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But food relief organisation Ladles of Love together with hundreds of volunteers spent their 67 minutes for Mandela Day creating this and smashing the world record in the process.
On Monday 18 July, the organisation, enthusiastic volunteers and corporates flocked to the Cape Town International Convention Centre (CTICC) to create a mosaic of former late president Nelson Mandela using more than 56 000 cans.
At the same time a mosaic of the South African flag was put together at Nelson Mandela Square in Johannesburg.
The current largest canned food mosaic is 52,39 m², and was created using about 6 853 food cans. It was achieved by DoorDash in the United States of America (USA) on 1 March 2019.
The more than 56 000 cans used in Cape Town and the more than 32 000 cans used in Johannesburg will now be donated to the beneficiaries which the organisation supplies.
Leading up to the event people were asked to donate cans or money in aid of the day.
Danny Diliberto, founder of Ladles of Love, says: “We decided to build the biggest mosaic in the world made from food cans and our goal was to build a 500 m² mosaic of Madiba with the South African flag behind him and we also decided to do it in Johannesburg where we built a 300 m² mosaic of the South African flag. We managed to achieve both goals.”
He explains that they used 56 685 cans in Cape Town and 32 040 in Johannesburg. “It was an awesome day between the two cities; we had about 1 500 volunteers who helped us and the spirit of ubuntu in both cities was incredible. We placed around 90 000 food cans on the mosaics across the two cities and we’ve raised so much in terms of actual food and support to carry on with our mission to feed as many people as we can for as long as we can.”
He explains that on the day 1,3 tonnes of vegetables were chopped and donated in Johannesburg, and 2,5 tons chopped and donated in Cape Town. Altogether 7 000 sandwiches were made in Johannesburg and 24 000 made on site in Cape Town.
A total of 55 000 sandwiches were made.
Diliberto says: “The cans have all been packed up and returned to our warehouse in Epping here in Cape Town and we have a smaller warehouse in Johannesburg and from there we are going to distribute them weekly to our soup kitchens that we support so that they can use it to cook food for their communities. It will probably take about a month to get all the cans out.”
He says their goal is to make sure those in need are fed. He says as an organisation they provide about 250 000 meals per week.
“The cans can feed those facing food insecurity, with the tins of food, fresh nutritious meals made on the day and with the money raised. While this was a huge undertaking, the organisation works tirelessly and all year long, supplying a million nourishing meals a month to communities in need.”
Diliberto extended his gratitude to all the people and businesses that stepped up to smash not one, but two world records.
“We had sponsors like Rhodes Quality foods, Spar and Oceana with Lucky Star. They came in and sponsored most of the cans. And we had Coronation Fund managers that sponsored the event. We are thankful to everyone who was involved,” concludes Diliberto.
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If a crystal ball could reveal your personal risk for developing heart disease or breast cancer or Alzheimer's disease, would you pay to take a look? Would you believe what it predicted and would you be willing to change your behavior to prevent or reduce the risk of this disease taking over your body? These may sound like abstract philosophical questions—but for us they are not.
Two years ago, as I (Rahul Desikan) completed my final year of training as an M.D.-Ph.D. neuroscientist and neuroradiologist, and spent my afternoons rushing back and forth between the hospital and the lab, I was oblivious to the fact that I had a high risk of dying soon. A year later, I was diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis or ALS—the same disease that killed Lou Gehrig and Stephen Hawking. If I had any hint that I would develop ALS, which has locked me inside my body as though inside a cell, unable to move or breath normally on my own, I can tell you without hesitation that I would have done anything and everything to stop or slow the devastation this disease has visited on my life. If only I could have glimpsed into my future …
Today, thanks to the mapping of the human genome and subsequent efforts to make sense of the resulting blueprint of As and Ts, Gs and Cs, we are close to being able to predict your future health from your DNA. Using advanced computer models, scientists are adding together the influence of the hundreds, even thousands, of DNA variants associated with a given disease into what is called a “polygenic score.”
The influence that each genetic variant exerts on a person’s disease risk may be tiny, but by distilling all of this complex genetic information into a single number that quantifies an individual person’s particular genetic risk of disease, polygenic scores pack powerful risk prediction into a single number. The hope is that your personalized polygenic score could help you prevent disease, live longer and plan for your future.
Can a genetic test really predict your health? Do you want to know today that you are at high risk of a disease whose onset may be three decades from now? And if the genetic test comes out positive for a terminal disease that has no cure, what would you do? These are the kinds of tough questions that we need to start discussing as we enter this new age of genomic medicine.
As we embark on this discussion, the most important thing to know is that polygenic scores are not diagnostic tests. Even doctors and other health professionals get this wrong. Polygenic scores measure your risk for developing a disease, not whether you do or don't have the disease, or even whether you will ever get that disease. Given your combination of genetic risk factors, these scores estimate the probability that you will develop a particular disease over time.
Like the probability of rain in next week’s weather forecast, polygenic scores have inherent uncertainty. Appreciating this uncertainty is key because the uncertainty in polygenic scores leaves room for action. We know that for many complex diseases behavior is just as important as genes in setting the stage for what is to come. If disease onset isn't solely determined by genes, then lifestyle or therapeutic interventions can prevent or modify the trajectory of disease.
Polygenic scores will need to undergo rigorous evaluation by the medical community before being incorporated into clinical practice. However, companies are already offering these tests direct to consumers. Myriad Genetics has launched a commercial polygenic test that estimates breast cancer risk for women. HealthLytix and Dash Genomics have developed a polygenic test for Alzheimer's disease available to anyone who already has their DNA data from Ancestry.com or 23andMe—upload your data and for $99 an app on your smartphone will tell you when you are at greatest risk for developing dementia.
These easy to understand scores are being hailed as a breakthrough technology. But how might these scores actually help you? First, polygenic risk can inform treatment decisions and lifestyle modifications. For example, aggressively lowering cholesterol in individuals with a high polygenic score for heart disease may lead to a much greater reduction in the risk of a heart attack than doing so in people with a low polygenic score.
Polygenic scores may also influence disease-screening strategies. Recently, it was shown that a polygenic score can predict risk for aggressive prostate cancer, suggesting that it could identify men who would benefit most from PSA screening. Finally, knowledge of polygenic risk can be useful in planning for the future. For example, although we don’t yet have effective treatment for dementia, knowing that you are at high risk for Alzheimer's disease can help you make informed decisions about changing your behavior—keeping heart and brain healthy through diet and exercise, and, of course, paying more attention to your future finances and plans for long-term care.
In our laboratory at the University of California, San Francisco, we are experimenting with and developing molecular pathway-specific polygenic scores. We have found that different molecular processes appear to underlie and drive brain diseases like Alzheimer’s and ALS in different patients. The implication is that a subset of people with Alzheimer's may be genetically susceptible to immune dysfunction whereas another group of Alzheimer's patients may have genetic abnormalities in that make them susceptible to cardiovascular disease. We are building an online platform for people at risk for or living with Alzheimer's and ALS: upload your DNA and the website will send you a cardiovascular and immune polygenic report card that you can take to your doctor.
Today we have unprecedented access to information. Our genetic information will soon be added to the global libraries of digital information to which we have almost instant access, and the use of genetic risk scores will soon become commonplace in our lives. As a society, we need to understand what this genetic knowledge does and does not mean, and become comfortable with the prognostic uncertainty inherent in these genetic risk scores. As an individual, you should know that your polygenic risk profile has the potential to tell you which interventions are likely to have the biggest positive impact on your long-term health.
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Hostages Urge France to Repeal Its Scarf Ban
PARIS, Aug. 30 - Two French journalists held hostage in Iraq have urged the French government to give in to their captors' demand by revoking a law banning Muslim head scarves in public schools, the Arabic-language television station Al Jazeera reported Monday night. Otherwise, they said, they might be killed.
Quoting a written statement, the station reported that the Islamic Army of Iraq, the little-known group that kidnapped the two men, had decided to extend by 24 hours the deadline for Paris to lift the ban.
On Saturday night, the group gave France 48 hours to cancel the ban, although it did not issue a specific threat against the men's lives.
The journalists, Georges Malbrunot and Christian Chesnot, shown in a video broadcast by Al Jazeera on Monday night unshaven and seated together, urged the French people to hold protests to persuade the government to retract the law.
"I call on President Chirac and the French government to show good will toward the Arab and Islamic worlds by revoking the ban on wearing the Islamic veil immediately," said Mr. Chesnot, who works for Radio France Internationale and Radio France. "I also urge all French citizens to demonstrate against this law and demand its cancellation because it is wrong and unjust."
He added: "Failure to revoke it might cost us our lives. It's a question of time - maybe minutes - before we are among the dead."
His fellow hostage, Georges Malbrunot, who writes for the daily newspapers Le Figaro and Ouest-France, said, "I appeal to the French people and every Frenchman who appreciates the meaning of life to stage demonstrations demanding that the law banning the Islamic veil be revoked, because our lives are in danger and we might die any minute if this law, which I urge President Chirac to revoke, is not abrogated."
They spoke in English and their words were translated into Arabic.
The law bans conspicuous religious symbols from public elementary and high schools. It is scheduled to go into effect when schools open on Thursday.
The French government has begun an intense diplomatic effort to free the two men but made clear earlier on Monday that it would not allow the fate of the hostages to interfere with the enforcement of the new law.
The Foreign Ministry had no comment on the hostages' statements or the extension of the deadline. But the center-right government is unlikely to back down on a law that it says is based on republican values that hark back to the 1789 Revolution and preserve the country's secular identity.
On Monday, in a rare display of national unity before the Jazeera report was shown, French officials, opposition politicians and religious leaders joined in a chorus condemning the kidnappings and pledging to uphold the law.
"It is democracy that is attacked and the laws of the republic that are targeted," said François Hollande, the leader of the Socialist opposition.
Several thousand people gathered in Paris on Monday afternoon to demonstrate solidarity with the two journalists and the French state, chanting "Free the hostages," and singing "La Marseillaise."
In Cairo, Foreign Minister Michel Barnier began an emergency diplomatic mission to free the two men. Islamic groups inside and outside Iraq urged the kidnappers to release the journalists, noting France's opposition to the Iraq war and saying journalists were not combatants.
But Iraq's prime minister, Ayad Allawi, said the kidnapping proved that France's position on Iraq - presumably its opposition to the war and the absence of a troop presence - offered no protection from terrorism.
"Neutrality doesn't exist, as the kidnapping of the French journalists has shown,'' Mr. Allawi said in an interview with several European and American newspapers. "The French are deluding themselves if they think they can remain outside of this. Today the extremists are targeting them, too.''
That realization, that opposition to the American-led war in Iraq has not provided immunity from Iraq-related terrorism, appears to have sunk in here as well.
"Nobody is safe,'' said an editorial in Le Monde on Monday. "No diplomacy can claim to be any kind of Maginot line that would protect us better than our Spanish or Italian neighbors from the death wish that has been at work since the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.''
Indeed, in an audiotape broadcast by a Dubai-based television channel in February, Ayman Zawahiri, the No. 2 figure in the terrorist network Al Qaeda, condemned France for defending the freedom of nudity and depravity and fighting chastity and decency with the scarf ban, adding that such anti-Muslim acts by the West should be dealt with by tank shells and antiaircraft missiles.
French Muslim leaders called the ban on religious symbols strictly an internal French issue and advised all outsiders to stay out.
"The hostage takers are crazy people, and what they are asking is madness,'' Dr. Thomas Milcent, a Strasbourg physician and convert to Islam who runs a popular Islamic Web site, said in a telephone interview on Monday. "We don't want anyone to tell us what to do.''
Still, the kidnapping has reopened the debate here on whether the ban is a necessary means to protect secularism or a violation of religious freedom.
Even as the center-right French government and many Muslim leaders called for the strict separation of church and state, some Muslim leaders were calling for Muslim girls to test the limits of the law by hiding at least some of their hair.
In an interview in Le Figaro, Lhaj Thami Breze, president of the conservative Union of French Islamic Organizations, denounced the kidnappers as enemies of Islam.
But he also said the law banned only conspicuous signs of religion.
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Transboundary Pollution Reciprocal Access Act, R.S.O. 1990, c. T.18Skip to content
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Transboundary Pollution Reciprocal Access Act
R.S.O. 1990, CHAPTER T.18
Consolidation Period: From December 31, 1990 to the e-Laws currency date.
1. In this Act,
“person” means a natural person, corporation, business trust, estate, trust, partnership, association, joint venture, government in its private or public capacity, governmental subdivision or agency, or any other legal entity; (“personne”)
“reciprocating jurisdiction” means a state of the United States of America, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, a territory or possession of the United States of America, or a province or territory of Canada, which has enacted this Act or provides substantially equivalent access to its courts and administrative agencies. (“territoire accordant la réciprocité”) R.S.O. 1990, c. T.18, s. 1.
2. An action or other proceeding for injury or threatened injury to property or person in a reciprocating jurisdiction caused by pollution originating, or that may originate, in Ontario may be brought in Ontario. R.S.O. 1990, c. T.18, s. 2.
Right to relief
3. A person in a reciprocating jurisdiction who suffers or is threatened with injury or whose property in a reciprocating jurisdiction suffers or is threatened with injury caused by pollution originating, or that may originate, in Ontario has the same rights to relief with respect to the injury or threatened injury, and may enforce those rights in Ontario, as if the injury or threatened injury occurred in Ontario. R.S.O. 1990, c. T.18, s. 3.
4. The law to be applied in an action or other proceeding brought under this Act, including what constitutes pollution, is the law of Ontario excluding choice of law rules. R.S.O. 1990, c. T.18, s. 4.
Equality of rights
5. This Act does not accord a person injured or threatened with injury in another jurisdiction any rights superior to those that the person would have if injured or threatened with injury in Ontario. R.S.O. 1990, c. T.18, s. 5.
Right additional to those now existing
6. The right provided in this Act is in addition to and not in derogation of any other rights. R.S.O. 1990, c. T.18, s. 6.
Act binds Crown
7. This Act binds the Crown in right of Ontario only to the extent that the Crown would be bound if the person were injured or threatened with injury in Ontario. R.S.O. 1990, c. T.18, s. 7.
8. Despite the definition of “reciprocating jurisdiction”, the Lieutenant Governor in Council may by regulation declare a jurisdiction to be a reciprocating jurisdiction for the purposes of this Act. R.S.O. 1990, c. T.18, s. 8.
Uniformity of application and construction
9. This Act shall be applied and construed to carry out its general purpose to make uniform the law with respect to the subject of this Act among jurisdictions enacting it. R.S.O. 1990, c. T.18, s. 9. | <urn:uuid:6add0506-82d3-4469-89b7-9f5c436b3fc2> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.ontario.ca/laws/statute/90t18 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571911.5/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813081639-20220813111639-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.887956 | 793 | 2.109375 | 2 |
This photograph by Max Dupain (22 Apr 1911 – 27 Jul 1992), signed and dated 1936, is from the archive of Madame Louise Lamoureux, who ran a Sydney fashion house specialising in embroidery and hand-beading. The model is thought to be the photographer’s cousin, Lucille Dupain[i], who also appeared in contemporary local theatre productions.
The strong vertical format of the composition emphasises the streamlined figure of the woman and the large brandy balloon adds a perfect symmetrical curve, echoing the machine form aesthetic of the modernist era. Similar glass vessels appeared in other photographs by Max Dupain, two of which can be seen in the Art Gallery of New South Wales collection. Dupain went on to specialise in architectural photography, but described his pre-WW2 commercial and fashion images as some of his best illustrative work.
Fashion and photography were heavily influenced by Hollywood in the 1920s and 30s with the rise in popularity of films and their stylishly dressed stars. The dramatic top and side lighting used in this shot was known as ‘Hollywood’ lighting and the sequinned evening gown, of the type designed and sold by Madame Lamoureux, is similar to the Adrian creation worn by Joan Crawford in The Bride Wore Red, a film released in the same year. In the United States Hollywood style fashions were often the result of collaborations between designers, manufacturers and studios that ensured that garments would be available for retail sale in time for the release of a film. A Lamoureux gown, complete with a cape like the one in the film and embellished with more than 200,000 sequins was shown in a 1936 article published in the Australian Women’s Weekly.
Madame Louise Emilienne Lamoureux worked with Callot Soeurs in Paris and other fashion houses in Europe before coming to Australia in 1927. She employed the Lunéville technique for the hand-sewing of sequins or beads onto fabric. In her city salon, she trained a small number of women in this and in Cornely machine embroidery, methods little known in Australia at the time. Using her original designs, Madame Lamoureux and her staff embellished garments and accessories for leading dressmakers and stores in Sydney and interstate. The enterprising embroiderer also advertised evening classes in Lunéville, offering members of the public the opportunity to train in an ‘artistic’ trade with the only expert in Australia.
The technique originated in the French town of Lunéville in 1867 when a worker added a small crochet, or hook, to the traditional embroidery needle which had a large elongated eye and a blunted point. The traditional hand embroiderers of the time (mainteuses) worked on the outside of the fabric to sew on rhinestones, beads, sequins, braid or metallic thread. The Lunévilleuses worked on the reverse side of the fabric, a quicker method that consequently reduced costs.
The numbers of beads or sequins used to make gowns like the one in the photograph and the high level of manual skill involved were often the focus of articles about Madame Lamoureux. Gowns that bore 125,000 sequins and 240,000 beads respectively appeared in advertisements for her salon. She imported garments from France, such as the evening dress that is now part of the MAAS collection, as resources for bead and sequins when these were unobtainable locally.
Madame Lamoureux was photographed wearing one of her own designs to promote what the newspapers described as a ‘novel’ competition run by the Australian British Aeroplane company in July/August 1934. The dress was also displayed at Grace Brothers where the French designer appeared on Fridays between 3pm and 9pm with other fashion items from her studio in the weeks preceding the draw. The person who correctly guessed the number of sequins on the gown, which was valued at 50 guineas, would win a selection of accessories from Madame Lamoureux, valued at £2/2-, £1/15/- and £1/10-.
There was a great deal of local pride in the production garments of such high quality incorporating traditional European techniques:
‘Bit by bit this new country of ours is adopting industries which have become almost historical in the older countries. Beading, which was formerly an exclusive work of the French, is being started in Sydney. Already hundreds of bags, collars, yokes, cuffs and laces of exquisite hand workmanship, have found their way into city shops. In fact, the majority of beadings worn to-day are locally made.’
All That Glitters. The Sunday Sun and Guardian, April 15, 1934
Mme Lamoureux’s staff were praised by the press as being ‘as good as the French’ in their mastery of the intricacies of the Lunéville technique and when she advertised for employees, her business was described as ‘high class’.
Other photographs from the archive of Madame Lamoureux are currently on display in Carmen and Mr John in the Executive Level 4 corridor (part of the MAAS Centre for Fashion) until May 2017.
[i] Thanks to Sally McInerney
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Imagine being in a subway station memorizing the number (and perhaps names) of stops to your destination — an opera house let’s say. After you passed through the sliding train doors and entered the portal of the opera house (a couple of doors really), most likely the brain estimated each time that the usefulness, shelf life, of the information has expired, been proven correct each time and slowly diminished its recall ability. It is apparent that a narrative is easier to remember than a shopping list for the untrained memory.
Master memory is cultivated by mnemonic training — the cultivation of a multi-layered and often emotionally connected retrieval structure. Soloists are capable of remembering a tremendous amount of information based on several, mostly inexplicable and un-researched, mnemonic applications. Concert pianists, for example, can perform a 45 minute piece with 30,000 individual notes, that have to be performed in an absolutely particular order, with rhythmical and dynamic variability, passionately creating an emotional and formal narrative, from memory, live on stage.
“As with all things of value, cultivation and constant practice is key.”
And in a piece such as “Rach 3,” they also have to coordinate with a large body of musicians, also from memory. The research on the doorway effect is quite insightful and relevant for the career musician (concert pianists, for example) and the methodical pedagogue, and can be epitomized as such: The stage and the practice room must become the same room.
As with all things of value, cultivation and constant practice is key. In order to keep all that has been achieved behind the practice room door, one should attempt to create a comfortable and familiar environment in the practice room, gain authority and mastery of the music and the instrument and return to the same enjoyable and intimate environment on the stage. Imagine the door out of the practice room is the door onto the stage Matrix style. The concert performance is the tip of an iceberg — always keep that in mind and in sight. | <urn:uuid:27cc1a83-1711-4360-96f1-246ba65fad0c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://oconnormusicstudio.com/2016/06/22/how-does-a-pianist-remember-all-those-notes/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571911.5/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813081639-20220813111639-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.956115 | 419 | 2.421875 | 2 |
Some school districts hoping to improve communication and student engagement in learning are taking a step many educators still view warily: providing students with their own e-mail accounts.
Making e-mail a regular part of students’ school lives raises a host of concerns about inappropriate use. And many teachers doubt that the benefits will outweigh the headaches.
But administrators in districts that have instituted such e-mail service say it is paying off.
Bill Jensen, the information-services manager for the 2,200-student Scappoose school district near Portland, Ore., recently made e-mail available to the roughly 700 high school students in his district and has plans to expand the system to middle school students in the fall.
“I wish we could have done this earlier,” he said. “Now, instead of e-mailing friends, [students] can use it for something productive.”
Students use their e-mail accounts mostly for school-related communication, Mr. Jensen said. Teachers send reminders about upcoming tests and projects, and students who are absent can use their accounts to keep up with missed work.
Some teachers also use the accounts to send students Web links and other resources that are related to what they’re learning in class, Mr. Jensen said.
School-provided e-mail accounts not only are helpful in the classroom, he added, but they also teach students the difference between personal and professional uses of e-mail.
“Our job is to prepare [students] for college or a job,” he said. “We need to help them understand there is a difference between text-messaging friends and what you do in an office situation.”
So far, though, only a minority of teachers expect much academic benefit from school e-mail service for students, results from a national survey suggest.
According to new data from the annual Speak Up survey, to be released by the Irvine, Calif.-based Project Tomorrow this month, 21 percent of all teachers polled chose student e-mail access at school as one of the technological tools with the potential to increase student achievement and success in a 21st-century learning environment, while 46 percent of middle and high school students chose it from the same list of 16 potential tools. Both teachers and students had the opportunity to choose multiple options.
The survey, which polled about 370,000 students, parents, teachers, and school leaders, also found that about 60 percent of middle school students and 75 percent of high school students reported using e-mail on at least a weekly basis.
When planning a system of student e-mail accounts, school districts should consider several factors, experts say, including:
• How closely the e-mail will be monitored. Some districts may want teachers and administrators to be able to read all e-mail messages received and sent by students, while others may feel comfortable simply having filters and spam blockers to prevent inappropriate material from being received or sent.
• The district’s current hardware capacity. Technology departments will need to take inventory of what hardware is available in order to determine which kind of student e-mail system will be compatible with the district’s technology model.
• Ease of use for teachers. In many cases, students will be more familiar with email interfaces than teachers are. It’s important to choose a system that is easy for teachers to use. Otherwise, they won’t be as likely to incorporate it into their teaching or their regular communications with students.
• How the system will be introduced to students, staff members, and parents. Keeping all parties informed about decisions regarding a student e-mail system will make all parties more comfortable with the system and more likely to use it.
• Internet etiquette for students. Going over the differences between personal and school e-mail accounts will help make students aware of how the school’s e-mail system should be used and cut down on disciplinary issues arising from inappropriate messages.
SOURCE: Education Week
“The kids are very enthusiastic about the idea,” said Julie A. Evans, the chief executive officer of Project Tomorrow, a nonprofit education group, formerly known as NetDay, that conducts research on K-12 math, science, and technology trends. “They don’t understand why their schools won’t give them [e-mail accounts].”
Students like the professionalism of having a school-provided e-mail account, especially when applying to college, Ms. Evans said. E-mail also gives students who may be too shy to raise their hands in class a more private way to communicate with their teachers, she said.
Teachers, for their part, are likely to warm up to the idea, she believes.
“In the same way that teachers were reluctant initially to give their e-mail addresses to parents,” Ms. Evans said, they may be afraid to use e-mail with students. Now, e-mailing parents is common practice, she noted, and many teachers say it has become an integral and important part of their jobs.
“The teachers are nervous about the workload, and they haven’t seen the benefits [of student e-mail accounts],” Ms. Evans said. But she is confident that once teachers put student e-mail into practice, they will see how valuable it is.
“I do think this is going to catch on,” she said. “It’s just a matter of time.”
Even districts that have had success with student e-mail systems admit to facing obstacles because of safety and disciplinary concerns.
Randy Wittwer, the director of technology for the 9,000-student Mead, Wash., school district, said his district receives about 50,000 spam e-mails per hour. To combat that influx of mass-mailed, often commercial outside messages, the district uses spam and content filters to scan each incoming message, and student e-mail accounts can be easily monitored by teachers for inappropriate messages.
Under the Children’s Internet Protection Act, or CIPA, passed by Congress in 2000, school districts must protect students from harmful materials—such as pornography and obscene language—in order to be eligible for federal E-rate money, which can be used to subsidize up to 90 percent of schools’ telecommunications and technology costs.
“Our job is to keep that communication open and protect the students,” Mr. Wittwer said.
To be in compliance with CIPA, and lighten the workload of their technology staffs, some districts choose an outside service to handle their e-mail systems. For example, Gaggle.net, based in Bloomington, Ill., provides students with e-mail accounts, blogs, and other online technologies, and gives teachers full control over their students’ e-mail accounts.
SchoolCenter, a Carbondale, Ill.-based company that provides Web tools specifically designed for schools, and the New York City-based company eChalk also offer such services.
Gaggle.net filters each incoming e-mail and searches the document for words that may be inappropriate for students. Certain key words will automatically redirect the e-mail to a teacher’s inbox for approval.
In addition to protecting students from spam, the feature allowing teachers to access students’ inboxes cuts down on disciplinary problems, such as e-mails with inappropriate language or harassing messages that rise to the level of cyberbullying, the company says.
Tool for Collaboration
Keeping parents in the loop about student e-mail accounts is a key part of a successful technology program, said Lucy Gray, the lead technology coach for the Center for Urban School Improvement at the University of Chicago.
“[Schools] are so worried about lawsuits, but the more you educate parents,” the more supportive and involved they will be, she said.
At the same time, whether an e-mail system is effective
depends largely on teachers, said Michael D. Westbrook, a network manager for the 30,000-student Modesto, Calif., city schools.
“If the teachers lay down the expectation, the students have to adapt,” he said. But “a lot of teachers aren’t comfortable” using e-mail with their students, and “trying to get them to use [it] has been a bit of a challenge.”
In his district, each incoming 7th grader gets an e-mail account, but must complete an Internet-usage tutorial before the account is activated. The accounts follow the students through high school, although they must retake the tutorial once they enter high school.
The upside of providing e-mail accounts for students far outweighs the obstacles, Ms. Gray argued.
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Bartter syndrome is a group of rare autosomal-recessive disorders caused by a defect in distal tubule transport of sodium and chloride. Blood gases and plasma electrolytes raise suspicion of this diagnosis and the definitive diagnosis is made by genetic study. Early treatment improves prognosis. The authors present the case of an 11-month-old child with early failure to thrive and severe regurgitation. Blood gases revealed hypochloraemic metabolic alkalosis, hyponatraemia and hypokalaemia. Blood pressure was normal and polyuria was documented. She began therapy with potassium chloride supplementation and indomethacin. There was clinical improvement and plasma potassium and bicarbonate normalised. The molecular study confirmed it was the classic form of Bartter syndrome. Despite being rare in clinical practice, which may lead to unnecessary medical investigation and diagnosis delay, in a child with failure to thrive, hypochloraemic metabolic alkalosis and hypokalaemia, this diagnosis must be considered.
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Specificity! What are we talking about when we talk about specificity and your running training? Training specificity suggests that training must progress from least specific to most specific as an athlete moves closer towards an event. In exercise physiology terms, the SAID principle stands for 'specific adaptations to imposed demands'. Put simply, specificity suggests that your training must resemble the activity you wish to perform and in doing so, your body adapts to the stress that is placed on it. So, if you're training for a running event and you're running, you're halfway there!
Let's look deeper into the principle of specificity and how we can apply it to your training;
What are the demands of the terrain?
Take the time to sit down and establish the demands of your upcoming race and make a plan to address these demands in your training. Does your race have long climbs? Is your race fast and on non-technical terrain? At the 2015 Tarawera Ultra Marathon, race winner Dylan Bowman spoke at the post-race presentation about how he had structured his long runs around the demands of the course. He acknowledged that the course that year featured a flat and fast finish, so he emulated a flat and fast finish in his training runs. On the opposite end of the scale, don't neglect hiking if your race is mountainous or you plan on hiking portions of your event.
Spending time training on the course is a great way to familiarise yourself with the terrain and to dial in other elements of racing like nutrition, hydration, and gear. If you can't train on the course in the lead-up, look to train somewhere that emulates the characteristics of the race terrain.
What are the physiological demands of your race?
How much of your race will be spent hiking, running easily, running moderately hard and running all out? Your training should aim to develop the systems you will use on race day, progressing from least specific to most specific as you move through your training cycles. Once you've established your physiological priorities you should be addressing these within training blocks in conjunction with other exercise principles of progression, overload, recovery, adaptation, and individual differences.
As mentioned above, training on the course is a great way to familiarise yourself with the terrain. Take this a step further and plan workouts on the course. Come race day you can physically and psychologically draw on all the hard specific workouts you've put in on the toughest sections of the course.
What are the environmental demands of your race?
Will it be hot on race day? Is your race at altitude? Will you be running at night or during the middle of the day? Addressing these demands during training will ensure you're adequately prepared. It is important to also consider gear and other equipment during training, to avoid any surprises on race day. Don't limit yourself to the mandatory gear list either, if you think you would benefit from having additional gear to be safe and comfortable then take the additional gear.
What day of the week is your race on?
Planning your long runs on the same day as the race allows you to reach the start line comfortable and in a familiar environment. If you're used to a 5 am start every Saturday then waking up on race morning won't feel so foreign. Never underestimate the power of the mind on race day. If your race is multi-day, running back to back days in training is a great way to simulate the physical and psychological demands of backing up.
Are you strength training?
Your strength programming should be addressing the biomechanics of the gait cycle and developing the movement patterns responsible for creating strong, injury-free running. Think about why you're doing a specific exercise and what you hope to achieve incorporating the exercise into your program. Building strength training into easy run days is a great place to start, as well as cutting a run 5 or 10 minutes short and doing some prehab work.
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Portugal | 2021
There are territories, buildings, spaces that represent more than just their physical and material dimension. They can create sensations and appeal to our spirit and our imagination, in a constant dialogue between the sacred and the profane. Our intention for this Islamic Cultural Centre was to provide to the user spatial and symbolic qualities that potentially could create an awareness of the mystic and the sacred. Being a space dedicated to spreading the Islamic identity, it is also a space for the whole community, a space for dialogue and sharing of culture and knowledge. Therefore, the program for this Centre had to contemplate an exhibition space, a space for the dissemination of literature, a meeting/studding room, and a prayer area. Together with programmatic needs, the space was developed from a formal point of view based on the imaginary of Islamic architectural culture, of which we highlight the inspiration in elements such as pointed horseshoe arches and groin vaults. The interior volumetry was sculpted to stimulate the senses, through curved and fluid forms that remember the Islamic architectural grammar, creating several different moments along the route through the centre interior.
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Endosonography, 4th Edition
Covering the full spectrum of endoscopic ultrasound, Endosonography, 4th Edition, by Drs. Robert Hawes, Paul Fockens, and Shyam Varadarajulu, is a comprehensive, one-stop resource for mastering both diagnostic and therapeutic EUS procedures. Leading global authorities guide you step by step through both introductory and advanced techniques, covering everything from interpretation and accurate diagnosis to treatment recommendations. Dozens of how-to videos, high-quality images, and an easy-to-navigate format make this updated reference a must-have for both beginning and experienced endosonographers.
New to this edition
- Features completed updated content throughout, including new sections on high-intensity focused ultrasound, through-the-needle biopsy, benign pancreatic masses, and gastro-jejunostomy.
- Includes perspectives from new contributors who provide global experience and knowledge.
- Contains new and enhanced illustrations that correlate with high-quality endoscopic images.
- Teaches clinically relevant techniques through dozens of new how-to videos.
- Covers cutting-edge techniques for performing therapeutic interventions, such as drainage of pancreatic pseudocysts and EUS-guided anti-tumor therapy, as well as fine needle aspiration (FNA) procedures.
- Expert Consult™ eBook version included with purchase. This enhanced eBook experience allows you to search all of the text, figures, and references from the book on a variety of devices.
- Provides practical information on establishing an endoscopic practice, from what equipment to buy to providing effective cytopathology services.
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c. 58/9 CE
Obverse: NER WNO C in wreath tied at the bottom with a X.
Reverse: Palm branch surrounded by KAICAPOC and date LE.
In fine condition.
Weight: 2.44g; Diameter: 16.5 mm
Olive wood box, worldwide shipping and Certificate of Authenticity included.
Ships from the United States.
Porcius Festus succeeded Antonius Felix as procurator of Judea under the Roman Emperor Nero.
An original copper plate engraved map, with hand coloring of country outlines, and also in the cartouche, titled there, at lower left, "A Map of Turky, Arabia and Persia", the first edition by Georges de l'Isle in 1701, this being the somewhat later revised 1721 edition by noted cartographer of the day John Senex (1678-ca. 1740). This map, 19" by 23" (22 1/2" by 26 1/2" as framed) was considered to be the first modern map of the Arabian Peninsula before the middle of the 18th century...
Map of the South American continent, titled "Amerique Meridionale", by Felix Delamarche, 1822. The map is on old type laid paper, and measures 12 3/4" by 16 3/4". There is a distinct plate mark and a central fold. The borders of Brazil, Peru, Chile, Patagonia and French Guyana are colored in green, yellow and blue. I do not know if the map is laid down, not having opened it up, but would be happy to do so upon request...
A sparkly rainbow Silicon Carbide specimen. Rainbow Carborundum is a crystal, with black spiked crystals, gorgeous rainbow-like luster, iridescent colors of green, blues, purple, pink, yellow, etc. The brown to black color results from iron impurities. Carborundum is known to be a master healer and a type of semi conductor.
Dimensions: 10.5" X 7.5" X10.5"
A fine green specimen of Malachite. Malachite is a green copper mineral. It has a natural deep, shimmery green color and a magnificent form. Malachite, with its beautiful, rich green color, leaves no doubt of its importance as a jewel. Its opaque strength and power demands respect, mesmerizing the viewer. Yet the movement, flow and energy in its lines, circles and designs soothe and welcome. It was one of the first ores used to produce copper metal.
Dimensions: 8" X 7.5" X 2.5"
A framed PAIR of hand-colored vintage early 20th century photographs of the scenic Pikes Peak area of Colorado, one titled in pencil in margin "Rainbow Falls Manitou, Colo." and the other "A Glimpse of Pikes Peak--Colo.", both pencil signed "Photo-Craft" at lower right margin. Measurements are 9 1/2" by 4 3/4" (photos) and 17 1/2" by 13 1/2" in identical gold frames with green double mat. There is a bit of brownish discoloration in the margin of the waterfall image, as shown...
Vespasian, Syria, Antioch
AE 28 (15,56 gr.)
IMP CAESAR VESPASIAN AVG / SC and a wonderful roman style portrait! Struck on a huge flan for issue, Dupondius size.
Condition: VF/EF, some uneveness as usual with this issue, very attractive.
Ex. Danish Private Collection
Copyright 1907 by Geo. B. Cornish, Arkansas City, Kans. Slightly rounded corners.
A copy of the 1817 book "The Life of Robert Fulton" by Cadwalader Colden, printed in New York City. The book measures 8 1/2" by 5 3/8" and has leather covers in the old fashion. The pages are heavily foxed and generally browned, as is commonly seen in books 200 years old. Covers are attached, though worn, and at top of spine, a piece of leather is missing. An old brown ink signature of previous owner Edward S...
A group of 12 booklets, most of them illustrated, related to Japanese arms and armor.
Here are their titles:
- "Arms & armors of ancient Japan" , 1964, 64 pages, Illustrated.
- "Japanese swords", a chart compiled and published by W.M. Hawley
- "The Ito school pf tsuba makers", by Blaine Navroth, 11 pages, illustrated, 1976.
- "Japanese ornamented arrow heads", Oslo Ethnographic Museum, 1931, illustrated.
- "Introduction to Japanese swords" by W.M...
"Kaiseki: Zen Tastes in Japanese Cooking" by Kaichi Tsuji. 1972 First Edition, Kodansha. 207 pages. COlor & B/W plates, plus original wood block prints by Masakazu Kuwata. Introduction by Soshitsu Sen (grandmaster of Urasenke School of Chanoyu,) Foreward by Nobel Prize novelist Yasunari Kawabata. Clothbund Hardvover. Book Condition-New, but 2 cm tear on original paper dust jacket...
A very rare and wonderful first edition of the book 'Japanese and Oriental Pottery' by Hazel H. Gorham, who is the wife of William R. Gorham, who is the forgotten father of Japanese industry, known for his engineering contributions to the Canon camera company and Nissan motors; Mr. and Mrs...
This is a very detailed map of Worcestershire in western England, first engraved by noted London map maker Robert Morden in 1695 for Camden's Britannia, and issued in several later editions in the early years of the 18th century. The map measures 14 1/4" by 16 5/8" inside the mat (17" by 19" as framed). Like most of its type it has been hand colored at a later date...
Sasanian Yazdgerd, 438-457 AD, Silver dirham, (4.14 gm, 30 mm), GW mint (Gorgan), Lovely strike on a nice full broad flan, Die break on the reverse, Choice extremely fine and toned.
Early map titled "A Description of the Land of Goshen and Moses passage through the desert", 1614, by the English cartographer William Hole. Hole was active in cartography from about 1601 to about 1624. The map measures 10 3/4" by 14" inside the present mats (not examined out of the frame but would be happy to do so upon request). This is an uncommon map with a compass rose at lower right and cartouches at upper portion, the cartographer's name at lower left edge...
Rare antique Map of Alderney c1691 by Robert Morden with watercolor . Small scale map in nice condition framed and matted c19303s. Overall 9.75 by 6.5" map 5.25" by 3"
JAPAN, Mutsuhito. Circa 1860s. Gold 2 Bu (3.04 gm; 12mm x 20mm). Nibu-ban kin. (ND). Meiji 2, 1868-1869. JNDA 09-29 (20A); J.V. C5. Choice EF.
"The Clarence Buckingham Collection of Japanese Prints Volume II: Harunobu, Koryusai, Shigemasa, Their Followers and Contemporaries" by Gentles, Margaret O., The Art Institute of Chicago, 1965. Oversized book measuring 12" x 15.7"... | <urn:uuid:4e52a7f4-6c6f-4b0b-b576-a3075deba06a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.trocadero.com/directory/Traditional-Collectibles/?&sortfield=calculatedPrice&sortdir=SORT_DESC&start=216&l=18&view=list | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570767.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808061828-20220808091828-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.907409 | 1,648 | 1.523438 | 2 |
The Ontario Human Rights Code protects people from discrimination in a variety of settings, including in employment. Under the Ontario Human Rights Code, every person has a right to “equal treatment with respect to employment” without discrimination or harassment because of race, ancestry, place of origin, colour, ethnic origin, citizenship, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, record of offences, marital status, family status or disability. This covers every aspect of the employment relationship, including recruitment, training, transfers, promotions, dismissal, layoffs, pay, overtime, hours of work, holidays, benefits, shift work, discipline, and performance evaluations.
While not all human rights legislation in Canada is the same, Ontario’s Human Rights Code shares many similarities with human rights legislation in several provinces and territories, including British Columbia, while other provinces, for example, Saskatchewan, take a narrower approach and specify, for example, that only discrimination by “employers” is covered.
An Expansive Approach
In its late 2017 decision in British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal v Schrenk, the Supreme Court of Canada considered a complaint alleging discrimination at the workplace by an employee against the foreman of the primary construction contractor that was engaged by the complainant’s employer and with whom the complainant worked as part of his employment. The respondent made racist and homophobic statements to the complainant, who filed a complaint before the British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal. The respondent applied to dismiss the resulting complaint on the basis that the British Columbia Human Rights Code did not apply because the complainant and respondent were not employed by the same employer.
The Supreme Court found that the British Columbia Human Rights Code, which prohibits discrimination “regarding employment” against employees, applies when that discrimination has “a sufficient nexus with the employment context”. Therefore, it does not restrict who can perpetrate the discrimination. Whether discrimination occurred should be considered in context based on factors including, but not limited to:
- Whether the perpetrator was integral to the complainant’s workplace;
- Whether the discrimination occurred in the complainant’s workplace; and
- Whether the complainant’s work performance or environment was affected negatively by the discriminatory behaviour.
Taking this contextual approach, the Court found that the respondent’s behaviour amounted to discrimination regarding employment as he was an integral and unavoidable part of the complainant’s work environment.
What Does This Mean for Employers?
Although this decision was based on British Columbia’s human rights legislation, the similarly broad wording of Ontario’s Human Rights Code, which prohibits discrimination “with respect to employment”, suggests that the same approach would apply in Ontario. The same is likely true for employers in other provinces with similar provisions, such as Manitoba, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Prince Edward Island. Because of the Supreme Court’s decision, Ontario employers may begin to face more discrimination allegations by those they do not employ, such as contractors, and by employees based on actions by others in the workplace who do not work for the same employer. As a result, employers should consider reviewing their workplace anti-discrimination policies to ensure that appropriate standards of conduct are clearly set out, as well as consequences for inappropriate, discriminatory behaviour.
This blog is provided as information and a summary of workplace legal issues.
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Cracking the password problem
123456. 123456789. 12345. qwerty. password. 12345678. 111111. 123123. 1234567890. 1234567. Those were the ten most used passwords in 2021. There’s a good chance you’ve used one of them at some point, frustrated by the proliferation of online accounts each demanding that you come up with a password to access it. None of those options takes more than a second to crack. According to a survey by Google, 65% of people use the same password for multiple accounts and I suspect there are a lot of liars in the remaining 35%.
When computer passwords were originally developed it was all so much simpler. They were first implemented in 1961 by Fernando José “Corby” Corbató at MIT when he led the development of the Compatible Time-Sharing System (CTSS), one of the world’s first operating systems. With multiple people using the same computer, passwords were a means of keeping their files separate and private.
Corbató – who died in 2019 – explained to Wired: “The key problem was that we were setting up multiple terminals which were to be used by multiple persons but with each person having his own private set of files. Putting a password on for each individual user as a lock seemed like a very straightforward solution.”
But even that straightforward solution led to situations that presaged the leaks and hacks that were to come in the internet age. In 1966, a software bug switched out the system’s welcome message with the master password file meaning anyone who logged in was presented with the entire list of CTSS passwords. The first hack came four years earlier, though it took almost 50 years for the perpetrator to confess.
In a 2011 pamphlet published to commemorate the creation of CTSS, Allan Scherr, who went on to be a major figure at IBM, confessed that he’d stolen passwords to get more than his allotted four hours per week using the computer. His trick? He’d simply printed out all the passwords. He wrote:
“There was a way to request files to be printed offline by submitting a punched card. Late one Friday night, I submitted a request to print the password files and very early Saturday morning went to the file cabinet where printouts were placed and took the listing.”
Scherr’s attempt to spread the blame around – handing passwords over to other users – even led to an early case of trolling when JCR Licklider (who went on to be a major figure in the development of visual computing and the Internet) logged into the account of the lab’s director Robert Fano to leave him “taunting messages”.
I don’t think anybody can possibly remember all the passwords that are issued or set up
Speaking to The Wall Street Journal in 2014, Corbató said that he and his team had not foreseen how ubiquitous passwords would become or how they would come to be used on the Internet. He explained:
“Passwords are not a super-high level of security but are enough to protect against casual snooping… Unfortunately, it’s become kind of a nightmare with the World Wide Web. I don’t think anybody can possibly remember all the passwords that are issued or set up. Either you maintain a crib sheet, a mild no-no, or you use some sort of program as a password manager… I have to confess, I use a crib sheet.”
But Corbató’s accidental nightmare may be fading. The FIDO Alliance, a tech industry group, has been working on standards to ditch passwords for over a decade and Apple announced its implementation of them at its annual developer conference in June.
Apple’s version of passkeys – password-less logins – will launch across iPhones, iPads, Macs, and Apple TVs in September. The idea is that using your fingerprint or face will create an encrypted passkey and when you return to that website or service you’ll get a prompt on your phone, tablet, or computer so you can verify your identity.
While Apple is first out of the gate, Google and Microsoft will soon announce their own versions. When all three have implemented passkeys, it should be possible to use the system across different devices, say logging into your Windows laptop with your iPhone.
There are still unanswered questions. Will you be able to easily transfer your passkeys if you decide to ditch Apple in favour of an Android phone? And how long will it take to persuade developers to implement the system across thousands of websites? If the reality of passkeys is clunky, people will stick with insecure but easily understandable passwords.
Another problem, though, is that not everyone has access to a device with a fingerprint sensor or facial recognition. The tech industry’s promise that the password is nearly dead may yet turn out to be the latest dimension of the digital divide with the rich able to rely on stronger biometric security while the poor are stuck relying on their memory.
It turns out that solving the problem of passwords is a lot harder than 12345.
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Choosing Flea Remedies For Kittens Is Simple
If you own a kitten, be sure that the item clearly states that its safe for kittens. A kitten will end up severely lethargic and dehydrated in a very brief time. It’s not enough to treat just your kitten or puppy for fleas you have to also see to your home.
Your cat will feel far better and she’ll love you for it. It will continue to keep your cat occupied and happy thus helping guard your furniture and possessions. It’s extremely important to realize that cats and dogs aren’t the exact same.
Get the Scoop on Flea Remedies For Kittens Before You’re Too Late
Evidently, it’s quite important to eliminate fleas once you notice them on your cat. Cats hate to get touched there, but if in time they get relaxed enough to permit this, do it rather lightly and for a small sum of time. Therefore, if you’d like to assist a stray cat the very first thing that you ought to do, obviously, is feed them.
Keep reading to learn what to do whenever your cat has fleas. The fleas might be searching for an acceptable meal as they can no longer feaster on Fluffy or Fido. Since you may not ever see a true flea on your cat the perfect way to check is to use a flea comb.
Dump the dirty steamer water farther down the toilet to be sure the fleas don’t survive! Because of the shampoo, they will not be able to get onto the kittens head. Cat fleas can be challenging to control but these home remedies for cats with fleas will provide you good outcomes.
Flea Remedies For Kittens for Dummies
You have to get rid of the fleas immediately. Fleas can hide in your carpet and furniture, and therefore you need to knock out the fleas in your house! Frontline flea and tick treatment are possibly the most efficient means to stop fleas and ticks and to eliminate them if they’re already present.
The Upside to Flea Remedies For Kittens
Fleas are difficult to find rid of. They can cause a lot of problems and may be difficult to get rid of if you get an infestation. They can make a new home on your kitten in many ways, even in indoor cats. They are the toughest parasite to get rid of and it takes a little work. They can also be very dangerous to young kittens and can even result in a kitten dying from anemia so you do need to kill these fleas. It is important to wash the environment in addition to the animals otherwise, the fleas are going to be a persistent issue. Most fleas die within one day.
The Basics of Flea Remedies For Kittens
Much like any flea control, you’ve got to be consistent and dedicated to keeping ahead of flea infestations. In the event the flea infestation is extremely heavy you might need to steam clean your carpets so as to kill the flea eggs. Severe flea infestation can also lead to anemia.
