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“Board" means the county board of supervisors.
“Clerk" means the county clerk.
“Members-elect" means those members of the governing body of a county, city, village or town, at a particular time, who have been duly elected or appointed for a current regular or unexpired term and whose service has not terminated by death, resignation or removal from office.
“Municipal clerk" means the clerk of a municipality.
“Municipality" means any city, village or town.
“Municipal treasurer" means the treasurer of a municipality.
“Professional land surveyor" means a professional land surveyor licensed under ch. 443
“Treasurer" means the county treasurer.
LEGAL STATUS; ORGANIZATION
Body corporate; status.
Each county in this state is a body corporate, authorized to sue and be sued, to acquire and hold, lease or rent real and personal estate for public uses or purposes, including lands acquired under ch. 75
, to sell, lease and convey the same, including the authority to enter into leases or contracts with the state for a period of years for the uses and purposes specified in s. 23.09 (2) (d)
, to make such contracts and to do such other acts as are necessary and proper to the exercise of the powers and privileges granted and the performance of the legal duties charged upon it.
History: 1987 a. 378
; 1995 a. 201
See ss. 75.35
for restrictions on the sale of tax deeded land.
Discussing civil rights actions against municipalities. Starstead v. City of Superior, 533 F. Supp. 1365
Powers, how exercised; quorum. 59.02(1)(1)
The powers of a county as a body corporate can only be exercised by the board, or in pursuance of a resolution adopted or ordinance enacted by the board.
Ordinances may be enacted and resolutions may be adopted by a majority vote of a quorum or by such larger vote as may be required by law. Ordinances shall commence as follows: “The county board of supervisors of the county of .... does ordain as follows".
A majority of the supervisors who are entitled to a seat on the board shall constitute a quorum. All questions shall be determined by a majority of the supervisors who are present unless otherwise provided.
History: 1977 c. 447
; 1995 a. 201
The county board's failure to use the prescribed language of sub. (2) did not invalidate an ordinance. Cross v. Soderbeck, 94 Wis. 2d 331
, 288 N.W.2d 779
A supervisor who is required to abstain is not “present" for calculating the number of votes required for passage. Ballenger v. Door County, 131 Wis. 2d 422
, 388 N.W.2d 624
(Ct. App. 1986).
Administrative home rule.
Every county may exercise any organizational or administrative power, subject only to the constitution and to any enactment of the legislature which is of statewide concern and which uniformly affects every county.
Consolidation of municipal services, home rule, metropolitan district. 59.03(2)(a)
Subject to s. 59.794 (2)
and except as elsewhere specifically provided in these statutes, the board of any county is vested with all powers of a local, legislative and administrative character, including without limitation because of enumeration, the subject matter of water, sewers, streets and highways, fire, police, and health, and to carry out these powers in districts which it may create for different purposes, or throughout the county, and for such purposes to levy county taxes, to issue bonds, assessment certificates and improvement bonds, or any other evidence of indebtedness. The powers hereby conferred may be exercised by the board in any municipality, or part thereof located in the county upon the request of any such municipality, evidenced by a resolution adopted by a majority vote of the members-elect of its governing body, designating the particular function, duty or act, and the terms, if any, upon which the powers shall be exercised by the board or by a similar resolution adopted by direct legislation in the municipality in the manner provided in s. 9.20
. The resolution shall further provide whether the authority or function is to be exercised exclusively by the county or jointly by the county and the municipality, and shall also find that the exercise of such power by the county would be in the public interest. Upon the receipt of the resolution, the board may, by a resolution adopted by a majority vote of its membership, elect to assume the exercise of the function, upon the terms and conditions set forth in the resolution presented by the municipality.
The board of any county may, by a resolution adopted by a majority of its membership, propose to any of the municipalities located in the county that it offers to exercise such powers and functions therein in order to consolidate municipal services and functions in the county. Such resolution shall designate the particular function, duty or act and the terms and conditions, if any, upon which the board will perform the function, duty or act. The powers conferred in par. (a)
and designated in such resolution may thereafter be exercised by the board in each municipality which accepts the proposal by the adoption of a resolution by a majority vote of the members-elect of its governing body or by direct legislation in the manner provided in s. 9.20
Whenever the request under par. (a)
or acceptance under par. (b)
of a municipality is by resolution of its governing board, the request or acceptance shall not go into effect until the expiration of 60 days from the adoption of the resolution or, in the case of county law enforcement services provided to a city as described in s. 62.13 (2s)
, as provided in s. 62.13 (2s) (d)
. If a petition under s. 9.20
for direct legislation on the request or acceptance is filed before the expiration of said 60 days, the resolution of the governing board is of no effect but the request or acceptance of such municipality shall be determined by direct legislation, except that no petition for direct legislation under s. 9.20
may be filed to approve or reject a contract entered into by a city and a county under s. 62.13 (2s)
After and upon the adoption of resolutions by the board and subject to par. (c)
by one or more municipalities either as provided in par. (a)
the board shall have full power to legislate upon and administer the entire subject matter committed to it, and among other things, to determine, where not otherwise provided by law, the manner of exercising the power thus assumed.
The municipality concerned may enter into necessary contracts with the county, and appropriate money to pay to the county the reasonable expenses incurred by it in rendering the services assumed. Such expenses may be certified, returned and paid as are other county charges, and in the case of services performed under a proposal for the consolidation thereof initiated by the board and made available to each municipality in the county on the same terms, the expenses thereof shall be certified, returned and paid as county charges; but in the event that every municipality in the county accepts the proposal of the board, the expenses thereof shall be paid by county taxes to be levied and collected as are other taxes for county purposes. The municipalities are vested with all necessary power to do the things herein required, and to do all things and to exercise or relinquish any of the powers herein provided or contemplated. The procedure provided in this subsection for the request or acceptance of the exercise of the powers conferred on the board in cities and villages is hereby prescribed as a special method of determining the local affairs and government of such cities and villages under article XI, section 3
, of the constitution.
The powers conferred by this subsection shall be in addition to all other grants of power and shall be limited only by express language.
Sub. (2) provides a unique procedure that may be used in specific fact situations to levy a property tax for a county service, but it is not the only authorization for a county to levy such a tax. Town of Grant v. Portage County, 2017 WI App 69
, 378 Wis. 2d 289
, 903 N.W.2d 152
County home rule under sub. (1) allows every county to “exercise any organizational or administrative power, subject only to the constitution and to any enactment of the legislature.” The language of s. 60.565 authorizing towns to provide ambulance service acknowledges that another person can provide the ambulance service instead of a town and withdraws the mandate when another person provides ambulance services. The absence of a command from the legislature that towns provide an ambulance service in all situations causes the argument that county home rule prevents counties from providing ambulance service to miss the mark. Town of Grant v. Portage County, 2017 WI App 69
, 378 Wis. 2d 289
, 903 N.W.2d 152
In a county that does not have a county executive or administrator, the personnel committee of the county board does not possess the statutory authority to remove the county social services director. The county board may not, under s. 59.025 [now sub. (1)], transfer the authority to appoint. 81 Atty. Gen. 145
Construction of powers.
To give counties the largest measure of self-government under the administrative home rule authority granted to counties in s. 59.03 (1)
, this chapter shall be liberally construed in favor of the rights, powers and privileges of counties to exercise any organizational or administrative power.
History: 1985 a. 29
; 1995 a. 201
; Stats. 1995 s. 59.04.
County seat; change. 59.05(1)(1)
The county seat shall be fixed and designated by the board at the first regular meeting after the organization of any county; and no county seat shall be changed except as provided in this section.
If a petition conforming to the requirements of s. 8.40
is filed with the board by at least two-fifths of the legal voters of any county, to be determined by the registration list for the last previous general election held in the county at the time of filing, the names of which voters shall appear on the registration list for such election, asking for a change of the county seat to some other place designated in the petition, the board shall submit the question of removal of the county seat to a vote of the qualified voters of the county. The board shall file the question as provided in s. 8.37
. The election shall be held only on the day of the general election, notice of the election shall be given and the election shall be conducted as in the case of the election of officers on that day, and the votes shall be canvassed, certified and returned in the same manner as other votes at that election. The question to be submitted shall be “Shall the county seat of .... county be removed to ....?".
If a majority of the votes cast at the election are in favor of the proposed change, the chairperson of the board shall certify the same, with the attestation of the county clerk, to the governor, who shall issue a proclamation to that effect and publish it in the official state paper. From the date of publication the place designated shall be the county seat. The board may not again submit the question of removal within 5 years.
Notwithstanding subs. (2)
, no election to change a county seat may be held for a period of 5 years after the year in which a courthouse or other county building costing $3,000 or more was built at the county seat and occupied for county purposes.
When 40 percent of registered voters were denied ballots in an election to remove a county seat, the election was set aside even though the outcome probably was not affected. McNally v. Tollander, 100 Wis. 2d 490
, 302 N.W.2d 440
County property. 59.06(1)(1)
County property shall be held by the clerk in the name of the county. All property, real or personal, conveyed to the county or to its inhabitants or to any person for the use of the county or its inhabitants is county property. Such conveyances have the same effect as if made directly to the county by name.
Effect of transfer.
All deeds, contracts and agreements made on behalf of the county under the directions of the board under s. 59.52 (6)
, or by a county executive acting under s. 59.17 (2) (b) 3.
, when signed and acknowledged by the clerk and the county seal is attached, are valid and binding on the county to the extent of the terms of the instrument and the right, title and interest which the county has in the property.
History: 1995 a. 201
; Stats. 1995 s. 59.06; 2013 a. 14
See ss. 75.35
for restrictions on the sale of tax deeded land.
Claims against counties; actions on. 59.07(1)(1)
No action may be brought or maintained against a county upon a claim or upon a cause of action unless the claimant complies with s. 893.80
. This subsection does not apply to actions commenced under s. 19.37
No action may be brought or maintained against a county, for disclosure of information that is received under s. 30.572 (4)
and maintained under s. 30.572 (5)
Consolidation of counties; procedure; referendum. 59.08(1)(1)
Any 2 or more adjoining counties may consolidate into a single county by complying with the requirements and procedure herein specified.
The boards of any 2 or more adjoining counties desiring to consolidate their respective counties into a single county may enter into a joint agreement for the consolidation of the counties, setting forth in the consolidation agreement all of the following:
The names of the several counties which they propose to be consolidated.
