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A major new campaign to tackle hidden homelessness by raising awareness that “homelessness doesn’t always live on the streets” has been launched by the Welsh Government.
The campaign aims to bring to light the problem of hidden homelessness, and is targeted at young people who may be at risk of or already experiencing homelessness. The campaign also advises the public on what to do if they’re concerned about someone they know.
Research suggests people overwhelmingly connect homelessness with rough sleeping only – which is not the case for most young people experiencing homelessness.
Even if someone has a roof over their head, they can still be homeless. They could be sofa surfing at a friends’ place, or staying somewhere temporarily like a hostel, night shelter or bed & breakfast. It might be they are living in very poor conditions or somewhere that’s not suitable for them or their family.
To help identify people who could be homeless, there are a number of signs that people can look out for:
- They may be having difficulties with their relationships with their parents and close family members;
- They may be reluctant to go home – spending lots of their time outside; in public places that offer shelter and connection to wifi – for example train stations and cafes; staying late at their education setting or jobs;
- They may be keeping belongings with them and have problems with keeping clothes clean;
- They might be asking for help with money and using food banks;
- They may have lost their job;
- They may be experiencing physical or mental health problems.
Those experiencing hidden homelessness are more likely to be at risk of exploitation, particularly young people. For example, they might be targeted by people who want to pressurise them into sex or unwaged labour in exchange for a roof over their head.
The campaign is designed to ensure that young people get the help and support they need as soon as possible, preventing homelessness from happening in the first place.
Housing Minister Julie James:
Many people think homelessness is only about rough sleeping – it is not. Many young people experiencing, or at risk of homelessness don’t recognise themselves as homeless.
If you don’t have a place to call home it is likely that you are experiencing ‘hidden homelessness’.
We know young people often don’t know where to seek advice and support – so that’s why we’re launching this new campaign.
So if you think you’re experiencing hidden homelessness or you’re at risk of it then get help now. It’s never too late or too early to get help.
The Welsh Government funds Shelter Cymru to provide independent housing advice and support. The service also links people to partner organisations who can provide support services based on the needs of individuals.
Shelter Cymru Director Jon Puzey said:
We know the earlier and more often someone experiences homelessness, the more likely they are to develop complex issues that might mean they become homeless repeatedly throughout their adult life. That’s why it’s so important that we make it a priority to prevent youth homelessness.
It’s fantastic that the Welsh Government is taking this so seriously and helping us to reach more young people. With this joint campaign we are making sure that young people know that Shelter Cymru is here to help them.”
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REFUGEE families fleeing war-torn Syria are set to be offered a new life in Stratford by the end of the year.
Council leader Chris Saint previously said the authority would do all it could to help those desperately trying to escape war and persecution in the Middle Eastern country which has become a stronghold of Islamic State.
It comes after the Government promised to re-home 20,000 refugees directly from camps in Syria under its Vulnerable Persons Relocation scheme by 2020.
Stratford District Council was one of the first in the county to respond when the plight of refugee families became the focus of news reports across the world back in September.
Council chiefs pledged to support the cause following a flood of calls from residents asking how they could help – agreeing to set up a collection centre for donations, working alongside other organisation and promising to support government initiatives.
Councillors voted last December unanimously in favour of working with the Home Office to help accommodate up to 12 families in the district.
More than 1,000 refugees had already been taken in across the country via local authorities as of Christmas.
But a recent report blasted many councils for not ‘pulling their weight’ and suggested the Government could fail to meet its target.
Coun Saint told The Observer red tape had led to a longer delay than intended, but he confirmed the authority was ready to play its part in the crisis and would be taking a minimum of three to five refugee families within the next few months.
He said: “Progress relocating refugee families to the district has been slower than anticipated but the cross-authority preparatory work has been complex and time-consuming. Nevertheless, it is essential in securing the very best outcomes for the refugees.
“We have been working proactively with others to initiate the support needed to ensure their arrival goes as smoothly as possible.
“The phasing of arrivals is yet to be determined, however now all of Warwickshire’s districts and boroughs have made their commitments, this can be agreed. This work has frustrated our initiative to be ahead of the others.
“It is likely ten to 20 refugee families will be welcomed this year across the county, with a minimum of three to five joining the local community.
“This distribution is thought to strike a good balance between a manageable figure that can be easily integrated and sufficient numbers to efficiently deliver a support service to.”
Coun Saint confirmed the authority had also offered to take families where other districts were struggling to meet their quotas.
He added: “We anticipate our commitment to offer refuge to 12 families will be met by 2020 in accordance with the aspirations of the government.
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Google is reportedly planning to merge its Chrome OS with Android, according to Wall Street Journal. According to the report, Chrome will be a minuscule part of Android, as the latter has so far become the dominant OS.
The report further adds that Google has been working for around two years to integrate the two operating systems and have apparently made some progress. The combined OS will be revealed sometime in early 2017, while a preview version is expected to be shown off at Google’s I/O conference early next year. The move is essentially aimed at reducing the number of standalone platforms the company needs to take care of, the report added.
Chrome OS, which accounts for less than 3 percent of PCs, was Google’s attempt to streamline the Web and browsing experience to more devices. Though what it’s really missing is native apps which apparently gets developers and consumers interested. Merging the two would also help Google to get a larger Android user base, as the OS already runs on phones, tablets, watches along with TVs, and adding laptops to the mix would certainly increase its reach.
Chromebooks will be getting a new name, while the new version of Android will notably be giving users access to the Play Store. Chrome OS will still exist as an open source operating system, though the company’s focus will now be exclusive to extend Android reach to make its way onto laptops, the report further adds.
It’s worth pointing out that even Microsoft adopted a similar approach, for instance with its Skype Universal apps which runs on both phones as well as PCs. Though on the contrary, Apple still maintains different operating systems for smartphones and PCs. As according to the company’s CEO Tim Cook, merging the two doesn’t offer the best experience out of either. | <urn:uuid:4ddc581b-2ee9-42b5-b1ba-b3aa548420e5> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.inferse.com/36959/google-windows-10-unifying-android-chrome-os-2017/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570977.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809124724-20220809154724-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.957804 | 369 | 1.734375 | 2 |
The Romans had a well- established relationship with wine. Types of wine were varied, as were the ways of consuming them.
The drinking of wine in Roman society had a long and changeable history. At certain times, it was prohibited amongst certain groups because of the risk of drunkenness yet it was also believed to be a health drink.
By the height of the empire, wine drinking was well established throughout Roman society, with a variety of wines available for blending or drinking straight.
The Romans and Alcohol.
Wine was always the Roman’s alcoholic drink of choice. Viticulture was established long before the Greek’s had any influence over Roman culture. The Roman god of wine, Liber, was a very Roman deity with characteristics very different to the Greek wine God Dionysus. This indicates that Liber developed separately and could not be directly associated with any Greek gods.
Beer was available to the Romans but regarded as an inferior drink. Roman beer was made from rye and was extremely cheap, half the price of the worst kinds of wine. It was not a drink for the sophisticated although beer foam was used in the cosmetics of roman ladies.
Despite its popularity, wine was not traditionally drunk widely throughout society. According to the laws of Romulus, only free men over the age of 35 were allowed to drink wine. Women and slaves were also prohibited. According to legend, Roman husbands were entitled to kill their wives for even attempting to drink wine. Cato describes the origins of the custom of husbands greeting their wives with a kiss on their return home. It was to ensure they had not been drinking.
By the republic, these prohibitions were loosening up and wine was becoming more widely available even to the lowest classes of Roman society. But not everyone saw wine as a good thing. Pliny the Elder attributed the drinking of wine to madness and bad behavior that could result in crime.
The Health Benefits of Wine
Despite fears of drunkness, the Romans believed that wine could be a healthy drink. Aged wines in particular were believed to aid sleep, circulation and the digestive system. Wine was even given to cattle for certain types of bovine illness.
Wine was also often warmed to make a comforting drink. It was also usually never drunk neat. Older wines were often very strong and syrupy and so mixed with water to dilute their heady nature.
Fruit, herbs or spices were also often added to wine before drinking. This was because Roman wines did not always keep well. Colour and flavour could be impaired not only by the deterioration of wine but also by methods used to improve it.
Wine was often filtered with chalk to remove cloudiness or smoked to remove impurities. Both treatments could leave it bitter or faded. Aloe, saffron and elderberry were used as natural colour enhancers and flavour was accentuated with flowers such as violet, lilac, rose and myrtle as well as spices such as pepper, cinnamon and coriander.
The Colour and Age of Roman Wine.
Roman wine came in a variety of shades of colour that were linked not only to grape type but age.
- ALBUS was a light young white wine.
- FULVUS was an older white, golden yellow in colour.
- SANGUINEUS was a young red, blood red in colour.
- NIGER was an older red, so dark it looked black.
Wine was generally only considered drinkable up to the age of about 20 years. There were exceptions to this. Pliny mentions one example, the Consul Optimus, a famous aged wine of his time. Named after the consul of the year of its creation, it was reputedly 200 years old. It was however undrinkable on its own and was instead mixed with younger wines to improve their flavour.
Types of Roman Wine.
There were many different types of Roman wine. Some were named according to vintage and others according to how they were made and the ingredients used.
- FALERNUM. The most famous Roman wine was a fulvus white. It was best drunk aged although it was reputed to last no longer than 20 years.
- CALENUM. Similar to Falernum, this had a lighter taste and was apparently the patrician class’s favourite.
- ALBANUM. There were two types: dry and sweet. It was regarded as a quality wine that needed 15 years to mature.
- MASSILITANUM. A smoky, cheap wine that was reputedly healthy but not very tasty.
- MOMENTANUM. Need at least five years to be drinkable and even then it was unremarkable according to Martial .
- MULSUM-the aperitif of choice. Mulsum was wine combined with honey, either during or after fermentation. Columella recommended the addition of the honey during brewing although Pliny the Elder felt it should be added to a dry wine before serving.
- PASSUM. Raisin wine. Made from half dried grapes left on the vine, passum was a sweet drink.
- CONDITUM. A wine mixed with pepper, honey and seawater, (one wine drinking custom that the Roman’s did borrow from the Greeks.) Cato recommended the use of Apician grapes.
- LORA-the wine of slaves, Lora was made from the leftovers of grape production. Grape pulp was mixed with water and pressed a second or third time.
- POSCA. Not strictly a wine, this was a vinegar based drink, often popular with travellers. The vinegar was carried in a flask and added to water, making a reputedly refreshing beverage. The custom arose because of vinegars disinfecting properties. It therefore a way of making unreliable water drinkable. To improve flavour it was often flavoured with spices and honey.
Posca was the drink given to Christ on the cross. Its refreshing nature indicates this was not the cruel gesture it is reputed to be.
Faas, Patrick (2003) Around the Roman Table. Macmillan Press
Ash H B and Hooper W D. Cato and Varro: On Agriculture. Loeb Classical Library.
Pliny the Elder, The Natural History.
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It’s Friday and we’re here for the Trusting God Bible Reading Challenge Weekly Summary. This week’s reading was extremely powerful. I hope you felt as loved by God through the reading as I did.
The first verse of this chapter is one of my favorites that I place on repeat in my mind.
God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble. vs. 1
One time my younger sister and I were in a dire situation. I will spare you the details, but just before we thought we were going to be involved in an accident, my sister shouted, “Angels, help us!” Miraculously, we missed the accident in the nick of time. He was with us and is with us!!
The repetition in this passage is interesting to me. Two verses with the same wording with one exception:
It is better to trust in the LORD than to put confidence in man. vs. 8
It is better to trust in the LORD than to put confidence in princes.vs. 9
Do you think that the psalmist was making the point that it doesn’t matter what man it is, even royalty, we should not place our trust in humankind?
When we acknowledge God for who he is and praise him for both who he is and all that he does, then the power of praise is unleashed. This passage encouraged me to make a list of thanks to God.
Don’t miss the beautiful story I read this week that coincided with the lessons God was teaching me in this chapter.
I often play a game with my kids called “My Favorite….” I ask: What’s your favorite ________? and fill in the blank with all sorts of options, like color, vegetable, fruit, place to visit, candy, drink, smoothie flavor, etc. They absolutely love this game, especially at ages 5 and 3, because they get to give their opinions and likes. The bonus is that I enjoy hearing what they like and getting to know their way of thinking about the world.
This Psalm reminds me of the game I play with the kids. God is telling us what he likes and does not like. When you love someone, you want to know and do the things they love and appreciate. Knowing what God loves and appreciates gives us the opportunity to trust him more.
What thoughts about trusting God did you have from this passage?
There is none like you among the gods, O Lord, nor are there any works like yours.
He is worthy of our trust; there is no god like the Most High God. He does things that no one else can do. He heals the brokenhearted and the sick. He gives sight to the blind, both physical and spiritual. Our God is an Awesome God! Praise him today!
I believe this chapter holds a critical verse in our journey to trust God more. When we don’t know what to do or feel that we can’t trust him, then we must ask him to teach us to trust him. Teach me, Lord.
A willing servant learns to trust God quicker than a worried saint.
Be the church. Live actively looking for ways to help others and be used of God.
Or you may have heard it this way:
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By James Hodgkins, 32°, Supreme Council Archives
Right: Archives of the Supreme Council, records in archive boxes and metal document drawers. (Photos: Jeri Walker, Scottish Rite Journal)
The Archives of the Supreme Council are quickly approaching a period of transition. Setting aside the out-dated technologies of the 20th century, it is the intention of Ill. Arturo de Hoyos, 33°, GC, Grand Archivist and Grand Historian, to update how our information is stored, insuring its availability for future generations. A great deal has been accomplished over the past ten years to update and standardize the Archives, but even more remains to be finished in order to safeguard the original sources of our history. The Archives still employ a rudimentary card catalog system dating to the 1960s for most documents. Between transitions of responsibility for the Archives, different filing systems were adopted that are incompatible and lead to confusion when searching for specific documents. There is a great deal that can be done to help modernize the Archives, and the House of the Temple Foundation can greatly assist this process.
The preservation and conservation of our most valuable and rare documents is the primary purpose of the Archives. Unlike a library, which may be open to the general public, an archive normally houses holographs (handwritten documents), manuscripts, and imprints which should not needlessly be handled. Many of the items in our collection are one-to-two-hundred years old and require special handling, treatment, and storage. As items are processed they may require de-acidification and may be placed in ultraviolet-filtered Mylar archival sleeves, protected by a neutral buffer paper. They will be stored in special non-acidic boxes or special metal containers, cases, or drawers. To ensure preservation, only limited access to the Archives is permitted.
While the Archives are a private resource of the Supreme Council and are not available for public access, there is a sizable amount of information that can be made available through digital means. The Transactions of the Supreme Council, the Scottish Rite Journal, and New Age Magazine are resources that have always been available to the public, but one must have a hard copy to access to them. A sizable step in bring the Archives in to the 21st century would be digitization and Optical Character Recognition (OCR) to make these resources accessible and searchable to our Members. The Archives also has a wealth of images on standard film, projector slides, and microfiche; as these formats quickly become—or already are—obsolete, efforts must begin to insure their survival. We do not presently have the hardware to make this a reality. These documents and images are a part of our proud history and should thus be cataloged and available to our membership.
The Foundation can greatly benefit the infrastructure of the Archives which has—with a few minor enhancements—remained unchanged since the House of the Temple was opened in 1915. Examples of needed major enhancements include work areas isolated from the Archives, clean-room technology, and a dedicated air filtration system. The upgrades will let the Archives achieve its full potential of preserving the history of the Scottish Rite.
While we have come a long way in the past ten years from the state in which the Archives once were, only so much can be done by hard work alone—new equipment, better tools, and more resources are needed. Conservation and preservation technology has progressed to a level that allows us to insure that our history will never fade, and will always be a practical resource for the Supreme Council and our membership for generations to come. | <urn:uuid:b058bbc5-1ce7-4000-bf83-8c12e8168755> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://scottishrite.org/blog/about/media-publications/journal/article/the-archives-of-the-supreme-council-preserving-our-history-for-future-generations/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570767.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808061828-20220808091828-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.931859 | 731 | 2.203125 | 2 |
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Green Tomato Raspberry Pie
Tomatoes: A Country Garden Cookbook
by Jesse Ziff Cool, 1994, Collins Publishers San Francisco
combination will not seem nearly so bizarre if we simply remember that the
tomato is actually a fruit, not a vegetable. And what a great solution for a
bumper crop of tomatoes...
need to use plenty of sugar for this pie but the combination of sweet
raspberries and green tomatoes is truly delicious. This recipe makes an
oversized pie, the kind I envision sitting on the windowsill at Gramma’s
My Favorite Pie Dough:
(for a double-crusted 10-inch glass pie plate)
2 sticks unsalted butter
2 1/2 cups unbleached all-purpose flour
1/2 teaspoon salt
8 rounded tablespoons sour cream
8 cups unripe green tomatoes, cut into thin wedges or slices
2 small baskets red raspberries or blackberries
1 tablespoon lemon zest
3/4 cup granulated sugar
1 cup light brown sugar
1/4 cup cornstarch (or more, if berries are very juicy)
2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon freshly grated nutmeg (optional)
6 tablespoons unsalted butter
To prepare the pie dough, cut the butter into 10 chunks with
a knife. In a small bowl, combine the flour and salt. By hand or in a food
processor, coarsely blend the butter, flour and salt. Add the sour cream to
the butter-flour mixture in small dollops. Blend until dough begins to come
Turn onto a lightly floured board. Divide in half and form
into 2 even balls. Set 1 ball aside. Flatten the other ball, dusting both
sides lightly with flour to prevent sticking. Roll the dough to
approximately 1/8-inch thickness. The outer perimeter should be
approximately 2 inches beyond the edge of a 10-inch pie plate. Press dough
into pie plate, leaving the edges uncut until you roll out the top crust.
Roll out the other ball of dough. Place between 2 pieces of
waxed paper or a flour-dusted dish towel. Fold in half and store it with the
lower crust in the refrigerator until the filling is prepared.
Preheat oven to 400 degrees F.
In a large bowl, combine the tomatoes, berries, and lemon
zest. In a small bowl, combine the sugars, cornstarch and spices. Toss all
the ingredients together and heap the mixture into the lined pie plate. Dot
with chunks of butter. Cover with top pastry crust, crimp edges together and
bake in the oven for 10 minutes.
Reduce heat to 350 degrees F. Bake for approximately 40
minutes longer or until the crust is lightly browned and when you test the
middle of the pie with a toothpick, the tomatoes feel very soft.
Remove from the oven and cool for at least 30 minutes before
cutting. Serve warm with vanilla ice cream. Makes a big, beautiful 10-inch
pie. Serves 8.
we'll bring you Lee Bailey's Green Tomato and Apple Pie. Stay tuned!
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It may not be the foremost argument against smoking, but ask anyone who goes assiduously litter-picking and they’ll tell you that cigarette butts are a blight on the environment almost everywhere. With around 4.5tn cigarette ends casually discarded every year, the National Geographic describes them as “the most littered item on Earth” and a major source of microplastic pollution. Waste and pollution on that scale is a global problem the world is somewhat belatedly waking up to.
So is this, along with the much-debated issue of personal health, another point in favour of vaping? Not according to experts at the recent World Health Organization (WHO) conference, who spoke of “heavy plastic with metal parts, which is difficult to recycle”.
And that’s assuming most users even make any attempt to recycle items that are labelled “disposable” – which are booming in popularity and are also potentially the biggest environmental villains in the e-cigarette catalogue.
Exaggerated scare stories about “exploding” e-cigs may fire the imagination of tabloid news editors but they don’t deliver the real bad news about lithium batteries. That’s much more to do with the waste of an increasingly eagerly sought mineral, and the high social and environmental cost of lithium mining in places such as Chile’s Atacama desert.
One of the major points in favour of lithium batteries is rechargeability – which ought to be a good thing from the green perspective – but that benefit is literally thrown away in the case of disposable e-cigs.
Free, easy and environmentally friendly
Now comes an initiative from a 26-year-old engineer and PhD student who has organised a team of volunteers to set up and maintain recycling bins in the dorms and on the campus where he studies and teaches, specifically to collect disposable e-cigs and retrieve their batteries. These are then not recycled in the sense of being broken down for their components but, better still, converted to make them rechargeable and reused intact.
As Maksym Sheremet told The Independent: “We started collecting e-cigarettes after the price of lithium batteries really rose a month ago. It’s free, easy to repurpose and environmentally friendly.
“It’s very easy to solder this stuff, it is not a difficult job. You cannot put electric cigarettes in the trash because of the lithium battery; it is a serious fire risk and terrible for the environment.”
The twist in this initially heartwarming tale is the purpose Sheremet is putting his reclaimed batteries to. It’s a purpose you might well applaud – depending which side of a major conflict you stand on – but it’s a strange one to be making health or environment claims for. War is never notably beneficial to either.
After being collected from students in Kyiv, those former e-cig batteries are now powering drones delivering weaponry, bombs and ammunition (and medical supplies) to the soldiers on Ukraine’s front line in the fight against Russia.
– Aidan Semmens ECigIntelligence staff
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Sir John Franklin
[British Naval Northwest Passage Expedition 1845-1848]
6.2 x 7.6 cm
Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge
Accession no.: N: 589/1
Three-quarter length portrait of Sir John Franklin, seated and holding a telescope.
Sir John Franklin, Captain, HMS Erebus - there is a single Daguerreotype at Cambridge with a reversed copy of what appears to be the Cambridge image in the collection at Derbyshire Record Office, Matlock, England.
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Background: There is a current lack of any composite measure for the effective tracking and monitoring of executive function in individuals exposed to repetitive head impacts (RHI). The aim of this study is to create a composite instrument for the purposes of detecting change over time in executive function in individuals exposed to RHI.
Methods: The data to derive the composite instrument came from the Professional Fighters Brain Health Study (PFBHS), a longitudinal study of active and retired professional fighters (boxers and mixed martial arts [MMA] fighters) and healthy controls. Participants in the PFBHS underwent assessment on an annual basis that included computerized cognitive testing and behavioral questionnaires. Multivariate logistic regression models were employed to compare active fighters (n=117) with controls (n=22), and retired fighters (n=26) with controls to identify the predictors that could be used to differentiate the groups over time. In a second step, linear discriminant analysis was performed to derive the linear discriminant coefficients for the three groups by using the predictors from the two separate logistic regression models.
Results: The composite scale is a weighted linear value of 12 standardized scores consisting of both current and yearly change scores in domains including: processing speed, choice reaction time, semantic fluency, letter fluency, and Barrett Impulsiveness Scale. Because the weighting of values differed between active and retired fighters, two versions emerged. The mean and standard deviation ratio (MSDR) showed that the new index had better sensitivity compared to the individual measures, with the ratio of MSDR of the new index to that of the existing measures of at least 1.84.
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The renminbi’s (RMB) continuing growth story again hit the headlines in 2016. One milestone was its acceptance by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) as a global ‘reserve currency’ – one that is widely used enough in international trade that central banks are prepared to hold it in their stocks of foreign exchange.
At the same time, offshore clearing hubs – banks authorised by China’s central bank, the People’s Bank of China (PBOC), to clear the currency beyond its borders – continued to spring up across the world. In addition the PBOC-backed Cross-Border Interbank Payment System (CIPS) – which aims to facilitate use of the RMB globally by cutting costs and process times – marked its first year in action, representing a significant step forward for connecting China’s financial infrastructure to global markets.
Such developments have come as RMB plays an ever-greater role in financing trade, and as China’s commercial ambitions continue to broaden worldwide. As a result, the volume of RMB-denominated trade and payments continues to increase.
As a recent study from Commerzbank finds, more and more companies are looking to tap into this growth. By invoicing in the currency, they can gain a range of considerable advantages: from being better positioned to enter Chinese markets and managing international cash more effectively, to maximising profits from investments and hedging against currency risks.
However, the transition to using RMB is far from simple, and will rely on banks that can offer the right foreign exchange (FX) products, insights on Chinese markets and familiarity with international trade.
2016: an important chapter in the RMB story
The growth of RMB in world financial markets continues at pace, with 2016 bringing several landmark developments with respect to the currency’s internationalisation. Among the most noteworthy events was the IMF’s inclusion of the currency in its ‘special drawing rights’ (SDR) basket. This means it joined the exclusive club of internationally recognised ‘reserve currencies’ used by central banks, previously comprising only the US dollar (USD), euro (EUR), British pound (GBP) and Japanese yen (JPY).
This marked a considerable political feat for China, but it will also act as a confidence-building measure; reassuring central banks worldwide of the value in holding RMB assets and recognising that the currency is now ‘freely useable’ in world trade.
Last year also saw the establishment of more global ‘RMB clearing hubs’ from London, Paris and Frankfurt to Toronto, Singapore and Doha, enabling international corporates to better access RMB accounts and products. These centres ultimately help improve companies’ RMB liquidity beyond Chinese borders.
Commerzbank has seen the highly-publicised establishment of these hubs raise awareness of Chinese business and RMB opportunities among local companies in Germany and Switzerland. The creation of yet more hubs, in New York and Dubai, is on the horizon.
Meanwhile, 2016 showed that the CIPS ran successfully, which will continue to aid RMB payment clearing and settlement between China and other countries. This centralised financial messaging infrastructure offers companies a valuable, China-based complement to the use of correspondent banking partners and clearing banks dotted around the world.
With Phase 1 of the CIPS now complete; that is the adoption of global financial messaging standards and automated processing of data for RMB-denominated transactions, Phase 2 will see the system expand over the coming year. This will bring more banks on board, allowing for financial messages to be communicated without the need to maintain a physical presence in China.
Impressive growth trends
These developments are set against a backdrop of steady global growth for RMB. The currency is certainly making its mark on the real economy: according to SWIFT’s statistics, the RMB is now the third-most used currency in trade finance after USD and EUR, with a share of 4.61% of the global market.
This figure will doubtless increase. For instance, China’s ‘one belt, one road’ (OBOR) initiative – the grand plan to spur trade through investment in road, rail and energy infrastructure – is gaining traction across Asia and Europe. RMB will be crucial to facilitating commerce sparked by the initiative, which covers some 64 countries, one third of the world’s gross domestic product (GDP), and two thirds of its population.
RMB has also surged in importance in the payments sphere. Back in 2012, SWIFT’s rankings of the most-used global payment currencies (by value) placed the RMB in 12th position; having flirted with fourth position in August 2015, RMB finished 2016 at a respectable fifth. This means it commanded a market share of 2.00% of the value of financial messages sent across the global network – with only USD (41.07%), EUR (31.55%), GBP (7.38%), and JPY (3.38%) able to boast higher shares.
More than 100 countries in all are now sending RMB-denominated payments directly to and from China and Hong Kong. Individual progress has also been considerable: in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), for instance, the value of RMB-denominated payments has grown by about 45% since 2015.
Companies are getting on board
Given such important developments and promising growth trends, it’s no surprise that awareness of RMB among companies has deepened considerably in just one year.
The results of Commerzbank’s 2016 Customer Survey conducted with market researcher the Forsa Institute of over 200 German firms illustrate this growing interest. The poll found that companies’ use of RMB in their cross-border transactions had almost doubled from 2014.
The survey also found that while 17% of respondents had made the transition to invoicing their Chinese partners in RMB, a further 15.5% were planning to convert their invoicing within 12 months of the poll – meaning that, in total, about a third of companies are actively dealing with the RMB issue. This compares to only 25% in 2015.
Why make the jump to RMB?
Corporate clients are clearly eager to open up new discussions about RMB, but what is behind such demand?
One reason is greater profitability. Companies able to invoice in RMB can find themselves in a better negotiating position for prices when settling trade with Chinese partners. Indeed, in the survey the ability to gain price benefits from invoicing in RMB emerged as the crucial factor for 56% of respondents.
An additional competitive advantage of using RMB – cited by 53% of those companies polled – is the ability to maintain good relations with Chinese partners citing an explicit wish to invoice in the currency. A further 41%, in fact, found better connections to Chinese markets a clear incentive, given that RMB capability offers an overseas company access to Chinese firms that may not have a foreign exchange export licence.
Finally, as 47% of respondents agreed, the chance to hedge exchange rates is another key argument in favour of adopting RMB. Companies expanding their global business, inevitably coming into contact with a wider range of currencies, can better mitigate foreign exchange risk; indeed, it means they can also take risk off the shoulders of their Chinese partners.
Support from banking partners is needed
The RMB transition is hardly straightforward, however. Companies still need support in hedging their RMB exposure with the right tools in both onshore and offshore markets. As the yuan internationalises and liberalises, its volatility will only increase. Banks can affirm that hedging of RMB exposure during European trading hours has notably grown over the last two years.
What is more, the process of adopting RMB can be a challenging and lengthy process, as it affects both treasury and procurement departments. This means companies need full, front-to-end support from their banks across the value chain, along with innovative RMB accounts and payment products from their banks.
Finally, tapping the Chinese market may have become more commonplace in recent years but navigating international trade corridors remains complex. This means that companies – whether European corporates looking to expand to Asia, or Asian firms intending to transact in Europe – need a banking partner that is familiar with the local financial landscape.
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Yachts with a hybrid power plant:
Recent years saw keen interest from yacht owners in hybrid power plants in the machine halls of luxury superyachts. As now the world goes green, future and existing owners consider hybrid yacht ownership as their contribution to saving the oceans and seas. We are proud to showcase the most comprehensive selection of the existing hybrid luxury boats and yachts available for sale and pre-order.
We explain the advantages of a hybrid yachts as Q and A:
Q: Does hybrid mean that a yacht can operate in different modes?
A: Hybrid power can be used in different modes while moving:
Q: What is a hybrid motor yacht, and why this set-up is called a ‘hybrid’?
A: Hybrid power on a motor yacht means that the vessel is driven by diesel engines operating together with electric motors. The advantage of hybrid power is much more comfortable navigation as the boat can run on electric motors alone, much quieter than diesel engines. That is especially useful when a yacht moves in the night when silence onboard is essential
Q: What are the components of a hybrid system?
A: The main components of a hybrid power are a) Electric motors, b) Rechargeable batteries,с) Diesel engines and d) diesel generators
Q: Does hybrid power allow to stay at anchor without running diesel generators?
A: Yes, as there are powerful electric batteries onboard which supply electric power to air-condition and other electric appliances so that you can stay at anchor in absolute tranquillity without a need to run diesel generators.
Q: What other advantages has a hybrid yacht over traditional diesel engines?
A: A hybrid yacht probably will have a better value than the one equipped with diesel engines. That means that a hybrid sells faster on a pre-owned market and for a higher price.
Q: Ok, it all looks so good, so what are the downsides of this system?
A: The disadvantage of a hybrid is more often than not, the components require more space in the engine room than a traditional set-up. Another disadvantage is an added cost. Usually, builders ask for a premium for a hybrid system.
Q: Is going hybrid becomes a trend in a modern yacht building?
A: Yes, practically all leading shipyards have hybrid proposals in their portfolio.
One of the first builders who saw the beauty of this system was Holland Jachtbouw which introduced its silent running J-class yacht Rainbow back in 2012.
What makes a yacht diesel-electric?
Diesel-electric means that the yacht is moved by electric motors, which turn the propellers through a gearbox.
This type of yacht has a set of diesel generators that supply energy to electric motors. The technology is not new, trade ships have had this type of power plant for almost a hundred years. First used in 1903 to move the triple-screw Russian tanker Vandal on the Volga River and the Caspian Sea, the diesel-electric drive is now used in the most advanced cruise ships and thousands of other commercial vessels.
The main benefits of a yacht with diesel-electric are:
One of the largest diesel-electric luxury yachts is a 107 m mega yacht Benetti Luminosity delivered in 2021. Other leading shipyards-Abeking & Rasmussen, Feadship, Lürssen and Rossinavi, to name a few, have diesel-electric yachts in their portfolios.
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“The long awaited surfacestations paper“ (May 11, 2011). Hosannah! The great day has arrive-ened! Anthony Watts’ paper, Analysis of the impacts of station exposure on the U.S. Historical Climatology Network temperatures and temperature trends, is in press at the Journal of Geophysical Research. The global warming house of cards has fallen-ed!
Just look at some of these definitely-no-global-warming quotes in what Anthony has pasted in from
co-author lead-author Dr. Roger Pielke Sr.’s blog (emphasis mine):
Q: So is the United States getting warmer?
Q: Has the warming rate been overestimated?
A: The minimum temperature rise appears to have been overestimated, but the maximum temperature rise appears to have been underestimated.
Q: What about mean temperature trends?
A: In the United States the biases in maximum and minimum temperature trends are about the same size, so they cancel each other and the mean trends are not much different from siting class to siting class.
Yowza! Game over? Oops.
What a lame exercise in irrelevant nit-picking. After years of just you wait squawking, even Anthony and company’s best spin boils down to whining about bluntly negligible data quality issues. This isn’t even backyard fireworks level excitement. Shame on you, Anthony.
Still, you have to feel a bit sorry for him. He’s not lead author on ‘his’ paper because he doesn’t have the statistical chops for even this damp squib. Dr. Pielke tries to give him a libertarian head-pat though:
The Surface Stations project is truly an outstanding citizen scientist project under the leadership of Anthony Watts! The project did not involve federal funding. Indeed, these citizen scientists paid for the page charges for our article.
Of course we have to remember what the big picture is here. After all this scientific-paper-of-the-century is just about US temperature data and global warming is, um, global. Dr. Pielke has to come clean (emphasis mine):
Does this uncertainty extend to the worldwide surface temperature record? In our paper… …we found that the global average surface temperature may be higher than what has been reported by NCDC and others as a result in the bias in the landscape area where the observing sites are situated. However, we were not able to look at the local siting issue that we have been able to study for the USA in our new paper.
Anthony seems quite pleased with himself, but frankly this own-goal would be embarrassing even as a high school science fair poster. Why Dr. Pielke’s name is attached to this says something about the power of conviction over that of intellect. Sad, because sometimes he has something relevant to offer.
I guess those page charges were just too juicy for the JGR to let slip away.
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GaN MOCVD Growth on Native Substrates for High Voltage (15-20 KV) Vertical Power Devices
Project Innovation + Advantages:
The Ohio State University will develop GaN semiconductor materials suitable for high voltage (15-20 kV) power control and conversion. The team will develop a unique photon-assisted metal organic chemical vapor deposition (PA-MOCVD) method to grow thick GaN films with low background impurity contamination, necessary to allow high-voltage operation with high efficiency. The thick GaN layers will be deposited by PA-MOCVD on high-quality bulk GaN base materials with reduced defects, critical to the growth of high-quality GaN films. High-voltage GaN devices will be designed, fabricated, and tested to provide feedback for further GaN material growth improvement and optimization.
The objective of the project is to develop PA-MOCVD homoepitaxy of GaN on native substrates with a fast growth rate (15-20 micrometers per hour), low background doping, and smooth surface morphology to enable high voltage (15-20 kV) vertical power devices.
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About this course
Join me as we create a girl with acrylic paints from start to finish on an 8x8 board. This workshop is on demand meaning all the materials are ready for you as soon as you sign up. I have created a handy step-by-step PDF and accompanying video of the how I paint noses and lips. There is about an hours worth of real time content. The girl from start to finish is 45 minutes and the nose and lips videos are about 15 minutes.
We will add symbol work, talk about hairstyles (and how to give "hair cuts") and enjoy the process of painting a girl. I hope you can join me. Supplies and details are below:
- open access meaning you receive immediate access to all content in this workshop as soon as you sign up.
- 3 videos (Penelope start to finish broken into 4 part videos, 1 lip video, 1 nose video)
- lip and nose focus videos (includes step-by-step downloadable PDF)
- start to finish Penelope painting on 8x8 board
- lifetime access
brush set - or 1/4" square brush
charcoal - any compressed thick charcoal or charcoal pencil
caran d'ache B Technalo - or stabilo graphite
**these colors can be substituted (use similar colors to what you have on hand)
- ceramcoat sea foam, hydrangea pink --->>found in craft stores like hobby lobby or michaels
- americana: buttermilk --->>found in craft stores like hobby lobby or michaels
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As we know Gorges are deep ravines between pairs of escarpments or cliffs and are most often carved landscape by the erosive activity of a river over geologic timescales, while Caves are natural opening or cavity within the earth, generally extending from the earth's surface to beyond the zone of light
Tanzania is well endowed with abundant significant cultural heritage resources which range from the Pliocene period about four million years a go to present time which are: Historical sites; Historical towns; Traditional Settlements; Historic Buildings; Sites with special memories; Archaeological or Paleontological sites a well as Natural Features and Structures
According to currently available research findings show that Tanzania has 128 areas which have been published on the National Gazette, though there are more than 500 areas recorded to have significance of cultural heritage resources.
Three sites among the sixteen (16) which are Kondoa Rock Art site, the Ruins of Kilwa Kisiwani and Songo Mnara, and Olduvai Gorge are inscribed on the World Heritage list.
OL KARIEN GORGE
A visit to Ol Karien Gorge is referred by many visitors as a spectacular trip. The scenery is prehistoric. Huge mountains, canyons and spectacular rock formations dominate the wide meandering valleys. Geologically it is an amazing site with the great canyon slicing through the earth-the gorge is naturally inviting!