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After having a successful First BioDialog Summer School on Biodiversity Informatics 2017 in Egypt, DDL2018 is organised as an international School within the BioDiaog Project that aims to foster Scientific Data Management (theory, tools and techniques) which focus on data analytics and deep learning on the one hand and biodiversity informatics on the other hand.
Besides the Intercultural lectures given by FINKA group, this school is a good opportunity to invite researchers and practitioners to discover the main advances of scientific data management, deep learning and big data analytics. This research training event will bring together scientists to share their knowledge and discuss their opinions. Theoretical lectures and various hands-on labs will be given. Parallel sessions and Tutorials will be given respectively in Computer science and Biodiversity informatics.
– Scientific Data Management (Data Planning, Data Collection, Data Quality Issues, Data Integration,Data Analysis, Data visualization)
-Data Acquisition (IOT)
– R for Data Analytics
– Python for Data Science
– Bio Medecine
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What is the difference between the autonomic ANS and somatic nervous systems?
The somatic nervous system has sensory and motor pathways, whereas the autonomic nervous system only has motor pathways. The autonomic nervous system controls internal organs and glands, while the somatic nervous system controls muscles and movement.
Where is the autonomic and somatic nervous system?
The somatic peripheral nervous system is a single neuron system with the motor neurons lying inside the brainstem or spinal cord and the sensory neurons lying in the dorsal root ganglia. The autonomic peripheral nervous system is a two neuron system with a neuron lying outside of the CNS in the autonomic ganglia.
What is the difference between autonomic and central nervous system?
CNS (central nervous system) refers to the part of the nervous system, consisting of the brain and the spinal cord, while ANS (autonomic nervous system) refers to the part of the nervous system responsible for the coordination of involuntary functions of the body.
What is the main difference between the somatic and autonomic nervous system quizlet?
What is the main structural difference between the somatic and autonomic nervous systems? Motor neurons of the SNS directly control effectors, whereas motor neurons of the ANS do not directly control effectors.
What is autonomic and somatic nervous system?
Somatic Nervous System is the one that allows conscious (voluntary) control of skeletal muscles. Autonomic N. S. has the unconscious (involuntary) control of the body and it has 2 branches, the Sympathetic and Parasympathetic NS.
Where is the somatic nervous system located?
The somatic nervous system consists of the cell bodies located in either the brainstem or the spinal cord. They have an extremely long course as they do not synapse after they leave the CNS until they are at their termination in skeletal muscle. They consist of large diameter fibers and are ensheathed with myelin.
Where does autonomic nervous system originate?
The first set, called preganglionic neurons, originates in the brainstem or the spinal cord, and the second set, called ganglion cells or postganglionic neurons, lies outside the central nervous system in collections of nerve cells called autonomic ganglia.
What is central nervous system and autonomic nervous system?
Summary. The brain and spinal cord make up the central nervous system. The somatic nervous system transmits sensory and motor signals to and from the central nervous system. The autonomic nervous system controls the function of our organs and glands, and can be divided into the sympathetic and parasympathetic divisions …
Is the autonomic nervous system connected to the central nervous system?
The subdivisions of the autonomic nervous system: In the autonomic nervous system, preganglionic neurons connect the CNS to the ganglion.
What are the two main divisions of the nervous system quizlet?
The structures of the nervous system are described in terms of 2 principal divisions-the central nervous system (CNS) and the peripheral nervous system (PNS).
What is the difference between somatic and autonomic neurons?
Autonomic nervous system acts on smooth muscles, cardiac muscles, and glands whereas somatic nervous system acts always on skeletal muscles. Somatic nervous system needs only one efferent neuron while Autonomic nervous system should have two efferent neurons and ganglia to transmit a signal.
What is somatic and autonomic reflexes?
One difference between a somatic reflex, such as the withdrawal reflex, and a visceral reflex, which is an autonomic reflex, is in the efferent branch. The output of a somatic reflex is the lower motor neuron in the ventral horn of the spinal cord that projects directly to a skeletal muscle to cause its contraction.
What is an example of a somatic reflex?
Some examples of the somatic nervous system include: the blinking reflex, knee jerk reflex, gag reflex, and the startle reflex and rooting reflex in infants.
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The Church of England has spoken out in trenchant terms about the extreme inequality that defines modern Britain, arguing today that moral principles and sharing should underpin the foundations of society.
In a new book of essays to be published next week, the archbishops of Canterbury and York warn that the poor are being left behind in a country that is increasingly dominated by “rampant consumerism and individualism” since the Thatcher era. The church leaders caution politicians that they are selling a “lie” that economic growth is the answer to Britain’s social problems, contending that the fruits of growth should be distributed in a way that reduces inequality between the rich and poor.
The essay in the book by the Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, reportedly argues that conventional market assumptions such as ‘trickle down’ economics have failed, and rejects the idea that Adam Smith’s ‘invisible hand’ of the market will ultimately right social wrongs.
An interview with the Daily Telegraph newspaper broadly outlines the leading churchmen’s views on the need for a more equal and sharing society. The Archbishop of York, Dr John Sentamu, said that the book draws heavily on the writings of William Temple, the Archbishop of York and then Canterbury in the 1940s, which are credited with laying the foundations for a just post-war society and the welfare state. Sentamu quoted one passage of the book to the paper, in which Temple argued that the art of government was in finding ways to bring together the interests of individuals with those of society at large, such as through universal access to healthcare or education.
As Sentamus explains in the Telegraph interview: “Temple was right; you judge the well-being of any society by how it cares for those who are vulnerable. If it is the survival of the fittest that’s what I call living in the jungle and I don’t want to live in the jungle – this is supposed to be a civilised society. It seems to me if it is to do with the health of the nation and the well-being of the nation every citizen really ought to be at the same table and not some taking more.”
Arguing for a new and more equitable distribution of wealth in Britain, Sentamu adds that this has got “nothing to do with being socialist” or adhering to a prescribed economic ideology. “What it has got to with is: ‘Is this how God has created us?’ Has he created us to be people who go to Black Friday to fight with each other because they want the biggest bargain? No – that’s the rule of the jungle, we left that behind.”
In a short video accompanying the book, Sentamu likens the UK economy to a household and claims that no one member should have “too much” when another has “too little”. He says “it will be quite a pity if the powerful, the richest, are the ones that are thriving in our household and some are left behind. For me, therefore, one of the greatest challenges that faces our nation has to do with income inequality.”
He adds that as a household we need to “deliberate on how we must ensure that this income inequality is addressed properly so that everybody flourishes, everybody shares…” Hence the title of the book – On rock or sand – is intended to help us discover the firm foundations and principles on which Britain needs to be built.
This is not the first time that the Church of England has spoken out in defence of a society that shares its wealth and resources more fairly and equitably. In the short video, Sentamu begins by defending the Church’s involvement in politics which he sees as an essential part of public deliberations on how to create a society based on Christian and moral principles, although he stresses that the book doesn’t take a party political position. Sentamu also defends the Faith in the City report published 30 years ago that harshly criticised the Thatcher government’s policies, and explicitly argued for redistributive policies to reduce inequality.
Pope Francis has, of course, also strongly attacked inequality in recent years on a global as well as a national basis. In April, he tweeted that inequality is the root of social evil, and he has called on world leaders – together with United Nations’ agencies – to legitimately redistribute wealth to the poor in a new spirit of generosity to help curb the “economy of exclusion” that is taking place today. | <urn:uuid:6858e8cc-8bd5-4877-bfd1-54e89aa74a3c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/leading-churchmen-in-britain-call-for-a-more-equal-and-sharing-society/2015/01/28 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572043.2/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814143522-20220814173522-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.964724 | 946 | 2.015625 | 2 |
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From: Mike McManus <email@example.com>
Date: Wed, Jan 8, 2014 at 10:56 PM
Subject: Answers for the Disintegration of Marriage - Ethics & Religion Col. #1,689
To: Bill Coffin <firstname.lastname@example.org>
January 8, 2014
(first of three parts)
Answers for the Disintegration of Marriage - I
By Mike McManus
Marriage is deteriorating in America – and churches seem indifferent to it.
There were 2.1 million marriages in 2011, but 2.4 million in 1970 when there were only 203 million Americans. With 314 million today, there should have been 3 million marriages.
America’s congregations who perform 86% of all weddings – appear indifferent to the marriage crisis. No Protestant denomination has issued a report on the decline of marriage let alone suggested any answers.
To their credit the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops issued a Pastoral Letter on Marriage in 2009. They quote Pope John Paul II as saying that the “future of humanity depends on marriage and the family.” And they express concern about how “reluctant” Catholics are to “make the actual commitment” to marry.
However, in their 60-page Pastoral Letter, they do not cite the grim evidence of that fact. In 1970 there were 426.000 Catholic marriages, but only 167,000 in 2012. That’s a stunning 61% decline – more than double the 30% decline of U.S. marriages.
Catholics at least track the numbers. The Assemblies of God, the Southern Baptist Convention and the United Methodist Church could not tell me how many married in their churches.
Why are they indifferent to God’s first institution?
Genesis states, “The Lord God said, `It is not good for man to be alone. I will make a helper suitable for him.” After doing so, we read, “For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and they will become one flesh.”
What might be done? In this column and two future ones, I’ll suggest some answers.
First, pastors should preach on the importance of marriage – and the risks of the popular alternative: cohabitation. National Marriage Week (Feb. 9-16) is a good time to start.
Last year 8 million couples lived together – nearly four times those who married. Why? Many are children of divorce who fear marriage and hope to test the relationship by living with a potential mate. Seems logical, but is in error.
I suggest pastors offer three sets of numbers to prove conventional wisdom wrong:
1. Two-thirds of those who married were cohabiting. But that’s only 1.5 million of the 8 million cohabiting couples. What happened to the other 6.5 million? Most broke up – proof that couples cannot “practice permanence.”
2. In our book, Living Together: Myths, Risks & Answers, we report that the risk that women are 18 times more likely to be assaulted by live-in partners than by a husband and are five times more likely to suffer “severe violence.”
3. Couples who live together before marriage are 50% to 61% more likely to divorce than those who remained separate before a wedding, report two studies.
Therefore, pastors should ask, “Why live together if the couple is five times more likely
to break up rather than marry – and more likely to divorce?”
Few cohabiting couples attend church. But many of their parents do. Pastors could suggest they ask their cohabiting children: “Do you want a 9 in 10 chance of breaking up before or after the wedding?”
Additionally, I have a question for clergy: Why marry couples who are living together? Scripture is clear: “Flee from sexual immorality.” Clergy who marry cohabiting couples contribute to the problem. They should add to their sermon on marriage: “I will no longer marry any couples who are cohabiting – unless they move apart for three months. That will increase the odds they will marry and that their union will last.”
Paul wrote: “Test everything. Hold onto the good. Avoid every kind of evil.” Cohabitation is clearly evil. But how can couples test their relationship?
In the 1990’s my wife and I pioneered the training of couples in our church for healthy marriages by requiring them to take a premarital inventory and meet with trained Mentor Couples to discuss 150 issues such as:
· Sometimes I wish my partner were more careful about spending money.
· When we are having a problem, my partner often refuses to talk about it.
Of the 288 couples we prepared for marriage, 58 decided not to marry. That’s a big 20%. Studies show that such couples have the same scores as those who marry and later divorced. Thus, they avoided a bad marriage before it began. However, of the 230 couples who did marry in the 1990s, we know of only 16 divorces.
That’s a 93% success rate over two decades – virtual marriage insurance.
We want to have healthy marriages for our children and grandchildren.
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Non-small cell lung cancer is a disease in which the cells of the lung tissues grow uncontrollably and form tumors.
There are two kinds of lung cancers, primary and secondary. Primary lung cancer starts in the lung itself, and is divided into small cell lung cancer and non-small cell lung cancer. Small cell lung cancers are shaped like an oat and called oat-cell cancers; they are aggressive, spread rapidly, and represent 20% of lung cancers. Non-small cell lung cancer represents almost 80% of all primary lung cancers. Secondary lung cancer is cancer that starts somewhere else in the body (for example, the breast or colon) and spreads to the lungs.
The lungs are located along with the heart in the chest cavity. The lungs are not simply hollow balloons but have a very organized structure consisting of hollow tubes, blood vessels and elastic tissue. The hollow tubes, called bronchi, are highly branched, becoming smaller and more numerous at each branching. They end in tiny, blind sacs made of elastic tissue called alveoli. These sacs are where the oxygen a person breathes in is taken up into the blood, and where carbon dioxide moves out of the blood to be breathed out.
Normal, healthy lungs are continually secreting mucus that not only keeps the lungs moist, but also protects the lungs by trapping foreign particles like dust and dirt in breathed air. The inside of the lungs is covered with small hairlike structures called cilia. The cilia move in such a way that mucus is swept up out of the lungs and into the throat.
Most lung cancers start in the cells that line the bronchi, and can take years to develop. As they grow larger they prevent the lungs from functioning normally. The tumor can reduce the capacity of the lungs, or block the movement of air through the bronchi in the lungs. As a result, less oxygen gets into the blood and patients feel short of breath. Tumors may also block the normal movement of mucus up into the throat. As a result, mucus builds up in the lungs and infection may develop behind the tumor. Once lung cancer has developed it frequently spreads to other parts of the body.
The speed at which non-small cell tumors grow depends on the type of cells that make up the tumor. The following three types account for the vast majority of non-small cell tumors:
Adenocarcinomas are the most common and often cause no symptoms. Frequently they are not found until they are advanced.
Squamous cell carcinomas usually produce symptoms because they are centrally located and block the lungs.
Undifferentiated large cell and giant cell carcinomas tend to grow rapidly, and spread quickly to other parts of the body.
Worldwide, lung cancer is the most common cancer in males, and the fifth most common cancer in women. The worldwide mortality rate for patients with lung cancer is 86%. In the United States, lung cancer is the leading cause of death from cancer among both men and women. The World Health Organization estimates that the worldwide mortality from lung cancer will increase to three million by the year 2025. Of those three million deaths, almost two and a half million will result from non-small cell lung cancer.
The incidence of lung cancer is beginning to fall in developed countries. This may be a result of antismoking campaigns. In developing countries, however, rates continue to rise, which may be a consequence of both industrialization and the increasing use of tobacco products.
Causes and symptoms
Tobacco smoking accounts for nearly 90% of all lung cancers. Giving up tobacco can prevent most lung cancers. Smoking marijuana cigarettes is considered another risk factor for cancer of the lung. Second hand smoke also contributes to the development of lung cancer among nonsmokers.
Certain hazardous materials that people may be exposed to in their jobs have been shown to cause lung cancer. These include asbestos, coal products, and radioactive substances. Air pollution may also be a contributing factor. Exposure to radon, a colorless, odorless gas that sometimes accumulates in the basement of homes, may cause lung cancer in a tiny minority of patients. In addition, patients whose lungs are scarred from other lung conditions may have an increased risk of developing lung cancer.
Lung cancers tend to spread very early, and only 15% are detected in their early stages. The chances of early detection, however, can be improved by seeking medical care at once if any of the following symptoms appear:
A cough that does not go away
Shortness of breath
Recurrent lung infections, such as bronchitis or pneumonia
Bloody or brown-colored spit or phlegm (sputum)
Significant weight loss that is not due to dieting or vigorous exercise; fatigue and loss of appetite
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Ellipsis (el-lip’-sis): Omission of a word or short phrase easily understood in context.
There’s too much stuff piling up on the dining room table. Periodicals. Bills. Catalogs. Newspapers. Empty coffee mugs. Dead flowers. A bundt cake. Potato chips. Crackers. Empty wine bottle. And more.
We need to clear it off!
Who’s going to make the first move?
You help me, and I you.
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We are going to show you how to convert mA to Amps (milliamps to amps). This is a very easy thing to do once you see it done. First of all, milliamps and amps are referring to the same things, but they are on different scales. There are 1000 milliamps in a single Amp. If you have 20mA and you... | <urn:uuid:c9ff0180-9d31-4150-b6ab-005967f7d4f3> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://lighthouseleds.com/blog/tag/conversion/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571538.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812014923-20220812044923-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.928568 | 88 | 2.046875 | 2 |
Before defining a table, you should have already used the Field Definition window to create the global fields that will be used for the table. To add global fields to the table, simply select the global field in the Global Fields list and click Insert; the field will be added to the table definition after the item currently selected in the Table Fields list. If no field is selected in the Table Fields list, the global field will be inserted at the top of the list.
The order in which you insert fields into the Table Fields list is not critical. There is only one significant consideration when inserting fields into a table definition. For optimal performance, it is desirable to group string fields next to each other in the table definition. This is particularly true for string fields that will be used in keys for the table. Through a process called segment combining, Dexterity treats adjacent string fields as a single item, allowing it to perform some table operations more efficiently.
The position of the fields in the Table Fields list is significant. Data in the table is stored according to the position of the fields in the Table Fields list. If you insert additional table fields or change the position of the fields, any existing data will need to be converted in order to be accessed properly. Data conversion is described in Updating an Application.
A record is made up of two parts: a fixed-length part and a variable-length part.
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The variable-length portion of the record stores all variable-length fields such as pictures and big text fields. These fields share 32K of variable space. For example, if a table stored a 10K picture and a big text field, the text field could store up to 22K of text for a total of 32K.
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Proceedings of of the Kohimarama Conference, Comprising Nos. 13 to 18 of the "Maori Messenger."
Proceedings of the Rohimarama Conference. — (Continued from our last.) — Monday, July 23, 1860
Proceedings of the Rohimarama Conference.
(Continued from our last.)
Monday, July 23, 1860.
Chiefs of this Conference—
The matters we have lately discussed are disposed of, and, in my opinion, we should now turn to the consideration of the Governor's Message about the definition of tribal boundaries to land. As some of you are anxious to return to your homes, I do not wish this discussion to be delayed. This is the most important subject for discussion. Other matters may be allowed to stand over for the present. You are aware that many of the disturbances amongst you have arisen out of the subject of land. There are great errors in the Maori customs regarding land. If one man attempts to lay off the boundaries of his portion, others interfere with him, and a disturbance takes piece. It is a matter that I page 2 have given careful attention to, and I find the Maori cnstom causes much dissension. The system now proposed by the Governor is a clear one; it is calculated to put an end to the interference of one man with the land of another. As many chiefs are absent, it will not be well for you to give a hurried consent to this proposition. It will be better when you return to your homes, to give the subject your careful consideration, and [unclear: arrive] at some decision upon it, for if you give a hasty consent, it may not meet the approval of your respective tribes. Some of you have found fault with the system of Land Purchase. You have said that the price paid is too low—that three pence per acre is given; but when resold by the Government a high price is charged, even two pounds. This certainly is correct, but if the land is allowed to lie waste it produces no return. When acquired by the Government, it is surveyed, and can only then be called productive land. The money received by the Government is expended in the construction of bridges and in the formation of roads, by means of which the produce of the land may with facility be conveyed to the towns for sale. I will not conceal the fact that the land is sold at a higher rate when it comes into the possession of the Government; indeed I have always frankly told you when acquiring land that snch would be the case. The reasons for its increased value are very clear and obvious. You must observe, from the much higher price of town lands as compared with country or wild lands, that it is population or improvement consequent on European settlement which really enhances the value thereof.
Moreover, you must be aware, that to enjoy land or any property a good and indisputable title is necessary. When your lands are ceded to the Crown, the Queen is enabled to dispose of them to any of her subjects, be they European or Maori, and the confidence which a good title inspires leads to the various improvements which you see in the settled districts. Were it otherwise, and that the land was merely held under a doubtful tenure, no improvements would be made, and the country would still remain in a comparatively wild and unproductive state—without a numerous people to inhabit it—without law—without Government—without security for life and property and without wealth.
Tamihana Te Rauparaha, (Ngatitoa,) Otaki: The ways of the Pakehas are not fully page 3 understood by us. I think, however, that the people should adopt this good suggestion. This will be the means of saying the Maori people. The Treaty of Waitangi also is good. The object of these is to unite the Pakeha and the Maori. Let us not say that the Ngapuhi alone are concerned in the Treaty of Waitangi. The plans of the Pakeha are clear; let us adopt them, that the men of Waikato may hear that we have adopted a portion of the Pakeha's plans. Let us return to our homes, and then let each (chief) talk with his tribe on the subject of the land, that there may be one common system. The only thing that retards (the progress of) the Maori is the difficulty about the land. The elder brother puts no faith in the younger brother. Let us devise measures to meet this difficulty. Let the heart be humbled, and let us adopt the Pakeha system. Let us work with energy, and let us carry out good regulations. Let not our elder brother, the Pakeha, suppose that we are consuming money. No; the money belongs to both (Pakeha and Maori), For this reason, I think that we should share with the Pakeha in the Government. Therefore, I say, let this Conference be made permanent. When we die, our children can carry out these principles. The mention also of schools for Native children is right. On this account my heart is light; now, perhaps, the Maories will embrace the Pakeha system. I will speak now upon the subject of the subdivision of the land. It is said of Crown Grants that they would probably be only a waste of money. I think the cost won't be very great. I now wish to know what arrangement can be made. It will be, however, for the Governor to find Pakehas and Maories to take charge of those lands (the Native Reserves), This will satisfy me. Although we rise but one step in the Pakeha system, it is well. We were in darkness when the Gospel came, but now it is light. If I am wrong, correct me. I say, therefore, that our Pakeha brethren are raising us, for the Maori Chiefs are made Assessors and administrators. I shall now speak of the land. There are many disputes at the present time about the boundaries of land. Supposing one of you and your neighbours dispute about a boundary line. and you bring the matter to be investigated by this Conference, if you were proved to be right the one who was wrong would be ejected. I say, therefore, that i understand this principle. Let this Conference be the means of adjusting these difficulties.page 4
Matene Te Whiwhi, (Ngatitoa,) Otaki: We have nothing. to say, nor anything different to bring forward. Although the men are dead who agreed to the treaty of Waitangi, the words of the Maori are kept. Only now, after the expiration of twenty years, has the question of union been mooted, and we are offered all the advantages thereof. Now, for the first time, the question has been opened. This pleases me. I am glad because of this Conference. Let our Work be carried on every year, Let the Governor, on each succeeding year, invite us to a Conference. Do not let us look at the faults of the Governor. All I desire is that (the races) be cemented. There has been a free expression of opinion. I will not say that I will decide the question (of an annual Conference); rather let each chief give utterance to his thoughts.
Winiata Pekamu Tohi Te Ururangi, (Ngatiwhakaue.) Maketu: Chiefs of this Conference, what Mr. McLeau has said is correct, namely that each chief should return to his home, and there consider the subdivision of the land. There is only one other subject now for us to speak on. and that is the union (of races). As to the land, say nothing more on that subject. The land is the source of all the troubles of this Island. When we return to our homes, let each man define (the boundaries of) his land, and we shall thus avoid difficulties (death). I will define my own land. Let us have one Lord, and then our opinions will agree. Let us have but one Queen, and one Governor. You have said, Return to your homes and consider this matter (the subdivision of land); that is correct. The Governor and the Governor alone shall be my head (or chief) Let me (the Maori) enter the Pakeha Council, that my word may be right, because the opinions of the Pakeha Council are conflicting. Secure an entrance for me that we may all consult together.
Tukihaumene, (Ngatiwhakane,) Rotorua: I shall not be desultory. (I have only one subject.) Only the Queen—only the Governor. I have uttered my words, and they have been suppressed. What have we to do with the troubles about land? Let these matters be carefully considered, lest other words be introduced.
Paora Tuhaere, (Ngatiwhatua, Orakei): This is my speech to you—a word respecting the Treaty of Waitangi. the covenant now spoken of. The union of the two races commenced with it. By it the sovereignty of these Islands was ceded to the Queen. The regulations respecting the sale of land commenced page 5 then, but I was not aware that at that time the price for the land was fixed at three pence, and sixpence, an acre. Now, Mr. McLean, mine is a land-selling tribe. I have been selling land for the last twenty years, but you will not remember any year in which a dispute arose. No piece of land. has been paid for twice over. We are not in that practice. Our plan is this: when a block of land is offered for sale, we hold a committee, and when all who are interested in that land have consented to the sale, it is then sold to you, but when a person having no claim interferes with our land then a dispute arises, and ultimately it is adjusted. This is another matter. The Governor proposes subdividing the land. It is right that the land should be apportioned amongst the owners thereof. I should not, however, consent to share my land with those who have no claim to it, but if a man has no land let him buy himself a piece from me. The Governor's advice that disputed lands should I be settled by a committee is good. That just agrees with what I proposed in my speech the other day, namely, that after the land has been surveyed, notice should be given in the newspapers, with the view of ascertaining whether it be right or wrong. Should a difficulty arise, let it be referred to a disinterested tribe. Should it appear that the land belonged to me. then it would be awarded to me; but, should it prove to belong to some man of inferior rank, then it would be given to him.
Metekingi, (Ngapoutama,) Whanganui: This Conference has now been sitting two weeks and part of a third. Perhaps, while detaining us here, you have no idea when this Conference may be closed. Do not be grieved, O! Governor, on account of my ignorance on this subject introduced by you. My ancestors were ignorant, and I inherit their ignorance; your ancestors were wise, and you inherit their wisdom. You have measured the extent of the heavens and you have ascertained the depth of the ocean. These are proofs of your wisdom. Do not expect me to become wise very rapidly. I shall not learn very quickly, because I was not taught when I was young. Both of you (the Governor and Mr. McLean) suppose that this Conference does not understand your propositions. Let your next thoughts be (to hold a Conference) at Whanganui.
Tamihana Ruatapu, (Ngatikahungunu,) Taranga: I am still enquiring. The majority (of the chiefs) who should consider these subjects have remained at their kaingas. The Rev. Mr. Baker and his sons have seen page 6 that we are a numerous tribe. In the first place, Missionaries came to our kaingas, and we listened attentively to the precepts of Christianity. They preached repentance, and we came to understand good and evil. The person who was in a hurry to be baptized soon fell into evil; had he left it until his professions had become matured he would have been firmly established. For this reason, I am of opinion that these subjects should be submitted to the majority of the chiefs. We have been selected by the Governor for this Conference. This is the first time I have taken part in a meeting called by the Governor and Mr. McLean, and therefore I have nothing to say.
Te Irimana, (Ngatiporou,) Tauranga: I am of the same opinion (as the last speaker.) I am about to tell you a tale. (Once upon a time) there were many chiefs who loved war. But there were two chiefs, named (respectively) Tapui and Kaiaia, who were peacefully disposed, and endeavoured to preserve human life. A man went into the presence of Tapui and said, "Tell us a tale of bravery." Tapui seized a (native) spade and spoke thus: "Listen, children! There are many weapons that may be warded off, but there is one weapon that cannot be warded off. Pierce the soil with it, and it produces one thousand baskets (of food) in one season. Pierce the land again, and it brings forth two thousand baskets. My advice is this, cultivate food for the support of your bodies. Live in peace, lest you be destroyed." The missionaries came, bringing the gospel. They admonished us to abandon sin, that the soul might be saved, and that our sojourn on earth might be pleasant. While they preached, we embraced (religion). One thousand were baptized. Others embraced it; two thousand became communicants; again, two thousand were confirmed. We were all subdued by their weapons. The road was then open to us. We sent our children to the schools, and some of our people were admitted into the ministry. I compare the ministers to Kaiaia, and the Governor to Tapui. A wise man may comprehend all the words of the Governor. I will not say that I will enter on the Queen's side. When I see my way I may do so.
Hapurona Tohikura, (Ngatiapa,) Rangitikei:—I did not know the other Governors. But, Mr. McLean, when you became connected with Governor Grey then my knowledge commenced. My heart embraced the he laws of the Pakeha. I then consented page 7 to the selling of land to the survey of land, and to the erection of bridges. Now we shall carry out the propositions of the Governor. The law put an end to our evils. As a proof of this, we are now assembled at Kohimarama, and are conferring together on these suggestions about the land. I agree to the proposal that each, chief of the Conference should discuss this subject when he returns to his people. Both of you (the Governor and Mr. McLean) are expounders of the (Pakeha) system. Continue to educate us. (Mr. McLean,) Entreat the Governor to continue this system of education (the Conference). Let the next Conference be held at Whanganui. Let it be convened some time after Christmas.
Hori Whetuki, Maraetai:—-Wherefore this proposition about (the subdivision of) our land? Look you! I am convinced that if the land be subdivided, the chiefs will have it, and I, a man of inferior rank, will be left without. Men of great influence will say, "The whole of the land is mine," and will cling to it. How was it that we were not instructed in this matter under the first, second, or third Governor? We may succeed in doing it in twenty years, or we may not. Some of you have said that the soil is the sole cause of our troubles in various parts (of the country). I say that there are other causes. Do not say that soil is the only cause. If you consent to this plan (the subdivision) then you will say to us of low standing, Away with you. You will direct your attention to the lofty hills; you will not think of us, nor will you remember the claims of the widow and the orphan. Now that you have commenced this school (the Conference), continue it.
Te Keene (Ngatiwahatua), Orakei:—Friends, heaken all of you! All that the chiefs of this Conference understand is the acknowledgment of the Queen and the Governor. Friends, our words have been discursive. We have not kept strictly to the two Messages from the Governor. In my opinion, we have not answered these Messages. First, the Gevernor came and delivered this address (which I hold in my hand). Afterwards we expressed a wish that peace should be established between the Governor and Wirenu Te Rangitake. This request emanated from us. (In answer to this) the Governor has sent down the maps and papers relating to Taranaki, which now lie before us; therefore, I say, page 8 our words are rambling about. We have not yet considered the (former) Messages, when another comes down to us. I am enquiring about these three papers, which have not yet been considered by us. But for Katipa's arrival we should have discussed (the Taranaki question) on Friday last. I proposed entering into that question and disposing of it, but you have taken another course. Meeting adjourned to 24th instant. | <urn:uuid:b04d531e-416e-4c55-9d06-8db93f25b7bb> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://nzetc.victoria.ac.nz/tm/scholarly/tei-BIM504Kohi-t1-g1-t3-body1-d1.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572043.2/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814143522-20220814173522-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.970591 | 3,695 | 1.882813 | 2 |
As the nation mourns the murders of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor and cries out against the systemic racism that allowed it to happen, Anik’s Books stands in solidarity with all people demonstrating and fighting against the unjust system which continually allows for violence against vulnerable and marginalized American communities.
As the beneficiaries of centuries of imperial colonialism and white supremacy, we understand that we have no choice but to voice our outrage at the continued perpetration of systemic injustice; silence is not an option.
The murder of George Floyd was a gross miscarriage of justice. It, sadly, was not surprising. His murder is the result of the racist and white supremacist institutions which serve to brutalize, oppress, and dehumanize people of color.
Now is the time to empower and enfranchise black and POC communities as they fight for essential justice and reform at the institutional level. This struggle for justice is one we must all contribute towards – “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” There are many ways we can, and must, add our voices to the cries for justice and equality.
Seth has been actively participating in the local vigils and protests. As a white male, he feels it is imperative to listen to the grievances of those directly affected in order to be a better ally.
Anik is not so outgoing, so she has been unusually vocal on social media instead, doing what she can to gather more outspoken voices to affect the online dialogue.
Solidarity is important and vital, but those organizing and advocating for institutional reform also need us to put our money where our mouths are; Anik’s Books is contributing financially by donating to these two great organizations:
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There are many great advocacy and activist groups that will continue to advance these causes, with your financial support; join us in donating to these 2 organizations or tell us about the causes you choose to support!
These are just 3 ways in which we at Anik’s Books have chosen to stand up and make a difference. George Floyd was murdered and his killers are being brought to justice. Breonna Taylor was murdered and her case has been reopened. Cities are committing to reforming their police departments across the nation. All 50 states, and many countries around the world, have spoken up and we are being heard. There are as many ways to make your voice heard as there are voices, so we hope you will join us in crying out to make sure the systemic racism that plagues our nation does not get swept under the rug once again.
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(BPT) – Feeling disconnected from members of your own family lately? You’re not alone – a 2018 study by 72 Point for Visit Anaheim found that 60% of parents with kids between 4 and 18 described their daily lives as ‘hectic.’ Sadly, the survey also found that today’s families only spend about 37 minutes of quality time together per weekday. Between digital distractions and our often over-scheduled lives, even sitting down for dinner together can feel like a miracle to pull off, especially as children head toward the tween and teen years.
What’s a solution? Gather around the table.
Set aside the gadgets and gather around the table together for a good old-fashioned family game night. Even if you start out with a monthly game night with the kids, chances are it will soon be popular enough to enjoy more often. Putting your family’s game night on the calendar will ensure everyone keeps their schedules clear for a night of fun – and connection – all together.
Today’s games provide a huge range of choices to suit any age range, interests or gaming styles, so there’s truly something for every family to explore and enjoy together. The added benefits will astound you: Kids can learn important lessons about sportsmanship and fair play, develop communication and collaboration skills, increase their fine motor, logic and strategic thinking abilities – and have a blast doing it. When was the last time you all just let loose and enjoyed laughing and being silly together? There’s no better way for kids and parents to relax and have fun together than a game that brings out the best in everyone.
Here are some examples of how games can boost specific skills, while also providing plenty of giggles and excitement.
Test your knowledge, quick thinking and creativity
A game that’s always up-to-date, kNOW! uses the latest technology to help test the brain power of three to six players, ages 10 and up. Games go way beyond trivia – there are also puzzles such as identifying a sound provided by Google Assistant, or creating a question to ask Google Assistant to prompt it to say a provided word or phrase. This fast-moving game provides constantly changing questions depending on where and when you play.
Enjoy the wicked side of strategy
For a fun twist on everyone’s favorite movies, Disney Villainous: Evil Comes Prepared allows two to six players age 12 and up to choose a sinister character to play: Scar from “The Lion King,” Ratigan from “The Great Mouse Detective,” or Yzma from “The Emperor’s New Groove.” Players put strategy and logic to the test to achieve their own diabolical goals – and stop other villains from completing their own dastardly objectives. Games like Disney Villainous are especially fun because they can be expanded and played with other characters in the series. Players can choose from a treasure trove of villains including Maleficent, the Queen of Hearts, Ursula and more.
Create suspense while working cooperatively
JAWS brings the classic movie and infamous shark to life in your very own living room. In this asymmetric, two-act board game, one player takes the role of the shark while others take on the parts of Chief Brody, Quint and Hooper and work together to defeat their toothy foe. For two to four players ages 12 and up, play JAWS to recreate the excitement and tension of the blockbuster film as a family!
Boost problem-solving and small motor skills
A brain-bending game for all generations, Invasion of the Cow Snatchers is an ‘out of this world’ introduction to playing games at different levels of skill while challenging players as they learn how to follow directions and maneuver their flying saucer around obstacles. Though designed to be a one-player game, others can join in on the fun too by collaborating to solve puzzles together and taking turns being the magnetic “UFO.’
Schedule a family game night and turn that 37 minutes into an entire hour or more! This holiday season is a perfect opportunity to turn off the phones for an hour or two, put some hot chocolate on the stove and stock up on some of the newest games that your kids will love to play. Enjoy hanging out together this winter, and reconnecting as a family.
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I will never forget the day our family went through identity theft. We traveled to California and our credit card information was stolen, with hundreds of dollars racked up in charges. It was fairly unusual and we have been extremely careful ever since. If you are afraid of something like this happening to you, check out these digital security travel hacks.
The United States is the number one country hit by hackers and identity theft. Whenever you use ATMs, make payments for a restaurant, or post a selfie online, you are at risk for digital hacks. Be extremely cautious when you partake in these things. You may think that you are safe, but you are at a higher risk of getting hacked than you think.
There are many different ways you can keep yourself digitally secure. If you keep track of your devices, log out of your devices that are shared on public networks, or authenticate your devices, you’re less likely to get hacked. Trust me, digital hacks are not fun to deal with…
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Fruit is really something special. It’s hydrating. It’s sweet. It’s typically juicy and delicious. The best time to eat it is in small quantities, as a break from fasting or 30-minutes preceding a meal. This is so that your body will absorb the nutrients and you will enjoy the benefits optimally.
Eating one or two strawberries upon waking (after your initial dental-care routine), can help encourage your body for a successful and content day. I also like a few slices of chilled apple, or a selection of juicy blueberries.
Then, if you have spent some time sweating or if you plan to, having another small dose of fruit in the middle of the afternoon can be refreshing. For optimal results, you’ll want to eat fruit on a relatively empty stomach. What most people need to avoid, is eating large amounts of fruit and eating fruit after large meals. You want to avoid combining fruit with meat.
For some people, it’s best to eliminate fruit for a designated period of time, especially if you have weight loss goals, sugar sensitivities, or diabetes.
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Bug bites can make you more than itchy. Ticks, mosquitoes and certain flies are known to spread some nasty diseases. But U.S. health experts say there are ways to keep pesky insects in their place.
One of the best ways to prevent bug bites is to use an insect repellent, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The agency recommends insect repellents that contain at least 20 percent DEET. These products (which include Cutter Backwoods and Off! Deep Woods) offer protection against mosquitoes, ticks and other bugs.
It’s unclear how effective natural insect repellents are in preventing bug bites, the CDC said.
The agency says other repellents that may only protect against mosquitoes include:
- Picaridin, which is also known as KBR 3023, Bayrepel, and icaridin (products include Cutter Advanced, Skin So Soft Bug Guard Plus).
- Oil of lemon eucalyptus or para-menthane-diol (products include Repel Lemon Eucalyptus).
- IR3535 (products include Skin So Soft Bug Guard Plus Expedition and SkinSmart).
The CDC noted in a news release that these “insect repellent brand names are provided for your information only. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services cannot recommend or endorse any name-brand products.”
It’s important to use insect repellents properly. Be sure to read all the directions on the product’s packaging and use it as directed, the CDC advises.
Typically, repellents with greater concentrations of the active ingredient provide longer-lasting protection. But DEET concentrations above about 50 percent offer no additional protection, the agency explains.
The CDC offers additional tips to help prevent bug bites:
- If you want both sun and bug protection, apply the sunscreen first and allow it to dry before applying insect repellent.
- Do not apply insect repellent on the skin under clothing.
- Consider using clothing, boots, tents and other gear that are treated with the insecticide permethrin. Pre-treated clothes are available for purchase. Anyone treating clothes at home should follow instructions carefully. Permethrin should not be applied directly to the skin.
- It’s also a good idea to cover up as much as possible. Wearing long-sleeved shirts, long pants, socks and a hat can help prevent bug bites. Shirts should be tucked in. Pants can also be tucked into socks for additional protection. Keep in mind, however, that some bugs can bite through thin fabrics.
- When traveling, stay in hotels or other places with air conditioning or good window and door screens.
- If bugs can’t be kept out of sleeping areas, sleep under a permethrin-treated bed net that can be tucked under the mattress.
- When sleeping outside, use mosquito coils or other area repellents that contain metofluthrin or allethrin.
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Old mathematical challenges
The Millennium Problems set out by the Clay Mathematics Institute became a stimulus for mathematical research. The aim of this article is to highlight some previous challenges that were also a stimulus to finding proof for some interesting results. With this pretext, we present three moments in the history of mathematics that were important for the development of new lines of research. We briefly analyse the Tartaglia challenge, which brought about the discovery of a formula for third degree equations; Johan Bernoulli’s problem of the curve of fastest descent, which originated the calculus of variations; and the incidence of the problems posed by David Hilbert in 1900, focusing on the first problem in the list: the continuum hypothesis.
Keywords: cubic equation, Cardano–Tartaglia formula, brachistochrone, Hilbert’s problems, continuum hypothesis.
The Clay Mathematics Institute has chosen seven mathematical problems and is offering a million dollars to anyone who can solve one of them. Mathematical challenges are not unprecedented, and so in this text, we present several preceding historical challenges. We have excluded controversies such as those between Newton and Leibniz, D’Alembert and Bernoulli, or Cantor and Kronecker and also leave aside the prizes offered by the academies of science (such as those offered by the French or the Prussian academies since the eighteenth century).
Hence, we will show several aspects of the development of mathematics from a special perspective. Carl Benjamin Boyer (1989) and Morris Kline (1972) are key references in the history of mathematics, but another more informative book is that of William Dunham (1990). In addition, the website of the University of St. Andrews (Scotland) is also a very valuable source of historical material (mainly biographies).
Ancient Mesopotamian mathematicians had already formulated a number of instructions (with no explanation) to find specific solutions to problems that could be described today with quadratic equations. Speaking in modern terms, if the unknown verifies the equation x2 + px + q = 0, then the solution is given by
In the spirit of honesty, here we have not only used modern notation, but we have also taken some liberties with the language, because in ancient times p and q were always positive amounts and positive solutions were sought.
In principle, the equation could be associated with the calculation of an area, thus the use of the square. Therefore, it makes sense to consider cubic equations associated with the calculation of volumes. Indeed, the cubic equation was posed, and even solved, geometrically. Such a result arrived thanks to the Persian mathematician Omar Khayyam (1048-1131), who used conic sections (that is to say, ellipses, parabolae, and hyperbolae) whose intersections provided the roots. On the other hand, with patience, the roots of any polynomial can always be approximated. For instance, Leonardo of Pisa (ca. 1170-1250), also known as Fibonacci, expressed the approximation to the root of a cubic equation. The fact is that, at the end of the Medieval era, there were already methods for calculating the roots of cubic equations geometrically or approximately. However, the expression for obtaining them was not known at the time and, according to the influential Luca Pacioli (1445-1517), finding the formula to a general cubic equation was as difficult as squaring the circle.
The argument around the cubic equation arrived in 1535. Challenges and betting were common at the time. One of the protagonists of the discussion was Niccolò Fontana (1500-1557), nicknamed Tartaglia (“the stammerer”). He arrived in Venice in 1534 and acquired fame as a good mathematician. Apparently, he said he could solve some specific instances of cubic equations and so, Antonio Maria del Fiore challenged Tartaglia. Each opponent proposed a list of thirty problems to be solved within a fixed span of time. The one who solved fewer problems would pay for dinner for the other and as many of their friends as problems the winner had solved. The point is that Del Fiore knew a formula to solve a type of cubic equation, revealed to him by Scipione del Ferro (1465-1526) shortly before his death. Therefore, all the problems proposed to Tartaglia were incomplete cubic equations. Tartaglia understood that Del Fiore had a formula, and so he searched for it until he finally discovered it. The day the result was to be decided, Tartaglia had solved all the problems proposed by Del Fiore, while the latter had been unable to solve any of Tartaglia’s.
In current terms, the cubic equation studied by Tartaglia was x3 + px + q = 0, although he always wrote words instead of the p and q coefficients. The solution is provided by the Cardano–Tartaglia formula. According to it, x equals::
After the dispute, it became obvious to everyone that Tartaglia had a formula for cubic equations, but he did not publish it. Girolamo Cardano (1501-1576) then started pressuring Tartaglia to tell him how to solve cubic equations. Finally, Tartaglia told him the rule, in code, but under the promise to keep it secret. However, Cardano did not comply and he published the formula in the book Ars Magna in 1545. In addition to Tartaglia’s solution, the rule for solving the general equation x3 + nx2 + pq + q = 0, obtained by Cardano in collaboration with his disciple Ludovico Ferrari (1522-1565), can also be found in the book. The fact that the book contained the solution to a general quartic equation was even more surprising; Ferrari had discovered it using similar techniques to the ones he had used when learning to solve cubic equations.
«After the efforts of many mathematicians over more than two centuries, Niels Abel proved the impossibility of solving a general equation of degree higher than four in radicals»
All this work was the starting point for two lines of mathematical research. On the one hand, the search for a formula to solve quintic equations had started. After the efforts of many mathematicians over more than two centuries, including that of important figures such as Joseph-Louis Lagrange (1736-1813), the Norwegian Niels Abel (1802-1829) proved the impossibility of solving a general equation of degree higher than four through radicals. However, the story did not end there because the rules for when the solution to a quartic equation could be found through radicals still remained unknown. Shortly before dying in a duel, Évariste Galois (1811-1832) wrote a document in which he proved a theory to determine whether or not a polynomial equation was solvable via radicals. The publication of Galois’s document in 1846 can be considered the starting point of modern algebra.
«The publication of a document by Évariste Galois in 1846 can be considered the starting point of modern algebra»
On the other hand, there was an important case in the formula of cubic equation that occurs when (q/2)2 + (p/3)3 < 0. Cardano and Ferrari called this «casus irreducibilis». The fact that cubic equations always have roots is well known. What happens when we also apply the formula in this case? Simply, we find expressions involving the cubic and square roots of negative numbers. For example, let us assume that we already know that one root of x3 − 15x − 4 = 0 és x = 4, but if we try to apply the rule, we obtain:
Using formal substitutions, we can deduce that:
and, consequently, we arrive to:
The issue this calculation illustrates is the fact that using the square roots of negative numbers can be useful. It is the origin of complex numbers. Likewise, Cardano and Ferrari realised that, using these strange numbers, every cubic equation has three roots and every quartic equation has four. It is the first version of the so-called «fundamental theorem of algebra»: every n degree polynomial has exactly n complex roots (taking into account repeated roots). Later, complex number research would lead to the theory of functions of a complex variable, whose properties are very different from the functions of a real variable (for example, every differentiable function in a disk can be represented by a power series).
The curve of fastest descent
One of the forerunners of differential calculus, Pierre de Fermat (1601-1665), discovered a method for calculating maximums and minimums: today we say that if point x is a maximum or a minimum for a particular smooth function f, then f’(x) = 0. He applied this method to the study of light rays, together with the principle that states that light travelling between two points takes the path requiring the shortest time. Thanks to that, he deduced the law of reflection and refraction (Snell’s law); the latter assumes that light moves more slowly in a denser medium. The fact that Snell’s law was later used by Johann Bernoulli (1667-1748) is significant; he considered a non-homogeneous optical medium comprising parallel layers of variable density that overlap horizontally in order to find the curve of fastest descent. The idea was that light in this medium would travel along precisely the curve he was looking for, which he called «brachistochrone».
What is the curve of fastest descent? The formal definition is as follows: given two points, A and B, in a vertical plane, where A is higher than B, the curve of fastest descent is the one followed by a given weight when it travels from A to B in the shortest possible time under the influence of gravity. In other words, the curve of fastest descent is the one that allows for the optimal design of a slide. Usually, the first thing that comes to mind would be straight line, since that is the shortest curve between two points. But Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) realized that was not the case. Dropping balls on an inclined plane and on a circumference, he observed that the descent was faster on the circumference.
To understand this properly, let us consider point A = (0,0) and B = (1,–1). where we want to discover which of all the y = f(x) functions that satisfy f(0) = 0 and f(1) = –1, has the fastest falling time for a given weight (T) following the graph of the function. Reasoning using the laws of physics brings us to the amount that must be minimised:
were g stands for the gravity constant. Now, following Galileo, we can calculate the time taken on different curves. For the straight line f(x) = –x, we obtain
and for the circumference arc
In other words, Galileo was right. However, the circumference is not the brachistochrone either. The shortest time is reached when T = 0,5832.
In the June 1696 issue of the German journal Acta Eruditorum, Johann Bernoulli proposed the challenge of finding the brachistochrone to the mathematics community. He claimed that he had the answer and that it was a curve that is very well known to geometers. In May 1697, Bernoulli published that four mathematicians had managed to prove that the brachistochrone was the cycloid; that is, the curve defined by a point of the circumference as it rolls along a straight line without slipping (for instance, a point on a car’s tyre in contact with the pavement). These mathematicians were Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Jakob Bernoulli, the Marquis de L’Hôpital Guillaume François Antoine, and an anonymous mathematician, and each one proved it in a different way.