The name under which it is proposed to consolidate the counties, which name shall be such as to distinguish it from the name of any other county in Wisconsin, other than the consolidating counties.
The property, real and personal, belonging to each county, and the current fair market value thereof.
The indebtedness, bonded and otherwise, of each county.
The proposed name and location of the county seat of the consolidated county.
If the counties have different forms of county organization and government, the proposed form of county organization and government of the consolidated county.
The board of each county may appoint an advisory committee composed of 3 persons to assist the board in the preparation of the agreement.
The original of the consolidation agreement, together with a petition on behalf of the several boards, signed by the chairperson of each of the boards, asking that a referendum on the question of consolidation of the several counties be ordered, shall be filed with the clerk of the circuit court of one of the counties and a copy of the consolidation agreement and of the petition shall be filed with the clerk of the circuit court of each of the other counties.
The qualified electors of each county involved in the consolidation proposal whose board has not taken the initiative under sub. (2)
may, by filing with the board a petition conforming to the requirements of s. 8.40
, signed by not less than 20 percent of the qualified electors of the county, based on the total vote cast for governor at the last general election, asking the board to effect a consolidation agreement with the county or counties named in the petition, and asking for a referendum on the question, require the board to so proceed. A copy of the petition of the electors shall also be filed with the clerk of the circuit court of the county. If the board is able within 6 months thereafter to effect the consolidation agreement, the procedure shall be the same as set forth in this section. If the board within that period of time is unable or for any reason fails to perfect the consolidation agreement, then the judge of the circuit court of the county shall appoint a committee of 5 representative citizens of the county, to act for and in lieu of the board in perfecting the consolidation agreement and in petitioning for a referendum.
The board shall publish the consolidation agreement as a class 1 notice under ch. 985
. The owner-editor or manager of each newspaper publishing the notice shall issue a certificate of the publication to the judge of the circuit court for each affected county, which shall be proof of publication.
When publication of the consolidation agreement in each of the counties included in the agreement is completed, the judges of the circuit courts of those counties shall, by order entered of record in each of the counties, require the clerks of each of the counties to submit the question of the consolidation of the counties to a vote of the qualified electors of the counties.
The question of the consolidation of the counties shall be submitted to the voters at the next election to be held on the first Tuesday in April, or the next regular election, or at a special election to be held on the day fixed in the order issued under par. (a)
, which day shall be the same in each of the counties proposing to consolidate. A copy of the order shall be filed with the county clerk of each of the counties as provided in s. 8.37
. If the question of consolidation is submitted at a special election, it shall be held not less than 70 days nor more than 88 days from the completion of the consolidation agreement, but not within 60 days of any spring or general election.
The clerk shall notice such election as other elections. The ballots shall be provided by the clerk and shall be in substantially the following form:
OFFICIAL REFERENDUM BALLOT
If you desire to vote for the consolidation of .... (insert names of counties proposing to consolidate) counties under a consolidation agreement, make a cross (X) in the square after the word “Yes", underneath the question; if you desire to vote against consolidation, make a cross (X) in the square after the word “No", underneath the question.
Shall .... (here insert names of counties proposing to consolidate) counties consolidate under a consolidation agreement?
YES ⍽ NO ⍽
The ballot shall have on the back or reverse side the endorsements provided by law for ballots for general elections and shall be marked by the elector and counted and canvassed as other ballots cast on questions in the county are counted and canvassed. The election shall be conducted by the same officers and in the same manner as are other elections in the county. The results of the election shall be certified to the judges of the circuit courts for the counties.
If a majority of the votes cast in each county upon the question of consolidation are in favor of the consolidation of the counties, the judge of the circuit court shall enter that fact of record in each county. If in any one of the counties less than a majority of the votes cast upon the question of consolidation are in favor of the proposed consolidation, the consolidation shall be declared to have failed for all purposes. If a majority of the votes cast upon the question of consolidation in any county are opposed to consolidation, the question of consolidation shall not be again submitted to the electors of that county for a period of 2 years.
At the next succeeding regular November election, held at least 60 days after the election at which consolidation is approved by the voters, there shall be elected for the consolidated county all county officers provided for by law and the officers shall be nominated as provided in ch. 6
. Their terms shall begin on the first Monday of January next succeeding their election, at which time they shall replace all elective county officers of the counties that are consolidated into the consolidated county whose terms shall on that day terminate. All appointive county officers shall be appointed by the person, board or authority upon whom the power to appoint such officers in other counties is conferred. The terms of the officers shall commence on the first Monday of January next succeeding the first election of officers for the consolidated county, and shall continue, unless otherwise removed, until their successors have been appointed and qualified. The successors of all officers whose first election or appointment is provided for in this subsection shall thereafter be elected or appointed at the time, in the manner and for the terms provided by law.
Upon the first Monday of January following the first election of county officers for the consolidated county, the several counties shall thereafter for all purposes be treated and considered as one county, under the name and upon the terms and conditions set forth in the consolidation agreement. All rights, privileges, and franchises of each of the several counties, and all records, books, and documents, and all property, real and personal, and all debts due on whatever account, as well as other things in action, belonging to each of the counties, shall be considered transferred to and vested in the consolidated county, without further act or deed. All property, all rights-of-way, and all and every other interest shall be as effectually the property of the consolidated county as they were of the several counties before the consolidation. The title to real estate, either by deed or otherwise, under the laws of this state vested in any of the counties, shall not be considered to revert or be in any way impaired by reason of this consolidation. The rights of creditors and all liens upon the property of any of the counties shall be preserved unimpaired, and the respective counties shall be considered to continue in existence to preserve the same and all debts, liabilities and duties of any of the counties shall attach to the consolidated county and be enforced against it to the same extent as if the debts, liabilities and duties had been incurred or contracted by it, unless by the terms of the agreement the outstanding bonded indebtedness of the counties shall not be transferred and attached to the consolidated county, but shall remain as obligations of the counties which for such purpose shall be considered to continue in existence.
Suits may be brought and maintained against the consolidated county in any of the courts of this state in the same manner as against any other county. Any action or proceeding pending by or against any of the counties consolidated may be prosecuted to judgment as if the consolidation had not taken place, or the consolidated county may be substituted in its place. The towns, school districts, election districts and voting places in the consolidated county shall continue as in the several counties before consolidation, unless and until changed in accordance with law.
Until changed by law, the same circuit courts shall continue, though it may result in the consolidated county being a part of 2 or more circuits. All such courts shall, however, be held at the place designated as the county seat of the consolidated county, and each such court and the judge of that court shall continue to have and exercise the same jurisdiction as the court or the judge had and exercised before the consolidation. If 2 or more judges have jurisdiction in any consolidated county they or a majority of them shall exercise the power to appoint officers and fill vacancies as is vested in judges of circuit courts of other counties.
For the purpose of representation in congress and in the legislature the existing congressional, senatorial and assembly districts shall continue until changed in accordance with law. The consolidated county shall in all respects, except as otherwise provided in this section, be subject to all the obligations and liabilities imposed, and shall possess all the rights, powers and privileges vested by law in other counties.
The provisions of this section shall be considered cumulative and the authority granted in this section to counties shall not be limited or made inoperative by any existing statute.
COUNTY BOARD OF SUPERVISORS
Boards: composition; election; terms; compensation; compatibility.
The boards of the several counties shall be composed of representatives from within the county who are elected and compensated as provided in this section. Each board shall act under sub. (2)
, unless the board enacts an ordinance, by a majority vote of the entire membership, to act under sub. (1)
. If a board enacts such ordinance, a certified copy shall be filed with the secretary of state.
59.10(1)(a)(a) Number of supervisors and apportionment of supervisory districts.
In each county with a population of at least 750,000, sub. (2) (a)
applies. In counties with a population of less than 750,000 and more than one town, sub. (3) (a)
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Scuba diving is a wonderful sport. With today’s equipment and training scuba diving is extremely safe, but is this really true? Yes, the equipment is great and helps us be safe but is all training equal?
The first time I wanted to get certified the instructor I chose spent the time with me and one other student in classroom and pool training. When it came to the open water portion, I was with a group of 6 students and at the beach. I was the only female and by far the smallest of the group. My instructor told me I had to keep up and not hold the rest of the group back. Unfortunately, I lost my mask in the first attempt. Second attempt was no better, I lost one of my fins. This “instructor” informed me that I did not have what it took to be certified.
My second attempt at certification was a few years ago. I paid for my classroom and pool sessions. This time there were three of us in class. We met at the boat Saturday morning but low and behold there were 5 other students on the boat. This time I had trouble with not having enough weight and having trouble getting down and staying down. The instructor brought me back to the surface and yelled at me to get back on the boat, he could not give me personalized attention with so many other students. He informed me that he would address my weight issue before the second dive and I would have to pay for another boat trip. Needless to say I did not get certified and decided that maybe scuba diving was not for me.
About 16 months ago I won an all-expense paid vacation to Maui, HI. As a water baby, people told me I that that the diving on Maui was fabulous and that I really did need to dive with the turtles. I decided to try again but this time I “interviewed” a number of shops. I asked questions; how many students in a class and how many in the ocean? What would happen if I had trouble with a portion of the training? Would I get the extra attention or time needed? Was there beach diving involved or was it all boat? And what was the complete cost and what exactly was covered? Were there any extra “hidden” costs?
After speaking to a number of shops I made the decision to try again with ALOHA DIVE. Training was done on my schedule, not a set rigid schedule. This was important to me as I work long hours and sometimes work later than planned, or on weekends, if a client needs me.
My boat trips were small groups of 3 students with plenty of individual attention. The cost was no more than the three other shops that told me the class would consist of myself and 5 to 7 other students and had to be completed in two consecutive weekends. Let me restate that…individual attention vs being one of many, flexibility in schedule, same cost. It was a no brainer. Needless to say, the experience was wonderful and I am close to 100 dives on record.
