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AUSTIN, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--According to a recent survey, 62% of U.S. and Canadian companies don’t inform customers that they allow tracking code from third-party services on their websites, despite the majority claiming to have well-defined consumer data privacy policies that are strictly applied. Conducted by CRM Essentials and commissioned by global technology company Zoho, the survey results reveal how frequently unethical data collection tactics are used to capture information that's lucrative for advertisers, such as a user's site behavior, location, or device type. Furthermore, the findings expose glaring gaps in policies that don’t adequately protect consumers or give them control over how their data is collected when they go online or use business software.
Polling more than 1,400 business leaders at companies of varying sizes and industries, the survey found that third-party ad tracking is ubiquitous — 100% of respondents said their companies allow it, and 57% are “comfortable” or “very comfortable” with the way third-parties use customer data. Out of 1,220 respondents willing to share thoughts on their data privacy policies, 55% claim to have well-defined consumer data privacy policies that are strictly applied. The findings also show that the more a business relies on surveillance data to drive revenue, the more comfortable they are with the practice.
What's more, the majority of businesses do not see it necessary to inform customers that they are being tracked. B2B businesses are more likely to keep third-party ad tracking secret from customers, with 72% admitting they know tracking happens and don’t inform customers, compared to 58% of B2C respondents. This business practice is also true in California, the only U.S. state with a consumer data privacy law. Nearly 70% of California companies don’t inform customers that they allow third-party ad trackers on their websites, yet 56% say their company has a well-defined, documented policy to customer data privacy that is strictly applied.
“User tracking to serve ads has turned into adjunct surveillance, a term we use at Zoho when companies collect data without consumer knowledge. This trend started with B2C services, but it’s alarming to see it has carried over to the B2B world, especially given how essential SaaS solutions are for working remotely during the pandemic. If you’re using a free service, you’re paying for it with your data. That includes free B2B software and mobile apps you might be using, and we need companies to be transparent with customers about how they track users,” explained Raju Vegesna, Chief Evangelist at Zoho.
Awareness Level: Most Businesses Can’t Plead Ignorance
While the lack of transparency means consumers may be none-the-wiser to companies using third-party ad trackers, the majority of businesses say they are well-informed:
- 85% are aware that some third-party code automatically installs tracking code onto its website from companies they have no direct relationship with
- 68% said third-party vendors had done a “good” or “satisfactory job” in explaining how the data they collect from digital properties are used
- B2B respondents were twice as likely to say third-party platforms have done a “good” job explaining how their data is being used than B2C respondents
Comfort Level: Ad Trackers Impact on Sales
The findings also show businesses that depend on third-party ad platforms to drive sales are more likely to be comfortable with how third-parties use the data:
- 36% said third-party ad platforms are the primary factor in their ability to meet sales goals
- The same group was nearly four times more likely to say they were “very comfortable” with how third-party ad platforms use data they collect
- Companies that said ad platforms are not a factor in meeting sales goals were almost five times more likely to know that some software automatically installs third-party tracking code onto its website
"It's no secret that data is valuable for powering personalized ads, but we were surprised to find how comfortable companies of all sizes are with unethical data collection methods that leave their customers in the dark and their information in potentially dangerous hands," said Brent Leary, co-founder and partner of CRM Essentials. "It will be interesting to see how shining a brighter spotlight on third-party ad trackers impacts future business models. As more of our interactions take place digitally, organizations will have to recognize how important safeguarding data is to the overall customer experience. And business leaders will need to weigh the risk of consumer backlash and regulatory compliance issues against the benefits of revenue from surveillance data."
“Zoho has never sold its customers’ data and never will. We also don't monetize the behind-the-scenes analytics in any shape or form. That means we leave money on the table, but just because it’s there doesn’t mean you have to take it,” said Vegesna. “We’re proof that you can be successful without profiting off selling consumer data to third-parties.”
To view the full study, please go to: https://zoho.to/data-privacy-us
Conducted in November 2020 by CRM Essentials, LLC, this study surveyed 1,416 individuals across the United States and Canada. Participants of the study included a range of business leaders from manager roles to the C-level at small and large enterprises across a variety of industries.
With 45+ apps in nearly every major business category, including sales, marketing, customer support, accounting and back office operations, and an array of productivity and collaboration tools, Zoho Corporation is one of the world's most prolific software companies. Zoho is privately held and profitable with more than 8,000 employees. Zoho is headquartered in Austin, Texas, with international headquarters in Chennai, India. Additional offices are in the United States, India, Japan, China, Singapore, Mexico, Australia, the Netherlands, and the United Arab Emirates.
Zoho respects user privacy and does not have an ad-revenue model in any part of its business, including its free products. More than 60 million users around the world, across hundreds of thousands of companies, rely on Zoho every day to run their businesses, including Zoho itself. For more information, please visit www.zoho.com. | <urn:uuid:34ff15a9-0d7a-4166-987b-5dd8037d6717> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20201215005426/en/Zoho-Privacy-Survey-Finds-62-of-Businesses-Aren%EF%BF%BD%EF%BF%BD%EF%BF%BDt-Telling-Customers-About-Third-Party-Ad-Trackers-Collecting-Their-Data | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571210.98/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810191850-20220810221850-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.955702 | 1,413 | 1.546875 | 2 |
John Harvard's Journal
Approaching the Arts Anew
Harvard president Drew Faust made the inaugural performance at the New College Theatre, on November 1, the setting for her announcement of a University-wide arts initiative. A faculty task force involving several Harvard schools will explore the role of creativity, performance, and artistic practice; implications for the curriculum; and the changes in administration and facilities that might be entailed in implementing any recommendations. This appears to be the broadest eff ort to examine performing arts and artistic creation at Harvard, inside the classroom and beyond (as compared to an almost exclusively extracurricular pursuit for thousands of students), since the 1950s.
Cogan University Professor Stephen Greenblatt, general editor of The Norton Anthology of English Literature as well as a playwright, chairs the task force. He is widely known for his research on Shakespeare and his milieu (see “The Mysterious Mr. Shakespeare,” September-October 2004, page 56). Last fall, he introduced a new humanities general-education course that uses interactive and multimedia technologies to connect students with the burgeoning world cultures of the seventeenth century.
Other members include Rothenberg professor of the humanities Homi Bhabha, director of the Humanities Center (www.fas.harvard.edu/~humcentr); Diana Sorensen, Rothenberg professor of Romance languages and literatures and of comparative literature, and dean for the humanities in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS); Graduate School of Design dean Mohsen Mostafavi, newly arrived from Cornell, where his brief as dean included the arts; Mallinckrodt professor of physics Melissa Franklin, and FAS peers in art history, the visual arts, and music; leading figures from the Graduate School of Education, the Office for the Arts (OFA), the University Art Museums, and the American Repertory Theatre (ART); undergraduates and a recent graduate student; and others. (For the news release on the task force, see www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/2007/11.08/99-arts.html.)
Beyond its explorations on campus, Faust asked the task force to examine programs at other educational institutions, and to consult the “large external network” of alumni involved in the arts. Comments may be sent to [email protected].
“Harvard has always had enormous strengths in the arts—and never more so than today,” Faust said in the announcement of the initiative, “but we have had equally strong ambivalence about the role of performance and practice in the curriculum and in the life of the University.”
Despite the individual strengths of the “nearly 150 undergraduate student organizations,” plus museum collections, art studios, the Harvard Film Archive, the ART and the OFA, she said, these and other units “remain fragmented, less well-understood, less well-supported, and less integrated than their importance warrants.” Compared to the “central role” the arts play “in the lives of so many students and faculty at Harvard…their role in the life of the University remains uncertain and undefined. I hope that this task force will attempt such a definition.”
The rationale for doing so now in part reflects interest in visual ways of thinking and communication, use of new digital tools, and developments in neuroscience and the understanding of cognition—all elements in a vision of arts and creative work as essential to the critical thinking the University has aimed to encourage in many realms. In part, it reflects contemporary students’ participation in a vast array of musical and theatrical performances—traditionally not part of Harvard’s academic, curricular landscape—as well as in creative writing and newly expanded work in film (see “Cinema Veritas,” November-December 2005, page 34).
Such issues are not confined to FAS professors and students. Serious interest in creativity, broadly defined, appears, for example, in a December 7-8 colloquium (part of Harvard Business School’s centennial celebration), a faculty research conference on “Creativity, Entrepreneurship, and Organizations of the Future.”
Finally, there are competitive considerations. As Faust noted in her charge to the task force, “Many of our peer institutions have, in recent years, undertaken serious expansion in arts programming, off ering us both models to consider and a challenge to act.” Broad inquiries into creativity, work in the arts, and performance are taking place at several universities—with some making large commitments to such programs.
Among such institutions, Yale has perhaps the most fully developed curricular off erings. It has schools of architecture, art, drama, and music; $500 million has been budgeted for those units and its art museums and art-history department as part of its current capital campaign. Princeton aims to fund a $300-million arts precinct, designed by Renzo Piano, near its existing repertory theater company; at a minimum, the development is expected to encompass new theater, dance, and museum facilities.
The Stanford Arts Initiative, a quarter-billion-dollar part of that university’s campaign, embraces a broad range of the sorts of measures Harvard might consider. Stanford already off ers undergraduate-degree programs or tracks in studio art, musical performance, creative writing, drama, dance, and film, and graduate-degree programs in several of those areas. Under the Stanford Institute for Creativity and the Arts (SICA), an umbrella organization formed in 2006 and now directed by a university assistant vice president for the arts, Kären Nagy, the campaign is seeking new resources to expand across the spectrum. The plan envisions augmenting the current 50 or so tenured and tenure-track creative-arts faculty by about 20 percent; funding graduate-student fellowships; greatly increasing artist-in-residence programs and visits, and placing students in arts internships; and underwriting course development and interdisciplinary work—ranging from the intersection of engineering and technology with the arts to exploring world cultures in a creative-arts context (see http://givingtostanford.stanford.edu/get/layout/tsc/Arts).
Alongside these program investments, Stanford plans extensive new facilities and renovations of those Nagy calls “substandard”—the need for which she understands from two perspectives: she was a professional flutist before arriving at Stanford in 1986, and most recently was executive dean of the School of Humanities and Sciences (Stanford’s equivalent of Harvard’s FAS)—the overseer of budgets and buildings. When fully realized, the result will be an integrated “arts district,” extending from the existing art museum and a new performing-arts center (with a 900-seat concert hall and a 500-seat theater; Polshek Partnership Architects is the designer) to a new art and art-history building (complete with film capabilities), among other facilities. The whole complex will extend on either side of the main road from the surrounding communities into the central campus, inviting town-gown interaction. Finally, the initiative aims to equip studio spaces in student dormitories. In light of these ambitions, it is promising for the initiative that Stanford president emeritus Gerhard Casper chairs the executive committee charged with realizing the university’s arts aims.
Stanford’s plan obviously reflects circumstances diff erent from Harvard’s situation: it has existing degree programs and a significant nucleus of creative-arts faculty members; its initiative proceeds with more central direction than is the norm in Cambridge; even its suburban location, well removed from cultural facilities in San Francisco, means that its needs are diff erent.
But the plan raises many of the issues Harvard’s task force will need to address. The University has already made scattered investments in facilities such as the New College Theatre (see "Theatrical Debut") and is about to embark on an enormous, complex, and costly renovation of the Fogg Art Museum (see "Art Museum Two-Step"). The College residential houses are nearing a potentially extensive and expensive renovation of their own; knowing what kinds of creative (and other) spaces they should have must be taken into account before any work can proceed. And the plans for Allston campus development more generally have always included elements of arts and cultural facilities, but the details await clearer academic and intellectual underpinnings.
In the Harvard context, too, such University initiatives will have to be grounded in the faculties, particularly FAS. The news release on the formation of the task force included comments from Dean Michael D. Smith, welcoming the prospective “University-wide perspective in a domain that is so directly pertinent to the work of FAS” and promising his close cooperation with Faust and the many FAS professors directly engaged.
As the task force strains to meet Faust’s deadline that it report in the fall of 2008, it clearly has a huge assignment. It begins with fundamental questions: as the president has repeatedly put it, “What should the place of the arts be in a research university? What should the place of the arts be in a liberal-arts education?” Whatever their answers, the task-force members will then proceed to the details of advocating expanded or new academic programs, faculty growth, and facilities large and small.
If the result resonates in the community, it will go a long way toward advancing Faust’s aim of bringing Harvard units together as one university. The recommendations will no doubt shape Harvard’s own forthcoming capital campaign. In these senses, Faust has asked the task force to think both expansively and urgently, recognizing that through its work, a new vision of the arts could aff ect the design of teaching and learning across the campus, and of the very campus itself. | <urn:uuid:033f43b4-4ae2-4c92-87ec-bb7676153132> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.harvardmagazine.com/2008/01/approaching-the-arts-ane.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571538.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812014923-20220812044923-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.945866 | 2,040 | 1.648438 | 2 |
Walk onto the popular-music floor of Virgin Records in midtown Manhattan, and you encounter, as you’d expect, kids with shoulder tattoos and pierced body parts, wandering through rows of the latest hip-hop, altrock, and heavy-metal CDs as heavily amplified beats thunder. At the checkout counter, though, is a surprise. A single book is on display: perennial radical Noam Chomsky’s latest anti-American screed, 9/11—an impulse item for the in-your-face slackers of the Third Millennium. Strictly speaking, 9/11 is a non-book, a hastily assembled collection of fawning interviews with Chomsky conducted after the terrorist attack on New York City and the country, in which the author pins the blame for the atrocities on—you guessed it—the U.S. But you’d be wrong to dismiss 9/11 as an inconsequential paperback quickie. More than 115,000 copies of the book are now in print. It has shown up on the Boston Globe and the Washington Post best-seller lists, and in Canada, it has rocketed to seventh on the best-seller list. And as its prominent display at Virgin Records attests, 9/11 is particularly popular with younger readers; the book is a hot item at campus bookstores nationwide. The striking success of 9/11 makes Chomsky’s America-bashing notable, or at least notably deplorable—especially here in New York, which lost so many of its bravest on that horrible day.
Chomsky’s title for his new book may have a little to do with its best-seller status: some people may have picked it up assuming it to be a newsworthy account of September 11. But undoubtedly, the main reason 9/11 is selling so briskly is because of its author’s fame. According to the Chicago Tribune, Noam Chomsky is cited more than any other living author—and he shows up eighth on the all-time most-cited list, the paper says, right after Sigmund Freud. Do a search for “Noam Chomsky” on Amazon.com and up pops an astonishing 224 books. The New York Times calls him “arguably the most important intellectual alive.” He’s even been the subject of an adoring 1993 movie-length documentary film. Chomsky has achieved rock-star status among the young and hip. Rock groups like Bad Religion and Pearl Jam proudly quote his writings in interviews and in their music. To the self-styled bohemian coffee-house crowd, observes Wired magazine, “Chomsky is somewhere between Kerouac and Nietzsche—carrying around one of his books is automatic countercultural cachet.”
Chomsky, now a 73-year-old grandfather living in suburban Massachusetts, has worked for decades to win that cachet. Avram Noam was born in Philadelphia in 1928. His parents, William and Elsie Chomsky, had fled from czarist oppression in Russia to the City of Brotherly Love, where William established himself as a Hebrew scholar and grammarian. Radical politics aroused the young Noam—at ten, he wrote a school newspaper editorial on the Spanish Civil War, lamenting the rise of fascism, and two years later he embraced the anarchism that he still adheres to today. By the age of 16, the bright, ambitious youth had enrolled at the University of Pennsylvania, where he eventually earned a Ph.D. in linguistics. Passed over for a teaching position at Harvard, he landed in 1955 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he has remained ever since.
Most linguistics professors would have toiled in obscurity in a science-and-industry school like MIT. Not Chomsky. In the 1950s, he brashly challenged psychologist B. F. Skinner’s theory of language as a learned skill, acquired by children in a process of reward and punishment. Chomsky claimed instead that when we learn a language as children, we can articulate and understand all sorts of sentences that we’ve never actually come across before. “What we ‘know,’ therefore,” Chomsky held, “must be something deeper—a grammar—that makes an infinite variety of sentences possible.” In Chomsky’s view, the capacity to master the structures of grammar is genetically determined, a product of our evolutionary development. This idea—that grammar is hardwired in the labyrinth of DNA—shook the walls of linguistics departments across the globe. Chomsky promoted his theory tirelessly, defending it in countless symposia and scholarly reviews. By the mid-sixties, he was an academic superstar; in the seventies, researchers at Columbia University even named a chimpanzee trained to learn 125 words “Nim Chimpsky” in his honor.
With this fame as a base, the professor proceeded to wander far from his area of expertise. Such uses of fame, ironically, are common in the country Chomsky attacks so relentlessly. In America, you come across two kinds of fame: vertical and horizontal. The vertical celebrity owes his renown to one thing—Luciano Pavarotti, for example, is famous for his singing, period. The horizontal celebrity, conversely, merchandises his fame by convincing the public that his mastery of one field is transferable to another. Thus singers Barbra Streisand and Bono give speeches on public policy; thus linguistics professor Chomsky poses as an expert on geopolitics.
Chomsky first employed his horizontal celebrity during the 1960s, when he spoke out forcefully against the Vietnam War. His 1969 collection of agitated writings, American Power and the New Mandarins, indicted the nation’s brainwashed “elites”—read: government bureaucrats and intellectuals who disagreed with him on the morality of the war. But Vietnam was only the beginning: over the next three decades, Chomsky published a steady stream of political books and pamphlets boasting titles like What Uncle Sam Really Wants and Necessary Illusions: Thought Control in Democratic Societies—all of them filled with heated attacks on American policies, domestic and foreign.
Those attacks would be laughable if some people didn’t take them seriously. Here’s a small but representative sample. The goal of America, Chomsky charges, “is a society in which the basic unit is you and your television set. If the kid next door is hungry, it’s not your problem. If the retired couple next door invested their assets badly and are now starving, that’s not your problem either.” Prisons and inner-city schools, Chomsky maintains, “target a kind of superfluous population that there’s no point in educating because there’s nothing for them to do. Because we’re a civilized people, we put them in prison, rather than sending death squads out to murder them.” Another example: “When you come back from the Third World to the West—the U.S. in particular—you are struck by the narrowing of thought and understanding, the limited nature of legitimate discussion, the separation of people from each other.”
Goodness. But if America is all about ignoring hungry children, why does the country spend billions in public and private funds every year on the poor? Does America deliberately seek to mis-educate and send to prison a “superfluous” population? Wouldn’t today’s knowledge-based economy benefit from as many decently educated people as it could find? What Third World countries does Chomsky have in mind where the discussion is more freewheeling and open than in the U.S.? Algeria? Cuba? Such puerile leftism is scarcely worthy of a college sophomore.
If possible, however, Chomsky’s assessment of U.S. foreign policy is even more absurd. The nightmare of American evil began in 1812, he thinks, when the U.S. instigated a process that “annihilated the indigenous [American] population (millions of people), conquered half of Mexico, intervened violently in the surrounding region, conquered Hawaii and the Philippines (killing hundreds of thousands of Filipinos), and in the past half century particularly, extended its resort to force throughout much of the world.” That the U.S. saved the Philippines during World War II, that Hawaiians voted to become the fiftieth state, that every day Mexicans pour across the border to take part in the economy of the hated United States—all of that is irrelevant to Chomsky. He believes in the Beaumarchais mode of political debate: “Vilify, vilify, some of it will always stick.”
For Chomsky, turn over any monster anywhere and look at the underside. Each is clearly marked: MADE IN AMERICA. The cold war? All America’s fault: “The United States was picking up where the Nazis had left off.” Castro’s executions and prisons filled with dissenters? Irrelevant, for “Cuba has probably been the target of more international terrorism [from the U.S., of course] than any other country.” The Khmer Rouge? Back in 1977, Chomsky dismissed accounts of the Cambodian genocide as “tales of Communist atrocities” based on “unreliable” accounts. At most, the executions “numbered in the thousands” and were “aggravated by the threat of starvation resulting from American distraction and killing.” In fact, some 2 million perished on the killing fields of Cambodia because of genocidal war against the urban bourgeoisie and the educated, in which wearing a pair of glasses could mean a death sentence.
The Chomskian rage hasn’t confined itself to his native land. He has long nourished a special contempt for Israel, lone outpost of Western ideals in the Middle East. The hatred has been so intense that Zionists have called him a self-hating Jew. This is an unfair label. Clearly, Chomsky has no deficit in the self-love department, and his ability to stir up antagonism makes him even more pleased with himself. No doubt that was why he wrote the introduction to a book by French Holocaust-denier Robert Faurisson. Memoire en Defense maintains that Hitler’s death camps and gas chambers, even Anne Frank’s diary, are fictions, created to serve the cause of American Zionists. That was too much for Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz, who challenged fellow leftist Chomsky to a debate. In the debate, Dershowitz keyed in on the fact that Chomsky had described Faurisson’s conclusions as “findings,” and claimed that they grew out of “extensive historical research.” But as numerous scholars had shown, Faurisson was not a serious scholar at all, but rather a sophist who simply ignored the mountain of documents, speeches, testimony, and other historical evidence that conflicted with his “argument.” Dershowitz noted that Chomsky also wrote the following: “I see no anti-Semitic implication in the denial of the existence of gas chambers or even in the denial of the Holocaust.”
Just recently, Chomsky spearheaded a group pressuring universities to divest themselves of any stock connected with the Jewish state: Israel equals South Africa in the Chomskian universe of moral equivalence. Here, happily, Chomsky got nowhere. He obtained 400 signatures for his movement; opposing him, Lawrence Summers, president of Harvard, gathered 4,000 signatures in support of Israel. The controversy set Dershowitz off again. This time, he said, he wanted the MIT prof to debate him “on the morality of this selective attack against an American ally that is defending itself—and the world—against terrorism that targets civilians.” He pointed out that universities have always invested in companies head-quartered in foreign nations with unsavory reputations—countries whose citizens don’t have the freedom the Israelis enjoy or suffer the terror they endure. “Yet this petition focused only on the Jewish State, to the exclusion of all others, including those which, by any reasonable standard, are among the worst violators of human rights. This is bigotry pure and simple.” Chomsky declined the challenge.
That brings us to 9/11, an egregious insult to decency in general and to the citizens of New York in particular. True to form, in one of the interviews, Chomsky calls the United States “a leading terrorist state” and equates President Clinton’s 1998 bombing of the Al-Shifa plant in Sudan with the horrors of September 11. In every way, Chomsky’s comparison is obscene. The bombing was in response to attacks on two U.S. embassies that had resulted in the deaths and injuries of thousands. The U.S. made sure it took place at night, when the target was empty of civilians. U.S. intelligence, mistaken though it may have been, indicated that the pharmaceutical factory was producing weapons of mass destruction. The unprovoked attack on the World Trade Center, needless to say to anyone except Chomsky and his disciples, occurred in broad daylight, with the intention of inflicting maximum damage and death on innocents.
Chomsky concedes that the WTC attack was unfortunate—not so much because of the deaths of Americans, but because “the atrocities of September 11 were a devastating blow to the Palestinians, as they instantly recognized.” (Some other group, disguised as Palestinians, must have been dancing in the streets that day.) Israel, he adds, “is openly exulting in the ‘window of opportunity’ it now has to crush Palestinians with impunity.”
On the rare occasions in 9/11 when Chomsky expresses condolences for the victims of the terrorist attack, he immediately goes on to excoriate the U.S. “The atrocities were passionately deplored, even in places where people have been ground underfoot by Washington’s boots for a long, long time,” he typically says. Chomsky rolls on in this manner. The West is the Great Satan, the Third World its eternal victim. The World Trade Towers were a symbol of America’s gluttony and power. In effect, we were asking for it and are now unjustly using it as a casus belli. More U.S. oppression is about to take place all over the globe. If you didn’t know better, you could be reading one of bin Ladin’s diatribes. Chomsky’s response to September 11 outraged even leftist Christopher Hitchens, a former admirer of the MIT professor who now attacked him for abandoning “every standard that makes moral and intellectual discrimination possible.”
Does anyone believe these inanities? It would be tempting to say that the author only preaches to the choir. But there’s more to Chomsky’s success than that. True, Chomsky is like the Bog Man of Grauballe, Denmark, preserved unchanged for centuries. Since the early 1960s, no new ideas have made it into his oeuvre. He is as he was, and his rage against democracy as practiced in the U.S. is of a piece with the raised fists of the Chicago Seven and the ancient bumper stickers condemning “Amerika.” But his message still seems to resonate with a sizable faction of the Boomers, trained to respond to emotion rather than reason. These are the people who sympathized with Susan Sontag’s notorious post–September 11 observation: “Where is the acknowledgment that this was not a ‘cowardly’ attack on ‘civilization’ or ‘liberty’ or ‘humanity’ or ‘the free world’ but an attack on the world’s self-proclaimed superpower, undertaken as a consequence of specific American alliances and actions?” These are the folks who applauded Bill Clinton’s fatuous mea culpa appraisal of the WTC attack: “This country once looked the other way when a significant number of native Americans were dispossessed and killed to get their land or their mineral rights or because they were thought of as less than fully human. . . . [W]e are still paying a price today.”
And now a younger crowd is following the Pied Piper of anti-Americanism. 9/11 makes it easy for them. They needn’t read it; they just have to make sure the thing is sticking out of their backpacks or sitting on their milk-crate coffee tables, a symbol of mass-market rebellion pushed at the record stores for $10.95—less than the new Eminem CD! Call it Anti-Americanism for Dummies. It would be more than a pity if the lies of 9/11 seduced more innocents; it would be a clear and present danger. We are at war now, and two generations of Chimpskies are enough. | <urn:uuid:42aadb55-8452-4f41-9726-35d562fc051c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.city-journal.org:443/html/america%E2%80%99s-dumbest-intellectual-12361.html/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571198.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810161541-20220810191541-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.961355 | 3,531 | 1.539063 | 2 |
[FOUNTAIN]Center stage for mercenaries is now IraqThe history of mercenary soldiers goes back to ancient times. Some scholars claim that it could be the second oldest career after prostitution. Carthage, whose military largely depended on hired troops, faced a rebellion of the 120,000 mercenary soldiers who were not paid for their stints in the first Punic War with Rome. The Roman Empire had hired German solders when its citizens could not provide enough armed forces, and Odoacer, leader of the German mercenary soldiers, deposed the emperor and brought an end to the empire in 467.
In medieval Europe, wars were mostly waged with hired troops. Commanders would often intentionally prolong a war to make more money. Swiss soldiers and German infantry soldiers known as Landsknecht were the most sought-after troops in Europe from the 15th to 17th centuries. Swiss mercenaries guard the Vatican today.
The heyday of the mercenary ended with the emergence of “the people in arms.” The revolutionary army of France was waging a losing battle against the coalition force of Austria and Prussia in September 1792. Suddenly, the French soldiers proclaimed “levee en masse,” or “long live the people!” They were no longer crying “long live the Emperor.” It was the moment when the first “people in arms” in European history came into being.
After the end of the Cold War, the mercenary industry revived as the demand rose in smaller conflicts all over the world. Peter Singer of the Brookings Institution estimates that the mercenary industry brings in about $100 billion a year worldwide.
Today, the center stage of the mercenary is Iraq, where over 10,000 hired troops are operating. Washington has tasked mercenary soldiers with guarding Coalition Provisional Authority Administrator Paul Bremer. The four Americans whose bodies were mutilated in Fallujah were the employees of Blackwater, a security company hired by the U.S. military that seeks to be the world’s largest mercenary provider.
No matter how subsidiary a role the contractor plays in the war, hiring mercenary forces could compromise the justification for the war, and it is worth criticizing as an evasion of national responsibility. But if you look at it from the perspective that the motive for the war was the economic interest of oil, it doesn’t seem so strange that mercenary troops have been hired.
by Lee Se-jung
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With more and more students aspiring to be doctors there is a steady rise of not onlyádoctors but also medical colleges across the country. In order to accommodate the growing demandánumerous private as well as public colleges have come up. Today, there are throngs of colleges for students to choose from. Each offering unique courses to students; making India one of the best place for medical students.
This phenomenal increase in the number of institutions and students admitted to various courses of medical and allied health sciences necessitate the need to monitor the colleges, its curricula, andátheir teaching methods. Through this case study, it is very much evident that Karnataka has come out to be an ideal place for medical students. There are around 47 medical colleges in Karnataka offering MBBS courses. Here, students will receive quality education from a bunch of experienced and well read faculty. Over the years, this state has produced number of renowned doctors whoáhave brought about tangible difference not only in theáhealth domain but also in the society by indulging in various social welfare activities.
Undoubtedly, every medicaláaspirants dream to pursue their career in the state of Karnataka, which offer students panoply of opportunities. But, in order to earn a seat in any of the prestigious institute is not an easy task. Students need to crack COMEDK in order to earn a seat in any of these esteemed colleges. Itáis a state level exam conducted for admission to undergraduate courses and is the gateway to various medical, dental, engineering and architecture courses in Karnataka.
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7In many states, including Florida, require a certified Food Manager on staff/ premise. To help facilitate this regulation, One Fat Frog offers monthly Food Manager’s ServSafe certification classes & testing. In Florida the Department of Business and Professional Regulation, requires that food handling and hygiene training must be done every 3 years. One Fat Frog’s monthly class completes the Florida Food Manager training and testing requirement and provides certificate with passing of the test.
In this class you will learn:
The Importance of Food Safety
Good Personal Hygiene
Time and Temperature Control
Cleaning and Sanitizing
Safe Food Preparation
Receiving and Storing Food
Methods of Thawing, Cooking, Cooling and Reheating Food
HACCP (Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points)
Food Safety Regulations
A portion of our funds are donated to the Pathways Drop-in Center.
The Frog provides both the ServSafe Food Manager’s Class. Need to renew your ServSafe? Renewal testing and private group classes also available in our classroom. Just ask us!
What can you expect from the class? We are a professional alternative to stuffy lectures. You need hands on help and we have it! Expect an environment where questions are welcome & learning is fun!
Our ServSafe classes are taught by Chef Matthew Dennis CEC, ACE. In addition to being a veteran chef in the cruise ship industry, he’s a Culinary Arts instructor in Umatilla High School and a Chairman of the Board of the ACF (American Culinary Federation) Gulf to Lakes Chefs & Cooks Association. Whether he’s teaching a class here at the Frog or teaching a large group of culinary professionals, we are proud to have Chef Matthew to be on our side.
Here are the dates for our upcoming ServSafe classes. Please give us a call so you can get a spot on the upcoming ServSafe Manager’s class as space is extremely limited.
- Saturday, February 10th, 10AM at One Fat Frog
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VTech Pull and Sing Puppy
Pull and Sing Puppy by VTech, Baby Learning and Floor Play Toy
VTech Pull and Sing Puppy cute Dalmatian really is baby’s best friend. This playful interactive puppy loves to follow you around. He just wants to play and go on lots of walks. He is the perfect companion for your little one. Take the Puppy Pal for walks to hear puppy sounds and melodies. Press the buttons on the side of the puppy to hear fun phrases, songs, melodies, and sounds.
The Pull & Sing Puppy Pal helps develop motor skills and teaches cause & effect. Pull the puppy by its cord to activate music and sounds, see the puppy’s legs move, and watch the keys swing. Press the colorful buttons to introduce numbers, colors, parts of the body, and to hear a song or question. The buttons also play songs, playful phrases, melodies, and cute puppy sounds. Includes 3 sing-along songs and 20 melodies. The puppy’s nose flashes along with the sounds and music play when the puppy rolls. Pull the puppy along to watch the puppy’s legs move, the ears turn 360 degrees, and the tail spin around.
Tuck the cord in the puppy’s storage compartment when not in use. Other features include volume control and an automatic shut-off.
Other interactive puppies on our site: Zoomer Interactive Puppy, Speak and Learn Puppy (by Leapfrog), Fancy Puppy (by Present Pet)
Also, check out Cool Beats Penguin (2021 New Release)
Product Features & Highlights
• This colorful, learning toy encourages Baby/Toddler to interact with him.
• Pull and Sing Puppy by VTech helps to build gross motor skills and teaches cause & effect.
• This Pull & Sing Puppy with the lead to hearing puppy sounds and melodies.
• Puppy’s legs move when you pull him along!
• 3 colorful buttons teach numbers, colors, parts of the body, and also play sounds, songs, melodies, and fun phrases.
• Puppy’s ears and tail are movable and can be span around.
• Light-up nose flashes along with voice, sound, and musical responses (3 sing-along songs and 20 melodies).
• Designed for children aged 6 – 36 months.
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Things To Consider Before Fixing Your AC Unit In Brasstown NC
When it comes to simple AC cleaning and maintenance tasks, most people always take the DIY path. With a proper DIY job you’ll soon have a properly functioning HVAC unit and will save a lot on service-related expenses.
However, for fixing more complicated issues, the experts are always there to help you out. The suggested action would depend on the scope of the issue and the working life of the air conditioner unit as well. However, self-inspection of minor air conditioning unit issues can always be done to get some idea about the problem.
Steps To Follow When Inspecting Your AC Unit
Checking the Furnace
Set the thermostat to AC mode and have a low-temperature setting. When the furnace fan kicks in, the issue isn’t in the furnace. If the fan doesn’t function properly, you can try resetting the circuit breaker in the furnace.
Also, check the outer condensing unit and check for the functioning of the fan and the refrigerator. When it’s not working properly, you can follow the repair and troubleshooting procedures. AC run/start, capacitor, and contractor can often fail and are quite inexpensive. Thus, it’s safe to purchase and install such parts right away, especially when the air conditioning service unit is too old.
Reason Why You Need To Get An AC Repair Service
With the help of a professional AC technician, you can ensure all important factors are there and suggest the right fix for air conditioning. Due to this reason, it is vital to hire experts for the air conditioner installation. Visit this link mckinneycomfort.com to find your certified AC repair service expert.
Installing an air conditioner might seem like a simple task. However, with even the slightest error you can create larger issues such as hefty utility bills. While the air conditioner isn’t installed properly it can result in air leakage, causing the unit to work at a higher capacity.
Thus, rather than doing it yourself, leave it to the professionals as they’re skilled and well-trained for the same. They know about the proper ways to install equipment without creating any trouble in energy usage. Thus, it’s vital to hire professional air conditioning technicians for installation and fixes.
Maximize on Safety
Installation of an air conditioner in Irving, TX can be done but it has many challenges and risks as well. Installing an AC unit on your own can result in self-harm of the house and the family.
During the AC installation in Irving, TX, the installer can handle fan blades, metallic sharp pieces, along electrical parts. Professionals are well-versed in using such tools. Thus, rather than doing it self-sloppily and hurting yourself, you can let the experts fix the issue.
How To Know If You Need To Fix Or Upgrade Your AC Unit
Many changes have been there in air conditioning systems, including technology improvements along with changes in environmental and government regulations. When the unit completely breaks down or has a reduced cooling effect, it would be suggested to invest in a new AC rather than spend on costly temporary fixes.
Let’s look at some vital signs that suggest changing your existing AC unit with a new one.
- Most dust accumulating in your house – Additionally to cooling and heating, the HVAC unit offers ventilation. When the system efficiently runs, it also improves the quality of air in the house after eliminating things such as debris, dust, dander, and dirt.
- Strange Noises from The AC unit – Properly maintained and working AC unit runs quietly. As the system gets old, you can start hearing grinding and squealing sounds. To avoid any further issues it’s best to eliminate the existing problem with a new AC unit replacement.
- Unpleasant Odors – While generally, a foul AC odor is just burning off the dust, it can also be things such as mold in the ducts or the melting wire. Also, it can be something worse. You’ll need an inspection for determining the time for system replacement.
- Higher Energy Bills – Although there would be certain changes in energy costs in different seasons, a higher than normal bill calls for the replacement to save in the long term.
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A controlled trial of carbenoxolone sodium positioned-release capsules (Duogastrone) was carried out on a randomized series of 100 unselected male Service personnel with symptoms of active duodenal ulceration and supporting radiological evidence. Fifty-seven patients completed the trial, 29 in the carbenoxolone group and 28 in the control group. The carbenoxolone group was given capsules containing 50 mg carbenoxolone four times a day for 12 weeks while the controls received a capsule identical in every respect except that it did not contain carbenoxolone. All patients were assessed at fortnightly intervals and had clinical and radiological reassessments three and six months after commencing treatment.
Review at three months and at six months revealed a slight but clinically insignificant trend in favour of the carbenoxolone group.
As a corollary to this controlled trial, those patients (38 in all) who did not have an early remission of symptoms were removed from the trial and placed on capsules known to contain carbenoxolone. Subsequently these patients did not show an advantage for carbenoxolone.
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MARDAN: Bathed in crisp morning light, Sidra Hussain grips a cooler stacked with glistening vials of polio vaccine in northwest Pakistan.
Watching over Hussain and her partner, a policeman unslings his rifle and eyes the horizon.
In concert they begin their task — going door-to-door on the outskirts of Mardan city, dripping bitter doses of rose-colored medicine into infants’ mouths on the eve of a major milestone for the nation’s anti-polio drive.
