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Telecommunications in Ghana
Ghana, officially the Republic of Ghana, is located along the Gulf of Guinea and Atlantic Ocean, in the subregion of West Africa.
The Ghana telecommunications industry is well developed due to a very high degree of competition, one which leads the region, comprising six mobile network operators and ten national fibre operators. According to latest ITU data (June 2017) 3G mobile coverage reaches an estimated 80% of the population, with 4G LTE accessible by 34.9% of Ghanaian citizens; a figure that is however increasing rapidly.
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Security researchers and technical architects from SpecterOps have found that almost every Active Directory installation they have looked at over the last decade has had some kind of misconfiguration issue. And misconfigurations can lead to security issues, such as privilege escalation methods.
The researchers have written a paper (pdf) about Active Directory Certificate Services (AD CS) to raise awareness for both attackers and defenders alike of the security issues surrounding this complex, widely deployed, and often misunderstood system. They will also present this material at BlackHat USA 2021.
Active Directory Certificate Service
Countless organizations around the world use Windows Server as the base for their IT infrastructure. Many of them also use Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) for their authentication needs. For example, PKI is used for certificate based authentication, securing web servers (SSL), and in digital signatures for documents.
Active Directory Certificate Services (AD CS) is the server-functionality that allows you to set up PKI so it can provide the public keys, digital certificates, and digital signatures for your organization. All these things can be obtained in other ways, but the big advantage for large organizations is that AD CS can do this on a large scale. This is mainly because the Active Directory Domain Service, that has all the relevant information about each member of the domain, is linked to the AD CS and allows it to use that information.
Abusing AD CS
In their paper, the researchers lay out three areas where misconfigurations in AD CS can be abused for malicious purposes:
- Credential theft that can survive password changes and can bypass smart card authentication.
- Privilege escalation methods that allow attackers to act as any user in the domain, including their privileges.
- Domain persistence attacks that allow attackers to log on as any Active Directory user, so they can use their privileges at any time.
As you can see the researchers have really focused on user authentication and how to perform certificate-based authentication.
The paper provides a lot of details and many scenarios to achieve one or more of the above malicious purposes, which can really help a cybercriminal to infiltrate an organization’s network and provide the means for lateral movement once inside the network. It is beyond the scope of this post to go into those details, but I can recommend to read the paper to those interested in the gritty details (142 pages).
The researchers are the first to admit that while there is nothing inherently insecure about AD CS, it is hard to configure in a secure way. Many misconfigurations can be explained by system administrators and IT staff enabling settings for valid reasons, but without a complete understanding of the security implications that come with changing that setting.
An example form the paper:
“There is a GPO (Group Policy Object) setting titled “Allow certificates with no extended key usage certificate attribute” whose documentation makes it sound like you need to flip this switch to allow certificate authentication with the All Purpose EKU (Extended Key Usage), Client Authentication EKU, or no EKU in modern environments. However, this is a client side setting only. An older description for this GPO that states that it affects which smart card-based certificates will show up on a logon screen, which matches the behavior we’ve seen.”
Anyone that has ever worked with Windows GPOs will recognize how hard it sometimes is to work out what the effect of changing a setting will be. Let alone how it will influence security in conjunction with other settings.
The researchers have decided to hold off on presenting any tools that can be used for offensive purposes until their presentation at BlackHat.
“We believe that the issues described in the paper are severe and widespread enough to warrant a delay in the offensive tool release.”
This gives those that are vulnerable some time to fix their issues and security providers to implement protection based on the IOCs/Yara rules that the researchers have published for their tools Certify and ForgeCert.
In response to this paper Microsoft has issued a blog post that details how recent Extended Protection for Authentication related updates can help safeguard authentication credentials on the Windows platform. This includes actions to change a default configuration that was flagged by the researchers as a serious security issue. Microsoft has indicated it has no plans to change this default configuration as part of an update, so system adminsitrators and IT staff are advised to do this themselves.
If you are curious about the security of your own AD CS settings, the researchers have released a tool called PSPKIAudit that performs an audit of AD CS for vulnerable configurations. Their paper also contains instructions and guidelines for finding and fixing vulnerable AD CS configurations.
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The Union budget 2020 announced today has introduced major favourable reforms to Indian startup ecosystem which includes tweaking the start-up eligibility norms and changes in taxation of ESOPS in hands of employees
Employee Stock Option Plan (ESOP)
Startup generally use ESOP (Employee Stock Option Plans) to attract and retain talent which most of the new and young entrepreneurs give to their employees
In order to boost startup in India, it is proposed to ease the burden of taxation on ESOP by deferring tax payment by earliest of the following:
Start-up definition has been widended
The definition of startup has been amended by increasing the turnover limits from 25 crore to 100 crore and eligibility period of seven years has also been increased upto ten years.
In order to extend benefit to larger start-ups, now eligible startups having turnover uptoRs. 100 crore are allowed 100% deduction on their profits for the purposes of income tax for three consecutive assessment years out of ten years.
Earlier the limit was 25 Crore and period of eligibility was seven years.
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On the 14th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks a man was allegedly planning to set off a bomb at a memorial event. Fortunately, FBI agents were able to apprehend the suspect early Thursday morning before he caused any damage. Joshua Ryne Goldberg, 20, of Orange Park, Florida, is now facing up to 20 years behind bars for the alleged plot to bomb the Kansas City Stair Climb in Kansas City, Missouri.
Golberg was charged with "distributing information relating to explosives, destructive devices and weapons of mass detsruction," according to court documents. The man had been communicating with a group of five others online about the bomb and told one — an FBI informant — to "put as much sharp stuff as you can in there" and to "use shards of metal and nails."
A similar kind of bomb was used at the Boston Marathon bombings that killed three and injured 264 others in 2013, U.S. Attorney Lee Bentley III told station WJXT. The information, along with his instructions to place the bomb at the Kansas City Stair Climb, was enough to make an arrest.
Goldberg first appeared on the FBI's radar when he claimed online to have inspired the May 3 shooting at the Muhammad Art Exhibit and Contest in Garland, Texas, First Coast News reported. An angry, violent tweet of his was retweeted by one of the shooters, Elton Simpson.
"I'M BACK KUFFAR! DIE IN YOUR RAGE!" the message read.
The 20-year-old posed as a Lebanese Muslim refugee living in Australia, posted to Islamic state websites, and called for attacks with "weapons, bombs and knives" on the Sept. 11 memorial in Kansas City. He also had other alternate Twitter accounts that posted hateful, violent messages.
Investigators discovered his plot and believed the extremist to be from and recruiting others in Australia, CBS News reported. Then the primary Twitter account, Australi Witness, was traced back to Goldberg, who lives with his parents in Orange Park. He had been using his mother's computer to orchestrate the attacks.
Goldberg began communicating with a group of people online, one of whom was an FBI informant. He instructed the informant to build a pressure cooker bomb filled with nails and other sharp objects dipped in rat poison. The 20-year-old also sent out links to all five with instructions on how to make a bomb, as well as a map of where the Kansas City Stair Climb would be held.
"Have you decided what kind of attack you want to carry out on 9/11, akhi?" he told the informant in one conversation, according to the indictment. "We could make pipe bombs and detonate them at a large public event. ... It needs to be big."
Goldberg was taken into custody at his parents' home and appeared in court Thursday. His father, Frank, said he was "shocked" at the allegations.
"We have no information to give you," he then told First Coast News, refusing more comments. "I don't mind talking to you at a later time about what happened."
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Kurtis Blow Presents the History of Rap is a classic underachievement. If only because of its grandiose title and the fact that Kurtis Blow edited the three-CD set, you’d expect a thorough overview of the art. Instead, History is a haphazard and abbreviated effort. The first disc is a collection of cuts that contain some of hiphop’s most infamous breakbeats. It is essential for rap fiends who came up in the ’80s and don’t have a clue where half the beats they love come from. The second CD offers up a skinny buffet of old-school rap cuts, including Blow’s “Christmas Rappin’” and Grand Master Flash & the Furious 5’s “The Message.” But on some of the cuts, Blow gives you abbreviated single versions instead of the full-length 12-inch or album versions. The third CD is the most problematic, as it purports to represent hiphop’s golden age. But hiphop’s greatest MC, Rakim, is absent from the disc. In addition, not a single female MC or West Coast rapper is included on the third installment. The reality is that any attempt to bottle the history of rap in three CDs can only fail. Blow’s collection asserts that hiphop spans the period from the early ’70s to the late ’80sa preposterous time line that ignores hiphop’s black-nationalist era as well as the gangsta-rap years. Rap fans constantly bristle at attacks by political pundits who claim rap is no more than glorified ghettospeak and scowl at shorties who believe hiphop begins with Puff Daddy. But the hiphop generation has not adequately documented its history. There have been some decent efforts, but more sloppy attempts. History unfortunately contributes to the legacy of the latter. | <urn:uuid:bf6172ba-df86-43a7-ac42-0d81206452ff> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://washingtoncitypaper.com/article/281460/kurtis-blow-presents-the-history-of-rap-vols-1-3/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571911.5/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813081639-20220813111639-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.93051 | 424 | 1.953125 | 2 |
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Focus of Philosophical Anthropology: metaphysical, phenomenological, cultural. At other times I am inclined to feel that dwell-ing on these differences would only get in the way, and that the best course is to try to awaken interest in the idea of a philosophical anthropology with a minimum of fanfare and provocation. Check out the pronunciation, synonyms and grammar. verb. Anthropology is the scientific study of humanity, concerned with human behavior, human biology, cultures, societies, and linguistics, in both the present and past, including past human species. Social anthropology studies patterns of behaviour, while cultural anthropology studies cultural meaning, including norms and values. A portmanteau sociocultural anthropology is commonly used today. The Philosophical Anthropology is the study of the human being from the philosophical point of view. Abstract. Philosophical anthropology is a discipline dealing with questions of metaphysics and phenomenology of the human person, and interpersonal relationships. adjective. 1; Just one definition for philosophical anthropology .
Parts of speech for Philosophical anthropology. Philosophy of man, philosophical anthropology and 23other sciences about man 5. philosophical anthropology; just as there are differences between both and Existenz-philosophy. History Ancient Christian writers: Augustine of Hippo. References.
Definition of philosophical anthropology 15 3. existential questions 20 4. Now the simplest definition of philosophical. noun. Sciences that study man: Psychology, Sociology, Neuropsychology, Scientific-Positivist Anthropologies. It is a branch of philosophy that deals with the study of man as a project of being. The discipline of anthropology got a boost from the philosophical movement of the 18th century called the enlightenment. Philosophical anthropology is a specialty belonging to philosophy, which deals with the philosophical study of man, specifically its origin or nature; in Also read: Legislation - definition, characteristics, and examples.
It is a complex term that encompasses the study of the human being from different perspectives, such as: mythical man, civilized man and scientific man. To be and to have 28 Main probleMs in philosophical anthropology 31 1. The Soul: Form of a Living Substance. Many areas of knowledge concern the human person or identify .
Philosophical anthropology definition: anthropology (sense 4 ) | Meaning, pronunciation, translations and examples Anthropology is the study of humans. It can be quite broad and include studies of genetics, culture, ancient civilizations, etc. Philosophy can be described as the study of thought and existence. Philosophical Anthropology. preposition. Anthropology is the systematic study of humanity, with the goal of understanding our evolutionary origins, our distinctiveness as a species, and the great diversity in our forms of social existence across the world and through time. Other Words from anthropology The Origin of Anthropology Example Sentences Phrases Containing This text, written by professors of philosophy at the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross, examines the nature of the human person, the human condition, and what it means to be truly human. It is distinct from Philosophical Anthropology which attempts to define and understand what it means to be human. Browse the use examples 'philosophical anthropology' in the great English corpus. This essay investigates the concept of philosophical anthropology, i.e., philosophical study of humanity ("human nature"). 1. The definition of distributive justice given by Aristotle is one I have in mind for this first category. their objective as being able to elaborate an . That is the meaning of true knowledge. - Anthropology involves studying the " different aspects of the human experience ." A common construal of that continuity runs thus. -Socrates 470 BC. (2) In the narrow sense, a trend in Western European and primarily German philosophy in the first half of the 20th century. Philosophical Anthropology is a branch of philosophy concerned to show that, owing to his preponderantly underdetermined nature, man is that animal who must, in large part, determine himself. Metaphilosophical naturalism which is the focus in what follows asserts a strong continuity between philosophy and science. The Philosophy of Anthropology refers to the central philosophical perspectives which underpin, or have underpinned, the dominant schools in anthropological thinking. SOC 211 - Principles of Anthropology I. Inquires into the origins, development, and diversification of human biology and human cultures. Includes fossil records, physical origins of human development, human population genetics, linguistics, cultures' origins and variation, and historical and contemporary analysis of human societies. From philosophical anthropology, certain objections relating pronoun. Anthropology, or the Philosophy of Man.
Information block about the term. Philosophical problems are in one way or another tractable through the methods of the empirical sciences (Naturalism, Introduction). The light of Christian faith and view of man. All Free. anthropology, that is, in etymological terms, a discourse or a
philosophical anthropology, Study of human nature conducted by the methods of philosophy. Now the simplest definition of philosophical anthropology is the study of the. Modern philosophers agree that philosophical anthropology is a discipline within the study of knowledge that cannot stand independent of establishing humankinds relationship with nature.
Thomistic-Aristotelian philosophical anthropology is in the first instance simply an extension of Thomistic-Aristotelian philosophy of nature to the special case of living substances. Is a branch of philosophy which is responsible for the study of man as a project of being. Main problems of philosophical anthropology 27 7. Philosophical . In making this inquiry it seeks to unify or critique philosophically the diverse scientific methods and humanistic approaches to answering the question of human nature. 2022. Such questions are often posed as problems to be studied or resolved. - Philosophy involves studying the " most general and abstract features of the world and categories with which we think ." Genesis and development of Philosophical Anthropology. Advantages and Disadvantages . Jos ngel Lombo, Francesco Russo, Philosophical Anthropology: An Introduction, Midwest Theological Forum, Downers Grove, Illinois , 2017, Third Printing. 2 : theology dealing with the origin, nature, and destiny of human beings.
Among the areas of interest are personal identity, selfhood, subjectivity, memory, consciousness, emotion, motivation, cognition, madness, and mental health. 1.osophical Reflection Phil . Although its roots are diffuse and its boundaries fuzzy, in its modern form philosophical anthropology got its beginnings in the 1920s and was especially prevalent in This school of thought was based on W. Diltheys idealist Lebensphilosophie (philosophy of life) and the phenomenology of such thinkers as E. But there is a path through this conundrum. on the Human Person. The basis of his approach is to apply the teachings of the natural sciences (biology, ethology, zoology, etc.) philosophical anthropology translation in English - English Reverso dictionary, see also 'philosophical logic',philosophically',philosophic',philosophicalness', examples, that the polygamist shall promise not to marry again as long as any of his wives at the time of his conversion are alive;that the receiving of such a polygamist has the consent of the local Anglican community;that such a polygamist shall not be compelled to put away any of his wives on account of the social deprivation they would suffer. 3. One advantage to using BP is it avoids the occasionally irate philosophical debate about whether, in this multicultural world of ours, it is more appropriate to use AD and BC, with their explicit references to Christianity, or to use the same calendar but without the explicit references: CE (Common Era) and BCE (Before the 1 : the science of human beings especially : the study of human beings and their ancestors through time and space and in relation to physical character, environmental and social relations, and culture. (1) In the broad sense of the term, the study of the nature, or essence, of man. Jos ngel Lombo, Francesco Russo, Philosophical Anthropology: An Introduction, Midwest Theological Forum, Downers Grove, Illinois , 2017, Third Printing. The pursuit of calm can itself become a major stressor, especially if you've already tried the standard prescriptions. It is a complex term that encompasses the study of the human being from different perspectives, such as: mythical man, civilized man and scientific man.
Anthroposophy is a human oriented spiritual philosophy that reflects and speaks to the basic deep spiritual questions of humanity, to our basic artistic needs, to the need to relate to the world out of a scientific attitude of mind, and to the need to develop a relation to the world in complete freedom and based on completely individual judgments and decisions.
In the 18th century, anthropology was the branch of philosophy that gave an account of human nature. adverb.
mans existence, his experiences, and his anxieties, combining the subjectivism of existentialism with the cultural objectivism of Lebensphilosophie. The main objective of this article is to present with the main theories of anthropology that developed over the stream of time. 2. It is concerned with questions such as the status of human beings in the universe, the purpose or meaning of human life, and whether humanity can be made an object of systematic study. 1. Psychological anthropology is the study of psychological topics using anthropological concepts and methods. Method of philosophical anthropology 25 6. Philosophy (from Greek: , philosophia, 'love of wisdom') is the systematized study of general and fundamental questions, such as those about existence, reason, knowledge, values, mind, and language. It is a complex term that covers the study of the human being from different perspectives, such as: the mythical man, the civilized man and the scientific man. The philosophical anthropology is the study of the human being from the philosophical point of view.
The meaning of PALEOANTHROPOLOGY is a branch of anthropology dealing with fossil hominids. In the psychological sense of the word, atheism is a psychological state, specifically the state of being an atheist, where an atheist is defined as someone who is not a theist and a theist is defined as someone who believes that God exists (or that there are gods). In its simple definition, philosophical anthropology is the study of human character based on different assumptions of establishing the relationship between humankind with his philosophical anthropology, discipline within philosophy that seeks to unify the several empirical investigations of human nature in an effort to understand individuals as both creatures of their environment and creators of their own values. It is the attempt to unify disparate ways of understanding behaviour of humans as both creatures of their social environments and creators of their own values. philosophical anthropology - WordReference English dictionary, questions, discussion and forums. Definition of philosophical anthropology words . Philosophical Investigations (German: Philosophische Untersuchungen) is a work by the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein, published posthumously in 1953.. Doc philosophical anthropology pdf philosophy and anthropology a philosophical anthropology philosophical anthropology what why The Philosophy of Anthropology. To know, is to know that you know nothing. Definition of philosophical anthropology concept in definition abc - Science - 2022. 1920s Germany. - Psychology involves studying the " causes and consequences of behavior ." Philosophical anthropology as a kind of thought, before it was founded as a distinct philosophical discipline in the 1920s, emerged as post-medieval thought striving from the emancipation from Christian religion and Aristotelic tradition. - Socrates The unexamined life is not worth living. English Dictionary :philosophical anthropology meaning, philosophical anthropology definition, philosophical anthropology Slang, what does philosophical anthropology mean? Nature, Object and Methodology of Philosophical Anthropology.
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What Are the Different Types of Marine Pollution?
Apr 06 2021
The negative impacts of human activity upon our seas and oceans are manifold and well-documented. Indeed, until recently, it was believed that the sheer scale of the water which covers much of our planet was so vast that it would swallow up any and all waste that we threw at it, meaning humans polluted without any thought for the potential repercussions.
Although today’s society is much better informed on the dangers of marine pollution, the damage has already been done in many cases – while it continues to occur in many more. However, not all forms of contamination are created equal. Here’s a breakdown of the four most common varieties of marine pollution and the harmful effects they can have on marine populations.
It’s estimated that around eight million tonnes of plastic waste enter our oceans each year, on top of the 150 million tonnes already present in them. While larger pieces of plastic can damage coral reefs or ensnare fish and mammals, over time, they eventually break down into much smaller fragments. These particles, known as microplastics, are potentially even more dangerous, since they are more likely to be mistaken for food by organisms of all sizes. After ingestion, they can harm the internal organs and weaken the immune systems of the animal in question, not to mention filling their stomach with plastic matter that contains zero nutritional value.
Wherever there is human habitation, there will be light. Many towns and cities are built near to coastal areas, meaning the lighting used to illuminate our streets, homes, offices and other public places can infiltrate underneath the waves, as well. The presence of this artificial light during night-time can upset the natural circadian rhythms of fish and other marine animals, which can disrupt their daily routines. Larger fish can prey upon smaller species more easily, while reef dwelling fish can have their reproductive cycles thrown into disarray.
We may traditionally associate noise pollution with industrial sites or construction works, but sounds can actually travel for further and longer underwater than they can in the air. For that reason, noise pollution caused by anthropogenic activity is a much greater threat to marine animals than it is to those living on the land or in the air. Not only can noise pollution confuse animals which depend upon sonar signals to feed, mate and navigate their way around the ocean, but it can shorten their lifespans and threaten the very existence of entire species.
Pesticides, fertilisers and herbicides are commonly used by farmers to boost yields and protect against pests and diseases. Unfortunately, heavy rainfall can sweep these chemicals into gutters, streams and rivers, eventually diverting them into marine environments. Although we do possess sustainable solutions for the removal of chemicals like phosphate and ammonia from such environments, they are not always as commonly employed nor as effective as we might like. This leads to a nutritional imbalance in the water, promoting the growth of algal blooms, depriving other animals of the space, sunlight and nutrients they need and destroying the natural balance of ecosystems.
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This study was undertaken to demonstrate that gastrointestinal mucosal injury occurs during cardiopulmonary bypass in children, increasing systemic inflammatory responses, and to determine whether shen-fu injection (the major components of which are ginsenosides compound, extract of Panax ginseng shown to have antioxidant properties) could attenuate gastrointestinal mucosal injury and subsequent inflammatory responses.
Twenty-four children undergoing heart surgery for congenital heart defects were randomly assigned to groups C (placebo control, n = 12) and G (1.35 mg/kg ginsenosides compound intravenously before and throughout the course of cardiopulmonary bypass, n = 12). Central venous blood samples were taken before cardiopulmonary bypass and at 60 and 120 minutes after aortic declamping (reperfusion). Gastric intramucosal pH was measured by perioperative tonometry. Plasma lipid peroxidation product malondialdehyde, myocardium-specific creatine kinase isoenzyme MB activity, diamine oxidase, lipopolysaccharide, and interleukin 6 were all measured.
Significant decrease in gastric intramucosal pH and increase in plasma diamine oxidase were seen during reperfusion in group C, accompanied by increases in plasma levels of malondialdehyde, lipopolysaccharide, interleukin 6, and creatine kinase isoenzyme MB (P < .01 vs before cardiopulmonary bypass). Shen-fu injection significantly attenuated these changes (P < .05). Consequently, fewer patients in group G (2/12) than in group C (7/12) needed postoperative inotropic support. Postoperative intensive care unit stay was shorter in group G than in group C. A tight positive correlation was seen between diamine oxidase and interleukin 6 at 60 minutes after aortic declamping and between diamine oxidase and lipopolysaccharide at 120 minutes after aortic declamping (r = 0.79, P < .0001).
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How to convert 947 foot to meters?
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Air plants are really easy to care for. They don’t need soil, but they can’t live on air alone. Follow these easy air plant care tips on how to keep your air plants healthy.
Air Plants, also known as Tillandsia, are one of the easiest plants to care for. Yes, it’s easier to care for than succulents. Okay, maybe not, but air plants don’t need soil at all to grow, but it doesn’t mean that they can thrive on air alone. They do require the proper amount of care and the right environment to thrive.
So, if you’re planning to add low-maintenance houseplants in your collection, then go for air plants. Trust us, they are hardy houseplants that require less attention. Plus, they’re perfect as decor to your home. Follow the air plant care tips below on how to care for your air plants. But first, what are air plants?
What Are Air Plants?
Tillandsia, commonly known as air plants, are low-maintenance plants that get their nutrients from the air around them. These little beauties are epiphytes, which means that in nature they grow on other plants, usually on tree branches.
There are hundreds of species and varieties of air plants. Some are furry, fuzzy, spiky, and trailing. According to Better Homes & Gardens, air plants usually have strap-shaped or slender triangle-shaped leaves that grow in a rosette pattern with new growth appearing from the center.
Also, air plants with silver foliage tend to be the most drought-tolerant, while greener types dry out faster. There are also colorful species, like Tillandsia maxima, that can have coral leaves. Most air plant species produce attractive, funnel-shaped or tubular flowers.
Planting Air Plants
Here is a short guide on how to properly plant air plants in your home, according to HGTV:
- Never plant your plants in dirt. Ever. Remember, they’re epiphytes, which means they grow on other plants, not in the ground.
- Since air plants don’t need dirt, you can put them in creative containers or places. Place one in a shallow bowl or vase filled with rocks or sand, place one in tiny container with a magnet and put it on the fridge, or tie them to driftwood with translucent fishing line.
- Avoid placing them in an enclosed terrarium. Yes, they look cute, and there are photos of terrariums of air plants all over Instagram, but air plants need circulation of air. A closed vessel will keep them too wet, causing them to rot or get a fungal disease.
Air Plant Care Tips
Question: How much light does an air plant need? According to Pistil Nursey, air plants need bright, indirect light to thrive. It’s best to place your air plants in rooms with southern or eastern facing windows because these areas of your home will be brightly illuminated with the sun for most of the day. As much as possible, avoid placing your air plants in the western area of your home because the light tends to come late in the day, and can be very hot and intense. You might burn your air plant under the sun.
Another air plant care advice of Pistil Nursey is the higher the humidity in your space, the more light is tolerated by the air plant. So, as a general rule of thumb, if you’re planning to put your air plant where it will receive loads of light, you should plan to mist it more often, like twice a week or even daily. A perfect place in your home would be your bathroom (if the space receives a LOT of light) because the humidity from your shower will take care of most plant misting for you.
Air plants are perfect low light indoor plants. Yes, if you have a light-starved home, you can still care for an air plant as long as you place it under a full spectrum light or fluorescent light no further than 3 feet away. Pistil Nursey advised that if you’re going to use fluorescent light, the plants will need, at minimum, 12 hours per day, so your plant gets all the light it needs to be healthy and alive.
Water your air plant thoroughly like 2-3 times per week, especially if you live in a hot, dry environment or season (spring and summer). Water it less often in a cool, humid season (autumn and winter).
According to Air Plant City, in conditions of extreme drying, and consequent moisture loss, your air plant cannot get replacement water from their roots like a terrestrial plant, or draw on internal reserves like a succulent. However, you may notice that your new air plants appear to be fuzzy. These are trichomes, a coating of special cells that helps air plants absorb water and nutrients.
The type of water you use in your air plant is important. Do not use distilled water and softened water because it will harm your air plant since it has too much salt content. Air Plant City recommended using filtered water or tap water that has sat long enough for the chlorine to dissipate. You can also use bottled water for your air plant. Aquarium water or pond water can be used too as long as they aren’t overcrowded with fish or reptiles.
As a general rule of thumb, the hotter and drier the air, the more you need to water your air plants. If you place your air plant in a container, make sure to empty the water because air plants will not survive in standing water.
Air Plant City added that under-watering is evidenced by an exaggerating of the natural concave curve of each leaf. After watering your air plant, turn them upside down and gently shake them to release the water that collects near the base. Another air plant care tip is to water your air plant in the morning than at night because most plants absorb the carbon dioxide from the air at night.
After watering your air plant, it’s important that you give it enough light and air circulation to dry in 4 hours or less, according to Air Plant City. Remember that if the plant dries within a very short period, it is not hydrating at all. Also, do not keep plants constantly wet or moist. Lastly, Air Plant City added that if the air is hot, a breeze acts to cool the plant and keep it from becoming overheated.
An important air plant care tip to keep your plants alive is to maintain the temperature between 50-90°F.
Air plants, just like other plants, need essential minerals like Potassium, Nitrogen, and Phosphorous. However, fertilizers for air plants are a bit different than regular fertilizer since they don’t have soil to break down nitrogen.
It’s best to use Bromeliad fertilizer (17-8-22) twice a month. Plus, it’s great for blooming and reproduction, too. Also, there are ammoniacal and nitrate nitrogens that are perfect for air plants.
However, take note of this air plant care tip, if you use pond water or aquarium water, you don’t have to use fertilizer because the water itself is a natural fertilizer and can help revive plants that are in distress.
Air plants have a life cycle of one plant growing to maturity and blooming. Air Plant City added that before, during, or after blooming, your air plant will start producing 2-8 offsets or pups that will bloom usually from mid-winter through mid-summer depending on the type of air plant.
Take note of this air plant care tip: if you leave your air plant to clump, gently remove the leaves of the mother plant as she starts to dry up either by pulling the leaves out or by trimming any dried areas. Don’t be scared because the gap that’s left will quickly be filled in by the other plants growing & spreading, according to Air Plant City.
If you wish to remove the pups, they should be at least 1/3 to 1/2 the size of the mother plant. There are two ways wherein you can separate the pups from the mother air plant. Air Plant City advised that, first, gently hold both mother and pup at their bases and twist in a downward motion.
However, if this method doesn’t work, you can remove the pup by cutting downward as close to the mother as possible. Keep the mother air plant, as long as she is still alive, she will continue to produce more pups for you for several years before she finally dies.
Mounting Your Air Plant
Air plants are versatile plants that can be grown anywhere, literally. You can attach it to natural wood, in ceramic or pottery, on rocks, or in a seashell or on coral. No wonder it’s one of the most popular indoor plants because it adds life and style to a place.
Remember, air plant terrariums are nice, but it collects water, which is dangerous for your air plant. If you decided to place your plant in a container, make sure to empty the excess after watering your air plant. Plus, do not surround your air plant with moss since it also holds too much water and will cause your air plant to rot and die.
Another air plant care tip by Air Plant City is to use glue such as E-6000 or hot glue that’s been cooled down for 5 seconds, wire, fishing line, twisty ties, nails, or staples when attaching your air plant, but avoid using staple on its fleshy parts as it will kill your air plant. Also, never use superglue or copper wire as these will kill your air plant, as well.
Caring for Your New Air Plants
Lastly, in our air plant care is to soak your new air plants for 30 minutes to 1 hour, submerge upside down. After that, shake gently to remove excess water. Place it under bright, indirect light and let it dry. Do not fertilize your air plants for 3 weeks from the day that you bought it or received it. Simply place it in a spot where it will receive the right amount of light and water it accordingly.
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Our first goal at 10.18 is to prevent child abuse and exploitation by educating adults to safeguard and protect the children in their lives. At the same time, we must not negate the need to be ready to recognize the subtle signs of child abuse —and respond immediately, appropriately, and effectively.
Responding Quickly to Child Abuse Concerns
To empower adults to respond to child abuse and exploitation is our mission, and it’s our passion! Responding quickly with early detection is vital to reducing a child’s suffering. Here are a few important things to remember about early detection::::
Child Abuse is Not Obvious
It’s always important to remember that child abuse and exploitation is rarely apparent. The deceptive nature of perpetrators makes detection very difficult. This is why it is essential to learn the subtle signs to look for in victims. The techniques of perpetrators change, but their patterns of behavior are consistent.
Don’t wait till a Child Tells
Recognizing a child who may be in trouble is crucial since most children internalize and blame themselves for their abuse—causing two-thirds of victims never to disclose what is happening to them. It is vitally essential for caring adults to be able to recognize the warning signs and engage before a child ever tells anything.
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The first and most crucial element to protecting kids is to resolve that you will respond quickly to any concerns. Listening to the nudges and keeping a Watchful Eye doesn’t mean you have to conclude about a person or situation. It does mean that you are deciding not to rule out those concerns and to take action to reduce risks and protect. Our human nature is to run and hide from hard things. We must never forget that an abused child cannot run or hide. They need a caring adult to carry the responsibility and fight for them. | <urn:uuid:c7f48ca8-46f0-4a64-91e8-9329c8bb2939> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://1018strategy.org/the-solution/responding-to-child-abuse-exploitation/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572043.2/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814143522-20220814173522-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.948699 | 392 | 2.8125 | 3 |
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The Earthquake Unit, U.W.I, recorded over 70 aftershocks to date following the 2021 earthquake in Haiti. Aftershocks are smaller magnitude earthquakes that can occur after the main shock. This seismic activity can continue to occur days to years after the principal earthquake in the same general area. The magnitude 7.3 Haiti earthquake in 2021 occurred at approximately 7:29 am on August 14th, 2021 and was reported as felt across different sections of Jamaica.
The Earthquake Unit can be contact via email (firstname.lastname@example.org) or give us a call at (876) 927-2586 / (876) 579-0215.
If you feel an earthquake please fill out the earthquake report form on our webpage (https://www.mona.uwi.edu/earthquake/). | <urn:uuid:f14d8dbb-9d4c-404b-a7ea-9f9c99b8bbbe> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.mona.uwi.edu/fst/fst-publications/did-you-know-earthquake-unit-release-15 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571911.5/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813081639-20220813111639-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.913947 | 204 | 2.171875 | 2 |
Sortix nightly manual
This manual documents Sortix nightly, a development build that has not been officially released. You can instead view this document in the latest official manual.
|SSL_COPY_SESSION_ID(3)||Library Functions Manual||SSL_COPY_SESSION_ID(3)|
copy session details between SSL objects
SSL_copy_session_id(SSL *to, const SSL *from);
SSL_copy_session_id() copies the following data from from to to:
- the pointer to the SSL_SESSION object, incrementing its reference count by 1
- the pointer to the SSL_METHOD object; if that changes the method, protocol-specific data is reinitialized
- the pointer to the CERT object, incrementing its reference count by 1
- the session ID context
SSL_copy_session_id() returns 1 on success and 0 on error. BIO_ssl_copy_session_id(3), ssl(3), SSL_dup(3), SSL_get_session(3), SSL_SESSION_get_id(3), SSL_SESSION_new(3), SSL_set_session(3), SSL_set_session_id_context(3)
SSL_copy_session_id() appeared in SSLeay 0.4 or earlier and has been available since OpenBSD 2.4. CRYPTO_add(3) are silently ignored and may leave to in an invalid or inconsistent state.