The difference between the training I received and the other shops is best compared by the following incident. A few months ago I was out diving at Casino Point on Catalina. I was with my instructor and another student who was doing his rescue training. This student had been a lifeguard a few years ago and is able to recognize a panicky person in the ocean. The three of us did our first dive and were spending some time waiting to get back in again when a class showed up from another dive shop. The instructor had 8 students with him doing their first open water dive. We sat and watched while they went out and started to drop down. One of the students panicked and was at the surface struggling. The instructor came up (and I would guess he violated protocol by leaving divers down below because I don’t believe he had any help with him) and told her to swim back to the steps and get out of the water. He stated he had to go back down to attend to the students he left below. The girl was extremely upset and very frightened. The rescue student that was with us went out and helped her in. Again, as a lifeguard he recognized the signs of a panicky person in the water. He spent the time reassuring her that she was ok and safe. Needless to say this gal stated that she was done and did not want to try again. Boy did I understand that she had a bad experience and did not want to try again, déjà vu.
Today people are looking for the most bang for their buck. I get it. Money doesn’t grow on trees. Most of us look for the best buy we can find, but is the best buy always the best? Probably not.
I was recently talking to an acquaintance of mine who decided to look into the cost of open water certification. She started to call around to find out what the dive shops were charging in her area and discovered one store that advertised online that the cost was only $389. I told her to ask about additional costs and when she did she found out that she needed to purchase her personal snorkeling package from them…to the tune of $300 – $500! She also found out that the trips to Catalina were not on a dive boat, but on the Express…so food and parking was extra. Another store was only $299 but it is only beach dives and you need to buy your gear from them, again over $300. Both store have large classes and are very rigid in their training schedule. Both stores have instructors that have varying levels of experience teaching, some are very new and some are seasoned instructors.
This acquaintance asked me where I received my certification and of course, I told her about ALOHA DIVE and my experience. No more expensive (as a matter of fact their all-inclusive package is less money) and she will get individual, flexible training with a dive professional who has been diving for over 43 years. He knows what he is doing and gives the very best in training. All agencies have basically the same standards. You must pass all of your skills and have a minimum number of dives. I guess my question is, do you get the same level of training when you are in a class of 8 with one instructor as when you are in a class of 2 or 3 with an instructor? My answer is no. Yes, the same skills but not the same level of training. I have taught and I know that in a classroom of 15 – 30 students someone is always behind or slower than the rest of the group. Can they do the minimum to get by, sure. But, how does that same student do in an individual or small training class? With more personal attention the student does do better.
My opinion is that with the personalized training and the attention I was given, I know I am a much better and safer diver than the person who was taught in a class of 8 with only 1 instructor. As a better and safer diver my chances of injury are greatly reduced.
My recommendation is, buyer beware and be educated. Find out what your training will cost and how personalized it will be. Never, NEVER forgo your safety & life to save a dollar. Buy from the best and be sure you know who you are buying from! | <urn:uuid:edb345f2-114f-4fab-9a61-dd65bdade509> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.dive-aloha.net/2017/08/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572043.2/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814143522-20220814173522-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.990812 | 1,504 | 1.625 | 2 |
🥙 Meaning: A bowl-like structure made of cooked flatbread (there are tiny dots representing the priorly fried/baked stage), stuffed with a wholesome diversity of fillings, from lettuce, and tomatoes to maybe even meat.
The 🥙 Stuffed Flatbread emoji can signify tons of cuisines (and more. Wikipedia sometimes lacks info, try Google) from across the world. It suggests cultural authenticity, flavor, and a way of globetrotting on a plate.
How and When to Use the 🥙 Stuffed Flatbread Emoji
- Many times 🥙 is mistaken for a bowl of food, which it isn’t. Please refrain from using it in such misleading contexts.
- Further on, 🥙 is to be used while posting or reposting anything that has stuffed flatbread in it; parathas of any origin, khubooz, or even m’semen. It can be a picture/video from your camera roll or even a forwarded recipe/tutorial video, anything.
- Since there are so many cultural flavors when it comes to stuffed flatbread, 🥙 can be used in contexts of ‘International Food’ or even ‘Global Cuisine’ (among other related emojis).
- If you are feeling too full, too stuffy, if you will, and you’re texting about how amazingly filling the previous meal was, then 🥙 can be used to refer to yourself! For instance, “Dude, I ate so much, I’m stuffed 🥙 Can’t take no more. So, no dessert for me“.
- 🥙 Stuffed Paratha
- 🥙 M’semen
- 🥙 Stuffed Khubooz
- 🥙 Doner Kebab
- 🥙 Gyros
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As the conflict in Syria continues to worsen some Syrians are beginning to cross the border into neighboring countries like Turkey, Iraq, Lebanon and Jordan. These countries are continuing their practice of keeping open borders for incoming refugees, even as this number moves towards 140,000. Yet a major question that comes with accepting refugees is how to make sure the refugees’ needs are met in ways that do not overtax the local population and continue to respect the dignity of all.
As Syria’s southern neighbor, Jordan is currently addressing this question as it plays host to about 150,000 Syrians (39,600 of which are registered with the UN as refugees). To meet the needs of these refugees, Jordan has established Za’atari refugee camp. This camp aims to be a positive sign in the midst of the current conflict.
The ELCA is blessed to have an opportunity to be involved in this important work. Early on in this process, the Lutheran World Federation (LWF) through its member church, the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Jordan and the Holy Land (ELCJHL), offered its services. In the midst of a conflict that has caused some to draw lines of distinction between religious groups, Jordan (where the official religion is Islam and the population is primarily Sunni) has chosen to work closely with Christian organizations, including the LWF, to deliver aid to incoming refugees from a primarily Muslim country.
The reason for this is simple: relationship. Bishop Dr. Munib A. Younan, who serves as Bishop of the ELCJHL and President of the LWF, has strong relationships with Jordanian leaders. As these officials began looking into how to address the needs of incoming refugees, they welcomed input from Bishop Younan. As a leader within our global communion, Bishop Younan offered areas of expertise within the LWF to ensure that those gifts benefitted both the Syrian refugees and their host government.
Working together, the needs of vulnerable people who have no other access to daily bread are being met in ways that neither the LWF nor the Jordanian government could do alone. This effort is a strong expression of the ELCA’s commitment to global accompaniment. It is what we in the church are called to do and to be, to be present in relationship where we gain the opportunity to truly be neighbor at home and across the globe.
For more on the situation and to hear from Bishop Younan, see the ELCA News Release.
To learn more about the ELCA’s response, see the ELCA Disaster Response page Syria Conflict.
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Praying to Mary and viewing her as a “mediatrix” (a female co-mediator with Jesus) is a blasphemous practice and clear violation of 1 Timothy 2:5. “For there is only one God, and one mediator between God and man, the man Jesus Christ.”
Roman Catholics use statues of Jesus and Mary and other dead saints and pray to them and talk to them in front of statues and pictures (icons). (The Eastern Orthodox use flat pictures, icons, but forbid three dimensional statues.)
When Muslims see this, all through history, (see the links at bottom of second article below), they think “idolatry”. Most Protestant agree.
I have debated over the years with a Roman Catholic named Dave Armstrong, who is a former Evangelical, very prolific writer at his blog and books that he has written. (see his web-site at number 3 below). He is a very tenacious and, arguably overly obsessive in his ability to never give up in a written debate on the internet, sometimes carrying on debates with other Protestants for years, when the other side pays no attention to him for years. Personally, I think the biggest reason some Evangelical Protestant bloggers don’t want to deal with Dave anymore, is that he just takes up too much time; and those that have given up debating him, feel they have already made their points clearly with him, and for several years; and there came a point when they felt like there was nothing more to say; and that there is no need to keep going on forever and ever, as Dave seems to have the time to do. He is amazing in how fast and much he is able to write. I don’t see how he does it.
Roman Catholics claim that they are not committing idolatry because in their prayers and bowing down, etc. they make the distinction in the mind and heart between latria (worship due only to God) and hyperdulia (excess veneration and honor due to Mary, whom they call “the Queen of Heaven”, “Spouse of the Spirit” (that alone is very blasphemous), and “Mother of God”, etc.) and dulia (honor and veneration due to dead saints, who are alive in heaven.)
Dave Armstrong, in our interaction in his com boxes (see below under # 3) said basically that only when a person deliberately and consciously gives worship or latria, does it violate the 1 and 2 commandment of the ten commandments.
Oftentimes, sadly, yes, because human beings have an endless capacity for self-deception, self-justification, and rationalization. What we need to remember regarding idolatry, is that it resides internally in the heart, first and foremost. One has to be consciously aware of what they are doing and what they believe. If a person is to replace God with a saint (as if the latter is equal to or higher than God), then they are consciously, deliberately doing so, or else it isn’t idolatry per se. It may be spiritual laxity or even gross negligence, but not idolatry.
A question that I have for the Roman Catholic who makes these rationalizations:
“Do you think the apostle John was consciously and deliberately committing idolatry when he bowed down to the angel and was rebuked for it in Revelation 19:10 and 22:8-9?
“Then I fell down at his feet to worship him, but he said to me, “You must not do that! I am a fellow servant with you and your brothers who hold to the testimony of Jesus. Worship God.” For the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy. “ Revelation 19:10
I, John, am the one who heard and saw these things. And when I heard and saw them, I fell down to worship at the feet of the angel who showed them to me, 9 but he said to me, “You must not do that! I am a fellow servant with you and your brothers the prophets, and with those who keep the words of this book. Worship God.” Revelation 22:8-9
Background to our discussion: For those who have the time, you can click on the 3 links below and follow the progression. Under # 2, there are many other links that show for years, I have been arguing that the Roman Catholic practice is wrong, and gives a bad witness and wrong impression to Muslims. In fact, these types of practices by nominal and heretical Christians in the 5th, 6th, and 7th Centuries, is probably what gave Muhammad the wrong impression as to what Christians meant by “The Son of God” and the doctrine of the Trinity. (Surah 5:116; 5:72-75; 6:101; 19:88-92) It is obvious that Muhammad and the Arabs thought the Trinity was “the Father, the Son, and the Mother”; and most Muslims still today think the same thing! Many Muslims think the phrase “Mother of God” means Mary brought God into existence; and many Muslims think of God having a sexual relationship with Mary, when they hear terms like “Father” and “Son of God” and that Mary is “the Spouse of the Spirit” and Queen of Heaven. If God is King, and Mary is Queen, it means that she and God are married. This is a tragic and massive mis-understanding that Roman Catholicism has perpetuated for centuries.