The last infection of the wild poliovirus was recorded on January 27, 2021, according to officials, and Friday marks the first time in Pakistan’s history that a year has passed with no new cases.
To formally eradicate the disease, a nation must be polio-free for three consecutive years — but even 12 months is a long time in a country where vaccination teams are in the crosshairs of a simmering insurgency.
Since the Taliban takeover of neighboring Afghanistan, the Pakistan version of the movement has become emboldened and its fighters frequently target polio teams.
“Life or death is in God’s hands,” Hussain told AFP this week, amid a patchwork of high-walled compounds in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.
“We have to come,” she said defiantly. “We can’t just turn back because it’s difficult.”
Nigeria officially eradicated wild polio in 2020, leaving Pakistan and Afghanistan as the only countries where the disease — which causes crippling paralysis — is still endemic.
Spread through faeces and saliva, the virus has historically thrived in the blurred borderlands between the South Asian nations, where state infrastructure is weak and the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) have carved out a home.
A separate group sharing common heritage with the Afghan Taliban, the TTP was founded in 2007 and once held sway over large swathes of the restive tribal tracts of Pakistan.
In 2014 it was largely ousted by an army offensive, its fighters retreating across the porous border with Afghanistan.
But last year overall militant attacks surged by 56 percent according to the Pakistan Institute for Conflict and Security Studies, reversing a six-year downward trend.
The largest number of assaults came in August, coinciding with the Taliban takeover of Kabul.
Pakistan’s newspapers are regularly peppered with stories of police slain as they guard polio teams — and just this week a constable was gunned down in Kohat — 80 kilometers (50 miles) southwest of Mardan.
Pakistani media has reported as many as 70 polio workers killed in militant attacks since 2012 — mostly in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
Still, a TTP spokesman told AFP it “never attacked any polio workers,” and that security forces were their target.
“They will be targeted wherever they perform their duties,” he said
Mardan deputy commissioner Habib Ullah Arif admits polio teams are “a very soft target,” but says the fight to eradicate the disease is entwined with the security threat.
“There is only one concept: we are going to defeat polio, we are going to defeat militancy,” he pledged.
Pakistan anti-polio drives have been running since 1994, with up to 260,000 vaccinators staging regular waves of regional inoculation campaigns.
But on the fringes of the country, the teams often face skepticism.
“In certain areas of Pakistan, it was considered as a Western conspiracy,” explained Shahzad Baig — head of the national polio eradication program.
The theories ranged wildly: polio teams are spies, the vaccines cause infertility, or contain pig fat forbidden by Islam.
The spy theory gained currency with the killing of Osama bin Laden in 2011, whose hideaway in Abbottabad was revealed to the United States — unwittingly or otherwise — by a vaccine program run by a Pakistani doctor.
“It’s a complex situation,” said Baig. “It’s socio-economical, it’s political.”
The porous border with Afghanistan — a strategic crutch for the TTP — can also keep polio circulating.
“For the virus, Pakistan and Afghanistan were one country,” said Baig.
In Mardan, 10 teams — each comprising two women and an armed police guard — fan out across the city’s suburbs as morning turns to afternoon.
The teams chalk dates on the homes they visit and smear children’s fingers with indelible ink to mark those already inoculated.
On Monday they delivered dozens more doses to add to the nationwide tally.
“We have the fear in mind, but we have to be active to serve our nation,” said polio worker Zeb-un-Nissa.
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By Lindsay Murdoch and Dili
EAST Timor is under pressure to release an Indonesian citizen accused of leading one of the country's worst massacres, as hundreds of East Timorese attended a ceremony yesterday remembering those who died in the fight for independence.
The arrest of former militia leader Martenus Bere, an Indonesian provincial government official, has created a diplomatic headache for East Timor ahead of events today marking the 10th anniversary of the country's vote for independence.
Indonesian authorities are demanding the release of Bere, who allegedly led an attack on a church in the town of Suai in September 1999, in which three priests and dozens of people were killed.
Bere, a former commander of Laksuar, one of the most violent of militia groups behind a pro-Indonesian reign of terror in 1999, was arrested after he crossed into East Timor two weeks ago to attend a funeral ceremony for his father and pray at the same church where the killings took place.
Locals reportedly beat him severely before police intervened to save him.
Bere, who was indicted by a UN Serious Crimes Unit in 2003, would be the first Indonesian citizen to face a court in East Timor over the 1999 bloodshed that left 1500 people dead before and after the territory voted for independence. The case has the potential to cause a diplomatic rift between East Timor and its giant neighbour.
Indonesian Foreign Minister Hassan Wirajuda is scheduled to attend anniversary ceremonies in Dili today.
Officials in West Timor cancelled a planned ministerial-level delegation from East Timor last week to protest against the arrest of Bere, who has been brought to a jail in Dili.
Jose Teixeira, spokesman for the Fretilin opposition party, said the government must not be influenced in by diplomatic pressure from Indonesia. "If Bere is allowed to return to Indonesia without facing trial, this would sound a death knell for justice in this country," he said.
The remains of 24 of those who died fighting for independence were buried at a ''heroes' cemetery'' at Metinaro near Dili yesterday. Family members wailed and hugged photographs of loved ones as the remains joined the graves of more than 400 other victims. Many of the bereaved said they wanted compensation from the Government and the perpetrators brought to justice.
Aquelinho Soares, whose uncle was killed fighting Indonesian soldiers in the 1980s, said most East Timorese believed "the actors behind these crimes must be held accountable".
President Jose Ramos-Horta told the gathering the Government would not give up the search for the remains of other victims.
More than 100,000 Timorese were killed or disappeared between 1974 and 1999.
But Mr Ramos-Horta made no mention of justice for the crimes.
Earlier, he dismissed calls for East Timor to support an international tribunal to put the accused on trial.
"If you went around with me, random around the country as I've done … meeting barefoot people all over the country - thousands of them, not one - not one raised the issues of 1999, not one talked about putting Indonesia on trial," he said.
Mr Ramos-Horta said the Indonesians would, in their own time, put those responsible for crimes in East Timor and elsewhere on trial. He said only a small number of human rights activists were calling for an international trial.
"And unlike many of them - these so-called international human rights groups and Timorese activists - I lost almost half of my brothers and sisters, and even myself was almost killed," he said.
"So I know what being a victim is. I know what is the pain of a mother who lost her children."
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The International Monetary Fund (IMF) says government cash transfers for poor and vulnerable households effectively tackled extreme poverty in the first year of the Covid pandemic.
In a working paper released Friday in Washington, the IMF noted that about 710,000 households – 2.8 million people – received money from the Ministry of Social Services, Veterans Affairs and Youth Rehabilitation in 2020.
These subsidies averaged about $45 per month, which corresponded to about 33 percent of monthly household income for the bottom 25 percent. Many have received money until the end of 2020 – six to seven months on average – and parts of the program have been extended until 2021.
Without cash transfers, according to the newspaper, about 17.3% of households would have seen their income fall below the international poverty line of $1.9 per worker per day, compared to 10% before the pandemic.
But “thanks to the transfer, the share of households living below the international poverty line is estimated at only 12.6%,” the newspaper said.
“Additionally, the cash transfer may have lifted 164,000 households out of monetary poverty, compared to the pre-pandemic baseline. Survey data collected during the pandemic confirms this.
“The percentage of households reporting some degree of food insecurity fell from 67% to 36%, between August and October 2020. Most transfers were spent on food and other necessities.
At the same time, however, up to 260,000 households may have fallen below the $1.90 poverty line in 2020, but found themselves uncovered by the cash transfer program.
These “new poor” households – which represent more than half of those estimated to live below the poverty line – are generally urban and work in service industries.
“Urban workers may constitute a new pocket of poverty, more likely to dip into their savings and borrow heavily in the aftermath of the pandemic.”
Overall, the paper concluded that “the cash transfer program has been very successful in tackling forms of extreme poverty that predate the pandemic, by targeting households in the lower deciles of the income distribution” .
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How Long Should You Leave a Dehumidifier On?
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A custom whole-house system will require to be sized and set up by a contractor, but in the long term, he states, the lower operating expense and https://jiffyreader.in stable comfort can be worth the investment. Store in the Off-Season You can often find the very best deals for portable dehumidifiers in late summer season and early fall, states Ramsey.
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Where To Put Your Dehumidifier A lot of dehumidifiers have top-mounted air discharge and can be put versus walls, however side-discharge systems need to be run away from walls and furnishings so that air can distribute easily, notes Energy Star. To increase efficiency, make certain to close doors and windows to the space while it’s running.
Humidity is wetness in the air around us. Some locations tend to have high humidity, while other locations are really dry. Either situation can bring on uncomfortable symptoms, but a number of at-home devices might help.Humidifiers can add moisture to the air, while dehumidifiers get rid of moisture. How do you know which one is right for you? Why Are Humidifiers and Getridwet.mystrikingly.com Dehumidifiers Useful? Humidifiers can be specifically practical if you live in a dry, cold climate. Without moisture in the air, you might
Health Benefits of Humidifiers and Dehumidifiers
get: Itchy eyes, Aching throat, https://rimonronniehodges4.Wixsite.com/mydehumidifiers Irritated lungs Dry skin, Humidifiers work in two methods: An evaporator humidifier forces air over water inside of the system and blows moisture-filled air into your home. An atomizer humidifier breaks down beads of water to form a great mist.
They can help expand the wetness uniformly through all of the vents in your home. Other humidifiers are portable. They can be little or big, depending upon your requirements. Smaller units are implied to humidify a single room, while a bigger unit has the prospective to add wetness to your whole home.
They’re helpful in environments that have high humidity, since they can assist prevent mold development and dust termites. Dehumidifiers pull air into the system and over really cold coils to draw wetness out of the air. The wetness condenses into water and https://forum.greelancer.com gathers in the system. Before air is pumped back into the room, it is required over warm coils to go back to space temperature level.
If you have an efficient system, you may not require a dehumidifier. Portable dehumidifiers have varying area for water. Before you purchase, think about how typically you’ll desire to dump out the receptacle. No matter the capacity, the wetness that’s eliminated from your air depends on the level of humidity. Some days you might see more water, https://indoorrowingclub.com/forum/profile/lanehemmant8983 and other days you may see less.
When Should You Use a Dehumidifier
The rating informs you the number of pints the unit can remove in a 24-hour duration at 60% relative humidity and at 80 degrees F.How Do Humidifiers and Dehumidifiers Enhance My Health? If you have dry skin, dry eyes, and other inflammations from dry air, a humidifier can reduce your symptoms.
A humidifier might provide you a sense of convenience. Too much moisture in the air can be just as bad as inadequate. Water in the air brings bacteria and other tiny organisms that you take in. Taking wetness out of the air might assist you get some remedy for asthma and allergy signs brought on by the humidity.
Dust mites and mold prosper in humid locations, too. If you have asthma or allergies, these microscopic organisms can aggravate your sinuses. When you eliminate the additional wetness, it keeps the growth of mold and dust termites in check. Cons of Humidifiers, Humidifiers can be difficult to set up and use.
If you get respiratory symptoms after beginning use of a humidifier, turn it off and call your medical professional. Humidifiers that use ultrasound technology make a great white dust that develops in your house with time. This is due to the minerals discovered in faucet water. Using distilled water in your unit minimizes the amount of dust that gathers as an outcome of humidifying.
Using a Dehumidifier in Winter
You can use bleach to eliminate any mold and germs that collect in the system as it’s running. If you do not clean the unit, it may cycle mold spores back out into the air of your house. If you find that any of your signs become worse when you utilize one of these devices, speak with your doctor.
If the relative humidity level in the house is too high, it can harm people’s health and life seriously. Now you have to believe about when to use the dehumidifier, winter season or summertime. The answer depends upon where you live, the age of your house, https://storing-firearms.Onepage.Website your basic condition, and even your habits.
If the humidity is too low, the skin is dry, itchy or the throat may even have trouble breathing. If the temperature level is too expensive, there is always a possibility of mildew and https://martinzrealty.com/community/profile/klaudiatinsley1/ mildew, not to discuss broken or comfy clothes and furnishings. If mold is beginning to grow in your house, it’s definitely time to buy a great dehumidifier.
This is specifically important throughout the cold winter months, when running a dehumidifier 24/7 during the warmer months does not connect much attention. In the summertime, Related Site utilizing a great dehumidifier can make your house more comfortable and help you sleep much better in the evening. If the humidity is too low and the skin is dry, the very best thing to do is to reset the humidity.
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If the home is small, you might need a dehumidifier that can eliminate about 30 pints of water per day, while larger basements or homes might require 70 pints per day. Operating dehumidifiers can be more challenging in the spring and fall, when the weather condition is not hot or cold, but warm or cool.
No matter the season, dehumidifiers need to run effectively to keep them as comfortable as possible in the house. Know some crucial suggestions to easily improve dehumidification efficiency, consisting of: Make certain it’s in the ideal location, which suggests away from walls and furniture. Makes sure a;; doors and Windows are closed to allow the devices to work more effectively.
That method, it’s not so cold that the unit stops running. Make sure the storage tank is emptied regularly, generally when a day.
Have you ever wondered if you require a dehumidifier throughout the hot summer months when the cooling system is switched on? You may be shocked by the answer. The function of central air conditioning conditioners is to distribute cool air through your home using a system of ducts and signs up.
7 Signs That Indicate You Need a Dehumidifier
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CREMATION AND A FUNERAL
Cremation, it should be noted, is not a replacement for a funeral. Cremation is a more rapid return of the human form to its base state. Your funeral and memorial options are actually increased when you opt for cremation over traditional burial.
Unlike with traditional burial, there is a practically infinite amount of time to make arrangements for the memorial of you or your loved one. The freedom provided by a cremation allows for more friends and family to attend and pay their final respects.
Final disposition of the cremated remains also provides a wealth of options, including burial, columbaria interment, land or sea scattering service, and several other interesting and unique memorial opportunities. If you have questions or if you are ready to begin preplanning your Philadelphia cremation today, contact the expert staff at the Philadelphia Cremation Society.
WHY IS CREMATION GROWING IN ACCEPTANCE AND POPULARITY?
There are many factors that have attributed to the growing acceptance and popularity of cremation. Society has undergone a significant shift in thought over the previous few decades. By 2025, it is estimated that greater than 50 percent of individuals will have included cremation in their end-of-life planning.
The dignity of cremation has been affirmed many times over as more and more religions publicly pronounce their acceptance of the practice. Cremation provides your family with a respectful service that is typically also a far better value over a traditional burial. Unlike with the other, cremation does not require the purchase of a decorative coffin, burial plot, headstone, and other required costs and services.
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A majority of COVID-19 hospitalizations during the South African Omicron variant wave weren’t actually for the virus, a new study has found.
Sixty-three percent of patients hospitalized with COVID-19 in South Africa during the surge had “incidental” COVID-19 diagnoses, meaning they were admitted to the hospital for a separate reason and tested positive for the virus once there. Virtually every metric for hospitalized patients improved when compared to previous waves, from ICU admittance rate to death rate to average length of stay.
ICU admissions fell from 21.3% to 4.5%, and deaths fell from 4.3% to 1%. The average length of stay required for COVID-19 patients was four days, compared to 8.8 days in previous waves. The average age of patients was 10 years younger, at 39 compared to 49. At the peak of the wave, hospital bed occupancy was only 51% of previous waves, researchers found.
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Current law limits the content areas in which a person who holds an adjunct instructor authorization may teach. The act allows a school district or charter school to employ a person who holds an adjunct instructor authorization to teach in all content areas in order to address recruiting challenges and establish a diverse workforce.
The act requires the department of education (department) to direct resources to publicize existing teacher preparation programs to facilitate entry into the teaching profession. The act also requires the department to provide technical support to school districts, boards of cooperative services, and charter schools to assist them in accessing the existing programs and in recruiting individuals to pursue teaching careers.
The act requires the department of higher education, in collaboration with the department of education, the state board for community colleges and occupational education, and the deans of the schools of education and academic administrators in Colorado institutions of higher education, or their designees, to design a teaching career pathway for individuals to enter the teaching profession. The act outlines the components of the teaching career pathway program.
The act creates the teacher recruitment education and preparation program (TREP program) in the department. Two of the main objectives of the TREP program are to increase the number of students entering the teaching profession and to create a more diverse teacher workforce to reflect the ethnic diversity of the state. A qualified TREP program participant may concurrently enroll in postsecondary courses in the 2 years directly following the year in which the participant was enrolled in the twelfth grade of a local education provider. The act outlines the selection criteria and requirements for the TREP program.
The act creates the educator recruitment and retention program (ERR program) in the department to provide support to members of the armed forces, nonmilitary-affiliated educator candidates, and local education providers to recruit, select, train, and retain highly qualified educators across the state. The state board of education shall promulgate rules to implement the ERR program. The act outlines the eligibility criteria and program services.
The act adds criteria for the commission on higher education to select eligible applicants for the educator loan forgiveness program.
The act requires the university of Colorado health and sciences center to establish and operate an educator well-being and mental health program to provide support services for educators serving students in Colorado's public elementary and secondary schools.
For the 2021-22 state fiscal year, $9,132,856 is appropriated from the general fund to the department of education to implement the act. For the 2021-22 state fiscal year, $942,542 is appropriated from the general fund to the department of higher education to implement the act. For the 2021-22 state fiscal year, $2,500,000 is appropriated from the general fund to the educator loan forgiveness fund. The department of higher education is responsible for the accounting related to the appropriation for the educator loan forgiveness fund.
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A lot of people don't care about the nation's growing debt. Some believe that low interest rates for the foreseeable future essentially means a free lunch for the government. Others believe that no matter what the cost of this debt, it is all worth it because of the purported higher returns on government spending. But there is an argument that may convince them otherwise: If inflation ever gets out of control, it's easier to deal with it in a lower-debt environment.
I believe that high levels of debt are problematic. First, growing debt means growing spending, along with government expanding in size and scope. I like my government small and as unintrusive as possible, so I am not happy about the current spending situation. Second, a review of the literature about the impact of government spending on growth reveals that, generally, such spending crowds out the private sector. This dispels the hope that more spending will produce economic wonders.
Deficit spending will eventually result in higher taxes for future generations. That's a profoundly unfair burden. Debt is also expansive in and of itself, as interest payments on an enormous amount of debt—even when interest rates are low—will result in a larger and expanding deficit. According to Brian Riedl at the Manhattan Institute, Congressional Budget Office data reveal that by 2049, "Interest payments on the national debt would be the federal government's largest annual expenditure, consuming 42% of all projected tax revenues."
Eventually, growing debt will also slow economic growth. Lower growth means fewer innovations, lower wage growth, and higher unemployment. It's all-around bad news. Finally, higher debt could result in a debt crisis. These are good enough reasons for me to want to restrict the size of government and impose fiscal prudence.
Interestingly, recent concerns over inflation have highlighted one additional reason why higher debt is problematic. You see, when it comes to inflation, people's expectations about the price trajectory in the next few years are what really matters. So, it matters less than we think that the current inflationary forces are likely transitory. If people believe that inflation is here to stay, they will try to protect themselves from it today, and we will indeed have inflation today.
Under that scenario, to get inflation under control, the Federal Reserve will have to raise interest rates. And this is where your debt levels matter. Higher interest rates result in a large increase in overall interest payments fairly quickly, as so much of our debt needs to be rolled over on a short-term basis. A sudden increase in interest rates would slow down the recovery, too, which hurts lower-income Americans.
If the Fed were immune to political pressures, this reality might not matter. However, we can expect that political pressure to be enormous. No administration would be happy to see a large increase in interest payments suddenly show up on its balance sheet followed by a large increase in the size of the deficit, especially if that administration is already planning to spend a larger amount of money in the first place. This pressure only grows under an administration that will resist any rate change that could hurt growth. The Fed may also be slow to act because it has made addressing inequality one of its priorities.
The good news, some people believe, is that the market doesn't seem to believe that inflation will stick around much longer. If the market did believe that, then the indexes that measure expected inflation would reflect their worries and interest rates would increase. However, expected inflation measures change fast, and historically, the market has had a terrible track record at predicting inflation. It's very unpredictable precisely because it's so conditional on expectations. In other words, I wouldn't take much comfort from that talking point.
Do I know what expectations are and how long inflation will stick around? I don't. But in truth, no one really does. That's part of the point. In that context, fiscal prudence now is the best course of action, because with so much political pressure in the worst-case scenario, there will be fewer opportunities when the Fed must actually raise interest rates.
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Begin in delight, end in wisdom.
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A collection of poems and essays by LGBTQ+ poets on topics and themes of identity, gender, and sexuality.
The stories of immigrants, refugees, and exiles can tell the history of a nation.
Why poetry is necessary and sought after during crises.
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In this guest blog post, Morgane Danielou, from the Secretariat of the Private Sector Mechanism to the UN Committee on World Food Security tells Farming First about three projects on the frontline of the battle against stunting. Part of Farming First’s #SDG2countdown on SDG2.2: ending malnutrition.
Stunting continues to be one of the most pernicious and widespread forms of malnutrition, having a disproportionate impact on the most vulnerable populations compared with other types of malnourishment. According to 2016 data, 155 million children under five around the world are stunted, representing more than 20 per cent of the under-five population. The majority of stunted children are in Asia (87 million) and in Africa (59 million).
Resulting from insufficient food and nutrients, stunting has significant consequences for human health as well as social and economic development. The effects last a lifetime, ranging from impaired brain development, lower IQ, weakened immune systems, and greater risk of serious diseases like diabetes and cancer later in life. Beyond the devastating personal impacts, stunting is also an enormous drain on economic productivity and growth. Economists estimate that it can reduce a country’s GDP by as much as 12 per cent.
Although stunting is almost always irreversible, it can be prevented by improving nutrition in the first 1,000 days of life. The SDGs identified childhood malnutrition, in particular stunting and wasting, as key targets. In addition, the World Health Assembly established a target to reduce by 40 per cent the number of children under-five who are stunted by 2025.
Yet according to estimates recently released by WHO, UNICEF and the World Bank, malnutrition rates around the world remain alarming, and stunting is declining too slowly while the number of overweight children continues to rise. Africa and Asia bear the greatest share of all forms of malnutrition.
This is why stunting, as a key limiting factor in growth and human development, should continue to be a top priority for global initiatives aimed at decreasing the prevalence of malnutrition.
In 2016, the Private Sector Mechanism (PSM) to the UN Committee on World Food Security (CFS) organized a Partnership Forum on Nutrition. During the Forum, we heard of three projects on the frontline of the battle against stunting.
Sustainability in School Nutrition Programmes
According to the World Food Programme (WFP)’s State of School Feeding study, 368 million children in 169 countries benefit from school feeding programs worldwide. The return on investment is substantial – for every $1 spent by governments and donors, WFP estimates at least $3 is gained in economic returns. However, in low-income countries, the proportion of primary school children beneficiaries is just 18 per cent, while in lower-middle-income countries that figure is 49 per cent.
The Tetra Laval Group has a long experience in engaging in public-private partnerships to develop school milk programs linked to local agricultural development. In 2015, more than 70 million children benefitted from locally sourced, fortified milk at school, providing positive health outcomes for children involved.
Swapping Cereals for Pulses: Improving Dietary Diversity in Ethiopia
Pulse crops, in combination with cereals, hold great promise in terms of meeting nutritional requirements for protein, energy, and some important micronutrients such as iron and zinc. As the second most important crop type in terms of annual production, they are important components of the Ethiopian diet.
However, there is a lack of evidence documenting the nutritional benefits of production and consumption of pulses. Responding to this gap, the University of Saskatchewan has identified barriers to, and implemented education programs on, production and consumption of pulses as a means of not only helping diversify the diet, but also to generate household income that could be used to purchase other nutritious foods. So far, the findings have been encouraging in terms of improving nutrition literacy, linking pulse agriculture to improving dietary diversity, and reinvesting income from pulses to meet household needs and to adopt new agricultural practices.
Putting dietary diversity on the plate in Zambia
Bioversity International has been engaged in a three-year “whole diet – whole year” initiative in the Barotse floodplain, Zambia, supported by the CGIAR Research Program Aquatic Agricultural Systems (AAS), and Agriculture for Nutrition and Health.
Rather than focusing on a single nutrition problem, such as vitamin A deficiency, it considers that an individual or household can have many nutritional problems at the same time – for example, lacking more than one essential micronutrient, over-consumption of high-energy staples, or a combination of both. And these problems can vary at different times of the year, or at different times in a person’s life, such as during pregnancy.
Bioversity are using these findings to develop a combination of agriculture and nutrition interventions. These include:
– identifying crop diversification entry points for increased production of nutrient-dense crops including fruits, vegetables, groundnuts and legumes,
– establishing 30 demonstration plots in the 10 communities,
– producing educational materials on how to make the most of locally available foods to diversify the diet every month of the year, and how to prepare recipes using seasonally available foods.
Key messages were shared via cooking demonstrations on enhanced recipes with local cooking groups, where community members gained new knowledge on how to prepare nutritious porridge, for example by adding dried pounded vegetables to maize meal and adding cow pea and groundnut to enrich local dishes.
For more success stories on SDG2.2: ending malnutrition, visit www.farmingfirst.org/SDGs or searc #Ag4SDGs on Twitter.
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Making Sense of Retirement Planning
Robert and Barbara Cupani, both 67, celebrated their 42nd anniversary by taking a 21-day cruise through Europe. But this wasn’t the only trip for the Long Island-based couple in 2007. They also spent two weeks in Alaska, 10 days in San Francisco and had several weekend trips throughout the Northeast.
The reason they can afford such a carefree lifestyle is that they started their retirement saving when they were in their 30s. (He was a male nurse. She worked for a cosmetics company.) The Cupanis consider themselves lucky, compared to some friends. “We know people who live with their kids or are just getting by on social security,” Bob says. “Sometimes we feel guilty when we talk about the trips, but this is something we planned for and we’re not going to stop until we see everything.”
Financial experts say that nearly one-third of all Americans who are working have nothing saved for retirement. That’s surprising, given that a whopping 95% of Americans have some type of financial-related retirement fear, such as running out of money, according to Ben Stein, honorary chairperson of the National Retirement Planning Coalition.
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Cantaloupe or rockmelon is a refreshing treat for many pets and they love munching on this healthy fruit. Whether ducks can eat it or not is a burning question that has been asked on many forums.
There are barely any negatives about this fruit, however, before introducing any new treat to these adorable feathered pets, it is always fruitful to research the benefits and risks of feeding it.
This short guide will put you on the right track as to whether you should feed cantaloupe or not and how much.
Can Ducks Eat Cantaloupe?
If the owner has an abundance of cantaloupe at his disposal, do not hesitate to share some with the ducks. It is full of vitamins and minerals that can benefit ducks in more than one way.
This refreshing treat is known for its high water content and is usually given to pets in summer. Simply include it into the meal plan of your ducks and other birds in a moderate amount.
Cantaloupe is an excellent source of Vitamin A and Potassium, therefore, ducks deficient in the said vitamins and minerals should be given this fruit from time to time.
Like pumpkin seeds, cantaloupe seeds are also edible. The cantaloupe rind should be avoided as it is too thick. These seeds can be eaten either raw or roasted.
However, it is better not to feed too many roasted cantaloupe seeds. As the roasted seeds are prepared with oil and salt, it can hurt the duck when given in large amounts.
The high salt content can lead to the problem of thin-shelled or shell-less eggs. Simply chop the raw seeds into smaller pieces and serve them to the ducks.
Is Cantaloupe Toxic To The Ducks?
Cantaloupe is a safe and healthy treat that does not contain any poisonous substance harmful to the health and well-being of the duck.
No common toxic compounds like solanine, Thamamine, Lectin, and others are found in this fruit.
It is important to know the level of toxicity of the treat to determine the frequency with which you will feed it to ducks or not serve at all.
If ducks are familiar with the taste of watermelon, cucumber, and pineapple, introducing cantaloupe would not be a problem.
Start small, serve a small portion of the fruit to ducks and observe whether they like it or not. If the ducks like this new treat, add some more to the feeder.
Health Benefits of Feeding Cantaloupe To The Ducks
This powerhouse of antioxidants, vitamins, and minerals has plenty to offer in terms of health benefits. Some of the health benefits of serving cantaloupe to the ducks include
Commercial ducks are not particularly prone to heart diseases unless they become overweight. Fiber assists in controlling blood pressure and reducing cholesterol levels. Cranberries for ducks are an alternative source.
Potassium counteracts the effects of sodium by lowering blood pressure. The high water content of the cantaloupe keeps the duck hydrated, so the heart does not have any problem pumping blood.
A high-fiber diet is important for a healthy digestive system. It helps relieve constipation if the duck has consumed protein in a large quantity.
If the duck does not have enough water in the body, the large intestine absorbs water from food waste resulting in hard stools and constipation. Mushrooms for ducks is another alternative source.
Thankfully, because of high fiber and water content, this fruit keeps the digestive tracts healthy and unclogged.
High in antioxidants, it improves the immune system that works by neutralizing free radicals. A healthy immune system means more resistance to diseases. Feed raisins to ducks as an alternative source.
Vitamin A & C
These two essential vitamins help against different conditions like arthritis, joint swelling, disability, and stiffness. Learn Can Ducks Eat Broccoli?
Risks of Feeding Cantaloupe
This treat can be quite addicting to ducks and if not given regularly, they become cranky. Therefore, serve a smaller portion of the fruit every once in a while.
Moreover, avoid giving moldy cantaloupe as it contains mycotoxins which often leads to the death of the duck.
A whole ripe cantaloupe lasts only 5 days at room temperature, to extend its shelf life, properly store it in the fridge.
Serving Cantaloupe to the Ducks
Rinse it well to get rid of any herbicides or pesticides applied to the fruit. Peel off the skin of the fruit, chop it into different pieces and put them in the duck feeder.
Mix the small pieces of cantaloupe in the regular meal or with other fruits. It will raise the appetite of the ducks and provide an ample supply of many essential nutrients.
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Because the cause of inflammatory bowel disease is unknown, there are currently no guidelines for reducing your risk of inflammatory bowel disease.
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Devotees and visitors to Abu Dhabi line up to participate in the construction of the capital’s first traditional Hindu stone temple.
Locals and tourists alike pray over bricks before bringing them to the Mureikha construction site where they will be added to the carved stone pillars.
The gesture symbolizes the community’s involvement in building what will be the largest Hindu shrine in the United Arab Emirates when completed in late 2023.
The foundations of the temple have been completed and its first three layers of carved stone have been installed, said Ashok Kotecha, president of BAPS Hindu Mandir, which is overseeing the construction.
The shrine will embody ancient stories of Hindu scriptures in its architecture.
Carved sandstone pillars, hand carved by Indian artisans, have been shipped to Abu Dhabi for the towering temple which will have five ornate domes and seven spiers, one for each emirate in the United Arab Emirates.
“Visitors will have the opportunity to see the mandir [temple] taking shape before their eyes, ”said Mr. Kotecha The National.
“Visitors will be able to see the construction of the intricately carved exterior walls and majestic pillars.”
Temple authorities decided last month to invite visitors to participate in prayers to bless the bricks and participate in the construction phase.
“The importance of this ceremony is that it allows you to truly be part of history in the making,” said Mr. Kotecha.
“The thoughts, love and wishes of visitors are captured in this ceremony and will allow their presence to reverberate over time as the temple rises high when completed.”
Gopi Krishnan Venugopal, a resident of Abu Dhabi, attended a ceremony on Friday with 40 relatives and friends.
“It is a great honor to be a part of the construction of the temple, even on a small scale,” said Mr. Venugopal, a Malaysian citizen who works in the oil and gas industry.
“We feel blessed to have the opportunity to be a part of the historic temple building event.
“To me, this means integrating the oldest civilization and tradition, in the form of a temple, with the diversity and inclusion of the United Arab Emirates.”
Mr. Venugopal’s wife, Rekha, and teenage daughter Priya joined him inside a large tent at the site where they recited prayers and sprinkled flowers and vermilion powder – a red substance often used during Hindu services – on the bricks.
The group then transported the bricks outside for later use in building the temple.
An exhibition area has been set up for visitors to learn more about the shrine and how the land for its construction was granted by the United Arab Emirates.
“My prayers are for a safe construction, thanking the leadership of the UAE for giving us this land,” Venugopal said.
“I also pray that this pandemic will go away so that more people can meet, come together and pray. “
The building will reproduce the traditional architecture of ancient temples in India and will not use iron reinforcements in its construction.
Masonry shipped from India will be assembled and adjusted on site, the process resembling a huge puzzle.
Its designs include prayer rooms, amphitheater, community center, library, children’s play area, parks, and food court.
Devotees from abroad can participate in the ceremony online. Others can visit the temple site on Fridays between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. after registering on the temple website.
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With all due respect to Larry Ellison: Lana‘i should be owned by the people of the island.
For 130 years, Lana‘i has been a plantation, in name or in form, or what the authors of the 1998 Lana‘i Community Plan have called “an island empire.”
Decades of plantation-style rule have inhibited the self-sufficiency of the island, first by limiting access of small farms to critical resources like water, and then establishing consecutive mono crop economies of ranching, pineapple, and tourism which extracted value from the island. The result: an island which is dependent on the outside for fuel, food, and cash.
Local ownership of Lana‘i provides an opportunity to revamp land use and resource development of the island. Former pineapple and ranching lands should be turned over for farm use. And the tremendous wind resources should be owned by Lana‘i, and sold to others, not the other way around.
Ellison can play an important role in the transaction, by using his cash investment to finance the transfer of lands, over several years, to a community land trust or cooperatively-owned corporation. That would provide ample time for the community to get organized. Those of us on islands neighboring Lana‘i should help as well, by investing in the purchase. But control and decision making should be held by Lana‘i.
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A Minneapolis startup is dedicated to supporting refugees in the United States. The fashion apparel company, Epimonia, sells bracelets made out of recycled life jackets that were once worn by refugees on their journey to Greece—a gateway to Europe for many fleeing violence.
The bright orange bracelets, Epimonia calls "Embracelets," serve as a reminder of the refugee crisis. The UN Refugee Agency found that by the end of 2017, a record 68.5 million people had been driven from their homes across the world.
"Refugees are people, you know. They're just regular people who escape from war," said Mohamed Malim, founder of Epimonia.
Malim, 22, would know. His family fled from the Somali civil war during the 1990s. Malim was born in a refugee camp in Kenya and spent three years there before coming to Texas. The family moved a year later to Minnesota.
"I've always wanted to make a difference in someone's life," Malim said.
While in his senior year at University of St. Thomas, Malim entered a business competition. That's when the idea for Epimonia launched in December 2017. The company's name is inspired by the Greek word epimoní, meaning perseverance.
"We partnered up with a fashion designer, my uncle whose name is Omar Munie... located in the Netherlands. What he does is he partnered up with this nonprofit called Movement on the Ground in Greece where they collect the life jackets in Greece," Malim explained.
Those life jackets are then shipped to Munie's manufacturing plant in the Netherlands called Dreamfactory to be used for the bracelets. Many of the Embracelets are made by refugees employed at the Dreamfactory.
They're sold in the United States and half of the profits are then given to nonprofit organizations that support refugees in the U.S. So far, they have sold more than 700 bracelets.
"We often hear negative stereotypes, negative rhetoric on refugees in the media, and my goal is to change that narrative. We are here to contribute," Malim said.
Malim said he hopes to expand the business and create other fashion apparel, using recycled life jackets.
Epimonia is currently on a college tour, talking on campuses about the business and the refugee crisis.
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Salad Socials are a great way to bring everyone together to share a meal, but here are a few tips for keeping foodborne illness off of your guest list.
- remember the food safety basics: clean, separate, cook, and chill.
- wash your hands before preparing any food or moving through the buffet line.
- remember the “two hour” rule. Any potentially hazardous food (such as dairy, meat, fish, cooked vegetables, rice, chopped/sliced fruits and vegetables) that have sat out at room temperature for more than 2 hours should be thrown away.
- have a plan for keeping hot foods hot and cold foods cold.
- consider transportation before you decide what to bring. Transport cold foods in a cooler or in a container with ice packs. Hot food is best transported in a slow cooker wrapped in bags to say warm.
- encourage guests to label and describe food items which is especially helpful for those with food allergies.
- bring clean tongs or other serving utensils.
- encourage the use of recycled paper plates or reusable containers and clean plates for “seconds.”
- prepare food for others if you or others in your household are sick.
- partially cook food at home to finish at the salad social or potluck or prepare the food the day before with the intent of reheating in a slow cooker.
- take leftovers home. Not only has food been sitting out for a long time, there is the risk of contamination from the many people passing through the line.
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While many consider the versatile corn to be the main plant in Mexican cuisine, the cactus holds a more symbolic role for many Mexicans.
You can literally see this by examining the Mexican flag, which depicts a prickly pear tree on top of which an eagle perches as it devours a snake. The image commemorates how the Aztecs founded Tenochtitlan (now Mexico City) in the 1300s. According to legend, the wandering Aztecs would know where to build their new city when they spotted an eagle perched on a cactus.