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The school also helped organise a collection for people in Ukraine.
A midlands school has recorded a song to promote peace and prosperity around the world as part of their celebration for Multicultural week.
The Students and Staff of St Mary's CBS Portlaoise performed Imagine by John Lennon.
The teenagers also packed dozens of donated supplies for the people of Ukraine into three lorries driven by Martley's Portlaoise.
The lorry convoy is currently travelling through Europe, on its way to the border of Ukraine, with the hundreds of donated supplies to aid those affected by the war.
All students' nationalities are celebrated and united with pride, the song certainly expresses that message of unity.
The song was recorded and arranged by Ms. M. Carroll with instrumentals and vocals by Matthew O'Rourke, Antoni Calka, Karl Mulligan, Mr. Tierney, Ms. Conlon, Mr. Doyle, Antoni Calka, Ms. Barrett, Prosper Alonzo, Mr. Ryan, Ms. Eglington, Dinny Whelan, Adam Raji, Ms. Quinlan, Evidence Onyebuchi and is opened by Ms. Deegan (Elaine in the Office!) with a special thanks to Devin Walsh and Aaron O'Connor for all their help. | <urn:uuid:b993291c-40ea-4341-ab7b-2c5e6684dc21> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.midlands103.com/news/midlands-news/midlands-school-records-imagine-as-part-of-their-multicultural-week/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573699.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819131019-20220819161019-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.960179 | 267 | 1.671875 | 2 |
It wasn’t really much of a mystery, was it? As many of you figured out, yesterday’s catblogging picture was a sketch of the cathedral at Chartres as seen across the Bouju bridge. What’s amazing in this era of the all-knowing internet is that I could go into Google Streetview and conjure up a photograph taken from nearly the same spot:
The sketch was done by a fellow named Barday, who apparently became well known as a postcard artist in the interwar years. He mostly did drawings of Paris, but occasionally made his way out to the provinces to tackle other postcard-worthy subjects. A quick search suggests that he did several drawings similar to this one, but I think mine is the best of the lot.
This lithograph was purchased by my grandparents during a trip to Europe in the mid-1930s. Barday seems to have taken some liberties with the perspective, and there are a few other odd places where he decided to move things around a bit, but for the most part it looks like the present-day neighborhood surrounding the bridge is pretty much the same as it was 90 years ago. To find it on Google Maps, just type “Pont Bouju Chartres.” | <urn:uuid:ed27a7cb-24c8-4493-9120-13e4e0b70974> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://develop.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2020/10/yesterdays-mystery-solved/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572043.2/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814143522-20220814173522-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.992216 | 260 | 1.945313 | 2 |
Small Grain Fertility Requirements and Application Strategies
When Albion, IA farmer Wade Dooley thinks back to his first experience growing cereal rye for seed, he recalls, “We went with what we read in magazines, as far as recommended fertilizer rates which was basically – don’t fertilize it, you can grow it and it will be fine. Well, yeah, you can grow it and it will be okay but you’re not going to get good yield and there’s going to be variation in the field.”
While small grain crops like wheat, oats, barley and rye certainly aren’t as nutrient hungry as corn, lack of fertility can lead to lower yields, potentially lower grain or seed quality and field variability that can lead to weed and harvest headaches. A healthy, vigorous crop also has the benefit of being better able to withstand disease – a bonus that may save a fungicide application down the line. On our February shared learning call, we welcomed Dr. Dave Franzen, Extension Soil Specialist from North Dakota State University, to share some ABC’s of small grains fertility.
Nitrogen Rates & Timing: A Balancing Act
“Nitrogen rates for winter wheat are not like corn where if you overdo it, it’s okay. It may be an economic loss or an environmental problem, but it doesn’t affect yield too much,” Dave says. “If you put too much N on winter wheat it will fall down.” A fallen or lodged wheat stand is more difficult to harvest, and if the crop lodges before flowering (usually May-June) then you could also lose yield in addition to having a harvest headache. This same issue plagues all the small grain crops, but can be even worse in taller small grains like oats, rye and triticale.
Because of this balancing act, it’s important to approach your fertilizer program with an eye for detail. First, think about the crop rotation. Is there a nitrogen credit from a soybean or other legume crop? These credits are particularly applicable when planting a winter small grain in the fall right after soybeans and do not account for the soybean N credit. “If you go ahead and put on your normal wheat N rate recommended in your state, the wheat could go flat,” Dave says. Take manure into this consideration as well. It’s always best to get manure tested so you’re working with good data to determine how much additional fertilizer you need.
“Instead of one pound of removal which is what’s common with corn, oats or wheat we’re talking more like three-quarters or eight-tenths of a pound,” says David Weisberger, a former ISU graduate student who studied oat agronomy in Iowa. Between the small grains, wheat has been bred for yield response to N so higher N applications are possible for wheat. Whereas crops like oats, rye and triticale can’t handle high N rates without lodging.
The precise N rate that you should be shooting for also depends on your local conditions, particularly the organic matter level in your soils. State recommendations can get you close, but even they should be taken with a grain of salt. “In North Dakota you should use maximum return to N rates rather than a yield goal to calculate nitrogen rate,” Dave says.
Timing nitrogen application can also be a balancing act. Some people prefer to put some nitrogen on in the fall with or before a winter small grain, but this practice can be risky. “We don’t want the wheat to get too vegetative before the winter to avoid winter kill,” Dave says. “When the wheat hasn’t grown a whole lot and hasn’t got too big it can withstand snow and cold conditions, but it can get too vegetative with a nitrogen application and isn’t as hardy.”
The exception is manure and other organic fertilizer sources, which release N more slowly than chemical fertilizer N. If you have a higher C:N ratio in your fertility source, like composted manure, putting it out in the fall can allow the necessary time for that N to start mineralizing and become plant available. “If your state and your land allow it, a fall application would be good to allow that manure to start breaking down,” Dave says.
The spring is physiologically the best time to apply fertilizer to encourage higher yields. “During tillering and jointing when you apply nitrogen at this point you greatly enhance the plant’s ability to put on tillers which does potentially increase your yield ceiling by increasing the number of seed heads you can have in a given surface area,” David Weisberger says.
As for the rate that should be applied in the spring, Dave Franzen suggests consideration of the early top-dress N recommendations in a University of Kentucky resource for fertilizing winter wheat. It walks through how to assess your plant stand (plants per square yard or foot) and then time nitrogen based on whether you’re on target for your stand and tillering. “Another thing a person could consider is when you go out and put your spring application on, usually pretty early in the season, you can put an extra 30-50 pounds in a strip,” Dave says. “If that looks healthier, more vigorous then the rest could use a higher dose, if there’s no visual difference then your rate was probably good.”
For spring applications into a growing small grain crop you can stream on liquid 28% or apply urea treated with NBPT urease inhibitor. “The original NBPT product Agrotain™ is well-researched and the efficacy of its active ingredient and rate per ton of urea is almost totally effective in ammonia volatilization inhibition. The product had 26.7% NBPT and was applied to urea as it is being mixed at a rate of 3 quarts per ton.
Today, many products contain NBPT, but it is important that they be applied to deliver the same active ingredient per ton of urea as the original formulation,” Dave says.
Broadcasting 28% is unwise due to the burn potential of the fertilizer on the small grain foliage. Streaming 28% greatly reduces the burn if the wind does not break up the fertilizer stream.
Pay close attention to fertilizer application practices, custom applicators particularly may not be used to carefully avoiding doubling up on their passes – especially on the ends where shut-offs aren’t as quick as they should be. Wayne Koehler grows rye and oats near Charles City, IA, “I remind the applicators that put [my fertilizer] on every year to be very careful to avoid overlap or double any place when they’re turning around.”
Phosphorous: Apply Early!
Phosphorous is the other really important nutrient for small grains as it results in stronger, more extensive root systems and strong, sturdy shoots that promote winter hardiness and can help prevent lodging. Dave is a firm believer in applying starter phosphate at the time of small grain planting, particularly for winter small grains. His colleague, Dr. R.J. Goos worked on phosphate (P) for about 20 years. His recommendations are that wheat will respond to a row-starter even at high soil test P values, particularly in the northern plains. Application to winter wheat at planting also helps the plant have better vigor so the crop can come out of winter in good condition.
The amount of fertilizer you can put on at planting will be limited by your planter set up, Dave has published the following charts that help navigate the fertilizer levels you can apply with your planter and with your soil.
Potassium, Sulfur and the Rest of the Alphabet
“Wheat is not as responsive to potassium as corn is, it’s closer to soybeans,” Dave says. Soil potassium (K) can be measured reliably with soil tests and if further applications are necessary the test will show how much is needed. Most K fertilizer also contains chloride (Cl). In regions where potash is regularly applied, soil test Cl values will probably be high enough to achieve maximum yields.
In the northern plains where potash fertilizer is not regularly applied, soil test values can be quite low. Even then, the wheat yield increase due to Cl is generally low, so it mostly makes sense to only apply Cl when small grain prices are high and potash prices are low. There are some areas in Indiana and Michigan that have historical manganese problems, but for other areas this is an unusual and rare element for concern. Copper (Cu) may be a concern in peat and muck soils, with organic matter content greater than 10%, but if the organic matter is less, it is a very rare concern. In North Dakota, importance is confined to extremely eroded, very low organic matter deep sandy soils, and its value is extremely site-specific.
Sulphur (S), on the other hand, has risen in our understanding of its importance to small grain performance. “S deficiency in North Dakota is so pervasive now that you have to mention it,” Dave says. “Canola, corn and small grains are particularly susceptible to S deficiencies.” Unfortunately, there aren’t soil tests that can tell you S levels reliably. PFI member Tim Sieren, who farms near Keota, IA, has taken tissue samples of his rye early in the season and detected Sulphur and Boron deficiencies that way. “We added Boron and Sulphur to [our fertilizer plan],” Tim says. “We did a side by side yield check and it did a 10 bushel per acre better on some of it, some of it was up 15-20 bushel per acre difference depending on soil type. That’s the best response I’ve gotten out of any fertilizer on rye.” Dave adds that Sulphur is a spring fertilizer and should never be put on in the fall.
Depending on the moisture and slope, you may need to apply up to 10 pounds per acre of Sulphur as a sulfate or thiosulfate form. Elemental S is not particularly useful. “Generally, sandier soils and hill tops and slopes, particularly when they’ve been wet in the fall and/or spring, will respond most to S fertilizer,” Dave says.
For more information on small grain fertility check out these other resources:
- Fertilizing Winter Wheat SF1448 Franzen – NDSU
- Fertilizing Malting and Feed Barley SF723 Franzen & Goos – NDSU
- Fertilizer Application with Small Grain Seed at Planting SF1751 Franzen – NDSU
- Fertilizing Winter Rye SF1462 Franzen – NDSU
- Fertilizer Management for Winter Wheat Murdock, Grove and Schwab – UKY
- Rotationally Raised Episode 6: Growth Stages, Fertilizers and Fungicides Podcast – PFI
- Rotationally Raised Episode 6: Growth Stages, Fertilizers and Fungicides Video – PFI
- Fertilizers, Herbicides and Fungicides for Small Grains Blog – PFI
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“Support staff in schools across Nova Scotia are concerned that restructuring school boards will create unstable labour relations, much like what we’ve seen happen to our health care system,” says Nan McFadgen, president of CUPE Nova Scotia. “They feel this will also negatively impact quality of education for students.”
“Any restructuring will create massive disruption to our education system – not just for teachers, but also for education assistants, secretaries, bus drivers, custodians, mechanics, librarians, community outreach workers, as well as many other hard working and vital front-line school board workers,” says McFadgen.
As the Nova Scotia education system is restructured, the “entire” sector is going to be struggling to figure out what this new education system and sector of work looks like.
“It should be noted that the government is silent on labour relations issues. With several of our locals currently engaged in collective bargaining, this restructuring creates significant uncertainty around what the workplace will look like for school board support staff in the future,” says Grant Dart, CUPE school board coordinator.
“Our collective agreements are with individual school boards. If those boards cease to exist, what does that mean?” asks Dart. “There are many questions that we have asked the government but haven’t received answers to.”
“Our members have pension plans and benefits that are administered by the individual school boards. If those boards are not there, what happens to those benefits and pensions?” asks Dart.
“These questions go to the very livelihood of our members and their families. They deserve answers to calm their fears and uncertainty.”
“If the government had reached out to us or consulted in any way, we could have mitigated some of these problems to achieve their desired outcomes, as we have done on many occasions with employers,” says Dart. “Instead, we’re facing major upheaval.”
“As parents and as residents, we should all be concerned about what these wholesale changes to our education system will mean for our children,” says McFadgen. “The interests of children are best served with school boards that are democratically elected and accountable to their communities.”
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Iksan Jeollabuk-do, in South Korea is province which is said to be rich in agriculture practice and culture. As per change to my daily schedule, I had a chance to visit one of the beautiful places in Korea. Attending annual general meeting of Nepalese Student Association “SONSIK” was quite fun. Short sightseeing tour organized by Samdong international who helped in the management of SONSIK AGM was appreciable.
From the prehistoric period the agricultural practice there seemed to be technical and innovative. In my opinion our country agricultural system can also be technically improved so as to reduce labor and increase product and quality of crops, vegetables and fruits. Here, I would like to share my travelling experience. It explained that “Saemangeum” includes the largest farming area in Korea and the Mid west sea. The Sea Islands, plains and mountains are in perfect harmony. It is a fertile land,that has served as the country’s water storage and produce plentiful of grain. It is renowned as “the best rice producing area. This is the very field that saved the whole country from poor harvest years and “the country’s essential repository”.
After short visit to “Saemangeum” we had a Korea traditional food which was delicious. Flavor and taste of vegetables and rice were fresh. Soyebean paste soup along with fish and Korean rice was good combination to have in a hot and sunny day.
Overall, SONSIK AGM and visit to Saemangeum was memorable trip in the year 2012. They are also celebrating internal tourism to this place. If you are interested and have time this place is worth to visit once.
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By Frank Barone
Just like many fans I am an avid follower of college football, the New York Jets and professional football. The NFL combine is an opportunity to get a more detailed look at certain college players that we have watched or heard about and see how they grade out in the physical and intelligence tests they will be put through. For the players it will be like cramming for an exam in school, which we are all familiar with, only these tests could make or break their careers.
The players selected are determined by a Selection Committee, which is comprised of seven members. The Directors of both National and Blesto scouting services, which combined represent twenty-six NFL teams, are joined by five members of various NFL player personnel departments to form the committee. How do you tell how good a college football player is? The ideal way is to watch him play in actual games. Some variables to consider in this evaluation are technique, desire, athletic ability, and football intelligence. You have to factor in the talent level of the player’s team and of his opponents.
Every year in February, the NFL invites hundreds of draft eligible players to its Combine in Indianapolis, where teams get to check out these players up close. The teams get to see players in the same position and compare them doing the same measurable tests. The players get checked and looked over like a pound of sirloin at a meat market. At the combine the measurables consist of physical tests, like the 40-yard dash, bench reps and short shuttle, the Wonderlic and size measurements. Are these physical tests important? Certainly they are an indicator of a player’s athletic ability. But this does not necessarily reflect a player’s football ability.
The combine can validate the skills and athletic ability in a player. It can also expose the flaws and weaknesses in certain players, like having sub par agility and quickness tests in a running back and a lack of bench reps in an offensive lineman. I would rather have a great football player and a good athlete than an average football player and a great athlete. Did someone say Vince Young? You cannot coach athletic ability in a player but it could be far more important that the players you draft can be taught football skills and have the intelligence to utilize them. So take the NFL combine results as not the end all to how good a player will actually be in the NFL. Let’s check out the productivity of the player on the field where it actually counts instead of putting too much emphasis on a player’s performance on a training field or room under stimulated conditions. | <urn:uuid:23ac5f83-4db3-49d3-9e62-95ecc39fe255> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.jetnation.com/2006/02/27/the-nfl-combine-how-important-is-it/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571911.5/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813081639-20220813111639-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.972067 | 532 | 1.59375 | 2 |
Home safety and security gets on the mind of a lot of property owners today. Several options to shield the residence are offered. One of these choices is a security system that operates without circuitry.
A cordless safety and security system transmits electromagnetic radiation rather than difficult cords to connect featuring its components. This function quits trespassers from reducing wires to the home; as has occurred with wired warning device.
There are 2 standard cordless protection systems readily available. The very first type sounds an alarm currently there is a breach to the home. If the alarm is attached to authorities it has the capability to send off authorities to the home immediately.
A second system is monitored by a specialist security company. The signals come from safety devices that consist of cameras, movement detectors and magnetic buttons.
The control board for wireless systems work generally the exact same. An alarm will certainly seem when there is required access or the detector detects activity. Magnet get in touches with may be placed near windows and doors. These too will certainly trigger the alarm to seem if the magnetic get in touch with is dropped the switch.
Wireless safety systems are programmed to sound an alarm when a home window is opened partly that would suggest a body might suit via it. Both systems can be outfitted with sensing units that spot activity along with infra red warmth signals. With a monitored system, possible dangers can be assessed to figure out if cops ought to be called or if a family member set off the system by crash.
A wireless system is managed with a keypad that is generally near a primary doorway of the residence. Remote keypads are likewise readily available that run similar to a keyless access vehicle remotes. Either keypad has the ability to arm or deactivate the system as required.
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Everything looks rosy from the outside. The finance department, however, has trouble brewing just under the surface. How can you tell? Welter Consulting has the experience to see and fix problems where they start. The finance department of a nonprofit is often the most overlooked place. After all, it’s all about the mission – right?
Well, yes and no. Nonprofits need margin to achieve their mission: no margin, no mission, no nonprofit. The finance department is the team charged with planning and managing the financial resources of the organization. Without a well-run finance department, there will not be enough capital to run all of the programs, services, and other activities for the organization.
There are certain telltale signs of dysfunction in the financial department that we’ve learned to spot over the years. We also work with teams to identify problems and help them fix them.
Sign #1: Unclear roles and responsibilities
Suzy handles accounts payable and any incoming checks, but John is the accounts receivable clerk. Oh, and he’s also in charge of petty cash and updating the finance software because he’s good with computers.
If that sounds like a mess, it’s because it is. Over time, many nonprofits find that roles and responsibilities shift and change. Instead of aligning people and roles, people are allowed to assume various roles according to their time and talents. New skills needed for the finance department, such as John’s penchant with computers, end up glommed onto current roles without rhyme or reason, except that the original person who agreed to accept the task liked the idea of it.
Unclear roles and responsibilities can cause many problems. If roles aren’t clear, it is hard to hold people accountable for them. This leads to blame and finger pointing, open-ended tasks, and lack of accountability.
To fix this problem, conduct annual reviews of job descriptions. Ask employees to update their job descriptions so that any new tasks they may have taken on during the year can be evaluated in light of their role within the organization. Once you get the big picture of who does what, you can determine if a new position should be created or if some other type of change is warranted.
Sign #2: Multiple General Ledger Accounts
This one makes our heads hurt: when a company ends up with multiple GL accounts because the GL isn’t set up to sort items the way the organization needs them. We’ve seen this happen when nonprofits attempt to force software from the for-profit industry to work for their needs; it’s a square peg, round-hole type of problem, and the fix often involves multiple GL accounts so that the final reckoning matches what the nonprofit needs. Unfortunately, what happens is a confused muddle of accounting that takes longer to untangle than it does to work with it on a productive basis.
Welter Consulting can help. We can match you with nonprofit software that works with your needs, not against them. And, because we have experience in the nonprofit financial and accounting world, we can straighten out your GL too and help you sort through any other accounting muddles created by ill-matched accounting software and needs.
Sign #3: Manual Processes
The computer sits right on the desk, with the accounting software open. The payables clerk writes paper-based checks. “It’s just easier,” she said.
It may feel more comfortable, but there’s the time spent entering the checks back into the accounting system, reconciling the bank account and everything else associated with paper checks, not to mention the time it takes to mail them. And the postage – did you know that the cost of first-class mail is once again going up?
Many nonprofits fail to utilize the technology available to them. We can help. We work with nonprofits to provide training and guidance on how to use existing technology, how to boost productivity through efficiency and better systems, and more.
Sign #4: Manual Reports and Spreadsheets
You have the computer programs; you have the data. But you’re still pulling data from the accounting program, importing it into a spreadsheet program, and manipulating it there to obtain the reports that you desire.
Sounds familiar? This is quite common but entirely avoidable. Most accounting programs for nonprofits offer robust reporting capabilities. If you’re not obtaining the reports that you need from your current system, it’s time to investigate new ones.
Spreadsheets are fine when you’re starting, but as your nonprofit grows, they are time-consuming and error-prone. Automated reports offer convenience, accuracy, and flexibility – if you have the right system!
Welter Consulting can help. We bridge the gap between people and technology and specialize in the world of nonprofits. Let’s discuss your reporting needs and find the right software for you. It’s faster and better than using spreadsheets, that’s for sure.
Sign #5: Lack of Goals and Objectives
Does your financial team have clear goals and objectives? You may have them within the department but lack alignment with organizational goals.
Yes, it’s great that you have your own team goals, but how do these align with everyone else’s? Consider the impact that financial knowledge makes on other departments. The more you share information, the better off everyone will be throughout the organization. Aligning your goals and priorities with the overall goals of the organization and ensuring that financial goals are part of every department’s objectives, as well as sharing the organization’s economic outlook with other departments, helps align the finances with the activities and vice-versa.
Do you need some help with establishing goals and objectives? We offer comprehensive business management and support for nonprofits and can help you develop goals, share financial data, and more. Training, audit support, and other nonprofit financial and technology services are also available.
Yes, there are signs that the finance department needs help. Fortunately, the fixes are at your fingertips, and if you need assistance, we’re only a phone call away.
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The Department for Education added Futsal to an approved activity list for GCSE, AS and A-Level PE meaning students studying PE across the country will have the opportunity/ option to play and experience Futsal at schools from 2020.
Los Angeles Football Club (LAFC) and Chevron U.S.A. Inc. (Chevron), announced the dedication of a new futsal court at Bakersfield Police Activities League plus they have built courts in Watts and at Menlo Ave Elementary School.
Young Braintree Futsal Club ace Marley Baker–Burton is set for the experience of a lifetime this week as he heads across the Atlantic to play for a Brazilian side at the World Futsal Championships.
The U.S. Soccer Foundation has approached St. Paul Parks and Recreation about the possibility of converting underused outdoor spaces in the city into mini-courts for futsal, which is a variety of soccer played on hard surfaces.
The Mi barrio suena project takes futsal as a means to contribute towards the education of young people and the development of communities that many people consider “slums”.
Chris Morgan: "There are real benefits for young players.. we should be promoting Futsal more vigorously"
As it stands futsal plays no formal part of the Scottish FA’s player pathway yet it’s the only small sided games recognized by UEFA & FIFA.
Futsal Focus partner SoccerToday has provided this article for Futsal Focus followers to read about how Sean Bowers, former MLS defender and the former Captain of U.S. National Futsal Team believes futsal made his soccer game better and why.
The Futsal A-Licence course is being held for the third year, futsal coaches from various leagues, clubs, and national teams were seen participating in the course.
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1 new case of West Nile virus confirmed in Mississippi
Hinds County case brings state total to 28.
One new case of West Nile virus has been confirmed in Mississippi, bringing the state total to 28 cases so far this year.
The Mississippi State Department of Health said Monday that the new case of the mosquito-borne illness is in Hinds County.
One death was previously reported in Attala County.
So far this year, seven cases have been confirmed in Hinds County, five in Rankin County, four in Madison County, two each in Forrest and Simpson counties and one each in Adams, Attala, Covington, Lauderdale, Marion, Montgomery, Washington and Yazoo counties.
The Health Department only releases statistics about laboratory-confirmed cases.
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Questions Linger As FBI Recovers Colonial Pipeline Ransomware Crypto Funds
U.S agencies claim they have recovered most of the $4.4 million in crypto paid out to hackers of the Colonial Pipeline. But hazy details around the case leave more questions than answers.
Crypto Funds Recovered By U.S
Last month, news broke that hackers had exploited a pipeline that carries refined gasoline from Texas to New York, forcing a shutdown of operations. The pipeline is responsible for 45% of the East Coast’s fuel supply.
The chaos that ensued triggered a 6 cent per gallon rise at the pump. But more than that, fear of shortages had market analysts sounding the alarm.
Although the general practice is not to pay hackers, given what was at stake, Joseph Blount, the CEO of Colonial Pipeline Company, authorized payment of the $4.4 million demanded by hackers.
“I know it was a controversial decision. I didn’t make it lightly. I will admit that I wasn’t comfortable seeing money go out the door to people like this.”
Yesterday, U.S agencies announced the recovery of the majority of those funds from DarkSide; the Eastern-European-based group said to be responsible for the attack. CNBC claims U.S agencies recovered just over half of the crypto funds or $2.3 million in cash value.
The Deputy Director of the FBI, Paul Abbate, said his agency successfully seized the ransom funds from a Bitcoin wallet used by DarkSide to collect the ransomware payment from the Colonial Pipeline Company.
However, further details on this were not disclosed, leading to speculation on how that was possible.
If the FBI had cracked the wallet or somehow brute-forced it open, then crypto security isn’t as strong as we are led to believe. Alternatively, if the crypto wallet was an exchange wallet, why would the exchange make a partial return?
How Easy Is It To Crack A Bitcoin Wallet?
If the details are to be believed, then logic dictates the FBI must have cracked the wallet. But how easy is it to crack a crypto wallet?
Reports on this are mixed. A Reddit poster claims that a wallet recovery service cracked his wallet and returned his funds, minus a fee after he had mistyped his passphrase (twice). It took five months, and the poster had also sent his wallet.dat file as well.
Another method is brute-forcing the crypto wallet, which tries every possible combination until the correct one is found.
The Things That Matter Most blog said brute-forcing a Bitcoin wallet is near impossible. The tries required to achieve this is more than the number of atoms in the universe.
“When I tell you a Bitcoin private key is a 256-bit number you see the “256” and think it’s relatively small. In reality, 256 bits means 2256. There are that many possible private keys.
Expanded out, 2256 is: 115,792,089,237,316,195,423,570,985,008,687,907,853,269,984, 665,640,564,039,457,584,007,913,129,639,936.”
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Pillows, Places Spaces Faces
Shantell Martin and the Momentum Design Studio worked together to translate her drawings, musings, and thoughts into four textiles designs. The designs are unique yet unified by a connecting story: a series of conversations between the elements, places and internal questions of her life and our own.
"Places Spaces Faces" expresses Martin’s idea that buildings hold people and stories within, but also have their own unique character. She is drawn to buildings because they invite curiosity and wonder – who lives inside, what do they do, or how do they live. The network of buildings that forms the pattern in this textile is reminiscent of London, Tokyo, and New York – cities which she calls home. Highlighted periodically with yellow lines, building tops become faces, animating the textile with humor and optimism.
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Your [Norm Kent’s] latest editorial “The Tabula Rasa of a New Year” suggest that we clean slate for the New Year and ends with listing many of the old ills of America. Which is it?
In my lifetime most of the problems you listed as part of America have been addressed. In the 60's the President and the Reverend King referred to his people as Negroes — not Blacks or African Americans. No one uses that word today. Things have changed. In case you haven't noticed we now have a Black President and Attorney General. We have three women and a Black man on the Supreme Court. Three recent Secretary's of State were women, one of them Black. The previous Speaker of the House of Representatives was a woman. A crazy woman, but a woman none the less.
There were several things that America did in my lifetime that you failed to mention. We won World War II and ended the Holocaust. After the war we spent billions to re-build Europe. We helped Japan to establish a democracy. We created the United Nations and still provide most of the funding for its numerous humanitarian and peace-keeping programs. We passed the GI Bill to help veterans get an education and buy homes. You speak as though shock treatment was an American invention and aimed at gays. In fact it was an accepted treatment throughout the developed world. In the 50's however, we found a cure for polio and put an end to the iron lung. In the 80's we identified and developed treatment for the HIV virus. You failed to mention any of those accomplishments of "Evil America."
America is the most generous country in the world and has been for a long time. When was the last time you heard of a natural disaster that didn't include relief efforts from America. And we're pretty generous to our own as well. Each day millions of school kids receive free breakfasts and lunches and sometimes free dinners. Each month a family of four on welfare receives more than $600 a month in food stamps. In fact, since the "Great Society" and the "War on Poverty" were instituted the American people have generously contributed between seven to nine trillion dollars to the poor and needy of this country. Seven to nine trillion dollars! Think about that.
I know America isn't perfect as your publication often reminds us. But, for the life me, I can't understand why you found it necessary to end this New Year's message with a vitriolic attack on America
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The museum offers a variety of educational programs for preschoolers ages 3-5 and their parents or grandparents. Programs are themed on the museum’s historical exhibits and are a fun way to learn.
The interactive and educational programs have been going on since April and are scheduled to conclude June 30. But don’t fear, some great programs are still on the schedule. Get your calendars ready!
Next Thursday’s program, June 16, will feature painting with dots and is sure to be a favorite. “How Will We Get to the Beach” is the theme of the June 23rd presentation, and the final presentation on June 30 is called “Travel By Rail.”
All programs are held at the Southern Museum from 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. The children’s activities are free with the cost of admission to the museum, which is $7.50 for adults, $6.50 for seniors, $5.50 for children aged 4-12 and is free for children under 3 years old. Parking is available at the museum.
For more information, visit the Southern Museum’s website or call (770) 427-2117, extension 3173.
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The didgeridoo is a wind instrument found among the Aborigine clans of northern Australia. Didgeridoos are usually produced in the more traditionally oriented communities of northern Australia from various hardwoods, especially the Eucalyptus trees that are hollowed out by termites. Didgeridoos can also be made from PVC piping. The mouthpiece is usually made of beeswax or duct tape, but a rubber stopper with a hole cut into it is also acceptable to use for the mouthpiece.
A modern didgeridoo is commonly shaped like a cylinder or cone and measures from 3.2 feet to 9.8 feet in length, with most measuring around 3.9 feet.
The length of the didgeridoo is directly related to the sound of the instrument. More specifically, the length of the instrument determines the pitch. A longer didgeridoo will produce a lower pitch or key.
The didgeridoo is played with lips that continuously vibrate to make the droning sound using a special breathing technique called circular breathing. This requires a person to breathe in through the nose while expelling air out of the mouth using the tongue and cheeks. By using circular breathing, a skilled didgeridoo player can fill up his lungs and hold a note for a very long time. There are recordings of some didgeridoo players playing for as long as forty minutes!
The didgeridoo can be played as a solo instrument, but is most often used to accompany dancing and singing in ceremonial rituals. For the Aborigines of northern Australia, the didgeridoo is used to accompany singers and dancers in religious rituals. Only men play the didgeridoo and sing during ceremonial occasions. Women have played the didgeridoo in informal situations, but it is taboo for an Aborigine woman to play the didgeridoo during a ceremony.
The didgeridoo has been used often with modern Celtic music. It is played alongside bagpipes in modern groups. Many ska bands have also used the didgeridoo in their music which has been influenced by ethnic cultures. The droning sound produced by the didgeridoo makes it an integral part of an instrumental ensemble from Celtic groups to modern day bands. A sliding didgeridoo made of plastic allows it to be played in the same manner as a trombone, while a keyed didgeridoo is played like a saxophone.
There are many different ways to play the didgeridoo to produce different musical tones. To produce the basic drone, you puff out your cheeks and push out your lips to blow air through your lips and allow them to vibrate and make a low pitched buzzing sound.
To create rhythms on the didgeridoo, you can bounce air through your buzzing lips, using your stomach muscles like you were expelling a belly laugh. You can also use your tongue to produce the same rhythm by putting the tip of your tongue just behind your upper front teeth and snap downward to mouth the word, "ta-ta-ta-ta." Another interesting rhythm can be produced on the didgeridoo by letting your cheeks puff out, squeezing them together slowly, and then allowing them to puff out again.
Lip shaping can produce various harmonies on the didgeridoo. Changing the shape of the opening between your two buzzing lips like you are whistling will produce a higher pitched sound. By mouthing vowels, you can produce various harmonies while droning.
Many sound effects can be produced while playing the didgeridoo. Slapping your tongue against the back of your mouth to the front of your mouth creates a sound like a bubble bursting. If you open and shut your jaw while droning, you can hear the dramatic harmonious drop in pitch that returns to the original note as you shut your jaw. Experimenting with your vocal chords will also add different pitches to your playing on the didgeridoo.
There is no end to the harmonious music that can be produced with various lip, tongue, and cheek movements on the didgeridoo. It can produce a low droning pitch or a higher melodious pitch, depending on where and how you place your lips on the mouthpiece of the didgeridoo.