Recently, I copied a blog post from another post that showed how wrong it is for Roman Catholics to claim that they are “only asking Mary to pray for them”. Nonsense! They are praying to a statue or picture and many times using very high language of praising Mary, and many of the terms should only be used for God. (see under the second entry of the blasphemous prayers of Pope Pius XII)
Here is my latest rebuttal:
You have mostly OT passages that are historical narrative of Jews worshiping God, but bowing in front of the ark; and in front of angels; before the temple was built and afterward.
Obviously, the Jews were not worshiping the ark or the angels, but in Exodus (25:8; 25:22) and other places specifically say that “God would meet them there”, or “dwell with you”, or that His presence would be there, at the tabernacle, between the cherubim, and later in the temple.
They were worshiping God; and [should have been “but the”] ark, tabernacle, temple was [only] the place that [the Jews were instructed that they ] would connect with God.
But a modern stature or icon of Mary or any other dead saint, is not “the place where I will meet with you”, etc. So the parallel is not valid. There is nothing in the Scriptures that lets you take that parallel of “meeting with God” and applying it to Mary or another dead saint.
The NT changed that – John 4:23-24
The woman said to him, “Sir, I perceive that you are a prophet. Our fathers worshiped on this mountain, but you say that in Jerusalem is the place where people ought to worship.” Jesus said to her, “Woman, believe me, the hour is coming when neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem will you worship the Father. You worship what you do not know; we worship what we know, for salvation is from the Jews. But the hour is coming, and is now here, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father is seeking such people to worship him. God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.” The woman said to him, “I know that Messiah is coming (he who is called Christ). When he comes, he will tell us all things.” Jesus said to her, “I who speak to you am He.”
Since the temple was destroyed in 70 AD, and the book of Hebrews before that – probably written around 68 AD; it shows that all of those rituals and sacrifices are fulfilled in Christ as the final sacrifice, and that worship of God is not limited to a specific place like Jerusalem and the temple as in the OT, your parallel is invalid.
The bowing down to the king was allowed as honoring the king who is alive at the time, (1 Chronicles 29:20), but it does not allow you to take that and say it ok to bow down to statues or icons of Mary or other dead saints. Context makes that clear, and in everyday life now, the honor given to other humans and authorities is not worship, nor is it the same as the RC veneration of dead saints nor hyperdulia given to Mary and statues of her. The word there in the LXX of 1 Chronicles 29:20 is proskuneo, προσκυνεω, used for worship of God and honor to the king (context is key), which usually means “to bow down and worship”, which is the word used in Revelation 19 and 22 that the angel rebuked John for it. So it doesn’t necessarily mean that John was worshiping the angel in his mind and heart, and we don’t know for sure that he thought it was Jesus Himself; it just seems he was overwhelmed and bowed down, and the angel said “don’t do that.” the clear command “don’t do that” precludes all such veneration of angels, statues, Mary, other dead saints, etc. The verses in Revelation, being last in the chronical order with all your examples, would seem to give us guidelines on how to think about this issue in the new convenant age, seeing that the temple and ark, etc. are no more. Those NT passages trump all the examples you have given. (the other NT passages of bowing down to angels without rebuke just shows they were overwhelmed in the presence of the mighty angels; it does not mean worship; but the angels tells John “don’t do that” – “Worship God”, and “I am a fellow servant” etc. seems to abrogate the OT examples of Abraham and others bowing before angels in honor.
The example of Nebuchadnezzar bowing before Daniel and the Philippian jailer bowing before Paul and Silas are not parallel to RC talking to statues of Mary and praying to her and using flowery language that should only be used of God.
I think your argumentation failed, just as your Facebook commentor, Kim Bishop wrote, “Wow… after reading this I think you made the other guy’s points for him. ”
Addendum: (Sat. Nov. 15; sometime after I added 3 more comments to the article of this moment, there are 6 there at his blog entry.)
Dave Armstrong deleted my last 3 comments at his blog. Oh well. I didn’t save them, but basically I wrote that it was my opinion that the main reason the other Protestants don’t deal with him anymore, especially Dr. James White, was because Dave Armstrong takes up too much time, and sometimes is too aggressive, demanding (demanding that Dr. White answer his 30 page paper rant, that he mailed to him by regular snail mail post in 1995, as a third round, after Dr. White already definitively answed him in round two); Dave’s rant was filled with ad hominem and aggressive tone, and whining and complaining. And he demanded that Dr. White has to answer him point by point, etc. Can you imagine someone mailing a 30 page letter to you and demanding that you answer every point, etc. and then years later publish it in a book and claim victory? Many times Dave apologized over the years (1995-2007), but he did it so much that emotions got tangeled up in the whole process and the other side fought back, etc. that it was a massive time consumer. | <urn:uuid:1781ac69-ee2d-4e27-a8ff-1b17ce4822de> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://apologeticsandagape.wordpress.com/2014/11/15/should-roman-catholics-be-using-statues-to-pray-to-mary-or-dead-saints/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572212.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815205848-20220815235848-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.976873 | 2,590 | 1.789063 | 2 |
Bob Flower’s Memories of Radcliffe
In the mid to late 1800s my grandfather, William, was ostler (managed the horses and stables) to Lord Manvers at The Hall, Holme Pierrpont. Later he became chauffeur, (with a model T Ford!) to Dr. Campbell at The Manor House, on Wharf Lane, now a nursing home). My grandma Alice was the cook, that is where they met, and married.
Driver of the car believed to be William Flower, Bob’s grandfather
Image from the Cutler Collection
On Friday lunchtime it was the routine that Lord Manvers visited the Royal Oak in the village for light refreshment. Grandfather drove him in his pony and trap to the pub. Holme Lane at that time was gated with, I understand, seven gates from the Hall to the village. This meant grandpa William alighting from the trap, opening the gate, leading the horse and trap through and closing the gate…seven times! Lord Manvers went in the best room and grandfather in the spit and sawdust! Both enjoyed a convivial couple of hours with each consuming similar amounts of best Royal Oak ale! On the return journey, after a couple of gates, wonderful beer courage prompted grandfather to make a comment you should not make to a Lord of the Realm.”It’s about time you got down and opened a gate or two yourself, M’Lord” ! “Your sacked”, was the immediate response! By the time they reached the Hall full consideration had been given to the matter and grandfather was re-instated! I was not told who opened the gates thereafter but I suspect it was not Lord Manvers!
My Dad told me this story. He said this happened every Friday for years!
Holme Lane has wonderful memories for me. It is where Radcliffe’s cricket ground was situated since the 1800s. It was possibly the finest local ground in the County. Sadly, the reason it was the finest caused it’s demise! The outfield was always lush and green. I have mowed it with the 36” Dennis mower dozens of times, round and round! The playing square was equal to that at Trent Bridge. Archie Vickerstaff was the groundsman. His horse was called Maggie and, with special pads on her feet, she pulled the heavy roller to produce a perfect batting wicket. It was Radcliffe marl (hence Marl Road!) that was used to produce true flat wickets. Marl being a form of clay which allows grass to grow but keeps the roots bound together to produce a hard, flat true wicket to play on. It was used all over the world for cricket pitches. The reason the ground was so good…drainage. Underneath the ground was gravel! Hence the wonderful water drainage. I have been on that ground when a thunder storm has deluged and flooded the whole area and we have been playing on it within an hour! The gravel was valuable , not so much for concrete but for water filter beds. My precious ground was eventually sacrificed to the gravel diggers! We moved to the current ground on the A52 armed with a bucket picking up stones for weeks!
Aerial photograph of the old cricket ground between Radcliffe and Holme Pierrepont
Some of you may remember cricketing names from late 1940s. Harry Pike, Eric Hopkinson, Bernard McAvan, Harry Simmister, Clifford Parr (village butcher). My cousin Hubert Astill (Chick), Bert Middleweek (wicket keeper), Alvyn Taylor (haberdashery shop). Very fast bowler Wilf Gough and his brother Frank, Jack Bishop, (club Skipper) Mr Longworth, Secretary. Cham. Chambers, and many others were all club members.
Bob’s cricket club pass 1946
The official club headquarters was the Royal Oak! Why, I don’t know, but all important matters, including team selection, were conducted there. Net practice was on a Friday. The nets backed on to Holme Lane. The seniors let the youngsters have a go in the nets if time permitted. I was 14. I remember padding up, putting my box and gloves on (no headgear in those days) and going in the nets to stand in front of the stumps. Mr Wilfred Gough, (who became a real friend of mine) had an 18 yard run up. Jack Bishop, (Club Captain) stood behind the net, with whispering words of advice. A bit like the RSM in the film Zulus. Stand to him lad, don’t back away, don’t show him fear, play him down the line. All the time Goughy is coming down like a train. Most of you reading this will not have stood facing a fast bowler delivering a five and half ounce cricket ball at approaching 100 miles per hour. Wilf never slowed up for anyone. He reckoned if you had pads and a bat it was up to you. To his credit he never bowled short though. I don’t remember what happened after the delivery. Someone remarked put your brown trousers on next week Robert, he was right too! Had it not been for two bowlers, Messrs Larwood and Voce, Wilf would have been playing for Notts!
Radcliffe cricket team early 1950s
Will Gough seated, furthest right
Just a quick story involving Clifford Parr, who many of you will remember was the butcher, his shop opposite the fountain in the village. Although he was a total dedicated club member, and a great character, he did not know a cricket ball from a jaffa orange. Clifford was the sometime Thursday eleven captain for a period. (Most shops closed on a Thursday afternoon in those days, hence the need for a cricket team to occupy the time!) One Thursday we were playing an army team at Chilwell Barracks. Driving up to the barrier gate at Chilwell the guard came to the car and said “Who are you”? “We are the Radcliffe Cricket Club” says Clifford. “Well you can’t come in without a pass” says the guard! “Who says so” says Clifford. “I do” says the guard sticking the muzzle of his rifle in Clifford’s ear! “Well, if your going to be nasty about it we’ll report you to the Committee” says Clifford. The guard went away and confirmed our authority with the CO I presume, and let us in. Clifford later claimed he knew the password but was just testing security…as if!
Parr’s Butchers (and still a butchers!)
I have many cricket stories but I am sure most of you probably won’t be particularly interested.