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“The cactus is our greatest culinary representation in Mexico and a story you learn growing up since you were a kid,” said Alex Tellez, executive chef of Sor Ynez, a traditional Mexican restaurant in Philadelphia.
“The cactus is our biggest food representation in Mexico and a story you learn growing up since you were a kid.”
Nopales were a staple of Tellez’s childhood cuisine, although he didn’t see many cacti around his hometown of Mexico City. Yet whenever he visited his extended family in nearby towns like Tlaxcala, Tellez was able to witness firsthand the formidable task of harvesting these prickly succulents.
“It was very intimidating,” he said. “I remember my grandfather and my uncles taking these super sharp machetes, cutting [the cactus] fast enough and catch it with a basket. Then my grandmother held the cactus, cleaned it and cut it herself.”
Chef Alex Tellez (Neal Santos)
From these fierce origins, Tellez’s grandmother, aunts, and great-aunts manipulated the fiber- and antioxidant-rich nopales into every imaginable edible form. Made into smoothies with celery, parsley, cucumber and fresh orange juice for all day hydration; sliced raw to give a tangy, crunchy freshness to salads; stir-fried and incorporated into soup or scrambled eggs; marinated quickly (in escabeche); or braised or grilled then nestled in tacos — ¡lo que quieras, por supuesto!
A labor of love
You don’t need to wield a machete when mining the produce aisles of the supermarket for nopales; (luckily) you’ll usually find clamps near the screen. When selecting cacti, Tellez recommends looking for medium or large flat paddles that are easier to trim. However, you “need to feel comfortable and confident touching the cactus to clean it,” Tellez said. (I would also recommend a pair of clean gardening gloves.) To remove the thorns, hold the end of the paddle and scrape them away from the direction they grow using a sharp knife or vegetable peeler.
You don’t need to wield a machete when mining the produce aisles of the supermarket for nopales.
Cactus resembles moisture-rich okra, not least for its characteristic slimy texture, which some find off-putting. (Cacti produce this sticky liquid, known as mucilage, to seal water inside, which helps them survive in dry desert conditions.) To eliminate this, Tellez suggests popping the nopales for five good minutes on medium-high heat, then rinse them thoroughly. in the sink. From there, your imagination is the limit.
At the year-old Philly Restaurant in Tellez, pan-fried nopales top tlayacos (boat-shaped masa cakes) with black beans and queso fresco. He loves adding pickled cactus (recipe below) to carnitas, birria or barbacoa tacos to cut the fat from the meat. He also steams chopped nopales in banana leaves with eggplant, squash and celeriac for a vegan mixiote; add raw slices to a vibrant radish salad with crumbled feta, lime juice and olive oil; and mashed raw cactus with coriander leaves to mix into Sor Ynez’ green-hued soft tortillas. It’s all part of a larger commitment to educating diners about Tellez’s traditional vegetable-rich cuisine of Mexico.
“We do traditional Mexican food, which has a lot of vegetables, and people were so confused at first, like, ‘I thought you were a Mexican restaurant!'” he said. “I’m using this experience to educate people and share knowledge with all these different ingredients. We’re getting busier, so I think it’s working.”
A family recipe
Perhaps Tellez’s favorite use for nopales – and the way he converts the aversion to cacti – is through his great-aunt’s nopales en escabeche, a quick and salty pickle seasoned with Mexican oregano, garlic and black peppercorns. For best results, let it sit for three days in the refrigerator.
Recipe: Nopales en Escabeche (Marinated Cactus)
By Alex Tellez, Executive Chef of Sor Ynez, Philadelphia
30 minutes, more ideally 3 days of stripping
- 2-3 large cactus paddles (4 cups diced)
- Olive oil, as needed
- 1 large carrot, cut into 1/8-inch pieces (see cook’s notes)
- 1 yellow onion, thinly sliced
- 1 cup distilled white vinegar
- 2 cups of water
- 1/4 cup salt
- 4-5 whole peppercorns
- 1/4 teaspoon crushed red pepper or 1 sliced serrano pepper (optional, for heat)
- 2 garlic cloves, peeled
- 1 tablespoon Mexican oregano (see cook’s notes)
- 1 bay leaf
- Place the cactus palette flat on a large cutting board lined with paper towel. Wear clean gardening gloves, hold one end and scrape off the thorns with a vegetable peeler (my favorite weapon) or a sharp knife held at an angle. Pick up the trimmings in the paper towel and throw them away. Cut the cactus into small pieces or cut it into strips if you plan to use the pickles for tacos. Taste one; it’s a bit like sour pepper, isn’t it?
- Heat a large skillet over medium high heat. Add a few teaspoons of olive oil and sauté the cactus for 5 minutes, stirring frequently, until it has lost its bright green color and released a good amount of gooey liquid. Remove from the heat, then pour the cactus into a colander and rinse it for a good 30 seconds under cold water. Add the rinsed cactus to a large heatproof bowl and set aside.
- Return the pan to medium heat and add a little more olive oil along with the sliced carrots and onion. Sauté until vegetables begin to soften, 2-3 minutes, then add to bowl with cactus.
- In a medium saucepan with lid, add vinegar, water, salt, peppercorns, garlic, oregano and bay leaf. Stir to begin to dissolve the salt, cover with a lid and bring to a boil. Remove from fire. Pour the hot brine over it and let the vegetables cool to room temperature with the liquid. You can eat them right away or transfer the cooled pickles to deli containers or mason jars, filling them to about 1 inch from the top and being careful to completely submerge the vegetables. Film, then place them in the refrigerator. (For tastier results, Tellez suggests letting the pickles sit at least overnight — or ideally three days.)
“It must be Mexican,” Tellez says of the oregano.
I like to cut the carrot with a slight bias for prettiness.
My local Mexican grocery store not only sells cactus paddles, but also thankfully pre-cut and pre-diced bags of cactus (in case you don’t feel up to the task of cleaning those prickly buggers).
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In a business context such as LLC’s, traditional corporations, and partnerships all members, Board of Directors, and partners owe a fiduciary duty to the business. The breach of fiduciary duty is a common cause of action used to safeguard business entities and individuals in the corporate setting.
The elements for breach of Fiduciary Duty consist of:
- The Plaintiff and Defendant had a fiduciary duty relationship;
- The Defendant breached its fiduciary duty to the Plaintiff;
- The defendant’s breach resulted in:
- injury to the Plaintiff, or
- benefit to the Defendant.
A fiduciary duty relationship exists in certain relationships. Examples are partners, board of directors, officers in a corporation, trustees, and attorneys. When a fiduciary duty is established, then certain duties are enforceable by law. A LLC, Corporation, or partnership may limit certain fiduciary duties within a company’s bylaws or operational agreement, but certain fiduciary duties may never be limited, such as a duty of loyalty and utmost good faith. The following is a list of fiduciary duties that each individual owes to their LLC, Corporation, or partnership absent a limitation provision:
- Duty of loyalty and utmost good faith;
- Duty to refrain from self-dealing;
- Duty to act with integrity of the strictest kind;
- Duty of fair and honest dealing; and
- Duty of full disclosure.
The abovementioned fiduciary duties are not an exhaustive list and there are certain specified fiduciary duties that exist for certain professions, such as a Trustee or Attorney.
If an officer, director, or partner breach their duty to the business entity there are certain damages that that business entity may sue for. Such as economic damages, out of pocket loses, loss profits, mental anguish, and exemplary damages. The corporate entities may sue an individual for these enumerated damages to make the corporation whole again. Furthermore, where a fiduciary duty applies to each individual, such as in a partnership, the individual may seek these damages personally as well.
Those in positions of power in an LLC, Corporation, or Partnership have a higher degree of care and responsibilities to the businesses. If you are a business owner or a partner and your business has been injured due the malicious acts of an employee or partner of the business, find an experienced attorney that can make your business whole.
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If you want to bring French vocabulary into your home, here are some cards to help you succeed at introducing and reviewing a variety of words.
These French vocabulary cards include 80 words from everyday life – generally around your home: Furniture, rooms, numbers, colours, animals, and foods.
There are two copies of each page – one set with both French and the English words, and one set with only the French words.
Some ideas on how to use these:
- Label things in your home.
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Problem trimming length of audio files
I imported a MP3 file to a slide, and then used the "edit audio" tab to cut about 10 seconds of unused sound from the end of the audio file . I used the "crop" function and then clicked "save and close".
storyline saved the file as "audio1" and updated the timeline accordingly. When right-clicking the edited audio file I can see that the length is correct - 10 seconds shorter.
However when I publish and view the slide, the slide continues to play past the end of the slide - exactly 10 seconds worth. There is nothing to see and nothing to hear.
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The Navistar International Corporation, the parent company of International Truck and Engine Corporation, earlier entered into a consent injunction with Ford Motor Co. in which it resumes the production and shipment of the 6.4L Power Stroke? diesel engines which are intended for the automaker?s Super Duty pickup trucks. The automaker, in the said injunction, is expected to pay without deductions.
The International Truck and Engine Corporation has been Ford?s exclusive diesel engine supplier for Super Duty pickup trucks since 1979. In February, the automaker launched the new 6.4L Power Stroke for the new Super Duty. In addition, Navistar produces 225,000 to 300,000 diesel engines for Ford trucks each year.
Ford said that they had spent $1.05 billion in warranty and repairs on the previous Navistar diesel engine in Ford's Super Duty pickup trucks. Navistar said that the automaker's warranty claim is false. Ford debited Navistar about $125 million early this year. Ford said the contract allows debiting however Navistar disagreed. The two companies also have a dispute about the appropriate price for the new engine. That makes up a disagreement amounting to over $300 million a year.
On 26 February, Navistar suspended the production of the diesel engine. According to the engine supplier, the suspension is resorted to because the automaker had stopped honoring the terms under which the engines were manufactured. The suspension made Ford seek a temporary restraining order from Judge John J. McDonald of the Circuit Court of Oakland County, Michigan.
On 28 February, Judge McDonald issued an order requiring the supplier to resume production of the engine and Ford to pay with no withholding until a hearing was held. After the scheduled hearing the judge asked the companies to continue discussion to settle whether an agreement can be reached before the trial is commenced. The companies met and the judge issued consent injunction that supersedes the temporary restraining order. The said order from the judge also requires both companies to meet and resolve the contract dispute regarding warranty claims and pricing.
"I think this (consent injunction) represents a new spirit of cooperation between the two companies," Navistar spokesman Roy Wiley said. The consent injunction assuages concerns of the derailment for one of Ford's most important launches of the year.
Ford's Louisville, Kentucky plant stopped production last week and was shut down Friday after Navistar suspended shipments of the engines. The pickup truck also serves as the one of the vital keys to make Ford recover from billions of dollars of losses in recent years.
The halt of engine production threatened to disrupt production of the Super Duty, one of the most profitable product lines of Ford. In the past, a shortage of engines also has disrupted production at a Ford plant in Kentucky. That situation is now avoided by the automaker. Super Duty trucks are the most popular vehicles in their class, averaging 50 percent market share in the heavy-duty pickup truck segment during the past years. Hence, to allow production to be disrupted is perilous to the automaker.
Ford acknowledged the agreement with Navistar and said in a statement it was pleased there would be no further disruptions to the production of the F-Series Super Duty. The automaker said its Kentucky plant began ramping production back up early this week and will be back at full speed on Monday.
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Gukurahundi was planned… dissidents were proxy elements claims Retired Colonel
By Nqobani Ndlovu | NewsDay |
Former Zimbabwe People’s Revolutionary Army (Zipra) combatants have denied that some of their colleagues were dissidents who were deployed to topple then Prime Minister Robert Mugabe’s government after independence.
The former Zipra combatants told Southern Eye that Gukurahundi was “not a surprise” because Zanu and its military wing, the Zimbabwe African National Liberation Army’s (Zanla), were openly hostile to their Patriotic Front comrades even before independence.
Zipra Veterans Association spokesperson Retired Colonel Baster Magwizi said Zapu and its military command structure never deployed any dissidents or fought against Mugabe’s government.
The dissidents were proxy elements of Mugabe’s government to justify a “relentless effort to decimate Zapu leadership and the Zipra forces”, Magwizi alleged.
“You will appreciate that there were no dissidents before Gukurahundi in the sense as they were known. Their (government) agenda was to wipe out Zapu and its supporters and Zipra, of course.”
“So the 1980s scenario came as no surprise to us because there was a standing agenda of Zanu working with the West to destroy Zapu because Zapu was considered a communist movement and Zipra, community-led forces.”
Mugabe deployed the North Korea-trained Fifth Brigade to lead a crackdown against alleged dissident activities in Matabeleland and Midlands provinces in the early 1980s, resulting in mass killings of over 20 000 people under an operation that was called Gukurahundi.
A former aide of the late Zapu leader and Vice-President, Joshua Nkomo (pictured), Freddy Mtandah, told Southern Eye: “The integration of former fighters into the Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA) ended in 1981. Freedom fighters were demobilised and disarmed, left assembly points for their homes before the 1981 Christmas. Towards the end of 1980, government started using former Rhodesian soldiers as special forces.
“The Rhodesian African Rifles regiment was used during the (Entumbane Uprising of 1981, often called Entumbane 2) against Zipra. It was not a secret that Zipra had weapons.
“We had a regular army, which was not integrated. The weapons were moved from Zambia by train in 1980 and kept at Gwaai River assembly point.
“The camp was deliberately closed by government. We had to move the weapons to our farms. It was not secret catches as alleged. It was not a secret that Zipra was associated with MK (Umkhonto weSizwe) of the ANC (African National Congress). There were more than 350 MK fighters at Gwaai.
“The special forces, the former Rhodesian military intelligence, recruited a former Zipra battalion commander to create unit, which acted as Zipra dissidents. Just like Selous Scouts.”
Mtandah said Dumiso Dabengwa was at the time working at the Joint High Command and had been integrated into the ZNA.
“So I had to tell Joshua Nkomo about this development. Nkomo met Mugabe in the morning of February 5, 1980. I had to give Nkomo a piece of paper to remind him to ask Mugabe about army presence at Zipra farms (because) government was aware of the weapons which had not been surrendered as there was no policy for disarmament, but Mugabe brushed off the matter,” he said.
“That afternoon, I accompanied Nkomo to Bulawayo. On the plane with us was (President Emmerson) Mnangagwa and (former Defence minister Sydney) Sekeramayi, who then went on to parade the arms.
Like others who had been recruited, the former Zipra battalion commander joined CIO [Central Intelligence Organisation] and was deployed as a diplomat. He died years ago.”
Mtandah added: “Others who died later are national heroes buried at the (National) Heroes’ Acre.
Apart from those on government payroll, there were no Zipra dissidents who fought against the Zimbabwe government.
“It was all a fabrication. The fear of these gallant Zipra combatants caused Gukurahundi. None of these comrades fired a single shot against fellow Zanla comrades or the new ZNA. When they were demobilised, they left unarmed to their rural areas just before Christmas in 1982.”
Sekeramayi has previously claimed that the deployment of the Fifth Brigade was necessary to put down armed rebellion from Zipra dissidents, a charge Zipra vehemently denies.
“At independence, they (Zanu and Zanla) captured the State and all its logistics, infrastructure and systems and waged a relentless effort to destroy Zapu and Zipra … This is when the stories of Zapu 2000 started coming out so that could link Zapu somehow with the dissidents, but this smear campaign failed because Zapu did not have ex-combatants who were under the authority of Zipra who were deployed as dissidents,” Magwizi added.
“It did not have. Actually, among the Zipra commanders, generals like Madala Khumalo went out of their way to comb the combatants, to look out for the ex-combatants, who had remained in the bush and were refusing to come to the assembly points because then, they were suspecting that things were not level enough, but (Zipra) executed a mission to bring into the assembly points every ex-combatant who was Zipra.
“So those who remained outside were no longer Zipra. We did not have them on our books as having been given a mission to go and fight the new government. So Zapu had no dissidents.”
Mnangagwa’s spokesperson George Charamba recently claimed that Gukurahundi was an armed conflict between the State and alleged dissidents, a claim that elicited angry reactions as the Gukurahundi issue refuses to die down.
Magwizi claimed dissidents were proxy elements of ex-Zanla cadres and State spies working in collaboration with then South African apartheid government.
The South African apartheid government was opposed to Zapu’s relationship with Umkhonto weSizwe (MK), the military wing of the now ruling African National Congress party.
Mugabe’s government also opposed the MK operating from Zimbabwe in its fight against the SA white minority government.
“SA was complicit in Gukurahundi because the Bureau of State Security and the Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO) of Zimbabwe were co-operating at this level, and we know for certain that they were sponsoring these operations through the groups of Kent Flower and other double agents. This we know from intelligence sources,” Magwizi said.
Declassified documents have also exposed how the foreign governments aided the Mugabe-led regime during Gukurahundi.
“Those who found themselves in the arms of the dissidents formations were not Zipra. They were Zipra impersonators. All these were machinations of trying to smear the Zapu leadership and its Zipra forces as enemies of the new State.
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Achieving and maintaining a healthy weight can be challenging, especially in a modern society where food is constantly available.
However, not eating enough calories can also be a concern, whether it’s due to intentional food restriction, decreased appetite or other reasons.
In fact, under-eating on a regular basis can lead to a number of mental, physical and emotional health issues. Here are 9 signs that you’re not eating enough.
Calories are units of energy your body uses to function.
When you don’t eat enough calories, you’re likely to feel tired most of the time.
The number of calories needed for these basic functions within a 24-hour period is referred to as your resting metabolic rate.
Most people have a resting metabolic rate higher than 1,000 calories per day. Adding physical activity can increase your daily needs by another 1,000 calories or more.
Although hormones also play a role in energy balance, generally if you take in more calories than needed, you will store most of the excess as fat. If you take in fewer calories than needed, you will lose weight.
Restricting intake to fewer than 1,000 calories daily can slow down your metabolic rate and lead to fatigue since you’re not taking in enough calories to support even the basic functions that keep you alive.
Eating too little has particularly been linked to low energy levels in older people, whose food intake may decrease due to reduced appetite (
Other studies in female athletes have found that fatigue may occur when calorie intake is too low to support a high level of physical activity. This seems to be most common in sports that emphasize thinness, like gymnastics and figure skating (
Yet even light physical activity like walking or taking the stairs may cause you to tire easily if your calorie intake is well below your needs.
Eating too few calories can lead to fatigue due to insufficient energy to exercise or perform movement beyond basic functions.
Losing hair can be very distressing.
It’s normal to lose several strands of hair daily. However, if you’re noticing an increased amount of hair accumulating in your hairbrush or shower drain, it may be a sign that you’re not eating enough.
Many nutrients are needed to maintain normal, healthy hair growth.
Basically, when you don’t take in enough calories and key nutrients, your body will prioritize the health of your heart, brain and other organs over hair growth.
Hair loss may occur as a result of inadequate intake of calories, protein and certain vitamins and minerals.
Being hungry all the time is one of the more obvious signs that you’re not eating enough food.
One three-month study followed mice who were fed a diet containing 40% fewer calories than usual.
In humans, calorie restriction may cause hunger and food cravings in both normal-weight and overweight individuals.
In a study of 58 adults, consuming a 40%-calorie-restricted diet increased hunger levels by about 18% (
Essentially, if your calorie intake drops too much, your body will send signals that drive you to eat in order to avoid potential starvation.
Undereating can cause hormonal shifts that increase hunger in order to compensate for inadequate calorie and nutrient intake.
Undereating may interfere with a woman’s ability to become pregnant.
The hypothalamus and pituitary gland located in your brain work together to maintain hormonal balance, including reproductive health.
The hypothalamus receives signals from your body that let it know when hormone levels need to be adjusted.
Based on the signals it receives, the hypothalamus produces hormones that either stimulate or inhibit production of estrogen, progesterone and other hormones by your pituitary gland.
Research has shown that this complex system is highly sensitive to changes in calorie intake and weight (
When your calorie intake or body fat percentage drops too low, signals may become impaired, leading to changes in the amount of hormones released.
Without the proper balance of reproductive hormones, pregnancy cannot take place. The first sign of this is hypothalamic amenorrhea, or having no menstrual period for three months or longer (
In an older study, when 36 underweight women with amenorrhea or infertility related to calorie restriction increased their calorie intake and achieved ideal body weight, 90% began menstruating and 73% became pregnant (
If you are trying to conceive, make sure to consume a well-balanced, adequate-calorie diet in order to ensure proper hormonal function and a healthy pregnancy.
Consuming too few calories can disrupt reproductive hormone signals, leading to difficulty getting pregnant.
Sleep deprivation has been found to lead to insulin resistance and weight gain in dozens of studies (
In addition, while overeating may cause sleeping difficulty, it appears that strict dieting can lead to sleep problems as well.
Animal and human research has shown that starvation-level calorie restriction leads to sleep interruptions and a reduction in slow-wave sleep, also known as deep sleep (
In one study of 381 college students, restrictive diets and other eating problems were linked to poor sleep quality and low mood (
In another small study of 10 young women, four weeks of dieting led to greater difficulty falling asleep and a decrease in the amount of time spent in deep sleep (
Feeling as though you are too hungry to fall asleep or waking up hungry are major signs that you’re not getting enough to eat.
Undereating has been linked to poor quality sleep, including taking longer to fall asleep and spending less time in deep sleep.
If little things have begun to set you off, it could be related to not eating enough.
Indeed, irritability was one of several issues experienced by young men who underwent calorie restriction as part of the Minnesota Starvation Experiment during World War II (
These men developed moodiness and other symptoms while consuming an average of 1,800 calories per day, which was classified as “semi-starvation” for their own calorie needs. Your own needs may be lower, of course.
A more recent study of 413 college and high school students also found that irritability was associated with dieting and restrictive eating patterns (
To keep your mood on an even keel, don’t let your calories drop too low.
Prolonged low calorie intake and restrictive eating patterns have been linked to irritability and moodiness.
If you constantly feel cold, not eating enough food could be the cause.
Your body needs to burn a certain number of calories in order to create heat and maintain a healthy, comfortable body temperature.
In fact, even mild calorie restriction has been shown to lower core body temperature.
In a six-year controlled study of 72 middle-aged adults, those who consumed an average of 1,769 calories daily had significantly lower body temperatures than the groups who consumed 2,300–2,900 calories, regardless of physical activity (
In a separate analysis of the same study, the calorie-restricted group experienced a decrease in T3 thyroid hormone levels, whereas the other groups did not. T3 is a hormone that helps maintain body temperature, among other functions (
In another study of 15 obese women, T3 levels decreased by as much as 66% during an eight-week period in which the women consumed only 400 calories per day (
Overall, the more severely you slash calories, the colder you’re likely to feel.
Consuming too few calories can lead to a decrease in body temperature, which may be due in part to lower levels of T3 thyroid hormone.
Infrequent bowel movements may be related to inadequate calorie intake.
This isn’t surprising, since consuming very little food will result in less waste in your digestive tract.
Constipation is typically described as having three or fewer bowel movements per week or having small, hard stools that are difficult to pass. This is very common in older people and can be worsened by poor diet.
One small study of 18 older adults found that constipation occurred most often in those who didn’t consume enough calories. This was true even if they got plenty of fiber, often considered the most important factor for proper bowel function (
Dieting and eating too little food may also cause constipation in younger people due to a slowed metabolic rate.
In a study of 301 college-aged women, the strictest dieters were most likely to have constipation and other digestive problems (
If you’re having problems with regularity, it’s important to take a look at the amount of food that you’re eating and evaluate whether you’re getting enough.
Strict dieting and under-eating can lead to constipation, partly due to less waste product to form stool and slower movement of food through the digestive tract.
Although dieting itself may lead to moodiness, outright anxiety can occur in response to very low calorie intake.
In a large study of more than 2,500 Australian teens, 62% of those who were classified as “extreme dieters” reported high levels of depression and anxiety (
Anxiety has also been observed in overweight people who eat very low-calorie diets.
In a controlled study of 67 obese people who ate either 400 or 800 calories per day for one to three months, roughly 20% of people in both groups reported increased anxiety (
To minimize anxiety while trying to lose weight, make sure you’re consuming enough calories and eating a healthy diet that includes plenty of fatty fish to ensure you’re getting omega-3 fatty acids, which may help reduce anxiety (
Very low calorie intake may lead to moodiness, anxiety and depression in teens and adults.
Although overeating increases the risk of developing health problems, under-eating can also be problematic.
This is especially true with severe or chronic calorie restriction. Instead, to lose weight sustainably, make sure to eat at least 1,200 calories per day.
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The Waterfall of Besh-Livadhi is situated in the brook that passes near the village of Besh-Livadh. It has a height of over 10 meters and in the spring season there are large water flows. The cliffs that pass through are layered and look like tiled tiles on top of each other. The waterfall is hidden in a green vegetation oasis and is not easy to find. To go up there you have to follow the road from Tirana to the village of Besh near the ‘Shkallët e Tujanit’. The road is asphalted on 3/4 of it and then proceeds to the rural road. There are no orientation signs and only a few outdoor guides know this waterfall.
Photo and information are courtesy of Albert Cmeta in his Album #TiranaThroughLens
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A programmable thermostat makes controlling your home comfort easy, plus it can help you save some money. This thermostat can be programmed around your schedule, so won’t have to pay to heat your home when you’re away. With the erratic weather in Georgetown, a programmable thermostat can ensure your home’s temperature stays exactly where you want it, when you want it there.
The best way to maximize the benefits of your programmable thermostat is to take some time to analyze your family’s daily activities. By doing this, you can determine how to program your thermostat so you don’t use energy when you and your family are gone, but you also won’t have anyone coming home to a house that’s too hot or too cold.
You could try to remember to adjust your thermostat before work and again when you come home, but why needlessly do all this work when the programmable thermostat was made to make your life and your home more comfortable? All you have to do is set it and forget it… and saving on energy is a great bonus.
You can help your system operate more efficiently by programming your thermostat for large periods of time and limit your temperature changes to 10 degrees or less. This will save you money while keeping you comfortable in your home. Many people don’t realize that it takes your system less energy to keep your home at a reasonably constant temperature than it does to turn it on when you get home and try to heat a cold house.
A programmable thermostat operates with the same basic functions as a traditional thermostat, but also offers a variety of preprogrammed settings to trim down your energy use and, therefore, potentially cut your energy bills.
- Preprogrammed settings often include designated options for when you are at work or on vacation. Using these settings will automatically lower your temperature setting whether you’re away from Georgetown on vacation or just away from home for the day.
- Some programmable thermostats allow you to lock the thermostat to prevent kids from accidentally (or purposely) moving the temperature and potentially altering your bill.
- You should also know that setting the heat much warmer than you’d normally set it will not help your house warm up more quickly. Many people assume that cranking the heat up in a cold house will warm it up faster, but it doesn’t. And they’ll forget to turn it back down, making the house uncomfortably warm and wasting energy.
When you want to ensure your home is always comfortable and would be happy to save your money, a programmable thermostat is a great option. To find out more about the many programmable thermostats available and which one might suit your home the best, call Miller Climate Control LLC in Georgetown at 512-937-2001. | <urn:uuid:884b4922-2b27-4049-af69-92b2cc22c83c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.millerclimatecontrol.com/blog/set-your-thermostat-for-maximum-comfort-and-savings | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570977.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809124724-20220809154724-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.931025 | 601 | 1.570313 | 2 |
Discover one of the greatest feelings in the world! Use this meditation to find your way home.
Begin by becoming aware of what you say to yourself every day. What is the automatic mantra that plays in your mind?
The list may look something like this: I’m not good enough, I made bad decisions, I’m too fat, I’m a bad mother, I’m a useless provider, I have so many regrets, etc. Now, become aware of what things you believe you need to have, buy, acquire, and achieve in order to remedy all those beliefs.
The only thing creating pain in your life is your THOUGHTS about your life and your situation. Buddhists call this “Suffering” or the nature of suffering. It is all self-created.
If for a moment you could step back, relax and notice that everything is ok right NOW, without the need to change it, to mold it, to work your way out of it, to starve yourself, to win the lottery, to be the best, or drive the fastest car, you would be in a very different place.
Now, take all the stuff you believe you need in order for everything to be great and make you lovable, scoop them into an imaginary brown sac. Put the sac to one side.
Now, visualize yourself as a 5-year-old, happy, giggly and free.
See yourself playing, totally inspired in the moment, maybe you are dancing, or painting.
Feel the peace you have in that moment. Feel your love of being alive, pure joy radiating around you.
Know that THIS feeling is what you are seeking.
See, over time, you have come to believe that you need all the things in this brown sac to feel this feeling.
Now, see your little 5-year-old holding the bag with tears in your eyes because the joy has gone, you are no longer allowing yourself to be filled with love, giggles and happiness, because she/he is told daily that they cannot have fun, they cannot enjoy life, or play freely until you get all of that stuff.
Is that really true? Is it really true that you absolutely need all those material things or achievements to be happy?
Of course not!
This conveyor belt of endless self-criticism is hurting you deeply and robbing you of your self-belief, self-worth and self-love. It is time to heal you and let go of the beliefs holding you back from being happy.
So, ask your 5-year-old self now if he/she is ready to let go of the belief that you cannot love yourself and be happy without that stuff?
Get agreement by saying a “let it go with love” prayer.
You are perfect and you are love. You are ready to feel love.
Imagine a beautiful crackling fire now, take the brown sac over to the fire and imagine yourself throwing the sac on the fire. Say good-bye to the things holding you back from feeling alive, happy, abundant and inspired. As you watch the sac transform and crackle to dust, feel the weight lifting off you and allowing you to feel as light as feather. As you release this baggage from you now as the old sac of misbeliefs turns to ashes, know that your life from now will be filled with love for yourself and radiate to all those around you.
Now, imagine yourself picking up your 5-year-old self and saying:
I am so sorry, I am so sorry I have forgotten you, I have not taken care of you, I am so sorry. From now on, you come first, you are the most important, you are my priority and I will take care of you no matter what. I love you.
This is a call to your inner guide, to lead you back to you, to show you that YOU do not need a thing to be at peace right now.
Look back at your whole life and every experience you have had, every journey, every fall and every victory.
See how you were doing your best, making the best choices you could at the time. Realize that you were just searching for a way home to that giggling, free, lovable 5-year-old self.
Let your heart open now and allow yourself to love YOU right now, exactly as you are. Allow your 5-year-old self to be free again from all the weight of those things inside that heavy brown sac.
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Tackling child poverty is one of the Scottish Government's national missions. An estimated 24% of children in Scotland, or 240,000 children each year, were living in relative poverty after housing costs the years from 2017 to 2020.
There is a considerable way to go to reach the national targets. The target for relative child poverty is to reduce it to 18% by 2023 and to 10% by 2030.
Many families continue to face significant challenges due to poverty. The aim of this publication is to summarise the latest evidence on what works in tackling child poverty and to inform the second Tackling Child Poverty Delivery Plan (2022-2026).
Searches were carried out across the three key drivers of child poverty to identify policies or approaches that could impact positively on: income from employment; income from social security and benefits in kind; and costs of living. In addition, the search covered each of the six priority family types who are at higher risk of poverty.
What's currently working well, and what should the Scottish Government and partners continue and do more of?
There is wide consensus across national stakeholders and supported by other international approaches that, to tackle child poverty, the following needs to continue to take place:
- Having clear targets supported by policies that directly impact on poverty rates
- Tackling poverty across all three drivers (income from employment, cost of living and income from social security and benefits in kind)
- Having a combination of various policies that support families most in need, and recognising that there is no single way to experience poverty, but a wide range of unique experiences.
Specifically on the three drivers of poverty, evidence supports continuation of many aspects of current policy:
- Enabling and supporting parents to increase their income through paid work and earnings is an important part of tackling child poverty, and employment policies should continue to push the child poverty reduction agenda.
- The current Social Security provision in Scotland is valued by families and is effective at increasing many families' incomes.
- Good quality, affordable childcare is crucial in supporting some parents to enter or maintain employment, and can be an important facilitator in increasing household income and helping to lift families out of poverty. The recent Early Leaning and Childcare expansion is welcomed and valued.
Are there policies, actions or approaches that the Scottish Government and partners should stop doing, or do differently?
In order to tackle child poverty, a combination of universal and targeted policies is recommended by the evidence. A case by case assessment should be made, balancing societal needs, barriers and government resources, to decide whether a universal or a targeted approach should be taken for any given policy.
Across the wide range of policies available, clearer targeting strategies can be developed with the aim of reaching and supporting those most at risk of poverty.
While the current Social Security system in Scotland is valued, many families do not claim the benefits that they are entitled to. The current value of the benefits package available for families is also not always sufficient by itself to keep all of those who do out of poverty. More action is needed to increase take-up and maximise eligibility.
A significant element of the social security system is managed by the UK Department for Work and Pensions. Therefore any proposed changes to benefits delivered at UK level would mean, for the Scottish Government, lobbying for either the changes themselves, or for further devolution of powers in these areas.
The evidence highlights potential areas for improvement in the service design and delivery at a UK level. This includes restrictions on benefit eligibility, payment timing and accuracy, payment consistency, fewer sanctions, policy values and staff attitudes, information provision and communication channels.
The flexible 'Scottish choices' on Universal Credit have had some positive impacts for recipients. Although, for some, this has come with operational difficulties, and many recipients decide not to take up the flexibility, e.g. they would rather receive a larger payment every four weeks or not to have their rent paid directly to their landlord.
While current employment policies are a step in the right direction, more is needed. Employability services which acknowledge and support the complexity of parents' lives, are flexible, rooted in the local community, and individually tailored to parents' needs are more likely to be successful.
To address current high levels of in-work poverty, research suggests that further action is required. Recommendations include to improve the quality and flexibility of available employment and ensure childcare availability and flexibility that matches job requirements. Evidence also highlights the need to address structural barriers such as discrimination (unfair treatment) and undervaluation (being paid less for equally demanding job), particularly for women, disabled people and people from minority ethnic groups.
Affordable childcare can play an important part in supporting families to enter or maintain employment. While the recent early learning and childcare expansion is welcomed and valued, affordable school age childcare is needed along with increased flexibility in opening hours and booking systems. However, it is important to be aware that there is inconclusive evidence on whether more hours of childcare are beneficial for children's outcomes.
What new policies, actions or approaches should the Scottish Government consider implementing?
There is a need for an individual, holistic approach, within a framework of understanding structural barriers, in order to maximise the effectiveness of policies and avoid perpetuating stereotyping and stigma. Clear targeting strategies that identify and support priority families is crucial.
Getting out of poverty is a very complex journey. There are two key complicating factors. First, from an individual perspective, the system is not always clear and it is mostly not a straightforward task to manage the range of support and benefits available. It is help in navigating the system which is therefore probably the most useful for most people in this respect. Secondly, the ability of service providers to offer a 'no wrong door' approach. That is, ensuring a comprehensive advice and support network across the full system.
There are some suggestions of issues to consider when overcoming these barriers, mainly:
- Improvements in the take-up of means-tested or targeted benefits by creating simple and accessible forms and automation of payments where appropriate, supported by an approachable advice service.
- Minimising friction in accessing services by reducing barriers. For example, through supporting access to digital devices or electricity for charging them.
- Maximising flexible access to services to support those in employment with irregular hours.
Additional policies for employability could include equal parental leave policies and proactively advertising jobs as flexible when they could be worked flexibly.
There are some policy approaches around social security that Scotland could consider expanding. One is on further embedding advice and support around social security in places and services that families already use, such as GP practices or schools. Another is about maximising eligibility of benefits, particularly those that are used as passported benefits to other support.
Finally, for some parents, financial pressures are made worse by the lack of child maintenance paid by their child's other, non-resident, parent. Research shows that child maintenance does help reduce poverty for parents who receive it, and that it currently decreases poverty among single mother families more than it increases poverty among fathers paying support. One potential alternative system can be found in Finland, where the government provides child support, up to a guaranteed amount, if payments are not received from non-resident parents. This appears to have a greater poverty-reduction effect than the UK system.
What lessons from the COVID-19 response could be applied to tackling child poverty in the future?
The emergency response to the pandemic put an unprecedented level of pressure on the whole public sector, and raised questions around the way it operates and engages with others. Evidence points towards some key lessons that could help future work to tackle child poverty.
Flexible support to local authorities. Local authorities were able to provide emergency response fast by being allowed greater flexibility. This allowed local areas to respond to crisis and get help to where it was most needed. Lessons can be learned around the flexibility and paperwork attached to some funds or spend.
Cash-first. Cash-first responses can work, as shown through the quick response to minimise food insecurity during the pandemic. It provided flexibility, dignity, safety and convenience, whereas vouchers could be unsuitable in some situations and food parcels may be less able to meet individual needs and preferences.
Flexible working. The need to quickly move to home working demonstrated that more flexible working patterns could be embedded across the labour market to allow for a more diverse workforce. However, not all sectors or job types allow for this type of flexibility. Care should be taken to not further entrench inequalities by creating a two-tier system where office workers experience increased flexibility while those in lower paid jobs do not.
