SAW) went Ali (AS) was with him all the time. Even in the Mountain of Hira when Muhammad (SAW) went for meditation Ali (AS) went with him most of the time. Sometimes they stayed on the mountain for 3 or 4 days. Some times Ali (AS) took his food their. In Nehjul Balagha Ali (AS) said that "I used to go with the Holy Prophet like the baby camel goes with his mother."
Some historians try to show that when Muhammad (SAW) declared his prophet hood Ali (AS) was the first among male children who accepted Islam. The implication here is that both Muhammad (SAW) and Ali (AS) were non-believers before this declaration. This is against the Qur'anic verdict which says that Ibrahim was a Muslim and he taught his children to be Muslims so that when the Prophet was born among the descendents of Ibrahim through the line of Ismael he was born a Muslim and so was Ali. The correct thing to say would be that when Muhammad (SAW) declared his prophet hood openly Ali (AS) immediately adhered to the declaration without hesitation.
The three persons seen in prayers in the Kaaba were Muhammad, Khadija and Ali before anyone else accepted Islam. For 3 years young and poor persons of Makka were accepting Islam secretly. The first open declaration came when the Qur'anic verse tells the Prophet to "come out openly and warn the people of your own clan." Invitations were sent to leaders of the Banu Hashim to come to the house of Muhammad (SAW) for Dinner. Forty of them came, ate food and then heard Muhammad (SAW) about his mission of 'No God but Allah and Muhammad (SAW) as the messenger of Allah' and whoever offers his help to propagate this religion will be his deputy and successor. No one stood up except Ali (AS). After announcing this 3 times Muhammad (SAW) declared that Ali (AS) will be his deputy to his mission and will be his successor after him. People thought it as a joke that a 13 year old boy was to be a deputy of this prophetic mission. Even Abu Lahab jokingly told Abu Talib, go and obey your son to which AbuTalib smilingly accepted. Ali (AS) promised to help Muhammad (SAW) in his mission and kept this promise all his life.
The next thing which we see in the life of Ali (AS) is the reflection of this promise he gave at this place in front of the leaders of the Quraish.
We see Ali (AS) protecting Muhammad (SAW) from the abuses of the enemies of Islam. When Muhammad (SAW) went to Taif a nearby town to preach Islam children of Taif hurled stones and it was Ali (AS) who protected the Prophet and drove the stone throwing children away from the Prophet.
As a youth Ali (AS) was strongly built, strong arms, wide chest and a very strong brave and shining face. Children of his age and even older to him were frightened of him and whenever they tried to mock the Prophet, they always ran away when they saw Ali (AS) standing by for protection.
Time passed and hostility of the Quraish increased so much so that Muhammad (SAW) was ordered by Allah to leave Makka. Ali (AS) slept on Muhammad's bed without hesitation and when the non believers entered the house of Muhammad (SAW) to kill, they found Ali (AS) who was not afraid at all at the site of 40 swordsmen entering the house. When they questioned Ali,"where was Muhammad" he bravely replied, did you leave him in my custody? When after 3 days of Muhammad's departure Ali returned all the goods entrusted to Muhammad to their owners, he set out to leave Makka for Madina with the rest of the family. Ali (AS) had with him his mother Fatima binte Asad, His aunt, the wife of Hamza, and Fatima, the daughter of Muhammad (SAW) and many other ladies. Non-believers of Makka tried to stop Ali (AS) from his departure but Ali (AS) fought back, drove the infidels away and safely reached Madina. Muhammad (SAW) was waiting for the family outside the precincts of the town. He entered the city with Ali (AS) and the rest of the family.
The Holy Prophet created a bond of brotherhood between the Muslims, making Ali (AS) as his Muslim brother saying O' Ali, you are my brother in this world as well as in the next.
Once the family settled in the newly adopted city of Madina their first task was to complete the mosque around which their houses were also built. Ali initially stayed with his mother but when he married Fatima the daughter of the Prophet he was given a house next to the Prophet by the side of the mosque. He had been betrothed to her several days before the battle of Badr. But the marriage was celebrated three months later. Ali was about 23 years old and Fatima was 10. This was most happy and celebrated marriage. The distinctiveness of their respective characters blended so well with each other that they never quarreled and complained of one another and led a happy and most contended life. Materially the couple did not posses much; spiritually they were at the highest level of assent. They had no worries if they go hungry or their clothes had patches. They would be more concerned if an orphan goes away from their door without receiving any food.
History records Ali's life in Madina with the Holy Prophet for the next ten years as the busiest in defending Islam against the attackers from Makka. Ali (AS) was always the standard bearer of the Flag of Islam in all such battles and his bravery became legendary.
Ibne Abil Hadid, the Motazelli commentator of Nahjul Balagha says that: Ali (AS) had a personality in which opposite characteristics had so gathered that it was difficult to believe a human mind could manifest such a combination. He was the bravest man that history could cite and such brave men are always hard hearted, cruel and eager to shed blood. On the contrary Ali was kind, sympathetic, and responsive and warmhearted person, qualities quite contrary to the other phase of his character and more suited to pious and God fearing persons Ali's bravery and piety both became legendry life in Madina while the Holy Prophet was alive. But he remembers these times as the best times of his life. He says in Nehjul Balagha 'Life with my brother was a life of ease and happiness.'
The battles of Badr, Ohud, Khandaq and Khyber were fought in the defense of Islam and won on the hands of Ali (AS). He was not only the standard bearer of the Flag of Islam in these battles, but always led the forces of Islam against Kufr and came out victorious. Khyber was the climax of these battles when Ali's victory brought prosperity in the Muslim ranks. Ayesha the wife of the Prophet said once that until the victory of Khyber we in the house of the Prophet spent days without food. It was only after Khyber that life at home became a little easier. Thus Ali (AS) brought an end to the hostilities of Quraish in three encounters of Badr, Ohud and Khandaq. Their best warriors were killed, their unity against Islam was crushed, their pride was humiliated and their prestige before Arab clans was lowered by him and by him alone. Khyber saw an end to the hegemony of Jews in Arabia at the hands of Ali (AS).
The peace agreement of Hodaibiya was written by Ali (AS) and at the time of the peaceful victory at Makka, the idols of the Kaaba were demolished by the Holy Prophet with the help of Ali (AS).
The battle of Hunain
The Victory of Makka brought many non believers into the fold of Islam. Broadly speaking there were three types who embraced Islam. Fear, greed and the true understanding of Islam and its principles. Some of the Makkans became Muslims for fear of their lives, they were afraid that the Prophet would kill them, others were simply frightened that the Holy Prophet with the help of Angel Gabriel would bring the wrath of God on them. Then there was greed that Islam was now victorious, so if they joined in the good life would be theirs for free. Very few of them truly understood Islam and accepted it as a true faith. The Test of their true faith came immediately after the fall of Makka while Muslims were still in the sweet pleasure of this bloodless victory that various tribes outside Makka gathered an army of 20,000 in Taif to fight the Muslims. The hostile tribes decided to attack at a vantage point at Hunain and selected two prominent places where they concealed their archers. The Muslims were proud of their success in Makka, but their behavior during the encounter was timorous and cowardly. Qur'an tells us this in Sura Tauba V9 "God came to your help on so many occasions, on the day of Hunain, your vanity in the number of your soldiers and your arrogance did not prove any avail to you, you were badly defeated and could not find any place of shelter, you started running away without shame."
This encounter took place in the month of Shawwal 8th Hijri (Jan 630 AD). When the Muslim army marched towards the place where archers were concealed the enemy opened the campaign with such a severe onslaught that the Muslim army could not stand it. Their assault was fierce and confusion in the Muslim ranks made the archers bolder and they came nearer and attacked from both flanks and from the front. The Muslims could not stand the attack and started running without putting any resistance and where not concerned to leave the Prophet alone,(see Saheeh Bukhari)
The first battalion to run was the one in the command of Khalid Ibne Waleed (Rauzathus Safa vol II pafw 137) this was followed by such a disorderly and tumultuous flight that only 10 people were left out of an army of 15,000 with the Holy Prophet. Eight of them were of Bani Hashim, (Abbas, two of his sons, Ali and three other cousins of the Holy Prophet)
Abbas was shouting to the Muslims to come back, reminding them of the oath of allegiance taken and promises made, but it was to no avail. Those who accepted Islam for greed, wealth and power were not willing to risk their lives. Many of them who had carefully hidden their enmity from the rising power were happy at the defeat. They gathered round Abu Sofian, started congratulating him and saying, "The magical circle of the lying Prophet is broken," They were praying for the return of Polytheism.
Once again it fell to the lot of Ali (AS) to save the Holy Prophet and the Islam. Armies of Bani Hawaazen and Banu Saqeef under cover of their archers were rushing the hillock and were getting ready for a fierce onslaught. Ali (AS) divided the small band of faithful true Muslims in three divisions; to Abdullah Ibne Masood, Abbas Ibne Abdul Muttalib and Abu bin Harris has assigned the duty of protecting the Holy Prophet, to three he ordered to guard the rear and he himself faced the onslaught with only three warriors with him. He fought, wounded at many places, but continues fighting when he faced the commander of the hostile army, Abu Jerdal in hand to hand fight and killed him with one stroke of his sword. He alone killed over 30 of the enemy and with this bravery his aids also fought bravely and enemy was defeated. The day was saved, the commander of the enemy's army was killed, their ranks were broken they had no courage to face Ali (AS) and they started retreating. The sight of the powerful army in retreat, made the fleeing Muslims bold and they came back as victory was won for them too.
The defensive battles were over and the peaceful spread of Islam began. Ali (AS) was again in the forefront. He brought the whole tribe of Bani Hamdan to Islam by preaching. Similarly when he was sent to Yemen he brought the whole country in to the fold of Islam by his sermons. This news so pleased the Holy Prophet that he bowed down in Sajdah to thank God three times and said loudly, peace be to Bani Hamdan and to Ali. Again in the year 10th of Hijra Ali's sermon and preaching's proved so effective that the whole province embraced Islam as one man.
In the 9th year of Hijra the famous event of Mobahela took place. Najran was a city in the province of Yemen. It was the centre of Christian Missionary activities in southern Arabia. The Holy Prophet had written to the Chief Priest of the City to realize the blessings of Islam. In reply he wrote that he personally would like to discuss the teachings of this new religion. His name was Haris. He was invited and came with a group of 14 priests. These priests as guest of the Holy Prophet. Long discussions took place during the course of 4 days of their stay in Madina. When Sunday came the Chief priest wanted to go out of the city to have their Sunday Service. Prophet Islam said that they all have permission to conduct their religious service inside the mosque of the Prophet which they happily did. Long discussions continued about monotheism verses trinity and it was realized that these priests were not open minded, on the contrary they were prejudiced against monotheism. The Almighty Lord ordered the Holy Prophet to explain to that "Verily Jesus is as Adam in the sight of God. He created Adam from dust. He said unto him, Be, and he was. This is truth from thy Lord. be not therefore one of those who doubt, and whoever shall dispute thee, say unto them, " come let us call together our sons and your sons, our women and your women, our Selves and your Selves, then let us make imprecations and lay the curse of God upon those who lie. (Sura Ale Imran, V. 61) According to Bibi Ayesha when the above verse was revealed to the Apostle of God, he called Ali, Fatima, Hasan and Hussain and said, "Lord, this is my family (Ahlulbayt). The Holy Prophet took this small family with them to the open land outside the city where they all assembled to bring the curse of God on those who lie. When the Chief priest saw these faces, he told his companions that he was looking at the faces that if they call the mountain, the mountain will move. Do not have Mobahela with them or you will be destroyed. On hearing this they all agreed to pay homage to the Holy Prophet and an annual tax for living in the Islamic State and withdrew from the scene.
Designation of Ali as successor to the Prophet
In history there were numerous occasions when the Holy Prophet designated Ali as his Deputy and successor after him. From the moment of Zulasheera to the time of the conquest of Khyber and the occasion of the battle of Tabuke the Holy Prophet made it abundantly clear that no one deserved more than Ali to be his Deputy and successor. But at the time of Ghadeer this was clearly ordered by Allah through a clear verse revealed on the Prophet. The Verse said,
"O' apostle; proclaim the whole of that which hath been sent down to thee from thy Lord, for if thou dost it not, it will be as if thou hast not at all performed the duty of His Prophethood. And God will protect thee from evil men; verily God guideth not the unbelievers." (Sura 5: V.67)
The occasion was after the last pilgrimage in 10th Hijri. The Prophet delivered his Sermons on Mount Arafat, had the final rounds of the Kaaba and left for Madina. More than 120,000 pilgrims were coming out with him from Makka going to the North. Half way through their journey where the routes were separated for various pilgrims, the Holy Prophet ordered the whole caravan to halt. All those who went ahead were called back and for those who were behind they waited for them to arrive. The place was Ghadeer, near the pool of water. That is why it was named Ghadeer-e-Khom. When all assembled at this place the Holy Prophet stood up on top of the pulpit and said, "O people, shortly I shall be called towards my creator where I shall have to give an account as to how I have conveyed His message to you and you in your turn will be asked as to how you have accepted and carried out the teachings. Now tell me what you will say". Thereupon all the pilgrims declared as one man, "O Apostle of God, we testify and declare that you have conveyed the message of God fully, you have strived your utmost to guide us to the Right Path and taught us to follow it. You were most kind to us and you never wished for us but our good, may God repay you for all that." After that the Prophet said, "Do you not testify that there is no God but Allah, that Muhammad is His creature, His servant, and His apostle, that there is the Heaven and the Hell, that death will over take every one of you, that you will be brought back from your graves that the Day of Judgment will surely dawn and human beings will be resurrected from their graves to account for their deeds. The whole crowd declared in unison, "We believe and testify all this." Hearing this Apostle declared, "I am leaving amongst you two most important things worthy of obedience, the Qur'an and my progeny (Ahlulbayt). Take care how you treat them; they will not separate from each other till they reach me at the fountain of Kauser." Then he said, "The Almighty God is my Lord (Maula) and I am the Lord of all Muslims and have more right and power on their lives than they themselves. Do you believe in this assertion of mine?" They all in one voice replied "Yes O Apostle of God. Three times he asked the same question and three times he received the same affirmative reply. At this solemn affirmation he said, "Hear and remember that to whomever I am Lord or Maula, Ali is the Lord and Maula to him. He is to me what Aron was to Musa. The Almighty God be a friend to his friends and a foe to his foe, help those who help him and frustrate those who betray him. While saying this he raised Ali High over his shoulders in order to be seen by all the Muslims assembled there. Thereupon the Holy Prophet received the final revelation: "This day I have perfected your religion for you and have filled up the measure of my bounties upon you and I am pleased with Islam to be your Deen(religion)," (Sura 5 :V3).
After performing this ceremony and receiving the above revelation the Holy Prophet came down from the pulpit and ordered a tent to be erected. In this Ali (AS) was made to take his seat and all Muslims were ordered to pay homage to him and address him as Amirul Momeneen (Lord of the faithful) The first person to congratulate and address him as such was Omar Ibne Khattab saying, "I congratulate you, O Ali, today you have become my Maula and Lord and Lord of every Muslim man and woman.
The event of Ghadeer was on 18th of Zilhijja 10th Hijri, immediately after the last pilgrimage by the Holy Prophet. He then arrived back in Madina and lived only for 70 days after the event. (130 Prominent Companions of the Holy Prophet narrated this Hadith including the first three Kholafa-e-Rashidoon)
The year 11th AH was the saddest year for Ali (AS) He lost two of his best friends. One of whom he loved and venerated like a father, like a master and like a dearest friend, the Holy Prophet (SAW) who died on 28th Safar 11th Hijri, exactly 70 days after the event of Ghadeer. His death followed by the death of his dearest companion his wife Fatima, the Lady of Light.
Immediately after the death of the Holy Prophet who was buried by Ali (AS) with the help of his uncle Abbas and all the family of Bani Hashim, the news was given to Ali (AS) about the events at the Saqeefa that Abubakr was made Caliph. Abu Sofian heard the news came to Ali (AS) and told him that his Right was taken away from him. If he wishes, Abu Sofian would fill the city of Madina with horsemen to defend Ali's Right of Khilafat. Ali's reply was typical, he said," Since when you have become friends of Islam"; you want to create serious dissension amongst the Muslims. You have always tried to harm Islam I do not need your sympathies or help. Ali realized that any serious dissension at this stage would harm the cause of Islam. He had before him the example of Hodaibiya and he had been foretold by the Holy Prophet of all that would happen. Allama Ali Ibne Mohammed (630 AH) in his book Usdul Ghaba Vol iv page 31 says, The Holy Prophet had told Ali, your status is like that of Kaaba. People go to Kaaba but that August house never approaches anybody. Therefore after my death, if people come to you and swear the oath of allegiance you accept it and if they do not come to you then you do not go to them."
Ali's love for Islam was so intense, he could not, for the sake of worldly rule, endanger Islam. He knew fully well that a civil war at this stage would give chances to the Jewish tribes of Banu Nuzair and Banu Qoraiza on the one side, and the Byzantine armies in the north with the Munafiqoon (hypocrites) the new converts on the third side to simply take advantage of the situation. When they would find the Muslims busy killing each other they would literally cut them to pieces and Islam would totally disappear as a message of peace. Ali's utmost desire was to see Islam and the Arabs in one piece and wanted the enemies of Islam to realize that Islam was strong enough to defend itself as "Deen". Even after the demise of the Apostle of God, He had another important job to complete that is the completion of the collection of Qur'an with its Tafseer (explanations) according to the instructions of the Holy Prophet. Qur'an as a bwas already completed by the Holy Prophet, many copies were made and circulated among the Muslim communities all over the Islamic world. What Ali did in the next six months after the demise of the Holy Prophet was to collect all the explanations of the various verses, reasons behind their revelation and their full context. This monumental job he completed in six months and brought before the Muslims in the city of the Prophet. Unfortunately this was ignored by the ruling party and Ali (AS) took it back with him. Their comment was "this is too bulky and people will not understand it."
The original remained with Ali (AS) all his life and then passed on to his son Hasan (AS) and then to Hussain (AS) which then continued with the Ahlulbayt of the Prophet. It is now with the 12th Imam (AS).
During the time of the three Kholafa, although Ali (AS) did not take part in any of the battles, he was always available when they sought his advice on religious matters. His position as the jurist was on the top of the list among the companions of the Holy Prophet. Omar Ibne Khattab the 2nd Caliph had given clear instructions that when Ali was present in the mosque of the Prophet no one should take precedence over him in answering questions on religious matters. In one such encounter during the time of the 2nd Caliph, a group of Jewish scholars approached the caliph and said, "We have a few questions. If we get the answers to these questions correctly, we will accept the Islamic faith. "Ask whatever you want to ask," said the caliph. They asked the following questions.
- 1. What are the locks and keys of heaven?
- 2. Who was the messenger who was neither of the human nor of the jinn and who warned his people?
- 3. Which are the 5 beings who were created without the aid of ovaries?
- 4 What are one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven and twelve?
The caliph thought over these questions for a time, and then said, I do not know the answers to these questions. I will take you to a man who is most knowledgeable in the commandments of God and the Prophet and the greatest among us. The caliph then brought the Jewish scholars to Ali (AS). They asked the same questions to him. Ali (AS) answered thus:
- 1. The locks of the heavens are beliefs in more than one God, and its keys are the letters of "La Ilaha Illallah, Muhammad-Ur-Rasulallah."
- 2. The messenger who warned his people is the ant who, when Solomon's army was passing by, said to his people, "Enter your houses so that the army may not stamp you out (without intention)". So God states in the Holy Qur'an, "Until they came to the valley of the Ants, said an ant (addressing the other ants of the valley) O" you ants enter into your dwellings, so that Solomon and his hosts may not crush you while they know it not". (Sura An-Naml V 18)
- 3. The five beings who were not born of ovaries are: Adam, Eve, the staff of Moses which used to change into a python, the camel of Saleh, and the sheep of Ibrahim (which was sent by God to become a ransom of the life of Ibrahim's son Ismael).
- 4. One is God who has no partners, two are Adam and Eve, and three are the substances (i.e. non-living matter, plants and animals), and four are the Heavenly books: Torah of Moses, Bible of Jesus, Zubur of Dawood and the Qur'an of Muhammad (SAW). Five are the daily prayers. Six are the days of creation of the heavens and earth, as per the verse of the Qur'an: "And indeed we created the heavens and the earth and what is between them two, in six periods and touched us not any fatigue." (Sura Qaf V.38). Seven are the seven heavens, in the light of the Qoranic Verse: "And we have erected above you the seven strong ones." (Sura An-Naba V12)
Eight are those angels who bear the heavens, as per the Qur'anic Verse: "And the angels shall be on the side of it; and above them shall bear that day 'Arsh' (the throne of authority) of your Lord, eight of them (Sura Al-Haqqah V.17) Nine are the nine signs given to Moses as stated by God: "And indeed we gave Moses nine clear signs (miracles); so ask the children of Israel when he came to them, Pharoah said to him; "Verily I deem you O Moses one bewitched." (Sura Bani Israel, V 101). Ten are the ten days, i.e. God had promised Moses that he would stay on the mountain of Toor for thirty days, and later added ten more days to this duration, as it is stated in the Qur'an." And we made an appointment with Moses for thirty nights and completed it with ten more;" Thus was completed the term of his Lord, forty nights, and (before he went up) Moses said to his brother Aaron: You take my place among my people, act rightly and follow not the path of the mischief-makers." (Sura Al-A'araf V.142). Eleven are the brothers of Joseph, son of Jacob, as the Qur'an states, "When Joseph said to his father, O my father; Verily I did see (dream) eleven stars and the sun and the moon, I saw them all prostrating to me." (Sura Yousuf V.4). Twelve are the Twelve water-springs manifested by the staff of Moses, as God states, " And (remember) when Moses sought water for his people; said We, 'Strike the rock with your staff' Then gushed out there from twelve springs; each people knew their drinking place; "Eat and drink God's provision, and commit not evil in the earth acting mischievously."(Sura Al Baqara V60).
When the Jewish scholars heard the replies of Ali (AS) they said, "We bear witness that there is no God but Allah and that Muhammad (SAW) is His Messenger and Ali (AS) is the "Wasi" and successor of the Messenger of God as Aaron was the Wasi of Moses. They all embraced Islam, went back to their tribe and converted all of them to Islam. (Kaukabe Durri).
After the death of Osman the 3rd Caliph Ali (AS) was elected by the overwhelming majority of Muslims as the 4th Caliph. He was reluctant to accept the office of the caliph but when pushed by the majority, accepted it by saying that he was taking the reigns of worldly authority only to bring back the Ummah of the Prophet on the Right Path, though the value of this worldly khilafat is less than the sneeze of a Goat. His position as an Imam and guide was already established during the period of three earlier khulafa, with worldly power he began the undaunting task of establishing the type of rule the Messenger of God had established during his time. Imam Bukhari mentioned in his Saheeh that the very first prayers which Ali (AS) led in the mosque of the Prophet as the Caliph, many companions of the prophet said that "today we have prayed as the Messenger of God used to pray". But during the past 25 years many companions of the Prophet had, due to excessive wealth coming in from the conquest of the foreign lands, changed into the habit of living like feudal lords of the period of Jahiliya of pre-Islamic days. Ali (AS) as caliph warned them of the dangers of excessive wealth by these words. "Beware of the intoxication of wealth". (Masudi,Muruj el Zahab).
The path of Ali (AS) was full of thorns and as soon as he tried to establish the austere path of the Messenger of God, he created many enemies. The first and foremost was the Governor of Syria Moawiya Ibne Abi Sofian. He persuaded Talha and Zubair, when they were denied the Governorship of various provinces by Ali (AS), to start a revolt against Ali (AS). Both of them left Madina, arrived in Makka and somehow persuaded bibi Ayesha the widow of the Prophet to start a fight against Ali (AS). They left Makka for Basra and assembled an army against Ali (AS). He warned them of the dangers of war against the caliph upon whose hand they had taken the oath of allegiance, but persuasion from Moawiya and promises of Governorship of various provinces was so strong that they would not hear any advice. Ali (AS) left Madina in pursuit of these deviants and two Muslim armies faced each other near Basra. When many companions of the Prophet saw this they questioned the validity of this war and cast doubt as to which party was on the right path. Ali (AS) replied in the most subtle way to these doubters. "Truth cannot be identified from men, find the truth and you will find the deserving person". The battle of Jamal was fought, Ali's army was victorious, both Talha and Zubair were killed by their own men and bibi Ayesha was sent back to Madina under the escort of her brother Muhammad Ibne Abibakr. She always repented this venture and asked forgiveness from God. When with the connivance of Moawiya her brother Muhammad Ibne abibakr was killed and his body was put into the body of a dead camel and burnt, she cursed Moawiya five times a day after every prayer, throughout her life.
The Battle of Siffin was also fought due to the deviant action of Moawiya against the Islamic State. Some companions of Ali's army deserted him by accepting bribes from Moawiya and due to this deceitful action the battle of Siffin remained indecisive, no one won and no one lost. In the meantime this deviant group which was later named as "Khawarij" meaning deviant began to spread trouble within the Islamic State by looting and burning villages and killing women and children that Ali (AS) fought against them and the battle of Nahrwan took place.
On the way to Nahrwan Ali (AS) passed a monastery. An old Christian monk who also claimed to be an astrologer of some repute called out, "O' army of Islam, ask your leader to come to me. Upon hearing this Ali (AS) turned his horse towards the monastery and approached the monk. Where do you go ask the monk? To fight the enemies of Islam, replied Ali (AS).
Do not fight now, because at this moment the stars do not favor the Muslims. Wait for a few days when the stars will become favorable for you. Ali (AS) replied, do you defy Allah for this action we are taking on the orders of Allah and for His Deen.
Ali (AS) said, "Since you profess knowledge of the stars, tell me about the movement of such and such star." The old man said, By God, I have never heard the name of this star. Ali (AS) asked him another question about the skies and when the old man failed to reply, said "It is now known that you do not know about the skies. Shall I ask you about the earth? Tell me what is buried beneath your feet at the spot where you stand." I do not know said the old monk. "There is a vessel filled with so many silver coins and the coins bear such and such emblem. How do you know enquired the monk". "By God's grace." said Ali (AS). Then Ali proceeded to say that in the ensuing fight, less than ten persons of Islamic army would be killed where as less then ten persons from the opposing army would escape. The old monk listened astonished. As per Ali's command, when the earth beneath the feet of the monk was dug, a vessel filled with silver coins was found exactly as described by Ali (AS).
Ali (AS) proceeded to Nahrwan and in the ensuing fight, the khawarij were thoroughly defeated. Out of the four thousand men of the khawarij only nine escaped and only nine men of the Islamic army were killed in this battle. (Rawdhatul Shuhada, Kaukab el Durri)
Returning from the battle Ali (AS) passed the monastery and when the monk heard the full story he embraced Islam immediately.