Didgeridoo Buying Guide
- Beginner's Guide to the Didgeridoo
- Percussionist & Songwriter, Xavier Rudd
- Didgeridoo Playing Instructions
- The Elegant Eucalyptus Didgeridoo
- Didgeridoo Music: Performers and Recommended Recordings
- Basics Of Circular Breathing
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Here’s How IOTA Solves Authenticity Issues in Partnership with IT Veterans CGI
IOTA Foundation cohosted series of experiments with blockchain-based data verification with leading IT vendors CGI and Nordakademie, a top-league private university
IOTA Foundation revealed its collaboration with CGI, a world-leading vendor of IT services and consulting and NORDAKADEMIE, a Hamburg-based private university. NORDAKADEMIE students curated by IOTA and CGI proudly delivered an important proof of concept (PoC) model.
Document verification: challenging use case for IOTA’s DLT
According to an explanatory statement by IOTA Foundation, its team highly evaluates the prospects of decentralized systems in the document verification segment. Meanwhile, this use case remains unexplored compared to other real-world applications of blockchain and DLT technology.
That is why the company decided to study this application within a joint project with CGI and NORDAKADEMIE. Students were asked to create the framework for document verification.
Professor Dr. Joachim Sauer, scientific supervisor of the project, stressed the importance of this collaboration for young applied math scholars:
We are very pleased to be able to give our students the opportunity to carry out innovative, practical projects in interdisciplinary teams with the support of leading companies.
The easy process of integration of the system into existing hardware mechanisms was among the main requirements for the project team.
How does this system prevent documents from being tampered?
In a nutshell, the new system replaces the third-party verification institution (notaries, governmental supervisory bodies, etc.) with IOTA’s data structure, Tangle. Being neutral by design, Tangle protects documents from being forged, corrupt or lost.
Due to the fact that Tangle is immutable, all transactions will be visible and transparent for all parties involved—including students, professors and employers.
The encrypted verification system utilizes IOTA Masked Authenticated Messaging (MAM). Both integrated and standalone concepts were released by the students’ team.
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As a flashback of our elementary school days, we remember that a preposition is a word which precedes a noun (or a pronoun) to show the noun’s (or the pronoun’s) relationship to another word in the sentence. The word preposition comes from the idea of being positioned before. (It is not true to say that a preposition always precedes a noun or a pronoun, but it does most of the time.)
Examples of prepositions are: above, about, across, against, along, among, around, at, before, behind, below, beneath, beside, between, beyond, by, down, during, except, for, from, in, inside, into, like, near, of, off, on, since, to, toward, through, under, until, up, upon, with and within.
For years prepositions remained more or less the same, so it was easy to remember their usage in everyday English communication. Then some wise guy invented the Internet, and grammar began to change its structure. English now has a new preposition, because Internet. Linguists are recognizing the delightful evolution of the word “because.”
The word ‘because,’ in standard English usage, is a subordinating conjunction, which means that it connects two parts of a sentence in which one (the subordinate) explains the other. In that capacity, ‘because’ has two distinct forms. It can be followed either by a finite clause (I’m reading this because [I saw it on the web]) or by a prepositional phrase (I’m reading this because [of the web]). These two forms are, traditionally, the only ones to which ‘because’ lends itself.
Mainly due to the influence of the Web, there is another way to use “because.” Linguists are calling it the “prepositional-because.” Or the “because-noun.”
You probably know it better, however, as explanation by way of Internet—explanation that maximizes efficiency and irony in equal measure. I’m late because, YouTube. You’re reading this, because procrastination. As the language writer Stan Carey delightfully sums it up: ‘Because’ has become a preposition, because grammar.”
“Because X is fashionably slangy at the moment, diffusing rapidly across communities. It has a snappy, jocular feel, with a syntactic jolt that allows long explanations to be forgone. Because time-strapped,” writes Carey on his blog.
To illustrate the new use, Carey posts hilarious examples from social media users… because Twitter.
Well here is a nice young man, Fred E. Ray Smith, running for Oklahoma state Senate, from jail, where he was taken for warrants and drunk driving and driving without a license or registration, and also he owes so much child support and his ex has a protective order out against him. We assume he is going to win, because ‘R-Oklahoma.’
If due north was good enough for that chicken’s parents and grandparents and great-great-great-great-grandparents, it’s good enough for that chicken too, damn it. But Iowa still wants to sell eggs to California, because money.
It’s a usage, in other words, that is exceptionally bloggy and aggressively casual and implicitly ironic. And also highly adaptable. Carey has unearthed instances of the “because-noun” construction with the noun in question being, among other terms, “science, math, people, art, reasons, comedy, bacon, ineptitude, fun, patriarchy, politics, school, intersectionality, and winner.”
But the formulation isn’t simply limited to nouns. Carey again:
The construction is more versatile than ‘because+noun’ suggests. Prepositional because can be yoked to verbs (Can’t talk now because cooking), adjectives (making up examples. because lazy), interjections (Because, yay!), and maybe adverbs too, though in strings like Because, honestly., the adverb is functioning more as an exclamation. The resulting phrases are all similarly succinct and expressive.
Which is to say, the “because-noun” form is limited only to the confines of your own imagination. It can be anything you want it to be. English-speaking people are using “because” not just to explain, but also to criticize, and sensationalize, and ironize, just to name a few uses of the new preposition.
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Chief Scientific Officer
Johnson & Johnson
1 Johnson And Johnson Plaza
New Brunswick, NJ 08933
March 2, 2021
Dear Dr. Stoffels,
Congratulations on receiving an Emergency Use Authorization for Ad26.COV2.S. We are writing to urge Johnson & Johnson to share vaccine technology widely with manufacturers around the world to help quickly ramp up global production.
A single-dose vaccine that is easy to transport can play an important role in vaccinating the world. However, J&J currently projects to produce 1 billion doses in 2021. A new partnership with Merck is expected to increase capacity but details and timelines remain unclear. J&J also has reportedly promised only 200 million doses for the developing world through COVAX by the end of the year. Production problems have already slowed delivery.
We urge you, at minimum, to meet the sharing standard set by your peers. J&J and AstraZeneca/Oxford (AZ-OX) both employ replication-defective viral vector technology. But J&J has entered into a fraction of global partnerships as AZ-OX. According to UNICEF, AZ-OX have entered into manufacturing agreements with 21 partners. J&J has entered into agreements with 8, including Merck. More than 10 partners are producing AZ-OX drug substance. Only 3 are producing J&J drug substance. These differences amount to hundreds of millions of doses.
J&J should share technology, intellectual property, and know-how with the World Health Organization. The COVID-19 Technology Access Pool is a platform that would help manufacturers from around the world quickly ramp up production. A recent AP investigation found multiple manufacturers with spare capacity to produce hundreds of millions of doses.
J&J has a particular obligation to share because it has benefited enormously from public funding. BARDA has awarded J&J two billion dollars for the COVID-19 vaccine to pay for research and development, and for manufacturing 100 million doses. The NIH has also helped run late-stage clinical trials, and developed the stabilized spike protein technology used by Ad26.COV2.S. Public support for the technology platform also extends back many years. National Institutes of Health-funded researchers played a critical role in the development of the viral vector employed by J&J. NIH and BARDA helped bankroll an Ebola vaccine candidate that helped validate the platform, pouring in at least $250 million.
As the head of the WHO notes, “A restrictive approach to vaccine production is . . . more likely to prolong the pandemic—which would be tantamount to medical malpractice on a global scale.” Ad26.COV2.S. is one of a handful of technologies that has so far demonstrated protection against concerning new variants. We urge you to choose a better path.
Director, Access to Medicines Program
J&J uses adenovirus type 26 vector and PER.C6 cell line. AZ-OX uses a modified chimpanzee virus, ChAdOx1, and HEK-293 cell line. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7423510/
Emergent Biosolutions, Biological E, Merck, Sanofi, Catalent, Grand Asceptic, Reig Jofre, Aspen Pharma. https://docs.house.gov/meetings/IF/IF02/20210223/111226/HHRG-117-IF02-Wstate-NettlesR-20210223.PDF
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In vivo evaluations were made to assess the pesticide activity of lihocin against fresh water fishChanna punctatus and its ultimate mode of action on fish protein metabolism. Biochemical studies show that after exposing the fish to sub lethal dose of lihocin, total protein levels significantly decreased while FAA, glutamine, alkaline phosphatases, acid phosphatases, AlAT, AAT, GDH, AMP deaminase and adenosine deaminase were significantly enhanced in the liver, brain and kidney tissues of C. punctatus. The alterations in all the aforementioned biochemical parameters were significantly (p< 0.05) time and dose dependent. As such, the negative impact of lihocin was shown on the respiratory, as well as, energy production of the fish.
Key words: Channa punctatus, enzyme activity, Lc50, lihocin (OC) pesticidal impact, protein metabolism.
Copyright © 2022 Author(s) retain the copyright of this article.
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Who could be afraid of this? Juvenile peacock spider (Maratus albus)
(all photos courtesy of Jürgen Otto)
Jürgen Otto is passionate about spiders: not just any spiders, but the tiny Australian creatures known as peacock spiders. Famous for their brilliant colors and intricately patterned courtship dances, their genus, Maratus, includes sixty-seven species and subspecies.
The first peacock spider was described by British arachnologist Octavius Pickard-Cambridge in 1874. In the past decade, Otto and his colleague David Hill have discovered more than half of the currently documented species. One species has been found in China, but the others all live in Australia, primarily in the bushlands on the southern portion of the continent.
Peacock spiders are so small (the one in the photo above is sitting on a pencil) that most people don’t notice them, even in the heart of their territories. Recalling his own first encounter with a peacock spider, Otto says:
I did not know anything about them until I stumbled over one during a walk in nearby bushland [near Sydney] purely by accident. It attracted my attention in the way it jumped — it seemed more nimble than other spiders. The specimen I saw then was one of Maratus volans, and I had no idea at the time what it was or that there were other similar species.
Maratus volans in his full glory, with abdominal flaps extended
A true thumbnail portrait of Maratus volans ~ notice the folded abdominal flaps
For many years, people believed that peacocks (a variety of jumping spider) used the flaps on the sides of their abdomens to glide through the air, but no one actually had seen them use the flaps for any purpose. Eventually, Otto’s research unearthed a suggestion or two that Maratus volans used its flaps in courtship, and his work with the spiders confirmed it.
When a male peacock spider encounters a female, he initiates courtship by waving his legs like semaphore flags. If she seems interested, he raises the flaps at his sides and displays his brilliantly colored abdomen while dancing back and forth.
If he performs well and the female finds him acceptable, they will mate; occasionally, the female will do her own little dance of acceptance. But color patterns and dance moves are species-specific, meaning that males with atypical dances, or color patterns that resemble those of a different species, can come to a sorry end.
There’s little sentimentality among female peacock spiders. If she doesn’t approve of the dance, or mistakes his abdominal pattern for that of an unfamiliar species, she’ll often have the male for lunch — as the main course.
The mating dance of a Maratus personatus (who apparently was refused, but lived to tell the tale)
Watching one of Otto’s videos, it’s easy to assume the spiders are dancing in the wild. But most videos are shot in his home, where he maintains a “spider room” for studying and documenting the various species in every stage of development.
At one point, he kept a pile of leaves on the dining room table for photo shoots, until his wife objected, and other accomodations had to be made. As for the filming itself, Otto’s techniques are relatively simple:
When I started to film them, I had no idea about how to go about it. I simply thought one day to explore the video option on my DSLR, a Canon 7D with a 100mm macro lens. So I just kept filming them and added scene after scene to my collection. I had no prior experience in editing video footage.
The equipment that professional documentary makers use is very different from mine, with much larger cameras, big steady tripods etc., and for a while I thought that getting such equipment would be something to strive for.
However, I now realize that the small, simple, and cheap setup I used was almost ideal for the job as it allowed me to follow the spiders on the ground and use natural lighting. Once you find a place where they occur, you simply have to search for specimens and watch them or, better, find a pair that is already engaged in some courtship.
Otto’s affection for his subjects is obvious, as is his hope that people introduced to them will develop the same affection. He often mentions that the spiders are considered cute, even by self-declared arachnophobes, and that he “loves the way they interact with their environment: how they exhibit fear, excitement, and curiosity.” Seen through his eyes, the spiders are less fearful than fascinating: the very opposite of the Halloween horror they’re often portrayed to be.
What’s also clear is that he enjoys their dancing, and sometimes is amused by it. I suspect only someone with a great deal of affection for these creatures and an ability to be amused by them would have come up with this video. It’s a musical tribute with a sly title. For the male peacock spider, staying alive certainly does depend on his ability to dance his tiny little heart out. | <urn:uuid:68d75ea8-7de2-436f-ad2d-1544272490d2> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://shoreacres.wordpress.com/2017/10/29/a-halloween-spiderpalooza/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571911.5/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813081639-20220813111639-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.975948 | 1,090 | 3.03125 | 3 |
Nearly one in five Aboriginal children aged less than 16 years old in Western Australia had unregistered births according to new research that means thousands of Aboriginal children are likely to have no official identity.
Published today in The Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, the finding, made by linking birth records from the WA Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages to births recorded in the state’s Midwives Notification System, revealed that 4,628 Aboriginal births to Aboriginal mothers weren’t recorded in the Registry in the 16 years from 1996 to 2012.
While the Midwives Notification System records all births that were attended or had follow up care provided by a midwife or doctor, Birth Registrations records only include those children where the parent/s have lodged an application to register the birth. Registration records contain demographic information about the child and parents.
In its current form, Western Australia’s birth registration system doesn’t ensure that all children have registered births.
“In its current form, Western Australia’s birth registration system doesn’t ensure that all children have registered births,” said the report’s lead author, University of Sydney PhD student, Alison Gibberd.
“Australia is a signatory to several international conventions to ensure that all children have the right to be registered immediately after birth, but an unacceptably high number of Aboriginal children don’t achieve this right.”
The new report reveals that from 1996 to 2012, unregistered Aboriginal births were more common among mothers who were teenagers when they had their first child, and among those living in socioeconomically disadvantaged and remote areas. Aboriginal children born to mothers aged less than 16 years were five times more likely to be unregistered than those born to mothers aged 30 years and older.
Unregistered births were also more common among babies born in rural hospitals, when a mother smoked during pregnancy, or had an alcohol-related diagnosis near the time of the birth. Children born to mothers whose own birth was unregistered and who had no private health insurance were three times more likely to be unregistered.
“For most Australians, a birth certificate is the first documentary evidence of identity,” said Aboriginal health leader and research supervisor, Professor Sandra Eades of Baker IDI Heart and Diabetes Institute. “Proof of identity and Australian citizenship are essential for many rights, including obtaining a passport, a driver’s licence and opening bank accounts.
“However, a birth certificate can only be obtained once a birth is registered, and the births of many Australians, particularly Aboriginal Australians, are not registered when they are babies.”
Aboriginal children born to mothers aged less than 16 years were 5 times more likely to be unregistered than those born to mothers aged 30 and older.
Low birth registration rates aren’t limited to Western Australia. A recent Queensland study reported that 17 per cent of 2 to 4 year-old Aboriginal children did not have registered births.
The high number of unregistered births suggests Aboriginal families face major barriers registering the birth of newborns. In Western Australia, parents must lodge the necessary forms with the Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages within 60 days of a child’s birth. The relevant forms are supplied to parents soon after the birth of a child by hospital staff or a midwife. Registering a birth is free but a birth certificate currently costs AUD $47.
“Successfully completing the birth registration process requires a reasonable level of literacy and the practical means of returning the completed paperwork to the Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages,” said Alison Gibberd. “It also relies on parents recognising the value of birth registration, particularly if they cannot afford the cost of a birth certificate at that time.”
What can be done to raise birth registrations among Aboriginal people?
“Since most births occur in hospitals, there is an opportunity for hospitals to provide a higher level of assistance to complete birth registration forms before the mother and child leave hospital,” said Professor Eades, who heads Aboriginal health programs at Baker IDI Heart and Diabetes Institute.
Barbara Henry, CEO of Derbarl Yerrigan Health Service Inc, said the report highlights a need for better education about the benefits of birth registration and more support for new parents in navigating the relevant bureaucracy to achieve certification. “There are a number of very simple changes we could make to make it easier for new parents to register the birth of their child,” said Ms Henry.
“We could look at streamlining the current system and providing additional support to new mothers to complete the birth registration paperwork before they leave hospital. It may also be possible to integrate administrative assistance for mothers through existing funded programs such as nurse home visits.
“Importantly, this report has surfaced an issue that causes disadvantage amongst Aboriginal people. Now that we understand the scope of the problem, we can turn our attention to raising community awareness and finding creative solutions.”
The study reveals that registration rates have improved since 2006, particularly in remote areas. This may be due to an increasing focus on unregistered births in recent years. For example, several programs are run in remote Western Australia to assist Aboriginal people to obtain driver’s licences (including the prerequisite birth certificate). Additionally, since 1 July 2007, parents could only receive the Baby Bonus, parental leave pay or family tax benefits if they declared that they had applied for the child’s birth to be registered.
The study sample comprised all live births in Western Australia from 1980 to 2010, whose mothers were recorded as Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander on their Midwives Notification System record. The birth of infants of 20 weeks or more gestation and/or 400 grams birth weight must be notified to the WA Department of Health by attending midwives or medical officers. | <urn:uuid:8fbd2a61-90db-4194-8a08-d8804e5c5237> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.sydney.edu.au/news-opinion/news/2016/07/04/no-identity--one-in-five-aboriginal-births-unregistered-in-wa.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571210.98/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810191850-20220810221850-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.959958 | 1,199 | 2.9375 | 3 |
International Women’s Day is especially significant this year in light of the #metoo campaign focusing on the harassment of women, especially in the workplace. The movement’s widespread effect on different industries has included financial services, with investors reportedly wanting to move more money into companies supporting women. In January, CNBC identified over 30 ‘gender lens investing’ strategies, reporting that assets under management had jumped by 41% to $910m ending June 2017.
Reflecting this trend, the Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN) has launched the Gender Lens Investing Initiative supporting impact investors with gender lens strategies.
Here is Responsible Investor’s Q&A with GIIN CEO Amit Bouri about the initiative’s aims and objectives.
What has been the impetus behind creating the Gender Lens Investing Initiative?
Amit: From our standpoint, it is really critical when we look at issues facing the world to think about the role that investment capital can play in gender equity. It is one of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (Goal 5) and we saw that there was a lot of interest in the market, and increasing levels of activities around gender lens investing. We hope we can build on what we have today to have a dramatic impact on the issue of gender equity throughout the impact investment community and throughout the broader investment community as well.
What is the business case for gender lens investing?
Amit: There will be more assets controlled and managed by women as wealth transfer occurs. So, there is [a growing] part of the financial services community serving the female investor market. Women control much of household discretionary spending and there is a tremendous opportunity for thinking about women as consumers and customers. There are opportunities to increasingly think about how women will want to purchase products that are designed to address their needs. They will want to interact with companies and investors that are more attuned to their priorities. So, there is a business case in thinking as women as investors, as owners of businesses, and women as consumers and employees. I also think what is critical and motivating to a lot of investors is that people care about this issue and they want to prioritise and put their capital to work to create a world they want to live in, and that includes gender equality. One of the exciting things is that investors are realising that their investment capital can be a tool for addressing the critical issue of gender equity.h6. What will the Gender Lens Investing Initiative entail?
Amit: We are just getting the Initiative ramped up and a working group will be formally launched later this year with a diverse group from mainstream financial services firms, to philanthropic foundations and people working with high net worth individuals. There will be a database on gender lens investing focused on allocations and strategies. There is a huge need for people who are excited about the concept of investing with a gender lens but want to understand how that approach actually transforms into tangible deals that have an impact on gender equity. We have a role to play in collective learning – taking what people are doing and experiencing all around the world and bringing it together to help advance progress to the issue of gender equity. A database is a way to compile deals and projects that people have invested in to help facilitate tangible action and learning for investors throughout the network. Because of the nature of the information we do make available, it does require sharing things that are typically private. So we are trying to crate a mechanism so this information is shared with other investors to learn from too.
How does the GIIN see gender lens investing in practice?
Amit: Gender lens investing has two components – one which is intentionally and measurably addressing gender disparity and the other is understanding and examining gender dynamics to better inform. So, for example, what types of entrepreneurs are you working with and who is in the room when decisions are made?
I think the way that people are thinking about gender lens investing is broad and that’s a good thing. I think it’s everything from how investing is conducted to what you’re actually investing in. We see investors looking at things such as who owns the business, and women as customers, and the products and services developed to address their needs. A tangible example is a lot of our members are interested in renewable energy access. You may not think it is a gender issue but 75% of the world’s ‘energy poor’ are women. So some impact themes prioritised by investors are having a disproportionate impact on women and it is important for investors to continue to understand that. | <urn:uuid:30f00a3e-620a-4084-82aa-e970632528ee> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.responsible-investor.com/the-new-gender-lens-investing-initiative/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571911.5/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813081639-20220813111639-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.970965 | 928 | 1.789063 | 2 |
We’re floored by painter and engineer [Bob Partington’s] graffiti briefcase, which proves how well art and tech can complement one another. Fear not, Arduino haters, [Bob]’s case is an analog dream: no microcontrollers here.
The guts consist of 2 components: a linear drive system and a trigger assembly. The former takes advantage of a small RC motor with a chain drive which slides the can’s mounting unit along two stainless steel rods. The latter includes a custom wound solenoid plugged into a 24V cordless drill battery, which slams down 5 pounds of force onto the can’s nozzle to fire the paint.
This all fits into an otherwise inconspicuous looking briefcase to provide some urban camouflage. The final component is a stencil, which slides into a rectangular hole on the bottom of the case. The paint can sprays downward through the stencil and tags the ground at the touch of a brass button located near the handle. [Bob] has plenty of other cool inventions you should check out that are less illegal. Or, stick it to the man by automating your tagging with Time Writer. | <urn:uuid:668baa3a-2d39-462f-8db2-1533a80cdfeb> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://hackaday.com/2013/09/09/graffiti-briefcase-for-stealth-tagging/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572043.2/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814143522-20220814173522-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.936396 | 247 | 1.632813 | 2 |
The History of the Chicago Style Hot Dog
The "Chicago Style" hot dog history began with street cart hot dog vendors during the hard times of the Great Depression. Money was scarce, but business was booming for these entrepreneurs who offered a delicious hot meal on a bun for only a nickel. The famous Chicago Style Hot Dog was born! They'd start with a Red Hot Chicago dog, nestle it in a steamed poppy seed bun, and cover it with a wonderful combination of toppings: yellow mustard, bright green relish, fresh chopped onions, juicy red tomato wedges, a kosher-style pickle spear, a couple of spicy sport peppers and finally, a dash of celery salt. This unique hot dog creation with a "salad on top" and its memorable interplay of hot and cold, crisp and soft, sharp and smooth, became America's original fast food and a true Chicago institution. | <urn:uuid:be7a9377-4176-4aee-ac12-db78fcbf5946> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.312beef.com/single-post/2017/05/12/the-history-of-the-chicago-style-hotdog | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571210.98/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810191850-20220810221850-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.928184 | 184 | 2.5625 | 3 |
PR Blunders – How to Set Your House on Fire Fast
PR Blunders - Be Very Careful and Use Common Sense
Published: January 17, 2018
I'm a member of the working press covering the home improvement beat. My syndicated newspaper column Ask the Builder still runs in sixty newspapers across the USA.
At the present time, public relations (PR) firms send me press releases each week sharing news about new building products. I received one this morning that had me shaking my head.
The press release is just below and I've included the grammar, misspelling and style errors.
I've DELETED the manufacturer and product name as well as the PR company/contact to avoid a legal dustup in case they feel I'm libeling them. Their names are really not that important. What you should focus on is the message in the press release.
After you read it, I'm going to slice and dice it for you.
As much as we’d like it to, home maintenance doesn’t stop when the temps drop. Cold weather means slippery sidewalks, frozen padlocks and high heating costs. I wanted to share some DIY tips and home hacks for the winter season that can be done with just one tool – a blowtorch.
Here are 6 (stylebook suggests spelling out 'six') easy to handle winter home hacks:
Don’t get locked out: Use a _____ torch to prevent lockouts by thawing a frozen padlock with a few quick strokes of heat.
Avoid slips and falls: Use that same ______ (or, the _______) to melt snow and slippery ice patches covering your walkway or steps. Then use a broom to brush away the rest. BONUS: This technique works faster than using salt.
Loosen your garden hose from the faucet: Use your ________ to loosen and remove a garden hose that is frozen to the spigot. Move the torch around the spigot to spread the heat around (don’t leave on one spot). This will keep cold air from freezing your pipes.
Replace old weather stripping: Make sure your windows are sealed to keep heating costs down. Use a micro-torch to heat and remove old caulk and a paint scrapper (should only have one 'p') to peel away, then replace with new sealant.
Stay warm with an indoor fire: Wood damp from snow? No problem - use a _____ torch to light logs for an indoor fire.
Light burners on a gas grill: In the event that burners are not working, use a ______ to light the grill. Just be sure to put the torch in the grill before you turn on the gas.
The torches are available at Home Depot as well as other national hardware retailers. Photos and more information is (should be 'are') available if you’re interested – please let me know what you think!
Thanks, PR Woman's Name / Firm Withheld
Master Plumbers and Blowtorches
I've been a master plumber since age 29. A blowtorch in conjunction with my lack of experience created a scar on my hand that's been there for about 30 years.
A drop of molten lead from a blowtorch dropped onto my hand while it was crammed into some tight framing. I was unable to move my hand to get rid of the sizzling metal and a third-degree burn was the end result.
A blowtorch fueled with propane develops a flame temperature of 3,600 F degrees.
If you decide to use a blowtorch fueled with propane anywhere around your home, you can start a fire in seconds. I know as I've started more than one house on fire while soldering copper fittings. Fortunately I had planned ahead and had buckets of water nearby in case something when wrong.
What's Wrong With This PR Blunder?
The first thing to remember is this press release is going to be printed word for word by many news outlets and a plethora of inexperienced hobby bloggers. You'll be able to do a Google search using quotation marks surrounding select sentences above to find news outlets where the above press release will be published in all its glory.
Young people who have never used a blowtorch are going to follow the tips.
Allow that to sink in. Young people will be working with open flames producing intense concentrated heat.
Another key point is the manufacturer of the blowtorch approved the press release. They are culpable for being the source of the questionable tips.
The manufacturer instructs the PR firm to put out messaging to sell product in different seasons. That's how it works. Ask any PR person.
Let's look at each of the six tips above:
Tip 1: Let's say that padlock is against a $6,000 fiberglass door. Within seconds you'll scorch the fiberglass. A painted wood or steel door will suffer immediate damage to the paint.
Tip 2: That 3,600 torch temperature is going to cause concrete to spall in just seconds. The rapid expansion of the ice-cold concrete will create pop outs in no time.
Tip 3: Have you ever been inside an old house to see what's behind a hose bib or faucet? You'll likely discover old newspapers, dust, wood chips from drilling the hole, etc. Hot gases from the torch can ignite those and a fire start all while you're outside using the blowtorch.
Tip 4: Want cold glass to crack? Remember, the tip is to do this now, not mid-summer. Just get a micro-torch tip near cold glass and watch what happens.
Tip 5: I'll grant them this tip. A blowtorch might help you get a wood fire going, but dry kindling is far better.
Tip 6: There's not a firefighter I know that would think using a propane torch is a good idea to light a grill that's malfunctioning. There's a reason the grill is not working right. Install new spark igniters.
PR Firms Have a Fiduciary Responsibility
I emailed the woman who sent me this press release warning her of the dangers.
She responded saying, "Thank you for your feedback. Each technique listed was vetted and approved by ________ engineering team for their safety."
I responded telling her that all she has to do is pass the press release by any firefighter and then added, "Your PR firm has a fiduciary duty to ensure the public is protected and for you to just *trust* the information given to you by the client is okay is naive at best."
An hour later she emailed saying, "Thank you for flagging your concerns. We are discussing with ______."
It's my opinion that PR firms have a responsibility to protect the public. These companies are paid professionals and if they belong to any associations they're bound by a code of ethics. The code of ethics for the Public Relations Society of America states:
- Act promptly to correct erroneous communications for which the practitioner is responsible.
They shouldn't be going around spreading information that could harm or kill someone. They should push back against their clients and use common sense.
I'm waiting to see how long it takes for the PR firm to correct the erroneous information they circulated.
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Creating a Simulink Block Using MATLAB Code
Learn how to create a Simulink block using C/C++ code and a MATLAB class derived from the matlab.System class.
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Ripple has announced plans to invest the sum of $50 million into a blockchain research initiative in partnership with highly ranked universities around the world.
So far, 17 schools have been confirmed as part of the initiative including The University of North Carolina, The University of Pennsylvania, University College London, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Korea University, amongst others.
Ripple wants to Build “Workforce of the Future”
Explaining the reason behind the commitment, Ripple stated that the initiative is designed to support the workforce of the future” by supporting technology development and academic research and innovation in the blockchain, digital currency and digital payments ecosystem, which is set to expand dramatically over the coming years.
Speaking to the media, Eric van Miltenburg, SVP Business Operations at Ripple said:
“As globalization increases, so does the demand for technological solutions and talent to solve the world’s hardest financial problems, such as retail remittances.”
According to Ripple, each university on the programme will be able to choose its areas and topics of research focus. While some university research projects may involve Ripple’s proprietary technology and XRP cryptocurrency, this is not a requirement or a prerequisite for funding. In return, it will contribute specialist blockchain expertise and technical resources to aid research.
Can these Initiatives Help XRP?
The move comes at a time when Ripple is facing tremendous market pressure, with its performance showing a downturn of more than 70 percent on its January valuation. This makes it one of the worst performing coins of all top cryptocurrencies. Perhaps as a show of strength to boost investor confidence, Ripple also revealed that the $50 million sum will be made available in fiat, and not in XRP tokens. Ostensibly, this proves to the market that the firm has a healthy asset base and is confident in its long-term prognosis.
Ripple has also announced significant partnerships with large financial institutions for real-time bank transaction settlement. Deals have been struck with global money transfer behemoths MoneyGram and Western Union to facilitate the transfer of vast sums of money at high speed with minimal transaction fees. Other deals within this partnership strategy include a November 2017 deal with American Express and Santander, Spain’s largest bank.
Under this deal, the two financial powerhouses direct American Express’ FX International Payments platform (FXIP) – which Santander relies upon for its cross-border payments services – through the RippleNet network. The network is a proprietary technology developed by Ripple specifically to target the banking and financial services industry, and it does not obligate the banks to make use of its XRP cryptocurrency.
The Ripple University Blockchain Research Initiative is possibly a reference point in a developing trend of collaboration between blockchain tech firms and research institutions as the world increasingly comes to view blockchain as an inevitable part of the future.
The post Top Schools to Benefit from Ripple’s $50 Million University Blockchain Research Initiative appeared first on BTCMANAGER.
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In turn-based games, actors (player, enemies, everything that moves or acts) often differ by their speed. However, since the game happens in turns,
the speed is more accurately described as a frequency in which turns happen for a particular actor.
ROT.Scheduler is a simple tool designed to
simplify the task of selecting proper actor for a turn, based on the abstract speed of all actors.
First, you need to fill the scheduler instance with actors. There are very few requirements on actors: they need to be JS objects with method
which returns a number. An actor with speed=100 will get twice as many turns as actor with speed=50.
You can then repeatedly call the scheduler's
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It’s creamy, fresh, and completely irresistible. No sour cream or mayonnaise or no peas or preservatives. Just fresh and healthy ingredients This Chunky Avocado Guacamole spread onto warm toasted bread is one of my favorite quick meals. It’s so delicious and very easy to make. The word “guacamole” and the dip, are both originally from Mexico, where avocados have been cultivated for thousands of years. The name is derived from two Aztec Nahuatl words—ahuacatl (avocado) and molli (sauce).
Avocado is one of my favorite fruit. Avocado has a very rich, creamy, and buttery texture. It also has an earthy and mildly sweet taste. It is also packed with lots of vitamins and minerals. For Guacamole, look for avocados that yield a bit to a gentle squeeze, but avoid using avocados that are mushy on the inside. Cut avocados in half, remove the pit, scoop the flesh into a bowl and mash it up with a fork or potato masher.
Guacamole is best eaten right after it’s made. Like apples, avocados start to oxidize and turn brown once they’ve been cut. A good amount of lime juice added to guacamole can help slow down that process. And if you store the guacamole properly, you can easily make it a few hours ahead if you are preparing for a party.
The trick to keeping guacamole green is to make sure air doesn’t touch it. Transfer it to a container, cover it with plastic wrap, and press down on the plastic wrap to squeeze out any air pockets. Make sure any exposed surface of the guacamole is touching the plastic wrap, not air. This will keep the amount of browning to a minimum.
Avocado Guacamole is a great substitute for mayonnaise, creamy avocado offers a similar smoothness and mouthfeel while providing nutrients and healthy fats. Serve it as a dip at your next party or spoon it on top of tacos for an easy dinner upgrade.