Trusted sector-based approach. In order to provide support to where it was needed fast, a range of different channels were used across digital and traditional mediums. People tended to seek advice from places and organisations where they had an existing relationship or which they trusted. Going forwards, consideration can be given to emphasising provision of advice through services people already use, such as schools, nurseries, childcare providers, healthcare settings, communities of worship or third sector organisations.
Automation of payments. Minimising friction is key for increasing take-up of benefits. One way is through automating more benefits. A significant part of the financial support provided to low income families during the pandemic was directly transferred to people – without the need for filling out forms.
Use of digital channels. For many families, greater access to services and support through digital channels have been helpful in increasing their accessibility. However, digital access and literacy is not yet universal. Further work is required around improving digital infrastructure for families in poverty.
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Amit Shah on National Girls Day
New Delhi: On National Girl’s Day, many ministers like Amit Shah, Nitin Gadkari and Jyotiraditya Scindia posted their wishes on social media. In issuing his vows, Union Home Minister Amit Shah said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi had changed the thinking of women’s development to the resolution of women-led development and opened the doors of opportunity.
Taking to Twitter, Amit Shah wrote, “Prime Minister @NarendraModi Ji changed the thinking of women’s development to solving women-led development and opened the doors of opportunity. Today, the girls in the country are lighting up the name of India in all walks of life. On the occasion of “National Girl’s Day”, I send my best wishes to all the girls of India, the pride of the country.”
Amit Shah also listed the programs such as the ‘Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao (BBBP) programme, which according to the Home Minister has turned into a people’s movement.
The Government of India launched the BBBP program on January 22, 2015 to address key issues related to women’s empowerment in the country.
Nitin Gadkari, spoke to Koo App and said that the government under Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi is continuously striving for “women-led development”. He posted: “With determination, skill and ambition, the country’s girls are making their mark in all walks of life today. Our government, under the leadership of Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi, has continuously strived to achieve “women-led development”.
The Government of India, in 2008, declared January 24 to be celebrated annually as the National Day of the Girl Child with the aim of creating awareness in society about the girl child so that she can be valued and respected.
It is celebrated to raise awareness about the inequalities, discrimination and exploitation faced by girls in society.
“On #NationalGirlChildDay, we celebrate the girls of India who, with strong determination and fearless idealism, are creating identity in all walks of life. On this day, we pledge to close the gender gap which prevents women from leading a life of independence and dignity,” Union Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia tweeted.
In a tweet thread, he further announced that Gwalior will host the 2nd Hockey India Sub Women’s Junior Academy National Championship. He tweeted, “The occasion coincides with the good news that Gwalior will host the 2nd Hockey India Junior Women’s Academy National Championship. As a region that continues to produce the best athletes, MP is making strides in building of world-class sports facilities in India.”
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The Disturbing Problems Caused By Eating Disorders
When a person has a compulsive craving to eat or an absolute aversion to eating, the person has an eating disorder. Obesity, anorexia, bulimia and binge eating are the types of eating disorders that are commonly found in patients. In this modern age, where looking good means being thin, many young women develop eating disorders by excessive reduction of food and excessive exercise.
Going on a diet is not unhealthy. If the diet is nutritious with all the essential nutrients included in the food, washed down with water and complimented with regular exercise, the diet is good for health. Carrying dieting to the extreme by starving and exercising strenuously causes a disorder that is more harmful than good for the body. An eating disorder is a psychological problem. It is caused by the obsession to get thin quick. Eating disorders should be treated at once before the problem gets serious. | <urn:uuid:54e0c923-a61a-4984-a4bd-5de44c491d9c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://eatingdisorders.com/blogs/general-eating-disorder/the-disturbing-problems-caused-by-eating-disorders | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571911.5/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813081639-20220813111639-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.967979 | 187 | 2.640625 | 3 |
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JournalismPakistan.com July 07, 2017
Every so often we hear of some person who has been arrested for touching someone’s child. His defense is always that it was an innocent gesture of affection or that he was struck by a bout of homesickness and thinking of his own children back home and meant no harm.
Probably he did not mean anything untoward and one does feel bad for such a person but that said, it is still inappropriate and the best advice one can give is that you just do not touch other people’s kids. You do not ruffle their hair, pat their cheeks or chuck them under the chin.
When it is a poor laborer or a less educated person involved it is too facile to say we react out of social prejudice. It isn’t prejudice, it is just playing safe. You could be well off and dressed in a suit and you still would not have the right to touch or fondle a strange child, however well-intended or innocently affectionate it might be.
To a large extent it is a cultural thing and most prevalent in the Indian subcontinent where cute (and fairer skinned) children are hugged and caressed by aunts, uncles and total strangers as a matter of course.
Therefore, if you go shopping to the supermarket and get offended by an attendant offering your three-year -old a sweet and then putting his hand on her head fondly you might find it objectionable and you would be well within your rights. That the attendant would be confused you thought it was wrong is not your problem.
My kids take this aspect very seriously. When they were growing up we taught them young that they are no relatives who need to hug you and you don’t have to go to them to have them put their arms around you. If you feel uncomfortable in any way, don’t go. But to be honest besides that caution our generation was a lot more easygoing. I’d like to say ‘trusting’ but that is a presumption. Probably just lazy and blissfully ignorant of the lot of bad out there.
We left the girls at home with male help around. The driver took them shopping, picked them up from school. They often played in the park unsupervised. There were not under nanny care 24/7.
When I look at my children and their approach to our grandkids I think to myself, migoodness, did we take chances or is this generation paranoid?
Were we really so much more careless 20 years ago or have times changed so dramatically from then that we have to police our kids from predators, real and imagined.
I picked this subject today because someone we know just had to dismiss their houseboy because they ‘caught him’ touching their six-year-old daughter’s hair. First, the word, houseboy is a bit colonial and offensive because he was an adult. Second, it could have been protective and just a harmless gesture. But the child told her mum that he did it often. Alarm bells began to ring and the man was asked to leave. He protested his innocence and said he’d been with them seven years and this was insulting in the extreme and he would never harm the child who had been born in front of him and it was only normal avuncular affection. I saw her the day she came home, how can you even think like that, just because I am poor and you are not.
He was genuinely hurt to the quick.
Well, it was a no brainer. Maybe it was unjust and unfair and undeserved but that is your kid and once a little worm of doubt has wriggled into your mind you just have to call it a day. Whether technology has contributed to this new boldness and given men some convoluted idea of liberty with other people’s children the truth us it is your kid and you cannot afford the luxury of extending benefit of doubt.
Thanks to social platforms, the intrusions into our lives of scare stories, the fear and distrust, the so much sharing and passing on of stark and graphic incidents, all these have probably contributed to the protectionism.
Maybe it is also needed. Why not reduce the risk factor even if it calls for round the clock surveillance?
I am sorry if it is arbitrary and even sorrier that the person may be innocent and wrongly judged but the moment there is a feeling of discomfort, part ways, don’t even guilt yourself. And be straight, if your kid tells you this has happened before, uncle or household help, stranger or neighbor, you do what you have to do.
I still vividly recall a friend and I were flying to Frankfurt and at the airport he saw this little tyke and proceeded to become buddies and offered him a sweet or something.
I asked him what the heck he thought he was doing?
Whath a thweet little kid, he lisped deliberately, and asked the child if he would have a chocolate.
Have you gone mad, I yelled, leave the child alone.
A friend of ours tells us about how his elderly aunt arrived from Delhi and at the airport saw this little English boy about a couple of years old.
Without any hesitation, she picked him up in her arms and hugged him and then smothered him with kisses, he says. We were so taken aback and before we knew it the mother of the child stalked up and yanked the child away and screamed for help.
“My aunt was bewildered and the mother wanted to call the cops and it took 10 minutes of apologizing and explaining that she wasn’t kidnapping the baby. It was a nightmare and it could have gotten out of hand. Tried telling my aunt you just do not do this but she wouldn’t understand.”
The message is loud and clear. You just do not touch, caress or fondle other people’s kids in any way even if you mean well.
(The writer is a Senior Editorial Advisor of Khaleej Times and the paper’s former Editor. He has also been the Editor of Gulf News, Gulf Today, Emirates Today and Bahrain Tribune)
The News, February 21, 2019
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When cafes across Egypt flood with excited supporters this month to watch the national team take part in a World Cup for the first time since 1990, there will be a sense of frustration among many of the country’s Coptic Christian footballers who claim only Muslims get to play.
One former player, Mina Bendary, 22, from Alexandria, gave up on his dream of becoming a professional player in 2015 due to what he perceives as religious discrimination. He says that having a Coptic Christian name proved an obstacle to cementing a place in the first team after joining Al Ittihad, an Alexandria-based Premier League club, three years earlier.
“Christians simply don’t play in professional football clubs in Egypt,” he said. “I was told by club officials to change my name in order to play professionally.”
Egypt, the most successful team in Africa Cup of Nations history, will line up against Uruguay on June 15 for their opening match of the tournament in Russia without a single Christian even in the squad, let alone the starting XI. The outlook at domestic level is no better; there are no Copts presently playing in the Egyptian Premier League, even in the country’s biggest clubs, such as El Ahly and Zamalek – a remarkable statistic given that around ten per cent of Egypt’s population is made up of Copts.
Their absence at a professional level is “not an impossible statistical anomaly, but a product of deep-rooted discrimination that exists in the administration of football in Egypt and in Egyptian society at large”, according to Coptic Solidarity, a US-based organisation dedicated to achieve equal citizenship for Egypt’s Coptic Christians.
In April, the former Egypt international and Tottenham Hotspur striker Ahmed Hossam, better known as Mido, who is a Muslim, publicly addressed the issue of religious discrimination young and talented football players face in Egypt.
During an interview on Egypt’s DMC Sport channel, the former Zamalek manager said: “How is it possible that in the history of Egyptian football there have only been five Christian players in the top level [Egyptian Premier League]?. There are Christian players who stop playing at a young age because of the discrimination by some of the coaches.”
In recent history, Hany Ramzy, who played for Egypt between 1988 and 2003, is the only Coptic Christian to have represented the national team. Among the other Copts playing at the highest level of domestic football in Egypt are Ashraf Youssef, who played for Zamalek during the 1990s, Nasser Farouk, who played for Ghazl El Mahalla until 2013, and Mohsen Abdel Massih, who played for Ismaily in the 1980s.
Mido went so far as to propose a radical new rule that would force Egyptian clubs to include a certain quota of Coptic Christians in their squad, making the sport more inclusive.
In 2010, the Egyptian striker, who had a reputation for hard partying, clashed with Hassan Shehata, a Muslim and the former Egyptian national coach, after he was initially cut from the national team selection for the African Cup of Nations in Angola because he did not live up to Shehata’s pious ideals.
Shehata, who led Egypt to three successive victories at the African Cup of Nations Championships in 2006, 2008, and 2010, was quoted in Egyptian media saying skill alone won’t guarantee a player a place on the national team.
“Without [piety], we will never select any player regardless of his potential,” Shehata said. “I always strive to make sure that those who wear the Egypt jersey are on good terms with God.”
After heavy criticism, he later retracted his comments in a BBC interview.
Today, Bendary can be found training young “rejected” Coptic players like himself at his academy which he named “Je Suis”, which translates from French to “I am” – the famous hashtag which went viral as a show of solidarity following the Charlie Hebdo attacks in Paris in 2015.
The academy, which he set up three years ago, provides both Christian and Muslim players between the ages of five and 30 with the opportunity to improve their skills, play in a team and, if they possess enough talent, prepares them for clubs in the Egyptian league.
“I established Je Suis Academy primarily to help young talented Coptic players realise their potential despite the injustices and frustrations they suffer,” Bendary said. “Although it includes Muslim trainees, the turnout of Christians is much higher because they know I understand firsthand the difficulties and discrimination they have faced in football, even when they are lucky enough to be part of a team.”
Among the trainees is Mina Samir – nicknamed Ronaldo because of his resemblance to the Portugal and Real Madrid forward, Cristiano Ronaldo – a 17-year-old who had experienced rejection many times before joining the academy.
The midfielder said he applied to Premier League clubs Alassiouty, based in Beni Suef, Suez-based Petrojet, and El-Nady El-Ismaily, in Ismaïlia but claims he was turned away because of his Christian name.
He said: “I have been playing football since I was 12 and started applying then. My first experience was at El-Ismaily. The coaches there told me they were impressed by my performance. But as soon as I told them my name is Mina . . . they said they would call me back. I never got that call.
“Last year, I applied at Petrojet. I was the only player wearing yellow trainers while we stood in line during the trial. The coach called out to me ‘the one wearing the yellow trainers, what’s your name?’ So I told him ‘Mina’ and then he quickly diverted his attention away claiming he meant the player standing next to me. The player next to me was wearing black trainers. It was then I knew I wouldn’t make the cut after his sudden shift in the way he treated me.”
He added that his brother, Abanoub Samir, now 21, faced the same scenario when he applied to join Al Ittihad when he was 16.
“Officials told him to change his name to ‘Mostafa Ibrahim’ – a Muslim name. But he refused and so didn’t get the contract,” Mina Samir said.
Samir is not alone in feeling that his religious status has hindered his hopes of becoming a professional player. George Murad, 24, nicknamed “Torres” after the Spanish footballer Fernando Torres, said he unsuccessfully attempted to lodge a complaint when he was told to change his Christian name.
“It’s very difficult in Egypt to prove religious discrimination because it’s often not explicit,” he says.
These feelings of discrimination stem from years of persecution and heightened religious tensions between Copts and Muslims in Egypt. Christians in the country often complain of being overlooked for jobs or promotion. It is difficult for Egyptians to conceal their religion because it is stated on individuals’ national identity card.
Few Christians hold positions of authority in the government – only one of the 36 government ministers is Christian, and there are no Christian governors, even in Christian-majority areas, according to a recent report by the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF).
In addition, human rights groups reported more than 120 sectarian attacks in 2017, including mob attacks against Christians and churches, while the lack of effective prosecution of perpetrators remained a serious concern. In addition, a series of bombings by affiliates of the terrorist group ISIS targeted churches and Christians, resulting in almost 100 deaths.
A spokesperson for Coptic Solidarity said: “Discrimination against Copts in Egyptian football clubs and national teams is just one of the many ways in which Copts suffer daily, systematic discrimination perpetrated by the Egyptian government and the broader populace. Until the Egyptian government ends the climate of impunity for attacking Copts, and ensures consequences for discrimination against Copts, the situation will not improve.”
Earlier this year, the organisation published 44 questions to the Egyptian parliament highlighting issues of discrimination and persecution in various institutions including football clubs.
In the wake of the 2016 Rio Olympics, the organisation submitted complaints to the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and Fifa, urging the governing bodies to investigate allegations of religious discrimination.
Of the 122-strong delegation of Egyptian athletes sent to the Rio Olympics, there were no Coptic Christians, the same number who participated at the London Games. Coptic Solidarity was also concerned that not a single Egyptian Christian player or coach can be found at any club in the country’s top football division.
Coptic Solidarity says Fifa only responded last month – two years after the original complaint – and only to request more information.
A Fifa spokesperson said: “We showed our concern and asked Coptic Solidarity to furnish us with more background material.
“Once again, Fifa has also stressed its zero-tolerance policy towards every form of discrimination in global football and committed to ensure that this matter is investigated in the proper manner.
“On 27 April, Coptic Solidarity said they will provide Fifa with an updated report further detailing this matter. Fifa is waiting to hear back from them and will then be in a position to analyse the facts and decide on the next steps.”
In response, Madgi Khalil, a board member of Coptic Solidarity and prominent political analyst appearing in Middle East broadcast news, said he is finalising an updated report to submit again to Fifa.
Alassiouty Sport Club denied all allegations of discrimination and inequity in all respects saying it “maintain a professional world-class methodology that is neutral to all types of differentiation factors”.
Saif Alassiouty, the club’s chief executive officer, said: “We currently have four Egyptian junior players, and three foreign professional players who are Christians. According to privacy policies, we can’t reveal our Egyptian players details until we get a confirmation from their parents.”
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Turmeric (Curcuma longa) has been used for 4,000 years to treat a variety of conditions. Studies show that turmeric may help fight infections and some cancers, reduce inflammation, and treat digestive problems.
Can you take turmeric everyday? Research indicates that turmeric doses of 500–2,000 mg per day may be effective. However, high doses are not recommended long-term.
Consequently, Is turmeric good for lung infection? The anti-inflammatory property of Curcumin found in turmeric is really important in improving the functioning of lungs and helps in conditions such as asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, pulmonary fibrosis, and acute lung injury because of its effectiveness in pulmonary conditions with abnormal inflammatory …
Is turmeric good for immunity?
Turmeric: Turmeric contains a compound called curcumin, which is credited for most of the potent health benefits of this yellow spice. Curcumin has anti-inflammatory properties that can help to boost immunity.
Can turmeric prevent flu?
Summary: Curcumin, a natural compound found in the spice turmeric, could help eliminate certain viruses, research has found. A study showed that curcumin can prevent Transmissible gastroenteritis virus (TGEV) – an alpha-group coronavirus that infects pigs – from infecting cells.
Likewise, What’s the best time to take turmeric? Most people find success taking turmeric either in the morning to start their day, or at night before bed to combat inflammation from the day’s activities. We also recommend that you take turmeric with a meal since curcumin absorption increases when paired with healthy fats.
Does turmeric have side effects?
Turmeric usually doesn’t cause serious side effects. Some people can experience mild side effects such as stomach upset, nausea, dizziness, or diarrhea. These side effects are more common at higher doses. When applied to the skin: Turmeric is likely safe.
Can turmeric affect the kidneys? Side effects of Turmeric
Turmeric contains oxalates and this can increase the risk of kidneys stones. “The consumption of supplemental doses of turmeric can significantly increase urinary oxalate levels, thereby increasing risk of kidney stone formation in susceptible individuals.”
Is turmeric good for respiratory?
Turmeric: Curcumin in turmeric has antioxidant and anti-inflammatory effects which can be beneficial for supporting lung function.
Is turmeric Good for shortness of breath? Turmeric packed with oodles of curcumin – the active principle that helps ward off allergic responses and the release of histamine. All these qualities of turmeric can help reduce breathlessness. According to a study, curcumin may diminish the intensity of an attack and stave off episodes in an asthmatic patient.
Can turmeric affect breathing? Turmeric has been shown to break down mucus, which makes it easier for your body to remove the mucus from its airways. The break down and removal of mucus may also help relieve coughing and improve your ability to breathe.
Is turmeric a good antibiotic?
Curcumin, a principal bioactive substance of turmeric (Curcuma longa L.), is reported as a strong antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, antibacterial, antifungal, and antiviral agent. However, its antimicrobial properties require further detailed investigations into clinical and multidrug-resistant (MDR) isolates.
How much turmeric do I take a day?
That being said, our experts tell us that a reasonable dosage is 500 mg per day, which we’ve seen corroborated by several independent experts, including Bindiya Gandhi, MD, who recommends 400 to 600 mg of turmeric, up to three times per day, as tolerated.
What is the best way to eat turmeric? 7 Ways to Eat & Drink Turmeric
- Add it to scrambles and frittatas. Use a pinch of turmeric in scrambled eggs, a frittata, or tofu scramble. …
- Toss it with roasted vegetables. …
- Add it to rice. …
- Try it with greens. …
- Use it in soups. …
- Blend it into a smoothie. …
- Make tea.
Can turmeric help a cough?
Turmeric. Containing a compound called curcumin, turmeric can effectively treat dry cough. Notably, this compound is known to have antiviral, antibacterial, and anti-inflammatory properties. Turmeric can also provide you relief from respiratory conditions like asthma, bronchitis, etc.
How does turmeric boost immune system? Directions:
- In a small saucepan, combine cider, ginger, turmeric and lemon peel over medium-high heat.
- Heat until a ring of bubbles appears around the edge of the pan – about 3 minutes.
- Cover pan and set aside to steep for 5 minutes.
- Pour hot-spiced cider through a fine tea strainer into a mug.
- Serve immediately.
Is it good to take turmeric at night?
Initial mice studies have found that turmeric can protect against oxidative damage and sleep deprivation. Slip this super spice into your bedtime ritual to relax, improve mood, help depression , and potentially lower your anxiety levels (as seen in mice).
What happens if you drink warm turmeric water every morning for 7 days on empty stomach? Drink Warm Turmeric Water Every Morning For 7 Days On Empty Stomach, This Will Change Your Life Forever. This spice is great and has many health benefits for our bodies. It helps with cardiovascular health, inflammation, brain health, arthritis, liver protection, prevents aging, digestion, fighting cancer and so on.
What is the best way to take turmeric?
The most effective way to take turmeric is with a liquid, such as in liquid shot form or even blended within a drink or smoothie.
Can turmeric cause high blood pressure? This supplement has been banned by the United States Food and Drug Administration (US FDA) due to its role in increasing the heart rate and blood pressure and the potential to cause cardiovascular side effects, such as heart attack and stroke.
Does turmeric affect the liver?
The authors concluded that pure turmeric could directly lead to liver damage but stated that unknown contaminants causing hepatic injury could not be excluded.
Is tumeric good for the liver? It improves liver function
The antioxidant effect of turmeric appears to be so powerful that it may stop your liver from being damaged by toxins. This could be good news for people who take strong drugs for diabetes or other health conditions that might hurt their liver with long-term use.
Is turmeric good for kidney infection?
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Mapping areas prone to tick activity
In France, Ixodes ricinus is present throughout most of the country and is the main vector of tick-borne diseases such as Lyme disease. The activity and life cycle of ticks depend on many environmental factors such as climate (oceanic, Mediterranean, continental, etc.), altitude, land use (forests, meadows, urban areas, etc.) and the presence of hosts. A rating ranging from "unfavourable" to "very favourable" was assigned to each of these four factors, the presence of hosts being assessed according to the density of wild ungulates (data from the French Biodiversity Agency). The research team combined their knowledge of such factors using multi-criteria decision analysis, which they applied to geographic information systems in order to create a map that would indicate the most favourable habitats for Ixodes ricinus.
To validate this approach, they compared the map’s predictions to field data obtained through nymph sampling campaigns carried out in France. The map confirms that the most favourable areas for ticks are in the centre, north-east and south-west parts of the country, while the least favourable habitats are the Mediterranean and high mountain regions. This map provides valuable information for regions and municipalities and will be useful to better target prevention campaigns against ticks.
A model to predict tick activity according to the weather
Tick activity is also determined by weather conditions, which have an impact on the risk of pathogen transmission, including those responsible for Lyme disease. To better understand and describe tick activity, researchers used data from a network of 7 sites in mainland France. Since 2014, monthly sampling campaigns have been organised in these observatories to estimate tick density, but also to measure meteorological (temperature, humidity, etc.) and environmental variables (altitude, land use, etc.). By consolidating the information from 631 sampling campaigns, they were able to develop a statistical model to estimate tick activity according to location, season, and meteorological variables. This model can explain most of the fluctuations previously observed in tick activity.
Together, the map and the model provide valuable information to identify regions and periods with high tick exposure risk in France. The objective is to be able to combine the two in order to produce maps of tick activity for metropolitan France, based on meteorological data.
Isabelle Lebert, Séverine Bord, Christine Saint-Andrieux, Eva Cassar, Patrick Gasqui, Frédéric Beugnet, Karine Chalvet-Monfray, Sophie O. Vanwambeke, Gwenaël Vourc'h, Magalie René-Martellet. 2022. Habitat suitability map of Ixodes ricinus tick in France using multi-criteria analysis. Geospatial Health, Vol.17 n°1 (2022) DOI: https://doi.org/10.4081/gh.2022.1058
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Chelan Falls Uptick in Case Count
June 11, 2020
East Wenatchee, WA – Recent testing at an agricultural congregate housing facility in Chelan Falls resulted in a slight uptick of positive Coronavirus (COVID-19) cases in Chelan County. Initial testing showed some workers had positive COVID-19 test results and that led the agricultural facility to test all members of the congregate housing unit. The five (5) farmworkers who recently tested positive for COVID-19 are currenlty in isolation.
Chelan-Douglas Health District is working with the agricultural industry to educate employees and employers about the COVID-19 virus. Public health urges all public members, especially those who are in some way connected to anyone in the agriculture industry, to continue to take public health precautions seriously. These are ways you can help stop the spread:
- Wear a mask in public;
- Wash your hands often or use hand-sanitizer;
- Keep you distance from others in public – 6 feet if possible;
- Limit entire families going to a grocery store;
- Avoid social gatherings with people outside of your household; and
- Get tested for COVID-19 if you have a fever, chills, dry cough, headache or body ache, recent loss of taste or smell.
Please educate yourself and help educate others. Together, we can help stop the spread of COVID-19 and work our way towards healthier and safer communities. The Chelan-Douglas Health District urges you to Be a Protector – Not an infector. For more information, visit www.cdhd.wa.gov and follow us on Facebook & Twitter . | <urn:uuid:4b0aa23a-b27b-4c88-8e83-3ad8c506b282> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.cdeoc.org/resources/5b8a1ee99be4fbb17fbd32f532edd43b.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817001643-20220817031643-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.927685 | 348 | 1.601563 | 2 |
(DVD+Read Write) A rewritable (re-recordable) DVD disc for both movies and data from the DVD+RW Alliance. DVD+RW media can be read on DVD-Video players and computer DVD-ROM drives. Using phase change technology, the first DVD+RW discs held 3GB per side, but were later increased to the industry standard 4.7GB. A double sided disc holds 9.4GB. DVD+RW supports both the CLV and CAV recording formats, the latter providing more uniform random access for interactive data applications.
In practice, the term "DVD" refers to all DVD formats. The phrase "rewrite the data on the DVD" really means "rewrite the data on the DVD+RW or DVD-RW." See DVD, DVD storage capacities, DVD drives, DVD-RW and optical disc. | <urn:uuid:ba7e27cb-35c5-4178-8faa-5063c7dfb3eb> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.pcmag.com/encyclopedia/term/dvd-plusrw | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571538.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812014923-20220812044923-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.891798 | 175 | 2.546875 | 3 |
View of San Ysidro port of entry as few cars enter the US from Tijuana, Baja California state, Mexico, on March 19, 2020.
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The United States is expected to announce restrictions on travel across the border with Mexico as part of the effort to stem the tide of the coronavirus pandemic, according to a new report Thursday.
The restrictions are expected to be revealed Friday, according to the report by the Reuters news agency, which cited two officials familiar with the matter.
Those sources said that the restrictions on the U.S.-Mexico border would be similar to the agreement with Canada that was announced Wednesday by President Donald Trump.
Trump and and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau that day said they were temporarily closing their nations’ border — the longest in the world — to non-essential traffic.
On Tuesday, the member countries of the European Union agreed to close their external borders to non-citizens in most cases for one month.
There have been more than 236,000 cases of coronvirus reported worldwide, with at least 9,790 deaths.
In the United States alone, there have been at least 11,238 coronavirus cases, and at least 157 related deaths.
Mexico has 118 confirmed cases, and 1 reported death, according to Johns Hopkins University of Medicine, which has been tracking the spread of coronavirus, and the related disease of COVID-19.
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Students will learn the relationship between actions and reactions.
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What happens if Pakistan defaults on its loans? What is default actually? Inability to fulfil an obligation, especially to repay a loan or appear in court is what default means.
Pakistan is undergoing a financial crisis since 1947 due to multiple reasons. Be it political instability, inflation, poor governance, natural disasters, struggle for existence, at the end of the day it is the economy that has to suffer and ultimately the survival of common man. While the rate of dollar exceeds 200 Rupees and petrol prices reaches the height of 250 Rupees per liter, those days are not far when the current degradation of Sri Lankan economy becomes the fate of Pakistan too. For past three months, Sri Lanka’s foreign currency reserves have virtually run dry and the locals are devastated by hunger and poor health.
Public Debt of Pakistan
As of March 2022, Public Debt of Pakistan is around PKR 42.9 trillion (USD 248.7 billion) which is 80.2 percent of gross domestic product (GDP) of Pakistan. The deflating economy of Pakistan has already attracted the outrage of public to an extent that lower middle class or even middle class are spiritless and are falling in depths of distress while the upper and elite class are finding a way to escape this country.
The worst impact of default in economic system is going to hit the already suffering trade of country. With appalling condition of economy, the nightmarish hit on out import export is going to render industries and its input helpless. The severe tsunami of unemployed youth is the worst case scenario of any developing country but with the current rise in downsizing, this seems to be a horrible future of the country.
Unfortunately for Pakistan to repay loans means to get more loans which has been and will continue to pressurize national treasure and per capita income. No doubt coming out of the grey list of FBR was splendid milestone yet Pakistan has to work continuously on its relation with World Bank and IMF.
With exhaustion of funds and labor, a massive number of developmental projects will have to be ceased with countries like China, KSA. A sovereign default leads to three outcomes: from damaging a country’s reputation with international investors; to make it prohibitively expensive to borrow and wrecking confidence in the country’s currency. Initially China having its own axe to grind, it might openly accommodate Pakistan financially and morally to stabilize the economy enough to keep their projects running as Pakistan plays a pivotal role in their One Belt One Road initiative started in 2013.
The pride that Pakistan had at the time of its birth or even the struggles or sacrifices that laid its foundation would all come to a tragic end if Pakistan fails to repay its debts. The legal and social penalties are further going to take a massive hit at Pakistan’s international reputation. The only way to beat these worsening repercussions lies in the hands of policymakers and their sensible and practical strategies. The foremost step is to build a strong industrial base and well equipped youth. | <urn:uuid:5616eccb-cb77-47e1-b663-e9582df2bfb3> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://thenationalfrontier.com/2022/07/04/what-happens-if-pakistan-defaults-on-its-loans/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571911.5/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813081639-20220813111639-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.952965 | 605 | 2.625 | 3 |
“Post-natal depression (PND) is a common perinatal psychological effecting several parents that have had a child from birth up to around 3 years old,” says Annie Belasco, head of PANDAS. “Symptoms and indicators include low mood, invasive ideas, persistent sensations of despair as well as/ or anxiousness, as well as also with some parents, trouble bonding with their infant.”
As the Coronavirus lockdown continues to dictate the method we live, pregnant women across the UK are questioning just how it affects every little thing from their birth strategy to their maternal leave.
One area that isn’t being attended to as much is that of psychological health and wellness in new moms– yet it’s an area that’s seeing a significant increase in need to charities as well as helplines. As a matter of fact, within the first week of lockdown being announced, charity PANDAS (Pre- as well as Post-Natal Depression Advice and also Support) saw a 75% rise in calls to their helpline.
PND influences more than 1 in every 10 women within a year of giving birth, according to the NHS, so it’s no marvel the present pandemic is taking its toll on really brand-new parents.
“Whilst COVID-19 does not ’cause’ PND, it definitely is influencing both pregnant parents and postnatal moms and dads who have actually simply delivered,” claims Annie. “Anxiety can be generated by really feeling ‘‘ out of hand’, and also many moms and dads are having to comply with stringent assistance on self-isolation, which is contradictory to the guidance we would generally provide to brand-new parents. Prior to Coronavirus, we motivated parents to hang out with a secure community, attend peer to peer assistance as well as take much-needed physical help that might be on offer from family and friends.”
Because lockdown restrictions most likely mean that these typical coping systems– relying upon family and friends for child-care, in addition to essential emotional and mental support, especially for first-time parents– aren’t possible, lots of females who are giving birth throughout the pandemic are battling to deal. And also PND does not just impact mums– study has really found that as much as 1 in 10 brand-new dads ended up being clinically depressed after having a child
“There’s no ‘‘ me time’, they’re balancing everything at home as well as, for some, managing their own perinatal mental wellness whilst raising a youngster,” Annie explains. “Parents are really feeling separated as well as lonesome; stretched physically and mentally.” Which’s prior to factoring in what Annie terms ‘‘ a generalised wave of anxiousness among all parents at the moment’ because of increased pressure on job, money as well as relationships which numerous brand-new moms and dads normally really feel under ‘‘ normal’ scenarios, let alone throughout a pandemic.
So, what can brand-new parents do to protect their psychological wellness right now? This is the recommendations presently supplied by PANDAS:
- Encourage boundaries online. We are greatly dependent on social media sites as a motivator, however it is critical for parents who may be battling with their perinatal psychological wellness to establish borders to stay clear of possible triggers that could create held up. Make sure you are adhering to positive, inspiring as well as comparison-free social networks.
- Exercise self-care. We are encouraging moms and dads to remember the individual behind the moms and dad (you) in all of this. Take time to recognize yourself and also do at least one point– despite how large or little– each day to concentrate on yourself and remove any type of guilt.
- Acknowledge thoughts as well as sensations, approve them and request for support with one person that you really feel able to. Enable yourself time and also give yourself the power to recognize that you can not attain every single point you would love to in a perfect globe. Do not be tough on yourself and also recognize that every parent remains in this with each other.
- Sign up with PANDAS social media networks via Instagram (where we have normal lives with inspirational posts and special guests) as well as Facebook for boosting, precise and supportive details and also content, that will certainly motivate you each day to keep going!
Where to turn for aid
If you are struggling, a range of help and also assistance is offered. PANDAS use a safe, helpful neighborhood with trained and also protected staff member that are right here to offer hope as well as empathy. Call their cost-free helpline on 0808 1961 776 (Monday – – Sunday, 11am – 10pm), or email their assistance solution on email@example.com for a reaction within 72 hrs. You can additionally go to the Mind Community for
a safe area to talk and also share your ideas and experiences, or get in touch with the Association for Post Natal Illness(APNI )on 0207 386 0868 or by using the live chat box on their website (both manned Monday – Friday, 10am – 2pm). If you assume you could have PND, speak with a GENERAL PRACTITIONER – or your health and wellness – visitor as
quickly as feasible. If self-help, way of life options or charity assistance aren’t helping, you might be prescribed antidepressants or referred for psychological treatment, such as cognitive behavioural treatment(CBT). Call 111 or 999 in an emergency situation if you need aid urgently. Most significantly,
do not battle in silence hoping this will certainly vanish.
As it states on the NHS internet site, it’s not your mistake you’re clinically depressed and also it does not imply you’re a negative parent, or that your infant will be removed from you(children are only taken right into care in extremely remarkable conditions). Post-natal clinical depression can take place to any person. You are not the only one. PANDAS’s 4th yearly Pre-and also Post-Natal Depression Awareness Week( #PNDAW 20 )will be 31st August – 6th September 2020. | <urn:uuid:97f4fb28-9ede-45b8-9024-b5bfcf5065e5> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://osvilt.com/about-health-1/what-to-do-if-youre-worried-you-might-be-suffering-from-post-natal-depression-in-lockdown.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571911.5/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813081639-20220813111639-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.965991 | 1,324 | 1.9375 | 2 |
A poll of 2,000 people found the average adult will tuck into 14,175 international dishes between the ages of 18 and 81 - almost double the 7,812 traditional British meals they will consume.
Italian is the most popular choice, with Mediterranean cuisine typically on the menu once a week - or 3,276 over an adult lifetime.
Brits will also consume 819 Mexican spreads, 756 Spanish plates and 252 African dinners.
The study, by Giraffe World Kitchen, also found more than one in 10 have just one traditionally British meal a week, with 2.5million Brits never eating one.
And eight in 10 reckon they eat more international cuisine than ever before.
Alex Meyer, from Giraffe World Kitchen, said: “As a nation, we are travelling the world more than ever and experiencing more exotic and international cuisines and this is being reflected on our dinner tables and in the meals we choose when eating out.
“Italian, Chinese and American cuisines are even consumed so much in the UK, that many consider them to be British meals, with people becoming fans of food of more exotic places such as Peru, the Middle East and Africa.
“It’s fantastic to see we are as passionate about world food as all of us at Giraffe World Kitchen are, and just like us, going out into the world, travelling, discovering dishes and broadening our taste buds more than ever before.
“Every menu we create is a curation of world taste and we have noticed an ever increasing hunger for both dishes from further afield as well as, a trend we believe is set to grow, a greater curiosity into the authenticity and regional dishes of the countries whose culinary style we already love.
“To this end we have adapted our Autumn menu to include Steamed Duck Gua Bao Bun and Indo-Coco Curry.”
The study found that the average Brit will consume 2,079 American meals over the average lifetime, along with 630 French and 567 Thai dishes.
Greek recipes account for 567 of our meals over a lifetime while the average adult will also tuck into 378 Middle Eastern favourites and 189 Peruvian dishes.
We’ll also eat 378 meals from Japan and 315 Turkish dinners.
But as a result of the increase in international cuisine we are now consuming, six in 10 think British dishes are in danger of being wiped off the nation’s dinner tables by more exotic meals.
The study also found that more than three quarters put the new-found love of international cuisine down to it being more readily available in supermarkets and shops, while 40 per cent think people are more willing to try new flavours and ingredients.
Other reasons include people travelling more and experiencing different foods abroad (41 per cent) and people are becoming more experimental with cooking and in the kitchen (41 per cent).
Eighty-two per cent say they are becoming more adventurous with dishes they have for dinner - both at home and when eating out.