Ali (AS) also admonished him about his belief in astrology. He said "do you think you can tell the hour when a man goes out and no evil befall him. Whoever testifies this falsifies the Qur'an and becomes unmindful of Allah in achieving his desired objective and in warding off the undesirable." Then Ali (AS) addressed to his own soldiers and said "Beware of learning the science of stars except that with which guidance is sought on land or sea, because it leads to divining and an astrologer is a diviner, while a diviner is like the sorcerer, the sorcerer is like the unbeliever and the unbeliever's place is in hell." (Nahjul Balagha)
The four years and ten months of the Khilafat of Ali (AS) has been regarded by many historians as the best example of Islamic State after the Prophet of Islam's death, in spite of the fact that the family of Abu Sofian tried their best to destroy it. Imam Abu Yousuf the famous disciple of Imam Abu Hanifa in his book about the history of Kholafa-e-Rashedun declares above the title of his book that Ali's (AS) time of Khilafat was the best in the management of the Islamic State and most just.
Many European historians mentioned Ali's name with love and affection. Carlyle writes in his Heros and Hero worship that: "Ali had such a personality that he was liked, loved and venerated by everybody. He was the man of excellent character loving and lovable, so intensely brave that if anything stood against his bravery it was consumed as if by fire, yet he was so gentle and kind that he represented the model of a Christian Knight."
The famous Egyptian scholar Mohammad Abdoh relates a story about the time of the conquest of Alexandria during the reign of the 2nd caliph. They found a great library there and did not know what to do with it. Orders were issued from Madina that 'if these books are according to the Holy Qur'an, then we do not need them and if they say anything contrary to the Holy Qur'an then we do not want them. Therefore, in any case they ought to be burnt. (Akhbarul Ulama wa Aakhbarul Hukama of Ibne Quftee, pages 232 and 233, Printed Cairo). When Ali (AS) heard the news of this, he tried to pursue them to refrain from issuing such order. He told them, "These books are treasures of knowledge and they cannot say anything against the Holy Qur'an. On the contrary the knowledge contained therein would act as commentaries of the Holy Book and would assist and help in further explanations of the knowledge as presented by the Holy Prophet. Knowledge is an asset for human beings and a birth right of man. It should not be destroyed."
The famous French historian and Orientalist Gabriel Enkiri writes in his famous book 'Le chevealier de Islam', In the extremely superfine, grand and noble character of Ali, there were two traits which, it is difficult to believe that can be united in one man. Besides Ali, history cannot show any other man who has displayed these two qualities at one and the same time, and each one, in such a marked way that none can surpass him.
1. He was the greatest marshal of his time (even of all time) and, 2. He was the wisest man who could explain and expound religion, philosophy, science, sociology and ethics, in a style which was not and which cannot be improved; what is more, he was such a great speaker that his speeches enchant you even fourteen centuries after his death".
It was 19th of Ramadhan 41 Hijri while Ali (AS) was leading the morning prayers and was in the second sajdah of the 2nd Rakaat that Ibne Muljim's sword fell and the life of the greatest warrior saint was taken away to his merciful Lord. The famous Christian writer of Lebanon George Jurdaq writes in his books on Ali (AS) that with this one blow of the sword of Ibne Muljim the world was deprived of the person who, if had lived a few more years would have given the world a system of administration that future generations would have benefited for a long time to come." In fact the letter to his Governor of Egypt Malik-e-Ashter advising him of the "Do's and Don'ts for a successful administration of the State is the hall mark in the annals of history". We can only say that Ali's supreme wisdom provides the guidance of a stature that mankind can aspire to.
Ali (AS) injured with the wound from the poisonous sword lived for two days. In these two days he dictated his Will and last testament to his son Hasan (AS) which is again a brilliant part of literary history. He advised his eldest son to love God and obey Him and to live for the service of the people in the way of God. "And then do not forget to set apart the best of your time for communion with God, although every moment of yours is for Him, provided it is spent sincerely in the service of your people."
Ali's (AS) sermons, collected by Sayid Razi in the 4th century (AH) are the examples of the most brilliant piece of Arabic literature that after the Holy Qur'an and the authentic Hadith of the Prophet of Islam, ever produced.
What Syed Razi could compile in Nehjul Balagha does not contain all the Sermons, letters and sayings of Ali (AS). Masoodi (d.346) in his famous book of history Muruj-al-Zahab says that the only Sermons of Ali (AS) which have been preserved by various peop, number more than 480. These were extempore orations, people have copied them from one another and compiled them in the book forms they have cited them and quoted passages from them in their books. The famous companion and pupil of Ali (AS) Hasan al Basri had made such arrangements that one of his own friends would memories the sermons delivered in the mosque of Kufa and relate the same in the next Fridays prayer in Basra. This shows the deep interest people of his own time had in these sermons and sayings.
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The LA Times reports today that the public perception of homelessness in Los Angeles is more accurate than the official happy talk:
The Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority…said only 29% of the homeless population had either a mental illness or substance abuse disorder….The Times, however, found that about 67% had either a mental illness or a substance abuse disorder. Individually, substance abuse affects 46% of those living on the streets — more than three times the rate previously reported — and mental illness, including post-traumatic stress disorder, affects 51% of those living on the streets, according to the analysis.
But wait. Even the LAT analysis might be too optimistic. A study from the California Policy Lab at UCLA comes up with even higher numbers for the US homeless population:
These numbers, it turns out, aren’t really disputed. So why does it matter? Partly because the right policy response depends on a realistic assessment of the problem. If most of the homeless are just down on their luck and need a temporary place to stay, that calls for a particular kind of housing response. But if the vast majority are mentally ill or struggling with addiction, that calls for an entirely different response.
But that’s not all. I’ve made this point before and gotten raked over the coals for it, but if you want to solve the homeless problem you have to understand the public resistance to building local homeless shelters. Is it because most of us are self-centered assholes who refuse to help the poor if it means even the slightest inconvenience to our otherwise comfortable lives? If that’s the case, the right response might be education or guilt or just plain political bulldozing.
If the Times analysis and the UCLA report are correct, however, maybe local resistance is actually based on understandable concerns, not just free floating racism and assholery. Maybe families with children have good reason to be anxious about having addicts and the mentally ill wandering around their neighborhood. Maybe you would be too.
Social problems are hard to solve already, and they’re even harder to solve if we tell ourselves fairy tales and then insist that anyone who sees things differently is a horrible human being. That gets us nowhere, especially if it turns out that these folks have a more realistic view of the problem than we do and are therefore going to become even more stubborn if we try to tell them they’re wrong about things they can see with their own two eyes. Just a thought. | <urn:uuid:20dc95c0-c416-4400-b273-803e89980819> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://adops.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2019/10/addiction-and-mental-illness-are-rampant-among-the-homeless/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573699.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819131019-20220819161019-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.956828 | 505 | 1.84375 | 2 |
In Bradenton, the two most common rodent invaders are mice and rats. However, neither are pests you want to have. Rats and mice are dangerous, destructive, and can be incredibly difficult to eliminate for homeowners working on their own, making preventing them essential. And when prevention fails, it’s always best to call a professional for help.
Rodents are dangerous for a number of reasons. They are host to a number of diseases and parasites, including hantavirus, leptospirosis, lymphocytic choriomeningitis (LCMV), Tularemia and Salmonella. This makes identifying a rat infestation early in order to eliminate it essential.
Common warning signs of rodents in the home include:
- Tiny brown droppings found in drawers, cabinets, or on the floor.
- Teeth marks and shavings from where rodents have been gnawing. Rodent’s teeth never stop growing, therefore rodents never stop gnawing.
- Pungent odor from rodent droppings or urine.
- Burrows or tunnels in insulation or other materials to build nests, often accompanied by droppings.
- Scratching or scampering noises inside your walls, especially at night.
- Grease or oil stains along walls and floorboards where rodents rub up against them.
- Outdoor tracks rats leave behind through grass and low vegetation.
- Sightings of live or dead rodents, indicating severe infestation.
If you’ve seen these tell-tale warning signs around your home, it’s highly likely that you have a rodent infestation on your hands. However, if that’s the case, you shouldn’t try to get them out on your own.
Dealing with rodents is a difficult and time-consuming task with many different factors to consider if you want your infestation handled quickly and completely.
When it comes to DIY treatments, homeowners simply don’t have access to the same tools and equipment that the professionals can use to get the job done right. While traps can be effective at killing a mouse or two, they could take several days to be effective due to rodents’ instinctive cautious nature that causes them to avoid them when they’ve recently been placed. What’s more, if these traps aren’t placed in effective locations they won’t catch anything at all, and can actually hamper your efforts and make the infestation more difficult to handle. Even if you know where to use traps, you could choose the wrong one for the job.
You should also be wary of taking DIY rodent treatment advice from the internet. While some of it is legitimate, many sources only seek to drive traffic to their website. As an average consumer, you’ll have little to no way of knowing if the advice you’re being given is helpful or just written by someone hoping to boost their website views.
On the other hand, a professional will know exactly how to treat your rodent infestation. Rodents have many defensive behaviors that help them avoid most traps. Rodent control professionals are trained in the proper placement of traps and are given the insight needed to use the behavior of rodents against them. They’ll be able to track the infestation to its source and seal the home up effectively to keep them from coming back.
Pest professionals are trained to use a wide range of strategies to detect the presence of mice and rats in a man-made structure and these strategies must be employed properly to achieve successful results. What’s more, professionals use products that are field tested and known to be the most effective – so you can rest assured that the tools in use are being applied in the correct amounts, in the correct locations, and using the most effective methods to treat the underlying problem.
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The Huron Carol is a beautiful and unusual Christmas song with a rich history.
In the early 1600s, Father Jean de Brebeuf came to Canada from his native France as a Jesuit missionary. He settled among the Huron, or Ouendat, people near what is now Midland, Ontario. Despite his missionary zeal, Brebeuf was sensitive to the people with whom he lived. He learned their language and he wrote, in Huron, the original version of this famous Christmas carol.
Brebeuf's carol continued to be sung by successive generations of Hurons. Then in 1926, Toronto writer Jesse Edgar Middleton, inspired by Brebeuf, wrote his own version of the carol in English. His are the familiar words we sing today, describing the Huron landscape, flora and fauna in telling the Christmas story.
About the author
Ian Wallace has had a distinguished career as an author and illustrator of picture books, publishing many classics such as Chin Chiang and the Dragon’s Dance, Boy of the Deeps and The Huron Carol. His visual interpretation of Canadian Railroad Trilogy by Gordon Lightfoot received three starred reviews and was named a USBBY Outstanding International Book and a Resource Links’ Year’s Best. He has won the Elizabeth Mrazik-Cleaver Award, the Mr. Christie’s Book Award, the Amelia Frances Howard-Gibbon Award and the IODE Violet Downey Book Award. He has also been nominated for the prestigious Hans Christian Andersen Award and the TD Canadian Children’s Literature Award. Ian lives in Brookline, Massachusetts, with his wife, Deb.
- Commended, CCBC Our Choice
- Commended, Bank Street College Children's Library Best Children's Books of the Year
- Long-listed, CLA Amelia Frances Howard-Gibbon Illustrator's Award
...interesting and appealing...
Quill & Quire
Illustrations in this version evoke the richness of the native landscape.
...the earth-toned watercolor illustrations are pleasant, depicting Canadian wildlife, spiritual scenes, and the Huron people...
School Library Journal
In the well-composed watercolour paintings, the many night scenes gradually give way to a radiant day. A beautiful, moving interpretation.
ÖIan Wallace, drawing on our imaginings of how that special night might have looked, puts it all down so well on paper.
...a worthy addition to Canadian Christmas book collections.
The elegant watercolor landscapes...blend the Huron culture and the Christmas carol perfectly.
The Huron CarolJean de Brebeuf’s carol was originally written in Huron in the early 1600s. That version and its history and the history of its writers (the English version was written by Jesse Edgar Middleton in 1926) are included in this edition, illustrated by Ian Wallace. Music and French lyrics are also incorporated. Wallace’s respectful watercolours depict Jesus as a Huron baby born in a longhouse. Animals surrounding the new babe are a bald eagle, a hare, wolves and a snowy owl. The three kings are Aboriginal chiefs who offer gifts. They are accompanied by other uniquely Canadian animals such as the moose, fox, lynx and bear that appear in the many wilderness scenes. The Aboriginal angel choirs are painted in blues and greys with more colours appearing as the sun rises and others come to visit the “radiant boy.”
Wallace won the IODE Violet Downey Book Award, the Elizabeth Mrazik-Cleaver Picture Book Award, the Mr. Christie’s Book Award and the Amelia Frances Howard-Gibbon Award.
Source: The Association of Book Publishers of BC. Canadian Aboriginal Books for Schools. 2007-2008.
The Huron CarolMasterful watercolour paintings evoke the cultural uniqueness of this Christmas song. Includes multilingual versions with music and background information.
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Sleep Deprivation Leads to Unhealthy Snacking of Sweet and Fatty Foods
You've most likely heard, or read in a health and diet magazine, that sleep deprivation leads to unhealthy eating habits: consuming more fatty and sweet foods.
Now, researchers have the answer as to why this happens: undersleeping influences the exact same smell-processing neural pathway that smoking marijuana does.
Sleep, the brain, and eating
Kahnt and his team were inspired by previous research on the subject. This research linked sleep deprivation to an increased number of molecules in the endocannabinoid system. This is a complex system of neurotransmitters that are affected by marijuana as well.
This is the part of the brain that influences how the brain processes smell. And, smell is linked to eating.
Up until Kahnt's research, these tests had only been carried out in mice. So, he and his team decided to try it out on humans to find out if the effects were the same.
The research involved 25 volunteers who were divided into two groups and were asked to sleep either four hours or eight hours per night for a month. After four weeks, the teams were asked to swap and sleep the opposite amount of time than the previous month. After each night, every person's blood was drawn.
Even though those who slept fewer hours did not report signs of more hunger, but when they were offered a buffet meal, for example, they selected foods that had higher amounts of calories than the fully rested people.
Furthermore, those who were sleep-deprived had more of a specific molecule in their blood, which most likely acts on endocannabinoid receptors.
The researchers then looked at the exchange of information between the insula — the part of the brain that regulates our food intake — and the piriform cortex. They discovered that the sleep-deprived group showed less communication between these two parts of the brain.
The combination of the brain scan information and the desire to eat foods with higher calories may indicate the link between less sleep and food intake, according to the researchers.
This research is useful for finding new approaches to treat eating disorders, stated Kahnt, as "it also really underscores the role that the sense of smell has in guiding food choices."
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Today is Bell Let’s Talk Day – a day when people across the country speak up, and do their part to break down the stigma around mental health.
Our government the department of National Defence and the Canadian Armed Forces are proud partners with Bell on this important initiative.
The COVID-19 pandemic has affected all of us.
Many are struggling with feelings of isolation…
Or worrying about their health, and the wellbeing of their loved ones.
We’re all facing different challenges as we navigate these difficult times.
But to manage our mental health when times get tough, we can all take the same first step – to reach out for help.
It can be difficult, and it can take time to feel ready.
But 2020 has also shown us just how strong we can be when we lean on one another for support.
That support starts with each of us creating a safe environment for people to talk about their struggles.
This year’s Bell Let’s Talk theme is “When it comes to mental health – now more than ever – every action counts”.
Every action, from every Canadian, counts.
One thing you can do is post on social media today, using the hashtag #BellLetsTalk…
Every time you use this hashtag, Bell will donate 5 cents to Canadian mental health programs.
But don’t stop there.
Reach out to someone in your life.
Give them a call, or send them a message, and ask them how they’re doing.
Tell them how you’re feeling.
Listen and share with them.
And keep these conversations going...
Because Bell Let’s Talk isn’t just about one day.
It’s about changing the culture of stigma and shame around mental health – and that takes time and dedication.
So, I urge you all to look at the places in your life where you can take action and create a positive change.
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Muslim voters traveling by bus to polling stations in northern Sri Lanka were attacked by gunfire and stones and blocked by burning tires hours before polls opened in presidential elections Saturday, in what a member of the Elections Commission called a coordinated effort to disenfranchise the minority group.
There were no reported injuries and police were investigating, said Manjula Gajanayake, spokesman for the Colombo-based Centre for Monitoring Election Violence.
Campaigning for Sri Lanka’s seventh presidential election was dominated by worries over national security in the backdrop of the deadly Islamic State-inspired suicide bomb attacks on Easter Sunday that killed 269 people. At the same time, there’s fear among both Tamils and Muslims about a return to power of front-runner Gotabaya Rajapaksa, a hard-line former defense official under his brother, ex-President Mahinda Rajapaksa.
The Rajapaksa brothers are revered by Sri Lanka’s Sinhalese Buddhist majority for defeating the Tamil Tiger rebels in 2009. Because of their heavy-handed rule during and after the war, some minorities fear their return.
“There is a concerted effort to keep the Muslims away from the ballot box,” Ratnajeevan Hoole, a member of the Elections Commission, told The Associated Press while heading to northwest Sri Lanka to speak with the Muslim voters who came under attack.
It wasn’t immediately clear whether any of the attackers had been arrested.
Hoole said he had called for the arrest of a former top Tamil rebel commander in the east now in alliance with Rajapaksa for making inflammatory comments against Muslims in the run-up to the election, but his request was not heeded.
The ex-rebel commander Vinayagamoorthy Muralitharan broke away from the Tamil Tigers in 2004 and worked with the government to defeat the rebel group. His split helped the government end a 26-year separatist insurgency.
Hoole said that in videos posted on social media, Vinayagamoorthi Muralitharan — also known as Karuna Amman — had talked about the need to suppress the Muslim vote to undermine Muslims’ growing influence in Sri Lanka’s Eastern province.
Rajapaksa had been widely expected to triumph over the ruling party candidate, Housing Minister Sajith Premadasa. But as the election approached, the race became very close.
Premadasa’s supporters organized the convoy of Muslims who had fled their homes in the northern district of Mannar in 1982, when the Tamil insurgency began to grow. A large number of Muslims also were evicted from the north in 1990.
The Elections Commission had encouraged them to register as voters in Mannar but had not arranged enough transportation to bring them from their homes in the northwestern district of Puttalam, Gajanayake, from the election monitoring group, said.
Nearly 16 million of the 22 million people were eligible to vote and choose a new president from a record 35 candidates. President Maithripala Sirisena, who was elected in 2015, is not seeking reelection. Results are expected as early as Sunday.
A decade of peace following nearly 30 years of civil war was shattered earlier this year when homegrown militants pledging loyalty to the Islamic State group detonated suicide bombs at three churches and three hotels on April 21. Rajapaksa, 71, cast himself as the only candidate capable of protecting Sri Lankans from such attacks.
He is accused of persecuting critics and overseeing what were called “white van squads” that whisked away journalists, activists and Tamil civilians suspected of links to the Tamil Tigers rebel group. Some were tortured and released, while others simply disappeared. The Rajapaksa brothers are also accused of condoning rape and extrajudicial killings and deliberately targeting civilians and hospitals during the war.
At a Buddhist temple serving as a polling station in a suburb of Colombo heavily guarded by police, Rajapaksa arrived to cheering and clapping supporters, some watching from their balconies and rooftops.
He told The Associated Press that he was “very confident” of victory.
“People of Sri Lanka will get a better future under me, under my presidency,” he said.
Premadasa, the son of a former president who was assassinated by a Tamil Tiger suicide bombing, has gained support in recent weeks by promising to expand welfare programs and bringing disgruntled party stalwarts into the fold.
Because the Rajapaksas maintained emergency laws after the war ended, curtailing civil liberties, Premadasa and his supporters have warned that Sri Lankans could lose freedoms if the brothers return to power, a line of rhetoric that helped a coalition of political foes led by Sirisena defeat Mahinda Rajapaksa in 2015 elections.
Voters started trickling in early at a polling station guarded by armed police in Dehiwala, a suburb of the capital Colombo.
Sha Nawaz, a 72-year-old retired state employee, said he and his wife cast their ballots for Premadesa.
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Afghan Rivals Have Signed Power-Sharing Agreement
This post was updated at 7:40 a.m. ET Sunday.
Afghanistan's disputed presidential election is finally coming to a close, as the two rivals for the presidency have reached a power-sharing deal that they formally signed on Sunday.
Under the agreement, Ashraf Ghani is poised to replace the outgoing current president, Hamid Karzai. The deal will create a national unity government and delegate limited powers to the loser of the election.
Last month, NPR's Sean Carberry reported that the long drama of this election was moving at a snail's pace. "Afghans voted for a president on April 5. Then they cast ballots June 14 in a runoff between the top two candidates. Now all 8 million votes from that second round are being audited, a laborious process that includes daily arguments, occasional fistfights and yet another deadline that seems to be slipping away," he wrote.
Abdullah Abdullah came out on top in the initial election. But in the runoff, Ashraf Ghani was the front-runner, which led Abdullah to declare election fraud and launched the lengthy audit of the votes.
During the recount process, Secretary of State John Kerry met with the candidates, who then announced a plan to come to an agreement and inaugurate a president by the end of August.
Carberry reports for our Newscast division that the agreement was delayed by Abdullah's demand that the final results of the election not be made public:
"He has alleged that the U.N.-supervised audit of the vote did not eliminate what he has called industrial-scale fraud in favor of opponent Ashraf Ghani. Abdullah asked that the terms winner and loser not be used.
"While the details have not been released, President Karzai's spokesman says the candidates have agreed to the language for the announcement of the results. It's widely expected that Ghani will be declared Afghanistan's next president."
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Tribal leaders and scientists met Dec. 3-4 at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, Maryland, to discuss how tribal ecological knowledge (TEK) can inform environmental health and biomedical research. The Tribal Ecological Knowledge Workshop was organized by NIEHS in collaboration with tribal representatives and other federal agencies (see sidebar).
TEK incorporates observations about the natural world, connections between people and the environment, and responsible use of resources, explained Symma Finn, Ph.D., NIEHS health scientist administrator and workshop chair. “This local knowledge has been gathered over generations by tribal members whose lives depended on this information and its use,” she said. “This is valuable long-term data that can build a foundation for significant contributions to western scientific research.”
In opening remarks at the event, NIEHS and National Toxicology Program Director Linda Birnbaum, Ph.D., emphasized the NIEHS commitment to research that respects TEK. “The pressing need with our tribal communities is addressing health disparities and disproportionate risks,” she said. “We want to identify opportunities to incorporate more TEK into research.”
Tribal communities tell of environmental burdens
Many speakers talked about environmental pollution in their communities and the illnesses they experience, emphasizing that these environmental burdens can be especially devastating because they disrupt a way of life that has ensured their tribes’ survival.
Vi Waghiyi, of the St. Lawrence Island Yupik tribe, is a member of the NIEHS National Advisory Environmental Health Sciences Council. She described the challenges her community faces from global warming, pollutants deposited in the Artic by global air currents, and contaminants from abandoned military sites.
“We are some of the most highly contaminated people on the planet because of our traditional foods, and this is from actions elsewhere. These illnesses — cancer, diabetes, low birth weight babies — were never seen before in our people,” Waghiyi said. “Yet our knowledge is discredited when it comes to our health.”
Incorporating TEK into scientific research
Participants at the workshop described TEK and scientific inquiry as two different yet related methods that could be bridged to improve biomedical research, especially in Native American, Alaskan Native, and Native Hawaiian tribal communities.
“A science-based system tries to quantify and intervene in the natural environment. Traditional knowledge follows the availability of the resource and conforms with the natural environment,” said Stewart Hill, a graduate student at the University of Manitoba and member of the Cree tribe. “Neither system is superior, and each has its inherent strengths and weaknesses.”
In her talk titled, “Woman Is the First Environment,” Katsi Cook, from the NoVo Foundation and the Mohawk Akwesasne tribe, spoke about the TEK theory that a mother’s health has a primary influence on the health of her children. She said that this theory overlaps with the concept of the exposome, or the totality of environmental exposures people receive during their lifetime, and its impact on health.
Combining respect with collaboration
Some participants recommended caution in blending the two systems, however, to avoid weakening both the value of TEK and the credibility of scientific knowledge. “Having 300 different ways to talk about ice, as the Yupik tribe does, is very descriptive, very precise. You take some of the real deep thinking words and put them in English, it will diminish right there in front of you,” said David Begay, Ph.D., of the Indigenous Education Institute.
The importance of respect and collaboration with communities was a common theme expressed by speakers. “Utilization of TEK must go hand-in-hand with empowerment and benefit for the people [who are] sharing their knowledge,” Hill said.
“We start and end our day thinking about our relationship with the earth,” said Mary Arquette, D.V.M., Ph.D., of the Akwesasne Mohawk tribe and the Haudenosaunee Environmental Task Force. “The answers we get depend on the questions we ask.”
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Why poor workplace risk assessments are risky for your business
As an employer, you have a legal duty of care to protect your employees by implementing safe working practices. You know you’ve got to do it. But do you know how to do it?
Safe working practices are the backbone of your Health & Safety management. Without them, you lack, well, safety! But it’s not just that. They provide tangible structure and consistency, and give you a benchmark of expectations to roll out across your business.
If you’re not a Health & Safety expert it can be hard to know your processes from your procedures, and your policies from your handbooks. The good news? With us by your side, you don’t need to be an expert at everything.
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Your safe working practices stem from having sufficient Health & Safety procedures, processes, policies and handbooks in place. But the buck doesn’t stop there. You need to make sure all of these are clearly communicated and understood across the board, and that employees are up-to-date with relevant training courses – like manual handling and working at height, for example.
So, where do you start? Let’s take a look at some key areas that’ll help you to adopt safe working practices…
Health & Safety handbook
Handbooks play an important part in rolling out clarity around Health & Safety standards and responsibilities. They ensure employees know what’s expected of them, and that they know what they should expect in return, too.
If done properly, Health & Safety handbooks help to drive engagement and adoption around the business, which goes a long way to minimising accidents. In addition, should an employee disregard your processes, your Health & Safety handbook provides a written point of reference for you to fall back on.
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Risk assessments can be completed for anything from equipment use and COSHH, to display screens and manual handling. To take the hassle out of them, Citation clients have access to almost a 1,000 risk assessment templates in our online management platform, Atlas.
Why are they so important? Because risk assessments make sure that any hazards associated with a specific task are identified, evaluated, eliminated, reduced or controlled. The end result? Safer set-ups and fewer incidents. For an introduction to risk assessment, check out our free guide on them here.
Health & Safety procedures
The outcome of your risk assessments helps to map out safe working procedures. Whether it’s how to safely unload heavy goods from a vehicle or how to use a piece of equipment correctly, your procedures should clearly inform every employee on how they need to tackle various tasks – safely.
Health & Safety policies
If you’ve got five or more employees on your books, you’re legally required to have a written Health & Safety policy in place. Although not a legal requirement, we’d still recommend having one if you have a workforce of fewer than five.
Your policies should cover how you’ll manage things like accident reporting, working in confined spaces and emergency plans, to gas safety, legionella and lone working – and a whole load more, too. Each policy is its own entity, and should include a breakdown of things like:
Failure to comply with your policy obligations could land you with quite a hefty fine. Did you know, you could be fined £20,000 in a Magistrates Court if you don’t have written policies in place? Or face an unlimited fine in the Crown Court?
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Your responsibility to implement and maintain safe working practices is governed by the Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999.
Under these regulations, you’re required to ensure the safety of your employees (as well as anyone who could be affected by their work) by removing, controlling or reducing risks in the workplace.
On top of this, you must make sure competent people are appointed for Health & Safety, employees receive sufficient training, and communication is clearly co-ordinated and understand by all relevant employees – and that’s to name just a few.