3 Ripe Avocados, pitted and peeled
Finely chopped white onion – 1
Finely chopped green chili – 1 (without seeds)
Finely chopped snack tomatoes – 6
Finely chopped coriander leaves – 1/2 cup
Juice of one lime
Himalayan pink salt to taste
Nachos or Salty Crackers for serving
- In a bowl, mash together 3 ripe avocados with the help of potato or frock. Mix with all above ingredients.
- Mix it well and Avocado Guacamole is ready.
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After watching a YouTube video about Vikings, one user was recommended content about white supremacy. Another user who watched confidence-building videos by a drag queen was then inundated by clips of homophobic rants. A third user who searched for “fail” videos is now served up grisly footage from fatal accidents.
These are all scenarios that YouTube users shared with Mozilla after we asked the public for their #YouTubeRegrets — videos that skewed their recommendations and led them down bizarre or dangerous paths.
The hundreds of responses we received were frightening: Users routinely report being recommended racism, conspiracies, and violence after watching innocuous content. We curated the most representative and alarming ones.
Read the 28 stories at https://mzl.la/youtuberegrets
Today’s internet is awash in algorithms that maximize engagement at any cost, and YouTube’s recommendation engine is among them. YouTube is the second-most visited website in the world, and its recommendation engine drives 70% of total viewing time on the site. The stories we collected show that this powerful force can and does promote harmful content. Further, the number of responses we received suggests this is an experience many YouTube users can relate to.
The stories Mozilla is presenting are anecdotes, not rigorous data — but that highlights a big part of this problem. YouTube isn’t sharing data with independent researchers who could study and help solve this issue. In fact, YouTube hasn’t provided data for researchers to verify its own claim that YouTube has reduced recommendations of “borderline content and harmful misinformation” by 50 percent.
Mozilla is urging YouTube to change this practice. In late September, we met with YouTube and proposed three concrete steps forward:
- Provide independent researchers with access to meaningful data, including impression data (e.g. number of times a video is recommended, number of views as a result of a recommendation), engagement data (e.g. number of shares), and text data (e.g. creator name, video description, transcription and other text extracted from the video)
- Build simulation tools for researchers, which allow them to mimic user pathways through the recommendation algorithm
- Empower, rather than restrict, researchers by changing its existing API rate limit and providing researchers with access to a historical archive of videos
Read more about Mozilla's meeting with YouTube, and our suggested steps forward
By sharing these stories, we hope to increase pressure on YouTube to empower independent researchers and address its recommendation problem. We also hope to raise awareness, so YouTube users are more wary of the algorithm they interact with everyday. While users should be able to view and publish the content they like, YouTube’s algorithm shouldn’t actively be pushing harmful content into the mainstream.
About Mozilla’s advocacy work
Holding Big Tech accountable is part of Mozilla’s mission. In recent months, we’ve investigated Facebook’s ad transparency API and chastised them for its shortcomings. We’ve pressured Venmo and Amazon to better protect user privacy. And we’ve fought to remove unsafe connected devices from retailers’ shelves.
Creating more trustworthy AI in the consumer technology space is also Mozilla’s goal, and guides much of our advocacy, research, and leadership work. Mozilla wants to push AI in a direction that helps, rather than harms, humanity.
About Mozilla’s marketing
While YouTube has taken steps to improve their algorithms to ensure brand safety, their core technology cannot be fully relied upon to protect consumers or advertisers against inappropriate content. Because of this, Mozilla’s marketing team has put the following safeguards in place in order to engage with YouTube’s, at times, unwieldy algorithms and mitigate our ad dollars contributing to monetization of toxic video content:
- Exclusion of specific topics, including News, Politics, Religion, Military, Tragedy & Conflict, and Sensitive Social Issues
- Excluding specific content, including ‘Embedded YouTube videos’, ‘Live streaming videos’ and ‘Games’
- Leveraging Digital Content Labels to exclude DL-MA (content suitable for adult audiences), Unrated/ Not yet labelled, and Content Suitable for Families
In addition to the content restrictions listed above, we make daily updates to our blacklist to ensure we’re steering clear of inappropriate content based on the 24 hour news cycle. | <urn:uuid:3ceec5e4-59d0-4fbf-a951-eefa84955e86> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://foundation.mozilla.org/fr/blog/28-reasons-why-youtube-must-change/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571911.5/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813081639-20220813111639-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.918594 | 903 | 2.28125 | 2 |
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Your eligibility for more startup that is alternative loans like grants, crowdfunding, or family and friends will be based less in your credit history and much more in the information on your business—like exactly what your enterprize model is, whom your web visitors are, exactly exactly what community you run in, and so forth. Continue Reading | <urn:uuid:556d3d4e-b113-4baa-8077-7d7095f17233> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.tangierhabitat.com/2020/09/01/set-up-funding-small-company-funding-the-most/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571210.98/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810191850-20220810221850-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.954492 | 366 | 1.578125 | 2 |
W.L. Gore and Associates:
Enterprise Response to COVID-19
As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to impact communities around the world, Gore have worked hard to identify ways in which they can apply their materials, science expertise and production capabilities to help during this time of need. They are committed to doing what they can, where they can, in a manner that has the greatest value for those on the front lines of addressing this crisis and within communities.
Several initiatives are underway that bring together the knowledge, skills and capabilities from across Gore’s Enterprise. Many of these efforts arose from either the needs of healthcare providers, Gore customers, communities, the personal initiative of their Associates, or as innovative ideas put forward through a crowdsourcing effort amongst more than 10,500 Associates from around the world.
Through Gore innovation
For example, as an immediate and initial response to the PPE shortage, Gore rapidly engineered prototype reusable mask covers to supplement clinicians’ primary face masks. These covers, developed by a cross-divisional team, are made from a material that:
• is a proprietary Gore high-flow filtration laminate
• provides greater than 99% aerosolized virus particle protection
• is water repellent yet air permeable, and
• can be reused after autoclave or EtO sterilization
This effort went from a product concept to prototypes in less than one week. Gore currently have prototypes being evaluated at a limited number of U.S. facilities in COVID-19 outbreak hot spots. Based on feedback from those piloting the prototype, they intend to optimize the PPE Protector design and then scale up production for broader distribution. Gore hears the pleas for help and will continue to do everything they can to protect those on the front-line of this global health crisis.
Working with others
Whilst there is much Gore can do as an Enterprise, they are set to achieve more, on a larger scale, through collaboration with others. Gore is a materials science company, and, for the most part, the creation of finished PPE products is not their core competency. By providing its customers and other manufacturing companies with Gore’s highly specialized component materials, which can used to produce a variety of finished items, together Gore and their trademarked licenced manufacturing partners can supply even more health care providers with sorely needed items.
Examples of other initiatives underway include:
• Protective medical gowns, using fabrics laminates from Gore’s current inventory
• Universal filter cartridge prototypes for use in respirators, hoods and ventilators that incorporate Gore’s filtration materials intended to provide N95 particulate protection
• Disposable N95 respirators, using Gore’s filtration laminates
It is through these collaborations with those who have the technical capabilities and production capacity needed to produce the finished goods in volume that together, they are truly improving life.
Within Gore communities
They continue to engage in their local communities to support fellow Associates, friends and neighbours. In places like Flagstaff, Arizona, and Newark, Delaware, where Gore have significant U.S. operations, they are in direct dialogue with local health care providers to determine how they can help. In locations where they had inventory of medical supplies and protective gear typically used for manufacturing, R&D and technical case support purposes available, Gore have donated those items locally to healthcare workers serving the communities in which they operate. In addition Gore have provided engineering and prototyping support to address other urgent equipment needs at local hospitals serving Gore communities.
Some of the buildings that house Associates who are not essential to current operations or are otherwise unoccupied during the operational shut-down have been offered to local health departments and government crisis response teams as additional space to conduct their work. The availability of such space varies by region, but Gore are making their facilities accessible whenever they can with the hope it provides much needed support.
As global citizens, Gore feel a responsibility to contribute their time, tools and talent to the fight against COVID-19. As members of the communities in which they operate, Gore share a deep commitment to protect those who are working hard to protect everyone. It is in this spirit that Gore actively pursues these opportunities to help, even as they continue to search for new and innovative ways to address further critical needs. | <urn:uuid:0b7f1c7b-8717-4893-b56a-d33aac0a5dc5> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://pciaw.org/w-l-gore-and-associates-enterprise-response-to-covid-19/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572043.2/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814143522-20220814173522-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.949093 | 897 | 1.78125 | 2 |
can you please tell me the relation between classes, i didnot see any relation ?
Answer C is incorrect or am I missing something?
Lukas Smith wrote:Only one constructor will be invoked - there is no connection between those classes
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3.other super constructors
avi sinha wrote:
static blocks -- > super constructor --- > init() blocks ---> constructor
static blocks --> init of a ---> constructor of a ---> init of b ---> constructor of b ---> init of c ---> constructor of c
As far as the original question goes, you can say that the question has a bug, and for C to be the right answer, there must be inheritance relationship between Small, Small2 and Small3...
Ankit Garg wrote:
I think you should keep static blocks out of this. They are executed only the first time a class is loaded and not with each instance.
S Ali wrote:
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Top 10 Hair Care Tips
Hey guys! Hope you all are doing well. Today I am going to share some precious hair care tips which help you a lot in many ways. we all get irritated because of heavy hair fall problems, dandruff, itchy scalp, oily and dry hair problems, baldness, etc. To overcome these problems we have to follow some tips. Let us know those hair care tips here:
1. Iron deficiency:
Not a lot of people are aware that is excessive hair loss in bunches can be an indication of an underlying medical condition most commonly iron deficiency. So the first thing is you need to do is walking to your nearest clinic and get your hemoglobin level checked or deficiency, take the suitable supplement prescribed.
Our hair needs a lot of vitamins and minerals in order to stay healthy and of course 2 to 3-liter of water every day. Our hair, nail, skin all indicate how healthy we are.
3. Hair Oil Massage:
This is the most effective remedy in order to reduce hair fall and stimulate hair growth. Because the hair oil massage not only increases blood circulation but also reduces stress, which is another major cause of hair loss.
You can use any good hair oil to get long and thick hair. I already shared Kalonji Seeds Oil Recipe, hope you might like this hair oil.
4. Using Wrong Products:
Always buy a sulphate-free and paraben-free shampoo and conditioner. These are chemicals and detergents which your hair does not need. There is one myth surrounding shampoo that using the same shampoo all your life, which is not true.
Always buy a shampoo that always addresses your hair type such as, oily, dry, curly, straight, etc., or hair issues such as dandruff, hair fall, brittle, etc.
Conditioner is very important in order to avoid dry and brittle hair. Just make sure to apply the conditioner from the midsection to the ends of your hair and the conditioner does not cause hair fall. What a moisturizer is to your face, that is exactly what conditioner is to your hair.
5. Apple Cider Vinegar:
After you have done washing your hair, make sure the last rinse it with apple cider vinegar diluted in water. This helps in balancing the pH balance of the hair, gives incredible shine, and also helps keep dandruff away.
6. Chemical Treatments:
Such as colouring, smoothening, rebonding. There is always one golden rule which you must follow that is never do 2 chemical treatments at once. If you have coloured your hair don’t straighten it and if you have straightened your hair don’t colour it. Because doing 2 chemical treatments at once strains your hair further and completely damages.
7. Hair Styles:
This is especially for people with damaged hair. If you already have a damaged hair stop using all styling equipment immediately. Such as straightener, colour, hairdryer no matter how tempting. (Read More: 5 Ways To Use Mint Leaves For Hair)
Dermatologists and every health book ever have always considered stress as the main cause of hair fall. There are few ways by which you can relieve your stress, such as meditation, getting enough exercise, having a hobby which is you love and which is completely yours.
The next thing is getting enough sleep, with an increase in enough data packs and the entertainment that our phone provides, sleep becomes our last priority. And not getting enough sleep threats on your hair. And who knows it might just be reasons for your hair fall.
9. Brushing Your Hair:
Yes brushing your hair can also be an effective remedy for your hair fall. Because hair fall is not just the hairs that fall from your scalp. But also the breakage of hair calls due to knots. Have you ever noticed your hair on a windy day or when you have a bike ride with your hair open? The number of knots that developed in the hair and when you tried to brush them out there is a lot of breakages. So always carry a silk rubberband, clip, and a wooden comb in your bag at all times.
Brushing your hair also helps distribute the natural oil from your scalp to the rest of your hair.
10. Hair Packs:
Moisturising and taking care of your hair only make your hair stronger and helps in reducing breakages. Every weekend makes it a point to apply some form of hair packs to your hair. Either you can buy the hair pack as it is or you can make your own homemade hair packs by using Aloe Vera, Hibiscus, Curry Leaves, Brhingaraj, etc.
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I have always been fascinated by infrared photography. This idea to make visible that part of the light spectrum which is invisible (to our eyes) has always got me. When I was a (geek) teenager, I modified my first digital camera (a Konica Digital Revio KD-220Z) to shoot infrared pictures. My parents yelled at me: it was an expensive camera, the first digital camera we had, with a “big” resolution of 2 Megapixels in a very small sensor (a full-frame digital sensor was not even a dream).
No big changes since then: well, I still shoot infrared; but I now shoot it on film.
Rollei Infrared 400 is one of my favorite films for infrared photography (and not only that): it is a panchromatic film, sensitive to wavelengths up to 820nm (what is called “near-infrared”). This means that you can use it as a regular black and white film (as I do), or (as I also do) you can put an infrared filter to block the visible light (this is why they look black) and capture only the near-infrared light. And this is exactly what this “5 frames” is about.
Infrared filters block a huge part of the light reaching the film, therefore they require exposure compensation. Each filter/film has a unique impact on the exposure. Further some research and some test rolls, I opted for a Heliopan RG715 (88A) on my Leica M3 and Elmar 50mm f/2.8, while using Rollei Infrared 400 at EI 12 on a sunny day: an optimal compromise for what I am looking for.
This gives portraits a unique touch, softer skin tones and dark eyes…
… and a dramatic effect on landscapes, with increased contrast, skies turning out dark (while clouds remain white), black water and bright foliage.
If you are still reading (thanks!) and interested in infrared photography, there are several resources online where you can deepen this matter; focusing can be also a challenge while shooting infrared.
But, I can bet, once you find your personal infrared workflow, it will be hard to go back!
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Ted Brannon was born on October 31, 1918 to Doctor Earl P. and Lara Brannon who lived in Texas. Ted was the older of two children. His father was a physician at a veteran's hospital. Due to his father's employment, the family moved often.
Ted graduated from Tucson, Arizona high school in 1937. Shortly after, the family moved to Coatesville, Pennsylvania where Ted attended Franklin and Marshall College in Lancaster.
Ted enlisted in the Army Air Corps on November 6,1939. He trained at Langley Field and the Alabama Institute of Aeronautics at Tuscaloosa for primary flight training to become an Air Cadet. Ted also went for advanced training in Texas. He was assigned to the 330th Bomb Squadron, of the 93rd Bomb Group flying B-24 Liberator heavy bombers.
Ted's group moved to Fort Myers Florida for further training and to learn how to fly anti submarine patrols over the Gulf of Mexico. His squadron was one of the first bomb groups to arrive in England during the European Theater of Operations. From September-December, 1942, the group flew 396 missions, with 100 of their aircraft listed as "Missing in Action".
Later, Ted's squadron was sent to North Africa. On August 1st, 178 bombers including those from the 330th, were sent to bomb Polesti. It was the largest air strike of it's time, titled "Operation Tidal Wave" and the worst disaster ever suffered by the Army Air Corps Only 88 aircraft returned - 55 of those returning were damaged.
First Lieutenant Ted Brannon was killed In action August 1, 1943 over Polesti, Romania. He was the Bombardier of Aircraft 41-23717 called the Exterminator. (pictured below, with crew).
Ted is remembered on the tablets of the missing at the Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery, St. Louis, Missouri.
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Chrome Connecting To Random Domains On Start? Here Is Why!
If you are monitoring your network traffic closely you may have noticed that the Google Chrome web browser and its Open Source counterpart Chromium are both trying to connect to three random ten letter words on start up. For most users, it is not clear why the browser is making those connections, and some have even assumed that they were either made to send information privately to Google, for tracking purposes, or even caused by malware running on the system.
Mike West analyzed the part of the browser's source code that was responsible for making the connections. He discovered that Chrome and Chromium are making those connections to help the browser's Omnibox figure out user intents correctly.
The issue that Google aims to fix with these connections is easily explained. Some Internet Service Providers have started to intercept requests that do not resolve properly. If you enter ghacks for instance in the address bar and tap on the return key afterwards, Chrome needs to figure out if you want to search for the term ghacks, or if you want to visit the site http://ghacks/. Since it cannot do that, it displays an infobar if the word would resolve to an existing domain name giving the user the chance to open the domain with another click.
When ISPs intercept the lookups to display their own error pages, usually filled with advertisement and search options, then it appears to the browser as if the word would resolve just fine. This in turn would mean that users would see the infobox in the browser even for words that do not resolve.
To prevent this, Google is making these three initial lookups on start up to see if ISPs intercept requests that cannot be resolved. It compares the IP addresses of the pages that are returned, and turns the infobox off if they are identical (as this suggests an ISP is intercepting the look ups).
How can you find out if Chrome or Chromium are making those requests? You can use programs that monitor traffic on the system. One example would be the free tool Fiddler which can show you the connections the browser makes.
The three random connections are highlighted in the screenshot above.
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Cyclone Meena moved across the Cook Islands in the South Pacific Ocean on February 7, 2005, causing less damage than initially feared. As it approached the islands on February 6, the cyclone neared super-cyclone status—the category reserved for storms with winds gusts greater than 280 kilometers per hour. A few hours before the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Terra satellite took this image, Meena reached its strongest point with winds of 232 kilometers per hour (144 mph) and gusts up to 278 kph (173 mph). By the time this image was taken, the storm had weakened, sparing the Cook Islands serious damage when it struck a few hours later.
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Do you keep waking up with a full bladder and realising that it’s only 3am? Here’s why that happens – and what to do about it.
Another day, another morning waking up before my alarm because I have to pee. I debate trying to sleep through it – I probably won’t be able to fall back asleep if I get up – but the last thing I need is a urinary problem from waiting too long. Reluctantly, I get up, wondering why I wake up at the same time almost every (early) morning to pee and if this will keep happening.
If you’ve experienced this too, we’re not alone: Reddit is inundated with people asking the same question. So, tadalafil fast shipping I turned to urology experts to ask why this occurs. They shared a couple of possible reasons.
Your bladder is on a schedule and full
“A person’s routine will often create a designated voiding schedule,” says Dr Russel Williams, founder, CEO and CMO of The Y Factor, a urological wellness and fertility clinic. He shares an example: imagine that your bladder gives you the heads up every five hours or so. “The kidneys create a volume of urine such that the bladder needs to empty over a consistent five-hour delay.”
Your bladder gets increasingly full and only tells you to go to the bathroom when it hits a certain point. “The bladder is triggered to alert the individual when it reaches a capacity between 300 and 400 millilitres,” Dr Williams adds. “That alert is often strong enough to wake a person from sleep.” Perhaps the time that you wake up – for me, it’s around 4am – is when your bladder typically hits that point due to when and how much you drink.
You’re experiencing nocturia
Nocturia is a condition that causes an urge to pee that you can’t ignore at night. “For those suffering with this condition, these night-time wake-up calls may be once a night or more,” says Dr Adam Ramin, a urologic surgeon and medical director of Urology Cancer Specialists.
Once a night is normal for people 45 years or older, he says, but if it’s more than that (or you’re younger), you might want to hit up your doc. “The more times a night a person gets up to void their bladder, the more severe the nocturia is considered to be.”
Some other signs of nocturia include peeing more (volume-wise), fatigue and sleepiness.
How to prevent those early morning trips to the bathroom
If you’re tired of not getting enough sleep because your bladder is serving as your too-early alarm clock, then try one of these potential fixes:
Change your drinking habits
The urge to drink something at night is real – whether it’s to quench your thirst or take the edge off – but drinking too late doesn’t help. “Decrease fluid intake and decrease natural diuretics like coffee, tea and alcohol,” Dr Williams says. He explains this may help you to produce urine at a slower rate and may help your bladder “hold out” until morning.
Your best bet is to stop drinking two hours before bed, or at least sip on less than a glass of water in-between that two-hour mark and turning off your bedroom light.
Practice kegel exercises
Kegels can also strengthen your pelvic floor and prevent, well, peeing your pants. “Tighten the muscles around the urethra and hold for five seconds,” Dr Ramin suggests. “Perform this exercise at least 20 times a day. Doing so will help with symptoms of [an] overactive bladder or bladder irritation and help prevent incontinence in the future.”
Talk to a doctor about medication
Dr Williams recommends taking medicine that can help with an overactive bladder. Talk to your doctor about the medication that’s best for you.
“Medications that specifically target not the bladder but the pelvic floor can also decrease the need for unplanned night-time voiding,” he adds.
How bad is it to just ‘hold it’?
Waiting until your actual alarm goes off is tempting, but not a good idea for your health, especially if you do this consistently. “If one is repetitively effective in suppressing bladder urges, then you can get an over-distended bladder that then will not empty very well,” Dr Williams says. “Overfilling the bladder but not completely emptying it… leads to a higher risk of urine and kidney infection.”
You don’t necessarily have to go that second, but go ASAP. “Once you have the urge to go, try to get to the bathroom within half [an] hour,” Dr Ramin says. “Holding urine too long will damage the bladder muscle and mucosa, eventually leading to incontinence, infection or poor bladder emptying.” In fact, Dr Ramin believes one of the worst things we can do for our bladder health is “holding it” for too long.
“Engaging in the best bladder health practices might take some getting used to at first,” he says. “But I can guarantee that the effort is worth it.”
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There is a lot of controversy out there about using cream cheese in sushi. Some people love it, while many others hate it. It’s certainly not traditional, but it is undeniably popular.
There’s a few reasons why I prefer not to use cream cheese in sushi:
- It dilutes the flavor of most ingredients traditionally used in sushi
- It throws off the consistency of the roll – making it far too “mushy”
- I don’t like cream cheese in general (Biased, I know)
All too often, I see sushi chefs using cream cheese as if they don’t know what they’re doing – they constantly put so much cream cheese in the roll that it might as well be the only ingredient!
However, there are a few instances of sushi recipes that really nail this new concept and use cream cheese to create complex flavor combinations.
I recently went to a sushi bar, called Full Moon Sushi, that blew me away. What stands out the most about this sushi bar (aside from the awesome staff) is their use of cream cheese. At first, I thought they would be making the same mistakes as so many other sushi bars. But after ordering the Devil’s Advocate, I realized they had found a way to use cream cheese to maximize the flavor potential!
Here is what they did differently:
- They made sure that there were several ingredients with very strong flavors (spices, oils, and salt)
- The deliberately add ingredients to counteract the “mushy” texture
- They use a small amount of cream cheese
There are obviously a thousands ways to accommodate cream cheese in sushi, but I’ll show you why the Devil’s Advocate is my go to example.
For this tutorial, you will need:
- 1 cup of Sushi Rice
- 3 half sheets of Nori
- 2 Tbsp (1 oz.) of Masago
- Sesame oil
- Spicy Mayo
- 1lb (450g) of pistachios
- Sri Racha
- 1 Cucumber
- 1 Avocado
- 2 Tbsp (30g) of cream cheese
- 2 Tbsp (30g)of butter
- A cutting board
- A sharp sushi knife
- Paper towels
- 1/2 lb (225g) of Coho Salmon (farmed in the U.S. or caught in the Alaskan Pacific)
- Flat pan
- Oven (preheated to 300 degrees Fahrenheit)
This recipe makes 3 Devil’s Advocate rolls.
Making Spicy Pistachios:
1. Preheat your oven to 300 degrees. Remove the shells from the pistachios. I weighed 1 lb before removing the shells.
2. Put a pan on the stove and melt 2 Tbsp of butter on a medium heat.
3. Once the pistachios are coated in butter and have been seared on at least two sides, add 2 tbsp of Sri Racha. Warning: heating chili sauce may irritate your eyes and lungs. If you have a vent on your stove, please use it.
4. Reduce the heat to a lower setting and allow to simmer for approximately one minute. Then, place the spicy pistachios into an oven-safe dish.
5. Once your oven has reached 300 degrees Fahrenheit, place the pistachios into the oven and bake for approximately 4-5 minutes.
6. Place the pistachios onto a cutting board and chop them using a knife or food processor.
Oops! I left my spicy pistachios in the oven for too long and they burned a little bit. Fortunately, they are still good. Don’t make the same mistake I did-
Make sure you keep an eye on them!
1. Pat the salmon dry with a paper towel.
2. Notice the brown portion of the meat? We want to remove this with the skin (In this example, I am using 1/2 of a standard fillet).
3. When possible, start your slice at the brown colored portion and slice towards the thinner part of the meat.
4. If there are any brown portions of meat left, carefully slice them off.
5. Make 3 slices approximately 1 cm thick.
6. Slice them again in half, making 1cm by 1cm pieces.
6. Ready for the secret? Marinade the salmon in sesame oil. Sesame oil has several health benefits, but it also adds moisture to the roll (to counteract the dryness of cream cheese) and gives an additional layer of flavor on top of the salmon’s natural oils.
Properly Using Cream Cheese in Sushi: Rolling the Devil’s Advocate Roll
1. Add sushi rice to the rough side of the nori sheet.
2. Add approximately 1 tbsp (1/2 0z.) of masago to the center of the rice:
3. Flip over the rice mat and add small amount of cream cheese. I usually try to put a pencil-width amount of cream cheese in sushi.
4. Add a few pieces of cucumber and a few pieces of avocado. Ideally, you want to have a consistent amount of ingredients from end to end.
5. Add 2 pieces of sesame salmon. If the two pieces don’t reach end to end, slice each piece diagonally and slide them apart to make them reach the ends.
6. Using your thumbs under the makisu and your fingers to hold the ingredients in place, roll everything together. For additional details on how to roll, check my tutorial on Rolling Sushi.
7. Using your sharp knife, cut the roll into 8, even pieces.
8. Place the roll on a plate and drizzle Spicy Mayo on top.
9. Sprinkle spicy pistachios on top, add wasabi and ginger to your plate, and enjoy!
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June 28, 2022
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Contact: Steve Aaron
APOLLO COMMUNICATIONS KIT
The emergence of monkeypox and the depopulation of tens of millions of chickens and turkeys across a majority of states due to avian influenza highlight that COVID-19 is far from the only biological threat facing the United States. They are painful reminders of how disruptive and destructive biological events can be to our public health, economy, and national security. Furthermore, the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine is yet another stark reminder of how our adversaries may use biological weapons to attack humanity.
On behalf of the Bipartisan Commission on Biodefense, we are reaching out to you in hopes that you will assist us in sharing with your stakeholders details about the Commission’s Apollo Program for Biodefense. The Commission’s report, The Apollo Program for Biodefense: Winning the Race Against Biological Threats, provides a comprehensive outline of realistic and achievable recommendations that can bolster the Nation’s defense against biological threats. The report recalls the many times in our history when the U.S. has taken on grand technological challenges in times of great need, such as the Apollo Program to bring us to the Moon.
In April, the Commission issued The Athena Agenda: Advancing The Apollo Program for Biodefense, providing recommendations on how to implement the 15 technology priorities in the Apollo Program for Biodefense, identifying the US government organizations responsible for leadership and accountability, and the need for engagement in public-private partnerships.
That is why the Commission has launched a public awareness campaign that urges support for our ambitious Apollo Program for Biodefense. If authorized by the Administration and Congress, we can eliminate pandemics in ten years as well as dramatically reduce other biological threats.
This public awareness campaign includes a 30-second PSA, suggested social media content and other sharable materials, all housed at our website about the Apollo Program for Biodefense: TheNextApollo.org. We have created this ‘Friends of the Commission’ digital toolkit so that you might help us to share this message with stakeholders that are important to you. Please consider forwarding this message to your communications manager for their awareness. This content can be shared in any number of ways, such as through your social media platforms, email blasts to your colleagues and partners, in your newsletters and on your websites. All of the materials can easily be downloaded here.
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7 Time Management Tips To Help You Achieve Your Goals
- Ms. Deepanwita Roy
- 4 Min Read
Almost everyone feels that their time management could be vastly better than what they are doing currently. The key to motivation is the ‘motive’. For one to develop sufficient time management skills, one must be intensely motivated by the benefits you feel you will enjoy.
Why is time management important?Just imagine you have 2 hours extra each day. In your regular five days a week working schedule, you will end up having 10 hours extra every week. Similarly, by the end of the year, you will have more than 500 extra productive hours! Effective time management not only boosts your efficiency and productivity, but it also improves your work-life balance. It improves your relationships since you have more free time, it brings about stability- leads to growth and satisfaction at the end of the day. Thus, it simply improves your health- both physical and mental.
What are the effects of poor time management?Ineffective time management gives rise to unwanted stress, procrastination, lack of focus, and reduced self-control. Here are some things you should keep in mind in order to manage time effectively.
- Identify and evaluate how you are currently spending your time
- Lay the foundation for effectively managing your time- delegating time for proper sleep, healthy diet, regular exercises- it helps to develop a healthier lifestyle and improves efficiency throughout the day
- Say NO to non-essential tasks and prioritise the ones of extreme value
- Dedicate time blocks and limit distractions
- Never hesitate to take a break if needed
How to make time management part of your lifeKnow your personal style It is very important to know your personal styles; what works for you the best- what’s stopping you from developing that desired goals or result. Once you are halfway through realising it, it helps you acknowledge it better and take an active role. Modify your to-do list To-do lists are great ways to manage your time each day. But, many times we put way too many things on our to-do’s where we know it’s impossible for us to follow that in reality. Mark Twain once said, "If it's your job to eat a frog, it's best to do it first thing in the morning. And If it's your job to eat two frogs, it's best to eat the biggest one first." His point? Tackle your biggest tasks in the morning. Instead, each day make your list of to-do’s but focus on your most important tasks (MITs) of the day. Accomplishing those will give you the biggest momentum to help you sail through the rest of the day. Declutter your space Declutter your wardrobe, work desk and your documents. Just imagine, the amount of time you can save if you do not have to go through the pile of clothes lying in your bedroom before choosing the perfect outfit of the day! Imagine spending less time searching for the files a few minutes prior to an important meeting and also not having ‘mini-heart attacks’ for not finding the right document at the right time. Restrict social media and digital time Many times it happens we log into Facebook, Instagram or Twitter in hopes of catching up with friends, acquaintances and the world around us and time simply flies! Thus, simplifying and limiting your time on social media will simply yield you more time. POMODORO technique This is a pop-psychology technique created by entrepreneur and productivity consultant Francesco Cirillo. The technique suggests that you set a timer and work for 25 minutes straight without any interruptions or distraction, then take a five-minute break (it’s important to take the break!). After four cycles (or, pomodoros as Cirillo liked to call it), take a longer 15-20 minute break. Repeat until your task is finished. Since regular breaks are important for your productivity, pomodoro helps one to stay focused and motivated throughout, since you are not draining yourself. Set goals the right way Luckily there is a scientific formula for setting and achieving your goals. Whether you set long or short term goals, smart goals are the way to go. A smart goal might be to find five extra hours per week and allocate that ‘earned’ time to reduce the pile of work that hasn’t been getting attention before the end of the quarter. This goal is specific (find five extra hours a week), measurable (we can track the time, and allocate it to other tasks), relevant (more time to meet responsibilities), time-based (the next quarter is the deadline). Achievable is another matter: one needs to consider how one currently uses their time, what tasks they perform, which ones should be priorities, and which can be delegated. Balance is the key Lastly, balance is the ultimate key. Without a healthier balance, it will elevate stress. If you feel you are unable to manage your time more effectively and it's taking a toll on your productivity, relationships and physical health and at the end, you’re stressed out more than often, it is best you consult with a mental health professional today. Download the mfine app and consult the best therapists near you.
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Guido Altarelli was a leading figure in 20th century particle physics. His scientific contributions and leadership played a key role in the development of the Standard Model of fundamental interactions, as well as the current search for new physics beyond it, both at and beyond CERN.
This book is a collection of original contributions, at the cutting edge of scientific research, by some of the leading theoretical and experimental high-energy physicists currently in the field. These were inspired by Guido's ideas, whether directly or indirectly.
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Sometimes, sheep don’t follow, they lead. Take Quebec’s Charlevoix lamb, which this spring becomes the first food product in North America to be legally protected based on its region of origin (much the same as champagne wine is exclusively made from grapes grown in the Champagne region of France). Under the Quebec-government-regulated label of IGP (indication géographique protégée), it now joins a worldwide groaning board of exceptional goods, such as Italy’s Parma ham and France’s Roquefort cheese.
Given the iconic Canadian foods that could fit the bill—wild rice, maple syrup, even wild salmon—how did this niche product, albeit hailed for its lean and delicate flavour, manage to gain this precedent-setting status? The catalyst came some 15 years ago when a Parisian restaurateur had the gall to put what he called Charlevoix lamb on the menu, recalls Quebec farmer Lucie Cadieux of Ferme Éboulmontaise. The single most prominent promoter of this IGP project, Cadieux, who raises Charlevoix lamb, had heard of restaurants in Montreal and Toronto making the same claim. “But they weren’t getting it from here.”