The formal challenge seemed to be an invitation especially directed toward Isaac Newton (1643-1727), so it would not have been surprising if he had answered it. Legend says that Newton received the problem after a tiring working day at the mint and he focused on it for twelve hours until he solved it: it was the problem that cost Newton a whole night. He answered anonymously, but Bernoulli guessed the author when he saw it and claimed he knew it was Newton’s work, just as «we know the lion by his claw».
The brachistochrone problem was one of the first examples of what later became the calculus of variations. The goal is to minimise a quantity, time in this case, which does not depend on a finite number of independent variables, but on the global shape of the curve. A typical problem in the calculus of variations is the finding of the function that minimises an integral such as
for a given function F(x, y, y’). One might try to apply Fermat’s idea: to (somehow) derive the «function» F and make F’[f] = 0 in order to obtain a condition of the function f. The studies by Leonhard Euler (1707-1783) and Joseph-Louis Lagrange (1736-1813) discovered that these procedures led to the following condition:
The reasoning, however, was not rigorous, and we had to wait until the nineteenth century before a satisfactory basis for the calculus of variations was provided by Karl Weierstrass (1815-1897) and David Hilbert (1862-1943).
Meanwhile, mathematicians had proposed problems requiring the minimisation of multiple integrals, such as those in potential theory, which try to minimise the integral
between all the functions u using continuous partial derivatives in order to verify a condition at the boundary of Ω. On the other hand, physicists had already applied ideas from the calculus of variations to mechanics, leading to the emergence of analytical mechanics with both the Lagrangian and the Hamiltonian formulation. The generalisation of Fermat’s idea underlay this: nature economises all of its actions and consequently, all natural phenomena have one (or more) quantity that must be minimised.
Hilbert’s twenty-three problems
In the summer of 1900, David Hilbert was almost at the peak of his career. His résumé included the solution to Gordon’s problem about the invariants in certain algebraic forms, as well as the impulse he has given to algebraic number theory, the axiomatisation of geometry, and the justification of Dirichlet’s principle under certain hypotheses. He was one of the most renowned mathematicians of the time when he delivered a lecture at the Second International Congress of Mathematicians in Paris.
His lecture, «Mathematical problems» (which can be found in Hilbert, 1902) manifested his absolutely optimistic mathematical philosophy. In addition, he proposed a list of twenty-three unsolved problems from every field of mathematics, as examples of questions whose resolution he believed would be fundamental in the coming century. The list focused the efforts of many mathematicians and became very influential (without question, because of Hilbert’s authority). In short, anyone who solved one of these problems acquired a solid reputation.
«A considerable part of the mathematical development during the twentieth century stemmed from Hilbert’s list»
lbert’s research lines exactly. Even he could not have guessed the new fields that would soon appear, in some cases, such as spectral theory, with the help of Hilbert himself. However, a considerable part of the mathematical development during the twentieth century stemmed from Hilbert’s list. In the following section we briefly introduce the first problem on the list.
At the end of the nineteenth century, Georg Cantor (1845-1918) systematically analysed infinity. In his theory, two (finite or infinite) sets have the same cardinal if a bijection exists between them. Note that, when the set is finite, its cardinal is the number of elements it contains.
Applying his definition to the set of all positive integers, N, and to the set of all rational numbers Q (those that can be written as m/n, where m and n are integers, and n ≠ 0), he proved that they both had the same cardinal. This is the smallest infinite cardinal, and is denoted ℵ0. When ℵ0 is the cardinal of a set, since a bijection between it and the set of positive integers exists, the elements in the set can be written as a sequence. It is not too difficult to understand the proof that the cardinal of Q is ℵ0 when one knows the procedure. We consider m/n a rational number written as an irreducible fraction where m and n are positive and the sum m + n is a fixed amount. If m + n = 2, then:
If m + n = 3, then:
If m + n = 4, then:
If m + n = 5, then:
Evidently, continuing the process for m + n = 6, 7, etc. we will include all the positive rational numbers.
We must also include 0 and the negative numbers, and so we alternate them with the positives. The first elements in the sequence that contains all the rational numbers are:
Later, Cantor proved that the set of all polynomial roots with integer coefficients has the same cardinal.
The issue changed when it was discovered that the set R of real numbers (those that can be written with decimals even if they are irrational) is larger than ℵ0, which was demonstrated by reductio ad absurdum. Cantor assumed that all the numbers between 0 and 1 could be written in a sequence, and found a number that did not belong in that sequence. This might be the first significant theorem in his theory, and it shows that there are different types of infinity. The fact that most real numbers are irrational is a consequence of this. Moreover, most real numbers are not the root of any polynomial with integer coefficients. The result was very surprising at the time, taking into account that few numbers of this type were known.
Looking closer at his analysis, he proved that there are as many real numbers as there are subsets of N. However, he did not find any set with a cardinal higher than ℵ0 and lower than that of R. Thus, he conjectured that the cardinal of R was the second infinite cardinal; this is the continuum hypothesis, which states that any infinite subset of the set of real numbers can be bijected with the set of natural numbers or the set of real numbers.
In the following years, a lot of effort was put into trying to prove Cantor’s conjecture. They were all unsuccessful, and Hilbert posed the problem as the first on his list. The solution took time, and is not easy to understand.
The first step was taken by Kurt Gödel (1906-1978). In 1940, he proved that if the usual axiomatic system of set theory is consistent, so is the continuum hypothesis added to the system. In other words, the continuum hypothesis does not contradict the other axioms considered in set theory. Therefore, a set with a cardinal higher than ℵ0 and lower than the cardinal of R cannot be discovered, since it would be a contradiction. But this does not prove the continuum hypothesis.
We owe the second step to Paul Joseph Cohen (1934-2007), who in 1963 proved that the continuum hypothesis is in fact different from the other axioms. Indeed, using a method he called «forcing», he observed that if the axiomatic system of set theory is consistent, then it would remain consistent when the rejection of the continuum hypothesis was incorporated into the system. The conclusion is that neither the continuum hypothesis nor its rejection can be proved with the usual axiomatic system of the set theory. We can add another axiom stating that the continuum hypothesis is true (or add a different one claiming it is false). With current axioms, our ignorance of the matter is absolute.
According to Gödel, that was not the end of the problem. What we have seen is that the axioms of set theory are insufficient to answer the question and they must be complemented with others. In the future, mathematicians will add new axioms to the system. The criteria for adding them will be that they have desirable consequences (according to our mathematical intuition) and will not have undesirable consequences. Gödel thought that Cantor’s conjecture was false. With the new axioms, we will be able to formulate the problem of the continuum hypothesis again.
Beyond Hilbert’s problems
Hilbert’s conference had so many repercussions that, in order to commemorate it, the International Mathematical Union declared the year 2000 the World Mathematical Year and asked prestigious mathematicians for lists of problems. Stephen Smale, for example, proposed eighteen. But no list has received as much attention as the Clay Mathematics Institute prize, announced in May 24, 2000. As it happened with Hilbert’s list, it contains problems from all the great fields of mathematics. Only one, the Poincaré conjecture, has been solved. In the following articles in this monograph, you can find brief introductions to these problems: I invite you to take a look for yourselves.
Boyer, C. B. (1989). A history of mathematics. New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Dunham, W. (1990). Journey through genius. New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Hilbert, D. (1902). Mathematical problems. Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society, 8, 437–479. doi: 10.1090/S0002-9904-1902-00923-3
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This workshop dives into the essential skills required for ear training. First we will explore song associations for all ascending and descending intervals. Then we will review fundamental music vocabulary. Finally we’ll work out simple melodies by ear, and find different ways to harmonize those melodies.
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How Does Acupuncture Work?
Acupuncture involves the insertion of fine, sterile, disposable needles into specific sites along the body’s meridians to clear energy blockages and encourage normal flow of qi and blood throughout the individual. It can cause multiple biological responses that occur locally or distally within the central nervous system. This can lead to activation of pathways affecting various physiological systems in the brain as well as in the periphery. Stimulation of acupuncture points may also activate the hypothalamus and the pituitary gland, resulting in a broad spectrum of systemic effects. Alteration in the secretion of neurotransmitters and neurohormones and changes in the regulation of blood flow, both centrally and peripherally, have been documented. There is also evidence that there are alterations in immune functions produced by acupuncture.
Are There Side Effects?
Done properly, acupuncture rarely causes serious side effects. Many people feel a brief stinging sensation, like a pinprick, during insertion of the needles. Others experience a dull ache around the needle after it goes in. This is sometimes referred to as a “Qi Sensation.” Acupuncture is a very safe method of encouraging the body to promote natural healing and improve function.
One side effect that can occur is that the original symptoms worsening for a few days after an acupuncture treatment. Sometimes other general changes in appetite, sleep, bowel or urination patterns, or emotional state may be triggered. These should not cause concern, as they are simply indications that the acupuncture is starting to work.
It is also common with the first one or two treatments to have a sensation of deep relaxation or even mild disorientation immediately following the treatment. These effects should wear off within 24-48 hours.–Acufinder.com, Diane Joswick, L.Ac., MSOM
What are the Risks?
- muscle spasms
- nerve damage
- pneomothorax(punctured lung)
- accidental injury to vital organs(spleen, liver, kidney, stomach, etc)
What Is The Average Treatment Like?
Upon arriving at my office, you will be asked to fill out New Patient forms including confidential personal information and medical history. We will the discuss and chief complaints you may have and any other issues/goals you want to address in your treatments. I will then take your pulses and look at your tongue, which are tools used for diagnosis in Chinese Medicine. If there is any pertinent biomedical issue, such as high blood pressure or a head cold, I will also take your temperature, pulse rate, and a blood pressure reading for reference. Once I complete the intake, the treatment will begin. You will lie on an acupuncture table and then I swab your skin with alcohol over the points I have chosen to use in your treatment. The alcohol disinfects the area so that there is no chance of infection. I then insert the needles into various points on your body. Once all of the needles are inserted, I leave you in the room for approximately 20-30 minutes with a heat lamp over your feet, or preferred area of your body, to keep you warm. After 20-30 minutes have gone by, I return and remove all the needles. If there are any adjunctive therapies we have discussed doing, such as cupping or a sound bath, they will be done before or after the needles are inserted. If not, the treatment is over. The entire treatment can take anywhere from 60- 90 minutes depending on the modalities used. Follow-up treatments usually take less time because the intake is much shorter
Are The Acupuncture Needles Disposable?
Yes, I use only disposable, sterile, single-use filiform acupuncture needles. They are individually packaged and sealed, and thrown away after each treatment into a regulated medical waste, or biohazard, sharps container.
How Will I Feel After a Treatment?
Many people getting acupuncture for the first time experience a deep relaxation, drowsiness, or even a euphoric stupor afterwards. Some patients may feel tired while others can feel very energized. For treatment of pain, please keep in mind that chronic issues can take many treatments to see optimal results and you may not have complete relief after just one treatment.
How Often Do I Need To Come?
It depends on the condition being treated and how severe it is, but usually I recommend coming in for treatments once a week. If the condition is very acute, painful, or severe, I recommend coming in at least twice per week. Most importantly, it depends on how effective the first treatment is for the patient and how long the results last. I always encourage an open dialogue with the patient so that we can decide together what is best for them to achieve optimum results.
Do I Need To Eat Before My Treatment?
I always recommend having a full stomach when you come in for an acupuncture treatment. This helps prevent fainting, nausea, and unpleasant side effects that occur when someone’s blood sugar is low with the introduction of needles.
Can I fill Out My Paperwork Before Coming in?
Yes, you can fill out paperwork before coming in. Please click on the link below to go to the Forms page. If you do not want to fill out paperwork before coming in, please come 5 minutes before your scheduled appointment time to fill it out in my office.
What Should I Wear To My Appointment?
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Nowadays, Brides solely select to wear it for a month following their nuptials. Lehengas are very dance friendly and a preferred possibility of bridal apparel in India. Traditional Indian brides avoid carrying white like their western counterparts, as it is a symbol of mourning. Instead, stunning Indian dresses to put on to a wedding come in such colorful colours and shades as red and coral; each sari within the color that represents the region of the bride. The magnificence of elegant Indian wedding dresses cannot be understated. From the normal to the newest Indian bridal robes , there’s something uniquely attractive about every one. Find Indian bridal attire made from materials of silk or chiffon, adorned in accents of gold or pink and an abundance of elaborate embroidery.
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After slipping the choora on the bride’s hands, uncle covers it with subar symbolizing her departure from her household and her residence. As per the assumption the bride is not supposed to see the choora until she is ready, the choora is roofed with handkerchiefs till the bride is adorned with bridal gown and jewellery. So whereas making the selection for the choora the actual piece is not seen by the bride. A lehenga is traditional Indian attire worn for wedding celebrations.
For ages, Indian men and women have been strictly forbidden to marry outdoors their forged and, in fact, religion. Even though these guidelines are not as formal at present as they was, the custom is still deeply embedded into the Indian tradition and cannot be wiped out fully too simply.
The bridal designs vary from simple bands to intrinsic designs with or with out colored gems, diamonds or coloured stones. True to tradition, the Bengali bride makes her entrance seated on a palanquin along with her eyes covered with betel leaves. She wears conventional Indian bridal necklaces such as the ‘paati haar’ for her marriage ceremony ceremony. A lot of those trendy Indian wedding gowns are inclined to marry old styles with the new, leading to distinctive and exquisite bridal attires. These luxurious attires are often produced from fabrics of chiffon, cotton or silk, and adorned with sparkly and elaborate accessories and bridal embroidery. From fabulous pink saris to coral pink Lehengas, below are several of our favorite Indian style clothes for a marriage. Most girls from India who determine to become mail order brides can’t adapt to such interaction, which is why they might need extra time to turn out to be nearer to you.
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There are numerous design options within the choora to select from apart from the color. The name of the bride and groom can be inscribed on the choora for the world to see, there can be customization as per your marriage ceremony theme like peacocks, lamps, florets.
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“The officiant, bride, groom, and bride’s dad and mom sit beneath the Mandap,” says Sunita, who describes the Mandap as fantastically adorned towers or pipes enhanced with curtains, material, and flowers. The bride’s parents and family, including uncles and aunts, all welcome the groom and his whole family. Then they escort the groom and his instant family to their place of honor on the altar. In the Baraat, the groom is wearing a protracted jacket referred homepage to as a Sherwani and fitted trousers referred to as Churidars. He wears a Safa, a turban, on his head, with a big fancy brooch referred to as Kalgi pinned onto it. If you look at photographs from the Maharajas period, the standard royals, pictures shall be similar to this look. See our weblog from Rajputana Royal Era and The Regal Era for extra inspiration on the standard Indian bride looks.
As necessary it’s to pick your Indian marriage ceremony outfit that matches your body and event, it is equally essential to choose the jewelry that matches the outfit and occasion. If matched properly, each jewellery piece is a press release by itself. “Given it is timeless enchantment, clothing in ivory is having a serious moment. The color is refined but very impactful,” says movie star stylist Surina Kakkar. She goes to prove that she is a critical, committed, honest, and constant person who knows what she desires.
Gold is one main colour that stands out at most Indian weddings and adorned by most each bride. This earthy tone has lengthy been worn by the nation’s royalty as an emblem of life, freshness, concord, fertility, and other positive qualities; it additionally goes nicely with traditional gold jewellery.
Even when she departs from her father’s house through the Vidai ceremony and reaches the home of the in-laws, all relations and neighbors will collect to try the bride. The Bou Bhat takes place on the afternoon following the marriage day.
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The Covid pandemic has shown the inestimable value of the vital public services local and regional government (LRG) workers deliver to cities, towns and rural communities every day. The continued provision of health, care, water, sanitation, electricity, transport, waste, funeral, housing and education services has made it possible for people to keep safe; for hospitals to treat patients; and for businesses and institutions to function through the public health crisis.
Local public services underfunding: the other global pandemic
Covid has also exposed another deadly global pandemic: the global investment deficit in local public services, epitomized by the ‘service desertification’ affecting many territories and communities, especially rural ones.
Decades of systematic de-funding, austerity, tax dodging, privatisation, LRG service ‘reform’ and ‘digital-only’ delivery have caused scarring damage and deepened inequalities in our communities. Such policies have often hidden the transfer of precious public resources needed to offer equitable quality public service access to everyone, everywhere into shareholders’ pockets. Meanwhile, public infrastructure and services in the global South remain insufficient or inaccessible, and many developing countries pay more to service their debt than they can invest in public services. For example, International Moneraty Fund (IMF) austerity cuts in just 15 countries have blocked the recruitment of over 3 million nurses, teachers and other essential public sector workers.
For LRG workers, this translates into insufficient staffing numbers leading to work overload and exhaustion. It means lack of adequate equipment to do their jobs properly, occupational safety and health (OSH) risks, and poor working conditions. This situation is increasingly driving workers away from life-saving public service jobs including nursing and care at this very critical time. Many LRG unions worldwide have had to fight for even the most basic OSH measures, personal protective equipment (PPE) and priority Covid vaccine access, such as the municipal education, waste and funeral service workers of São Paulo who went on ‘strikes for life’.
Public investment in local public services and their workers now!
Although the human and economic cost of public services underfunding is under everyone’s eyes, post-Covid austerity measures and LRG funding gaps may worsen, while corporate actors eye vital public services for new lucrative grabs. In 2021, LRGs worldwide are expected to have lost on average between 15-25% in revenues. In Africa, their revenue losses could be as high as 60%. In Canada, where LRGs can only collect funds through property tax and receive a very limited share of federal taxes from federal government the impact of the Covid revenue crisis on Canadian LRG service has been harsh: for example, layoff rates in municipal public libraries have been close to 90 %.
Public transport is also facing a global funding crisis. Falling ridership due to Covid has exacerbated already huge financing gaps: urgent public investment in public transport and its workers is a necessity to enable residents in cities and rural communities to go to work and reach public services, while fast-forwarding the de-carbonisation we urgently need.
Even where substantial national recovery plans are adopted, the staffing and human factor in public service investment is often overlooked. In Italy, the Covid national recovery plan allocates 4.60 billion EUR to infrastructure investment for kindergartens and primary schools – a municipal service where there is a serious lack of equitable access for many Italian families and territories – but the hiring of the over 20,000 educators needed to properly staff them is not budgeted into the national plan and left to cash-strapped municipalities to deal with.
Adequate public funding and long-term investment in local public services infrastructure and staff, equipment and training are long overdue and must be prioritised now. On UN World Cities Day 2021, PSI calls on the United Nations, national governments, international financial institutions, and local public service employers to stop rhetorical ‘hero’ hailing and to take concrete measures investing in local public services, providing protection, decent working conditions and fair pay to all LRG workers now, so they can be safe and confident as they continue to bring vital public services to all of us. | <urn:uuid:75927eb9-25f3-4f07-bb42-0f928833fe30> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://publicservices.international/resources/news/local-and-regional-government-workers-bring-public-services-to-you?id=12372&lang=en | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572043.2/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814143522-20220814173522-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.950367 | 862 | 2.40625 | 2 |
My oh my, how things have changed
Whatever this is, it’s been going on for more than a year now. Whether you mark the beginning from March 11—when the World Health Organization declared a global pandemic, then-President Trump announced a travel ban on the European Union, the NBA stopped play, and Tom Hanks announced he had COVID—or a more personal date like your last day in the office or taking your kids to school, 12 months have come and gone.
In that time, we’ve seen more than half a million Americans die directly because of COVID-19. So many have died that collective life expectancy in the US dropped a full year. That doesn’t mean that those of us who survived will live a year less. But in meaningful ways, we’ve still all lost a year.
Not that a lot of events didn’t take place. We’ve seen tens of millions of people march in support of racial justice. We’ve seen government change hands, and not peacefully. We’ve seen every vulnerability in our society exposed. What we haven’t seen nearly enough of are our friends and loved ones. We’ve also seen that when we really need to, we can develop effective vaccines against a brand-new virus at mind-boggling speed. Even with that extraordinary shot of hope, we’ve seen how challenging it can be to go from creating effective vaccines to getting them to people.
What have we learned? Well, a lot about epidemiology. Though with that has come as much misinformation as good information. We still aren’t great, by and large, at discerning reliable sources of information from quackery. We’ve learned that while many professions can be productive while working remotely, living life online makes us all a little less human. On the flip side, we’ve been reminded just how much we depend on people being physically present to provide services we rely on even as we automate more and more.
‘Survival is the name of the game’
Last spring, when much of the nation shut down, we got an eye-opening look at whose work was essential to making sure the rest of us can live our lives. Yes, it was medical professionals, but it was also delivery drivers, workers in warehouses and meat-packing plants, and restaurant workers.
In late March of 2020, BOSS spoke with Nicholas Hammond of Pacific Coast Spirits in Oceanside, Calif. The distiller had just transitioned his operation to making gallons of hand sanitizer amid a nationwide shortage. A year later, Pacific Coast Spirits is back to what it does best, making handcrafted small batch spirits. Hammond said there is still some sanitizer, even after the big producers have long since recovered and met demand.
“It’s not our primary focus, but it’s a hat tip to what kept us going,” he said.
The distillery and farm-to-table restaurant never did have to shut down completely, but there were some low points. Hammond had to lay off workers who were more like family, and there has been a lot of attrition.
“There’s been a lot of angst for many people in the service business. Many people are scared to return to the service industry,” he said. “We have an entirely different crew now.”
While Hammond noted that Pacific Coast Spirits has been able to attract great talent, that has happened in large part because other places went out of business.
“For a while, there weren’t many businesses operating around us, so we were able to build up a base of customers. It’s been a mixed bag of opportunity and change. We’ve tried to look at the glass as half-full and look ahead to the future. Survival is the name of the game.”
What We’ve Lost
More than 110,000 bars and restaurants in the US closed in 2020, and sales fell more than $240 billion. In a LendingTree survey, half of respondents said their favorite restaurant had gone out of business. Supporting local restaurants has been a rallying focus for direct action that’s easy to do for most Americans stuck at home. Even with indoor dining closed for varying lengths of time in different states, people could always order takeout or delivery (though third-party apps take hefty fees for delivery).
It hasn’t been enough to keep many places afloat. Hammond is thankful to have some factors working in his favor.
“We have a big parking lot outside and we’ve been able to convert about half to picnic benches and plants, so we’re at a similar occupancy to before the pandemic,” he said on Feb. 25, looking forward to being able to open partially for inside dining in early March. After opening in November 2019, Pacific Coast Spirits got just a few months of being able to welcome guests inside before everything changed. “We’ve been fortunate to have the California weather, and we’ve had heaters everywhere during the winter months, although there’s now been a shortage of propane heaters.”
It’s not that Hammond and his team haven’t also worked hard. Of course they have. It’s that there are so many external factors that are outside an entrepreneur’s control. A year ago, having a parking lot was a bonus, but it wasn’t the dining room. People breathing too close to each other isn’t a problem for businesses until there’s a highly contagious respiratory disease going around.
Just as we celebrate that local places like Pacific Coast Spirits are still here, we mourn the ones that have closed. We mourn for owners who lost their livelihoods and frontline workers who have had to make the impossible choice between their jobs and their health. We mourn for the intangible things we’ve lost too: gathering together, sharing a meal and a laugh, and forgetting about our myriad troubles if only for an hour or two. Being around other people is vitally important to us, so it’s jarring when the nicest thing you can do for someone is keep your distance.
What We’ll Gain
It’s been a challenging year. We’re all exhausted. There have been businesses that thrived and there have been businesses that went under. Even when the pandemic ends, life will have been irrevocably changed. In some ways for the worse, in some ways for the better, we’ll never be the same. Overcoming this challenge also comes with facing others we’ve put off.
But for a moment, let’s take Hammond’s glass half-full view. The day we spoke, San Diego County had just informed him that vaccinations for foodservice workers were set to begin. He was amazed at how many locals and first-time customers came to support his business.
And while the last 12 months have brought a lot of bad, time, Hammond said, has been on his side.
“The whiskey has just gotten better.”
Like any business owner proud of his accomplishments, he was thrilled to talk about the new bourbon and single malts Pacific Coast Spirits had coming out. It was a sign that things could get back to some semblance of normal and we’d soon be able to have all those celebrations that have been put off a year.
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To trek in Upper Mustang is a rare privilege. Here you will experience the way of life of true mountain people, who were not much in touch with the rest of Nepal for hundreds of years, and even until recent times had an officially recognized king. In many ways, Upper Mustang trekking is similar to treks in Tibet, as geographically it is a part of the Tibetan plateau. The district of Mustang was, until 1950, a separate kingdom within the boundaries of Nepal. The last king, the Raja of Mustang, still has his home in the ancient capital known as Lo Manthang.
The Mustang trekking is not particularly difficult, the highest point reached being only 3,800 meters, but the conditions at times can be arduous. Mustang is cold in winter and is always windy and dusty through the year. Winter treks are best avoided due to harsh weather. Mustang trek requires a minimum of 9 days, starting and ending in Kagbeni. This allows the trek to be completed within the 10-day period that the permit allows. The route generally follows the Kali Gandaki valley but, occasionally climbs high above the valley walls. If you have a short time to go upper mustang then why you may not choose a Land Cruiser Overland Trip to Upper Mustang
During this exciting Upper Mustang Trekking, walk through the land of canyon vistas. These surround and revolve around the enormous valley of the Kali Gandaki. The Upper Mustang trekking isn’t just any ordinary remote valley in Nepal. The entire area of the Upper Mustang, from the Tibetan border in the north to Kagbeni in the south, tucks in a number of unique experiences for trekkers to feed their eyes and soul. From the panorama of Nilgiri, Dhaulagiri, Annapurna and other marvelous ranges towards the south, to the trans-Himalayan climate (cool and semi-arid), and the Tibetan–influenced, pristine medieval Buddhist arts, architecture and exotic culture & tradition dating back to the 13th and the 15th century. All contribute to make this, one of the super trekking destination in Nepal.
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Note: All trekkers heading into Upper Mustang (north of Kagbeni) are required to purchase a $500 per person permit, which is valid for 10 days. You can stay longer, but every day after that will cost $50. At Kagbeni, you’ll be required to show your permit both on the way and the way out. In addition to the restricted permit, you’ll also need to purchase an Annapurna Conservation Area Permit (ACAP), which is $22 USD per person.
Day 01: Arrival in Kathmandu / Welcome dinner, O/n at hotel / trek preparation
Day 02: Cultural tour / trek preparation / drive to Pokhara
Day 03: Fly to Jomsom (2725m/ 8,940ft) and trek to Kagbeni (2810m/ 9219ft). walk 3 hrs
Day 04: Trek to Chele (2920m / 10,006 ft ) (enter into the restricted upper Mustang area) walk 7 hrs
Day 05: Trek to Syangbochen (3800m/ 12467ft) 5-6 hrs.
Day 06: Trek to Ghami (3520m/ 11548ft) walk 5 hrs.
Day 07: Trek to Tsarnag (3560m/11679ft) 4 hrs.
Day 08: Trek to Lo Manthang (3800m/ 12467ft) 4 – 5 hrs.
Day 09: Explore day at Lo Manthang
Day 10: Trek to Dhakmar (3800m/ 12467ft) 7 – 8 hrs.
Day 11: Trek to Syanbochen (3800m/ 12467ft).
Day 12: Trek to Chhusang (3040m/ 9973ft) 5 – 6 hrs.
Day 13: Trek Chhusang to Muktinath (3710m) walk 6 hrs
Day 14: Trek/Drive to Jomsom (2720) – walk 5 hrs or 3 hours drive
Day 15: Fly to Pokhara
Day 16: Drive to Kathmandu
Day 17: Final Departure
Airport pick ups and drops in private vehicle
Three nights’ accommodation with breakfast at a 3-star category hotel in Kathmandu
Two nights’ accommodation with breakfast at a 3-star category hotel in Pokhara
Best available twin sharing local lodge to lodge accommodation during the trek
Guided Kathmandu City Tour in private vehicle including tour guide
Kathmandu to Pokhara transfer by private vehicle
Pokhara -Jomsom – Pokhara flight
Special Trekking Permit US$ 500 per person for 10 days (the above price includes 10 days valid trekking permit from Kagbeni to Kagbeni. If you wish to stay more than 10 days in restricted area, you are subjected to extra charge for extra days (US$ 50 per day / per person).
Annapurna conservation permit and all necessary permits.
Full board meals (breakfast, lunch and dinner) during the trek
Seasonal fruits during the trek
Staff– one professional, knowledgeable and friendly English speaking trekking leader along with assistant guide (6 trekkers : 1 assistant guide) and porters (2 trekkers : 1 porter) including their food, accommodation, salary, equipment, transportation, and accidental insurance
Duffle bag, Down jacket and sleeping bag for use during the trek
Trekking map and trip achievement certificate
First aid medical kit
Farewell dinner in Kathmandu
Government taxes & office service charge
Lunch and Dinner whilst in Kathmandu, Nagarkot & Pokhara.
Nepal Visa fee (bring accurate USD cash and two passport photographs)
International airfare to and from Kathmandu
All kind drinks (Alcoholic, hot and cold drinks).
All sightseeing fees in Kathmandu & Pokhara.
Personal travel and medical insurance.
Any kind of personal expense.
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Yes. But, the vehicle may be limited in power or put into what is referred to as limp mode, in order to get the vehicle to a repair facility. If the check engine light is on, or the electronic throttle control warning light is on, but there is no noticeable difference in engine performance, the car can be safely driven. However, it is best to have it diagnosed and repaired at your earliest convenience to avoid unexpected breakdown or possible damage to the catalytic converter.
Jeep Patriot: Bad Throttle Body Symptoms + Diagnosis
If your Jeep Patriot has a bad throttle body, it can cause it to run terribly. Common symptoms of a bad throttle body include, dirt and grime, the check engine light, and an erratic idle.
Your Patriots throttle body controls the amount of air that enters the engine. You control the throttle body position with the gas pedal. So, the symptoms of a bad throttle body will all affect how the vehicle feels responding to your throttle input. A rough idle is also a very common symptom.
What Is The Throttle Body And How Does It Work
The throttle body is an air metering device mounted between the air filter and snorkel, and the intake plenum. Within the throttle body is a movable throttle plate whose position controls the amount of air that enters the engine to determine engine speed. Throttle body designs vary. Some incorporate an idle air control valve, throttle position sensor, and other electronic throttle controls. The throttle plate in the throttle body can be controlled directly by an accelerator pedal cable or fully electronically in the newest drive-by-wire systems.
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The throttle body controls the amount of air that is let into the engine. It is controlled by the throttle which opens a butterfly valve, allowing different amounts of air in during acceleration. If you’re experiencing lack of power or rough idle this may indicate throttle body problems. Your computer may also turn on the Check Engine light and put the car into “limp home mode”. In some cases, dirt can build up on the throttle body, and cleaning it may resolve the issue. If you still have problems, it can also be replaced. At O’Reilly Auto Parts, we offer throttle body cleaners and parts to help you with your repair.
When To Consider Replacing The Throttle Body:
- Check engine light and/or reduced power warning light is on. Most modern throttle bodies have electrical components, such as a throttle position sensor. These components are monitored by the powertrain control module . If the check engine light or reduced power warning light comes on, a mechanic will determine if any of the stored trouble codes implicate a throttle body malfunction.
- Wrong idle speed. Carbon deposits in the throttle body, particularly around the movable throttle plate or in the idle air control valve, can cause the engine idle speed to be too low or too high.
- Poor transmission shifting. In some applications, transmission shift timing relies on signal outputs from the throttle body. If the throttle position sensor is defective, that might adversely affect shift timing and feel.
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How Do Mechanics Replace The Throttle Body
- The engine cover is removed, if necessary.
- The flexible rubber snorkel from the air filter housing to the throttle body is disconnected. Typically, the connection is made with a large stainless steel hose clamp.
- The electrical connections to the throttle body are removed.
- If the throttle body is not a drive-by-wire system, the accelerator cable and cruise control cable are disconnected and set aside.
- The bolts retaining the throttle body to the plenum, the gasket, and the throttle body are removed. If the throttle body is being cleaned and tested for re-use, approved chemicals are used in the cleaning process.
- The new or serviced throttle body is re-attached to the plenum and the bolts torqued to factory specifications.
- All cables and electrical connections are restored. The intake air snorkel is reconnected.
- If applicable, the electronic throttle installation and idle re-learn procedures are performed using an appropriate scan tool.
- Finally, the engine is started, brought to normal operating temperature, and idle speed is checked. The car is road tested to ensure normal operation and no illumination of warning or service lights.
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Bad Throttle Body Symptoms: Jeep Patriot
Here are the most common symptoms of a bad throttle body in your Patriot. The problem with almost all of the noticeable symptoms are that they can also indicate problems other than the throttle body as well. Thats why we strongly recommend that you start with the check engine light, if it happens to be on. It can tell you a lot about what is going on.
Service Engine Soon Light
The check engine light is one of the most common symptoms of a bad throttle body in your Patriot. The check engine light itself being on is not a bad thing. The trouble codes that are stored in the computer can tell a lot about what is actually going on. This makes diagnosing the throttle body much easier.
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When Replacing The Throttle Body Keep In Mind:
- Many modern throttle bodies have spring loaded sensors and plastic gears that are not intended to be manipulated directly during any diagnostics or inspections. These components are controlled electronically or generate signals. It is best to let a mechanic use approved tests to diagnose the problem.
- Wiring faults, bad grounds, or bad terminal connections can make it appear as though an electronically controlled throttle has failed. A mechanic will always rule out all other causes before replacing the throttle body.
- When cleaning the throttle body, special care should be taken to use only special spray cleaners designed to not damage electrical components or sensors.
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to change the indexer on this resource, so select the "Icons"
node (in the resource editor) to show the right helper. You
have now the attributes, amongst them, the indexer. Select "icons" using
the option menu, then click on "Commit" to confirm your changes. BEWARE!
The indexer is not yet completely setup, as this resource can't be
accessed in any way! You need to add a ProtocolFrame to allow one
protocol to access this resource. To do so, select "Add Frame"
in the main menu of the resource editor or using the popup menu.
Select the most basic protocol frame:
org.w3c.jigsaw.frames.HTTPFrame and add it to the resource.
Click now in the small tree browser below, HTTPFrame (frame-0)
should appear. Click on it and you will be able to configure the
HTTPFrame (which looks like an old Jigsaw-1.0 Resource) set the icon to
dir.gif to enhance it.
- Now you have to create the new extension. You must use the same
process as above, except for some details. Add the "mpg" resource with
the org.w3c.tools.resources.FileResource class to the
"extensions" directory. Then add an HTTPFrame to it, open the "mpg" node
in the little tree browser. Change the mime type, by selecting the right
one (video/mpeg) in the content-type editor. Add movie.gif as the
default icon for directory listing, commit.
- You are all set now, don't forget to save your changes using the
control resource of the server. You can now use this indexer.
Of course this is an example, if you want to add an extension for the whole
server, the best way is to add it directly in the default indexer. Another
thing, it is better to use org.w3c.jigsaw.resources.DirectoryResource
, just to check if
you read ALL the documentation ;)
The Content Type Indexer
In some cases the file extension is not the only criteria, for exemple when a
PUT request occurs the indexer should use the Content-Type header comming with
the request (if there is a content-type header). This is the job of the
Content Type Indexer.
The Content Type Indexer (org.w3c.jigsaw.indexer.ContentTypeIndexer
has one more child, the content-types
node. The associations between
mime types and resources are stored in this new child.
Since 2.0.2 the ContentTypeIndexer accept generic mime types like
text:*, *:xml or even *:*. For example, if you define
text:* as a FileResource using a HTTPFrame (with a content-type set to
*none*) all content types like text/html, text/plain, text/xml will be
Note: As you can see in the screenshot, the mime types stored in the
indexer are not "real" mime types, the '/' has been replaced by a
':'. We decided that because the '/' can create some
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The film shows the development, downfall and rebirth of Bauhaus as a social utopia, but also introduces the still valid social and artistic projects, that are linked to the history of Bauhaus. The movie discusses the question of how we would like to live and how do we imagine our future.
ABOUT THE DIRECTORS
Niels Bolbrinker (1951, Hamburg) studied photography and film at the University of Fine Arts in Hamburg. Since 1983, he has worked as a DOP and director of documentaries. He received various international awards for his work. His first feature-length documentary on the Bauhaus won the Liliane Stewart Award for best documentary in the design arts at the FIFA in Montréal.
His previous film in a previous festival edition is Bauhaus – Model and Myth.
Thomas Tielsch (1953, Lörrach) founded Filmtank in 2001 which has since made nearly 80 high-quality, international and prize-winning documentaries for cinema and television. Most projects are realised with European co-production partners (e.g. from Bulgaria, Spain, Finland), broadcasters and film funds. Filmtank productions have received international awards.
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Typography: The important bits and what it means to design
When making your way into the world of graphic design or when working with a graphic designer on a project, one of the most important elements that you will come across is that of Typography. Typography is stated like this:
the style and appearance of printed matter.the art or procedure of arranging type or processing data and printing from it.Wikipedia
It is vital within graphic design, as it can often be the centre piece of the design, helping to draw in the attention of the reader before they begin to notice what else is going on. But there are also so many different things you can do with Typography, from the way it looks to how it is used in conjunction with the actual graphics that have made it into the design.
However, while typography is great and does so much for a design, it is also important to understand what is being said, so that as a designer you understand what client wants and vice versa, as a client you understand what a designer is saying to you. So within this article, we are going to take a look at the in’s and out’s of typography, looking at some of the popular terms that are used so that when the time comes, you are ready.
- Sans Serif
- Why Typography is vital in Design
When designers started to consciously put letters and numbers together to help accentuate the design that they were creating, a font and a typeface were two separate elements. Previously the Typeface was the specific design of the letters, numbers and symbols that were being used and Font was used to refer to the size of that typeface. However, they are now used interchangeably by designers the world over, which makes things a lot easier for those that don’t know!
When a designer is talking about a serif, they are talking about the short line or the stroke that is seen extending from the open ends of the letters. These typefaces or fonts would normally be seen in corporate branding, as it gives off an older, more sophisticated kind of vibe.
Why Typography is vital in design
When you see a new poster, flyer or billboard out and about, what is one of the first things that catches your eye? The type. It’s often right where it needs to be and saying exactly what is appealing to you. But this isn’t just pot luck or an accident. A designer has meticulously thought about what typeface to use, where to place it, how big it needs to be and the colour it is going to be, all before actually writing what is going to be said. And trust us, writing the content is the easy part! When working on a design, whether it is a one-off flyer design for a club or bar, or something larger like a re-brand for a business, the typography that goes with their branding is incredibly important. It needs to be something which catches the attention of the reader but also matches what the company is trying to say themselves. For example, if a design is being completed for a law company the typeface that is chosen isn’t going to be something that you might find in relation to a tech company, as it wouldn’t fit. It will be something simple, but serious and professional, more than likely a Serif Typeface, helping to get across the message that they won’t mess about and will get the job done. It needs to match what or who it is being used for so that it makes sense to the readers.
Typography is a vital design element that a lot of people might overlook and not realise just how much it does for the overall design. Hopefully however, this article has given you a little more insight into the importance of it and made you a little more aware of what a designer might be talking about. | <urn:uuid:39cc76df-1e01-46e7-89f1-386665fd7a8b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://kbe.kaizen.website/typography-the-important-bits-and-what-it-means-to-design/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571911.5/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813081639-20220813111639-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.976814 | 817 | 2.8125 | 3 |
Exhilarating drift dive or gentle photography dive along a slope teeming with fish? you chose. On a strong flood, this is your opportunity to fly weightless through the water, but on any other day you have a reef suitable for all levels with lots to see. The sloping reef starts at around 5 meters with a healty reef spotted with very large coral boulders, and turns to sand in 25 meters, where bluespotted stingrays are common. The deeper areas spot long whip corals and lots of redtoothed triggerfish trying to hide from you in the many cracks and crevices.
West Escarceo also has an unusual abundance of scorpionfish and octopus, both excellent at camouflaging themselves so watch out! Large pufferfish are always seen here, and big groupers are often spotted. Schools become more common here as we grt closer to Escarceo Point with its currents, so expect to see big mouth mackerel, juvenline tuna, trevally and emperor fish here | <urn:uuid:5e2cb073-3254-4132-af36-6487ac0aedb4> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.puertoparrot.com/dive-sites/puerto-galera/3294 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571911.5/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813081639-20220813111639-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.960971 | 213 | 1.671875 | 2 |
Vince Carter has always preached the importance of having an education. Now he is raising the stakes for the youths of Toronto.
Carter has announced the official launch of the Vince Carter Scholarship and Mentorship Program in the Toronto area of Canada. The scholarship, which amounts to $25,000 per student, will be primarily targeting high school students who have taken up a passion for sports, music, film, fashion, broadcasting, media, or science, technology, engineering, and math.
Statistics from the Toronto District School Board revealed the graduation rate for Black high school students is 69 percent and the dropout rate sits at 20 percent. The resources and support that will be provided through Carter’s program will be instrumental in changing the narrative.
“I am doing my part, now it’s time for you to do yours by reaching out to kids, extended family, friends, educators and share this opportunity,” Carter says in a statement.
The scholarship criteria require applicants to possess a passion in any of the mentioned academic pathways; reviews of academic scores, personal character, community service; a 500-word essay. | <urn:uuid:4b35829e-0443-4eee-8114-ddbec1166a9c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://thesource.com/2021/02/04/vince-carter-launches-scholarship-for-youth-in-toronto/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571538.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812014923-20220812044923-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.942158 | 229 | 1.625 | 2 |
Why do you put cold water in a kettle?
The added cold water absorbs any remaining heat, reducing the temperature difference between the kettle and its surroundings and thus slowing the rate at which residual heat energy is lost (as I recall, the rate is proportional to the difference between the fourth power of the absolute temperatures of the kettle and …
Why shouldnt you cook with hot water?
Using hot tap water for drinking or cooking is a no-no, the Environmental Protection Agency warns. That’s because hot tap water can leach harmful contaminants like lead from your home’s service pipes into the water you might be drinking or using to prepare hot foods.
What boils faster cold water or hot water?
Which boils faster—hot or cold water? Despite a long-standing myth to the contrary, cold water does not boil faster than hot. But hot water may carry more impurities—perhaps the myth arose out of a desire to encourage people to cook with cold water.
Is it safe to cook with cold tap water?
Scientists emphasize that the risk is small. But to minimize it, the E.P.A. says cold tap water should always be used for preparing baby formula, cooking and drinking. It also warns that boiling water does not remove lead but can actually increase its concentration.
Is it safe to drink boiled tap water?
How does boiling make my tap water safe? Boiling the water kills microorganisms such as bacteria, viruses, or protozoans that can cause disease. Boiling makes the tap water microbiologically safe.
Is it better to put hot or cold water in a kettle?
Are you ever tempted to hurry your kettle or coffee pot by starting it off with the hottest water from the tap? Sorry – you shouldn’t. … They say that hot water can dissolve contaminants in your pipes faster than cold water and it’s best to only drink and boil cold water.
Can you add cold water to boiling water?
“Cold water does not boil faster than hot water. As a result, cold water will be absorbing heat faster while it is still cold; once it gets up to the temperature of hot water, the heating rate slows down and from there it takes just as long to bring it to a boil as the water that was hot to begin with.
What temperature water boils?
A liquid at high pressure has a higher boiling point than when that liquid is at atmospheric pressure. For example, water boils at 100 °C (212 °F) at sea level, but at 93.4 °C (200.1 °F) at 1,905 metres (6,250 ft) altitude. For a given pressure, different liquids will boil at different temperatures.
Is it bad to drink warm water?
Drinking water that’s too hot can damage the tissue in your esophagus, burn your taste buds, and scald your tongue. Be very careful when drinking hot water. Drinking cool, not hot, water is best for rehydration . Generally, though, drinking hot water has no harmful effects and is safe to use as a remedy.
Why does water taste better when it’s cold?
The coldness of water suppresses the taste of certain unwanted impurities in the water that are amplified if the water is warm.
Does salt boil water faster?
So yes, salt increases the boiling temperature, but not by very much. If you add 20 grams of salt to five litres of water, instead of boiling at 100° C, it’ll boil at 100.04° C. So a big spoon of salt in a pot of water will increase the boiling point by four hundredths of a degree! | <urn:uuid:da343ace-ddc4-4f86-b223-820fe006f85d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://cookedearthblog.com/cooking-tips/why-should-you-start-with-cold-water-when-boiling.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571911.5/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813081639-20220813111639-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.929542 | 760 | 2.875 | 3 |
Burnt-out vets put end to overnight emergency care in northern B.C.
Pet owners with an emergency after 10 p.m. will have to use telemedicine, or travel more than 700 km
Veterinarians in Prince George, B.C., say services will be reduced due to staffing shortages, leaving a large portion of the province without after-hours care.
The city, which acts as a service centre for much of northern and central B.C., does not have a 24-hour emergency facility; a number of vet clinics had worked together to provide after-hours urgent-care service 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.
Starting July 1 however, there will be no veterinarians available after 10 p.m. until 8 or 8:30 a.m., when regular service hours resume.
Pet owners with an emergency after 10 p.m. have been told they will have to use telemedicine or seek 24-hour emergency care in another community. However, the closest 24-hour facility is in Kelowna, more than 600 kilometres away, followed by Vancouver, Edmonton or Calgary, all of which are more than 700 kilometres away.
It also means other communities to the west and east are now even further removed from 24-hour veterinary care.
Kate Peebles of the Murdoch Veterinary Clinic said they have tried their best to fill a need in the community but it's coming at the expense of veterinarians.
"If we don't put up any boundaries, the situation we know is going to get worse," she said.
Burnout, suicidal thoughts plague profession
Calling it a difficult but necessary decision, Peebles said they hope the move will help them retain staff, as well as attract new staff.
She and other vets also hope the move will lead to more action from the government on increasing the number of veterinarians being trained and hired across the province.
LISTEN | Veterinarians in Prince George forced to end 24-hour emergency animal care
Casey Bockus of Prince George Veterinary Hospital estimates the city has lost about a quarter of its vets over the last year.
Vets' schedules are busier than ever, he said.
"It is causing burnout among some to the point that they're either leaving the industry altogether or they're leaving the area and seeking an area where they can have a better work-life balance," he said.
B.C. residents train to become vets at the Western College of Veterinary Medicine in Saskatoon. There are only five veterinary schools in all of Canada.
In April, the B.C. government said it is paying $10.68 million to double the number of seats it will subsidize for first-year veterinary college students from the province to attend Western College in an attempt to address a shortage of animal doctors.
Bockus said he is glad to hear about the expansion, but it will be years before the new students will be able to help.
"I don't see this, unfortunately, being a quick fix," he said.
Bockus said he would like to see a college for veterinarians in B.C. to serve only British Columbians.
Bockus said he would also like to see it become easier for foreign-trained vets to work in Canada.
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The word “seva” means selfless service, but when I reflect on it, I think I get as much out of my acts of seva as the people I’m serving. Some of my first volunteer positions were in homeless shelters in San Francisco, and today I volunteer to support the refugee population here in Greece. The benefits I’ve gained from seva are many and long ranging. I’ve included three below with the hope you might consider doing seva yourself.
1) My Comfort Zone Expanded
When I graduated from Kundalini Yoga Teacher Training in 2009, I didn’t feel like a “real” teacher so I started volunteer teaching at homeless shelters to get some practice. This turned out to benefit me on several levels. I had an opportunity to do my first classes with a forgiving audience. If I got the timing wrong or gave incorrect instructions, they didn’t care. They were just happy to have a stable, cheerful person in the room.