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The Injured Dentist: Is Your Work Ethic Hurting You and Your Patients?
By: Edward O. Comitz, Esq. and Patrick T. Stanley, Esq.
Dentists are trained to work through hardship and to be at their best despite illness, pain, or injury. It is not uncommon to hear of dentists going to work even if they are under the weather, suffering pain, or worse. This is a practice that organizational psychologists term “Presenteeism,” and it becomes ingrained in many dentists, as patient demands and modern dentistry require long hours and largely inflexible schedules.
Dentists who develop chronic medical conditions, such as degenerative disc disease, nerve disease, or repetitive use injuries may be tempted to try to work through the pain. In many instances, dentists will reduce their hours or stop performing certain procedures in an attempt to continue practicing for as long as they can. Some will shift to performing more administrative work and spend less time on patient care. Disability insurers have long capitalized on dentists’ work ethic, marketing and selling policies to them with high monthly benefits at attractive prices.
However, continuing to work through adversity can frequently have unintended consequences, both professionally and personally. Many chronic conditions are also progressive, and the choices a dentist makes can have long-lasting repercussions on his personal and professional life. The issues we see with “Presenteeism” broadly fall into three categories: (1) dentists who continue to practice despite physical limitations; (2) dentists who alter their practices to accommodate their limitations without filing a disability insurance claim; and (3) dentists who alter their practices to accommodate their limitations and then file a disability insurance claim.
Pursuing any of these paths can lead a dentist to a place where he or she does not want to be: without the means to make a living and without disability insurance benefits. To understand why, let’s consider how going down each path typically plays out.
The Dentist In Denial
Unfortunately, many dentists may not realize the severity and scope of their limitations, and continue to practice as they always have, despite their deteriorating physical condition. If anything should happen to a patient under these circumstances, the results can be catastrophic, both for the patient and dentist. Regardless of whether the dentist’s medical condition played a role in the injury, the first argument a plaintiff’s malpractice attorney will make is that the dentist should not have been practicing because of his medical condition, an argument that will resonate with a jury.
In addition to the psychological trauma associated with injuring a patient, continuing to practice despite physical limitations can subject the dentist, his practice, and the office at which the procedure was performed to significant civil liability, including potential punitive damages for acting recklessly. It can lead to a dentist’s license being suspended or revoked, and it can lead to a dentist being fired from his position, essentially forcing him out of practice, whether he wants to leave or not.
Equally as frightening, though, is the possibility that the dentist will have no insurance coverage to pay the award. Malpractice policies and state laws frequently prevent insurers from paying awards of punitive damages or covering acts resulting from gross negligence or intentional misconduct. A malpractice insurer may deny coverage for a claim on the basis that the dentist knew or should have known that he was unfit to practice, and therefore his decision to operate on a patient was reckless, leaving the dentist exposed to personal liability.
Adding insult to injury, the dentist’s disability insurer will then argue that losing one’s license to practice is a “legal” disability, rather than a medical disability. The insurer will claim that the license suspension or revocation, rather than a medical disability, is what actually prevents the dentist from practicing, and deny the claim on that basis.
Therefore, a dentist who pushes himself or herself too far can end up in a situation where he or she (1) is personally liable to a patient, (2) has no financial means to pay the judgment, (3) can no longer legally practice, and (4) is not able to collect disability insurance benefits. This can obviously be financially and emotionally devastating.
The Dentist Who Changes His Occupation
Even when dentists can modify their practices or schedules so that they do not risk injuring themselves or a patient, the consequences can nevertheless be profound. The dentist may be physically forced to perform fewer procedures or to work fewer hours over time, until he or she finally reaches the point where there is no choice but to file a disability insurance claim. Unfortunately, modifying one’s practice over time can make it difficult, if not impossible, to collect disability insurance benefits at the time they are most needed.
One of several issues we frequently see with this course of conduct is that, by reducing hours and limiting procedures, dentists change their occupational definition. Most disability insurance policies sold to professionals are touted as “own-occupation” policies, meaning that a dentist is entitled to benefits if he is unable to perform the substantial and material duties of his occupation. However, those policies define a dentist’s occupation as “the occupation in which you are regularly engaged at the time you become totally disabled.” If a dentist has gradually wound down his practice, and is working a reduced schedule performing only certain procedures, he has effectively changed his occupational definition from a full-time clinical dentist to something less.
For example, a periodontist with degenerative disc disease may first stop performing sinus lifts because he or she does not have the ability to bend, flex and turn as necessary in order to safely finish the procedure. As the condition progresses, the periodontist may stop performing block grafts, then stop handling implant procedures, and so on, to the point where the only actual periodontics he or she is performing consists of examinations, occasional procedures and cleanings. By that time, the periodontist’s occupation may be changed to the following: “a periodontist who works part time, 3 days a week, largely performing examinations; responsible for overseeing associate periodontist, hygienist and staff; involved more as a practice owner/manager.” By gradually changing responsibilities prior to filing a disability insurance claim, the periodontist in the example above may find it very difficult to prove that he or she is, or ever will be, totally disabled from what now is less strenuous, part-time work involving non-clinical practice management.
The Dentist Who Trusts His Insurance Company
Some disability insurance policies also offer “residual disability” or “partial disability” riders. At first blush, this coverage seems like it would be well-suited for individuals with chronic and progressive medical conditions: the disability insurer will pay benefits if the dentist is unable to work full-time, allowing the dentist to limit his practice while preserving his pre-disability occupational definition. In practice, however, the residual disability benefit is not as attractive.
First, claiming disability benefits will give the insurer free reign to demand extensive financial records under the auspices of “investigating” the extent to which a medical condition has reduced a dentist’s income. Insurers will pore over CDT codes, profit and loss statements, employment agreements, balance sheets and similar documents to see if there is some reason, other than the medical condition, that could plausibly explain the drop in income. If so, they will often deny the claim based on an inability to prove that the condition caused the loss in earnings.
Even if the claim is paid, it is based on how much the insurance company thinks you can work, not on how much you are actually working. So if the insurance company thinks that you can work making 75% of your pre-disability earnings, but you are only making 50%, it will reduce your benefit amount accordingly.
The residual disability benefit is also often more attractive to a disability insurer because the maximum benefit period is often shorter for residual disability claims than it is for total disability claims. If an insurer can characterize a claim as residual rather than total, it may only need to pay benefits for 60 months or to age 65, whereas a claim for total disability benefits could be payable for life.
With this backdrop and scrutiny, it is not surprising that very few residual disability claims ever turn into total disability claims, even if the dentist stops working completely. The insurer will continue to pay a fraction of the benefits until the maximum benefit period has been reached, at which time the insured will be left without any coverage at all.
To complicate matters, we often see overlap between two or more of these categories. For example, a dentist will work too long and risk hurting a patient, then react by immediately limiting his schedule, and then at some point down the road look to his disability insurance policy for coverage. The dentist will often only seek legal help after a claim is denied or terminated, at which point the time, effort and expense of putting the claim back on track, as well as the risk of an unfavorable result, increase exponentially.
The best solution to avoiding these pitfalls is to engage experienced legal help early in the process, before a claim has been filed and before any work schedules have been altered. Although it can be a difficult pill to swallow for dentists who have been trained to push through adversity, it is necessary to understand and accept the limitations imposed by one’s condition, as well as the rights available under a disability insurance policy, as early as possible.
* Edward O. Comitz, Esq. is a Phoenix-based disability insurance attorney who heads the Professional Disability Insurance Practice at Comitz | Stanley. Mr. Comitz has extensive experience in disability insurance coverage and bad faith litigation, primarily representing medical and dental professionals in reversing denials of their disability claims. Comitz | Stanley’s attorneys have offices in Phoenix/Scottsdale and Tucson, Arizona.
* Patrick T. Stanley, Esq. is a Phoenix-based disability insurance and healthcare attorney at Comitz | Stanley. He has worked with Mr. Comitz on a number of matters, representing medical and dental professionals in their struggle to obtain and secure disability insurance benefits.
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Modern technology offers modern solutions and new opportunities to earn money online. One of those opportunities is, without a doubt, investing in digital money, a trend that is taking over the world for a couple of years now.
For quite a while now, technology is shaping our lives, and today, the internet represents a place where we all spend most of our time, and since that’s the case, it’s nothing strange that virtual or digital currencies are the main topic. From 2009 and the launch of Bitcoin, everything changed, and our financial and economic world faced some serious changes too, and those changes are yet to reach the peak as the peoples’ trust in cryptos gets stronger. Fiat money will never look the same, and even though we are only at the beginning, we can already notice that everything is shifting into the crypto world.
Speaking about cryptos, BTC is something like a synonym for all digital currencies, and people often get mistaken when they talk about other cryptocurrencies like Ethereum. Although Ethereum was not the first, it is the one crypto with steady growth and with the trust of so many people all around the globe, and this is mainly due to its specific encryption, but with BTC reaching new highs and with experts’ prediction that its value will only go up, many people are now wondering whether the Eth will have similar faith. Being more affordable than BTC, Ethereum has a starting advantage as most investors are turning to it as a way to invest in the future and be a part of the virtual money revolution. Those new to all this may face some uncertainties and may not be familiar with how all things work, which is why most of them do not know whether to invest in cryptos or not. And those who decide to invest in cryptocurrencies are facing one even more important question – in which crypto should they invest their money. Eth is a simple and a choice that no one should overlook, and for many reasons.
Bitcoin is certainly the most popular and the most widespread crypto, but today, there are over 5.000 different cryptocurrencies. One that stands out from the crowd and that draws attention to itself is surely Ethereum.
Firstly, from its start, back in 2015, Ethereum offered something different to this market, and even after the split into ETH classic in 2016, everyone still believed that it is the best currency to invest in, and now, it is pretty obvious why. Today, six years from the beginning, the future looks even brighter for the ETH. Of course, during this period from 2015, its price faced some ups and downs, and as was the case with all other cryptos, many expected that all that hype would end pretty soon, and they couldn’t be more wrong. Talking about what to expect in 2021, what most people see or can read about is the new price high of BTC, and even after the correction and slight price drop, its value continued to grow, which is also something we could all expect from other cryptos.
We cannot escape the fact that in the past couple of months, the growth of Ethereum and other smaller cryptocurrencies was triggered by the strong momentum of Bitcoin. But one of many advantages of the Ethereum network is that it has much better support for applications, and in experts’ opinion, it is something that sets ETH apart from every other available crypto currently on the market.
A lot of companies that are giants announced that they would invest in digital money and even launch their own digital currency. All that was great news for every single crypto investor in the world as with accepting cryptocurrencies and moving into this market, global companies started a trend that could possibly be pretty beneficial for everyone. That, along with PayPal accepting BTC as a way of payment, is something we should be thankful for as it means that the price of ETH will also rise.
Many factors dictate the price and the value change of every crypto – a reason more why it is crucial that governments accept digital money as a way of payment, and even in this field, there is some good news. Namely, in the past year, a lot of countries, in one way or another, accepted digital money, but what is even more important is the fact that the US government announced that it would further regulate it in the year ahead of us. Truly great news, knowing that by doing this, even more people would start investing and place their trust in cryptocurrencies.
These are some of the general reasons why investing in ETH could be the best option, and with the launch of Ethereum 2.0, a lot more investors will look at ETH as the currency of the future. What ETH 2.0 is offering is an advanced security and even faster transactions method, which is something we all want and like. Although there will always be a chance for cyberattacks, this new and advanced system will reduce those potential harmful attacks to a minimum, so no one would have to worry about its private and personal info, as well as the money. If you want more info on this topic or want to learn how to invest in BTC with proper guidance, luckily, there are some great websites for that – go URL.
Another advantage is that Eth has the best risk/reward ratio in cryptocurrencies, and blockchain computing could be the future of cloud services, which is an even more reason why investing in it should be your top priority. In addition to that, decentralized finance (Defi) is now considered the best use of Ethereum cryptocurrency. Such markets allow automatic transactions without permission to anyone who owns an internet connection. What better proof that we should take a closer look at ETH in 2021 as it will, by many predictions, reach new highs and provide great profit to its investors. | <urn:uuid:5f597a44-22b8-4ceb-806f-a048cdba92b0> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://foreignpolicyi.org/is-ethereum-a-good-investment/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570767.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808061828-20220808091828-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.973455 | 1,152 | 1.882813 | 2 |
Casey Suchan Follows The Animal People
Documentary shows how anti-terror laws targeted animal rights groups
By Richard Whittaker,
8:00AM, Thu. Oct. 24, 2019
In the months before 9/11, American law enforcement was busy tracking down a dread threat to civilization: antivivisection activists. That's one of many galling facts in The Animal People, Casey Suchan's new documentary about how the law protected corporate interests over the right to protest.
The documentary, co-directed by Suchan and longtime collaborator Denis Henry Hennelly and executive produced by Joaquin Phoenix, examines what happened to Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty, a group established in Britain in the 1990s to expose abuse of animals during testing at Huntingdon Life Sciences. The group expanded to the U.S., where its members found themselves the target of a police investigation. There's a bitter irony to the fact that, before 9/11 and the current rise of white supremacists, they were being called domestic terrorists – and then, as The Animal People shows, when they thought the FBI would have bigger fish to fry, they found themselves the target of even more aggressive tactics.
Hennelly and Suchan have tackled issues of animal activism before, in 2010 political comedy Bold Native, yet even before then it was an issue she was interested in – as was the story of SACH. However, Suchan blanched at the suggestion she was an activist. "I was a storyteller who was interested in this world," she said, "with a tremendous amount of respect for it, and not the same amount of courage." She was automatically fascinated by SHAC – not just for its effectiveness in making HLS a commercial pariah by exposing their operations, but also in how the U.S. Government came after them. "How does somebody get indicted for doing these things that are free speech? If they were just talking, how can there be an indictment about it?"
It was after she and Hennelly met Mapplethorpe screenwriter Mikko Alanne (who would go on to produce The Animal People) while they were screening Bold Native that the final piece fitted into place. Alanne showed them a picture of the six core members of SHAC, in front of the court house, just before the entire system came down on them. She said, "You just look at that picture, with the words 'domestic terrorist' under it – particularly in the wake of 9/11 – and you think, 'What is happening?'"
However, The Animal People is not a simple endorsement of SHAC, often showing when they crossed lines from activism into tactics that alienated them from other groups, or that even supporters saw as unnecessary. "We tried to make a film that told what it felt like, as much as we could, to be on the other side of that campaign."
In fact, the more she looked at the SHAC defendants, the more unsure she was about their moral certitude, and the more she had to dig and analyze. "That's the best place to start trying to tell a story," she said, "when you're certain you know how you feel about something, you know a little, and then you go, 'I don't know. This is more complicated than I thought it would be."
Austin Chronicle: I watched this, and I came out very angry.
Casey Suchan: Really? Talk to me about that.
AC: Well, I'm very old fashioned about cracking down on protests about anti-terrorist laws.
CS: That's interesting, because I love, over the course of making this film, calibrating it and doing frequent screenings, getting through the edit. My favorite is always sitting back and letting the room discuss. Dialogue, now. It's always interesting to me to hear what people feel at the end. It definitely provokes feelings.
AC: So what was it you were looking for in that feedback?
CS: There were a couple of things that we were gauging while we were making the film. It's a complicated story, and the production process covered the 15 years since these activists were indicted in 2004. The actual SHAC campaign started in 1999 in the UK, so you're talking about a story that has a lot of years, and a lot of story that happened within those years. The campaigns and the protest strategies, trying to get into the nuances of that and spark debate without trying to lead the audience to how they should feel about it – trying to be as objective as possible in talking about the tactics and strategies. Trying to tell that part of the story in a way that made sense and simplifying it because, between 1999 and 2014 when they were indicted, that's five years of campaign history and evolution.
That was something we were listening to a lot in those test screenings. is it making sense? Is the government interest in this group, and why they are interested, and the corporate strings that were being pulled, is that part of the story making sense? Is the legislative part of the story making sense, with what was going on with the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act? Then there was the trial and the appeal, and just the trial could be a whole movie. And then we've got six defendants that we're tracking, and are you telling the story in a way that's fair to them? Are they likable? Do they have to be likable?
Just when you take all that story, and you condense it into something that someone can sit down and watch – hopefully without having to pause and go to the bathroom – it's complicated.
AC: There's a sense that what you finally settled on is both fair, but also allows them to present the evidence and defense that never really came out at trial.
CS: When you read the trial, you understand what happened – which is that none of these defendants ever had a chance to talk about why they were doing what they were doing. The government had all the resources in the world when they indicted them. This was a huge investigation, the largest in the history of the FBI at that time, and they were developing all sorts of technologies to try to crack through the encryption that the activist group was using.
This was at a time when the internet was really becoming a thing, and to me that's one of the most impressive things about this campaign, is that they saw what the internet could be in terms of an organizing tool. These are all pretty smart people, and they understood the government tendency to surveillance, so right off the bat they were using a program called PGP – Pretty Good Privacy. We actually interviewed the guy who created PGP for this movie. Fascinating interview, but it didn't make the cut.
But the government couldn't access their emails, and that's something that came up in trial. "Look, they're encrypting their emails. We can't read what they're doing." So the inference was that they must be talking about organizing illegal activity. Why else would you not want the government to read your emails?
There's a lot to learn, though, especially now. There was an article from Reuters, and it was talking about what's going on in Chile and Bolivia and Barcelona and Hong Kong and Lebanon. All over the world, there's this call to rise up. We're getting at this point where people feel compelled to take to the streets, and I think that looking at a campaign that had strategy, and doing it in a way that you can walk away and have a discussion about what they did well and what kind of strategies were really powerful. They rocked a huge corporate industry. It wasn't just Huntingdon Life Sciences that was affected by this campaign. It was the whole pharmaceutical industry which went, "If we don't stop this, who's to say we're not next?"
The Animal PeopleWorld Premiere
Sat., Oct. 26, 6pm, Galaxy Highland
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Filesystem and File Permissions
The Filesystem is a kind of structure organized with the collection of files or folders. It determines control over data, i.e., how data is to be stored and retrieved?
Linux Filesystem is a tree-like structure comprised of lots of directories. These directories are just the files containing the list of other files. Linux makes no difference between the files and directories. All the files in Linux filesystem are known as directories, and these files are categorized as follows:
Let's have a look on Linux filesystem.
List all the files and directories by using ls -l command.
There are seven columns in the given image, which are defined as follows:
In spite of having the best security features, Linux-based Operating System requires file permissions to secure its filesystem, as there are file permission based issues that occur when a user assigns improper permissions to the files and directories. These issues may cause malicious or accidental tampering to the filesystem. So Linux secures its filesystem with two authorization attributes as follows:
There are three types of permissions associated with the files as follows:
Read (r) permission by which you can view the content of the file.
Write (w) permission by which you can modify the file content.
Execute (x) permission by which one can run the programming file or script.
Note: Dash (-) is provided in case of permission get invoked.
There are three types of Linux users as follows:
Owner is the superuser who creates the file. He can access all the permissions associated with a file that includes reading, modifying, and running the file.
Group is known as a set of users or multi-users. The superuser creates it. Every member in a group has the same access permissions associated with a file.
Other users, i.e., the third-party users can be anybody else who doesn't belong to the Superuser/Group members. They use the permissions associated with any file or directory which are created or owned by the Superuser/Group members.
Let's understand this concept by the given an example.
See the first column of the darkened row. It has ten slots.
You can alter the file permissions for each class (user/group/others) by using chmod command. The basic form to remove or add any permission for any class is:
class is represented by the indicators - u, g, o, and a such that u for the user, g for the group, o for the other, and a for all the classes.
operator ( + or - ) is used to add or remove the permission.
permission is represented by the indicators r, w, x to allow access for reading, modifying, or running the script respectively.
Let we alter the permissions of darkened aa.sh file given below:
1. Add the denied permissions for all classes.
2. Remove the write and execute permission for other class.
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Long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) play important roles in the development of vascular diseases. Proinflammatory molecules ICAM, VCAM, and IL-8 were also increased by NORAD- knockdown. Additionally, we identified the strong interaction of NORAD and IL-8 transcription repressor SFPQ in HUVECs. In ApoE?/? mice, NORAD-knockdown increased the lipid disorder and atherosclerotic lesions. The full total outcomes possess recommended that lncRNA NORAD attenuates endothelial cell senescence, endothelial cell apoptosis, and atherosclerosis via NF-B and p53Cp21 signaling IL-8 and pathways, where NORAD-mediated influence on IL-8 might through the immediate discussion with Rabbit Polyclonal to EMR1 SFPQ. and in ApoE-knockout adenovirus and mice Ad-NORAD shot for 10 min, the supernatants had been blended with the MDA response remedy at 100 C for 30 min and centrifuged. The supernatants had been placed into a 96-well dish, and absorbance was assessed at 532, 450, and 600 nm to identify the MDA content material. Cell routine assay The HUVECs had been seeded on six-well plates and cultured for 24 h. After transfection for 24 h, the cells had been treated with 60 g/mL of ox-LDL for 24 h. A cell routine detection package (KeyGen Biotech, Nanjing, China) was utilized to measure cell routine distribution. Quickly, the cells had been set with 70% ethanol, digested with 100 L of RNase for 30 min, stained with 400 L of propidium iodide, and had been incubated for 30 min. Cell routine distribution was recognized and analyzed having a movement cytometer (BD Bioscience, San Jose, CA, USA). Traditional western blotting The HUVECs in each group had been lysed using RIPA lysis buffer (Solarbio Biotechnology, Beijing, China). Equal amounts of protein had been separated with 12% SDS-polyacrylamide gels and transblotted onto a PVDF membrane. The membranes had been incubated with 5% dried out nonfat dairy buffer for 1 h to avoid nonspecific binding. These were after that incubated using the relevant major antibodies and with a second antibody. The proteins rings in the membranes had been detected by improved chemiluminescence recognition reagents (Beyotime, Shanghai, China) and examined with Picture J. Anti-Bcl-2, anti-Bax and anti-cleaved caspase-3 had been from Cell Signaling Technology (Beverly, MA, USA). Anti-VCAM and anti-ICAM had been from Abcam (Cambridge, MA, USA). Anti-p-IKB, anti-IKB, and anti-IL-8 had been from Bioworld Technology (St. Louis Recreation area, MN, USA). NF-B nuclear translocation assay The HUVECs had been seeded on coverslips in 24-well tradition plates and cultured for 24 h. After transfection for 24 h, the cells had been treated with 60 g/mL of ox-LDL for 24 h. A NF-B activation-nuclear translocation assay package (Beyotime, Shanghai, China) was utilized to identify the translocation of NF-B from cytoplasm to nucleus. In short, the cells had been set with 4% paraformaldehyde for five minutes, accompanied by obstructing buffer incubation for 1 h to avoid nonspecific binding. After that, cells had been incubated with anti-NF-B p65 at room temperature UDM-001651 for 1 h, followed by incubation with Cy3-conjugated antibody at room temperature for 1 h. After incubation with DAPI for 5 min, the coverslips were sealed and observed under a fluorescence microscope. Histological examination The aortic roots were excised and fixed overnight with 4% paraformaldehyde UDM-001651 and then embedded in paraffin wax. The tissues were cut into 5 m thickness. H&E staining and Masson staining were performed according to the instructions provided by the manufacturer (Solarbio Biotechnology, Beijing, China). The microscopic images of lesions in the aortic sinus were captured by an optical microscope. The percentage of lesion area and collagen area were analyzed using Image J. Oil Red O UDM-001651 staining Oil Red O staining was used to assess lipid accumulation in an atherosclerotic plaque. After the mice were euthanized, the whole thoracic aorta was isolated, cut lengthwise with scissors, placed in an Oil Red O solution for 15 min, and immersed in 70% ethanol until the normal tissues became white. The aorta was photographed, and Oil Red O-positive areas were analyzed using Image J. RNA-binding protein immunoprecipitation (RIP) assay A magna RIP kit (Millipore, Bedford, MA, USA) was used to perform the RIP assay. In brief, the cell lysates were added to a magnetic bead conjugated with a human anti-SFPQ antibody (Sigma-Aldrich, St. Louis, MO) or control normal mouse IgG in RIP buffer. The immunoprecipitate was digested with proteinase K to purify the immunoprecipitated RNA. RT-qPCR was performed to verify the presence of NORAD. Serum lipid analyses After 16 weeks of treatment, each group of mice fasted for 12 h. The serum was collected by removing their eyeballs. The concentrations of TC, TG, and LDL-C in the serum were determined with an automatic biochemical analyzer. Statistical analysis Results were processed using SPSS 19.0. Data were shown as mean values standard deviation (SD). T test was used to analyze the data differences, and P 0.05 indicated statistically significant differences. 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NEW DELHI: Anil Agarwal’s Vedanta group on Monday partnered with Technology Group Foxconn to manufacture semiconductor chips in India. The companies signed an MoU to form a joint venture company, and as per the deal, Vedanta will hold a majority of the equity in the JV, while Foxconn will be the minority shareholder.
“The targeted project plans to invest for manufacturing semiconductors. It will provide a significant boost to domestic manufacturing of electronics in India. Discussions are currently ongoing with a few state governments to finalise the location of the plant,” said the companies in a statement.
To boost semiconductor manufacturing in the country, the government announced a policy to offer Rs 76,000-crore production-linked incentive. Vedanta has said that it will invest up to Rs 60,000 crore to set up a sophisticated chip and glass manufacturing ecosystem in India over the next three years. This will be the first joint venture in the electronics manufacturing space after the announcement of the policy.
“This first-of-its-kind joint venture between the two companies will support Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s vision to create an ecosystem for semiconductor manufacturing in India,” said the company in a statement. | <urn:uuid:d9820fe6-40b8-4622-9e07-5cec03b91d70> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.newindianexpress.com/business/2022/feb/15/vedanta-ties-up-with-foxconn-for-production-of-chip-in-india-2419582.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573699.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819131019-20220819161019-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.92571 | 259 | 1.5625 | 2 |
Last Thursday the second iteration of a tool to allow comments on Bills passing through the House of Commons process went live. Steph Gray from Helpful Technology explains why a second iteration was needed and how putting users needs first shaped his approach.
In the Coalition Agreement, the Government committed to introduce “a new ‘public reading stage’ for bills to give the public an opportunity to comment on proposed legislation online". The first pilot of this entirely new consultative concept launched last summer, putting the Protection of Freedoms Bill online for comment clause-by-clause.
The idea of getting input on the shaping of legislation, as well as policy, is clearly gaining some traction. Last Wednesday, the Department of Health launched the draft Care and Support Bill in 'commentable' form alongside a site aimed at more wide-ranging engagement with the issues it covers. Stephen Hale, head of Digital at the Department, explains the approach they've taken on his official blog.
So it was great to be asked about 4 weeks ago by the Innovation team at GDS to help with the second iteration of the Public Reading Stage concept, this time with the Small Charitable Donations Bill. The tool we've developed went live last Thursday at http://publicreadingstage.cabinetoffice.gov.uk.
Minister for the Cabinet Office Francis Maude has welcomed the launch of the improved online Public Reading Stage tool. He said:
“This is just the sort of innovative, citizen-focused technology that GDS was set up for – helping to open a door into the business of government.