I also have a store of GPO/Post Office Telephones/BT stories also. One of my talks in days gone by was ‘Up The Pole and Down the Hole’, I have spent plenty of time doing both! There was also my eighteen years as a wedding photographer. A few stories there to make you smile.
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Progress: Lake Wichita focused on funding projects
Work continues on the Lake Wichita Revitalization project. This visionary project is a cooperative effort of the Lake Wichita Revitalization Committee, the cities of Wichita Falls and Lakeside City, the Lake Wichita Chapter of the Friends of Reservoirs, Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, the Wichita Falls Area Community Foundation and many local citizens and groups.
Completed in 1901, Lake Wichita is the third-oldest reservoir in Texas. At one time, it was the source of water for the city of Wichita Falls and a major recreational attraction for north central Texas. Decades later, as Wichita Falls’ population grew the city developed alternative water supplies.
The Lake Wichita spillway was lowered to control flooding below the dam, reducing the size and depth of the lake. Over the years, the lake has gradually silted in, further reducing the depth of the water. A number of factors including Golden Alga and drought led to severe fish kills between 2004 and 2012. A severe drought decimated the lake, leaving it nearly dry for years before ample rains in 2015 refilled the lake.
Stephen Garner and Tom Lang were excited about the possibilities of Lake Wichita and advocated for the project, asking the Wichita Falls City Council to review possibilities for the future of the lake.
A citizen committee was appointed for an 18-month study of the lake in 2013. The committee completed a study and asked the city council to extend its charter and begin work on the actual revitalization of the lake. The city council agreed, with the caution that public funds would not be available.
Revitalization of Lake Wichita is a long, expensive and complex project. To the public, it may appear little progress is being made, but in truth the project has made great strides. There is a lot of work to be done for each phase, requiring research, time and money. The committee secured a permit from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, required before any work could be done. Currently, shoreline projects to improve access and provide additional recreational opportunities around the lake are in design. The committee recently reviewed and commented on early designs for the Kemp St boat ramp expansion, the boardwalk in the area of the historic pavilion and the veterans’ memorial plaza.
The pressing issue for the committee at this time is securing matching dollars for the grants for the boat ramp and boardwalk projects. Approximately $1.2 million dollars is needed to be able to keep the $1 million in grant money received from the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department. Half of that money needs to be available before July.
There are many opportunities for the lake in the future. A grant application for a section of the Circle trail at the lake in in progress and at some point, dredging to improve the fishing and boating opportunities needs to be done. Additional watershed improvements to increase water flow into the lake and to prevent future algal blooms and fish kills is another long-term portion of the project.
The revitalization of Lake Wichita is getting attention not only throughout the country, but the world. Reservoirs have a life expectancy of approximately 100 years. Lake Wichita is beyond that, and there are many reservoirs reaching that 100-year mark. What we are doing here in Wichita Falls, Texas is being watched as a model for the process other communities will need to go through soon. Lake Wichita been named to the Top Waters to Watch list by the National Fish Habitat Partnership, visited by a Winston Churchill Fellowship winner from Australia and garnered attention by renowned Conservationist Theodore Roosevelt IV.
The revitalization of Lake Wichita is a significant quality of life project for the cities of Wichita Falls and Lakeside City, providing recreational opportunities at little or no cost to citizens. In addition, a study by Dr. Martinez with the economics department of Midwestern State University indicates the economic boost to our area would be significant. They found a revitalized lake could bring in $25 million annually to the local area.
The committee is actively recruiting citizens who would like to be a part of this exciting project to serve on one of the subcommittees: Fundraising, Lake Amenities, Historical, Ecosystems and Outreach. If you have an interest in getting involved, contact Penny Miller at 940-867-9761 or email@example.com. | <urn:uuid:73309e11-303f-42d4-b384-84ecdba8a987> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.timesrecordnews.com/story/life/community/2019/02/24/progress-lake-wichita-focused-funding-projects/2732778002/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572043.2/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814143522-20220814173522-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.951104 | 885 | 2.3125 | 2 |
Artificial Intelligence Value-Chain
For every brand, the experiential variable is fundamental. In the purchasing process, customers no longer follow a linear path, but are continually juggling between online and offline, and in these migrations the shop is certainly the most experiential point where emotions and desires are realised in the act of purchasing.
But what do we know about the offline world today?
Imagine a WORLD where you can track and monitor customers better than you can on a website today with traditional analytics.
Well, that world is called Wonderstore, a physical retail analytics system that provides you with real-time data through dashboards and regular reports that allow you to quickly and efficiently change what’s not working, to improve your customers’ experience and your profits!
Wonderstore, a cloud-based solution designed for the retail world, uses sensors based on computer vision, artificial intelligence and IoT to capture meaningful information about customers and visitors to any retail habitat or physical space.
All the data collected, such as gender, age, sentiment, make-up, etc., flows into the cloud to generate actionable insights that help refine business and marketing strategy.
For WonderStore Every Customer Counts!
Travel / Tourism / Leisure
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- In Argentina, the government announced an aid of 10,000 pesos (about $ 155) for those workers among 18 and 65 years old who have been without an income source;
- The Chilean Congress approved last Friday a benefit of 50,000 pesos (about $ 60);
- In Peru, the benefit – previously 380 soles – will be extended to 760 soles (about $ 220);
- In Brazil, the financial aid of up to BRL 1,200 (around $ 230) to low-income families still needs to pass through the Senate this week.
In an effort to mitigate the impact of the coronavirus on the economy, especially of families that have been left without income due to the quarantine, some Latin American countries have launched financial aid programs these last days. Check below the actions taken by Argentina, Chile, Peru and, Brazil:
The Argentine government announced an aid of 10,000 pesos (about $ 155) for those workers among 18 and 65 years old who have been without income source, whether formal or informal, due to the interruption of their economic activities. At first, it will be a single payment in April, but, according to the government, the benefit could be extended in May, if the determination of total isolation remains. “We want to make sure that all Argentines are protected from this crisis,” explained Economy Minister Martín Guzmán. According to the Argentine newspaper Clarín, the benefit is expected to reach 3.6 million families.
The Chilean Congress approved, on Friday night (27), the payment of a bonus to support families and micro, small, and medium-sized companies, due to the economic impact that the Covid-19 virus is generating.
The benefit – 50,000 pesos (about $ 60) – was, at first, aimed at nearly two million people who are beneficiaries of both the Family Subsidy and the “Securities and Opportunities” Subsystem – but then was updated to reach those corresponding to the most vulnerable 60% of the population, who do not have family responsibilities and who are, to date, beneficiaries of State subsidies. With the above, the number of beneficiaries rises to about 2 million 670 thousand people, as informed local media outlet La Tercera. The benefit is expected to be available for withdrawal during April.
The Ministry of Development and Social Inclusion in the country approved the list of households in poverty or extreme poverty that will receive the subsidy, of 380 soles (about $ 110), ordered by the Government to reduce the economic impact caused by the coronavirus. As informed by El Comercio, The Minister of Development and Social Inclusion, Ariela Luna, initially pointed out that 2,750,000 families, accounting for 9 million Peruvians, from all over the country would benefit from the economic assistance.
According to local newspaper El Peruano, president Martín Vizcarra announced that the bonus for vulnerable families during the national emergency will be updated to a total of 760 soles (about $ 220). At a press conference, he explained that initially, the bond was 380 soles because it was intended for a period of 15 days, but since the emergency period is extended, the benefit will be double. The amount will be released gradually.
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If only we started appreciating small things in life that we would know how beautiful the journey is. However, most of us take to complaining about the things that we don’t have or comparing our things with what others have. This brings nothing but worries, anxiety, stress and, of course, depression.
With negativity taking over on our jobs and houses it is important that we take a moment to pause, rethink if all this is worth it and then go on with a fresh approach towards life.
So, here are 8 quotes that celebrate the beauty of life.
The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.” - Oprah Winfrey
“It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.” - Bill Gates
“Life has meaning only in the struggle. Triumph or defeat is in the hands of the Gods. So let us celebrate the struggle!” - Stevie Wonder
“Life has sweetness to it and a beauty and a power that I wanted to celebrate.” - Valerie Harper
I like to celebrate my life. I have a life that I'm really lucky to have, and so I want to make sure every minute counts and that I go on great vacations and I share my memories with people that I love and that will make me laugh and lalalalalala.” - Chelsea Handler
“There is never going to be an end point. But definitely, I am happy to complete a certain part of my journey, and that's something I want to celebrate.” - Harshvardhan Rane
“Celebrate life in all its glory - challenge yourself to let the routine sing, and the new dance.” -Maximillian Degenerez
“Dream on it. Let your mind take you to places you would like to go, and then think about it and plan it and celebrate the possibilities. And don't listen to anyone who doesn't know how to dream.” - Liza Minnelli | <urn:uuid:5fd31d7e-35c9-48c3-ba97-ef7e1e25c0c7> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://sgwrite.com/8-Quotes-that-celebrate-the-beauty-of-life-951 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572043.2/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814143522-20220814173522-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.957609 | 428 | 1.898438 | 2 |
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A treatise on the theory and practice of landscape gardening, adapted to North America, with a view to the improvement of country residences .. : Downing, A. J. (Andrew Jackson), 1815-1852 :
Publisher: New York, C. M. Saxton, San Francisco, H. H. Bancroft & co.
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Good designers take cues from nature and natural systems to create harmony in their work. Looking to native habitats can provide many insights, but one of the most useful ones is learning how to space plants appropriately for their ultimate size.
Environmentalists use terms like “mosaic” and “patchwork” to describe the spacing that happens naturally through competition for nutrients, light, and water. There are obvious benefits to this arrangement that can be replicated in gardens. The key is to place plants in relation to each other to allow maximum space for their mature size. They will require less irrigation, fertilizer, and little or no pruning for size, although occasional pruning for shape may still enhance their good looks.
Whether the garden area mimics the natural mix of annuals, perennials, shrubs, and perhaps bulbs that would occur in many native sites or is made up of totally exotic species, the simple rule to follow is knowing how big the plants will grow and providing adequate space for that development. There are several ways to achieve that ideal. The most obvious is to plant at just those generous parameters and wait for the garden to mature. Very few of us have that kind of patience, so the next best way is to avoid large empty holes by filling them with temporary place-fillers. Annuals are good candidates to sprinkle about between the more long-lasting species.