There was no means to disprove the false advertising. So Cadieux, then-president of the influential Table Agrotouristique de Charlevoix, and a group of fellow farmers in the region, banded together and turned to the popular European model of regionally protected foods for help. Little did they realize it would require creating new laws, rearranging government departments, and coordinating producers to all agree on the terms for the label. It is certified in Quebec by the provincial government through the agency Conseil des appellations réservées et des termes valorisants. President Denis Bouffard explains, “A geographical protecting indication is mostly there to recognize a product that is very connected to the terroir.”
From farm to fork, the rules for raising Charlevoix lamb are a kind of 100-mile diet taken to the extreme. Locally born and weaned in the Charlevoix region, about 400 km northwest of Montreal, at a minimum of 50 days, the animals feed on a diet of grains that naturally thrive in the region. So corn is out of the picture and oats and barley are in. The herds are limited to 500 head per owner and breeds can include Dorset, Arcott-Rideau, Arcott-canadien, Polypay and Hampshire. They live for between 110 and 190 days or until they reach about 40 kilos live (or 15 to 20 kg, slaughtered). Naturally, the processing is done locally. The meat is aged for at least seven days before it’s ready for market.
The restaurant Les Saveurs Oubliées in the community of Les Éboulements in the Charlevoix region serves the IGP lamb raised on Cadieux’s farm. Chef Régis Hervé, who moved to the area 30 years ago from France, describes the meat as “very fine, very particular, with a bit of hazelnut taste and little fat.”
The business of protecting origins and terroir is overwhelmingly a European tradition, starting in the 1700s with Portugal’s ruling over the port-producing area of the Douro Valley. The umbrella term is “protected food names” for an alphabet soup of programs: DOC, AOC, PDO and more. Cadieux says they chose IGP for its emphasis on terroir. Products must be produced, processed or prepared within a certain area while featuring qualities attributable to that area. Internationally, Sardinia has an IGP lamb, as does Navarra, Spain, and the Connemara region of Ireland.
Charlevoix has proven a leader in using local fare to develop culinary tourism. The IGP label is key to the region’s development, says Alyre Jomphe, director of the Charlevoix tourism board, “especially as there are more visitors who are now looking for authenticity.” Jomphe helped initiate A Taste of Charlevoix, a cookbook to be released next month.
Cheesemaker Maurice Dufour, based in Baie-Saint-Paul in Charlevoix, is known as much for his exceptional cheeses, such as Migneron and Ciel de Charlevoix, as he is for his work in establishing successful programs that promote regional foods. He helped launch La Route des Saveurs (the Flavour Trail) over a decade ago; it winds its way through 16 farms and restaurants. “Superb!” is how he describes the launch of an IGP product in the region. “It is very important to protect the producers and to differentiate the region from the rest of Canada.”
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The Department of Defense POW/Missing Personnel Office announced today that the
remains of a U.S. serviceman, missing in action from the Korean War, have been identified and
are being returned to his family for burial with full military honors.
Army Cpl. Primo C. Carnabuci, 19, of Old Saybrook, Conn., will be buried May 12 in his
hometown. On Nov. 1, 1950, Carnabuci’s unit, the 8th Cavalry Regiment, 1st Cavalry Division,
occupied a defensive position along the Kuryong River, near Unsan, North Korea. Chinese units
attacked the area and forced a withdrawal. Almost 600 men, including Carnabuci, were reported
missing or killed in action following the battle.
In 2000, a joint U.S-Democratic People’s Republic of Korea team, led by the Joint
POW/MIA Accounting Command (JPAC), excavated a mass grave discovered earlier in Unsan
County, south of the area known as “Camel’s Head.” The team recovered remains of at least five
individuals as well as military clothing.
Analysts from DPMO and JPAC developed case leads with information spanning more
than 58 years. They evaluated the circumstances surrounding the soldier’s death and researched
wartime documentation on the movements of U.S. and enemy forces on the battlefield.
Among forensic identification tools and circumstantial evidence, scientists from JPAC
used dental comparisons and the Armed Forces DNA Identification Laboratory used
mitochondrial DNA – which matched that of Carnabuci’s brother—in the identification.
With this identification, 7,997 service members still remain missing from the conflict.
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On this planet, millions of people are dealing with obesity, fatigue, and high cholesterol. For that very reason, HealthyBlend USA has continued to scour the earth, looking for the newest holistic breakthroughs that will deliver the results people are looking for. This has lead us to discover the powerful properties of African mango, or Irvingia Gabonensis (IG) . This fruit bearing tree grows in the rain forests of Guinea and is also called dika, wild mango or bush mango. The studies we have conducted left us astounded by the number of benefits proven, thus The Weight Dropper was born.
Studies have shown not just one, but several African mango benefits. One of the main components that makes this product unique is that its assists in heightening the amount of leptin in the human body. Leptin is a hormone formed inside fat cells and takes part in the regulation of the appetite. When leptin levels are low, we feel a particularly strong craving for food and are therefore very likely to overeat, so in turn helps control obesity by stimulating certain ‘fat’ hormones. As an added bonus, the African Mango contains a fiber that will also work to prevent your body from absorbing the cholesterol from the food you eat….and it doesn’t stop there…
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- Helps diminish the possibility of heart disease.
- Makes the liver escalate the metabolism of fats and of cholesterol in order to produce even more bile acids.
- Triglycerides levels are lowered. At the same time, the levels of good cholesterol (high density lipoproteins – HDL) actually increase.
- Increases the level of an anti-inflammatory hormone called adiponectin in the body.
- Gives the metabolism an extra boost
- Apart from the benefits above, we have added::
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The Federal Trade Commission is reportedly preparing an antitrust investigation of Intel, based on what the FTC sees as possible predatory pricing practices.
The New York Times reported Friday that the agency has begun notifying and subpoenaing members of both companies, in preparation for a future investigation. Intel confirmed that it has received a subpoena, and would cooperate with any FTC investigation. AMD also confirmed that it had received a similar subpoena from the FTC. FTC representatives did not respond to requests for comment by press time.
“On June 4 the U.S. FTC served a subpoena related to Intel’s business practices with respect to competition in the microprocessor market,” Intel said in a statement. “Since 2006 Intel has been working closely with the FTC on an informal inquiry into competition in the microprocessor market and has provided the commission staff with a considerable amount of information and thousands of documents.”
AMD representatives said that they welcomed an FTC investigation. “Intel must now answer to the Federal Trade Commission, which is the appropriate way to determine the impact of Intel practices on U.S. consumers and technology businesses,” said AMD executive vice president and chief administrative officer Tom McCoy, in a statement released by AMD. “In every country around the world where Intel’s business practices have been investigated, including the decision by South Korea this week, antitrust regulators have taken action.”
For Intel, the possible investigation would open a fourth front on the company’s legal battle with government agencies. In July 2007, EU investigators opened a case against Intel, arguing that the rebates and discounts the company offered to OEMs to only use Intel’s chips were complemented by bids to provide components below cost, all in an effort to prevent AMD from gaining design wins. Also on Friday, South Korea’s Korean Fair Trade Commission fined Intel $21 million for alleged abuse of its dominant market position. AMD has also filed a civil suit alleging that Intel engages in anticompetitive practices, and the New York state attorney general has also opened a similar investigation.
Intel, however, said its practices were legal. “The company believes its business practices are well within U.S. law,” Intel’s statement added. “The evidence that this industry is fiercely competitive and working is compelling. For example, prices for microprocessors declined by 42.4 percent from 2000 to end of 2007. When competitors perform and execute the market rewards them. When they falter and under-perform the market responds accordingly.”
Meanwhile, AMD filed suit in 2005 against Intel, both in the U.S. as well as Japan, arguing many of the same points that the FTC investigation is expected to pursue, namely that Intel’s pricing practices illegally exploited its monopoly position. An AMD-funded study concluded that Intel had extracted over $60 billion in so-called “monopoly profits” from 1996 through 2006.
The FTC had previously investigated Intel for anticompetitive behavior, but not for pricing-related matters. In 1998, the FTC accused Intel of withholding technical information from Compaq Computer Corp., Digital Equipment Corp., and Intergraph Corp., all PC OEMs which were allegedly punished by Intel for not licensing certain technology patents held by Intel on Intel’s terms. In 1999, Intel agreed for a period of ten years not to withhold or impede access to technical information based on an intellectual property dispute.
None of the three companies remains in the PC market as an independent entity; DEC was acquired by Compaq in 1998, which was subsequently acquired by Hewlett-Packard in 2002. Intergraph now sells spatial information management software.
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Precision Laboratories announces the introduction of Vivax™, a new advanced technology soil surfactant for use on large turf areas like golf course fairways and sports fields..
Vivax gives superintendents and turf managers the ability to optimize hydration and infiltration of water across a wide range of soil and turf types. Its unique, multi-component formulation promotes initial infiltration into hard to wet soils or other hydrophobic barriers and optimizes hydration for thorough distribution of water throughout the soil profile.
“Vivax takes the guesswork out of selecting a surfactant,” says Don Spier, vice president of professional turf business at Precision Laboratories. “Along with the optimized infiltration and hydration balance of Vivax, it also contains polymers that help resist microbial breakdown and that ensure uniform volumetric water content throughout the turfgrass root zone for longer periods of time.”
In field trials conducted by the University of California Riverside, an application of 5 ounces of Vivax, applied every 28 days to a designated plot of turf, resulted in higher volumetric water content than the untreated check.
“Most golf courses strive to maintain a volumetric water content of 15 to 20% throughout the root zone,” explains Spier. “Vivax will help them achieve those levels to produce the best playing surfaces.”
2013 field trials at over 20 golf courses across the United States yielded consistent results throughout the growing season. Superintendents involved in testing programs realized better turf color and quality versus comparative treatments.
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You will be asked to lie on a cushioned table, which will move slowly through the scanner to allow pictures to be taken at different angles. The machine makes a gentle noise while scanning. A cannula (small tube) will be inserted into a vein before you go into the scan room or a small needle will be inserted into a vein during the scan. An injection of fluid (contrast medium) is often given into a vein in your hand. This helps to provide clearer images.
You may experience a warm or flushing sensation during the injection, an occasional metallic or tingling taste in the mouth. These side effects usually last for only a few seconds.
For some scans, you may be asked to hold your breath for short periods. A member of the scanning team will give you instructions about your breathing and let you know what is happening at each stage of the scan. During the scan, the Radiographer and the doctor(Radiologist) will be able to see you from the control room and you can talk to each other through an intercom. | <urn:uuid:b6a07cfc-e39d-43e2-8b39-90c306ec5797> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.clarityimaging.in/CT-scan | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572043.2/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814143522-20220814173522-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.955677 | 217 | 2.03125 | 2 |
Speaking from experience, I know age can matter quite a bit in business but its impact on success can be a double-edged sword. Whether we’re referring to the age of the business, the age of the owners or directors, the age of the products or services, or the age of the targeted market, the following vignettes pose situations with which to judge, from the obvious to the cryptic, from the ridiculous to the sublime.
How age matters can juxtapose experience with naivete; foresight with impulse; poise with passion; and wisdom with luck. A businessperson dulled by the resignation of longevity may be outmaneuvered by the gambles of reckless youth. Yet, a person with nothing more than sheer common sense can catapult from mediocrity and oblivion to fame and fortune. More than a question of chronological years, age can be a state of mind, a platform from which to represent one’s convictions, an ideology with which to guide one’s actions.
My life is a saga of the ramifications of age. I was born to forty-year-old parents which immediately alienated me from my peers, whose parents were from a younger generation. As if raised by grandparents, and an only child to boot, I bore the demeanor of an older person right from the start. “Fun” was not part of my vocabulary. So when I ventured into business at the ripe old age of 23, my serious attitude paved the way for widespread respect and the business thrived as a result.
This is something I owe to my father, a businessman himself, who spent most of his time as a grumpy “old man” in my young eyes except when on the phone with one of his “prospects.” Then, what a mirthful soul he became, only to revert back to his usual mode of gloom when the call ended. In retrospect, I now realize his conundrum, a beleaguered state he battled long before depression had become the household word it is today. From this, however, I learned that above all, customer was king.
Case in point, I have a somewhat unorthodox client whose target market is primarily octogenarians and older. Having first experienced the benefits of my diverse marketing services some eight years ago, this computer-challenged director of an assisted-living facility recently called me to move his website hosting so he could get the benefits of unlimited email. This is because he cannot bring himself to delete any mail he has been sent but has yet to open, finding himself perpetually with a full inbox rejecting new arrivals. To avoid loss of any of this precious material, he also agreed to have me go into his mail account and individually open and forward every piece of mail he has received over this eight-year period to an independent alternate account, although mostly spam. I obediently satisfied his requests without a word of complaint for this grueling task (which he declined to do himself), not to mention also performing a total redesign of his original website, which included new on-site photography I threw in at no charge! My efforts were unrelenting to address everything from the latest comprehensive SEO to online secure job applications to social media metrics. He may not know his way around the Internet but he truly knows whether his business is flourishing, and he knows who is behind the scenes encouraging that phenomenon. I received no email, phone call or note of appreciation for all I did. But when I finally sent him a judiciously prudent invoice for months of this work, his check arrived in one day. That was all the thanks I needed.
Ironically, I also have recently been working with a group of seniors who organized their own non-profit mostly as a self-serving instrument from which they each personally benefit. The concept, known as Aging in Place, is to allow each of them to remain independently living in their own homes with reliance on this service for a variety of purposes. These could include free transportation; periodic social outings; free guidance on health issues; help with simple home maintenance; and other similar needs. While this seems like a worthwhile endeavor, the problem arises when members of the public show interest in joining. Founders restrict their membership area to a very small region based on where they live and are able to easily provide service. Their hours revolve around what is personally convenient for them and marketing decisions are based on what amounts to be the least expensive of choices. It is no surprise that their organization is floundering. Perhaps this is a case of being too close to the forest for the trees, since they have no objectivity or sound judgment on how to successfully run a business. This could also be a result of the inflexibilities of age, where you can’t teach an old dog new tricks.
Years ago, I remember arriving at the office a little after 9 a.m. to be greeted by the principal of one of our biggest accounts, an “older” man (of about 40) who owned the county’s only commuter airline, quick to scold us for this unforgivable transgression. Although he had taken it upon himself to pay us an unscheduled visit, he felt we should have been there ready to serve during “normal” business hours. Things were different back then prior to the Internet. There was no email, and cell phones and computer technology didn’t exist. The work we did for him was crudely composed with wax and drafting tables, stat cameras and typesetting machines, rapidograph illustrations and presstype headlines. And our commute from the bucolic outskirts of our residential sprawl involved almost an hour’s drive after micromanaging the logistics of dogwalks, daycare and school bus departures. At twenty-six, our hands were full.
I had to agree with his conservative business ethic, though, and with time, tidied up my act, along with my appearance and availability. We eventually lost that client, who died a short time later. People shook their heads when he left and told us that we were doomed. But it was the guts of our creativity and the grit of our writing that was the glue that held us together, decade after decade. Thirty-six years later, this business is still thriving.
One last peculiar story: a tale of two lawyers. Over a twenty-five-year period, two competitive but friendly clients enjoyed predominance within our region as a result of their consistently impressive case results, deftly communicated to a rapt public through excellent marketing efforts inspired by their separate commitments to our unique brand of quality. Along the way, though, one defected over a billing issue, and hired one of our competitors to continue their marketing. The other lawyer continued with us for another decade through the advent of the Internet while maintaining a close friendship with the defector. Our strengths in advertising, design and online ranking kept our client in the lead as he racked up case after case of million-dollar results. But the strain of the economic climate eventually convinced him to abandon his coveted independence and its ensuing financial chokehold and join ranks with his friend, merging their two firms with the defector as head. Just like that, our relationship ended. And just like that, his Internet presence was snuffed out, leaving the search engines in a state of confusion. Since both of these lawyers are somewhat web-phobic, what they don’t know can’t hurt them, or so they think. A page on the new merged firm website promises that my client’s bio will appear soon, yet I have been waiting over six months for that to happen. Has age squelched my client’s bravado, killed his spirit, paralyzed his pride? How can he allow his “friend” to squander the fruits of his entire career under the guise of procrastination? Can he be so blind? My hunch is that the freedom from the shackles of looming debt as he labors endlessly on contingency for the benefits of others has far outweighed the importance of attracting future work in the autumn of his years. And I don’t blame him one bit.
But he deserves better and I regret fate’s crime of robbing me of the opportunity to protect him from what he does not realize. Age may be responsible for a lot of things like minimizing one’s energy, curtailing one’s enthusiasm, reducing one’s impact, and stealing one’s vision – not to mention making one vulnerable to discrimination from those of a younger persuasion. But for this writer and business owner, age has only magnified a desire to do the best job possible, by preserving stamina with the pursuit of optimal health and fitness; by keeping up with the technology in every respect; and by sharing my knowledge for the benefit of all. Does age matter in business? You bet! | <urn:uuid:02a12735-62f3-4a50-b4cb-d8496f408028> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://businesscorner.club/does-age-matter-in-business-you-be-the-judge/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572043.2/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814143522-20220814173522-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.980208 | 1,818 | 1.695313 | 2 |
The interactive film of the Performance of the High Zoroastrian Ceremony of Yasna
Open Access to the full film of the performance of the most solemn Zoroastrian ceremony the standard Yasna with the dedicatory of Mīnō Nāwar (the version edited by Geldner), the film is prepared in the frame of the multi-disciplinary Multimedia Yasna project (MuYa), based at SOAS, University of London and funded by the European Research Council (ERC) with an Advanced Investigator Grant (2016-2022), which had as its focus the Yasna – the core ritual of the Zoroastrian religion:
“You can watch the film at different speeds by moving the dot on the speed line below the Chapter and Stanza & Subsection tabs. The recording of this film was made in November 2017 at the Dadar Athornan Institute in Mumbai. The two priests, who performed the ceremony are the late Ervad Asphandiarji Dadachanji and Ervad Adil Bhesania.”
The Multimedia Yasna (MUYA)
The Multimedia Yasna (MUYA) examines the performance and written transmission of the core ritual of the Zoroastrian tradition, the Yasna, whose oldest parts date from the second millennium BCE. Composed in an ancient Iranian language, Avestan, the texts were transmitted orally and not written down until the fifth or sixth century CE. The oral tradition continues to be central to the religion, and the daily Yasna ceremony, the most important of all the rituals, is recited from memory by Zoroastrian priests. The interpretation of the Yasna has long been hampered by out-dated editions and translations of the text and until now there has been no documentation and study of the performance of the full ritual. The project MUYA examines both the oral and written traditions. It has filmed a performance of the Yasna ritual and created a critical edition of the recitation text examining the Yasna both as a performance and as a text attested in manuscripts. The two approaches have been integrated to answer questions about the meaning and function of the Yasna in a historical perspective.
Combining models and methodologies from digital humanities, philology and linguistics, the project has produced a subtitled, interactive film of the Yasna ritual, an online platform of transcribed manuscripts, editorial tools, digital transcriptions of manuscripts and digital editions with a text-critical apparatus, and with print editions, translations and commentaries of the Yasna. Information which was formerly restricted to students of Iranian philology and practising Zoroastrians has now become accessible to a world-wide audience through digital humanities. The project, based at SOAS, University of London and funded by the European Research Council, ran from October 2016 to September 2022. It was headed by Professor Almut Hintze and included an international team of researchers in the UK, Germany, India and Iran. | <urn:uuid:65a32a5e-bac9-418e-8987-8bca7398acde> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.biblioiranica.info/the-multimedia-yasna/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571911.5/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813081639-20220813111639-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.945449 | 602 | 2.40625 | 2 |
I went to my first Death Café recently.
Yes, that is a statement worthy of a double-take. We don’t typically associate coffee, treats, and casual conversation with DEATH, do we?
As it turned out, having cake and coffee in a quiet café setting presented the perfect context for conversations about death, dying, grief, and hope.
What is a Death Café?
The idea of a Death Café is to get people together, to eat cake, drink coffee, and talk about death. According to the Death Café website, the objective of these gatherings is “to increase awareness of death with a view to helping people make the most of their (finite) lives.”
The Death Café movement started in 2011 in the UK, and has since spread rapidly across the world, with just a handful of volunteers providing support and leadership behind the scenes. Anyone can host one of these events, as long as they subscribe to the principles laid out in the Death Café guide.
What are those principles?
The big idea of a Death Café is that everyone should be able to talk, about death, in a safe and comfortable way. That means the event is open, respectful, and confidential, and participants must not feel pressured towards any conclusion or course of action. Selling caskets, assigning people to heaven or hell, even holding a guest lecture about grief processes – none of these are allowed. Priority is given to conversation – real conversation among people from a wide range of backgrounds and experiences who will all someday die.
This was my experience:
I heard about Death Cafés quite a while ago, but the first one I could attend happened just a few miles from my home, at the church I attend. When I got there, about 20 people were gathered in a café-style area, seated at several small round tables and munching on cake and sipping coffee. Flyers on each table said a little about what to expect (e.g. “laughter and tears are both welcomed during the evening. They are neither encouraged nor discouraged.”) and emphasized the Death Café principles:
- The evening is to be free from ideology – It is against Death Café principles to lead participants towards any conclusions about life, death, or life after death apart from your own thoughts.
- The evening is to be a safe and nurturing time for everyone.
- Respect for everyone regardless of gender orientation, religion/faith, ethnicity and disability.
- Confidentiality is paramount in all that we say and do this evening.
Our facilitator, Pastor Jim Gordon, welcomed everyone to the event and reiterated the Death Café principles, particularly the part about openness of conversation and confidentiality for everyone involved. Then, in our large group, we each introduced ourselves and shared briefly why we had chosen to attend that evening.
After our large group introductions, we settled in for conversations around our smaller tables. On the back of the informational flyer, we were given about a dozen conversation starters, with the instruction that we could use any, all, or none of them. After about half an hour, we reconvened as a large group and numbered off to form another set of small groups. Half an hour after that, Jim brought us back together, invited us to another Death Café next month, and passed out evaluations for us to fill out.
Of course, out of respect for my fellow participants, I cannot share anyone’s experience but my own. But here’s what I’ll say: I found our conversations to be thought-provoking, supportive, and intense, all at the same time. I began the evening in a rather professional mindset, speaking from my experiences as a hospice professional. That was easy enough. I also found it acceptably easy to talk about my grandparents’ deaths and funerals, because I believe they had good deaths, with beautiful endings to beautiful lives. What was difficult for me was considering my own death and the deaths of my children. Pondering the question, “If you knew you only had 30 days to live, what would you want to do with that time?” brought tears to my eyes as I thought about leaving my young children. Those kinds of thoughts aren’t comfortable, but it was surprisingly safe to be able to talk about those scary kinds of things in this setting.
Death Cafés are not grief support groups. They aren’t counseling sessions, and they aren’t even educational. They are simply a safe space for conversations about a difficult topic, with people who will also die someday. I appreciated the experience, and I plan to attend the next one. | <urn:uuid:eeb08148-c8f4-4f6a-a49a-ae9e443c9903> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://soundscapingsource.com/death-cafe-a-review/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572043.2/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814143522-20220814173522-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.968288 | 956 | 1.78125 | 2 |
Be sure to answer ail parts. The molecular geometry, or shape, of a molecule is an important factor that affects the physical and chemical properties of a compound. If you forgot your password, you can reset it. Linear Molecular Geometry Last updated; Save as PDF Page ID 684; Contributors and Attributions; AX 2 E 3: Shape: Linear: Steric Number: 5: Lone Pairs: 3: Polar/NonPolar: NonPolar: Hybridization: sp 3 d: Example: I 3-NOTES: This molecule is made up of 5 sp 3 d hybrid orbitals. What professor is this problem relevant for? 6 years ago. Favorite Answer. Three orbitals are arranged around the equator of the molecule with bond angles of 120 o. Include lone pairs. We'll put two between atoms to form chemical bonds, so we've used four, then we'll go around the Nitrogen, six, eight, and ten. Facebook Twitter Pinterest linkedin Telegram. Molecular geometry:triangular pyramidal Molecular geometry: triangular planar . Hydrocyanic acid is a colorless liquid whose vapor is lighter than air and dissipates rapidly. Become a Study.com member to unlock this Tel +44 117 92 88310. The HCN molecule is a type of AX2 A X 2 where A denotes central atom (carbon) and X represents surrounding atoms (hydrogen and nitrogen). What is the geometry of bh3? HCN is produced on an industrial scale and is a highly valuable precursor to many chemical compounds ranging from polymers to pharmaceuticals. You should plan on taking the DAT late spring or during the summer of your application year. The molecular Geometry of any compound is based on the arrangement of atoms, electron pairs, and bonds. trigonal planar. 2 0. Determine the electron geometry (eg) and molecular geometry(mg) of BCl3. Hence the molecule has two electron pairs and is linear. 6 years ago. answer! Relevance. Facebook Twitter Pinterest linkedin Telegram. Both C and N have one lone pair of electrons that will stick out horizontally. hcn lewis structure molecular geometry. All rights reserved. Molecules with an linear electron pair geometries have sp hybridization at the central atom. Linear molecule is a molecule in which atoms are deployed in a straight line (under 180° angle). Feedback Bristol ChemLabS, School of Chemistry, University of Bristol, Bristol BS8 1TS, UK. 0 0. Source(s): … a) 90° b) 109° c) 120° d) 180° e) 72° D. 5. Hydrogen cyanide is a linear molecule. Number of non-bonding electron sets (groups) or lone pairs: ? octahedral (Definitely not) tetrahedral. N: 5. freetoes. OH – (hydroxide ion) O-H •• •• •• VSEPR geometry: nothing 16. There is... Our experts can answer your tough homework and study questions. Question: Give The Electron-domain And Molecular Geometries For The Following Molecules And Ions. Favorite Answer. SF SeCl, Lewis Dot Structure Electronic Geometry Molecular Shape Ideal Bond Angles Hybridization Of Central Atom Does It Contain Polar Bonds? Median response time is 34 minutes and may be longer for new subjects. Get a better grade with hundreds of hours of expert tutoring videos for your textbook. 0 0. How many bonds have a dipole: ? 71 pertinent to geometry changes caused "by the solvent are made: first, the molecule remains linear, consequently, any geometry changes are a result of changes in the CH or CN bond lengths; and second, the potential energy surfaces for all of the isotopes of HCN in argon are identical. An example of linear electron pair and molecular geometry are carbon dioxide (O=C=O) and beryllium hydride BeH2. All other trademarks and copyrights are the property of their respective owners. A quick explanation of the molecular geometry of HCN including a description of the HCN bond angles. x -... Find an equation for the surface consisting of all... Find an equation of the form ax + by + cz = d for... whats the molecular geometry of: AsF3, CH3+,... Answer the following questions for the following... Be sure to answer all parts. Then try to find a chemical formula that would match the structure you have drawn. Carbon is the central atom. HCN is a polar molecule because of the large electronegative difference between Nitrogen(3.04) and hydrogen(2.2) due to which the linear-shaped molecule has unequal sharing of charge and results in non zero dipole moment making the molecule polar. 6 years ago. HCN Electron-domain Geometry Linear Trigonal Planar Tetrahedral Trigonal Bipyramidal Octahedral Part B). Hcn Shape. 3 03 trigonal. Hydrogen Cyanide has geometry like AX2 molecule, where A is the central atom and X is the number of atoms bonded with the central atom. Linear. 71 pertinent to geometry changes caused "by the solvent are made: first, the molecule remains linear, consequently, any geometry changes are a result of changes in the CH or CN bond lengths; and second, the potential energy surfaces for all of the isotopes of HCN in argon are identical.
It is based on the fact that the representative elements acquire a noble gas configuration. Molecular Shape. Favorite Answer. When there are lone pairs, you need to look at the structure and recognize the names and bond angles. This species is linear. 30) Determine the electron geometry, molecular geometry and polarity of SF6. BeCl2. N: 5. Explain why water is not a linear molecule. Finding HCN molecular geometry using VSEPR theory is not very difficult using these three steps. Molecular geometry, also known as the molecular structure, is the three-dimensional structure or arrangement of atoms in a molecule. Obtain the molecular geometry from the directions of bonding pairs, as shown in Figures 10.3 and 10.8. Sciences, Culinary Arts and Personal Which molecule or ion has a trigonal planar molecular geometry? 0 0. In dit artikel nam hij enige postulaten … HCN bond angles of 180 degrees. A) eg=trigonal bipyramidal, mg=trigonal bipyramidal, nonpolar B) eg=tetrahedral, mg=tetrahedral, polar C) eg=trigonal bipyramidal, mg=see-saw, polar D) eg=octahedral, mg=trigonal bipyramidal, nonpolar E) eg=octahedral, mg=octahedral, nonpolar Get your answers by asking now. hcn + koh → h 2 o + kcn Uses of Hydrocyanic Acid – HCN Used as a fugiment to kill pests such as rodents in warehouses, grain storage bins, greenhouses and holds of ships where its high toxicity and ability to penetrate obscure spaces are advantageous. Three orbitals are arranged around the equator of the molecule with bond angles of 120 o. Xef2 Lewis Structure, Polarity, Hybridization and shape. For example, the class of 2023 should take the DAT in the spring or summer of 2018. A table of geometries using the VSEPR theory can facilitate drawing and understanding molecules. This problem has been solved! After calculating the electronic geometry from VESPR we can determine the molecular geometry based on the bonding orbitals. 2 Answers. Carbon (EN = 2.55) is less electronegative than N (EN = 3.04): We need to determine the total number of valence electrons present in the molecule: Rank these species by their ability to act as an oxidizing agent. Viewing Notes: Make sure you put the correct atom at the center of the HCN molecule. baney. For example, in the Lewis structure of water, we can see that it has two atoms and two lone pairs of electrons. In the model demonstration above, we said that the blue spheres represent atoms. (b) In a lone pair, both electrons must be close Trevor H. Lv 7. For example, the class of 2023 should take the DAT in the spring or summer of 2018. d) 120°. Examples: SO2, O3. If there are no lone pairs and all orbitals are bonding, then the molecular geometry is the electronic geometry. 3. C. 4. In which of these molecules or ions does the... Show work and explain your answer. The shape of the orbitals is trigonal bipyramidal. The carbon in cyanide is the central atom. HCN BrFs Lewis Dot structure Electronic geometry Molecular shape Ideal Bond angles Hybridization of central atom Does it contain polar bonds? % The number of bonding and nonbonding pairs of electrons on the central atom are then determined. Molecular Geometry: ? Explain the difference between electron geometry and molecular geometry. Bond Angle Hybridization. It is one of the few which features a nitrogen triple bond. SO2 Electron Geometry The electron geometry of SO2 is formed in the shape of a trigonal planner. Is The Molecule Polar? Password must contain at least one uppercase letter, a number and a special character. Based on our data, we think this problem is relevant for Professor Albright's class at UMICH. Still have questions? How do you think about the answers? Structure is : H --O--C≡N. 120° sp2. VSEPR geometry: bent 14. what is the molecular geometry of cn1-? Johnny. Valence shell electron pair repulsion theory, or VSEPR theory (/ ˈ v ɛ s p ər, v ə ˈ s ɛ p ər / VESP-ər,: 410 və-SEP-ər), is a model used in chemistry to predict the geometry of individual molecules from the number of electron pairs surrounding their central atoms., adopt an arrangement that minimizes this repulsion. a) PCl3 b) AsF3 c) HCN d) HCCH e) CO32-EC. carbon forms a triple bond with N and a single bond with O, so since it's attached to two groups, its geometry is linear. Step 1: Draw the Lewis structure for HCN using the “easy” method where you calculate the total valence electrons in the molecule to determine the Lewis structure.. H: 1. CH4O (methanol) H C OH H H •• •• VSEPR geometry: tetrahehdral and bent 15. Earn Transferable Credit & Get your Degree, Get access to this video and our entire Q&A library. Understanding the molecular structure of a compound can help determine the polarity, reactivity, phase of matter, color, magnetism, as well as the biological activity. 0 0? When there are no lone pairs the molecular geometry is the electron (VESPR) geometry. Geometry of molecules is the place where you will find all the information about different chemical compound's polarity, molecular geometry, lewis structure, etc. linear. Molecular geometries (linear, trigonal, tetrahedral, trigonal bipyramidal, and octahedral) are determined by the VSEPR theory. CS2 (carbon bisulfide) S C S •• •• •• •• VSEPR geometry: linear 17. HCN (hydrogen cyanide gas) H C N •• VSEPR geometry: linear 18. Structure is : H --O--C≡N. HCN. A) eg=trigonal planar, mg=trigonal planar B) eg=tetrahedral, mg=trigonal planar C) eg=tetrahedral, mg=trigonal pyramidal D) eg=trigonal planar, mg=bent E) eg=trigonal bipyramidal, mg= trigonal bipyramidal. Answers will vary. Ask Question … central atom? 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On September 12, 2020, after three months alone and unassisted at sea, Ditton made landfall at Waikiki Yacht Club on Oahu, in 86 days, 10 hours, 5 minutes, and 56 seconds, breaking Roz Savage’s 2008 record of 100 days.