Olkarien gorge is one of spectacular landform in the eastern edge of the Gol Mountains in the Serengeti eco-system. The main attraction of the gorge is the colonies of the highest flying birds ‘the Ruppell’s Griffon Vultures’. These highly social vultures of the Serengeti, makes large nests of sticks and have been breeding their chicks here for thousands of years.
When thermal currents start to develop enough lift in the mornings, The Ruppel’s Griffon Vultures are seen slowly leaving the roost and continue soaring around the gorge. The Ruppel’s Vultures flies to the West for up to 90 miles searching for the great Serengeti herds and stays in the air for almost seven hours patrolling for animal carcasses.
The gorge provides a unique and safe nesting for almost a hundred bird species. On mid day, the gorge is also used by the Maasai warriors who herd their animals to drink water at the wells dug below. Visitors to this mystical gorge experience a classic example of natural interaction between man and wildlife in a natural setting | <urn:uuid:f4232294-42bf-44a9-9da3-60f5f4064e0e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.tanzaniatourism.go.tz/fr/destination/types/category/gorges-caves-and-rocks | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570767.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808061828-20220808091828-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.929976 | 519 | 2.90625 | 3 |
- No Global Citizenship?Re-envisioning Global Citizenship Education In Times of Growing Nationalism
There is no global anthem. No global currency. No certificate of global citizenship. We pledge allegiance to one flag and that flag is the American flag.
This was the statement of American nationalism articulated by President-elect Donald Trump in his first Thank You Tour speech, given on December 1, 2016 in Cincinnati, Ohio. This one statement, in a speech that marked a return to candidate Trump’s isolationist and nationalistic rhetoric (Johnson & Wagner, 2016; Corasaniti & Shear, 2016; Hains, 2016), has alarmed international educators and researchers who fear that this resurgence of nationalism is, at best, ignoring, and at worst, undermining, global education and global citizenship education in the United States. Equally disturbing is the global increase in nationalist rhetoric and actions as countries and nation-states around the world isolate themselves in response to economic, political, and social issues, such as increased refugee immigration: Brexit in the United Kingdom (Taub, 2016); Hungary and Macedonia closing borders (Kingsley, 2015; Huggler & Holehouse, 2016); Russia’s annexation of Crimea, grabbing land and territory in the name of nationalism (Arnold, 2016).
Nationalism and patriotism have been a part of citizenship education since its inception, but nationalism coupled with an ignorance of the world outside of the United States leads to a perpetuation of U.S. ethnocentrism and exceptionalism. At times of perceived threat, World Wars and 9/11, curriculum in the U.S. swung back to hyper-patriotic citizenship education, focusing on U.S. exceptionalism (see Barton, 2016 & Kissling, 2016). The isolation of immigrants as a threat to the uniformity of the U.S. harkens back to the Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798. Isolation of groups of individuals who are perceived as threatening based upon ethnic and/or religious characteristics, stems from years of political power in the hands of a White majority who feared anything or anyone threatening would disrupt the status quo. For example, following the attacks on Pearl Harbor in 1941 Japanese immigrants and Nisi were registered, removed from their homes, and interned in camps because Americans feared sabotage. The Japanese were targeted not because there were actual threats of sabotage, but because they were deemed an “enemy race”; no Germans or Italians were interned (Kampf & Sen, 2007). Most recently, Muslims have been labeled the “enemy race” and have been subjected to special registration programs created by the Department of Homeland Security after 9/11 (now disbanded). Recently, long-time supporter of Trump, and former spokesman for the Great American PAC, Carl Higbie, sparked fear across the nation as a cavalier connection between Japanese internment and registration and a new Muslim registry was made (Rothman, 2016; Bromwich, 2016). Higbie was referring to comments made by Kansas Secretary of State, Kris Kobach, a member of Trump’s transition team, which highlighted candidate Trump’s call for “extreme vetting” of Muslim immigrants (Rosenburg & Ainsley, 2016). Higbie was not recommending Muslim internment, but he was suggesting that a precedent for registering individuals based on “race, religion, and region” (Rothman, 2016) had already been set. While it is unlikely that a Muslim registry will [End Page 163] ever exist, just the thought of such an atrocity divides America - between jingoists who seek to isolate America and those who seek to highlight and champion the world’s interconnectedness.
Global education has been one avenue through which educators have sought to combat isolationism and support the teaching of multiple perspectives. Global education scholars focus on the interconnectedness of the world and developing global awareness through five dimensions: perspective consciousness, “state of the planet” awareness, cross-cultural awareness, knowledge of global dynamics, awareness of human choices (Hanvey, 1976). The purpose of global education was, and is, to combat the informal socialization students received outside of class, specifically the media’s singular perspective and biased coverage of world events (Hanvey, 1976) – an interesting concept considering the plethora of fake news and accusations of media bias that has plagued the 2016 U.S. election. By promoting the five dimensions of a global perspective, Hanvey hoped that schools would help students to think critically and recognize that “culture affects the perception of human affairs... | <urn:uuid:466531d7-9aad-4e36-a150-dcb06e51dd4a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://muse.jhu.edu/article/649653/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573699.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819131019-20220819161019-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.947697 | 936 | 2.40625 | 2 |
The world’s only purpose-built charity hospital ship to set sail from Antwerp
After a six-month stay in the Port of Antwerp since 12 September, where she received the final outfitting of its medical and IT facilities, the Global Mercy – the world’s only purpose-built, civilian-funded charity hospital ship – will soon depart at the end of February for field services where she is needed around the world.
Measuring 174 m long and 28.6m wide, the 37.000 GT ship is the newest and largest vessel of the Mercy Ships, an organisation that offers medical and surgical care for the world’s poorest on board their hospital ships since 1978. As 80% of the world’s population live not more than 150km from a port, a ship is the most accessible way to offer them precise life-saving medical help they require.
During her six months’ stay in Antwerp, the Global Mercy was warmly received by Belgians and the Belgian maritime sector. More than a dozen Belgian companies, including the Royal Belgian Shipowners’ Association, lend their support to the ship. Her berthing costs as well pilotage and customs charges were waived, and more than 250 volunteers took part in the outfitting.
During his visit to the Global Mercy on 14 February, Peter Claeyssens, Director-General for Shipping in Belgium’s Federal Department of Transport said:
“The free medical services offered by the Global Mercy range from eye operations or orthopedic surgeries to the removal of tumours are sometimes a matter of life and death for populations in some countries. We are proud to have hosted the Global Mercy during her outfitting in the past six months here in Belgium, and the overwhelming support shown by volunteers and companies in the maritime sector highlights the importance we as a nation place on our social responsibilities to help those in need.”
Now that the Global Mercy is fitted with the latest surgical and IT equipment, she now has 199 beds and 6 operation rooms. In the 50 years to come, she will have changed the lives of more than 150,000 lives.
“It is the responsibility of the shipping industry to raise the awareness, in Europe and in other parts of the world, of the vital services offered by the Global Mercy,” said Wilfried Lemmens, RBSA Managing Director, also present at the visit. “In view of the delayed delivery and rising costs of medical supplies caused by the global pandemic especially in the poorer regions of the world, the Global Mercy and other Mercy Ships need every support they can get.”
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You really love your house. However, during the summer and winter seasons when the weather gets to the extremes, your house can get intolerably hot or unbearably cold.
You may need a better HVAC solution in your home, but does thinking about messing with HVAC ductwork make your head spin?
Did you know that there’s a more modern and efficient solution that doesn’t require ductwork?
It’s called a ductless mini-split system. Let’s talk more about this option to see if it’s right for you.
How Does A Ductless System Work?
First of all, as the name indicates, the system doesn’t require any ducts. Each room has a unit that’s mounted on the wall that connects to a compressor outside through a small opening on your wall.
Think of how a window a/c unit works, only with this system, you don’t have the security risk of keeping your window opened all the time, and you don’t get the air leakage problem that window units have.
What Are The Advantages Of A Ductless Mini-Split System?
The obvious one is that you don’t need your ceiling and walls torn up to put the ducts in. If your house has no existing HVAC system already, a ductless system is cheaper to install than one that uses ductwork.
A ductless system is also more energy-efficient than a ducted system. A lot of air is lost through the ductwork whenever you turn on your HVAC system. Without ducts, you won’t have this energy loss, and you save money on your energy bills.
No More Fighting Over Temperature
Your family won’t have to fight over the thermostat. Someone always needs their room really warm and turns up the thermostat. Then someone else starts sweating while working in a hot kitchen.
You don’t have this problem with a ductless system. Since each room has its own unit, you can set the temperature of one space higher while keeping other areas cool. No one has to suffer, and everyone is happy!
If you added new living space like a bonus room or a retreat, you don’t have to rework your duct system to give this space ventilation. The ductless unit stands on its own and doesn’t affect your current HVAC configuration.
Are There Any Limitations To Ductless Split Systems?
If you already have a system that uses ducts, it will cost more to replace it with a ductless system than with another ducted system. If you just want to add a ductless system to one room, it does cost more than a unit that you install for the window or the baseboard.
Ductless systems do need more maintenance. You need to clean the filters at least every month because if debris accumulates on the fans, the system won’t last as long, and you’ll have to spend extra to have it professionally cleaned.
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All that lives must die—but some organisms get a little more time on this Earth than others. For nearly a decade, the photographer Rachel Sussman has been traveling around the world, capturing images of the oldest continuously living things in the world, part of an effort to “step outside our quotidian experience of time and start to consider a deeper timescale,” as she put it in a TED talk in 2010. Everything she has photographed for the project is at least 2,000 years old, if not much, much older. That includes something as unimaginably ancient as the Posidonia sea grass meadow, found in protected waters in the Mediterranean Sea, which may be 100,000 years old, and something comparatively younger, like baobab trees found in southern Africa. It is a record of survival, of those organisms—and they’re all plants, lichen or coral, as the oldest animals live less than 200 years—that beat the odds of genetics and simply lasted.
Sussman has a new photo book out that details her project, along with a foreword by the science writer Carl Zimmer. There’s a sense of wonder imbued in these photographs of organisms that seem to be a physical record of time, but there’s also a call to action. Many of these subjects of Sussman’s portraits are under threat from habitat loss or climate change or simple human idiocy. (Sussman has written movingly about the loss of the 3,500 year-old Senator tree in Orlando, destroyed in a fire that was almost certainly set on purpose.) “The oldest living things in the world are a record and celebration of our past, a call to action in the present and a barometer of the future,” Sussman has said—and the images that follow prove her out.
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“In Science of the Magical, Matt Kaplan takes us on a journey spiced with the wonders of myth, history and art, leavened with impeccable research, endlessly fascinating. And the result is both a compelling read and a deeply thoughtful exploration of the world around us and the ways we seek to understand it."
– Deborah Blum, author of "The Poisoner’s Handbook"
"Today magic is mostly a form of entertainment, but for millennia humans told magical stories to make sense of what they didn’t understand. This erudite, witty and highly original book explores the surprising natural phenomena behind dozens of supernatural tales of yore. Kaplan will not only enlighten and charm you, but will also change the way you think about what is science and what is magic."
– Daniel E. Lieberman, Professor of Human Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, author of "The Story of the Human Body: Evolution, Health and Disease"
In Science of the Magical, Matt Kaplan shows us the many ways by which magic and science can complement and explain each other. Written in a witty and personal style, Kaplan nimbly explores topics as diverse as berserks, hepatomancy, Methuselah mice, stage magic, superheroes, and sunstones, taking the reader on wide-ranging journeys from Iceland, Turkey, and Yellowstone Park to backstage in Las Vegas in his search for the science behind magic and myths."
– Stephen A. Mitchell, Professor of Folklore & Mythology and Scandanavian, Harvard University and author of "Witchcraft and Magic in the Nordic Middle Ages"
“Absorbing and intellectually stimulating, this book is a joy to read and is highly recommended."
– Library Journal STARRED review
"A wonderful exploration of the possible. Kaplan takes us on a journey into the myths and magic of days long gone and then looks to make scientific sense of these ancient ideas and practices."
– Jeffrey Shaman, Associate Professor of Climatology and Epidemiology, Columbia University
"Science of the Magical is a relevant, fascinating exploration of just how weird the world can be. I tell people about things I read in it at least once a week. In a world of bad news, it's refreshing to pick up a book that is filled with wonder, mystery, and joy, especially when all of that comes steeped in scientific realism and evidence."
– Maggie Koerth-Baker, journalist and author of "Before the Lights Go Out: Conquering the Energy Crisis Before it Conquers Us"
"In Science of the Magical, Matt Kaplan takes a smart, funny trip through the ancient stories of magic that still have the power to enchant us today. In the process, he also provides a remarkably wide-ranging tour of modern science, from geology to neurobiology. Far from being a glum debunker, Kaplan offers us new experiences of wonder through his investigations. The effect is, dary I say it, magical."
– Carl Zimmer, author of "A Planet of Viruses"
"This book reminded me of all the fascination and excitement I felt about the universe and how important it was for me to study life and our place in the world. In short, it made me remember why I became a scientist."
– Elizabeth Repasky, Professor of Oncology, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, New York
"Provocative...A charming romp through the history of science."
– Kirkus Reviews
"What do The Princess Bride, The Odyssey, Super Mario Brothers, and The Book of Exodus have in common? Answer: Matt Kaplan’s ingenious curiosity! Kaplan takes us on a scientific romp through fantasy, magic, and mythology to explain supernatural powers and mythical stories. He brings his questions to experts and to the laboratory to try to determine (to name a few) whether a holy grail protected nobles from poisoning, what you can learn from a liver and why pig livers are not so great for such predictions, and what Adam and Eve really ate to cause such a profound sense of self-awareness (spoiler alert: it’s not an apple!). Written in a highly engaging and accessible style, you’ll dig for the science behind myths and magic and learn some science and scientific scepticism in the process. And, you’ll learn that holy grails probably didn't protect nobles…at least not the grails that he studied! Highly recommended."
– Daniel T. Blumstein, Professor and Chair, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, UCLA
"Using his wide-ranging background as a science journalist, Matt takes us on a wild ride exploring the science behind things once thought to be beyond explanation! A fascinating read that will force you to re-evaluate your thinking on myths and magic."
– Bruce Rideout, Director, Wildlife Disease Laboratories, San Diego Zoo's Institute for Conservation Research
"Kaplan has skillfully woven together a compelling tapestry of science and culture, drawing threads from ancient wisdom and modern laboratories alike. A must-read for anyone who has wondered why things are or have been so."
– Barbara L. Fredrickson, Kenan Distinguished Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and author of "Positivity" and "Love 2.0"
"What I have always loved about magic is that brief moment when the impossible seems possible. In this book, those impossibilities are made to seem ever so slightly doable through Matt's impeccable research and endless curiosity. It's a bit of magic itself."
– Jason Alexander
“This book captivates the imagination as Kaplan brings scientific explanations for magical and mythical phenomena. The science is often even more fascinating than the magic — a very entertaining and enlightening read.”
– Randall Hill, Executive Director, Institute for Creative Technologies, USC
"Kaplan’s The Science of the Magical is an insightful and fun tour de force on how magical thinking can arise in even the deepest thinkers. There are dozens of books on how people think irrationally, but no other book explains why we think irrationally as clearly or with as much sensitivity and humanity."
– Stephen L. Macknik & Susana Martinez-Conde, authors of "Sleights of Mind: What the Neuroscience of Magic Reveals About Our Everyday Deceptions"
“A compelling read for anyone interested in science, but more importantly, for anyone who has ever wondered about the wizardry and magic of life and all of the wonders of our natural world.”
– Jay Olshansky, Professor, Division of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Illinois at Chicago
"Kaplan considers how things that were once the stuff of legends could one day become reality. ...filled with cool cocktail-party tidbits."
"Science and magical thinking might seem at odds, but science journalist Kaplan demonstrates that they can inform and even influence each other."
– Scientific American
"A fascinating miscellany of enlivening facts and observations by an author steeped in (modern) myths and modern science."
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Dental implants can help you regain your confidence, giving you the beautiful smile you once had. Although it requires a short and minimum invasive surgery, the result is well worth it in the end. Once your dental implant is inserted, your recovery process begins.
Implant recovery time is different for everyone, but it doesn’t have to be scary. If you understand what to expect during this time and how to manage the healing process, things will feel much more manageable. Here are 5 facts about the dental implant recovery process that may help ease your mind before undergoing this procedure.
1. Implants Take Time To Heal
Typically, it will take the implant to fully integrate into the bone between 3-6 months, on average 3 months on the lower jaw, and 4 months on the upper jaw. This is pretty universal in humans if they are healthy and have minimum health conditions Your dentist can give you an approximate time frame after examining your mouth and observing healing progress.
During the initial healing process, you may have to avoid certain foods and avoid harsh oral hygiene practices that may disrupt the healing. You may also experience initial discomfort, swelling, and tenderness in the area around the implant. Avoid activities that may cause irritation, such as smoking. This will help facilitate the healing process and reduce the amount of healing time.
Healthy habits can also help speed up the healing. Try to keep stress levels low, get plenty of rest, and maintain a balanced diet. There are many popular misconceptions about dental implants and the kind of food you need to include in your diet. But in general, dental experts recommend that you avoid alcohol and carbonated beverages and eat soft foods such as cooked/baked beans, fish, avocado, bananas, and healthy juice.
2. Dental Visits Will Continue For Some Time
At Lincoln Crossings Dental Care in North Huntingdon, PA your dentist will schedule follow-up visits during the healing process. The frequency of these appointments will depend on your specific situation and the amount of healing progress you’ve experienced.
During these visits, your dentist will check the healing progress of the implant site. They will also perform a cleaning and check your bite to make sure everything is healing as it should. It’s important to keep these appointments to ensure that healing is progressing as it should. Your dentist may also suggest slight changes to your dental routine to help facilitate healing.
3. You Must Maintain a Healthy Diet And Good Oral Hygiene During Recovery
During recovery you should practice good oral hygiene habits, like brushing your teeth with a soft brush and flossing. Continue to eat healthy, balanced meals and stay hydrated. This will help keep your mouth healthy during the healing process. You may also want to consider investing in an oral hygiene device, like a waterpik, to help maintain your good dental hygiene during this time.
4. Certain Activities Should Be Avoided
In the first few days post-surgery the mouth should be allowed to rest and heal before engaging in strenuous activities. This can help reduce the risk of bleeding and other complications. You can walk, do some light yoga, or stretch but should avoid lifting weights or doing intense training.
It is also advised to avoid chewing on the side of the mouth where the surgery was performed. This will give the mouth time to rest and heal. Your doctor will also recommend avoiding eating foods that are difficult to chew, such as crumpets, for the first few days after surgery.
Dental implants are a safe, effective and permanent solution for missing teeth, and are recommended by many reputable dentists like Dr. Stryker. The procedure is not nearly as invasive as people think and recovery times are often very short and cause minimum impact to your daily routine. Take the necessary steps to ensure a successful recovery, and you will see your new dental implant in no time at all. | <urn:uuid:a95ef884-efc0-4bd5-8ab0-f239c30ea0f4> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://glorioustransformation.com/4-facts-about-the-dental-implant-recovery-process/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572198.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815175725-20220815205725-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.951021 | 796 | 1.890625 | 2 |
In 2011 Dieter Ortmann of Germany built a bridge to South Africa and founded a branch office there. "With the goal of bringing training through the newly-founded Solar Academy and becoming a supplier to the installers we train there," says the founder and Managing Director of the Maxx Solar Energy Group, which also recruited the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sonnenenergie to help with training. Now Ortmann is involved in a project that he is so proud of he has thrown his hat into the ring for the Innovation Installation Award sponsored by Hanwha Q CELLS and pv magazine.
He has arranged financing for a PV plant on the Dominican Grimley School; a school for the deaf attended by some 100 children. Ortmann thinks of the undertaking as an exemplary project that can act as a model for further PV installations. After all, even though many people are convinced of the benefits of solar energy, the money is often lacking.
His partners at the school are nuns, some of them more than 70 years old. "I found it fascinating that people of an advanced age have an appreciation for the role of renewables and energy independence," says Ortmann. "Be more independent" is his motto for the project. At the Grimley School, the motto applies both to energy security and with regard to his helping people help themselves.
PV rental as a financing solution
"Sure, there's plenty of sunshine; it is definitely worthwhile to go there," says Ortmann. "But the financing is often a problem. Ortmann and his team have to link up potential operators with investors and develop a good solution for both. The school is now renting the PV system.
The conditions are right. On the one hand, the location gets approximately twice as much solar radiation as in Germany. On the other hand, electricity costs are about half. Amortization for self-consumption systems therefore follows a similar track. Added to that is the aspect of self-sufficiency, he says, as the power supply is not as dependable as in Europe.
Maxx Solar implemented the project with a local installer. "All we're doing is helping people to do something for themselves, and we merely act in an advisory role," says Ortmann, explaining his motto. The rental model works much like similar schemes in Germany. The owners are from "our area," a tax adviser and a South African owner. The first thing is to show how this can work.
The school can purchase the system in 12 years for a low price, says Ortmann – about EUR 100 per kilowatt. This, by the way is often a sticking point. The rental payments cannot be too high, and the purchase price at the end of the rental phase has to be reasonable so that the tenant gets something out of the system. This is the case in the Dominican Grimley School project. The monthly rent is approximately 2,700 euros. At a 70 percent self-consumption rate, that is already below the cost the school would have paid for the electricity. But the system design is likely to generate a self-consumption rate closer to 100 percent.
That means that even in the rental phase, the school will see significant savings month after month – using 90 percent of the power it produces should save the school some EUR 800 a year according to the figures provided by Maxx Solar.
It is a 20 kW system producing 33,000 kWh; the school needs 144,000 kWh. "In ten years the system will have paid for itself," says Ortmann. The only thing lacking is an emergency power supply. He is currently exploring options for how to finance that.
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Parkinson’s disease is a neurological condition. The symptoms appear slowly and develop over time. Symptoms can include trembling or tremor, stiffness, and difficulty with balance, walking, speaking, and coordination. The condition occurs due to damage to nerve cells that are responsible for controlling movement.
COVID-19 leaves deep scars in patients with Parkinson’s disease. Not only in the respiratory system the nervous system is also often affected by damage caused by coronavirus. All of this “trauma” is now known as post-COVID-19 syndrome.
Among the most obvious signs of post-COVID-19 syndrome are lack of energy, difficulty breathing, memory loss and, in general, more or less pronounced mental confusion. Less common are ageusia (loss of taste), anosmia (loss of smell) and skin rashes.
Brain disorders such as Alzheimer’s or Parkinson, of which both have been on the rise, must be attended to early on, advisedly upon detection. Warning signs for Parkinson include a strong pulling sensation on the shoulder, or a jittering feeling on the neck. Curated specially to address these conditions, Thetole’s‘Way of Treatment’ works to delay any rapid advancements of the conditions and increase the chances of reversal.
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The Tole Neuro takes pride in offering herbal medication to its patients. Rather than prescribing an antibiotic, Master Leong prescribes a customized herbal supplement for the patient to take home. These herbal medicines have limited side effects. Using only natural ingredients, these medicines will only have a positive influence on the patient’s body.
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PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — News of Donald Trump’s presidency was met with very mixed reactions: Some people were ecstatic about his election while others made it clear he does not have their support.
But many expressed legitimate fear the day after Trump was tapped to become the next commander-in-chief, and people around the world sought professional help to deal with their concerns.
Clinical Psychologist Esther Lerman Freeman with Oregon Health & Science University told KOIN 6 News she’s never seen anything quite like this.
“It feels like there was a hurricane or earthquake, people are pretty shook up,” Freeman said. “I’ve gotten calls, emails, texts from China, Israel, Virginia. People from different countries and people from different religions tell me that they felt afraid for themselves, that they felt afraid for the country.”
Freeman said there’s more anxiety, stress, sadness and feelings of disbelief for women she spoke with who may be experiencing those feelings due to thoughts of past abuse. For some, there’s the fear that Roe v. Wade, the landmark abortion decision, could be reversed.
While grieving can certainly be good, Freeman said it would be unhealthy for people to experience these emotions for 4 years. She said moving forward is a must.
“Action is the best correction for hopelessness or despair or fear,” Freeman said. “Positive action… makes us feel good, it makes us feel empowered.”
She also said not to hesitate taking a break from social media to help deal with any negative emotions, but always remember you are not alone. | <urn:uuid:a73df7a5-b395-43a9-83cc-8fa58ad42186> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.wspa.com/news/psychologists-bombarded-with-calls-day-after-trump-wins/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573172.64/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818063910-20220818093910-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.969097 | 343 | 1.726563 | 2 |
20 pages. Common Core Assessment tool for RF.K1d and L.1.1a
Your students will enjoy learning their upper and lowercase letters with the help of these adorable owls.
Clip art by Laura Strickland.
Besides having students arrange the cards in alphabetical order and making an Itty Bitty KnOWLedge Booklet, have children make up CVC words for "word work" during Daily 5 time.
For games and other ideas of how to use the cards, check out my idea tip sheet that's included in the packet. | <urn:uuid:d3d3c008-9e17-42ab-a5a1-ccedb202d579> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://teachwithme.com/downloads/item/3300-1246 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570977.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809124724-20220809154724-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.935531 | 119 | 3.109375 | 3 |
From a defiled giant pink My Little Pony (Salome) and explicit MySpace messages (Two Boys) to nudity and new music (Salome again; The Mask of Orpheus etc), English National Opera (ENO) has always taken creative risks. Some have worked, some have not – and many have divided opinion. Productions have taken place amid financial woes, in-fighting and industry squabbles.
This has sometimes meant that ENO’s artistic reputation has been overshadowed by its fancier neighbour, the Royal Opera House. But over the past year, the imaginative rule-breaking that lies at the heart of ENO has enabled the organisation to produce a portfolio of work that no other arts collective has managed during the same time scale.
During the first wave of the pandemic, the ENO turned its costume department over to making emergency PPE. The team produced 1,700 pairs of scrubs, 500 hats and 1,000 visors, as well as raising £26,000 towards materials, with the remaining money donated to NHS charities. (Deputy head of costume Sarah Bowern subsequently received an MBE in the Queen’s birthday honours list.)
We’re thrilled to announce that following the success of an initial 6 week pilot of #ENOBreathe, our singing, breathing and wellbeing programme for people recovering from COVID-19 is to be rolled out nationally from today ???? ???? https://t.co/zFeW1WnliL@ImperialNHS#HereForCulturepic.twitter.com/A3JyRPSIN3
— English National Opera (@E_N_O) January 28, 2021
Then, when socially distanced performances were permitted, the organisation put on the UK’s first-ever drive-in opera, battling a freak storm to produce a belting La bohème. Critics were uncharacteristically impressed. And now, as the crisis endures and doors to the Coliseum remain closed, the ENO is contributing again – this time, supporting Covid recovery through a groundbreaking nationwide programme, ENO Breathe.
Created in partnership with Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, ENO Breathe is intended to help combat the long-term breathlessness that many patients suffer from in the aftermath of Covid-19. Online sessions led by Baylis, ENO’s learning and participation programme, teach participants how to regain breath control through singing – taking lullabies as the starting point. | <urn:uuid:9e7e1e1b-a8ca-4d47-b544-346e9778c034> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.bigissue.com/culture/music/english-national-opera-how-music-can-help-you-breathe/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570767.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808061828-20220808091828-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.938532 | 514 | 1.820313 | 2 |
tpm (Driver for the TCPA chip in newer Thinkpads)
Linux device driver for the TCPA chip, along with example programs. Creates /dev/tpm, a character device.
Project Homepage / Availability
- Linux TPM Device Driver: http://tpmdd.sourceforge.net/
- IBMs driver: http://www.research.ibm.com/gsal/tcpa/
Please look at the tpmdd driver page for more information
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As Sir Walter was fluent in French and an expert in defence, he was appointed to be the first navel Governor and captain of Jersey in 1600. His mission was to demolish Mount Orgueil Castle and use it's stone to construct a more defendable fortress. When Sir Walter saw the magnificent edifice, which was Mount Orgueil, he despatched a letter to his Queen recommending that it should not be demolished. Stating that *"It's a Stately Fort of Great Capacity and if a small matter may defend it, it were a pity to cast it down."*
He then dedicated its replacement in St Aubin's Bay to the Queen, Fort Isabella Bellisima - Elizabeth Castle. He also took this opportunity to appointed a ma^itre de chasses to ensure the protection of his hunting rights on the island. On his second visit to the island in 1602 he continued this work by setting up a court allowing local people to air their grievances. There is a famous case where Sir Walter determined the ownership of Jean Guill's cow. When he presided at a States sitting, the long talked about land register was finally set up which continues to the present day. | <urn:uuid:10ac3daa-0355-4b85-9d0b-98db033f5008> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://hughsongallery.com/viewWork?work=222 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570977.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809124724-20220809154724-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.984308 | 243 | 3.0625 | 3 |
This website is a resource that helps people improve their climate impact.
The global carbon budget is the amount of carbon that humans can emit into the atmosphere before crossing the two-degree threshold. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has said that the budget is 840 gigatonnes of carbon. Unfortunately, we’ve already emitted 530 of the 840 gigatons. This red section is 175 gigatons that we’ve already emitted burning coal and some biomass. The orange section is 130 gigatons we’ve already emitted using oil. The yellow accounts for the 50 gigatons from natural gas emissions.
It is estimated that there is another 15 gigatons of carbon dioxide emissions from cement production and flaring. The green is 160 gigatons from land-use emissions, mostly deforestation. This leaves a budget of carbon dioxide before we’re permanently committed to 2 degrees of warming. If nothing is done to reduce the current growth of carbon dioxide emissions, this budget will be used up in 22 years. To avoid exhausting this budget before the end of the century, it is necessary to reduce annual carbon dioxide emissions globally by 4 percent per annum. This essentially means finding a way to live without fossil fuels or capturing the carbon dioxide they emit.
It is annoying that there are not good resources for normal people who want to understand and reduce their carbon footprint.
Shrink that Footprint will help people improve their climate impact.
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The tips that are most interesting are those that can be adopted by anyone, regardless of their lifestyle or circumstances. These are tips that can help anyone reduce their carbon footprint, whether they are a student, a young family, or someone who has just retired.
Such strategies are easy to do, cheap to implement and fit in well with day to day life.
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I founded Shrink That Footprint in November 2012, after a long period of research. For many years I have calculated, studied and worked with carbon footprints, and Shrink That Footprint is that interest come to life.
I have an Economics degree from UCL, have previously worked as an energy efficiency analyst at BNEF and continue to work as a strategy consultant at Maneas. I have consulted to numerous clients in energy and finance, as well as the World Economic Forum.
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The Port Aransas Art Center has been providing quality art instruction, exhibitions, support to the artist community, and related activities since 1995. The Art Center was formed by a group of artists who wanted to provide a place where artists and art lovers could gather, and to encourage, educate and support one another in a pleasant gallery and classroom setting where fine art could be produced and presented for sale. In April 1997, the Port Aransas Art Center was granted its official IRS designation as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit.
The Port Aransas Art Center is mindful of its role in sustaining the quality of life of Port Aransas, surrounding communities, and the State of Texas as a whole.
“Texas’ Arts and Culture Industry promotes innovation and long-term growth, and generates $5.5 billion per year in taxable sales, contributing more than 343.7 million in state sales tax revenue in 2015. This impact on the statewide economy has grown
steadily since 2005, increasing 25.1 percent over the past 10 years. Beyond revenue from state taxes, these sectors generate millions for local taxing entities including cities and economic development organizations whose funding comes from local sales tax revenue.”
Did you know?
- The Texas Arts and Culture Industry has grown more than 15% over the past decade, generating $5.59 billion for the Texas economy and nearly $350 million in state sales tax revenue in 2017.
- Tourists are drawn to arts and culture attractions in Texas. On average, arts and culture tourists stay longer, bring more people, and spend more money than non-culture tourists.
- Arts education prepares the 21st century workforce by developing creativity, innovation, critical thinking, problem solving, communication, and collaboration. The creative sector in Texas employs nearly 800,000 innovation workers, which represents one in 15 jobs. Average annual earnings for some creative sector occupations (see pages 12-13) are almost double those of workers in non-creative sector jobs.
- In a 2018 survey, 84% of Texas voters agree that the arts are a very important part of a student’s education, and 73% favor increased state funding for the arts in Texas public schools.
- Across all grade levels, students enrolled in arts courses attend school more regularly. High school students experience the greatest impact with a 3.3% greater attendance rate, the equivalent of an additional week of school each year. Students who complete more arts courses have up to 15% higher pass rates on standardized tests than students with fewer arts courses.
- The arts and creative arts therapies are demonstrating the ability to improve a patient’s overall health outcomes, treatment, and quality of life. Institutions across Texas are leveraging the power of the arts to improve health and well-being for patients, families, and caregivers.
- 80% of Texas voters support increased funding for the arts in schools.
The Port Aransas Art Center works closely with the Port Aransas Independent School District and surrounding communities. Our region has a high percentage of low income K-12 students. In fact, the Art Center hopes to expand its educational programming but the lack of underwriting – particularly since Hurricane Harvey – has prevented that from happening in the near term (but we have not given up hope).
If you have an interest in underwriting our educational programs for youth or for adults, please contact us by using the secure contact form found on this website.
We were pleased to learn that nationally, nearly a quarter of companies expect to increase their funding for the arts in the next 12 months and only 7 percent expect a decrease, according to new research from The Conference Board and Americans for the Arts. “These increases will likely be driven by increased overall philanthropy budgets. The study also found that nearly all companies are engaged with the arts community, complementing the support for the sector delivered through the National Endowment of the Arts.”
The Port Aransas Art Center welcomes partners from all sectors. We believe the arts are vital to a strong economy and to the education of our children. We are proud of our role in furthering these goals.
Other Resources You Might Enjoy
- Americans for the Arts (2017), “8 Ways the Arts Can Boost Your Local Economy”
- Fast Company (2013), “Science Says Art Will Make Your Kids Better Thinkers (and Nicer People)”
- Forbes (2016), “The Arts and Aging: 5 Surprising Insights on Creativity”
- Gateway to Mental Health Services (2018), “Creativity and Recovery: The Mental Health Benefits of Art Therapy”
- NCSL: National Conference of State Legislatures (2013), “Arts, Culture and Economic Development”
- NGA Center for Best Practices (no date), “Arts & the Economy: Using Arts and Culture to Stimulate State Economic Development”
- PBS Parents (no date), “The Importance of Art in Child Development”
- The New York Times (2016), “Using the Arts to Promote Healthy Aging”
- Texans for the Arts, “The Art of Economic Development”
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Suggestion for allowing fireworks that protects the pets, citizen, and property.
- Take some funding from police patrols (NOT DEFUNDING, repurposing) a separate division called ‘Noise Control’ that had unarmed officers with Fire Marshall training and video-enabled vehicles.
- Enforcement would be a simple drive-by (no lead involved, only silicon). (could also double for animal control and wildlife management, disaster evaluation and news backup).
- Make the video feed live to the public via the city’s mesh.)?
- Automatic location of gunshots (and other spikey noises) https://www.shotspotter.com/ – exists now. With mikes in close proximity, the accuracy is excellent.
- Set up ‘Designated Fireworks Zones’ in several large outdoor venues with Fire and EMS support on hand for protection and education.
We have the hardware, the software, the know-how.
Just need the WILL. (looks at dispatcher).
Think there’s any hope of a simple, mostly-automated system?
Heck, you could even USE the data to gauge which parts of town NEED an extra firehouse and Urgent Care center.
If the kids in some part of town like to burn down their house and blast their hands off, at least they’ll have to resources to get put out and patched up instead of trashing the whole city.
Let’s save the officers with battlefield training that we (and they) paid dearly for to handle those situations calling for life and death rules of engagement: which fireworks ain’t. and certainly should never be.
As a cherry on top of this whole pile of whine, I’ve more than once suggested that there be ‘Designated Fireworks Zones in several large outdoor venues.
Have a FireTeam (maybe even our bomb squad) show up at each one, offer free how-to’s on using pyrotechnics – I mean, who don’t like watchin’ shit blowed up good.
Do it where there’s lower housing density (out in the country – social distancing room and get the kids near a farm!) so the pets and people don’t get freaked out.
For god’s sake SCHEDULE it so the non-fireworks lovers can congregate on the other side of the city and maybe even WATCH via City Live Feed (we own a TV station).
Food trucks could set up around a big projection tv. Maybe even do some interviews with vets that have seen real warfare and can testify about exactly what the price of mishandling explosive is. The Fourth is their day, after all, they should not just be involved but helping if they want. We trained them, they can train us too. Imagine how well prepared we’ll be for our next flood!
Again, outdoors, socially distanced, masked up.
No one’s dog, kids, or self gets tortured all night, fireworks lovers get what they want, my damn house doesn’t get burnt down.
I know, no fistfights, no court battles, so simple.
Probably never work. Go ahead, poo all over the idea.
But God forfends that we try and find a middle ground and solve this like rational human beings.
Far be it from ME to even TRY to emulate one.
M. Douglas Wray
2339 Bowen St.
Longmont, CO 80501
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Consumers are looking for reasons to eat healthier and they want more information about where their food comes from and how it is produced.