Perennials and woody shrubs require the most care in placement. Do read the tags or look them up in a good garden encyclopedia to decide how far apart they should be planted. These are the ones that can’t be easily edited out later (although it can be done if necessary). So, start with the skeleton, the larger and more permanent plants. In between them, create swaths or rivers of colorful annuals or even grasses that can be removed as the stars grow. Be fearless when the time comes and the result will be better than could be imagined.
Many annuals can be easily grown from seed. Prepare the soil by digging and raking to a fine texture. Since the seeds of a lot of these species are tiny, broadcast them and plan to let only some of them reach maturity. Mist often until seedlings are established, gradually deepening the watering to encourage good root systems that will resist wilting as days get warmer. As they grow, selectively pull young plants to create enough space around them for maximum growth. When the season is over, it will be almost painless to toss them on the compost heap and reassess the overall design.
If bulbs fit in the scheme, they can be tossed out more or less at random and then planted to the appropriate depth wherever they landed. Lots of bulbous plants can tolerate a little crowding, and having some clustered together will add to the natural look. They also add to the seasonality of the landscape. There are bulbs that bloom in spring, summer, and fall, so choosing different ones for each season will spark interest, too. Space out, literally, by taking a tip from nature. | <urn:uuid:65e05c8b-424d-4305-943a-7f02cff7060c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.independent.com/2011/05/17/room-grow/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571911.5/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813081639-20220813111639-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.957835 | 621 | 3.296875 | 3 |
Guidelines for supporting staff and volunteers
Red Cross and Red Crescent staff and volunteers work in difficult, complex and sometimes dangerous environments. They help people during and after crises, providing them with practical help, understanding and social and emotional support. Helping fellow human beings gives meaning, purpose and provides direction even in the face of adversity. However, the urgency of addressing the acute needs of affected populations can overshadow the fact that those responding are also exposed to loss, devastation, injury and death. Staff and volunteers may be deeply affected by witnessing pain and suffering and they are often directly affected by the same crisis they are responding to.
Providing psychosocial support to staff and volunteers is an essential part of honouring the obligation to care for their well-being. These are guidelines from the IFRC Reference Centre for Psychosocial Support on the Provision of Psychosocial Support in Crises to Staff and Volunteers of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies. Accessible at: https://pscentre.org/?resource=guidelines-for-caring-for-staff-and-volunteers-in-crises | <urn:uuid:680be16d-58e0-4232-9e03-c60aa91084ae> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://app.mhpss.net/resource/guidelines-for-supporting-staff-and-volunteers | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572043.2/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814143522-20220814173522-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.943404 | 226 | 2.375 | 2 |
- A. Failure to use developmentally expected speech sounds that are appropriate for age and dialect (e.g., errors in sound production, use, representation, or organization such as, but not limited to, substitutions of one sound for another [use of /t/ for target /k/ sound] or omissions of sounds such as final consonants).
- B. The difficulties in speech sound production interfere with academic or occupational achievement or with social communication.
- C. If Mental Retardation, a speech-motor or sensory deficit, or environmental deprivation is present, the speech difficulties are in excess of those usually associated with these problems.
Coding Note: If a speech-motor or sensory deficit or a neurological condition is present, code the condition on Axis III.
- Knowing and learning the various aspects of speech rather than being unable to physically pronounce words are the signs of a phonological disorder. For example, a child with a phonological disorder may not know a word whereas a child with an articulation disorder knows the word but is unable to get their articulators to shape the word so that they can say it.
- According to the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, signs of a phonological disorder “involve patterns of sound errors. For example, substituting all sounds made in the back of the mouth like “k” and “g” for those in the front of the mouth like “t” and “d” (e.g., saying “tup” for “cup” or “das” for “gas”).” (http://www.asha.org)
- Young children expectantly leave out sounds when they are learning to speak, especially when pronouncing words that begin with two consonants, such as the word spoon, but as the child gets older, these problems should dissipate. If they do not, the child could be showing signs of a phonological process disorder. Person’s with phonological disorders are presumed to experience difficulty acquiring the rules that underlie speech. (Bleile, 2003)
Child vs. adult presentation
- Phonological disorder is most commonly a childhood disorder. If a child’s speech is not easily understood by non-family members by the age of 4, a phonological disorder may be present. Most will grow out of the disorder by third grade, but spontaneous recovery becomes less likely after the fourth grade (around age 8).
- In severe cases, the disorder may be unremitting through adulthood. Children who misarticulate only a few phonemes are more prone to a spontaneous recovery. If articulation problems are still present after the age of 5, children are at higher risk for auditory problems.
Gender and cultural differences in presentation
- Taking dialect features into consideration is important so that the patient is not misdiagnosed. Bilingual phonology is a field that there is not enough knowledge in.
- Currently bilingual children are assessed using monolingual standards. According to the MIT encyclopedia of communication disorders,
- Nearly two-thirds of Children under the age of 18 who are diagnosed with speech-language disorders are male. Communication disorders are twice as likely to be diagnosed in males age 45 and younger than in females. African Americans younger than 45 and of the same age are one-third as likely to be diagnosed as Caucasians. (Bleile, 2003)
Phonological and Articulation disorders compose nearly 32% of the communication disorders. Six million children under the age of 18 are estimated to have a language disorder. According to Arsano, et al. (2008), approximately 20% of pre-school aged children and 6% of school aged children are affected by phonological disorder. The prevalence rates decrease as age increases.
- According to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition, Text Revision (DSM-IV-TR), “Phonological Disorder includes phonological production (i.e., articulation) errors that involve the failure to form speech sounds correctly and cognitively based forms of phonological problems that involve a deficit in linguistic categorization of speech sounds (e.g., a difficulty in sorting out which sounds in the language make a difference in meaning).” (American Psychiatric Association, 2000).
- Some professionals prefer to distinguish between language knowledge (phonological) and speech-motor control (articulation). Phonological disorder can develop due an environment where the child is abused or neglected, placed in an environment with a bad teacher, or long term hospitalization. Direct physical damage to the brain or body can also be responsible for the development of the disorder.
- A child who presents with another disorder, such as attention deficit disorder (ADD), can suffer indirect physical damage due to the fact that they may not be able to concentrate long enough to acquire complex communication skills. While phonological disorder is usually an isolated problem, occasionally it occurs simultaneously with another medical condition such as cognitive limitations, neurological conditions, hearing impairments, orofacial anomalies, structural deficits of the oral peripheral speech mechanism, psychosocial problems, or respiratory problems.
Empirically supported treatments
- Children who present with moderate to severe disorders are usually recommended for treatment. The two most popular forms of treatment are the phonological approach and the traditional approach. According to Kaplan & Saddock, the phonological approach is for children with extensive patterns of multiple speech sound errors where treatment involves practice of specific sounds and is then extended into using the words in meaningful words and sentences.
- The traditional approach involves speech therapy by a speech-language pathologist (SLP). The American Speech-Language-Hearing Association defines speech-language pathologists as professionals who identify, assess, and provide treatment for individuals with speech, language, and swallowing problems. (http://www.asha.org ) They are trained individuals who not only work with the individual experiencing phonological problems, but they also work with the family, teachers, and other professionals involved in the process of correction.
- According to the US Department of Education Institute of Education Sciences, “phonological awareness training is a general practice aimed at enhancing young children’s phonological awareness abilities. It can involve various training activities that focus on teaching children to identify, detect, delete, segment, or blend segments of spoken words (i.e., words, syllables, onsets and rimes, phonemes) or that focus on teaching children to detect, identify, or produce rhyme or alliteration.” (http://www.ed.gov)
Children with phonological disorder believe they are articulating the words they attempt to say although they are not. They often become frustrated when they are told they are not speaking correctly. | <urn:uuid:2bb323fc-5a94-43a5-a2d8-aff21e166c9a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://courses.lumenlearning.com/atd-herkimer-abnormalpsych/chapter/phonological-disorder-315-39/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572212.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815205848-20220815235848-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.94252 | 1,418 | 3.59375 | 4 |
The Royal Armed Forces have acquired, since July, a new radar, the Ground Master 400, indicates a French media. A monitoring system, marketed since 2008, manufactured by the French companies Thales Group and the American Raythéon.
Radar has “considerable effects on airspace protection needs. Easily deployable ”. An essential asset “for the long-range detection of threats”. “It can be installed on a truck in order to be redeployed to another site in less than an hour (…) Its range exceeds 500 km”, underlines Thales Group in a presentation note for the Ground Master 400.
“With the Ground Master 400, the Royal Moroccan Air Forces have a decisive advantage in terms of protection of their territory and air surveillance. This new contract testifies to the renewed confidence of the Moroccan authorities in Thales, a long-standing partner of the country ”, explains Christophe Salomon, Deputy Managing Director Land and Air Systems, Thales.
The contract for this new acquisition was signed in 2019. It should be remembered that the FAR have had, since 2013, a GM 400 radar. | <urn:uuid:8ef9f84e-a2c3-4adc-ae37-2de0621e5c45> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.themoroccanblog.com/moroccan-sahara/armament-the-far-acquire-a-franco-american-radar/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572043.2/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814143522-20220814173522-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.914971 | 238 | 1.710938 | 2 |
*Information reported by New York Post has been used as a source for this report. *
NEW YORK, New York -
New York City's youngest students have joined the freedom that upper-level students now enjoy, the freedom from wearing face masks in school. The celebratory news came to light today, Tuesday, March 22,2022 when Mayor Eric Adams announced the decision in the midst of his concern over a new variant of COVID-19 which is signaling to be the cause of a slight incline in cases.
Mayor Adams, on March 7, 2022, dropped the mask requirement for students K-12, and today, he has spoken to reporters at City Hall stating, Next month, students younger than 5 will no longer need to wear face coverings in school, however, his decision can be reconsidered in the event of a COVID-19 surge. Continuing, “If the numbers continue to show a low level of risk, masks will be optional for 2 to 4-year-old students in schools and in daycares. We’re going to start this on April 4, 2022. We want to see our babies’ faces again,” Adams added.
As of next month, there will be no educational settings in the city where masks are still required.
Mayor Adams announcement counts as a win for a group of concerned parents who have for weeks implored the mayor to change his stance on the unmasking of toddlers in school, highlighting studies that show the youngsters suffer mentally and socially from the face covering mandate.