After a month of recovery and rehabilitation on Oahu, Ditton returned to sea, accompanying her boat on its return trip to San Diego, California aboard Pasha Hawaii’s M/V Jean Anne. For Ditton, this return voyage will bring her full circle, allowing her to reflect on her journey and what she called “the greatest psychological challenge of my life” which included capsizing twice and navigating her way off the Continental Shelf and Ka’iwi Channel. Last month’s historic row served as training for Ditton’s next voyage – a 5,000-mile solo row from Japan to San Francisco in spring 2022, with the goal of being the first person to row solo, land to land.
Lia said: “I am thrilled to be able to travel back to California on the M/V Jean Anne. I capsized twice during my row to Hawaii and after my second capsize my team discussed with the US Coastguard the possibility of me abandoning my vessel and stepping onto a passing ship. Having never been on a cargo ship, I had some fears about what this experience might entail. I am grateful to Pasha Hawaii for giving me the opportunity to create some good memories of being on a commercial ship.”
“It’s been an honor supporting Lia on her historic journey,” said George Pasha, IV, President and CEO, Pasha Hawaii. “Her story is one of courage and resilience, serving as an inspiration to all of us and proving that anything is possible if you commit to doing what it takes to achieve your dreams. Lia serves as a great role model and her record-breaking success is a much-welcomed story, especially during these unprecedented times.”
Ditton will provide real-time blogs with images from M/V Jean Anne, sharing her thoughts and experiences as she did during her historic voyage to Hawaii. Her seven-day sail aboard the Jean Anne departed from Honolulu Harbor this morning and will include short stops at Kahului Harbor on Maui and Nawiliwili Harbor on Kauai, before continuing on to San Diego, where she will arrive in National City on October 20, 2020.
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This article was written by Ricky Choi, MD, San Francisco area pediatrician and NPA Board Member. It is cross-posted from the San Francisco Chronicle Blog where it originally appeared on June 29, 2011.
What if I were to tell you that Washington is trying to balance the budget by making cuts to a program that covers 70% of the nation’s nursing home costs and 43% of all births in California? Well they are.
The rancorous debate over how to balance the federal budget includes drastic cuts to Medicaid. And while this program may seem distant to people in power and the general public, the reality is that cuts will effect far more people than you expect and may even impact you or someone you know.
Here are a few statistics to ponder:
* Medicaid covers 60 million people.
* 2 in 5 children in the United States get their health insurance through Medicaid (30 million children).
* More than 1/3 of all births are covered by Medicaid which includes prenatal and maternity care.
* 7 in 10 people living in nursing homes are covered by Medicaid.
* Medicaid provides 1/4 of all funding for mental health care.
Doesn’t the Medicaid program cost a lot of money? Yes it does. But it’s a good deal if you consider that the average annual Medicaid spending per child is $2,422 and $7,683 for each adult and that the costs per enrollee is growing more slowly than premiums from employer based coverage (4.6% vs 7.7%).
Medicaid costs are going up because millions more are are needing it in these difficult times. Medicaid would be your safety net if you were to lose a job or experience a sudden drop in income.
For community health centers like mine, Medicaid is a lifeline. 37% of health center patients are covered by Medicaid. And this money is well spent. Community health centers have been shown to provide high quality cost effective care its 23 million patients.
Medicaid has its faults but few would argue that it is a lynch pin for our health care system and represents our nation’s moral commitment to help low income communities.
Attempts to make “reforms” like converting Medicaid into a block grant as championed by Representative Paul Ryan in legislation which passed in the House in April or applying a global spending cap are just gimmicks. The real impact will be a decrease in funds already cash strapped states have to pay for these programs, a loss of services or even closure of community health centers, and more uninsured people. In fact, these methods will not even cut costs, it will just shift the cost to states, providers and patients. It’s a shell game.
To make cuts to a program that is vital to the health of one in every five Americans is hazardous to our nation’s health. Don’t take it from me. One of our patients shares, “My friend is very frustrated with this government that prides itself on its democracy and equality for all, and yet blindly takes away the most basic services from its most vulnerable people who cannot otherwise afford or have access to medical care. There are millions of others in the same situation and it gets worse for those with multiple chronic conditions.”
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Dear Brothers and Sisters,
In the Catecheses of these past weeks we have meditated on St Paul's "conversion", the result of his personal encounter with the crucified and Risen Jesus, and we asked ourselves what relationship the Apostle to the Gentiles had with the earthly Jesus. Today I would like to speak of the teaching that St Paul bequeathed to us on the centrality of the Risen Christ in the mystery of salvation, on his Christology. In truth, the Risen Jesus Christ, "exalted above every other name", is at the centre of every reflection Paul makes. Christ, for the Apostle, is the criterion for evaluating events and things, the goal of every effort that he makes to proclaim the Gospel, the great passion that sustains his footsteps on the roads of the world. And this is a real and living Christ: "Christ", Paul says, "who loved me and gave himself for me" (Ga 2,20). This person who loves me, with whom I can speak, who listens to me and answers me, this is truly the starting point for understanding the world and finding the way through history.
Those who have read St Paul's writings know well that he was not concerned to recount the sequence of individual events in Jesus' life. Nevertheless we may think that in his catechesis he told far more about the pre-Paschal Jesus than he writes in his Letters which are admonitions in precise situations. His pastoral and theological intention was so focused on fostering the nascent communities that it came naturally to him to concentrate completely on the proclamation of Jesus Christ as "Lord", alive now and present now among his followers. Hence the characteristic essentiality of Pauline Christology, which develops the depths of the mystery with a constant and precise concern: to proclaim the living Jesus, of course, but above all to proclaim the central reality of his death and Resurrection as the culmination of his earthly existence and the root of the successive development of the whole Christian faith, the whole reality of the Church. For the Apostle the Resurrection is not an event in itself, separate from death: the Risen One is always the One who has first been crucified. Even as the Risen One he bears his wounds: the Passion is present in him and we can say, together with Pascal, that he is the Suffering One until the end of the world, while at the same time being the Risen One and living with us and for us. Paul had understood this identification of the Risen One with the Crucified Christ at the encounter on the road to Damascus: at that moment it was clearly revealed to him that the Crucified One is the Risen One and the Risen One is the Crucified One, who asks Paul: "Why do you persecute me?" (Ac 9,4). Paul is persecuting Christ in the Church and then realizes that the Cross is not "accursed by God" (Dt 21,23), but is also the sacrifice for our redemption.
Fascinated, the Apostle contemplates the hidden secret of the Crucified and Risen One and, through the suffering experienced by Christ in his humanity (earthly dimension), goes back to that eternal existence in which he is wholly one with the Father (dimension before time): "When the time had fully come", he wrote, "God sent forth his son, born of woman, born under the law, to redeem those who were under the law, so that we might receive adoption as sons" (Ga 4,4-5). These two dimensions, his eternal pre-existence with the Father and the Lord's descent in his Incarnation are already announced in the Old Testament, in the figure of Wisdom. We find in the sapiential Books of the Old Testament certain texts which exalt the role of Wisdom that existed prior to the world's creation. Passages such as the one from Psalm 90 should be interpreted in this sense: "Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever you had formed the earth and the world, from everlasting to everlasting you are God" (v. 2); or passages like this one that speaks of the creator Wisdom: "The Lord created me at the beginning of his work, the first of his acts of old. Ages ago I was set up, at the first, before the beginning of the earth" (Pr 8,22-23). The praise of Wisdom, contained in the Book of the same name, is also evocative: "She reaches mightily from one end of the earth to the other, and she orders all things well" (Sg 8,1).
The sapiential texts themselves which speak of the eternal pre-existence of Wisdom, also speak of the descent, the abasement of this Wisdom, who pitched a tent for herself among men. Thus we already hear echoing the words of the Gospel of John, who speaks of the tent of the Lord's flesh. He created a tent for himself in the Old Testament: here the temple is shown, and worship in accordance with the Torah; but the New Testament perspective enables us to realize that this was only a prefiguration of the tent that was far more real and meaningful: the tent of Christ's flesh. And we already see in the Books of the Old Testament that this lowering of Wisdom, her descent in the flesh, also suggests the possibility that she was rejected. St Paul, in developing his Christology, refers precisely to this sapiential perspective: in Jesus he recognizes the eternal wisdom that has always existed, the wisdom that descends and pitches a tent for herself among us and thus he can describe Christ as "the power of God and the wisdom of God" (1Co 1,24), he can say that Christ has become, through God's work, "our wisdom, our righteousness and sanctification and redemption" (ibid., v. 30). Similarly, Paul explains that Christ, like Wisdom, can be rejected above all by the rulers of this world (cf. 1Co 2,6-9), so that within God's plans a paradoxical situation is created, the Cross, which was to transform itself into the means of salvation for the whole human race.
In the famous hymn contained in the Letter to the Philippians (cf. Ph 2,6-11) a further development of this sapiential cycle sees Wisdom abase herself to then be exalted despite rejection. This is one of the most elevated texts in the whole of the New Testament. The vast majority of exegetes today agree that this passage reproduces an earlier composition than the text of the Letter to the Philippians. This is a very important fact because it means that Judaeo-Christianity, prior to St Paul, believed in Jesus' divinity. In other words, faith in the divinity of Jesus was not a Hellenistic invention that emerged much later than Jesus' earthly life, an invention which, forgetful of his humanity, would have divinized him; we see in reality that early Judaeo-Christianity believed in the divinity of Jesus. Indeed, we can say that the Apostles themselves, at the important moments in the life of their Teacher, understood that he was the Son of God, as St Peter said in Caesarea Philippi: "You are the Christ, the Son of the living God" (Mt 16,16). However, let us return to the hymn in the Letter to the Philippians. This text's structure is in three strophes, which illustrate the high points on the journey undertaken by Christ. His pre-existence is expressed by the words: "though he was in the form of God, he did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped" (Ph 2,6). Then comes the Son's voluntary self- abasement in the second strophe: "emptied himself, taking the form of a servant" (v. 7), to the point of humbling himself and "[becoming] obedient unto death, even death on a cross" (v. 8). The third strophe of the hymn proclaims the Father's response to the Son's humbling of himself: "Therefore God has highly exalted him and bestowed on him the name which is above every name" (v. 9). What is striking is the contrast between the radical humbling of himself and his subsequent glorification in the glory of God. It is obvious that this second strophe is in contrast with the claim of Adam, who wanted to make a God of himself, and in contrast with the act of the builders of the tower of Babel, who wanted to construct a bridge to Heaven and make themselves divinities. However, this initiative of pride ended in self-destruction: this is not the way to Heaven, to true happiness, to God. The gesture of the Son of God is exactly the opposite: not pride but humility, which is the fulfilment of love and love is divine. The initiative of Christ's abasement, of his radical humility, in stark contrast with human pride, is truly an expression of divine love; it is followed by that elevation into Heaven to which God attracts us with his love.
In addition to the Letter to the Philippians, there are other places in Pauline literature where the themes of the pre-existence and descent to the earth of the Son of God are connected to each other. A reaffirmation of the assimilation of Wisdom and Christ, with all the connected cosmic and anthropological implications, is found in the First Letter to Timothy: "He was manifested in the flesh, vindicated in the Spirit, seen by angels, preached among the nations, believed in throughout the world, taken up in glory" (1Tm 3,16). It is above all on these premises that a better definition of Christ as the sole Mediator is possible, against the background of the One God of the Old Testament (cf. 1Tm 2,5 in relation to Is 43,10-11 Is 44,6). Christ is the true bridge that leads us to Heaven, to communion with God.
And lastly, just a brief reference to the last developments of St Paul's Christology in his Letters to the Colossians and to the Ephesians. In the former, Christ is described as the "first-born of all creation" (Col 1,15-20). This word "first-born" suggests that the first of numerous children, the first of a great many brothers and sisters, came down to draw us and make us his brothers and sisters. In the Letter to the Ephesians we find a beautiful exposition of the divine plan of salvation, when Paul says that in Christ God desired to recapitulate everything (cf. Ep 1,23). Christ is the epitome of all things, he takes everything upon himself and guides us to God. And thus he involves us in a movement of descent and ascent, inviting us to share in his humility, that is, in his love for neighbour, in order also to share in his glorification, becoming with him sons in the Son. Let us pray the Lord to help us conform to his humility, to his love, in order to be rendered participants in his divinization.
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I offer a warm welcome to all the English-speaking pilgrims and visitors present at today’s Audience, especially those from England, Scotland, Ireland, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Ghana, Guam, Japan, South Korea, Australia, Canada and the United States. Upon you and your families I cordially invoke God’s blessings of joy and peace.
St. Peter's Square
Dear Brothers and Sisters,
In the personal experience of St Paul there is an incontrovertible factor: while he was at first a persecutor and perpetrated violence against Christians, from the moment of his conversion on the road to Damascus he switched to the side of the Crucified Christ, making Christ his raison d'être and the reason for his preaching. His was a life neither quiet nor free from dangers and difficulties, but spent entirely for souls (cf. 2Co 12,15). In his encounter with Jesus the central significance of the Cross had been made clear to him: he understood that Jesus had died and rose for all and for himself. Both these things were important; universality: Jesus really died for all, and subjectivity: he also died for me. Thus God's freely given and merciful love had been made manifest in the Cross. Paul experienced this love in himself first of all (cf. Gal Ga 2,20) and from being a sinner he became a believer, from a persecutor an apostle. Day after day, in his new life, he experienced that salvation was "grace", that everything derived from the death of Christ and not from his own merit, which moreover did not exist. The "Gospel of grace" thus became for him the only way of understanding the Cross, not only the criterion of his new existence but also his response to those who questioned him. First and foremost among these were the Jews who put their hope in deeds and from these hoped for salvation; then there were the Greeks who challenged the Cross with their human knowledge; lastly, there were those groups of heretics who had forged their own idea of Christianity to suit their own model of life.
For St Paul the Cross has a fundamental primacy in the history of humanity; it represents the focal point of his theology because to say "Cross" is to say salvation as grace given to every creature. The topic of the Cross of Christ becomes an essential and primary element of the Apostle's preaching: the clearest example concerns the community of Corinth. Facing a Church in which disorder and scandal were disturbingly present, where communion was threatened by internal factions and ruptures which damaged the unity of the Body of Christ, Paul did not present himself with sublime words or wisdom but with the proclamation of Christ, of Christ crucified. His strength is not in the use of persuasive language but, paradoxically, in the weakness and trepidation of those who entrust themselves solely to the "power of God" (cf. 1Co 2,1-5). The Cross, for all it represents, hence also for the theological message it contains, is scandal and folly. The Apostle says so with an impressive force that it is good to hear directly from his words: "for the word of the Cross is folly to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God... it pleased God through the folly of what we preach to save those who believe. For Jews demand signs and Greeks seek wisdom, but we preach Christ crucified, a stumbling block to Jews and folly to Gentiles" (1Co 1,18-23).
The first Christian communities that Paul addressed knew well that Jesus was henceforth alive and risen; the Apostle does not only want to remind the Corinthians or the Galatians but also all of us that the Risen One is always the One who has been crucified. The "stumbling block" and "folly" of the Cross lie in the very fact that where there seems to be nothing but failure, sorrow and defeat, there is the full power of God's boundless love, for the Cross is an expression of love and love is the true power that is revealed precisely in this seeming weakness. For the Jews, the Cross is skandalon, that is, a snare or a stumbling block. It seems to hinder the faith of the devout Israelite who finds it difficult to discover anything like it in the Sacred Scriptures. With some courage, Paul seems to be saying that here the stakes at play are high: in the opinion of the Jews the Cross contradicts the very essence of God who manifested himself in wonderful signs. To accept the Cross of Christ therefore means bringing about a profound conversion in the way of relating to God. If, for the Jews, the reason for rejecting the Cross is found in Revelation, that is, the faithfulness to the God of the Fathers, for the Greeks, that is, the Gentiles, the criterion of judgement for opposing the Cross is reason. Indeed, the Cross for the latter is moría, folly, literally ignorance, that is, saltless food; thus, rather than an error, it is an insult to common sense.
Paul himself, on more than one occasion had the bitter experience of the rejection of the Christian proclamation, considered "insipid", devoid of importance, not even worthy of being taken into consideration at the level of rational logic. For those who, like the Greeks, see perfection in the spirit, in pure thought, it was already unacceptable that God should become man, immersing himself in all the limitations of space and time. Then for them it was definitely inconceivable to believe that a God could end on a Cross! And we see that this Greek logic is also the common logic of our time. How could the concept of apátheia, indifference, as an absence of passions in God, have understood a God who became man and was defeated, and was even to reassume his body subsequently to live as the Risen One? "We will hear you again about this" (Ac 17,32) the Athenians said scornfully to Paul when they heard him talking about the resurrection of the dead. They considered liberation from the body conceived as a prison as perfection. How could they not see the resumption of the body as an aberration? In ancient culture there did not seem to be room for the message of the Incarnate God. The entire "Jesus of Nazareth" event seemed to be marked by foolishness through and through and the Cross was certainly its most emblematic point.
But why did St Paul make precisely this, the word of the Cross, the fundamental core of his teaching? The answer is not difficult: the Cross reveals "the power of God" (cf. 1Co 1,24), which is different from human power; indeed, it reveals his love: "For the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men" (ibid., v. 25). Centuries after Paul we see that in history it was the Cross that triumphed and not the wisdom that opposed it. The Crucified One is wisdom, for he truly shows who God is, that is, a force of love which went even as far as the Cross to save men and women. God uses ways and means that seem to us at first sight to be merely weakness. The Crucified One reveals on the one hand man's frailty and on the other, the true power of God, that is the free gift of love: this totally gratuitous love is true wisdom. St Paul experienced this even in his flesh and tells us about it in various passages of his spiritual journey which have become precise reference points for every disciple of Jesus: "He said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness'" (2Co 12,9); and again "God chose what is weak in the world to shame the strong" (1Co 1,27). The Apostle identified so closely with Christ that in spite of being in the midst of so many trials, he too lived in the faith of the Son of God who loved him and gave himself for his sins and for the sins of all (cf. Gal Ga 1,4 Ga 2,20). This autobiographical fact concerning the Apostle becomes paradigmatic for all of us.
St Paul gave a wonderful synthesis of the theology of the Cross in the Second Letter to the Corinthians (2Co 5,14-21) where everything is enclosed between two fundamental affirmations: on the one hand Christ, whom God made to be sin for our sake (v. 21), he died for all (v. 14); and on the other, God reconciled us to himself without imputing our sins to us (vv. 18-20). It is from this "ministry of reconciliation" that every form of slavery is already redeemed (cf. 1Co 6,20 1Co 7,23). Here it appears how important this is for our lives. We too must enter into this "ministry of reconciliation" that always implies relinquishing one's superiority and opting for the folly of love.
St Paul sacrificed his own life, devoting himself without reserve to the ministry of reconciliation, of the Cross, which is salvation for us all. And we too must be able to do this: may we be able to find our strength precisely in the humility of love and our wisdom in the weakness of renunciation, entering thereby into God's power. We must all model our lives on this true wisdom: we must not live for ourselves but must live in faith in that God of whom we can all say: "he loved me and gave himself for me".
To special groups
I offer a warm welcome to all the English-speaking pilgrims and visitors present, especially those from Britain and Ireland, Norway, Australia, Korea, Vietnam and the United States of America. I greet especially the Delegation of Papal Knights from Great Britain, and the members and benefactors of the Gregorian University Foundation of New York. Upon you and your families, I cordially invoke God's Blessings of peace and joy.
Lastly, I greet the young people, the sick and the newlyweds. Yesterday the Liturgy commemorated the Holy Apostles Simon and Jude Thaddeus. May their example sustain you, dear young people, in your commitment of daily fidelity to Christ; may it encourage you, dear sick people, always to follow Jesus in the process of trial and suffering; may it help you, dear newlyweds, to make your family a place of constant encounter with the love of God and of the brethren.
St. Peter's Square
Dear Brothers and Sisters,
"If Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is in vain and your faith is in vain... and you are still in your sins" (1Co 15,14-17). With these strong words from the First Letter to the Corinthians, St Paul makes clear the decisive importance he attributes to the Resurrection of Jesus. In this event, in fact, lies the solution to the problem posed by the drama of the Cross. The Cross alone could not explain the Christian faith, indeed it would remain a tragedy, an indication of the absurdity of being. The Paschal Mystery consists in the fact that the Crucified man "was raised on the third day, in accordance with the Scriptures" (1Co 15,4), as proto-Christian tradition attests. This is the keystone of Pauline Christology: everything rotates around this gravitational centre. The whole teaching of Paul the Apostle starts from, and arrives at, the mystery of him whom the Father raised from the dead. The Resurrection is a fundamental fact, almost a prior axiom (cf. 1Co 15,12), on the basis of which Paul can formulate his synthetic proclamation (kerygma). He who was crucified and who thus manifested God's immense love for man, is risen again, and is alive among us.
It is important to understand the relationship between the proclamation of the Resurrection, as Paul formulates it, and that was in use since the first pre-Pauline Christian communities. Here indeed we can see the importance of the tradition that preceded the Apostle and that he, with great respect and care, desires to pass on in his turn. The text on the Resurrection, contained in chapter 1Co 15,1-11 of the First Letter to the Corinthians, emphasizes the connection between "receiving" and "transmitting". St Paul attributes great importance to the literal formulation of the tradition, and at the end of the passage under consideration underlines, "What matters is that I preach what they preach" (1Co 15,11), so drawing attention to the oneness of the kerygma, of the proclamation for all believers and for those who will proclaim the Resurrection of Christ. The tradition to which he refers is the fount from which to draw. His Christology is never original at the expense of faithfulness to tradition. The kerygma of the Apostles always presides over the personal re-elaboration of Paul; each of his arguments moves from common tradition, and in them he expresses the faith shared by all the Churches, which are one single Church. In this way St Paul offers a model for all time of how to approach theology and how to preach. The theologian, the preacher, does not create new visions of the world and of life, but he is at the service of truth handed down, at the service of the real fact of Christ, of the Cross, and of the Resurrection. His task is to help us understand today the reality of "God with us" that lies behind the ancient words, and thus the reality of true life.
We should here be explicit: St Paul, in proclaiming the Resurrection, does not worry about presenting an organic doctrinal exposition he does not wish to write what would effectively be a theological handbook but he approaches the theme by replying to doubts and concrete questions asked of him by the faithful; an unprepared discourse, then, but one full of faith and theological experience. We find here a concentration of the essential: we have been "justified", that is made just, saved, by Christ who died and rose again for us. Above all else the fact of the Resurrection emerges, without which Christian life would be simply in vain. On that Easter morning something extraordinary happened, something new, and at the same time very concrete, distinguished by very precise signs and recorded by numerous witnesses. For Paul, as for the other authors of the New Testament, the Resurrection is closely bound to the testimony of those who had direct experience of the Risen One. This means seeing and hearing, not only with the eyes or with the senses, but also with an interior light that assists the recognition of what the external senses attest as objective fact.
Paul gives, therefore, as do the four Gospels, primary importance to the theme of the appearances, which constitute a fundamental condition for belief in the Risen One who left the tomb empty. These two facts are important: the tomb is empty and Jesus has in fact appeared. In this way the links of that tradition were forged, which, through the testimony of the Apostles and the first disciples, was to reach successive generations until it came down to our own. The first consequence, or the first way of expressing this testimony, is to preach the Resurrection of Christ as a synthesis of the Gospel proclamation and as the culminating point in the salvific itinerary. Paul does all this on many occasions: looking at the Letters and the Acts of the Apostles, we can see that for him the essential point is to bear witness to the Resurrection. I should like to cite just one text: Paul, arrested in Jerusalem, stands accused before the Sanhedrin. In this situation, where his life is at stake, he indicates what is the sense and content of all his preaching: "with respect to the hope and the resurrection of the dead I am on trial" (Ac 23,6). This same phrase Paul continually repeats in his Letters (cf. 1Th 1,9ff; 1Th 4,13-18 1Th 5,10), in which he refers to his own personal experience, to his own meeting with the Risen Christ (cf. Gal Ga 1,15-16 1Co 9,1).
But we may wonder, what, for St Paul, is the deep meaning of the Resurrection of Jesus? What has he to say to us across these 2,000 years? Is the affirmation "Christ is risen" relevant to us today? Why is the Resurrection so important, both for him and for us? Paul gives a solemn answer to this question at the beginning of his Letter to the Romans, where he begins by referring to "the Gospel of God... concerning his Son, who was descended from David according to the flesh, and designated Son of God in power according to the spirit of holiness by his resurrection from the dead" (Rm 1,3-4). Paul knows well, and often says, that Jesus was always the Son of God, from the moment of his Incarnation. The novelty of the Resurrection, consists in the fact that Jesus, raised from the lowliness of his earthly existence, is constituted Son of God "in power". Jesus, humiliated up to the moment of his death on the Cross, can now say to the Eleven, "All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me" (Mt 28,18). The affirmation of Psalm Ps 2,8 has come to pass. "Ask of me, and I will make the nations your heritage, and the ends of the earth your possession". So, with the Resurrection begins the proclamation of the Gospel of Christ to all peoples the Kingdom of Christ begins, this new Kingdom that knows no power other than that of truth and love. The Resurrection thus reveals definitively the real identity and the extraordinary stature of the Crucified One. An incomparable and towering dignity: Jesus is God! For St Paul, the secret identity of Jesus is revealed even more in the mystery of the Resurrection than in the Incarnation. While the title of Christ, that is "Messiah"; "the Anointed", in St Paul tends to become the proper name of Jesus, and that of "the Lord" indicates his personal relationship with believers, now the title "Son of God" comes to illustrate the intimate relationship of Jesus with God, a relationship which is fully revealed in the Paschal event. We can say, therefore, that Jesus rose again to be the Lord of the living and the dead, (cf. Rm Rm 14,9 and 2Co 5,15) or in other words, our Saviour (cf. Rm Rm 4,25).
All this bears important consequences for our lives as believers: we are called upon to take part, in our inmost selves, in the whole story of the death and Resurrection of Christ. The Apostle says: we "have died with Christ" and we believe we shall "live with him. For we know that Christ being raised from the dead, will never die again; death no longer has dominion over him" (Rm 6,8-9). This means sharing in the suffering of Christ, which is a prelude to that full unity with him through the resurrection that we hope for. This is also what happened to St Paul, whose personal experience is described in the Letters in tones as sorrowful as they are realistic: "that I may know him and the power of his Resurrection, and may share his sufferings becoming like him in his death, that if possible I may attain the resurrection from the dead" (Ph 3,10-11 cf. 2Tm 2,8-12). The theology of the Cross is not a theory it is the reality of Christian life. To live in the belief in Jesus Christ, to live in truth and love implies daily sacrifice, implies suffering. Christianity is not the easy road, it is, rather, a difficult climb, but one illuminated by the light of Christ and by the great hope that is born of him. St Augustine says: Christians are not spared suffering, indeed they must suffer a little more, because to live the faith expresses the courage to face in greater depth the problems that life and history present. But only in this way, through the experience of suffering, can we know life in its profundity, in its beauty, in the great hope born from Christ crucified and risen again. The believer, however, finds himself between two poles: on the one hand, the Resurrection, which in a certain sense is already present and operating within us (cf. Col Col 3,1-4 Ep 2,6); on the other, the urgency to enter into the process which leads everyone and everything towards that fullness described in the Letter to the Romans with a bold image: as the whole of Creation groans and suffers almost as with the pangs of childbirth, so we groan in the expectation of the redemption of our bodies, of our redemption and resurrection (cf. Rm Rm 8,18-23).
In synthesis, we can say with Paul that the true believer obtains salvation by professing with his mouth that Jesus is the Lord and believing in his heart that God has raised Him from the dead (cf. Rm Rm 10,9). Important above all else is the heart that believes in Christ, and which in its faith "touches" the Risen One; but it is not enough to carry our faith in our heart, we must confess it and bear witness to it with our mouths, with our lives, thus making the truth of the Cross and the Resurrection present in our history. In this way the Christian becomes part of that process by which the first Adam, a creature of the earth, and subject to corruption and death, is transformed into the last Adam, heavenly and incorruptible (cf. 1Co 15,20-22 and 42-49). This process was set in motion by the Resurrection of Christ, and it is, therefore, on this that we found our hope that we too may one day enter with Christ into our true homeland, which is in Heaven. Borne up by this hope, let us continue with courage and with joy.
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Dear Brothers and Sisters,
I am pleased to welcome all the English-speaking pilgrims and visitors present at today’s Audience. In a particular way I greet the Patrons of the Arts in the Vatican Museums from Florida. I also extend a warm welcome to the group from the Bunri Sato Educational Institute in Saitama, Japan. I greet especially the groups from England, Denmark, Finland, Sweden, Cyprus, the Philippines and the United States. Upon all of you and your families I cordially invoke God’s abundant blessings of joy and peace.
St. Peter's Square
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Genealogy research through affordable DNA testing has been a popular topic in nonfiction lately, as it is in the news in general, I suppose. I made genetics-related nonfiction the subject of a Nonfiction November Expert Week post two years ago.
Two recent memoirs by women look at different aspects of heritage and identity, taking their own paths to better understanding something about where they came from.
In Ancestor Trouble: A Reckoning and a Reconciliation (March 29, Random House), author Maud Newton (who adopted her first name from an ancestor she’s intrigued by) explores her family’s story as she’s researched it alongside chapters addressing the most recent advances in the DNA revolution, some of the ethics of genealogy, and her reckoning of her identity with the more troublesome aspects of her family history.
Much of this family history is of the tall-tale variety: a great-grandfather alleged to have killed his friend with a hay hook and a grandfather who married 13 times and was shot once. It was quite interesting to follow along as she researched and discovered that much of it was true, piecing together what was known from public record and trying to fill in the gaps herself.
But the personal stories felt repetitive, and at around the halfway point my interest waned. I just couldn’t get that invested in her story, and it felt like some of the family members’ stories, or at least the salient highlights, were being told multiple times.
Newton’s biggest issue was with her father, who was racist, among other unsavory characteristics. This is of course one of those highly tricky topics to navigate in your own head — how did I come from someone who I so fundamentally disagree with, what does it mean that this person is a part of me, etc. And it’s a topic I find really compelling, but this book could’ve been edited a bit more tightly. I was out of steam at that halfway mark and skimmed the second half. There is some well-told information about the sociological and scientific sides of the genetics story, but none of it felt particularly new.
My favorite element was her descriptions of her grandmother, who wielded some truly delightful southern sayings. I think this is one where individual mileage will vary depending on how invested you can get in the memoir aspect or if you haven’t read a lot around what’s currently happening in the field of consumer genealogy research. Used or new @SecondSale.com
Alternatively, I really enjoyed Liz Scheier’s Never Simple: A Memoir (March 1, Henry Holt and Co). Scheier centers her memoir around her mother, one of those whirlwind charming types who’s masking something darker beneath the buzzing facade. The story opens with Scheier learning the complicated truth about her father, who she’d been told died in an accident.
That lie is telling of her mother’s personality — diagnosed as borderline, Scheier says she can only believe things her mother says when she sees them with her own eyes. She’s also frighteningly violent and abusive, and this is only made less difficult and harrowing to read because of Scheier’s storytelling ability. She manages to make it darkly humorous and entirely page-turning.
Scheier describes growing up in New York City under fairly incredible circumstances: her mother finagled a fake social security number for her, and they lived in an apartment a block from Central Park despite her mother’s not working (she’d been a lawyer, until she suddenly quit and withdrew from public nearly altogether). The writing is so good and Scheier’s voice so confident that it’s clear she’s reached a healthy place for herself, and she shows much of that journey here.
It does turn into a story about her own foray into motherhood, and this topic is not for me. I definitely wouldn’t have picked this up if I’d known that would be such a heavy focus, but I like her humorous voice and fast-paced storytelling style so I ended up enjoying even that element much more than I expected to.
There are some informational gaps I think could’ve been filled in — this is very clearly a memoir of what she felt, remembered, and perceived versus a more research-based one like Ancestor Trouble. Where the heritage-research element comes in is around Scheier’s father, as well as her sifting through documents and objects after her mother’s death.
This will draw the inevitable comparisons to The Glass Castle, but I think they’re pretty apt here. It was satisfying to see how Scheier worked through her experience and developed as her own person despite difficult beginnings and her mother’s continuous roping her back into life to save her from disasters of her own making. It should resonate strongly with anyone with difficult mother-daughter relationships as well. Used or new @ SecondSale.com
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Computerworld is featuring a story on initiatives in the Philippines to ensure that every public school has at least one computer. While the program has now expanded to provide most schools with a small lab, a server, and Internet access, the most notable feature of the program is the use of Linux on all of the machines.
The Philippine government initially attempted to deploy Windows computers several years ago, but a lack of training for teachers and students meant that they weren't used. A local consultant convinced the government that a second iteration of the program could benefit from the use of Linux. According to Ricardo Gonzales,
"We wanted to use Fedora 5 and it went all the way to office of [the Filipino] President and they kept passing it around saying 'why would they offer something for free, and how would they support and teach it'," Gonzalez said. "The project dragged on for four to five months to a point where Microsoft matched the price by offering Windows XP for $US20 a copy and throwing in Office for $US30, but we still came out cheaper. Microsoft was also providing free training to high school teachers. Because we saved so much [by using Linux] we gave the government 3000 additional units, so now another 300 schools have Linux networks," Gonzalez said.