Seven in 10 even said they are more likely to go to a restaurant which serves world cuisine when they dine out, while 60 per cent would opt for an international dish over a British meal on a menu.
Keen to spread more world food fun, Giraffe World Kitchen are on a mission to recruit a candidate for the best weekend job in the world and become Giraffe’s ‘World Food Weekender’ - winning a month of weekend dish discovering for the spring collection of world food which will be served up in Giraffes across the UK next year, for details see giraffe.net #giraffekitchentravels.
Top 10 most popular world cuisines
Breakdown of meals eaten across a lifetime
Per year Per lifetime (63)
Italian 52 3,276
Chinese 27 1,701
Indian 30 1,890
American 33 2,079
Mexican 13 819
Thai 9 567
French 10 630
Greek 9 567
Spanish 12 756
Middle Eastern 6 378
African 4 252
Japanese 6 378
Turkish 5 315
Peruvian 3 189
Caribbean 6 378
International 225 14,175
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To combat shoplifting, which now is a plague, several large retailers in Australia are using facial recognition software. You can read about it here. It is used now to prevent theft and threatening situations. It identifies individuals of interest who have formerly been involved in high-security incidents.
Our POS software has an extensive video security system inside of it. So we can handle this and could integrate it if the information was released to our clients. Then our systems could warn the people in the shop if a known shoplifter or violent people entered the shop.
There would be privacy issues, but I'm afraid I have to disagree with Choice consumer data advocate Kate Bower that the system is "a completely inappropriate and unnecessary use of the technology".
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We are witnessing so many wars in the digital era. Now it is not about physical wars countries are fighting with each other by hacking each other’s websites. Recently we have seen that Iran hacked US websites. Now, these Russians Hackers hacked Ukrainian gas company.
Russian spies hacked Ukrainian gas company at heart of Trump impeachment trial, the company says
Russian military started spying Ukrainian websites earlier. After that Russian spies have hacked Gas company that is the heart of an impeachment trial of President Trump. That made Ukraine investigate about the company.
According to the cybersecurity firm, In November, The Russian spy agency AKA GRU few attacks as phishing. With that, they started gaining credential of employees. So hackers can easily have access to their email accounts.
In this operation, they started inquiring into Trump and they started seeking information about President Volodymyr Zelensky.
GRU was practising cyberattacks on the presidential campaign from 2016. They started with servers of the Democratic Party and Hillary Clinton’s campaign. After that, the U.S intelligence community concluded that these actions aimed to help Trump and hurt Clinton.
“The timing of the GRU’s campaign in relation to the 2020 U.S. elections raises the specter that this is an early warning of what we have anticipated since the successful cyberattacks undertaken during the 2016 U.S. elections,”
The Area 1 report says,
“The success of phishing relies on authenticity,”
Phishing is a very popular trick to gain anyone’s credentials. By using Phishing only the hackers started hacking accounts of all employees. In Phishing, they sent links and malware which are very common in the cyberattack.
Yet anything is not proved that what hackers have found. And no one knows what they are searching for. But the experts say that Russians must be looking for embarrassing material on the Bidens. The same thing Mr Trump wanted from Ukraine when he did an investigation of the Bidens and Burisma.
The Area 1 report says,
“Our report is not noteworthy because we identify the GRU launching a phishing campaign, nor is the targeting of a Ukranian company particularly novel. It is significant because Burisma Holdings is [publicly] entangled in U.S. foreign and domestic politics,”
The firm added into it,
“The timing of the GRU’s campaign in relation to the 2020 U.S. elections raises the spectre that this is an early warning of what we have anticipated since the successful cyberattacks undertaken during the 2016 U.S. elections,” | <urn:uuid:0654a27b-9028-48c4-a5bd-f44fb7618d07> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://techviral.news/russians-hackers-hacked-ukrainian-gas-company/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571911.5/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813081639-20220813111639-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.957741 | 548 | 2.140625 | 2 |
What is Sonnet 29 Edna St Vincent Millay?
Edna St. Vincent Millay’s “Pity me not” is a sonnet of lost love. In this short, sad poem, a speaker tries to reconcile herself to the fact that love, like everything else in the world, inevitably fades away. The poem was published in 1923 as part of a sonnet sequence Millay began in 1920.
What is the meaning of Sonnet 29 by William Shakespeare?
Sonnet 29 focuses on the speaker’s initial state of depression, hopelessness and unhappiness in life and the subsequent recovery through happier thoughts of love.
Who wrote Sonnet 29 Pity me not?
Sonnet 29 – Pity Me Not Because the Light of Day by Edna St. Vincent Millay. Here is an analysis of American playwright and poet Edna St. Vincent Millay’s ‘Pity Me Not Because the Light of Day.
What is pity me not about?
“Pity Me Not,” like many traditional sonnets, offers the perspective of a tormented lover. The general tone of the poem, evidenced in words such as “waning,” “ebbing,” “hushed” and “wreckage,” reflects exhaustion and disappointment.
How does Sonnet 29 celebrate the presence of love in the poet’s life?
In Shakespeare’s Sonnet 29, the poet is despondent through the first two quatrains (groups of 4 lines). In the ending couplet which sums up the meaning of the sonnet, the poet states, For thy sweet love remember’d such wealth brings,/That then I scorn to change my state of being.
Who is Sonnet 29 addressed to?
Who is the addressee of Sonnet 29, ‘When in disgrace with fortune and men’s eyes’? Like all of the early Sonnets (indeed, the first 126 of them!), Sonnet 29 is addressed to a young man with light hair and a fair complexion – known commonly as the ‘Fair Youth’.
What characteristics does Sonnet 29 have?
Shakespeare’s sonnets, including “Sonnet 29,” have which characteristic? They all contain one quatrain and nine couplets. They all contain two quatrains and five couplets.
What type of sonnet is time does not bring relief?
‘Time does not bring relief; you all have lied’ by Edna St. Vincent Millay is a fourteen-line sonnet contained within one block of text. The poem is structured in the common form of a Petrarchan sonnet.
What is the theme of the Sonnet 29?
Major Themes in “Sonnet 29”: Anxiety, love, and jealousy are the major themes of this sonnet. The poet discusses his miserable plight and the impact of love. The poem also explains how love brings optimism and hope for people who feel lonely and oppressed. In short, sonnet 29 is also about self-motivation.
When did John Millay write the sonnet 29?
Sonnet 29, from a sequence of sonnets Millay wrote and published between 1920 and 1923, perfectly captures the way you might try to bury the hurt deep down – but sometimes the armour cracks or the façade slips and grief comes tumbling out.
Why is Millay furious with herself in Sonnet 29?
Millay is furious with herself for allowing the emotions of the heart to override her good sense. She wants to hold onto pain, teaching herself a lesson she feels she deserves. Another contrast Millay gives us is the struggle of the individual in the face of huge forces of fate and time.
What is the meaning of Millay’s sonnet Pity Me Not?
Millay “investigated her own nature with a ruthlessness that left nothing for any psychologist’s analysis of the personality to shock her with” (Atkins 128). This role is evident in her sonnet, “Pity Me Not”: And you no longer look with love on me. Strewing fresh wreckage gathered in the gales. What the swift mind beholds at every turn.
Where does pity me not begin in Sonnet 29?
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The Real Problem Underlying the Global Nuclear Conundrum
The nuclear threat has always been and continues to be a formidable and perplexing problem. Surrounding and intertwined in this debate is a set of complex and often opaque issues. The nuclear debate is about global and regional issues, as well as moral and technological factors. Domestic political considerations as well as geopolitical dynamics also are present. However, psychological factors, such as mutual mistrust and insecurity, lie at the foundation of it all (this is so with the U.S. and China, and is keenly on display in the nuclearized Indo-Pakistan conflict).
The more recent nuclear weapons proliferators (notably, Pakistan, North Korea, and then nuclear aspirant Iran) tend to receive the lion’s share of attention in policy debates and the public discourse. Indeed, there is little disagreement that these newer nuclear powers are a major part of the problem of our global nuclear conundrum. But they are not the core issue. The real problem that keeps the world mired in a state of perpetual global nuclear insecurity is the intransigence of the earlier nuclear powers, namely, the United States and Russia. Until these two national actors, along with ascendant military power China, are pressed to disavow their goals of global nuclear hegemony, we shall remain mired in this nuclear dilemma.
Confusion, conflict, and non-cooperation, which have come to define contemporary US domestic affairs, are increasingly the hallmarks of global affairs a quarter-century after the end of the Cold War. Our country, previously the guarantor of the post-WWII political and economic order, the world’s first nuclear weapons state, and then the leading actor in guiding post-Cold War affairs, is leading the way, especially during the Donald J. Trump era, in deconstructing whatever level of global governance that has been put in place. Observer Richard Haass writes of the “disarray” that has arisen from the unravelling of international agreements and alliances and the overall abdication of American leadership and regional and global engagement.1 This trend cannot be disputed. Since the end of the Cold War and under two Republican presidents, the United States has removed itself from important bilateral and multilateral accords -- the Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty, the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Agreement, the Paris Climate Agreement, the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA, also known as the Iran nuclear agreement), and probably soon to come, the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). These moves are being made while U.S. counterparts like China, Russia, other BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) countries as well as emerging powers like Iran, Saudi Arabia, and Turkey, are establishing and furthering a host of multilateral initiatives. Domestically and globally, the Trump administration engages in politics and implements policies that are remarkably divisive, ill-considered, and unproductive. Indeed, the consequences of the ‘make America great again’ framework will have lasting impact.
Many would like to believe that our leaders across the world would work hard to achieve lasting and genuine movement on a path toward global nuclear security. It is difficult to imagine that this will occur in the foreseeable future. Arguably, the JCPOA forestalled a war with Iran. But now, as the agreement unravels, how will Israel and Western powers respond as Iran takes steps that could again bring the country to the threshold of becoming a fledgling nuclear state? Some observers argued that the ABM Treaty had outlived its usefulness. But one wonders what will be the consequences for other nuclear agreements. What will ultimately become of the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START), the bilateral agreement between the U.S. and Russia that deals with long-range nuclear weapons? Why is the United Nations (UN) nuclear treaty (Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, also known as the Nuclear Ban Treaty) that was promulgated last year being disregarded by the established nuclear powers?
And then there’s the North Korean nuclear conundrum, which is undoubtedly the most perplexing nuclear problem of all. To be sure, a summit between President Trump and his North Korean counterpart Kim Jong-un would be a positive development in international affairs. This is so even if such a meeting (assuming that it takes place) yielded no immediate concrete results. But as this meeting comes together, there are important areas of concern. Based on available information and the analyses of expert observers, both clarity and a framework are lacking, and this is on the eve of this meeting. In my own estimation, there are three critical questions for US-North Korean diplomacy and the upcoming meeting:
What kind of, and how much “daylight” exists between whatever is the US operational definition of denuclearization and that of the North Korean counterparts?
What is the American side willing to give up, especially on the military side, in an eventual bilateral or multilateral agreement?
Are President Trump and his Chinese and Russian counterparts prepared to engage in the give-and-take that will be necessary for the success of any bilateral or multilateral agreement on Korean Peninsula security, or, will the trend of major power mistrust and non-cooperation persist?
I don’t want to overstate this point, but the political and diplomatic theatre in the lead-up to the planned summit (even the announcement of a future meeting between Kim and his Syrian counterpart Bashar al-Assad) raises serious questions about what “success” would look like for US-North Korean diplomacy and its prospects. Then there are the well chronicled and obvious nuclear double standards and even unrealistic demands for denuclearization that are being made from the US side. Just this week, several leading Democrats in the US Senate sent a letter to President Trump that pointedly called for complete denuclearization of North Korea and “anytime,” “anywhere” inspections by outside observers. Much that was stated in this letter closely mirrored sentiments recently expressed by US National Security Advisor John Bolton, to which the North Korean leaders had strong negative reactions. As Jeffrey Sachs observes, and as writers like Joseph Gerson have chronicled through the years, the United States (and even its ally Israel) wants to have it both ways regarding nuclear security: other actors are expected to abide by the provisions of the global nuclear regime, notably, the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), which requires signers to take active steps to denuclearize, while the U.S. maintains global nuclear dominance.
Is it reasonable to expect our country to maintain nuclear hegemony in the contemporary period? Is that what we want, and if so, how far are we willing to go to forcefully deny nuclear capability to undesirable actors? In my own estimation, the recent inter-Korean diplomacy is the only real bright spot on the Peninsula, and the major powers should bolster those efforts. If nuclear diplomacy on the Korean Peninsula breaks down yet again, it will be due principally to irreconcilable differences both of demands as well as expectations.
To be sure, the forgoing is a bleak assessment of the current state of affairs and prospects for a breakthrough in the global nuclear conundrum. But all is not lost. People throughout the world deserve much better from our leaders. We need to press harder where we can, and especially at the ballot box, for accountability and for pathways toward achieving nuclear security and ultimately, phased disarmament. The established nuclear powers, led by the U.S., Russia, and China, can do much better to lead by example and demonstrate genuine commitments to nuclear disarmament. The established nuclear powers can work harder to temper the power-driven policies and hypocrisy that are gradually eroding the global nuclear security regime. Moreover, people can press leaders for broader national control over nuclear weapons and their use; that is to say, authorization beyond political executives and the military. In the case of the United States, the Congress can, and should, place greater scrutiny on the president’s use of executive agreements (this is a longstanding issue). Congress also needs to move forward with urgency on a new Authorization for Use of Military Force (AUMF) bill. The established nuclear powers and nuclear aspirants are bringing the world closer to the first use of such weapons in conflict since 1945. This is the epitome of global irresponsibility. In a recent article in the journal Survival, Paul Meyer and Tom Sauer reflected on the growing “global impatience” among members of the world community with the lack of progress on nuclear disarmament. It is time for a sincere and straightforward commitment to dealing with the issues that are hastening the erosion of the global nuclear security regime.
1On the other side of the coin, there is the gradual depletion of resources and personnel devoted to the US diplomatic mission, as examined in Ronan Farrow, War on Peace: The End of Diplomacy and the Decline of American Influence (New York: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 2018).
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Gerson, Joseph, Empire and the Bomb: How the U.S. Uses Nuclear Weapons to Dominate the World (Ann Arbor: Pluto Press, 2007).
Haass, Richard, A World in Disarray: American Foreign Policy and the Crisis of the Old Order (New York: Penguin Books, 2018).
Meyer, Paul, and Tom Sauer, “The Nuclear Ban Treaty: A Sign of Global Impatience,” Survival: Global Politics and Strategy, Volume 60, Edition 2, April-May 2018, 61-72.
Sachs, Jeffrey D., “Denuclearization Means the US, Too,” Project Syndicate, 7 May 2018, https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/denuclearization-also-for-united-states-by-jeffrey-d-sachs-2018-05
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While kidney stones can definitely make life less enjoyable for a number of reasons, a positive bit of information to keep in mind (if there is one) is that there are plenty of different treatment options. The one(s) most beneficial to you will likely depend on what type of kidney stones you have in addition to how bad (and how large) they are.
Options by kidney stone type
Because each type of kidney stone is composed of different minerals, it only makes sense that each one would respond differently to the various treatment options. For instance, the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases indicates that certain medications work better for treating and preventing further stone-related issues based on which type of stone exists. More specifically:
- If you have calcium stones, you’ll most likely be prescribed potassium citrate and/or diuretics (water pills) to help resolve them.
- If you tend to suffer from uric acid stones, you can expect a potassium citrate script or allopurinol.
- Struvite stones are often treated (and hopefully further prevented) by taking an antibiotic or acetohydroxamic acid, the latter of which is essentially a really strong antibiotic.
- Cystine stones generally call for either potassium citrate or mercaptopropionyl glycine.
This is why knowing which type of stone you have is so important to choosing the best treatment method.
Options by severity
When searching for treatment options, it’s also important to consider the severity of your stone-related issue.
For example, if your stone is small, you may not even need to seek outside medical treatment. That’s because most smaller stones will pass on their own simply by increasing water intake to help soothe it out. This process can take up to six weeks and, in some cases, medications can help speed up the process by relaxing the tube that connects the kidney and bladder (called the ureter). You may also want to take something to help with pain and/or nausea, if you experience either of these symptoms.
If the stone is too big, is blocking the ureter, or is somehow negatively affecting your kidney function, then your treatment options will likely become medical in nature. Shock wave lithotripsy is the least invasive alternative, as the doctor simply uses ultrasound waves to break the stone down into smaller pieces that your body can subsequently pass on its own.
If this doesn’t work or if there are other issues, the doctor may have to perform a ureteroscopy under general anesthesia. This outpatient surgery involves inserting a small telescope into the urethra, up through the bladder, and into the ureter, ultimately locating the stone and removing it. If the stone is too large to take out this way, it can also be broken down so it’s reduced to smaller pieces.
The third option is used most often with stones that are larger in nature and involves the surgeon making a half-inch incision in your back or on your side. A telescope (called a nephroscope) is inserted through the cut, allowing the stone to be located. Another instrument is then inserted through the telescope to break the stone into smaller pieces and suction them out. Because this option is more invasive and generally involves leaving a tube in to drain urine from the kidney, an overnight stay in a hospital is generally required.
Natural treatment remedies
If you prefer more natural kidney stone treatment remedies, some people have found relief by adding cranberry juice, lemon juice, basil juice, wheatgrass juice, or apple cider vinegar to their diet. Others swear by the positive effects of celery juice, pomegranate juice, and bone broth for improved kidney function (and fewer stones!).
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Endograft-preserving therapy of a patient with Coxiella burnetii-infected abdominal aortic aneurysm: a case report
Journal of Medical Case Reports volume 5, Article number: 565 (2011)
Coxiella burnetii, the causative agent of Q fever, may cause endocarditis and vascular infections that result in severe morbidity and mortality. We report a case of a C. burnetii-infected abdominal aorta and its management in a patient with a previous endovascular aortic aneurysm repair.
A 62-year-old Caucasian man was admitted to our hospital three months after endovascular aortic aneurysm repair with a bifurcated stent graft. He had increasing abdominal complaints and general malaise. A computed tomography scan of his abdomen revealed several para-aneurysmal abscesses. Surgery was performed via midline laparotomy. The entire abdominal wall of his aneurysmal sac, including the abscesses, was removed. The vascular endoprosthesis showed no macroscopic signs of infection. The decision was made to leave the endograft in place because of the severe cardiopulmonary comorbidities, thereby avoiding suprarenal clamping and explantation of this device with venous reconstruction. The proximal and distal parts of the endograft were secured to the aortic wall and common iliac artery walls, respectively, to avoid future migration. Polymerase chain reaction for C. burnetii was positive in all specimens of aortic tissue. Specific antibiotic therapy was initiated. Our patient was discharged in good clinical condition after six days.
In our patient, the infection was limited to the abdominal aneurysm wall, which was removed, leaving the endograft in place. Vascular surgeons should be familiar with this bailout procedure in high-risk patients.
Coxiella burnetii, the causative organism of Q fever, is increasingly reported to be associated with infections of abdominal aortic aneurysms and vascular grafts. C. burnetii is a small obligate intracellular Gram-negative bacterium related to the Rickettsiaceae family. Cattle, sheep, and goats are the primary reservoirs. Infection of humans usually occurs by inhalation of these organisms from air containing contaminated airborne barnyard dust. Symptoms of Q fever are polymorphic and non-specific and disease occurs in two stages: an acute stage that may present with headaches, chills, and respiratory symptoms and an insidious chronic stage. Acute Q fever is usually mild and recovery is spontaneous. However, C. burnetii is able to persist in host macrophages despite apparent cure, leaving patients, especially those with heart valve pathology or vascular defects, at risk of developing a chronic infection. Endocarditis is the main form of chronic Q fever (60% to 70% of all cases), followed by infections of aneurysms and vascular prostheses (9%) . Multiple reports of cases of C. burnetii vascular infections have been published; overall mortality, most often due to vascular rupture, is 25% . Given the significant morbidity and mortality of an infected aortic aneurysm or vascular endoprosthesis and the importance of targeted and prolonged antibiotic therapy besides surgery, the diagnosis of C. burnetii infection is crucial to a successful therapeutic outcome. We report a case of a C. burnetii-infected abdominal aorta in a patient with a previous endovascular aortic aneurysm repair.
A 62-year-old Caucasian man had a history of general malaise and recurrent fever. His general practitioner commissioned seven days of doxycycline therapy under the suspicion of Q fever, although the results of serological testing were negative. The patient still complained of general malaise and experienced progressive abdominal pain based on a symptomatic infrarenal aortic aneurysm of more than 6 cm, which was treated electively with an endovascular repair at another hospital. A bifurcated endograft was implanted without complications. The patient experienced a short episode of high fever early after the operation but remained free of symptoms for three months when he was readmitted to the hospital with increasing abdominal complaints and general malaise. On admission, he was afebrile. The results of a clinical examination were normal except for abdominal tenderness on deep palpation. Blood cultures were sterile in the absence of any recent antibiotic therapy. Laboratory results showed a white blood cell count of 11.5 × 109/L and a C-reactive protein level of 24 mg/L. A serological test showed the persistence of C. burnetii phase II antibodies (immunoglobulin G [IgG]: 4096) and the appearance of phase I antibodies (IgG: 2048). A computed tomography (CT) scan of the abdomen revealed several para-aneurysmal fluid collections (Figure 1a).
At that point, the patient was referred to our hospital for surgical treatment of his infected abdominal aortic aneurysm. Surgery was performed via midline laparotomy. A visual inspection showed huge abscesses in his abdominal aortic wall. The entire abdominal wall of his aneurysmal sac, including the abscesses, was removed. The vascular endoprosthesis showed no macroscopic signs of infection, and because of the severe cardiopulmonary comorbidities, the decision was made to leave the endograft in place to avoid suprarenal clamping and explantation of this device with venous reconstruction. The proximal part and distal parts of the endograft were secured (with stitches) to the aortic wall and common iliac artery walls, respectively, to avoid future migration. The overlap zones of the endograft components were also secured with stitches. After that, the endograft was wrapped with omentum (Figure 1b,c). Blood, thrombus, and tissue cultures remained sterile, but polymerase chain reaction for C. burnetii was positive in all specimens, and specific staining of the aneurysmal sac for C. burnetii microorganisms was negative. Specific antibiotic therapy with Ciproxin (ciprofloxacin) 1500 mg/day and doxycycline 200 mg/day was initiated. Our patient was discharged in good clinical condition after six days.
Three months after surgery, he was readmitted to our hospital with subfebrile temperature, abdominal discomfort, nausea, incidental vomiting, and diarrhea. Blood cultures, transesophageal echocardiography, CT scans, and positron emission tomography scans were performed. The results of all of these measures were negative for reoccurrence of Q fever or infection of the endoprosthesis. Serological tests revealed no reoccurrence or persistence of C. burnetii infection. Antibiotic therapy on admittance included hydroxychloroquine, which is known to cause gastric complaints and general malaise. Our patient's complaints diminished after this was stopped and Ciproxin was restarted.
Six months after the first readmission, our patient was readmitted with cyanotic and painful toes to our hospital. Magnetic resonance imaging showed a functional endoprosthesis with no signs of stenosis or endoleak. Limited cutaneous systemic sclerosis in the absence of signs of macrovascular pathology was diagnosed. He was successfully treated with iloprost intravenously for 14 days, and an angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitor and calcium antagonist were added to his medication. Our patient remained free of symptoms with unchanged and normal aspect of the endograft without signs of abscesses or infection, as seen on a CT scan (Figure 1d).
C. burnetii is the etiologic agent of Q fever, a zoonosis with a worldwide distribution in rural and, more recently, urban areas. Infection of humans usually occurs by inhalation of these organisms from air that contains airborne barnyard dust contaminated by dried placental material, birth fluids, and excreta of infected herd animals. Ingestion of contaminated milk, followed by regurgitation and inspiration of the contaminated food, is a less common mode of transmission. Our patient lived in an endemic region but had no known exposure to C burnetii.
Only about one half of all people infected with C. burnetii show signs of clinical illness. Acute cases of Q fever begin with a sudden onset of one or more of the following complaints: high fever (up to 104°F to 105°F), severe headache, general malaise, myalgia, confusion, sore throat, chills, sweats, non-productive cough, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, abdominal pain, and chest pain. Fever usually lasts for one to two weeks. Weight loss can occur and persist for some time. Thirty to fifty percent of patients with a symptomatic infection will develop pneumonia. Additionally, a majority of patients have abnormal results on liver function tests and some will develop hepatitis. In general, most patients will recover, but 1% to 2% of infected people with acute Q fever die.
Chronic Q fever, characterized by infection that persists for more than six months, is uncommon but potentially lethal. Patients who have had acute Q fever may develop the chronic form within one to 20 years after initial infection. Endocarditis with negative blood cultures, the most frequent clinical presentation of chronic Q fever, accounts for 60% to 70% of the cases; next in frequency is vascular infection, which accounts for 8% of the cases . Pre-existing cardiovascular disease may facilitate passage from acute to chronic Q fever despite antibiotic therapy. C. Burnetii as an obligate intracellular bacterium is able to persist in monocytes and macrophages that are present in aortic thrombus and damaged cardiac valves . Transplant recipients, patients with cancer, and those with chronic kidney disease are also at risk of developing chronic Q fever. As many as 65% of patients with chronic Q fever may die of the disease.
Here, we report a case of C. burnetii infection of the wall of an abdominal aortic aneurysm in a patient with a previous endovascular aortic aneurysm repair. This unexpected diagnosis was made on the basis of serology and polymerase chain reaction on aspired fluid from an abdominal abscess. Recently, a report describing percutaneous management of a C. Burnetii-induced paravertebral abscess after emergency placement of an endograft was published . C. burnetii aortic aneurysm infections are sometimes challenging to diagnose and treat. The cornerstone of treatment of aneurysms or infected vascular grafts is usually surgical excision in addition to antibiotic treatment . Vascular reconstruction may include graft replacement or extra-anatomic bypass, which has a mortality rate of up to 33% in this patient group . Alternatively, vascular reconstruction using autologus aortoiliac to femoral artery reconstruction with deep femoral-popliteal or superficial spiral saphenous veins can be performed. These procedures have good long-term patency rates but come with inherent morbidities such as compartment syndrome, deep venous thrombosis, and chronic limb swelling and a mortality risk of 7% to 15% [7, 8]. In our patient, the abdominal aortic aneurysm wall itself, and not the endograft, was macroscopically infected. To avoid suprarenal clamping, explantation of the endograft, and complex reconstructive surgery, we chose to leave the endograft in situ. It is very important to secure the proximal and distal sealing zones to the native arteries as well as the endograft components to avoid endoleaks or migration during follow-up. Owing to the resection of the aneurysm wall, every type of endoleak will lead to life-threatening hemorrhages.
The diagnostic key is clinical awareness with a high index of suspicion. Q fever can be diagnosed serologically by high levels of specific antibodies to C. burnetii, immunohistology demonstrating C. burnetii within the cytoplasma of macrophages, or polymerase chain reaction-based methods. Cell culture isolation is not widely available as a diagnostic technique, as it requires a biosafety level 3 laboratory. Positive serology for C. burnetii is determined by the presence of phase I and II antibody titers. Acute Q fever is characterized by a predominance of phase II antibodies (more than 200), whereas chronic Q fever is associated with high levels of phase I antibodies (greater than or equal to phase II titers) .
There are no specific guidelines for Q fever vascular prosthesis infections; experience has been derived from the treatment of Q fever endocarditis. Oral antibiotic regimens include doxycycline and hydroxychloroquine or doxycycline and a quinolone. The duration of antibiotic treatment is best targeted on serological monitoring of phase I antibody titers. A decrease of phase I IgG and IgA antibody titers to below 200 is a criterion for clinical cure. Serological evaluation is recommended monthly for the first six months after antibiotics are discontinued and every three months for two years before the patient can be considered cured .
Chronic C. burnetii aortic abdominal wall infection is a life-threatening disease with devastating complications and a poor prognosis. In our patient, the infection was limited to the abdominal aneurysm wall and the endograft could be left in place. Vascular surgeons should be familiar with this bailout procedure in high-risk patients. The first episode of Q fever may remain asymptomatic, making an early and accurate diagnosis fairly difficult. We recommend systematic serological testing for C. burnetii in all patients with the combination of possible exposure, an abdominal aortic aneurysm and unexplained fever, abdominal pain, or weight loss.
Written informed consent was obtained from the patient for publication of this case report and any accompanying images. A copy of the written consent is available for review by the Editor-in-Chief of this journal.
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GK analyzed and interpreted the patient data and, together with J-PV, was responsible for drafting the manuscript. EP was the main surgeon and was responsible for critically revising the manuscript. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.
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If you were to ask 10 people their thoughts on the term “supply chain,” you’d likely get 10 different answers as to what it truly means. Businessdictionary.com defines supply chain as:
Entire network of entities, directly or indirectly interlinked and interdependent in serving the same consumer or customer. It comprises of vendors that supply raw material, producers who convert the material into products, warehouses that store, distribution centers that deliver to the retailers, and retailers who bring the product to the ultimate user. Supply chains underlie value-chains because, without them, no producer has the ability to give customers what they want, when and where they want, at the price they want….
While this definition is pretty all-encompassing, it doesn’t reflect any individual interpretation, nor the important value-based considerations of critical importance to today’s natural product consumers. Historically, supply chain management has been an internal consideration set, the stuff of hours of sitting around conference tables, but now supply chain responsibility has taken on an entirely different filter; a company needs to shift its perspective to a lens that accurately displays it as viewed “by the consumer.” This introduces terms such as “transparency” and “ethical sourcing.” In this new decision-making paradigm, supply chain decisions are now more impacted by expectations throughout the supply chain process than simply by upper management finance reviews and quarterly reports. And rather than be left exclusively to manufacturers, it’s critical for natural product retailers to have a focus on what their supply chain looks like. After all, their consumers expect them to be making stocking decisions based on this information.
An important realization for your team: Every positive change is important to the end goal, and the ability to change the world is not as important as the desire to improve the world. It’s the small steps of change that lead to great advancements.
The basic question of “do consumers care about ethical sourcing?” has been affirmatively answered in many recent studies. Mintel data shows 56% of U.S. consumers stop buying from companies they believe are unethical. Nielsen data shows 24% of global consumers are “conscious considerers” who are seeking brand loyalty based on a criterion involving the brand’s ability to resonate with the consumer’s lives and ideals. More often, consumers are more willing to pay extra for an ideal value than settle on an ideal price. Researchers at MIT Sloan School of Management found that consumers may be willing to pay 2% to 10% more for products from companies that provide greater supply chain transparency. Consumers, especially natural products consumers, are seeking compelling and consistent messaging from marketers to maintain brand loyalty.
If you have nothing to hide, there is no reason not to be transparent.
The ability to discern and inform supply chain transparency follows a path more similar to genealogy than merely a process of purchase order reviews. Family history and context was developed based on a limited level of knowledge of the family tree based upon the availability of family stories and limited surviving documents and records. Today, the internet provides an abundance of resources so that you can quickly dig into personal lineage dating back hundreds of years. This same access to a trove of records and detail, and the ability to determine material origins, is quickly becoming the case for supply chain transparency. Questions can now be raised, by you or your consumer, and answered in a rapid and verifiable manner. This is a huge cultural shift, dramatically changing the balance of power. The first commitment by any marketer to supply chain transparency in this environment is the realization of its importance to the retailer and consumers. It’s an imperative for developing customer trust. Transparency is the action which gains the asset of trust.
The process of supply chain transparency can be simplified to S.O.U.R.C. E.
- Supply chain culture as defined by your team.
- Organize and define your Supply Chain Information Value team.
- Understand the resources available to develop the most complete understanding of all aspects of supply chain transparency.
- Research the resources available to provide both the current potential supply chain positions and decisions.
- Communicate a clear and concise message defining your supply chain position and goals to your internal and external stakeholders.
- Educate your entire team to proactively think in terms of supply chain transparency as it is defined internally. Further educate your consumers as to why you believe your policy is important and provide evidence and updates on your commitment to work towards improvement.
Supply chain culture is an important first step to determining the direction of any supply chain transparency program. Best-in-class examples of defining and committing to supply chain culture usually include companies like Patagonia, Nike, Bigelow Tea, all Certified B Corporations standards. B Labs has devised a scorecard to allow companies to achieve this certification. The certification indicates the ability and commitment to assess, develop and communicate the certified organization’s activity supporting the social and environmental performance of balancing profit and purpose. There are other value-driven companies approaching this cultural imperative with different approaches. The key is to make the cultural conversation a company priority. An important realization for your team, as you analyze potential suppliers and brands, will be that every positive change is important to the end goal and that the ability to change the world is not as important as the desire to improve the world. It’s the small steps of change that lead to great advancements, but no giant leap of change to society has ever occurred without small incremental individual changes happening first. Manage expectations of results and impact and celebrate the successes as they occur.
Organize and define your Supply Chain Information Team, as the decisions regarding what and how to prioritize your initiatives must be a team-approved effort with maximum buy-in from your team. A time and resource commitment should be defined in addition to the messaging and priorities. This team must be appropriately empowered to do the work necessary to investigate the brands.
Understand the resources you have to develop and validate both the need and the plan for your supply chain transparency initiatives. While the internet is now the easiest and most convenient asset, relationships and communications—with your vendors, your brands, and their vendors—is an important element of transparency to utilize.
Research your supply chain process and practices from start to finish. Look for both successes and opportunities for supply chain improvement. Take a look at the B Corporation Assessment and the companies that have received certification. Also look externally and within your industry for examples of other company initiatives and successes. Amazon Elements Supplements has many components of a supply chain transparency measurement: Contract manufacturer test results by lot number and country of ingredient origin are all offered through a QR portal on each bottle, in addition to extra information on the website.
Communicate your supply chain expectations to your internal team and your vendors. Self-reported audits are a common vehicle for communicating and gaining information supporting your supply chain transparency initiatives. Sharing this audit indicates an expectation of measurement and improvement across your supply chain. It keeps it all top of mind.
Educate both your employees and your customers on both your successes and your aspirations. Patagonia is considered by many to be the gold standard for supply chain transparency. The Supply Chain Footprint Chronicles® remarks on Patagonia’s successes as well as failures and commit to improvement:
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It is remarkably hard to reduce the environmental impact associated with our technical gear, especially our shells. Unlike other products we make, a shell is a lifesaving piece of equipment that absolutely must perform in the world’s worst weather. Unfortunately, to meet that standard of functionality we rely on fossil fuels. While Patagonia continually searches for alternative materials and processes, our environmental ambitions still outstrip current shell technology.
This transparency has seemed to serve Patagonia positively without the need to be perfect.
Supply chain transparency is clearly becoming an issue today’s more educated customer is paying more attention to and for. Supply chain transparency research and education is not only a positive action for your customers but also your employees and our global community. Define your expectations and research your own practices and vendors. Research and communicate your findings to provide the most accurate and transparent supply chain picture possible. Remember, it is not as important to be perfect as it is to try to be better.
A focus on measuring the ‘source’ criteria for supply chain measurement will likely improve both your practices and outcomes as it relates to customer expectations and ultimately, loyalty. Your attention to this will be appreciated and the time spent on supply chain transparency will provide a better work environment, engagement, followed by better customer lifetime spend and other important business metrics.
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Sewing a button is an essential thing that everyone must know about. It doesn’t matter what type of clothes you are wearing, most of the time it will have buttons. Shirts, jackets, pants, trousers, etc. type of clothing have buttons as an important part of the clothing while in some clothes you may find buttons as a decorative add-on.
If you are someone who loves stitching and sewing then you must also learn how to sew a button. We have already posted a sewing guide for beginners on this blog and you can read that to know the fundamentals of sewing and stitching. Once you have cleared all basics, you can move on to the buttons.
Here in this post, we are going to show you how you can sew a button on almost any fabric you want. Remember that there are different techniques available out there to sew buttons but not all of them are suitable for beginners. You must stick with the basics and try to learn those methods first before trying something advanced.
Since there are different types of buttons available out there we are going to work with the ones that come with buttonholes in them. We have mentioned every possible information you might need to learn how to sew buttons so read this post till the end to know everything about sewing a button.
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Things You Will Need To Sew A Button
Needle – A needle is the most important thing you need when you are doing any type of stitching and sewing. It doesn’t matter if you are doing to sew the button with your hands or with a sewing machine, you will always need a needle to get the work done.
There are different types of needles available out there and for button sewing, we will recommend you to go with some slim needles like size 7 or 8. It also depends on the fabric and buttonhole which type of needle you will need but does not go with a thick needle as 7 and 8 number needles will most probably sew a button easily.
Thread – Another important thing is “thread” and you need to take thread according to the needle. If you have taken number 7 or 8 needles then you will need a thin thread. Do not take too thin thread as there are chances of breaking it. For a regular size button, you will need about 12″ thread and if you think your thread is thin then you can take 24″ thread and make it double.
Talking about the color, then take a thread that matches your fabric color and not the button. Since we are going to make stitches on the fabric it must match its color as contrast colored thread will decrease the overall appearance of the fabric.