Traditional consultations on legislation have tended to be narrow and exclusive. This online channel makes it easier for ordinary people to scrutinise government plans and put their own ideas, thoughts and concerns into the legislative process and influence parliamentary debate.
The first version of the tool allowed us to test the technology. For this second iteration, GDS have listened to the feedback from users and developers to make it even easier to use.”
Building on foundations
Enabling public commenting on documents has been around in government for at least three years now, including commentable versions of the Power of Information Task Force report in 2009 and the Digital Britain report set up by Joss Winn and Tony Hirst from WriteToReply.
We've learned a few things about how users engage with these sorts of sites:
- it's important to set expectations and define the scope clearly: so people understand what the site is about, what feedback is being asked for and how it will be used.
- the user experience of commenting has to be smooth: reading through a document, accompanying notes and previous comments needs to feel uncluttered and natural.
- it's important to be able to work with and link to specific sections of documents: not so granular that they don't make sense, but not so large that it's hard to understand what comments relate to.
- the analysis at the end of the process needs to be made easy too: providing exports of comments and their context in ways which the end users of the feedback can work with.
- users work in different ways and should facilitate that: amongst the fairly niche audience likely to use this site, some will prefer the offline benefits of reading long documents as PDFs to print off and or scroll through on a train; others will want to make private submissions rather than public comments; some will hopefully work through the site or sections of it, leaving comments as they go.
Putting users first
For this project, we started from some user stories developed by the Office of the Leader of the Commons working with the GDS Innovation team, and developed an initial wireframe to address them. Perhaps unusually, one of our key stories was to direct users to other ways they might influence Parliament or Government on this issue, since the language of Bills is inevitably technical and other channels - writing to your MP, starting an e-Petition, responding to a policy consultation - might be more effective and accessible for some users. It's not an accident that the site looks quite similar to its initial wireframe: though all contributions are welcome, the audience most likely to find participation on this site rewarding are specialists comfortable with legal and policy texts.
In the short time available, the platform we've developed aims to improve the user experience of commenting on documents and hopefully enable that feedback to be used more effectively. We opted to use WordPress for this project. This keeps costs down, effectively giving us a community-supported, open source, lightweight publishing and commenting system on top of which we've created quite a lot of new content types and functionality.
It's been great to have the advice and support throughout of engagement and online legislation specialists including John Sheridan and Jeni Tennison from legislation.gov.uk, Antony Zacharzewski from the Democratic Society, and Richard Parsons from eDemocracyblog.com - thanks to all of them, as well as Ben Sneddon from the Office of the Leader of the House of Commons and Roo, Alex and Ade from the GDS Innovation team.
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The first week in June marks a shift in state’s fight against COVID-19 as some businesses begin to re-open after months of state ordered closures.
Thousands of people also poured into the streets across the state to protest the death of George Floyd who died while in police custody after a Minneapolis police officer kneeled on his neck for more than 8-minutes.
All of this has State Health Officials on the lookout for whether we will see a dramatic increase in the number of COVID-19 cases.
Dr. Nick Lennertz from the Minnesota Department of Health
“We know that the spread of COVID19 occurs when people are in close proximity for extended periods of time,” said Dr. Nick Lennertz from the Minnesota Department of Health
These mass gatherings may put many people at risk for contracting Covid-19. Health officials are now strongly urging Minnesotans who participated in rallies or who helped with clean-up efforts following the riots to go ahead and get tested for COVID-19, regardless of whether they have symptoms.
“We want you to get tested if you become symptoms. But we also want you to get tested 5 to 7 days after the event. Just to be sure you weren’t exposed to the COVID-19 virus,” said Dr. Lennertz
The incubation period for COVID-19 is two to 14 days. If have symptoms, get tested right away. Even if you don’t have symptoms, get tested around 5-7 days after exposure to large group.
If your test was negative, but you believe you had significant exposure, you can be re-tested after approximately 2 weeks.
Contact your health care provider to get tested. Or you can use a public testing station.
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Pancreatic cancer, although infrequent, has a very poor prognosis, making it currently the fourth common causes of cancer mortality in most developed countries including the European Union (EU). Its incidence varies across regions, which suggests that lifestyle factors play an important role in its etiology, although part of the variation could be ascribed to difference in diagnostic and coding practices. Because pancreatic cancer is strongly age-dependent, increasing population longevity and ageing will lead to an increase of the global burden of pancreatic cancer. It was estimated that, by 2040, the total number of cases in the EU will increase by more than 30%. Pancreatic cancer is a multifactorial disease and many risk factors have been identified. Hereditary factors are responsible for less than 10% of the cases while tobacco smoking and excess body weight, the two most important potentially modifiable risk factors, are responsible for 10 to 30% of the cases, affording a unique opportunity for preventing one of our deadliest cancers.
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The holidays are a beautiful blend of yuletide charm and spiritual reflection for the people of the Southwest. Here, we explore some of these interesting Christmas traditions.
After the conversion of the pueblo people to Catholicism during the 16th century, a merging of cultures took place. Christmas Mass and spiritual Native American traditions were often tied together in holiday festivities, such as the Deer Dance and Los Matachines, a dance brought to New Mexico by the Moors to teach Christianity to the Pueblo people.
There are regional differences in the terms used to describe the holiday lights with which residents of Northern New Mexico line the roads and the outside of their homes. In Albuquerque, these paper bag lanterns are referred to as “luminarias,” and in Sante Fe they are called “farolitos.” Historically speaking, the luminarias and farolitos date back to the 1800s, when small bonfires helped lead churchgoers to Christmas Mass. The lights were often placed outside on the final night of Las Posadas to represent the journey of Mary and Joseph, who went door to door searching for shelter prior to Jesus’ birth. The tradition of the lighting displays continues today.
Tamales made from masa (dough made from corn) are one of several traditional holiday favorites of the people of the Southwest. Tamales are normally served either steamed or boiled in a corn husk, which is thrown away prior to tamale consumption. The spicy dish can also be stuffed with meat, chilies and cheese. For holiday dessert, many people enjoy eating Mexican wedding cookies; these are tiny pecan shortbread cakes which are addictively delicious.
It’s never too early to start thinking about Christmas shopping for your loved ones! At Kachina House this month, we are featuring ornaments and Nativity scenes made by well-known Native American artists. View our selection of hand-crafted pieces today. | <urn:uuid:e2b2581e-f9b1-41d4-89ab-83428d6fa215> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://blog.kachinahouse.com/christmas-traditions-celebrated-by-the-tribes-of-the-southwest/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573172.64/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818063910-20220818093910-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.961692 | 414 | 2.921875 | 3 |
July 16-18 "The Long March III"
Eastern federal impression
August 27-29 "Laying in Wait"
Confederate ANV impression
November 12-14 "No One Can be Trusted"
Confederate western impression
Welcome to the website of The American Eagle Society (AES). Our aim is to offer an accurate and authentic portrayal of military and civilian participants in the American Civil War, 1861-1865.
Our activities consist of staging living history camps, drill and musketry displays, undertaking historical research, and reproducing uniforms, clothing and accoutrements of the period to the highest level of authenticity. A growing contingent of civilian re-enactors of both sexes add a further dimension to our activities.
Strong links are maintained with like-minded groups in continental Europe and the United States and members of the AES travel frequently to participate in events organised by our fellow enthusiasts.
To find out more visit our Contacts page, see images from our recent events on Instagram, or join our active Facebook community.
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What is Intuitive Eating?
Intuitive eating is a way of eating using our hunger and fullness cues that signals the body to know when and how much to eat. Eating while using our minds to think about our body signals helps us connect eating food to how the food can nourish our bodies. The connection that can be made with food through Intuitive eating strengthens eating habits and boosts complete health. This is not a diet; it is a lifestyle that supports eating and enjoying food rather than focusing on weight control. Intuitive Eating is a health approach concept created by two Registered Dietitians, Evelyn Tribole and Elyse Resch, in 1995.
10 Parts of Intuitive Eating
Learning to eat intuitively is a process that takes time. The diet mindset has to be thrown away to allow your mind and body to connect. A dieting mindset is one that has strict rules around food and focuses on body change. Fad diets are not a part of intuitive eating. Feeling hungry is your body telling you it is time to eat; it helps you notice that feeling. Foods are often labeled as “good” or “bad,” but food should not have moral value. All foods should be allowed, and it is good to challenge the thoughts that label foods this way. Eat foods that are nutritious and bring you good health and eat foods that you enjoy and that bring pleasure. When you are eating, notice when you start to feel full and assess whether you are satisfied enough to stop eating. Emotional eating can bring short-term comfort but finding other ways to resolve those feelings can help strengthen your relationship with food. When building your relationship with food, accept the body you have so you can nourish it properly. Avoid judging your body with harmful thoughts. Engage in exercise that feels good to your body. Don’t view exercise as a way to lose weight but instead to move your body. Know what foods nourish the body well and be gentle with yourself with eating. Being healthy does not mean being perfect at eating the right foods. All foods can fit into a healthy lifestyle when our focus shifts from adjusting our appearance to strengthening our health.
Diets that target weight loss are hard to manage and lead to decreased mental and physical health. When weight and body shape change is the center of an eating style, decreased body acceptance, body image, and lowered self-worth can increase. Research finds that being aware of mental health is a basic need in reaching overall sustained health.
Building a Healthy Relationship with Food
Having a healthy relationship with food means living by the idea that eating is social, emotional, and physical. Being flexible with food means eating to fill your hunger and enjoying different foods when they are a part of making good memories, regardless of what the food is. Letting yourself accept all foods helps in finding a way to nourish your body and to enjoy food at the same time.
Stop comparing yourself to others: Every person has diverse health needs, and health does not look the same for everyone.
Impact during Childhood
Childhood is when thoughts and actions related to eating come about due to the many factors that impact them during this growing phase of life. During puberty, youth face a lot of body changes and are more self-aware. The impact from family, peers, and social life mold the thoughts and feelings of childhood. Messages about weight and looks that arise during youth impact eating behaviors leading to starting diets at a young age. Diets often lead to low body image and involvement in unhealthy social pressures around eating. Common social pressures on youth stem from a perceived need to be liked, sending false messages around weight and health.
The impact of Intuitive Eating to youth may inspire healthy eating habits and build self-worth so that they can have a good base for their relationship with food. Teaching youth to focus on their relationship with food and feelings can combat the poor health messages that are commonly noticed in adolescence.
Model a Healthy Relationship with Food and Self for Youth
- Teach that self-worth is not based on looks.
- Teach appreciation for how the body functions.
- Avoid constant talk about diets.
- Inspire eating many types of foods.
- Don’t use food as a reward or punishment.
- Avoid labeling food such as “good” or “bad”.
- Avoid making comments about others’ bodies.
- Know and discuss the dangers of changing body shape through diets.
- Trust your child’s hunger and fullness.
- Never try to limit their food intake unless under medical supervision.
- Andrew R, Tiggemann M, Clark L. Predictors of Intuitive Eating in Adolescent Girls. Journal of Adolescent Health. 2015;56(2):209-214. doi:10.1016/j.jadohealth.2014.09.005.
- Chua JYX, Tam W, Shorey S. Research Review: Effectiveness of universal eating disorder prevention interventions in improving body image among children: a systematic review and meta‐analysis. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry. 2019;61(5):522-535. doi:10.1111/jcpp.13164.
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Bush ends “Decision Points” with the sanguine thought that history’s verdict on his Presidency will come only after his death. During his years in office, two wars turned into needless disasters, and the freedom agenda created such deep cynicism around the world that the word itself was spoiled. In America, the gap between the rich few and the vast majority widened dramatically, contributing to a historic financial crisis and an ongoing recession; the poisoning of the atmosphere continued unabated; and the Constitution had less and less say over the exercise of executive power. Whatever the judgments of historians, these will remain foregone conclusions.
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|Calories 375||(1570 kJ)|
|Total Fat||13.8 g||21%|
|Saturated Fat||6.9 g||35%|
|Trans Fat||0 g|
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How many calories are in maruchan ramen noodles?
To summarize the nutrition information, one 1/2 block serving of Maruchan Plain Ramen Noodles has 190 calories. A breakdown of calories shows that 34% of calories come from fat, 56% from carbohydrates, and 11% from protein.
How many calories are in Maruchan soup?
Soup with a lot of calories. One 64-gram container of Maruchan Instant Lunch, in any of its three flavors (chicken, beef, or shrimp), has around 290 calories.
How many calories are in Maruchan Instant Lunch?
According to the USDA, one 64-gram container of Maruchan Instant Lunch, in any of its three flavors (chicken, beef, or shrimp), contains around 290 calories. This translates to 4.5 calories per gram, making it a soup with a high energy density. The quantity of calories contained in a food item in relation to its weight is referred to as its energy density.
Are Maruchan Instant Lunch noodle soups bad for You?
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- While Maruchan Instant Lunch noodle soups are convenient for a fast lunch or snack, consuming an excessive amount of them might have long-term consequences for your health.
How many calories are in a whole pack of ramen noodles?
While a single serving of ramen noodles (43 grams) has just 188 calories, most individuals swallow the entire container, which is equivalent to two servings and 371 calories.
How many calories are in a pack of Maruchan ramen noodles?
Approximately how many calories are contained in a maruchan packet? Per serving, there are 188 calories. carbohydrate content (27 grams)
How many calories is 2 packs of Maruchan Ramen?
In two containers of Chicken Flavor Ramen Noodle Soup, there are 743 calories (Dry, Dehydrated). Ramen Noodle Soup with a Chicken Flavor (Dry, Dehydrated)
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Are maruchan noodles good for weight loss?
These quick ramen noodles will also not assist you in your weight loss efforts. They are poor in fiber and protein, both of which are crucial in weight loss, and they are high in calories, especially given the tiny size of the box; even if you eat the entire package (2 servings), you will most likely be hungry again in a short period of time.
Does instant noodles cause belly fat?
Instant noodles are high-calorie meals with a poor macronutrient ratio since they are made with instant noodles. The majority of the calories come from carbohydrates and fats, with protein being neglected, resulting in a greater risk of weight gain and fat retention.
Can noodles make you gain weight?
In the trial, the researchers discovered that pasta did not cause weight gain or an increase in body fat, according to main author Dr. John Sievenpiper, a clinician scientist affiliated with the hospital’s clinical nutrition and risk management center. ‘ In reality, the results of the analysis revealed that a tiny amount of weight had been lost.
Is instant noodles good for weight loss?
Despite the fact that quick noodles are low in calories, they are low in fiber and protein, making them a poor choice for anyone looking to lose weight. Protein has been shown to promote sensations of fullness and decrease hunger, but fiber passes slowly through the digestive tract, resulting in feelings of fullness being induced more frequently.
How many calories are in maruchan chicken ramen?
The nutritional value of Maruchan Ramen Noodle Soup, Chicken Flavor is 280.0 calories.
Is ramen healthy without the packet?
When consuming a product that is high in carbohydrates and fat, such as Ramen Noodles, it is important to be aware of its nutritional data. The reason for this is that even if you don’t use the seasoning package, it is still not a healthy food to consume.
Does maruchan have sugar?
Maruchan Instant Lunch is a wonderful ramen noodle soup that is packed in a compact cup for easy consumption. Maruchan Beef Flavor Instant Lunch is a quick and easy lunch option.
How many calories does a maruchan soup have?
Maruchan Ramen is a unique ingredient that may be used in a variety of ways. Preparation: 1. Ramen Noodle Soup with Maruchan Chicken Flavor.
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How much calories do I need a day?
According to the United States Department of Health, adult males require around 2,000-3000 calories per day to maintain weight whereas adult females require approximately 1,600-2,400 calories per day to maintain weight.
Why is ramen so high in calories?
Japanese Ramen has a high amount of fat and carbohydrates, as is typical of most noodle meals. That is, because it has a high concentration of calories, there is a significant risk of weight gain.
Can you only eat ramen noodles?
Theoretically, you could live entirely on ramen noodles, as long as you provided your body with sufficient calories. However, you would not be leading a healthy lifestyle and would be at risk for a variety of illnesses.
How many calories in ramen if you don’t drink the broth?
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A new chapter of the storied history of the Rolex Explorer opened with the release of the Explorer II in 1971. Just like its older sibling (the Explorer "I"), the Explorer II was a professional steel tool watch but bigger and with a very niche application. While its smaller brother sat on the wrists of mountaineers, the Explorer II was designed for the men and women that ventured into the deepest caves and across the far poles. As it is difficult to distinguish between day and night in these places, the watch features an extra hour hand and a fixed 24-hour bezel so that you can always read the correct time.
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One year after a devastating war, Première Urgence – Aide Médicale International (PU-AMI) urged the international community to address the continuing disastrous situation affecting the Gaza strip especially in the Access Restricted Area (ARA) where Israel continues enforcing strict access restrictions on both land and sea.
The ARA covers about 17% of Gaza’s total land and 35% of Gaza’s arable land hence hindering dramatically Gaza’s farming capacity. Farmers from the area, already deeply affected by the war, face difficulties and risks to access their lands impacting further their capacity to make a living in a place where unemployment rises up to 44% (World Bank report, 22 May 2015).
Incursions and incidents are still going on: Ganso records 400 incidents of Israeli border fire into Gaza – an average of more than one a day.
The blockade which has been in place for 8 years now deepens the humanitarian crisis by preventing essential goods and also construction material to enter the Gaza strip where about 17 600 families are still considered as displaced from their homes.
To face the situation, PU-AMI provided emergency support during and following the war to the most affected families in the middle and the south of the Gaza strip (Additional information in annex).
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What’s the difference between a logo and an icon? I’ve heard this question more than once, and it’s a good one. Sometimes graphic designers and marketers throw terms around, not realizing that the average person doesn’t know what the heck they are talking about.
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The first catalytic alkyne hydroboration of propargyl amine borane carbonitriles is accomplished with triazole-Au complexes. While the typical [L-Au]+species decomposes within minutes upon addition of amine borane carbonitriles, the triazole-modified gold catalysts (TA-Au) remained active, and allowed the synthesis of 1,2-BN-cyclopentenes in one step with good to excellent yields. With good substrate tolerability and mild reaction conditions (open-flask), this new method provides an alternative route to reach.
During the past decade, cationic gold complexes have been recognized as one of the most useful catalysts to activate CC multiple bonds due to their soft p-acidity. To the best of my knowledge, however, there is no report about the gold catalysis using amine-borane as the substrate. This is because the cationic gold is readily reduced by amine-borane which results in the decomposition of the catalyst with the formation of the Au(0) particles. Probably, that’s why gold complexes have never been used as the catalysts for the dehydrogenation reaction of ammonia-borane, despite the rapid progress of the research with the other transition metals based on the high feasibility of ammonia-borane as a H2 storage material.
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A Recent Webinar Highlights Human Rights Violations to be Addressed in Egypt
On March 6th, Heavenly Culture, World Peace, Restoration of Light (HWPL) organized a webinar in Egypt to exchange ideas to address rampant human rights violations resulting from discrimination of minority religious groups during the pandemic.
Prolonged corona crisis and the internal disputes left the Egypt vulnerable to abuse and human rights violations. UN and EU also stressed the necessity of interventions to provide humanitarian assistance. The webinar invited lawyers and the heads of human rights and youth organizations to discuss the work of peace even in the pandemic situation and pave the ways to ease the tense atmosphere of the country.
"Since religious discrimination and conflict are heightened as the global crisis, causing pain and death, it should be changed so that people don’t consider these human rights issues as a personal matter and can make a society where individuals could enjoy human dignity and equality with their own identity." Hon. Adly Hussein, President of the Court of Appeal of Cairo stressed the necessity of peace activities in protecting human rights.
Mr. Tharwat Gaid Salama Gaballa, President from Horus foundation also stressed the necessity of peace activities for the protection of human rights and decrease the hatred crimes, “Thus, all activities performed last year focused on quarantine measures to carry out various activities in the post-corona era in the future, but in 2021 and all the future to come, we hope all physical and emotional obstacles posed by Corona are resolved and we can do practical activities to get closer to peace.”
When the basic human rights are violated, it deters individuals from playing contributing roles in a society. It further pushes people to neglect the importance of national or global peace which, in return, could put their future at greater risks. Growing a number of socially wounded people in a society and ignoring human rights abuse normally hinder the country from building a peaceful and sound society.
HWPL promotes the respect for human rights through a series of webinars with personnel from civil society and advances toward realizing sustainable peace development. Hence, after the webinar, HWPL plans to regularly hold online discussions to further address the human rights issues in the Middle East.
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Learning human rights to make a difference in Georgia
The European Union and the United Nations are working in partnership to equip Georgia’s public and civic sectors with real-world, practical insights into human rights protection, organising a series of trainings last month for public servants, civic activists and journalists.
The trainings brought together representatives of state institutions, media, professional associations and civil society, and focused on the available tools and mechanisms to ensure respect for human rights in all areas.
On 15-16 July, a training session for journalists, carried out in partnership with the Office of the State Minister for Reconciliation and Civic Equality, addressed the impact of misinformation and disinformation on protecting the rights of ethnic and national minorities. The training programme highlighted the critical role of the media in combating hate speech and fake news and providing the public with reliable and trustworthy information.
On 17-18 July, lawyers from the Legal Aid Service and the Georgian Bar Association participated in a training on the rights of people with disabilities. They discussed international standards in protecting disability rights and the challenges faced by people with disabilities in Georgia in getting access to justice.
On 19-20 July, human rights activists and representatives of organisations engaged in protecting the rights of LGBTQI+ persons learned how to prepare and submit alternative reports and communications to the UN human rights Treaty Bodies and how to use the UN human rights mechanisms for advocacy and strategic litigation.
Finally, on 28-29 July, representatives of Georgia’s Public Defender’s Office discussed how better to protect the right to health in Georgia, and refreshed their knowledge of international standards in this area.
“At UNDP, we deeply believe that respect for human rights is the foundation of democracy,” said Anna Chernyshova, UNDP Deputy Resident Representative in Georgia. “A democratic society is primarily assessed by how it protects the rights of minorities and not just the rights of the majority. With this in mind, we join hands with the European Union and our partners to assist journalists, lawyers, civic activists and the LGBTQI+ communities to better understand and more effectively protect human rights, ensuring that no one is left behind.”
The European Union and the United Nations, through their ‘Human Rights for All’ programme, promote a human rights culture in Georgia and help increase public awareness of human rights values and principles. Working with a wide range of local and international partners, the EU and the UN seek to ensure that all citizens can enjoy the rights and freedoms safeguarded by Georgia’s Constitution and major policy documents in line with the country’s national priorities and international commitments under the Association Agreement with the European Union, the Sustainable Development Goals, and the UN human rights treaties.
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The sixth round of bilateral political consultations have been held between the Ministries of Foreign Affairs of Georgia and the Arab Republic of Egypt
On 28 July 2022, Tbilisi hosted the sixth round of bilateral political consultations between the Ministries of Foreign Affairs of Georgia and the Arab Republic of Egypt. From the Georgian side, the consultations were led by the Deputy Minister, Aleksandre Khvtisiashvili, and from the Egyptian side – by the Deputy Minister on European Issues, Ihab Nasri.
The sides discussed the current issues on the cooperation agenda between Georgia and the Arab Republic of Egypt. They highlighted the necessity of deepening the existing cooperation in the political, trade-economic, investment, cultural, education and tourism areas. Special emphasis was put on the importance of exchanging high-level visits between the two countries, of improving the legal framework and cooperation within international organizations.
The sides reviewed current issues on the international agenda at the regional and global level, the ongoing processes in the Caucasus and Middle East regions, Russia's war in Ukraine. Talking points included the challenges facing the regions and the world as a whole and their impact on the security environment.
The Egyptian side was provided with information about the current situation in the occupied territories of Georgia, the Geneva negotiations, and the gross violations of human rights and international legal agreements by Russia in the Abkhazia and Tskhinvali regions. The Egyptian side once again confirmed its unwavering support for the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Georgia within its internationally recognized borders.
The sides agreed to continue active cooperation in different directions.
MFA of Georgia
Social Justice Center from Georgia named winner of the 2022 Max van der Stoel Award
THE HAGUE, 26 July 2022 – The Social Justice Center (SJC) from Georgia has been selected as the winner of the 2022 Max van der Stoel Award. The Award recognizes its work to support and empower vulnerable groups, including national minorities, in Georgia.
Since its foundation in 2012, the SJC (formerly Human Rights Education and Monitoring Centre) has worked towards long-term political and socio-economic transformation in Georgia, thereby putting the principles of human rights, equality and solidarity into practice. The SJC gives a voice to minority ethnic and religious groups, and supports their interests, with an emphasis on youth and women.
Commenting on its decision, the international Jury, chaired by OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities Kairat Abdrakhmanov, stated: “This non-governmental organization advances equality, solidarity, participation and democracy at the political, economic and social levels through programmes such as the Social Policy Programme, the Equality Policy Programme and the Justice and Democracy Programme. This has resulted in community organizations and campaigns to promote the interests of national minorities.
“Acknowledging its activism and courage as it tirelessly advocates for equality for all social groups in Georgia, the Jury took the unanimous decision to reward the SJC with the 2022 Max van der Stoel Award.”
The Award of 50,000 euros was established by the Netherlands’ Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 2001 in honour of the distinguished Dutch statesman and first OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities, Max van der Stoel. It is awarded biennially to recognize a person, group or institution for extraordinary and outstanding achievements in improving the position of national minorities in the OSCE participating States.
The Award ceremony will take place in The Hague on 17 November 2022.
Georgia should ensure effective implementation of the anti-discrimination legislation and improve protection of human rights in the fields of labour and the environment
Strasbourg, 15 July 2022 - The Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights, Dunja Mijatović, published today the report following her visit to Georgia in February 2022, with recommendations on combating discrimination against LGBTI people and those belonging to religious minorities, as well as protecting human rights in the fields of labour and the environment.
To ensure that LGBTI people and persons belonging to religious minorities live free from violence and discrimination, the Commissioner calls on the authorities to address the inadequate implementation of legal standards and the persistent deficiencies in combating impunity for hate crimes and incitement to violence, and to remove the discriminatory barriers to the enjoyment of their rights.
The Commissioner notes that LGBTI people remain affected by instances of hate crime and pervasive discrimination in Georgia. She calls on the authorities to step up efforts to combat impunity for human rights violations against them and stresses that raising awareness among the public and training relevant categories of professionals on the importance of their role in promoting equality, dignity and non-discrimination should be a priority. She adds that hate speech against LGBTI people in the public sphere is an issue of concern and that an appropriate response to hate speech, including when voiced by officials, religious and community leaders and media professionals, is needed through an effective use of law enforcement channels and other mechanisms, such as prevention, monitoring, self-regulation, and counter-speech. In light of repeated occurrence of LGBTI people having been denied their right to peaceful assembly, the Commissioner stresses that authorities should adopt comprehensive measures enabling LGBTI people to freely express their views and assemble. Regarding transgender people, the authorities should facilitate legal gender recognition without invasive medical requirements and in a quick, transparent, and accessible manner.