While my students were generally grateful, homeless shelters can be a tough environment. Some of my students were deeply spiritual. Some were deeply disturbed. There was a wide spectrum, and I never knew what to expect. In the middle of one class, a woman started screaming at me that I was Satan. In another, a man rolled in on a wheelchair asking to participate. Some students would break down crying. Each class was different. The hidden benefit to this intense environment was that it expanded my comfort zone quickly.
When I went on to teach in a “normal” yoga studio three months later, it felt extremely calm and peaceful relative to what I was used to. At this point, I can teach in a wide variety of environments without a problem. I owe this in part to my seva efforts at San Francisco homeless shelters.
2) I’ve Gained a Better Understanding of Ek Ong Kar (We Are One)
More recently, I’ve been teaching Kundalini Yoga to the refugee population in Athens. My students are usually from Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan, all war-torn countries. Most of my students have experienced trauma in one way or another. They’ve had close family members die, they’ve had their entire lives upended by events beyond their control, and in some cases, they’ve been physically injured by acts of war. All this I knew, so when one student approached me to ask if she could talk with me after class, I assumed it was going to be about some trauma-related hardship she was facing—sleeplessness, panic attacks or maybe the effects of PTSD. But when the moment came, and she approached me, her question was:
“I want to lose weight. The other girls are teasing me and calling me fat. Can you tell me what to do?”
Internally I smiled, and there was that moment of connection when I thought, “Of course you want to lose weight. You and probably 80 percent of the female population…”
If you come from a peaceful or war-torn country, if you are atheist or Muslim, if you eat meat or if you are vegetarian, we really aren’t that different. This seva taught me.
3) I’ve Experienced the First Sutra firsthand: Recognize the Other Person is You
2015 was when I first got involved in the refugee situation in Greece. I went to Lesvos for a weekend to help transport refugees. These were people who had just arrived on illegal smuggler boats and needed to get to the camps where they could register to start the asylum process.
Most of them had to walk the 44 miles/70 kilometers from the shore to the camps. They were often with young children and this was during the summer, which is quite hot in Greece with temperatures often hitting 35 degrees Celsius/95 Fahrenheit in the middle of the day. Many of us felt horrible reading the news coverage about the situation, and as Athens isn’t so far from Lesvos, some of us decided to go help. We appointed ourselves drivers and transported people, focusing on families with children.
There was one Iraqi family in particular that sticks in my mind. The husband was an engineer, his wife was six months pregnant, and they had two other small children. They were lovely, and we chatted about our respective and completely different lives on the drive. On the way to the refugee camp, the husband asked if we could change money somewhere. He had US dollars but no euros. I knew he’d have a problem with no ID so we agreed we’d do the exchange together in a bank at the port since I had my US passport.
In the end, parking at the port proved impossible, and we were running out of time so finally I parked illegally, handed him the keys to my rental car and said, “You’ll stay here with the car. Try not to do anything.” He handed me $500. We both looked at each other like, “This is a messed up situation,” and then I ran inside the bank to change money. When I returned, I was carefully showing him the receipt, the exchange rate and the fees, but he laughed at me. “Lynn, it’s fine. I trust you.”
The truth is we trusted each other. We had known each other less than 24 hours but in that moment, I think we both saw ourselves in the other—two regular people doing the best we could in the middle of a complicated situation. It was a powerful moment and one I will never forget.
I could give more examples, but experience is really the best guide. So, if you get a chance to do seva, take it. Take it for the right reason (the Universe understands intention)—if your motives are pure, and your hope is only to benefit others, that intention will boomerang back to you. And you never know what you might learn or gain.
“The act of kindness is such a powerful weapon that it is endless in its scope.”
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In this report Human Rights Watch documents the Mexican government's failure to enforce its own labor laws in the export processing (maquiladora) sector. In violation of Mexican labor law, maquiladora operators oblige women to undergo pregnancy testing as a condition of work. Women thought to be pregnant are not hired. Among the corporations engaging in this practice, which violates both Mexican and international law, are such international corporations as Landis & Staefa, Samsung Group, Matsushita Electric Corp., Sunbeam-Oster, Sanyo, Thomson Corporate Worldwide, Siemens AG, and Pacific Dunlop. However, the vast majority of companies engaging in this practice are U.S.-owned, including Lear, Johnson Controls, and Tyco International. The Human Rights Watch report, "A Job or Your Rights: Continued Sex Discrimination in Mexico's Maquiladora Sector," documents how companies demand that women produce urine specimens for pregnancy exams and how maquiladora doctors and nurses examine women's abdomens or require them to reveal private information about menses schedule. | <urn:uuid:a58c83e3-f4e2-4c13-ab17-4f8b7bb758ba> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.hrw.org/report/1998/12/01/job-or-your-rights/continued-sex-discrimination-mexicos-maquiladora-sector | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571911.5/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813081639-20220813111639-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.898872 | 221 | 1.59375 | 2 |
Arthur’s Tomb (c.1331)
Glastonbury Abbey became known as the burial place of the legendary King Arthur, which strengthened Glastonbury’s claim to unrivalled Christian antiquity. In 1191, the monks announced their discovery of the grave of Arthur and Guinevere, famously recorded by the contemporary historian Gerald of Wales.
The alleged remains of Arthur and Guinevere were placed in a tomb in the abbey church. For over 300 years, the tomb took pride of place in choir of the Great Church at Glastonbury.
See the artistic reconstruction below for an impression of what Arthur’s Tomb may have looked like in the 14th century, and also read our post about how we went about reconstucting the tomb. | <urn:uuid:597569e2-ad59-4f45-a179-9e8f90d0ee33> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://research.reading.ac.uk/glastonburyabbeyarchaeology/digital/arthurs-tomb-c-1331/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571538.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812014923-20220812044923-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.976561 | 159 | 3.78125 | 4 |
Two Israeli teenagers have been arrested, accused of running an online service which performed distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks on websites for paying customers.
Called vDOS, the website went offline not long before the arrests were made.
Following their arrests, Itay Huri and Yarden Bidani, both aged 18, posted bail payments of $10,000 (£7,500) each.
The pair were placed under house arrest for 10 days, were forced to hand over their passports, and were banned from using the internet or any other communication equipment for 30 days.
According to the BBC, an Israeli police spokesman who spoke to Israeli newspaper Haaretz, the arrests were the result of a tip-off from the FBI.
Pay per hack
The arrests have also notably come not long after cybersecurity expert Brian Krebs published a long expose on the site, using information obtained from an informant who had hacked the vDOS database earlier this year.
According to Krebs, vDOS is said to be behind more than 150,000 DDoS attacks over the past two years, reporting that: "To say that vDOS has been responsible for a majority of the DDoS attacks clogging up the internet over the past few years would be an understatement."
By charging anything between $20 and $300 per month for each attack, the service has managed to generate $600,000 in this short period of time.
DDoS attacks have been increasing year on year and they show no sign of slowing down, with online security company Verisign reporting that attacks have doubled in the last year alone. | <urn:uuid:5694d9ce-f5b3-476e-bd34-fb44dbac9903> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.techradar.com/news/internet/two-israeli-teenagers-have-been-arrested-for-allegedly-running-a-hacking-service-1328434 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570977.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809124724-20220809154724-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.975686 | 326 | 1.632813 | 2 |
MYKOLAIV, Ukraine — A ship loaded with corn on Monday became the first cargo vessel to sail from Ukraine in more than five months of war, passing through Russia’s naval blockade of Ukraine’s Black Sea ports and raising hopes that desperately needed food will soon reach nations afflicted by shortages and soaring prices.
The ship’s journey was the culmination of months of negotiations and an international campaign to get grain out of Ukraine, one of the world’s breadbaskets before the war. Russia’s invasion and blockade, along with Western sanctions impeding Russian exports and factors like drought and climate change, have sharply cut global grain supplies, threatening to bring famine to tens of millions of people, particularly in the Middle East and Africa.
Mediators from the United Nations and Turkey, which shares the Black Sea coast with Russia and Ukraine, oversaw months of talks in Istanbul. Though discussions seemed hopelessly mired for weeks, in late July the parties struck a deal to free more than 20 million tons of grain.
the causes of a looming global hunger crisis.
“Ensuring that grain, fertilizers, and other food-related items are available at reasonable prices to developing countries is a humanitarian imperative,” António Guterres, the U.N. secretary general, said Monday. “People on the verge of famine need these agreements to work, in order to survive.”
major supplier of fertilizer, and with Ukraine it supplies more than a quarter of the world’s wheat.
But as the Razoni’s Black Sea crossing raised hopes for some degree of cooperation between the combatants, the fighting intensified on multiple fronts in Ukraine.
a counteroffensive in the southern Kherson region, Ukraine has used long-range precision weapons, recently supplied by the West, to disrupt Russian supply lines and logistics. Ukrainian forces have attacked Russian command and control centers, hit supply routes, tried to isolate Russian forces into pockets and enlisted Ukrainian saboteurs behind enemy lines.
adept at attacking Russian command and control hubs and destroying large amounts of Russian equipment. On Monday, the Biden administration announced another round of support for Ukraine: $550 million in military aid, including more ammunition for 155-millimeter howitzer artillery pieces and High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems, or HIMARS, that the United States has already provided.
But for all its sluggish or faltering progress in the war, Russia retains vast advantages in the size of its arsenal, and its military has shown a willingness and ability to strike all over the country, even as it focuses on gaining ground in eastern Ukraine. There, Russia has blanketed town after town with overwhelming artillery fire as it tries to reposition ground forces to press forward.
The strategy slowly gave Russia control of the eastern Luhansk Province, leaving many cities and villages in ruins. Russian forces have since moved to reinforce the south and to push into another eastern province, Donetsk.
“Their tactic remains much the same as it was during the hostilities in Luhansk region,” Serhiy Haidai, head of Ukraine’s Luhansk regional government, said on Monday.
He said the Russians were making daily attempts to mount an offensive on the city of Bakhmut, in Donetsk, but so far had failed to break through the main Ukrainian defensive lines.
Russian forces have also continued to shell residential and military areas in and around the city of Kharkiv in the northeast, putting pressure on Ukraine not to shift too many of its defenses from there.
In Chuhuiv, in the Kharkiv region and just 10 miles from Russian lines, residents were still recovering on Monday from missile strikes last week on the House of Culture, a building used since Soviet times for cultural events. In wartime, the building’s kitchens were used to prepare food for the needy, but members of the city government had also used it as a temporary office, possibly a reason for the attack.
The missiles killed three people sheltering in the basement and wounded several more, according to Oleh Synyehubov, the Kharkiv regional administrator. A volunteer cook was among the dead, residents said. His brother and several other people survived.
Two women were also killed, one of whom had been helping the cook, said a resident who gave only his first name, Maksim, wary of possible retribution. They were making an Uzbek rice dish, plov, for people in the neighborhood.
“She was just cleaning vegetables,” Maksim said.
Chuhuiv has come under increasing bombardment in recent days, as have the city of Kharkiv and other villages and towns in the province. Soldiers guarding the approaches to the city on Sunday said that artillery strikes had been steady much of the day, hitting an industrial area around the train station.
The Russians “are hitting lots of places like this, all the schools as well,” said Maksim. “They are doing it to make the people leave.”
People were getting the message, and the town was largely empty, he said. He was preparing to leave too, he said. He and his family had plans to emigrate to Canada.
“There is nothing left here,” he said.
Michael Schwirtz reported from Mykolaiv, Ukraine, Matina Stevis-Gridneff from Brussels and Matthew Mpoke Bigg from London. Reporting was contributed by Carlotta Gall and Kamila Hrabchuk from Chuhuiv, Ukraine, Marc Santora from London and Alan Yuhas from New York.
Russia shelling ‘along the entire front line’ – Ukraine military
Russia regrouping for offensive toward Sloviansk, Kyiv says
Moscow orders steps to prevent Ukrainian strikes in east
Zelenskiy fires top officials
KYIV, July 17 (Reuters) – Russia is preparing for the next stage of its offensive in Ukraine, a Ukrainian military official said, after Moscow said its forces would step up military operations in “all operational areas”.
As Western deliveries of long-range arms begin to help Ukraine on the battlefield, Russian rockets and missiles have pounded cities in strikes that Kyiv says have killed dozens in recent days.
“It is not only missile strikes from the air and sea,” Vadym Skibitskyi, a spokesman for Ukrainian military intelligence, said late on Saturday. “We can see shelling along the entire line of contact, along the entire front line. There is an active use of tactical aviation and attack helicopters.
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“Clearly preparations are now underway for the next stage of the offensive.”
The Ukrainian military said Russia appeared to be regrouping units for an offensive toward Sloviansk, a symbolically important city held by Ukraine in the eastern region of Donetsk.
The British defence ministry said on Sunday that Russia was also reinforcing defences across areas it occupies in southern Ukraine after pressure from Ukrainian forces and pledges from Ukrainian leaders to drive Russia out. read more
Ukraine says at least 40 people have been killed in Russian shelling of urban areas since Thursday as the war launched by Russian President Vladimir Putin on Feb. 24 intensifies.
Dozens of relatives and local residents attended the funeral of four-year-old Liza Dmytrieva in the central Ukrainian city of Vinnytsia on Sunday. The girl was killed in a missile strike on central Vinnytsia on Thursday that killed 24 people, according to Ukrainian authorities.
To the south, more than 50 Russian Grad rockets pounded the city of Nikopol on the Dnipro River, killing two people who were found in the rubble, Governor Valentyn Reznichenko said.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said Russia had used more than 3,000 cruise missiles to date and it was “impossible to count” the number of artillery and other strikes so far.
ZELENSKIY FIRES TOP OFFICIALS
Meanwhile, Zelenskiy fired the head of Ukraine’s powerful domestic security agency, Ivan Bakanov, and Prosecutor General Iryna Venediktova, who led the effort to prosecute Russian war crimes, saying many of their employees were collaborating with Russia.
Zelenskiy said more than 60 officials from their two agencies were now working against Ukraine in Russian-occupied territories, and 651 treason and collaboration cases had been opened against law enforcement officials.
Buildings destroyed by military strikes are seen, as Russia’s invasion of Ukraine continues, in northern Saltivka, one of the most damaged residential areas of Kharkiv, Ukraine July 17, 2022. REUTERS/Nacho Doce
“Such an array of crimes against the foundations of the national security of the state … pose very serious questions to the relevant leaders,” Zelenskiy said in a Telegram post.
Kyiv and the West say the conflict is an unprovoked attempt to reconquer a country that broke free of Moscow’s rule with the break-up of the Soviet Union in 1991.
Moscow calls the invasion a “special military operation” to demilitarise its neighbour and root out nationalists, says it uses high-precision weapons to degrade Ukraine’s military infrastructure. Russia has repeatedly denied targeting civilians.
Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu ordered military units to intensify operations to prevent Ukrainian strikes on areas held by Russia, according to a statement from the ministry.
His remarks on Saturday appeared to be a direct response to what Kyiv says is a string of successful strikes carried out on 30 Russian logistics and ammunitions hubs, using several multiple launch rocket systems recently supplied by the West.
The strikes are causing havoc with Russian supply lines and have significantly reduced Russia’s offensive capability, according to Ukraine’s defense ministry.
Ukrainian officials say the new U.S.-made High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems (HIMARS) they began receiving last month allow them to reach targets in Crimea, which was annexed by Russia in 2014, and other areas occupied by Russia.
“Good morning from HIMARS,” Andriy Yermak, chief of staff to Ukraine’s president, wrote on Telegram on Sunday alongside a video showing a large explosion which he said was another destroyed Russian ammunition depot in southern Ukraine.
On Sunday, former Russian president Dmitry Medvedev said the refusal of Ukraine and NATO powers to recognise Moscow’s authority over Crimea represents a “systemic threat” for Russia, which has the headquarters of its Black Sea fleet there.
A spokesperson for the Odesa regional administration, Serhiy Bratchuk, said on Telegram late on Sunday that a “significant number” of Russian warships moved from Crimea to Novorossiyisk, along Russia’s Black Sea Coast.
Russian-backed separatists have said HIMARS rockets killed two civilians and damaged a bus depot and several other buildings in Alchevsk, east of Solviansk. Ukraine’s armed forces said they struck the bus depot because they had information it was being used to house Russian troops.
The Russian defence ministry said its forces had destroyed a launch ramp and reloading vehicle for one of the HIMARS systems deployed near the eastern city of Pokrovsk.
The head of Pokrovsk regional police, Ruslan Osypenko, said a residential area had been shelled by Russia with multiple rocket launchers and there were dead and wounded. It released video of damaged homes and residents describing the attack.
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Starting in first grade, students across Russia will soon sit through weekly classes featuring war movies and virtual tours through Crimea. They will be given a steady dose of lectures on topics like “the geopolitical situation” and “traditional values.” In addition to a regular flag-raising ceremony, they will be introduced to lessons celebrating Russia’s “rebirth” under President Vladimir V. Putin.
And, according to legislation signed into law by Mr. Putin on Thursday, all Russian children will be encouraged to join a new patriotic youth movement in the likeness of the Soviet Union’s red-cravatted “Pioneers” — presided over by the president himself.
Ever since the fall of the Soviet Union, the Russian government’s attempts at imparting a state ideology to schoolchildren have proven unsuccessful, a senior Kremlin bureaucrat, Sergei Novikov, recently told thousands of Russian schoolteachers in an online workshop. But now, amid the war in Ukraine, Mr. Putin has made it clear that this needed to change, he said.
end 30 years of openness to the West.
even a hockey player with suspect loyalties.
But nowhere are these ambitions clearer than in the Kremlin’s race to overhaul how children are taught at Russia’s 40,000 public schools.
militarize Russian society, building on officials’ ad hoc efforts after the invasion to convince young people that the war was justified.
“Patriotism should be the dominant value of our people,” another senior Kremlin official, Aleksandr Kharichev, said at last month’s workshop for teachers, which was hosted by the education ministry.
His presentation defined patriotism bluntly: “Readiness to give one’s life for the Motherland.”
Mr. Novikov, the head of the Kremlin’s “public projects” directorate, said that with the invasion of Ukraine in February, teachers faced “a rather urgent task”: to “carry out explanatory work” and answer students’ “difficult questions.”
“While everything is more or less controllable with the younger ones, the older students receive information through a wide variety of channels,” he said, acknowledging the government’s fears about the internet swaying young people’s views. A poll last month by the independent Levada Center found that 36 percent of Russians aged 18 to 24 opposed the war in Ukraine, compared with just 20 percent of all adults.
published by the education ministry last month shows that Mr. Putin’s two decades in power are set to be enshrined in the standard curriculum as a historical turning point, while the teaching of history itself will become more doctrinal.
The decree says that Russian history classes will be required to include several new topics like “the rebirth of Russia as a great power in the 21st century,” “reunification with Crimea,” and “the special military operation in Ukraine.”
And while Russia’s existing educational standard says students should be able to evaluate “various versions of history,” the new proposal says they should learn to “defend historical truth” and “uncover falsifications in the Fatherland’s history.”
As government employees, teachers generally have little choice but to comply with the new demands — though there are signs of grass-roots resistance. Mr. Ken says the Alliance of Teachers, his union, has provided legal guidance to dozens of teachers who have refused to teach this spring’s propaganda classes, noting that political agitation in schools is technically illegal under Russian law. In some cases, he says, principals have simply canceled the classes, knowing they were unpopular.
“You just need to find the moral strength not to facilitate evil,” Sergei Chernyshov, who runs a private high school in the Siberian city of Novosibirsk and has resisted promoting government propaganda, said in a phone interview. “If you can’t protest against it, at least don’t help it.”
Come September, such resistance could become more difficult, with schools directed to add an hour of class every Monday promoting the Kremlin’s version of patriotism. Virtual guest speakers in those classes will include Ramzan Kadyrov, the brutal strongman leader of the Chechnya region, and Patriarch Kirill I, the leader of the Russian Orthodox Church who has called the invasion a righteous fight, according to a presentation at last month’s workshop.
schedule of the weekly classes posted by the education ministry. In October, fifth graders and up will have a session apparently meant to discourage emigration; its title: “Happiness is being happy at home.”
Also beginning in September is the Kremlin’s new youth movement, an idea endorsed by Mr. Putin in a televised meeting in April and enshrined in legislation he signed on Thursday.
A co-sponsor of the legislation, the lawmaker Artyom Metelev, said the creation of a new youth movement had long been in the works, but that the West’s online “information war” targeting young people amid the fighting in Ukraine made that measure more urgent.
“This would have also all appeared without the military operation,” Mr. Metelev, who is 28 and a member of Mr. Putin’s United Russia party, said in a phone interview. “It’s just that the military operation and those, let’s say, actions being carried out in relation to our country have accelerated it.”
Moscow’s propaganda infrastructure aimed at children remains far more limited than it was during the Soviet era — a time when young people actively sought out underground cultural exports smuggled in from the West. Mr. Chernyshov, the Novosibirsk school director, believes that the Kremlin’s attempts to sell its militarism to children will now also eventually run up against the young mind’s common sense.
“A 10-year-old child is much more of a humanist than the typical Russian citizen,” he said. “It’s simply impossible to explain to a child in plain language why, right now, some people are killing others.”
Ukraine hoists flag on recaptured Black Sea island
Russia carries out air strike on island
UK PM and staunch Ukraine supporter Johnson resigns
Russia shells and probes new territory it seeks
KYIV/BAKHMUT, Ukraine, July 7 (Reuters) – Ukrainian forces raised their national flag on a recaptured Black Sea island on Thursday in a defiant act against Moscow, but Kyiv lost a main international supporter after British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said he would step down.
Russian forces also shelled potential conquests in eastern Ukraine ahead of an expected new offensive.
Moscow did not conceal its delight at the political demise of Johnson, a leader whom it has long criticised for arming Kyiv so energetically. read more
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“The moral of the story is: do not seek to destroy Russia,” Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said. “Russia cannot be destroyed. You can break your teeth on it – and then choke on them.”
Johnson said Britain’s support for Ukraine would continue regardless but his resignation comes at a time of domestic turmoil in some other European countries that support Kyiv amid doubts about their staying power for what has become a protracted conflict.
Mykhailo Podolyak, a Ukrainian presidential adviser, thanked Johnson, saying he had been someone who had “began to call a spade a spade from the beginning”.
Moscow was fast to respond to Ukraine’s defiant flag-raising ceremony on Snake Island, located about 140 km (90 miles) south of the Ukrainian port of Odesa.
Its warplanes struck the strategic island shortly afterwards and destroyed part of the Ukrainian detachment there, it said.
Russia abandoned the Snake Island at the end of June in what it said was a gesture of goodwill – a victory for Ukraine that Kyiv hoped could loosen Moscow’s blockade of Ukrainian ports.
Images released by Ukraine on Thursday showed three Ukrainian soldiers raising the blue and yellow national flag on a patch of ground next to the remains of a flattened building.
Andriy Yermak, the Ukrainian president’s chief of staff, suggested the moment was one that would be repeated across Ukraine in the coming months.
“The flag of Ukraine is on Snake Island. Ahead of us are many more such videos from Ukrainian cities that are currently under temporary occupation,” he wrote on Telegram.
Russia’s missile strike on the island’s new residents had caused significant damage to its dock, Odesa regional administration spokesman Serhiy Bratchuk said.
In Moscow, the Russian defence ministry said several Ukrainian troops had landed on the island before dawn.
“An aircraft of the Russian Aerospace Forces immediately launched a strike with high-precision missiles,” ministry spokesperson Igor Konashenkov said.
Snake Island became a symbol of Ukraine’s refusal to bend to Russia’s will early in the war after Ukrainian forces stationed there delivered a salty riposte when asked by the commander of a Russian ship to surrender.
Ukrainian service members install a national flag on Snake (Zmiinyi) Island, as Russia’s attack on Ukraine continues, in Odesa region, Ukraine, in this handout picture released July 7, 2022. Press service of the Ukrainian Armed Forces/Handout via REUTERS
Russian forces in eastern Ukraine meanwhile kept up pressure on Ukrainian troops trying to hold the line along the northern borders of the Donetsk region, in preparation for an anticipated wider offensive against it.
After taking the city of Lysychansk on Sunday and effectively cementing their total control of Ukraine’s Luhansk region, Moscow has made clear it is planning to capture parts of the neighbouring Donetsk region which it has not yet seized. Kyiv still controls some large cities.
Donetsk regional governor Pavlo Kyrylenko, who has complained of intense Russian shelling in recent days, said that seven civilians had been killed by Russia in the region over the last 24 hours.
The mayor of the eastern Ukrainian city of Kramatorsk said Russian forces had fired missiles at the city centre in an air strike on Thursday and that there were casualties.
Reuters could not independently verify those assertions. Russia’s defence ministry says it does not target civilians and uses high precision weapons to eliminate military threats.
The Ukrainian military said Russian forces were moving more units into the Luhansk region in order to consolidate Moscow’s control there.
On Wednesday, Ukrainian officials had said that fighting was underway on the northern border between the Luhansk and Donetsk regions as Russian forces tried to make new inroads.
But after Russian President Vladimir Putin said he wanted troops involved in capturing the Luhansk region to rest, a full offensive has yet to materialise.
The U.S.-based Institute for the Study of War said Russia did not appear to have taken any new territory since its capture of Lysychansk on Sunday.
It assessed that “Russian forces are conducting an operational pause while still engaging in limited ground attacks to set conditions for more significant offensive operations”.
In the frontline city of Bakhmut, smoke rose from nearby hills where Ukrainian forces fired off artillery rounds, drawing Russian volleys in response.
People walked quickly between market stalls, but barely reacted to the frequent loud blasts.
Olena Kandeluk, 53, said shelling had increased in recent days as the fighting moved closed after the fall of Lysychansk.
“We have crops to harvest. Some fields have burned,” she said, explaining why she had stayed.
Some fields had been charred by Ukrainian rocket launches and others by incoming Russian fire, she said.
Putin launched his invasion on Feb. 24, calling it a “special military operation”, to demilitarise Ukraine, root out what he said were dangerous nationalists and protect Russian speakers in that country.
Ukraine and its allies say Russia launched an imperial-style land grab, starting the biggest conflict in Europe since World War Two.
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Stopping at the edge of a vast field of barley on his farm in Prundu, 30 miles outside Romania’s capital city of Bucharest, Catalin Corbea pinched off a spiky flowered head from a stalk, rolled it between his hands, and then popped a seed in his mouth and bit down.
“Another 10 days to two weeks,” he said, explaining how much time was needed before the crop was ready for harvest.
Mr. Corbea, a farmer for nearly three decades, has rarely been through a season like this one. The Russians’ bloody creep into Ukraine, a breadbasket for the world, has caused an upheaval in global grain markets. Coastal blockades have trapped millions of tons of wheat and corn inside Ukraine. With famine stalking Africa, the Middle East and elsewhere in Asia, a frenetic scramble for new suppliers and alternate shipping routes is underway.
barge that had sunk in World War II.
Rain was not as plentiful in Prundu as Mr. Corbea would have liked it to be, but the timing was opportune when it did come. He bent down and picked up a fistful of dark, moist soil and caressed it. “This is perfect land,” he said.
67.5 million tons of cargo, more than a third of it grain. Now, with Odesa’s port closed off, some Ukrainian exports are making their way through Constanta’s complex.
Railway cars, stamped “Cereale” on their sides, spilled Ukrainian corn onto underground conveyor belts, sending up billowing dust clouds last week at the terminal operated by the American food giant Cargill. At a quay operated by COFCO, the largest food and agricultural processor in China, grain was being loaded onto a cargo ship from one of the enormous silos that lined its docks. At COFCO’s entry gate, trucks that displayed Ukraine’s distinctive blue-and-yellow-striped flag on their license plates waited for their cargoes of grain to be inspected before unloading.
During a visit to Kyiv last week, Romania’s president, Klaus Iohannis, said that since the beginning of the invasion more than a million tons of Ukrainian grain had passed through Constanta to locations around the world.
But logistical problems prevent more grain from making the journey. Ukraine’s rail gauges are wider than those elsewhere in Europe. Shipments have to be transferred at the border to Romanian trains, or each railway car has to be lifted off a Ukrainian undercarriage and wheels to one that can be used on Romanian tracks.
Truck traffic in Ukraine has been slowed by backups at border crossings — sometimes lasting days — along with gas shortages and damaged roadways. Russia has targeted export routes, according to Britain’s defense ministry.
Romania has its own transit issues. High-speed rail is rare, and the country lacks an extensive highway system. Constanta and the surrounding infrastructure, too, suffer from decades of underinvestment.
Over the past couple of months, the Romanian government has plowed money into clearing hundreds of rusted wagons from rail lines and refurbishing tracks that were abandoned when the Communist regime fell in 1989.
Still, trucks entering and exiting the port from the highway must share a single-lane roadway. An attendant mans the gate, which has to be lifted for each vehicle.
When the bulk of the Romanian harvest begins to arrive at the terminals in the next couple of weeks, the congestion will get significantly worse. Each day, 3,000 to 5,000 trucks will arrive, causing backups for miles on the highway that leads into Constanta, said Cristian Taranu, general manager at the terminals run by the Romanian port operator Umex.
Mr. Mircea’s farm is less than a 30-minute drive from Constanta. But “during the busiest periods, my trucks are waiting two, three days” just to enter the port’s complex so they can unload, he said through a translator.
That is one reason he is less sanguine than Mr. Corbea is about Romania’s ability to take advantage of farming and export opportunities.
“Port Constanta is not prepared for such an opportunity,” Mr. Mircea said. “They don’t have the infrastructure.”
LONDON — The Russian blockade that has stopped Ukraine from exporting its vast storehouses of grain and other goods, threatening starvation in distant corners of the globe, is a “war crime,” the European Union’s top foreign policy official declared Monday.
The remarks by the official, Josep Borrell Fontelles, were among the strongest language from a Western leader in describing the Kremlin’s tactics to subjugate Ukraine nearly four months after it invaded, and with no end to the conflict in sight.
Before Russian forces began pounding Ukraine in February, it was a major exporter of grain, cooking oil and fertilizer. But the Black Sea blockade — along with Russia’s seizure of Ukrainian farmland and its destruction of agricultural infrastructure — has brought exports to a near standstill. The latest blow came Monday, when, Ukrainian regional authorities said, a Russian missile razed a food warehouse in Odesa, Ukraine’s biggest Black Sea port.
arriving in Luxembourg for a meeting of E.U. foreign ministers. “Millions of tons of wheat remain blocked in Ukraine while in the rest of the world, people are suffering hunger. This is a real war crime, so I cannot imagine that this will last much longer.”
President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine made the same point in a remote address to the African Union on Monday. Moscow has deep ties to many African countries, which have been reluctant to criticize the invasion.
similar announcement on Sunday by Germany, Europe’s biggest economy. Denmark said it was also activating a plan to deal with looming shortages of gas that had been supplied by Russia.
The developments came as Russia, far from feeling the pain of lost fuel sales, found a savior in China, which reported on Monday that it was now the biggest buyer of Russian oil.
considering a suspension of fuel taxes to ease the strain on consumers.
NBC News, Dmitri S. Peskov, the Kremlin’s spokesman, said that the two Americans, Alex Drueke, 39, and Andy Tai Ngoc Huynh, 27, were “soldiers of fortune” who had been engaged in shelling and firing on Russian forces and should be “held responsible for the crimes they have committed.”
The sanctions imposed on Russia also played a role on Monday in an escalating confrontation with Lithuania, a member of both the European Union and NATO.
The Russian authorities threatened Lithuania with retaliation if the Baltic country did not swiftly reverse its ban on the transportation of some goods to Kaliningrad, the Russian exclave between Lithuania and Poland. Citing instructions from the European Union, Lithuania’s railway on Friday said it was halting the movement of goods from Russia that have been sanctioned by the European bloc.
Mr. Peskov told reporters the situation was “more than serious.” He called the new restrictions “an element of a blockade” of the region and a “violation of everything.”
small town of Toshkivka in Luhansk Province, part of the eastern region known as Donbas. That is where Russian forces have concentrated much of their military power as part of a plan to seize the region after having failed to occupy other parts of the country, including Kyiv, the capital, and Kharkiv, the second-largest city, in northern Ukraine.
Reports over the weekend suggested that Russian forces had broken through the Ukrainian front line in Toshkivka, about 12 miles southeast of the metropolitan area of Sievierodonetsk and Lysychansk. Those are the last major cities in Luhansk not to have fallen into Russian hands. As of Monday, it remained unclear whether Russia had made any further advance there.
But Ukrainian officials said Russian forces had intensified shelling in and around Kharkiv, weeks after the Ukrainians had pushed them back, suggesting that Moscow still had territorial ambitions beyond Donbas.
“We de-occupied this region,” Mr. Zelensky said in an address to a conference of international policy experts in Italy. “And they want to do it again.”
Matthew Mpoke Bigg reported from London, Andrew Higgins from Warsaw, Thomas Gibbons-Neff from Druzhkivka, Ukraine, and Rick Gladstone from New York. Reporting was contributed by Valerie Hopkins and Oleksandr Chubko from Kyiv; Dan Bilefsky from Montreal; Monika Pronczuk from Brussels; Austin Ramzy from Hong Kong; Stanley Reed from London; and Zach Montague from Rehoboth Beach, Del.
A little boy blown up by a mine at the beach. A young mother shot in the forehead. A retired teacher killed in her home. Soldiers killing and dying every day by the hundreds. Older people and young people and everyone in between.
A war can be measured by many metrics. Territory won or lost. Geopolitical influence increased or diminished. Treasure acquired or resources depleted. But for the people suffering under the shelling, who hear the whistling of incoming missiles, the crack of gunfire on the streets and the wails of loss out of shattered windows, the death toll is the most telling account of a war.
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In Ukraine, no one is quite sure exactly what that toll is, except that many many people have been killed.
An “endless caravan of death,” said Petro Andryushchenko, an official for the devastated city of Mariupol.
In its latest updates, the Office of United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights said 4,509 civilians had been killed in the conflict. But it is clear that many thousands more have been killed. Ukraine’s chief of police, Ihor Klymenko, said this past week that prosecutors had opened criminal proceedings “for the deaths of more than 12,000 people who were found, in particular, in mass graves.”
And in Mariupol, the Black Sea city flattened by Russian bombardment, Ukrainian officials in exile have said that examinations of mass graves using satellite imagery, witness testimony and other evidence have led them to believe that at least 22,000 were killed — and possibly thousands more.
The casualty figures exclude the thousands believed killed in territories held by Russian forces. And even where Ukraine has regained control, Mr. Klymenko said, it was premature to calculate the dead in mass graves, as more are found every week.
Indeed, finding and identifying the dead is such a daunting challenge, Ukraine’s chief prosecutor said in a statement on Saturday, that it required global coordination beyond Ukraine’s national efforts. The prosecutor, Iryna Venediktova, said she had met with the International Commission on Missing Persons, based in The Hague, to develop avenues for cooperation.
International and Ukrainian authorities have little access to embattled cities to take accurate counts, and the urban targets, the constant artillery fire and the static nature of the fighting in the contested south and east only adds to the death and horror.
“People are killed indiscriminately or suddenly or without rhyme or reason,” said Richard H. Kohn, a professor emeritus of history and peace, war and defense at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He said the incessant artillery fire “kills and maims people.”
“It creates enormous psychological stress on populations,” Mr. Kohn said, “as it does on the combatants,” and “it lasts for a very long time.”
The Russians, eager to preserve an aura of competence, underreport their battlefield losses. The Ukrainians, desperate to maintain morale as the shells fall, do the same. Civilian casualties are an unknown variable, multiplied by grisly factors like collapsing buildings and the unreported victims of occupied towns.
Children are not protected from the indiscriminate violence. The United Nations’ agency for the protection of children in emergency situations has estimated that at least three children have died each day since the war started in February. That is only an estimate.
Mariupol — the city that has become symbolic of Ukraine’s resistance, Russia’s unrelenting shelling and the war’s savagery — is still burying corpses.
“In our city, there are a lot of mass graves, a lot of spontaneous graves, and some bodies are still in the street,” Mariupol’s mayor, Vadym Boichenko, said last Monday.
That toll has heightened dread about the losses in the 20 percent of Ukraine now under Russian occupation. Some places, like Sievierodonetsk, have been basically reduced to rubble by advancing Russian forces.
Early in the war, as Russia tried, and failed, to take the capital, Kyiv, its forces added to the death toll with shocking brutality. In Bucha, they shot civilians dead in their cars, homes and gardens, left corpses in the street and even burned them and dumped them in a parking lot. And when the Russian armored columns retreated, they left more dead in their wake.
At least 1,500 civilians were killed in the Kyiv region alone, according to Mr. Klymenko. They included two sisters in Bucha — one a retired teacher and the other disabled.
“Why would you kill a grandma?” asked Serhiy, a neighbor of the sisters.
The Ukrainian army is taking heavy losses. By the government’s own estimates, as many as 200 soldiers are dying every day. In towns and cities across the country, even those far from the front lines, military funerals take place nearly daily for Ukrainian soldiers killed in the Luhansk and Donetsk regions, where the fighting is now heaviest.
The dead are often buried quickly, and in shallow graves.
“I feel numb,” said Antoniy, a morgue worker in Lviv, in western Ukraine. “Even when someone is telling me a joke that I know is funny, I can’t laugh.”
Regardless of when or how the war ends, Professor Kohn said, trauma, loss, displacement and fear all become “part of the culture of a country.”
Many of the Russians ordered by President Vladimir V. Putin to invade Ukraine under the false pretenses of liberating the country from Nazis are not coming home, either. In April, Western countries estimated that Russia had lost about 15,000 soldiers in Ukraine; on Friday, Ukraine put the estimate at 33,000.
The true toll is unknown, and will not be coming from Moscow: Its last announcement, on March 25, said that a total of 1,351 Russian soldiers had died.
In the months after the invasion began, local news websites across Russia compiled “memory pages” that listed the names of hometown soldiers who had died. Then, this month, they deleted them: A court ruled that such lists were state secrets.
“We apologize,” said the site 74.ru in Chelyabinsk in Siberia, “to the mothers and fathers, wives and children, relatives and friends of the servicemen who have died during the special military operation in Ukraine.”
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BRUSSELS/KYIV, Ukraine, June 17 (Reuters) – The European Union gave its blessing on Friday for Ukraine and its neighbour Moldova to become candidates to join, in the most dramatic geopolitical shift to result from Russia’s invasion.
Ukraine applied to join the EU just four days after Russian troops poured across its border in February. Four days later, so did Moldova and Georgia – smaller ex-Soviet states also contending with separatist regions occupied by Russian troops.
“Ukraine has clearly demonstrated the country’s aspiration and the country’s determination to live up to European values and standards,” the EU’s executive Commission head Ursula von der Leyen said in Brussels. She made the announcement wearing Ukrainian colours, a yellow blazer over a blue shirt.
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President Voloymyr Zelenskiy thanked von der Leyen and EU member states on Twitter for a decision he called “the first step on the EU membership path that’ll certainly bring our victory closer”.
Moldova’s President Maia Sandu hailed a “strong signal of support for Moldova & our citizens!” and said she counted on the support of EU member states.
“We’re committed to working hard,” she said on Twitter.
While recommending candidate status for Ukraine and Moldova, the Commission held off for Georgia, which it said must meet more conditions first.
Von der Leyen said Georgia has a strong application but had to come together politically. A senior diplomat close to the process cited setbacks in reforms there.
Leaders of EU countries are expected to endorse the decision at a summit next week. The leaders of the three biggest – Germany, France and Italy – had signalled their solidarity on Thursday by visiting Kyiv, along with the president of Romania.
“Ukraine belongs to the European family,” Germany’s Olaf Scholz said after meeting President Volodymyr Zelenskiy.
Ukraine and Moldova will still face a lengthy process to achieve the standards required for membership, and there are other candidates in the waiting room. Nor is membership guaranteed – talks have been stalled for years with Turkey, officially a candidate since 1999.
But launching the candidacy process, a move that would have seemed unthinkable just months ago, amounts to a shift on par with the decision in the 1990s to welcome the ex-Communist countries of Eastern Europe.
“Precisely because of the bravery of the Ukrainians, Europe can create a new history of freedom, and finally remove the grey zone in Eastern Europe between the EU and Russia,” Zelenskiy said in his nightly video address.
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen attends a news conference, with European Commissioner for Neighbourhood and Enlargement Oliver Varhelyi, after a meeting of the College of European Commissioners addressing its opinion on Ukraine’s EU candidate status, in Brussels, Belgium June 17, 2022. REUTERS/Yves Herman
If admitted, Ukraine would be the EU’s largest country by area and its fifth most populous. All three hopefuls are far poorer than any existing EU members, with per capita output around half that of the poorest, Bulgaria.
All have recent histories of volatile politics, domestic unrest, entrenched organised crime, and unresolved conflicts with Russian-backed separatists proclaiming sovereignty over territory protected by Moscow’s troops.
President Vladimir Putin ordered his “special military operation” officially to disarm and “denazify” Ukraine. One of his main objectives was to halt the expansion of Western institutions which he called a threat to Russia.
But the war, which has killed thousands of people, destroyed whole cities and set millions to flight, has had the opposite effect. Finland and Sweden have applied to join the NATO military alliance, and the EU has opened its arms to the east.
Within Ukraine, Russian forces were defeated in an attempt to storm the capital in March, but have since refocused on seizing more territory in the east.
The nearly four-month-old war has entered a punishing attritional phase, with Russian forces relying on their massive advantage in artillery firepower to blast their way into Ukrainian cities.
Ukrainian officials said their troops were still holding out in Sievierodonetsk, site of the worst fighting of recent weeks, on the east bank of the Siverskyi Donets river. It was impossible to evacuate more than 500 civilians who are trapped inside a chemical plant, the regional governor said.
In the surrounding Donbas region, which Moscow claims on behalf of its separatist proxies, Ukrainian forces are mainly defending the river’s opposite bank.
Near the frontline in the ruins of the small city of Marinka, Ukrainian police made their way into a cellar searching for anyone who wanted help to evacuate. A group of mainly elderly residents huddled on mattresses in candlelight.
“There’s space down here, you could join us,” joked one man as the officers came in. A woman named Nina sighed in the darkness: “There is nowhere. Nowhere. Nowhere to go. All the houses have been burnt out. Where can we go?”
In the south, Ukraine has mounted a counter-offensive, claiming to have made inroads into the biggest swath still held by Russia of the territory it seized in the invasion. There have been few reports from the frontline to confirm the situation in that area.
Ukraine claimed its forces had struck a Russian tugboat bringing soldiers, weapons and ammunition to Russian-occupied Snake Island, a strategic Black Sea outpost.
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Even as Russia hammers eastern Ukraine with heavy artillery, it is cementing its grip on the south, claiming to have restored roads, rails and a critical freshwater canal that could help it claim permanent dominion over the region.
The extension of Russian infrastructure into the occupied south could allow Moscow to fortify a “land bridge” between Russia and Crimea and build on efforts to claim control through the introduction of Russian currency and the appointment of proxy officials.
Russia’s defense minister, Sergei K. Shoigu, said on Tuesday that the military, working with Russian Railways, had repaired about 750 miles of track in southeastern Ukraine and set the conditions for traffic to flow from Russia through Ukraine’s eastern Donbas region to occupied territory in Kherson and Crimea.
Mr. Shoigu also said that water was once again flowing to Crimea through the North Crimean Canal — an important source of freshwater that Ukraine cut off in 2014 after the Kremlin annexed the peninsula. Mr. Shoigu claimed that car traffic was now open between “continental” Russia and Crimea.
Mr. Shoigu’s claims of restored roads and rails could not be immediately verified.
Satellite imagery reviewed by The New York Times showed that water was flowing through the parts of the canal in Crimea that were dry until March. Russian engineers blew open a blockage in the canal in late February, days after Russian forces invaded Ukraine. Ukrainian officials did not immediately comment on Wednesday.
The North Crimean Canal, a 250-mile-long engineering marvel built under the Soviet Union, had channeled water from Ukraine’s Dnipro River to the arid Crimean Peninsula until President Vladimir V. Putin seized it in 2014.
After Crimea’s annexation, Ukraine dropped bags of sand and clay into the canal to prevent the Russian occupiers from benefiting from the valuable freshwater.
Instead of flowing to Crimea, the canal was used to irrigate the melon fields and peach orchards in Ukraine’s Kherson region to the north.
Ukrainian officials said that cutting off the water was one of the few levers at their disposal to inflict pain on Russia without using military force.
For the Kremlin, the blockage represented a vexing and expensive infrastructure challenge, with Crimea’s residents suffering chronic water shortages and occasional shut-offs at the tap.
When Mr. Putin massed troops on Ukraine’s border last year, some analysts speculated that the canal was one of the prizes the Kremlin wanted.
Even as Russia sought to entrench its control in the south this week, a clandestine battle has emerged inside the occupied regions, involving Kremlin loyalists, occupying Russian forces, Ukrainian partisans and the Ukrainian military.
On Tuesday, Ukrainian media posted video of what they said was an explosion at a cafe in the occupied city of Kherson that had served as a gathering place for people collaborating with Russian forces. Russian state media described it as an act of “terror.”
It was the latest in a series of attacks targeting Russian supporters and proxies. It came amid reports — most impossible to independently verify — of Ukrainian guerrillas blowing up bridges, targeting rail lines used by Russian forces and killing Russian soldiers on patrol.
Oleksiy Arestovych, an adviser to the Ukrainian president, said that there was a focused guerrilla movement operating in the south. “Partisans are fighting very actively,” he said on his YouTube channel.
In the east, where both armies are fighting for control, Ukrainian officials were weighing whether to withdraw their forces in the city of Sievierodonetsk, the last major pocket of Ukrainian resistance in the Luhansk region.
Sievierodonetsk has been blasted by weeks of Russian shelling, and President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine referred to the city and its neighbor, Lysychansk, on Monday as “dead cities,” physically destroyed and nearly empty of civilians.
“Fighting is still raging and no one is going to give up the city, even if our military has to step back to stronger positions,” Serhiy Haidai, the Ukrainian military governor of the Luhansk region, said on Ukrainian television, according to Reuters.
Moscow’s announcement that it was extending its ties to the occupied south seemed certain to be greeted in Ukraine as further evidence of Russia’s determination to break Ukraine apart and pillage its natural resources.
“Russia is trying to build infrastructure for military supply,” said Mykhailo Samus, deputy director for international affairs at the Center for Army Studies, Conversion and Disarmament, a research group in Kyiv, the Ukrainian capital.
“Maybe they try to steal the agriculture, food products from occupied territories,” he added.
The Russian authorities said that the first train had traveled from the occupied city of Melitopol to Crimea carrying grain — freight that Ukrainian officials say was stolen from Ukrainian farmers forced to hand over their crops for a pittance or nothing at all.
Russia has blockaded Ukraine’s Black Sea ports since the start of the war, trapping more than 20 million tons of grain meant for export and deepening a global food crisis. Dimming the long-term outlook, grain silos in Ukraine are still about half full, the Ukraine Grain Association said on Wednesday, raising the possibility that much of this year’s crop could be left in the fields.
On Wednesday, the Russian and Turkish foreign ministers held talks focused on allowing Ukraine’s grain to reach global markets through the Black Sea.
But the Russian foreign minister, Sergey V. Lavrov, minimized the issue, suggesting that a global food catastrophe caused by a Russian blockade was a Western exaggeration.
“The current situation has nothing to do with the food crisis,” Mr. Lavrov said at a news conference in Ankara, the Turkish capital. “The Russian Federation is not creating any obstacles for the passage of ships and vessels.”
He blamed Ukraine, saying that its naval mines and refusal to use humanitarian corridors offered by Russia in Black Sea shipping lanes were stalling exports.