Some public health experts are in favor for keeping pandemic precautions in place until a clearer medical hypothesis of how New York will sustain with the arrival of BA.2, a highly contagious subvariant of the omicron mutation of COVID-19 which is suspected to possibly hit the community.
The Health Commissioner, Dr. Ashwin Vasan, presented his case last week for his reasoning for keeping the mandate in place since federal regulators still have not authorized children under 5 to get vaccinated. Vasan believes the mandate should be indefinitely maintained. Speaking at Tuesday’s City Hall press conference, Vasan stressed that the Adams administration will keep a close eye on the development of BA.2 within the coming weeks before lifting the mask mandate for students under 5.
BA.2 now accounts for about half of all of New York’s infections, according to data from the state Department of Health released Monday. So far, New York has not seen a rise in COVID-19 deaths and hospitalizations as a result of BA.2. | <urn:uuid:e39aa5f9-47b1-4e70-8809-af0d2a6fa50e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://original.newsbreak.com/@kisha-walker-1591976/2548983423374-nyc-mayor-eric-adams-to-lift-mask-mandate-for-students-5-years-old-and-under-beginning-april-4-2022 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572043.2/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814143522-20220814173522-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.95861 | 528 | 1.632813 | 2 |
Workshop in the exhibition Juan Ortiz-Apuy. Tropicana, VOX, from February 11 to June 26, 2021.
February 27 to June 26, 2021
June 24 and 25
11 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Ongoing activity from March 2 to 5
Visit and workshop
VOX invites you to share a playful moment with your kids in a colourful environment to the vibrant rhythms of cumbia! A visit in your *family bubble*, complete with observation games and a creative workshop, accompanies our new youth exhibition Tropicana, created by Montreal-based Costa Rican artist Juan Ortiz-Apuy.
These activities are designed to enable children aged 6 to 14 to decode advertising messages and learn how to consume responsibly.
Our visual arts educators will be on-site to welcome your family in complete safety and lead the activities.
The exhibition is also open from Thursday to Saturday from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. for unaccompanied visits.
Our commitment to children’s health and safety in the pandemic context:
This youth activity will proceed in compliance with the public health measures in effect.
Juan Ortiz-Apuy. Tropicana
2021.02.11 – 06.26
When confronting the environmental crisis, in which unbridled production of goods is threatening the diversity of the natural world, it’s essential that we take an interest in how things are displayed, commercialized and consumed, whether in brick-and-mortar store windows or online.
This fourth youth exhibition, specially designed for kids and teenagers aged 6 to 14, casts a critical eye on modern consumer society and advertising aimed at children, which often features animals, colours, sounds and shapes designed to appeal to them. For the occasion, Montreal-based Costa Rican artist Juan Ortiz-Apuy has created a visual and sound environment allowing visitors to explore the language of advertising and its ability to act on us, in sometimes unexpected ways. The artist based his research on new marketing strategies that have emerged in the social media era, i.e., the phenomenon of “unboxing” and ASMR (Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response) videos. A genuine foray into the world of objects, this exhibition seeks to examine the way we consume today—always with a touch of humour—the better to understand its future impacts. Besides a guided tour, children can take part in a workshop designed to awaken their senses, creativity and critical thinking. Observation games to be completed with family members round out the experience. Find out more
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All are invited to enjoy a special presentation series featuring the local historic institutions participating in this year’s Experience Kits initiative! Each virtual presentation will immerse you in the rich history and heritage of Western Pennsylvania.
For Adults & Teens
Upcoming Spotlight Lectures:
- Tuesday, July 27, 2021 (5 pm): Heinz History Center
- Tuesday, August 3, 2021 (5 pm): Quecreek Mine Rescue
- Tuesday, August 10, 2021 (5 pm): Captain William Vicary Mansion
- Tuesday, August 17, 2021 (5 pm): Passavant House
- Tuesday, August 24, 2021 (5 pm): McKeesport Regional History & Heritage Center
Advanced registration is required for each presentation. Zoom information will be sent two days before the event. Find out more about each event and register for these programs on our Event Calendar.
Virtual museum storytimes just for little ones are also offered this summer! These fun & educational programs are presented Saturdays at 10am.
Upcoming Virtual Museum Storytimes:
- Saturday, July 31, 2021: Heinz History Center
- Saturday, August 7, 2021: Quecreek Mine Rescue Site
- Saturday, August 14, 2021: Captain William Vicary Mansion and Beaver County Historical Research & Landmarks Foundation
- Saturday, August 21, 2021: The Passavant House and Zelienople Historical Society
- Saturday, August 28, 2021: McKeesport Regional History and Heritage Center
Advanced registration is required for each storytime session.
Want to experience these locations in person? With your library card, receive free admission passes for up to four people to these local museums and historical sites when you check out Experience Kits from select Allegheny County Libraries. Find out more about Experience Kits and how to reserve yours here. | <urn:uuid:74263540-bd2e-4430-aebb-9d6ffdf152fc> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://sewickleylibrary.org/summer-museum-spotlights/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572212.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815205848-20220815235848-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.884524 | 371 | 1.539063 | 2 |
COVID-19 Pandemic Stakeholder Engagement
Marin County Public Health & School Community
Share Your LEA Comeback Story.
As California LEAs prepare for the safe return of staff and students to schools, the California Collaborative for Educational Excellence (CCEE) is seeking input from LEAs on the deliberate planning and collaborative approaches that are necessary to develop local guidelines and roadmaps for getting staff and students back to school.
CCEE plans to spotlight LEAs adopting inclusive approaches to engage a wide variety of stakeholders that provide expertise and broad understanding of local and state protocols that will inform plan development and implementation. Some of the LEA partnerships include, but are not limited to, the following stakeholders:
- Public health
- Local school boards
- Community based organizations
The CCEE spotlight on LEA collaborative approaches will feature lessons learned, resources, strategies and practices that address common challenges, such as, equity, public health, facilities and school operations, responses to outbreaks, meeting staffing and personnel needs, meaningful teaching and learning, family and community engagement, and social-emotional learning.
Lets Get Started
If you know of an LEA that should be considered as a potential spotlight on #ComeBackCASchools, please complete the contact form below. A CCEE staff member will follow-up with additional questions.
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#ComeBackCASchools is a campaign designed by CCEE to spotlight local educational agencies (LEAs) collaborative approaches to getting California’s students back-to-school. It focuses on sharing tools, resources, and practices to leverage partnerships and facilitate dialogue among LEAs to support each other during the pandemic. | <urn:uuid:187d1722-91f2-4e20-98b3-8b76b15a90cc> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://comebackcalifornia.org/share-your-lea-comeback-story/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572043.2/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814143522-20220814173522-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.936181 | 367 | 2.34375 | 2 |
Today, Dec. 28, is a special day. It”s Proclamation Day in South Australia. For those of you who don”t know it Proclamation Day is the South Australian public holiday that celebrates the proclamation of South Australia as a British province. The proclamation was made by Captain John Hindmarsh, beside The Old Gum Tree at Glenelg, on Dec. 28, 1836.
Do you find this interesting? I didn”t, but it doesn”t mean it”s not important. It”s no less important than recognizing NationalFolic Acid Awareness Week, which Yolo County urged that we do from Jan. 6 through Jan. 12, 2013. Folic acid, as you all know, is needed by women “who are, or could possibly become, pregnant” in order to improve the health of their developing child.
Each day — and sometimes each week — has some special significance, so much so that I”m lobbied to do stories.
Every cause, it seems has its day, a fact that was brought to my attention when my wife placed a copy of “Nov. 23, being the 5th Anniversary of the National Day of Listening” on my desk at home. Subtle reminder aside, the day was designed to get spouses to talk to one another and “recording” those interviews. Recommended questions included: How did you meet? How did you know he/she was “the one”? What were some of the most difficult times? What were some of the best times? What are some of the most important lessons you”ve learned? Well, you get the idea. Aside from all the questions being past tense, I found the exercise interesting.
As it turns out, however, special days and weeks are worldwide events. Did you know, for example, that WorldToilet Day was on Nov. 19, World Television Day was Nov. 21, and International Civil Aviation Day was Dec. 7, while International Mountain Day was Dec. 11.
It turns out that anyone can link a date to a campaign, which is why the Singapore-based WTO — World Toilet Organization — chose a day to mark the plight of the world”s toilet-less 2.5 billion people. (It”s slogan this year was “I give a s—-, do you?”) At least 19 countries mark the day, probably more than mark Folic Acid Awareness Week. Interestingly, World Toilet Day has been shunned by the United Nations, probably because UN officials don”t want to be linked with the word “toilet.”
It turns out that there various levels of “specialness,” the highest of which is considered an “observance” by the UN. (And to think that some people are worried that the UN is trying to usurp the authority of national governments.)
There are more than 100 “observance” days set by the UN General Assembly.
Here are a few: World Intellectual Property Day on April 26, International Day of Happiness on March 20, followed by World Poetry Day on March 21, and then International Mother Earth Day April 22 (our Earth Day), with the International Day of Friendship in July. There are also days marking Jazz, Nelson Mandela, Nowruz (the Iranian new year) but nothing for Christmas or the regular new year which most of us follow on Dec. 31 and Jan. 1. Other days are given over to the Holocaust, the Rwanda genocide or female genital mutilation, child labor, torture, and highway accidents.
Why all this about special days and special weeks? Celebrating causes has its place in our collective consciousness. Sometimes we need reminders on the importance of particular events (such as the Holocaust and female genital mutilation) but sometimes it gets a bit absurd (Nowruz and International Friendship Day). A newspaper can”t devote space daily to each special cause, sometimes, we have to let it go: Commemorate it if we can, acknowledge it if we must, or ignore it entirely out of necessity. | <urn:uuid:c7811661-2951-49df-b63f-707fbbc8514d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.dailydemocrat.com/2012/12/28/smith-a-special-day-to-close-out-the-year/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571911.5/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813081639-20220813111639-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.964596 | 857 | 2.1875 | 2 |
The beginning of a brighter future
In August 1945, a group of teenagers and younger children who had survived the concentration camps were flown to the UK by the RAF. The group of refugees arrived from Prague airport on Stirling bombers, touching down at the aerodrome at Crosby on Eden in Cumberland, where they began their long recuperation. The 300 young people, mainly Polish, had in most cases lost all their family and many had endured the notorious 'death marches' of that year.