There are lots of reasons to choose certified organic over conventional food products, but I have narrowed it down to the Top 3 reasons to eat organic foods, as follows:
Organic farming creates healthy soil. Healthy soil creates healthy food and a healthy environment. Healthy soil is the basis for organic agriculture. Organic farmers use natural organic fertilizers and soil amendments like organic matter (things you can compost), green manures (cover crops grown specifically for soil improvement, e.g. legumes), and animal manures with safety restrictions to build healthy soil. When food is grown in healthy soil, crops are better able to resist disease, survive drought, and tolerate insects. Learn more about building soil fertility on an organic farm in the USDA’s Guide for Organic Crop Producers.
No artificial colors, flavors or preservatives are allowed in organic food. Cleaner food means cleaner diets which leads to a cleaner bill of health.
No artificial preservatives, colors or flavors are allowed in organic food. Fewer than 40 synthetic substances can be used in organic packaged foods, and only after they have been reviewed by independent and government experts. By contrast, thousands of chemicals can be added to conventional packaged foods, including preservatives, flavors and colors linked to health problems. Learn more about these differences in organic and conventional foods from EWG.
The issues with these synthetics additives that are found in processed conventional foods is that they are targeted at children and parents. These chemically addictive additives lead to many health problems. The hidden cost in this “cheap” food is the fees American’s are paying with their health. From diabetes to obesity, to ADHD, the food-related diseases are at an all-time high. As the New York Times recently put it, “Our Food Is Killing Us.”
Support a healthy environment for all of us by choosing organic food. Organic farming practices result in numerous environmental benefits.
- Organic farming rebuilds soil health and stops harmful chemicals from getting into our water supplies. Water and soil are two extremely important resources necessary for growing food.
- Organic farmers don’t rely on non-renewable oil-based fertilizers and pesticides we may not always have access to.
- Organic farming results in greater biodiversity.
- Organic farming releases fewer greenhouse gas emissions.
Hang on, 1 more: No Junk Foods!
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What VIBERZI Is Used For?
Viberzi, also known as eluxadoline, is a drug sold by U.S. pharmaceutical company Allergan for the treatment of irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) with diarrhea in adults.
What is Viberzi?
Viberzi is a controlled substance that reduces diarrhea by activating receptors in the stomach and intestines to limit bowel contractions.
Viberzi was approved by the FDA in May of 2015. Since then, it has been prescribed to more than 100,000 patients.
Viberzi FDA Warning
In March of 2017, the FDA warned that Viberzi should no longer be prescribed to those patients who’ve had their gallbladder removed, as it may increase the risk of serious pancreatitis.
Already, the FDA has received over 120 reports of patient hospitalization or death from taking Viberzi. The majority of victims did not have a gallbladder and, in many cases, the onset of symptoms started within days of taking the medication.
HOW VIBERZI WORKS?
Viberzi works by activating or preventing various opioid receptors in the digestive tract. These are the receptors involved in intestinal motility, the sensation of pain and the secretion of intestinal fluid. Viberzi is unique because it stimulates two types of receptors and inhibits others, without providing relief from constipation.
Each of these receptors has different and unique characteristics:
- mu receptors are responsible for intestinal motility (contraction of the gastrointestinal muscles)
- Kappa receptors inhibit contractions of the colon
- Delta receptors are associated with intestinal secretions
The addition of a delta receptor antagonist is essential to avoid constipation observed with other drugs such as Imodium (loperamide) and Lomotil (atropine / diphenoxylate) affect only mu and kappa receptors.
The FDA approved Viberzi based on two phase III clinical trial studies concluded that the drug offered a modest improvement in the frequency and urgency of bowel movements and a slight improvement in abdominal pain and consistency stools.
SYMPTOMS & SIDE EFFECTS OF VIBERZI
Those who developed pancreatitis after using the IBS drug Viberzi, or lost a loved one to the disease should learn their legal options as soon as possible. The FDA has issued warnings about the safety of this drug due to higher risks of pancreatitis, especially in those without a gallbladder.
Pancreatitis is an inflammation or damage to the pancreas, an organ that produces digestive enzymes crucial to the digestive process. The disease can lead to diabetes, infection, problems digesting food, organ failure, pancreatic cancer or death.
Lawyers are filing lawsuits against Allergan, the manufacturer of Viberzi, due to their failure to protect patients or warn them of the dangers. Choosing the right Viberzi lawyer may significantly affect your case. But how should you choose who will represent you?
Most importantly, choose a lawyer or firm with experience filing defective drug injury lawsuits against large companies on a national level. These cases are typically filed in special federal courts. Therefore, while a local attorney may seem more convenient, they may not have the necessary resources.
Latest VIBERZI News & Recalls
This case, along with nearly 200 others filed in Florida during 2016, alleges that Allergan was complicit in defrauding women into undergoing unnecessary breast revision surgery after doctors told them their implants had developed leaks.
Court records show that, although the failure rate of the company’s implants was only around 1.2%, they continued to support warranty claims for revision surgeries by local doctors who performed more than 5,500 of these procedures.
In 2016 Allergan agreed to pay $38 million to settle federal charges against subsidiary Forest Pharmaceuticals of paying kickbacks to doctors in order to promote three different medications between 2008 and 2011.
The company allegedly compensated doctors with lucrative speaking engagements for prescribing the drugs Bystolic, Namenda and Savella.
In 2015, the parents of 21-year-old Mandy Fortuna filed a lawsuit in Vermont against Allergan alleging that the company’s drug Botox contributed to her death. She had been given Botox injections to control leg spasms associated with her cerebral palsy.
The suit followed a 2014 jury award in Vermont of $6.75 million to a family whose son developed epilepsy after receiving Botox injections for his cerebral palsy from the same doctor.
Latest news on Viberzi.
Lawsuits & Settlements
1. Why are patients filing lawsuits against Viberzi for pancreatitis?
Allergan marketed Viberzi as a safe treatment for IBS in those patients with no gallbladder, and even recommended a specific dose for these patients. However, they didn’t perform the necessary studies to determine if there were special risks for these patients, and failed to tell them about the dangers.
Since Allergan marketed a dangerous product, and didn’t properly warn patients about the risks, they have a responsibility to compensate those who were harmed. Lawyers are now helping those affected by pancreatitis after taking Viberzi file lawsuits.
2. Which patients are eligible for a Viberzi pancreatitis Lawsuit?
Patients who’ve taken Actemra and experienced any of the following side effects may qualify for a lawsuit:
- new pain in the stomach or abdomen
- worsening of existing abdominal pain
- pain from the upper right abdomen to the back or shoulder
The FDA has warned that anyone noticing symptoms of pancreatitis after taking Viberzi should stop taking the drug and seek immediate medical attention.
3. Is there a class action lawsuit for Viberzi pancreatitis?
So far, lawyers are only filing individual claims for those affected, rather than one single Viberzi class action lawsuit. This is done for several reasons. First, individual lawsuits can be consolidated into a central federal multidistrict litigation (MDL) court once there is sufficient volume, which gives victims many of the advantages of a class action without the limitations.
Second, by filing individual cases, plaintiffs may still make important decisions such as which lawyer to choose and whether to proceed to trial or settle. Lastly, individual lawsuits filed in an MDL often result in greater compensation to victims than class action lawsuits.
Since the FDA warning affects several thousand patients, a large number of claims are expected.
4. How much are Viberzi lawsuits worth?
Lawsuit values change depending on a number of factors, and this is the same with each Viberzi lawsuit. First, value depends heavily on the severity of the victims pancreatitis, and how much treatment is needed. Obviously, claims for death from pancreatitis are worth substantially more.
Also, the patient’s age and how long they took the medication will be a factor. Finally, the court district chosen for the lawsuit, the rulings of the judge and the aggressiveness of the victims lawyer can all affect the outcome of the case.
Due to the severity of pancreatitis and risk of death, lawyers expect some of these lawsuits will seek compensation into the millions of dollars.
5. What is the process for filing a Viberzi pancreatitis lawsuit? How long does it take?
The first step in filing a claim starts with talking to a lawyer. By contacting us you can speak with a lawyer today at no cost. They can ask a few important questions and determine if your case qualifies for further investigation that same day.
After you talk with a lawyer specializing in these cases and agree to let them represent you, they can begin gathering evidence such as pharmacy, insurance and medical records. This is all in preparation for filing a formal lawsuit. Due to busy court dockets, it may take a year or more to reach trial or negotiate a settlement.
Remember, though, it is usually not necessary for you to travel anywhere during the process, you won’t be responsible for any attorney’s fees or case costs unless you receive compensation.
From May 2015 to February 2017, the FDA received 120 reports of serious pancreatitis or death. The deaths associated with pancreatitis after taking Viberzi involved patients without gallbladders.
You’re not alone if you or your loved one developed pancreatitis or pancreatitis symptoms after taking Viberzi after May 2015. FDA data suggests patients without gallbladders faced an increased risk of severe illness or death after taking Viberzi, and our lawyers are here to listen to your story.
HOW TO FILE A CLAIM
Do you want to learn if you have a case? The lawsuits are being filed on behalf of those patients who suffered:
- Upper abdominal pain
- Abdominal pain that radiates to the back
- Abdominal pain that feels worse after eating
- Rapid pulse
- Abdominal tenderness
Lawyers expect that thousands of patients will ultimately come forward with injuries to file claims. As is often the case with drug injury lawsuits, cases may eventually be consolidated in a central federal court for expedited handling.
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The Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade will only further entrench this dynamic, with companies including Meta, Disney and JPMorgan Chase announcing new travel benefits aimed at helping employees access reproductive healthcare.
This development is troubling on a number of levels. A system in which people can only have an abortion if they happen to work for an employer who is willing to cover their travel costs and give them paid leave has dire implications for exacerbating health and economic inequities in the US. And privacy and confidentiality issues will inevitably arise when employers take on responsibility for helping workers gain abortion access.
“No one is comfortable with this being the backstop on access to reproductive health care, never mind abortion care,” says Erika Seth Davies, CEO of the social impact firm Rhia Ventures, which is focused on women’s and reproductive health. “But that is where we are in the face of this systemic failure of the federal government, which at no point in the last 50 years ensured protection with federal legislation to enshrine abortion access or abortion care as a right.”
What happens to low-income workers who need abortion access?
Anyone with a uterus, including middle-class and wealthy women, may be vulnerable to the fallout from the Supreme Court’s decision. But given that three-quarters of abortion patients are at or near the federal poverty level, lower-income workers (a group that includes a disproportionate number of women of color) are particularly likely to be impacted by the downfall of Roe.
Many of the companies now offering abortion-care benefits, like Salesforce and HP Enterprise, primarily employ white-collar workers. Marginalized people, by contrast, often “work for companies that are not stepping up” with offerings like paid family leave or paid sick leave, let alone travel funding for abortion care, says Shaina Goodman, director for reproductive health and rights at the National Partnership for Women & Families.
Meanwhile, domestic workers, undocumented immigrants, and part-time, contract, and gig workers are all less likely to be eligible for reproductive healthcare benefits through their employers. And lower-income workers who want abortions but can’t access them are likely to face even greater financial difficulties as they struggle to care for expanding families on already-tight budgets, an outcome that will further exacerbate economic inequalities in the US.
“I think, unfortunately, this will result in two tiers: the people who have the resources to get the care they need, and the people who don’t,” says Davies. She says that the deepening link between employment status and abortion access is particularly concerning given that under the Hyde Amendment, first passed in 1976, federal funds cannot be used for abortions—further limiting access for people on Medicaid and other government health insurance programs.
There are steps companies can take to try to mitigate the inequity of abortion access. Goodman recommends that companies take a close look at their political contributions, and consider long-term investments in abortion funds and reproductive justice organizations. As just one example, online dating companies Bumble and Match, both of which are women-led firms based in Texas, created relief funds in the wake of the state’s abortion ban, channeling money toward organizations that offer support for people seeking abortions.
“It’s wonderful but insufficient to do things that just take care of your own workforce,” Goodman says.
Employer-provided abortion benefits raise privacy concerns
As employers take on new roles in providing access to reproductive healthcare, privacy and confidentiality issues are another obvious concern. “If I want to access a travel fund that my employer has set up, what am I going to have to disclose and where is that information going to go?” Goodman asks.
People seeking abortions, or helping others to access them, could face the risk of civil or criminal prosecution in some states. And given the stigma still associated with the procedure, many people might also worry about facing backlash if they have to inform their manager or HR department that they need to tap into the travel funds. (Employers can’t legally discriminate against workers for having an abortion or for choosing not to have one, but biases might well manifest anyway.)
In an effort to get ahead of such complications, the US Office of Personnel Management announced two privacy measures accompanying a new policy that will allow federal employees to use paid sick leave to travel for healthcare. Employees won’t be required to provide any medical documentation or reason for absences under three days. And doctor’s notes provided for longer sick leave need not provide specifics about the nature of the procedure or treatment.
As a practical means of distancing themselves from knowledge about which employees are using which benefits, many companies will likely lean on third-party insurance providers they already use for healthcare and other benefits, according to Jen Stark, co-director of the BSR’s Center for Business & Social Justice. The online directory Yelp has already announced one such plan. “Companies will want to stand up systems where they’re a step removed, where there is no expectation that workers would have to reveal any kind of healthcare procedure,” Stark says.
What abortion benefits mean for the future of employee organizing
In a May 2022 survey conducted by Gartner, 60% of 78 employers said that they did not have plans to offer any new healthcare benefits if Roe v. Wade was overturned. Such employers may not be aware of how employees are being affected by restrictions on reproductive care, given that abortion is a sensitive subject for workers to broach.
“People are already anxious about taking sick leave,” Davies points out. “Who’s going to go to HR demanding abortion coverage for themselves or other people?”
Amid rising interest in unions and other forms of employee activism in the US, collective bargaining could provide workers with a way to gain abortion benefits without putting any one individual in a vulnerable position. But Davies says she’s also concerned about the possibility of employers holding benefits over employees’ heads as a means of shutting down union activity. “What’s to stop any employer that has agreed to provide travel vouchers but is opposed to union organizing from using that as a bargaining chip?” she asks.
Some confusion over this very point is currently playing out at Starbucks, which has confirmed that travel benefits for workers who need abortion will be available to employees at unionized stores. But the company also says in a letter posted on its website that it “cannot make promises or guarantees about any benefits” in stores represented by unions: “For example, even if we were to offer a certain benefit at the bargaining table, a union could decide to exchange it for something else.”
This caveat has been interpreted by some as a scare tactic meant to dissuade employers from organizing, particularly in the context of reports that some Starbucks managers have told employees that trans healthcare benefits could be taken away if they unionize. Starbucks says that it’s not threatening to take benefits away, but rather making the point that “it’s difficult to predict the outcome of negotiations.”
Abortion access and the future of work
Reproductive-rights advocates say it’s commendable that some businesses are coming forward with ways to support abortion access and, in the cases of companies like Yelp and Conde Nast, outright condemnations of the Roe decision and the impact it will have on women’s health. Patagonia has even promised to bail out employees who are arrested while participating in peaceful protests for reproductive rights, noting that “caring for employees extends beyond basic health insurance.”
But Stark says that seeing companies come forward now is also a reminder that businesses, long hesitant to wade into discussions about abortion, could have done more to prevent the overturning of Roe and state abortion bans in the first place. “If companies had engaged this robustly a decade ago, we wouldn’t be where we are now,” Stark says.
That said, it’s not too late for companies to engage in political pushback against abortion restrictions. “If companies don’t want to be in this position, they need to get on the phone with policy makers and ensure the Women’s Health Protection Act is enacted,” Davies says, referring to legislation that would enshrine federal protection for abortion rights in US law. The bill was passed by the House last fall but voted down by the Senate in May.
For everyone else, the ways in which the Supreme Court’s decision has made workers even more dependent upon their employers may underscore the need to push for a bigger, better social safety net. Says Goodman: “I think this opens up a much, much bigger question about the future of work, and what does it mean for so much of our lives to be structured around where we’re employed?” | <urn:uuid:35c6654a-bfa8-4891-ace2-cebf273ce9d6> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://qz.com/2183079/roe-v-wade-what-happens-when-employers-provide-abortion-access/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570977.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809124724-20220809154724-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.963826 | 1,837 | 1.992188 | 2 |
Deuterocanonical Apocrypha is a sacred text of Christianity.
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The deuterocanonical books are the books that Catholicism, Eastern Orthodoxy, and Oriental Orthodoxy include in the Old Testament that were not part of the Jewish Tanakh. Their acceptance among at least some early Christians is generally well-testified, and as early as the Council of Rome in 382, an official canon including these books was published.
In the Catholic Church, the following books are considered deuterocanonical: Tobit, Judith, 1 Maccabees, 2 Maccabees, Wisdom of Solomon, Sirach (Ecclesiasticus), and Baruch; as well as some additions to Esther and Daniel. The various Orthodox churches include a few others, often including 3 Maccabees, Psalm 151, 1 Esdras, Odes, Psalms of Solomon, and occasionally even 4 Maccabees. This last book is often relegated to an appendix, because it has certain tendencies approaching pagan thought.
Most Septuagint manuscripts include the deuterocanonical books and passages. Like the New Testament, the deuterocanonical books were mostly written in Greek. Several appear to have been written originally in Hebrew, but the original text has long been lost. Archeological finds in the last century, however, have provided a text of almost 2/3 of the book of Sirach, and fragments of other books have been found as well. One of these books, 2 Esdras, survives only in an ancient Latin translation dated to the second century AD but was probably composed in Greek. This particular book is not widely accepted by the Orthodox and is rejected by Catholics.
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Jeju Volcanic Island and Lava Tubes (Designated 2007)
- Seongsan-eup & Gujwa-eup areas, Jeju Island
Jeju Island was formed through volcanic activity over 1.8 million years ago. As such, the island is a valuable asset in research of geological features and topography of volcanic landforms such as volcanic cones and lava tubes. Jeju’s lava tubes are some of the most beautiful in the world, featuring dark walls and various colors of carbonation on the ceilings and ground. Among the many natural formations, Hallasan National Park, Seongsan Ilchulbong Tuff Cone, and the Geomunoreum Volcanic Cone lava tube system have jointly been designated as a World Natural Heritage Site by UNESCO.
- 【 Photo: Hallasan Mountain 】
- 【 Photo: Baengnokdam Crater Lake 】
Reaching to a height of 1,950 meters, Hallasan Mountain is the tallest mountain in Korea with gentle slopes formed by eons of volcanic activity. There are around 40 parasitic volcanoes which formed in the surrounding area. A variety of animals and plants inhabit the slopes, including the largest forest of Korean fir trees (Abies Koreana) in the world.
In addition, the top of Hallasan Mountain offers a view of the magnificent vista over the entire Jeju Island. The peak also holds Baengnokdam, a vast crater lake that is both beautiful and highly valued in academic research.
- 【 Photo: Manjanggul Lava Tube 】
- 【 Photo: Seongsan Ilchulbong Tuff Cone 】
In the Geomunoreum Volcanic Cone region, there are about 20 lava tubes formed some 100,000 to 300,000 years ago by huge amounts of basalt lava that spewed from Hallasan volcano. The most famous of these lava tubes are Gimnyeonggul Lava Tube, Dangcheomuldonggul Lava Tube, Manjanggul Lava Tube, Bengdwigul Lava Tube, and Yongcheondonggul Lava Tube.
The largest tube is Manjanggul. This cave features a variety of stalactites and stalagmites, along with a bridge and waterfall formed by lava. The cave and its various formations have outstanding research value in understanding the formation and characteristics of lava tubes.
Seongsan Ilchulbong Tuff Cone, one of the many parasitic cones on Jeju Island, was uniquely created on the sea floor. This popular attraction is great for catching the sunrise. The cliffs on the three sides facing the sea were formed by the waves eating away at the lava, while the western side was connected to the main island due to a build-up of sand and gravel.
- Nearby Attractions
Halla Ecological Forest
Soesokkak River Pool
Jeju World Natural Heritage www.jeju.go.kr/jejuwnh (Korean, English, Japanese, Chinese)
Hallasan National Park www.jeju.go.kr/hallasan (Korean, English, Japanese, Chinese)
Getbol, Korean Tidal Flats (Designated 2021)
- Seocheon Tidal Flat: Yeonan Wetland of Songnim-ri in Seocheon, Chungcheongnam-do
- Sinan Tidal Flat: Jungdo-myeon in Shinan, Jeollanam-do
- Gochang Tidal Flat: Heungdeok-myeong, Buan-myeon, and Simwon-myeon in Gochang, Jeollanam-do
- Boseong Tidal Flat: Beolgyo-eup in Boseong, Jeollanam-do
- Suncheon Tidal Flat: 513-25, Suncheonman-gil, Suncheon, Jeollanam-do
Korean tidal flats, called getbol (gaetbeol), are home to more than 2,000 living organisms including 27 types of migratory birds. The tidal flats are an important stopover point for migratory birds from South Asia and Oceania. Four tidals flats - Seocheon, Gochang, Shinan, and Boseong-Suncheon - spread across five city jurisdictons and were designated as a Wetlands Protection Area for showing high levels of biodiversity. These tidal flats were also designated as World Natural Heritage in 2021.
Visitors to Seocheon Tidal Flat can see a rare species of spoon-billed sandpiper. These rare birds are on the IUCN's Red List of Threatened Species. In addition to spoon-billed sanpipers, Seocheon Tidal Flat is also home to 23 types of sea birds and approximately 304,000 living organisms.
One of the five largest tidals flats in the world, Shinan Tidal Flat takes up 15% of Korea's tidal flats. Shinan Tidal Flat was formed due to cosistent low and high tides among various nearby islands. The mudflats are especially deep with layers of sand above, making the tidal flat unique from other tidal flats around the world. Shinan Getbol Center, the largest tidal flat education center in Korea, provides detailed information about various living organisms that live in Korea's tidal flats.
Gochang Tidal Flat is special in that the substance of the flat changes throughout the year with mud, sand and mix of mud and sand. Nearby attractions include Mandol Tidal Flats Experience Center and Hajeon Getbol Village.
- 【 Photo: Boseong Tidal Flat (Credit: Boseong County Office) 】
- 【 Photo: Suncheon Tidal Flat 】
Boseong-Suncheon Tidal is a result of soft and delicate sand deposits that were collected from the Geumgang River. The flat is home to hooded crane, an endangered species, as well as halophyte colonies. Boseong-Suncheon Tidal Flat is characterized by its large salt marsh.
- Seocheon County Office: www.seocheon.go.kr (Korean, English, Japanese, Chinese, Vietnamese, Cambodian)
- Shinan County Office: www.shinan.go.kr (Korean only)
- Gochang County Office: www.gochang.go.kr (Korean, English, Japanese, Chinese)
- Boseong County Office: www.boseong.go.kr/?main=true (Korean, English, Japanese, Chinese)
- Suncheon City Hall: www.suncheon.go.kr(Korean, English, Japanese, Chinese)
- 1330 Korea Travel Hotline: +82-2-1330 (Korean, English, Japanese, Chinese, Russian, Vietnamese, Thai, Malay)
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In this fashion advertisement from the brand Westley Austin, two models, one presumably female and one presumably male, wear the exact same outfit featuring the brand’s “linen 5 pocket straight pant” and the “suede flame no.3” jacket. The outfits, despite the genders of the models, are identical in style and shape, and only differ in size. The hairstyles of the models are very similar as well – a down-do with an 80’s flare, and even the stance of the models are nearly identical. The only ways in which this brand conveys gender in this advertisement is through model selection and styling. The reason the models are easily gendered, despite their identical outfits, is because “human biology… includes a wide range of traits (e.g. height, build, voice), genes, chromosomes, hormones, and needs to be understood as a continuum of sex/gender,” (page 130). The brand chose two models that are pretty clearly male and female under these terms, or at least convey clear masculine and feminine vibes. The male model is much taller than the female model, and his pose is slightly more angled towards the camera, inferring slight dominance. Both models seem to be wearing little to no makeup, however the male model has a mustache, which is often an indicator of gender. I believe the advertisement reinforces traditional gender norms in terms of physical features, however I believe it subverts them in terms of clothing. This is because the physical features of the models are traditional to their genders (i.e. females are shorter than males, females have longer hair, males have facial hair, etc.), however their clothing provides almost no indication of their gender because they are wearing the same exact outfit, which is unisex.
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In Torres Ferreras, we also join the women empowerment movement by designing a trophy for Women’s Equality actions, awards which are given by the association of cities called Campiña Sur Cordobesa (South Countryside villages in Cordoba). This is a fair cause we wanted to be part of from the very beginning. If we already like our job when designing exclusive pieces, we enjoy even more when the background of the work is empowering women.
Ithas been long time since we make these trophies, exclusively designed by ourselves for Mancomunidad Campiña Sur, the group of villages that our city La Rambla belongs to. Designing and making ceramics sculptures for trophies is one of our specialties, as you can check in our exclusive piece for the 1st Andalusian Trade Awards.
Besides, we like to know about the causes which are behind every trophy, and get involved in them at the time of creating our pieces. That is why when we are told to design pieces related to gender equality and rights of women, we could not enjoy more creating ceramics shapes while we think about all the wonderful women which surround us and make Torres Ferreras possible in some way. We also think about all those women who form the world of ceramics, they are many and we do not dare to say if even more than men because we do not have official figures. In ceramics from La Rambla, in fact, the role of women, related usually to the job of decorating the pots, is FUNDAMENTAL, NECESSARY AND INDISPENSABLE.
For the design of these trophies, the customer asked us to introduce the symbol of women. For the rest, we got inspired not only by the power of women but also by the workload they have in family, society, labour, sex or even as victims of violence. That is why, from the base of the piece of the symbol of women, another wave-shaped piece raises as a powerful wave, infiniten boundless, which falls on the head of the woman piece as a cargo that she still has to bear.
Every piece is handmade, unique and with its own process. Its own making process is a metaphore of women, as the drying process of these pieces is difficult and has to resist some kind of strain that makes us not know if they are finally going to get broken or the different pieces are going to tear appart and the wave shape will raise by itself in an attempt to be freed.
All the pieces are made in stoneware, handmade by clay plates, treated in the potter’s wheel. Finally, they are glazed only in the base and the women symbol piece. The wave shape remains in bisque, bare, pure, representing the women’s power which only women should decide how to use or transform.
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Domain-Driven Design with Golang
In this article we have covered the basics of Domain-Driven Design, in short.
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Online shopping is the process whereby consumers directly buy goods or services from a seller in real-time, without an intermediary service, over the web. It’s a sort of electronic commerce. Transactions of sale or purchase is completed electronically and interactively in real-time for example in Amazon.com. However, in some cases, an intermediary could also be present during a sale or purchase transactions.
An online shop or a online store, or virtual store evokes the physical analogy of shopping for products or services at a bricks-and-mortar retailer or during a plaza. the method is named Business-to-Consumer (B2C) online shopping. this is often the sort of electronic commerce conducted by companies . When a business buys from another business it’s called Business-to-Business (B2B) online.
Online stores must describe products purchasable with text, photos, and multimedia files, whereas, during a physical mercantile establishment, the particular product and therefore the manufacturer’s packaging is going to be available for direct inspection (which might involve a test drive, fitting, or other experimentation). Few online stores provide or link to supplemental product information, like instructions, safety procedures, demonstrations, or manufacturer specifications.
Some of them provide background information, advice, or how-to guides designed to assist consumers to decide which product to shopping for. Some stores even allow customers to comment or rate their items. There are dedicated review sites that host user reviews for various products. Reviews and now blogs give customers the choice of shopping cheaper to organize purchases from everywhere the planet without having to depend upon local retailers. during a conventional mercantile establishment, clerks are generally available to answer questions. Some online stores have real-time chat features, but most believe e-mail or phone calls to handle customer questions.
The marketing around the digital environment, customer’s buying behavior might not be influenced and controlled by the brand and firm, once they make a buying decision which may concern the interactions with the program, recommendations, online reviews, and other information. With quickly separate the digital device’s environment, people are more likely to use their mobile phones, computers, tablets, and other digital devices to collect information. In other words, the digital environment features a growing effect on the consumer’s mind and buying behavior.
In a web shopping environment, interactive decisions may influence aid customers in deciding. Each customer is becoming more interactive, and though online reviews customers can influence other potential buyers’ behaviors.
Subsequently, risk and trust would are also two important factors affecting people’s’ behavior in digital environments. Customers concede to switch between e-channels because they’re mainly influenced by the comparison with offline shopping, involving the growth of security, financial, and performance-risks In other words, a customer shopping online that they’ll receive more risk than people shopping in stores. Three factors may influence people to try to to the buying decision, firstly, people cannot examine whether the merchandise satisfies their needs and needs before they receive it. Secondly, the customer may concern at after-sale services.
Finally, the customer may afraid that they can’t fully understand the language utilized in e-sales. supported those factors customers perceive risk may as a significant reason influence the web purchasing behavior.
Consumers find a product of interest by visiting the web site of the retailer directly or by searching among alternative vendors employing a shopping program. Once a specific product has been found on the web site of the vendor, most online retailers use handcart software to permit the buyer to accumulate multiple items and to regulate quantities, like filling a physical handcart or basket during a conventional store. A “checkout” process follows (continuing the physical-store analogy) during which payment and delivery information are collected, if necessary.
Some stores allow consumers to check in for a permanent online account so that some or all of this information only must be entered once. the buyer often receives an e-mail confirmation once the transaction is complete. Less sophisticated stores may believe consumers to phone or e-mail their orders.
Due to growth in online shopping, many companies are hiring staff to handle the purchasers and their queries. There are many queries come to companies in day-to-day dealings between online shopping companies and customers, for instance, product delivery, Product installation if you’re buying electronic appliances like Air Conditioners, Android TV, and lots of more. So to handle that queries of consumers online companies need staff to supply customer service on time. Customer service of online companies or websites plays a vital role to supply service to customers.
COVID-19 has changed the way the planet thinks, and private hygiene and social distancing have emerged as top priorities. As a result, online shopping has become not only a necessity but more of a lifestyle change as we suit the new normal. The pandemic may be a kind of inflection point for the eCommerce industry in India as more consumers are now willing to buy online.
Amazon recently launched its project code-named Local Shops on Amazon, this is often expected to assist customers to get products from local shops while helping shopkeepers supplement their footfalls. Flipkart has already partnered with around 37,000 Kirana stores, of which 12,000 are in what it calls authorized BuyZones, and shut to 25,000 of them are in last-mile delivery activities.
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Aug. 5—MANKATO — A decent chance for rain comes to the area Saturday night, but the forecast next week offers little promise of relieving the drought in south-central Minnesota.
Paige Marten, a meteorologist at the National Weather Service in Chanhassen, said two fronts should move into the state — one Friday night and another Saturday afternoon and night.
"Unfortunately, the latest runs show less (rain) for the Twin Cities metro and show it shifting south. So it could be good for (the Mankato) area," she said. "But it could shift more."
Models weren't showing much rain for the parched Mankato area from the first front. "The Twin Cities and southern Minnesota have the best chance for rain overnight Saturday," Marten said.
"We're seeing some rain everywhere, but not what we need with the deficit in moisture we're seeing this summer."
Models are showing the potential for an inch or more for the Mankato region by Sunday morning, with the possibility of heavier localized rains.
Marten said there doesn't appear to be much potential for severe weather from the fronts.
The drought gripping south-central Minnesota is likely to remain.
Since June, Mankato has received 2.75 inches of rain, far below the normal summer rainfall. Without substantial rains in the next three weeks, the area could set an all-time low for summer rainfall.
The record minimum rainfall for June through August was 6.29 inches in 1998, which is 3 1/2 inches more than Mankato has received so far this summer, Marten said. (The wettest summer on record locally was 1993, when 25 inches of rain fell.)
Even after the severe drought that hit the region last spring and early summer, rains in August ended up brining a total of 6.9 inches of rain last summer.
The near-term forecast isn't hopeful.
"Unfortunately, it looks quiet after (Sunday)," Marten said.
Monday will be cool, with highs in the 70s, with the temps warming throughout next week and no signs of significant rain in the forecast.
The latest Drought Monitor map, released Thursday, shows the moderate drought grew significantly. It now stretches from near St. Cloud to the southern tip of Nicollet County and from the Twin Cities all the way to the South Dakota border near Pipestone.
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Growing a bonsai avocado tree is a special adventure. If you get it right you may get a bonsai avocado tree with fruit. Avocados are green gold – what better than to have a beautiful tree that also produces beautiful, delicious healthy fruit!!
I live in an area where avocado trees almost grow – other people near me have them, but my garden is a bit colder than most in my town, and this has resulted in me losing nearly 30 avocado trees over the past eight years. I have through a process of reading, and trial and error learned that for my garden, the only option I have for an avocado tree/trees, is to grow them in a pot. This means I will not have a huge giant tree, but I am limited to having a bonsai avocado tree with fruit one day. Ten to twenty avocados, produced by five to ten trees amount to a decent quantity of fruit in a year. Follow this article to learn from my mistakes, and those of other people I know too.
Avocado Trees 101
Avocado trees are native to central and South America. There are three different basic types of Avo, with the most common globally being those derived from the cluster of avocado trees that grow in and around Mexico sometimes hybridized with one of the other types. The other two types produce fruit that is a bit sweet or stringy and I tend to avoid these.
Understanding Avo Seeds
If you grow an avo from seed, you must understand that this is a completely random event. Avocados have incredible genetic diversity. If you buy for instance a Hass avocado (one of the most popular cultivars globally) and plant the seed, after 9 to 15 years depending on luck, you may get some fruit – assuming the avo can find another plant nearby that can cross-pollinate it.
The avocado is most likely not going to taste like a Hass avocado – in fact, all Hass avocados on earth are grown by taking a stem cutting from a Hass tree (derived from the original tree grown in the 1920s by Mr. Hass). These cuttings are grafted to a rootstock.
Learn more about: How To Bonsai An Avocado Tree Quick And Easy
Understanding Avo Roots
Avocado rootstocks determine the actual morphology of the resulting tree. You get giant rootstocks, medium roots stocks, and “dwarf” rootstocks. We will get back to this shortly.
Avocado roots have two functions – to hold the tree down and stop it from blowing away/over, and to source nutrients and water. Avocados tend to feed for nutrients and water in the top few inches of soil around the trunk of the tree. If you disturb this soil, you disturb your tree. As avo growers, we have to understand that this soil near the trunk of our avo is sacred. Do not disturb it – you can put compost on it, and feed the tree, but do not dig it up, or rotavate it, or anything like that. This will kill your avo.
Avocados also hate being drowned – too much water kills them. They like well-drained, compost-rich soil. If they have too much water, they get root rot, turn brown and die. I have killed at least 10 avocados this way.
How To Source A Good Avocado Tree To Get A Bonsai Avocado Tree With Fruit
I would recommend buying two grafted avocado trees. If you are growing to get a bonsai avocado tree with fruit you need to source two complimentary cross-pollinating avo trees.
Source Two Complementary Pollination Type Trees
Avocados have more complicated pollination biology than you can imagine – they are just weird – suffice it to say that if you ask your nurseryperson for avocados that can cross-pollinate, they will normally tell you they have Type A, and Type B avos, and that these can cross-pollinate. The terminology differs from area to area, and you need to just understand that if you want avo fruit, you need trees that can complement each other. You need a type A and a type B avo.
My favorite combination is a Hass (Type A) and a Fuerte (Type B). For a list of type A and type, B go here. You can never have too many Hass or Fuerte avos – both are good eating, and if you know the tricks, you can store them quite well too.
Make sure they are on dwarf rootstocks. Dwarf in an avocado is a bit of a relative term. If we look at avos like Hass, Pinkerton, and Fuerte, these typically can produce giant trees. In order to keep them smaller, we have to prune and cut our trees to keep them small. Recent advances in rootstocks have resulted in the development of Avos such as the Gem cultivar, a black skin avo grafted onto a rootstock that produces a “dwarf” tree. This is still a big tree, but not as big as its cousins.
There is no point growing a bonsai avocado tree with fruit in a very small pot – this will just be disappointing. If you use a pot about this size you will not have problems. This is not actually a wine barrel pot – it is in fact a resin plastic pot that looks like a wine barrel pot. It should last longer. I have a very nice avocado tree growing in a wine barrel pot about the same size as this, and it is one of the few avo success stories in my garden.
For my avocado trees that survived I found beach sand and washed it to remove the salt. I mixed this with compost to make a well-drained soil. Now that I figured this out, I no longer kill avo trees! You can actually buy formulated soil here.
If I had known this I would have saved thousands of dollars on the trees I have killed over the years! Now that I have made these mistakes I know how to do things, but the learning process has been EXPENSIVE!!
One of my successful potted avocados. This one is actually a double graft of two local trees that I like in my town grafted onto the rootstock of a tree that came up in a friend’s compost heap. This means that the single tree should be able to cross-pollinate itself, as it will have Type A and Type B branches on the tree. It has actually got three types of avocado in one plant – the rootstock is also growing. We shall see how it turns out! But it is a lovely robust plant and it makes me happy to look at it. Note the potatoes and Japanese parsley growing under it. The potatoes are an accident but I don’t know how to get rid of them without disturbing the roots too much so I leave them as companion plants.