The Turkish foreign minister, Mevlut Cavusoglu, disagreed, saying that there was a global problem, but that it involved both Russian and Ukrainian products.
“The food crisis in the world is a real crisis,” Mr. Cavusoglu said, noting that Russia and Ukraine together supply about one-third of the world’s grain products.
Mr. Cavusoglu said that a mechanism was needed to get not just agricultural products from Ukraine out through the Black Sea, but also Russian fertilizer, which is vital for global agriculture.
He suggested that the answer lay in a United Nations proposal that the international community provide guarantees for the shipments that addressed security concerns on both sides.
Ukraine was not invited to the talks in Ankara, and its government and Russia’s each blame the other for the lack of exports.
The two countries normally supply about 40 percent of wheat needs in Africa, according to the United Nations.
Ukrainian officials are deeply skeptical of a promise by Mr. Putin, which Mr. Lavrov repeated, that if harbors were demined, Russia would not exploit them to dispatch an invasion fleet. Russian warships have also been patrolling Black Sea shipping lanes.
Oleksii Danilov, the secretary of Ukraine’s National Security and Defense Council, said on Twitter on Wednesday, “Our position on the supply of grain is clear: security first.” He accused Russia of “artificially creating obstacles to seize the market and blackmail Europe over food shortages.”
The United States has cited satellite imagery of cargo ships to accuse Russia of looting Ukrainian wheat stocks that it exported, mostly to Africa, echoing Ukrainian government allegations that Russia has stolen up to 500,000 tons of wheat, worth $100 million, since it invaded Ukraine in February.
Wheat is not the only Ukrainian resource prompting alarm. As Ukraine braces for what promises to be a difficult winter, Mr. Zelensky said that the country would not sell its gas or coal abroad. “All domestic production will be directed to the internal needs of our citizens,” he said.
Reporting was contributed by Valerie Hopkins, Ivan Nechepurenko, Malachy Browne, Neil MacFarquhar, Safak Timur and Anushka Patil.
Fierce street fighting for key eastern industrial city
Ukraine troops outnumbered, will not surrender-Zelenskiy
Eastern front under constant shelling
Efforts to evacuate thousands
KYIV/DRUZHKIVKA, Ukraine, June 7 (Reuters) – Ukrainian troops battled Russians street-to-street in the ruins of Sievierodonetsk on Tuesday, trying to hold onto gains from a surprise counter-offensive that had reversed momentum in one of the bloodiest land battles of the war.
The fight for the small industrial city has emerged as a pivotal battle in eastern Ukraine, with Russia focusing its offensive might there in the hope of achieving one of its stated war aims – to fully capture surrounding Luhansk province on behalf of separatist proxies.
After withdrawing from nearly all the city in the face of the Russian advance, Ukrainian forces staged a surprise counter-attack last week, driving the Russians from a swath of the city centre. Since then, the two armies have faced off across boulevards, both claiming to have inflicted huge casualties.
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“Our heroes are not giving up positions in Sievierodonetsk,” President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said in an overnight video address, describing fierce street fighting in the city. Earlier, he told reporters at a briefing the Ukrainians were outnumbered but still had “every chance” of fighting back.
Before Ukraine’s counter-offensive, Russia had seemed on the verge of encircling Ukraine’s garrison in Luhansk province, cutting off the main road to Sievierodonetsk and its twin city Lysychansk across the Siverskiy Donets river.
But following the counter-offensive, Zelenskiy made a surprise visit to Lysychansk on Sunday, personally demonstrating that Kyiv still had an open route to its troops’ redoubt.
Ukraine’s defence ministry said Russia was throwing troops and equipment into its drive to capture Sievierodonetsk. Luhansk Governor Serhiy Gaidai said on Monday the situation had worsened since the Ukrainian defenders had pushed back the Russians over the weekend.
Luhansk and neighbouring Donetsk province, together known as the Donbas, have become Russia’s main focus since its forces were defeated at the outskirts of Kyiv in March and pushed back from the second biggest city Kharkiv last month.
Russia has been pressing from three main directions – east, north and south – to try to encircle the Ukrainians in the Donbas. Russia has made progress, but only slowly, failing to deal a decisive blow or to encircle the Ukrainians.
In its nightly update, the Ukrainian military said two civilians were killed in Russian shelling in the Donbas and Russian forces had fired at more than 20 communities, using artillery and air strikes.
In Druzhkivka, in the Ukrainian-held pocket of Donetsk province, residents were picking through the wreckage of houses obliterated by the latest shelling.
“Please help, we need materials for the roof, for the house, there are people without shelter,” shouted Nelya, outside her home where the roof had been shredded. “My niece, she has two small children, she had to cover one of her children with her own body.”
A Ukrainian service member shoots from an automatic grenade launcher at a position on the front line, amid Russia’s attack on Ukraine, near Bakhmut, Donbas region, Ukraine June 5, 2022. REUTERS/Gleb Garanich
Nearby, Nadezhda picked up a children’s pink photo album and kindergarten exercise book from the ruins of her house, and put them on a shelf somehow still standing in the rubble.
“I do not even know where to start. I am standing here looking but I have no idea what to do. I start crying, I calm down, then I cry again.”
Russia invaded Ukraine on Feb. 24, in what it calls a “special military operation” to stamp out what it sees as threats to its security. Ukraine and its Western allies call this a baseless pretext for a war to grab territory.
Britain’s defence ministry said on Tuesday that Russia was still trying to cut off Sievierodonetsk by advancing from the north near Izium and from the south near Popasna. It said Russia’s progress from Popasna had stalled over the last week, while reports of heavy shelling near Izium suggested Moscow was preparing a new offensive there.
“Russia will almost certainly need to achieve a breakthrough on at least one of these axes to translate tactical gains to operational level success and progress towards its political objective of controlling all of Donetsk Oblast,” it said.
The Donetsk regional governor, Pavlo Kyrylenko, told Ukrainian television there was constant shelling along the front line, with Russia attempting to push towards Sloviansk and Kramatorsk, the two biggest Ukrainian-held cities in Donetsk.
Kyrylenko said efforts were underway to evacuate people from several towns, some under attack day and night, including Sloviansk where about 24,000 residents, around a quarter of the population, still remains.
“People are now understanding, though it is late, that it is time to leave,” he said.
Ukraine is one of the world’s biggest exporters of grain, and Western countries accuse Russia of creating risk of global famine by shutting Ukraine’s Black Sea ports.
Zelenskiy said Kyiv was gradually receiving “specific anti-ship systems”, and that these would be the best way to break a Russian blockade of Ukrainian ports.
Moscow denies blame for the food crisis, which it says was caused by Western sanctions.
Russia’s U.N. envoy, Vassily Nebenzia, stormed out of a U.N. Security Council meeting on Monday as European Council President Charles Michel, addressing the 15-member body, accused Moscow of fueling the global food crisis with its invasion of Ukraine. read more
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Moscow would respond to Western deliveries of long-range weapons by pushing Ukrainian forces further back from Russia’s border.
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If you want to control your spending and increase your savings, one of the best ways to go about it is to create a budget. Budgeting will help you outline your income and your outgoing expenses, allowing you to have a better idea of where your money is going. If you like to spend money playing games at sites like Neon Vegas, budgeting is important to stay in control of how much you spend. Slots and other casino games are a lot of fun, but when your budget, you’ll be able to have fun more responsibly.
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You’ll get a good idea of how much you’re saving and how much you can realistically spend each month. If you want to go one step further, you can group expenditures by type, with categories for things like food, entertainment and others. The best thing to do is make a list of both necessary costs and costs you can do without.
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The first in my A – Z of hypnotherapy-related terms is anchoring – a fantastic NLP technique which I use with most of my clients, most of the time.
Although anchoring is usually thought of as an NLP technique, it’s useful to think of anchoring as a completely natural response and reaction to a range of situations, which we, as hypnotherapists, simply manipulate in a positive manner to help people. So what is a ‘natural’ anchor? An anchor is something which immediately – at an unconscious level – triggers a memory or response in us. Anchors can trigger both positive and negative responses, and any of our five senses can be triggered in a number of ways. Let’s imagine you walk into a room and smell a familiar smell which immediately makes you think of your grandmother. Your response to the smell is immediate – you don’t consciously register what is happening. Without realising it at first, you have smelt your grandmother’s favourite perfume and are transported back to the memories and feelings of being near your grandmother. Or perhaps you are walking past a man and smell his aftershave, and unconsciously find yourself lost in thought about the time you met your husband for the first time in a nightclub. If you are working on a difficult project, which is stressing you out, and an old song which you loved as a teenager suddenly comes on the radio, you may find yourself feeling calmer and happier, lost in the feelings that the music is invoking. When I walk along the beach near my home in Prestwick, on the west coast of Scotland, the sound of the waves often evokes early memories and feelings associated with childhood holidays in Shetland. Perhaps someone says or touches you in a perfectly innocent way, but it immediately anchors you to a negative experience. My brother, who was 9 years older than me, used to tickle me until I was in pain and crying, and sometimes hung me over the bannister as part of the tickling experience. If my sons or partner dare to give me a friendly tickle, I react in a very extreme way because – unconsciously – I am anchored immediately to this earlier experience (having been warned on several occasions, and having received the occasional extreme response from me, they all know not to tickle me now). These are all examples of natural anchors – a stimulus which immediately and suddenly takes you to a particular memory and state of mind.
How do we use anchoring in hypnotherapy?
Although anchors are completely natural, we can manipulate them in a positive way. Instead of just randomly letting an anchor ‘happen’ we can set one up, so that you can choose a trigger which will anchor you to a state of being of your choice. Again, some people have a tendency to do this naturally. For many years – long before I trained as a hypnotherapist – I used some anchors on myself. When I was at the dentist, I would find myself digging my thumb nail into my finger so that I would focus on that instead of the dental work which was taking place around me. I discovered through chance that certain pieces of music helped calm me down considerably whilst driving, and would play these songs when I was approaching a driving experience which I found difficult. If you take a minute or two now to think about it, you might find that you have specific things that you do or say to yourself which help you to stay calm and in control in particular situations. Children may find themselves hugging their favourite teddy, which immediately takes them into a calm and safe state. And sportspeople are famous for having specific tools and techniques which help to ground and anchor them before a performance. Anchors, therefore, are not only natural, but we often have the innate sense to create our own personal anchors.
We can take things a step further when it comes to utilising anchors in hypnotherapy. Firstly, we don’t leave things to chance, or rely on the fact that you will just inherently ‘know’ what is a good anchor for you in a particular situation. If there is a situation which tends to trigger a strong stress response, or which makes you act in a self-destructive manner – say, driving in heavy traffic, or binge eating when you feel low – I start off by asking you how you would prefer to feel in these situations. People would generally like to feel calm, confident and in control of the difficult situation – rather than the situation being in control of them (which it currently is). I then go on to ask my clients if there is a time when they have felt confident and in control of a situation, perhaps a time when they have achieved something good in their life, completed a task or simply felt like they were that ‘best version of themselves’. Even if it was a long time ago, we all have had times when we’ve handled a situation well, or utilised our best qualities, and I spend some time talking with my client to help them remember the right sort of memory. I then help them to use this good memory to ‘anchor’ them to the more positive state of mind they told me they experienced when they passed their driving test/ completed their work ahead of time/ achieved their weight loss goal. I create some kind of a tool to help them access this state whenever they need to. For instance, I will give them a word, or a scent, or a task to do – such as firmly clasping their thumb and finger together – which is, from then on, strongly associated with their good memory and state of mind.
I work with the client, in a state of hypnosis, to strengthen their anchor and to use their strong imaginations to experience how it feels to use their anchor during the situation they usually find difficult. For instance, if you came to me with a phobia of thunder, I would create a strong anchor with you – based on what you told me was a time when you had felt strong, confident and in control – and then, in a state of hypnosis, I would ask you to imagine yourself in a thunder storm, using your anchor. If you had an issue with alcohol, I would ask you to imagine yourself in a situation which usually triggered your drinking – such as feeling bored or lonely during the evening – and I would then ask you to use your anchor, so that the next time you were bored and lonely, you would be immediately transported to that ‘best version’ of yourself.
It’s impossible to overstate how powerful anchoring can be as a means to immediately and effectively access your ‘best you’ – whatever that ‘best you’ is. It seems like such a simple technique. But it’s beauty really lies in its simplicity. Because it is so natural, and so easy to do, it works at a very deep level which bypasses any need to have to think about it. In fact, in some ways, it’s the opposite of thinking. When we are in a state of panic, we’re in our ‘fight or flight’ system, and its impossible to think straight. One of the things to go when we’re in fight or flight is the ability to calmly and rationally think things through. Logic goes straight out of the window. The anchor works in a very different way to trying to think things through by quickly and fundamentally triggering a new, favourable response. Simply by breathing in a scent, or squeezing together your thumb and finger, or saying a special word, you automatically go into your desired state of confidence and being in control. You IMMEDIATELY feel a sense of calmness which means that the fight or flight response subsides, and which allows you back into the land of rational, logical thought.
Anchoring – as well as mentally transporting you into a very helpful frame of mind exactly when you need it – also provides some ‘time out’, which is especially useful for habits and destructive behaviours. I had a client recently who had a nail-biting habit which was causing them a high degree of distress. I helped them to create an anchor, based on a time when they had felt really good about themselves. In a state of hypnosis, I then encouraged them to imagine the types of situations which usually triggered their nail-biting response, which tended to be when they were bored and usually when they were at home after work. I got the client to replace the nail biting with an anchor or rubbing their thumb and forefinger together, which produced a sensation of feeling calm and satisfied and which replaced their old desire to nail bite, and which created a break between the feeling of boredom and the old behaviour of nail biting. A client with an over-eating issue found that her anchor gave her some time out and that she used it to manage the old cravings until they disappeared. When – with the help of the anchor – she felt calmer and more in control, she could make a rational decision about whether she wanted to eat the food, or whether to choose a healthier option, or no food, instead.
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The study showed a 15% reduction in real estate ads compared to May, as well as the percentage of car ads by 35% in the same month compared to March.
Furthermore, the number of real estate advertisers decreased in May by 10% approximately, and the number of buyers by approximately 27%. Meanwhile, the demand rate for real estate has increased by 2%, which is less than the usual percentage of demand comparably to the same period of each year.
The study added that the reduction of ads was due to the drastic hike in property prices, in both primary and secondary markets, in addition to stagnancy in the buying and selling process until prices stabilize.
The situation is the same when it comes to the automotive sector. The demand rate on cars reduced by 11% in addition to a reduction in both buyers and advertisers numbers by roughly 35% during May compared to March 2022.
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Facebook Graph Search
Today, Facebook unveiled Facebook Graph Search, a new way to search through your Facebook connections and to help make them more useful (outside of just providing updates). What this means is that instead of searching through your Facebook news feed, you can use Facebook Graph Search to help you get more granular within your existing connections and make new connections in the process.
What is Facebook Graph Search?
When you say Facebook Graph Search, a lot of people immediately conjure up images of Google Search. Yes, Facebook Graph Search is a search engine, but it isn’t Google Search. For now, Facebook Graph Search will help you learn more about your current connections. For example, do you know which of your friends have traveled to London? How about which of your friends are a big fan of Microsoft Bing? With Facebook Graph Search, now you can find this out just by searching.
Examples of Facebook Graph Search Queries
Here are just a handful of Facebook Graph Search Queries that you can perform. As you can see, Facebook Graph Search should be extremely helpful with not only helping us stay connected with our friends and family, but Facebook Graph Search can also help us bridge connections with businesses, restaurants and even help us to expand out hobbies.
- Dentists my friends like
- Restaurants liked by graduates of Johnson & Wales University (a culinary school)
- Friends who live in Washington DC who liked the Washington Nationals
- Restaurants my friends have been to in London
- Friends who like to ski (great for planning an impromptu ski trip)
- Friends who live in San Francisco who like Imagine Dragons
Facebook Graph Search for Facebook Pages
One of the announcements that wasn’t made is how Facebook Graph Search results will affect Facebook Pages. Personally, I think Facebook Graph Search is going to make it even more important for businesses to be on Facebook and to have a complete, updated Facebook Page at all times.
In the past, it was extremely difficult to find anything on Facebook. At the same time, I can attest that I saw plenty of friends asking for recommendations for nail salons, dentists, restaurants in New York. Now, with Facebook Graph Search, people will instantly be able search for their friends who have a relationship with a specific business and then connect with that business. Overall, this should lead to an increase in the number of likes that a Facebook Page is getting too because of an improved Facebook Search. That’s why it’s important more than ever to not only have a presence on Facebook, but to keep it updated because of the billions of Facebook users who now might be visiting your Facebook Page.
How Facebook Graph Search Affects Other Social Networks
While Facebook Graph Search will help to improve the quality of your Facebook searches and increase the opportunity to get more likes (and potential customers) to your Facebook Page, I think we might see a shift from other social networks too. For example, now that I can search for people who work at a specific company (and actually find the results) on Facebook, this makes LinkedIn less of a necessary social network for job recruiting. The same holds true for sites like Yelp! and Angie’s List too.
If I want to find a restaurant, instead of using Yelp! to look through reviews from people I don’t know, I can now just go to Facebook and use Facebook Graph Search and type “Restaurants my friends have been to in London (or any location)” to learn more about their experiences at a particular restaurant and then use Facebook Poke to quickly ask them about foods they recommend there.
The same holds true for sites like Angie’s List. Why would someone pay to read reviews when they can now just go ask their friends.
Frequently Asked Questions About Facebook Graph Search
If you still have questions about Facebook Graph Search, here’s brief list from Facebook.
What is Graph Search?
Graph Search is a new way for you to find people, photos, places and interests that are most relevant to you on Facebook.
What is Graph Search useful for?
Graph Search will help you instantly find others, learn more about them and make connections, explore photos, quickly find places like local attractions and restaurants, and learn about common interests like music, movies, books and more. All results are unique based on the strength of relationships and connections.
What can I search for?
With Graph Search, you can search for people, photos, places and interests.
How do I search?
Type your search into the blue bar at the top of the page. As you start to type, suggestions appear in a drop down. You can refine your search using the tools on the right-hand side of the page.
Some example searches include:
· People who like tennis and live nearby
· Photos before 1990
· Photos of my friends in New York
· Sushi restaurants in Palo Alto my friends have liked
· Tourist attractions in Italy visited by my friends
How are you rolling this out?
Graph Search is in a limited preview, or beta. That means Graph Search will only be available to a very small number of people who use Facebook in US English.
How can I get Facebook Graph Search?
You can sign up for the waitlist at www.facebook.com/graphsearch
Does Graph Search change any of my current privacy settings?
No. Graph Search follows your current privacy settings. You can only search for content that has been shared with you.
How do I control what tags, locations and photos can show up about me?
To control tags, photos or posts with locations about you that appear in search, go to your Activity Log.
Video: Facebook Graph Search
If you’re still confused about Facebook Graph Search, here’s a video on how it works.
Closing Thoughts on Facebook Graph Search
If the pieces for Facebook Graph Search come together, I can see a really great solution that’s rooted in the connections we already have (which we’re biased towards anyway). Introduce an improved Facebook Mobile experience and Facebook just might have struck gold.
Overall, Facebook Graph Search is a pretty remarkable new feature and I’m really looking forward to it because it will help deepen current relationships and help us to forge new ones – with friends, restaurants, businesses and many more areas of our lives in the process.
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Can A Meditation Retreat Change Your Life Forever?
Given the fast-paced life that people lead today, mental health issues have become an inevitable part of life. People suffer from issues like stress, anxiety, and depression which only bring down their quality of life. While numerous artificial medicines can help, alternative holistic remedies tend to improve mental health. Here, meditation retreats come into the picture.
Have you been feeling stressed lately? Do you want to go for a meditation retreat but wonder how it will help you? Read on to find out the wonderful ways in which a meditation retreat can turn around your life.
What Is A Meditation Retreat?
Meditation is nothing but a technique of focusing one’s mind on a particular activity, thought, or object. It trains attention and awareness, which develops mindfulness and helps achieve a mentally calm state.
A meditation retreat is a perfect opportunity to get away from the ordinary life you lead and spend time devoted to meditation. Retreats are incredibly beneficial, especially for beginners to grasp meditation. It can involve numerous activities like yoga, guided meditations, silent meditation, and much more.
7 Ways In Which A Meditation Retreat Can Prove Beneficial For You
Here are some benefits of meditation retreats that can change your life and prove to be a successful part of your healing journey:
Connecting With Nature And Disconnecting From Technology
Nature is an intrinsic part of life that promotes a happy and healthy life. But because people spend most of their lives slogging in the urban cities, it is easier to get detached from nature and develop an overdependence on technology.
Being far away from the hustle of life and into the laps of nature for a meditation retreat will give you the perfect opportunity to rekindle the lost connection. It will take you back to the alpha state of mind where you can feel the earth and allow space where you can heal with a sense of gratitude. If you want to detox from your regular life, you can search a retreat center near me and find one you can visit.
Removing Yourself Or Detaching Yourself
Being caught up in life can often become overwhelming for you. In a retreat, you can disconnect from your present life and transcend into a space where you can get time to build your thoughts and understand yourself.
Moreover, being around mentors can help you develop your own beliefs and teachings, which can help you to get rid of insecurities and weaknesses. Having a good coach will help you detach yourself from the situation, look inward, and find the answers you’re looking for.
Find Similar People
Once you go for a meditation retreat, you will find that numerous people are willing to work on themselves. Finding people who are also on the same path can help you not feel alone. This can help you find someone to feel accountable for and make significant moves in your life.
Allow Yourself To Stop Overthinking
You must know that sometimes the most challenging thing to do is shut your brain out, your voice, and judgments. Turning off judgment can be a daunting task. Being in a retreat can make sure you spend time meditating to stop feeding yourself constant information and allow yourself to make good life decisions. You become more mindful, and it can help improve your mental health.
Heal your past
Generally, individuals experience profound healing and new states of awareness on meditation retreats. There isn’t any point in dwelling in the past, but often in that environment where you can look past in which you have impacted others briefly and assist in moving to a place of forgiveness & gratitude can be life-changing. Retreats provide a space of compassion and love which can help in propelling forward in your path.
Experience A Space Beyond Current Situations
Money, time, work & stressful relationships can make you feel trapped. You have to be beyond all these relationships. A wellness retreat allows you to experience a unique space far from your current reality apart from that you can also use Creme Biofixine.
Retreats are a safe space to accept your fear, harness the energy behind the fear, and remove it from life. You can often feel scared or fearful of the things you care about the most. Having others to guide you around will help you understand where the fear stems from and move through to develop dramatic shifts in life.
A meditation retreat can positively impact people’s lives in a transformative way. The benefits that you reap from a meditation retreat do not just help while you’re there, but they are more permanent and can impact your life ahead.
Being in an environment where you can make commitments and focus on your well-being can change your life forever in the most remarkable ways. Now that you know everything about meditation retreat, it’s time to witness the magic unfold yourself! Just not ready yet for a retreat? Why not try meditation at home. All you need is a meditation pillow/cushion, a quite space in your home, maybe some earplugs, and the willingness to change your life. Check out pinetales.com if you want to learn more. | <urn:uuid:6c18251f-2c17-4928-8c8d-36108965a4f8> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.pensivly.com/can-a-meditation-retreat-change-your-life-forever/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571538.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812014923-20220812044923-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.935813 | 1,050 | 1.546875 | 2 |
A precocious, calibrated and hyper-productive cocoa… The ideal product for Ivorian planters and mills materialized 8 years ago with Mercedes cocoa, a hybrid variety developed by the CNRA in Côte d’Ivoire on which the country, the world’s largest cocoa producer is banking for economic recovery, its economy being undermined in recent years by falling prices. Zoom in on the scope and the limits of the cocoa sector’s star seed.
A magic bean for planters
Is Mercedes cocoa the key to economic recovery in Côte d’Ivoire?
“[It saves us a little more money […], and we do not get too tired from maintenance.]” Born out of crossing different species, Mercedes cocoa is the result of 40 years of research conducted by Côte d’Ivoire’s National Center for Agronomic Research (CNRA). Rightly named Mercedes (synonymous with racing cars in Côte d’Ivoire), this variety starts to produce just 18 months after planting – rather than 6 years for conventional plants – with a full yield at 7 years and a longevity of 40 years. Mercedes cocoa isn’t just precocious: calibrated to the expectations of cocoa manufacturers, it produces rounder pods, larger and heavier beans, and has so far been immune to Swollen shoot virus.
Ivorian Operators’ Golden Bean
With its attributes, the Ivorian cocoa sedan has created a small revolution with its productivity of up to 1.5 tonnes per hectare versus only one third of a ton for old strains. A real economic windfall for Côte d’Ivoire, which holds 35% of the world market share and whose traditional orchards are getting older. This Ivorian sector currently supports more than 8 million people and accounts for 40% of the country’s exports. Hence the growing dream of Ivorian operators fueled by the unprecedented record generated by the 2013-2014 campaign, amounting to more than 1.7 million tonnes – 300,000 tonnes more than the previous year. But what is it really?
A Revolution in the Margins of Global ProductionDespite these strengths, Mercedes cocoa only makes up a small part of Ivorian plantations, compared to 12 million hectares of conventional plantations. CNRA‘s supply capacity is limited – last year, the center was able to supply only 42,000 hectares. In addition, planters can not afford to invest in seedlings, and most of those who produce Mercedes use archaic harvesting and post-harvesting methods. The state is currently counting on incentives to guarantee the planter’s purchase price, and Nestlé‘s commitment to providing 12 million seedlings over 10 years – a far from selfless way of helping sustain their supply. | <urn:uuid:aab56266-5ecb-4165-a1fa-bdd500a0af4b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://en.chococlic.com/is-mercedes-cocoa-the-key-to-economic-recovery-in-cote-divoire/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572043.2/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814143522-20220814173522-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.919564 | 582 | 2.0625 | 2 |
Let kids play outside alone? It should be a crime, poll says
Many Americans believe kids as old as 12 need adult supervision if they're going to play in public places, indoors or outside, according to a new poll that found a high number of people would support laws making it illegal to allow a 9-year-old to play unsupervised at the park.
The polls come as news outlets like U.S. News and World Reports are noting an uptick in parents arrested for letting their children do things without supervision.
Writes Tierney Sneed, “Mothers arrested in Florida and South Carolina in recent weeks are the latest in an ongoing trend of parents seeing legal punishment for letting their children play or travel in public unsupervised. The former was charged with child neglect by local authorities for letting her 7-year-old son walk to a park half a mile from their home by himself (the mother later told WPTV that a Florida Department of Children and Families official informed her the charges would likely be dropped). In South Carolina, the woman — a single mom who let her 9-year-old daughter play in a nearby park unattended while she worked her shift at McDonald's — served 17 days in jail and, if convicted of felony child neglect, could face 10 years in prison.”
The recent Reasons-Rupe survey, conducted by phone in August, asked 1,000 adults about child safety issues. The pollsters found 82 percent of Americans would support a law to require supervision of kids 9 and under playing in public parks. And 63 percent said that 12 years old is too young to play without supervision.
Asked whether kids face more or fewer threats to their physical safety than when respondents were growing up, 62 percent of those polled said that the world is more dangerous today, while 30 percent said the threat level is about the same.
In reality, studies show that crime has been going down consistently for more than 20 years. In 2012, the Christian Science Monitor noted that “the last time the crime rate for serious crime — murder, rape, robbery, assault — fell to these levels, gasoline cost 29 cents a gallon and the average income for a working American was $5,807.”
Asked whether news media and political leaders accurately report over- or underestimate threats children face in their day-to-day lives, 41 percent said it's an accurate portrayal. The remainder split nearly evenly between under- and overestimating threats, at 29 and 27 percent respectively.
Crime fears are “over-hyped,” according to an article by Lenore Skenazy on Reason.com. She wrote: “'One culprit is the 24-hour news cycle,' Richard Louv, author of Last Child in the Woods, said when I asked him why so few kids are outside these days. Turn on cable TV, 'and all you have to do is watch how they take a handful of terrible crimes against children and repeat that same handful over and over,' he said. 'And then they repeat the trial over and over, and so we're conditioned to live in a state of fear.'”
“I doubt there has ever been a human culture, anywhere, anytime, that underestimates children's abilities more than we North Americans do today,” Boston College psychology professor emeritus Peter Gray, author of Free to Learn, told Skenazy.
Skenazy herself has been a bit controversial. As ABC News reported, “Skenazy has a history of pushing parents' perceptions of what freedoms should be allowed for their children. In 2008 she attracted scorn and ridicule for allowing her son, then age 9, to ride the New York City subway by himself. Since then, she's organized one day each year when parents are instructed to take their children to the park and leave them there.”
She said, “People thought that was crazy too, but it's been running for three years now and I hear from parents who say, 'I did let my kids go to the park today.' It takes something to start breaking up the ice, this thick layer of ice over childhood, and if I'm giving a little tap with an ice pick to crack, than I'm happy to. “
The poll asked at what age children should be allowed to do certain things. The median age the adults polled believe children should be allowed to stay home alone was 13, while the median for babysitting other children was 14. They said children should be able to walk to and from school without an adult at 12 years, on average and at age 11 should be allowed to wait alone in the car for five minutes on a cool day.
The poll also showed median age those asked would support a child doing other activities, including cooking (age 12), mowing the lawn (age 12) and having a part-time job (15).
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Ireland’s ratification of Marrakesh Treaty can open up a world of knowledge for students with disabilities
“While the signing of this treaty is a historic and important step, I am respectfully and urgently asking all governments and states to prioritize ratification of this treaty.”
Hearing this quote, you’d be forgiven for thinking it spilled from the mouth of a senior diplomat, or perhaps a head of state. In fact, they are the words of 25 time Grammy winning artist Stevie Wonder on a historic night in 2013, when he flew to Morocco to witness the adoption of the Marrakesh Treaty, which aims to increase access to books for those with visual impairments and print disabilities.
And finally, it seems the Irish Government have heeded Stevie’s call with a recent announcement by Deputy Mary Mitchell O’Connor (Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation) that Government approval has been given for the drafting of the “Copyright and Related Rights Bill, 2016”, which will enshrine the treaty in Irish law.
The treaty officially came into effect earlier this year when Canada became the 20th country to ratify it, and other countries who have already done so include Argentina, Brazil, India and Australia. There are positive signs coming from the US too where earlier this year, President Barack Obama released an official White House statement recommending that the Senate “give early and favourable consideration to the Marrakesh Treaty, and give its advice and consent to its ratification.”
The Marrakesh Treaty will allow ‘authorised entities’ to convert a book into an accessible format for use by people with visual impairments and other print disabilities, without consent from the copyright owner and crucially, will allow these accessible versions to be distributed cross-border to authorised entities in other countries which have signed and ratified the treaty.
So who is a beneficiary and who is an ‘authorised entity’?
The beneficiaries of the treaty (i.e. those for whom the normal national copyright law is overwritten for the purposes of the treaty) are those who are blind/visually impaired as well as those with other perceptual and reading disabilities, such as dyslexia. People with a physical disability which prevents them from turning the pages of a book would also be considered beneficiaries under the terms of the treaty.
Bodies which are allowed to create and distribute accessible versions of books are those authorised or recognised by governments to provide education, instructional training, adaptive reading or information access to beneficiary persons on a nonprofit basis. Moreover, they can be government institutions or nonprofit organisations that provide the same services to beneficiary persons as one of their primary activities or institutional obligations. Such organisations would include colleges, libraries, government departments and disability related not-for-profit organisations like AHEAD, amongst others.
What is the current state of play in Ireland?
Let’s look at it from the point of view of Laura – a fictional blind student entering a third level college in Ireland. Currently, when Laura registers with the Disability Officer in her college and hands over her booklist, they have to go through a long process to get to the point where they can provide her with accessible course texts.
This process will likely involve the following steps:
- Contacting the publisher of each required course textbook to seek consent and ask for a ‘clean’ unformatted electronic copy.
- Since ‘clean’ copies are usually not forthcoming from the publisher, a hard copy of each textbook is bought.
- The hard copy of each textbook is scanned page by page using advanced scanning software with high quality optical character recognition (OCR) meaning it can be transferred into editable text.
- The editable text version of each textbook is made accessible through a formatting process which includes the application of structure tags, which screen reading software can use to navigate the document more easily, and the adding of alternative text, which describes images for blind users.
This is a costly process meaning students like Laura may only receive a few books which are absolutely core to the curriculum, while her non-disabled peers have a whole gamut of extra information accessible to them. Additionally, the length of time the process takes can result in students like Laura waiting on texts long after their course has begun.
On top of this, it is currently illegal for an Irish college to share an accessible book with a college from another country without receiving the express permission of the copyright owner and in many cases, due to differing copyright and equality laws in different territories and growing concerns around piracy eating away at their profit margins, publishers may refuse the right of permission. This means that the time-consuming and expensive work of reproducing books in accessible formats is not only being duplicated in some cases nationally, but also worldwide.
So, how will the Marrakesh treaty change this, when ratified?
The most startling change for students here in Ireland is in the area of cross-border transfer of accessible books. Take a moment to consider the ramifications for Ireland if the world’s major English speaking nations ratify the treaty. Remember that Australia and Canada have already completed ratification and the USA has made positive steps towards it. The USA has a population roughly 70 times the size of Ireland and it stands to reason that there are many more English language accessible books produced there every year as a result. Ratification of the treaty by both Ireland and the US would give prompt access to all of this previously unavailable material to Irish based students who need it and will open up the possibility of an international library of accessible texts in the future.
Suddenly Laura, through her college, would have quick access to millions of accessible books produced by colleges and other authorised entities across the English speaking world and it would cost her college very little in terms of time and money to obtain these texts.
When the treaty was adopted back in 2013, the blind community who have fought particularly hard for this measure rejoiced. The aforementioned Stevie Wonder even kept his promise to perform for the negotiators in Marrakesh the night after agreement was reached.
Not many people this side of Europe would have known much about the city of Marrakesh before this treaty, but many would recognize the city of Casablanca some 240km north of there, as the setting of one of the most iconic films ever made. Humphrey Bogart speculates in this cinematic classic, “I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship” and for students with disabilities, with the possibility of doors opening to a world of knowledge previously closed to them, he might well be right. | <urn:uuid:244f4e79-be0b-41bc-965f-23b41615631a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.ahead.ie/journal/Irelands-ratification-of-Marrakesh-Treaty-can-open-up-a-world-of-knowledge-for-students-with-disabilities | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571911.5/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813081639-20220813111639-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.958391 | 1,343 | 2.65625 | 3 |
IN DENIAL, BIG TIME: “Denial is something we all engage in from time to time,” explained New Yorker science and technology staff writer Michael Specter in an email Q&A with The Indy. Specter is the author of Denialism: How Irrational Thinking Hinders Scientific Progress, Harms the Planet, and Threatens Our Lives. On Monday, November 16, UCSB Arts & Lectures will bring him to town to talk about the theories, observations, and recommendations filling his new book. Specter considers “denialism” to be “society’s version” of the everyday denial to which we’re all subject-a scaled-up, more threatening version of the simple refusal to face facts. But it’s “broader and deeper,” he observed, “than anything that can be explained by poor education (though that matters) or dogma alone.”
That’s a scary prospect. “We are on the edge of some very exciting, but very scary discoveries in science and technology,” Specter went on, “the ability to create new forms of life among them. That frightens people, and not without reason.” This overpowering fear of the unknown has spawned, to Specter’s mind, a plague of willful ignorance, causing people to “dive into what they feel comfortable with and ignore hard scientific data. That is a natural thing to do, but it causes us to question some basic goods (like universal vaccination and the triumph of scientifically developed food sources) because we see them as ‘other,’ or dangerous. It is also a reason people seek alternative therapies and vitamins no matter how often they are shown to be of little or no value.”
“It is this retreat from reality that worries me,” Specter explained. Though he covers primarily scientific and technological issues as a journalist, Specter says denialism’s not contained within those sectors. “Denialists also seem to refuse to accept that Barack Obama is an American citizen, for example,” he wrote. “Anyone who refuses to accept compelling data and prefers to wallow in their own, often mystifying beliefs is a kind of denialist.”
Specter’s description of denialism-its ascendance, and the ill it has wrought-would seem to paint a grim picture of humanity’s future, but his book does not simply bemoan a rising tide of irrationality and un-empiricism; it also offers a number of strategies for how to counteract denialism by reviving the values of the Enlightenment and ushering in a new American age of reason. How realistic is it, though, to hold this hope? “Totally realistic,” Specter replied, providing examples of rationality’s victories even in this denialistic age: “We want to treat malaria, and an Enlightenment approach to creating synthetic medicine has made it possible. We want to cut carbon emissions-we can do much the same with new types of fuels. I refuse to accept that humans cannot march forward or that, in the end, they will refuse to. And of course all movements start with little steps. This one will be no different.”
STARTING OVER IN THE PROMISED LAND: Also from Arts & Lectures-in addition to the university’s Interdisciplinary Humanities Center and the Herman P. and Sophia Taubman Foundation Endowed Symposia in Jewish Studies program-historical novelist Anita Diamant visits on Thursday, November 12. Best known for her 1997 biblical novel The Red Tent, she’s now out in support of her brand new release Day After Night, which traces the paths of four young women who have survived the Holocaust but still face an uncertain future. Set in 1945, not long before the creation of the state of Israel, the book finds its protagonists in Atlit, a British-run Palestinian internment camp, where they meet and discover the shape of their rebuilt lives in a country struggling to build itself.
Both Specter and Diamant’s lectures take place at UCSB’s Campbell Hall, Specter’s at 7:30 p.m. and Diamant’s at 8 p.m. For more information about either event, call 893-3535 or visit artsandlectures.ucsb.edu. | <urn:uuid:ddb6e51b-e021-499f-b56d-be1b315d389e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.independent.com/2009/11/09/michael-specter-and-anita-diamant-speak/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571911.5/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813081639-20220813111639-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.940324 | 929 | 1.945313 | 2 |
Sarajevo Towns accommodation
Sarajevo is the capital and largest city of Bosnia and Herzegovina.Sarajevo is the leading political, social and cultural center of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and its region-wide influence in politics, education, entertainment, media, fashion, science, and the arts contribute to its status as Bosnia and Herzegovina's biggest and most important economic center.
The city is famous for its traditional cultural and religious diversity, with adherents of Islam, Orthodoxy, Catholicism and Judaism coexisting there for centuries. Due to this long and rich history of religious and cultural variety, Sarajevo was sometimes called the "Jerusalem of Europe" or "Jerusalem of the Balkans". It was, until recently in the 20th century, the only major European city to have a mosque, Catholic church, Orthodox church and synagogue within the same neighborhood.A regional center in education, the city is also home to the Balkans' first institution of tertiary education in the form of an Islamic polytechnic called the Saraybosna Osmanlı Medrese, today part of the University of Sarajevo.
Sarajevo has been undergoing post-war reconstruction, and is the fastest growing city in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The travel guide series, Lonely Planet, has named Sarajevo as the 43rd best city in the world, and in December 2009 listed Sarajevo as one of the top ten cities to visit in 2010. In 2011, Sarajevo was nominated to be the European Capital of Culture in 2014 and will be hosting the European Youth Olympic Festival in 2017.
- Population : cca 300.000
- The earliest known name: Vrhbosna
- Nickname: Šeher
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This article was originally published here
Occupy Environ Med. April 21, 2022: oemed-2021-107920. doi: 10.1136/oemed-2021-107920. Online ahead of print.
OBJECTIVES: The risk of infection by SARS-CoV-2 varies according to professions; however, investigation of the factors underlying the differential risk is limited. We sought to estimate the total effect of occupation on SARS-CoV-2 serostatus, whether this is mediated by close workplace contact, and how exposure to poorly ventilated workplaces varied by occupation.
METHODS: We used data from a subcohort (n=3775) of adults in the UK-based Virus Watch Cohort Study who were tested for anti-SARS-CoV-2 nucleocapsid antibodies (indicating a natural infection). We used logistic decomposition to investigate the relationship between occupation, contact, and seropositivity, and logistic regression to investigate exposure to poorly ventilated workplaces.
RESULTS: Seropositivity was 17.1% among workers with daily close contact versus 10.0% for those with no work-related close contact. Compared to other occupational occupations, workers in health care, domestic trade/process/factory, recreation/personal services, and transport/mobile machinery had high adjusted total odds of HIV status (1. 80 (1.03 to 3.14) – 2.46 (1.82 to 3.33)). Work-related contacts accounted for a variable part of the increased odds across occupations (1.04 (1.01 to 1.08) – 1.23 (1.09 to 1.40)). Occupations with a high risk of infection after accounting for work-related contacts were also more at risk in poorly ventilated workplaces.
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When you’ve been being attentive to the tech world for the previous a number of years, you recognize there’s been a effervescent situation thought-about by politicians, journalists, and tech shoppers alike: a troubling rise in tech censorship and uncertainty over how to reply to it.
To be clear, tech censorship is a posh situation that requires a nuanced dialogue. There are not any clear solutions on whether or not tech censorship is actually harmful, or what ought to be achieved about it – and this text is not going to be taking a political stance.
Nevertheless, whether or not you’re a startup entrepreneur, an trade skilled, or only a tech client making an attempt to make the very best selections for you and your loved ones, it pays to know extra about what’s happening.
The Central Tech Censorship Situation
There are particular nations which have main, life-altering tech censorship issues. In China, for instance, many forms of content material (together with criticisms of the federal government) are outright banned and filtered out of search outcomes.
What we’ve been seeing in america is far tamer by comparability, however it’s regarding.
Proper now, there are a number of dozen huge tech platforms that management what we see on-line, to some extent. Google, for instance, is by far the preferred search engine on the planet, accountable for dealing with billions of searches each day and displaying outcomes that checklist webpages matching these consumer queries. Whereas Google’s algorithm works largely robotically, it wouldn’t take a lot for an worker to make a handbook change or tweak the algorithm barely to regulate outcomes.
In some contexts, that is virtually universally seen as acceptable. Google has had a longstanding and clear motivation to delist sure web sites from its search outcomes primarily based on these websites’ violations of Google’s phrases of service. For instance, web sites that promote or permit content material piracy are primarily blacklisted.
However different corporations are taking extra controversial, debatable actions. For instance, Twitter and different social media websites have deliberately eliminated consumer posts and feedback in the event that they occur to include sure phrases, or in the event that they characteristic incorrect info. Controversial political commentators have been utterly faraway from all kinds of platforms in a single fell swoop, and sure opinions have been forcibly faraway from dialogue.
What’s the Drawback?
What precisely is the issue right here?
On some degree, it’s not particularly regarding to see a controversial, inflammatory, chronically mendacity public determine get faraway from a platform the place their major purpose is recruiting poisonous followers. On one other degree, there’s rather a lot at stake in a maneuver like this.
- Energy and management. There aren’t many massive tech corporations. If you wish to submit on social media and attain a large viewers, there are fewer than a dozen choices. If you wish to construct an internet site, there are solely a handful of internet hosting corporations and web site builders to select from. If one or a number of of those corporations determine that your voice isn’t acceptable for others to listen to, they’ll simply shut you out. On a big scale, this offers tech corporations the facility to affect public opinion; they’ll management the narrative surrounding issues like public well being crises and main elections. With a few tactical strikes, comparable to eradicating a candidate from a platform or banning the point out of a sure information subject, a platform may have a dramatic impression on the end result of an election.
- Polarization and extremism. It’s debatable that these strikes additionally contribute to political extremism. When one candidate and their followers are banned or silenced on a given platform, they don’t disappear – in reality, they typically change into galvanized, seeing themselves as martyrs whose mission is of the utmost significance. After they discover a new platform by which to assemble, they may change into additional remoted and tougher to succeed in. In the meantime, a lot of most people gained’t even know that folks with this controversial opinion exist.
- Fragmentation of entry. Most would agree that entry to social media platforms, search engines like google and yahoo, and different high-visibility tech instruments results in higher data, higher consciousness of present occasions, and extra connections to others. Limiting entry to those tech instruments could be detrimental; if an individual has much less entry to information and data, they’re going to be at a substantial drawback in lots of areas of life.
- Collaboration. These issues are sometimes made worse by the truth that massive tech corporations have the facility (and inclination) to collaborate with one another. In a single day, a coalition of tech corporations can determine to ban an individual (or a subject) on the identical time, leaving no refuge for individuals who have deemed controversial.
Latest Authorized Motion
Some politicians have proposed taking motion towards tech censorship as a method to protect democracy and enhance the visibility of political candidates. In Florida, Governor Ron DeSantis is at the moment backing Home Invoice 7013, which outlines a plan for penalizing social media websites that block or silence political candidates in Florida. The invoice additionally strives to present particular person customers the facility to decide out of sure algorithms and decisions from massive tech corporations.
As of the time of this text’s writing, the invoice is being reviewed by the Home Judiciary Committee. Its destiny could also be a touch of how future federal laws might fare.
What are the choices forward of us?
- Do nothing. First, we may do nothing. Social media corporations are personal corporations that, arguably, ought to be free to approve or deny entry to any consumer and/or management the content material featured on these platforms. We don’t bat a watch if a restaurant proprietor kicks somebody out for being inflammatory or impolite; why ought to we power tech corporations to serve any and all customers? On the very least, we must always acknowledge that social media bans and limitations aren’t, as some might counsel, an infringement on free speech as protected beneath the First Modification.
- Empower customers to push for change. We may additionally encourage social media and search customers to demand extra from the businesses they patronize every day. Deleting your account in solidarity or signing a petition for change may result in grassroots momentum substantial sufficient to get these corporations to vary their insurance policies.
- Move a regulation. The opposite possibility is to go some sort of laws that dictates the best way that tech corporations can do enterprise. However this opens the door to a variety of different complicated issues. For instance, who will get to determine what constitutes a “massive tech” firm? Would this laws restrict the entry of latest competitors? May this end in a sort of coalition between massive tech and the federal government, leading to much more centralized management?
Platforms or Publishers?
One of many central philosophical points on this debate is whether or not social media corporations (and different massive tech corporations) ought to be thought-about platforms or publishers.
If these corporations are platforms, they’re not essentially accountable for the content material posted by their customers. They solely exist as a third-party software the place folks can submit content material and alternate feedback with one another as they see match.
If these corporations are publishers, they train a level of management over what will get posted and the way; they’ll use their authority to ban sure forms of content material, ban sure customers, and in any other case management the stream of data.
If corporations acknowledge themselves as platforms, they’re free of duty for unlawful content material – however they don’t get to train energy over what will get printed. In the event that they acknowledge themselves as publishers, they’ll management messages nevertheless they need, the identical as any writer – however they have to take duty for something damaging that will get by way of their filter.
In actuality, most of us can possible agree that massive tech corporations occupy a sort of awkward center floor. We anticipate them to take away some forms of blatantly unlawful content material, however we don’t need them to dictate or management our political discussions. We wish to have limitless entry to them so we will have ample info, however we’ve few reservations towards the banning of sure different customers.
It’s a posh set of issues for an trade that’s nonetheless in its infancy. We have to stay open minded and diligent in our discussions and debates on this subject – and conscious of the true energy that massive tech corporations collectively wield.
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PHARMANIAGA Bhd is exploring the use of unmanned aerial vehicles or drones for pharmaceutical-grade medical delivery.
The group said it aims to enhance its logistics capabilities and make healthcare services more accessible, especially to remote areas without compromising on the safety, integrity and quality of the medicines.
Pharmaniaga plans to reduce delivery time and cost as well as increase supply chain efficiencies as drone delivery is estimated to be five times more efficient than conventional delivery methods that require boats and off-road vehicles to deliver medicines to remotely located government hospitals and clinics.