Button – Since we are going to sew a button, not to mention, you will need it. You can take a button either with two, three, or four holes in it as the sewing process is the same for all. Remember that the more holes a button will have, the more will be the number of stitches and work you need to do on it. We will recommend you to try sewing a button with two holes first and then move on to the buttons with three and four holes.
Scissor – Even though we are taking thin thread to sew the button, you must keep a scissor or other thread cutting tools like a knife, blade, etc. to cut the thread when you are done stitching it.
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How To Sew A Button Step By Step Guide
Identify The Type of Button You Have
As we told above, the first thing you need to do is to identify the type of button you have for sewing. Make sure the button is not too big nor too small for the fabric you are sewing it on. If you are looking for buttons to sew on readymade garments like jackets, jeans, trousers, shirts, etc. then they probably have a pair of extra buttons available inside them.
Those extra buttons are exactly of the same size and design that are stitched outside. If you are using other buttons then you need to figure out if the button is suitable for the fabric or not.
Sewing Machine vs Hand Sewing
If you are a complete beginner then you can try sewing the buttons with hand first and then go with the sewing machine method. Sewing buttons with hands will help you in clearing the basics and you will get to know where and how you need to make the stitches. If you have some knowledge of stitching then you can go with the sewing machine.
Many sewing machines come with an automatic buttonhole feature for 2 and 4 buttonholes but we will recommend you not to use that function if you want to learn how to sew a button. Consider doing everything manually first so you can get to know everything about sewing a button. Automatic threading and buttonhole can be used later.
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Thread The Needle & Make A Knot
Now, you need to thread your needle and make a knot at the end of the thread so it doesn’t pass completely from the button while sewing. If you are using a sewing machine then you can refer to the manual to know how to thread the needle. If you have got an automatic needle threader function, then do not use it as you will never learn how to do it manually.
Once the needle is threaded, level both sides of the thread and position the needle in the middle of the thread. When you have leveled it simply makes a knot at another end from the needle so secure the thread. While sewing this knot will get stuck in the buttonhole and stop the thread from coming completely through the buttonhole.
Make A Mark On The Fabric
From the backside of the fabric start making the stitch to the front and then again from back to front. You must make the stitch in such a way that it forms an X and you can use also use the best sewing kit to do that. The intersecting position this X is the place where you want to center the button. This X will also help the thread and button to keep the button in place.
Remember that if you are using a sewing machine then you might face problems in creating such a mark on the fabric. Instead, you must do it with your hand, and then you can use the sewing machine to sew the button. For a beginner, making such indications are really helpful as you will know where and how the button is needed to be placed.
Sew The Button
Hold the button on the top of the X mark and push the needle from one of its hole right to the other part of the fabric. Now, turn the needle up and move it from the fabric to another hole on the button. You must do it slowly as doing it fast can be harmful. Also, thread only two buttons at the same time and not all.
Do it a couple of times for the same set of two buttons and then you will have to repeat this process for the other holes too. When you have made around 4-5 repetitions, then you will get a tight hold of the button on the fabric. You can remove your finger from the button and see if it is tight enough to keep itself in its place.
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Create The Shank
Creating a shank is important as it holds all of the stitches in its place. To make it, you need to go from the fabric to the button but not to the buttonhole. Moving your needle from the fabric and then keeping it in between the bottom part of the button and the upper part of the fabric will help you in creating a shank.
Just make some 5-6 rounds of the thread around the button and make sure you are doing it tightly. Loose shank will make the button hang and you might need to sew it again from scratch. When you are done wrapping the thread just dive the needle back to the backside of the fabric. You don’t need to change its place.
Tie The Thread
To secure your stitches, you need to make a knot at the backside of the fabric from where we have started. This can be done either by using the needle and with the help of hands too. Either way, you need to make the knot right below the button and in the center of the threads where they all are colliding with each other.
If you want then you can take the help of a pin. Use the pin in the center of the threads, then make some rounds around the pin and use your needle to pass your thread through the circles. When you will pull the thread it will tighten that thread and then you can use the scissor or other cutting tools to get the right of the excess thread.
So this is all about how to sew a button step by step guide and we hope you have found this post useful. We have told how to sew a button with a sewing machine and soon we are going to post a button sewing guide without a sewing machine so keep visiting the Sewing Machine Portal to know about it and to read many more guides.
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A roundtable discussion on using the Gospel of Mark during Year B.
Mark, prologue, Galiee, on the way, Jerusalem, miracles, Garden of Gethsemane, discipleship
Bible Study; Lecture; Sermon Prep
Scripture References in this Resource (separated by semi-colons)
Mark 1:1_15; Mark 1:16-27; Mark 8:22-10:52; Mark 11:1-15:34; Mark 10:1-9;
Laity; Ministers; Scholars
Schmitt, David; Kloha, Jeffrey; and Lewis, David, "004.Feb 2009 Preachers Roundtable: Preaching Mark (Year B) Pt 2" (2012). Concordia Journal Currents. 4. | <urn:uuid:4a6e57aa-1440-4629-8f9d-89e07d7ce502> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://scholar.csl.edu/cjc/4/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571538.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812014923-20220812044923-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.658694 | 226 | 1.84375 | 2 |
In parts of Africa where limited economic opportunities exist, people are more likely to take part in environmentally harmful activities like charcoaling and bushmeat poaching.
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Want to tank your LMS course fast? Don’t ask your learners how they feel about your material.
You need learner feedback.
If you don’t know what your learners think about your learning management system software (LMS), your lesson material, and the teaching methods you’re using, then your course will inevitably grind to a halt. It’s a terrible thing to have good information that’s being shared poorly because your design has stagnated.
But how do you approach gathering learner feedback? What do you ask? How do you ask it? How do you develop a plan for gathering and using that feedback?
It’s not as daunting as it sounds. Here are twenty-one questions you can ask and why they’re helpful.
1. [Write-in] Did you find all of the information easily?
Knowing how easily and quickly your learners found the information they needed helps you know how strong your design is. Your layout needs to be as clean and as obvious as possible.
2. [Yes/No] Did all of the links work?
If your students came across broken links, fix them.If you use Moodle, there’s an app for that.
3. [Yes / No] Did the course’s organization make sense?
Some courses have straightforward organization. They may be chronological or perhaps the lessons build upon themselves. Others take more guesswork. Knowing how learners responded to the flow you’ve organized will help you improve the organization in the future.
4. [Yes / No] Were the fonts easy to read?
Accessibility in your lessons is vitally important. Consider using a font optimized for dyslexic or visually impaired readers.
5. [Yes / No] Did the images used enhance the lessons?
You don’t want images that distract from your lesson or look out of place. Tailor it for your course by getting specific: Did the graphs make sense? Did you enjoy the memes?
6. [Ranking] Rate the quality of the multimedia in this course.
So you gamified. That’s great. Did you do it right?
7. [Write-in] Which multimedia aspect did you like best?
Perhaps you feel that you used infographics to great effect. But maybe your learners liked your videos better. You won’t know if you don’t ask!
8. [Write-in] Did you access any additional or outside information? Was it helpful?
If your learners are seeking out information outside of the course to help them, you may want to investigate. If the outside content enriches your current course, find a way to incorporate it.
9. [Write-in or multiple choice] Which topics do you wish were more in-depth / had more follow-up?
If a certain topic gave your learners a lot of trouble, you need to know about it. You may not need to redesign the whole course around it, but perhaps you could make that section easier. For example, you could offer a review sheet or assign more guided activities.
10. [Yes / No] Did your quizzes ask relevant questions?
Expect some standard deviation here for those who are frustrated with their own performance. If you hear that your material didn’t cater well to your quizzes, or that the reviews were too easy, you need to redesign your assessments.
11. [Yes / No] Was it easy to contact IT / admins?
Glitches are unfortunately a part of online training—and of course you want to fix them. However, part of providing a positive user experience is how your learners receive support. Use this question to find out if their problems were adequately addressed.
12. [Write-in] How did this course fit with your existing schedule?
On-the-job training and continued education are difficult because your learners likely have responsibilities outside of your course. It’s important to find where and how people fit the training into their lives so that you can plan your lessons most effectively.
13. [Yes / No] Did you have enough time to complete this course?
Sometimes you have no control over the timeframe of your corporate training courses. Sometimes you do. If you do, you need to know how to plan them, and if you don’t and your learners are too rushed, it will be helpful to have data to prove it.
14. [Yes / No] Did you feel rushed by this course?
It’s no good if a course drags. But it’s not helpful if a course moves too quickly for your learners to feel that they’ve absorbed the material, either.
15. [Write-in] Give three ways this course could have been improved.
Rather than asking if your course can be improved, ask your learners how it can be improved. It’s easy for your learners to say “no” and move on without being specific about what you’re looking for. Asking for specifics often leads to actionable responses.
16. [Write-in] Did you return to any of the material after finishing it? Why?
Sometimes a student may come back to a section that they feel they did not fully understand. Other times they return to the material is particularly useful or interesting. Find out where they did this and why to find your best and worst spots.
17. [Yes / No] Did you get fatigued reading the material?
If you consistently hear that your eLessons make your learners tired, they may be too long. Try breaking them down into smaller chunks, or try gamified or micro learning.
18. [Multiple choice] How much time did it take you to complete the course material?
Knowing how much time students can expect to be working on a course will help you plan when and how to present the material.
19. [Write-in] What, for you, was the most frustrating part of the course?
If you can find your learners’ pain points, you can find ways to make them better.
20. [Yes / No] Would you feel comfortable teaching this material to someone else?
21. [Yes / No] Do you feel prepared to use this information in a real-world situation?
This may be your most vital question. After all, you are trying to prepare your learners for real-world situations they could potentially encounter.
We’ve all had that nervewracking feeling before receiving feedback, but without meaningful feedback we have limited potential for growth. The following video explains how to bring joy into the feedback process.
And some advice for the road…
If you want to copy and paste this list and use it all at once as your user engagement survey…
Can you imagine sitting through this entire survey without your eyes glazing over? If you do this, your users will halo effect their way through it at best, ignore it entirely, or, at worst. click randomly to get through it.
Instead, take just two to five of these questions. This will make your users more engaged and give you a better idea of a few aspects rather than a bad idea of a lot of aspects. Good quizzes shouldn’t take more than ten minutes.
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Pulled in closely to the buttonhole
I’ve watched videos online about the boutonnière, the flower for the buttonhole in your jacket lapel.
Sadly, none of the videos communicate how to insert the most important lapel flower, the carnation boutonniere, properly.
You see, a carnation boutonniere should sort of grow naturally from the buttonhole in your lapel. That’s what I like based on tradition. Check photos of Cary Grant, Noël Coward, The Duke of Windsor and the rest. None of them carries a carnation swaying on the top of the lapel, or sticking out from the lapel buttonhole. They all wear a carnation that has been pulled in closely to the lapel. The online educators don’t get that natural carnation boutonniere style right.
A carnation boutonniere from a florist
Before inserting a carnation in a lapel buttonhole you need to make it ready. A raw carnation will break, if you try to fit it to the lapel buttonhole, including to a wide English lapel buttonhole. In other words, you have to visit a skillful florist.
Preparing this blog post and video I contacted the most famous florist in Copenhagen, Tage Andersen. He showed me from start to finish how to make ready a carnation for a lapel buttonhole.
He doesn’t make many carnation boutonniere nowadays, he told me. In fact very few. It stopped 40-50 years ago, when men gave up wearing formal wear at a regular basis. Moreover, when people need a flower for, say, a wedding today they ask for a small bouquet of lapel flowers instead of a classic one-flower boutonniere.
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The Rev. Billy Graham recently explained that the one sin a person cannot be forgiven of is the sin of rejecting God's forgiveness.
In an advice column published last Friday by the Bowling Green Daily News, a person identified by the initials "N.G." asked the famed evangelist if there was an unpardonable sin.
"How big does a sin have to be before God won't forgive it? I'm afraid I've probably crossed the line (wherever it is), because I've done some terrible things and have hurt a lot of people," inquired N.G.
Graham responded that there was only one sin that could not be forgiven, which was "the sin of refusing His forgiveness."
"No matter who we are or what we've done, God still loves us, and He promises to forgive us – totally and completely – if we will only turn to Him in repentance and faith," wrote Graham.
"Is this hard for us to accept? Yes, it is – because it's not the way we usually treat each other ... if someone deeply hurts us or cheats us or lies about us, then we have a much harder time forgetting about it or forgiving them."
Graham went on to stress in his response that while people have a hard time forgiving great wrongs, "God isn't this way."
"Yes, we have offended Him by our sins – in fact, we've hurt Him far more deeply than we'll ever hurt anyone else," continued Graham.
"And yet God still loves us, and He yearns for us to realize what we've done, and turn to Him in repentance and faith. God takes our forgiveness so seriously that He sent His Son into the world to die for our sins."
This is not the first time that Graham has been asked to comment on what sins cannot be forgiven. In 2004, Graham wrote a column published by the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association.
In it, Graham addressed the meaning of Jesus' words in Mark 3:28-29, which read "Truly I tell you, people can be forgiven all their sins and every slander they utter, but whoever blasphemes against the Holy Spirit will never be forgiven; they are guilty of an eternal sin."
Graham described the unpardonable sin as "a refusal to accept the witness of the Holy Spirit to who Jesus was and what He had come to do."
"... the unpardonable sin is not some particularly grievous sin committed by a Christian before or after accepting Christ, nor is it thinking or saying something terrible about the Holy Spirit," explained Graham in the 2004 column.
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In a major boost to the nation's battle against the Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, the Government on Friday (27 March) placed the order for the acquisition of 40,000 new ventilators in the next three months, reports Hindustan Times.
The development comes as the number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 continues to surge, which could overwhelm the existing healthcare facilities and capacity in the nation, causing a major shortage of ventilators.
Joint Secretary in the Health Ministry Lav Agarwal said that the Ministry has asked a “PSU to make 10,000 ventilators and another 30,000 will come from Bharat Electricals, a PSU under the Defence Ministry,” reports The Hindu.
According to the Health Ministry, the confirmed Covid-19 cases in India have increased to 873 with 19 fatalities recorded so far. As many as 79 patients have recovered so far.
The government has also asked the states to enhance efforts to track down thousands of people who have returned from abroad.
Cabinet Secretary Rajiv Gauba has warned the Chief Secretaries of all states over the big gap in the number of international passengers who should have been monitored, and the actual number of such passengers. He underscored that the gap in this regard could "seriously jeopardise our efforts to contain the spread of COVID-19."
The letter written by Gauba to the Chief Secretaries of states highlighted that the Union Ministry of Home Affairs' Bureau of Immigration had already shared details of more than 15 lakh incoming international passengers with the states and UTs for monitoring.
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- What are at least two facts presented by each side of the critical issue?
Men who are exposed to violent imagery have far more deviant fantasies then those who did not and exposure to non-violent photography causes men to treat women as a sexual object.
Correlations between pornography and sex crimes are weak or negligible. Evidence has shown that countries where such acts are not prone to censorship have a lower rate of sexual offences than those who do not.
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Bidgely announces the addition of solar disaggregation for utilities to its platform. The software gives utilities and their residential solar customers insights on energy use at a granular level, engaging customers and providing utilities a comprehensive view of the energy demands of all solar and grid-tied residential customers.
As consumers shift their mindset to solar power, utilities are worrying about losing them altogether. How can utilities keep their customers engaged?
Bidgely, a customer empowerment and business intelligence platform for utilities, says it has the answer. Last week, the company announced it has added solar disaggregation for utilities to its platform. We took the opportunity to speak with head of marketing Steve Nguyen at Intersolar North America about Bidgley’s new offerings and plans for the future.
Bidgely’s solar disaggregation, Nguyen says, gives utilities and their residential solar customers insights on energy use at a much more granular level than has been possible in the past.
Energy disaggregation separates a whole-home energy signal into its component appliances. Current electricity meters report only whole-home data, which isn’t that much help to either utilities or their customers. Bidgely is changing this. The company’s HomeBeat™ home energy portal tracks solar generation and consumption alongside grid energy use, providing a unified energy management experience.
The appeal for utilities? Bidgely says its new technology empowers utilities to reclaim the relationship with solar customers — while also getting a comprehensive view of the complex energy demands of all solar and grid-tied residential customers. The software helps them plan better, since they can see what’s happening at the transformer level, and allows them to provide customers information on solar and appliances.
In fact, Nguyen says, the company’s software was developed at the request of utilities.
But there’s a lot in it for residential customers, too. The service goes beyond the Green Button to provide personalization that customers can’t get from their solar provider or utility, and even gives personalized recommendations. With the sparse Green Button information, Nguyen says, “You have to be your own detective.” The Bidgely portal removes that burden.
Bidgely believes that having access to their service will lead to significant changes in home energy consumption. A recent study, the company says, revealed the service can reduce whole-home energy use by 6%. Moreover, 90% percent of study participants used the platform at least once a week, reflecting strong customer engagement — a key selling point for utilities. It will be interesting to see if utilities manage to maintain this level of customer engagement over time.
I tried the service myself and found it relatively easy to sign up, once I was able to locate the needed information on my power bill. Then all I had to do was open the portal to see my daily energy usage, by the billing cycle or even by the hour. (The information is delayed by a day, as is Green Button data.) I don’t have an energy monitor or solar power, so I am still a bit limited in what I can see. But a customer with both of those might see something as detailed as this:
I can choose which alerts I want to get — for example, the system can alert me if I’m approaching a new rate tier or if my daily usage increases significantly. I can get weekly and monthly consumption status alerts, keeping me engaged in case I’m not accessing the dashboard often on my own.
How does Bidgely get this level of information? That’s the company’s secret sauce, says Nguyen. If you’re wondering how accurate it can be, their white paper “Solar Energy Disaggregation Using Whole-House Consumption Signals” explains how Bidgely’s algorithms accurately disaggregate solar generation given net metered energy consumption and weather data. The white paper concludes that Bidegly’s algorithms are more accurate and practical than previous approaches.
Nguyen says the company’s data scientists have been studying the problem for years, which is a key ingredient of the company’s value; they’re providing something that’s just not within the core capabilities of either utilities or solar companies, and that would take competitors years to develop.
And they’re providing it at a time when utilities are eager to engage and reclaim their customers. Utilities don’t want to lose customers to Google or Nest, after all. According to Nguyen, utilities using the Bidgely platform “will become the next-generation service provider – they don’t want Comcast or Apple to own the energy mind of the customer.” To that end, utilities are even interested in helping customers become more energy-efficient, because that’s what customers are asking for.
There are all kinds of applications for Bidgely’s service. “Once you can disaggregate information,” Nguyen says, “you can do more with it.” Utilities might work with appliance dealers to offer discounts to customers whose heavy appliance use indicates wear and tear. They might work with solar companies to find new customers whose energy profile is similar to that of existing solar customers.
For now, Bidgely is making its service available to utilities that are delivering their customers smart meter data via the Green Button data standard. During what the company is calling the “Freedom Summer,” they’re offering a white label portal at no product cost to utilities. Although Nguyen declined to name participating utilities, he says a number of pilots are being conducted around the country and even the world. That’s a testament to the fact that utilities are realizing they need to change how they operate.
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Leather equipment is legendary. It is not in vain that it is loved among sports protection, and leather jackets, gloves and vests are also respected. Traditionally, it was real leather that was the first reliable protection for the body of a motorcyclist and is recognized as such all over the world. Until now, people are sure that there is nothing better than skin. But time passes, progress does not stand still.
Modern equipment is very wide in the selection of materials, so sometimes even a textile line can compete for leadership.
Among Icon’s equipment, an interesting material has appeared, which, in terms of characteristics, has properties that are better than leather.
Ax Suede Laredo – what is it?
Ax Suede Laredo material is a synthetic development that looks like leather. Many do not distinguish synthetic from natural, the similarity is so close visually.
Synthetic leather is different from leatherette, it is not the same thing. Ax Suede Laredo will not crack like leatherette. The manufacturer even allows washing, which cannot be done with genuine leather.
In the composition of Ax Suede Laredo, you can find polyesters that increase its characteristics compared to natural leather.
What is special about this material?
Ax Suede Laredo is designed to replace natural leather, as not everyone agrees to use the latter for ethical reasons. It is difficult to refuse natural leather, because there was nothing more interesting on the market, especially since over the decades it has entered the minds of motorcyclists as an integral part of the motorcycle world. The transition to synthetics is controversial – new products are alarming conservatives.
Ax Suede Laredo in Icon Outfit appears on the following models:
The advantages of synthetic leather are that it “breathes” no worse than natural leather, is responsible for thermoregulation, and resists moisture.
Nowadays, the material is most often found on the palm of gloves, since Ax Suede Laredo is more resistant to abrasion and fracture. Among other things, increased sensitivity must be added to the characteristics, which explains the use on the surface of the palm.
Please note that synthetic leather began to appear in equipment as a reinforcement of vulnerable spots, for example, in the Icon Brigand motorcycle vest there are such inserts on the shoulders. Manufacturers are beginning to replace high-friction elements with synthetics.
An additional plus of the material is that it is certified according to the Global Recycled Standard (GRS), which is important for people who care about the environment. | <urn:uuid:8376c6cf-8851-4b5f-b5d5-5f4a3cc23a0d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://wakularacing.com/leather-outfit-has-a-worthy-competitor/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571210.98/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810191850-20220810221850-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.964353 | 545 | 1.945313 | 2 |
Every day, many of us connect our smartphone or tablet to your computer to perform a multitude of actions . Rooting your device, transfer files, install new updates ... All these actions and many more are those that can make connecting your phone to the PC via USB but what if your computer does not recognize the phone?
This is a very common problem among users who connect their devices to the PC . In the case of file transfer there are always alternatives like the famous AirDroid already discussed some time ago in Rooting**, but in case you want to update or root the phone can not resort to these methods so it is necessary to connect the device through USB .
If your PC does not recognize your device and you do not know what to do, here are four solutions that shall solve your connection problem in most cases .
To perform most tasks on the computer from which we discussed above, we will need that option is enabled USB Debugging on your terminal. To verify this , we access Settings> Developer Options and confirm that the option Enable USB debugging is enabled.
If you do not have access to the menu developer, you have access to Settings> About device and repeatedly press box Build number . Then you will see a small window will warn you already are adeveloper.
Packages of drivers and Samsung Kies
Before connecting your phone to your computer it is very important that the drivers or device drivers are installed. If you have not yet, you must enter the website of the phone manufacturer or perhaps look on your own .
If you have a Samsung device, you must have the Samsung Kies program installed for it to install the drivers necessary to run. You can download it from their website, but remember, only for Samsung devices.
Enhanced Host Controller
In some cases, the configuration of the USB port that is connected to the phone may be the connection problem. To fix this, activate the option to host improved, which will help us solve the connection problem if we have a problem with the driver.
1.From our PC, we will go to Team.
Once here, we will right click and select Properties .
In the floating window, we will access the tab Hardware .
Hardware menu arrived, we will give Device Manager.
We 'll wait until it comes out the list and look for the Controller Universal Serial Bus .
Once located, right click and give Controller host improved .
If this option is disabled, Enable it.
Set type of device
If you did not work any of the above options, you may recognize the computer if the device but not know identify . In that case, we will have to manually set an identification of the unknown device.
Will access the menu Remove hardware safely .
In this menu, we can see our device listed as unidentified . We select and access Properties .
The computer will indicate that you need to install the driver. To do this, click Change settings of the device .
A popup window will warn us that we must reinstall or update the driver. We will give here and ask us how we do the process automatically or manually.
Will click on the second option and we ask you to choose the type of device. We will select the USBand automatically to read the device driver is installed.
We hope that some of these solutions will be useful to solve your connection problem . If you know any other solution to this problem, compartidla with us in the comments. | <urn:uuid:faf120af-2d17-44ac-9304-e953bcdd7c3e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://how2phone.com/3643/what-if-the-computer-does-not-recognize-our-smartphone | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571911.5/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813081639-20220813111639-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.921915 | 706 | 1.757813 | 2 |
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Let your knees melt and buckle. Let sorrow melt your heart. It is necessary to prepare the ground. Plant your memory as a seed and let it flourish in the light of love.
I am not a religious person, but I believe in the power of opening your heart to others when they need it. This is for a friend who is not yet an acquaintance, because I have a brother too.
This post was written in response to the Trifecta Writing Challenge weekly prompt:
You should write a creative response using the third definition of the given word. You must use the word in your response, and you must use it correctly. Your response can be no fewer than 33 and no more than 333 words. This week’s word is:
MELT (transitive verb)
1: to reduce from a solid to a liquid state usually by heat
2: to cause to disappear or disperse
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Forget the seven-year itch – the spark actually begins to fade exactly five years and two months into a relationship, a study has found.
Research revealed modern relationships are souring earlier than they used to because life is getting in the way and couples are more likely to take each other for granted sooner than they once did.
The study, which was carried out among 2,000 adults, found a dwindling sex life, sleeping in different rooms and no longer holding hands are among the common signs the magic has gone.
But researchers were able to offer a glimmer of hope – in the shape of tips to help reignite the spark, with a candlelit dinner topping the list.
A spokesperson for Bryant and May matches, which commissioned the report, said: “It can be really easy to let the magic of the early stages of a relationship fade away.
“And by the same token, once that initial stage has worn off, it’s often very difficult to bring it back.
This can lead to people ending up staying in relationships that might not be making them happy, just because they are afraid of breaking up with their partner.”
Other signs your relationship has had its ‘best days’ include no longer cuddling at night, not going out on ‘dates’ and letting yourself go physically.
Nearly four in 10 believe the spark can begin to fade simply because both parties start to take each other for granted.
A further 31 per cent think the daily routine of life starts to chip away at the romance in a relationship, with over half of the nation admitting to sometimes feeling ‘bored’ with their partner.
Six in 10 Brits even admitted they are ‘resigned’ to the spark fading away – claiming it’s inevitable.
And more than one third believe they – and their other half – don’t currently make enough time for one another.Four in 10 blame long working hours, and one third believe their attention became divided after having kids.
In order to arrest the decline, one in 10 adults have bought sexy underwear to spice things up in the bedroom.And one fifth felt it necessary to remind their other half how much they cared, just by simply saying, “I love you”.
It also emerged the average Brit has been with their partner for 18 years, and has 1.6 children – down from the traditional 2.4.Happily, more than 8 in 10 respondents said they had at one point been able to get the spark back.
“It just shows that with a little more effort and understanding, couples can rekindle their relationship and re-introduce an element of romance into their lives,” said Bryant & May’s spokesperson. | <urn:uuid:f2bf93cc-183d-4aae-893e-deb32c611389> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://aboutmanchester.co.uk/modern-relationships-are-souring-earlier-than-they-used-to-because-life-is-getting-in-the-way/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571911.5/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813081639-20220813111639-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.975251 | 572 | 1.507813 | 2 |
Have you ever imagined surviving on the internet without Google? Don't bother if you haven't, because it's not as easy as it sounds. I mean, just think about it for a minute.
If you're using a Google-owned Android phone, then you're already out because that phone is probably one of the first things you check in the morning after you've woken up. Even a lot of iOS apps rely on Google's services. You take an Uber to work, you're using Google Maps data. You open Safari browser, you're again using Google's Search engine by default. In fact, even a lot of news websites, which you trust, run Google-owned ad services.
Look, I can pull out a lot of examples like this, but the point that I am trying to make here is that Google is everywhere. It's really difficult to avoid Google, and there's no easy way around it.
That, however, isn't stopping a Reddit community from trying.
A dedicated community which goes by 'r/deGoogle' on Reddit is filled with thousands of users trying to live a life without Google. The goal, apparently, is to try and avoid handing any personal information over to Google and its services.
The subreddit, at its core, looks like a dumping ground for various links to apps and services which you can use without relying on Google. Think of the subreddit like a collection of 'tips and tricks' for surviving on the internet without Google.
© Reddit - deGoogle
Is it really possible to cut out Google from your life?
The answer, unfortunately, is no. Yes, it's almost impossible to avoid Google without having a major effect on the way you use the internet.
Between all of its products, Google has billions of users. Besides the Google search engine and other services like YouTube, G-Suite, etc., you're looking at Google's presence in other domains like artificial intelligence, fibre internet, and more. Heck, the company just announced its entry into the world of gaming with Stadia.
Even if you manage to keep yourself away from these Google services, you're still relying on Google while using apps and services like Snapchat, Spotify, Pokemon Go. Why? Well, these services are all based on Google's Cloud platform. So as a netizen, you're relying heavily on Google in some way or the other.
Yes, it sounds a little terrifying considering how much Google knows about you and your day-to-day activities. Of course, there are ways to avoid Google and it's services up to an extent.
However, if you choose to go that route, then you may have to make some serious alterations on the way you use the internet. In case you're interested, you can check out some ways with which you can cut out Google from your life here. | <urn:uuid:6c343082-9405-4354-a529-a71b0cf8ba85> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.mensxp.com/technology/hacks/51327-redditors-are-cutting-out-google-from-their-lives-but-can-someone-tell-them-it-rsquo-s-not-possible.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571538.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812014923-20220812044923-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.960507 | 591 | 1.898438 | 2 |
Health care is far from inexpensive no matter where you might look throughout the United States, of this there is just no doubt. After all, health care services have long been on the rise in terms of price – a trend that is only likely to continue in the years that are ahead of us. For one thing, prescription drugs are growing more and more expensive with each and every year that passes us by, jumping by as much as 9% in the year of 2015 alone. In the years that have followed since, this trend has only continued into the years that have passed since.
And it’s not just prescription medications. Emergency room stays have grown more and more expensive with each passing year as well. For instance, the average ER visit is now likely to cost more than $1,000 – which is a considerable amount indeed, especially for those who might be struggling to get by already. For many people, this is something that just is not possible to pay back and as a result, more and more people are all too frequently forgoing the medical care that they need.
Of course, prices can be seen to climb in other aspects of the medical world as well. Routine doctors visits are more expensive than ever, as too are visits to specialty doctors. The treatment of various chronic conditions has only become more and more difficult for people to afford. And again, many people are simply going without medications and regular doctors visits simply because they know that they would struggle to pay for them – if they were able to pay for them at all, that is. The data that has been gathered on the subject more than backs up this claim, showing that the year of 2017 alone saw more than $690 billion spent of both physician and clinical services throughout this one country alone, let alone anywhere else in the world.
But there are steps that can be taken to prevent your personal healthcare costs from climbing to the point that you can no longer pay them back. For one thing, simply taking good care of your body is one way to lower chances of needing expensive medical care. Even just exercising for around seven hours per week has been found to improve your chances of living a longer life, something that is ideal to just about everyone. And staying fit doesn’t take as long as you might think. A single one mile hike can often burn as many as 500 total calories (though certainly this will depend on a number of other factors as well, such as the temperature, the terrain, and your overall fitness to begin with).
Looking at a health plan from health insurance companies is also something that will benefit you immensely. After all, health insurance companies offer a wide array of plans – but having some type of health insurance in places is hugely important for anyone, as you never know when an accident might occur. And even the healthiest people can sometimes get sick and be in need of urgent medical care. For those who are looking for a cost effective option, health insurance companies are likely to have some various health plans available.
One example that health insurance companies will frequently provide is that of the catastrophic health plan. Catastrophic health insurance, obtained through the majority of health insurance companies, can help to ensure that you are able to get and pay for treatment in emergency situations. While CHP health insurance will not cover other medical needs, a largely healthy person can benefit from it immensely, especially if they are just looking to prepare for the unlikely emergency medical event just in case.
Of course, health insurance companies offer more traditional healthcare coverage as well, such as in the form of plans that are available through the average office space or work location. Ultimately, having a health plan that you can cover your spouse and children on through a job has brought a great deal of peace of mind to people living all throughout the entirety of this country. | <urn:uuid:bb982784-f74e-485b-a80e-c72e4fc5ed3d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://cycardio.org/taking-a-closer-look-into-the-importance-of-having-health-insurance/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571911.5/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813081639-20220813111639-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.983467 | 771 | 2.609375 | 3 |
noun. ['əˈsɛmblɝ'] ato
- -er (English)
- -er (Middle English (1100-1500))
- assemble (English)
- assemblen (Middle English (1100-1500))
Rhymes with Assembler
How do you pronounce assembler?
Pronounce assembler as əˈsɛmblər.
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Sentences with assembler
1. Noun, or mass
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IVADO is supporting this research program with $1.2M as part of our Strategic Research Funding Program launched in 2021. We invite you to visit the program’s main page to view its objectives and better understand the process that supported this project.
Artificial intelligence (AI) technologies hold the potential to transform healthcare. These technologies are emergent in logistics and imaging, and hundreds of algorithms are now being developed to help support care delivery. Many challenges remain, however, when it comes to scale-up for use in the field. One such challenge is ensuring the generalizability of such algorithms. How can we guarantee the effectiveness of one model on a data set with characteristics that differ from the one the algorithm learned with? For example, an algorithm trained using data from a specific population may not perform as well when applied to a different population.
This program therefore aims to study new methods for improving generalization, and pursues four objectives. First, set up a research environment enabling the study of methods likely to improve generalization in real-world contexts. Second, optimize data flows obtained in real-world healthcare settings to serve algorithm research. Next, investigate specific issues related to algorithm generalization and secondary use of medical data. Lastly, create an open data set that can be used to build upon the research program findings.
Resources related to this program will appear here.
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- Research article
- Open Access
Reliable genomic strategies for species classification of plant genetic resources
BMC Bioinformatics volume 22, Article number: 173 (2021)
To address the need for easy and reliable species classification in plant genetic resources collections, we assessed the potential of five classifiers (Random Forest, Neighbour-Joining, 1-Nearest Neighbour, a conservative variety of 3-Nearest Neighbours and Naive Bayes) We investigated the effects of the number of accessions per species and misclassification rate on classification success, and validated theirs generic value results with three complete datasets.
We found the conservative variety of 3-Nearest Neighbours to be the most reliable classifier when varying species representation and misclassification rate. Through the analysis of the three complete datasets, this finding showed generic value. Additionally, we present various options for marker selection for classification taks such as these.
Large-scale genomic data are increasingly being produced for genetic resources collections. These data are useful to address species classification issues regarding crop wild relatives, and improve genebank documentation. Implementation of a classification method that can improve the quality of bad datasets without gold standard training data is considered an innovative and efficient method to improve gene bank documentation.
The goal of gene banks is to secure genetic resources for research and breeding now and in the future. In 2009, gene banks worldwide maintained an estimated 7.4 million accessions, 1.4 million more than in 1996 . Roughly 30% of this increase is accounted for by the increased interest in crop wild relatives (CWR), which include the progenitors of domesticated crops as well as species closely related to them. The use of crop wild relatives to improve crop yield, pest and disease resistance, and tolerance for biotic and abiotic stress is well established, with important examples dating back more than 60 years . Since the introduction of marker assisted breeding and more advanced technologies, the use of crop wild relatives has only intensified .
The increased interest in a broad range of crop wild relatives also necessitates expertise in species identification, as the distribution of misidentified plant materials can have significant adverse effects on the subsequent use. Traditionally, species identification has been the domain of taxonomists, who identify species based on morphological features. This is a time-consuming task, while limited morphological variation may still cause unreliable identifications [4, 5]. In addition to initial misclassifications, gene bank documentation may contain errors due to complicated accession histories involving exchanges among institutions and multiple rounds of regeneration. As a result, mistaken identities in genetic resources collections are not uncommon. Therefore, efficient methods to identify and correct species misclassifications would be very helpful to gene banks.
The need for easy and reliable species identification is not restricted to gene banks. It has existed for much longer, in disciplines ranging from ecology to food fraud detection , and gave rise to the conception of DNA barcoding in 2003. DNA barcoding is a taxonomic method that uses variation in the mitochondrial gene cytochrome c oxidase I (cox1) for species identification . Since the first publication, DNA barcoding has received wide support for its straightforward approach and efficacy in both the identification of biological specimens and the discovery of species [8, 9]. However, some criticisms have been levelled at the method as well, directed at its departure from classic taxonomy by using genetic distance measures instead of character based identification, the lack of an objective set of criteria to delineate species when using these distance measures, and whether using only the cox1 gene is really sufficient .
Although cox1 has been shown to be successful in identifying species of butterflies, birds, bats, fish, and mosquito [11,12,13,14,15], cox1 shows insufficient variation to distinguish species in various other groups, such as vascular plants, fungi, invertebrates, reptiles and amphibians [16,17,18,19]. An alternative to cox1 in these groups remains elusive, but it is evident that the species resolution of DNA barcoding benefits from including additional loci in the analyses to increase the number of divergent sites [20, 21].