When you plant an avocado you must understand how it grows in nature. Long ago, before humans got to the Americas and ate them, there were giant sloths. These ate avocados and the “eating and digesting” process removed the skin of the fruit making the seeds viable. These then “fell” down at the base of trees (remember sloths live in trees). The Avocado has a huge seed allowing the young tree to grow quite tall on just the energy in the seed – it typically uses a tree as a nursery tree to provide shelter, shade, and support.
If the sunlight hits the stem of a young avo it can actually burn and kill the tree. So you need to protect it. I have found that the most successful way to do this is to plant your avocado and surround it with other perennial, or semi-perennial plants. In my case, I used red Amaranth.
The amaranth is an aggressive grower – it ensures that the avocado has shade and shelter, and it also sucks water out of the soil. Avocados are very susceptible to root rot in their first few years – it is better than the soil dries rapidly for them to survive. These are “tropical” trees that thrive on patches of dryness followed by wetness.
After two to three years the companion plant is no longer needed. I still however plant a few things under the trees just to make sure that they have friends at their root zones. I normally plant a bit of Japanese parsley (Mistuba). The first time this happened was unintentional, but if you grow Mistuba once, and let it go to seed, you will never get rid of it. The same applies to amaranth. These things will come up in your gutters, and pavement, and for me, during the COVID lockdown I did not use my one pickup truck and I actually had a Mistuba germine in the space between the wheel hub and the tire!!
Even if you have a “dwarf” avo – trust me these things just don’t really do “dwarf” properly. Dwarf varieties easily reach 20 feet tall! As opposed to other “non-dwarf” types that can get four times that height without looking back. Avos can get huge.
You need to regularly prune and avo if you planted it to get a bonsai avocado tree with fruit. Trim it to make it bush out, and the more branches it has, the more points for flowers and hence fruit it has.
When I prune my avo I cut up the branches and throw them below the tree for nutrients and compost.
As mentioned earlier, avos feed in the top few inches of soil around the trunk. If you want a flourishing avo, you need to feed it just enough that it is happy, and not so much that you kill it. I once knew a bar that had a big avo tree. It was customary for students at the university to use it as an impromptu urinal at night. The tree thrived for 70 years with this pleasant treatment. However, the University increased in student numbers and the volume of “fertilizer” exceeded the tree’s needs it sadly died.
If you are not used to feeding trees you can buy a formulated feed such as this. Follow the instructions on the label and you will not kill your tree. The ingredients in this product look pretty harmless as well. So the risk is low.
Years To First Fruit
Do not believe all the funny adverts you see on Instagram and some posts on Youtube where people have these miracle avos that just drip fruit after a year. From seed!! This is a con. It takes three to five years for a grafted avo to produce fruit. My four-year-old grafted avos in pots definitely did not produce fruit – or even flower – at the three-year mark as promised. My friend has ten bonsai avocado trees with fruit and he planted these ten years ago – he is in his second year of fruit now.
Avocadoes need pollination. Solitary bees are ideal pollinators for them. Honeybees are too. If you have honeybees in your area they will help out. If not, buy a solitary bee nesting site. In fact, just do that anyhow – these bees are awesome and safe, and we need to conserve them. They may help your avos too. If you get this thing set up, it should have a nice population of solitary bees after a few years when you get your first avo blossoms and need pollinators.
You are now good to go growing a bonsai avocado tree with fruit (eventually). While you wait for the fruit, enjoy the beauty of the plants! Avocados have incredible energy. Their pink leaves emerge and gradually turn luminous green and then dark green. The trees are just robust and exciting! I derive great joy out of just watching these things grow. You will too. Share if you found this inspiring.
How do you grow a bonsai avocado tree?
Buy an avocado tree that is grafted and is a "dwarf" strain. Or just buy a normal Fuerte or Hass and put it in a pot and trim it so it stays small. Dwarf strains get huge. Non dwarf strains get even more so. You just have to prune it to keep it small.
How long does it take for dwarf avocado to fruit?
Three to five years. If anybody tells you they did this in less, they are probably telling fibs. Avocados grown from seed can take up to 15 years to fruit - grafted avos take three to five years as a rule of thumb.
How do I know if my avocado tree is fruiting?
You ideally need a type A and a type B avocatod tree to cross pollinate each other. After they have flowered, you will begin to see small avocados develop. If the flowers drop and another develops you have a pollination issue - consider getting a solitary bee nest (these are available on Amazon and similar vendors).
Do avocado trees grow in pots?
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Labels, labels all around, don’t know which one to choose? If you are planning to launch your own clothing line and this is the question that comes to your mind, you are in the right place. Our clients often ask us which type of label will ideally match their brand objectives. We have tried to ease their confusion by underlining the features of all three types of clothing labels to help you choose the best one for your business.
Woven labels are created by sewing high-quality thread in a loom providing high durability of the label content. Four types of woven labels mostly preferred by businesses from the clothing industry are high-definition, damask, taffeta, and satin.
Luxury clothing brands choose high-definition woven labels because these are woven in imperial fabrics such as silk, linen, and polyester lending a sophisticated appearance to the label.
Damask labels, on the other hand, are more commonly used by most of the big brands as these are woven in a very thin thread accentuating the intricate details of the label content.
Satin labels are created with polyester threads and are ideal for trendy outfits, vintage products or kid’s wear. The label content is strategically placed on a satin fabric giving it a glossy and shiny look.
Taffeta woven labels are the most popular choice because of the affordability factor. These are usually polyester based and provide a sleek touch with fine detailing.
Printed labels are created with high-quality ink and are available in a variety of card stocks with a matte, semi-gloss or glossy finish. These labels are mostly preferred by brands with a limited budget. One of the USPs of a printed label is its ability to accumulate a lot of content which is often not possible in case of woven labels. Assuring comfort and flexibility, the production time for printed labels is also much lesser than woven labels. However, if you wish your label content to stay put for a longer time, then you should consider woven labels over printed labels. Printed tags can be ideally used for apparel, lifestyle and home accessories.
Heat Seal or adhesive labels
These are pressure sensitive labels that can be customized according to the requirements of a variety of applications. From using it as a badge for uniforms to using it as a standalone brand label, these labels are usually cut out in the custom shape with cutters or electromagnetic machines. These are placed on the fabric with the help of ironing or simply used as ‘peel and stick’ labels. Make sure the label makers assure high-performance adhesion without affecting the quality of the product.
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How to Become a Physical Therapist: A Newcomer's Guide
The work of a physical therapist (PT) sounds undeniably appealing. PTs spend their days taking a hands-on, active role in helping people of all ages maintain or regain their strength and mobility. The ability to move is a fundamental—and easy to take for granted—factor in our overall quality of life, and PTs lead the way in keeping patients on track as they rehabilitate.
Because of this, you can certainly envision yourself working with patients as a physical therapist someday. But you also know that the road to becoming a physical therapist isn’t as simple as a snap of the fingers—there are several important steps to take along the way.
So what does that entail? Let’s walk through the major milestones prospective physical therapists will reach along the way.
5 Steps for becoming a physical therapist
The following steps, while certainly much easier said than done, will put you on track to becoming a physical therapist. Keep in mind that while these are listed sequentially, the work associated with each milestone can overlap a bit (e.g., preparing for the licensure exam during graduate school).
1. Earn an undergraduate degree and complete prerequisites
Your main goal during your undergraduate years will be to gain admission to a Doctor of Physical Therapy (DPT) program after graduation. With grad school as a clear next step, you want to keep track of DPT program admission requirements and stay focused on becoming a competitive applicant.
Typically, DPT graduate programs don’t require a specific bachelor’s degree for admission—what’s most important is that you complete a bachelor’s degree program and fulfill the specific course requirements. Common undergraduate degree options include exercise science, kinesiology, biology, health science or psychology.
You do have some flexibility in your undergraduate education path, but meeting program prerequisites should not be overlooked at this stage. While each DPT program sets its own prerequisite standards, the American Physical Therapy Association (APTA)® states the most common course prerequisites include:1
- Anatomy/A&P 1 with lab
- Physiology/A&P 2 with lab
- Biology 1 (not botany or zoology)
- Biology 2 (not botany or zoology)
- General Chemistry 1 with lab
- General Chemistry 2 with lab
- General Physics 1 with lab
- General Physics 2 with lab
Given the varying entry requirements for different DPT programs, undergrad is also the time to review and research options for DPT programs—this will help prevent any unexpected issues during the application process.
2. Apply to DPT programs
It might seem like a small step, but the application process takes some real work. There is a helpful online tool you’ll want to get familiar with at this stage—the Physical Therapist Centralized Application Service (PTCAS)®. Not only can you find program admissions requirements on the PTCAS site, but you can also apply through their system to all the schools you’re interested in.
The application is broken up into sections where you’ll need to provide relevant information and documentation. We’ll walk through the sections to help you get a better idea of what you can start doing now to become a physical therapist.
- Personal information: This includes contact info and some biographic information.
- GPA and scores: Here, you’ll submit your transcripts. This section will also include your score for the Graduate Record Examination (GRE), a standardized test that most DPT programs require.
- References: While some programs require only two, many experts recommend having four to five on file in PTCAS. A practicing physical therapist and professor are often the strongest types of references, though other healthcare professionals, supervisors or advisors are accepted as well.
- Observation hours: While not all programs require observation hours, they are highly recommended. Not only do these demonstrate your interest in and your knowledge of the profession, but shadowing a physical therapist can help you become more confident in your career choice. These hours can include outpatient and inpatient settings.
- Experiences: Here’s the place to list your club involvement, leadership opportunities, research and volunteer hours.
- Achievements/licenses and certification: This is where you can showcase any official credentials you hold like first aid, basic lifesaving (BLS), lifeguarding, certified personal training, etc.
- Essay: Your personal statement tells the programs you’re applying to about your journey and motivations for becoming a PT. You’ll answer additional essay questions that vary depending on the year. Many programs also send out supplemental applications to applicants that pass their initial screening.
There are a lot of programs to research and apply to. Like with your undergraduate experience, you’ll want to weigh factors like cost, course experience, location and more before applying and enrolling.
3. Complete a Doctor of Physical Therapy program
At this stage, you’ll be immersed in intensive academic courses with hands-on lab training as you master the skills and knowledge needed to practice as a physical therapist. Additionally, students will complete clinical rotations, where they’ll work directly with patients and established physical therapists. This combination aims to progressively build and reinforce critical skills like diagnosis, clinical reasoning, patient management and much more.
Graduate school is a period of intense growth and development as a prospective physical therapist. You’ll have a lot to take in during this time, but you will also make professional connections and develop a clearer picture of your preferred settings and patient populations to work with.
4. Pass the licensing exam and meet other licensing requirements
Towards the end of your graduate program, you’ll start getting ready to take the licensing exam for physical therapists, the National Physical Therapy Examination (NPTE)®. The exam consists of 250 objective, multiple-choice questions covering the major areas of physical therapy. This assessment is a five-hour exam with five sections designed to evaluate your competence and ability to safely practice as a physical therapist.
While clearly you’ll want to put in the study time and work to ensure you’ll pass this critical licensure exam on the first attempt, you do have the opportunity to retake the exam up to six times (with a maximum of three attempts per 12 month window). The best way to avoid multiple retakes is to be prepared. Review the content outline, seek out review materials and work with a study buddy to stay on top of your test prep.
While you must pass the exam to get licensed, it’s not the only part of getting licensed. You’ll have to look into your state’s exact requirements. Some common requirements include:
- Supervised clinical practice hours
- Jurisprudence assessments
- Background checks
- Proof of professional liability insurance
Keep in mind that this is a step that can overlap somewhat with the next. Some states offer DPT graduates temporary permits to work as they await licensure exams, and employers may hire physical therapists with employment contingent on obtaining licensure.
5. Sharpen your resume and start your job search
Now’s the time for all the studying and clinical hours to finally pay off. You’ll need to polish up your resume, practice your interviewing skills and turn to the network of physical therapy professionals you’ve built throughout your education to find a position. Beyond the typical job-search advice, it’s also a good idea to join your state’s physical therapy association to further your connections and demonstrate your commitment to the profession.
Some physical therapists choose to take the step of joining a residency or fellowship program after graduation for additional intensive training in specialized areas like wound care, hand therapy, neurology, geriatrics and more. These optional programs offer an opportunity for physical therapists to work closely with established specialists and develop an even deeper knowledge of the focus area.
What’s next for you
The road to becoming a physical therapist is undoubtedly a lengthy one. The good news is you’ve already taken a small first step by getting a handle on what’s to come. As you’re starting out in college, keep in mind the importance of meeting course prerequisites and other entry requirements for your graduate program of choice.
If you’re ready to start exploring program options and requirements, head over to the Rasmussen University Doctor of Physical Therapy program page to learn more about how this innovative hybrid format program can help prepare you for a life-changing career.2
1“PT Admissions Process,” American Physical Therapy Association, [accessed June 2022]. https://www.apta.org/your-career/careers-in-physical-therapy/pt-admissions-process.
2 Currently this program is NOT eligible for participation in Title IV federal student aid programs.
American Physical Therapy Association and PTCAS are registered trademarks of the American Physical Therapy Association.
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Parents are giving their adult children an average of $39,000 to help them buy a home, generosity that could jeopardize their own retirements, according to a recent report by financial services firm Legal & General.
Family and friends supported the purchase of $317 billion worth of property across America in 2018, with one in five U.S. homeowners receiving gifts or loans to help them buy, according to the report. Most of that money came from parents in the form of a gift or an interest-free loan. In fact, if the “Bank of Mom and Dad” were a true business, it would be the seventh biggest mortgage lender in the country, Legal & General found.
“We deal with this issue almost every single day,” says Ron Weiner, a certified financial planner at RDM Financial Group at Hightower in Boca Raton, Fl. “It absolutely is a problem. There’s a breaking point for every budget, no matter how wealthy you are.”
Parents who give their children money for a down payment are probably doing so on the heels of putting their child through college. Yet while many parents anticipate their children’s college tuition costs and set aside savings for that purpose, they don’t often do the same for help with housing. “People don’t always plan around this situation,” says John Godfrey, corporate affairs director, Legal & General, which is based on London and also has business in the U.S. Instead, they give in to the “natural human tendency” to want to help their offspring get ahead, Godfrey notes.
All this assistance comes as rising home prices and student debt put homeownership out of reach for many. The average U.S. home price in 2018 was $310,000, according to the Federal Housing Finance Agency, the report says. Meanwhile, the Class of 2018 graduated with an average debt of $29,800 in both private and federal student loans, according to Student Loan Hero.
While it’s understandable that parents would want to give their children a leg up in this challenging environment, they need to make sure that their offsprings’ security doesn’t come at the expense of their own, financial advisors say. The old cliche is true: while you can borrow for education or housing costs, you can’t take out a loan out for retirement.
Some survey respondents who gave money for a home purchase said it put them on shakier financial footing: 7% postponed retirement (by an average of four years) due to their help, while 14% reported feeling less secure about their financial future and 15% said they had to accept a lower standard of living as a result of giving the money.
“If people can feel it now, gosh, it’s probably worse than they think,” Weiner says about the detrimental effect their gift will have on their finances.
Parents who divert a big chunk of their principal towards their child’s down payment are not only losing that money, they’re also losing out on any growth that money would have made in the stock market. And they’re going to need that growth to cope with inflation — in particular, with health care costs that rise at a sharper rate than other goods and services.
Look ahead if you're considering a gift. Try to imagine the impact of a potential gift on your financial situation now and 15-plus years from now, Weiner says. “Are the kids going to reciprocate if the parents need help down the road?” he asks.
In Weiner’s experience, loans from parents usually wind up being gifts. Despite good intentions, “we almost never see loans paid back by kids,” he says. Parents feel weird about collecting on their loan, and adult children face mounting costs after they have kids of their own. So they may not be in a position to repay a loan, much less give more of their money to help parents who wind up falling short in retirement.
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By Mikal Keefer
Illustrated by David Harrington God likes kids—a lot!
The Friends With God Devotions for Kids help children discover God not only loves them—he likes them. And he wants to be their forever friend!
As your children meet God's Bible-time friends through these kids' devotions, they'll glimpse who God is... see how he cares for those he loves... and grow in their own friendship with God.
Explore 54 devotions in all—ranging from Genesis through Revelation!
And with each devotion kids are delighted to find:
- An imagination-sparking retelling of a favorite Bible story
- Room to write, doodle, draw, and respond to the story
- A kid-sized prayer prompt that deepens a friendship with God
- A fun game or activity to do with family, friends—or both!
- A Friendship Nugget that builds kids' friendship skills
And this keepsake devotional is the perfect companion for the Friends With God Children's Bible! Recommended for ages 7+
5.25" x 7.25"
Mikal Keefer is a grandfather who's authored more than 25 books for kids of all ages. His chief aim in life is snuggling his grandkids close so they can enjoy a good story together.
David Harrington's love for art began at an early age when he drew on everything, eventually leading to a career in illustration at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, where he earned a BFA with honors. David has illustrated numerous children's books and enjoys snowboarding, surfing, and spending time with his wife and children in Laguna Hills, California. | <urn:uuid:ad645c13-f783-461f-a40b-6eb7c1696d94> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.group.com/product/friends-with-god-devotions-for-kids/9781470748623/?sortby=ourPicks&refType=&from=Search&ecList=6&ecCategory= | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570977.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809124724-20220809154724-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.937076 | 360 | 1.757813 | 2 |
Feeding your Good Bacteria with Prebiotics
We’ve talked much about the power and importance of probiotics both here on my blog and in my upcoming book, Brain Maker. The good bacteria that make up your microbiome play a vital role in not just your digestive health but your overall well-being.
But how do we best set up these friendly “good bacteria” for success? By eating a diet that includes sufficient amounts of “prebiotics,” the fuel that feeds your success. Popular prebiotics include garlic, onion, Jerusalem artichoke, dandelion greens and more.
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PIERRE, S.D. (KELO) — The ACLU says House Bill 1076 would mean transgender people could not correct the gender on their birth certificates, forcing transgender South Dakotans to go through life with inaccurate birth certificates.
The organization says this would unnecessarily expose them to discrimination, harassment and violence.
“Accurate birth certificates are essential. You need a birth certificate often times for employment, housing so you can navigate the world freely and safely so you want to have the information on your birth certificate that matches your identity, and so all people have that right,” said ACLU spokesperson Janna Farley.
But lawmakers say the bill is about fixing a lack of clarity. Representative Fred Deutsch of Florence is one of the sponsors. He says judges are having a hard time knowing what to do.
“There’s a problem with the courts in South Dakota interpreting sex differently, some courts grant the benefit to change sex on a birth certificate and others deny it,” said Deutsch
Deutsch says he believes the uniform application of the law is in the best interests of justice.
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Olam Cocoa sets out digitally-led scheme tackling child labour in Cameroon
Olam Cocoa has confirmed a new digitally-led initiative enhancing measures in Cameroon aimed at tackling child labour through monitoring and a specific programme of action.
The move forms part of the company’s global commitment to put children first by helping increase school attendance across the firm’s entire direct supply chain.
The company is working in partnership with the Fair Labor Association (FLA) and local cocoa farming cooperatives to digitally register its nearly 7,000 farmer suppliers in Cameroon and their households, introduce rigorous traceability and reporting systems, educate local communities about child labour, and set up dedicated child labour monitoring and remediation systems (CLMRS) – the first time these measures have been introduced professionally and at scale in Cameroon.
To facilitate this process, Olam Cocoa is introducing a new app to its Olam and Farmers Information System (OFIS) technology. After providing training to community leads and equipping them with a smartphone, they can begin collecting social data. This means that it is possible to identify children who are at high risk and take action much more quickly. These data insights will then feed directly into Olam’s AtSource, a digital platform that gives its customers unprecedented visibility of the supply chain of their products.
It is estimated that around 20% of school-aged children in Cameroon do not attend school1. The reasons for this are complex. The majority of smallholder cocoa farmers have small plots with low yields, which makes it difficult to earn a living income. When parents cannot afford to pay for labour to help on their farms, they may keep children at home to work the land rather than attend school.
Beyond Cameroon, the app will be used to cover nearly 223,000 farmers in 3 countries across West Africa, prioritising those countries where the risk is highest. Last year the company launched Cocoa Compass, its sustainability ambition for the future of the cocoa sector, which aims to tackle child labour and help children access education, support cocoa farmers to achieve a living income, protect forests through an increase in tree carbon stock and lower its natural capital costs.
Richa Mittal, Director, Supply Chain Innovation & Partnerships at the Fair Labor Association, said: “Olam Cocoa proactively partnered with the FLA to map the working conditions in its smallholder cocoa supply chain in Cameroon in 2019. The FLA team alongside Olam Cocoa’s local team engaged government stakeholders, civil society organisations, local community leaders, farmers, workers, and their families to understand the root causes of child labour. The findings informed Olam Cocoa’s development of CLMRS in Cameroon. The FLA will continue to independently monitor and then publicly report on the company’s efforts to improve the conditions for the cocoa farmers and their families in the country. | <urn:uuid:98ebedd3-1cdf-4e21-8ea8-e56509152592> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.confectioneryproduction.com/news/28685/olam-cocoa-sets-out-digitally-led-scheme-tackling-child-labour-in-cameroon/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570977.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809124724-20220809154724-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.944726 | 585 | 1.78125 | 2 |
You’ve been running all day, and you’ve got a lot more to do. But your body is feeling it—you’re tired, and you’re not sure how you’re going to get through the rest of your day without crashing.
Pre-exercise supplements can help your body access the energy it needs. So you can keep working out or doing whatever else you need to do when you’re having one of those days where everything feels like too much.
You can expect top pre-workouts to give you the pick-me-up you need to get through whatever’s on your plate, whether that’s a challenging workout or a long workday. Don’t let fatigue get in the way of what you want to accomplish!
Pre-exercise supplements – What are they?
If you’re new to the world of fitness and exercise, you might be wondering what these supplements are.
They are a supplement that can help you improve your performance when you exercise. Also, the formula can help with endurance and increase your energy levels before you head to the gym or your next workout session.
In addition, there are many different types of supplements on the market today. There are protein powders, amino acids, creatine monohydrates, caffeine pills, and more! You’ll want to choose the ones that work best for your individual needs.
Some common ingredients in these supplements include creatine monohydrate, beta-alanine, citrulline, arginine (AKG), caffeine, taurine, and tyrosine powder (tyramine).
Common side effects from taking these products include heartburn, nausea, and vomiting. Some people experience headaches or muscle cramps after working out for long periods without taking breaks between sets. Some people even get diarrhea or constipation from going too hard.
When should you take the supplements?
The best time to take supplements is 30 minutes before you begin working out. It gives your body enough time to digest the supplement and absorb all of its nutrients. If you take it too early before you start exercising, it may wear off by the time you start working out. On the other hand, if you take it too close to the start time of your workout, it may not have enough time to absorb into your body and become effective.
If you’re taking a supplement for weight loss purposes, it’s best to take it 15 minutes before eating breakfast. So this will ensure that you’re getting the maximum effect from your supplement before starting your day.
How do pre-exercise supplements work?
Supplements increase your energy levels and stamina in the gym. They help you perform at peak intensity for more extended periods so that you can gain more muscle mass and strength in less time.
They do this by increasing your body’s nitric oxide production, which helps dilate blood vessels and improve blood flow throughout the body. It enhances oxygen delivery to working muscles and reduces fatigue, allowing you to push harder for more extended periods.
Tips for buying pre-exercise supplements
How do you choose the right formula for you with so many options flooding the market? Keep these tips in mind when purchasing your next batch of supplements :
Find out what type of supplement you need
There are tons of different supplements, and each one provides an extra boost for your workout. Some offer more energy, some provide much-needed focus, and some give a better pump—that is, they increase the blood flow to your muscles so that they can get bigger and grow more quickly.
Be aware of what you’re getting in each scoop
You want to make sure that the formula you’re using has all the ingredients you want and none that you don’t. If you’re looking for the best pump possible, check to see if the product is nitric oxide-based; if it is, it’ll probably have L-arginine as an ingredient. On the other hand, if you want a more focused experience in the gym, look for nootropics like caffeine or L-tyrosine.
The best way to find the perfect supplement is to ask others what they use and why they like it so much. Do not be afraid to go into other gyms or fitness centers and talk with people there! Most people are happy to share their favourite products.
So, what supplement is right for you?
There’s no one correct answer. Plenty of options already exist, and they all have something to offer. However, the important thing is to remember that you know your body best. Some people swear by creatine, while others hate it—and that’s ok!
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Noble Metal Catalysts on Metallic Substrates
Noble Metal Catalysts on Metallic Substrates
A New Generation of Cellular Monoliths for Emission Control
The use of platinum group metal catalysts supported on ceramic monoliths for control of gaseous emissions from automobiles and chemical plant is now well established. Research in the Johnson Matthey Laboratories and at AERE Harwell, aimed at meeting the demand for more effective catalysts, has resulted in a new generation of platinum catalysts in which the ceramic substrate is replaced by a metal monolith. These metal substrate platinum catalysts are found to be more compact and more efficient than conventional ceramic structures. At the same time they overcome the structural limitations of ceramics with greater resistance to thermal shock and mechanical failure. The development of the metal substrate catalyst, and its use in hostile high temperature environments such as automobile emission control and catalytic combustion is described.
In recent years attention has been turned towards the effects of man and his technology on the environment, of which a major effect has been the reduction in air quality over the years. Corrective measures are being taken to reduce the emissions to the atmosphere from mobile and stationary sources such as automobiles, power stations and fossil fuel burners. Other controls are in force for chemical plant and major pollutant sources.
Effective emission control is often obtained by the use of noble metal catalysts (1–7), and to date the normal substrate for these catalysts has been a porous ceramic, either in pelleted or cellular monolith form. In general the ceramic monolith has gained greater acceptance in high-flow velocity operation due to the low pressure drop inherent in its configuration. However, the physical properties of these ceramic substrates are not ideal since they are relatively fragile and liable to thermal shock fracture.
Platinum catalysts mounted on a metal substrate have been developed to overcome the mechanical and thermal limitations of the ceramic monolith. At the same time metal substrates possess the major advantage of higher surface to volume ratio giving increased reactivity per unit volume, while possessing lower pressure drop per unit length.
The Metal Substrate Concept
In order to preserve the advantages inherent in the cellular monolith catalyst the metal substrate is designed to give axial flow passages throughout its length (Figure 1). This design yields maximum gas/solid contact for catalytic reaction, and maintains low pressure drop over the catalyst bed.
Analysis of the parameters of such a structure in relation to catalytic performance reveals that two predominant processes govern the effectiveness of the catalyst. Under low temperature conditions, such as cold start on an automobile, the thermal mass of the catalyst must be kept low in order to assist rapid warm-up of the catalytic surface to its ignition temperature, whence emission control commences. Conversely under high temperature operation the rapid combustion of pollutant species occurs, and the rate limiting process becomes the mass transfer of reactants from the gas phase to the walls of the channel.
During mass transfer limited operation the overall conversion of the monolithic catalyst is defined by the following equation:
where fR is the residual emission
S/V is the geometric surface area/unit volume of the monolith
C is the function of the channel geometry
A is the percentage open area of the inlet face
L is the length of the monolith
R is the hydraulic radius of the monolith channel, and
K is a constant incorporating the reactant gas diffusity, density and feed rate, and the cross sectional area of the reactor.
From the above equation it can be seen that as the monolith length, open area and surface volume ratio is increased, and the channel hydraulic radius is decreased, the conversion over the catalyst will increase. Thus we may assess the performance gains of a metal substrate catalyst structure in terms of the advantages of manufacture from thin foil sheet (typically 0.002 inch) in comparison to ceramic structures containing thicker walls (typically 0.010 inch). Fabrication from thin metal sheet allows a much higher cell density (channels/in2) with a resultant increase in surface/volume ratio (S/V), hence increasing effectiveness per unit volume. Metal substrates are currently fabricated up to 600 cells/in2 (see Table I) yielding a geometric surface area of 1190 ft2/ft3 which is approximately double that of the ceramic monoliths currently in use. In addition the thin wall thickness allows significant increase in the open area of the monolith inlet face which again increases effectiveness and at the same time reduces the pressure drop per unit length. Channel geometry, and hydraulic radius may be optimised for maximal effect. Thus a metal substrate fabricated from thin sheet should compete effectively with its ceramic counterpart even when using significantly smaller catalyst volumes. Complete analysis of the interrelated parameters of mass transfer and thermal mass reveals that a metal substrate 3.5 inch diameter×3.5 inch long gives equivalent mass transfer characteristics to a 4 inch diameter×6 inch long ceramic substrate and possesses lower thermal mass (Figure 1). The unit volume effectiveness of the metal substrate proves an attractive feature in automobile pollution control applications where space limitation is often an over-riding criterion (Figure 2).
Improved durability of a catalyst mounted on a metallic substrate may accrue from its inherent resistance to mechanical and thermal failure, provided that the steel is resistant to oxidation and corrosion in high temperature exhaust environments, and the catalytic coating is compatible with the selected steel. The catalyst layer must also be resistant to abrasive attrition in high temperature, high flow, corrosive environments.
Selection of the Steel
The operation of a metal substrate catalyst in high temperature oxidative and corrosive environments, typical of automobile exhaust conditions, requires that the alloy selected is resistant to corrosion and that any surface oxide film formed on the alloy is adherent and free from cracks. Oxidation tests carried out on a series of alloys including (a) ferritic steels, (b) austenitic steels, and (c) non-ferrous alloys based on nickel-chromium, have revealed that the aluminium-containing ferritic steels are particularly attractive in this context.
Examination of the mode of surface oxide growth by scanning electron microscopy reveals the surface topography of some of the alloys considered for this application (Figure 3). The micrograph of an austenitic steel (top, left) shows the unsatisfactory nature of its surface for metal substrate catalyst applications. In this instance the surface oxide film has flaked from the surface and secondary oxidation of the underlying surface has commenced. X-ray analysis of a gold-palladium coated surface oxide film using an energy dispersive analyser (bottom, left) reveals that the surface film is predominantly iron oxide. Obviously attempts to catalyse this material to produce a durable catalyst unit are likely to lead to loss of the noble metal catalyst as the underlying surface oxide layer spalls from the metal.
Examination of an aluminium-containing ferritic steel reveals a strong contrast to the austenitic steels. This steel shows significant surface oxide growth after high temperature treatment but X-ray analysis shows that the oxide growth is due predominantly to migration of aluminium (bottom, right) from the bulk alloy to the surface to form a protective adherent oxide layer with no evidence of surface cracks (top, right).
The excellent oxidation resistance of aluminium-containing ferritic steels demonstrated in the electron micrography studies was again confirmed by thermogravimetric analysis of thin foil sheet oxidised in air at temperatures up to 1200°C. Austenitic steel is shown to have an unacceptably high oxidation rate at 1200°C. Surface oxide fracture and reoxidation is evident from the point of inflexion in the weight gain curve after 4 hours oxidation, Figure 4(a). In contrast the aluminium-containing ferritic steel, Figure 4(b), shows excellent oxidation resistance up to 1200°C.
As a result of these studies, coupled with an assessment of the viability of manufacture of the steel in thin foil form (thickness 0.002 inch), Fecralloy® steel was selected as the prime contender for a metal catalyst support matrix. This alloy has been developed by AERE Harwell for automotive exhaust catalyst applications (8).
Fecralloy steels derive from a family of steels containing for example up to 20 per cent chromium, 0.5 to 12 per cent aluminium, 0.1 to 3 per cent yttrium and the balance iron, which on heating in air at typically 800 to 1000°C form an alumina-rich surface layer which endows the steel with excellent high temperature oxidation resistance. For example, it can be used in various thicknesses at temperatures as high as 1200 to 1300°C in air with none of the surface spalling properties that tend to be associated with austenitic steels and some related commercial ferritic steels. Fecralloy steel sheet 0.5 mm thick has a life of over one year in air at 1200°C but, in common with other steels, maximum usable temperatures are lower in this environment. Nevertheless Fecralloy steel can be exposed to exhaust gases for periods of several hundred hours at temperatures as high as 1050°C. The excellent protective property of the alumina surface layer is thought to be enhanced by the influence of the yttrium. Fecralloy steel, along with some other aluminium-containing ferritic steels, has the attraction of having an alumina coating which emanates from within the bulk of the material and is essentially self-healing, whereas alumina washcoats applied to conventional steels are prone to spalling on being subjected to repeated thermal cycling or mechanical vibration.
Catalysing the Metal Substrate
The conversion of the monolith metal substrate into an active noble metal catalyst entails deposition of the catalyst layer on the surface of the steel. Initial studies (Figure 5) rapidly revealed that simple deposition of platinum on to an oxidised steel surface was unsatisfactory in that although initial performance was comparable to the ceramic catalyst, the metal supported catalyst rapidly deteriorated during use. Further studies showed that the deactivation process could be prevented by deposition of platinum on to a high surface area gamma alumina (designated the catalytic alumina layer), bonded to the surface of the steel. Proprietary techniques have been developed to achieve the firm bonding necessary to overcome spalling of the catalytic alumina layer due to differential thermal expansion of the substrate steel and the alumina layer during cyclic temperature operation. It is essential for the formation of a satisfactory bond between the substrate and the washcoat that a satisfactory key is provided on the substrate. The oxidation of Fecralloy steel and some other aluminium-containing ferritic steels provides an alumina-rich surface which is adherent and self-healing. The surface oxide also provides an excellent key for washcoat application.
Adhesion tests of the alumina coating, conducted by thermally cycling strips of the steel between 200 and 1000°C at 15 second intervals for 50 cycles, revealed that coating losses averaged around 2 per cent of the total alumina coating. Measurement of the catalytic alumina surface area after high temperature firing (1100°C for 2 hours) showed that it retained its high surface area (80 m2/g), necessary for high temperature stability of the catalyst in emission control applications. This alumina has the additional advantage that it is fully compatible with existing monolith catalyst production plant (9), allowing the interchange of ceramic and metal substrate catalyst manufacture. Comparative tests of ceramic and metal monolith catalysts, to establish adhesion of the catalytic alumina layer, were carried out by the following procedures: (a) a multiple water wash, (b) a high pressure air jet attrition test and (c) a thermal shock test where the monolith is subjected to 20 temperature cycles between ambient and 650 to 850°C. The results (Table II) show that excellent adhesion, comparable to the ceramic monolith currently used in automotive emission control applications, is obtained with the metal substrate.
|Alumina Loss per cent|
|Substrate||Multiple Water Wash||Air Attrition||Thermal Shock|
Application of the platinum group metals to the surface of the metal substrate is carried out by proprietary techniques, but again the methods used are fully compatible with existing production plant.
Emission Control Using Catalysts on Metallic Substrates
Catalysts on metallic substrates have been evaluated against two primary emission control applications, namely automobile emission control and catalytic combustion. In the former process the catalyst is installed in the exhaust train to treat the emission from the combustion chamber. An illustration of the environment is shown in Figure 6. The principles of this method have been reviewed previously in this journal (5, 10, 11, 12). In the latter process the catalyst is installed in the combustion chamber and the air/fuel mixture burnt catalytically over the active platinum surface. Hence catalytic combustion possesses the major advantage of lower NOx emission due to lower combustion temperatures preventing fixation of nitrogen. This method of emission control is currently being actively researched (13–16) for gas turbine engines, where the continuous combustion process is directly amenable to catalytic treatment.
Endurance tests made on metal substrate catalysts used for carbon monoxide and hydrocarbon emission control from automobile exhaust have shown that the catalytic durability of the metal supported catalyst is equal to or greater than its ceramic counterpart. Emission tests conducted over the U.S. Federal emission test procedure have also confirmed the original predictions that the metal substrate catalyst is capable of achieving similar emissions to the ceramic catalyst using half the ceramic volume (Figure 5). Fecralloy steel substrate catalysts have been tested over 50,000 miles (Figure 7) and have met Federal statutory limits. Metal substrates are also compatible with “Three Way Catalyst” (11) formulations, used for simultaneous control of carbon monoxide, hydro-carbon and nitrogen-oxide emissions from automobile exhaust (Table III).
The particular advantages of the metal substrate are again apparent in the use of catalysts to promote combustion in the gas turbine engine. In this context the low pressure drop of the metal substrate catalyst (Figure 8) gives the added advantage that catalytic combustors may be designed with minimal power loss, while at the same time achieving high combustion efficiency (Figure 9). Measurement of NOx emissions from the catalytic combustor operating under conditions typical of a gas turbine engine showed the emission to be less than 25 ppm, which compares with 100 to 500 ppm for the conventional gas phase flame combustor.
Research in the Johnson Matthey and Harwell Laboratories has led to the development of a durable platinum group metal catalyst bonded to an aluminium-containing ferritic steel. Fabrication of the steel substrate into a cellular monolith structure gives a compact and efficient catalyst system free of the thermal and mechanical failure problems associated with similar ceramic structures. Metal substrate catalysts are particularly applicable to high flow, high temperature environments typical of those in automobile emission control and catalytic combustion.