It noted that the first phase of the proof of concept (POC) of this project, code-named Project Eagle, had successfully taken place recently in Pulau Pangkor, Perak which involved a distance of 4.2km from a jetty in Manjung to Klinik Kesihatan Pangkor, with approximately 3kg of medicines delivered for emergency medical treatment.
The POC was the first longest-distance drone medical delivery of pharmaceutical products over water in Malaysia, led by a female pilot.
Pharmaniaga group MD Datuk Zulkarnain Md Eusope (picture) said Project Eagle will bring the group one step closer to rolling out a large-scale programme for the delivery of vital medicines via drones.
He added that a normal mode of delivery using a ferry from the jetty in Manjung to the clinic at Pulau Pangkor will take approximately 30 minutes, as opposed to only 3.5 minutes when using the drone as demonstrated.
“Despite the unfavourable weather, as it was drizzling with poor visibility due to 100% cloud cover, Project Eagle in Pulau Pangkor was carried out successfully.
“The drone technology is advanced in terms of performance and cost-effectiveness compared to traditional logistics, especially when delivering products to geographically-challenging locations,” he said in a statement yesterday.
Additionally, Zulkarnain noted that the use of drones has high potential to be applied for emergency and rapid response in locations that are geographically challenging.
He added that even in narrow and limited landing spaces, the drones managed to land precisely using the quick response code, and this is truly a cutting-edge technology and a new era of transporting medicines.
Zulkarnain admitted there are certain challenges that might limit the group from achieving its full objectives with drones.
However, he said Pharmaniaga believes that it can overcome the challenges, as the drone technology will evolve rapidly with better capabilities and with strong support from the regulators and authorities.
According to Zulkarnain, Project Eagle will continue with several more stages at different locations and terrains, including the remote areas in Sabah and Sarawak.
He added that findings from the project will be documented and submitted to the relevant ministries and government agencies.
Supporting Project Eagle are the Ministry of Health, Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation, Malaysian Global Innovation & Creativity Centre, Technology Park Malaysia, Civil Aviation Authority of Malaysia, Boustead Holdings Bhd and Meraque Services Sdn Bhd.
Since last year, the government has adopted drone technology as a delivery method for medical products such as blood samples and microbiological specimens.
Other than that, it is used in agricultural industries for pesticide spraying despite its limitation in effectiveness for weather conditions such as unpredictable speed and direction of winds.
The usage of drone’s technology in large scale misting of areas with disinfectants, especially outdoor places is recently used by a few countries, in battling Covid-19.
Malaysia is poised to be the frontrunner in the drone technology industry, which is expected to generate US$127 billion (RM517 billion) by 2025.
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BOREAL ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH
This paper was presented at the symposium ‘Integrated Lake and Landscape Management’ (18–21 August1997, Lahti, Finland) under the auspices of the LIFE project ‘Integrated System of Drainage Area and WaterRehabilitation’ (FIN/A17/FIN/105/PIJ; coordinated by prof. T. Kairesalo)
Restoration of the eutrophicated Köyliönjärvi(SW Finland) through fish removal: whole-lakevs. mesocosm experiences
Jouko Sarvala1), Anne-Mari Ventelä1), Harri Helminen2),Arto Hirvonen3), Vesa Saarikari1), Seppo Salonen4), Asko Sydänoja1)and Kristiina Vuorio1)
1) Department of Biology, University of Turku, FIN-20014 Turku, Finland2) SW Finland Regional Environment Centre, Inkilänkatu 4, FIN-20300 Turku,
3) Köyliönjärvi Restoration Project, FIN-27710 Köyliö, Finland4) Satakunta Environmental Research Centre, University of Turku, Konttorikatu 1,
Sarvala, J., Ventelä, A.-M., Helminen, H., Hirvonen, A., Saarikari, V., Salonen, S.,Sydänoja, A. & Vuorio, K. 2000. Restoration of the eutrophicated Köyliönjärvi,southwestern Finland through fish removal: whole-lake vs. mesocosm experi-ences. Boreal Env. Res. 5: 39–52. ISSN 1239-6095
To improve water quality in a heavily eutrophicated lake (Köyliönjärvi, SW Finland),mass removal of fish was performed in 1992–1998. The fish stock declined from anestimated 170–250 kg ha–1 in 1991–1992 to 40–90 kg ha–1 in 1996–1998 or to 12%–25% of the initial biomass. The biomass of the larger cladocerans slightly increased in1991–1996 but decreased again in 1997, and chlorophyll a
levels varied inversely withthe cladoceran biomass. Cyanobacteria initially declined, but altogether the water qual-ity effects of fish removal remained small up to the summer 1997. The roles of phos-phorus, submerged macrophytes (Elodea
) and fish were further explored in a factorialenclosure experiment. Significant treatment effects were only observed in the earliestphase of the experiment, when the presence of macrophytes decreased and that of fishincreased phytoplankton chlorophyll a
; later fish treatments were lost. Phosphorus ad-ditions had no effect on water quality, but at the end of the experiment phytoplanktonchlorophyll a
was negatively correlated with the biomass of large cladocerans and posi-tively correlated with total phosphorus concentration. The enclosure effect was strong,all enclosures having much lower nutrient and chlorophyll levels than the surroundinglake. The experiment suggests that it is possible to improve water quality through re-moval fishing even in hypertrophic lakes, but the fish stock, including the young-of-the-year fish, must be decimated to a very low level.
stocking of piscivorous fish (young-of-the-yearand age 1+ pikeperch and 0+ pike; Salonen et al.
Increasing eutrophication is a common problem
1996, 1998). The removal of coarse fish has so
all over the world. Although the primary cause of
far continued from 1992 to 1998 (Hirvonen and
eutrophication is excessive external loading of
Salonen 1995, Salonen et al.
1996). In this paper,
nutrients, especially phosphorus, attempts to re-
we describe the results of the removal fishing and
verse the eutrophication process by curbing the
the development of water quality in the lake, com-
external load have often failed (Marsden 1989,
plementing the presentation of Sarvala et al.
Jeppesen et al.
1991). The dense populations of
(1998) with new data. We also examine the fu-
cyprinid fish in eutrophic lakes maintain a strong
ture prospects of the restoration project on the
internal loading/cycling of nutrients and control
herbivorous zooplankton, thus slowing down orpreventing the improvement of water quality. Re-cently, food web manipulation through removal
of excess planktivorous and benthivorous fish hasbecome a popular way to speed up the restoration
Köyliönjärvi (61°05´–61°10´N, 22°18´–22°24 ´E;
of eutrophicated lakes, usually in combination
Fig. 1) is shallow lake (mean depth 3.0 m, maxi-
with reductions in external load (Benndorf 1990,
mum depth 13 m), and therefore does not show
Reynolds 1994, Horppila et al.
any permanent temperature stratification during
Köyliönjärvi, a lake in southwestern Finland,
summer. The lake is normally ice-covered for 6
is an example of a culturally eutrophicated lake
months from early November to late April or early
amidst of an intensively cultivated agricultural
May. The drainage area is 129 km2 and the lake
area. It is shallow and located in an area of fertile
area is 12.5 km2. Theoretical water retention time
soils and has thus probably always been relatively
is 1.0 years. The lake is highly eutrophic, the late
productive. However, during the last decades it
has become hypertrophic mainly due to intensi-
reached up to 170 mg P m–3 and those of chloro-
fied agriculture (Itkonen and Olander 1997). To-
up to 180 mg chl a
m–3 (Sarvala et al.
tal phosphorus levels in water typically increase
1998). Extensive cyanobacterial blooms have
during the summer and reach very high values in
occurred in late summer, and transparency is poor,
late summer (Sarvala et al.
1995). The late sum-
late summer Secchi depth being 0.3–0.5 m (Sar-
mer total phosphorus levels in water seem to have
vala et al.
1995). The external phosphorus load-
increased exponentially since the 1960s, or prob-
ing (0.64 g P m–2 a–1; Wright et al.
ably since the internal loading from the sediments
the “permissible” limits of Vollenweider (1975)
became important. Concomitant with the increas-
by a factor of five. About 93% of the total phos-
ing nutrient levels, phytoplankton biomass and
phorus input comes as diffuse loading from culti-
chlorophyll increased to hypertrophic levels, and
vated fields that comprise 32% of the drainage
heavy blooms of cyanobacteria became common.
area. Two thirds of the annual phosphorus load is
During the 1980s, the steadily deteriorating wa-
retained in the lake (Wright et al.
1993). There is
ter quality started to impede all uses of the lake,
no commercial fishery in the lake, and the local
and motivated the local community to search for
recreational and subsistence fishery utilizes
means to improve the situation: in 1990, a resto-
ration project was founded to rescue Köyliönjärvi.
The long-term goal of the project was a notablereduction of nutrient loading from the surround-
Material and methods
ing agricultural area, but, in order to reach con-trol over the internal loading, and hoping to
Water quality and plankton
achieve more rapid progress, the project alsostarted a food web manipulation through removal
Nutrients, chlorophyll, phytoplankton and zoo-
fishing (Hirvonen et al.
1993, Sarvala et al.
plankton in Köyliönjärvi have been monitored
Later this was complemented with intensified
since 1991, mostly from weekly samples (twice a
Restoration of the eutrophicated Köyliönjärvi
. Bathymetric map of
Köyliönjärvi, showing the
sampling stations in the
south and north basins
(dots), as well as the site
of the mesocosm experi-
ment in 1996 (open square).
week in 1992). Two water columns from the sur-
cies had been measured. Length measurements
face to bottom were sampled with one-metre in-
were converted to carbon biomass using carbon
tervals with a 6.8-l tube sampler (Limnos Ltd.,
to length regressions (as in Sarvala et al.
Finland; in 1996 the sampler volume was 2.6 l
Additional water chemistry and chlorophyll
and in 1997 3.5 l) at each of three sites both in the
data were available from vertical sampling series,
southern and the northern basin of the lake (Fig. 1)
taken at 2–3 sites usually in late winter and late
and combined into a single composite sample for
summer since the 1960s (statutory monitoring and
each basin and date. Nutrient and chlorophyll
data obtained by the water authorities; unpublished
analyses were made in the laboratory of the South-
reports of the Water Protection Association of the
west Finland Regional Environment Centre, those
of phytoplankton and zooplankton in the Univer-sity of Turku. Phytoplankton samples (200 ml)were preserved with acid Lugol solution and
counted with an inverted microscope (Utermöhlsystem). Zooplankton samples were concentrated
Removal fishing was done in the winters 1992–
with a 25 or 50 mm mesh net and preserved with
1998 by commercial fishermen from the nearby
cold 94% ethanol (final concentration 70%). Us-
lake, Pyhäjärvi, (Sarvala et al.
1998) with seine
ing an inverted microscope, crustacean zooplank-
nets operated through holes in the ice. Because of
ton was identified and counted from subsamples
the bottom topography, the fishing concentrated
until 50–200 individuals of each dominant spe-
in the southern basin (area 400 ha). In 1996–1998,
seine nets were also used in open water in the
explored in 1996 in a 2 × 2 × 2 factorial enclosure
autumn, locating the aggregations of fish by echo
(6 m3) experiment with 3 replicates, following the
sounding and sonar. In 1992 and 1996, littoral trap
procedures used earlier in another lake, Vesijärvi
nets, operated by local inhabitants, were also used
(Kairesalo et al.
1998). The experimental enclo-
throughout the open-water season. Harvested fish
sures were attached to a wooden pier, built at a
were sold for animal feed production or directly
50 m distance from the western shore of the south
to fur farms. The average net cost of removal fish-
basin. The initial water depth at the site was 1.2–
ing was 2.50 FIM (0.42 ECU) kg–1 or about 150 FIM
1.4 m, and it declined during the experiment by
(25 ECU) ha–1 a–1 (Hirvonen et al.
20 cm. The pier comprised three contagious rows
Changes in the fish community of Köyliönjärvi
of eight 2 × 2.5 m frames parallel to the shore.
were studied from two-stage catch samples (pro-
The enclosures consisted of transparent 0.2-mm
cedure described in Salonen et al.
plastic, factory-moulded into wide tubes that were
from 322 (80.1%) of the total of 402 winter seine
attached within the frames. The enclosure walls
net hauls during 1992–1998. The samples cov-
were sealed into the sediment with sand bags (thir-
ered 94.3% of the total winter catch of 355 t. The
ty 2.5-kg bags per enclosure) inserted into a canal
composition of the trap net and open-water seine
welded along the lower ends of the walls. The
net catches (163 t) was similarly assessed. In1992–1993, the mesh size of the seine cod-end
underwater structures were checked by a diver.
was 8 mm, from 1994 onwards 6 mm. During the
The enclosures thus included both water and the
winter fishing seasons of 1992, 1993, 1996 and
underlying natural bottom sediment. Disturbances
1998, there was a significant decrease in the catch
by birds were prevented by covering the enclo-
per seine net haul in the southern basin, allowing
sure system with nets. Enclosures were closed on
estimates of the total catchable fish stock with the
12 June and checked by diving on 17 June.
removal (DeLury) method (for details of the meth-
Hilborn and Walters 1992, and Helminen
domised block design, each row of enclosures
1993). To reduce random variation, three
containing all treatment combinations in random-
successsive hauls were combined for the final
ised order. For all factors, zero level denoted no
calculations, except in 1992 when only the single
additions. In the nutrient treatments, 70 mg P m–3
haul catches declined significantly. Stock esti-
as KH PO was added in the beginning and in the
mates for the southern basin were extrapolated to
middle of the experiment. In the macrophyte treat-
the whole lake using the ratio of surface areas.
ments, fresh Elodea
collected from other parts of
Catch-effort estimates provided another way to
the lake were introduced in the beginning and
describe the fish stock development. We regressed
middle of the experiment. In fish enclosures, 16
the cumulative catch from the southern basin
individuals of 8–10 cm roach, caught with fyke
against the log-transformed number of seine hauls
nets from the lake, were introduced in the begin-
each winter. The smallest number of seine hauls
ning of the experiment. The first nutrient addi-
in any year from that basin was 26 hauls in 1997;
tions were done on 17 June, and the fish were
therefore, we calculated the expected catch after
introduced on 20 June. A total of 5.5 l of Elodea
26 hauls for the other years and used the actual
per treatment were added on three occasions (1 l
total catch for 1997. This method effectively
on 20 June, 2.5 l on 1 July and 2 l on 18 July; 1 l
smoothed the random variation of the catches; all
= 13.8 g dry mass). Sampling from the enclosures
regressions were highly significant. Age group
started on 23 June and ended 31 July. Very windy
analyses of roach (not presented here) allowed us
weather during the early half of the experiment
to compensate for the coarser mesh size used in1992–1993: the stock estimates for 1992 were
caused leakages of the wall plastic, and, conse-
increased by 15.5% and those for 1993 by 27.0%.
quently, the fish and first nutrient treatments werelost. After the leakages had been repaired (by 11July), the nutrient and macrophyte additions were
renewed, but no further fish were added. Nutri-ents, chlorophyll, bacteria, protozoa, phytoplank-
The roles of nutrients, macrophytes (Elodea
ton and zooplankton were sampled at 10-day in-
fish (8–10 cm roach (Rutilus rutilus
tervals (composite samples from the bottom and
Restoration of the eutrophicated Köyliönjärvi
. Development of the total fish stock in Köyliön-
järvi in 1991–1998. Dots denote DeLury estimates (ver-
tical bars: 95% confidence limits); open squares de-
note the cumulative catch per 26 hauls (vertical bars:
. Proportions of different fish species in the re-
moval fishing catch (winter seine only) in 1992–1998.
surface layers using a 0.5 m high tube sampler(Limnos; volume 3.5 l). Samples were also takenfrom the open lake in the immediate vicinity of
crease through the biomanipulation years (Fig. 2).
the enclosures. Periphyton development was as-
The DeLury estimates for the total fish stock had
sessed from plastic strips suspended vertically into
wide and variable confidence belts (Fig. 2). The
each enclosure (6 strips/enclosure), but no numeri-
point estimates were always close to the lower
cal results can be presented because the strips were
confidence bound, while the upper confidence belt
lost during storage. At the end of the experiment,
was much wider. According to DeLury estimates,
fish were removed by traps and handnets, and mac-
the fish biomass declined from roughly 170–250 kg
ha–1 in 1991–1992 to 40–90 kg ha–1 in 1996–1998
The experimental results were examined with
(Fig. 2). The catch-per-unit-effort figures sug-
factorial analysis of variance, multiple regression
gested a more regular and somewhat steeper de-
and partial correlation. The normality of variables
cline of the stock to about 12%–25% of the initial
was checked with the Wilks-Shapiro test. At the
end of the experiment, the values for chlorophyll,
Although there was some fluctuation in the
total phytoplankton biomass, cyanobacterial bio-
proportions of different species in the catch among
mass, total zooplankton biomass, total phospho-
the years (Fig. 3), the proportions of roach and
rus and total nitrogen did not deviate from nor-
bream seemed to decline somewhat (the share of
mal distributions, and the remaining variables
bream in 1997 was inflated by a single large indi-
(most of the individual zooplankton and phyto-
vidual in the catch samples), while the proportion
plankton groups) could be normalized with a log -
of smelt remained largely similar or increased,
and perch proportion slightly increased, exceptfor the last year. Altogether the proportion ofpiscivorous fish (pikeperch, pike and large perch
[> 10 cm]) remained very low (< 5%) throughoutthe period. There were some changes in the size
distribution of the fish stock. Even correcting forthe effect of the larger mesh size in 1992–1993,
Altogether 518 tonnes (414 kg ha–1) of fish (mainly
the proportion of > 10 cm roach decreased during
roach and smelt [Osmerus eperlanus
the period, especially because of strong year-
removed from Köyliönjärvi until the end of 1998.
classes hatched in 1996 and 1997 (Fig. 4); simul-
Both fish stock indices showed largely similar de-
taneously the mean age of roach declined from
. Average total phosphorus concentration in
August in the south basin of Köyliönjärvi in 1966–1998.
Sources: Water Protection Association of Kokemäenjo-
ki Watercourse and Southwest Finland Regional En-
but the between-year fluctuations, caused by e.g.
weather differences, were too wide to allow defi-
. Length distribution of the roach caught with
Altogether the water quality effects of fish
removal were so far small. During the biomanipu-
3.3 to 2.1 years (J. Sarvala unpubl. data). How-
lation period, chlorophyll levels relative to total
ever, the only species showing a significant trend
phosphorus in water were slightly lower than dur-
in size was bream, the mean size of which at least
ing the preceding decade (Fig. 9). In the early sum-
mers of 1996 and 1997, phytoplankton biomasswas clearly lower than in the previous years, andyet crustacean biomass remained high. The latesummer crustacean zooplankton biomass may
Water quality development
have slightly increased up to the year 1996, but in1997 there was a clear decline again (Fig. 7). Larg-
The late summer phosphorus concentrations in-
est between-year variation was due to small clado-
creased exponentially since the 1960s, but during
cerans, mainly Chydorus sphaericus
the food web manipulation the values have started
both years, phytoplankton chlorophyll level and
to decrease (Fig. 5). The decreasing trend was most
the biomass of cyanobacteria increased again by
pronounced in late summer (Fig. 6). Late sum-
autumn. From the moderately decreased fish
mer chlorophyll levels did not show any consist-
biomass levels, larger water quality improvements
ent trend during the biomanipulation period, but
might have been expected in the summer 1997,
in the later years there was an inverse relationship
but the exceptionally high temperatures in that
with the herbivorous crustacean biomass (Fig. 7).
summer probably counteracted any positive de-
The total phytoplankton biomass increased
velopment (cyanobacterial blooms were then ex-
during the 1970s concomitant with the phospho-
tremely common in most watercourses in south-
rus concentrations, and simultaneously the pro-
ern Finland; unpublished data base of Finnish
portion of cyanobacteria increased, during the
Environment Institute). However, there were im-
1980s to 70%–80% of total phytoplankton bio-
portant changes within the cyanobacterial com-
mass in July–August (Fig. 8). There may be a
munity in summer 1997: the Microcystis
slight declining trend in the late summer total phy-
which had been dominant in previous years, were
toplankton biomass and in the contribution of
replaced by Anabaena
. As a result, there were
cyanobacteria during the biomanipulation period,
almost no surface blooms of cyanobacteria in Köy-
Restoration of the eutrophicated Köyliönjärvi
. Late summer (26 July–15 September) concen-
. Average total phosphorus concentrations in the
tration of chlorophyll a and the biomass of the main
south basin of Köyliönjärvi in May, June, July and Au-
crustacean zooplankton groups in the south basin of
gust in 1986–1998. Sources as in Fig. 5.
Köyliönjärvi in 1991–1997 (Sarvala et al. 1998, theyear 1997 added). Cladocera (“small”) denote Chydo-rus cf. sphaericus and Bosmina longirostris (Müller);Cladocera (“large”) include all other non-predatorycladoceran species.
. The average biomass of total phytoplankton
and the cyanobacteria in the south basin of Köyliönjärvi
in July–August 1963–1997. Data for 1963–1990 from
the Finnish Environment Institute.
liönjärvi in 1997 and the cyanobacterial toxins
. The average chlorophyll a concentration vs.
total phosphorus in late summer in the south basin of
declined to a fraction of previous levels (J. Hietala,
Köyliönjärvi in 1980–1991 (before biomanipulation),
1992–1994 (early biomanipulation years) and 1995–1997 (late biomanipulation years). Data for 1980–1990from the Water Protection Association of Kokemäenjoki
Watercourse and Southwest Finland Regional Envi-ronment Centre.
Soon after the start of the experiment, water qual-ity in the enclosures began to diverge from the
showed widely divergent development. Differ-
surrounding lake (Fig. 10). This development was
ences were largest in chlorophyll and smallest in
reversed due to the leakages, and by 11 July whenthe leakages were repaired, most enclosures
nitrogen (Fig. 10). The relative homogeneity
showed phosphorus, nitrogen and chlorophyll val-
among the enclosures on 11 July, and the diver-
ues approaching those of the surrounding water.
gence on later dates, were also evident in the chlo-
During the next 20 days, different enclosures
rophyll: phosphorus relationship (Fig. 11). Total
. Chlorophyll a vs. phosphorus in different en-
closures and in the surrounding lake during the meso-
cosm experiment in Köyliönjärvi in 1996.
remained almost constant (range 58–90 mgP m–3),while most of the enclosures showed decreasingphosphorus levels. Total nitrogen in the lake in-creased throughout the period, but the relativeincrease was slightly less than in phosphorus. Inmost of the enclosures nitrogen remained morestable, but some showed similar increase as in thelake. In general, compared to the situation in phos-phorus or chlorophyll, the total nitrogen levels inthe enclosures followed more closely the condi-tions in the lake. In the lake, chlorophyll levelsincreased considerably in late July, but decreasedinstead in most enclosures.
At the end of the experiment, the total zoo-
plankton biomass was much higher in all enclo-sures than in the lake. The largest differences werein the biomass of herbivorous cladocerans (espe-cially Daphnia cucullata
Sars and D. cristata
Sars,sometimes also Ceriodaphnia pulchella
Sars) andcalanoids (Eudiaptomus graciloides
showed often the highestbiomass; there was negative correlation between
. Development of the total phosphorus, total
nitrogen and chlorophyll a concentrations in the 24
A significant effect of the fish (positive) and
experimental enclosures (macrophyte treatments
plant treatments (negative) on the chlorophyll
shown with thin solid lines) and the surrounding lake
level of water was observable on the first sam-
(thick lines with dots) during a mesocosm experiment
pling occasion when the enclosures were still in-
in Köyliönjärvi in summer 1996. Vertical arrows show
tact (23 June; ANOVA, Table 1; neither the block
effect nor any of the interactions were significantand their sums of squares were therefore pooled
phosphorus in the open lake increased mainly
into the error term). During the rest of the experi-
during early stages of the experiment and later
ment, the fish treatments must be ignored because
Restoration of the eutrophicated Köyliönjärvi
most fish escaped through the leakages and no
0.79) and chlorophyll and oxygen concentration
further fish were added. Plant and nutrient treat-
of water (r
= 0.82) were likewise highly signifi-
ments were valid after 11 July, but they did not
cant, confirming that chlorophyll level was also a
then affect water quality (chlorophyll or nutrient
good indicator of primary productivity in the en-
concentrations) to any significant extent. Although
closures. The chlorophyll a
concentrations in the
the added amount of phosphorus was theoretically
enclosures showed significant negative correla-
sufficient to double the total phosphorus concen-
tions with the biomasses of total crustaceans and
tration in the enclosures, no significant effects
the large herbivorous crustaceans (the larger
could be traced in any of the analyses. Elodea
able to increase appreciably in only one enclo-
soma, Sida, Limnosida
plus the calanoid Eudiapto-
sure; in most enclosures the plant biomass de-
), and significant positive corre-
creased. In contrast, the enclosure effect was
lations with the total phosphorus and nitrogen con-
strong, most enclosures having lower phospho-
centrations (Table 2). Among the negative corre-
rus, nitrogen and chlorophyll levels than the sur-
lations of chlorophyll with the major zooplankton
rounding lake. This was likely due to the thick
groups, those with the calanoid and, unexpectedly,
mat of periphyton that rapidly developed on the
cyclopoid biomass were significant. The latter cor-
plastic walls; changed sediment-water interactions
relation either indicates herbivorous feeding by
in the enclosures may also have been involved.
cyclopoids or the effect of a confounding factor.
However, the difference between the lake and the
Simple correlations between total nitrogen and
enclosures was much larger in chlorophyll than
large herbivorous crustaceans as well as between
in phosphorus or nitrogen, showing that factorsother than nutrients were also involved. This was
. Analysis of variance table for chlorophyll a in
also shown by the notable changes of chlorophyll
the enclosure experiment on 23 June 1996. DF = de-
at a certain phosphorus level (Fig. 11); changes
grees of freedom, SS = sum of squares, MS = mean
At the end of the mesocosm experiment, phy-
toplankton biomass in the lake and in most enclo-
sures was dominated by cyanobacteria. Enclosures
with low total biomass also had low proportion of
cyanobacteria. Chlorophyll a
a good measure of phytoplankton abundance, be-
ing tightly correlated with both total biomass (r
0.91) and cyanobacterial biomass (r
= 0.88). Posi-
tive correlations between chlorophyll and pH (r
. Simple correlations between phytoplankton chlorophyll a and various zooplankton and nutrient vari-
ables at the end of the enclosure experiment (31 July 1996). Log -transformation used throughout (* = P < 0.05;
** = P < 0.01; N = 24).
—————————————————————————————————————————————————Chlorophyll a (CHL)
Total crustacean zooplankton biomass (Z) –0.42*
feeding preferences of the crustacean groups.
Multiple regression analyses showed that phy-
toplankton chlorophyll a
at the end of the experi-ment was predictable from the biomass of totalcrustacean zooplankton, large herbivorous crus-taceans, and the total phosphorus and total nitro-gen concentrations (Table 4, Fig. 13). The impor-tance of each nutrient in these regressions variedaccording to the other variables included. Multi-collinearity arising from the high mutual correla-tions between the independent variables makes itdifficult to judge the relative role of each explana-tory variable. When the effect of the other two
. Chlorophyll a vs. the third quartile of cladoce-
independent variables was removed, the highest
ran length distribution at the end of the mesocosm
partial correlation with chlorophyll was shown by
experiment in Köyliönjärvi in 1996. Triangle = lake
total crustacean zooplankton biomass (–0.54; large
herbivores: –0.42), and total phosphorus showedhigher partial correlation (0.47) than total nitro-
both phosphorus and nitrogen and the median or
gen (0.40) (ln-transformed values). Among the
third quartile of the cladoceran length distribu-
different zooplankton variables, the large herbiv-
tion were significant (Table 2, Fig. 12).
ore biomass explained the largest fraction (30%)
The relationships between different zooplank-
of chlorophyll variation. The correlations between
ton and phytoplankton groups showed interesting
chlorophyll and the median or third quartile of
variation (Table 3). The large herbivores Daphnia
the cladoceran zooplankton length distribution
as well as cyclopoids all showed
(Table 2) disappeared when nutrient variables
similar negative correlations (although not all
were included. The final concentration of nitro-
exceeding the 0.05 significance level) with cyano-
gen in the enclosures was also inversely corre-
bacteria and diatoms, Daphnia
also with chloro-
lated with the biomass of large herbivores. These
likewise had a negative correla-
results suggest that zooplankton grazing control-
tion with chlorophytes, while the biomass of Chy-
led phytoplankton abundance and that phospho-
was negatively correlated with chrysophy-
rus was the primary nutrient affecting phytoplank-
tes. There was an almost significant positive corre-
ton abundance, the correlation between chloro-
lation between Daphnia
and cryptophytes, also
phyll and nitrogen arising secondarily, because
manifest at the composite “large herbivore” group
increases in nitrogen-fixing blue-green algae si-
level. These correlations might reflect differing
multaneously lead to elevated total nitrogen.
. Simple correlations between major crustacean zooplankton groups and the main phytoplankton groups
at the end of the enclosure experiment (31 July 1996). Log -transformation used for all variables except
cyanobacterial biomass. Phytoplankton groups: Cyano = Cyanobacteria, Crypto = Cryptophyceae, Chryso =Chrysophyceae, Diatomo = Diatomophyceae, Chloro = Chlorophyceae. The zooplankton group “Other Cladocera”mainly consists of Chydorus.
Restoration of the eutrophicated Köyliönjärvi
. Chlorophyll a vs.
total phosphorus and crus-
tacean zooplankton bio-
mass at the end of the me-
socosm experiment in
Köyliönjärvi in 1996. Dia-
mond = lake outside enclo-
although removal fishing had reduced the totalfish biomass to 12%–25% of the initial level. How-
Our long-term study indicated only slight changes
ever, a mesocosm experiment showed that abun-
in the water quality of eutrophic Köyliönjärvi,
dant herbivore crustacean zooplankton had the
. Regressions of phytoplankton chlorophyll a on the zooplankton biomass, total phosphorus concentra-
tion and total nitrogen concentration (log -transformation used throughout) at the end of the mesocosm experi-
ment in Köyliönjärvi in 1996. (1) Total crustacean zooplankton biomass used, (2) herbivore crustacean biomassused, (3) same as (2), but without nitrogen. SD = standard deviation; N = 24.
(2)Large herbivorouscrustacean zooplankton
(3)Large herbivorouscrustacean zooplankton
potential to control phytoplankton development
experiment was that the enclosure effects were so
dominant over other factors affecting water qual-
Scheffer (1990) and Scheffer et al.
ity. The plastic enclosure walls provided a suit-
hypothesized that shallow lake ecosystems pos-
able firm surface for prolific growth of attached
sess two alternative stable states. At low nutrient
algae, which were then able to assimilate a nota-
levels submerged macrophytes abound and water
ble part of the nutrients in water into periphyton
is clear, while at high nutrient concentrations
biomass. Although rarely indicated in published
macrophytes disappear and water remains turbid.
reports, such strong enclosure effects can be ex-
Over a range of intermediate nutrient concentra-
pected to be common in comparable experiments.
tions the system might switch between these states
A negative correlation between periphyton and
depending on its history and recent perturbations.
phytoplankton has often been documented (Sand-
Our experiences from entire Köyliönjärvi confirm
Jensen and Borum 1991, Harris 1995). It is con-
the strong resistance to change of turbid, highly
ceivable that part of the macrophyte effects in such
eutrophic lakes (Jeppesen et al.
experiments might be mediated through epiphytic
macrophytes were not able to grow well in the
growth on the submerged plants (Van Donk et al.
turbid water neither in the enclosures nor in the
1995, Brock et al.
1995). In any case, the peri-
open lake, and thus they could not affect water
phyton development should be taken into account
quality. However, data collected so far from a
when interpreting experimental results.
number of southern Finnish lakes (Sarvala et al.
In contrast to several earlier studies (e.g.
1997, 1998, and unpublished) suggest that lakes
Schriver et al.
1995, Kairesalo et al.
1998), in our
may switch between turbid and clear state irre-
experiment the submerged macrophytes had only
spective of their nutrient levels. This result agrees
minor water quality effects. This was probably
well with the literature survey of Mazumder
due to the high turbidity of water that prevented
(1994) showing that the water quality responses
the growth of Elodea
through light limitation. In
of lakes formed a wide belt over a range of nutri-
the experiments of Kairesalo et al.
ent concentrations. For example, during a period
Vesijärvi, the initial transparency of water was
of 17 years, phytoplankton chlorophyll in Pyhäjär-
much better than in our experiment in Köyliönjär-
vi, a lake in southwestern Finland, did not oscil-
vi. Thus, although macrophytes clearly have the
late between two alternative end states, but, de-
potential to enhance water quality, this will not
pending on the strength of the planktivorous fish
come into effect until the transparency has first
stock, varied in a continuum between extremely
improved and remained good for a relatively long
high and extremely low values relative to the phos-
time to allow for macrophyte development (Irvine
phorus level (Sarvala et al.
1997, 1998) . Nothing
1989, Jeppesen et al.
in the behaviour of Pyhäjärvi suggests that any of
Although our mesocosm experiment was tech-
the annual situations would be an equilibrium
nically only partially successful, it suggested that
state, rather, the food web structure was continu-
the phytoplankton biomass was regulated not only
ously changing as a response to external (natural
by nutrients (phosphorus) but also to an almost
and anthropogenic) fluctuations; the nature of the
similar extent by the abundance of herbivorous
responses is affected by the different characteris-
crustacean zooplankton. The resulting multiple
tic time scales of the system components, e.g. due
regression equation was almost identical with the
to their long generation times, fish buffer changes
corresponding equation obtained from a long-term
and cause delayed responses. At the microbial
field data series for the neighbouring Pyhäjärvi
level the responses become evident within a cou-
(Sarvala et al.
1998), which is only weakly meso-
ple of days (e.g. A.-M. Ventelä unpubl.), while a
trophic. It seems therefore justified to conclude
strong year-class of fish may dominate the sys-
that probably the same mechanisms are regulat-
tem over several years. Like Persson et al.
ing water quality in both lakes, although compli-
we are sceptic about the existence of any real al-
cations may arise from the fact that the crusta-
ternative stable states in lake ecosystems.
cean zooplankton abundance also affected in sev-
eral ways the microbial food web in the enclo-
Restoration of the eutrophicated Köyliönjärvi
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public class TransformedSet extends TransformedCollection implements java.util.Set
Setto transform objects that are added.
The add methods are affected by this class. Thus objects must be removed or searched for using their transformed form. For example, if the transformation converts Strings to Integers, you must use the Integer form to remove objects.
This class is Serializable from Commons Collections 3.1.
|Modifier and Type||Method and Description|
Factory method to create a transforming set.
add, addAll, decorate
clear, contains, containsAll, equals, hashCode, isEmpty, iterator, remove, removeAll, retainAll, size, toArray, toArray, toString
add, addAll, clear, contains, containsAll, equals, hashCode, isEmpty, iterator, remove, removeAll, retainAll, size, spliterator, toArray, toArray
public static java.util.Set decorate(java.util.Set set, Transformer transformer)
If there are any elements already in the set being decorated, they are NOT transformed.
set- the set to decorate, must not be null
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java.lang.IllegalArgumentException- if set or transformer is null
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By Frank Joseph
For most of my life, I never saw a so-called unidentified flying object—I didn’t know if such a thing actually existed, nor did I much care. My father was amateur astronomer, whose handmade telescopes afforded our family summertime observations of the night sky during my boyhood, but no unworldly craft ever hove into view.
Throughout the rest of my life, I knew men and women who claimed to have seen strange phenomena in the heavens suggesting visitations from another planet. But I was not personally privy to the extraterrestrial encounters of any kind until my early 50s when I rented an old log house in a remote area of northwestern Wisconsin. The thickly forested area was sparsely populated, mostly spread over disconnected farmland, much of it destitute, in a valley running east to west for about 30 miles.
Alone in Rural Wisconsin
The small village of Ridgeland was some five miles to the north, although Menomonie Read More
The most famous UFO video in recent years may actually just be the flare of a a jet when viewed with an infrared camera. Mick West, a self-proclaimed “debunker” and “skeptic” with a Youtube following has offered a strong argument making that case:
The Gimbal video is infrared gun-camera footage apparently declassified by the Pentagon before being publicized and disseminated by To The Stars Academy in conjunction with the 2017 New York Times story. On closer examination, it appears that the mysterious footage may just be the result of viewing another jet in infrared mode.
This explanation is probably disappointing for those of us excited by the release of the video along with the New York Times story on the Pentagon’s secret program to study the phenomenon, but without context and more information, it’s safest to assume that the video only appears to depict something unconventional. This would explain why the defense establishment, which is notoriously tightfisted with actually UFO evidence, felt no need to keep these videos classified.
Even the seemingly inexplicable in-flight rotation of the object has a conventional explanation:
Hopefully, improved infrared sensors, soon to be deployed on Navy aircraft, will provide better and mores solid evidence in the future.
Mick West’s work on these videos is similar to the case with the infrared gun-camera footage released by the Chilean Navy in early 2017. That video, which went viral on the internet overnight, depicted infrared footage of an unidentified object venting some substance. (Chem-trails? Aliens seeding earth’s atmosphere?) Closer investigation of the strange video by Robert Powell of MUFON’s Scientific Review Board revealed it to be merely the heat flare of a commercial aircraft. It would be great to hear Robert Powell’s assessment of these videos, but, unfortunately, he bailed out of MUFON in 2017 for various reasons that allegedly included their choice of sensationalist speakers at a 2017 conference–part of MUFON’s ongoing recent problems with credibility.
It get’s worse. Mick West has also analyzed the so-called “Go Fast” video which was also released by To the Stars and also featured on the History Channel’s new UFO series. He presents an extremely compelling case for identifying the unidentified object as a balloon moving in the wind. Sounds unlikely? Watch the video:
And what about the celebrated “Tic-Tac” video shot by the Nimitz crew? Well, that looks pretty much just like a regular commercial jet too:
In each of these videos, we are dealing with flight crews still learning how to use the latest in infrared sensor technology. That means that the pilots are still learning how to interpret the data and might easily be mistaking conventional targets for something extraordinary. It also explains why the Pentagon did not hesitate to declassify these videos.
Don’t expect the UFO community to relinquish extraterrestrial claims about these now iconic videos–ever. History has proven that, no matter how plausible the explanation, how verifiable the data, or how blatant the fraud, UFO enthusiasts resist conventional explanations. But real scientific analysis of the phenomenon has no room for religious dogmatism or blind belligerence, and Mick West’s explanations are far more economical in terms of commonsense credibility than the expensive UFO interpretations.
Just because “I want to believe” doesn’t justify ignoring contrary evidence.
You can rely on us at UFOdays.net to give you the real story, without the hype. When plausible explanations are presented for the phenomenon, we won’t hesitate to offer them. We are committed to the facts because the facts speak for themselves: It’s happening.
Paranormal investigator Chad Lewis will present the program “Wisconsin UFOs: Watch The Sky” at 6 p.m. Thursday at the Chippewa Falls Public Library.
Alright, we don’t know who Chad Lewis is, but at UFOday.net, you just need to put the words “Wisconson” and “UFOs” into the same headline and we are there. A quick google search on Lewis reveals that he is a paranormal jack-of-all-trades. But hey, what else are you going to do on a Thursday night?
More evidence that it’s happening.
Representative Mark Walker of North Carolina, a top official on the House Homeland Security Committee, wants clearer answers and information from the Navy regarding the alleged UFO incursions into American airspace. Politico and The Drive both covered the story on July 30, and
Walker, a ranking member of the Intelligence and Counterterrorism Subcommittee, addressed his concerns in a July 16 letter to Navy secretary Richard Spencer. Those concerns revolve around assessing the threat level. Walker writes, “If the accounts are true, the unidentified crafts could pose a serious security risk to our military personnel and defense apparatus.” Walker points out that reports of pilot encounters described “complex flight patterns and advanced maneuvering, which demand extreme advances in quantum mechanics, nuclear science, electromagnetics, and thermodynamics.”
The letter requests more information, asking the Navy for any substantiating evidence Read More
Wisconsin witness reports UFO ‘launches two triangles’
Originally posted on Open Minds by Roger marsh, November 15, 2016
A Wisconsin witness at Hudson reported watching two triangular-shaped craft with lights on each corner that both hovered and exhibited “extreme rapid movement,” according to testimony in Case 80030 from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.
The witness was outside smoking a cigarette when a stationary craft – too far away to identify – appeared in the southern sky near Hudson, that launched two small, triangular craft.
“Each craft had a light on each corner,” the witness stated.“They moved very rapidly from south to east, would hover, and then move rapidly back and forth in mostly the eastern and southern sky. The event lasted over Read More
UFOs are back in the news and UFO Days are here again, both in Elmwood, Wisconsin and in the broader national dialogue. Are you keeping up with the story?
If you’re like most people who attend Elmwood’s UFO Days, you’re curious about UFOs and want to keep up with latest UFO news, both local and national, but who has time to sort through all the crazy stuff to get to the real story? At UFOdays.net, we’ll keep you posted with credible and sober-minded updates about the local UFO scene and worldwide phenomenon. You just need to visit the free website: UFOdays.net and follow us to stay up-to-date with the latest.
Navy, Media, and Government
So far, the year 2019 has been an amazing year of progress and serious developments in the national dialogue about Unidentified Flying Objects (Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon). In the first half of the year, we have had testimony from Navy pilots and sailors about encounters off American shorelines and over military installations. These testimonies have forced the Navy to begin taking the phenomenon seriously and to admit that there really is something going on in our airspace. The President and members of congress have been briefed, and the Navy has now begun to require formal reports from pilots and sailors who Read More
You know “it’s happening” when the President of the United States is being briefed on Navy encounters with UFOs. When ABC News’ George Stephanopoulos asked Trump about the subject, he replied, somewhat disjointedly, that he did have “one really brief meeting on it. People are saying they’re seeing UFOs. Do I believe it? Not particularly … I think our great pilots would know, and some of them really see things that are a little bit different than in the past.”
It’s difficult to ascertain exactly what that last remark is supposed to mean, but it seemed to suggest that, yes, there are pilots reporting visual contact with UFOs, and the report has made its way up the chain to the White House. Trump confirmed that much in a later interview.
In a subsequent interview with Tucker Carlson of Fox News, Trump said, “Personally I doubt it, but, you have people who swear by it. Pilots have come in and said, and these are pilots that not into that particular world, but we have had people saying that they’ve seen things. I’m not a believer, but you know, I guess anything’s possible.”
At the very least, the fact that the president has been briefed indicates that the UFO sightings are being treated as matter of national security, something that has been off the table since the close of Project Blue Book in 1970.
If you’ve ever wondered why Elmwood claims to be the UFO Capital of the World, here’s a quick history lesson. Take a trip back in time to check out CBS News April 8, 1988: Dan Rather’s feature on UFO Days and Elmwood’s proposed UFO landing site. OK, he once refers to the town as “Elwood,” but we’ll give him a pass.
|By Kaye Bird, Contributor, Gateway News|
Saturday, July 25, 2015 12:01 AM
Bill Johnson, retired professor at UW/Stout will be presenting a talk entitled, “Why UFO Days” on Saturday and Sunday this upcoming weekend. Don’t miss it! Photo by Kaye Bird
MENOMONIE, WI – Bill Johnson, retired professor from UW/Stout has the answer for anyone who has ever wondered, “Why does Elmwood celebrate UFO Days?”
Remember the tagline from The X-Files, “The Truth is Out There?” On Saturday afternoon, July 25, 2015 that “truth” will be revealed. And the truth is this—there have been several UFO sightings in the Elmwood area.
“Roswell, New Mexico has had one sighting; Elmwood has had several,” said Johnson adding, “You have to wonder why. Some people say it’s because of its location—it’s in a valley.” To that Johnson would reply, “So is Spring Valley and Plum City, and I haven’t heard of any sightings in those towns.”
It was in 1974 when Johnson decided that he wanted to be a UFO researcher. He flew to Tucson, Arizona and stayed with a friend. “To me the most impressive and widely respected group at that time was the Aerial Phenomena Research Organization or APRO Read More | <urn:uuid:cb3a2772-8846-459c-82c3-4b25caa9e57b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://ufodays.net/blog-feed/page/10/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571538.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812014923-20220812044923-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.952573 | 2,436 | 2.03125 | 2 |
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Is there a way to achieve a Boxwood hedge or other species using the Leaves material ? I've tried to replace the Ivy texture with a Boxwood texture (png, psd, tga, tiff, alpha included) but I couldn't get the result. Same thing with the Standard material.
Here is what I would like to achieve; the hedge from the image was made with an actual 3d model, with scattered leaves, but it is very heavy. | <urn:uuid:87897901-22e8-43c0-af27-109715510c54> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://forum.lumion.com/general-discussion/leaves-material | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570977.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809124724-20220809154724-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.960348 | 110 | 1.554688 | 2 |
According to a recent study conducted by OnlineColleges.net, six out of ten students won’t consider a college unless the education institution provides access to “free” Wi-Fi services on campus. While any development and maintenance costs of a campus-wide Wi-Fi network is ultimately billed to the students through tuition costs, colleges that are behind the curve on providing Wi-Fi infrastructure may be negatively impacted by this trend. Seventy-five percent of students believe that Wi-Fi access on college campus helps them get better grades during the semester and 90 percent believe Wi-Fi is just as essential to an education as a computer or a classroom.
When asked what was the one online resource or site that they could not live without, the most common answer was Google. Other responses included Wikipedia, Blackboard, Yahoo! and Facebook. When it came to social media, 86 percent of the respondents use a social networking site and 15 percent wished that their instructors used Facebook more often. In addition, 58 percent of students are very comfortable talking about class assignments over a social network. When asked if it was appropriate to befriend an instructor on a social network, nearly 40 percent thought that was an inappropriate action.
When asked about the most important types of computer hardware, the most common answers included laptops, printers, desktop computers and USB drives. Other pieces of hardware that supported further education included smartphones, eReaders, tablets and MP3 players. The most popular forms of software vital to education include word processors, e-mail and presentation software like PowerPoint. In regards to college performance with technology, 43 percent believe that their college needs more technology and only 59 percent think that their college is putting good use to the available technology on hand. However, nearly a third of respondents stated that their instructor often needs help getting classroom technology to work correctly.
- What is Wi-Fi?
- Shortage of laptops and PC components won’t be cleared until 2022
- Seagate GoFlex Satellite portable drive ditches cables for Wi-Fi
- Baby boomers buy e-readers, teens tout iPods: Pew survey reveals gadget demographics
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Youngsters who receive instant lottery tickets as gifts tend to start gambling earlier in life, perhaps putting them at risk for gambling disorders as adults, Yale researchers reported on Sept. 19 in the journal Adolescent Health.
A survey of about 2,000 Connecticut high school students found that children and adolescents who received scratch lottery tickets tend to have more permissive attitudes about gambling than those who did not receive such gifts. Researchers also reported an association between the age of gambling onset and the severity of problem gambling among those who received lottery tickets.
“Our research suggests that family members and friends should consider the possible negative impact of giving children or adolescents lottery tickets as gifts,” said Marc Potenza, Ph.D. ’93, M.D. ’94, HS ’98, FW ’99, professor of psychiatry, neurobiology and child study, and senior author of the research. | <urn:uuid:3bf89437-32dc-4998-8dcc-fb8e897ec8b1> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://medicine.yale.edu/news/yale-medicine-magazine/article/lottery-tickets-may-pose-risk/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573699.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819131019-20220819161019-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.969908 | 183 | 2.640625 | 3 |
File 4: Poppi ‘n Ray and the Case of the Vanishing Van Gogh
INTERIOR GRANNY EVE’S KITCHEN
GRANNY EVE (with her ear to the 1930’s radio): MC? Are you there? The coast is clear. (Pause as Granny listens to MC.) Oh no! Really? That’s tragic!!!