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Twenty-Seven Dollars and a Dream: How Muhammad Yunus Changed the World and What It Cost Him tells the riveting story of Muhammad Yunus's life-long struggle to end global poverty. When Muhammad Yunus lent $27 dollars to 42 women in rural Bangladesh, he sparked what became the microcredit movement that has empowered millions of poor women in nearly 100 countries. Yunus was awarded the Nobel Prize fo...
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One of the elements that gives personality to a brand is color. Hasn’t it happened to you that just by seeing the color you know what brand it is?
Surely, this has happened to you with the yellow of McDonalds’s or the green of Starbucks, and with many others… because a simple corporate color is capable of arousing emotions in its target.
Although, of course, not all colors transmit the same. Therefore, understanding the psychology of color, knowing the meaning of each color and choosing the right one for your brand will make your task easier and help you attract and connect with your audience.
So, in order not to convey an erroneous image and so that your audience fully grasps what you want to communicate, we recommend that you continue reading to find out what each color conveys and what is the influence of colors on brands.
What is color psychology?
Each color will have different meanings for your audience. And studying what emotions your audience perceives with that color is key to determining if you give confidence or transmit good vibes.
That is, a color can cause us serenity or calm, while another joy or energy. And, according to color psychology, this influences our mood and mental state.
Therefore, it is important to analyze this relationship between color and behavior, since it is a factor that plays in the consumer’s subconscious. Precisely, color in marketing and its symbology is what pushes users to make a purchase decision.
What is the meaning of colors in marketing?
Choosing the right color to apply to marketing, design, advertising and a brand’s website will be essential to seduce your target audience and achieve conversions.
Therefore, we are going to see below the meaning of the most important brand colors to help you in your final decision:
It is the color of strength, passion and fire. It is a daring color and, at the same time, challenging.
It is common to use the color red to attract attention with buttons, promotional banners or to convey urgency. Being a color that makes an impact, it is convenient not to abuse it, since you can tire the reader.
We can see this color in some brands such as Coca-Cola, Puma and Just Eat.
Although the color blue has always been said to be a cold color, it also conveys confidence, calm, security and harmony.
It is one of the most used in marketing by brands. For example, we can see it in:
- Beauty products like Nivea.
- Social networks like Twitter or Facebook.
- Payment platforms such as PayPal.
Yellow is the color of happiness, optimism and friendship. But it also transmits fear, anxiety and for the most superstitious, bad luck.
In marketing, yellow can be used to associate what you are selling with a positive memory. Some popular brands that use yellow in their logos and campaigns are Snapchat, McDonald’s or Correos.
It transmits vitality, warmth, security and fun. It is used above all to capture the attention of users with calls to action (replacing the red that is more tiring to the eye).
Orange, Fanta or SoundCloud are some brands that use orange to give their brand personality.
Color psychology says that green is synonymous with nature, balance and peace.
It is used by many brands that want to convey their commitment to the environment, and also those whose products are related to plants or natural products.
The color purple in marketing evokes creativity, luxury, glamor, mystery, and vision. Something that is closely associated with the female audience.
Its most common uses are found in beauty products and luxury brands.
Black alludes to the elegant, the sophisticated and the classic. It is very common to see it in luxurious, prestigious brands, aimed at a high-class audience.
Let’s remember brands like Channel, Gucci or Mercedes Benz.
White evokes purity, cleanliness, clarity, simplicity and youth. It is widely used by religious or charitable organizations, as well as companies that sell dairy and health-related products.
Tips to apply the psychology of color in your brand
To finish, we would like to give you a series of final recommendations on the influence of color on your brand, the psychology of color in marketing, design and advertising so that instead of scaring away your audience, you retain it.
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- Analyze your target before selecting a color.
- Do several tests to see which color works best.
- On your website use a maximum of 3 colors and always use the same color for the buttons.
- Always use a predominant and a secondary color, but never two predominant ones.
- Do not abuse bright colors that cause visual fatigue such as red or yellow.
Finally, keep in mind that if your predominant color is a bright one, use a softer one in your CTAs (we opted for a tone.
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Karpinsk is a small town in Southern Russia, located about 120 kilometers from the Georgian border. The town is known for its natural attractions, such as the Karpinsk Reservoir and the Karpinsk Rocks. The Karpinsk Rocks are a group of limestone outcrops that rise to a height of 330 meters above sea level.
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Radiation damage may occur after a patient receives radiation therapy or is exposed to products or substances containing radiation, such as excessive X-ray imaging, nuclear power, or fallout from atomic weapons. Radiation damage may cause cancer, birth defects, and other serious health problems. Acute radiation sickness occurs within 24 hours of exposure. Chronic radiation syndrome involves a range of symptoms occurring over an extended time.
Signs and SymptomsRadiation damage is accompanied by the following signs and symptoms, which can occur immediately or appear months or years later.
- Radiation syndrome—malaise, weight loss, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, sweating, fever, headache; with bleeding and complications affecting the digestive system, nervous system, heart, and lungs
- Central nervous system diseases
- Kidney, liver, or gastrointestinal problems
- Poor growth in children
- Skin conditions
- Pericarditis (inflammation of the sac around the heart)
- Lung infections or conditions, respiratory failure
- Vision impairment; cataracts
- Dysfunction of the reproductive organs
What Causes It?Damage occurs when radiation interacts with oxygen, causing certain molecules to form that are capable of damaging or breaking strands of DNA in the body's cells. This can result in cell death.
Who's Most At Risk?People who have been exposed to radiation and who also have the following conditions or characteristics are at risk for developing radiation damage.
- High dose of radiation exposure
- Young age at time of exposure
- Use of chemotherapy, antibiotics
- Exposure to radiation prior to birth (while in the womb)
What to Expect at Your Provider's OfficeIf you are experiencing symptoms associated with radiation damage, you should see your health care provider. A physical exam, lab tests, pathology tests, and imaging procedures such as barium radiography or colonoscopy may be performed.
PreventionIf you are receiving radiation treatment to treat cancer, your health care provider can take certain precautions to help prevent or reduce the risk of radiation damage. These may include administering low-dose radiation, using radio-protectant chemicals, and using special shields for other parts of your body.
Treatment PlanThe treatment plan depends on the type of radiation damage. Decontamination, if warranted, is essential. Transfusion of fluids, red blood cells, white blood cells, and platelets may be necessary.
Drug TherapiesYour provider may prescribe a variety of medications, depending on the specific ailments resulting from radiation damage.
Surgical and Other ProceduresSurgery may be required to prevent further cell damage, or to graft healthy tissue onto a damaged area.
Complementary and Alternative TherapiesA comprehensive treatment plan for radiation damage may include a range of complementary and alternative therapies.
- Follow a whole-foods diet of fresh fruits and vegetables, whole grains, legumes, and anti-inflammatory fats (for example, cold-water fish, nuts, and seeds).
- Avoid pro-inflammatory and nutrient-poor foods such as caffeine, alcohol, sugar, saturated fats (for example, animal products), refined foods, and additives.
- Vitamin C (1,000 mg three to four times per day), vitamin E (400 IU two to three times per day), coenzyme Q10 (100 mg two to three times per day), and melatonin (2 to 10 mg per day)
- Glutathione (500 mg two times per day)
- Vitamin A (10,000 IU per day) or beta carotene (25,000 IU per day) and zinc (30 mg per day).
- L-glutamine (3 to 10 g three times per day) protects intestinal mucosa.
- Bromelain (250 to 500 mg between meals) decreases inflammation. Use with turmeric (Curcuma longa, 500 mg four times per day).
HerbsHerbal remedies may offer relief from symptoms. Herbs are generally available as dried extracts (pills, capsules, or tablets), teas, or tinctures (alcohol extraction, unless otherwise noted). Dose for teas is 1 heaping tsp/cup water steeped for 10 minutes (roots need 20 minutes).
- Rutin (100 mg to 200 mg one to three times per day)
- Milk thistle (Silybum marianum), 100 mg three times per day
- Gotu kola (Centella asiatica), 1,000 mg four times per day or standardized extract 60 mg twice a day
- Marshmallow root (Althaea officinalis) tea to soothe inflamed tissues. Soak 1 heaping tbsp. of root in 1 quart of cold water overnight. Strain and drink throughout the day. May be taken long-term.
- Equal parts of coneflower (Echinacea purpurea), goldenseal (Hydrastis canadensis), marigold (Calendula officinalis), licorice root (Glycyrrhiza glabra), plantain (Plantago lanceolata), and wild lettuce (Lactuca virosa) provide immune support, enhance healing, and relieve pain. Take 30 to 60 drops four times per day for six to eight weeks.
- For long-term use, combine goldenseal, licorice root, marigold, red clover (Trifolium pratense), wild yam (Dioscorea villosa), and meadowsweet (Filipendula ulmaria). Take 30 to 60 drops two to four times per day.
Radium bromatum is specific for radiation poisoning, especially followed by arthritic complaints. Acute dose is three to five pellets of 12X to 30C every one to four hours until symptoms are relieved.
A body wash of coneflower, goldenseal, comfrey root (Symphytum officinalis), and sea buckthorn (Hippophae rhamnoides) helps healing and reduces the risk of infection. Vitamin E oil applied to the skin twice daily, and Aloe vera extract applied as needed help healing.
Prognosis/Possible ComplicationsThe outcome varies depending on the level of radiation exposure, the promptness of treatment, and the thoroughness of ongoing monitoring. Long-term complications may include cancer, liver failure, deformity, sterility, and thickening and scarring of lung, liver, and kidney tissue.
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JMR Electronics recently designed and built a high performance server and storage system for the production of the world’s first high-frame-rate 3D movie. UFOTOG, a 10-minute short that tells the story of a man’s attempt to photograph alien spacecraft, is the work of director, visual effects pioneer and filmmaking visionary Douglas Trumbull. In a cinematic first, Trumbull shot the film in stereoscopic 3D at 4K resolution and at a camera speed of 120 frames per second. JMR’s unique server and storage solution was used on the set to collect, manage, playback and edit the huge amounts of image data produced during the making of the film.
UFOTOG is more than a demonstration of high-frame-rate imagery; it embodies Trumbull’s concept for a new form of cinematic entertainment. Known for his work on such films as 2001: A Space Odyssey, Close Encounters of the Third Kind and Blade Runner, Trumbull believes that films shot at ultra-high resolution and frame rates (and supported by equally rich soundtracks) will deliver a kind of immersive experience that will draw more people to movie theaters.
“Profoundly increasing the frame rate, results in a tremendous increase in vividness and saturation, and an extremely lifelike illusion,” Trumbull said. “What you see on the screen is less like a movie and more like a live event.”
The production of the type of films that Trumbull envisions will entail significant changes to current production workflows, in part to manage the volume of data produced by high-resolution cameras shooting at ultra-high frame rates. UFOTOG was shot with Canon C500 cameras (paired in a 3ality 3D camera rig), recording RAW data at 120 fps. Actors and other live elements were primarily shot on a green screen stage (at Trumbull’s studio) and composited into 3D virtual sets.
In order to make this work, Trumbull and his production team needed the ability to perform real-time playback of the 120 fps, 4K, 3D camera media, and quickly provide it to compositors. Designing an appropriate workflow for that task proved daunting.
“The amount of data that we would be collecting on set was the key issue,” said Timothy Huber of Theory Consulting, the project’s technology consultant. “Doug needed a playback server that would work at 120 frames per second for both eyes. Virident Systems had a flash storage device with the bandwidth to playback material at that speed, but the motherboards and graphics processors couldn’t handle it. The bottleneck wasn’t the storage infrastructure, it was everything else.”
Huber sought the support of JMR Electronics, which has been designing and building storage solutions for more than 30 years. “They plugged in the Virident cards and found the right combination of motherboard, processor, memory and GPU,” Huber said. “Within two weeks, they got it working.”
“JMR has a long history of pushing the envelope and maximizing the performance of their systems,” Huber said. “They know how to integrate all the pieces. It’s more than knowing the specs for each processor; you have to know how they all work together.”
The JMR capture server was initially brought onto the set and used to facilitate real-time playback and compositing. Later, it was moved to a near-set compositing facility while linked to the set via an InfiniBand 56 GB connection. JMR provided round-the-clock tech support.
“The system kept chugging away despite all the footage that was thrown at it and some very long work cycles,” said JMR Electronics technical products specialist Miguel A. Saldate. “It speaks to the quality of our engineering, the way we build our boxes, the materials we choose, the way we design air flow, the power provisioning, the component and software selection.”
Based on their experience with UFOTOG, Trumbull and Huber have begun drawing up workflows for future high-frame-rate productions that include a similar flash storage capture server as its data hub. “Once data is captured by the camera, it has to be downloaded into a storage medium and then made available to compositors, editors and post production people to manipulate and manage,” Trumbull said. “That’s where the JMR’s technology comes into play for us. Their products are at the leading edge of workstations that allow artists to work at high bandwidth.”
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continued …………………Looking at the personal stories
Field names, old land deeds, parish records and manor court rolls are one source of historic research; another is the ups and downs of family fortunes. Both Jennifer and Barbara are experienced in family history research and this too was a rich seam for revealing the Park’s past. A particularly interesting century was the 18th – when the agricultural revolution took off and social mobility became much more fluid.
The Manor of Guiseley and Esholt was sold to its tenants in 1719. It then became possible for local farmers like Quaker John Blessard, Stephen and Martha Overend and socially mobile widow Susannah Walker to harness new technology such as iron-plate ploughs and try new crops such as potatoes.
As the 18th century rolled on the fields were brought and sold, some becoming part of the accumulated ‘estates’ of emerging ‘Gentlemen’ such as John Burton of Wakefield. Mr Burton rented out land to be farmed by reliable local tenants who would look after its fertility – people such as Churchwarden James Leadbetter, who was the occupier of the top field of the Park called Little Kelcliffe. Little Kelcliffe we found was frequently used for meadow and hay making a practice confirmed by both a metal detecting survey and stories from older Guiseley people who took time of school to help.
As the 18th century turned into the 19th, the great Georgian house building period began, as people grew wealthier, became clothiers, and wanted bigger and better houses: it is during this time that some of the older houses around the Park along Kelcliffe Lane were built – including Flatfield House, New Dykes, and Crooklands followed by Kelcliffe Mount. The lane itself had only been made up around 1709 to go to the tannery, previously it had been a simple riding way and footpath.
The Jonathan Peate connection
Around 1900, as Guiseley became a thriving manufacturing township, complete with public buildings and modern transport such as trams and railways, the land around the park was bought by local woollen cloth manufacturer and philanthropist Jonathan Peate. Jonathan was well-known for buying land and helping the local working men to acquire allotments and houses on favourable term. He also presented land to the urban district councils of Yeadon and Guiseley to use for public buildings eg Yeadon Town Hall or as public open space eg Nunroyd Park. We found in the deeds that he had purchased Clapper Brow and it is likely that around 1909, the time of the coronation of George V, he planted the oak trees that still line the boundary in what is now a small wood.
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The thought of learning while sleeping has always been fascinating to us. People have practiced placing books underneath their pillows as they believed they would somehow acquire the knowledge in their sleep.
For centuries, it is believed that our brains are simply more active and capable during sleep than the awake state. And, while you cannot learn much from a closed book under the pillow, we can most certainly learn things in our sleep via other methods.
So, the short answer to the main question is, yes, we can learn pretty much anything while we sleep.
The long answer is, well, in the rest of the article, since the learning part isn’t that simple.
Can You Learn Anything While You Sleep?
Hypnopaedia, also known as sleep-learning, is an attempt to acquire new knowledge (usually through playing a sound or recording) in your sleep.
However, to understand how we can learn anything in our sleep, it is important to understand how our brains process information and how we ‘learn’.
First of all, it is important to point out that it is very hard for us to consciously remember anything that goes on in our brains while we sleep.
However, that does not affect our brains in terms of being able to store and process what has been conscious before we fell asleep.
That means that short-term memory is being processed into long-term memory during the phases of our sleep, non-REM, and REM stages.
To be more precise, we can say that certain changes in the brain do occur even if they could be ascribed to the unconscious activity. Indeed, the memory system in the brain is active during sleep, as the hippocampus (responsible for memory formation) is most active during the slow-wave sleep.
Hippocampus, on the other hand, isn’t very much active while we’re awake. The memory system, nevertheless, manages to replay the information we acquired during wakefulness, ascribe certain visual and auditory cues to the information, and form long-term memory.
That is how humans process words, images, sounds, feelings, and sensations, as well as how we learn to recognize them in the future due to the long-term storage of the information.
What can we learn during sleep?
Now, when we said that you can learn anything in your sleep, it might have been a too farfetched statement. Sure, you can learn in sleep, but there is a limit to what content and information your brain can process while you’re in the land of nod. So, let’s take a look at the specific, researched, things we can learn in our sleep;
1. Slon means elephant in Balkan languages. – Learning languages and words
A recent experiment, conducted with German-speaking participants, has shown that people can learn foreign words, or expand their vocabulary in other languages, in their sleep.
The experiment has been conducted in such a way that the participants were asked to go to sleep, while researchers played sounds of certain foreign words. Upon waking up, the participants were asked to identify and translate the words they’ve listed in their sleep.
Turns out, the accuracy with which the participants identified and translated the words was higher than 10% when compared to participants who were not exposed to the sounds of the words in their sleep.
To confirm that these results can be directly tied to the participants learning in their sleep, the researchers did the following; they played the same words to people who were awake and doing trivial, day-to-day things, like walking or cleaning.
Those people, in the end, couldn’t recall any of the words or translations when tested afterward.
2. Where are my keys again? – Learning where we place things
This may be one of the most common problems in people; we tend to forget where we place our things. However, a study has shown that we can recall and process the location where we’ve put something while we’re asleep.
The study has been conducted with 60 adult participants who have been assigned to place virtual objects in particular locations on the screen. Every time they place something somewhere, particular sounds would play, so they would build an association between the locations and the sounds.
After the participants were done placing the objects, they were asked to take a 1.5-hours nap.
During the nap, the participants have been exposed to the same sounds they listened to while placing the objects.
Upon waking up, the participants reported not hearing any of those sounds in their sleep.
However, when asked to name the locations where they’ve put certain objects, they knew the answers. Moreover, the higher the value of an object, or the more distinct the sound was, the better their guesses were.
3. Oh, that is the Moonlight Sonata! – Learning melodies and musical skills
Maybe you’ve noticed that the music you listen to before sleep is somehow better engraved in your memory; you recognize that music easier, faster and you seemingly know every word of a song or the complete melody.
A study has shown that people who practice playing instruments, even if they pretend to do so, are more likely to remember what they’ve learned after taking a nap than those who do not go to sleep or take naps.
Another study has shown that people are more likely to remember a certain melody if exposed to it during sleep than those who were not repeatedly exposed to the melody.
Upon waking up, people who have listened to the melody during sleep do not remember that. However, they were far better at recognizing the melody or even playing it.
4. I’m scared of heights! – Learning to deal with phobias and stress
Every human is scared of something; one person might be scared of heights, the other might be scared of spiders, and so on. However, studies have shown that we can learn to deal with our phobias and stress-inducing situations while we sleep.
According to a study, published in Nature Neuroscience, neuroscientists have shown how people can overcome their fears in their sleep. For example, several participants have explained their fears; then, they were advised to fall asleep.
During their sleep, they were exposed to positive images of the things they fear, and every time an image appeared, they were exposed to mild electric shocks (as if they were startled). This way, these people learned how to associate the images with a positive response, rather than fear.
Upon waking up, these participants were then exposed to the things that would usually trigger fear or their phobias. However, the fear response in the majority of the participants was less than it was before sleep.
Even MRIs showed decreased responses in the hippocampus as well as changes in the activity of the amygdala (associated with fear).
Is learning in sleep equal to associative learning?
In the previous paragraphs, we’ve provides studies and examples which prove people can learn in their sleep. However, most of the examples can be explained by associative learning.
This is the type of learning where we process information based on something we know, we’ve been exposed to or we’re familiar with; or to be more clear, we process information based on previously acquired associations. However, what happens when we’re exposed to information that we’ve never been exposed to before?
For example, when we’re exposed to fake languages and fake words; do we still associate them with the thing we’ve learned?
One study has shown that people do not process fake information as successfully as the information we find familiar.
For example, during the study, several participants were exposed to fake words and their translations during the slow-wave portion of their non-REM sleep.
Upon waking up, the participants were asked to guess the words and their translations.
However, they were not able to do so because they couldn’t consciously remember whether each foreign word means what they were taught in means during the sleep.
This means that the brain couldn’t create a long term memory of something that it consciously or subconsciously knows is fake or not true. The participants have shown signs of associations between fake words and their possible meaning, but none of their guesses were accurate after all.
Are there any practical applications of sleep-learning?
For now, sleep-learning is a concept that doesn’t have a practical application, other than helping individuals through sleep-therapy. People can make of sleep-learning whatever they want, but outside their own practices, learning in sleep is yet to be explored fully and applied in the world of learning.
However, it is believed that sleep-learning will become an important topic for research as well as that it will receive the practical attention it deserves. We people haven’t grasped the power of our brains fully, and are yet to do so.
On that road, we will probably realize how useful and important sleep-learning can be. It is believed that sleep-learning might have an application in helping people with learning difficulties and disorders (like dyslexia) or helping those who suffer from ADHD.
There still needs to be studied and research concerning the information acquiring during wakefulness and sleep. Comparative research and analysis should show which method of information acquiring is more effective.
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Voltage- and time-dependent valence state transition in cobalt oxide catalysts during the oxygen evolution reaction
The oxygen evolution reaction (OER) is the rate-limiting step for renewable-energy technologies, such as direct solar, water splitting, rechargeable metal-air batteries and regenerative fuel cells to meet the requirement of rapidly increasing global energy demand. To make improvements, the complex reaction processes and the catalytic active sites have to be determined. There is especially a high need to do this determination during the electrochemical reaction itself, i.e. in-operando.
The team around Zhiwei Hu from the MPI CPfS, together with colleagues from the Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the Beijing University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, the Tamkang University and the National Synchrotron Radiation Research Center in Taiwan, have successfully applied soft X-ray absorption spectroscopy (XAS) to follow in operando the valence and spin state of the Co ions in Li2Co2O4 under oxygen evolution reaction (OER) conditions. They have observed that a substantial fraction of the Co ions undergo a voltage- and time-dependent valence state transition from Co3+ to Co4+ together with a spontaneous delithiation. Fig. 1 shows that the Co4+ related spectral weight and the current density j (inset) increase with the time under applied voltages of 1.6 V. It is also remarkable that the edge-shared Co–O network and spin state of the Co ions remain unchanged. Density functional theory calculations confirm that the highly oxidized Co4+site is mainly responsible for the high OER activity, rather than the intermediate spin state Co3+ or the oxygen vacancy sites as often thought. The complex many-body electronic structure of the system is displayed by the cartoon in Fig.2, highlighting the importance of the oxygen ligand hole states around the Co4+ ions.
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While protesters are taking to the streets of America to protest police brutality and racial injustice, black and other students and alumni of color are using social media to tell personal stories of racism that they encountered in school — public and private, K-12 and college.
As reported by the New York Times, students are starting pages and inviting other students, alumni and even teachers to tell their stories. There are now scores of them, often beautifully composed text boxes that share stories of what it was and is to be black at those schools.
This post is from Alden S. Blodget, a white educator who spent decades working in private independent schools that claimed to have “diverse” and “inclusive” communities but didn’t. He said he tried to talk with black students to learn about their reality but didn’t get far. He writes:
They weren’t going to share painful experiences with some old white guy who ran a mostly white school, especially when those experiences criticized the school and belied our claims to having created a welcoming, diverse community. I was asking for their trust in a system that they didn’t experience as trustworthy …
Now, he writes, he sees promise in this new social media movement, writing, “Their collective voices challenge the empty rhetoric of our idealistic claims.”
Blodget was both a student of independent schools and a teacher of English and drama, as well as an administrator in five different schools in several states during his nearly four-decade academic career. He has published numerous pieces about education.
From 2000 until 2014, he worked with University of Southern California neuroscientist Mary Helen Immordino-Yang, offering workshops for teachers to explore the implications of her research and that of Harvard University’s Kurt W. Fischer.
By Alden S. Blodget
School people, especially boards and heads, are really good at spinning words into fluffy fantasies of utopian worlds where they have “created diverse, inclusive communities,” “protected and empowered the most vulnerable” and “cultivated environments to unlock the richness of diversity.” Lofty sentences appear in glossy catalogues and websites and swaddle prospective parents and students of color at open houses. School heads create a nice mission statement, appoint a diversity committee and hire an equity and inclusion coordinator. Problem solved. And as often happens, people start to mistake the hype for reality. Sweet land of liberty, of thee we sing. Unfortunately, real life tends to occur in the shadows.
When I was assistant head of school, I found the greatest challenge was penetrating the invisible world of youth. There is the world as adults want to imagine it, the world that conforms to the healthy, smiling images of our aspirations and mission statements and student handbooks. And there is the world of the young.
Students are masters of illusion, able to misdirect our attention to reinforce our beliefs. So, as a school administrator, I suspected that despite our complacent pride in our professed progress in creating a diverse, inclusive school, our students of color might not agree.
But I couldn’t find the truth. I met with black students, mostly one-on-one, and tried to get some insight into what their daily life was like, how they experienced the culture of the school. They were adept at remaining hidden.
Five years ago, Kip Bordelon published an article on the website of the National Association of Independent Schools titled, “What Happens to Empathy Deferred?” He wrote about the need for white people to see and understand the world from the perspective of a black person:
“ … the administration of each school must develop a realistic, accurate sense of the particular culture in which teachers and students of color live on their campuses. That is, schools must understand how these teachers and students experience life at their schools on a daily basis. Do they feel alone? Do they have a voice? Do they feel respected? ”
Recently, Mark Mitchell wrote a similar article, “Take a Selfie for Social Justice,” in which he suggests pretty much that same thing: adopting the “Mother Teresa Standard” that “we belong to each other” and recognizing the need for teachers and administrators to understand how students of color experience the culture of a school. “Who can’t breathe?” “Whose neck are you kneeling on?” He offers excellent suggestions for approaching and discussing challenging questions like these.
What I learned from my earlier experiences is that minority students didn't trust me. They weren't going to share painful experiences with some old white guy who ran a mostly white school, especially when those experiences criticized the school and belied our claims to having created a welcoming, diverse community. I was asking for their trust in a system that they didn't experience as trustworthy.
Gaining insight into the actual, lived experience of black students in our schools, getting at the truth, learning who can’t breathe requires a level of trust on the part of the powerless that simply has not been part of the culture. If the powerless can’t trust the powerful, they will not speak the truth. So I was not optimistic about Mitchell’s advice being any more productive than Bordelon’s.
Until the other day, when I discovered the “Black at” movement on Instagram, which finally offers students of color an anonymous community of voices free to share their experiences at various schools (such as Lawrenceville, Exeter, Andover, etc.). Their collective voices challenge the empty rhetoric of our idealistic claims:
“I was told by my dorm advisor … that my interracial relationship with a white male was an abomination and we both were forced to call our guardians in front of him to let them know what we were doing. Whenever he would see us together, he would make us separate. That teacher is still there.”
“MLK Day was my least favorite day of the year … We had no classes and instead took workshops on diversity. But this meant I had to hear racist comments all day long in the workshops and even during lunch break when I made the mistake of sitting with my dorm. Ex: Discussions about how affirmative action led to black students who didn’t belong [here] being admitted, [conversations] about the N word, ignorant opinions about what is wrong with the black community, interracial dating and gold digging, etc. I felt uncomfortable, singled out, and miserable …”
“A white classmate introduced me to a white male student who randomly asked me if I knew a certain black male student. … I said yes. He told me they had been assigned roommates as new [students] and he didn’t like it because he didn’t like waking up to see his bare black a** every morning, and he laughed. I did not. Then he told me someone left a note that said [the N word] on their door, and he laughed again. Later, I asked the black student if that was true about the note, and why I hadn’t heard about it. He just looked at me, like, ‘You know why. What’s the point?’”
The opportunity here is powerful. It is way past time for schools to stop the self-delusion and self-congratulations for rhetorical and symbolic solutions that have failed to address the experiences of students of color for decades. The voices on Instagram are not presenting a new reality.
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During the RESNET 2021 Virtual Conference in February, RESNET and Habitat for Humanity International demonstrated their continued collaboration with a keynote address and sessions. A record 180 Habitat affiliate attendees joined the RESNET 2021 Virtual Conference. A key goal of the collaboration is to demonstrate that homes can be energy efficient without losing their affordability. To date, new homes built by Habitat for Humanity had more efficient homes as demonstrated by the RESNET HERS Index Score than the average new home built in the U.S. As part of the collaboration between RESNET and HFHI, the organizations will cross-promote the HERS ratings as the metric of energy-efficient homes and the efforts of Habitat in creating efficient, affordable homes. The goal is to create tools for each organization’s members can use to demonstrate the alliance between energy efficiency and long-term affordable housing. The RESNET 2021 Virtual Conference premiered with a keynote address from Jonathan Reckford, CEO of Habitat for Humanity International. In his address, Reckford discussed Habitat’s commitment to sustainability, how RESNET and Habitat work together, and the role of certified RESNET HERS Raters in meeting the organization’s goals. During the Conference’s live sessions, Edwin Hensley, director of construction for Habitat for Humanity International, participated in a panel discussion titled: “Nexus of Affordability and Energy Efficiency: A Discussion.” Habitat representatives also participated in pre-recorded sessions: “HERS and the Affordable Housing Crisis” and “Resilient + Efficient + Affordable = Sustainable.” Note that RESNET Virtual Conference attendees will have access to recorded live stream sessions and on-demand sessions until the end of 2021; these sessions can be used to earn up to 18 hours in PD credits. Habitat for Humanity International is the 20th largest homebuilder in the U.S. closing 3,841homes in 2020. To date, Habitat has built 10,910 homes that were HERS rated. The average HERS Index Score of a Habitat home built in 2019 is 54. This means that Habitat built homes in 2019 were 46% more efficient than a home built nationally in 2006. The average HERS Index Score of homes rated in the U.S. in 2020 is 58. | <urn:uuid:af172c93-a3d9-4767-afdc-6695602bd934> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.resnet.us/articles/resnet-hfhi-foster-energy-efficient-affordable-homes-during-resnet2021/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571911.5/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813081639-20220813111639-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.939356 | 475 | 1.6875 | 2 |
Criminals are still able to steal Experian customer accounts with relative ease, cybersecurity researchers have claimed.
While the company claims the method (explained below) is not a viable way to steal people’s accounts, independent researcher Brian Krebs (opens in new tab) managed to recreate it, confirming the strategy actually works.
The good news is that the victims can wrestle back control of their accounts rather quickly.
Here’s what happened: two people – one from Salt Lake City, and another from Boston, recently had their Experian accounts stolen. The attackers knew some of their personal information, reached out to the company and convinced it to assign a different email address to the account.
The accounts’ actual holders were never notified on their original emails.
Investigating on the matter, Krebs reached out to Experian, which described the attacks as “isolated incidents”, and the attack as unviable. “Once an Experian account is created, if someone attempts to create a second Experian account, our systems will notify the original email on file,” Experian told Krebs.
It also goes “beyond reliance on personally identifiable information (PII) or a consumer’s ability to answer knowledge-based authentication questions to access our systems,” it added.
Krebs, however, managed to recreate the attack and steal his own account. He used a different computer, and with the knowledge of his Social Security number, date of birth, and the answer to a couple of questions, managed to convince Experian to change the email address associated with the account.
All the data needed to pull the attack off could be bought on the dark web, from previous attacks or leaks, or could be obtained via social engineering attacks.
“Experian promptly changed the email address associated with my credit file,” he wrote. “It did so without first confirming that new email address could respond to messages, or that the previous email address approved the change.”
Once the email is changed, all notifications go to that new address, meaning changing the password, or being able to communicate with the company, gets a lot harder.
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Worker Killed While Dismantling Oil Tank in Wyoming
Wyoming FACE 93WY019
A 53 year old truck driver died from injuries suffered when he was buried under debris from the roof cave-in of an empty oil tank. The victim had been sleeping inside a camper trailer while his co-workers were cleaning oil residue from tanks being dismantled for transportation to a location out of state. Earlier, the victim and a co-worker had removed some bolts from the roof of an empty tank.
When the victim awoke, he apparently went to the tank from which the roof bolts had been removed. It is uncertain whether he went inside the tank or climbed to the roof of the tank. He was found buried among the debris inside the tank that occurred when the unbolted roof caved in. The co-workers returned and searched for the victim, then noticed that the roof was missing from the tank they had prepared. Looking inside, they found the victim under the debris. They attempted to dislodge the victim with a winch truck which was at the location. A worker from another oil field came by and called 911.
The victim was unconscious at the time he was found, and had no pulse according to rescuers. He was pronounced dead at the scene as a result of injuries received from the roof cave in. Post-mortem blood testing indicated a BAC level of 0.24.