Conventional gas phase combustors inject fuel into the combustion chamber in the form of droplets. Combustion occurs on the droplet surface at stoichiometric air/fuel ratio giving rise to high local flame temperatures and leading to the formation of NOx. Attempts to overcome NOx formation by prevapourising the fuel to give a lean homogeneous fuel/air mixture, and hence lower peak combustion temperatures, are fraught with difficulty due to limitation of flame stability under weak fuel/air operation.
Catalytic combustion possesses the major advantage that the combustion process is not subject to the lean flame stability limitation of gas phase combustion. Tests on a Johnson Matthey metal substrate catalyst system have recently been reported by Exxon (16).
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The Harwell research contribution to this work was made possible by the financial assistance of the Chemicals and Minerals Requirements Board of the Department of Industry.
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One of the natural colorants extracted from Madder roots and other Rubiaceae family plants. Purpurin has been manufactured synthetically by the oxidation of alizarin since the 1920s. Purpurin forms a brilliant red color when mordanted with aluminum salts. It is not considered a permanent artists pigment (Mayer 1969). In red dyed fabric, the presence of purpurin along with alizarin has been used to distinguish natural madder dyes from the synthetic alizarin dyes first sold in 1871. Purpurin fluoresces a bright yellow-red while alizarin produces a pale violet color.
Synonyms and Related Terms
1,2,4-trihydroxyanthraquinone; Natural Red 16; CI 75410; purpurine; purpuriini (Fin.); purpurina (Esp., Port.)
Physical and Chemical Properties
- Soluble in alkali, benzene, ether, glacial acetic acid.
- Slightly soluble in hot water, ethanol.
- Fluoresces a bright yellow-red color.
- Bright red, needle crystals. Turns yellow in alkaline solutions.
- Melting Point = 263
Resources and Citations
- H.Schweppe, J.Winter, "Madder and Alizarin", Artists Pigments, Volume 3, E. West FitzHugh (ed.), Oxford University Press: Oxford, 1997. ° R. Mayer, A Dictionary of Art Terms and Techniques, Harper and Row, New York, 1969.
- G.S.Brady, Materials Handbook, McGraw-Hill Book Co., New York, 1971 Comment: p. 475
- Ralph Mayer, A Dictionary of Art Terms and Techniques, Harper and Row Publishers, New York, 1969 (also 1945 printing)
- Website address 1 Comment: http://www.coloria.net/varita.htm - Finnish names
- Thomas B. Brill, Light Its Interaction with Art and Antiquities, Plenum Press, New York City, 1980
- Artists' Pigments: A Handbook of their History and Characteristics, Elisabeth West FitzHugh, Oxford University Press, Oxford, Vol. 3, 1997 Comment: H.Schweppe, J.Winter, "Madder and Alizarin"
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While NASA struggles to keep projects afloat amid a widespread government shutdown, SpaceX continues to push the boundaries of aerospace engineering. Last week, the company more than doubled the previous height record of its remarkable Grasshopper rocket system. The reusable, vertical-takeoff, vertical-landing (VTVL) rocket hit a peak altitude of 744 meters before slowly settling back down to the ground. The whole flight took about a minute and a half, and went off without a hitch. The video below was captured using a drone-mounted camera at about two-thirds the Grasshopper’s final height, a perspective that offers a jaw-dropping look at the system’s easy, graceful up-and-down action.
The Grasshopper system could lead to a major overhaul in how we get objects like satellites into space. By returning slowly and relatively gently, the vehicle could hypothetically bring delicate objects (like squishy humans) back down to the surface. Since no part of the system is ejected or left to burn up in the atmosphere, there’s little waste involved with these launches. Perhaps most importantly, since the rocket can perform pinpoint landings in a close approximation of its takeoff state, the time to reset for another launch is both shorter and cheaper than ever before.
This was the final launch for the pioneering Grasshopper v1.0, which now appears to have been a small-scale test for the project’s actual aims. Grasshopper v1.1 will be built with the Falcon 9 v1.1 launch vehicle, which is considerably larger than its predecessor; in all, the Grasshopper v1.1 will be more than twice the overall length of version 1.0. Where last week’s height record went to a vehicle using just a single Merlin 1D engine, the high-altitude tests coming in the next two years or so will use an array of nine, all firing at once.
Such a scaling-up will be necessary to meet the ambitious goals SpaceX has set for itself — founder Elon Musk has indicated he wants to see the Grasshopper hit supersonic speeds before the year is out. The next generation Grasshopper vehicle will do its high-altitude testing from Spaceport America in New Mexico — and they do mean high altitude. Where this test maxed out at under a kilometer in height, SpaceX hopes the Falcon 9 v1.1 will be able to reach altitudes of about 91 kilometers, or over 56 miles. To put that in perspective, the line which generally marks the beginning of “space” is called the Karman Line, and lies 100 kilometers above the Earth’s surface. The threshold of low Earth orbit is around 160 kilometers.
The ultimate goal of the Grasshopper program is to dramatically slash the cost of putting objects into orbit, so a near-orbital flight is an important step in proving the rocket tech on display here. Even that is just a stepping-stone, however, as the SpaceX is already gearing up to test the next, next entry in the Falcon series, the Falcon Heavy. This launch system technically falls into the “super heavy-lift” category, as it’s designed to take a 53,000 kilogram payload into low Earth orbit. Alternatively, it can be outfitted to take a payload of about 21,000 kilograms into a higher, geostationary orbit, or one of 13,000 kilograms all the way to Mars.
Having the horsepower to make a trip is only a fraction of the work of actually getting there, of course, and launches like last week’s Grasshopper retirement party are a necessary part of the process. If SpaceX is as successful with the next version of Grasshopper as they have been with this one, they could realistically launch a VTVL low-orbital test flight by 2015. | <urn:uuid:ee4bab14-250b-42c1-93a6-ca312a9a063d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.extremetech.com/extreme/168567-spacex-grasshopper-breaks-reusable-rocket-altitude-record-at-700-meters | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570977.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809124724-20220809154724-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.936999 | 798 | 2.609375 | 3 |
Indoor air pollutants may be generated by common home goods, corresponding to cleansing agents, cooking gas, furnishings polish, pet dander, and paint. Other than this, home appliances similar to refrigerators and heaters may also be the widespread source.
As a matter of truth, indoor air air pollution has change into a world concern. We can say that pollution levels inside and in closed spaces are as much as 5 occasions increased. Since most pollution aren't visible to the bare eye, chances are you'll not be able to aware of the risks of soiled air.
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Material: Yellow Jade Jasper
Size (LxWxH/cm): 10 x 10 x 5
A yellow jasper Wealth Pot filled with Chinese Ingots is a wonderful symbol of everlasting wealth, abundance and success.
This tradition started in ancient China, when the rich folk used wealth pots or wealth vases in their homes to augment their luck with riches. This is because the wealth pot is an icon of endless good-fortune and wealth. In Asia, wealth pots are widely placed in homes or offices; in most shops, a wealth pot placed at the cashier counter is believed to multiply prosperity and fortune luck. One can also view wealth pots placed in the vicinity of Chinese Wealth Gods; this practice makes the pot even more powerful. Exhibiting this stimulant of prosperity luck on your desk or workplace signifies attracting wealth luck and good fortune to your life and to your business.
By using a wealth pot, you are attracting wealth luck from all directions into your home or workplace, while at the same time averting a monetary loss. It is for this reason that many persons in the field of sales, business and speculative investments seek wealth pots. They are also very useful to people who are looking to increase their affluence and draw premium luck.
To steer in good luck, more customers, fortune and wealth luck, place this Wealth Pot in your home, office or shop is said to help. Exhibit it in front of the main entrance so that it is visible whenever you walk in.
You can also place the wealth pot in the Southeast corner of your living room, or office to augment your wealth luck. According to Feng Shui Bagua formula, Southeast is the sector that governs wealth luck.
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The eighth grade’s culminating physics project was to design and create a roller coaster for a marble. Each coaster needed to: utilize the forces the students learned about in class, have enough momentum to fulfill a loop, and have a slow-down stop.
Students got inspiration for their coasters by going to Physics Day at Great America, where they experienced the need for gravitational pull to power the coasters, centripetal force and air resistance to provide thrills, and of course friction to stop safely!
Working together in groups, the students used their creativity, math skills and knowledge of the scientific method to design, redesign, and eventually create their coasters. You can see their amazing designs below!
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Resources for artists, freelancers, and independent publishers during the
Translations of COVID-19 Resources
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NYC United Against Coronavirus
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Decolonize This Place Resource Guide
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Decolonize This Place State-by-State Resource Guide
The NYC COVID-19 Response & Impact Fund
Created to aid nonprofit service providers struggling with the health and economic effects of the coronavirus. It will give grants and loans to NYC-based nonprofits that are trying to meet the new and urgent needs that are hitting the city. Priority will be given to nonprofits addressing essential healthcare and food insecurity as well as arts and culture, because New York is the cultural capital of the nation. Your gift will help nonprofits with a variety of needs, including protective equipment, cleaning supplies, technological assistance, and support for financial losses.
Tri-State Relief Fund to Support Non-Salaried Workers in the Visual Arts
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National Endowment for the Arts Resources
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FCA Emergency Grants COVID-19 Fund
In light of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the artist community, the Foundation for Contemporary Arts is creating a temporary fund to meet the needs of experimental artists who have been impacted by the economic fallout from postponed or canceled performances and exhibitions.
New York Foundation for the Arts Emergency Grants
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New York State Council on the Arts Resources
A list of resources compiled by the New York State Council on the Arts for artists affected by COVID-19.
Vera List Center for Art and Politics
Vera List Center for Art and Politics COVID-19 Resource Toolkit.
Common Field Resources
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The Foundation for Contemporary Arts Fund
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Anonymous Was a Woman Emergency Grant Program
Anonymous Was A Woman (AWAW) has partnered with the New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) to launch an emergency relief grant program to support artists impacted by the COVID-19 crisis.
Black Art Futures Fund
Black Art Futures Fund (BAFF), a collaborative funding project headed by philanthropist and arts leader DéLana R.A. Dameron has decided to suspend its current and third application cycle in an effort to more quickly execute its mission: moving critical funds to small, community-based Black arts organizations who may be severely impacted by the precautionary measures taken nationwide in effort to curtail the Coronavirus outbreak.
Artist Relief Coalition
To support artists during the COVID-19 crisis, a coalition of national arts grantmakers have come together to create an emergency initiative to offer financial and informational resources to artists across the United States. Artist Relief will distribute $5,000 grants to artists facing dire financial emergencies due to COVID-19; serve as an ongoing informational resource; and co-launch the COVID-19 Impact Survey for Artists and Creative Workers, designed by Americans for the Arts, to better identify and address the needs of artists.
The American Booksellers Association
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Essential Businesses in the East Village
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Book Industry Charitable Foundation
Relief for independent bookstores from Book Industry Charitable Foundation (Binc). The application for funds will be open from April 10, 2020 until 11:59 PM (Eastern Time) April 27, 2020. All checks will be made payable by Binc directly to the supported independent bookstore.
Craft Emergency Relief Fund
Craft Emergency Relief Fund (CERF+) emergency assistance is available to established artists working in a craft discipline.
Antarctic COVID-19 Relief
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Numerology is the study of any opinion during the mystical or divine romance between some amount a treadmill and many coinciding happening. From the broadest feeling, this is the analysis of all of the numerical values of the very first characters of words,strategies and labels, and methods. It’s generally connected to other divination disciplines, in conjunction with astrology together with other clairvoyant disciplines.
Each person has their unique pair of zodiac sign (the Moon), additionally they have separate digits for each signal. The operation of numerology allows you to understand these amounts and learn the way that they have interaction with each other. By way of example, any person by using a Moon delivery day is going to be anticipated to behave in a very specific way in line with the signal they possess. Numerology uses these numerology charts to ascertain the best suited solution.
A frequent use of numerology is where an individual wishes to create a chart with their living direction variety, in accordance with the original characters in their name. This can be used as any function. You can use it to find relatives and buddies that you’ve missing experience of with time. This is an important part in reconciling that has a deceased loved one. You can also make use of this range in running a business, to find a spouse that reveals your hobbies.
Everybody is attracted by the entire process of establishing a person’s birthday utilizing their preliminary numerology sign. Birthday numerology is pretty easy to perform. The volumes and icons which can be used are based on all those commonly located in our unique numerology system. You can be required to key in some rudimentary info: your business, birth date, in addition to a short information of how you feel on the birthday.
Numerology considers the total number of days or weeks since your delivery and assigns a birth warning to this particular date. These include then coupled with your zodiac sign. Your numerology professional will then deal with quantities that symbolize areas of your spirit. It may be your spirit birth multitude or your heart and soul birth time. These are definitely then combined with your genuine numerology indication to give your start warning sign.
One component of Chaldean numerology that most people are unaware of could be the pattern of amounts. This method is based on the routine of thedirect sun light and moon, and superstars. These components will affect the developing of vegetation, the timing in the work schedule, the total number of times in each month, and a lot more. Keeping these cycles in the mind, this can be used process to monitor recurring digits. These ongoing digits will finally get to be the new place to start of the chart.
For any individual dealing with a complex year fiscally, numerology may be used to help locate solutions. You will see the way that they fit the forthcoming year or so, by figuring out how to understand these amounts in the earlier. In the event your quantities match and tips on how to develop your odds of accomplishment, you can also check out the future to view. Because of this in-degree device, you are able to reduce the tension of getting estimates and preferably change the into opportunities for action.
Whether you’re looking for an further amount, moving up as part of your career, or simply trying to increase your funds, numerology can present you with the answers you seek out. You could use numerology to uncover the particulars of your life way range as well as the tips secret at the rear of it. It doesn’t make any difference regardless of whether you wish to know your arrival particular date, your lunar beginning night out, or your Reckoning Sun quantity. Irrespective of what you are seeking to look for, numerology offers it.
Some people have various advantages of consulting a numerology specialist. Perhaps they’re wanting to determine their accurate beginning identify. Maybe they want to discover how many years they may have ended up over and above their up-to-date delivery particular date. Maybe they’re hoping for more information about their secret capabilities or with regards to the basis of their life course range. Maybe they only desire to know their accurate numerology chart pathway. And discover the responses you’re looking for.
Numerology presents a great way to comprehend yourself along with your special personality, no matter the scenario could possibly be, numerology is actually a fascinating method to take a look at the depths for yourself thoughts. You can see not alone your numerical traits however the tone and severity of each one characteristic, by consulting a graph. For example, any person using a well balanced number technique may well see an individual-digit range as between eco-friendly-to-mild blue. Someone with an increase of dominant features may possibly look at just one-digit amount as which range from mild light blue to deep red. These are merely some a example of how comprehending your individual personality traits could help you better know the phone numbers without any help numerology chart.
Numerology delivers a great alternative to typical astrology. You can actually check with any numerologist additionally they will give you your beginning time, duration of beginning, place, land of childbirth, along with your zodiac signal. Once you understand your personal numerical make-up, you could start to discover the greater meaning of the volumes on your own astrology reading. If you’ve been trying to identify your own personal numerical map, numerology can supply you with an incredible kick off point.
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Whether your summer plans include hitting the beach, hitting the couch or spending a lot of relaxation time at your local coffee shop, this is the perfect time of the year to do a little reading.
Oh, but which books do you put on your list when there are so many out there to choose? Do you re-read a tried-and-true favorite, like “The Hobbit”? Do you pick a classic with some literary clout, like “To Kill a Mockingbird”? Do you just grab whatever happens to be displayed most prominently on the rack in the supermarket and go with it?
Sure, that’s one way to go about it. But we’re going to help you build a summer reading list that will fill your stay-cation days with delight and help you relax during your evening hours after work.
How Do You Build the Best Summer Reading List, Anyhow?
Pulling together a summer reading list isn’t always that easy.
On one hand, you don’t want to pick up a bunch of books in assorted genres that will bore you. On the other hand, you don’t want to get stuck in a literary rut and end up reading 20 paperback mysteries that all start to blur together after a while.
So, where do you start building your next stack of books to read? Try these tips:
- Step out of your comfort zone — but not too far. If you like mystery novels, maybe pick up a supernatural thriller for a change. If you’re a historical fiction fan, maybe pick up a biography or two that will give you more insight into the life and times of some important figures in the past.
- Pick books that work with your schedule. Unless you anticipate several uninterrupted weeks on end, you want to avoid getting caught up in a lengthy series of novels, so it might be wisest to avoid trilogies that have to be completed to find out what happens to the hero or heroine in the end. It’s even worse to choose a series that isn’t yet finished (George R. R. Martin, we’re looking at you) because you don’t know when you’ll have the time to pick it back up. Stick to “stand-alone” books whenever possible.
- Cull through your own backlog. How long has it been since you abandoned your Goodreads account? Maybe it’s time to go look at what’s on your “Want to Read” list and pick a few titles. Do you have a stack of paperbacks next to your nightstand? You can always start there for inspiration — or just grab the top five on the stack and go.
- Ask your friends or family members. Everybody has a few favorite titles that they carry in their minds, so don’t be shy: Ask for recommendations. Reading the books that someone loves is also a great way to get closer to them, so consider this an opportunity to strengthen your connections to people you care about.
While you can always fall back on a few of your favorite books, especially if you haven’t read them in a while, you’ll get more mental stimulation out of something new — so don’t be afraid to experiment a little. There may be a whole hidden genre out there that will surprise and delight you!
Can You Please Just Give Me Recommendations on What to Read?
Are you ready to throw caution to the winds and just start reading? If you want a ready-made reading list, we’re happy to oblige. Here are some of our top selections to get you started:
Looking for New Releases?
Prepare yourselves, book-lovers, because summer 2021 is coming in hot with an abundance of must-read titles in every genre. If you are someone who likes to read the books everyone will be talking about, here are some of the buzziest new books arriving this summer:
- “Golden Girl” by Elin Hilderbrand
- “The Maidens” by Alex Michaelides
- “The Other Black Girl” by Zakiya Dalila Harris
- “Last Summer at the Golden Hotel” by Elyssa Friedland
- “Something Wild” by Hanna Halperin
- “Malibu Rising” by Taylor Jenkins Reid
- “Somebody’s Daughter” by Ashley C. Ford — a Hoosier author!
- “People We Meet on Vacation” by Emily Henry
Looking for Classics?
By “literary classic” we mean books that have captured readers’ imaginations for years or decades now, not something like the “Iliad” or Dante’s “Inferno.” Some of the most influential (and most talked about) books of our time include:
- “Fahrenheit 451” by Ray Bradbury
- “A Brief History of Time” by Stephen Hawking
- “The Giver” by Lois Lowry
- “Catch-22” by Joseph Heller
- “The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe” by C.S. Lewis
- “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” by Douglas Adams
- “Dracula” by Bram Stoker
Looking for Print-to-Screen Titles?
Sometimes you fall in love with a TV show or a movie before you find the book that the show or movie was based on. Here are some titles that have captured imaginations so broadly that they eventually made it to either the big or little screen:
- “Nine Perfect Strangers” by Liane Moriarty — Hulu series coming in August!
- “Normal People” by Sally Rooney
- “The Fault in Our Stars” by John Green
- “The Shining” by Stephen King
- “Good Omens” by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett
- “American Gods” by Neil Gaiman
- “Gone Girl” by Gillian Flynn
- “The Da Vinci Code” by Dan Brown
- “The Handmaid’s Tale” by Margaret Atwood
- “Where the Crawdads Sing” by Delia Owens — film coming in 2022!
Looking for a Little Magical Romance?
Sometimes you just need to indulge your more passionate side. If you like a little mystery, magic and romance all tied together, you can’t go wrong with any of these titles:
- “The Wood Wife” by Terri Windling
- “The Sugar Queen” by Sarah Addison Allen
- “Juniper Wiles” by Charles de Lint
- “Practical Magic” by Alice Hoffman
Looking for a Self-Help Selection?
Summer is also a great time to work on our spirits and minds, so self-help books are often at the top of the reading list. Whether you’re trying to learn how to declutter your home or trying to declutter your innermost thoughts, here are some suggestions:
- “The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up” by Marie Kondo
- “Radical Acceptance” by Tara Brach
- “No Such Thing as Normal” by Bryony Gordon
- “Speak Your Truth” by Fearne Cotton
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Dani Savoy says there’s a trick to making pralines that aren’t grainy or crunchy.
You should probably trust him. Not only has she been making them this way for years, but her pralines will be one of the main attractions at her store, Dani’s Candies, which opens on Friday.
It takes patience, she says, and knowing that everything affects candy making. She uses specific brands for each ingredient. Start by cooking the candy on the stove at a lower temperature than most people. Leave to cool in the pan before starting to unmold them.
“It’s like making fudge, but you cook it a little longer and you don’t make chocolate,” she said. “You have to cream it, like you would cream caramel. And you should never take them straight out of the jar onto the paper. Then they sink and they spread out. You’ll want to take the shine out of it because if it’s shiny, it’s going to be fluffy.
Savoy, a native of St. Martinville, will open his business on Friday at 1921 Kaliste Saloom Road, Suite 111, in the Parc Lafayette shopping center which will also offer cheesecakes, pies and other items. It’s the first business venture for Savoy, who worked as a chef when The Ruins opened nearby and later took over private events and offered pralines as a token of appreciation to guests.
These guests, she said, were so impressed that they recommended she start selling them. About seven years ago, she started making them and shipping them across the country.
“I learned to make pralines with my grandmother,” she said. “I was probably around 17 when I could do them without anyone helping me. They aren’t hard and brittle, and they don’t taste gritty. I am a perfectionist. I tell you, if a candy doesn’t come out well, I won’t serve it to anyone.
Savoy will open in the former space of Indulge, the dessert shop that recently closed, and next door to Caroline’s Cookies, the popular cookie shop that 19-year-old Caroline Merryman opened last year. The store will also offer ice cream, brownies and other items, much of which will be prepared in front of the window so customers can see how the items are prepared.
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Doodle 4 Google Competition in India – 2009
Google India has announced Doodle 4 Google competition for Indian school students, which will be showcased on Children’s Day that is 14th November 2009. This is the first competition from Google for India.
Doodles are the special Google Logos that make up Google home page on special occasions like Teachers day, Children’s day and Solar eclipse. Previously, Doodle 4 Google contest was organised in countries like USA, UK, and New Zealand. It is for the first time that this competition is coming to India.
The theme for this competition is “My India” and students from 1st standard to 10th standards have to create a Google Logo depicting of what India means to them. The winning doodle will be displayed on Google India homepage on Children’s Day that is 14th November 2009. The winner will get a laptop and a technology grant of Rs. 1,00,000 for his/her school.
The judges for the contest will be faculty and students from National Institute of Design, Ahemdabad; renowned cartoonist N.Ponnappa and Raghava K.K. They will first select 45 of the best doodles and then people will vote among them as per their preference. Google’s Original Doodler, Dennis Hwang, will announce the final winner.
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Today we celebrate the German artist who painted botanicals with extraordinary detail.
We'll also learn about the botanist who left his mark on the anatomy of the human eye.
We celebrate the Spanish botanist who spent his life in Columbia, where, among other things, he studied the cinchona tree and used the quinine to treat malaria.
Today's Unearthed Words feature words about April.
We Grow That Garden Library™ with a book that will help you become more self-sufficient one square foot at a time.
And then we'll wrap things up with a celebration of the California State Flower.
But first, let's catch up on some Greetings from Gardeners around the world and today's curated news.
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"...Home gardeners are preparing to grow their own vegetables in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Starting around March 16, online seed stores saw a huge spike in orders for vegetable seeds, as fears emerged that the pandemic could threaten food security.
The increase in demand was so dramatic for Wayne Gale and his Canada-based business, Stokes Seeds, that they temporarily closed down their online store for home gardeners, in order to ensure they could fill all of their requests for commercial growers. Gale's business received around 1,000 orders from home gardeners during the weekend before March 16, a period of time it would usually receive around 350 such orders. "And this is not our peak season. Usually, our peak season is the second week of February," Gale says.
Ken Wasnock, the CEO of Harris Seeds, says that the majority of his company's new demand has come from urban areas. The company has seen high volumes of sales to neighborhoods in New York City, where historically it hasn't sold much seed.
Wasnock says earlier in the spike, a lot of the orders were coming from doomsday preppers, who purchased sprouting kits that don't require natural light. In the weeks since, he's seen an increase in children's gardening products, as parents try to plan activities and projects. Wasnock says that a high percentage of seeds people are buying are organic. Some of the more popular types of vegetable seeds ordered have included squash, zucchini, tomatoes, and beans."
Dreams For Your 2020 Garden
It's decision time in the garden.
What will your projects be this year?
Often, we have no idea if our dreams for our gardens will come true. Gardeners may dream bigger dreams than emperors, but we can often get stuck, too.
We put plants in the wrong spot. We buy the wrong thing. We spend too much money. We overdo.
But, every now and then we get it completely right. I waited for years to put paths in around my front garden. Why did I wait so long? No reason, really. But, once it was in, I knew it was the perfect thing my garden had been missing.
Up at the cabin, we had a sprinkler system installed. The soil here is sandy, and without regular watering, the plants would really struggle. After getting some ¼" tubing stubbed up to the deck, I've waited a year to install a kitchen garden on my deck. This spring, that's my big dream. I'll share the elevated bed system I selected and the evolution of this garden in upcoming Episodes.
Whatever you're dreaming of and planning for your garden this season, I hope you get it completely right and that your dream comes true.
Alright, that's it for today's gardening news.
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1528 Today is the anniversary of the death of the German painter, engraver, printmaker, mathematician, and theorist from Nuremberg, Albrecht Dürer.
Dürer's work was extraordinary, and by the time he was in his 20's, he was already quite famous.
While he was known for his calm demeanor and introversion, his work conveyed profound emotion.
During Dürer's lifetime, explorers were collected exotic plants and bulbs and bringing them home to the Old World, where they caused a sensation. The botanical focus began to shift away from plants as medicine to plants as ornamentation and beauty.
Dürer was not immune to the artistic perspective on plants, and his work captured plants with an incredible amount of detail that was unmatched by previous drawings.
If you're looking for bunny art, you should check out Dürer's watercolor called Young Hare. It's a beautiful piece, remarkable for its accuracy and realism.
One of Dürer's most famous pieces is called The Great Piece of Turf (German: Das große Rasenstück), which he created in 1503. This watercolor shows a grouping of natural plants as Dürer had observed them in nature. There is a grass that has gone to seed, plantain, and dandelion. From a botanical art standpoint, Dürer's Turf is a masterpiece, highly regarded for the realistic depiction of plants living together in community.
1759 Today is the anniversary of the death of Johann Zinn, who died young at the age of 32.
Still, Zinn accomplished much in his short life, and he focused on two areas of science: human anatomy and botany.
From an anatomy standpoint, in his early twenties, Zinn wrote an eye anatomy book and became the first person to describe the anatomy of the Iris in the human eye. There are several parts of the eye named in his honor, including the Zinn zonule, the Zinn membrane, and the Zinn artery.
It's fitting that Zinn wrote about the Iris - which of course, is also the name of a flower - and so there's some charming coincidental connection between his two passions of anatomy and botany.
In Greek mythology, Iris was a beautiful messenger - a one-woman pony express - between the Olympian gods and humans. Iris was the personification of the rainbow. She had golden wings and would travel along the rainbow carrying messages from the gods to mortals.
In the plant world, the Iris is a genus with hundreds of species and is represented by the fleur-de-lis.
When Zinn was 26 years old, he became director of the University Botanic Garden in Göttingen (pronounced "Gert-ing-en"). He thought the University was going to put him to work as a professor of anatomy, but that job was filled, and so botany was his second choice. Nonetheless, he threw himself into his work. When Zinn received an envelope of seeds from the German Ambassador to Mexico, he described the blossom in detail, and he published the first botanical illustration of the Zinnia. He also shared the seeds with other botanists throughout Europe. Like most botanists in the 1700s, Zinn corresponded with Linnaeus. No doubt Zinn's work as a bright, young garden Director and the fact that he tragically died young from tuberculosis, spurred Linnaeus to name the flower Zinn received from Mexico in his honor.
And so, Zinn lives on in the name Zinnia - a favorite flower of gardeners, and for good reasons: They come in a variety of vivid colors, they can be direct sown into the garden, they attract pollinators like butterflies, and they couldn't be easier to grow.
And, if meditation is something you struggle with, you can still become a Zinn Master, if you enjoy growing Zinnias. 🙂
And, I'd like to think Zinn would be pleased to be remembered by the Zinnia because, like the Iris, the Zinnia has a connection to the eyes.
We've all heard the phrase beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Well... in the case of the Zinnia, the Aztecs were clearly not a fan. In fact, the Aztecs had a word for Zinnia, which basically translated to the evil eye or eyesore. The Aztecs didn't care for the zinnia flower - but don't judge them because it was not the hybridized dazzling version we've grown accustomed to in today's gardens. (You can thank the French for that!) The original plants were weedy-looking with an uninspired, dull purple blossom. This is why the blossom was initially called the crassina, which means "somewhat corse" before Linnaeus changed the name to remember Zinn.
Over time, the gradual transformation of zinnias from eyesores to beauties gave Zinnias the common name Cinderella Flower. And here's a little factoid: the Zinnia is Indiana's state flower. I like to imagine when it came time for Indiana legislators to vote in favor of the Zinnia, Zinn was looking down from heaven and smiling as he heard these words: "All in favor of the zinnia, say aye."
1732 Today is the birthday of the Spanish priest, botanist, and mathematician José Celestino Mutis.
Recognized as a distinguished botanist in his home country of Spain, Mutis was the architect of the Royal Botanical Expedition of the N. Kingdom of Granada (what is now Columbia) in 1783. For almost 50 years, Mutis worked to collect and illustrate the plants in Colombian lands.
Given that he spent most of his lifetime in Colombia, it's not surprising that Mutis was able to leave a lasting legacy.
He created an impressive library complete with thousands of books on botany and the natural world. He also built a herbarium with over 24,000 species. At the time, only Joseph Banks had a herbarium that rivaled Mutis, and Banks had more resources and more support from the English government.
One of the most important aspects of Mutis' work was studying the Cinchona tree (Cinchona officinalis), which became an effective cure for yellow fever or malaria. The Cinchona tree grows in the cloud forests of Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru. The Bogota Botanical Garden became Mutis' base of operations, and it was the place where the Cinchona was studied. The bark of the cinchona tree contains quinine, which became the basis for a number of medicines that are used to treat malaria. During Mutis's lifetime, it was thought that Cinchona had the potential to cure all diseases. Naturally, the Spanish crown was highly motivated to develop their understanding of the Cinchona, and they encouraged Mutis to continue to collect and study it.
In fact, Mutis used his medical knowledge to establish inoculation as a means of preventing smallpox, and he is credited with one of the first smallpox vaccination campaigns in Colombia in 1782.
In addition to his medicinal work, Mutis founded the Bogota Astronomical Observatory and supported the work of Carl Linnaeus. He sent thousands of specimens back to Spain, where they remain at the Madrid Botanical Garden.
During his time in Columbia, Mutis collected over 24,000 plant specimens. Mutis approached the job of documenting the flora of Granada in a unique way; he accomplished his mission by enlisting others. He skillfully set up a large studio as a space to get the plants captured through art. During his time in Columbia, Mutis worked with over 40 local Creole artists. He recruited them and trained them. He brought them to the studio where they could work all day long in silence. In short, Mutis set up a botanical production machine that was unsurpassed in terms of the output and the level of excellence for the times. At one point, Mutis had up to twenty artisans working all at one time. One artist would work on the plant habit while another would work on specific aspects or features. The Mutis machine created over 6,500 pieces of art - including botanical sketches and watercolors painted with pigments made from local dyes, which heightened their realism.
On the top of the Mutis bucket-list was the dream of a Flora of Bogata. Sadly it never happened.
Mutis died in Columbia in 1808. He is buried at the University of Rosario in Santa Fe, Argentina, where he taught as a professor.
Eight years after his death, the King of Spain ordered all of the output from the Mutis expedition to be shipped back home. All the work created by the Creole artisans and the entire herbarium were packed into 105 shipping crates and sent to Spain where they sat and sat and sat and waited... until 1952 when a handful was used in a large folio series. Then the Mutis collection waited another 60 years until 2010 when they were finally exhibited at Kew.
Today, the thousands of pieces that make up the Mutis collection are housed at the Botanical Garden in Madrid, Spain. The pieces are significant - mostly folio size - and since they haven't seen much daylight over the past two centuries, they are in immaculate condition.
The old 200 pesos banknote in Colombia bears the portrait of Mutis, and the Bogota Botanical Garden honors the work of Mutis with his name.
And, the plant genus Mutisia was created by the son of Carl Linnaeus and is dedicated to José Celestino Mutis along with other flora species, such as Aegiphila mutisi and Duranta mutisii (Verbenaceae), Aetanthus mutisii (Loranthaceae), among others.
Here are some thoughts on spring.
The roofs are shining from the rain,
The sparrows twitter as they fly,
And with a windy April grace
The little clouds go by.
Yet the back yards are bare and brown
With only one unchanging tree--
I could not be so sure of spring
Save that it sings in me.
— Sara Teasdale, American lyric poet, April
If spring came but once a century instead of once a year, or burst forth with the sound of an earthquake and not in silence, what wonder and expectation there would be in all hearts to behold the miraculous change.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, American poet & educator
"The seasons, like greater tides, ebb, and flow across the continents. Spring advances up the United States at the average rate of about fifteen miles a day. It ascends mountainsides at the rate of about a hundred feet a day. It sweeps ahead like a flood of water, racing down the long valleys, creeping up hillsides in a rising tide. Most of us, like the man who lives on the bank of a river and watches the stream flow by, see only one phase of the movement of spring. Each year the season advances toward us out of the south, sweeps around us, goes flooding away to the north."
— Edwin Way Teale, naturalist, and author, North With the Spring
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Since Square Foot Gardening was first introduced in 1981, the revolutionary new way to garden developed by Mel Bartholomew has helped millions of home gardeners grow more fresh produce in less space and with less work. Now, based mostly on the input and experience of these millions, the system has been even further refined and improved to fully meet today's changing resources, needs, and challenges.
With over 150 new photos and illustrations, this new edition makes it easier than ever to achieve nearly-foolproof results in virtually any situation: 100% of the produce; 20% of the water; 5% of the work.
Perfect for experienced Square-Foot-Gardeners or beginners, the original method created by Mel has not changed in any significant way with this new 3rd Edition of All New Square Foot Gardening. It remains: build a box; fill it with Mel's Mix; add a grid. But along with the classic steps, you will find some exciting and compelling new information, such as:
- Adding trellises and archways
- Substituting with new materials
- Adding automatic watering systems
- "Thinking Outside the Box" with creative configurations and shapes
- Square Foot Gardening in dense urban areas with little or no yard
- Square Foot Gardening with kids
Today's Botanic Spark
Every year since 2010, April 6 is California Poppy Day celebrating the California State Flower.
Poppy Day is celebrated in California schools, where activities are planned to showcase the flower along with other native plants.
The botanist Sara Allen Plummer Lemmon created the 1903 piece of legislation that nominated the golden poppy (Eschscholzia californica) as the state flower of California. The botanical name honors Johann Friedrich Von Eschscholz, who served as a doctor and surgeon onboard the Rurik world expedition in 1815.
In 1817, when the Rurik ended up in the San Francisco Bay area, the ship's botanist Adelbert von Chamisso ("Sha-ME-So") discovered the California poppy, which he named Eschscholzia californica after his friend Johanns Friedrich Von Eschscholz.
Finally, in an article in the San Francisco Call, May 15, 1898, called "The Prettiest Wild Flowers," Ettie C. Alexander shared her magnificent experiences collecting wildflowers around San Francisco before the turn-of-the-century.
The article said that Ettie's wildflower collection was the best in the state of California.
Incredibly, Ettie had teamed up with a neighbor who was a chemist, and together they had worked to refine a process – a preservative – that would help her fresh-picked wildflowers retain their fresh-picked, original color.
Ettie's process worked remarkably well. Yet, she was never able to find a process to preserve the brilliant orange color of the poppy.
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Jigme Dorji Wangchuck National Referral Hospital (JDWNRH) is prepared for the worst case scenario, as even in case of community transmission, the hospital will still function but limited to emergency services including referral.
All the elective surgeries will be postponed and only emergency surgeries will be conducted. Similarly the other services are to be scaled down. Therefore, the workload will be reduced and so will the number of doctors in each department.
Medical Superintendent, Dr Gosar Pemba, said one doctor would be assigned to attend to patients in a day, and another doctor will take over the next day. The other health staff in every department will follow a similar routine.
The hospital has also separated the health staff that is above 55 years of age, and staff with hypertension or diabetes will not be sent to look after COVID-19 patients. They will work in inpatient, OPD and in normal health services.
Dr Gosar Pemba said if the local transmission happens in Thimphu, it is likely that the number of admission will also decrease, except for emergency cases and the routine work will carry on. All the health staff will be wearing Personal Protection Equipment (PPE) but a little different from the COVID-19 ward. The health staff will use facemasks, gown and eye shield. And triaging system will help to sort people with fever and cough, and they will not allow to people enter the hospital building.