RAY (walking up to Granny): What’s up? What’s so tragic, Grans?
GRANNY EVE (sobbing): I can’t believe it. Not Starry Night…I just heard news that the colors in Van Gogh’s The Starry Night are fading away. The entire painting could vanish! So, so, so, tragic!
RAY: Is that like an important painting or something?
GRANNY EVE: It’s a priceless piece of art! The stars are almost faded completely, and next will come the sky, and then, well, then, POOF! It will be gone…vanished! (pause) Luckily they are having a rock concert to raise awareness of the Vanishing Van Gogh.
POPPI: So they can fix the painting? Restore the colors?
GRANNY EVE: No, it’s just so we can be aware of the tragedy.
POPPI: Awareness, smareness! Hmmmph. Don’t worry, Granny Eve, we can fix the painting. We’ll go to the concert and figure this all out.
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If it were easy, everyone would do it. Some people might argue that investing in real estate comes with more responsibilities than throwing down money for stocks and bonds, but the truth is, whether you’re investing in real estate or the stock market, there will always be more to investing strategically than just putting down money, pulling up a lounge chair and sitting down to watch it grow.
Investing in the stock market, requires a lot of research on companies, market trends, and keeping on top of them (or your financial advisor) to ensure your money is safe and continues to grow.
Investing in real estate does require some hands-on responsibilities to maintain them, especially if you buy a house or an older property. And if you invest in pre-construction developments, you can put your money down, build equity over the 3- to 4-year build time, and eventually rent them out.
Regardless of your investment approach, you are going to have to put some work towards growing your wealth. After all, if getting rich were easy, everyone would be doing it. | <urn:uuid:b54383f6-be29-418b-9f91-24f9ca3ea1ad> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://pierrecarapetian.com/building-wealth-pierres-take-stocks-vs-real-estate/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572043.2/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814143522-20220814173522-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.974729 | 221 | 1.875 | 2 |
by Dr. Igor V. Khudyakov, Catawba County, North Carolina
Formulations that undergo photopolymerization have, in most cases, photoinitiators (PIs) such as benzophenone and others. These formulations may have nitroxyl (aminoxyl) radicals, which are added for prevention of degradation of the cured coatings. Nitroxyls also are formed during oxidation of hindered amine light stabilizers (HALS). In some cases, it is possible to increase pot life of unstable UV-curable formulations by the addition of namely nitroxyls. Thus, there is a possibility of interaction of photoexcited PI with nitroxyl. This process was studied by ns laser flash photolysis and by time-resolved (TR) electron spin resonance (ESR).
Flash photolysis of photoinitiators (PIs) of free radical polymerization in the cavity of the ESR spectrometer often is accompanied by chemically-induced dynamic electron polarization (CIDEP), i.e., by formation of radicals with non-Boltzmann population of electron Zeeman levels.1,2 CIDEP manifests itself in enhanced absorption or emission of all or of certain components in ESR spectra of photogenerated free radicals. Radicals that manifest CIDEP usually are called polarized. The main mechanisms leading to CIDEP in photoinduced reactions are well established and have been investigated theoretically and experimentally.1,2
Analysis of CIDEP pattern of time-resolved (TR) ESR spectra allows for a solid conclusion on spin multiplicity of molecular precursors of polarized free radicals (singlet or triplet excited molecules) and the tracking of fast reactions of polarized radicals leading to secondary radicals. Thus, TR ESR is a convenient method in mechanistic photochemistry and free radical chemistry.2 The pattern of TR ESR spectra provides valuable information on the interaction of one or another excited state with a stable radical. Interestingly, polarization can be created – in the absence of any chemical reaction but – during “physical” interaction of species with non-zero spin orbital momenta.
Devices and chemicals
We used TR ESR of X-band, cf. Scheme 1: The screen of boxcar integrator in Scheme 1 demonstrates a transient emissive ESR signal of nitroxyl radical – three components or three lines. Minor modification of the device allows returning it to a standard ESR spectrometer. One can get the well-known ESR spectrum of the same nitroxyl – in its usual form – as the first derivative. The studied flash irradiated solution is always refreshed by flowing though the cavity, as shown in Scheme 1.
We used common nitroxyls – 2,2,6,6- tetramethylpiperidine-1-oxyl – (TEMPO) and others, as well as polynitroxyls of the following structures (Scheme 2).
Several identical fragments combined into one molecule can be more efficient stabilizers or antioxidants than the equivalent amount of individual molecules. It is known that a certain amount of added antioxidant Irganox 1010 [tetrakis(3-(3,5-di-tert-butyl-4-hydroxyphenyl)propionate)] is more efficient than monophenol 2,6-di-tert-butyl-4-methylphenol (BHT) taken in four times higher concentration.
In this work, we report results obtained with common PIs – or MAPO – or Lucirin TPO (diphenyl-2,4,6-trimethylbenzoyl phosphine oxide), benzil dimethyl monoketal or Irgacure 651 and benzophenone (BP). Laser flash photolysis experiments and TR ESR experiments were performed at room temperature in nonviscous solvents.
Results and discussion
1. Quenching. Electronically excited states of organic molecules are effectively quenched by stable free radicals. Often quenching is not accompanied by a net photochemical reaction (eqs 1, 2) and represents the interaction of an electronically excited state and a paramagnetic species, a radical:
S1* + R. __> So + R.# (1)
T + R. __> So + R.# (2)
Sign # stands here and below for polarization of a radical in the magnetic field, which means non-Boltzmann population of Zeeman levels of a radical in magnetic field.1,2 (Seminal contributions of research groups from several countries into TR ESR and CIDEP studies are summarized in ref. 1 and are cited in our publications2-8).
PI usually initiates polymerization being in the excited triplet state T, which produces reactive radicals, and reaction 2 is important. Fortunately, most of Irgacures and Darocur dissociate very fast into reactive free radicals (Scheme 3).
Lifetime τ of MAPO triplet is very short, namely ~100 ps, τ of BAPO triplet is ~300 ps. That means that nitroxyl radicals existing in a relatively low concentration in the coating, as well as dissolved in the coating air dioxygen, should not affect photodissociation of Irgacures and Darocur.
BP, a Type II PI, participates in a hydrogen abstraction (or in electron transfer with a subsequent proton transfer).4 At the same time triplet of BP (T) can interact with nitroxyl radical R. by reactions presented in Scheme 4.
Triplet and a radical form two different pairs: One is in a doublet, and another is in a quartet electronic state. As a result of this interaction, nitroxyl R. becomes polarized, cf. for details refs 1-8. It is possible to conclude occurrence of reaction 2 not only by the fact of accelerated disappearance of T but by the observation of polarized R.# as well. TR ESR spectra of nitroxyl, which interacted with T molecules of PI, always appear as emission spectra, cf. Figure 1.
>N-O. fragments of polynitroxyls that are spatially close interact with each other and demonstrate not three but more components in the ESR spectra. In particular, binitroxyl – in the case of a relatively strong magnetic interaction of >N-O. fragments – demonstrates five components and most of such binitroxyl is in the triplet state 3(RXR), cf. Scheme 2. (Here and Scheme 6 R stands for a nitroxyl fragment and X is a chemical bridge connecting R-fragments). It is a case of so-called strong spin exchange. Binitroxyl, which has >N-O. fragments spatially separated, is a case of weak exchange, 2RX2R (Scheme 2). ESR spectrum of the latter binitroxyl has three components; >N-O. do not interact with each other.
Contrary to the triplet molecules case, nitroxyls, which interact with singlet excited molecules (eq 1), demonstrate absorptive TR ESR spectra. In our experience, singlet dioxygen 1O2 produced by photolysis of endoperoxide, is quenched by nitroxyl, and TR ESR spectrum of nitroxyl appears in absorption.3
We omit discussion of time profile of nitroxyl TR ESR spectra and a complex case of strong dependence of intensities of components upon hyperfine coupling (HFC) constants of nitroxyl.
2. Chemical reaction. Free radicals of Type I PI manifest polarization in their TR ESR spectra (CIDEP). Scheme 5 is a simplified presentation of origination of such polarization by a triplet mechanism. Scheme 5 presents a case of MAPO as an example. Well-documented spectra of two spin polarized radicals r# of MAPO are presented in Figure 2.
Polarized radicals of PI are designated as r# in the present work. One can see from Figure 2 that r# of MAPO are in absorption. Observed under photolysis of Irgacure 651, r# are in emission.
Photolysis of MAPO or Irgacure 651 in the presence of TEMPO (Scheme 2) leads to the TR ESR spectra of TEMPO in Figure 3, which demonstrates that absorptive or emissive polarization of initial r# is completely transferred to TEMPO. There are no residual spectra of r#.
More interesting is the case of interaction of r# with binitroxyl in a strong exchange 3(RXR) (cf. above). The interaction of r# with binitroxyl is two competitive processes. They are “physical” processes of electron spin polarization transfer (ESPT) and ESPT in the fast chemical reaction (Scheme 6).
In summary, Scheme 7 is a pictorial demonstration of TR ESR spectra observed under interaction of absorptively or emissively polarized r# with mono- and binitroxyls in a strong and weak exchange.
It is possible to study kinetics of elementary reactions during photopolymerization (UV-cure) of neat vinyl monomer up till conversion of 5-10 percent.9 The system may be approximately considered as Newtonian liquid, and one can get more or less reliable rate constants of elementary reactions, identify transient radicals and quantitatively estimate efficiency of the used PI. High rates of photodissociation of Type I common PI do not depend upon addition of nitroxyls. Quenching of triplet BP by (poly)nitroxyl leads to emissive TR ESR spectrum of the latter.
Free radicals of PI r# are highly reactive towards mono- and polynitroxyls and r# demonstrates overall emissive or absorptive polarization. That polarization is transferred to (poly)nitroxyl radical by ESPT: non-reactive polarization transfer and in the course of concurrent chemical addition. Polarization causes radicals to be “labeled” but does not affect their chemical reactivity in chemical reactions. The magnetic energy is negligible compared with the thermal energy kBT. Polarization transfer is an excellent method for following the pathways of photoinduced free-radical chemical reactions or “physical” interaction of radicals with other radicals or excited states.
TEMPO and other more complex nitroxyls (Scheme 2) are used by coatings chemists as additives to the formulations undergoing free radical photopolymerization. It was mentioned in the introduction that nitroxyls are powerful inhibitors of spontaneous polymerization. Nitroxyls can be added in a typical concentration of 10-4 M to act as a stabilizer. Contrary to phenolic stabilizers, nitroxyls do not need oxygenated solution in order to be effective. Drums with UV-curable formulations containing nitroxyls can be filled in completely for storage and shipment, whereas such barrels with formulations stabilized by phenolic compounds are usually shy – due to the goal of keeping enough of molecular oxygen.
The role of nitroxyls during photopolymerization is complex. In a relatively high concentration, nitroxyls interact with free radicals formed from PI, and that way decrease rate of photopolymerization or lead to an induction period. Thus, concentration of the added nitroxyl should be optimal: Nitroxyl should provide the required pot life and have a minor effect on the rate of photopolymerization. Individual reactions of nitroxyls with free radicals formed in the system can be studied by TR ESR with ~0.1 μs time resolution. Such study will help in formulation and tweaking of coating, which usually has several vinyl (acrylate) ingredients. Examples of tracing photoinduced reactions with TR ESR are presented in this paper.
ns Laser flash photolysis with optical detection of triplet states and radicals is a popular technique for studying photoinduced reactions. Unfortunately, most of free radicals of PIs, radical adducts and macroradicals adsorb light at very short wavelengths and have low extinction coefficients. Due to these reasons they can’t be monitored by flash photolysis. (Type II PI BP, cf. above, is one of few exceptions among common PIs: Its triplet state and the corresponding ketyl radical can be monitored easily by flash photolysis with detection in visible area of the light spectrum.) That is why laser flash photolysis with ESR detection of radicals (TR ESR) is a valuable tool for the coatings chemist interested in the individual radical reactions in his formulation.
The late Professor N.J. Turro, Dr. S. Jockusch and all other co-authors of the cited publications.
- Hayashi, H. Introduction to Dynamic Spin Chemistry, World Scientific, New Jersey, 2004.
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Dr. Igor Khudyakov, teaching & research assistant, Catawba County, North Carolina, received his doctorate and doctor of science degrees from the Academy of Sciences of the USSR. His work in the US coatings industry began in 1990. He worked as a research associate with the late Professor N.J. Turro in the chemistry department at Columbia University, where he remained until 1995. He holds 18 US patents, has one application filed and has contributed to numerous peer-reviewed scientific and technical publications. Contact Igor Khudyakov at [email protected]. | <urn:uuid:668644ed-f27d-4858-97d5-b0fa977edd64> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://uvebtech.com/articles/2015/interaction-of-photoexcited-photoinitiators-with-nitroxyl-radicals/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570977.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809124724-20220809154724-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.919105 | 3,162 | 2.0625 | 2 |
Trans Mountain: tar sands oil to and from our coast
The Canadian government is pushing to expand the Trans Mountain Pipeline between Edmonton and Vancouver, and then export its oil via tanker from Burrard Inlet to Asia. The existing and expanded proposal would deliver 890,000 barrels of tar sands oil per day to Vancouver. Oil storage capacity at Burnaby would triple, adding 14 new tanks to store another 3,900,000 barrels. The pipeline would cross more than 500 streams in the Fraser River watershed. Tanker visits would increase by 574% above 2010 levels to more than 400 oil-laden trips through Burrard Inlet, the Fraser estuary, the Gulf Islands, Haro Strait and Juan de Fuca Strait, every year.
Raincoast’s most recent video summarises the threat from oil tankers to Southern Resident killer whales. Importantly, even if the project goes completely according to plan, with no oil spills and no ship strikes, the increased noise alone from more than 800 tanker transits annually (in and out) significantly increases their risk of extinction. When cumulative effects are considered, these whales face more than 50% chance of functional extinction within the next century.
All Raincoast’s evidence submitted to the NEB can be reached at the government website here.
Raincoast is an intervener in the National Energy Board hearings
Raincoast is an intervener in the National Energy Board’s (NEB) review of Kinder Morgan’s Trans Mountain proposal. We are legally represented by Ecojustice in these hearings. As an intervenor, we review and question Kinder Morgan’s application to construct and operate the project. Importantly, we also submit expert evidence on our own scientific findings about project impacts. Raincoast’s focus is on wildlife. We concentrate on highly vulnerable species where our assessments yield different conclusions from Kinder Morgan’s; we also present relevant information not provided to the NEB by Kinder Morgan. Below are our Information Requests (IRs) and our evidence submitted to the NEB on May 27, 2015.
Final NEB Arguments
Raincoast submitted its final arguments to the National Energy Board in mid-January and presented its final oral arguments on January 26, 2016. You can
- download our final written arguments here,
- watch the video of our oral summary arguments here, and
- download written final legal summary here.
Evidence submissions to the NEB
Raincoast filed 4 expert submissions to the NEB on our concerns for salmon, killer whales and forage fish. A summary is available here: Statement of Written Evidence of the Raincoast Conservation Foundation. Detailed reports are found in 1-4.
1. Southern Resident Killer Whales: Population Viability Analysis
Southern resident killer whales are endangered under Canada’s Species at Risk Act. Trans Mountain’s tanker route transects critical habitat necessary for their survival and recovery. This submission describes a Population Viability Analysis (PVA) conducted by leading scientists studying killer whales, acoustics and endangered populations. A PVA can assess risks to wildlife populations and evaluate the likely effectiveness of recovery options. This PVA assessed the viability of the southern residents in light of their cumulative disturbances and threats, including increased ocean noise resulting from additional vessel traffic and oil spills. It also examined the role of Chinook salmon abundance and contaminants. The Southern Resident population has experienced almost no population growth over the past four decades, and has declined in the last two decades. Our analysis shows that the Trans Mountain Project will intensify existing threats, accelerating their rate of decline and possibly leading to complete extinction. Conversely, reducing existing vessel noise and increasing Chinook availability increases their likelihood of long term survival.
Download the pdf RCF- SRKW PVA for NEB -May 2015
2. Southern Resident Killer Whales: Acoustic disturbance from vessel traffic
Southern resident killer whales are endangered under Canada’s Species at Risk Act. Trans Mountain’s tanker route transects critical habitat necessary for their survival and recovery. This submission describes the importance of sound to killer whales (as important as vision is to humans) and the concern for even more noise in their critical habitat. Southern resident killer whales produce and listen to sounds in order to establish and maintain critical life functions: to navigate, find and select mates, maintain their social network, and locate and capture prey (especially Chinook salmon). The existing level of noise has already degraded critical habitat and studies suggest it has reduced the feeding efficiency of these whales. The Trans Mountain Project will increase noise levels with adverse affects to southern resident killer whales.
Download the pdf RCF – SRKW acoustics-NEB
3. Wild Salmon of the Fraser River and Salish Sea: The risk from oil spills
The Fraser River and its estuary is one of the most productive salmon watersheds in the world and the most economically important in Canada. The proposed pipeline and tanker route traverse and transect vital salmon habitat. This submission examines the potential consequences to Fraser River salmon populations from exposure to oil spilled from a pipeline rupture in the lower Fraser River or from an oil tanker spill in the waters of Georgia Strait. The Lower Fraser, its tributaries, and its estuary are used by 42 fish species throughout the year either for incubating eggs and embryos, as juveniles for rearing and overwintering, and as adults for migration and spawning. For salmon, the Lower Fraser River acts as a bottleneck through which the entire diversity of Fraser River salmon populations must pass twice during their lifetime. There is no safe time of the year when the impacts of a spill would be low. A spill during peak migration of unique Conservation Units or at risk species could be devastating to these populations.
Download the pdf RCF – Salmon-NEB-May 2015
4. Forage fish of the Salish Sea: The risk from oil spills and tankers
Forage fishes are crucial components of coastal marine ecosystems. This submission examines the potential impacts from Trans Mountain oil tankers and spills on Pacific herring and other forage fishes. Situated in the mid-trophic levels, they represent a vital link between the bottom and the top of the marine foodweb and support a diversity of predators, including humpback whales, Chinook salmon and seabirds. As such impacts to forage fishes have the potential to cause cascading consequences to the broader ecosystem, including species at risk. Trans Mountain’s review of forage fish suffered from information and methodological deficiencies, failed to assess all avenues for potential harm, and failed to identify the potential for project-related impacts on forage fish to result in negative consequences to the surrounding ecosystems.
Download the pdf RCF-Herring-NEB-May 2015 (PDF)
Information Requests (IRs) and other NEB exchanges
Response No 1 from Kinder Morgan to Raincoast
Other information & materials
Our threatened coast: Nature and shared benefits in the Salish Sea
Raincoast’s latest report demonstrates how the value of the region’s biological diversity –its plants and animals- reflect our values, have shaped our cultural identity, and are linked to economic benefits in the billions of dollars. We encourage decision makers and residents of the Salish Sea to fully consider what is at stake from a host of proposed coastal energy and shipping projects.
With the public participation in the NEB review of the Kinder Morgan expansion restricted, Directly Affected seeks to provide a voice to those left out, in the form of a short documentary.
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The comparison Data Base Management System Vs. File Systems is essential to store data efficiently and easily. First understand what is a file system.
What is a File System?
With evolution of computers, data preservation and processing is considered a major application of computers. The initial attempts for data preservation were in a file system which was similar to manual filing system that has been in existence in organizations and firms.
File systems emerged as a mechanism of storing and organizing the data in the form of computer files. Their naming and storage in a directory structure was done to make the files easy to locate and access. Files systems were rather physical in nature. They were stored on common storage devices like hard drives, disks and CD ROMs.
The storage of data in files systems was transparent to the user. If the data needs to be transferred to another storage device, It was a quite a task for the data administrators. File systems are very efficient for data storage and access in case the amount of data is not huge and access needs are not very demanding.
The large amount of data can also be stored efficiently in a file system. The problem occurs if the data needs to be referenced from one file to another or requires processing in a complex way. In such situations the file system may not prove to be very dependable and performance efficient.
Take an example of an educational institute which runs various courses. In such a scenario the data about students, the courses in which they are enrolled and their fee details may be stored in different files. If a report is required to list down all students in all courses who are defaulters in fee payment, it will be a difficult process to refer records from these three different files with non-integrated data.
Characteristics of File Systems
To understand the file systems and how they can be beneficial for specific data storage and accessing, here is a list of characteristics of File Systems.
- The data for an organization is stored in a collection of files stored on a storage device.
- The files containing the data are independent in existence in relation to each other.
- The type of files and the data access techniques depends on the computer and OS.
- Each file is defined to contain data about a specific activity, event, function or entity of the organization for which the data is being stored.
- If files are to be read by the programs or applications then the files must be created in the format and type the programs are able to access and manipulate. The programs are usually developed in C, C++, java etc.
- To access and process the data contained in flat files of a file system, the access methods are written in the applications developed using the specific programming language. If physical implementation of file or the program is changed then rework involved is very intensive. The programmers have to alter the codes and access techniques to a great extent.
- File system is rigid in storage and access mechanism. So, as the programs and applications become complex, the file system may pose a lot of implementation issues due to inflexibility.
Limitations of File Systems
- Being flat files, the data may be stored in separate files differently by different users or programmers. Such files differ in formats and often have redundant content that may become inconsistent if the update of data is not done carefully. Maintaining copies of data files is a big drawback of file systems and these multiple copies may contain data components that do not agree with each other.
- The files in file system are independent so the data remains isolated. To process data stored in multiple files the programmers have to create complex codes as the files do not offer any mechanism to connect and relate the data.
- It’s is not possible to apply any integrity constraints on the data stored in file system.
- In case an application fails while a transaction is under execution to update a data file, the incomplete transaction may leave the data in inconsistent state. There is no facility to control transactions in case of file systems.
- The files storing the data are inflexible in storage and access mechanisms. The files are flat and isolated. So, it is difficult to present different views of data to satisfy different needs of users. This poses the problem of security as well. All or no data will be available to users.
Data Base Management System Vs. File Systems
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|Data Quantity||Works efficiently for small amount of data||DBMS is an efficient system for large amount of data|
|Financial Implication to organization||Economical||Expensive|
|Count of files||Many||few|
|Redundancy of data||High||Low|
|Sharing of data||Nil or Low, Single user||High, multi-user environment|
|Integrity constraints||Depends on Programmer or application developer||Inbuilt mechanism for Integrity Checking|
|Security||Low||Highly secure at various levels|
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The FIRST thing I would be concerned about is getting an Australian Shepherd (mini or not) when living in an apartment and having to leave the dog alone for several hours each day.
Are you experienced with this particular breed? If not, please reconsider your choice of dog breed. This is a recipe for disaster and neither you nor your dog will be happy.
Australian Shepherds are one of the most extreme working breeds out there. They were bred over hundreds of generations to run after stray sheep in the vast Australian landscape and read human signals and follow human commands for a whole day. If they don't get a comparable amount of training, stimulation and exercise from their owners - especially if left alone for several hours a day - they quickly find their own entertainment by chewing furniture, scratching walls and carpets, running around and barking nonstop and generally destroying your apartment. When you come home exhausted from work and just want to waste an hour in front of the TV, he'll constantly want to play and interact with you because he was bored the whole day.
Golden Retrievers are more balanced and well known for their agreeable personality, but they, too, were bred to accompany humans on hunting trips.
To get some ideas about games and ways to mentally and physically stimulate your dog, please read this question.
Any dog can develop separation anxiety. The biggest risk is unpredictability and a lack of separation. If you're around your dog all day because you work in your home office during Covid lockdown and then suddenly you disappear for 8 hours (because you have to return to the office), your dog may not know why you left, when and if you return and how to deal with the situation.
To avoid this, you should train being alone with him in incrementing periods of time. You can start with locking your puppy into a crate or a different room for 5 minutes. No matter what the puppy does (probably whining and scratching at the door), you only open the door after 5 minutes. You should either act as if nothing ever happened, or cuddle with him in a very calm way. You shouldn't encourage him to be overly excited to see you by playing with him or praising him in an overly excited voice.
Repeat this short training several days. Once your puppy learns to deal with being alone in a calm manner, you can gradually increase the time he's left alone to 10 minutes, 15 minutes and so on.
Don't forget to train leaving your apartment without him. If the only time you put on a jacket and leave the apartment is when you go on a walk with your dog, he'll be very excited every time you put on a jacket and become extremely frustrated if you leave without him. That can trigger separation anxiety or destructive behavior. To avoid that, simply go out for a short time without him, for example to go grocery shopping.
A great way to mentally prepare your dog for being left alone is to establish a word or sign that indicates he's going to be alone. Don't use a command like "stay", because you cannot release your dog from the command if you're not around. Choose something different like "goodbye" or "stay in here" and repeat the same words every time before you leave your dog.
You should not talk to your dog at length before leaving him. Some people do tell their dogs that they'll be gone for a while and their dogs seem to understand them, but in reality dogs cannot understand human speech to that degree. Some dogs even get anxious by this kind of behavior because they expect you to want something from them (maybe telling them about an intruder or a source of food or tell them to follow you). If you then turn around and leave the apartment, they try following you or calling you back because you just talked to them, you just indicated that you want something and if you leave now they won't know what you want. | <urn:uuid:d795030f-5ad9-4627-8f79-abab13d22e8c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://pets.stackexchange.com/questions/29818/is-it-possible-to-train-a-dog-to-not-have-separation-anxiety-right-from-when-it/29821 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571911.5/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813081639-20220813111639-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.974398 | 791 | 1.539063 | 2 |
The Joplin Globe had a great article today on Joplin recovery effort following the May 22, 2011 tornado that hit the city. The topic of the article is “the warehouse” an aptly named, well, warehouse that means more to its local community than the unassuming name implies. The warehouse is the staging ground for much of the recovery efforts carried out in Joplin, including that of Lutheran Disaster Response.
Through the doors of this building have walked thousands of volunteers from all over the country who have come to help. Also highlighted is Immanuel Lutheran Church (LCMS) that was a major actor, along with Martin Luther School, in early and continuing efforts in feeding, housing and organizing volunteers.
It’s a great read on how in times of need being the hands and feet of our corporate body is a calling for all who bear the name of Christ. Check out the full article Volunteers Focus on Rebuilding, not Theology.
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A small New York village almost gets it right | Video
Cazenovia, NY’s new Social Host Law is nearly perfect. On the plus side, the community had an opportunity for discussion and dissent, the penalty is a citation not a misdemeanor, it doesn’t apply to religious ceremonies or impact the relationship between parent and child, and it includes a “knowingly” clause which requires the police to gather evidence that proves the host had fore-knowledge or witnessed the consumption on their property and didn’t try to stop it. Kudos to Village Trustee Amy Mann for arguing there were enough relevant laws on the books.
On the minus side, the burden of proof is very low, it can easily ensnare parents in houses with usable basements, and the definition of a host is aimed squarely at the 200 Cazenovia College students living off-campus who fall into the adult gap of 18-20; too young to drink but old enough to be arrested as an adult enabler. | <urn:uuid:3a59cad7-13b0-4870-98de-f2599b7e14d3> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://socialhostlaw.com/2011/03/08/a-small-new-york-village-almost-gets-it-right/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572043.2/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814143522-20220814173522-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.96311 | 213 | 1.570313 | 2 |
A wonderful tourist destination…
North Cyprus, the Turkish section of the island, is a wonderful tourist destination. It is easy to see why North Cyprus vacations are becoming increasingly popular, with its stunning, unspoiled Mediterranean coastline, sweeping mountain scenery, attractive beach villages, and amazing historic ruins. Come see the world’s only divided capital, Nicosia, or relax on one of the numerous gorgeous sandy beaches — this extraordinary location will astonish you.
Why you should spend your next vacation in North Cyprus?
1- Warm and inviting hotels in North Cyprus, as well as appealing travel packages
North Cyprus boasts a plethora of wonderful hotels with excellent amenities at reasonable pricing. There is something for everyone, whether you are searching for a calm area to unwind with the family near the Kyrenia Mountains, a romantic setting on the Mediterranean Sea for a honeymoon, or a dynamic party venue to go with friends.
If you select one of the numerous wonderful hotels that offer all-inclusive packages, your North Cyprus vacation will be even more memorable. This implies that everything will be taken care of for you, from your arrival at the airport through your nighttime entertainment. All you have to do now is sit back, relax, and take advantage of the planned activities and a wide range of dining options.
2- All-year-long sunshine, beautiful beaches, and a pleasant climate
North Cyprus has a warm Mediterranean climate with an average of 300–340 sunshine days each year, making it one of the healthiest places on the planet. The weather is ideal for resting on the beach or touring, with temperatures ranging from 17–20 °C in the winter to 28–35 °C in the summer.
When planning a trip to North Cyprus, bear in mind that the primary season begins in May and lasts until mid-October, with August being the warmest month. This area is also known for its wonderful beaches, several of which have been awarded the Blue Flag, meaning that they fulfill the highest environmental and quality criteria.
Golden Beach in the Karpaz Peninsula, Glapsides Beach in Famagusta, Escape Beach Club, Acapulco Beach, and Algadi Beach in Kyrenia are some of the most beautiful beaches. If you go early in the summer, you could watch turtles hatching their eggs on the latter, which is also known as a turtle beach.
3- It is a foodie’s paradise
When visiting North Cyprus, it is essential to sample the native food. Cypriot foods were inspired by Greek, Turkish, and Arabic cuisines and are incredibly healthful (and yummy). Vegetarians and meat-eaters alike will be delighted by the wide range of foods available.
The famous halloumi cheese, sheftalia (traditional grilled sausage made from minced pork and lamb), koupepia (vine leaves stuffed with rice, minced meat, onion, fresh herbs, and seasoning, cooked in a tomato sauce), souvla (chunks of meat grilled on a skewer), louvi (black-eyed peas, served with cooked courgettes or Swiss chard), and kolokasi (traditional grilled sausage) a root vegetable, traditionally stewed with pork in a tomato and celery sauce.
Loukoumades (deep-fried dough balls soaked in honey and sprinkled with cinnamon or nuts), baklava (puff pastry filled with chopped nuts and soaked in syrup or honey), loukoumi (chewy candies, also known as Turkish delights, that come in a variety of flavors such as rose water, cinnamon, or lemon and are covered in powdered sugar) and glyko karydaki (sweetened yogurt) are all options for sweet tooths (fresh walnuts in syrup).
4- A wide range of fun-filled activities and exciting entertainment options
While on vacation in North Cyprus, you may select from a wide range of entertainment alternatives. If you enjoy water sports and adrenaline rushes, this beautiful area of the island is the ideal location to try surfing, scuba diving, sailing, windsurfing, water skiing, and a variety of other exciting activities.
Bird and turtle watching, a guided orchid and wildflower walk, a 4×4 safari, and exploring the Karpaz National Park are all options for nature enthusiasts. For those who prefer more relaxing activities, there are boat trips and cruises, as well as sightseeing tours, tennis, golf, bowling, and horseback riding.
Enjoy a cup of traditional Turkish tea or coffee while on vacation in North Cyprus, then take a stroll around the local marketplaces and bazaars. From Lefkara lacework and jewelry to ceramics and colorful carpets, there are many intriguing things to find.
5- Awe-inspiring historical sites that will transport you to another era
If you need another incentive to start planning your vacation in North Cyprus, the region is also home to a number of historically significant sites. Whether you are interested in castles or old ruins, you will find something to your liking. The following are some of the best places to visit in North Cyprus:
- Visit Nicosia, the divided capital, and Famagusta (Magusa), the walled city.
- Take a stroll around Varosha, a ghost town that has remained abandoned since the Turkish invasion of Cyprus in 1974.
- Visit the Salamis Roman remains, one of North Cyprus’ most beautiful ancient sites.
- Take a stroll along Kyrenia’s lovely port (Girne) and pay a visit to the magnificent Kyrenia Castle, which is located nearby.
- Visit the ancient Greek city of Soli and learn about its amazing neolithic, Greek, and Roman ruins.
- In the Kyrenia Range, see the Crusader fortresses of St. Hilarion, Kantara, and Buffavento.
- Walk around the ruins of a Gothic monastery in the lovely town of Bellapais for some peace and quiet.
So, are you prepared for your unforgettable North Cyprus vacation?
North Cyprus is an excellent alternative for anybody seeking pure leisure, with so much to offer. This wonderful site never disappoints, whether you wish to swim in the Mediterranean Sea’s crystal blue waters or explore the ancient ruins.
Finally, if you ever require an ultra-luxury family hotel, our beautiful Limak Cyprus greets you with open arms in the unspoiled Bafra area of North Cyprus. In 2018, our hotel welcomed its first visitors. The top hotel in the region, with a 9.2 rating from customers.
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Yesterday, we reported thatfour reactors at the troubled Fukushima Nuclear Plant in Japan are being shutdown, but the crisis is far from over. The Japanese government has tried everything from flushing the reactors with seawater to dropping tons of water from helicopters. They’ve also enlisted outside help, some of which is coming in the form of video game controllers. QinetiQ North America, a Virginia-based technology company, has deployed robots controlled by Xbox 360 pads to assist relief efforts at the plant.
The unmanned Talon robots are outfitted with night vision and CBRNE — Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear and Explosive — detection kits. With the kits, the robots can identify more than 7,500 environmental hazards, including radiation, toxic chemicals, possible explosions, and volatile gases. Talon robots can operate up to 1,000 meters away from a controller, and they can also detect sound, temperature, and air quality. The sturdy machines have previously been used for twice daily decontamination at Ground Zero.
QinetiQ also sent smaller robots called Dragon Runners and kits to convert Bobcat loaders into unmanned vehicles. Dragon Runners are designed for use in small spaces. They are equipped with thermal cameras and work well for investigating rubble piles, trenches, culverts, and tunnels.
Bobcat loaders are construction vehicles usually used for excavation. QinetiQ’s Robotic Appliqué Kits allow for remote application of all the Bobcat’s features — shovels, buckets, grapples, tree cutters, etc. The unmanned Bobcat loaders include seven cameras, night vision, thermal imagers, microphones, two-way radio systems and radiation sensors. They can be operated from more than a mile away. Experts from QinetiQ will train Japanese workers on using the robots.
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Value and validation
How feedback enhances the quality of research outputs
If there’s one thing participants could change about research, it would be feedback. In a recent qualitative study, Busara’s research participants told us that they would want to learn the results of the studies they take part in. Beyond answering questions, respondents want to learn something new, and as representatives of their communities, share this new knowledge with their friends and family.
Reporting back to respondents is often recommended as a way to conduct more ethical research, because it addresses the power imbalances between researchers and respondents. This is still rarely practiced in quantitative research, likely due to the sheer volume of respondents typically involved. With qualitative research, however, ‘member checking’ has been a standard practice.
Is there any actual impact in giving feedback to research participants? We say yes!
As part of Busara’s work with GSMA, Safaricom and the Kenya Forest Service, we conducted qualitative and quantitative research with members of Kenya’s Community Forest Associations (CFAs). These CFAs help protect the forest, and our research focused on how we could ease the burden of collecting data and reporting their efforts. Our findings were published, but we had not yet presented them to the people who had so generously shared their time and experiences with us. Despite limited time and resources to give detailed feedback to participants from the quantitative part of the study, we did send a response in SMS format to see what difference that would make to their lives. Using SMS, we believe, is the very least researchers can do to provide feedback while keeping costs low. We wanted to make sure that participants in our qualitative sample received proper feedback and got a chance to ask questions and validate the findings. We decided on phone calls for this exercise.
We called the original 21 people who had participated in the qualitative research phase, reaching 19 of them. We talked over the findings with them, and briefly asked which were most important to communicate to the wider group. They told us that they felt the conclusions were true and well founded, and agreed that the feedback was clear but should be in a written format. Busara’s staff were described as open to questions and well-informed. Overall they felt that the experience of participating in research with Busara had been positive, albeit a little time-consuming, and the connectivity issues occasioned by COVID-19 remote research protocols had been troublesome. Ultimately, they felt they had learned new things, and had enjoyed the chance to reflect together. They gave no sense that the research was extractive, uncomfortable or something they reflected negatively upon. The real benefits to the community, participants implied, will result if changes really happen. Nonetheless, the increased knowledge gained during this process should be of value, they said. Participants gave examples of how the research had benefited the community, such as more people planting mangroves, and more people now attending CFA meetings.
Reflecting on these conversations, we came up with a feedback SMS that conveyed the most useful information, and sent it to 200 of the 400 people who had participated in the survey. We then called all 400 participants to ask a few questions, before sending out the text to the remaining 200 people. In total, 338 people agreed to complete the follow-up survey.
The SMS (sent in both English and Kiswahili) read: “In February you participated in our research on CFAs and forests in Kenya. Thank you for participating, your insights were very valuable to us! We have reported the following to Safaricom, KFS and other stakeholders: 1. The digital solution can provide more knowledge on conservation through training and information sharing. 2. More transparent and predictable financial incentives for dedicated CFA members can speed up tree-planting. Safaricom and KFS took this seriously and are considering the best solutions. Please share these findings at your next CFA meeting.”
We looked at the difference in responses to the follow-up survey between those who received SMS feedback in advance, and those who received it after the phone call to measure the impact of sharing research results. We found that:
- Giving participants feedback makes them significantly more likely to say they were treated respectfully (p<0.01), and significantly less likely to say that they find it difficult to speak up in community meetings (p<0.05).
- It has no significant impact on their desire to recommend Busara, their likelihood to change something in their lives as a result of their findings, or their motivation to conserve the forest. (Desire to recommend Busara and the motivation to conserve the forest were already very high).
We take from these findings that giving post-study feedback makes a real and measurable difference to research participants. This is true even if it is only in the form of a brief text message, an extremely low-cost mode that all researchers should be able to do. Soon, supported by Feedback Labs, we’ll be conducting a new study to examine which bits of feedback are most important to people, to help craft the most useful and impactful messages. All this work is being conducted under Busara’s new agenda on research ethics in the Global South, ‘Participant Voice First’. | <urn:uuid:fd474fad-56c6-495a-9162-51772f6c0f2b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://medium.com/busara-center-blog/value-and-validation-113750e7c0ad?source=read_next_recirc---------0---------------------db433ebe_a56e_47e9_a31b_11c58ac37410------- | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571538.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812014923-20220812044923-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.976203 | 1,080 | 2.109375 | 2 |
Job Description and Jobs
- 1) Controls equipment to produce alum liquor in continuous process reaction of sulfuric acid with powdered bauxite: Notifies other workers to unload bauxite from boxcars into hopper of crusher.
- 2) Starts crusher, mill, and conveyors to replenish storage supply of powdered ore.
- 3) Observes flowmeters and turns valves to regulate flow of powdered ore, acid, and weak alum liquor into first digester in specified proportions to produce mixture of prescribed specific gravity and through other digesters where chemical reaction occurs and resultant aluminum sulfate liquor is settled and diluted to specified concentration.
- 4) Tests samples from each digester, using hydrometer and thermometer, to verify specific gravities and temperatures.
- 5) Turns valves to adjust flow of steam through digester jackets and proportions of materials fed into first digester to regulate temperatures and specific gravities accordingly.
- 6) Pumps finished alum liquor into storage tank and weak alum liquors into settling tanks for recycling into process.
- 7) Records temperatures, specific gravities, and flow rates of materials in operating log and level of alum liquor storage tanks on inventory records.
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What is Unitarian Universalism?
Welcome to Unitarianism or Unitarian Universalism (UU), a liberal religion that celebrates diversity of belief and is guided by seven principles. Our congregation and the almost 50 others across Canada and the many around the world are places where we gather to nurture our spirits, stimulate our freedom of thought and mind, and put our faith into action through social justice work in our communities and the wider world.
Newcomers are always welcome. There is no formal conversion process, so becoming a Unitarian is simply a matter of self-identification. Following an orientation to Unitarian Universalism and to our Fellowship, newcomers may sign our membership book. Membership does not require renouncing other religious affiliations or practices.
We come from a rich tradition of religious freedom and history; our roots go back to the 1500’s in Europe when Christians who believed that there was no biblical or other reason to believe in the Holy Trinity were persecuted as “heretics.” The real meaning of the word “heretic” is to choose and Unitarians believed that people should be free from religious dogma and creed to choose their spiritual path. We still do!
Instead of dogma we are guided by 7 Principles, formed from the wisdom of the world’s major religions and the guidance of science and philosophy.
Our history has carried us from liberal Christian views about the nature of God and human nature to a rich pluralism that includes theist and atheist, agnostic and humanist, pagan, Christian, Jew, and Buddhist. As our history continues to evolve and unfold, we invite you to join us by choosing our free faith. Come and celebrate our diversity of mind and spirit!
To learn more download and read What We Wish People Knew About Unitarian Universalism, by the Rev. Steven Epperson.
The Seven Principles
Unitarian Universalist congregations affirm and promote seven Principles. These principles represent our values and act as a moral guide.
For more information about out seven Principles, go to: https://www.uua.org/beliefs/what-we-believe/principles
Why Become A Unitarian Universalist?
Unitarian Universalism: You're a Uni-What?
The Chalice Story
"The Flaming Chalice"
At the opening of our worship services, many congregations light a flame inside a chalice. This flaming chalice has become a well-known symbol of our denomination. It unites our members in worship and symbolizes the spirit of our work.
Originally, the flaming chalice was a two-dimensional image stamped on documents created by the Unitarian Service Committee (USC) to help Jewish refugees escape Nazi persecution on the eve of World War II.
The design had been hastily put together by the artist Hans Deutsch, himself a refugee. Deutsch was working at the direction of the USC’s director, Rev. Charles Joy, who believed that such a logo would make their paperwork look more official.
After 1941, the flaming chalice symbol spread throughout the world and has transformed into the basic symbol we have today and yet remains fluid by the individual expressions of artists.
Canadian Unitarian Council
The Canadian Unitarian Council (CUC) is the administrative body for all Unitarian and Unitarian Universalist congregations in Canada. Although there are only 5,000 Unitarians in Canada, there are churches and Fellowships from coast to coast! The largest congregations are found in Vancouver, Ottawa and Toronto.
While each congregation is “autonomous” in running its own affairs, they pay annual dues to the CUC to provide a common voice in national and social affairs, create opportunities to meet with other Unitarians through workshops and conferences, and to offer leadership training and other educational opportunities. Our Fellowship is an active dues-paying member of the CUC.
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Unitarian Universalist Association
The Unitarian Universalist Association (UUA) is the administrative body for all Unitarian and Unitarian Universalist (UU) congregations in the United States. There are over 230,000 UU’s across the U.S.
Although each congregation is “autonomous” in running its own affairs, they pay annual dues to the UUA to provide
a unified voice in national and social affairs, create opportunities to meet with other Unitarians through workshops and conferences and to offer leadership training and other educational opportunities. As a bi-national Fellowship, we maintain an association with the UUA.
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There are many famous Unitarians (UU’s) throughout history. Here's a small sampling! - Click on their pictures to learn more about them.
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"Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together"
From the time that we were very young, people, starting with our mothers, have been telling us about the importance of sleep.
I am going to do the same...
Like all of the Wellness Garage core behaviors, failing at sleep will negatively impact all other behaviors and will independently and collectively worsen your health.
The impact of lack of sleep is both obvious and insidious; obvious to the extent that our performance is clearly impaired; insidious in the way chronic sleep deprivation increases our risk for chronic disease.
So what to do...
Go to bed and get up at the same time, every day.
Aim for 7-8 hours per night.
Build your night-time routine
As part of all Wellness Garage programs we will assess your sleep and help you build the right behaviors that optimize your health.
Beyond the basics for insomnia
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The EMM (Ethnic and Migrant Minority) Survey Registry—which has been co-created by COST Action 16111 - ETHMIGSURVEYDATA, the H2020 SSHOC project, and the ANR project FAIRETHMIGQUANT—is a free online tool for discovering and learning about existing quantitative surveys undertaken with EMM (sub)populations in Europe and beyond. With the beta version successfully launched in spring 2020 and currently displaying detailed information (i.e. metadata) for over 1200 surveys from nearly 30 different countries, the EMM Survey Registry is looking to partner with data producers to further expand its metadata offerings, particularly those who are producing or have produced a COVID-19 survey with EMM respondents.
This webinar is therefore intended for data producers of quantitative surveys, so they can learn:
- why the EMM Survey Registry is an effective tool for showcasing a survey on EMMs' integration and/or inclusion for free with an international audience.
- when and how to contribute metadata for their survey using the back-end platform of the EMM Survey Registry.
- how the EMM Survey Registry is facilitating access to COVID-19 surveys that have been undertaken with EMM respondents.
How to join
Participating in the webinar: This webinar is free to attend. To register for this webinar, please fill out this registration form. Once your registration form has been received and processed, you will be sent detailed information about how to participate in this webinar by CLARIN via the email account: firstname.lastname@example.org.
- Laura Morales is Professor in Political Science/Comparative Politics at Sciences Po (Paris, France), affiliated with CEE and LIEPP. She specializes in the political dynamics and consequences of immigration, in the civic and political inclusion of migrant-origin minorities, and in survey research on migrant-origin populations. She has published, among others, Social Capital, Political Participation and Migration in Europe. Making Multicultural Democracy Work? (edited with Marco Giugni), Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2011. Morales is currently the Chair of the COST Action "International Ethnic and Immigrant Minorities' Survey Data Network" (http://www.ethmigsurveydatahub.eu/).
- Ami Saji is a junior researcher based at Sciences Po (Paris, France). She is currently supporting the SSHOC project in helping to make quantitative data on ethnic and migrant minorities FAIR. Prior to this role, she served as the Network Coordinator for ETHMIGSURVEYDATA and worked in the NGO sector, specializing in refugee resettlement, migrant integration, and workforce development. Ami holds a Master of Public Administration (MPA) in Social Impact from the London School of Economics and Political Science (London, UK) and a BA in International Studies and French from the Ohio State University (Columbus, Ohio, USA). | <urn:uuid:72479c3f-fb3c-4df0-8843-23dc7a7ff43b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.clarin.eu/event/2021/sshoc-workshop-showcase-your-survey-free-emm-survey-registry | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571210.98/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810191850-20220810221850-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.902061 | 614 | 1.664063 | 2 |
Seniors have earned freeze of their taxes
Today’s senior citizens are caught up in our federal, state and town governments’ ever increasing taxes and skyrocketing inflation. None of these governments has any compassion or sympathy for retired citizens older than 65.
Their Social Security is increased by a tiny cost-of-living, which is wiped out by an increase in Medicare that increases dramatically with each year of aging. If they’re fortunate enough to have a retirement, that’s frozen for a lifetime while medical, automobile and property insurance go up along with taxes.
Seniors pay a fair amount of taxes their entire lives, supporting their children’s education and the needs of their towns. Wouldn’t it be fair to freeze town taxes at their present rate to equalize their frozen income? Or is it fair to force many seniors into poverty and cause some to lose their homes. Or maybe senior citizens are expendable collateral as is the case in primitive civilizations? | <urn:uuid:882a45b4-8c5e-4020-b267-98b160685e87> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.norwichbulletin.com/story/opinion/letters/2010/06/23/seniors-have-earned-freeze-their/64994548007/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571911.5/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813081639-20220813111639-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.976767 | 216 | 2 | 2 |
Southfield, Mich., February 10, 2009 – Nothing like it has ever taken place in Detroit before. For the first time ever, The Engineering Society of Detroit (ESD) and the Detroit Regional Chapter of the US Green Building Council will present Greening the Heartland Conference—a three day event devoted to green building and sustainability practices.