Employers may be able to minimize the potential for occurrence of this type of incident through the following precautions:
- Establish and enforce policy that workers not conduct potentially dangerous tasks alone
- Prohibit the use of alcohol and other drugs on work sites
- Provide a system of communication (i.e. log book or check-off schedule to inform co-workers of work completed.
On a late Thursday afternoon, September 2, 1993 a truck driver who was employed by a friend to help dismantle and move some empty oil tanks from an oil field to a farm location outside the state was asleep at a table in a camper trailer at the site. He had been eating lunch with two co-workers and reportedly fell asleep at the table after finishing lunch. The three workers had driven together to the oil field to begin dismantling some 10000 barrel oil tanks that were to be transferred to the employer in exchange for moving them off of the oil field site.
The employer discovered that the tanks needed to be cleaned of oil residue and an oil field employee ordered a clean-up crew to clean out the tanks. While the employer and his two workers waited for the clean-up crew to arrive, they went into the camper to eat a late lunch. The truck arrived in the late afternoon. The victim had fallen asleep at the table so the employer and the other worker went with the clean-up truck to clean out the empty tanks. After abut 2 hours spent cleaning two tanks, the clean-up crew started on a third tank, and the employer went to inspect a fourth tank. He then went past his camper and went inside to see if the victim had awakened. Not finding the victim in the camper, he went outside to look around and saw an aluminum ladder propped up against a tank near the camper. Closer investigation showed that the roof of the tank was missing.
Before stopping for lunch, the employer and the victim had removed bolts from the roof of the tank so that it would be ready to dismantle later. When the employer saw that the ladder had been placed against the tank and that the roof was missing, he thought that the victim might have tried to lower the roof alone. He went around to the clean-out door of the tank and saw the victim lying against the wall with sections of the roof pinning him to the wall.
Through a reciprocal notification agreement with the Director of the Occupational Safety and Health Division of the Department of Employment, the WY- Wyoming FACE Project was notified on September 7, 1993. Reports were requested and received from coroner’s and enforcement offices and an investigation was conducted.
The victim’s employer/co-worker was an employee of an out-of-state service which was under contract with an in-state oil field to dismantle and move empty oil tanks in exchange for ownership of every other tank removed. The victim was a friend of his employer/ co-worker who had come along to help with the work. There was no contracted or documented employer-employee relationship, but the person identified here as the employer was the person legitimately in charge of the operation. The victim received his instructions from the person identified herein as the employer. That person, and the second co-worker were both under the employ of the out-of-state service company.
There were no witnesses to the actual incident. Evidence at the scene, including the existence of a ladder propped against the side of the tank where the roof caved in, suggest that the victim may have climbed up onto the roof where the bolts had been loosened or removed, and his weight may have caused the roof to fall into the tank. When he was discovered, he was inside the tank, pinned to the wall by sections of the roof, and was unconscious.
The victim and his employer had worked on that roof earlier and had either removed some or all of the bolts, or had removed the nuts from the bolts leaving some or all of them intact. After the incident occurred bolts and nuts were found in the surrounding area with at least one bolt that had been partially stripped. Several areas of the tank appeared to be bent upward as if bolts had been attached to the roof and were pulled loose as it fell. Whether the victim fell with the roof or was inside when the roof fell has not been determined.
When the employer discovered the victim, he drove his pickup to where the clean-up crew was working and called them to help him. His co-worker joined him in his pickup and they drove back to where the victim was pinned inside the tank. While the workers tried to free the victim, the driver of the clean-up truck radioed for help. The employer tried to back a winch truck close enough to use it to lift the roof pieces, but the winch was to short. The co-worker tried to find a pulse on the victim but could not find one, and it appeared that the victim was not breathing. Through the efforts of the employer and co-worker, they were able to lift the roof pieces enough to drag the victim out through the tank clean out hole.
Since neither of the workers was wearing a watch and no other witnesses were present, it is difficult to determine times. The workers were told in the late afternoon that the clean-up crew had arrived and approximate that they spent around two hours working with the clean-up crew before returning to the tank where the victim was found. The report called in for emergency response generally corroborates that time period, as does the coroner’s determination of the time of death. It appears that the victim died approximately an hour after the co-workers had left him asleep at the table.
No citations were issued by Wyoming OSHA, as the victim appeared to have acted on his own without direction or control from other parties. There was no documented employer/employee relation between the victim and the other workers, or between the victim and the company that employed the other workers. However, OSHA did note that “All employees, whether volunteers along for the ride or are paid employees must remain in an alert condition and not let alcohol become a factor in any endeavor.”
Post-mortem blood test results showed that the victim had a Blood Alcohol Content (BAC) level of 0.24. This is an excessively high level (more than twice the legal limit for driving in Wyoming) and undoubtedly contributed to the incident’s occurrence.
CAUSE OF DEATH
The Medical Examiner listed the cause of death as suffocation due to sudden traumatic compression of the chest.
This incident could have been prevented by the victim himself by maintaining a condition of awareness while conducting a task that, of itself, requires clear thinking and coordination. The use of alcohol to a degree that caused him to pass out at the table, and to register such a high level of alcohol in the blood stream at the time of death, deprived the victim of the alertness necessary to conduct the task in a safe manner. If the victim did, in fact, climb onto the roof and fall with the roofing materials, he had apparently not remembered that he had helped loosen the roof at an earlier time.
In this instance, it may not have been practical for the employer/co-worker to have remained on the scene to guard against the victim’s awakening and attempting to work on the tank without supervision. The duties of the task required the co-workers to go with the clean-up crew to prepare the tanks for dismantling. The co-workers obviously knew what condition the victim was in, but might reasonably supposed that the best solution was to let him “sleep in off” while they did the job that they were hired to do.
Employers would be well reminded that certain tasks require more than one worker for the safety of the worker involved. It appears that, in this instance, the workers (with the exception of the victim) understood the need to not work alone on the task that the victim was attempting to complete – that of dismantling the roof of the tank. The victim’s attempt to do the job alone showed a lack of clear-headed regard for safety.
While it may not have made a difference in this instance, the use of check-off schedules or log-book entries when there are more than one task being conducted, or where a task is left uncompleted for future completion, is a good way for workers to know or to be reminded of the status of a particular task. Most workers would remember that they had partially dismantled a tank roof and would take precautions before climbing on or under that roof. However, with multiple workers doing multiple jobs, there is the potential that a worker might unknowingly attempt to do a job that another had partially completed. In that instance, documentation of what has already been done could be life-saving.
A part of the tragedy of an incident like this one is that it subjects innocent people to indulge in self-blame. The victim died from his own lack of judgement; but his friends are left feeling that they could have, or should have, watched him more closely, or left him at home, or stopped him from drinking. The incident would not have occurred if the victim had not been intoxicated. Out of friendship, or safety, or professionalism, the co-workers would have been better off had they kept the victim from drinking. Other than that, there is little they could have done to prevent the incident and its tragic results.
FATAL ACCIDENT CIRCUMSTANCES AND EPIDEMIOLOGY ( Wyoming FACE ) PROJECT
The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), Division of Safety Research (DSR), performs Fatal Accident Circumstances and Epidemiology ( Wyoming FACE ) investigations when a participating state reports an occupational fatality and requests technical assistance. The goal of these evaluations is to prevent fatal work injuries in the future by studying the working environment, the worker, the task the worker was performing, the tools the worker was using, the energy exchange resulting in fatal injury, and the role of management in controlling how these factors interact.
States participating in this study include: Kentucky, Maryland, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia.
NIOSH Funded/State-based Wyoming FACE Projects providing surveillance and intervention capabilities to show a measurable reduction in workplace fatalities include: Alaska, California, Colorado, Georgia, Indiana, Iowa, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Minnesota, Missouri, Wisconsin and Wyoming.
Additional information regarding this report is available from:
Wyoming Occupational Fatality Analysis Program
522 Hathaway Building – 2300 Capitol Avenue
Cheyenne, WY 82002
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Implant Supported Bridge
These bridges build back your smile and help you to speak and chew properly by restoring the natural size, shape and colour of your teeth. They help to maintain teeth from shifting out of position. By placing a dental implant, we may be able to join two artificial teeth to the surgically inserted fixture, which will leave you with a complete smile done in the least invasive manner possible. Screw retention allows for easy removal of bridge when necessary. There is no need to drill away existing teeth as you would with conventional tooth supported bridge.
- Over 95% success rate
- Restore 70%of your biting force
- Enhances your oral health
- Better pronunciation and heightened confidence
- No damage to the neighbouring teeth
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You can get the best out of your car window tint by proper and regular maintenance. Anything that is well-taken care has a long-lasting use. The following are the ways on how to maintain your car window tint:
- After window tint installation, make sure not to roll down your car window. You have to patiently wait at least two to four days to let it cure.
- You should not clean your windows right away because it will damage the film. Allow the window film to dry for several weeks.
- Remember to use soft cloth or paper towel to avoid scratches on the window film. Avoid using a cloth that has abrasive materials.
- Never use ammonia-based cleaning products. It causes film color fading. It also loses the adhesive property of the window film.
- Cleaning will be difficult if it is done directly under the sun. Place your car under a roof or complete shade to avoid too much exposure. This might cause issues and will damage your car.
- Do not do anything to any noticeable tiny bubbles and haze.
- In case of a damaged window tint, ask for professional help.
Follow the step-by-steps procedure in cleaning you car window tint:
- Prepare all the materials needed such as soft cloth, water, spray bottle and ammonia-free glass cleaner.
- Spray water on the car window or on the cloth.
- Gently wipe the whole window both in vertical and horizontal manner.
- Double check if there are dirt and streak.
- Repeat the process until perfectly clean.
- Wipe the top portion of the car window.
- Repeat the process on the rest of the car windows.
After learning the steps in cleaning and ways on maintaining car window tint, you can now enjoy its benefits such as the following:
- Your vision while driving is improved.
- Your security and privacy levels are increased.
- You are protected from glare and direct sunlight.
- You save money, fuel, and energy.
- Your air conditioning system can have a longer lifespan.
- You can drive with eases and comfort because the interior of the car is kept cool.
- You add value to your vehicle.
Some people would say that window tint is only for appearance.But with the right knowledge on cleaning and maintenance, you will make the best use of car window tinting for years. | <urn:uuid:7eeaad3c-19ed-4d8e-bc66-541ff3ce213f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://mobilewindowtint.com/automotive/ways-on-how-to-take-good-care-of-your-car-window-tint/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571538.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812014923-20220812044923-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.921724 | 488 | 1.59375 | 2 |
The family of a plane-mad teen are raising money to help him fulfill his dream of becoming a pilot.
Alex Rapson, 18, has been obsessed by planes ever since was was a kid – and was determined to be an aviator from 11.
But he now needs thousands of dollars to follow the career.
Dad Leigh Rapson says Alex worked hard to get his A-Levels and now needs to attend a flight school but courses cost around an eyewatering 100,000 British pounds ($122,000).
The family from Plymouth in Devon, in the U.K., have already placed a 9,500 pounds ($11,600) deposit and with university grants, the total cost of the course falls to 75,100 pounds ($91,700).
They are now asking the public to help them raise 25,000 pounds ($30,500).
Alex said: ”I can still remember my first flight, Exeter to Paris Charles De Gaul.
”It was in 2010 and my man treated us to a trip to Disneyland Paris.
”I can’t remember too much of the trip but I can vividly remember most things to do with the flight there and I quickly became obsessed with aviation.”
A pilot course in Oxford Alex wants to attend costs a staggering 99,500 pounds ($121,600).
Alex said: “In my eyes, it’s a terrifying amount of money. It’s not affordable for families on lower income.
”That’s why I want to create a not-for-profit once I’ve passed my course and am in a job.
”I want to try and help other families who have dreams of becoming a pilot but are in the same boat where you don’t have access to tens or hundreds of thousands of pounds.”
Having passed the entry exams for the course with flying colors, Alex is due to start the course in September, if the money can be raised.
In a bid to do everything they can to help his parents have taken up extra part-time jobs to help raise the funds.
“I am beyond grateful for what my parents are doing. I honestly cannot thank them enough for the hard work they are putting into my dream.” Alex said.
Leigh added: “Since Alex was around seven years old he was fascinated with planes – anywhere we went.
”He said he wanted to be a pilot from a young age and his dream to become a pilot has never wavered.
“It’s very much if you have 100,000 pounds [$122,000] to pay, brilliant, but if not, then do something else.
”It is about trying to break that mold as well. It should be an accessible career.
“I hope people see that we are two parents trying really hard to make sure our son can do what he wants to do in life.
”That comes with our own sacrifices, and we have made big sacrifices to try and do it and don’t want people to think we are begging because we can’t be bothered.
”That’s why the funding amount is 25,000 pounds [$30,500] and not 75,000 pounds [$91,600]. We are finding 50,000 pounds [$61,000] of it and we just need some help.”
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ASTM International - ASTM D7687-11
Standard Test Method for Measurement of Cellular Adenosine Triphosphate in Fuel, Fuel/Water Mixtures, and Fuel-Associated Water with Sample Concentration by Filtration
|Publication Date:||1 April 2011|
|ICS Code (Liquid fuels):||75.160.20|
significance And Use:
This test method measures the concentration of cellular-ATP present in the sample. ATP is a constituent of all living cells, including bacteria and fungi. Consequently, the presence of... View More
This test method measures the concentration of cellular-ATP present in the sample. ATP is a constituent of all living cells, including bacteria and fungi. Consequently, the presence of cellular-ATP is an indicator of total metabolically active microbial contamination in fuels. ATP is not associated with matter of non-biological origin.
This test method is similar to Test Method E2694 except for the volumes sampled.
This test method differs from Test Method D4012 in that it utilizes filtration and wash steps designed to eliminate interferences that have historically rendered ATP testing unusable with complex organic fluids such as fuel, fuel/water mixtures and fuel-associated water.
This test method differs from Test Method D7463 in several regards:
Test Method D7463 reports relative light units (RLU). Consistent with Test Method D4012 and E2694, this test method reports ATP concentration.
This test method detects only cellular-ATP and it can be used to detect cellular-ATP in fuels and fuel stocks from which small quantities of water do not separate readily (for example, ethanol blended gasoline containing ≥ 5% v/v ethanol). Test Method D7463 cannot be used to recover ATP from fuels from which small quantities of water do not separate readily (for example, ethanol blended gasoline containing ≥ 5% v/v ethanol).
This test method measures cellular-ATP in a single measurement (as pg ATP/mL). Test Method D7463 detects total ATP (as RLU) and extra-cellular ATP (as RLU) using two separate analyses and permits computation of cellular-ATP (as RLU) as the difference between total and extracellular ATP.
Test Method D7463 suggests a nominal 500 mL fuel sample volume. This test method suggests a nominal 20 mL fuel sample.
This test method can be used with all fuels specified in Specifications D396, D975, D1655, D2069, D2880, D3699, D6751, and D7467 and other fuels with nominal viscosities ≤ 75 cSt at 20 ± 2°.
The ATP test provides rapid test results that reflect the total bioburden in the sample. It thereby reduces the delay between test initiation and data capture, from the 36 to 48 h (or longer) required for culturable colonies to become visible, to approximately 5 min.
Although ATP data generally covary with culture data in fuel, fuel/water mixtures, and fuel-associated water, different factors affect ATP concentration than those that affect culturability.
Culturability is affected primarily by the ability of captured microbes to proliferate on the growth medium provided, under specific growth conditions. Consequently, a proportion of the active or inactive microbial population present in a sample may be viable but not detected by any one culture test.
ATP concentration is affected by: the microbial species present, the physiological states of those species, and the total bioburden (see Appendix X1).
One example of the species effect is that the amount of ATP per cell is substantially greater for active fungal cells than bacteria.
Within a species, cells that are more metabolically active will have more ATP per cell than dormant cells, such as fungal spores. Because fungal spores are more hydrophobic than active fungal material (mycelium), spores may be the only indicator of fungal proliferation when fuel samples are taken from some fuel systems, but they will not be detected by a test for ATP.
The greater the total bioburden, the greater the ATP concentration in a sample.
The possibility exists that the rinse step (11.15) may not eliminate all chemical substances that can interfere with the bioluminescence reaction (11.39).
The presence of any such interferences can be evaluated by performing a standard addition test series or dilution series as described in Appendix X4.View Less
1.1 This test method covers a protocol for capturing, extracting and quantifying the cellular adenosine triphosphate (cellular-ATP) content associated with microorganisms found in fuels, fuel/water mixtures and fuel-associated water.
1.2 The ATP is measured using a bioluminescence enzyme assay, whereby light is generated in amounts proportional to the concentration of cellular-ATP in the samples. The light is produced and measured quantitatively as relative light units (RLU) which are converted by comparison with an ATP standard, computation to pg ATP/mL and optional further transformation to Log10[pg ATP/mL].
1.3 This test method is equally suitable for use as a laboratory or portable method.
1.4 This test method is limited to fuels with a nominal viscosity ≤ 75cSt at test temperature.
1.5 This test method detects ATP concentrations in the range of 5.0 pg ATP/mL (0.699 log10[pg ATP/mL]) to 100 000 pg ATP/mL (5.000 log10[pg ATP/mL]) for 20 mL samples of fuel or fuel/water mixtures, and 20 pg ATP/mL (1.301 log10[pg ATP/mL]) to 400 000 pg ATP/mL (5.602 log10[pg ATP/mL]) for 5 mL samples of fuel-associated water.
Note 1-These ranges were calculated with the formula for calculating sample ATP in pg/mL provided in 12.1 based on the minimum recommended RLU for a 1 ng ATP/mL standard when using the reagents specified in Section 7 and the luminometer specified in 6.4 and corrected with a reagent-method blank as determined in Appendix X5.
1.6 Providing interferences can be overcome, bioluminescence is a reliable and proven method for qualifying and quantifying ATP. This test method does not differentiate between ATP from different sources, for example: from different types of microorganisms, such as bacteria and fungi.
1.7 The values stated in SI units are to be regarded as standard. No other units of measurement are included in this standard.
1.8 This standard does not purport to address all of the safety concerns, if any, associated with its use. It is the responsibility of the user of this standard to establish appropriate safety and health practices and determine the applicability of regulatory limitations prior to use. | <urn:uuid:a4d68b6b-f3c8-422f-aa5c-37084436aee4> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://standards.globalspec.com/std/3842943/astm-d7687-11 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571911.5/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813081639-20220813111639-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.883648 | 1,459 | 2.390625 | 2 |
(COLOMBO, LANKAPUVATH) –The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) recently partnered with Facebook to support youth social innovation in Sri Lanka through the HackaDev program in 2019/2020, UNDP said in a media release.
Today’s generation of adolescents and youth stands at 1.8 billion people – the largest our world has ever seen. Most of these young people live in developing countries. The energy, enthusiasm, and innovation of this large youth generation can bring a huge demographic dividend to countries and to our world, UNDP said.
To receive dividends however one has to invest – and for youth that means investments in education and skills training and in all the other services which widen opportunity.
It also means a commitment to inclusion – economic, social, and political. Without conducive environments and the right policies in place, a demographic dividend won’t be realized. Yet it so easily can be – with the right policies and approaches, including on youth entrepreneurship. The alternative isn’t appealing – a generation with many unemployed and disengaged.
Globally, more than one fifth of young people are not in employment, education or training. That is why it is so critical to take fresh approaches to entrepreneurship, and to equip today’s youth with the skills to create their own jobs – and, as they succeed, to create jobs for others too.
In this context, Facebook recently partnered with the United Nations Development Programme to support youth social innovation in Sri Lanka through the HackaDev programme in 2019/2020.
“We’re excited to partner with UNDP to support the thriving local ecosystem. Facebook is committed to building an impactful developer community in Sri Lanka and believe it is important to support businesses, startups and the individuals who are driving innovation to grow and succeed. We are confident that this partnership will support a vibrant and transformative technology community in the country,” said, Yasas Vishuddhi Abeywickrama, Policy Programs Manager for Sri Lanka, Facebook.
HackaDev in a nutshell, is a crowd-sourcing exercise for sustainable development solutions. It is a platform that brings together youth from across Sri Lanka to design innovative solutions to a development challenge.
Facebook supported this effort considering its focus towards supporting entrepreneurs, SMEs and the startup economy in Sri Lanka. Facebook’s partnership also broadens to being a partner of the CITRA Innovation Lab, which is a co-financed initiative by UNDP and Ministry of Higher Education, Technology and Innovation.
More recently, Facebook also extended its support to UNDP’s ‘National Youth Dialogue on Innovation, Leadership and Entrepreneurship’ which was held on 26 February 2020, which brought together 300 young people from across the country.
Speaking about this partnership, Fadhil Bakeer Markar, Police and Engagement Team Leader at UNDP in Sri Lanka stated, “Young people are central to the work we do at UNDP. Today we are constantly looking and new ways to strengthen the youth entrepreneurship eco-system in the country. As such, we are pleased to partner with Facebook and be able to provide more support to young entrepreneurs in the country.”
UNDP’s National Dialogue in Sri Lanka was convened in partnership with the Ministry of Defence, Ministry of Sports and Youth Affairs, National Youth Services Council (NYSC), Information and Communication Technology Agency of Sri Lanka (ICTA), Vocational Training Authority of Sri Lanka, Citi, Cisco, IdeaMart, WHO Sri Lanka, UNESCO New Delhi Office, UNICEF Sri Lanka, UNV Sri Lanka, HackaDev, Technopreneurship for Social Change, Youth Co:Lab, Citra Social Innovation Lab, and Generation Unlimited. | <urn:uuid:8e76a776-88b6-4896-8edd-0b97d0668ad9> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://english.lankapuvath.lk/2020/03/10/undp-partners-with-facebook-to-support-youth-innovation-and-entrepreneurship-in-sri-lanka/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572043.2/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814143522-20220814173522-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.935614 | 768 | 2 | 2 |
1.1 Background of the Study
Benin City has one of the quality transport services in Nigeria which is located at ring road (Bobizua park) and third market (Osato park). Quality urban transport services in Benin City have been provided by public and private transport companies (Kantorovich, 2012). This has no doubt improved the socio-economic development of Benin City and Edo State large. This is evidence that transportation plays key role in the development of urban and rural areas. The role of transportation in economic development cannot be overemphasized. Transportation is the engine block of any society and hence provides room for effective socio-economic development and societal improvement (Ashenfelter and Card, 2015). According to Aweto (2015), transportation plays key role in urban development and nations building.
Research has shown that transportation alone account for about 46% of the total physical distribution cost for manufacturing companies and 28% for reseller companies. It is important to note that much such success can be accomplish in manufacturing, distribution of goods and services including the movement of people without transportation (Adeniji, 2010). It is as a result of the great importance attached to transportation that man has over the years developed various transportation modes in other to facilitate the movement of people and materials. The mode of transportation selected will greatly depend on price, time, delivery, condition and destination, passenger’s patronage, and past purchase satisfaction. This poor transportation management can therefore jeopardize the source of procurement of materials; goods and services, movement or people and even course increase in prices and loss of lives (Adefolalu, 2007). | <urn:uuid:b407772c-bd5d-4ad0-9a67-5c65ec4a2e39> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://eduproject.com.ng/urban-and-regional-planning/assessment-of-the-quality-of-urban-transport-services-in-benin-city-edo-state/index.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571538.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812014923-20220812044923-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.942749 | 341 | 2.21875 | 2 |
11 February is UN Day of Women and Girls in Science – Humboldt Foundation promotes equal opportunities
The proportion of women in science worldwide is less than one third. With the “International Day of Women and Girls in Science”, the United Nations wants to draw attention to the importance of promoting women researchers at all career stages. “The world needs science and science needs women”, says Irina Bokova, Director-General of UNESCO: “Humanity cannot afford not to use half of its creative potential”.
Humboldt Foundation welcomes applications and nominations from women scientists
The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation is firmly committed to equal opportunities in science and scholarship and expressly welcomes the applications and nominations of highly qualified female scientists and scholars for its programmes: “We want to attract the most promising talents worldwide – regardless of their gender. Many female researchers are already part of our network, whose achievements are exemplary for the excellent scientific work of women,” emphasises Ulrike Albrecht, Head of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation’s Strategy and External Relations Department.
Excellent female researchers in the Humboldt Network
In 2016, for example, the ecologist Tiffany Knight, the Judaist Katrin Kogman-Appel and the Islamic scholar Judith Pfeiffer, three outstanding researchers were awarded a five million EUR Alexander von Humboldt Professorship. In 2015 and 2016, 58 percent of the Alexander von Humboldt Professorships awarded were held by women. The Humboldt Foundation’s other award programmes also honour outstanding female scientists and scholars and sponsor junior researchers in their fellowship programmes.
Hostesses for international research teams
“However, we also observe that women are still underrepresented, especially at the demanding levels of the science system,” says Ulrike Albrecht. The overall proportion of women in the Humboldt Foundation’s academic sponsorship and award programmes is around 30 percent, which is about the average for the German research landscape. “We monitor current developments in this field very carefully in order to continually optimise our own sponsorship programmes and further increase the proportion of women we sponsor,” says Albrecht. The Humboldt Foundation also encourages female academics in Germany to internationalise their research teams as hosts.
28 percent of the scientists and scholars in Germany are women
This year’s “International Day of Women and Girls in Science” is being celebrated by the United Nations with an exhibition, workshops and conferences in Paris and New York. In order to provide more detailed information on the proportion of women in science, the UN has also created the interactive web platform “Women in Science”, where the proportion of women in science can be viewed for different countries, disciplines and career stages. Among bachelor students, it shows a proportion of women in Germany of 45 percent, which drops to 28 percent among scientists. With this figure, Germany is on average worldwide. | <urn:uuid:8c4acc20-d822-48dd-9087-7cce37db3249> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.science-girl-thing.eu/un-day-science-needs-women/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571911.5/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813081639-20220813111639-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.93618 | 615 | 2.765625 | 3 |
Published by Mike Coffman
(Charles Dharapak/AP, File)
America owes a debt of honor and gratitude to our veterans. They deserve the very best our country can offer them, but for too long they have been receiving far less than that.
Among the lingering problems within the Department of Veterans Affairs is a flawed disability benefits system that — more often than not — creates unnecessarily long delays in getting benefits to the veterans who have so profoundly earned them. There is now an effort underway in Washington, D.C., which however well-intentioned, will make that already broken system even more dysfunctional.
Problems with the VA are nothing new, as witnessed throughout my time on the Committee on Veterans Affairs in the U.S. Congress. From the scandal in 2014 at a facility in Phoenix that falsified records in order to conceal egregious wait times to the myriad of problems encountered with the new VA hospital in Aurora which came in $1 billion over budget, I have worked to bring accountability to the VA when such outrages are brought to light.
Today, one of the worst issues plaguing the VA is the tremendous backlog of disability claims. Of the roughly 590,000 pending VA disability claims, more than 170,000 are older than 125 days. In other words, well over a third of claims have been languishing for more than 4 months. The problem is only expected to grow.
Navigating the VA benefits system is already an extraordinarily complex undertaking. Veterans can handle the process themselves or enlist the help of several outside actors ranging from veterans service organizations to VA accredited legal help to private consultants. However, the program itself can at times be complicated and have a backwards incentive system....
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fe News has reported the second release of UCAS’ 2018 End of Cycle Report shows a record 19.7 per cent of young people classified as living in the most disadvantaged areas of the UK (POLAR4 quintile 1) were accepted through UCAS to start a course in September 2018. This is up 0.4 percentage points, and 1.8 per cent proportionally, from 2017.
However, young people from the most advantaged areas of the UK remain over 2.3 times more likely to start an undergraduate course than those from the least advantaged areas.
The gap between the most and least advantaged marginally narrowed in 2018. 46.5 per cent of young people from quintile 5 secured a place at university or college. This is also up 0.4 percentage points – however, it’s a smaller proportional increase of 0.8 per cent compared to the rise from quintile 1 students.
There are differences across the UK higher education sector, with students from quintile 1 almost as likely to enter lower tariff providers as those from quintile 5. Though this ratio at higher tariff providers continues to decrease, as it has done since 2009, progress is slowing. Young people from quintile 5 are 5.74 times more likely to study at a higher tariff university than those from quintile 1.
The gap is gradually closing in Scotland, where the SIMD measure is used. Those from the least deprived areas are now 3.26 times more likely to go to university compared to 18 year olds from the most deprived areas, representing the third consecutive year the gap has reduced. The entry rate gap reduces further when students up to the age of 20 are included.
Women across the UK continue to be more likely to enter higher education, with 38.3 per cent of 18 year olds starting a course, compared to 28 per cent of young men. This means women were 36.7 per cent more likely to begin a degree in 2018, continuing the rise from 31.4 per cent, which began in 2013.
Clare Marchant, UCAS’ Chief Executive, said:
‘While it’s encouraging to see record levels of students from the most disadvantaged areas going to university, the slow progress in closing the gap is disheartening.
‘It’s clear that targeted outreach activities need to continue, highlighting to students from all backgrounds the experience, challenge, and opportunities degree study can bring. Our independence puts us in a strong position to provide all universities and colleges with analytical insights to evaluate their work in supporting the most disadvantaged students.’
In Scotland, there is a substantial section of higher education that is not included in UCAS’ figures. This is mostly full-time higher education provided in further education colleges, which represents around one third of young full-time undergraduate study in Scotland – this proportion varies by geography and background within Scotland. Accordingly, figures on applications and application rates in Scotland reflect only those applying for full-time undergraduate study through UCAS.
UCAS, the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service, is an independent charity, and the UK’s shared admissions service for higher education. We manage almost three million applications, from around 700,000 people, each year, for full-time undergraduate courses at over 380 universities and colleges across the UK.
This the second release of the 2018 UCAS Undergraduate End of Cycle Report, covering patterns of applicant characteristics. A summary of applicants and acceptances, offer-making, and unconditional offer-making to 18 year olds from England, Northern Ireland, and Wales was published on 29 November 2019. The final chapters of the 2018 End of Cycle Report will be published on 13 December.
University-level analysis for the 2018 cycle is due to be published on 31 January 2019. | <urn:uuid:37c8a987-720e-423d-b54d-cd91a9aea510> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://dmhassociates.org/progress-slows-in-closing-the-gap-between-the-most-and-least-advantaged-students-starting-degrees | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572043.2/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814143522-20220814173522-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.950978 | 924 | 1.875 | 2 |
Kielbasa vs Short ribs - In-Depth Nutrition Comparison
Important differences between Kielbasa and Short ribs
- Kielbasa has more Polyunsaturated fat, however Short ribs has more Vitamin C, Iron, and Monounsaturated Fat.
- Short ribs' daily need coverage for Saturated Fat is 58% more.
- Kielbasa has 24 times more Sodium than Short ribs. Kielbasa has 1200mg of Sodium, while Short ribs have 50mg.
The food varieties used in the comparison are Kielbasa, Polish, turkey and beef, smoked and Beef, rib, shortribs, separable lean and fat, choice, cooked, braised.
Comparison summary table
|Lower in Sodium|
|Lower in glycemic index|
|Rich in minerals|
|Rich in vitamins|
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By: Public Hospitals Authority
A breakthrough surgical procedure performed at the Rand Memorial Hospital (RMH) in Freeport, Grand Bahama heralding a new approach to the delivery of healthcare in the Bahamas. An Open Reduction Thoracic Spine Fracture procedure performed on a twenty-year-old male patient at the Rand on Friday, October8th ,2021 marked the first time a complex spinal surgery was performed at that hospital. It also marked the impressive collaboration of surgical teams from the Rand Memorial Hospital (RMH) and the Princess Margaret Hospital (PMH).
Describing the eight(8) hour surgery as successful, Dr. Valentine Grimes, Lead Surgeon and Consultant Orthopedic Surgeon at PMH credited the successful execution of the surgery on the excellent planning and scheduling between the Surgical Departments at RMH and PMH. He thanked the Administrators of both institutions fortheir support. “The framework is there and hopefully it canbe streamlined going forward so that emergency procedures like this, can be performed in Grand Bahama on even shorter notice,” said Dr. Grimes.
On the actual procedure Grimes added, “We achieved all of our surgical goals,we returned the spine to its normal position and reduced the pressure on the spinal cord; but due to the severity of the injuries, the patient is facing a long road to recovery.
This was a team effort all around.” He also thanked Dr. Athena Bain, a RMH physician, who assisted with surgery and Surgical Technicians Sandra Rolle-Allen RMH, and Adora Hanna, who travelled with him from Princess Margaret Hospital and assisted the surgical team. “We received a lot of support from the surgical team led by Dr. Freeman Lockhart and Dr. Terrel Humes, as well as the Anesthesia and Radiology staff. The Operating Theatre Staff at the Rand are receptive, capable and very willing to assist and learn.”
Grimes went on, “Typically, this type of injury would have been airlifted to PMH for treatment. In this instance it was necessary to travel to Grand Bahama to perform this procedure because there were no beds available at PMH to accept the patient. This type of spinal injury requires a special hospital bed, and the patient and his family were left with only three (3) options; wait until abed was available which could be a matter of weeks or longer; airlift the patient to a USA hospital,or perform the operation in the Rand Memorial Hospital’s state of the art surgical suite, recognizing that time was of the essence in this type of injury.”
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