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Oregon’s top lawmakers shut down the state Capitol after receiving threats from militia groups. Authorities say they are planning to demonstrate there in support of the 11 Republican senators who fled the state to dodge a vote on climate change.
State Senate President Peter Courtney, a Democrat, told his colleagues on Friday that Oregon State Police had informed him there was a credible threat to him, the rest of the remaining senators — all of whom are Democrats — and the building’s staff.
“It was obviously a credible threat because Sen. Courtney wouldn’t close it down for no reason,” Courtney’s spokeswoman Carol Currie told The Washington Post.
State Police confirmed the danger in an emailed statement.
“We have been monitoring information throughout the day that indicates the safety of legislators, staff and citizen visitors could be compromised if certain threatened behaviors were realized,” wrote Capt. Timothy Fox.
Friday night’s menacing escalation was the latest in a bizarre feud between the state’s Democrats and Republicans, who have clashed repeatedly during this year’s legislative session.
Early Thursday, every GOP senator bolted, reportedly for the Idaho line, rather than sit idly in the chamber as their opponents passed a sweeping cap-and-trade bill. Gov. Kate Brown, a Democrat, responded by directing state troopers to corral the Republicans and return them to the state house.
Democrats have a supermajority in Oregon, allowing them the rare opportunity to pass the legislation of their dreams — but without Republicans, they can’t achieve a quorum. No quorum, no vote. GOP senators said they had two options: allow a bill to pass that they said would devastate their constituents, or make a run for it.
“We will not stand by and be bullied by the majority party any longer,” Senate Republican Leader Herman Baertschiger said in a Thursday statement. “Oregonians deserve better.”
Critics of the cap-and-trade measure say it would raise the cost of fuel and have a disproportionate impact on truckers and loggers, many of whom live far from the state’s largest cities.
The rift has become a proxy for the deepening divide between the state’s ultraliberal urban enclaves and its sprawling rural counties with proud libertarian streaks. Currie said she feared the militia groups threatening action may be affiliated with the anti-government activists who led an armed occupation of a federal wildlife preserve in the state more than three years ago.
Led by Idaho rancher Ammon Bundy in 2016, about a dozen rogue fighters turned the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge — a federal nature reserve established in 1908 — into a militia stronghold. They were demonstrating their support for infamous ranchers Dwight and Steven Hammond, a father-son duo sentenced to five years in prison for sparring the government and setting fires on federal land.
The Bundys threatened to occupy the reserve for “years” in protest. Their efforts lasted 41 days.
News of the Statehouse closure on Friday prompted the state Republican Party to suggest that the Democratic leadership canceled the session out of “a fear that Republican voters might show up.”
Sen. Sara Gelser criticized the statement on Twitter, writing that she and her colleagues “were notified we were physically in danger.”
“I’ll keep showing up to do what voters sent me to do,” she continued. “Rs have obligation to reject violent threats. I want all colleagues & staff to be safe, regardless of how they vote.”
The militia groups’ alleged threat was the second apparent mention of violence to mar state politics in recent days.
Sen. Brian Boquist, one of the Republicans currently on the lam, sent a warning to State Police Wednesday.
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Alda - Meaning of Alda
[ 2 syll. al-da, ald-a ] The baby girl name Alda is also used as a boy name, though it is far more popular for girls. It is pronounced AA-LD-ah †. Alda has its origins in the Germanic language. It is used largely in German, Italian, and Portuguese. It is derived from adal meaning 'noble, honorable' ; ald 'old'. Alda or Aldabella is the name of Orlando's wife in the Charlemagne romance. Alda is the feminine form of the German and English Aldous.
Alda has 13 forms that are used in English and foreign languages. English forms of the name include Aldabella, Aldah, Aldeana, Aldene, Aldinah, Alida (used in Greek and Hungarian as well), Allda, and Alldah.
See also the related form, the name Aldana.
Alda is uncommon as a baby girl name. At the height of its usage in 1901, 0.017% of baby girls were named Alda. It was #448 in rank then. The baby name has substantially dropped in popularity since then, and is used only on a very modest scale today. Within all girl names in its family, Alda was nevertheless the most popular in 2018. Alda has primarily been a baby girl name in the last century.
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[We received the following report from Linda Watts. Although the piece refers to activities which took place last October, this is an ongoing project and worth mentioning.]
New Zealand, beauty further than down-under
The Universe expresses shifts in form within the cusp of the surrender of old thought forms and structures and the uptake and embodiment of a new turn of the spiral. From the bottom of the South Pacific, we recognise that the relevance of Theosophy must be expressed in the energy of more open-minded forums of engagement and materialised in different structures.
In September 2014 the impetus for engaging more with community was expressed in a gingerly placed first step towards community by inviting others steeped in the ageless wisdom -outside formal TS structures, in the first of the TSNZ (the Theosophical Society in New Zealand) Theosophy Dialogues.
In dialogue, people are asked to put their personal opinions and agendas aside, listen to diverse perspectives, look to understand them and notice the different assumptions that underlie those perspectives. As we become aware of our own assumptions and those of others, we have the capacity to examine and challenge the assumptions that undergird those perspectives.
One of the founding aspirations of the Theosophical Society was that we might look to a deeper study of comparative religion, philosophy, art and science – was the Theosophical Society intended as a trail blazer for the art of dialogue?
Co-founder of the Theosophical Society, Helena Petrovna Blavatsky - recognised by some as the mother of the ”new age”, saw the value in both learning and building from deeper study - along with the practice of meditation and altruism. This enables the higher and broader view termed “apperception” to emerge.
For TSNZ we acknowledge that we must be mindful of the “myth and reality” of our relevance. In the perspectives you share, we ask that you be mindful of the “myth and reality” of your own perspectives. Together, with open-mindedness, creativity and an intention towards co-creation, we may discern a role that enables a valuable contribution to the whole.
Some questions we may want to be mindful of during our dialogue process:
1. Is the work of the modern Theosophical Society over?
2. What has already been seeded and what has been the contribution by our founders?
3. What would it take to be relevant in the 21st century?
4. Could the Theosophical Society have a vibrant future?
The impetus for sharing Theosophy in community has continued in the form of providing Yoga Sutra study and Meditation retreats for TS and members of the wider community which were facilitated and organised by Vera Zdarsky and Sushma Webber in Wellington, September 2015 and the development of a delicate marketing strategy, by the National Section of TSNZ which will begin in December 2015. Further engagements are planned by new TS Hamilton president, Carol Collier, at the Hamilton Gardens in 2016.
Marketing as Education, has a focus on community building by building and distilling content that enables independent enquiry. We have many theosophical principles and protocols, like the inter-connectedness of all forms, that all forms are impermanent, the laws of polarity and attraction and the law of correspondence etc.
Most of us can repeat that the three pillars of Theosophy are meditation, study and service and from a personal perspective we determine what this means for each of us on an individual level. These could be interpreted as personal resilience and ecological sustainability at a planetary level. Do we realise that they also correspond at a cosmic level as The Secret Doctrine outlines? Maori, Mayan and Masonic wisdom would look to understand this level…as would an Egyptian cosmology. We must be able to distil the teachings so that they have relevance….do we truly understand what HPB unfolded?
Our focus has been about personal transformation and in the era of the internet - if we understand the law of correspondence, we’ll also understand the cross-pollination between personal, organisational and social transformation. HPB challenged us to carry the torch and co-create even greater things than she has done. Since the teaching in her era, other worlds have been opened up for exploration….we have split the atom which has in turn opened up many new worlds on the physical plane that we couldn’t have imagined….sub atomic quarks, and leptons etc and we’ve discovered that at a quantum level of continuous movement that nothing is solid. We also now talk of the Planck scale being the smallest measurable unit of matter and that development unfolds in sequential stages of punctuated equilibrium.
Education in community continues with the realisation of the potential value in an education curriculum, the development of online courses by members and future communal activities planned for 2016 and beyond. These include a focus on youth which include programmes to build character and the development of “Building Momentum: Building Resilience”, aided by the perspective of James Hillman, who shares “without dying to the world of the old order, there is no place for renewal…” | <urn:uuid:be0afcb1-6000-425f-a709-82d329731179> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.theosophyforward.com/articles/good-news/1631-good-news-from-new-zealand-2015 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570977.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809124724-20220809154724-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.953707 | 1,068 | 1.859375 | 2 |
Publisher: Berklee Press
Format: Softcover Audio Online
Master the rich and varied world of mainstream jazz guitar. These 47 lessons and etudes present a comprehensive course of study to facilitate rapid progress with harmonic sensibility, fingerboard scholarship, essential repertoire, and stylistic nuance. These gorgeous, performance-quality etudes are rooted in the timeless jazz swing tradition, for solo, duet, and soloing over ensemble. The accompanying online recording demonstrates performances of the etudes. Traditional notation and tablature are included.
Inventory #HL 00139935
- “It's obvious that Jon put a lot of experience and thought into this book. Not only do the studies here serve to develop all kinds of 'chops' and fingerboard knowledge, they open the door to the ear training that leads to creating great melodies and improvising/comping over changes. The examples in the style of some of our guitar heroes are priceless and give affirmation to the whole work.” – Gene Bertoncini
- “Jon Wheatley has generously shared some wonderfully useful ideas, techniques, and observations. Exploring this book will definitely enrich anyone's understanding and performance of swing/jazz guitar!” – Howard Alden
- “Jon Wheatley has produced an excellent book and accompanying recording. It is a really comprehensive study-course for learning mainstream jazz guitar, mainly for intermediate and advanced students. I particularly enjoyed how he applied the concepts taught onto brief transcriptions (with audio) of his original solos done on familiar chord changes, but created or shaded in the style of various historic masters: Charlie Christian, Django Reinhardt, Oscar Moore, and others. This book is a big deal and deserves major attention.” – Chris Flory
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Drug Addiction and Codependency
Drug addiction and codependency go hand in hand, and quite a few family members and loved one's of addicts in Bighorn find themselves enthralled in an addicted individual's addiction. This can go so far that it reaches the stage where the codependency is an addiction in itself. Addiction often leads to both the drug addicted individual and those closest to them to develop these harmful codependent relationships, which can lead to great emotional pain and eventually destroy these relationships fully. Codependency can be tricky to recover from, particularly when those impacted forget how to operate normally in the relationship and become totally absorbed in drug addiction and its penalties.
The only way to quit and recover from drug addiction and codependency is to seek out treatment at a drug rehab. Quite a few times, it is not only required for the individual who is actually using drugs to find treatment, but also for the men and women in their lives who have become codependent to seek out treatment as well. There are many drug rehab programs in Bighorn which not only handle drug addiction but unhealthy codependency, which can help restore these relationships and prepare friends and family for a more healthy relationship once treatment is completed.
What is the Process of Drug Rehab
Whichever drug treatment option in Bighorn is chosen, the process of drug rehab almost always begins with a drug detoxification. Drug detox is often supervised by medical professionals and trained personnel at the detoxification facility or drug rehab program. Detox staff will help alleviate withdrawal symptoms during the detoxification procedure and make this step of the process as smooth and comfortable as possible. Individuals going through detoxification will often have intense cravings for their drug or drugs or choice and relapse if likely if not in a drug rehab setting
After the physical hurdles have been overcome, the next steps of the process of drug rehab include dealing with any and all underlying emotional and psychological barriers to sobriety. This can be very different from person to person, and most drug rehabilitation programs utilize educational therapy as well as group and on-on-one counseling to ensure that all issues are resolved. This will ensure that the person is able to return to a healthy and sober lifestyle once treatment is complete. Part of the process of drug rehab is ensuring that the individual is set up for success once rehab is complete, and treatment counselors will often develop aftercare programs with the person to make sure they remain drug-free for the long term.
Drug Treatment and Detox for Withdrawal Symptoms
One of the reasons drug addicted people find it extremely hard to stop using drugs once they start using them, is because of physical and psychological dependency that inevitably develops when the person uses them long enough. It no longer seems to be a matter of "willpower" because their bodies and minds will actually punish them both physically and mentally if they stop using drugs. This is called drug withdrawal, and is a major roadblock for those who want to stop using drugs. Addicts will become very ill during withdrawal and can even die in certain types withdrawal, because seizures and strokes can occur with certain drugs and with alcohol. Depression is a very typical withdrawal symptom, which can become so extreme that the person may commit suicide.
To reduce certain withdrawal symptoms and to make detox a more safe process, it is important that addicts who wish to quit do so in an appropriate setting such as a drug treatment center. Drug rehabilitation centers in Bighorn can not only medically monitor the person through the detoxification process and help alleviate and relieve withdrawal symptoms, but also ensure that the individual doesn't relapse back into drug use. After detox has been completed, treatment professionals in Bighorn will then ensure that all underlying psychological and emotional issues tied to the person's addiction are addressed so that they stay off of drugs once they leave the drug rehabilitation facility.
Drug Intervention and Drug Rehab
Drug intervention and drug rehab in Bighorn are invaluable methods that can help families and loved ones of drug addicted individuals. Addiction can take over an individual's will, mind and body to the point where they cannot cannot make correct decisions on their own, and this sometimes reaches a point of crisis where they will need an intervention from those who love and care about them. In Bighorn, drug rehabilitation facilities work with professional interventionists who can help orchestrate and supervise drug interventions so that the addict can finally find his way to treatment that will save his life.
Most drug interventions can be orchestrated and held within a matter of days or even hours as needed, and intervention specialists are trained and knowledgeable in dealing with even the toughest cases to get individuals into drug treatment. The alternatives are grim, and most people who don't receive such an intervention will lose their lives to addiction. Once the person is confronted by means of a drug intervention, they will understand how much love and concern their families and loved ones have for them and what they stand to lose if they don't get help. Once the addicted individual can see solutions rather than addiction problems, they will more often than not accept treatment help and start their path immediately in drug rehab and to a fresh start.
What is Drug Rehab?
Drug rehab in Bighorn is often an addicted persons only hope to ever recover from addiction, because all other attempts at quitting have failed. If they don't decide to seek treatment at a Bighorn drug rehab program, the alternatives often include intense suffering not only for oneself but for one's friends and family. This can include legal problems and a general deterioration of one's life in general.
What needs to be understood is that addiction is a complicated condition that requires treatment. A quality treatment facility delivers the intensive treatment needed which handles all areas of the addicted individual's life so that they can see clearly and respond to situations in their lives analytically. For example, if there was abuse in one's childhood or from one's partner, this could easily predispose someone to drug addiction. Social inequities commonly result in substance abuse, so that the person can "cope" and feel more comfortable and accepted in social settings. Drug rehab helps resolve these types of issues, which are the real reasons the individual began using drugs in the first place. Once these issues have been resolved through drug rehab, the person will be able to make it through life without using drugs as a crutch.
Do I Need a Drug Rehab
Individuals in Bighorn can get grabbed in the cycle of addiction so rapidly, that before they know it their addiction has spun out of control and they can no longer control their behavior or choices with regards to their drug use. One day someone may be using drugs "socially" and within just a short amount of time, practically nothing else appears to be important. This is because drugs induce both physical and mental dependence that causes individuals to make drugs more important than anything else in their lives.
Although this can be difficult to comprehend for most who don't have a problem with drugs, individuals that are "good" people can very easily get caught up in the routine of addiction; a cycle that can almost never be stopped without correct treatment at a drug rehab program in Bighorn. At a drug rehab, people will be able to initially detox safely and manage withdrawal symptoms with the assistance of specialists and medical staff. More importantly, they will be able to tackle details which triggered their drug use which includes all psychological and emotional issues. Layer by layer these concerns can be resolved, so that there is no probability the particular person will fall prey to drug abuse yet again in the future.
Drug Addiction and the Enabler
It is not uncommon in most cases of addiction in Bighorn that the persons habit is influenced entirely or in part by someone in their immediate environment. An enabler is either a knowing or unknowing participant in the individuals struggle with drug addiction, and is someone who makes their addiction possible or less difficult to continue on. The act of enabling is often carried out out of "concern" or "worry", but is more harmful than good in the end. A good example of an enabler is a family member or partner who provides an addicted individual any kind of funding, housing, and may even obtain the individual's drug for them. The thinking behind this is often that the enabling is keeping the individual in a safe and secure scenario, instead of being on the streets and in circumstances which may be compromising.
Enablers are often the vital component in an addicted individual's life which is actually making the drug addiction possible. Reversely, enablers can also be the key to helping someone get off of drugs once the enabling is discontinued. As soon as the enabling has been stopped, the addict will often realize that it is no longer possible to continue their habit and will reach a crisis point. This is why an enabler must recognize the situation immediately and instead of prolonging the individual's addiction, get them into an effective drug rehabilitation facility in Bighorn. Only then will both the enabler and the drug addict be able to go on with their lives in a much healthier and sane manner.
How Much Does a Drug Rehab Cost?
It can be hard enough to get someone to want help and agree to enter a drug rehab center in Bighorn. Finding the money to pay for drug rehab can often be a problem, but one that can be overcome if one considers the many possibilities available in Bighorn. Depending on which drug rehabilitation option is chosen, the cost of drug rehab can vary considerably from program to program. Some outpatient and short term drug treatment programscenters]]] for example may be state or federally funded and may even be free of charge. These types of programs are also commonly the least effective however, a fact which should be considered over cost.
More long term drug rehab facilities in Bighorn which have proven to be the most effective are residential and inpatient drug treatment centers which require a stay of at least 90 days. These types of drug treatment programs are normally more expensive due to the fact that these facilities are private drug rehabilitation centers and provide their clients with all food and shelter for the duration of their stay. These programs typically cost anywhere from $4000 to $20,000, depending on the amenities offered and length of stay.
Inpatient Drug Treatment in Bighorn, Montana
An inpatient Drug Rehab program in Bighorn, Montana is one that offers residential Drug Rehabilitation to people in Bighorn, MT. that are in need of help for their drug addiction. Inpatient Drug Rehab Programs offer various treatment methods in Bighorn, Montana including detoxification, individual counseling, group classes, and relapse prevention education. The treatment methods that are offered in inpatient Drug Rehab are intended to help the individual in Bighorn to master the tools that are required to be successful at overcoming their drug addiction. An inpatient Drug Rehabilitation program in Bighorn, MT. gives the addict a drug free environment and a structured daily schedule, which can be essential as an addict leaves behind the chaos that is commonly associated with drug addiction. In a Bighorn, Montana inpatient Drug Rehab Program, the addict is able to fully focus on their recovery program without any outside distractions.
The length of stay at a Bighorn, MT. inpatient Drug Treatment Program is usually anywhere from 30 days to up to one year in some cases. There are several key factors that contribute to the success of an inpatient Drug Rehab Program. The most powerful factor is the around the clock professional support. When a person is going through detoxification, the 24/7 encouragement can literally be the key element that contributes to the success of the recovery process. A person cannot begin to truly respond to the treatment part of the inpatient Drug Treatment Program until after they have fully completed the detoxification phase. Another element of a Bighorn, MT. inpatient Drug Rehab Program that cannot be overlooked is the relapse prevention education that allows the individual to look at the triggers concerning their drug use. In identifying the circumstances in which the person would have previously used drugs, behavioral therapy techniques are put into place so that the person can adopt healthier alternatives.
Inpatient Drug Rehab in Bighorn, Montana is the best choice for an individual that is serious about long term drug recovery. A number of recent studies have all concluded that in the case of drug addiction, the longer the Drug Treatment Program, the better the outcome. Long term inpatient Drug Treatment Programs have by far the highest long term success rates compared to any other form of Drug Rehabilitation.
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With the accessibility of the Internet, online bullying has also become more accessible as well.
Senior Program Consultant for the Seattle Public Schools Mike Donlin explains what exactly bullying is and how it might be harmful.
“Bullying is any unwanted aggressive behavior that involves an observed or perceived power imbalance and is repeated multiple times or is highly likely to be repeated. Bullying may inflict harm or distress on the targeted youth including physical, psychological, social or educational harm. Bullying can occur in-person and through technology,” Donlin said.
Donlin also shares the difference between cyberbullying and verbal or physical bullying.
“[Cyberbullying] happens faster; it can spread much more quickly. There are different distance differentials at play and for the targeted person there is no safe place to go where it is not happening,” Donlin said.
Counselor Jamie Mercer shares why cyberbullying is being seen as more common.
“It is much easier over a text message to misread the intent but when you get someone face to face you are a lot more honest because you have someone to answer to it is not just ‘oh, I am behind a screen I can say whatever I want without consequence,’” Mercer said.
When cyberbullying becomes a problem, Mercer shares how the administration deals with it.
“If it is a friend or someone you feel comfortable with coming in face to face let’s work it out. If it is more of a threat situation, the student really feels unsafe coming to school or going home we would get administration involved. Sometimes there are consequences involve. Obviously we never want a student to feel unsafe,” said Mercer.
Vice Principal Maija Theil adds to what Mercer says about how the school administration deals with the problem of cyberbullying.
“We talk with the student that is experiencing or reporting [bullying]. Find out what the circumstances are. Find out what is happening, where it has been happening, when it has been happening. It is a little bit different with cyberbullying because it is coming into campus and affecting their ability to learn during the school day. Has someone actually done it during the school day? Is it happening outside off campus but then everybody in class is talking about it? Some of those things will make a difference,” Thiel said.
Thiel also explains what she tells students when they are getting bullied.
“I think one thing we tell them is that it is good to come to us as soon as something happens, especially if it is an ongoing issue and protecting themselves at the same times: so blocking people that are performing some of that, talking to their parents, resources they can go to in the building when they need help with that. Then also do not post something yourself in response to and making that continue to go, let us take care of it. If something happens, let us take care of it instead of taking care of it on your own,” Thiel said.
Thiel also touches on the seriousness of bullying and why it should stop.
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Energy survey handbook for electric power systems
by Dranetz Technologies in Edison, N.J. (1000 New Durham Rd., CN-91, Edison 08818)
Written in English
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A typical example is shown in Figure 7.1. In many browsers and user interfaces (in the year 2004), if you click on one icon and then click on another, the second will become selected and this will cancel the selection of the first, and if you click on more icons, the one most recently selected becomes the unique active icon, overiding previous selections. However, if you hold down the CTRL key and then click on two different icons, both icons will be selected. And if you hold down the SHIFT key and then click, both icons and those in between will be selected. When using these features, previous selections are not discarded --- all the icons selected while holding down the correct key are combined to give a special set of selected items. The processes of combination correspond to disjunctions (OR operators or joins) in different logics.
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|Figure 7.1: The first version is a Boolean disjunction, the second is a kind of quantum disjunction|
This chapter describes these two brands of logic, using the algebra of George Boole as the classical example of a discrete (and indeed, binary) approach to logic, and the quantum logic of Garrett Birkhoff and John von Neumann as the standard example of a continuous logic. Geometrically, the differences between these approaches arise from the differences between set theory and vector spaces, which form the underlying spatial models for Boolean logic and quantum logic respectively.
Because vector spaces provide the spatial model for both quantum logic and the Infomap WORDSPACE, it turns out that we can use the same logical operators in both. For me, this story began when I implemented a vector negation operator in WORDSPACE using the concept of orthogonality, just as described by Birkhoff and von Neumann in 1936. This precedent was happily brought to my attention by Professor Lawrence Moss of Indiana University, as the research evolved.
Exploring such operations, comparing their effects on document retrieval, and piecing together the scientific context of the WORDSPACE model proved an interesting journey. Many historic branches of logic, geometry, and the physical sciences became woven into the story, and I shall explain how these traditions have been used in search engines, especially in WORDSPACE.
The 'quantum' thread in this chapter stretches from Aristotle's description in the Metaphysics, through geometric implementations by Euclid, Descartes, and Grassmann, the birth of quantum mechanics itself in the early 1900s, and the outward stimulus this has provided to areas of logic, philosophy, computation, and word sense discrimination. The quantum idea, and the spatial extensions with which it is modelled, is a useful tool both for describing the way a particle may be represented by a combination of possible pure states, and for describing the way an ambiguous word may be represented by a combination of available 'pure' meanings.
First, for necessary context and contrast, we explore some of the traditional combination operations in discrete logical models, focussing on the work of George Boole.
About 100 years later, electronic machines were built that could make Boole's algebra a reality. Computers were built that could store these 0s and 1s electronically, and perform logical operations on them exactly as Boole described. These discrete binary operations are called Boolean operators to this day, and you can perform a "Boolean search" in most information retrieval systems, often using the "Advanced Search" feature of an internet search engine. Boolean "logic gates" have become so familiar through electronics and computer science that it's easy to believe that Boolean logic is logic, just as until the 1830's, people believed that Euclidean geometry was geometry. But just as there are differently shaped spaces, there are differently shaped logics.
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All of this is happening by manipulating vectors in WORDSPACE so that they are perpendicular or orthogonal to one another. Move the vectors so that they are at right angles to one another, and you effectively make the meanings of two word-vectors irrelevant to one another.
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In quantum mechanics, a single particle could potentially be in one of several pure states, and until you make an observation of the particle, it doesn't make sense to claim that it is in one state or another (though you can predict that some states are on the whole more likely than others).
A famous experiment that demonstrated this amazing behaviour is the double-slit experiment, which is described briefly in the diagram on the right. It appears that the particle behaves like a wave, one component of which went through A and another through B. Until you observe the particle, all you can predict is that the particle will be represented by some linear combination of pure states, which is expressed as a vector &lambda A + &mu B.
The equations that are used to represent these particles are exactly the same as those used to represent an ambiguous word in WORDSPACE, and the projection equation used to remove an unwanted meaning from a word in Section 2 is exactly the same as the equation used in quantum mechanics to obtain the pure states of a particle from the observed interference patterns.
This enables a user to strip away unwanted meanings in succession and zoom in on a region in WORDSPACE. When tested in document retrieval experiments, this method removed not only the unwanted keywords, but many more of their neighbours in WORDSPACE and their synonyms in WordNet than was achieved by the alternative Boolean operators.
You find this difference between continuous and discrete interpretations of logic in very simple sentences. If somebody says "you should take bus 60 or bus 70", and you later discover that they meant you to take bus 67, you would think you had been very badly advised. If, however, you were told that the journey would take "60 or 70 minutes", and it took 67 minutes, you would agree that you had been advised perfectly wisely. This is just like the difference between 'CTRL + click' and 'SHIFT + click' in the diagram at the beginning of this chapter.
The following paper describes the quantum connectives and their semantic properties in more detail.
The following paper describes the implementation of the quantum negation operators in WORDSPACE and evaluates their statistical performance in document retrieval experiments.
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From being a mere fantasy to a feasible business proposition, the world of Metaverse has traveled a long way. In the last piece, we learned about the fundamental nature of the Metaverse, the technologies that make it possible, and how we can access it currently. Now, let’s focus more on its impact and how soon to expect it.
Billionaire and Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg recently drew up a vision and simultaneously teased us with the immense possibilities of the new medium that promises to radically alter the way we live, conduct business, socialize, work and attend to a hundred different everyday affairs of our daily lives.
In a letter to his employees, Zuckerberg wrote, “We’ve gone from desktop to web to mobile; from text to photos to video. But this isn’t the end of the line. The next platform will be even more immersive and an embodied internet where you’re in the experience, not just looking at it. We call this the Metaverse, and it will touch every product we build.”
So, without further ado, let’s take a deep dive into the changes the Metaverse can usher into our lives.
Our work dynamic will change for the better
Working remotely has been welcomed with open arms only by a few corporates. Many others still prefer the age-old mode of working in person from the office.
However, with the slow but assured penetration of Metaverse, we would be able to enjoy the best of both worlds. While one might continue to work from home, they will operate in a 3D environment that will mirror an office setting, effectively letting one live in two worlds. In one clean swoop, two objectives will be achieved: one will be able to enjoy the comforts of working from home while simultaneously being in an office space.
The Metaverse will also weed out hundreds of practical problems that remote working has created. For instance, a long trail of delayed emails can become a short problem-solving chat with an office colleague or senior in the Metaverse.
The malls of tomorrow
With the speed at which the Metaverse is developing, it is quite likely that our virtual marketplaces will be powered by 3D technology in a few years. One would be able to enter an e-shopping mall, purchase a virtual item, and will be able to sell it as well in the same ecosystem. Not bound by the physical world’s limits, the malls in the Metaverse are likely to feature limitless designs to augment the experiences of the customers. They would be able to interact with digital products like never before, and given the growing adoption of NFTs, this is not a fad.
Attending public events
In April 2020, more than 12 million people turned up in a Metaverse created by the company Epic Games to witness singer Travis Scott’s virtual performance. In the future, such large gatherings of people, be it for a music concert, a theatrical play, or a stand-up gig, will become all the more frequent. Currently, many Metaverse ecosystems have spaces where people from all kinds of backgrounds can simply relax, network, and socialize with each other. Truly, a world within our world.
By when will Metaverse become commonplace?
The answer to this question relies on several variables. Many digital companies suggest that Meta-worlds still have about a decade before they become genuinely mass-based.
Another variable determining how soon the Meta phenomenon becomes commonplace is the availability of cheap accessories required to log into the space. Virtual reality headsets are still quite expensive. However, the headsets and other accessories will become far more affordable in due course, paving the way for a smoother transition.
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Hands-on training in accounting software, bookkeeping, and payroll administration. Courses include preparation to become a certified Payroll Compliance Practitioner (PCP). Graduate in just 9 months, internship included.
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Herzing College Toronto’s Accounting and Payroll Administration program is fast, practical, and based on the skills Toronto employers want. Our students graduate with real work experience and a competitive edge in the field of accounting.
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This course covers the use of the Microsoft Office applications Word, PowerPoint and Outlook. Topics include creating documents, editing text, creating tables, importing images, creating large documents, managing document sections, creating slideshows, managing themes, and using Outlook for email, calendars and tasks.
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This introductory basic accounting course presents the accounting cycle beginning with journalizing transactions and ending with the production of financial statements. Topics include accounting concepts and practices, recording transactions, adjusting accounts, preparation of worksheets and the closing process, and preparation of financial statements for service and merchandising businesses.
This course is the continued application of accounting principles and practices as related to corporations and partnerships as well as the analysis of financial statements. Topics include capital assets, current and long-term liabilities, partnership accounting, organization and operation of corporations, reporting income and retained earnings, earnings per share, installment notes payable and bonds, statement of changes in financial position, and analyzing financial statements.
This course is designed to provide in-depth understanding of Sage 50, an integrated computerized accounting package, including payroll. Topics include the general ledger, accounts receivable transactions, accounts payable transactions, setting up company files, payroll transactions, inventory management, end-of-period processing, and generating financial statements and accounting reports.
The preparation and delivery of presentations and the development of effective communication skills that increase self- confidence will be the focus of this course. The development of group skills will be practiced and much of the time will be spent working in groups. This course also studies of the principles and features of a presentation graphics package, Microsoft® PowerPoint.
This course provides a basis of mathematics and arithmetic skills for students entering a business program to help prepare for accounting and other math related functions. Topics include working with decimal values, fraction calculations, cross-multiplication, proportions, percentage calculations, simple and compound interest, and preparing a personal budget.
This course provides the opportunity to study the operation and application of Microsoft Excel, a spreadsheet package. Topics include building a spreadsheet, creating formulas, using functions, creating charts, maps, and graphics, lists and data management, worksheet and workbook management, creating and printing reports.
Students who complete the course will know the payroll compliance responsibilities that affect organizations, be able to comprehend legislation, and be able to effectively communicate these to all stakeholders. This course will provide students with the payroll-related legislation affecting organizations, as well as the tools to find information and apply that information to different scenarios in relation to individual pay.
This seminar provides an opportunity for the student to apply the techniques and processes for developing a career path and to learn lifetime career management tools and skills. Topics include career-planning, job searching, writing resumes and cover letters, refining interview skills, and preparing for a new position.
The internship component of the program is the practical application of a student’s knowledge and skills in an industry environment. The industry shall be directly related to the student’s program of study. The internship requires full-time day attendance working in the industry setting. 100 Hours
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Q. What is the ruling of performing Tawaaf-e-Widaa for a South African woman in menses? Does she have to perform it during the days of Hajj? If she delays it after performing Tawaaf-e-Ziyaarah and after the days of Hajj and then she has her menses, will there be a penalty for delaying it and not performing it on time?
A. The performance of Tawaaf-e-Widaa (farewell Tawaaf) is compulsory (Waajib) upon males and females performing Hajj except for a female who is in the state of menstruation (Haidh). The time to perform Tawaaf-e-Widaa is after the performance of Tawaaf-e-Ziyaarah until the time of one’s departure.
Hence, in the enquired case, if a woman did not immediately perform Tawaaf-e-Widaa after performing Tawaaf-e-Ziyaarah and then her menses commenced before her departure to South Africa, no penalty will be applicable as a women in the state of menses in exempted from the performance of Tawaaf-e-Widaa.
However, if her menses terminated before her departure to South Africa, then it will be compulsory upon her to perform Tawaaf-e-Widaa before departing. In this case, she will not be exempted from performing Tawaaf-e-Widaa. Failure to do so will result in a penalty (Damm) being applicable. (Al-Mabsoot 4/179-Tabyeenul-Haqaaiq 2/51)
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SEATTLE – Anyone desperate for a break from crunching numbers, minding the kids or studying for exams knows how easy it can be to find distraction in the simple brain teasing of computer games like Sudoku, solitaire or mahjong.
And that's exactly what online game services from companies such as RealNetworks Inc. (RNWK) and Electronic Arts Inc. (ERTS) are banking on.
As more people get hooked on playing such "casual games" online, game providers are seeking out better ways to make money off the phenomenon.
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"You're seeing that there's a big audience for it. The challenge has really been monetizing that audience and getting them to pay for it," said David Cole, president of market research firm DFC Intelligence.
Casual games — generally defined as easy-to-learn, one-player games that you can play for five minutes or five hours — are alluring to companies in part because they tend to attract women and people over 35.
That's quite a different audience than the young men traditionally associated with video game consoles and other types of computer games.
The business also is attractive because, if the right sales model is found, companies say it can be highly profitable. That's especially true for those who produce the games in-house, and then can easily — and cheaply — modify them for multiple countries and languages.
"There are a few things that are wonderful about the games business," said Rob Glaser, chief executive of Seattle-based RealNetworks, whose casual games division represented 21 percent of the company's overall revenue in the first quarter of this year.
But one big challenge is that many of the games are available for free. To make money, companies are trying out a number of ideas, including embedding advertising into free games, selling all-you-can-play memberships devoid of ads and using free trials to entice people to purchase downloadable versions.
"There's been a lot of trying everything to see what tracks, to see what works — a lot of experimentation," said Anita Frazier, an industry analyst with NPD Group.
Still, many expect the business of selling casual games online to only get stronger.
DFC Intelligence estimates that revenues from casual games worldwide will grow to $953 million this year, from $713 million last year, after steadily rising from $228 million in 2002.
But Frazier, with NPD Group, notes that online game sales have partly come at the expense of profits companies used to make selling games in retail stores.
Electronic Arts' Pogo unit offers free casual games, a subscription service and downloads. Beatrice Spaine, senior director of Pogo marketing, said the business has been profitable because the company has been able to make money off different users in different ways.
For example, teens may be willing to sit through ads but unwilling to pay for a service, while an older woman may be more willing to pay the $35 per year subscription fee so she doesn't have to wait for intermittent ads.
The advertising industry's increased interest in online opportunities also has helped.
A few years ago, Spaine said one big challenge was convincing advertisers that anyone but young men were playing its games. But in part because many of the sites' users are women over age 35, the company has recently been able to sell ads for name brands like Dove soap, she said.
Still, Cole of DFC Intelligence notes that major brands targeting women are still primarily interested in traditional advertising, as in television and glossy magazines, rather than in online games.
"It's still small potatoes when you look at what they can do in terms of mass advertising," he said.
For now, RealNetworks' Glaser said his company primarily gets money from people buying its subscription game service or purchasing downloads for about $20.
But many in the industry estimate that only about 2 percent of free trial downloads are converted into purchases, so companies, including RealNetworks, are mixing advertising more deeply into free versions.
In one recent promotion on Electronic Arts' Pogo service, a game where the user aims to eliminate rows of bubbles was tweaked to instead show rows of Oreo cookies, which would drop into a glass of milk when cleared.
RealNetworks recently started displaying ads during downloading and at regular intervals during game play, and the company also is considering letting people play trial versions longer if they consent to more advertising.
Glaser said RealNetworks increased the ads cautiously because it was wary of alienating users already loyal to a less ad-cluttered service.
"The idea is to do this in a way that sorts of adds to the ecology of the games business, rather than to do it in a way that either turns off consumers so they don't download them or [takes] from existing revenue streams," Glaser said.
Besides Electronic Arts and RealNetworks, the most popular online game sites are from Yahoo Inc. (YHOO), Microsoft Corp.'s (MSFT) MSN and Time Warner Inc.'s (TWX) AOL, according to data from comScore MediaMetrix.
As the business grows, a key challenge is keeping users from drifting off to other sites where similar games might be available.
Paul Thelen, chief executive of Big Fish Games Inc., uses mass mailings and other tactics to aggressively try to reach customers — and then employs regular e-mails and an optional toolbar to try to keep them.
"We call ourselves a marketing distribution company, and our product is games," he said.