Still, the literature addressing the methodological shortcomings of DNA barcoding is valuable and very informative. The classification performance of many candidate methods has already been analyzed and compared in DNA barcoding, such as such as Neighbour-Joining (NJ), k-Nearest Neighbours (k-NN), Classification and Regression Trees (CART), Random Forest, kernel methods, Naive Bayes classifiers, Repeated Incremental Pruning to Produce Error Reduction (RIPPER) , Support Vector Machines (SVMs), BLOG , and DNA-BAR [24,25,26,27,28]. The overlap of candidate methods between studies, however, is sparse. We selected a variety of methods from a pool of successful candidate methods, and aimed for diversity in methodology. This resulted in the selection of Random Forest, NJ, k-NN (at k = 1 and k = 3), and Naive Bayes. The first three were the most promising methods in the comparison study of Austerlitz et al. , whereas Naive Bayes was one of the best performers in the study of Weitschek et al. . These methods broadly constitute three types of approaches: distance methods (k-NN), phylogenetic methods (NJ), and supervised machine learners (Random Forest, Naive Bayes). In these comparisons, NJ will be representative of the commonly used methodology to correct misclassifications in diverse datasets, as these are currently based on phylogenetic analysis.
In this paper, we depart from the single gene approach of DNA barcoding strategies and instead employ SNPs from throughout the genome. This will benefit gene banks in three ways. Firstly, methods will be more generalizable across species as there will be more variation to utilize in species delineation. Secondly, the methods will be applicable to a broader range of genotyping datasets, including non-sequencing methods such as AFLPs. Thirdly, in their criticism of DNA barcoding, many have pointed out that any method relying on a single gene will encounter a problem in detecting and classifying hybrid introgressions [29,30,31], information which will be of interest for germplasm end-users. Although our datasets don’t include enough confirmed hybrid accessions, we expect that genome-wide approaches will be more successful in identifying the major donor species of a hybrid.
For the vast majority of crop wild relatives, a verified genomic dataset with which to train classification models is lacking. For a select number of crops, the creation of such a dataset will only be a matter of time, but for most crops the economic incentive is lacking. In the short- and long-term, the genetic resources community would therefore benefit from a classification strategy that does not require a perfectly classified training set, but will instead work with datasets as they are available for genetic resources collections, i.e. mostly verified but misclassifications may be present. If the development of such a strategy is successful, the genomic data that are already available can immediately be used to improve the classification accuracy of the collection.
There are a number of difficulties to this development. Firstly, there are multiple dataset characteristics that have been shown to impact classification success in DNA barcoding , such as the number of species, their respective speciation time, and the number of accessions per species. These characteristics will likely also affect our classification models. Supervised learners in particular (e.g. Random Forest and Naïve Bayes) may need more accessions per species to perform well. To test at what point, if any, machine learners are no longer recommended, curated datasets are created to study the effect of the number of accessions per species on the performance of classifiers.
Secondly, classification models should be able to learn from bad training data, i.e. training data with misclassifications. To determine which classifiers (if any) are most suited to work with imperfectly classified data, we simulated different misclassification rates. Comparison between the applied misclassification rate and the classification success of classifiers should reveal whether the classifiers succeeded in improving the quality of the dataset.
Thirdly, a rather severe imbalance in species representation is found in CWR datasets. Wild relatives that will readily exchange genes of interest with their cultivated counterparts (species belonging to the primary gene pool) are much higher represented in datasets than wild relatives from the secondary and tertiary gene pool, as these datasets are usually generated for breeding purposes. To determine how well our results translate to such datasets, we tested the classifiers on three complete datasets, and used cross-validation on the supervised machine learners to how much of their initial success may be due to over-fitting.
The goal of this work is to lay the basis for curators of genetic resources to discover possible misclassifications in genotyped collections, regardless of species, inclusion of wild relatives, or genotyping method. This will improve the quality of collections at minimal cost, and contribute towards making bioinformatics more accessible to genetic resource specialists.
Performance on curated datasets
To determine if classifiers can improve the quality of a bad training dataset, they were trained on curated Helianthus datasets with varying rates of artificially induced misclassifications. They then classified these curated datasets. To examine the impact of species representation on this process, the number of representatives per species was also varied. Through 5,000 repetitions of artificially induced misclassifications in different curated datasets, the best classifiers for each of these datasets were identified (Table 1).
When the species representation exceeded 4, Random Forest was the best classifier. When species representation was lower, Naive Bayes performed markedly better than Random Forest. Overall, 3-NN showed the best performance (median prediction accuracy of 0.94 vs Random Forest’s 0.92). Random Forest and 3-NN have proven themselves adept at improving the quality of a bad dataset, and to provide a significant improvement over NJ, the method that represents the current methodology to address misclassifications.
Regardless of the quality of the curated datasets, NJ was outperformed. With more optimal datasets, specifically datasets including 10 accessions per species and a misclassification rate of 6.25%, NJ struggled to improve the quality. Random Forest and 3-NN, by comparison, reduced the misclassification rate in these datasets to a median of 2%. With less optimal datasets, in this case 4 accessions per species and a misclassification rate of 12.50%, 3-NN reduced the misclassification rate to a median of 6%, a marked improvement. In contrast, NJ actually increased the misclassification rate of these datasets and output data with a median misclassification rate of 16%.
In all cases, the classifiers showed reduced performance as misclassification rate rose. Yet surprisingly, the misclassification rate appears to have little influence on the best classifier. Exceptions were observed for datasets with 4 or 8 accessions per species, but the difference in prediction accuracy was only minimal in these cases. It is possible that this effect (or lack thereof) is caused by the procedure used to induce misclassifications. Because accessions to misclassify were selected just as randomly as the species to mutate their identity to, all species were affected by these artificial misclassifications at similar rates. This random misclassification effect should be much easier for classifiers to mitigate than the more structural nature of misclassifications one would expect when two or more morphologically similar species are systematically confused.
Performance on complete datasets
To test whether the conclusions of the curated datasets would hold and would show generic value, we compared the performance of the classifiers on three unmodified complete datasets. For this purpose, we acquired an unbiased estimate of prediction accuracy of the supervised machine learners we acquired an unbiased prediction estimate through leave-one-out cross-validation or bagging. The distance-based methods classified the data as before. Additionally, classification performance was quantified by prediction accuracy per species [see Additional file 1]. These tables show 3-NN as the best performing classifier. The performance of 3-NN is consistent with the results of the curated datasets. As expected based on the results of the curated datasets, the performance of Random Forest improved when species were represented by more accessions. The overall difference between RF, NJ, and 1-NN, however, appears slight.
Perhaps most surprising result is the extreme poor performance of Naive Bayes. It performed best in the resequenced tomato dataset, in which its correct classifications consist almost exclusively of the species with the largest representation, S. lycopersicum and S. habrochaites. Conversely, it misclassified every single one of the 100 H. annuus accessions, which suggests that species representation is not solely at the root of the poor performance.
As expected based on the curated datasets, Random Forest performed best on the AFLP tomato dataset, which contained the fewest species represented by 4 or less accessions. There was no difference between the out-of-bag prediction accuracy, and the fraction of accessions that was correctly classified. This is unsuprising with forests with 10,000 trees in with relatively small datasets.
The aim of this research was to identify the most reliable methods for genome-wide species classification of imperfectly classified datasets. We used methods that previously proved successful in DNA barcoding and invesigated their performance under varying rates of misclassification and species representation on genome-wide SNPs We then assessed their performance on three complete datasets. Here we reflect on the methodology used in this research, as well as specify the methodologies we recommend to the genetic resources community.
To determine the effect of misclassification rate on classifier performance, misclassifications were simulated by randomly changing an accessions’ species to a random different species from the same dataset. This resulted in a reduced performance for all classifiers as the misclassification rate rose, yet surprisingly, the misclassification rate appeared to have little influence on the best classifier. Exceptions were observed for datasets with 4 or 8 accessions per species, but the difference in prediction accuracy was only minimal in these cases. It is possible that this effect (or lack thereof) is caused by the method used to induce misclassifications. Accessions to misclassify were selected randomly, and as such, all species were affected by these artificial misclassifications at similar rates. This effect might be much easier for classifiers to mitigate than the more structural nature of misclassifications one would expect when two or more morphologically similar species are systematically confused.
Validity of outlier detection methods
For the curation of the Helianthus datasets, potential misclassifications in a subset of sunflower species were identified based on either their outlying position in the neighbour-joining tree [Additional file 2], or their relatively small proximity to others of their class in a Random Forest [see Additional file 3]. We reexamined these potential misclassifications using the complete sunflower dataset. For this, we compared a priori classifications, and predictions of both Random Forest and 3-NN, the most reliable classification methods.
The performance of the Random Forest outlier detection method was unexpectedly poor, as only two out of six (max148 and niv07) accessions marked as outliers were actually re-classified by Random Forest and 3-NN. Comparison of suspected outliers with non-outliers revealed that considerably fewer reads were generated for outliers (median 1.0 million vs 2.4 million). This strongly suggests Random Forest used the number of imputed values to distinguish outliers from non-outliers. We used the most common allele at each locus to impute missing values, which in this case is likely the allele belonging to Helianthus annuus, which is represented by the vast majority of the accessions (Table 2). This way, we likely introduced Helianthus annuus alleles in accessions that were not Helianthus annuus, which led to their relative dissimilarity to others of their species. Interestingly, Random Forest was robust enough to confirm the a priori classifications despite this unfortunate artefact of the imputation method. This finding shows both the robustness of Random Forest classification, but also the sensitivity of the Random Forest outlier detection technique. Still, we do not recommend using Random Forest outlier detection technique for datasets with missing values imputed using the most common allele at each unknown locus, because the combination seems especially prone to false positives.
The performance of NJ-based outlier detection fared much better. All accessions marked as outlying, with the exception of pet02, were found to be a different species by Random Forest and 3-NN classification. At first glance [see Additional file 1] pet02 seems distant from the cluster of other Helianthus petiolaris, but rotation of subtrees could position it much closer. How close is close enough to not be considered an outlier? This is a technique that uses human judgment, and this accession shows that interpreting phylogeny through trees can be rather tricky. Instead of this technique, we recommend using classification methods as outlined in the section "Practical Recommendations".
Challenges in species classification
Some of the species represented in the datasets are notably harder to classify than others with similar species representation, tomato species S. corneliomulleri and S. peruvianum senso stricto in particular. Nearly all classification mistakes involving these species, mixed up the two (Table 3). These are two of four species into which S. peruvianum sensu lato was recently split [51, 52]. Peralta et al. describe their approach towards this delineation as combining morphological, molecular, and ecological data, as well as having relied on clear morphological discontinuities to define entities. However, none of the strict consensus trees, based on either GBSSI gene sequences, AFLP data, or morphological characters presented by Peralta et al. show delineation between these two species. This finding has since then been reproduced several times [43, 53, 54]. Moreover, no significant difference between the environments S. corneliomulleri and S. peruvianum s.s. inhabit was found either . This lack of delineation clearly affected distance-based methods 1-NN and NJ, whereas 3-NN appears a bit more succesful. Peralta et al. cite incomplete lineage sorting as explanation, a characteristic which would indeed foil distance-based methods such as phylogenetic trees, but should have left a supervised machine learner like RF mostly unaffected. Random Forest, however, was not able to distinguish these species any better than 3-NN.
Conversely though similarly, a recent study on gene flow between sunflower species H. petiolaris and H. neglectus found it was unlikely that these two populations represent two distinct isolated gene pools . The authors argued therefore that the populations currently recognized as H. neglectus, do not warrant recognition as a distinct species but should instead be recognized as a subspecies of H. petiolaris. Despite this finding, RF, NJ, and 3-NN distinguished H. petiolaris and H. neglectus with success (Table 2).
While the sample sizes of this experiment are insufficient to draw conclusions, these findings suggest it might be fruitful to use classification methods alongside statistical methods when testing whether populations possess distinctive qualities.
The variable success of Naive Bayes
When comparing Table 4 with Table 3, it is evident that the prediction success of Naive Bayes is highly variable. Comparison of its performance on Solanum lycopersicum (Additional file 4) and Helianthus annuus (Additional file 5) suggests that this variability is not solely due to species representation. Rish et al. (2001) show that Naive Bayes reaches its best performance in two opposite cases: completely independent features and functionally highly dependent features . These cases might translate to these optimal cases: classification of a trait unrelated to lineage (completely independent), or classification in species with very low intraspecific diversity (highly dependent). This hypothesis would be consistent with a good classification performance on S. lycopersicum, as the accessions that represent it are all cultivated material and have very low diversity, and a bad performance on Helianthus annuus, the progenitor of cultivated sunflower, which has one of the highest rates of genetic diversity among wild sunflowers .
Options for marker selection
There are no definite guidelines on how best to select markers from resequenced data sets and reduce them to a computationally more manageable number. We briefly tested two different strategies, namely (1) applying a strict filter to select only what one would perceive as high quality markers, and (2) randomly thinning the markers to a desired number. In the resequenced tomato data set, we found that filtering the markers (as opposed to thinning) led to a great decrease in classifier performance (median prediction accuracy across classifiers of 0.91 vs. 0.73). In the resequenced sunflower dataset we found that the effect was opposite (0.82 vs. 0.90). By testing both strategies and choosing the marker selection with the best results, we were able to achieve good prediction accuracy for all complete datasets. We therefore believe these strategies to be sufficiently sound for use in species classification. These strategies can be implemented using command line variant filtering tools such as VCFTools or Plink (which are very fast but currently only available on Linux or MacOS), or on Windows machines using R [59, 60] or Python.
Additionally, other options exist for marker selection, including using only variant sites present in orthologous genes , variant-pruning based on linkage disequilibrium , or even reference free comparisons [62,63,64,65]. Reference free strategies are expected to be less successful as genome coverage drops and will require the raw sequence reads (fastq files) instead of variant call files, but may otherwise be very effective in species lacking a reference genome. Among reference free methods, DiscoSNP++ in particular prides itself on its user-friendliness, as it needs relatively little RAM memory and computational time, and could therefore be run on a desktop computer. Overall, the choice for any particular method may be constrained by user expertise, computational capacity, sequencing depth and quality, and the availability of a suitable reference genome.
Gene banks play a crucial role in securing genetic diversity for research and breeding, now and in the future. The collection and correct classification of crop wild relatives is an important aspect of this work. Classifying accessions based on morphological features alone, however, is time-consuming and error prone. As collections of crop wild relatives are increasingly genotyped and sequenced, this creates an excellent opportunity for gene banks to improve the quality of their documentation by identifying and correcting misclassifications. Gold standard datasets, however, are lacking for many crops and crop wild relatives. As such, the ambitious premise of this work was to find the best method for species classification, regardless of species, inclusion of wild relatives, or genotyping method, while working with imperfectly classified datasets.
We found that a conservative variety of 3-Nearest Neighbours is particularly suited to improve the quality of a bad dataset, and is a significant improvement over Neighbour-Joining, which represents the current phylogenetic methodology to address misclassifications. Based on its performance on the three complete datasets, we feel confident that this variety of 3-Nearest Neighbours will reliably perform well on a large variety of datasets.
There are still more avenues to explore regarding the use and improvement of bad training data in species classification tasks, but based on this research, we have formulated practical recommendations that can be used immediately by curators of genetic resources collections.
Furthermore, based on these findings and recommendations, a simple software tool could be developed to assist plant genetic resources curators in identifying potential misclassifications, using the current classifications and genomic data. Such a tool could eventually be developed further to study other descriptors, such as disease susceptibility, and to predict the likelihood of accessions being resistant and the likelihood of the prediction being correct. This has the potential to increase the quality of gene bank documentation tremendously, and thus increase the value of these priceless plant genetic resources.
To identify the flaws of various classification methods, we used curated but highly diverse datasets of sunflower. We artificially varied species representation (number of accessions per species) and misclassification rate (fraction of misclassified accessions) in these data sets, and used five different classification methods to correct the misclassifications introduced. We then verified the generic value of these methods by applying them to three complete datasets.
We selected classification methods based on their success in DNA barcoding studies, and aimed for diversity in methodology. This resulted in the selection of Random Forest, NJ, k-NN, and Naive Bayes. The first three were the most promising methods in the comparison study of Austerlitz et al. , whereas Naive Bayes was one of the best performers in the study of Weitschek et al. . These methods broadly constitute three types of approaches: distance methods (k-NN), phylogenetic methods (NJ), and supervised machine learners (Random Forest, Naive Bayes). In these comparisons, NJ will be representative of the commonly used methodology to correct misclassifications in diverse datasets, as these are currently based on phylogenetic analysis.
As genebanks often work with species for which there are currently no gold standard classified datasets, the aim of this research is to find classification methods that can learn from bad training data, in such a way that they can improve the quality of the same data by reducing the number of misclassifications. We use a curated dataset with artificially introduced misclassifications to verify if models can actually improve the quality of the data, or if the models will output the same or even worse quality data when working with a bad training dataset.
Random Forest is an algorithm that combines hundreds or thousands of decision trees, trains each one on a slightly different set of observations through bootstrapping, and splits each decision node based on a random subset of features (e.g. molecular markers). The forest will classify new samples by funneling them down all decision trees, and adopting the classification proposed by the majority of the trees . This averaging of predictions (called bagging, or bootstrap aggregating), combined with the bootstrapping of the observations improves the stability and accuracy of predictions, and helps to avoid over-fitting.
To implement the Random Forest algorithm, R package ranger was used. This package is true to the original algorithm, but boosts computational efficiency through parallel processing. ranger was run with replacement with 10,000 trees, the default mtry value of √p, and the gini impurity split rule. Samples were classified by ranger internally, by only using the trees each sample was out of bag for. This means that each sample was effectively classified by 0.368 × 10,000 = 3,680 trees, hence the high number of trees initially chosen.
Because Random Forest does not allow for any missing data, values were imputed with the na.roughfix function from R package RandomForest . This method replaces the missing allele at each site with the most common one. Although this imputation method is not very sophisticated, it is very fast, makes no assumptions about the data, and works independently of any class information.
Neighbour-Joining (NJ) is a phylogenetic clustering method that constructs a tree from a distance matrix . This method was implemented using the functions dist.gene and nj from R package APE , and additionally a script to classify the samples based on the constructed NJ tree. This script was based on the description of Austerlitz et al., in their paper comparing various classification methods for DNA barcode analysis . The distance matrix was computed with dist.gene with pairwise deletion enabled. With this option, dist.gene constructs a distance matrix by determining the number of divergent sites through pairwise comparison, and discarding the markers for which data of one or both samples is missing. The classification script reads the NJ tree and assigns the query sample the majority species of the smallest subtree it occurs in. If no majority is found, the process is repeated with the second-to-one smallest subtree the query occurs in. If no majority species emerges in this subtree either, the query is determined to be ambiguous.
k-nearest neighbours classification
We used two different Nearest Neighbours strategies, which vary in k number and distance measure. The first strategy is 1-Nearest Neighbour (1-NN), which assigns the query sample to the species of the most similar sample within the examined dataset. This strategy causes a problem when two nearest neighbours don’t share the same identity. Take, for example, a case of 2 neighbouring samples that are the same species, one a priori classification may be correct, and the other incorrect. 1-NN will assign the correct identity to the misclassified sample, but then go on and assign the incorrect identity to the other sample.
Nevertheless, we included 1-NN to put the results of other classification methods into perspective, because we consider a method that cannot outperform 1-NN unsuitable for implementation. To our knowledge, there is no R package that offers nearest neighbour classification with built-in leave-one-out cross-validation, so a custom function was written that computes the distance matrix only once, and then classifies the accessions while ignoring each query sample’s a priori classification. Distance between samples was determined by APE’s dist.gene function with pairwise deletion enabled. dist.gene performs a pairwise comparison for all samples and presents a conservative estimate of the number of divergent sites by ignoring all sites with missing values for one or both samples. The most similar sample is then selected and its species identity is assigned to the query sample.
The second strategy is a conservative variety of 3-Nearest Neighbours (3-NN), which includes the query sample itself among the three selected neighbours. The inclusion of the query sample amoung the neighbours increases the burden of evidence to overturn the a priori classification, as only one neighbour is needed to confirm it, while two are needed to overturn it in a majority vote. Simultaneously, this decreases the bare minimum of accessions a species needs for unambiguous classification from 3 to 2. If there are ties for the third nearest sample, all candidates are included in the vote. If no majority is reached, the sample is classified as ambiguous. 3-NN was implemented using the knn function from R package class, using k = 3, l = 2, and use.all = TRUE. This function uses Euclidian distance to determine similarity instead of the number of divergent sites, as used for 1-NN and NJ. Because this function does not allow missing data, missing data were imputed in the same manner as for Random Forest.
Naive bayes classifier
The Naive Bayes classifier is a probabilistic classifier based on Bayes’ theorem. Bayes’ theorem describes the probability of example E being a member of class C, based on prior knowledge of prediction features that might be related to this class. For example, if cancer is related to age, then with Bayes’ theorem, a person’s age can be used to more accurately assess the likelihood of them having cancer, compared to assessing the probability of cancer without this knowledge. The "naive" aspect of this classifier results from its assumption that each predictor is independent from all others. In our study, this amounts to disregarding linkage between markers. The independence assumption of Naive Bayes is rarely warranted, but works surprisingly well in practice. Zhang (2004) explored potential causes of this paradox and showed that Naive Bayes does not need true independence of predictors to perform optimally, but rather demands an even distribution of dependencies in classes, or dependencies that cancel each other out . In DNA barcode classification, Naive Bayes has been found successful . The authors claim that ignoring dependence between predictors can lead to poorly estimated class probabilities, but will still result in correct classifications if the correct group is the most probable. The Naive Bayes model was created with the naiveBayes function from R package e1071 , using a value of 1 for Laplace smoothing. Predictions were made using the predict function from e1071. The Naive Bayes classifier does not require missing data to be absent, but performs much better with a well-imputed dataset. Missing data were therefore handled in the same manner as for Random Forest, i.e. by imputing the most common allele at each site.
The datasets selected for the evaluation of classification methods were chosen based on their high number of crop wild relatives included, as well as their respective differences in species representation. The characteristics of the datasets are summarized in Table 5.
The dataset chosen to create the curated datasets is a resequenced sunflower dataset , which includes 22 wild sunflower species. Of these species, 8 are represented by 10 or more accessions. The median number of accessions per species is 6.5. To simplify analyses and boost computation speed, the variant sites were filtered for > 80% call rate, > 1% minor allele frequency, no indels, and a minimum of 200,000 reads per accession using VCFTools version 0.1.15 . Additionally, individual genotypes were filtered to remove calls with < 5 reads. After filtering, 15,285 out of 545,531 sites, and 280 out of 288 accessions remained.
The tomato dataset was resequenced with a mean coverage of 36-fold, and includes accessions from 13 different species . The dataset also contains raw reads and variant call files from accessions that were excluded from the original publication. These were excluded when further analysis revealed admixed ancestry (R Finkers, personal communication, February 7, 2019). We choose only to use the accessions of which the species identity was verified, and merged all single sample files using VCFTools. Due to the high coverage of this dataset, it was especially important to reduce the number of variant sites for computational efficiency. To reduce the number of variant sites to a maximum of 100,000, we briefly tested two strategies namely (1) applying a strict filter (> 80% call rate, > 1% minor allele frequency, and no indels, which kept 1.9 million out of 71.1 million variant sites) and subsequently randomly thinning to 100,000 using Plink2.0 , and (2) randomly thinning on all unfiltered 71.1 million variant sites using Plink2.0. We found that, for this dataset, median prediction accuracy markedly improved across classifiers (0.91 vs. 0.73) when applying the second strategy versus the first one. We therefore proceeded with this dataset using strategy 2. The resequenced tomato dataset includes 13 different species and features a major class imbalance, with 50 out of 80 accessions belonging to Solanum lycopersicum. Among the species with less representation are S. corneliomulleri and S. galapagense, both represented by 1 accession, and seven more species that are represented by 2 accessions. This leads to a median species size of only 2.
The distribution of species in the AFLP tomato dataset by Zuriaga et al. is less extreme . It includes 14 different species, and 3 hybrid accessions. S. pimpinellifolium is represented by 26 accessions, and S. galapagense by 2. The other species lie somewhere in between (median = 9). The AFLP marker data were received from Zuriaga upon request. We received present/absent scoring for 245 markers in Genetix format, a format actually designed for diploid data. Thirteen of these markers had heterozygous data, which is odd because AFLPs are dominant. Zuriaga agreed these were erroneous, but retrieving the data as used for analysis 10 years ago proved difficult (personal communication, June 27, 2019). We removed all markers with heterozygous data, as well as another 13 markers with a minor allele frequency below 1%. This resulted in 219 markers for analysis.
The accession numbers of the accessions used, their a priori classifications, and the predictions of all classifiers for the resequenced tomato dataset, the sunflower dataset, and the AFLP tomato dataset can be found in Additional files 4, 5, and 6, respectively.
Treatment of curated sunflower dataset
The number of informative SNPs present in a given genomic dataset may vary greatly depending on genotyping technique, data processing, and not in the least, crop properties. To investigate the effects of species representation and misclassification rate (and isolate them as much as possible), we selected a single expansive dataset to artificially vary species representation and misclassification rate.
Firstly, the accessions of all species with less than 10 accessions were removed. The remaining material was imported into R . To avoid the confounding effect of a priori misclassifications, the dataset was screened for outliers using two very different techniques: visual inspection of a neighbour-joining tree and a Random Forest-based outlier detection method . For the latter, functions randomForest and outlier from R package Random Forest were used. First Random Forest was run with ntree = 50,000 and proximity set to TRUE to obtain a proximity matrix of the data. This matrix describes the similarity of two individuals by counting how often they land in the same terminal node in a tree. With this matrix and the original classifications, the outlier function then determines which individuals have small proximities to all other cases in their class, relative to the proximities these cases have to each other.
Visual inspection of the neighbour-joining tree revealed 4 potential misclassifications accessions (Additional file 2). Using the recommended threshold of 10, the Random Forest outlier detection method flagged 6 accessions as potential outliers (Additional file 3). These accessions were all excluded from further analysis, as were the remaining H. exilis accessions because their group size dropped below 10. After this selection, 199 accessions from 8 species remained. From this material, 10, 8, 6, 4, and 2 samples were randomly selected from each species. These populations were used to examine model performance under varying numbers of species representation.
Simulation of misclassifications
The goal of this part of the research is to determine which methods are most suited to correct misclassifications in genomic datasets, without the use of a gold standard dataset. To simulate these misclassifications, the species names of 6.25%, 12.5% and 18.75% of the samples were randomly altered to a random different species name from the dataset. These random alterations were introduced 5,000 times for each misclassification rate and each species representation. Each time, classifiers made predictions based on the same sets of a priori (mis)classifications. A total of 75,000 datasets were analyzed, comprising 5 different levels of species representation, 3 rates of misclassification and 5,000 replications.
Classifier comparison on curated datasets
To quantify classifier performance, we used prediction accuracy. Prediction accuracy is a simple and intuitive metric, defined as the number of correct predictions, divided by the number of samples. Ambiguous predictions were excluded from the calculation. It must be noted however, that prediction accuracy as a summary metric must be treated with caution, as this metric is very sensitive to strong variation in the number of accessions per species. Good alternatives to prediction accuracy in imbalanced datasets are Matthews correlation coefficient (for binary predictions) and the lesser known RK statistic (for multiclass predictions) [46, 47]. In this case we were able to use prediction accuracy because we consistently represented all species by the same number of accessions in the curated datasets.
To test the null hypothesis that all classifiers show identical performance under all circumstances, prediction accuracies were grouped by misclassification rate and sample size, and tested using Friedman Aligned Ranks. Like the Friedman test, this is a non-parametric test that makes no assumptions about the distribution or variance of the data, and hence was considered appropriate to test the null hypothesis . Friedman Aligned Ranks has been shown to perform better than the Friedman test when the number of classifiers is low, i.e. no more than 4 or 5 . To correct for multiple testing, each p-value was corrected with the Finner test. This test has greater power than the conservative Bonferroni-Dunn test, and similar power to Holm, Hochberg, Hommel, Holland, and Rom, while having a simpler design . If the adjusted p-value was below 0.05, it was followed up by a multiple comparison with the classifier with the highest mean accuracy as control. These statistical tests and comparisons were performed in R, using R package scmamp which has been especially developed for statistical comparison of multiple algorithms.
Classifier comparison on complete datasets
For the comparison of the complete datasets, we also used prediction accuracy. To prevent bias towards classifiers that perform well on large classes, we not only looked at the overall prediction accuracy, but also at the performance per species. Prediction accuracy per species is defined as the number of correct predictions per species, divided by total number of accessions belonging to the species. Ambiguous predictions, as are sometimes made by NJ and 3-NN, are again excluded from the calculation. The complete datasets are used without any modification, as their purpose is only to confirm whether the conclusions of the curated datasets hold, and appear generalizable. For the supervised machine learners (RF and NB) we acquired an unbiased estimate of prediction. We used the out-of-bag prediction accuracy for Random Forest as estimate, and used leave-one-out as a sampling strategy for Naive Bayes.
Availability of data and materials
The resequenced sunflower data used for this study are available from the Sunflower Genome Database: https://sunflowergenome.org/diversity/. The sequence reads and associated analyses of the resequenced tomato data used for this study are available in the European Nucleotide Archive (http://www.ebi.ac.uk/ena/) under accession number PRJEB5235. The AFLP marker data of tomato used for this study were received from Zuriaga. The authors have permission to redistribute this data upon request. All data generated during this study are included in this published article and its supplementary information files.
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Prediction accuracy per species and species representation. Classifiers are Random Forest (RF), Naive Bayes (NB), Neighbour-Joining (NJ), 1-Nearest Neighbour (1-NN), and 3-Nearest-Neighbours (3-NN), respectively. The number of accessions per species is denoted by ’n’. The best performance for each dataset is presented in bold.
Neighbour-Joining tree of Helianthus species represented by 10 or more accessions. The number of divergent sites was used as a measure of distance. Potentially misclassified accessions (niv07, pet02, max148, and pet88 ) are marked by a black asterisk.
RandomForest outlier scores for all sunflower accessions. The dashed line represents the cut-off score used, which is 10.
Tomato reseq dataset and predictions. List of resequenced tomato accessions included in this study, their a priori classifications and species predictions from all classifiers studied.
Sunflower dataset and predictions. List of sunflower accessions included in this study, their a priori classifications and species predictions from all classifiers studied.
Tomato AFLP dataset and predictions. List of tomato AFLP accessions included in this study, their a priori classifications and species predictions from all classifiers studied.
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van Bemmelen van der Plaat, A., van Treuren, R. & van Hintum, T.J.L. Reliable genomic strategies for species classification of plant genetic resources. BMC Bioinformatics 22, 173 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12859-021-04018-6
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Here are some of my thoughts from Skilling v. United States,decided today by the Supreme Court.
From Justice Ginsburg’s holding:
We consider in this opinion two questions arisingfrom the prosecution of Jeffrey Skilling, a longtime Enron executive, for crimes committed before the corporation’scollapse. First, did pretrial publicity and communityprejudice prevent Skilling from obtaining a fair trial? Second, did the jury improperly convict Skilling of conspiracy to commit “honest-services” wire fraud, 18 U. S. C.§§371, 1343, 1346?Answering no to both questions, the Fifth Circuit affirmed Skilling’s convictions. We conclude, in common with the Court of Appeals, that Skilling’s fair-trial argument fails; Skilling, we hold, did not establish that a presumption of juror prejudice arose or that actual bias infected the jury that tried him. But we disagree with the Fifth Circuit’s honest-services ruling. In proscribingfraudulent deprivations of “the intangible right of honest services,” §1346, Congress intended at least to reachschemes to defraud involving bribes and kickbacks. Construing the honest-services statute to extend beyond that core meaning, we conclude, would encounter a vagueness shoal. We therefore hold that §1346 covers only bribery and kickback schemes. Because Skilling’s alleged misconduct entailed no bribe or kickback, it does not fall within §1346’s proscription.
Part I of the opinion, written by Justice Ginsburg, and joined by ROBERTS, C. J., and STEVENS, SCALIA, KENNEDY, THOMAS, and ALITO, JJ., focused on pretrial publicity,.
Part II of the opinion (beginning on page 11), written by Justice Ginsburg, and joined by ROBERTS, C. J., and SCALIA, KENNEDY, and THOMAS, JJ., focused on juror prejudice.
Part III, of the opinion, written by Justice Ginsburg, and joined by ROB-ERTS, C. J., and STEVENS, BREYER, ALITO, and SOTOMAYOR, JJ found that the honest services fraud statute is constitutional.
Justice Scalia, joined by Justices Thomas and Kennedy did not agree with Part III, and concurred separately. Scalia would have found that the honest services fraud was void for vagueness, and unconstitutional.
Justice Sotomayor, joined by Justices Stevens and Breyer, wrote a dissenting opinion, disagreeing with Parts I and II, though the troika joined Part III, upholding the constitutionality of the honest services fraud.
So how to score this? I see 9 votes for reversing Skilling’s conviction and 6 votes for upholding the constitutionality of honest services fraud.
The meat of the opinion focuses on the constitutionality of the honest services fraud. Skilling was convicted on a conspiracy theory of honest-services wire fraud. While the Court found that the statute was not unconstitutionally vague, Skilling’s conduct–conspiracy–did not fall within the statute’s compass. Only bribery and kickbacks were within the statute.
More analysis after the jump.
Justice Ginsburg discusses the history of honest-services fraud, and notes that when possible, the Court will avoid striking down a federal statute for vagueness:
It has long been our practice, however, before strikinga federal statute as impermissibly vague, to consider whether the prescription is amenable to a limiting construction. See, e.g., Hooper v. California, 155 U. S. 648, 657 (1895) (“The elementary rule is that every reasonable construction must be resorted to, in order to save a statute from unconstitutionality.” (emphasis added)). See also Boos v. Barry, 485 U. S. 312, 330–331 (1988); Schneider v. Smith, 390 U. S. 17, 26 (1968).41 We have accordingly instructed “the federal courts . . . to avoid constitutional difficulties by [adopting a limiting interpretation] if such a construction is fairly possible.” Boos, 485 U. S., at 331; see United States v. Harriss, 347 U. S. 612, 618 (1954) (“[I]f the general class of offenses to which the statute is directed is plainly within its terms, the statute will not bestruck down as vague . . . . And if this general class ofoffenses can be made constitutionally definite by a reasonable construction of the statute, this Court is under a dutyto give the statute that construction.”).
Narrowly construing the statute, Justice Ginsburg finds that it reaches at least bribes and kickbacks.
instructed “the federal courts . . . to avoid constitutional difficulties by [adopting a limiting interpretation] if such a construction is fairly possible.” Boos, 485 U. S., at 331; see United States v. Harriss, 347 U. S. 612, 618 (1954) (“[I]f the general class of offenses to which the statute is directed is plainly within its terms, the statute will not bestruck down as vague . . . . And if this general class ofoffenses can be made constitutionally definite by a reasonable construction of the statute, this Court is under a dutyto give the statute that construction.”). To preserve the statute without transgressing constitutional limitations, we now hold that §1346 criminalizes only the bribeand-kickback core of the pre-McNally case law.44
The Court also invokes the rule of lenity!
Further dispelling doubt on this point is the familiar principle that “ambiguity concerning the ambit of criminal statutes should be resolved in favor of lenity.” Cleveland, 531 U. S., at 25 (quoting Rewis v. United States, 401 U. S. 808, 812 (1971)).
In a footnote, Justice Ginsburg addresses how the government could criminalize the nebulous ““undisclosed self-dealing by a public official or private employee,”
45If Congress were to take up the enterprise of criminalizing “undisclosed self-dealing by a public official or private employee,” Brief for United States 43, it would have to employ standards of sufficient definiteness and specificity to overcome due process concerns. The Government proposes a standard that prohibits the “taking of officialaction by the employee that furthers his own undisclosed financial interests while purporting to act in the interests of those to whom he owes a fiduciary duty,” so long as the employee acts with a specificintent to deceive and the undisclosed conduct could influence the victim to change its behavior. Id., at 43–44. See also id., at 40–41. That formulation, however, leaves many questions unanswered. How direct or significant does the conflicting financial interest have to be? To what extent does the official action have to further that interest in order to amount to fraud? To whom should the disclosure be made and what information should it convey? These questions and others call for particular care in attempting to formulate an adequate criminal prohibition in this context.
Justice Scalia, joined by Justices Thomas and Kennedy, joined the Court’s opinion, except as to Part III. Scalia would have struck down the honest services fraud as void for vagueness. Scalia compares the Court’s construing of the honest-services fraud to only reach bribery and kickbacks to the development of common law federal crimes.
In my view, the specification in 18 U. S. C. §1346 (2006 ed., Supp. II) that “scheme or artifice to defraud” inthe mail-fraud and wire-fraud statutes, §§1341 and 1343(2006 ed.), includes “a scheme or artifice to deprive another of the intangible right of honest services,” is vague, and therefore violates the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment. The Court strikes a pose of judicial humility in proclaiming that our task is “not to destroy the Act . . . but to construe it,” ante, at 43 (internal quotation marks omitted). But in transforming the prohibition of “honestservices fraud” into a prohibition of “bribery and kickbacks” it is wielding a power we long ago abjured: the power to define new federal crimes. See United States v. Hudson, 7 Cranch 32, 34 (1812).
In his lengthy criticism of the case law supporting honest-services fraud, Nino breaks out a little French. Citing international law: bad. Using international languages: continental.