As regards religious minorities, the Commissioner urges the authorities to ensure effective investigation, prosecution, and dissuasive and proportionate sanctioning for hate crimes committed on the grounds of religion and to remove discriminatory barriers in accessing places of worship and in regulating tax and religious property matters. “An open dialogue with all religious communities should be established”, she stated. To support this dialogue, she underlines the need for a meaningful partnership between competent authorities and religious denominations, for changes to the relevant regulations and for continuous training and awareness raising activities targeting officials and the general public. In addition, the Commissioner notes that the authorities should pursue their efforts in eliminating religious biases and stereotyping from school textbooks.
Noting that a decade of deregulation and the abolishment of the labour Inspectorate in 2006 led to a significant deterioration in the protection of labour rights in Georgia, the Commissioner welcomes the recent comprehensive legal and institutional reforms and urges the authorities to close the remaining legislative gaps by establishing a minimum wage compliant with international standards, by ensuring equal access to parental leave, and by developing clear guidelines on the duration and compensation for overtime work. “It is now important to ensure a full implementation of the labour standards, including the anti-discrimination provisions”, she stated. To this end, it is crucial to provide the Labour Inspectorate with sufficient and adequately trained human resources and an appropriate budget. While welcoming recent progress in the reduction of workplace accidents, the Commissioner calls on the authorities to further improve occupational safety at the workplace. She also recommends promoting and supporting diversity and equality at work, including with regard to the integration of persons with disabilities. The Commissioner further recommends that the authorities address the gender pay gap and gender stereotypes in employment, to continuously raise awareness about sexual harassment, ways to report it and available remedies, as well as to take resolute action to address child labour and prevent and combat child trafficking.
As regards human rights and the environment, the Commissioner calls on the authorities to strengthen the implementation of the existing national legal framework, to guarantee public access to information and meaningful and transparent public participation in environmental decision-making processes at various levels of government, as well as to improve air quality and the tracking of air pollution. They should also develop and implement preventive measures to reduce the risk of environmental disasters and to ensure protection of the rights of people displaced by such disasters or owing to climate change. The authorities should also provide a safe and enabling environment for environmental human rights defenders and activists and support their work
- Read the Commissioner's report following her visit to Georgia in February 2022
- Read the comments of the authorities of Georgia on the report
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Georgia and the EU hold annual Human Rights Dialogue
On 22 June in Brussels, the EU and Georgia held the 15th round of the annual Human Rights Dialogue.
Participants exchanged views on the human rights situation in Georgia and on recent developments in the promotion and protection of democracy and human rights since the last dialogue in July 2021.
The Georgian delegation was led by Deputy Foreign Minister Teimuraz Gianjalia, and the EU delegation was led by Richard Tibbels, from the European External Action Service. The EU Special Representative for Human Rights, Eamon Gilmore, also participated in the meeting.
The next EU-Georgia human rights dialogue is planned to take place in Tbilisi in 2023.
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Smart technology is the use of IoT devices and applications. This technology has been around for a while, but it’s seeing increased adoption and more innovative use cases in virtually every industry.
In logistics, smart technology can be used for automation, robotics, cargo tracking, and more, giving logistics companies a transparent view of the whole supply chain to identify areas for improvement.
Automation also increases the efficiency of logistics companies by assigning mundane and repeatable tasks to robotics and other devices, freeing employees to focus on the creative processes that only they can do. Automation also reduces human error, which can cause costly delays and lost revenue.
Business intelligence technology is at the forefront. This leading technology can be used to optimize the supply chain by responding to the data collected from IoT devices. These devices collect and transfer data in real time, allowing for responsive actions to improve the process without the need for human intervention.
Other examples of smart technology include cloud-enabled GPS and RFID technology. These technologies enhance the transparency and accuracy of the supply chain, showing vehicles in transit and goods residing in a warehouse. Logistics companies can identify these inefficiencies and optimize their delivery processes.
Demand-Driven Supply Chain Management
Flexibility in the supply chain is vital to adapting to the ongoing challenges and delays. Demand-driven supply chain management isn’t a novel idea, but the improved capabilities and insights of data analytics allow logistics companies to improve their agility and adapt to the constantly changing expectations.
Predictive analytics and machine learning gather huge volumes of data and process it in real time, ensuring that logistics companies have the insights for rapid action. This allows companies to better serve customers and adjust to the shifts that occur in the market.
Cybersecurity is an important consideration in digital transformation. Technology solutions make processes more efficient, but that also leaves vulnerabilities that allow hackers to infiltrate networks. Logistics involves multiple parties, and if even one has weak points in security, a bad actor can gain access to information from all of them.
Manufacturers, suppliers, and other parties must be aligned and stringent with cybersecurity across every point in the supply chain to protect the entire network. Partnerships must be built on a commitment to security protocols and standards, as well as monitoring and risk evaluation and intervention.
Digital thread refers to the use of digital tools for the design, evaluation, and lifecycle management, acting as a closed loop between the digital and physical worlds. Suppliers, manufacturers, and consumers can share information freely to make the supply chain as responsive as possible.
Though digital thread can be beneficial, it’s not a technology that can be implemented on its own. Workflows and involved parties need to collaborate to form an integrated value chain that enhances communication and transparency.
Supply Chain Customization
As mentioned, consumer demands and expectations are a big challenge with supply chains, especially amid other delays and disruptions. Most businesses offer the fastest possible fulfillment and shipping, sometimes for free, and consumers are becoming increasingly expectant of this as a standard.
With this, consumers are unlikely to accept longer-than-average processing times, delays, or delivery errors that make shipping take even longer. Customers have plenty of choices, and a bad experience like a shipping delay could be enough to push them to a competitor.
Centralized distribution offers a solution with real-time inventory management systems to streamline processes and reduce these errors. Customization options and supply chain transparency also address these needs with options like rapid prototyping and additive manufacturing to keep manufacturers agile in the midst of rising and changing consumer demands.
Digitization Is the Solution for the Future
Labor shortages, port congestion, increased consumer demands, and other obstacles are having a detrimental impact on the logistics industry. Supply Chain 4.0 and technology like data analytics, automation, cloud-based GPS, and robotics have the potential to revolutionize the supply chain and keep logistics companies flexible and committed to meeting the demands of customers.
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Focusing marketing strategies through exclusively online mediums can mean that only a decreased audience can be reached compared to the potential of other techniques, one expert has suggested.
Writing in the Financial Times, Ben Langdon, chief executive of Digital Marketing Group, has reminded firms that despite becoming more popular, methods such as telemarketing and email marketing aim to reach a targeted or ‘opt-in’ audience, limiting the number of potential customers on business lists.
Mr Langdon pointed to direct mail as a way of presenting marketing pitches to more people than with other techniques which use a narrow section of recipients.
He explained: “Marketers now have an increasing range of media to use but a decreasing audience: the ‘permission spectrum’.
“At one end of the spectrum sits the mass broadcast medium of direct mail where consumers have often not requested the contact, and can only opt out of all mailings via a mailing preference service or by contacting each sender directly.”
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Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) aims to identify possible risks to the environment (social, economic, biodiversity) that may result from a proposed action. This information is then used to recommend whether to proceed with the action and, if so, on what conditions.
The critical issues are the magnitude of effects and the inherent risks that need to be adequately addressed.
DPM Envirosciences adopts the principles of EIA advocated by the Australian and New Zealand Environment and Conservation Council (ANZECC), being:
- to ensure decisions are taken following timely and sound environmental advice
- to encourage and provide opportunities for public participation in environmental aspects of proposals, before decisions are taken
- to ensure that proponents of proposals take primary responsibility for protection of the environment relating to their proposals
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The fact that I spent most of my teenage years surrounded by books —my father owned a bookshop— made it possible for me to access some books that were normally out of reach for people my age. Among so many books, some of them had to leave their imprint on me. There are three books, being specific, that seem to be the ones that taught me how to think.
The first one— and also the one I remember most vividly— is Darwin’s The Voyage of the Beagle, which I read with fascination. Of only a few I have so vivid memories— not only the parts regarding travels and adventures, but also other parts, like the explanation of atoll formation. The second one— read by parts and not so thoroughly— was Claude Bernard’s An Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine in a 1930’s Catalan translation. The third one was Fanz Boas’ The Mind of Primitive Man, an edition published around 1945 by a leftist Argentinean publishing house. Boas’ book must have been the last step in this unorganised ascent to rationality, prior acquiring a more proper education for a historian.
«There was a widespread understanding of Darwin’s theories that tried to justify a linear view of history whose climax was “Western civilisation”»
Needless to say that in the time I was reading these books, in the mid 1950’s, all of them were banned, and I could not have accessed them had it not been for my father’s bookshop. This ban should not be shocking, since, fifty years later, we can see Mrs Sarah Palin equally keen on preventing schools from teaching these things in her country.
Curiosity on the one hand, and the easy access to popular science books on the other, made possible that my contact with Darwinism would not end with my teenage readings. This fact prevented me from falling into the widespread mechanicist understanding of Darwin’s theories which, in the 19th and 20th centuries, tried to justify a linear view of history whose climax was «Western civilisation», an argument used to defend colonialism— the «white man’s burden».
This set of ideas was based on a deterministic view of cosmos, which was linked to the study of society through a mechanistic understanding of Darwin’s ideas. This view was so widespread that, in 1872, a German scientist suggested that when knowing the exact position, direction and speed of every atom in the universe was possible, we would be able to predict all future events in human history. And also thought that science’s aim was precisely to achieve a perfect knowledge of the social world as well as the natural world. The French anarchist Charles Malato, shared this aspiration, and at the onset of the 20th century wrote: «historical science does not exist at the present moment, it is yet to be created. No writer has ever been able to do for science what Kepler, Copernicus and Newton did for astronomy; […] Laplace, Marx and Darwin for the other exact sciences: […] deducing with mathematical accuracy what causes the agitation of human molecules».
Reading books like Stephen Jay Gould’s taught me that Darwin was perfectly compatible with other views of history that fight linear views and determinisms and that seek to understand diversity and contingency. I am sure that adopting a contingent view of history can help us, just like Roger Marks claimed, to make decisions and act so as to guarantee a sustainable future for the whole humankind. | <urn:uuid:f41bea60-57c9-483e-b1bb-241dcd9a9ee2> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://metode.org/issues/monographs/cartes-a-darwin-darwiniana-darwiniana/darwin-for-historians.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570767.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808061828-20220808091828-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.966654 | 724 | 2.109375 | 2 |
Antibodies are produced by our bodies when we are infected with a virus. In some diseases, these same antibodies can prevent us from being re-infected with the same virus. Following the coronavirus outbreak, researchers have been investigating how long these antibodies last in people who contracted COVID-19. So what does this all mean?
As yet, it is still unclear as to whether you can catch the coronavirus twice.
The CDC says it is “very uncommon” for a patient get COVID-19 more than once.
But experts are largely in agreement that those who have contracted covid will have some form of short term immunity because their body will have developed protective antibodies to help fight off the infection.
However, officials urge those who have had the virus to exercise caution.
Coronavirus tests are being rolled out for those who are suffering from the symptoms, such as a cough, fever or a loss of smell or taste.
Some people have been given antibody tests, which can detect whether a patent has previously suffered from the virus based on the number of antibodies in their blood.
Infectious disease expert Amesh Adalja warned “you should not really change your behaviour based on the results” of an antibody test as it’s unclear how long these antibodies stay in your body for.
Though these types of tests are not widely available for the public, they have been crucial in studying the new virus.
How long do covid antibodies last?
In a recent study, scientists analysed the immune response of more than 90 patients and healthcare workers at Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS foundation trust.
And the findings could be exceptionally important for the long term plan protecting the UK against cover.
The research discovered that while 60 people of people studied had a “potent” antibody response at the peak of their infection with coronavirus, only 17 percent had the same potency when tested again three months later.
So it suggests that people who have recovered from COVID-19 may lose their immunity to the disease in just months, which could mean the virus may reinfect people year after year unless a vaccine is found.
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Dr Katie Doores, lead author on the study at King’s College London, said: “People are producing a reasonable antibody response to the virus, but it’s waning over a short period of time.
“Depending on how high your peak is, that determines how long the antibodies are staying around.”
The study found that antibody levels fell as much as 23-fold over the three month period period, and in some cases even became undetectable.
Another study published in The New England Journal of Medicine also suggests that antibodies developed after a mild infection and disappeared within a few months.
Analysing samples from 34 participants, they found the antibodies had a half-life of 73 days – meaning half of the antibodies would have disappeared after 73 days.
The study’s authors, led by Otto Yang, “call for caution regarding antibody-based ‘immunity passports,’ herd immunity, and perhaps vaccine durability.”
Dr Yang, of UCLA, added: “The big caveat is of course that this is just one snapshot for a relatively short period of time so we don’t know that it will continue that same rate of drop over time.”
The study also looked at those with milder symptoms, who typically produce less antibodies as their immune system response isn’t as strong.
Dr Yang said: “The majority just recovered at home with no hospital care, so their antibody titers [levels] weren’t extremely high.
“Indeed, we have seen other people that have very, very high antibody titers, on the order of 10 to 100 times higher than these.”
But the findings still have wide reaching implications for the development of a vaccine and the global plan in fighting the virus.
Buddy Creech, an infectious disease specialist at Vanderbilt University, concluded: “Infection with this coronavirus does not necessarily generate lifetime immunity.”
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Welcome to the Computer Lab
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Welcome to the Computer Lab!
AEEC students come to the Computer lab once a week to build a basic knowledge in the world of computers.
They learn the proper posture at the computer station, use appropriate and accurate terminology regarding technology, identify and use basic parts of the computer, and learn how to use appropriate keyboard techniques. They also learn the proper care of the equipment and the procedure for opening, closing and saving files. Students will be able to create their own art work using different art web sites and programs. In addition, students learn how to be safe online, and they will proudly tell their parents about the online safety rules.
Kindergarteners practice mouse movement with lots of educational games based on recognition of letters, numbers and symbols on the keyboard.
First and Second Graders do their best trying to remember how to place their fingers in the right Home Key position. They also are doing their first Microsoft Office Word Document and later, they will create a slide using Microsoft Office Power Point. Also, second Graders will understand a spreadsheet on Excel.
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Parental Care on Under Five Child Health Outcomes in Zimbabwe
This study examines the effect of parental care on child health outcomes (stunting, wasting and underweight) in Zimbabwe. The study uses data from the Zimbabwe Demographic Health Survey (ZDHS) (1994-2015) by employing the Ordinary Least Method (OLS) regression approach. The results indicate that breastfeeding and vaccination on each count has a significant negative effect on under-five child health outcomes (stunting and wasting). On the contrary, child-size shows a significant positive effect on wasting and underweight among under-five children in Zimbabwe. Area of residence indicates an under five-child in an urban center is less likely to be wasting than its contemporary in a rural area. The individual effects of mothers’ education, wealth index, child’s sex and marital status show insignificant effects under-five child health outcomes. The policy implication is that health professionals should intensify education on early child suckling and succeeding dietary mix to obviate poor health outcomes. This study also implores the Ministry of Health and Child Care in Zimbabwe to review existing vaccination programmes by extending to households with poor child health outcomes found in inaccessible areas. As a contribution, this study provides a platform for deliberations on family care and child health care in African societies
Copyright (c) 2021 Pius Gamette, Refiloe Jabari, Sibusisiwe Bertha Muperere
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Once again, Big Tech is deciding which voices can speak out and which ones can’t. The latest victim is a mom of four from Virginia whose interview with The Daily Signal was removed by YouTube Thursday
Merianne Jensen went viral earlier this month when she made a passionate speech about COVID-19 mask mandates affecting kids at school. Jensen was addressing the school board of Prince William County, a Virginia community in the Washington, D.C., suburbs.
“You are on the losing side of history and it’s time to make that right before these children now,” she told the school board. So far, a video of her speech tweeted by The Daily Signal has garnered 1.6 million views.
Shortly after Jensen spoke to the Prince William County School Board, my colleagues Lauren Evans, Mark Guiney, and Philip Reynolds interviewed her. They thought our audience would want to learn more about what inspired this mom, and why she was opposed to mask mandates in schools.
In other words, they were acting like true journalists.
But YouTube has an issue with that.
The Daily Signal produced a compelling video, splicing Jensen’s school board speech with her interview. We let her explain how masks had affected her kids. “My son came home the first day of school with an extreme headache, and went to bed with a stomachache because he was so anxious,” she told us, adding, “For two weeks, he came home with a headache.”
“We took him to the doctor,” she recounted, and “it was all because of the mask.”
But now you can’t see that video on YouTube.
On Thursday, a YouTube representative emailed The Daily Signal, saying that the video had been “removed from YouTube for violating YouTube’s COVID-19 medical misinformation policy.”
“Specifically, the video includes a claim that ‘COVID is not being spread in the classrooms, it is not being spread by children,’ and our policies prohibit content claiming that any group or individual cannot transmit the virus,” the representative added.
First of all, let’s be clear: Jensen was speaking as a mom, not as a doctor or a medical professional.
Secondly, this is yet another example of only one side being targeted over “misinformation.” As Daily Signal reporter Mary Margaret Olohan chronicled recently, plenty of “experts” have made dubious claims about COVID-19, yet faced no censorship. Whether it’s the New York Post scoop on Hunter Biden’s laptop or a pediatrician speaking the truth about transgenderism in a Daily Signal video, it’s only conservative views that get censored by Big Tech.
“Big Tech is showing us they have no pretense of objectivity anymore. What they offer is a two-tiered ‘justice’ system—one set of rules for those with the ‘right’ opinions and one set of rules for those with the ‘wrong’ ideas,” says my colleague Kara Frederick, a research fellow in the Center for Technology Policy at The Heritage Foundation and author of the new report “Combating Big Tech’s Totalitarianism: A Road Map.”
Disagree with Jensen? Speak up. Make your own video. Write an op-ed. Do a fact-check. There’s a million ways to get your view out there.
That’s how a free society is supposed to work. It’s not about quashing voices. It’s about the spirited debate. Human beings have the gift of reason; we can hear different arguments and make our own decisions about who’s right on the facts.
And yet, in a time where we increasingly use platforms like YouTube and Twitter and Facebook to communicate instead of talking face to face, those Big Tech companies are trying to control what we say.
I know the left is scared of parents like Jensen. They’re terrified by Glenn Youngkin becoming governor in Virginia, after he waged a campaign prioritizing parents over leftist educational ideologues. They’re scared that moms like Jensen, whose words get over a million views, will cause other Americans to reconsider their own views.
They’re afraid that if moms like her keep speaking up, they won’t remain in control of our schools and everything else.
So they resort to censorship.
But here at The Daily Signal, we’re still going to do journalism, no matter what YouTube tries to do to us. And, meanwhile, if you want to hear Jensen’s words yourself, check out our Daily Signal video—on Rumble. | <urn:uuid:d8309c50-40de-4cb4-b6aa-12111e2a444c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://theconservativedispatch.com/2022/02/18/youtube-censors-mom-fighting-school-mask-mandates/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573699.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819131019-20220819161019-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.958273 | 989 | 1.570313 | 2 |
Grabbing a bite to eat in the days of the Roman Empire wasn’t all that different from sitting in an American diner, if the dishes described in a Roman cookbook are anything to go by. Milkshakes and waffles may not have been on the menu just yet, but one delicacy called isicia omentata bears a strong resemblance to a staple of modern cuisine – the hamburger.
The recipe appears in a book called Apicius, which contains 10 separate volumes relating to different categories of food, such as meat, seafood, birds, and vegetables. Thought to have been written in the 4th or 5th century, Apicius contains recipes dating all the way back to the 1st century, mostly using ingredients that would have been available to the wealthier classes living in and around Rome.
Like an extravagant burger, isicia omentata is essentially a minced meat patty that is flavored with pine nuts, peppercorns, and a fish-based sauce called garum, and accompanied by a bread roll that has been pre-soaked in white wine.
It’s not the sort of thing that would have been available to the lower classes, although Roman laborers did used to eat at fast food joints called thermopolia, which were kiosks that served ready-to-eat dishes to workers on their lunch break.
The origins of Apicius remain an issue of contention, with some historians crediting one Apicius Caelius as the author, due to the letters API and CAE appearing on the front cover of some editions. Other accounts, meanwhile, credit the book to a famous glutton named Marcus Gavius Apicius, who was known for his indulgent tastes and is the subject of several outrageous culinary anecdotes.
It is claimed, for example, that he once sailed all the way from Rome to Libya after hearing that the shrimp off the coast of the North African country were tastier than those found elsewhere. However, after being immediately disappointed by the flavor of the Libyan shellfish, he apparently turned around and went straight home without even stepping ashore.
Marcus Gavius Apicius is also said to have had a fondness for flamingo tongue, and supposedly committed suicide after realizing that he no longer had enough money to maintain his scandalous diet. Now there’s a man who’s committed to his food. | <urn:uuid:3f8f6f5d-30e4-46fc-8695-a5ed33203ef3> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://iflscience.com/romans-may-invented-hamburger-54808 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570767.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808061828-20220808091828-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.982026 | 489 | 2.640625 | 3 |
The best feedback is what people give you themselves or via the questions they ask.
But this only happens when you run a big business or have a big community.
In the absence of this, the best alternative is to reach out to people and ask them questions.
But the issue there is that people don’t always tell us 100% what they want/need.
Use this understanding when researching your audience.
And talk to 50 people or more, to get a good overview of what they want.
What one doesn’t tell, others may.
With a small group, you’ll only get the half-truth.
To add another layer to your research, do a virtual safari.
Check out the online communities where your prospective customers hang out. Make a note of what people are posting in their communities about the problems your product solves.
Having done that, you’ll have an excellent idea of what people want, and you can use those insights to build a product or service that will be easy to sell because you’ll be using the language of people who you’ll be selling to, and solve their exact problems. | <urn:uuid:b39dc2c8-92c2-4e3e-8f99-cf418a0965f8> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://mohitpawar.com/audience-research/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570767.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808061828-20220808091828-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.927579 | 242 | 1.546875 | 2 |
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The quality of your soil is at the heart of your farm, soil testing is an important tool for evaluating and / or avoiding problems of nutrients balance.
To achieve good yield and quality, nutrient balance has to be maintained. Nutrient imbalance may result in deficiencies, toxicities or interference of one nutrient with the absorption of others. This may result in stress to the crop, causing a decrease in quality and/or yield.
At Barrett Agri we can offer you soil sampling tests. Your area representative will analyse the report and will assist you in making the appropriate changes to your soil. | <urn:uuid:0a020578-bd86-4328-bdf5-0f3e5e0cc13a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://barrettagri.ie/soil-sampling/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570767.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808061828-20220808091828-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.892202 | 125 | 2.765625 | 3 |
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Saskatchewan reported its highest single-day increase of COVID-19 on Saturday with 439 new cases, bringing the provincial caseload to 6,237.
The majority of the new cases are in Saskatoon, the province’s north and Regina.
Below is a breakdown of where the new cases are located:
Far North West: 9
Far North East: 13
North West: 56
North Central: 43
North East: 11
Central West: 8
Central East: 13
South West: 14
South Central: 18
South East: 19
The location of nine cases remains pending.
Saskatchewan has broken record after record almost daily throughout November for COVID-19 hospitalizations, including on Saturday.
There are 93 people in the hospital, 21 of whom are in the ICU.
The Opposition and health-care workers have sounded the alarm on the health-care system becoming too stretched and have asked for a circuit-break lockdown, but the government has neglected to take such action.
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July 13, 2022
The Future is Hempcrete
Among Allin’s case studies are The Triangle, a housing project designed by Glenn Howells Architects in the UK town of Swindon that features timber-framed units filled with cast hempcrete, and Case di Luce in Bisceglie, Italy, an apartment building designed and built by Pedone Studio and Pedone Working in which hemp was used in plaster and precast blocks.
Hempcrete was first pioneered in France in the 1990s, but construction certification issues and strict agricultural licensing requirements have hampered progress. As the climate crisis deepens, however, the urgency to find planet-positive design solutions is pushing architects to experiment. At Margent Farm, a hemp farm in the UK county of Cambridgeshire, Practice Architecture used hemp shiv harvested from the surrounding fields to build a house for the owner and his family in 2019. Flat House was constructed using prefabricated panels of planed timber and engineered I-joists, with a hempcrete infill made at HG Matthews’s Brickworks in South Buckinghamshire.
Last year, Practice Architecture’s sister company Material Cultures teamed up with Studio Abroad to build a 968-square-foot, timber-framed home in Somerset, called Block House. Made from locally sourced timber, hempcrete blocks, and wood-fiber insulation, the house sits on flint foundations designed to have minimal impact on the environment. Often hempcrete is hidden from view by heavy lime renders, but the architects have chosen to express hemp textures in the interior of the buildings, making them a clear part of the material palette.
“Hempcrete is versatile, beautiful, and breathes moisture,” says George Massoud, a director of both Material Cultures and Studio Abroad. “Crucially it’s also natural and speaks to a future where we could grow all the materials we work and build with.”
Elsewhere in Cambridgeshire, Jonathan Tuckey Design received planning permission last year for Hempcrete House, a contemporary extension to a Victorian villa in a conservation area, and more recently, a new-build home made from hempcrete blocks atop a hill in Surrey, which is currently under construction. Hempcrete isn’t certified as load bearing, which means it requires a structural system made from a material such as wood, but Jonathan Tuckey Design has made a virtue of this in the design of the Surrey house. “We are leaving the timber beams exposed, in a nod to some Arts & Crafts country houses,” says project architect Rob Leechmere.
The practice was drawn to hempcrete due to its carbon capturing credentials, and its insulative value, thermal mass, and breathability. “It requires a shift in thinking from the traditional building science of wrapping buildings in membranes,” Leechmere adds. “You have to understand that this is a type of construction that facilitates moisture movement.”
In America, the use of hempcrete in architecture has been held back by red tape, but the United States Hemp Building Association submitted hempcrete insulation for certification in building codes earlier this year. Companies such as HempBlock USA and Hempitecture already supply hempcrete products, and researchers at Texas A&M University are working on a plan to 3D print new “resilient buildings” using the biocomposite, exploring its potential to increase the availability of affordable housing while lowering its environmental impact.
Growing industrial hemp is legal in 47 states in the U.S., so we can expect to see a new crop of hempcrete buildings sprouting in the years to come.
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The live-work-play building with an iconic flamingo graphic was designed by Eskew Dumez Ripple for Salt Lake City’s burgeoning creative class. | <urn:uuid:5fecd6af-c178-4176-9d04-159acd9f3954> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://metropolismag.com/viewpoints/building-with-hemp/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570767.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808061828-20220808091828-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.939041 | 929 | 2.359375 | 2 |
For this assignment, you must write an academic paper that recommends ways to improve user defenses by reducing the results of changing risks and new threats.
Your paper must contain the following:
- Review the current information security concerns regarding internal and external users.
- Analyze the foundations that lead to information losses by information system users.
- Consider potential solutions that might improve the ability of users to defend the organization.
- Establish potential solutions for new risks, especially evolving threats.
- Synthesize specific solutions and defenses to improve outcomes, while addressing current and especially evolving information risks.
Length: 9 pages, not including title and reference pages
References: Include a minimum of 5 scholarly resources.
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Happy Summer Solstice! Thank you to everyone who has supported the Echozoo Hatchfund project.
If you missed the last email, Echozoo is a new smartphone App I’m
developing which will play a musical score of re-imagined extinct
animal sounds that lived in your part of the world. The App seeks to
foster a sense of connection and wonder with our biological sound world
past, present and future.