The tactic appears to be paying off. Privately held Big Fish said revenue for its game site grew to about $6 million in the second quarter ended June 30, from $1.16 million a year earlier. The four-year-old company broke even in the most recent quarter, Thelen said. | <urn:uuid:bbabca6f-ff34-496c-bd61-338f5dfa414b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.foxnews.com/story/casual-games-may-be-next-growth-sector-in-online-video-games | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570977.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809124724-20220809154724-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.965152 | 1,215 | 1.617188 | 2 |
Valentine’s Day: to some it might be a very special day, but to others, it might be just another day. To me, it’s a day that isn’t like any other because it’s a day to show your feelings towards your loved ones. There might be people who don’t think Valentine’s Day matters because they don’t have a loved one or they don’t want to show their feelings on this day. I see Valentine’s Day as a special day. The way I show my love towards someone would be by spending time with them on Feb. 14.
Love can be shown is a variety of ways. I show love towards my mom by bringing her flowers in the morning and that happens every year on whatever day Valentine’s Day lands on. Having a “Valentine” doesn’t happen to everyone, so having a Valentine is something special but is also very important. There might be people who think that it’s just a waste of money but I think spending money on a special person should bring joy to each other. A flower for your lover or a friend can mean so much to a person so money isn’t really going to waste.
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The targeting of lysosomal transmembrane proteins in the Golgi apparatus to lysosomes is a complex process that’s only starting to be understood. that co-expression of complete duration Mcoln1 with kinase-inactive proteins kinase D (PKD) one or two 2 inhibited Mcoln1 Golgi leave and transportation to lysosomes and reduced Mcoln1 cleavage. These research claim that PKDs are likely involved in the delivery of some lysosomal citizen transmembrane proteins in the Golgi towards the lysosomes. Keywords: transient receptor potential route, vesicle transportation, adaptor proteins complicated, past due endosomes, dileucine theme Launch The biogenesis of lysosomes entails the delivery of membrane protein, lipid membranes and soluble protein in the Golgi appparatus to endosomal compartments. As Rabbit Polyclonal to SLC27A5. the transportation of several soluble hydrolases in the Golgi to lysosomes via mannose-6-phosphate receptors is normally well known, the mechanisms root the delivery of transmembrane (TM) protein to the lysosomes are complex and only beginning to become elucidated (1). For example, TM proteins may be 1st delivered to the PM and then travel to lysosomes via the endosomal system, or become transported directly from PHA-767491 the Golgi to early endosomes or late endosomes en route to the lysosomes (2). A key element in directing TM proteins to the lysosomes is the presence of cytosolically-oriented amino acid motifs that are identified by adaptor proteins which target cargo to clathrin-coated transport intermediates in the trans-Golgi network (TGN). For example, DXXLL acidic cluster dileucine motifs bind to GGAs (Golgi localized, -ear ARF-binding proteins), whereas [DE]XXXL[LI] and YXX? (where ? is definitely any bulky hydrophobic amino acid) sequences are identified by the heterotetrameric adaptor protein-1 (AP1) complex (3). AP1 and GGAs have already been proven to interact; thus it really is currently as yet not known if GGAs and AP1 action in concert or take part in two parallel sorting pathways on the TGN (4). Various other adaptor proteins complexes get excited about the identification from the [DE]XXXL[LI] and YXX also? motifs. For instance, PHA-767491 adaptor proteins organic 2 (AP2) mediates clathrin-dependent internalization in the PM of protein (e.g., lysosomal linked membrane protein [Lights]) filled with such motifs (5), whereas adaptor proteins complicated 3 (AP3) is normally believed to mediate the transport of some YXX? motif-containing proteins (e.g., CD63, endolyn) from EE to LE (6). Another step in lysosomal focusing on is the fission of carrier vesicles from your TGN. Some carrier vesicles are reported to arise from membrane fission in the TGN via the action by protein kinase D (PKD) isoforms 1C3 (7). PKDs are thought to be involved in the release of transport vesicles destined for the plasma membrane, specifically proteins targeted to the basolateral membrane in polarized cells (8). PKDs are reported not to be involved in the delivery of the endosomal/lysosomal protein, H2-M, to the late endosomal system (9); however, a recent study shown that PKD3 may play a role in delivering vesicle-associated membrane protein-2 (VAMP2) to its endosomal compartment (10). Thus, a general part for PKDs in the transport of lysosomal proteins is still uncertain. Mucolipin-1 (Mcoln1) is definitely a six transmembrane, lysosomal protein (11, 12) of the transient receptor potential superfamily that is mutated in the autosomal, recessive neurodegenerative disease, mucolipidosis, type IV (13C15). Mcoln1 is definitely reported to act as channel permeable to Ca2+, Fe2+ and additional ions (16, 17) and posesses a serine lipase consensus website (13, 18). Further, the absence of Mcoln1 results in lysosomal storage of lipids, mucopolysaccharides and glycoproteins, and modified lysosomal transport (12, 19C22); however, the precise function of Mcoln1 is not known. A number of investigations have been performed concerning the mechanisms involved in Mcoln1 focusing on to the lysosome; however, the results have been somewhat contradictory. Mcoln1 possesses a [DE]XXXL[LI] motif near its N-terminus (ETERLL) and its C-terminus (EEHSLL). While Venkatachalam et al. reported that loss of the C-terminal dileucine motif of Mcoln1 resulted in loss of lysosomal focusing on and accumulation in the PM (23), others have showed that mutation of both PHA-767491 N and C-terminal dileucine motifs are had a need to disrupt the lysosomal concentrating on of Mcoln1 (12, 24). Additionally, Vergrajauregui et al. showed a chimeric proteins filled with the C-terminal area of Mcoln1 was endocytosed via AP2 reliant mechanisms and gathered in early endosomes, whereas a chimera filled with the N-terminus of Mcoln1 gathered in lysosomes and was carried by AP-2.
In plants, polar transport from the hormone auxin between cells connects cell polarity and design formation and it is thus necessary for seed advancement. and multiple loss-of-function mutants.1 These data recommended that ICR1 might form a connection between Rho-regulated cell polarity and polar auxin transportation. In a recent publication,19 we exhibited that ICR1 functions in recruitment of PINs to polar domains in the plasma membrane through its involvement in polarized secretion (Fig. 1). We further exhibited that ICR1 expression is quickly induce by auxin but suppressed at the site of the stable auxin maximum at the root tip (Fig. 2). Our results imply that ICR1 is a part of an auxin-regulated feedback loop, integrating auxin mediated gene expression with Motesanib ROP-modulated cell Motesanib polarity. Physique 1 A model describing the possible involvement of ICR1 in recruitment of PIN proteins to polar Motesanib domains in the plasma membrane. ICR1 is composed of coiled coil domains and functions as a scaffold that interacts with activated GTP-bound ROPs as well as other … Physique 2 Post-trasncriptional repression of ICR 1 expression around the root meristem coincides with the site of the stable auxin maximum. (Left) Nomarsky differential interference contrast image showing the distribution of auxin at the root tip (darker Motesanib region) … To define the role of ICR1 in herb development, we examined auxin distribution and the development of embryos, root columella cells and lateral roots in mutant plants. In addition, the expression pattern of three transcriptional regulators that define the root stem cell niche; WUSCHEL related Homeobox 5 (WOX5) SCARECRAW (SCR) and SHORTROOT (SHR),20C22 was examined in mutant embryos and roots. Collectively, these analyses indicated that in mutants the basic genetic framework that regulates embryo and root development is present and that the root meristem collapse, the altered organ development, and changes in cell identities can be attributed primarily to the compromised auxin distribution. Immuno-localization and GFP fusion proteins showed basal to apical shift as well as reduced recruitment to the plasma membrane of PIN1 and PIN2 in mutants. BFA treatments caused accumulation of PIN1 and PIN2 in BFA compartments in both wild type and mutants. However, BFA washout treatments showed that recruitment of PIN2 to the plasma membrane was slower in mutants. Collectively, these data indicated the fact that Rab5/Ara7-reliant endocytic recycling of PINs is certainly unaffected in mutant phenotype (Fig. 2). ICR1 is certainly expressed in tissue that transportation auxin but its appearance is certainly suppressed at the website from the steady auxin optimum at the main tip. Furthermore, ICR1 subcellular localization becomes polarized from auxin optimum progressively. PRKCA The promoter auxin possesses response element and its own mRNA expression is quickly induced by auxin. The suppression of ICR1 appearance at the website of steady auxin optimum (Fig. 2) is probable regulated with a post-transcriptional system, since appearance of various other reporters under legislation from the promoter was discovered at this area. Taken jointly, these data indicated that appearance amounts and subcellular localization of ICR1 play a central function in legislation of asymmetric auxin distribution. The steady auxin optimum around the main stem cell specific niche market may facilitate an optimistic responses loop that maintains the repression of ICR1 appearance and its own distribution in the instant proximal and subtending cells. The full total outcomes from our function18,19 claim that ICR1 features as an auxin modulated scaffold that facilitates compartmentalization of ROPs and various other proteins like the exocyst complicated. This polarization equipment is necessary asymmetric auxin distribution. Acknowledgements Function described within this paper was backed by grants or loans from Israel Research Base (ISF-312/07), US-Israel Binational Analysis and Development Motesanib finance (BARD-IS-4032-07) as well as the Deutschland-Israel Plan (DIP-H.3.1) to S.Con. Records Addendum to: Hazak O, Bloch D, Poraty L, Sternberg H,.
A power is presented by us function for predicting binding free of charge energies of proteinCprotein complexes, using the three-dimensional set ups from the unbound and complex proteins as source. conditions included. As the single-term in Desk I were computed using combination validation, they won’t be the same as the attained by straight correlating a term with experimental dimension as in Desk II. The cheapest RMSE for an individual term is normally 2.68 kcal mol?1, weighed against 2.25 kcal mol?1 for the entire function. Whenever we go through the credit scoring function using the particular conditions removed, we find that conditions that succeed independently do not always decrease performance significantly when removed. For instance, removing from the entire function the TB term, gives a with test of 0.27 when applied to its own, lowers the of the entire function from 0.63 to 0.61. In contrast, the MisRes term gives a MS-275 low (bad) when used on its own (?0.03), but the of the full Mouse monoclonal to CDC2 function drops from 0.63 MS-275 to 0.55 when this term is excluded. The reason is that terms such as TB describe physical processes that will also be covered by additional terms, which is much less so for the entropy term that MisRes adds to the energy function. The RMSE’s and right cognate/noncognate predictions follow mostly the same styles as the correlations discussed above. Finally, we look at the weights of the terms, outlined in Table I. We normalized the ideals of each term by subtracting the mean and then dividing by the standard deviation of the ideals for the 144 complexes. Because the weights outlined MS-275 in Table I are for the normalized ideals of the terms, the comparison is allowed because of it of weights for different terms. Again, the full total effects reveal the correlation between your terms. For instance, the electrostatic conditions have the biggest adjusted weights, but being that they are correlated highly, their effects on the full total energy block out mostly. We MS-275 can discover that conditions linked to desolvation possess huge contributions, aswell as Loop. MisRes includes a huge pounds (0.969), despite its having a minimal correlation with experimental measurement (= 0.084, Desk II, while discussed in the last paragraph), but in keeping with the top drop of from 0.63 to 0.55 upon departing this term out. In Assisting Information Desk S1 we display the relative modification from the weights when the function can be optimized with each one of the nine conditions excluded. We discover that removing each one from the electrostatic conditions causes a big loss of the pounds of the rest of the electrostatic term, which shows that these conditions compensate one another. Ros_Sol and Ros_HB display such shared dependence Also, and even in Table II we see that these terms are strongly correlated (= ?0.763). Removing the Loop term has large effects on the weights of three other terms (Elec_LRA, Bur_C/S, and Helix weights change by more than 50%). As the Loop term performs better on its own than any other term (Table I), it is expected that leaving it out has large effects on the remaining weights. Performance and comparison with other algorithms In Table III, we show the correlation coefficients of our predictions with experimental measurement for various subsets of the Affinity Benchmark. We also show the same calculated with several other algorithms that are discussed in detail in the Methods section. These are the proteinCprotein docking potentials developed in our group (IRAD,16 ZRANK,17 and ZDOCK18C20), and the three potentials that gave the best results in a previous study using a precursor of the Affinity Benchmark (PyDock,21 Rosetta,22 AffinityScore1.06, 23).10, 12 ZAPP has the highest with experimental binding free energies, 0.63, with Rosetta second, 0.41, and the other functions between 0.22 and 0.27. Table III Correlation Coefficients (= 0.66), closely followed by the other class (= 0.53). In contrast, the correlation for antibodyCantigen complexes is much lower (= 0.24). This can be because of the insufficient atomic contact conditions.
Kaposis sarcoma-associated herpesvirus (KSHV), called individual herpesvirus 8 also, is one of the gamma herpesviruses and may be the etiological agent of Kaposis sarcoma, major effusion lymphoma, plus some types of multicentric Castlemans disease. Cullen and Umbach, 2010). Ten of the miRNA precursors are arranged into clusters inside the latent genes locus. The various other two pre-miRNAs (miR-K12-10, miR-K12-12) can be found inside TAE684 the 3UTR of ORF K12. Each one of these viral miRNAs talk about two common promoters using the viral latent transcripts (Pearce et al., 2005; Cullen and Cai, 2006). Interestingly, the principal sequences of both miR-K12-10 and miR-K12-12 could be cleaved by Drosha in and reduced K12 protein appearance (Lin and Sullivan, 2011). KSHV-encoded miRNAs had been initially uncovered in viral latency (Cai et al., 2005; Pfeffer et al., 2005; Samols et al., 2005; Grundhoff et al., 2006), but may also be discovered in lytic replication (Lin et al., 2010; Umbach and Cullen, 2010). The appearance degrees of some viral miRNAs are also higher in the lytic stage set alongside the latent stage (Lin et al., 2010; Umbach and Cullen, 2010). TAE684 It’ll be interesting in the foreseeable future to look for the reason behind this differential appearance design in the viral lifestyle cycle. Desk 1 Set of KSHV-encoded miRNAs. miRNAs being a Mediator in the VirusCHost Relationship Network Because the breakthrough of miRNA, we’ve known it modulates gene appearance post-transcriptionally through concentrating on the 3UTRs of focus on genes or through inducing degradation of focus on gene transcripts (Lee et al., 1993). The expression of miRNAs themselves can be controlled through different mechanisms strictly. The breakthrough of virus-encoded miRNAs in herpesviruses provides us with a chance to reevaluate the connections between the pathogen and its web host from a fresh perspective. Predicated on the deep regulatory ramifications of miRNAs, we propose a four-component model to depict viralChost connections. Within this model, viral genes, TAE684 viral miRNAs, web host genes, and web host miRNAs are four mediators of mobile signaling that regulate each others appearance by several means (Body ?(Figure1).1). This elaborate and complicated regulatory network mediating virusChost interactions establishes the results of virus infection. Since herpesviruses create long-term in the cell latency, they possess multiple ways of dominate the signaling network to favour long-term infections. The need for virally Rabbit Polyclonal to HNRCL. hijacked web host miRNAs and deregulated viral miRNAs in herpesvirus infections and pathogenesis provides ended up being beyond our targets. In the next section, we review the TAE684 important jobs of both mobile and viral miRNAs in KSHV infections TAE684 (Summarized in Desk ?Table22). Body 1 A four-component model for viralChost relationship. Desk 2 Kaposis sarcoma-associated herpesvirus-encoded miRNAs as mediators in virusChost connections. KSHV Modulates the Appearance Profile and/or Function of Host miRNAs To time, a lot more than 1400 older miRNAs have already been discovered in human beings (Kozomara and Griffiths-Jones, 2011), developing a delicate miRNA system that is critical for fine-tuning the cellular signaling network. The expression profile of human miRNAs varies significantly among different cell types and can be modulated by many cellular events. Increasing evidence suggests that computer virus infection can influence the expression profile of host miRNAs, resulting from either defensive host signaling against computer virus contamination or viral hijacking to favor computer virus infection. Therefore, host miRNAs are important in balancing virusChost interactions. Viral gene products regulate host miRNA expression through gene alteration, transcription regulation or processing, directly or indirectly. In some cases they even modulate the function of host miRNAs. When herpesviruses establish long-term latency in the host cells, virus-specific host miRNAs expression pattern, or miRNAs signature, is established. Thus, the host miRNA system is an important tool that is hijacked by the herpesvirus for viral latency maintenance and viral pathogenesis. Kaposis sarcoma-associated herpesvirus mainly infects human endothelial cells (ECs) and B cells study validates miR-K12-11 as a functional ortholog of hsa-miR-155 in the context of hematopoiesis (Boss et al., 2011). Our research indicated that miR-K12-11 is involved with attenuating interferon contributing and signaling to KSHV latency maintenance through targeting I-kappa-B.
Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) infection produces more severe disease and increased hospitalization rates in high-risk babies. second week of each October (week 42) would precede the onset of the RSV season in the United Kingdom, and provide coverage until its decline in mid-March. Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) is the most common cause of lower respiratory tract infection in young children; its manifestations include bronchiolitis in infants/young children, and acute bronchitis in older children [1, 2]. Approximately 80% of children are infected by 2 years of age, but re-infection can occur throughout life. RSV infection is the commonest cause of hospitalization in children aged <1 year , and it causes more severe disease in high-risk infants. Early data suggest a possible association between RSV contamination in children with chronic lung disease who were born prematurely, and chronic respiratory morbidity . The UK Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation advises that this RSV-monoclonal antibody, palivizumab, should be offered prophylactically to babies under 2 years of age with severe chronic lung disease, who are on home oxygen during the RSV season and on a case-by-case basis for babies with rare conditions such as multiple congenital abnormalities or severe immunodeficiency . Thresholds for community influenza activity are used to trigger the use of neuraminidase inhibitors in high-risk patients [6, 7], although the intervention of choice in these patients remains prevention through vaccination. In contrast, RSV activity cannot be employed in the same way to trigger the use of palivizumab. Laboratory data are subject to reporting delays, and can't be useful for real-time decision building therefore. Furthermore, the first dosage MEK162 Gata1 of palivizumab ought to be given before the starting point of RSV activity and you can find limited data to aid its make use of beyond five dosages at regular intervals. Thus, waiting around until lab data indicate that RSV is certainly circulating risks beginning therapy too past due; conversely, beginning therapy too much before RSV activity dangers giving the 5th monthly dose prematurily . to cover the finish from the RSV period. Timing the usage of palivizumab will be optimized by raising clarity over the complete starting point from the RSV period. This retrospective research aimed to recognize patterns in seasonal RSV activity by evaluating a decade of lab data on RSV isolations, the occurrence of severe bronchitis in principal treatment, and hospitalizations for bronchiolitis/bronchitis in kids aged <5 years. Virological data resources were as follows: laboratory reports of positive RSV detections made to the Health Protection Agency (HPA) from approximately 300 NHS/private hospital laboratories between 1994 and week 20 of 2004; laboratory reports of RSV from community-derived virological sampling undertaken by the Enteric, Respiratory and Neurological Computer virus Laboratory (ERNVL) between 1999 and 2004. Samples tested included nasopharyngeal aspirates, nose/throat swabs, and bronchoalveolar washings. Methods for RSV screening included antigen detection by immunofluorescence and nucleic acid detection by polymerase chain reaction (PCR) assays, but excluded viral culture. Denominators and, therefore, rates of confirmed RSV could not be calculated as criteria and thresholds for RSV screening vary between individual hospitals and individual GPs. It was, therefore, not possible to determine the proportion of symptomatic patients tested. Clinical data sources comprised: Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) sentinel practice episode rates for influenza-like illness (ILI), acute bronchitis and total respiratory disease (TRD) between 1994 and 2004; NHS Direct total call rates, and percentage of calls assigned to colds/flu or cough algorithms between 2001 and 2004; hospital admissions based on age between 1993 MEK162 and 2003 with a respiratory discharge diagnosis, obtained from Hospital Episode Statistics (HES). Notably, the MEK162 RCGP episode rate did not include a. | <urn:uuid:e726eb3a-4c23-401c-aa06-950e433c4357> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://pf-3758309.com/category/sirtuin/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571210.98/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810191850-20220810221850-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.919331 | 4,958 | 1.875 | 2 |
Leash laws protect dogs and people. A scared dog may not only run into traffic and get injured or even killed, but a scared dog may react out of fear when someone tries to help, and hurt the helper. Dogs can't use language to say, "Help me, I'm scared out here!" A frightened dog may bite the hand of someone trying to do good. The person who was able to capture and bring the two dogs to the League was an adult who took a BIG chance. Luckily, for the dogs and the person no one was hurt.
On your way to school, I'm sure you obey all traffic rules including cross only in crosswalks and cross with green or walk lights. Dogs (and cats, too) are oblivious to such rules. If on your way to school you see an animal running in the street or without a guardian, get adult help. Don't try to physically rescue the animal -- You could get hurt. Get a parent or teacher or crossing guard. Or, if you have a phone, plug in the number of the animal control agency in your area. In Washington, D.C. Animal Control is the proper agency to call, 202-576-6664. Be sure to give as much information as you can. For instance,
- what color is the dog?
- Do you know the breed?
- Where is it?
- Is it in the intersection of Blair Road and Kansas Avenue, N.W.?
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A complex catalyst for enhancing the dehydrogenation kinetics of LiAlH4 was developed by using an impregnation process to decorate TiCl3 on multiwall carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs). The effects of these composite catalysts on the dehydrogenation behavior were investigated by using thermal gravimetric analysis (TGA) and in-situ synchrotron X-ray diffraction (XRD) technique. The experimental results showed that the initial dehydrogenation temperature could be lowered by adding the appropriate amount of TiCl3-MWCNTs composite. LiAlH4 became unstable and decomposed even at room temperature when 20 wt% TiCl3-MWCNTs was added.
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment
- Fuel Technology
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The decision to have kids is a big milestone for any couple. It’s a serious discussion, which can alter the course of a relationship.
Nowadays, many people choose to wait until later in life or not have children at all. When you look at recent birth rate data, the number of birth certificates generated declined from 2019 into 2020. Additionally, the birth rate for women under 25 decreased, while the rate increased for women aged 30-35.
There are several possible reasons behind the birth rate data, and a big one would have to be feelings of intimidation. Becoming a parent is tough, and there are tons of unknowns.
In this post, we’ll go over how you can approach the decision on whether or not to have children. We’ll dive into some of the reasons why would-be parents find parenting intimidating and some of the benefits becoming a parent has to offer.
Why becoming a parent can be intimidating
Parenting can be scary. There are tons of unknowns, concerns, and plenty of risks.
A big primary concern of those who feel intimidated by becoming a parent is they feel they are not ready to raise a child. They feel overwhelmed by the responsibility and fear having a child will turn their lives upside down.
The financial factor of raising a child is another legitimate concern. In the U.S., it’s estimated raising a child until the age of 18 was around $270,000. That’s not including college tuition or any other expenses. This estimate can dramatically increase if you have more than one child.
Another concern is whether someone will have enough time in their schedule for a child. Raising a child is much different compared to something like raising a pet. Children require your full attention, and you are responsible for your child at all times. Your child will take up most of your time, and you probably won’t have much downtime.
Finally, those who feel intimidated by the decision to have children often fear they will not be good parents. It’s a huge responsibility to oversee raising another human life, and many feel they won’t be able to do the job well.
Benefits of having children
It’s easy for people to be overwhelmed by the idea of becoming a parent, but it’s important not to let fear lead you. You need to take the time to focus on the positives.
There are many benefits of parenthood. For example, the idea that you created another human being is pretty powerful. You will be giving a child the gift of life and leading them through their life.
Another benefit is many people find parenthood to be an incredibly rewarding experience. It can change your entire perspective on the world, and you will go through various experiences that bring you closer together with your child. You’ll feel a sense of satisfaction when your child succeeds in life, such as when they take their first steps, learn how to ride a bike, or go to their first day of school.
Additionally, having children is an opportunity to pass on your knowledge as well as learn a new thing or two. You will probably learn as many new things from your child as they will from you.
Finally, you will get to experience a new stage of life. You get to enjoy watching something you created grow into its own human being. You’ll be able to see your child experience situations you may have encountered when you were younger and be able to help them out from your past experiences.
When it comes to making the decision on whether or not to have kids, you should strongly consider some of the risks and positives mentioned in this article. They can help you make the final decision.
It’s important to note the decision on whether or not to have children shouldn’t be driven by fear. You also shouldn’t feel inclined to become a parent because society makes it seem like you need to do so.
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How to Increase Accountability in Any Organization
Bob Prosen is President and CEO of The Prosen Center for Business Advancement, whose mission is to help business leaders execute
and achieve results that count. Bob, a speaker at the 2007 Entrepreneurial Masters Program (formerly Birthing of Giants), is the author of the book “Kiss Theory Good Bye,” www.kisstheorygoodbye.com
A leader’s job is to ensure every member of the team wins, and winning is defined as meeting the organization’s top objectives. One of the best ways I’ve found to help people win is to establish an accountability-based culture focused on producing results, not activities. Here is the seven-step formula you can use to create accountability and achieve extraordinary results in any organization:
S T E P 1 : Establish the organization’s top three objectives. This means the significant few, not the important many. Once identified, objectives must be clear, concise, measurable and obtainable. Notice I didn’t say easy!
S T E P 2 : Assign each team member his or her respective objectives. Remember, when combined, they must allow the organization to achieve its top objectives. In other words, the sum of the parts must be equal to or greater than the whole.
S T E P 3 : Ask each team member what he or she needs to win. To help people win, leaders must remove the roadblocks that stand in the way. Do this by having each team member identify a maximum of three things they need to accomplish each objective. Have them put it in writing.
S T E P 4 : Agree on what the leader will do to help. Meet individually with each team member to clarify the roadblocks and agree on what’s needed to win and who will be responsible for making it happen. In all likelihood, the leader will assume some responsibility. Why? Because you’re responsible to people, not for them. Being responsible to people means helping them get what they need to win.
S T E P 5 : Follow up. Each direct report should schedule a 30-minute monthly update using a standard color-coded results report. Results at or above the plan are in green and any area behind plan is in red. Focus the conversation on what was done to achieve green and if the results will remain green for the remainder of the year. When discussing red results, focus on what will be done to achieve green status, when it will be achieved and any help that’s needed.
S T E P 6 : Share lessons learned. Hold quarterly meetings with all direct reports present to discuss lessons learned, identify critical roadblocks and make specific offers to help any team member behind plan. Remember, the leader wins when everyone on the team wins.
S T E P 7 : Reward results. When objectives are achieved, ensure that rewards are disproportionate and highly visible. Those who achieve the most get rewarded the most– and everyone should know that. It’s just that simple. Ensure that people at the bottom are either improving their performance or being moved out. No one with poor performance gets to remain on the bottom for more than a year without action being taken.
Effective communication drives results. This means being direct and forthright with people in every conversation, letting them know where they stand, what’s needed from them and when it is needed. Often good leaders can become great leaders by reshaping the way they talk. Here’s how it works. When you make a request of someone, take a little extra time to explain why you are making it. Put it in context and explain why it’s important to the goals of the business. Then the person can provide a more robust solution because she understands the purpose of the task and how the information will be used.
Last but not least, don’t forget to ask what the person needs in order to complete the task. This approach removes excuses, reduces rework and is a great way to build relationships. It’s also a great way to develop future leaders by increasing responsibility and encouraging decision making and creativity. By holding others accountable, you are teaching them to accept responsibility. Remember, making and meeting commitments is one of the best ways to build trust. So treat commitments as promises and watch how results improve. | <urn:uuid:092663c6-5376-4994-9c22-04e296cf29d8> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.eonetwork.org/octane-magazine/june-2007/howtoincreaseaccountabilityinanyorganization | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570977.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809124724-20220809154724-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.953566 | 899 | 1.679688 | 2 |
ATMs are cruicial not just for ease of adoption, but also for remittance, which looks to be one of the earliest “real” advantage Cryptos have over fiat currencies. But, in order for remittance to truly work, those on the receiving end need to have a simple method for turning their coins into their local currency.
ATMs are an obvious solution. Low over head allows for lower fees than a traditional money changing service and the experience is more familiar and requires less trust than handing over bank information to an exchange (not to mention how it helps the unbanked).
Genesis' ATMs are unique in one big way: they allow the purchase and sale of various altcoins. So far we have seen Dogecoin, and Litecoin in addition to Bitcoin being supported at Genesis ATMs, now we are seeing the first PoS (Proof-of-Stake) coin to be supported by the system.
Genesis ATM quietly made the announcement on Twitter by posting pictures of receipts from the first Blackcoin transaction to go through a Genesis 1 ATM.
According to a post on Reddit, the news also seemed to drive the final nail into the coffin of the planned BlackNote project. The BlackNote project was an effort to release Blackcoin exclusive ATMs, with Blackcoin being accepted on the already popular Genesis ATM, it appears that the BlackNote project's creator felt it was no longer needed. Instead, he is considering selling off the parts he had purchased so far and is now working on project “BlackBean” a Blackcoin accepting coffee machine.
While Genesis has not gotten into the specifics of why they chose Blackcoin as the first supported PoS coin, the Blackcoin developers pointed to its fast confirmation time as one possible explanation. The San Diego based company recently launched a new ATM in San Paulo, Brazil before the World Cup took off.
As a prime example on how valuable a coin's community can be, we have heard reports that a Blackfeed/Blackcoin community member sealed the deal with Genesis.
Genesis ATMs are full two-way machines, can hold 1,700 – 6,800 notes for dispensing (and an additional 2,200 for accepting) an optional finger print reader, an HD security camera and free software updates (meaning the ATMs out there should easily be able to begin accepting Blackcoin).
We should have more from Blackcoin coming soon.
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Yarmouth’s Severn class all weather lifeboat, Eric and Susan Hiscock (Wanderer), launched on Tuesday 28 June 2022 at 1.29pm to a member of the public who had tripped and fallen at the base of the cliffs near Colwell Bay.
The volunteer crew of the Yarmouth RNLI headed west out of Yarmouth harbour to a nearby bay, where the Needles Coastguard team and paramedics were already present. The lifeboat’s assistance was requested because the casualty’s location was on terrain unsuitable for a land transfer to an ambulance.
When the ALB arrived on the scene, it used its smaller ‘Y’ boat to access the shoreline. The paramedic and the casualty, a male with a head injury, were both transferred to the lifeboat. They were then transported to Yarmouth, where they were met by an ambulance.
At 2.42pm, the Yarmouth RNLI lifeboat returned to her berth and was ready for service.
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Hanging a window box to your home is often a difficult task, especially if it is to be directly mounted to the exterior wall. There are several questions you must ask yourself when embarking upon this quest: How much weight needs to be supported? What type of material is the box? What kind of surface is the window box mounting to? What kind of brackets or other supports are available? These are just some of the many questions that need to be answered in order to successfully hang your window box.
Wood and PVC window boxes are generally heavy duty and meant to be able to hold a lot of dirt and support a lot more weight than vinyl. Vinyl is generally not recommended for direct mounting to the house due to the thinness of the material, its susceptibility to cracking, and its lack of structural support. These light duty boxes usually sit atop specialized metal L-brackets that can be directly screwed into the exterior wall.
A heavy duty window box is often mounted one of two ways:
(1) brackets are installed to the home and then the box is secured separately to the brackets or (2) the window box is bolted directly to the home through the back face of the box.
If brackets are used, they are generally functional, although sometimes faux brackets are available that lend no mounting support at all. To mount brackets you will need to begin by measuring the height of the box and offsetting the brackets by that distance beneath the window sill. Next, you will need to measure equal horizontal spacing from the center of the window sill to each side for bracket placement. If the box is longer than 48″, three or more brackets are generally recommended. To hang a window box on siding or stucco, you will want to find the studs and anchor the brackets at those points for the most support. The stud is best found inside the house and under the window with a stud finder. Screw the bracket through the siding with four 4″ thick gauge screws, two at the top and two at the bottom.
To hang a window box on brick, you will need to repeat what was done for stucco. However, unlike stucco, you will need a special “hammer drill” to drill into hard brick. Begin by pre-drilling a 1/4″ hole and then place a 1/4″ drywall anchor in the hole. Screw through the bracket and into the anchor and the bracket will be securely fixed to the wall.
Once the brackets are secure to the wall the window box can then be placed on top and be centered with respect to the window. Finally, drill through the bottom face of the box and directly into the support brackets until secured. It is generally recommended that your window box overhang the width of your window by 1-3″ on each side for aesthetics and to avoid looking disproportional.
If you wish to mount to the home without the use of functional brackets, the steps are very similar. Begin by pre-drilling a hole every 18″ in the back face of the box, preferably near the vertical center. Hold the box up to the window in the appropriate position and mark on the house with a pencil through the pre-drilled holes. Remove the box and then drill 5/8″ holes where you have marked. Place a 5/8″ lead anchor shield into the hole. Hold the box up over the lag shields and screw 3/8″ lag bolts with washers into the anchors until secured. This is the most heavy duty way to install a window box and circumvents bracket failure due to rotting over time. It is not recommended, however to install wooden window boxes this way, because the back of a wooden window box is usually the first part to rot out. This method works well with PVC window boxes made from solid material since they never rot.
Well, now you’re ready to hang a window box. If you haven’t already bought one, now you’ll have all the confidence you need to add value and curb appeal to your home for years to come. Hanging a window box is a fun and empowering task that will allow you to enjoy your window flower boxes that much more. | <urn:uuid:04584ce9-88ce-42f0-91ca-4c3aa197b7e9> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://ampmasterpainters.com.au/how-to-hang-a-window-box/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570977.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809124724-20220809154724-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.944289 | 857 | 1.789063 | 2 |
Updates from the ECF Food Web Project
9 March 2021
The ECF team has just completed all the field samplings planned for the project. We would like to give credits to those who helped: our fellow lab mates, FYP student, and student helpers. Thank you very much for your support!
Learn more about the ECF Food Web Project here: https://www.ecfsoftshores.msl.sls.cuhk.edu.hk/
Here are some photos to demonstrate a typical high tide sampling day at Mai Po. This was one of the few days where there were clean hands to take some footage of us working in the field.
On the way to set up a fyke net in the river before the tide came in.
The fyke net was set up in the river. Harvesting was done at the end of the day.
Tying the fyke net to the supporting poles.
During high tide, we would row out on an inflatable boat to collect phytoplankton.
Updates from the MEEF Fisheries Project
28 September 2020
The life-sized mangrove roots model has finally arrived! J and Rinaldi have also bought 2 wild-caught snappers from the wet market, getting them ready as predators for the experiment.
Learn more about the MEEF Fisheries Project here: https://www.joesylee.org/meef-project
These Kandelia roots are used as reference for the model.
The model is to be placed in the mesocosm with juvenile fishes and their predators. GoPro cameras will be placed around it for observing fish behaviour.
A 3D printed 1m * 1m * 1m model of Kandelia roots.
Observing the snappers in their mesocosm.
Updates from the ECF Food Web Project
25 September 2020
The team has just completed the sampling sessions for the enrichment experiments at Ting Kok and Mai Po. Sampling was conducted over 15 days at each site. Check out the project website for a more detailed description of the experiment: https://www.ecfsoftshores.msl.sls.cuhk.edu.hk/field-manipulative-experiments
The 13C enrichment compound was sprayed onto the surface of the sampling quadrat on Day 0 of sampling.
Sampling in the quadrat on Mai Po mudflat
Caption by Michael Ma
Recruiting RA for New Project
13 July 2020
We are recruiting a Research Assistant for the new GRF project: "Is there a functional microphytobenthos in tropical mangrove ecosystems?".
The successful applicant will have a relevant bachelor or higher degree from a recognised university and previous research experience in conducting field and laboratory work in coastal ecosystems. Experiences in stable isotope analysis and instrumental methods for carbon measurements, as well as excellent communication skills, will be an advantage.
The position will be available starting 4 January 2021 for 33 months, and salary at HK$24,666 per month.
Contact me for enquiries.
Progress of the MEEF Fisheries Project
3 July 2020
Rinaldi and J were able to get some nice 3D scans of the mangrove tree roots with the Kinect, after several on-site trials with the equipment. The raw scans were tidied and refined using the Meshlab and Blender softwares, and then sized down (from the expected final size of 1*1*1m) for a testing of the 3D printing material.
Kinect in action at the field.
Giving the mesh object a final touch on Blender.
A miniscule model of the final product.
Testing the durability of the mini model with small fishes.
Recently, they came across photogrammetry as an alternative to manual 3D scanning. On the Meshroom software, they were able to construct a mesh object from mere photographs of the tree roots taken from various angles. At this preliminary stage, photogrammetry seems to prevail over Kinect in the following ways:
Quicker construction and editing of the mesh object
More details captured
Shorter scanning time
Less bulky things to carry at the field (Kinect needs to be used with a power supply and a computer)
Allows fieldwork to be done during the day (Rinaldi and J had been doing the scanning in the evening, because Kinect is too sensitive to light - it wouldn't capture any patch with sunlight shone on it!)
At the moment, they are still looking into the pros and cons of both methods of 3D model construction.
Transforming the tree in the photo into a mesh object on Meshroom.