From May 31, 2009 to June 2, 2009, COBO Center will play host to hundreds of attendees and exhibitors from Michigan and 11 other states, who will converge on Detroit to learn the latest in green innovations and initiatives.
The theme of the 2009 Greening the Heartland Conference is ABILITY. The event will promote sustainable design, construction and management strategies and methodologies for the building industry to integrate and implement by encouraging joint leadership by the private and public sectors throughout the Heartland Region. Attendees will receive the “tools” to achieve these goals through outstanding education & training sessions, keynote speakers, tours, and other engaging activities. The event will focus on presenting tangible, practical information, case studies and proven methods.
The conference’s keynote speaker will be David T. Suzuki, PhD, co-founder of the David Suzuki Foundation, an award-winning scientist, environmentalist and broadcaster. He is well known to millions as the host of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation’s popular science television series, The Nature of Things. His eight-part series, A Planet for the Taking won an award from the United Nations. His eight-part PBS series The Secret of Life was praised internationally, as was his five-part series The Brain for the Discovery Channel. For CBC Radio he founded the long-running radio series, Quirks and Quarks and has presented two influential documentary series on the environment, From Naked Ape to Superspecies and It’s a Matter of Survival.
In addition to the educational tracks and sessions, the conference will feature a legacy project, workshops, tours, special events, and much more.
For more information about Greening the Heartland, visit www.greeningtheheartland.org or by calling Della Cassia at 248-353-0735, ext. 112.
Founded in 1895, ESD is a multi-disciplinary society uniting engineering, scientific and allied professions to enhance professional development and foster excitement in math and science to produce our next generation of leaders. Serving this generation of engineers and fostering the next. For more information, visit www.esd.org.
The U.S. Green Building Council-Detroit Chapter’s mission is to transform and educate the Southeastern Michigan region design and construction marketplace to integrate and implement sustainable methodologies into the building industry. For more information, visit http://chapters.usgbc.org/detroit/ | <urn:uuid:137428f5-e7d6-4bc7-aa03-036915e52f8f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.dbusiness.com/people/esd-usgbc-present-first-time-in-detroit-greening-the-heartland-conference/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570977.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809124724-20220809154724-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.918517 | 569 | 1.90625 | 2 |
When López Obrador Reaches Three Years And Three Months in Power, 3% Of the Population May Request His Revocation.
Mexico is on the verge of a democratic process never before seen in history: the revocation of a presidential mandate. Photo: Wikimedia-EneasMx
LatinAmerican Post| Juan Manuel Londoño
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Leer en español: México: ¿se puede revocar al presidente AMLO?
Mexico is on the verge of an unprecedented democratic process: the revocation of a presidential mandate. Three months after the third constitutional year of the Executive Branch is completed, three percent of the population, from at least 17 states, may request the National Electoral Institute (INE) the early completion of the work of the current president.
What at first was conceived as a mechanism to perpetuate power and favor the candidates of the midterm elections, today is a constitutional opportunity that has been given to the opposition, since the request for the revocation of mandate has been endorsed by the INE, the current president would have to exceed the absolute majority (of at least 40% of the nominal list) of the vote to stay in power.
But, if the mandate is revoked, what would happen to the presidential position? To answer this, it is necessary to return to article 84 of the Political Constitution of the United Mexican States (CPEUM). This article establishes that in the event of the absolute absence of the president, the Congress of the Union will constitute an Electoral College, which will designate the interim president (in case the absence occurs in the first 2 years) or the person who will preside the Executive Power for the rest of the constitutional period (in case the fault occurred in the last 4 years).
If the revocation of the mandate occurs, the president of Congress will be the one who occupies the position of president for the first month, being the president of the Chamber of Deputies the one who would assume the position.
Once this has been done, Congress must follow the presidential substitution procedure established in Article 84, under the premise that the absolute absence occurred in the last 4 years of mandate. However, here are a couple of interesting points that must be explored.
The first one is that, according to the last paragraph of article 84 of the CPEUM, in the event of revocation, the provisions of the second paragraph of that same article will apply; that same paragraph does not authorize the provisional president to change cabinet members, unless authorized by the Senate of the Republic.
Secondly, if the President of the Chamber of Deputies will occupy the presidency of the republic for 30 days, who will preside over the Congress of the Union at the time of establishing itself as an Electoral College and appointing the new president of the republic? In this scenario, it will be one of the vice presidents of the Chamber of Deputies who temporarily occupies the Presidency of the Board of Directors
It is extremely pertinent to ask this now that the date on which this process may be requested is close, and it shows the importance of issuing the regulatory law for the revocation of the mandate.
When this constitutional reform was approved in 2019, the members of the Congress of the Union committed to issuing a law that would regulate this process, but to date, there is no proposal that allows the electoral body to conduct itself under this innovation of Mexican democracy.
In early 2022, the people of Mexico will be able to decide if they want their president to leave, but the uncertainty of a legal mechanism to achieve this will generate innumerable controversies in the process. | <urn:uuid:e64cb1fb-e4c6-4877-bed6-ab27096a9ffe> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://latinamericanpost.com/37527-mexico-can-president-amlo-be-removed | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571210.98/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810191850-20220810221850-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.933017 | 731 | 2.8125 | 3 |
Join us for this special screening of short documentaries produced in courses which are supported by the CEU Library’s Mirabaud Media Lab, and are part of the curriculum of the Visual Studies Platform’s advanced certificate program in Visual Theory and Practice. The evening is part of a series of end-of-semester screenings featuring the exceptional work of CEU students. This installment includes films from the courses “Fundamentals of Documentary Filmmaking,” "Documentary for Social Change” and “Foundations of Visual Practice.”
The screening will last for approximately 80 minutes and be followed by a brief Q&A with the filmmakers, and after that a reception in the N13 atrium. See below for a description of the films.
Foundations of Visual Practice
“Flipping the Script” - The untold story of Amal, a fictional character in the story “Spiced Shame” written by Egyptian comic artist Hicham Rahma.
(3:39; Ifra Asad, Sara Rizkallah & Mackenzie Nelson)
This film includes depictions of sexual assault which may be disturbing.
Fundamentals of Documentary Filmmaking
“Food for Humanity” - A film promoting the activities of Heti Betevő, a charity organization providing food and clothing to poor and homeless people in Hungary.
(4:00; Alexandra Zinovyeva, Ilkin Cankurt & Lucie Janotova)
“Stopped at km 22” - What is home like when you can never be there? A film about life and work on the road.
(Jack Atmore, Lucy Szemetova & Wouter Torbeyns)
“Transition” - It is hard to be a transsexual in Hungary: this is a glimpse into the struggles of a transsexual woman in the country.
(Iryna Mysiv, Lili Toth, Mirkamran Huseynli
Documentary for Social Change
“Go Organic” – Transitioning to a healthier lifestyle by knowing where and how your food reaches you.
(Nurma Fitrianingrum, Shawna Anderson, Shubhangi Heda)
"SHEntrepreneurship" - How female students of CEU can benefit from launching their startups with Innovations Lab.
“The Walk” - The steps and shifts in the life of Dodi.
(Alexanders Kolas, Dora Weber, Israel Collier & Setu Band Upadhyay)
“Two Hungarians” - The journey of an Afghani man in Hungary.
(Dana Abu Lail, Tamara Kiptenko & Kateryna Lopushanska)
“Vegetarian for a week” - Challenging several people to cut down on their meat consumption for a week.
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When an NRI Aggie travels to Antarctica
Antarctica is an idyllic land that, for centuries, has drawn explorers to its shores in search of knowledge and renown. More than ever, the effects of climate change are visibly stretching across its vast frozen landscapes, calling out to scientists and climate activists in search for answers with above-average temperatures, melting ice, and rising sea levels.
How do we protect our Earth’s most vulnerable places from the impacts of a changing climate? How can we preserve its natural beauty and resources?
Xenia Rangaswami, a Texas A&M graduate research assistant in our freshwater mussel research lab, recently joined the ClimateForce: Antarctica ’22 Expedition (CFA) in search of some of these answers. Over 170 participants from more than 30 countries took part in the CFA immersive learning experience to discuss potential solutions to our climate crisis.
Xenia’s passion for environmentalism began early — she recalled one Earth Week where her fourth-grade homework assignment was to weigh all their household garbage for a week, “I was surprised at how much trash my family produced and convinced my parents to start composting.”
The environment around her was also advocating for itself. Living near an ecological restoration project illustrated for her how quickly native birds and pollinators returned to an area that was properly cared for, and open-water swimming in the grimy, polluted San Francisco Bay sparked her interest in protecting aquatic environments.
She carried on this aquatic focus throughout her undergraduate and now, graduate degrees. During her Organismal Biology undergraduate career at Scripps College in Claremont, California, she researched the metabolism of acorn barnacles in relation to climate change.
Her current freshwater mussel research under Dr. Charles Randklev and Dr. Roel Lopez of the Texas A&M Natural Resources Institute focuses on the thermal and salinity tolerance of native freshwater mussel species in the context of their environmental conditions.
“Basically, I see how hot and how salty the water can get before they can no longer survive. Then, I compare these physiological tolerances to actual conditions in the rivers they inhabit and make recommendations for river management. I enjoy using science as a tool to help conserve vulnerable species.”
In her senior year of high school in 2015, she traveled on the (then called) International Antarctic Expedition, and as Xenia puts it, the trip changed the trajectory of her entire life. She said, “After the expedition, I knew I had to dedicate my life to protecting the environment. It affirmed my interest in climate change and motivated me to pursue climate change-related research in college.”
This year, she was invited once again to participate in the latest expedition, led jointly by ClimateForce and the 2041 Foundation. The 2041 Foundation, founded by polar explorer Robert Swan, OBE, is named after the expiration year of the Antarctic Treaty; the treaty prevents any country from owning or exploiting Antarctica’s land and resources. The foundation is advocating for the renewal of the treaty to ensure that Antarctica’s landscapes remain peaceful and accessible for science. ClimateForce, founded by Robert’s son, Barney Swan, is a non-profit that aims to make sustainability accessible in the key areas of lifestyle, education, and business.
In preparation for the trip, Xenia worked with Barney to create actionable steps that CFA members and others can take to make their lives more sustainable.
“One of the popular mottos of the climate movement is ‘think global, act local.’ I really wanted to bring this to life in my work with ClimateForce. I worked with Barney to create a 1–6–1 action-taking framework in which we asked each person on the Expedition to make a 1-month lifestyle commitment, 6-month education commitment, and 1-year business commitment. I personally committed to 1-month lifestyle goals of reducing my dairy consumption and growing native plants on my patio, 6-month commitment to giving educational talks on Antarctica to schools and other organizations, and 1-year commitment to bringing sustainable initiatives to the AgriLife Dallas Center where I work and my apartment complex. . . I invite other Aggies to join me in making their own commitments!”
After departing from Texas, Xenia’s journey truly began in the most southerly city in the world, Ushuaia, Argentina. Because all ships sailing from the Americas to Antarctica depart from Ushuaia, it is nicknamed the “End of the World.” Here, the team explored the peat bogs of the Cerro Alarkén Nature Preserve, hiked the Martial Glacier, and removed trash from the local beach. Peatlands (like the peat bogs of the Nature Preserve) are the largest natural terrestrial carbon store, and damage to these lands is responsible for almost 5% of anthropogenic carbon dioxide emissions globally, and the Martial Glacier, much like many others across the globe, has been steadily shrinking over the last few decades due to rising temperatures. The major impacts of climate change are not limited to Antarctica and before even arriving at their destination, Xenia saw firsthand some of the natural wonders that are being placed at risk if humans do not make significant changes.
After four days in Ushuaia, Xenia boarded the Ocean Victory and set sail for Antarctica. This vessel is the most environmentally friendly ship that sails to Antarctica and uses 60 percent less energy than traditional cruise ships. The Ocean Victory sailed through the Beagle Channel at the southern tip of South America, across the Drake Passage that connects the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans and can have ocean swells reaching up to 12 meters (nearly 40 feet) high, and finally into Antarctic waters.
For five days the team traveled around the western edge of Antarctica hiking, visiting islands using Zodiac boats, and viewing wildlife like Gentoo penguins (Pygoscelis papua) and Weddell seals (Leptonychotes weddellii). During their time on the boat, they learned from experts and other expedition members about climate change and sustainability.
One of the locations the team visited that had the greatest impact on Xenia was Deception Island in Whalers Bay. The island itself is the caldera of a still-active volcano; now a popular tourist destination, it was once home to massive sealing and whaling operations. During the early 19th century, fur-sealers congregated at Deception Island for periods of hunting during summers until overhunting caused seal populations in the area to collapse. In 1904, a whaling industry was established in the area and huge silos were erected to store whale oil after their carcasses were processed. It is said that over a million Antarctic whales were killed in a period of just under 30 years, until the market became less profitable, and the Deception Island factories ceased operating. Although the practice of mass harvesting ended 91 years ago, the silos remain on Deception Island as a reminder of the devastation that was once wrought there and provide inspiration to improve upon our history and continue protecting the land from such widespread exploitation.
As Xenia and the team sailed across the western edge of the continent, they experienced higher than average temperatures. There were several days when they anticipated snow but were instead met with rain. As alarming as this was, the situation was even direr in the eastern reaches of the continent. The remote site known as “Dome C” recorded a daily high temperature of +13.8 °F, a tremendous 69.3 °F higher than the typical average temperature of -55.5 °F. Climate change is impacting our planet in real and tangible ways. Locations like Antarctica that are especially sensitive to temperature changes make it easier to visualize exactly what those impacts are, and it is becoming increasingly crucial for organizations like the 2041 Foundation to continue advocating for its protection.
Xenia shared that her biggest realization on the trip was, “. . . as simple as it sounds, is that there is no one ‘best’ solution to the climate crisis; it must be approached from all angles. This includes top-down, bottom-up, and middle-level approaches. Corporations, governments, communities, and individuals all have a part to play. And it’s especially important for communities to come together in order to create systemic change because we can accomplish a lot more when we act together.”
Being a climate advocate takes many different forms, whether you are advocating for governments and corporations to take responsibility for ecological destruction and pass legislation to reduce greenhouse gas emissions or working in your local community to plant a garden and grow local food to share. “Building resilience within our communities is a crucial part of adapting to a changing climate and regenerating the earth,” said Xenia.
After the excitement of the expedition fades, the realities of climate change and its direct impact on Texans will remain. Summers with higher-than-average temperatures, droughts, and an uptick in the occurrence of natural disasters are all happening today — how will the missions of organizations like ClimateForce impact Texans through these challenges and aid with the conservation of our wildlife, habitats, and day-to-day lives?
Xenia said, “ClimateForce’s mission is to make sustainability more accessible. It aims to integrate, restore, and connect within lifestyle, education, and business. ‘Integrate’ entails taking action to reduce impact; ‘restore’ incorporates regenerative ventures and . . . environmental, social, and corporate governance; and ‘connect’ brings people together to take climate action. As an ambassador of ClimateForce, I hope to bring its mission to Texas through the lifestyle, education, and business commitments I made during the Expedition and by engaging with the communities I’m part of.”
Many Texans, unfortunately, do not hold the power of governments and corporations to enact widespread change, but organizations such as ClimateForce are meeting people where they are to encourage them to make small, but impactful changes within their own lives and circles of influence. The 1–6–1 framework created by Xenia and Barney is an excellent way to start making small, actionable change and start becoming a climate advocate. When thinking about how she can personally best respond to the climate crisis, Xenia recalled a presentation from her fellow expedition member, Flavia Neves Maia of Brazil, who said, “Privilege is a responsibility, and responsibility is the ability to respond.” The more privilege one is awarded, whether it is financially, socially, or otherwise, the better they can respond to the climate crisis, take meaningful action, and enact change.
The climate crisis is a complex, global issue and as Xenia stated, there is no one correct solution. As one activist travels to Antarctica to learn how she can protect the unique landscapes and life that it harbors, a landowner in Texas may be concerned about droughts and learning new strategies for encouraging native wildlife populations to thrive on her land. Individuals have different interests, strengths, and abilities, and they are all needed to find a solution to the impending effects of climate change. Thinking globally and acting locally is an excellent place to start.
For more information on ClimateForce and how to make a difference in your local community, please visit https://www.theclimateforce.org/.
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A decentralized autonomous organization is a system without any central leadership. These organizations are transparent and community-centric and generally give their members the power to vote on proposals and updates, proportional to a member’s potential. Decisions are from the bottom-up, owned and managed by their members. DAOs are governed and organized by specific rules coded on a blockchain.
DAO operates through smart contracts, essentially a set of codes that automatically execute whenever a set of criteria are met. These smart contracts define the organization’s rules. Once these rules are live on the blockchain, no one can change them except the entire group votes for them. This group makes a collective decision, and even the payments are only passed with votes. There are mainly three types of DAO membership models. Now let us see what the membership models in DAO are:
Membership models often determine how voting works in a DAO and its outcomes. There are mainly three types of DAO membership models – Token-based, Share-based, and Reputation-based membership.
Token-based membership models are completely permissionless. The tokens here are distributed on permissionless decentralized exchanges. Others should be earned through “proof -of work “or liquidity. A token gives a holder access to vote.
Related Article: Top FAQs on Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO)
MakerDAO is a famous example of token-based membership where anyone can buy the voting power in the Maker protocol’s future.
Share-based tokens DAOs are more permissioned ones. Any member can submit a proposal to join the DAO membership by offering some value to the organization through tokens or work. Shares represent direct voting power and ownership. Members can leave at any time with their proportionate share.
MolochDAO is focused on funding Ethereum projects and is an example of share-based memberships. Here, the membership requires a proposal to assess expertise and capital to judge potential guarantees.
Reputation represents proof of participation, and users need to earn voting power through participation in a DAO membership. DAOs don’t transfer ownership to contributors; the reputation cannot be bought, transferred, or delegated. In reputation-based memberships, members can submit proposals to join DAO and request reputation and tokens as a reward in exchange for their contributions.
Related Article: NFT DAO: How do NFTs and DAOs coexist in DeFi?
DXDAO is reputation-based governance. Here holographic consensus is leveraged to manage and coordinate funds. There is no way a potential member can buy their way inside the organization.
Some other examples of DAO membership models are given below.
Uniswap comes under Protocol DAO, which offers an ownership and governance mechanism to support lending platforms. It is one of the biggest Ethereum-based decentralized exchanges, developed with its governance system and token.
PlearsDAO: They are DeFi leaders engaged in acquiring culturally significant digital pieces teamed up with high-priced NFT companies and other investments.
Talk to our experts to build your own DAO.
ConstitutionDAO: This DAO was a decentralized, crowdfunded endeavor to win a rare edition of the US constitution. This project informed many people about the potential of the DAOs for generating money. But the project didn’t succeed at the auction despite receiving over $40 million from 15,000 donors.
Related article: How does DAO Governance work, and how to launch one?
Bit DAO: A decentralized investment fund called BitDAO was established to enable anyone to purchase a stake in web3, de-fi startups, and initiatives. Token holders can vote on how managed capital is distributed among the projects supported by the fun.
Democratization: It is decentralized, and the main focus is on a collective rather than an individual. All members in a DAO membership model can vote on moves and changes, encouraging accountability and careful thinking among members. It creates fair and equal organization without any chain of command hurdles.
Transparency and Trust: Traditional organizations keep much of their operations internal, but DAOs are operated on a decentralized blockchain network where participants don’t need to know each other as the rules are embedded in a transparent, safe, and secure blockchain record.
Talk to our experts to build your own DAO.
Community Driven: DAO transitions from a hierarchical system to a community-led organization that supports encoding rules, not depending on the role of the members. Within the organization, each token-holder has voting rights depending on the number of tokens one holds.
Over the next few years, we will see the maturation of DAOs. DAO memberships provide a platform where the entire community benefits from the organization’s profit without any central governing authority. It helps bond people together, providing an ecosystem that does not require a call for a central governing authority.DAOs offer creative opportunities; all required is to connect your wallet and buy some tokens. The different DAO membership models will help you understand this crypto movement with human collaboration. | <urn:uuid:c15bfa4b-2ce3-4925-be3d-472835cc5c66> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://blog.accubits.com/different-models-of-dao-membership/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572043.2/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814143522-20220814173522-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.947762 | 1,064 | 1.9375 | 2 |
What to do when a patient wont survive transfer
Addressing critical issues first, such as hemorrhage, shock and electrolyte abnormalities, can greatly improve the likelihood of survival after transfer to emergency care.
As staff criticalist at Cornell University Veterinary Specialists, Elisa Mazzaferro, MS, DVM, PhD, DACVECC, is no stranger to receiving severely ill or injured patients. At Fetch dvm360 conference in Kansas City, Missouri, Dr. Mazzaferro provided valuable tips for managing emergency cases prior to transfer.
“It's always better for the patient to stabilize them before transferring them to an emergency facility for care because you can't predict if there will be an accident on the road that may slow them down,” Dr. Mazzaferro says.
She explained that critical patients often require stabilization before they can be transferred safely to an emergency facility for 24-hour care. Even a seemingly stable patient can destabilize quickly, which is why prioritizing certain diagnostic and management steps can provide valuable information on patient status and lead to a positive income.
Start with the ABCs
The ABCs of cardiopulmonary evaluation (i.e. airway, breathing, and circulation) should always be prioritized for incoming critical patients. Respiration rate and character, which can be evaluated quickly from a distance, may suggest the presence of certain trauma- or disease-related conditions, such as rib fracture, flail chest, pulmonary contusion or diaphragmatic hernia.
Thoracic focused assessment using sonography for trauma/triage (TFAST) can help identify critical cardiopulmonary problems, such as pneumothorax or pleural or pericardial effusion. TFAST is particularly useful for patients that are too unstable for restraint, as the procedure can be performed with the patient standing or in sternal recumbency. Thoracentesis may be another useful tool both for diagnosis and treatment of certain respiratory problems, such as pneumothorax.
Long, deep respirations with high-pitched inspiratory stridor are characteristic signs of laryngeal paralysis/collapse or tracheal collapse. Respiratory difficulty on inspiration suggests tracheal collapse within the cervical region, whereas intrathoracic tracheal collapse typically causes respiratory difficulty during exhalation. Patients in respiratory distress may calm sufficiently after administration of small amounts of butorphanol and acepromazine. If these medications are ineffective, however, intubation and oxygen therapy are indicated until the patient can be transferred.
Shock and fluid therapy
Trauma-related internal or external hemorrhage can easily lead to hypovolemia and shock. Treatment should focus on slowing hemorrhage and restoring blood volume, while taking care not to exacerbate blood loss through fluid overload. Equipment such as compression bandages, ligature materials, and tourniquets should be readily accessible to manage significant hemorrhage.
IV catheter placement may be complicated for small/exotic patients or those with peripheral edema, dehydration, or hypotension. In such cases, either surgical cutdown to a vessel or placement of an intraosseous (IO) catheter may be necessary. Dr. Mazzaferro noted that uptake of fluid and other products is similar through IO and IV routes and that IO catheters are well tolerated by most patients.
Hypovolemic shock is typically addressed with isotonic crystalloids and natural and synthetic colloids. The patient's status should be assessed closely and continuously to ensure that acceptable heart rate, blood pressure, capillary refill time, and mucous membrane color are restored and maintained. However, blood pressure should be measured regularly to avoid fluid overload.
Dr. Mazzaferro acknowledged that fluid therapy can worsen pulmonary edema and dilutional coagulopathies; however, a bolus with a synthetic colloid and hypertonic saline can also help stabilize the hypovolemic patient. By drawing fluid from interstitial and intracellular spaces into the circulation, bolus therapy can significantly improve circulating fluid volume and oxygen delivery.
Patients with postrenal obstruction, uroabdomen or hypoadrenocorticism may experience life-threatening electrolyte abnormalities. Hyperkalemia can cause severe bradycardia or asystole and must be addressed before sedation, anesthesia or travel is attempted. Dr. Mazzaferro mentioned several treatment options for hyperkalemia, such as methods to drive potassium into the cell (e.g. IV insulin/dextrose or sodium bicarbonate) or those with a cardioprotective effect (e.g. calcium gluconate). If immediate transfer is not available for a patient with uroabdomen, Dr. Mazzaferro recommended placing a drainage catheter into the abdominal cavity under local anesthesia. Once connected to a closed collection system, the catheter can remove urine from the abdomen until the source of urinary trauma can be repaired.
Pericardial effusion can adversely affect cardiac output, blood pressure and tissue perfusion. For unstable patients with pericardial effusion, such as the geriatric pet with a cardiac neoplasm, Dr. Mazzaferro recommended performing pericardiocentesis before transfer is attempted. If possible, an echocardiogram should be performed first to scan for a right atrial, right auricular or heart base mass, and electrocardiography leads should be in place during the procedure to monitor for cardiac dysrhythmias. Place a small amount of the obtained fluid into a red-topped tube to observe for clots. “If the fluid clots, it's a sign of an active bleed,” Dr. Mazzaferro notes. Because pericardial effusion can return quickly, these patients should be monitored closely. Because pericardial effusion can return quickly, these patients should be monitored closely.
Blood loss, anemia and transfusion
According to Dr. Mazzaferro, the underlying cause of anemia (blood loss, destruction, or lack of production) provides clues as to whether hemoglobinemia or hypovolemia is the patient's major issue. Depending on the cause, fluid therapy or a blood product transfusion may be indicated before the patient is transferred.
A combination of IV crystalloids, colloids and blood products can provide hemodynamic stabilization for patients experiencing severe anemia or hemorrhage. When considering a blood transfusion, Dr. Mazzaferro reminded the audience that dogs have six possible blood groups, yet they lack naturally occurring alloantibodies against other blood types. Therefore, a single transfusion can be administered without first performing blood typing or a cross-match. In contrast, cats have three primary blood types and naturally occurring antibodies and, therefore, must undergo blood typing or cross-match before blood transfusion to avoid an adverse reaction. If neither is possible, Dr. Mazzaferro advised veterinarians to administer a crystalloid fluid bolus to increase circulating intravascular fluid volume. Then, contact the emergency facility to confirm that type A and B blood products are on hand before the patient is referred.
A single xenotransfusion (i.e. canine blood transfer to a feline recipient) can be a life-saving option for the critically anemic cat. However, xenotransfused erythrocytes live only 3.6 days, and cats will develop antibodies against canine blood within 7 days after the transfusion. Therefore, Dr. Mazzaferro stated that xenotransfusion should be reserved for cases in which no other options are available.
“However, I would rather give a cat canine blood to get it through and get it to a facility that has the cat's type-specific blood, then potentially give it the wrong feline blood type and potentially kill it,” Dr. Mazzaferro says.
Veterinary ambulance services
If possible, pet owners should not transport critical patients to a referral facility alone. Instead, Dr. Mazzaferro explained that the referring veterinarian, a technician and a driver can ensure constant care throughout the transfer. Before moving the patient, call the referral facility to communicate your estimated time of arrival. Provide copies of medical records, including diagnostic test results and updated treatments, to the facility.
“It's also very important that everyone involved in the transport has each other's contact information: the pet owner, the referring hospital and the destination hospital,” Dr. Mazzaferro says. “That way if the pet owner, or whomever is transporting the pet, gets lost, time is not wasted driving in circles, which has happened before.”
Veterinary ambulance services, although potentially expensive, offer another option for the transfer of critical and unstable patients. Dr. Mazzaferro emphasized that the high level of care provided by these services can increase the likelihood of patient survival. Also, using a dedicated service relieves the referring veterinarian and staff of the responsibility (and potential liability) of transfer.
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Work on wildlife rehabilitation or environmental conservation projects as a Wilderness Volunteer in Canada
These hands-on volunteer placements will allow you to experience Canada like never before, immersed in nature and wilderness, working with other volunteers for common animal and environmental causes.
What is the Wilderness Volunteer in Canada Program?
Wilderness Volunteer in Canada program is an hands-on educational experience in Canada. Young adults get to do volunteer work in wildlife rehabilitation or environmental conservation. Placements are available with a registered charitable organization, NGOs, parks and First Nations organizations in Canada.
Through this program, you will live in a rural or remote area and get to experience the incredible nature of Canada. Volunteers work hands-on with plants and wildlife and gain valuable career experience.
Why take the Wilderness Volunteer in Canada Program?
- Guaranteed wilderness volunteer placement before you come to Canada.
- Work on wildlife or conservation projects
- Make a difference and contribute to the preservation of nature
- Meet other volunteers from around the world
- Easy work permit / visa process
What is like to take part in a Wilderness Volunteer in Canada Program?
Wilderness Volunteer program provides guaranteed placement with a registered charities. You’ll be working on projects focused on wildlife rehabilitation or environmental conservation. This program provides structured, full-time and hands-on meaningful work. Therefore, you will contribute to the environment while also building your skills set and improving your English and French skills too.
Through this program, you can also meet your university internship requirements in the areas of natural science. For example, if you study biology, geology, forestry or animal science, this is an ideal program for you.
Other internship programs might require an IEC work permit. However, this program only requires a C50 work permit that you apply for when you arrive. As a result, this is an excellent alternative to Working Holiday or Internship Co-op permits.
What are the requirements for Wilderness Volunteer in Canada Program?
This program is ideal if you are:
- 18 and above (no upper age limit)
- Motivated and passionate
- In good physical and mental health
- Able to lift at least 15 kg
- Able to maneuver over rough terrain, where there are sometimes no roads or walkways
- Healthy and don’t have a medical condition that requires frequent care (as placements are far from cities or emergency treatment)
- Willing to live in a remote location without regular access to facilities such as internet or shops
- High intermediate level of English or French
- Willing to commit to minimum 20 hours per week
- Able to financially support themselves for the duration of the placement
The C50 Permit is available now, with no uncertainty, waiting periods, or long application process. The C50 Charitable Worker Permit is available at the airport upon your arrival to Canada. We will provide you with the necessary documents to support your request for the C50 Work Permit.
What are my placement options in the Wilderness Volunteer Program?
Environmental Conservation placements at organizations involved in:
- Repairing rivers and streams,
- Cataloging invasive and native plant species,
- Clearing wilderness areas and restoring trails
This is physical work, typically done with wilderness organizations, environmental research organizations, public or private parks or wilderness areas adjacent to recreation areas. Participants can, for example, stay in cabins or tents since they participate in strenuous work as part of a team of volunteers.
Wildlife Rehabilitation placements with animal recovery centres involved in:
- Hands-on work with animals,
- Animal feeding
- Cleaning cages,
- Collecting related data,
- Documenting animal behavior,
- Maintaining information and visitor centres,
- Help promote the organization to the wider community
Participants get up close with animals such as owls, eagles, wolves, and bears.
Where can I be a Wilderness Volunteer?
Wilderness Volunteer placements are done in rural and wilderness areas in 4 regions – each of roughly equal population:
British Columbia (English Speaking)
Westernmost province of Canada, located between the Pacific Ocean and Rocky Mountains. The Coast Mountains and Inside Passage’s inlets provide renowned and spectacular scenery. Therefore, outdoor adventures are guaranteed. And most importantly, because of its mild climate, Wilderness Volunteer placements in BC are available year-round.
Destination airport: Vancouver
Western Canada (English Speaking)
This region includes the provinces of Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba. It includes the Rocky Mountains, Great Plains, and sub-arctic. Because of this, Western Canada hosts the greatest diversity of placements. Thus the placements are most remote, and isolated from urban centres. Volunteer work is availabe year-round, hence to the moderate climate in the western most portions the region.
Destination Airports:, Calgary, Edmonton, Regina, Winnipeg.
Central Canada (English Speaking)
This region is contained within Canada’s most densely-populated province – Ontario. Placements are concentrated in the region stretching from Ottawa to Windsor. Many placements are near small towns and cities. Because of this they focus on restoring green areas, or helping animals at the outskirts of settlement. Volunteers in this region are closer to major centres – therefore making this the ideal setting for volunteers that want to combine work with travel and sightseeing.
Destination Airport: Toronto Pearson International Airport.
French Canada (French Speaking)
This region is primarily contained with the province of Quebec, but also includes French-speaking areas of New Brunswick and Ontario. Similarly to Ontario in, placements are often closer to urban centres. However, this region is distinct in being French-speaking, and for this reason has a different culture, and way of life than in the rest of Canada.
Destination Airport: Montreal Trudeau International Airport. WVP participants can purchase this ticket at time of registration, as placement in the region is guaranteed.
Travel times from major cities average 6 hours by car or bus. Because these placements are remote, participants will not be able to combine their Wilderness Volunteer work with simultaneous studies.
Wilderness Volunteer in Canada Accommodation
Wilderness Volunteer participants receive accommodation as part of their placements. Accommodation can be in cabins, hostel-style dormitories or even tents for placements at more remote sites. Homestay accommodation maybe available for placements near urban centres. Past WVP participants have stayed in:
- Shared cabins
All non-tent accommodation is furnished, heated, and comes with self catering and washroom facilities. For tent accommodation at more rustic sites, tents and bedding are provided, as is access to cooking and washroom facilities.
Fees for accommodation are included in the price of the program.
Important note: meals are not included in WVP placements. All accommodation is self-catering, however hosts ensure that participants have regular weekly access to shops in nearby communities in order to purchase food. In some placements meals may be included and participants will be informed prior to arrival.
Each type of placement may also include ‘Communal Living Duties’ for Wilderness Volunteer Program participants who are living at the work site. These can include: cooking, cleaning bathrooms, kitchen duties and laundry.
Want to volunteer in the city instead?
If you would like to complete a practical volunteer internship in the areas of: Marketing, Accounting, Events planning, etc in the city of Vancouver, Montreal, Toronto, Ottawa or Calgary, read about our Charity Internship in Canada Program here.
How can I apply for the Volunteer in Canada Program?
Apply for this program at any time, year-round and your placement will be confirmed within 4 weeks. If you wish to receive information regarding the Wilderness Volunteer in Canada Program fees, please Contact us.
This fee includes:
- Confirmed volunteer placement
- Work permit documents,
- Local one-way transportation to the volunteer site from the city of arrival,
- Support and reporting during the program
- Letter of reference upon completion
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Apparently the one about how newer car engines are made out of softer metal and don’t last as long as older engines from the 60s or 70s is still going around after decades. A look at any odometer will tell you this isn’t true.
The I survived a high speed crash tails are still being told. The people don’t understand that if they’re going 80 MPH and hit a parked car of equal weight, that it’s actually the equivalent to hitting a wall at 40 MPH. The same applies to two cars hitting head on. The closing speed may be 80 MPH, but if the cars are equal, then it’s the same as 40 MPH in to a wall.
I mentioned the 5 MPH no damage bumpers on an older car, and a mechanic said actually up to 30 MPH without damage!
Using premium gasoline in a vehicle that is not designed to use it will improve performance. This is false!
Using sythetic oil can ruin your engine! This is mostly false! But there is a little truth to it. Putting a high detergent synthetic oil in an abused sludged up engine can clean it out too quickly and clog the oil filter.
Newer cars use newer technology paint so you don’t have to worry about them rusting out in the salt anymore! That may have been true in the 90s when compared to the 70s. What about a 2005 F-150 that is getting an after market weld on frame repair due to rust in 2019?
The myth that drunk drivers are more likely to survive crashes while killing the other driver because their body is more relaxed needs to be refuted! Aside from drunk drivers often driving trucks and SUVs, the real reason is that when the drunk enters the wrong lane and hits someone head on, the not at fault driver usually tries to steer away from the at fault driver. This results in the non at fault vehicle being hit at a bit of an angle, somewhat like a small overlap crash, which is much more severe. The driver is thrown to the left and will often pass by the airbag on the left. The NHTSA does an oblique crash test to simulate this kind of crash. If they would steer in to the drunk then the drunk would lose their advantage.
If you stop somewhere for a minute you should leave your engine running, because if you restart your engine your car will use more fuel than it would have used just running for a minute after it restarts. I don’t think this is even true below 5 seconds.
Does anyone have any more to share? I may edit them in to this list if I think they’re true or you can convince me.
We are having enough trouble anyway. I think it would be wise to not bring up more issues that some may not agree with.
You can’t do it unless the number is 2! … lol …
I am with Mr. Bing @TheWonderful90s . It might be best if you stop trying to stir things up with your theories that cause rock throwing discusions .
You have already tried to bait me in to talking about forbidden topics and use personal attacks on the forum to try to get me banned. Fortunately the moderator of the forum is following the rules that allow automotive discussions to take place, even if a group of about 5 members find the topic matter controversial and resort to any means to try to suppress it. It didn’t work so just give it up.
Car makers are cheating by designing cars to the to do well on specific crash tests which makes them worse in some other kinds of real world crashes and I’m going to stop talking about it just because the five of you don’t like it.
Well just to be clear I haven’t flagged anyone, any discussion, or tried to block anyone. I do respond though on comments of obvious bias and misinformation, for which I am quickly flagged and removed. I don’t do it for the folks whose mind will not be moved, but for the people that may come here and may never hear the other side. I’m a firm believer in the constitution and the wisdom of the framers but can’t be quiet when these subjects come up. I just think there is no point in discussing these issues here.
I liked the first oil change at 500 miles to get the remaining metal shavings out of the oil pan.
There was a corvette that the owner died in during an accident. It was fixed but could not be sold because they couldn’t get the smell out. That was a good one. If it was a Gremlin they would have crushed it.
Mazdas have rotary engines so don’t buy one.
In Latin, Saturn means ugly Olds.
That corpse Corvette story has been a myth for a long, long time. The Mythbusters TV show actually sort of debunked it… w dead pigs in the car stored in a Conex. They sold the car, sans interior and cleaned afterwards.
Remember the surplus WW2 Jeeps still in the crate for $100 story?
I thought it would be fun to have one of those jeeps. Must have been about 1960, popular mechanics had an ad for brand new Clinton small go cart engines for $5. I thought it was a fake and couldn’t risk the money. My friend though ordered one and dang if it wasn’t true. Mounted it on his mini bike and ran well. No muffler though. Trust but verify I guess.
Those surplus Jeep ads were in Popular Science magazines for $50 or $100 well into the '60s.
When I was in college during the '60s,that myth had morphed into WW II surplus Harley-Davidsons for $50.
Maybe they were utterly worn out and ready for the crusher.
Back in the late '60s my brother in the Navy and a few friends would pitch in and buy a $50 car for a weekend trip from Norfolk VA to Wash DC.
Was cheaper than bus tickets.
Sometimes they’d make the whole round trip and re-sell the car; sometimes not.
Once it made it a couple miles outside of Norfolk.
They let it coast into a ditch, ripped off the temp tags, and walked back to base.
Here is one that is loved by drunks with alcoholic attitudes everywhere! “I drive better after I have had a few”
Here is another one. “Disc brakes are superior to drum brakes in every single aspect”
While I will now concede that disc brakes are superior in most situations (the number is debatable which we have done here, in interest of not beating a dead horse I will say most), Drum brakes are superior in certain ways.
If this is the best course of action we best just stay in our houses or trailers and shut off the TV, computer and telephone.
Things we may not like or disagree with are everywhere, everyplace and you will never agree with anyone 100%.
Often times conflicting views will promote interesting discussions and both sides will come out of it with more knowledge and appreciation of others viewpoints. I believe we have proven this right here on this forum.
Just because we disagree with someone doesn’t mean we don’t like them or respect them. There are people I know who are on the opposite spectrum politically, and they would still give me the shirt off their backs, and I would do the same.
Superior in initial cost and also in maintenance cost because there is no need to machine the disks on disk brakes?
Lets no forget the ‘Nova means “No Go” in Spanish and that’s why the Nova wasn’t popular in Mexico’ myth.
Here you go again with your alcoholic attitude
Drum brakes also need to be machined on the brake lathes
And they have a lot of moving parts
I generally don’t consider them superior to disc brakes
Drum brakes typically do a better job functioning as a parking brake which is why some cars still use rear drum brakes, as well as economics as drum brakes are cheaper.
The cars with 4 wheel disc brakes sometimes use a drum in hat parking brake so basically a little mini drum brake inside the rear rotor.
Drum brakes have superior friction area compared to disc brakes and are perfectly serviceable, after all when you need to stop an 80k lb rig like a semi tractor trailer you typically will find drum brakes!
If drum brakes are so great why did they quit using them on front wheels of cars? Well because drum brames are subject to fade when they get hot, and thry dont dissipate heat as well as disc brakes. Not a problem in semi trucks as they are operated by professional trained drivers and also have engine braking via “jake brake” that a car can only dream about.
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During this hectic time, it’s always great to be able to learn new and exciting things. From a recent social media discussion, I found out about an especially inspiring endeavor from our Smithsonian Family. For those not aware, the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center created a Care Package. This care package features music, projects and inspirational material for communities during this time.
This inspired me to search the Libraries’ collection of digital books. I have found that our team has collectively made it easier to access our Digital Collections. In considering what we could add to a Libraries’ care package, I thought it would be interesting to include useful handicraft books such as sewing, knitting and the like, similar, and in the tradition of the historic Care Package seen in the National Museum of American History from 1962.
I found a title, dedicated to the “American Woman of the Day” a Mrs. Potter Palmer, (Bertha Palmer) who served as the President of the Board of the Lady Managers of the World’s Columbian exposition, the Dainty Work for pleasure and profit . It starts “We have tried in the following pages to include a love for home beautifying; to show how every home in this broad land can be rendered beautiful…” Embroidery became a vehicle for artistic expression as well as financial gain to women at this time. Herstory highlights this movement in a short blurb.
The book begins with a discussion on materials and delves into techniques and some example design patterns. As I continued to browse, I saw examples of the simple outline stitch and figure images of cording, close, and twisted outlines.
The book goes into detail about other versions of stitches to create patterns and designs such as flowers, stars and the infamous honeycomb, seen below. The greatness lies in its textual explanation (side anecdotes!) and the usefulness to American Women at the time. We have several of these types of books littered throughout the Smithsonian Libraries.
I finally came upon pages dedicated to “Art or Flat embroidery.”
Let it be known, I am not artistic, although I appreciate great artwork. It has been amazing to search through the Cooper Hewitt Textile Collections online and see several of their embroidery pieces, such as this counted stitch example acquired in 1925 from Eleanor and Sarah Hewitt, early founders of the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum. Entranced by this page and fascinated with the concept of “flat embroidery” I wondered as limited as my resources are, what I can do at home to replicate any of these amazing stitches and put them to use. Luckily, I came upon this “handi hour” crafting video of embroidering on paper from the Smithsonian American Art Museum!
I only had some paper, a sewing needle and black thread but it worked. I gathered my supplies and 15 minutes later Voila! I may need to buy correct material for a better art project, but I thought it was a great first attempt. Maybe it will be a second career choice! Have a great day everyone!
Others handicraft titles to explore in our Digital Library:
- Alphabete für die Stickerin : A German book from 1900 filled with embroidery patterns.
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Alfred Dreyfus Autographs, Memorabilia & Collectibles
Born: Circa 1859
Died: Circa 1935
Died: Circa 1935
French Army officer Alfred Dreyfus was convicted of treason in 1894 and imprisoned on Devil's Island. An 1898 investigation, forced largely by writer Émile Zola, proved that the papers upon which Dreyfus had been convicted were forged. Major Hubert Henry confessed his forgery and committed suicide in prison. A second forger, Major Marie-Charles Esterhazy, confessed in 1899 and went into exile in England. The case became the center of a major political division in France in which anti-Semitism played a major part. Dreyfus was tried and convicted a second time in 1899 but was pardoned by French President Émile Loubet. His original conviction was finally set aside in 1906. Dreyfus was restored to his rank and awarded the Legion of Honor.
ALFRED DREYFUS - AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED 05/13/1914 - HFSID 100666ALFRED DREYFUS With his treason trouble behind, he recommends a military appointment. Rare ALS: "Alfred Dreyfus", 1½p, 5¼x6¾. Rue de Logelbach, 1914 May 13. In French with English translation.
Sale Price $1,700.00
ALFRED DREYFUS - DOCUMENT SIGNED - HFSID 54780ALFRED DREYFUS. Original galley proof signed: "Alfred Dreyfus," 1p, 6-3/8x14 overall, text 2½x10½. An article in French, not translated, headed (translated): "For Justice/For Right/For Truth."This article concerns aFrench military matter involving Emile Rousset.
Sale Price $1,190.00
ALFRED DREYFUS - PICTURE POST CARD SIGNED - HFSID 175821ALFRED DREYFUS Postcard Photograph of the French Army officer whose cause was championed by writer Emile Zola after Dreyfus was wrongly convicted of treason. Postcard Photograph signed: "A Dreyfus". B/w, 3½x5½ overall, image 3¼x4½ (one surface). French postcard. Captioned: "Collection C. Coquelin".
Sale Price $1,530.00
ALFRED DREYFUS - THIRD PERSON AUTOGRAPH LETTER 03/20/1911 - HFSID 47146ALFRED DREYFUS. Black-bordered Third Person ALS: "Commandant Alfred Dreyfus", 1p, 4½x7. No place, 1911 March 20. In French, translated. In full: "Commandant Alfred Dreyfus,
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In 2017, Yale University renamed Calhoun College (at Yale, they call dormitories “residential colleges” because … Yale) after Grace Murray Hopper, a “trailblazing computer scientist, brilliant mathematician and teacher, and dedicated public servant.” John C. Calhoun was a prominent Yale alumnus and U.S. Senator and, of course, passionate defender of slavery as a positive good.
Yale Law professor and former dean Anthony Kronman objects, explaining that, in his view:
Hitler and Stalin would have to come off buildings, but he says “less egregious” cases like Calhoun are different.
This is literally valuing the millions of white lives lost to the Holocaust and to Stalinism more highly than the millions of black lives lost to American slavery. And by “literally,” I literally mean “literally.”
Kronman accuses those who supported renaming a Yale college (that is, a dorm) — discarding the name of a prominent supporter of slavery for the name of a pioneering female scientist — of the sort of historical revisionism practiced by the Soviet Politburo.
Kronman says that colleges and universities have a responsibility to “cultivate the capacity for enduring the moral ambiguities of life.”
What in the absolute fuck is morally ambiguous about slavery? It is precisely this sort of academic arrogance that actively devalues and excludes students of color and prevents real intellectual discussion and evolution. It also requires a special sort of intellectual laziness to easily acknowledge other countries’ monsters while being unwilling to face up to our own.
I’m ashamed of my school’s former dean and proud of Prof. John Fabian Witt for his excellent point-by-point demolition of Prof. Kronman’s indefensible defense of the defense of slavery. | <urn:uuid:fed781e2-f25f-4ff1-95b7-f3dba209dd1f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://thoughtsnax.com/tag/kronman/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571911.5/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813081639-20220813111639-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.94269 | 387 | 1.6875 | 2 |
M, d. 1495
|Father||Sir Thomas De Harcourt b. 1377, d. 6 Jul 1420|
John was born in Ellenhall, Staffordshire, England. John married Margaret Burley, daughter of William Burley, before 1458 in England. John is styled as gentleman of the household of Bishop of Lichfield. He is pardoned for a murder in 1440 and in 1450 is one of sureties for his outlawed brother, Sir Robert. He and his brother, Sir William, managed the family estates in Staffordshire. John departed this life in 1495 in Staffordshire, England.
- [S103] Clarence E. Pearsall, History of the Pearsall Family, pp. 837. | <urn:uuid:9a961622-81a2-4c6f-b30c-de22125efe46> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://mccurdyfamilylineage.com/ancestry/p6855.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572043.2/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814143522-20220814173522-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.925952 | 186 | 2.109375 | 2 |
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