The indefiniteness of the fiduciary duty is not all. Manycourts held that some je-ne-sais-quoi beyond a merebreach of fiduciary duty was needed to establish honestservices fraud.
Scalia lances the holding here, and criticizes the bribery/kickback core the Court finds underlying the statute.
The Court is aware of all this. It knows that adopting by reference “the pre-McNally honest-services doctrine,” ante, at 43, is adopting by reference nothing more precise than the referring term itself (“the intangible right ofhonest services”). Hence the deus ex machina: “[W]e parethat body of precedent down to its core,” ante, at 39. Since the honest-services doctrine “had its genesis” in briberyprosecutions, and since several cases and counsel forSkilling referred to bribery and kickback schemes as “core” or “paradigm” or “typical” examples, or “[t]he most obvious form,” of honest-services fraud, ante, at 43–44 (internalquotation marks omitted), and since two cases and counsel for the Government say that they formed the “vast majority,” or “most” or at least “[t]he bulk” of honest-services cases, ante, at 43–44 (internal quotation marks omitted),THEREFORE it must be the case that they are all Congress meant by its reference to the honest-services doctrine.
As my colleague Mike Sacks observed, Nino wrote in all caps for the therefore. Sharp.
Scalia notes that even if the bribery/kickback core made sense, the statute is still too vague–who does it apply to?
Even if that conclusion followed from its premises, it would not suffice to eliminate the vagueness of the statute. It would solve (perhaps) the indeterminacy of what acts constitute a breach of the “honest services” obligation under the pre-McNally law. But it would not solve the most fundamental indeterminacy: the character of the“fiduciary capacity” to which the bribery and kickback restriction applies. Does it apply only to public officials?Or in addition to private individuals who contract with thepublic? Or to everyone, including the corporate officer here? The pre-McNally case law does not provide an answer. Thus, even with the bribery and kickback limitation the statute does not answer the question “What is thecriterion of guilt?”
Scalia goes on to criticize the Court’s faux-modesty:
To say that bribery andkickbacks represented “the core” of the doctrine, or thatmost cases applying the doctrine involved those offenses, is not to say that they are the doctrine. All it proves isthat the multifarious versions of the doctrine overlap with regard to those offenses. But the doctrine itself is much more. Among all the pre-McNally smörgåsbord-offeringsof varieties of honest-services fraud, not one is limited to bribery and kickbacks. That is a dish the Court has cooked up all on its own.
Arriving at that conclusion requires not interpretationbut invention. The Court replaces a vague criminal standard that Congress adopted with a more narrow one (included within the vague one) that can pass constitutional muster. I know of no precedent for such “paring down,”3 and it seems to me clearly beyond judicial power. This is not, as the Court claims, ante, at 41, simply a matter of adopting a “limiting construction” in the face of potential unconstitutionality.
Scalia proceeds to talk about the avoidance canon, a topic that has been amply discussed this term.
The canon of constitutional avoidance, on which the Court so heavily relies, see ante, at 41–42, states that “when the constitutionality of a statute is assailed, if the statute be reasonably susceptible of two interpretations,by one of which it would be unconstitutional and by the other valid, it is our plain duty to adopt that constructionwhich will save the statute from constitutional infirmity.” United States ex rel. Attorney General v. Delaware & Hudson Co., 213 U. S. 366, 407 (1909); see also United States v. Rumely, 345 U. S. 41, 45 (1953) (describing the canon as decisive “in the choice of fair alternatives”). Here there is no choice to be made between two “fair alternatives.” Until today, no one has thought (and there is no basis for thinking) that the honest-services statute prohibited only bribery and kickbacks.
In prior vagueness cases, we have resisted the temptation to make all things right with the stroke of our pen. See, e.g., Smith v. Goguen, 415 U. S. 566, 575 (1974).I would show the same restraint today, and reverse Skilling’s conviction on the basis that §1346 provides no “ascertainable standard” for the conduct it condemns, L. Cohen, 255 U. S., at 89. Instead, the Court today adds to our functions the prescription of criminal law.
Scalia also seems to have some questions about Marbury.
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- 1 SVG within <img>
- 2 Some suggestions from someone who has played around with FF
- 3 The Mailing List
- 4 Suggestions for Firefox2 from one who teaches web development.
- 5 tabbed browsing
- 6 Resource usage, CLI
- 7 Tab preview
- 8 "Close" Buttons for Tabs
- 9 Reintroduction of a Necessary feature
- 10 Cross-application compatibility with Microformats
- 11 Right click "save destination" sometimes wrong
- 12 Dictionary
SVG within <img>
SVG stands 4 Scalable Vector Graphics, but today in FF there is abs. no way to sizing SVG in a standard XHTML document. (e.g. sizing to 100% of a 30% width cell of 100% width table of BODY.) So SVG support is little useless today in ff.
The real power of SVG is in Sizing & Animating (hm, no mng no apng).
Sizing is a clear way.
So, lets define SVG goals !
- This is not within the scope of Firefox 2, as this requires a core change. I believe the devs are working, or will work, on getting SVG Full working for Gecko 1.9 (Firefox3) as you can see from the Roadmap Scratchpad and in more detail at the Mozilla SVG Project.
Some suggestions from someone who has played around with FF
I've devoted a ridiculous amount of time to experimenting with Firefox. I've configured it to do a lot of really cool things, ranging from storing zillions of pages of web-content, to minimizing GUI clutter and surfing-related hand movements.
What would really be great would be:
- The ability to use multiple search engines simultaneously with as few button clicks and mouse gestures as possible. I have a lot in my search window, and I have them ordered according to frequency of use, but I don't have the ability to search them all simultaneously. There was an extension, but it wasn't very good.
- The ability to hide/remove any and all unwanted elements from any toolbar to avoid redundancy.
- Incorporation of certain extensions into Firefox; specifically, Adblock, Crash Recovery / Session Saver (see Session Restore), Download Statusbar, IE Tab (quite unlikely), Menu Editor, Linkification, Pagesticky Pearl Crescent Page Saver, Blogging Tools, Remove it Permanently [<----This Extension is revolutionary], Scrapbook, Search Engine Ordering, SwiftTabs, and Too many tabs!; or their functional equivalents. In my opinion, these can be the most useful functions provided by Firefox.
- Subsidize extension & FF compatibility so extensions are upgraded in a more timely manner.
- Built-in Stealth Mode that activates TOR and privoxy, without having to switch profiles or change configurations and settings.
- Syntax highlight for files in ftp (like php, coldfusion, asp...)
The Mailing List
- Download Management, continue downloading any moment any time (when I want). such as SPEED DOWNLOAD or DAP! - I am experiencing some problems (see images):
Suggestions for Firefox2 from one who teaches web development.
1. I find it incredibly frustatrating not to be able to send whole pages with FF, as do my students. I have been unable to find an extension to do this - tho' if there were one you'd find lots of downloads for it. Will this be solved with FF 2.0 or Firebird? Will I be obliged to change my default email client in order to send pages with Firefox (not nice)?
2. FF 1.5 still doesn't handle properly a roll-over which changes the info in the status bar (using both onMouseOver and onMouseOut.)
3. At least in FF 1.0 (I have't yet tried this with FF 1.5) there are problems with sending XML files /getting pages of XML to open properly. There is a discussion of this at WebDeveloper.com http://www.webdeveloper.com/forum/showthread.php?t=92563&referrerid=0
Hi There. I would be very pleased if firefox 2 could really use tabbed browsing. I'm talking about new opening windows like: Download manager, extension windows. All those things could be unifide to be just another tab. Now after starting extensions, pressing check for new extensions i already have 3 windows open instead of 3 tabs. And include at least few basic gestures, like opening new tab, Regards Rafal
Myself, I like them in separate windows. The tabs are for web pages I want to cycle through, not other things happening. --Jim
Resource usage, CLI
I'm a professional web software developer. I use Firefox mainly on Linux platform and there are two main concerns which I (and so many others here) hope will get considered when developing the 2.0 version.
First, Firefox is very slow and it eats up very much RAM and CPU resources. It's irritating to see Firefox working very sluggisly even on a modern PC (3 GHz, 1GB ). I suppose you really need to put more work in xul(?) performance optimizations. Take a look at Opera, Konqueror or Internet Explorer. Isn't the performance difference more than obvious? (I mean the gui and rendering speed on Linux platform).
Secondly, Firefox integrates with Linux desktops quite poorly and it's not remote controllable from command line or by dcop/dbus/something else. I really miss a good command line interface.
IMHO, Firefox in general is clearly the best browser for Linux (that's why I'm using it) but it's sad to see how big flaws even the best browser can have. There's sure a lot of work to be done.
Could Bon Echo have a tab preview like in Opera? It would be nice if another feature would be added: when you close a tab it would be nice if the tab that was viewed last show not the one beside it. Firefox loading faster would be great!
"Close" Buttons for Tabs
I see that Firefox 2.0 Alpha changed the way the "Close" button(s) work for tabs: Now each tab has its own button. This is great for those who like it, but I would prefer a setting in the Options window ("Tabs" section) where I can choose between:
- One "Close" button for all tabs (old behaviour)
- Every tab has its own "Close" button
Would this be possible?
- I second this. Also, I would like to see an option to have a button on the left of the tab bar to open new blank tabs. I think Netscape has this.
These are both great ideas. At a minimum, we need to be able to see the next tab over when switching tabs. In the current beta:
If I have many tabs open so you would need to scroll over to see them more than fits on the tab bar, and
If I'm looking at the furthest tab to the right, I should be able to see the next tab over, so I can just click on it.
I should not have to click on the right arrow to display more tabs, and then click on the next tab. I should be able to just click on the next tab, because as I click tabs to the right, there is a auto scroll to see the next tab in line. --Jim
Reintroduction of a Necessary feature
I don't know where to put this so I hope its ok that I put it here!
- why can't you use Alt-Enter to access the properties of a bookmark?
- I really like Firefox but I find that it is missing one key feature for me to transition from Mozilla 1.7.12 to Firefox 126.96.36.199, that is the lack of the same Mozilla "Bookmark This Group of Tabs" feature in Firefox.
Now I know that Firefox has a "Bookmark All Tabs..." option but unlike Mozilla it creates a folder just like any other and has an option to "open in tabs" at the bottom of the folder. I can see why they did this and it would be nice to be able to enter a bookmark group to access only one tab... Yet it is something that is really rarely needed and could be done by hovering over the tab group for a short while.
Now this might seam like a minor gripe considering all the other positives Firefox has over Mozilla, Yet I am truly addicted to the bookmark group in Mozilla and there are a few main reasons behind this:
- it looks different than the other folders and is easy to distinguish
- one simple click on the bookmark group to open it
- The "Bookmark This Group of Tabs" defaults to show you the file tree (for lack of a better term) giving you a quicker way to save the bookmark group.
I REALLY would LOVE a solution to this Please help.... Thanks! -- UKPhoenix79 19:45, 24 July 2006 (PDT)
- This is already in effect within Firefox. You have only to arrange your tabs as you like and select "Bookmark All Tabs Ctrl+Shift+D" from the "Bookmarks" menu item. Beyond that, you are all set and you need only return to the "Bookmarks" menu, right click the folder of tabs that you would have created from the earlier step and click the "Open in Tabs" option. -- Savabore 22:43, 9 August 2006
- No I think you didn't read my entire proposal. I stated that I know that it DOES have a "Bookmark All Tabs..." option but that was not what I was referring to. Please re-read the comment above and I think that you'll know what I mean :) -- UKPhoenix79 23:23, 20 September 2006 (PDT)
Cross-application compatibility with Microformats
What are microformats, at microformats homepage. Examples of microformats: hCard (semantic xhtml representation of vCard data - see hCard on wiki) and hCalendar (xhtml semantic representation of iCalendar format - see hCalendar on wiki). Why should Firefox and Thunderbird support calendar and addressbook/visit card formats? Because it is possible to embed event/calendaring and contact/visit card data in xhtml webpages and send them by email. Therefore, they should be recognized by the web browser and email program as well, just like the RSS microformat is. Greetz --Njpl 08:10, 1 October 2006 (PDT)
Right click "save destination" sometimes wrong
This occurs since Firefox 1.5, at http://www.arxiv.org/list/gr-qc/new for example, if I right click on a pdf link it will save the html page connected with the pdf. Firefox 1.x or IE will save the connected pdf file, as expected.
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Springlike, there are signs of emergence from the COVID-19 pandemic. But we are not there yet. (2022 update: This was clearly too optimistic of a lead-in.)
Agencies are still making use of varied strategies to maintain HIV services for their Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program (RWHAP). Telehealth and medication delivery are probably the most well known. There is, however, much more.
A HRSA-funded publication, Helping Clients During COVID-19: Strategies from the Field, outlines 20+ COVID-coping strategies that agencies may not be using, like leveraging Wi-Fi access (for clients who formerly relied upon free access at public sites like libraries) and virtual employment training.
This COVID-coping Spotlight (and the one below) was developed by the HRSA Special Projects of National Significance (SPNS) Initiative called Improving Health Outcomes Through the Coordination of Supportive Employment & Housing Services.
Job Training Club Supports Client Journey to Work
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New from Pearlsong Press
Poems of Reckoning and Hope by Félix Garmendía
We meet Félix Garmendía (author of Flying on Invisible Wings) again after he has been settled in Washington Heights for years with his husband. There he bears witness to some of the most frightening occurrences of the last fifty years: the disinformation of an out-of-control administration, the explosion of racism, the pandemic, and the storming of the Capitol. And through it all he — and we — find the grace and courage to laugh and find our own oases of hope.
Under the Pomegranate Tree by Leslie Moïse
In ancient Ammon, a sheltered young woman fleeing her rich and powerful father’s plans for her marriage is thrust into a violent world in which her only tools — or weapons — are her knowledge of plants and healing.
The third volume in the groundbreaking Fat Poets Speak series edited by Frannie Zellman. The poets write about their joys, sorrows, anger, and pleasures living in a world that constantly tries to reject and inhibit fat people. Featuring “The Days of Fat Lilith,” Zellman’s series of poems celebrating fat goddesshood.
Flying on Invisible Wings by Félix Garmendía
Félix Garmendía‘s poems narrate his life as a gay activist in the face of illness and intolerance, from his early years in conservative Catholic Puerto Rico of the 1960s, ’70s and ’80s to his arrival in Manhattan, New York City ion 1988, his experiences as an HIV+ survivor, and current disability due to Inclusion Body Myositis.
If We Were Snowflakes by Barbara D’Souza
Barbara D’Souza‘s young adult novel is set in a U.S. in which chocolate is a controlled substance and fatness is taxed. A teenage girl tries to find out who turned her father in for trafficking chocolate while she deals with the challenges of FatSchool.
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Why are treatments with natural ingredients—used for various ailments throughout our bodies—usually recommended over artificial ones?
Natural ingredients usually have less side effects and are less prone to cause allergies. Usually the natural ingredients have been used over centuries and their beneficial effects are well noted and they tend to be effective. Artificial ingredients or chemical ones, may be effective, but sometimes their use can lead to adverse reactions, quite possibly worse than the ailment being treated!Natural ingredients usually have fewer side effects and are less prone to cause allergies. Usually the natural ingredients have been used over centuries and their beneficial effects are well noted and they tend to be very effective. Artificial ingredients or chemicals may be effective, but very often their use can lead to adverse reactions, quite possibly worse than the ailment being treated!
Examples of natural ingredients include Neem, Basil, and Papaya.
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There are many natural ingredients used for stimulating hair loss. Neem, Horsetail, Fenugreek, Fennel, and Visnaga. There is good evidence for the positive effects these botanicals have on hair loss and hair thinning. We have added Neem in our Nutrigro Hair Food. This botanical has clinically been shown to have antibacterial and immune boosting properties to stimulate hair growth. A number of botanicals are rich in vital vitamins and minerals such as Fenugreek and Fennel and this may be why they are helpful in hair loss.
See also: A Guide to Gorgeous and Natural Hair
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Where do herbal remedies and healing originate?
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Losing weight is sometimes not easy. Today with obesity at an all-time high, it is very important to do what we can to keep our weigh within normal limits.
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Testing the Bulk Volume Classification Algorithm
54 Pages Posted: 20 Feb 2021
Date Written: December 2020
We document that the existing evidence that bulk volume trade classification (BVC) measures informed trading arises largely due to mis-specified tests. Simulations show that these tests detect spurious relationships in data containing only uninformed liquidity trades. We also assess the performance of BVC order imbalances in the NASDAQ HFT dataset, showing that BVC order imbalances underperform conventional order imbalance measures in detecting informed trading. The component of order flow designated by BVC as passive informed trading fails to predict returns with the correct sign. On balance, our evidence supports the use of conventional order imbalance measures to identify informed trading.
Keywords: Market Microstructure, Informed Trading, High-frequency Trading, Bulk Volume Classification, Trade classification, Order Imbalances, Simulation, Estimator Properties
JEL Classification: C18, G10, G14
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Videos part of the band’s virtual holiday-concert-series, “The 12 Days of Christmas.”
Created in celebration of Delaware Day which honors the anniversary of Delaware becoming the first state to ratify the U.S. Constitution on Dec. 7, 1787.
Videos explore the lives of four enslaved individuals and an abolitionist.
Wreath making; Elizabeth Battell, proprietrix of the Golden Fleece Tavern; season’s eatings; and Delaware’s canning history to be explored.
Wednesday visitation to be added, tours expanded to 45 minutes.
Programs to explore mysteries of history, Abraham Lincoln’s election as president and London in wartime.
Initiative dedicated to expanding community access to museums across the nation.
Photo submission ends Oct. 31. Voting open Nov. 1 to 7, 2020.
Virtual living-history program in which Jean Norvell portrays the proprietress of Pennsylvania and wife of William Penn.
‘We Didn’t Vote for Him: Delaware and the Election of 1860’ — virtual lecture from The Old State House on Nov. 14, 2020
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Indigenous peoples' day is about honoring indigenous resistance, and celebrating the contributions of indigenous peoples all over the world. In this newsletter we celebrate the activism of Antie Pua Case from Hawaii, and other activists around the world who fight to preserve our mountains, our rivers, our valleys, our Earth. The program ends with a song by Taino artist Brothery Mikey, who produced a song called "Like the Mauna", inspired by the Indigenous People of Hawaii's efforts to protect the sacred Mauna.
Dr. Dawn Lavell-Harvard (Anishinaabe, Canada) explains how the concerns that have been labeled as “women’s issues” are in fact central to the progress of Indigenous rights. Often, concerns such as domestic abuse, schooling, and healthcare are often sidelined in favor of focusing on issues that are seen as more universal. Dr. Lavell-Harvard places them at the center of her activism efforts, showing that there is no need to compromise or postpone the rights of Indigenous women in Indigenous movements globally. | <urn:uuid:37f4e4a0-e721-4b51-8fe5-8268ece6071a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://rights.culturalsurvival.org/radio-spots-search/field_category/climate-change-environment-3/field_radio_series/indigenous-women-changemakers-75/language/en | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571911.5/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813081639-20220813111639-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.956042 | 217 | 2.59375 | 3 |
The Court of the Compass and the Wheelmaster are responsible for plotting a course and navigating Tiomera, but the Arkmates do the manual; work and labor that is required within the floating city that actually keeps it afloat and capable of moving at all.
There are twelve crews of arkmates in Tiomera of varying sizes, one for each anchorhouse
. The crews consists of various types of professionals including sailors, carpenters, builders and blacksmiths. Most of the work done by the crews is done at the anchorhouses. Every crew has an Anchormaster
who inspects and surveys all the work that has been done on top of their main responsibility with regards to the anchorhouse's anchor itself.
Being an arkmate is hard but rewarding work. The work is neverending as the city requires repairs and adjustments almost every day. An arkmate is usually responsible for several tasks that are tied to their individual expertise, but they often help other arkmates with whatever needs to be done. Jobs that arkmates are responsible for include rigging, setting and repairing the many sails of the city, repairing floatation devices, bridges and connections of rafts and most importantly lowering, raising and maintaining the anchor itself. Because of their highly organized efficiency, arkmate crews have also assisted in firefighting and on a few occassions have taken up arms and tasked to protect the citizens or patrol the city.
Eyes and Ears on Deck
Generally speaking an Arkmate is a respected individual among the Tiomeran
people. Citizens are likely to lend a hand, a drink of water or a bite of food to an arkmate. As the arkmates see and hear many things within the city, they often know many things that the ordinary citizen might not. Some of this information is given to the Anchormaster or the Court of the Compass if deemed important, but other information might be provided (at a price) to a curious or investigative individual. | <urn:uuid:140e7e22-68a8-43fb-9beb-750a6faa200d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.worldanvil.com/w/the-Sea-of-Starlight-Bonus-Action/a/arkmate-profession | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571538.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812014923-20220812044923-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.963803 | 412 | 2.15625 | 2 |
GLUTATHIONE AS A SKIN LIGHTNING AGENT IN COSMETICS
*Pamela Das, Dr. Nibha Bajpai, Pooja Menon
Skin lighteners have been in use for ages in Asian countries where fairness is a major goal for every female and now it covered male section also. It is valued by western populations, who expose themselves excessively to the sun and develop sun spots on the skin as a consequence. Therefore this leads them to rely on different skin lighteners to achieve their goals and glutathione is one of them which help people to achieve skin lightening effect in a short period of time which gain popularity amongst celebrities and youtubers. Glutathione is a master antioxidant which is naturally present in human body and it is low molecular weight tripeptide that plays a prominent role in maintaining intracellular redox balance. Glutathione is present in its reduced form and plays an important role in various physiological functions. There is a skin lightening effects result from direct the inhibition of tyrosinase enzyme and switching from eumelanin to phaeomelanin production. This article focuses on the various aspects of glutathione: its metabolism, mechanism of action, its side effects, and the scientific evidence to evaluate its efficacy as skin lightening agent.
Keywords: Glutathione, skin lightening, tyrosinase activity, antioxidant.
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The other day, I was (again) considering contentment after noticing, with some annoyance, my inability to keep hold of it. I began to turn the idea of "good"-ness over + over in my mind.
In the UK, commenting that a dessert is "nice" is heartfelt praise. At first threw me off, because in the USA, "nice" is a pretty neutral adjective in the same context. It may even be used to add an element of sarcasm to the comment. I like the British usage far more, and wonder if it might offer us a little insight into our lack of contentment, especially as Americans.
In the USA, we often use words like "nice", "good", "fine" and "okay" as pretty neutral words. As Americans, we strive for so much better than the baseline...better than neutral. We strive for "spectacular", "exciting", "wondrous", "awesome", "amazing", "incredible". While all of that is great sometimes, it sets us up for discontent + dissatisfaction.
It's easy to recognize goodness when we don't have it. When we are sick + can't breathe through our noses, we know the goodness of being able to breathe unobstructed. But even as our noses clear, we are already forgetting to see the goodness in that feeling.
But what if we could truly perceive the goodness of "good"...the okay-ness of ok...the niceness of "nice"...the fineness of "fine"? What if we could wake up to the goodness of having clothing that keeps us comfortable in the elements...the niceness of a warm cup of coffee or tea...the okay-ness of having enough to eat...the goodness of legs that carry us...the fineness of running water...the okay-ness of a roof over our heads...the goodness of the ability to read...
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What is Grammarly? – Grammarly For Plagiarism
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The Gramarly Grammar Checker assists you compose better English and also proper texts extra efficiently. Grammarly for plagiarism. Via making use of patent-pending modern technology, Gramarly Grammar Checker analyzes the context of your sentence to remedy grammar blunders, mistreated words as well as punctuation errors with unmatched accuracy. Grammarly for plagiarism. Gramarly’s grammar adjustment software enhances your message just like a human reviewer would certainly.
Gramarly’s grammar tool remedies all kinds of blunders.
Gramarly deals with all kinds of grammatical mistakes consisting of subjects that are not addressed by any other grammar modification program. Here are some examples:
Subject verb arrangement.
The smell of flowers bring back memories. ’ The smell of flowers brings back memories.
6 individuals shed their life in the crash ’ Six individuals shed their lives in the accident.
Sheryl mosted likely to the tickets office ’ Sheryl went to the ticket workplace.
Mistreated words adjustment.
Utilizing its contextual grammar mosaic, Gramarly acknowledges the misused words in any sentence and also replaces them with the proper ones. Grammarly for plagiarism. I was straying if there’s any type of information. ’ I was wondering if there’s any news.
Contextual spelling adjustment.
The Gramarly Spell Checker is a contextual spell checker which recognizes the improvement that ideal fits the significance of the initial sentence. Grammarly for plagiarism. When incorporated with the Gramarly Grammar Checker, you can remedy whole sentences in a single click. The exact same mistreated word will have a various modification based upon the context: The marble sculpture hed a large hed ’ The marble sculpture had a big head.
Phonetic punctuation mistakes are corrected even if the correct punctuation is very different from the means they were originally created: I such as publications, exspecaley the standards ’ I like publications, specifically the classics.
Uneven verb conjugations are corrected as well: He flyed to Vancouver ’ He flew to Vancouver.
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Checking grammar has actually never been simpler. When set up on your computer system, the Gramarly Grammar Checker is only one click away, anywhere and whenever you need it. Correct whole sentences with a single click using your current internet browser as well as writing, presentation-making and e-mail programs.
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As opposed to triggering users to proper errors one at a time, Gramarly determines as well as fixes every error in a provided sentence simultaneously; Gramarly also supplies tips for different sentence structures. Grammarly for plagiarism. With Gramarly- you will not need to waste time looking for the appropriate way to compose a sentence, or have to pass your texts to somebody else for review.
Grammarly is a ” composing aide” that job seekers, authors, as well as other professionals can use to proofread and modify their documents. Grammarly for plagiarism. It checks for more than 250 sorts of punctuation, grammar, and also punctuation errors, and it enhances vocabulary usage.
Grammarly works out beyond standard tools that have been used through Word and email systems due to the fact that it permits users to select editing input based upon 6 different styles of writing: service, academic, informal, technological, creative and general.
Grammarly has been offered considering that 2009.1 It’s a innovative expert system (AI) system that’s been sharpened as well as improved upon continually throughout the years, constructed by linguists and engineers that established formulas to find patterns of good writing.
Grammarly shows that its AI system assesses every sentence and also look for appropriate replacements for errors when any type of are located. Grammarly for plagiarism. It’s a cloud-based program. Both a internet version as well as a variation that incorporates with MS Word are available.
Exactly How Grammarly Works.
Grammarly offers your file an overall rating based upon the variety of concerns as well as mistakes it’s found. Grammarly for plagiarism. It then walks you via a collection of feasible grammatical problems, one at a time. Both a brief and also lengthy description are offered by the system for each concern that’s determined.
Examples of correct grammar are included in these descriptions. Grammarly for plagiarism. Certain wording options are suggested by the system sometimes. But it’s delegated the individual to make any kind of certain changes– Grammarly won’t require your hand. You have the alternative of overlooking feasible problems if you do not agree with the suggested changes.
Misspellings are pointed out, in addition to a list of different punctuations. Grammarly for plagiarism. A useful plagiarism checker can assist authors identify any accidentally borrowed web content. The system explains similar message that exists elsewhere, and it recommends citations that can be included to legitimize the text in question.
A basic synonym mosaic is available that enables customers to pick optional phrasing and to stay clear of repetition. Grammarly also offers descriptions for recommended changes, together with info on what type of error you’ve made.
Grammarly evening not comprehend the point you’re trying to make sometimes, yet this, also, can clarify your writing. Grammarly for plagiarism. If Grammarly doesn’t get it, your reader may not either.
Customers can paste a file right into an editing and enhancing box in the web variation of Grammarly, then assign the style of the document and click “Start Review” to start the process.
Variations of Grammarly.
The Grammarly Plugin for Microsoft Office includes its spelling- and also grammar-checker to Microsoft Word as well as Outlook. Grammarly for plagiarism. You’ll see the Grammarly Wizard when you click ” Review” in Word after you download and also install the program. Click ” Check,” then choose the writing design you want Grammarly to utilize.
A internet browser addon is likewise offered for Firefox customers.
Pros and Cons of Grammarly.
Also one of the most pungent of movie critics can’t locate way too many problems in Grammarly’s product. Grammarly for plagiarism. It gives outstanding assistance, yet in the long run, you obtain what you spend for.
It’s extremely precise.
It fits Mac, Windows, as well as iphone devices.
The full series of Grammarly’s features aren’t available in the cost-free edition.
It’s extremely accurate: This item can do practically anything you ask of it.
It accommodates Mac, Windows, as well as iphone tools: You’re not limited to your laptop computer or table. You can utilize it on the fly on your phone to acquire a comfort degree on texts as well as emails before you send them.
The complete range of Grammarly’s attributes aren’t offered in the free version: You’ll need to pay for a premium variation if you desire it to do any type of hefty training.
How Much Do I Need to Pay for Grammarly?
You can attempt Grammarly completely free by simply copying as well as pasting message right into a box on the internet site, and also including it to Chrome is complimentary .2 There’s additionally a seven-day free trial if you want to attempt all the functions of Grammarly that are included in the paid version prior to you make a decision to buy the product.
Grammarly is offered on a membership basis with both regular monthly and also yearly plans readily available. Grammarly for plagiarism. Since 2020, the expense of the paid full version of the Grammarly application depends on the length of time of a subscription you select.
Regular Monthly Subscription Plan: $29.95 each month.
Quarterly Subscription Plan: $59.95 per quarter.
Annual Plan: $139.95 per year.
Grammarly is a well-known online grammar checker that’s been offered since 2009.
It can accommodate organization writing, academic writing, imaginative writing and also more. Grammarly for plagiarism.
Grammarly can label every little thing from unwieldy sentences to leading tomistakes. Grammarly for plagiarism. You can make use of Grammarly for free, however you’ll just obtain the full series of its features with its paid variation.
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A transaction in which real property is either sold and purchased or whereby an existing mortgage is refinanced.
A typical closing involves a meeting between a buyer and seller, and in most cases a lender, whereby transfer of ownership is accomplished, funds and deed are exchanged, and all loan documents, including the promissory note and mortgage, are signed.
An REO (“Real Estate Owned”) is a type of closing that takes place after a property has reverted back to the secured creditor and it is now being sold to a third party. Even if our office has not represented the lender in its foreclosure action, we are more than capable of handling the REO.
A refinance is a type of closing in which there is no seller. The existing owner of the property seeks to refinance the terms of his existing mortgage with the same or a different lender.
The Law Offices of Popkin & Rosaler, PA is a full service real estate firm. Our goal on every type of closing is to facilitate a smooth and timely transaction. We handle all types of residential real estate transactions. All REO closings are handled by directly by the firm.
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One hundred per cent (100) per cent of long-term care homes across Saskatchewan have now received their first doses of the COVID-19 vaccine with ninety-one (91) per cent of residents choosing to receive the vaccine. Fifty-three (53) per cent of facilities have received both their first and second dose. Nine per cent of long-term care home residents were not immunized due to a variety of circumstances, such as the availability of residents at the time of vaccination, refusal to take the vaccine or a change in health status.
Ninety (90) per cent of personal care homes (PCHs) have now received their first doses. Forty-three (43) per cent have received both their first and second doses.
This achievement comes less than two months after the first long-term care home resident in Saskatchewan received the COVID-19 vaccine.
“Ensuring seniors living in long-term and personal care homes are fully vaccinated against COVID-19 is a priority for the Government of Saskatchewan,” mental health and addictions, seniors and rural and remote health minister Everett Hindley said. “As the supply of vaccine hopefully continues to expand in the coming weeks, we will be able to quickly expand our vaccination efforts for seniors living independently, as well as our other priority groups. We look forward to the day when all Saskatchewan’s seniors are fully vaccinated against the threat of COVID-19.”
Since the pandemic began a year ago, there have been more than 40 outbreaks declared at long-term and personal care homes in Saskatchewan, resulting in more than 100 deaths.
There were 618 COVID-19 vaccine doses administered yesterday in Saskatchewan, bringing the total number of vaccines administered in the province to 80,236.
The 618 doses were administered in the Far Northwest (27), Far North Central (11), Far Northeast (11), Northwest (6), North Central (44), Saskatoon (425), Central East (88) and Southeast (6) zones. Data has been updated to include an additional 329 doses administered in the Central East (120) and Southeast (209) zones Feb. 26 and 27.
For a listing of first and second doses in Saskatchewan administered by geographic zone, visit https://www.saskatchewan.ca/covid19-vaccine-update.
Daily COVID-19 Statistics
There are 134 new cases of COVID-19 to report in Saskatchewan March 2, bringing the provincial total to 28,938 cases.
Two Saskatchewan residents who tested positive for COVID-19 have died. The deaths were reported in the 80-plus age group from the North Central (1) and Saskatoon (1) zones.
The new cases are located in the Far Northwest (22), Far Northeast (12), Northwest (12), North Central (5), Northeast (2), Saskatoon (28), Central East (8), Regina (38), South Central (3) and Southeast (3) zones. One (1) case is pending residence information. Four (4) cases with pending residence information were assigned to the Far Northwest (1), Northwest (2) and Saskatoon (1) zones. Three Saskatchewan residents who tested positive out of province have been added to the Northwest (2) and North Central (1) zones.
There are a total of 27,059 recoveries and 1,492 cases are considered active.
One hundred fifty-four (154) people are in hospital. One hundred thirty-four (134) people are receiving inpatient care: Far Northwest (4), Far Northeast (2), Northwest (11), North Central (12), Northeast (2), Saskatoon (53), Central West (1), Central East (7), Regina (36), South Central (2) and Southeast (4). Twenty people are in intensive care: Northwest (1), Saskatoon (12) and Regina (7).
There were 2,175 COVID-19 tests processed in Saskatchewan March 1.
To date, 580,241 COVID-19 tests have been processed in Saskatchewan. As of Feb. 28, 2021, when other provincial and national numbers were available, Saskatchewan’s per capita rate was 488,181 tests performed per million population. The national rate was 645,844 tests performed per million population.
The seven-day average of daily new cases is 144 (11.8 new cases per 100,000). A chart comparing today’s average to data collected over the past several months is available on the Government of Saskatchewan website. Visit https://dashboard.saskatchewan.ca/health-wellness/covid-19/seven-day-average-of-new-covid-cases.
Further statistics on the total number of cases among healthcare workers, breakdowns of total cases by source of infection, age, sex and region, total tests to date and the per capita testing rate can be found on the Government of Saskatchewan website. Visit https://www.saskatchewan.ca/government/health-care-administration-and-provider-resources/treatment-procedures-and-guidelines/emerging-public-health-issues/2019-novel-coronavirus/cases-and-risk-of-covid-19-in-saskatchewan.
Assess Your Risk and Get Tested
The Government of Saskatchewan continues to recommend against all non-essential travel. International travellers must abide by federal testing and quarantine measures. If you choose to travel inter-provincially, get tested as soon as you return to Saskatchewan and plan for a follow up test seven days later.
The presence of new variants across Canada means an elevated risk of bringing more transmissible strains of COVID-19 home with you. While you cannot test your way out of travel risks, testing is the best tool available to protect your family, friends and all residents of Saskatchewan against COVID-19 if you have travelled.
You do not need to be experiencing symptoms in order to have COVID-19. Find testing options near you at https://www.saskatchewan.ca/government/health-care-administration-and-provider-resources/treatment-procedures-and-guidelines/emerging-public-health-issues/2019-novel-coronavirus/testing-information.
Enforcing Public Health Measures
Enforcement of public health orders is permitted under The Public Health Act, 1994. Public health inspectors will be supported in their efforts to ticket violators quickly to ensure businesses and events are brought into compliance as quickly as possible, in addition to the enforcement efforts that have been undertaken by police agencies throughout the province.
For more information on the current public health measures or to see the Public Health Order, visit www.saskatchewan.ca/covid19-measures.
General COVID-19 Information
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Sewage sludge, fermentation residues, green waste, remains of the food industry, grain residues, waste from animal husbandry (chicken excrement, pig and cattle slurry), etc.
Pyrolysis gas to provide thermal energy for, e.g. drying processes
BioChar as an attractive product for agriculture, animal husbandry and food industry ...
Pyrolysis coal is a stable, with nutrients (e.g. phosphorus) and free of harmful substances (antibiotics, hormones, pesticides, microplastics)....
With the anticipated widespread end of agricultural utilization of sewage sludge, thermal processing of this waste material has become essential.
In this regard, pyrolysis presents a good and comparatively favorable alternative to the co- or mono-incineration. With the T:CRACKER unit, NGE offers an innovative and continuous processing technology whereby sewage sludge is recycled both as material and for energy. In addition to reducing the amount of original dry mass by approximately 50%, a sanitized (thermal destruction of xenobiotics, hormones, microplastics, etc.) of sewage sludge coke can be achieved, and can be used as a valuable phosphorous-rich soil additive, depending on the input load (primarily heavy metals).
The pyrolysis gas produced at 550°C is fed to a controlled incineration unit, in which the sewage sludge is heated and dried via a heat recovery system.
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