This is going to be one of the biggest projects I’ve even undertaken. It’s really a culmination of my work as a composer, sound design, meditator and Deep Listener. This Hatchfund will enable me to take the time I need to work on this project and not just work on it in my “spare time” away from work. I’m so grateful for the support I’ve received for this project so far.
However, we still need to raise about $1700 to make our minimum goal and there’s less than two weeks to go! If you’re thinking of pledging to the project, now is the time. Please spread the word and support this project if you’re curious about the largely untapped world of extinct animal sound design. Any level of support is appreciated and all donations are 100% tax deductible.
I just returned from my week in Canada at the Ayatana Artist Research Program. I had the honor to live and work with a group of artists as we met with animal and field recording experts for various outings during the week.
We went on at least two excursions each day to listen to the rich biophony found in Ontario and Québec. Above is a photo when we went on an expedition with a local bird expert.
Below is a photo of us at an animal acoustics lab at Carlton University. This team of scientists work with the audible communication and listening of caterpillars, beetles, grasshoppers and crickets.
One of my favorite nights was listening to bats using an Arduino bat detectors we built with maker Michael Grant from Krazatchu.
We all recorded so many sounds. Ayatana setup a SoundCloud page with many of our samples of birds, frogs, insects, bats, beavers, wind, earth, water and some man-made sounds.
Many of the sounds I recorded at Ayatana will make their way into Echozoo. I have another field recording trip planned for August in the Northwest US where I hope to record more animals sounds for the project.
Finally, I made this collage of sounds from the week in Canada. Please enjoy:
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In April, our Bles Dairies FMS experts visited a number of large-scale dairy farms in Russia to provide them with high-level management and supervision services. They made a tour through several regions in the country, had discussions with the farm specialists, analysed the farm management data and met with the leadership teams. During these meetings, main topics of discussion were the faced challenges and aimed targets. On completion of the visit, we provided the dairy farms with an expert report on the visit detailing any recommendations as appropriate for potential areas of improvement.
On one of the farms, for example, they had achieved relatively low conception rate of sexed semen. Therefore, the farm management and Bles Dairies FMS agreed to supervise a pilot of sexed semen for a period of 3 month. Every month the results shall be measured, reported and discussed, enabling FMS experts to act immediately in case necessary. A follow-up visit later this year has also been planned to discuss the pilot on site. Under the supervision of our experts, we are convinced the farm can improve their breeding results.
During their tour, the FMS experts recognized many interesting subjects of improvement, in genetics strategy, reproduction, feeding, animal health and cow comfort. Overall, the process of improving a large-scale dairy never ends, but small steps have already been made. By constantly supervising the farms, Bles Dairies FMS ensures the farms’ continuous technical improvement leading to better financial results. | <urn:uuid:b222c7ea-4cca-4519-8413-8c5f76364ab5> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.bles-dairies.nl/farm-management-solutions-large-scale-dairies-in-russia/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573699.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819131019-20220819161019-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.955303 | 302 | 1.578125 | 2 |
The Declination Angle is the angle between Magnetic North (horizontal component direction as shown by a magnetic compass) and True North. It has a different value from one geographical location to another and also changes with time moving East or West of True North, thus the term secular variation. It is one of the three magnetic parameters of the Geomagnetic field.
The Protopalatial period (MMI ‐ MMII) (Middle Minoan) is reported to have lasted from ca. 1900 BC to 1750 BC, about 150 years and over the course of this period the construction of the first Minoan Palaces at Phaestos, Knossos and Malia transformed the Island’s history.
The angle orientations between the main Minoan Protopalatial Palace’s (Central Court long axes) are significantly different but there was no apparent reason to suspect that the orientations were not simply “random”, or approximating North‐South to facilitate passive heating/cooling, or for some other reason, possibly religious or astronomical.
Liritzis and Vassiliou (2006a) report that Ancient Greeks saw the Aurora Borealis strongly enough to associate it with particular Gods (hyperborean Apollo) and to build temples of unusual orientation. As such, 14 oriented temples of Apollo from ancient Greece and its colonies have been identified. Liritzis (1988) also has used aurorae and inclinations for archaeomagnetic dating. Although astronomical targets may have been only one amongst several factors that determined the orientation of ancient buildings, arguments drawn from ancient literature support contemporary archaeomagnetic research on virtual pole shift, that points to intentional orientation towards a celestial phenomenon, either aurorae or sunrise.
It has been suggested that the orientations of Minoan Palaces were deliberately oriented towards the ‘East’ and the rising sun and that the rough North‐South orientation of the Palaces were connected to the function of the Central Court or were aligned to solar and lunar orientations. Orientation explanations in the literature have referred to, “rising sun at equinoxes and solstices”, (Blomberg and Henriksson, 2001) and “N‐S, NE‐SW, rough N‐S, arbitrary N‐S, E‐W orientation” (MacEnroe, 2010). However, orientations are, in fact, clearly different and specific.
It is important to note that magnetic compass orientations are not universal. Minoan building orientations range from East to West of North through a angle of ~103° as indicated, for example, by the ‘extreme’ orientations of Kato Zakros (Central Court long axis), +37°, (+ sign denotes, East of North) and Nirou Khani (Minoan Hall/forehall long axis), ‐66°, (‐ sign denotes, West of North).
Use of Archaeomagnetic Secular Variation
Archaeomagnetic secular variation curves for the past geomagnetic field are established by measuring appropriate materials from the pre‐historic past, including, burnt mud brick walls, baked clay from oven plasters, kilns, burnt floor layers subjected to ancient fires. It must be noted, however, that in general, archaeological sites suffer from the absence of precise dating because of the problems of contradictions within the calibrated 14C dates.
Material containing suitable magnetic grains after being subjected to heating above, about 700°C, record, on cooling the ‘elements’ (Declination, Inclination and Intensity or strength) of the ambient geomagnetic field.
The angular deviations from True North of some Minoan buildings were compared to the Age‐Declination [Archaeomagnetic secular variation of declination Reference Curve (ARC)], magnetogram, for Bulgaria (Kovacheva et al, 1998), with particular interest in any meetings (intersections) of the ARC by building orientations from the period between ~2400 BC and ~900 BC (Fig. 2). The older archaeomagnetic data from 0 – 6000 BC is arguably the best secular variation record in the world (Kovacheva et al, 1998). Bulgaria, which is due north of Crete has currently a declination difference between the two locations of less than 10 and the use of the Bulgarian ARC for comparisons with Cretan building orientations, presumes, that, the declination difference, during the ‘period of archaeological interest’ was of a similar value.
Minoan Building Orientations
The long‐axes orientations of the Central Courts of the six main Palace sites and the ‘N‐S’ walls within other sites were measured and their orientations compared to True North.
The orientations of the Central Courts’ long axes for the main Palace sites which meet the mean of the [Archaeomagnetic secular variation of declination Reference Curve (ARC)], magnetogram, for Bulgaria, Kovacheva et al (1998), (Fig. 2) are shown in (Figs. 3 and 4).
The Protopalatial Palace at Knossos is oriented at +100 and this angle meets the ARC at two points (example Fig. 3), firstly at ~2120 BC. It must be noted, that, at Knossos, there is an EM III (Early Minoan), (Late Prepalatial) facade beneath the later Protopalatial Palace, aligned in the same orientation as the Protopalatial walls.
These walls “represent only a small part of a grand undertaking…. at the heart of the settlement, much of the hill was leveled and a terrace, as massive in scale as the corresponding section of the later Palace, was constructed” (MacEnroe, 2010). This indicates the lengths, to which, architects and builders would go to, in order to achieve the preferred orientation. This orientation suggests that a magnetic compass may have been used during the late EM III period.
The orientation of the Central Court of the Palace at Malia is oriented at +18° and intersects the ARC in the ‘period of interest’ at two points (Fig. 4a), giving possible dates of ~1900 BC and ~1840 BC, both of which, it could be argued, are plausibly within the reputed archaeological time‐frame.
The Protopalatial Palace at Phaestos is oriented at +3° and this intersects the ARC twice, firstly at ~1765 BC (MM II) (MacEnroe, 2010), in archaeological context, possibly the most likely date and again at ~1490 BC.
The buildings to the west of the main Palace at Galatas are oriented at +6°, intersecting the ARC at ~1800 BC, the most likely date in archaeological context and again at ~1475 BC. The +4° orientation of the main Palace’s central court, intersects the ARC at two points (Fig. 4c), firstly at ~1790 BC and again at ~1485 BC.
Orientations of other significant Minoan building sites throughout Central and Eastern Crete (Fig. 1), that appear to have been oriented using a magnetic compass, are shown in (Figs 4 and 5). Some building orientations suggest construction contemporaneity.
Mochlos (Artisan’s quarter workshops)
Buildings A and B at this site are dated as Neopalatial (MacEnroe, 2010). However, the ‘NS’ east walls of rooms 1, 4 and 10, (Building A), (Fig. 4a) if a magnetic compass was used, are oriented at +18°, the same orientation as the Protopalatial Palace at Malia.
For Building B, the ‘N‐S’ west walls of rooms 1,2 and 7‐12 are oriented at +6° showing intersections with the ARC at ~1800 BC and at ~1475 BC.
The site plan taken from Sakellarakis and Sapouna‐Sakellaraki (1997) indicates that the “askew” Houses A, B and C are respectively orientated at, (+7°, +4° and +3°) and have been dated from 1700 BC to 1500 BC. (Warren and Hankey, 1989), however, the intersections of the house orientations with the ARC suggests somewhat earlier dates, between ~1805 BC and ~1765 BC.
The “N‐S” parallel walls of rooms 1 to 5 are oriented at +6°, giving possible dates at ~1800 BC and ~1490 BC. The site is dated MM IIB – MM III (MacEnroe, 2010) which is consistent with the earlier archaeomagnetic date.
Quartier Mu (Malia)
The Protopalatial building A, is described as the “grandest structure known from the Protopalatial period” (MacEnroe, 2010) and is oriented at +3°, the same orientation as the Protopalatial Palace at Phaestos.
“The Late Minoan settlement at Amnisos was built over the course of many years, beginning with the best‐built, room A and is dated to LM III” (MacEnroe, 2010). It has an orientation of 0° (North) and can only be tentatively matched, at its first intersection with the inferred section of the ARC at ~1380 BC, ~1280 BC and at ~1120 BC (Fig. 5a). The exact date is therefore uncertain but the archaeomagnetic dates fall broadly within archaeological context.
‘Palace’ at Gournia
The ‘N‐S’ walls of the Civic Shrine at Gournia are oriented at +7° and intersect the ARC at ~1080 BC (ie. LM IIIC, Warren and Hankey, 1989) and ~860 BC.
Peak Sanctuary (Mt. Juktas)
The ‘N‐S’ east wall of ‘storage’ building rooms I – IV are oriented at ‐6° , giving possible dates ~1340 BC and ~1200 BC (taken from the inferred section of the ARC) and later, at ~1140 BC.
Petsophas Peak Sanctuary
The ‘N‐S’ west walls of rooms 1, 2 and 4 are orientated at ‐6°, giving dates at ~1340 BC and ~1200 BC (from the inferred section of the ARC) and later, at ~1140 BC.
Kephala Vasilakis (Building E)
The ‘N‐S’ walls of rooms 1, 2 and 3 are oriented at +25° at the extreme easterly maximum of the declination (within error) giving a date at ~920 ± 40 BC (Fig. 5d). The ‘N‐S’ west walls of rooms 4, 5 and 6 are oriented at +19° and intersect the ARC at ~940 BC and again at ~890 BC.
The ‘N‐S’ rooms (135 –140) of the large axial houses to the east and the so‐called “Barracks” rooms (3 – 7) are oriented at +19° giving an archaeomagnetic date at ~940 BC and ~890 BC. The ‘Great House’(N‐S. walls 8 and 9) are oriented at +8° intersecting the ARC at ~1070 BC and at ~870 BC. The Temple (north of site, room 1) is oriented at +4° and intersects the ARC at ~1120 BC and ~850 BC.
It is important to note that, there is always the possibility that building lay‐outs were not made using a magnetic compass and, that, their orientations were simply coincident with the ambient declination. This may give rise to a misinterpretation of age. Future improvements in the archaeomagnetic secular variation record for Greece will allow for more accurate dating and for the identification of other magnetically oriented sites.
Minoans and their use of the Magnetic Compass
In ‘The Ship Procession in the Miniature Fresco’ (west house, south wall, room 5) Akrotiri, Thera, specific emblems decorate the prow and stern, hull mast‐top and dress‐ship lines. An emblem of a ‘star/rosette’ was emphasized on the hull of the Flag‐ship and on all the prows of the large ships (Morgan Brown, 1978) (Fig. 6). This depicted circular object has specifically sixteen pointers with dots between them around the circumference, more or less symmetrically disposed. Could this artist’s crude representation, be that of a magnetic compass, more likely to be (or exclusively) used by the larger ‘Ocean‐going’ ships?
(Source: “Orientations of Minoan buildings on Crete may indicate the first recorded use of the magnetic compass”, by W.S. Downey)
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· New CERN facility to help cancer research: the CERN-MEDICIS facility has produced radioisotopes for medical research for the first time.
MEDICIS (Medical Isotopes Collected from ISOLDE) aims to provide a wide range of radioisotopes, some of which can only be produced at CERN thanks to the unique ISOLDE facility. These radioisotopes are intended for applications in hospitals and research centres across Europe. Progress in the use of radioisotopes for diagnosis and treatment has been made and MEDICIS will enable researchers to devise and test unconventional radioisotopes with a view to developing new cancer treatments.
Thierry Stora, MEDICIS project co-ordinator, said: “Radioisotopes are used in precision medicine to diagnose cancers, as well as other diseases such as heart irregularities, and to deliver very small radiation doses exactly where they are needed to avoid destroying the surrounding healthy tissue.” A chemical element can exist in several variants or isotopes, depending on how many neutrons its nucleus has. Radioisotopes are naturally radioactive and ubiquitous in Nature. Other radioisotopes are not naturally available, but can be produced using particle accelerators.
MEDICIS uses a proton beam from ISOLDE – the Isotope Mass Separator Online facility at CERN – to produce radioisotopes for medical research. The first batch produced was Terbium 155Tb, which is considered a promising radioisotope for diagnosing prostate cancer, as early results have recently shown. Radioisotopes are already widely used by the medical community for imaging, diagnosis and radiation therapy. However, many do not combine the most appropriate physical and chemical properties and, in some cases, a different type of radiation could be better suited.
CERN-MEDICIS is an effort led by CERN with contributions from its dedicated Knowledge Transfer Fund, private foundations and partner institutes. It also benefits from a European Commission Marie Skłodowska-Curie training grant, which has been helping to shape a pan-European medical and scientific collaboration since 2014.
· Nhât-Tân Vuong (ESR-2) and Roberto Formento Cavaier (ESR-6) presented on 7th February 2018 the CERN MEDICIS facility and the MedicisPromed network Geert Muylle, H.E. Ambassador of the permanent mission of Belgium to UN Office at Geneva.
· Thierry Stora, the project coordinator of MEDICIS-Promed at CERN, was invited by the University of Oslo to attend the "Spring workshop on nuclear and particle physics" and give a lecture on Medical Applications (MEDICIS) to bachelor physics students on 10th April 2018.
For further information, please visit the follwing link: https://indico.cern.ch/event/720659
· Roberto Formento Cavaier (ESR-6) and Nhât-Tân Vuong (ESR-2) together with Thierry Stora (the project coordinator of MEDICIS-Promed) accompaigned the Minister of Sciences and Education of Latvia in the visit of MEDICIS facility at CERN on 17th April 2018.
- MEDICIS - Promed SEMINARS
5 seminars, involving around 300 students, will be organised in the region of Lisbon soon. The 1st seminar took place on December 14th 2016 in one of the best high-schools of Lisbon, The "Escola Secundária Rainha Dona Leonor". The seminar had a great success and around 150 students participated in.
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By Dr. Nupur Gupta, Gynaecology
During the progressive stages of pregnancy and lactation, the psychological bearing, as well as the nutritional needs of the mother’s body, undergoes a wide range of changes. Keeping in mind the various prerequisites of fetal care, the lifestyle of the mother also needs to adapt to several new norms and practices.
Since lactation is one of the foremost factors that affect the development of the fetus, alterations in maternal tissues and metabolism are vital for the upkeep of the health of both mother and child. During the lactation stages, the mammary glands and the placenta have specific requirements for certain high energy-yielding nutrients. Not always can the genetic and the environmental needs of the child are met through maternal diet and it becomes mandatory to take new health-boosting supplements.
It, therefore, necessitates close scrutiny of the nutritional as well as the physiological needs of both the mother and the child during the varying stages of pregnancy and lactation.
Breastfeeding Nutrition Tips for New Moms:-
- Consume soups, juices and a minimum of 8 glasses of water daily as they are high in fluids and will facilitate milk production and compensate the loss of fluids from the body.
- Eat a lot of fruits and vegetables which are a good source of vitamins, minerals and fiber which your body needs during this phase.
- Add high-quality protein in your diet like meat, fish and eggs.
- Avoid fried and sweet foods as they are low in nutrients and don’t increase milk secretion.
- Consume 3 servings of milk and dairy products daily which are a good source of protein, calcium and phosphorous.
- Eat nuts (almonds, walnuts, etc) in moderation; these are known to be beneficial for women who are breastfeeding as they are full of nutrients but also high in oils and calories.
- Avoid foods that might cause discomfort for your baby like cauliflower, broccoli, legumes and spicy foods
- Avoid smoking and alcohol for their negative effect on milk production.
- Perform light physical activity after your doctor’s approval.
During pregnancy, the body undergoes a massive quantum of hormonal changes. The estrogen secretion not only increases but also becomes more complicated. Consequently, the pituitary glands of the mother also perform certain specialized functions that promote the growth and maintenance of the mammary glands. Other significant bodily changes during pregnancy are the increase in the total blood volume in the body and the drop in the plasma protein content. Complimenting such complex variations, nutritional requirements also manifest a sharp change. Most nutrients including vitamins, proteins and energy giving supplements are needed in greater volume to support the development of the fetus as well as enhance the immunity of the mother.
The process of lactation occurs under the heavy influence of neuroendocrine mechanisms. Increased levels of prolactin are the most pivotal determinant of the onset of milk secretion. Therefore, a fair section of the nutritional intake of the mother is directed towards promoting the development of the breasts. The mother’s milk is known to be the chief source of nutrition for the newborn. Thus, the nutritional requirement during lactation is way more than that during pregnancy. | <urn:uuid:fc253bce-3bc2-4dfb-b9fa-fe4695cc1350> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://blog.lybrate.com/2020/02/10/nutritional-requirements-of-lactating-mother/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570767.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808061828-20220808091828-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.953386 | 658 | 2.609375 | 3 |
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I post this painting and verse (“An Hymn to the Morning”) in honor of poet Phillis Wheatley (circa 1753-1784). Her birth date, and in fact her birth year, are unknown, but today is the anniversary of the day that she was emancipated from slavery. So we might think of that as a kind of birthday.
I chose this image to accompany her poem partly because of its depiction of dawn, but also because it was, unhappily, across the sea that Wheatley came to these shores, kidnapped in West Africa by slavers and sold in Boston. Her age was estimated at around seven or eight, because she had “already lost her front teeth,” a fact that clutches at the heart of any parent reading this unembellished observation. Or of anyone who knows a child… or remembers being a child. No tooth fairy for her, though. Her birth name went unrecorded, and her new owners blithely and undoubtedly without irony gave her the name Phillis, the name of the slave ship that had brought her to Boston, adding their own surname.
Phillis was a thin, sickly child (no surprise, after such a voyage), and although she was nursed and raised more as a child of the house than a slave, she remained delicate all her short life. Her owners soon recognized that Phillis was bright and precocious and put her education into the hands of their grown daughter Mary. Within sixteen months Phillis was fluent in English and could read even difficult passages in the Bible. Her education included Classical and English literature, geography, history, and Latin, as well as the ubiquitous Bible, plus heaps of poetry—an unusual education for a woman of the day, let alone an African slave. (Mary must have been given the same education.)
At around age twelve, Wheatley began writing her own poetry, and her first published work appeared in a Newport newspaper when she was fourteen. She felt a powerful drive to create poetry, and her owners encouraged her and assisted in its publication in journals in the colonies and in England. Much of the subject matter was quite somber, consisting of tributes to noteworthy personages of the day and elegies composed upon the death of someone’s spouse or child. They are complex in their use of language, employing ambiguity and subtle understatement, and allusions to Greek and Roman history and mythology as well as to the Bible. Wheatley was obviously assuming similar education on the part of her audience, and it’s pretty rough sledding for the 21st century reader. I liked this particular poem because of the rare note of humor in the closing lines, and was glad to imagine her having a small chuckle.
It wasn’t long before Wheatley’s poetry brought her attention. Her owners, unable to find a colonial backer to publish a book of her work, found a publisher in London, who agreed to the project if the work could be prefaced by a statement signed by respectable Bostonians testifying to its authenticity! Phillis was questioned by Boston’s judges, and the required document was procured (one of its 18 signers was John Hancock).
So off she went to England, accompanied by her owners’ grown son, where she spent several months overseeing the publication of her book and meeting both members of the nobility and free Britons of African descent. She was a celebrity. In England there was public criticism of Phillis’ American enslavement, which embarrassed her owners. It probably would have been possible for her to refuse to return to America, and to stay where she would have been free; nevertheless, on hearing of her mistress’ illness, she boarded ship for home, missing an upcoming opportunity to be presented at court. And shortly after her return, her owner signed her emancipation papers.
She was free. What did that mean? Well, her books belonged to her, and she tried to sell them to support herself. She continued to write poetry, including a tribute to George Washington, who invited her to come call on him, as he wished to meet “the little black poetess.” Phillis had hopes for the Revolution—that the new country, once freed from Britain’s yoke, would turn around and free its own yoked people. Her poetry, which had been necessarily ambiguous in its references to slavery, grew more clearly critical.
Happy Emancipation Day, Phillis! With your gifts and your drive to create, what would you have become in another era? Undoubtedly a published author of many works, making the author tours, speaking at bookstores, interviewed on National Public Radio’s Diane Rehm Show.
Attend my lays, ye ever honour’d nine,
Assist my labours, and my strains refine;
In smoothest numbers pour the notes along,
For bright Aurora now demands my song.
Aurora hail, and all the thousand dies,
Which deck thy progress through the vaulted skies:
The morn awakes, and wide extends her rays,
On ev’ry leaf the gentle zephyr plays;
Harmonious lays the feather’d race resume,
Dart the bright eye, and shake the painted plume.
Ye shady groves, your verdant gloom display
To shield your poet from the burning day:
Calliope awake the sacred lyre,
While thy fair sisters fan the pleasing fire:
The bow’rs, the gales, the variegated skies
In all their pleasures in my bosom rise.
See in the east th’ illustrious king of day!
His rising radiance drives the shades away–
But Oh! I feel his fervid beams too strong,
And scarce begun, concludes th’ abortive song.
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David Beckham Personal Profile: Known for his style and accomplishments in football profession, David Robert Joseph Beckham was brought into the world on May 2, 1975 in Leytonstone, East London. The previous English footballer is generally thought to be as perhaps the best player throughout the entire existence of the game. He was brought into the world in the place of Ted Beckham and Sandra west. His dad was a machine repairman and mother, a hairdresser. At early age, David turned into a football sweetheart and before long joined the football school which helped him a ton in fostering his abilities.
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Orchid compost mix, 5 litre
Orchids require a very different compost mix to most other houseplants. They are generally 'epiphytes', or plants that don't grow in soil. They prefer a mix that has plenty of aeration and space and almost no nutrients, similar to what they would have in the wild. This is a blend of fine orchid bark, sphagnum moss for humidity retention, coco husk for stability and activated carbon for its antibacterial and salt-absorbing properties. 5 litre ziplock bags.
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CA Changes Motor Vehicle and Diesel Fuels Tax Effective July 1 2017
California Tax Rates for Motor Vehicle and Diesel Fuels. Rates in Effect from July 1, 2017 through October 31, 2017
Sales and Use Tax Rates:
|Type of Fuel||Prepayment Per Gallon||Sales and Use Tax Rates*|
|Gasoline (motor vehicle fuel)||5 cents ($0.05)||2.25%|
|Aircraft jet fuel||8.5 cents ($0.085)||7.25%|
|Diesel fuel||18 cents ($0.18)||9.00%1|
|Aviation gasoline||Not Applicable||Not Applicable|
* You must add district taxes where applicable.
1. The sales tax rate on diesel fuel will increase on November 1, 2017.
Excise Tax Rates Per Gallon:
|Type of Fuel||Through June 30, 2017||Effective July 1, 2017|
|Gasoline (motor vehicle fuel)||27.8 cents ($0.278)||29.7 cents ($0.297)2|
|Aircraft jet fuel3||2 cents ($0.02)||2 cents ($0.02)|
|Diesel fuel||16 cents ($0.16)||16 cents ($0.16)22|
|Aviation gasoline3||18 cents ($0.18)||18 cents ($0.18)|
2. The excise tax rates on gasoline and diesel fuel will increase again on November 1, 2017.
3. Excise taxes on aircraft jet fuel and aviation gasoline are not subject to an annual adjustment.
When are the rates established?
By March 1 of each year, the BOE is required to establish the sales tax prepayment and excise tax rates on fuels that will be in effect from July 1 through June 30 of the following year.
How are the sales tax prepayment rates determined?
The prepayment rate for each gallon of gasoline, aircraft jet fuel, and diesel fuel is calculated at 80 percent of the combined state and local sales tax on the average selling price of the fuel, excluding sales tax, as reported by industry publications. The BOE may adjust these rates during the year if changes in fuel prices cause fuel retailers to prepay too much or too little tax. The BOE will notify you by Special Notice if this occurs.
Why are the excise tax rates adjusted?
State laws enacted in 2010 created a new tax structure for gasoline and diesel fuels. These laws require the BOE to adjust the excise tax rates by March 1 of each year so that the overall state taxes consumers pay for a gallon of fuel remain the same as they would have paid under the prior tax structure.
Fuel tax rates will increase on November 1, 2017
Senate Bill 1 was signed into law on April 28, 2017. As a result, the excise tax rates for gasoline and diesel fuel, and the sales tax rate for diesel fuel, will increase on November 1, 2017. In a future notice, the BOE will provide information regarding the new tax rates, as well as the related storage taxes on tax-paid gasoline and diesel fuel in inventory on November 1, 2017.