Farewell to the FYP Students
25 May 2020
Our 2019-20 FYP students - Vincent, Aaron, and Stanley - visited the lab today to bid us farewell. We wish you a happy graduation, and best of luck on your future endeavours! Don't miss the microphytobenthos (MPB) too much!
I love MPB. You love MPB. We all love MPB!
Progress of the ECF Coastal Food Web Project and Boating Fun!
23 April 2020
We have just completed the winter sampling session at all three sites (Mai Po, Shui Hau, and Lai Chi Wo) and are now processing the samples for stable isotope analysis. What samples are those, you ask? Well, they are what you imagine make up a coastal food web: from leaves and algae, to crustaceans and mollusks, to fishes and bird feathers - and the list goes on. Here's a sneak peek at our colleagues at work:
Joe and Leo setting up the fyke net.
Michael the predator in ambush.
Yan Ping extracting plankton from seawater.
Also worthwhile to mention that our final trip to Lai Chi Wo this season was made by our (the Simon F.S. Li Marine Science Laboratory's) very own Tolo Explorer boat. More photos and videos of the voyage can be found here.
23 April 2020
In our recently-published journal, we revised the estimate on global carbon storage in mangrove forests. We discovered the value to be 23% higher than the previous estimate, after correcting for environmental factors and including significant carbon pools that were previously neglected. Overall, we concluded that mangrove sediment organic carbon stock has previously been over-estimated while ecosystem carbon stock underestimated. Learn more about the project here: https://www.joesylee.org/mangrove-carbon-budget
Ouyang & Lee. Nature Communications 11: 317; January 2020
Picarro Combustion Module Installed
11 November 2019
We are thrilled to announce that our Picarro Combustion Module has been successfully installed and ready to be used with our Picarro G2201-i Isotope Analyser. The setup, called the Picarro Combustion Module Cavity Ring-Down Spectroscopy (CM-CRDS) system, is able to measure the carbon isotopic (δ13C) composition of solid, liquid, and gaseous samples with carbon content as low as 250mg.
New Team Members
4 November 2019
We have new additions to the lab - welcome Rinaldi GOTAMA and J Hei-nin KWONG as Research Assistants to work on the "Value of small mangrove patches in the Pearl River Estuary on commercial fisheries" project!
22 July 2019
A new policy paper discussing the issues hampering effective mangrove restoration:
Lee et al. Nature Ecology and Evolution 3: 870-872; June 2019
New Team Members
16 July 2019
Welcome Dr Fen GUO, Leo CHIU-LEUNG, and Michael MA to the team! They will be working on the ECF "Trophodynamics of soft-sediment coastal habitats in Hong Kong" project. Moving on, we are expecting 2 PhD students (Zhaoliang CHEN and Xueqin GAO) and two post-doctoral fellows (Dr Felix LEUNG and Dr Mingfeng LIU) in September.
Mangrove Macrobenthos and Management Meeting 2019
1 - 5 July 2019
I attended the 5th international Mangrove Macrobenthos and Management meeting (MMM5) as a keynote speaker. The MMM is a series of international conferences focusing on the understanding, conservation, and sustainable use of the mangrove ecosystem. This was the first MMM to be held in Southeast Asia, the centre of biodiversity and mangrove ecosystem.
Image courtesy of the 5th International Mangrove Macrobenthos and Management Meeting
ENSURE Grant Granted
10 October 2018
Our proposal for the CUHK-Exeter Joint Centre for Environmental Sustainability and Resilience (ENSURE) Grant has been successful, and we will commence on this project shortly:
Sustainability of coastal megalopolises in the face of global environmental change: China’s Greater Bay Area
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VATICAN CITY (CNS) — As Catholics are encouraged to make going to confession a significant part of their lives during Lent, Pope Francis offered some quick tips to help people prepare for the sacrament of penance.
After a brief explanation of why people should go to confession — “because we are all sinners” — the pope listed 30 key questions to reflect on as part of making an examination of conscience and being able to “confess well.”
The guide is part of a 28-page booklet in Italian released by the Vatican publishing house. Pope Francis had 50,000 free copies distributed to people attending his Angelus address Feb. 22, the first Sunday of Lent.
Titled “Safeguard your heart,” the booklet is meant to help the faithful become “courageous” and prepared to battle against evil and choose the good.
The booklet contains quick introductions to Catholic basics: it has the text of the Creed, a list of the gifts of the Holy Spirit, the Ten Commandments and the Beatitudes. It explains the seven sacraments and includes Pope Francis’ explanation of “lectio divina,” a prayerful way of reading Scripture in order to better hear “what the Lord wants to tell us in his word and to let us be transformed by his Spirit.”
The booklet’s title is based on a line from one of the pope’s morning Mass homilies in which he said Christians need to guard and protect their hearts, “just as you protect your home — with a lock.”
“How often do bad thoughts, bad intentions, jealousy, envy enter?” he asked. “Who opened the door? How did those things get in?”
The Oct. 10, 2014, homily, which is excerpted in the booklet, said the best way to guard one’s heart is with the daily practice of an “examination of conscience,” in which one quietly reviews what bad things one has done and what good things one has failed to do for God, one’s neighbor and oneself.
The questions include:
- Do I only turn to God when I’m in need?
- Do I take attend Mass on Sundays and holy days of obligation?
- Do I begin and end the day with prayer?
- Am I embarrassed to show that I am a Christian?
- Do I rebel against God’s plan?
- Am I envious, hot-tempered, biased?
- Am I honest and fair with everyone or do I fuel the “throwaway culture?”
- In my marital and family relations, do I uphold morality as taught in the Gospels?
- Do I honor and respect my parents?
- Have I refused newly conceived life? Have I snuffed out the gift of life? Have I helped do so?
- Do I respect the environment?
- Am I part worldly and part believer?
- Do I overdo it with eating, drinking, smoking and amusements?
- Am I overly concerned about my physical well-being, my possessions?
- How do I use my time? Am I lazy?
- Do I want to be served?
- Do I dream of revenge, hold grudges?
- Am I meek, humble and a builder of peace?
Catholics should go to confession, the pope said, because everyone needs forgiveness for their sins, for the ways “we think and act contrary to the Gospel.”
“Whoever says he is without sin is a liar or is blind,” he wrote.
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Azerbaijan, Baku, Nov. 2 /Trend E.Mehdiyev/
On Saturday, the Ombudsman of Moldova, Aurelia Grigoriu held a meeting in Baku with representatives of Azerbaijani NGOs and the media outlets.
Opening the event, the Chairman of the Centre of Cooperation of Azerbaijanis and other Turkic peoples, Ilham Ismayilov thanked the Moldovan Ombudsman.
Azerbaijani Ombudsman, Elmira Suleymanova said Azerbaijan's main problem is the occupation of its territories by Armenia. Suleymanova added that this conflict remains unresolved because of Armenia's disrespect to the resolutions of international organizations and non-compliance with them. But the Azerbaijani Ombudsman noted that the number of Azerbaijan's supporters in this issue is growing.
"There were also ombudsmen among those who supported us, but Aurelia Grigoriu, raised this issue in the Armenian Parliament, basing on the facts and in full accordance with the truth. But the Armenians, unable to say anything, again demonstrated their insidious policy to the entire world and showed aggression against a representative of another country," Suleymanova said.
According to her, Grigoriu demonstrated a great courage and did what should be done by an ombudsman.
"We appreciate Aurelia Grigoriu and express her gratitude," Suleymanova said.
Aurelia Grigoriu, thanking the government of Azerbaijan, said that the work on settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict must be activated, because justice is on the side of Azerbaijan.
She also noted that the UN Security Council held unfair position in a number of cases. Grigoriu proposed Azerbaijan to make the initiative on fundamentally changing the structure and mechanisms of the United Nations.
"Armenia refuses to comply with UN Security Council's resolutions on the liberation of the occupied lands of Azerbaijan, that is why I call on Azerbaijan to make an initiative on changing the mechanisms of the UN," Grigoriu said.
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SCERT Telangana has released the TS School SA 1 Exam Time Table 2022 or Telangana School SA 1 Exam Time Table 2021 for conduct of Summative Assessment I Exams in all PS, UPS and High Schools. Candidates who are appearing the examinations can download the SA I Exams Time Table from here and prepare for the Summative Examinations.
TS School SA 1 Summative Exams Schedule 2022 for Primary Schools, UPS and High Schools in Telangana. Teachers who are working in Telangana Schools can download the SA 1 Exams Time Table and read and follow the instructions. Complete the evaluation process, declare the results and record SA 1 grades in CCE Registers.
As per the new academic calendar, conduct of two Summative Assessments in an academic year along with other instructions pertaining to vacation, training, School Complex Meetings etc. Accordingly, the academic calendar was developed and provided to all schools along with dates for the conduct for Formative and Summative Assessments.
|Name of the time table||TS School SA 1 Time Table 2022|
|Title||Download TS School SA 1 Exam Time Table 2021|
|Subject||DSE Telangana released the TS School SA 1 Exams Time Table 2021|
|Exams Schedule||SA 1 Exams from 01-11-2022 to 07-11-2022|
TS School SA 1 Time Table Highlights
- Schools in Telangana were reopened on September 1.
- The state government has released revised Time Table for Summative Assessment, SA 1 examination for students of Class I to X.
- The Summative Assessment (SA) I examination for students of Classes I to 10 for the academic year 2021-22 will be conducted from December 14 to 20.
- The School Education Department has issued a detailed timetable for this.
- TS SCERT, School Education Department was decided to prepare and finalise question papers with the syllabus covered up to October 30 and
- moderation done at the district level by holding workshops with subject experts.
- After holding the examinations, the answer scripts have to be evaluated and results should be declared on December 27,
- while the parents-teacher meeting is scheduled to be held on December 28.
- All the District Educational Officers and Regional Joint Directors of School Education were instructed to take necessary action for conducting the SA-I.
TS School SA 1 Exam Timings
The Commissioner of School Education, Telangana has released the revised Exams Time Table where it has mentioned that the exams are scheduled from 01-11-2022 to 07-11-2022 and The examination for
- Classes I to V will be conducted from 9.30 am to 12 noon,
- Class VI and VII will be from 10 am to 12.45 pm,
- Class VIII will be from 2 pm to 4.45 pm and
- Classes IX & X will be from 10 am to 12.45 pm for Paper I and 2 pm to 4.45 pm for Paper II.
- The completion of correction of answer scripts and declaration of result will be done on December 27.
- Recording results in cumulative records will be done on December 28.
TS School SA 1 Exams Time Table for 1st to 5th Classes
|Date||Subject (Primary School)|
|01-11-2022||First Language (Telugu, Urdu, Hindi)|
TS School SA 1 Exams Time Table for 6th to 7th Classes
|Date||Subject (6th, 7th Classes)|
|Exam Timings||10.00 am to 12.45 pm|
|01-11-2022||First Language (Telugu, Urdu, Hindi)|
|02-11-2022||Second Language (Hindi, Telugu)|
|03-11-2022||Third Language (English)|
TS School 8th Class SA 1 Exams Time Table
|Date||8th Class Subject|
|Exam Timings||02.00 pm to 04.45 pm|
|02-11-2022||Physical Science Morning and Bio. Science Afternoon session|
|04-11-2022||First Language (Telugu, Urdu, Hindi)|
|05-11-2022||Second Language (Hindi, Telugu)|
|06-11-2022||Third Language (English)|
TS School 9th Class SA 1 Exams Time Table
|Date||9th Class Subject|
|Exam timings||10.00 am to 12.30 pm and 02.00 pm to 04.30 pm|
|01-11-2022||Mathematics – I (Morning) and Mathematics – II (Evening)|
|02-11-2022||Physical Science (Morning) and Bio. Science (Evening)|
|03-11-2022||Social Studies-I (Morning) and Social Studies-II (Evening)|
|04-11-2022||First Language-I (Telugu, Urdu, Hindi) (Morning) and First Language-II (Telugu, Urdu, Hindi)|
|05-11-2022||Third Language-I (English) (Morning) and Third Language-II (English) (Evening)|
|06-11-2022||Second Language (Hindi) (Morning)|
TS School 10th Class SA 1 Exams Time Table
|Date||10th Class Subject|
|Date||10.00 am to -1.15 pm|
|04-11-2022||First Language (Telugu, Urdu, Hindi)|
|05-11-2022||Third Language-I (English)|
|06-11-2022||Second Language (Hindi)|
TS School SA 1 Exams Time Table Proceedings details:
All the District Educational Officers and RJDSEs in the state are invited to the references 1st to 6th cited above, the Summative Assessment (SA)-I has to be scheduled from 14-12-2021 to 20-12-2021 for classes I to X as per the Academic Calendar communicated, In this regard, the time table is being communicated with instructions for conduct of Summative Assessment (SA)-I and syllabus approved by the Government.
In view of the COVID-19 Prevailing Pandemic situation, it is decided to prepare, finalize of question papers with the syllabus covered up to 30.10.2021 and moderation at district level by conducting workshops at district level duly involving subject expert teachers of the district concerned and complete the total process of finalization of question papers by 27.11.2021 duly following the existing rules. The schedule for the valuation and issue of the Cumulative Records etc. is as follows:
Schedule for Valuation, Issue of Cumulative Records
- Completion of correction of answer scripts and declaring the results: 23.12.2021.
- Recording results in Cumulative Records: 27.12.2021.
- Meeting with parents to discuss the progress and issue of Cumulative Records: 28.12.2021.
- The students obtain signature of the parents on Cumulative Records and return to the Class Teacher: 31.12.2021.
Therefore, all the DEOs and RJDSEs are instructed to take necessary action on the above aspects and conduct the Summative Assessment (SA)-I examinations seriously by visiting the field and monitoring the examinations. This has got approval of the Director, School Education, Telangana, Hyderabad. The schedule for conduct of SA I Examinations Is as follows:
Therefore, all the District Educational Officers in the State are informed to give necessary instructions to all schools in their jurisdiction about the conduct of Summative Assessment-l as per the re-scheduled time table. In view of the subject cited above all the Mandal Educational Officers and Heads of all the Institutions of Government, KGBV, Model, Residential, Minority, Aided and Private Recognized Schools are hereby informed that Summative Assessment-l Examinations for the Classes 1-X will be held as per the schedule for this academic year.
The Examination Duration for Second Language (Hindi/Telugu etc.) for the Classes IX and is for 03.00 hours in view of Single paper. During the Examination Period answer Scripts should be valued and cumulative Records shall be completed in all aspects as per the schedule
Instructions on Conduct of Summative Assessment Examinations (SA 1):
SCERT Telangana has informed that, SA-I Exams to be started as per the above mentioned schedule. During the examination period the answer scripts must be valued and Cumulative Records shall be completed in all aspects.
The final results shall be declared and Cumulative Records must be issued to the children. A meeting shall be convened with parents & SMC members in the school premises and Progress Cards (Cumulative Records) shall be issued to the children. The children obtain signature on Cumulative Records and return back Cumulative Records to the concerned teachers/ HMs. The teachers must collect the Cumulative Records/ Progress Cards from the students.
All the DEOs are directed to take necessary action on the above and conduct exams seriously and confidentiality shall be maintained and see that the conduct of examinations and declare the results, convene parent meeting and issue of cumulative records to all the children must be taken up as per the schedule as above.
The RJDSEs must supervise the Districts and observe the effective conduct of SAl Exams, paper valuation, issue of cumulative records, parents meeting etc.and submit a report to the Director of School Education.
SCERT Instruction: Conduct of examinations (SA-I) and correction of answer scripts, completion of Cumulative Records, conduct of parents meeting in all Government, Government Aided and Private Schools. All the RJDSEs and DEOs in the State are hereby informed that vide reference 1 cited, orders have been issued for the conduct of two Summative Assessments in an academic year.
Accordingly, instructions have been issued to all types of schools in the State along with dates for the conduct for Formative and Summative Assessments as per the academic calender. In this regard, the examinations (SA-I)from classes I to X shall be conducted in all Government, Government Aided and Private Recognized Schools.
Note: The examination duration for Second Language (Hindi/ Telugu etc.) Paper for classes IX and X is for 03.00 hours in view of a single paper. During the examination period, the answer scripts must be valued and Cumulative Records shall be completed in all aspects.
The DEOs are informed to give necessary instructions to all the schools in the jurisdiction on the conduct of Summative Assessment (SA), valuation of answer scripts and the issue of Cumulative Records which shall be completed in all aspects.
The DEOs are also informed to instruct the DCEB Secretaries to prepare and finalize including moderation of the question papers at their level duly conducting the workshops by involving expert teachers of concerned district and complete the whole process and bestow their personal attention for improving the quality of the Question Papers of classes I to X by the DCEBs without any conceptual and language errors duly maintaining the secrecy and confidentiality of the Question Papers.
Therefore, all the DEOs and RIDSEs are instructed to take necessary action on the above aspects and conduct the exams seriously by visiting the field and monitoring the exams. Therefore, all the DEOs are instructed to take necessary action on the above aspects and conduct exams seriously and confidentiality complying with the earlier guidelines.
Further, they are requested to adhere to the above schedule and instruct the Headmasters and Teachers that after the summative test, the teachers shall identify the learning deficiencies in terms of attainment of learning outcomes communicated by SCERT by analyzing the students answer sheets. Serious effort shall be made to undertake remedial teaching/corrective measures to ensure the attainment of learning outcomes by the individual.
The learning strategies like tutoring, individualized learning could be adopted. The RJDSEs and DEOs are requested to visit the field and monitor the activities both exam and post exam activities. They are also requested to send Compliance Report on the above to the undersigned and as well as submit compliance for the Proceedings of the Director, SCERT, Telangana, Hyderabad. | <urn:uuid:38cc4fbe-6fe0-4095-b030-5a5332279293> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://teachersbadi.in/ts-schools-sa-i-summative-assessment-i-exams-schedule-ps-ups-highschools/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570977.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809124724-20220809154724-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.922383 | 2,755 | 1.523438 | 2 |
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This past year brought challenges, change, and growth for our organization. As we entered year two of a global pandemic, our staff continued to work remotely, programs adapted to meet community needs, and essential aspects of our work like the weekly SFC Farmers’ Markets continued to operate safely in-person. We celebrated milestones that have helped transform the food system. As we prepare to welcome in the new year, join us in revisiting some of the most impactful moments we experienced as an organization in 2021.
SFC staff meet with The Common Market, a food access partner in Houston.
2021 in Review: Transforming the food system to nourish our health, land, and livelihood
WINTER: RESPONDING TO UNEXPECTED CHALLENGES
The beginning of the year brought some of the most difficult challenges we have faced as a community. As we entered another calendar year marked by the Covid-19 pandemic, Central Texas saw a rise in cases and hospitalizations in January. Shortly after, the state was devastated by Winter Storm Uri, one of the deadliest and costliest winter storms ever recorded in North America.
Several days of sub-freezing temperatures and consecutive ice storms lead to infrastructural breakdowns, unexpected suffering, and tragic loss of lives. In the face of these hardships, communities throughout the region organized to meet the needs of those most severely affected. Resiliency, support, and generosity shone through during this most difficult time.
A snow-covered field at Flameleaf farm during the winter storm.
In the midst of Winter Storm Uri, SFC mobilized to solicit donations to help farmers recover through our Farmer Relief Fund, which garnered $18,000 in the first 10 days alone. Post-storm, SFC raised more than $275,000 thanks to ongoing donations and generous commitments from foundations and developed a disaster relief strategy to provide support to farmers who didn’t have anyone else to turn to. Out of this we developed the Farmers of Color Relief and Resiliency Fund, established to address historic inequities in resources available to farmers of color, which distributed $82,000 to 14 applicants. Together, SFC’s winter storm relief funds reached 72 farmers and ranchers in 23 counties across the state.
After the storm, the sun returned, the ground thawed, and we assessed the damage. As a community, we evaluated the circumstances that lead to such great losses and called for action to be taken to adapt to future climate crises. Just as winter gives way to allow for new birth in the spring, the next season brought growth and abundance to SFC.
SPRING: A SEASON FOR GROWTH
With spring came a surge of growth through our programs and fundraising efforts. Each March we look forward to Amplify Austin, a city-wide day of giving. 2021 brought the most successful Amplify Austin to date for our organization. We exceeded our goal of $22,000, raising over $34,000 to support our mission and programs. We’re so thankful for everyone’s support that made this possible!
Twice a year, we host a Spread the Harvest Resource Giveaway Day that provides free gardening resources to home and group gardens in Central Texas. This spring, we kicked off the planting season by reaching new heights. We distributed free gardening resources to 433 Spread the Harvest member gardens, including 3,900 plants and 1,800 cubic-foot bags of compost, which was a new record for the number of gardens served at a Resource Giveaway Day. Additionally, our virtual The Happy Kitchen/La Cocina Alegre and Introduction to Food Gardening classes started back up for another successful season.
Maya, an SFC staff member, organizes plants for distribution at the Spread the Harvest Resource Giveaway Day.
Spring also brought new hope as Covid-19 vaccinations started to become available. In March, our Sunset Valley SFC Farmers’ Market site temporarily became a vaccination hub. For several weeks, we invited all vendors to join us at our Downtown location, creating a thriving, bustling atmosphere. We’re in awe that an estimated 97,000 visitors supported our markets between July 2020 and June 2021! Rain or shine, we look forward to seeing our vendors, staff, customers, volunteers, and sponsors at markets each week and are so thankful for your support.
In May, the SFC Garden Party marked our first major in-person fundraiser since the beginning of the pandemic. The event was held in a safe outdoor setting, and we were lucky enough to have a beautiful day to accompany the party held amidst the gorgeous greenery at Barr Mansion. We raised over $180,000 through the event and supported our local farmers and chefs in the process.
An attendee's picnic set up at our spring Garden Party.
SUMMER: CELEBRATING SUCCESSES
Things tend to slow down just a bit at SFC over the summer, as our educational programming takes a break, and the fiscal year ends. Our annual financial audit went well this year, and the financial position of the organization continues to be stable while supporting the growth of our programs into future years.
Summer brought with it several grants that are essential to our work. Since July 1, we have been awarded 14 grants, worth more than $1,434,000 including three federal grants:
Gus Schumacher Nutrition Incentive Program COVID Relief and Response (GusCRR)
This grant provides $650,000 over three years to secure the continuation of our Food Access Work, such as Double Up West Texas, which includes the first 4 grocery retail sites in Texas. The award will also support the scaling of SFC’s Food Access Help Desk and Farmshare Austin’s Fresh for Less Curbside Delivery Program.
Food access programs like Fresh for Less mobile markets can expand thanks to the GusCRR grant we've received.
Farm to School
In August, SFC was awarded a USDA Farm to School Grant to support our Supply Chain initiatives. In Collaboration with several partners, we will increase the amount of fresh, healthy, local food available in Central Texas schools. This project aims to increase local food procurement in local schools, uses a series of metrics to help schools achieve long term goals, and expands farm-to-school programs across Texas.
Specialty Crop Block
This grant is a larger award that comes after a successful two-year pilot and supports the expansion of our supply chain matchmaking work, an effort to strengthen local supply chains. Through this project, SFC and its project partners aim to develop a pipeline between specialty crop producers and wholesale buyers. Our matchmaking work provides training and support to farmers across Texas to grow their business and connect to new buyers.
Advocacy: Healthy Soils, Vehicle Asset Test and Senior Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP)
As part of our new vision, SFC has committed to advancing policies that support regenerative agriculture and small and mid-size family farmers and makes the bounty of our region available to everyone, especially those who are affected by systemic inequities. We do this at the federal, state, and local levels.
During Texas’ 87th Legislative Session, there were a few major wins in policy for local agriculture and food access at the state-wide level that SFC had advocated for. The Healthy Soils Bill passed, which helps rebuild Texas’ soils and move forward in our nation’s efforts to mitigate climate change. This bill provides training and incentives to farmers to help them improve the health of their soils.
The Healthy Soils bill will help improve soil quality and sustainability for Texas farmers.
There are many factors that determine SNAP (government food assistance) eligibility. In Texas, one of these factors is a Vehicle Asset Test, which is a limit placed on the value of the vehicles that a household may own and still qualify for the program. This legislation modernized the Vehicle Asset Test through HB2641 and SB1914. The test was updated to reflect the price of cars today more accurately by applying an inflation adjustment to current limits. This will create more access to SNAP benefits for low-income Texans who rely on vehicles for their transportation.
Lastly, Senior SNAP or SB224 creates a simplified certification and recertification process for SNAP participants who are senior citizens and/or people with disabilities living on fixed incomes. Before the pandemic, Texas had the fifth-highest rate of senior food insecurity in the country, but some of the lowest rates of senior participation in the SNAP program. This legislation will impact the lives of some of our most vulnerable community members.
FALL: FOSTERING COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS
Over the final few months of the year, we’ve connected with community members and partners through our classes, site visits, conferences, and events.
The fall marks the return of our educational programs and this year, we had a total of 85 active participants in our virtual The Happy Kitchen/La Cocina Alegre class series. This marks the highest attendance in one season since we’ve begun offering these classes in a virtual format in fall of 2020. Through H-E-B curbside pick-up and grocery delivery, we reached participants in 4 different counties in the Central Texas region.
Candyce and Anne, two Happy Kitchen facilitators, prepare recipes from our Fresh Seasonal Recipes cookbook for virtual class video demos.
Our staff also seek out educational opportunities through conference participation and professional development. Two SFC staff were invited to the National Grocers Association Annual Show in Las Vegas this year. This trade show for independent retailers now includes programming and content specific to both grocery retailers and non-profits like SFC, who implement SNAP incentive programs. The event provided a wealth of educational and networking opportunities for SFC's Food Access team to expand knowledge and relationships within the grocery retail space.
Double Up Food Bucks and Farm Site Visits
In September, four of our staff took a trip to Lubbock to visit the Double Up Food Bucks sites that participate in the West Texas program. During the trip, they visited five farm-direct outlets and two grocery stores implementing the Double Up program. Site visits like these provide staff with nuanced perspectives of the partner successes and challenges and help build trust between the organization and community partners.
In November another team visited several partners in Houston, including a recipient of the Farmers of Color Relief and Resiliency Fund among others. A major success of this trip was in bringing out two (one state & one local) representative staffers to the farmers’ market, introducing them to the Double Up program and fostering support for the outstanding food access work that Urban Harvest and other partners are doing in Houston.
During their Houston site visit, SFC staff meet with Ivy of Ivy Leaf Farms, an awardee of our Farmers of Color Relief and Resiliency Fund.
Texas SNAP Incentive Stakeholder Convening
This year, we hosted two statewide convenings of the Texas SNAP Incentive Coalition. Our coalition grew this year to over 150 members from across the state of Texas. Together we are working to build a robust and proven statewide Double Up Food Bucks program in which eligible SNAP families are aware of and can easily access fresh, Texas-grown produce at participating farm-direct markets and grocery retail sites in their communities. Our coalition includes farmers’ markets, food banks, farmer organizations, grocers, advocacy groups, grassroots organizations, and community leaders. We are thrilled to continue this collaborative work.
The Double Up Food Bucks stand at our Downtown SFC Farmers' Markets, where SNAP customers can go to double their benefits.
Food Justice Encuentros Return
SFC’s Equity Team organized our first ever virtual Food Justice Encuentro. This event is an Austin-based community of practice that brings together social justice leaders interested in learning from each other and enhancing our efforts to create a more inclusive and equitable food system. The December Encuentro was a panel discussion centered around how climate change disproportionately impacts BIPOC communities and strategies to build a climate resilient food system. At this bilingual event, interpretation was provided in both English and Spanish.
We Couldn’t Accomplish This Without You
Looking back over the course of the year, it’s exciting to see all the strides we’ve taken as individuals, an organization, and a community toward a just, equitable, and regenerative food system where people and the environment thrive. We want to express our deepest gratitude for your support in this journey. Whether you’re one of our class participants, donors, staff members, partner organizations, board members, farmers’ market customers or vendors, or connected to SFC in other ways, we couldn’t do the work we do without your support and partnership. Thank you for being part of this community and helping us realize our vision. | <urn:uuid:39d65f12-556d-4bd8-a96f-a0139ddbb542> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://sustainablefoodcenter.org/latest/blog/2021-in-review-transforming-the-food-system-to-nourish-our-health-land-and-livelihood | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573699.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819131019-20220819161019-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.944375 | 2,657 | 1.617188 | 2 |
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Därför Date: 06/17/2018Ending Date: 07/15/2018Detailed Metadata (Internal use only)Original ArcGIS coordinate system: Type: Projected Geographic coordinate För att lägga till ett vektorlager, tex. en Shape-‐fil, klicka på Add Vector Layer o Klicka på Browse och ändra sedan i rutan längs ner och ange ”Files of type:” till. Rutan ”Filmapp med shape-filer”; klicka på mapp-symbolen och välj den För att öppna dokumentet inom ArcMap; gå till ”File”-menyn och välj. HTML http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/file-type/OP_DATPRO (377 visningar) (271 Nedladdningar) · Broadband – households having access to Öppnings shx filer AutoCAD Compiled Shape File. Har datorn inte öppna en shx fil?
The shapefile format (SHP) is a geospatial vector data format for geographic information system (GIS) software. It is developed and regulated by Esri as a mostly open specification for data interoperability among Esri and other GIS software products. Most SHP files are 3D Image Files, but there’s a chance it might be another type. You can find this information in the file’s properties.
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For Esri File Geodatabases: The folder must contain the File Geodatabase's .gdb or the .zip of the File Geodatabases’s .gdb. SHP and SHX are two file extensions used for different purposes, and an AutoCAD linetpye SHP/SHX is completely different to the Esri SHP/SHX format (which is a format to store and exchange GIS-data). >> About the Autocad format, the size of lines seem only integer value What do you mean by a size of a line? In Tableau Desktop, you can connect to the following spatial file types: Shapefiles, MapInfo tables, KML (Keyhole Markup Language) files, GeoJSON files, TopoJSON files, and Esri File Geodatabases. You can then create point, line, or polygon maps using the data in those files. SHP is the file extension for one of the primary file types used for representation of ESRI Shapefile. It represents Geospatial information in the form of vector data to be used by Geographic Information Systems (GIS) applications.
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Abstract and Introduction
Objective: Despite effective treatment of HIV infection, some patients still develop non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL). We analysed patients with HIV-associated NHL and undetectable plasma HIV-RNA, according to the duration of HIV suppression.
Methods: Out of 388 patients included in a prospective cohort of HIV-associated NHL from 1996 to 2008, 128 (33%) had a plasma HIV-RNA below 500 copies/ml and were included in the study. Patients with long-term HIV suppression (>18 months) were compared with patients with recent HIV suppression (≤18 months).
Results: All patients but three were treated with combination antiretroviral therapy, with a median duration of 2.2 years. The median duration of HIV suppression was 10.1 months. Most cases (65%) occurred within 18 months following HIV suppression. In the more than 18 months group, patients developed NHL at a higher CD4 cell count than patients with 18 months or less of HIV suppression (359 versus 270 cells/μl, P = 0.02). None of the NHL characteristics were different between the two groups. Outcome was similar in the two groups (complete remission, 64 versus 72.5%; P = 0.35 and 3-year survival, 46 versus 56%; P = 0.08). In addition, 52% of the tumours were Epstein-Barr virus or human herpesvirus 8 associated, without any difference in the proportion of virus-associated tumours according to the duration of HIV suppression.
Conclusion: In patients with undetectable HIV-RNA, NHL occurred mainly within the first 18 months following HIV suppression. In patients developing NHL after long-term HIV suppression, the level of CD4 cell count was higher, but the association with Epstein-Barr virus or human herpesvirus 8 and the prognosis were similar to that observed in patients with recent HIV suppression.
Since the introduction of effective combination antiretroviral therapy (cART), HIV-associated morbidity and mortality rates have dramatically fallen.[1–3] The incidence of HIV-associated non-Hodgkin lymphoma (HIV-NHL) has also decreased significantly, with the most dramatic decline observed in primary central nervous system lymphoma (PCNSL).[4–6] However, this decline is less marked than in other HIV-associated complications after initiation of cART.[4,7,8] In HIV-infected patients, the relative risk for developing NHL remains around 13–20 in population-based studies, even in the late cART era.[6,8,9] In Western Europe, the proportion of AIDS-defining illness attributable to NHL has increased since the widespread use of cART from less than 4% in 1994 to almost 16% in 1998. Although cART had a marked favourable impact on outcome,[5,11–14] with complete remission rates close to that observed in patients with aggressive NHL in the general population, NHL remains a major cause of death in HIV-infected patients.[15,16]
Characteristics of HIV-NHL have been extensively described in the pre-cART era. The clinical presentation is more aggressive, with a different spectrum of lymphoma pathological subtypes than in the general population. Up to 30% of HIV-NHL are considered to be Burkitt lymphoma, which is a rare B-cell proliferation in HIV-negative adults outside of endemic areas.[13,14,17–19] The association with some herpes viruses such as Epstein–Barr virus (EBV), detected in 25% of the Burkitt subtype and in 60–80% of the immunoblastic subtype of diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (IBL-DLBCL), and human herpesvirus 8 (HHV-8), detected in rare lymphoproliferative diseases, is mainly observed in the HIV setting.[13,18,20–24] Controversial data have been published on a possible change of HIV-NHL spectrum in the cART era.[4,5,12,14,25]
Apart from CD4 cell count deficiency, recent studies[4,26,27] have demonstrated that incomplete viral suppression during cART was a strong, independent risk factor for the development of HIV-NHL. In France, about 80% of patients receiving cART have an undetectable plasma HIV-RNA (French Hospital Database on HIV, https://www.ccde.fr). However, despite effective ART and subsequent complete suppression of HIV replication, some patients still develop NHL. One could expect that, in patients successfully treated for HIV infection, the duration of the virological control could influence the clinical features and the pathological distribution of lymphomas arising in these patients, with a trend to move closer to those observed in the general population. The objective of this study was to determine, in a population of patients diagnosed with NHL while plasma HIV-RNA is undetectable, whether the characteristics of lymphoma vary with the duration of HIV suppression, and particularly, whether the association with EBV or HHV-8 decreases over time.
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While picking out new backpacks and pencils for the upcoming school year, Grande Prairie parents are being reminded to add one more thing to the back to school checklist. Alberta Health Services wants to make sure that every child’s vaccines are up to date before returning to the classroom.
“In the summertime, people don’t necessarily have as close contact but as soon as the kids go back to school it’s a bunch of young kids all in the same room. If anybody’s got any of these diseases were trying to protect your kids from then there’s always a chance that your child could get it,” says Medical Officer of Health Dr. Albert de Villiers.
Alberta health services provides free vaccines for infants and children in Alberta. de Villiers recommends that those four and older receive two shots that he says protect people from a whole host of illnesses.
“The two shots basically protect against diphtheria and tetanus and whooping cough, polio, measles, mumps, rubella and chickenpox. There’s a whole bunch of vaccines in those two shots so if you only get those two that will protect against a whole list of diseases.”
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Sherborne’s Fire Marks
A few weeks ago I listened with interest to the Sherborne Podcast on Sherborne Fire Station. I was reminded that keeping your eyes up as you walk around the streets of central Sherborne can reveal unexpected objects. These range from detailed construction marks on Tudor beams; stone curved animal reliefs (can you find the famous squirrel in Cheap Street?) to patterned archways and brickwork. Some of my favourite items of street furniture are the fire marks which are found on at least three buildings around the town.
So what is a fire mark? As the Great Fire of London in 1666 consumed the buildings, alms houses, schools and churches of the City, property owners watched their buildings and livelihoods go up in flames, each knowing that they had lost everything because fire insurance did not exist.
After The Great Fire, in 1667 the first fire insurance company called the, “The Fire Office”, was established by Nicholas Barbon. His Fire Brigade employed small teams of Thames watermen as firefighters. He established a mutual society which offered fire insurance. This later became known as Phoenix Fire Office. An appropriate name for the society as the Phoenix is a mythical bird which burns itself and then arises from the ashes reborn.
To identify that a property was covered by fire insurance, attached to the building at a height easily seen from the street but out of reach of thieves, was a sign or emblem called a fire mark which was issued by the company. Each company had its own distinctive design which made identification of the property easier for their fire fighters and the company representatives. At first they were made of lead with the individual policy number stamped upon them and a type of logo.
Designs included, for Sun Fire Office: a large sun with a face; the Royal Exchange Assurance: their building; the West of England: plaques featuring King Alfred who was the emblem for the company, British: a lion and Phoenix: obviously Phoenix rising from the ashes.
Today, Sherborne has at least four fire marks scattered around the town. Three are around the central areas and one can be seen on the west wall of Sherborne Castle showing the Westminster company logo and policy number. Your challenge, can you find these three?
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Grinding concrete equipment can produce large amounts of airborne crystalline silica. Inhalation of crystalline silica can lead to chronic or accelerated silicosis. Chronic silicosis, the most common form of the disease, usually occurs after 10 or more years of overexposure. As silicosis progresses, symptoms appear such as severe cough and shortness of breath following physical exertion. Without adequate dust controls, construction workers may develop accelerated silicosis, which results from very high silica exposures and develops over a period of only 5-10 years.
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