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Supplementary MaterialsAdditional file 1: Physique S1. expression in 72 pairs of human HCC tissues and matched adjacent normal tissues. miR-31-5p expression in HCC tissues was significantly lower H3B-6545 than that in adjacent normal tissues (value was obtained using the log-rank test. **, luciferase activity was used as a loading control. **, em P /em ? ?0.01 miR-31-5p prevents H3B-6545 the nuclear localization of PARP1 We noticed that OXA treatment of both Hep3B and Huh7 cells leads to an miR-31-5p dose-dependent reduction in the nuclear localization of PARP1 as measured by western blotting. This effect was specific to PARP1 and was not associated with other trafficking factors (such as eIF4E) or constitutive nuclear factors (such as PCNA) (Fig.?7a-?-b).b). The decrease in nuclear PARP1 was concomitant with an increase in cytoplasmic PARP-1, indicating a defect in the nuclear or cytoplasmic shuttling of PARP1 (Fig. ?(Fig.5c).5c). However, when the cells were treated with miR-31-5p and OXA, we observed an increase in nuclear PARP1 in conjunction with a decrease in cytoplasmic PARP1. All these data suggest that miR-31-5p-mediated resistance to OXA accompanies altered localization of PARP1. Open in a separate windows Fig. COL24A1 7 Lysosomally bound ABCB9 is usually upregulated with miR-31-5p re-expression and PARP1 interacts ABCB9 inhibits its nuclear localization in HCC cells. a miR-31-5p prevents the nuclear migration of PARP-1. Hep3B and Huh7 cells were transfected with miR-31-5p. PARP-1 localization was detected by proteins blotting. Immunoblotting was also performed using an anti-PCNA antibody as an interior control for nuclear launching. b Cellular localization of PARP-1. Hep3B miR-31-5p reintroduction illustrated PARP1 to cytoplasm. But, when treated with Oxaliplatin, PARP1 had been regaining to nuclear. This had been backed by immunofluorescence. Localization of eIF4E H3B-6545 was also performed showing the specificity of miR-31-5p and Oxaliplatin towards PARP-1. c Appearance degrees of the medication influx transporter abcb9 had been examined via qPCR. There’s a considerably greater comparative expression degree of ABCB9 in miR-31-5p transfected cells set alongside the miR-VC-transfected similar. RQ pertains to comparative fold transformation. d-f Representative traditional western blot, qPCR and immunofluorescent illustrating a rise in ABCB9 appearance level with miR-31-5p re-expression, without apparent transformation in the lysosomal marker Light fixture1. g PARP1 and ABCB9 type a complicated in Hep3B cells which treatment with Oxaliplatin or not really pursuing transfected with miR-VC or miR-31-5p. After that separating and extracting their nuclear protein for coimmunoprecipitation (IP) with particular antibodies miR-31-5p prevents the nuclear localization of PARP1 in vivo During our research, we discovered that the nuclear localization of PARP1 was transformed in response to miR-31-5p or treatment with OXA. We then injected 7 subcutaneously.5??106 Hep3B cells/stage in both still left and right flanks of nude mice, which produced an obvious tumor mass 2?weeks following the shot. Next, we injected either miR-31-5p-transfected or miR-VC-transfected cells in to the nude mice. Concurrently, two sets of nude mice were put through administration of either PBS or OXA on time 18. Furthermore, tumor development was assessed every 3 times, and mice had been sacrificed on time 25. The outcomes indicated which the cells transfected with miR-VC produced smaller sized tumors than those transfected with miR-31-5p pursuing treatment with OXA. (Fig.?8a-?-b).b). On the other hand, as Fig. ?Fig.8c8c displays, PARP1 H3B-6545 expression following treatment with miR-31-5p and OXA was less than that treatment with H3B-6545 miR-31-5p just. This total result was commensurate with those of the vitro experiments shown in Fig. ?Fig.4a4a-?-b.b. Furthermore, these results had been verified by histofluorescence and immunohistochemistry (Fig. ?(Fig.8d8d-?-ee). Open up in another screen Fig. 8 miR-31-5p stops nuclear area of PARP1 in vivo. a-b The amounts of tumor in Oxaliplatin -treated group had been significant smaller sized than that in charge group, * em P /em 0.05 vs control at day 21. c American blot supports the full total benefits in keeping with cells. d-e Histoflorescence and immunohistochemical indicated which the miR-31-5p might avoid the. | <urn:uuid:f7c6d5b4-5865-4ef7-82e2-e5d20a078a5a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://biotuesday.ca/%EF%BB%BFsupplementary-materialsadditional-file-1-physique-s1/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570767.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808061828-20220808091828-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.944578 | 1,186 | 1.617188 | 2 |
National Geographic defines citizen science as “the practice of public participation and collaboration in scientific research to increase scientific knowledge.” Cold Hollow to Canada’s Keeping Track Monitoring Program (KTMP) is one such citizen science. The CHC Keeping Track Monitoring Program – developed with training and support from Sue Morse and the Keeping Track organization – relies on volunteer trackers who monitor resident populations of wide ranging mammals. Teams of trackers monitor designated transects throughout the Cold Hollow region on a seasonal basis to better understand wildlife on our landscape. By submitting that data to Cold Hollow to Canada, our trackers allow us to amass and analyze data from across the landscape to provide information to local conservation groups and conservation commissions in the region.
This leads us to the less exciting part of any citizen science program – data management. Up until now, our volunteers have submitted their data onto our website, with little or no chance to interact with it again. But as Cold Hollow to Canada grows, we are excited to announce the development of an interactive portal and publicly accessible database with the Forest Ecosystem Monitoring Cooperative. The Forest Ecosystem Monitoring Cooperative, or FEMC, is a partnership of Northeastern State Agencies, the University of Vermont, and the USDA Forest Service. The FEMC maintains a long-standing, diverse repository of monitoring and research data related to forest ecosystem structure, health and function. This data includes data collected by the FEMC itself, as well as hosted in collaboration with other organizations. Thanks to funding from the Wild and Scenic River Community Grants program from the Upper Missisquoi and Trout Rivers Wild & Scenic Committee, Cold Hollow to Canada has enlisted the skills of the developers at FEMC to create an interactive portal through which KTMP volunteers can submit and view data. Moreover, the data from CHC’s Keeping Track Monitoring Program will be stored long-term at the FEMC and will be publicly accessible to researchers and conservation groups interested in wide-ranging mammals. In addition, the data will be displayed on maps hosted on the CHC and Upper Missisquoi and Trout Rivers Wild & Scenic Committee websites.
So, if you are a Keeping Tracker, stay tuned for more information on upcoming trainings and opportunities to give input as we develop the new portal. For members of the public, conservation commissions, and other conservation groups, we hope you will check out the data and the maps when the portal and database are complete. Until then, if you have any questions about the portal and database, about the Keeping Track Monitoring Program, or about how you can get involved in citizen science in the Cold Hollow region, please email CHC Administrative Coordinator Liza Morse at liza@. coldhollowtocanada.org | <urn:uuid:deae27e3-bf1c-46dd-8b6a-ee2a50427b33> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.coldhollowtocanada.org/what/news/article/chc-works-with-femc-to-develop-keeping-track-portal-and-database | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573172.64/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818063910-20220818093910-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.901088 | 560 | 2.921875 | 3 |
Deadly facts about teen drinking every parent and educator should know — Why we must teach our kids how to drink responsibly.
1. Nearly 2,000 students die from alcohol-related injuries each year: Every year, an estimated 1,825 students between the ages of 18 and 24 die from injuries sustained by excessive alcohol consumption. This works out as nearly one death for every two colleges in America. Incredibly, another 599,000 are unintentionally injured due to the effects of alcohol. Out of 4,140 colleges in the U.S., both public and private, this factors out to 145 injuries for every single campus. (It should be noted, however, that the methodology for finding these statistics has been questioned.)
2. College drinking deaths rose 26.7% from 1999 to 2005: Deaths of students from alcohol poisoning or alcohol-related accidents are certainly nothing new. College administrations have been making strides in educating students about the dangers of binge drinking for years, but unfortunately that doesn’t seem to be having a positive effect on the number of student drinking deaths. On the contrary, the number is actually rising. The 1,825 deaths calculated in 2005 were an increase of almost 27% from the 1,440 deaths calculated in 1998.
3. Freshmen account for more than one-third of college student deaths: When it comes to alcohol-related deaths, the first year of college is easily the most dangerous. A USA Today study done in 2006 found that although freshman account for only about 24% of the total population of college students, they make up much more than their share of the number of deaths. For example, they accounted for 40% of undergraduate suicides, 47% of undergrad deaths on campus, and half of deaths from falls out of windows and off rooftops. Of these deaths, one out of five was found to have been drinking.
4. Fifty-three percent of college students have experienced depression, and less than one-third seek help: With all the pressure, the separation from family and familiar surroundings, and the lack of sleep college students are faced with, depression is a very common ailment on campus. More than half of college students will experience some form of it, and the majority of them will not seek help. The answer for many is to drown their sorrows in alcohol. A 1998 study found as many as 1.5% of students tried to commit suicide because of drinking and/or drug use.
5. At least one student has died from drinking in college hazing rituals every year for more than four decades: Hazing goes back to at least the 1800s and possibly even before. It’s always been used as a way of putting a person through a trial to earn membership in a select group. But to put it bluntly, if the person is killed, what’s the point? Since 1975, thousands of lives have been needlessly thrown away in hazing rituals, devastating their families and usually spelling the end for the organizations they were trying to join.
6. In 82% of hazing deaths, a huge amount of alcohol consumed is involved: Alcohol is sometimes referred to as “liquid courage,” and it’s plain to see why the vast majority of college student athletes and pledges to fraternities and sororities would need to be brave when going through hazing. It can involve beatings, public humiliation, or simply being forced to chug copious amounts of alcohol. As one researcher, professor Hank Nuwer, put it, “We’re talking levels which would be approaching, basically half of your blood system being filled with liquor.”
7. Chico State University student Matthew Carrington died from binging on water: Because of the amount of negative attention hazing has received in recent years, many schools have banned alcohol from Greek functions. To get around this, many college groups have taken to forcing pledges to drink huge amounts of water or milk, either of which can be lethal in large quantities. In 2009, Matthew Carrington died after water absorbed into his blood after his fraternity mates forced him to drink from a five-gallon jug of water that they kept refilling.
8. 83 of the college student deaths from 1999 to 2005 were of underage students: There is a reason the U.S. has a legal drinking age. Hopefully, at least, people over 20 are better equipped to handle peer pressure and know when to call it quits on a night of drinking. They also have two or three years of college under their belt and don’t need to hit the first party they see and get as drunk as humanly possible. But 83 underclassmen died in six years as a result of alcohol poisoning because they weren’t mature enough to drink responsibly.
9. At a 0.15 BAC, chances of a car crash due to drunk driving are 200 times higher: Although the number of deaths due to college students drinking and driving may have been overestimated in the past, there’s no shortage of students still getting behind the wheel while intoxicated. One in five students admitted to driving drunk in a four-year study that concluded in 2010. No states allow driving at a blood-alcohol level over 0.08%. Even at this level, drivers are still about 10 times more likely to be in a (potentially fatal) car crash.
10. A Colorado State University student died of alcohol poisoning with a BAC of 0.436: On a Friday in 2004, Samantha Spady started drinking at 6 p.m. and consumed an estimated 40 cups of beer and shots of vodka. When she was found the next day, her body had a blood-alcohol level of 0.436, an astronomical figure that the coroner said was probably higher earlier in the evening of her death. The most sobering part of her story is that her friends had no indication she had been poisoned by alcohol and was dying; they had left her in a room “to sleep it off.” | <urn:uuid:751dca36-e28f-41a3-b38d-f0f4a0287ae4> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://micheleborba.com/uncategorized/10-sobering-stats-on-college-drinking-deaths/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570767.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808061828-20220808091828-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.979493 | 1,228 | 3.046875 | 3 |
If you want to start a wholesale grocery store but are wondering if is the right business for you, you’ve landed on the right article! You might be worried about losing your job or just bored with your job, and trading goods for profit seems like an appealingly simple. Of course, wholesale grocery distribution is less about haggling over shipments in the dead of the night and more about
How to Start a Wholesale Grocery store?
Step 1: Understand Your Role as a Distributor
As a wholesale grocery shop owner, you will serve as the middleman between manufacturers and household consumers. Manufacturers will produce your groceries. You are the distributor. Grocery stores will come to you if you can offer groceries at a low-enough wholesale price. They will buy from you and then sell it to end-users at a profit. A bushel of apples or a bunch of greens, for example, is grown by a farmer. You will then move it from farmers to the market.
Step 2: Obtain a License
Laws dictating how a wholesale license can be obtained may vary depending on which country you live in and what sort of business you want to run. In any country, you will need some licenses legally operate your business. Firstly, you will have to register your business. Once you have a registered business, you must apply for a wholesale license. Which may exempt you from paying sales tax on the groceries that you are buying wholesale because you intend to resell it. You may also need to get a resale license.
Step 3: Set Your Prices Using Markup
In order to set resell prices that will be lucrative for you in the long run, you have to carefully select the manufacturers based on the quality of their produce and the price they are willing to sell at, as well as the minimum purchase quantity they have set. You must then determine how much produce you can afford to sell before they perish. You will also have to settle on your resell price at this point in order to determine how much profit you will make.
Settle on your own prices after you have compared them to your competitors’ prices. Remember that grocery store chains that buy wholesale look for bigger discounts and slotting fees when they buy in bulk, so you should factor that into your prices. As a wholesale grocery shop, you can differentiate yourself through customer service, or by specializing in selling unusual, organic or locally grown produce only.
Step 4: Develop a Marketing Plan
As a distributor, you should spread the word to any grocery retailers looking to stock new products, manufacturers of products, and consumers of product. Create marketing materials and ensure that it reaches produce farmers and produce consumers. But most importantly grocery retailers who will be your primary buyers.
Find out what is unique about your produce and advertise it. Establish social media accounts (but focus on LinkedIn more than Instagram. Since that will be where your target market (i.e. other businesses) are). Simpler tactics such as offering discounts or offering delivery also work. You could also consider creating a loyalty program. If you operate as the owner of a wholesale distributorship, you will be buying produce to resell to other businesses at a profit, instead of selling it to the buying public.
Try B2B marketing strategies such as a high performance website that will provide a wealth of information about you, as well as limited-time offers that encourage immediate purchase. Find industry platforms on which your business can advertise effectively. You could also consider referral marketing.
Also, read about How to Start a Pub Business!
Step 5: Learn the Skills You Will Need
In order be successful at wholesale distribution, you need negotiation skills, research/trend-tracking skills that will allow you to find the most popular products at any given time, and salesmanship/people skills (i.e. the ability to make a deal appear attractive to your customer).
Sales skills will get your foot in the door, but you must also have operational skills (i.e. the knowledge and resources needed to manage a company). You will need to know how to set up warehouses, order and receive shipments, turn inventory over quickly, and keep your customers satisfied through exemplary service.
Step 6: Rent or Buy Warehouse Space
Since you have chosen to specialize in produce, you will require large, cool, dry warehouses. But since food perishes quickly, you will not have to store it for long. Renting warehouse space is much more affordable than buying it. Since you deal with groceries, you can afford to rent (and shift easily by having future shipments delivered to newer locations should the rent contract not work out for any reasons).
However, grocery warehousing costs are increasing due to increase in wages and equipment costs. So you need to choose a warehouse system that will best suit your needs. Find the right way to assemble orders (from stock selector selection, conventional selection, “u” Bay selection or batch selection) and the right layout to go with it.
Step 8: Choose the Right Way to Start Out
If you want to start your own wholesale grocery shop, you can buy an existing business, start one from scratch or invest in one. Both have their risks and rewards. You will need to spend your savings to buy an existing business. But can enjoy success and reputation. It has built over the years, as well as the client base. For the second option, you will need a fair amount of startup capital. But it will not be as costly as buying an existing business.
You should start your own wholesale grocery shop if you have an innovative solution that no one has tried before. But it will require patience and ambition as you should prepare to not make any profit for the first two to five years. Lastly, you could choose to invest in one.
In conclusion, all you need to do to start a wholesale grocery store is to obtain a license. Set your prices using markup, develop a B2B marketing plan, pick up some sales and operational skills, set up the right warehouse system and choose how you want to start out.
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By 1908 the Alpha Physical Culture Club was finally ready with its own basketball team, which replaced the Marathon Athletic Club of Brooklyn in the Olympian League. Responsibility for managing the new squad, which came to be known as the “Alpha Big Five,” was given to Archibald “Archie” Thomas, a native of the British West Indies. Its founding roster included Thomas himself, who was also the team’s captain and one of its star players, as well as the earnest and forward-thinking Jamaican-born brothers Gerald, Conrad, and Clifton Norman, who had founded the Alpha P.C.C. in 1904, and who were very good athletes in their own right.
When these men began playing basketball, they had powerful motivations. First, it was fun — everyone was talking about the relatively new sport. Spectators for both home and visiting squads would cheer with as much or more team spirit as could be found during college games, and with growing interest in the individual players. “The Alphas, stocky and good looking, took the court early in the evening,” the New York Age reported in 1909. By 1910, the Alpha P.C.C. basketball team was drawing up to 1,200 onlookers per game.
Naturally, fans sometimes became over-enthusiastic. “Because they favored different teams they could not refrain from indulging in a fight, temporarily stopping the game,” wrote New York Age sporting page editor Lester Walton in perhaps the earliest documentation of a courtside brawl. It happened during a particularly heated Alpha Big Five victory over the St. Christopher Club in 1911.
Of concern to Walton was the fact that “several young ladies were crushed in the melee.” The role he played in black hoops was somewhat like that of a “commissioner” of the game, and therefore Walton saw it fit to remind the public, “the class of people that supports basketball games played between our colored clubs does not attend to see a prize fight, and young men of education and refinement should not so forget as to make themselves obnoxious.”
This was not an isolated incidence of leadership and diplomacy for Walton, who was a pioneer in journalism as the first full time sports editor of African descent in history, and who would eventually become the United States’ ambassador for Liberia.
Secondly, basketball was becoming known as a character-building sport, which meant that fans began seeing its players as role models and heroes. “In a game that is so clearly out in the open as is basket-ball, where every move is visible to the spectator and to his team-mates, the player lacking in courage would be immediately conspicuous,” wrote E.D. Angell in his book, Basket Ball for Coach, Player and Spectator, published by Wilson Sporting Goods in 1918. “So basket-ball brings out those qualities that we recognize as manly and worth-while in the development of the American boy.” As an enhancement to this notion, many of the Alpha Big Five’s spectators were members of the opposite sex, a result that was encouraged and reinforced through social events staged by the organization. These were not only fun but also strategic, which explains why Walton was so concerned about the “melee.” Co-ed events included post-game ladies night receptions at the Alpha P.C.C. clubhouse to toast the team and its fans. “The rooms were handsomely decorated,” it was reported of one such event, “and the many guests present were more than pleased at the preparations made for their entertainment.”
Thirdly, the club raised considerable sums of money from its basketball games, especially those played at the spacious Manhattan Casino in Harlem, which held up to 6,000 spectators. The typical general admission was 50 cents, with boxes seating up to eight persons at floor level or in the balcony available for $2.00 — ticket prices included the hatcheck fee.
Finally, the Alpha P.C.C. saw its basketball team as representing not only the organization and its West Indian followers, but also the entire black race. So they were striving to be “legit” in every way. This view encompassed everything from the club’s facilities to the team’s uniforms; from the social standing of its membership to the team’s competitiveness; and from the reach of the club’s community efforts to the team’s sportsmanship. Even ethical considerations had to be upheld. “As soon as men are allowed to jump from one team to another to strengthen weak places and to satisfy an unscrupulous manager, so soon will the game degenerate,” complained Alpha P.C.C. club president Gerald Norman, after a game in which an opponent tried substituting a player not on its roster. “We may expect, if such conduct be permitted,” he continued, “that sooner or later, instead of games being played on their merits the public will find themselves witnessing prearranged contests, which would soon kill the desire for clean athletics and make it most undesirable.”
Since they felt that the club’s success was also the race’s success, the bigger picture was always kept in mind. When the Alpha Big Five played basketball it was about much more than just the game — it was about community building and racial self-esteem. The young club — as well as athletic competition in general and the game itself — began to be seen as providing African-Americans not only with an easily understood model for how to face challenges, but also with a source of inspiration and pride.
In keeping with the staging of meaningful social events in connection with African American basketball games, the Alpha P.C.C. also formed a female basketball team around 1910 called the New York Girls. The team was meant to be the “sister” counterpart to the men of the Alpha Big Five. They were one of America’s first all-black women’s hoop squads and added to the Alpha P.C.C.’s growing popularity. Conrad Norman managed and coached the Girls, who were as attractive as they were talented. “They played basket ball hard and fast,” Smart Set Athletic Club manager Robert Lattimore wrote in 1911, “yet always retained their sweet womanliness and native dignity.”
Conrad soon developed a romantic interest in one of the Girls, a fellow schoolteacher named Dora Cole, who played center. She was “a brainy player and the best shot of all the players around New York and New Jersey.” By then, Conrad was nationally famous among African-Americans as a leading figure in athletics, but Dora knew a good pioneer when she saw one. Her brother was the internationally renowned actor and composer Bob Cole, Jr., who, along with James Weldon Johnson and J. Rosamond Johnson, used his popularity and success to force the entertainment industry into dropping all forms of its racially insulting language and behavior — like so-called “coon” songs — which previously had been in universal demanded by white audiences. So it wasn’t long before Conrad and Dora paired up, and they were married in 1914.
The marriage didn’t last very long. Several years later, Conrad remarried and, with his second wife Kathleen, had six children. One of them, Vincent Norman, was the father of Kevin Norman, the Hamptons-based personal trainer. Asked if he was destined for his eventual livelihood in physical fitness, Kevin was matter-of-fact about it. “The apple didn’t fall far from the tree — you just pass health on to your kids,” he says. This was confirmed by the fact that his father was a varsity wrestler at City College of New York, following the family tradition of earning degrees from that school while being active in its athletic programs.
The formation of the Alpha Big Five basketball team in 1908 meant that two of New York City’s three original powerhouse all-black basketball teams — namely, the Alphas and the St. C.’s, not counting the temporary Marathon club — had been organized and were operated by first-generation Caribbean immigrants. This inspired similar efforts within the West Indian community, like the creation of the St. Cyprian Athletic Club. Also formed in 1908, this organization was modeled after the St. Christopher Club in that it was the sports arm of the newly established St. Cyprian Episcopal Church.
St. Cyprian Church stood in Manhattan’s San Juan Hill section — the city’s second-largest black enclave, located where Lincoln Center is today. A man named John W. Johnson was the pastor of this church’s predominantly working-class Caribbean congregation. The St. Cyprian A.C. was unique because it had a playground as well as a small gymnasium that was part of the church’s parish house. Though small, their gym was “the best possessed by any of the New York or New Jersey clubs,” according to the Smart Set’s Lattimore. This allowed the church to form a youth basketball team known as the “Speed Boys,” which won several New York area championship titles during the 1910s. The team featured the pastor’s son, John H. Johnson, who in 1920 would become the first African-American player on Columbia University’s varsity basketball team.
The younger Johnson would be ordained in 1923 and assist his father at St. Cyprian Church for several years, before becoming the immensely popular pastor of St. Martin’s Episcopal Church in Harlem. While he was there during the 1910s, the athletic facility at St. Cyprian became a well-known social center for the children of foreign-born as well as American-born blacks. It also helped spread the “gospel” of basketball further among African-Americans, particularly among West Indians.
One such “convert” to basketball was a St. Kitts native named Robert “Bob” Douglas. Douglas, a sturdy athlete who stood about 5-feet 9-inches tall, formed the multi-sport Spartan Field Club in 1908, a year after he immigrated to New York City. The Spartan F.C., which drew on the popularity of cricket among West Indians, also formed teams in soccer, boxing, football, track, and eventually basketball. When the club’s Spartan “Braves” hoops team was officially introduced in 1915, Douglas himself would be in the lineup as a guard.
Moreover, his outlook and willingness to learn allowed Douglas to rise quickly in stature as a team operator among his West Indian basketball peers. Meanwhile, his Spartan Braves were soon considered to be in the highest ranks of local amateur African-American teams.
Although other all-black New York City area basketball teams were organized and became relatively successful during the 1910s, the three Caribbean-controlled clubs — the Alphas, the St. Christophers, and the Spartans — stood apart. The popularity of hoops among African Americans there grew — and so did the influence of West Indians in the sport — as these organizations expanded their schedules, their attendance, and their incomes through promotion, publicity, and outright talent. | <urn:uuid:891ad210-1792-47b6-bffc-64f7b8b88517> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://thoughtcatalog.com/claude-johnson/2012/05/basketballs-roots-an-excerpt-2/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573699.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819131019-20220819161019-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.987175 | 2,354 | 2.609375 | 3 |
DRAFT, IN PROGRESS
Language and similar terms are used in the broadest possible sense here initially, to capture climate-relevant scales and timescales. These terms can be narrowed for specific contexts, matching how they are used in various bodies of literature.
This explains why Max Tegmark and the late Ludwig Wittgenstein are good starting points for analyses of language and mental models.
This allows visualizing for example the carbon-intensity of activity via
—Tegmark’s (2017) broad definitions of Life 1.0, 2.0, 3.0; and
—Wittgenstein’s philosophy of language learning (e.g. Lebensform / lifeform, grammar, language games).
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As anybody with bunions will know, the condition can be pretty painful. Your toe is often swollen, red, and tender to the touch. This can make it difficult to wear comfortable footwear, perform daily tasks such as shopping or exercising, and even disrupt your sleep schedule. But when left untreated, can bunions cause leg pain as well? Here’s everything you need to know.
Why Do Bunions Hurt in the First Place?
You may be asking yourself, “can bunions cause leg pain, too?” It’s a fair question to ask, but why are bunions so painful to begin with? Bunions are essentially a misalignment of the joints in the toes. These misalignments can create a boney bump on the side of the foot that can be very painful. Aside from the pain of the lump, the misalignment itself can leave the toe stiff, as well as make it much more difficult to walk, run, stand, or even sit comfortably. This puts pressure on the joints and muscles over time, making the entire process uncomfortable.
Can Bunions Cause Leg Pain? Unfortunately . . .
So, can bunions cause leg pain in addition to foot pain? Unfortunately, bunions can indeed cause leg pain in some people. This is mostly due to the fact that your walking and standing patterns will begin to change in an effort to transfer the pressure off your bunion, but in doing so the pressure can build up in your calf muscles and thighs. This can create aches and pains in the leg, and in some cases, cramps can occur. If you’re experiencing leg pain, there’s no reason to worry. There are several things you can do to stop the pain from getting worse.
How to Stop the Pain
Can bunions cause leg pain? Yes, but regardless of whether the pain has spread to your legs or has remained in your foot, pain is pain. It never feels good. Luckily, you’ve got a few options to manage the pain. If you’re walking around without insoles designed specifically to cushion your step or don’t have your own bunion guard, getting these tools can drastically reduce the pressure and minimize those stabbing pains that shoot up your leg as well. Other methods include sleeping with your foot elevated, taking certain medications, and performing daily toe and foot stretches.
However, if you’re looking for a way to get rid of the pain completely, the only way to do so is through surgery. At Northwest Surgery Center, we perform minimally invasive bunion surgery to get our patients back to their lives with as few complications as possible.
Deal With Your Bunions Once and for All
Nobody enjoys dealing with bunions; they’re painful, annoying, and can affect other aspects of your life in negative ways. But just because you currently have bunions doesn’t mean you’re forced to live with them forever. It’s time to deal with your bunions once and for all by getting minimally invasive surgery.
By connecting with the medical professionals at Northwest Surgery Center, you can begin moving towards living the life you had before bunions. Ready to take the first step? Contact us today or call 414-246-9416 to learn more. | <urn:uuid:2b98410c-e637-471f-913f-7d5c1103a4d6> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://thebunioncure.com/can-bunions-cause-leg-pain/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573172.64/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818063910-20220818093910-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.954204 | 681 | 1.960938 | 2 |
Total visitor count spiked 17%
In total, 51,707 tourists visited Antarctica in the 2017/18 season, a 17% spike from 44,367 in 2016/17, according to the International Association of Antarctica Tour Operators.
Of these, 3,408 flew to the South Shetland Islands on the Antarctic Peninsula where they immediately embarked a vessel for onward travel. This sector, known as air/cruise, increased 6% compared to the previous season. In addition, 9,131 visitors experienced Antarctica on one of four cruise-only vessels that did not make landings, an increase of 22% from 2016/17.
IAATO reported the latest visitor counts at the start of its annual meeting in Newport, Rhode Island. The association has been monitoring, analyzing and reporting trends since 1991 as part of its commitment to ‘leave only footprints’ through the effective self-management of its activities.
During the 2017/18 season, 580 visitors flew to field camps in Antarctica’s interior with IAATO land operators.
‘Antarctica receives relatively few visitors compared to other destinations. The number of tourists who set foot on the continent this past year (42,576) is less than half the number of spectators at the Super Bowl,' said Ponant's Terry Shaller, chair of the IAATO Executive Committee. 'We are, however, mindful that the unique qualities of Antarctica require stringent safeguards. Our proven success in responsible visitor management is the result of forward planning based on deep understanding of the industry. This helps us fine tune our strategies to protect the precious places we visit while enabling people to have an enriching wilderness experience.'
US visitors lead, followed by Chinese
Overall, US visitors remained the most numerous, accounting for 33% of the total number, the same proportion as the previous year. Chinese were the second most numerous, accounting for 16% of all visitors and increasing by 4 points compared to the 2016/17 season. Australians, Germans and Britons followed, accounting for 11%, 7% and 7%, respectively.
'Visiting Antarctica is a privilege that comes with a responsibility to leave it pristine,' IAATO executive director Damon Stanwell-Smith said. 'The growth reported by IAATO mirrors a global upward trend in visiting remote places. Increasing evidence shows that these travelers want to tread lightly on the places they visit.'
Stanwell-Smith added: 'IAATO operators are equipped with the knowledge and tools they need to operate responsibly and deliver strong conservation messages to their guests who we hope will return home as ambassadors for its preservation.'
IAATO will present its latest figures at the Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting in Buenos Aires, May 13-18, to facilitate discussions on effectively managing human activity in Antarctica. | <urn:uuid:8ee73e95-c268-4309-b168-4af04604054b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.seatrade-cruise.com/news-headlines/double-digit-hike-antarctica-visitation-201718 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573699.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819131019-20220819161019-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.940614 | 563 | 1.742188 | 2 |
Quantum computing opens new ways for perceiving computing and security. Although it will potentially offer solutions for difficult computational problems, it also poses a significant threat to data and communications security. The situation drives a development of security solutions against the quantum threat, and Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC) is one of these solutions. The standardisation process of PQC took a big leap after National Institute of Standards and Technology's (NIST) recent announcement of four PQC algorithms that will be included in the forthcoming PQC standard.
Mr. Perttu Saarela, Xiphera’s Developer, discusses the current status and future winds of PQC in Xiphera’s upcoming webinar, held on the 6th of September, 2022. He is working with research and development of PQC algorithms and has extensive knowledge and understanding of the topic.
This webinar introduces and reviews the current situation of PQC standardisation process as well as presents a clear summary of the selected standardisation algorithms, that can be complex and difficult to understand if not explained properly. Finally, we will give some guidelines to take into consideration when designing systems that must remain secure against the quantum threat for years to come. | <urn:uuid:67210152-88c4-43d2-a8b9-a29c047afdda> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/2216595104227/WN_quJ0Tv9rRWmQ9LiH_sw0kg | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573699.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819131019-20220819161019-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.945467 | 254 | 2.078125 | 2 |
While tidying up one day I found an old school book of mine: “Biology 4th class – 1986”
The content of Mrs. S´s lessons (God have mercy on her soul) was that we had to copy from the board what she drew on it – copying it herself exactly from her material of the 60´s. Grads were based on the exercise books that were checked for “correct copying”. Any questions we had were rejected. But I will tell you more about this – at another time.
I remember vividly how I just couldn´t let my eyes off the vertebra. I kept thinking: “What about the spinal cord? Where is the spinal cord? If the whole body weight weighs on the spinal column the spinal cord will be squeezed!”
It took a long time until I understood: The vertebrae together with the discs are stable, weight-bearing elements. The canal for the spinal cord is “further back” and a bony structure.
The result was amazing! Unconsciously I had tried all my life not to burden my spine with too much weight, for in my belief it would be dangorous for the spinal cord. My self-perception shifted from unconscious cautiousness to conscious trust in my back. And the quality of all my movements shifted accordingly.
And I started asking myself where this rock-solid conviction originated: that my spinal cord runs right through the discs. Today I know. You too. What a (body-) blessing! | <urn:uuid:c00a51f0-92a4-4f6b-ab7f-ecb23a70991e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.stefanie-buller.com/en/vom-missverstaendnis-zum-koerperglueck-from-misconception-to-body-blessing-2/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573172.64/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818063910-20220818093910-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.967232 | 322 | 1.53125 | 2 |
The Meaning of Autism Awareness Month at Wicked Sheets
April is Autism Awareness Month. The CDC estimates autism exists in 1 in 68 children nationwide, 1 in 42 boys and 1 in 189 girls. “Autism spectrum disorders (ASD) are characterized by social-interaction difficulties, communication challenges and a tendency to engage in repetitive behaviors,” writes Autism Speaks.
“However, symptoms and their severity vary widely across these three core areas. Taken together, they may result in relatively mild challenges for someone on the high functioning end of the Autism spectrum. For others, symptoms may be more severe, as when repetitive behaviors and lack of spoken language interfere with everyday life.”
At Wicked Sheets, Autism holds a special place in the heart of our founder and our employees. Before starting Wicked Sheets, CEO Alli Truttmann received her B.A. and M.A. in Psychology with a focus on health and human behavior. She found her passion in helping those diagnosed along the Autism spectrum and their families cope and manage the behavioral challenges that come along with ASD. Though she spends a lot of time running Wicked Sheets, she still makes time to visit with her former kiddos and their families.
As Wicked Sheets has continued to grow, Alli’s desire to help families affected by Autism has also grown. As seen in this clip from 2014 when WAVE3, the Louisville NBC affiliate, got wind of this desire and came to visit our former fulfillment center in Southern Indiana to see how our plans to hire parents of kids with disabilities panned out.
When we relocated to Jeffersontown, Kentucky, a suburb of Louisville, shortly after the WAVE3 story came out, we became neighbors with the Bluegrass Center for Autism (BCA). As fate would have it, when we were looking to hire a Product and Inventory Operations Manager we reached out to BCA to post the job to their parents. As with any parent of a child with a disability or learning difference, the perfect job is one that includes: flexibility, drivability, and a supportive team.
Mother to a teenager on the spectrum, Maureen has quickly become part of the Wicked Sheets team and brought with her a valuable skill set, incredible work ethic, and even sewing experience. For April, we’re doing a two-part series on autism. This first is a glimpse into autism itself and our second part is an interview with Maureen about the important role of sleep in her son’s life. | <urn:uuid:f9ba6651-5e3f-4874-8fa5-accdcdea93ed> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://wickedsheets.com/company-news/autism-awareness-month-pt/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573699.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819131019-20220819161019-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.969348 | 523 | 1.976563 | 2 |
I've been an investigative health researcher for more than 25 years--this is my favorite website, even more than my own--and I've come across a great deal of information on natural healing, but nothing more exciting than what I found on a paid member site for alternative cancer treatment reports. This report had to do with "The Marine Treatment" based on the work of French physiologist Rene Quinton, who proved that diluted seawater was virtually identical to blood plasma, to the point of being interchangeable.
Of course he was a scientist who believed in evolution, but for those who believe otherwise what he found was just more proof of the miracle of creation and how God provided for healing from HIS own handiwork.
Quinton experimented on dogs, successfully using seawater as a blood replacement in transfusion. He then pushed it farther by completely draining all the blood from a dog and replacing it with his seawater preparation. After 4 days, the seawater had transformed to blood with all of the normal blood components. Not only that, but the dog was up and running with the vitality of a puppy afterwards. All of the subjects thrived on the procedure.
Then he started experimenting on people, injecting (it was found to work taken orally also) the seawater as a treatment for disease...all documented in the French medical literature. The before-and-after photos of dying babies, people with terminal illnesses and terrible diseases, skin disorders, etc. are shocking! With the help of eminent physicians in France and Turkey, he went on to successfully treat thousands of patients around the early 1900's until he was conscripted into WWI and died in 1925, although his colleagues continued the work in other countries where it has been used up until the present. The dog trials were successfully repeated in 1969, but no human trials have ever been done for blood transfusion.
I was led to an academic Quinton website, which was just completed by a Canadian naturopath who translated a large body of information from the original French to English--for the first time I believe: http://www.oceanplasma.org
I had to try this Ocean Plasma myself when it recently became available in North America and experienced an almost immediate difference in energy levels, which was astonishing considering my hypoglycemia and chronic fatique. There were some other changes, too. But even more, the possibility of a safe blood replacement for transfusion so excited me that I wrote to every major newspaper in my home state of Washington, in hopes of stirring up some interest in human field trials. My letters were completely ignored.
What this discovery meant to me almost defies description--it was like a big piece of the puzzle falling into place. We have the worst national health of any industrialized nation in the world in spite of spending the most money on treatment and research. Why? --I'm convinced we need to look more to God's creation and less to technology for answers. We have been provided for more than most people ever imagined. | <urn:uuid:696ac1ff-0567-417a-8a2e-d8c928ff82bb> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://curezone.org/forums/fm.asp?i=406323 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570767.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808061828-20220808091828-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.978839 | 612 | 1.71875 | 2 |
Music is an extremely important subject for all children to learn and can lead to better brain development, increases in human connection, and even stress relief.
1) Music stimulates brain development in children
Various studies have found that engagement with music can lead to an improvement in brain development in children. Studies have found increases in IQ points in children who engaged with music. Musically-engaged students had more improvements in IQ subtests, index scores, and a standardised measure of academic achievement. Music education is also a great way to enhance reading comprehension abilities in children.
2) Music is a way to connect with other people
Music education is also important because it will give students a way to connect with other people. Children are naturally very social, and it’s important to encourage them to build relationships by providing them experiences to share with each other. Creating or encouraging participation in group work allows children to work together. This encourages bonding and will provide students with something to reminisce on together in the future.
It has been proven time and again that having people of all ages play or listen to music together will help to create bonds. Having an impromptu drumming circle or listening to and enjoying a piece of recorded music can connect people through sound, singing and even movement or dance. Musical experiences such as these can bring back a fond memory or create new ones!
3) Music integrates many different subjects
Another reason music education is so important is that it integrates so many different subject areas all at once. It gives children the opportunity to work on their maths skills, reading and writing skills, science skills, and history knowledge. For example, time signatures in music incorporate fractions, and lyric analysis and songwriting will allow students to work on their reading and comprehension abilities. Additionally, having discussions about how instruments work will involve information on the physics of sound, and learning about music’s place in society will shine a light on important historical events.
4) Music can relieve stress
Finally, music is an excellent way to relieve stress. This is significant for students who may feel overwhelmed by schoolwork and try to balance extracurricular activities. Music will offers an escape from these situations.
Music has many benefits to people of all ages. It’s important to know why so that we can continue to support Sherrier Pupils’ musical development. | <urn:uuid:b88a055e-c6cd-4f2c-984f-6616f4395099> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.sherrierprimaryschool.co.uk/music | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573699.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819131019-20220819161019-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.952835 | 480 | 3.765625 | 4 |
“The Standards-Based Classroom provides teachers with a practical guide to implement standards-based learning in their classrooms. The authors provide a perfect balance of context and commentary, practical examples, challenges, and suggestions for further exploration. Readers can use this book to transform their pedagogy and practice to better meet the needs of all learners with a standards-based approach.”
"This book takes much of the guesswork out of becoming a highly efficient and effective teacher in a standards-based system. The authors have thought deeply about (and explained) many of the 'road block' issues and provide both theory and practice to support teachers doing this work. This system helped me as the instructor and helped my students achieve at the level in which they desire.
“If you are looking for that one book that explains teaching and learning, then this is it. Full of practical advice, suggestions, and further readings, the authors discuss and illustrate concepts with a clarity that is seldom witnessed in educational literature.”
"The Standards-Based Classroom: A Practical Approach really is practical! With a plethora of examples and models and great suggestions that are organized to be easily read and quickly learned, this book is a must-have for any teacher considering stepping up their game to increase student learning."
"Most of us know that middle and especially high school educators can be reluctant to implement authentic standards-based learning, including grading and reporting. By having secondary authors and practitioners speaking to secondary educators, this book is right on target for what’s needed in the field right now and captures the right spirit of what standards-based learning is all about."
"This book is important because of its relevancy for teachers who are implementing or transitioning to standards-based learning or want to do so. As educators, we are always looking for ways to improve our craft, and readers will find this to be a great resource. In this book, teachers will find answers to common questions and concerns related to standards-based learning environments and develop confidence to communicate with students, parents, and colleagues regarding the change in practice.
"This book provides practical, realistic, and useful guidance to achieve its desired outcome. The authors take the 50,000-foot view of the best instructional, assessment, grading, and reporting practices that comprise the different parts of standards-based learning and integrate them into a practical system that improves learning for all students. Then they go to ground level to show how each piece works. The Standards-Based Classroom provides an outline or blueprint for developing a system that will improve the opportunities for learning for all students. | <urn:uuid:1257c748-6beb-442c-865b-543ffa0973b5> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.sagepub.com/en-us/cab/node/1466404/download.pdf | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573699.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819131019-20220819161019-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.955987 | 531 | 2.53125 | 3 |
After losing someone close to us moving on can be difficult and even feel impossible at times. The holidays can make this difficult time even harder. Many people go through the stages of grief after losing a loved one, however it is important to realize that grief is an ongoing process, there is no timeline for when you will suddenly be cured. My clients often say they just want to feel normal again, but this is just not realistic. In order to develop a new normal you need to allow yourself to go through the grief process. The 5 Stages of Grief are denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance. These are not in any particular order and you may find yourself jumping from one to another within a day. This is ok.
I want to stress the importance of allowing yourself to feel these feelings. You need to allow yourself to go through the stages and feeling without attempting to suppress or change them. I have found that people typically want to isolate during the holidays, they want to escape their feelings and memories, or live in denial. Isolation can be in the form of staying in the house and making excuses to not come out or escaping reality by going on a vacation. Isolation often leads to depression after all if you are locked up in your house you are certainly not taking advantage of your support system or use your coping skills. When we do not allow ourselves to feel our emotions and go through the stage of depression, then anger comes. Unfortunately, anger often comes out on those that we are closest to, our support system. Find healthy ways to get your anger out, punch a pillow, journal, writer hate mail but don’t send it, exercise, talk to someone.
It is important to remember that there is no set guidelines for how to grieve or when you will feel better. My best advice is that you allow yourself to be upset, be sad, be mad, cry, scream, GET IT OUT. If you have a safe person in your life allow them to help you with this. If you are still stuck check out some of the books and resources that are here on my website. | <urn:uuid:78a6c41d-c4c5-4f33-b4dd-d247e3e7e2c7> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://empoweringmindscounseling.com/grief-and-the-holidays/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570767.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808061828-20220808091828-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.966266 | 430 | 2.046875 | 2 |
In Chicago recently, we took a nine-year-old to a theatrical version of Dracula (playing at the Mercury Theater through November 5). “Weren’t you scared?” several audience members asked him after the show, as he was the show’s youngest audience member by many decades. “No.” This was said with deadpan aplomb. And possibly an eye-roll.
Perhaps some of the edge was off Bram Stoker’s classic because of all the much more horrifying real-life shenanigans filling the daily news, or perhaps it was because this production veered occasionally—and entertainingly—close to camp. While it wasn’t terrifying, it had good acting and nice touches. Notably, the production credits include acknowledgment of the show’s “violence and blood/gore designer.” Which gives an inkling.
When the Stoker’s tale first appeared 120 years ago, The Manchester Guardian dismissed it with almost the same nonchalance as our young theater companion. “Most of the delightful old superstitions of the past have an unhappy way of appearing limp and sickly in the glare of the later day,” the reviewer said. “Man is no longer in dread of the monstrous and the unnatural, and . . . the effect is more often grotesque than terrible.” Tell that to Ann Rice and Stephenie Meyer and the legions of other authors who continue to resurrect “the ancient legends of the were-wolf and the vampire”! | <urn:uuid:e11999c7-7adc-4b71-8c3e-d6366a85940d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://vweisfeld.com/?p=6868 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573699.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819131019-20220819161019-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.969274 | 318 | 1.867188 | 2 |
The cabinets of curiosities created under the old regime were the precursors of our art and natural history museums. These private, princely collections displayed densely packed presentations of rare and precious objects: fossils, stuffed animals, shells, animal skeletons, coins, ivory sculptures, gems, clocks, rock crystal, swords, scientific instruments; and also works of art. With no labels, these displays offered plenitude with a vengeance.
Gathering together luxuries, many of them exceedingly frail, from everywhere, the cabinets embodied in microcosm Europe’s expansive power. To represent the world in its entirety, so these collectors believed, was to control it. Our distinctive category of fine art had not yet emerged.
Cabinet of Curiosities (Taschen, 2020), a gorgeous, heavy book with photographs by Massimo Listri and texts by Giulia Carciotto and Antonio Paolucci, is perfectly suited to its subject. It has large color close-ups of the contents and displays of 20 Western European cabinets of curiosities, along with some good, brief historical commentary.
Caravaggio’s “Head of the Medusa” (1597-78), now seen as a startling work of art, was in the Uffizi originally displayed alongside “the beautiful but terrifying suit of horse armor given to the Grand Duke by the Persian Shah,” another rare and wondrous artifact.
Nowadays Benvenuto Cellini’s “Saliera” (“Saltcellar,” 1540-43), which today is in Vienna’s Kunsthistorisches Museum, is a marvelous sculpture. But when it was displayed in the cabinet of curiosities of the Hapsburg Emperor Rudolf II in the Prague Castle, alongside “automata [. . .] rock crystal [. . .] cups made from rhinoceros horn or ostrich eggs,” as the authors write, it too must have been understood very differently.
Modernism separated works of art from natural wonders and placed them in public museums, where curators and art historians classified and interpreted them. Like the cabinets of curiosities, these art museums often displayed plunder. The conquering Napoleonic armies dispatched art from Spain, Italy, the Low Countries, and Germany to the Louvre, where its public display impressed the French populace with the fruits of their conquests.
Later, thanks to colonialism, works from China, Africa, Oceania and India were gathered in European museums. And art museums then came to serve a variety of functions. They educated, imparting knowledge about “exotic” cultures. As manifestations of the stability, power, and wealth of the community, they became sources of civic pride. (By the late 19th or early 20th century, almost every large American city had created its own museum.) Museums also provided the opportunity for privileged collectors to share their artworks with ordinary folks, and thereby engage in public relations coups demonstrating their generosity and civic spirit.
In his book, The Personalization of the Museum Visit. Art Museums, Discourse, and Visitors (Routledge, 2019), Seph Rodney, a Senior Editor at Hyperallergic, takes up an important recent part of the art museum’s history. He describes the ways in which art museums have endeavored to replace top-down thinking, which treats visitors as students seeking instruction, with the means of affording them a more active role.
Two generations ago, museums often made a priority of providing visual scholarly resources. The Cleveland Museum under Sherman Lee, who was its director from 1958 until 83, would gather Asian art, his scholarly interest, without any particular regard for the concerns of the local community. Now, however, a museum’s collection and staff are expected to bear some relationship to the composition of its community.
Many museum visitors come to see work by people like themselves, whose experiences in some way mirror their own. And so, given the long, unavoidable link of these institutions with white privilege, it’s important now that previously marginalized, disregarded, or even disdained artworks receive sustained attention. Nowadays public art museums are supported not only by privileged donors, but also, to a greater or lesser degree, by local and national governments.
And so, as Rodney writes, a member of the public is “a shareholder in the nation’s legacy” and “takes possession [. . .] in the visit, by being conceived as a kind of consumer with particular serviceable needs” [italics in original]. To prosper, the museum needs to satisfy these visitors. Needless to say, satisfying all of these conflicting demands is not easy. “Museums are troubling and contradictory,” he rightly states, “because they are produced by and reflect a divided, contradictory, and even antagonistic culture.”
The Personalization of the Museum Visit, an accurate, clear summary of the recent literature, plausibly indicates how museums seek to negotiate this complex situation. After noting his own working-class roots, Rodney describes his vivid first response to the offerings of New York’s Museum of Modern Art: “I felt that I had opened a living book and walked into the shockingly new, imagined spaces that lay within its pages.”
In a museum, he says, “the visitor is imagined to simultaneously be self-directed an autonomous, and also manipulable and suggestible, ” which nicely identifies the essential tension built into our museum life. When he first saw the Tate Modern’s thematic, rather than chronological, displays of its permanent collection, and remakes that he “was struck by how much work the arrangements gave me to do,” you become aware that he is an ideal visitor. However, while we know what a few articulate reviewers like Rodney think of museum exhibitions, it’s harder to imagine how most people respond. His concern, then, is to present a moral ideal. To treat the viewer “as a fully autonomous, self-directed adult” is, as he rightly notes, an extension of “the museum’s Enlightenment origins [. . .].”
Rereading his book, I found myself pondering these words: “Technological innovation is widely regarded as the key to turning engagement into participation, and thus ultimately democratizing the museum [. . . ]“ That judgment has turned out to be remarkably prescient, in ways that he could not have anticipated before the globe was gripped by a pandemic. But now, of course, everything has changed. When the social conditions of our life in the art world have been at least momentarily suspended, what is to be done?
One possibility is presented by an unlikely source. Edward Hopper (1882–1967) is an important American painter, but reviewing a Swiss show at the Beyeler Foundation of his much exhibited landscapes and cityscapes, would not be my first priority right now. The digital display put together by the Foundation, however, deserves attention because it is the most effective online presentation of an art exhibition that I have yet to find.
On the website there are presentations of videos taking you through the exhibition, with and without visitors, and a marvelous one by a Swiss rapper, Laurin Buser, who, relating the often depopulated artworks to social life as it has been decimated by the coronavirus, argues that Hopper is a painter attuned to the present moment.
And yet, as much as I admired this show, I would happily trade my prolonged experience of this website for an hour looking at Hopper’s paintings. Online, your looking is governed by the camera and the web designer; you lack the everyday freedom of a visitor, which is to say that the balance between instruction and autonomy has been radically undercut.
Rodney writes: “The museum space brings visitors in close proximity to art and to each other, and most crucially, with public critique.” That is exactly what I miss online. The art museum has prospered and expanded because it has proven to be an extremely supple institution. Right now, however, it faces great, absolutely unprecedented challenges.
The Personalization of the Museum Visit. Art Museums, Discourse, and Visitors (2019) by Seph Rodney is published by Routledge.
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The overall price of producing U.S. circulating coins fell for a fifth straight year even as the cost of making cents and nickels remained above their face values for an eleventh year in a row, the United States Mint disclosed in its recently published 2016 Annual Report.
The unit cost to produce, administer and distribute the 1-cent coin totaled 1.50 cents compared to 1.43 cents from a year earlier.
“By keeping indirect costs down while meeting increased demand, fixed costs were spread among more units,” the Mint’s annual report said.
“Compared to last year, FY 2016 average spot prices for nickel decreased 30.9 percent to $9,264.43 per tonne, average copper prices fell 19.6 percent to $4,766.68, and average zinc prices decreased 10.4 percent to $1,868.28,” it added.
Lincoln cents are composed from 2.5% copper with the balance zinc while 5-cent coins are made from 25% nickel with the balance copper.
Obviously, metallic coin compositions are always key cost drivers. The U.S. Mint has studied alternative alloys in an effort to cut costs but viable solutions have proven elusive.
Cost to Make Dimes and Quarters
The U.S. Mint made money on dimes and quarters with their respective unit costs at 3.08 cents and 7.63 cents. These compare to their FY 2015 amounts of 3.54 cents and 8.44 cents.
The following two tables summarize U.S. Mint costs for the cent through quarter, with the first table for FY2016 and the second one for FY2015:
FY 2016 Unit Cost to Produce and Distribute 1c, 5c, 10c, and 25c Coins
|Cost of Goods Sold ($)||0.0131||0.0551||0.0269||0.0672|
|Sales, General & Administrative ($)||0.0017||0.0071||0.0034||0.0080|
|Distribution to Reserve Banks ($)||0.0002||0.0010||0.0005||0.0011|
|Total Unit Cost ($)||0.0150||0.0632||0.0308||0.0763|
FY 2015 Unit Cost to Produce and Distribute 1c, 5c, 10c, and 25c Coins
|Cost of Goods Sold ($)||0.0125||0.0664||0.0315||0.0755|
|Sales, General & Administrative ($)||0.0015||0.0068||0.0033||0.0076|
|Distribution to Reserve Banks ($)||0.0003||0.0012||0.0006||0.0013|
|Total Unit Cost ($)||0.0143||0.0744||0.0354||0.0844|
The two smallest U.S. coins have lost money since 2006.
Unit Costs and Seigniorage for Cent and Nickel from 2005 to 2016
|Fiscal Year||Cent Unit Cost||Nickel Unit Cost||Seigniorage (in millions)|
The U.S. Mint produces and issues circulating coins to Federal Reserve Banks in quantities to support their service to commercial banks and other financial institutions. The year saw production increases in all denominations except for the cent and quarter. The bureau delivered a total of:
- 9.114 billion cents, down 0.5% from the previous year;
- 1.587 billion nickels, up 7.5% from the previous year;
- 3.134 billion dimes, up 9.1% from the previous year; and
- 2.482 billion quarters, down 6.2% from the previous year.
The four denominations combined to 16.308 billion coins, marking a 1% increase over the 16.151 billion coins delivered in FY 2015. The Fed pays face value for each coin they receive, with the Mint resultantly realizing FY 2016 circulating revenue of $1.1042 billion.
Coin Shipments, Costs and Seigniorage
(coins and $ in millions)
|One-Cent||Five-Cent||Dime||Quarter||Mutilated & Other||Total|
|Value of Shipments||$91.1||$78.9||$313.4||$620.8||–||$1,104.2|
After subtracting the year’s cost to produce all four coins, which totaled $525.5 million, the U.S. Mint’s circulating profit or seigniorage reached $578.7 million for a 7% increase over the previous year. The resulting seigniorage per dollar issued reached $0.52, exceeding the prior year’s $0.49. | <urn:uuid:968c0e92-06d8-4af6-9ffe-b9c1b65bf34a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://varietyerrors.com/cost-make-coins-2016/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573172.64/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818063910-20220818093910-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.838225 | 1,391 | 2.671875 | 3 |
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