Greatly against the odds - for there were thousands of refugees moving around Europe in 1945 - IWM’s Film Archive has film of these young people assembling at Ruzyne Airport near Prague just before they took off for the UK. The notes completed by the RAF film cameraman suggest that the departure of the young refugees was recorded almost by accident. The plan had been to film a Czech Air Force Squadron's return to the base, but bad weather caused the Czechs’ arrival to be delayed, and the cameraman's attention was caught instead by the group of children, their travel bags packed, bound for the UK.
Those who arrived that summer went on to form the '45 Aid Society - an organisation which kept the young refugees in touch with each other throughout their lives, and with which IWM has had a long association. Staff at IWM got to know many survivors during the making of the Holocaust Exhibition, and this film has a special resonance for that reason.
Some individuals in the film have been identified. One - Roman Halter - can be seen getting onto a motorised luggage transporter and gliding towards the camera. His entire family had been murdered by the Nazis.
The film is a unique glimpse of the start of a momentous journey for these Jewish children - finally freed from the persecution they had endured throughout the Second World War.
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We have a solar sail! As we reported on the 19th, the little cubesat that was thought to be lost has now been found, and now today, Friday, Jan. 21, engineers at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center confirmed that the NanoSail-D deployed its 100-square-foot polymer solar sail in low-Earth orbit and is operating as planned. The sail actually deployed late on Jan. 20, and it was quite interesting to see how ham radio operators were helping the engineers monitor the critical beacons sent out by the spacecraft — with communications also being sent back and forth via Twitter. The video above is from Henk Hamoen (@PA3GUO on Twitter) who operates a ham radio station in the Netherlands. The NanoSail-D sends an beacon packet every 10 seconds, which contains data about the spacecraft systems operation, and Hamoen and others were able to help make sure things were going as planned.
“This is tremendous news and the first time NASA has deployed a solar sail in low-Earth orbit,” said Dean Alhorn, NanoSail-D principal investigator. “To get to this point is an incredible accomplishment for our small team and I can’t thank the amateur ham operator community enough for their help in tracking NanoSail-D. Their assistance was invaluable. In particular, the Marshall Amateur Radio Club was the very first to hear the radio beacon. It was exciting!”
NanoSail-D will continue to send out beacon signals until the onboard batteries run out. For ham radio buggs: the beacon can be found at 437.270 MHz. It can be tracked on the NanoSail-D dashboard at: http://nanosaild.engr.scu.edu/dashboard.htm.
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It is estimated that NanoSail-D will remain in low-Earth orbit between 70 and 120 days, depending on atmospheric conditions.
NanoSail-D is designed to demonstrate deployment of a compact solar sail boom technology. This is the first successful solar sail deployment in low Earth Orbit, and the second such deployment in less than a year; Japan’s IKAROS set sail in June 2010 for Venus.
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Is Polyester Good Fabric for Sailing?
Modern sailcloth begins life as industrial fiber and film. Some of these products are well known to sailors by a specific supplier’s brand name, yet in many cases, the material properties of these products are not well understood.
A better understanding of the characteristics of these fibers can truly be helpful in choosing the right sails for your boat. If you want to know the ideal sailcloth fiber, you should know that it would last for decades of use, stand up to the harsh sailing environment – meaning that it should have toughness and structural durability. The fiber should not stretch under load (modulus and shape-holding) and would be sold at low cost.
However, in reality, available fibers exhibit varying degrees of these attributes with some materials having vanishingly small levels of stretch for weight, but less than desirable durability, while others are tough, but stretchy. Finding the right material for sailing is not easy, but it is the key to being happy with your sails. Polyester fabric is the most used in sailing, but not many people know much about it, for instance – is polyester stretchy, what is it made of or its structure. So let’s explain what kind of material is polyester exactly and why should you use it for sailing.
What is Polyester?
Polyester is a generalized term for any fabric or textile, which is made by using polyester yarns or fibers. The long term of the synthetic, man-made polymer is polyethylene terephthalate (PET). If you know what is polyester made of – it is made by mixing ethylene glycol and terephthalic acid. In other words, polyester material is a kind of plastic that was invented in 1941 by the British chemists John Rex Whinfield and James Tennant Dickson, yet it became extremely popular in the 1970s.
When made into fabric, it was used to create polyester clothing, furnishings or textiles. You will find clothes that are 100% polyester or natural fabric mixed with it.
Polyester Texture Characteristic
Does polyester stretch? What does polyester feel like? Is polyester see-through? These are just a few questions you should ask before choosing a material for sailing.
Polyester is good and recommended for sailing because it is very durable and resistant to many chemicals. It is resistant to shrinking and stretching, as well as wrinkling and abrasions. Polyester fiber is very strong, yet lightweight, and it is easily dyed. Polyester retains shape very well and the fabric is easy to look after. It can be washed and dried at home and dried quickly.
Why Use Polyester for Sailing?
For decades this material has been the most commonly used sail fiber because it is strong, durable and relatively inexpensive. Woven polyester sailcloth is often called “dacron”. It was specifically developed for sailcloth by DuPont. High reduction, combined with very tight weaving produces sailcloth which is tightly backed and stable without having to rely on adding excess resins for stability. You can use polyester fabric as stand-alone woven cloth, or as a component in laminates. Its yarn is quite resistant to UV damage.
Polyester fibers are thermoplastic or heat-sensitive. This means that fabrics that are 100% polyester can be given permanent pleats and decorative shapes and patterns. They are also highly stain-resistant, which is great when it comes to cleaning. Polyester is slippery and almost silky to touch. It is a naturally bright fiber and is perfect material for sailing. | <urn:uuid:89e579b9-5a89-442f-a10c-cd1a81179a61> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://book2sail.com/is-polyester-good-fabric-for-sailing/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572212.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815205848-20220815235848-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.969275 | 746 | 2.390625 | 2 |
So before we talk about how to help a body that lacks a "gallbladder" . . . let's talk about one more element to a normal healthy body.
And that would be the connection between the "gallbladder" and our "hormones".
Okay . . . this is important people . . . SO LISTEN UP . . .
There's actually a hormone called "Cholecystokinin" . . . which is secreted by cells of the upper part of the small intestine. And "cholecystokinin" stimulates a normal "gallbladder" to "contract" and release "stored" bile into the small intestine so we can digest our food.
But . . . what happens if there's NO "gallbladder" to stimulate???
Well . . . "cholecystokinin" NOW "increases gastroesophageal reflux. Why you ask???
Well . . . without a "gallbladder" to stimulate . . . "cholecystokinin" now "relaxes" the lower esophageal sphincter . . . which is like a rubber band that expands and contracts to let food into the stomach and stops stomach acids from going back up the esophagus.
So "without" a "gallbladder . . . this hormone may "now" cause acid reflux every time we eat . . . especially if it's high fat foods
Okay . . . so another important element is this . . .
"Bile" is an important component to the elimination of "estrogen" and its metabolites through the liver.
So without a "gallbladder" . . . "bile" can become "sluggish" and lead to sluggish hormone "elimination" like with "estrogen"!!!!!
So it's "imperative" that we STOP "sluggish" bile.
Okay . . . . so how does the body "compensate" when the "gallbladder" is removed???
Well . . . "bile" is now "LESS" concentrated and drains more continuously into the small intestine . . . where it can have a "LAXATIVE" EFFECT.
Meaning . . . without a "gallbladder" . . . you may find yourself with "diarrhea" after you eat.
So is this all making sense yet people???
Well tomorrow, we'll talk about a few ways to help correct these problems and a "missing" element conventional medicine "DOESN'T" tell us after we have our "gallbladder" removed.
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School Name: Mountain View Elementary
School District: SD#68 Nanaimo-Ladysmith
Inquiry Team Members: Susan Gueulette
Inquiry Team Contact Email: firstname.lastname@example.org
Type of Inquiry: NOIIE
Grade Levels: Primary (K-3)
Curricular Area(s): Applied Design, skills & Technology
Focus Addressed: Indigenous understandings (for example, Traditional Knowledge, oral history, reconciliation)
In one sentence, what was your focus for the year? Life skills: sewing a plant pouch and gathering Aboriginal plants from our neighbourhood.
Scanning: Our scanning process started with a direct question about the level of skills the learners and teachers needed in order to complete the project successfully. The question was directed to the learners and teachers; have you done any hand sewing with anyone before? And, would you be interested in learning hand sewing skills to complete a plant pouch. This was an oral discussion for the whole class of 20 learners. The learners wanted to learn sewing skills.
Focus: We selected applied design because we wanted the students to have an opportunity to learn basic sewing skills, and learn that sewing is an important skill to have for themselves as well as First Nations Peoples who lived thousands years ago. We were also hoping that sewing a plant pouch taught them how difficult it is to sew but a necessity for plants or herbs to be gathered for the people just like we do today when we go shopping in the grocery store.
Hunch: We had a hunch that our learners had little experience with sewing skills, sewing words, and importance of it. Once the learners discussed how much experience they had with hand sewing, this gave teachers direction on what skills were needed.
New Professional Learning: Teachers had to learn sewing skills before modelling it to the learners. We used the internet and watched “how to sew” videos. We practiced sewing on felt at home. Tina Moore, Aboriginal Teacher of the school taught us the blanket stitch. We purchased needles from Amazon and good quality felt from the Dollar store.
Taking Action: Our team decided it would be a good strategy to learn a few plant names in Hul’q’umin’um, the language of the Snuneymuxw. We used a website called First Voices, that translates English to Hul’q’umin’um with the correct pronunciation.
Checking: Our baseline was about 4 out of 20 learners, who had done a little bit of hand sewing with family members. After practicing blanket stitch a few times, the learners were able to sew a felt pouch that collected plants. That makes 20 learners compared to 4 in a class who have successfully sewn and now have had that experience. We gave the learners a questionnaire on if they liked sewing and if they liked the experience. Hundred percent yes, and would sew again. Hundred percent of learners said they liked sewing a pouch and gathering some Snuneymuxw plants on a nature walk.
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Anne Boleyn, twenty years old, stepped onto the shore at Dover in the winter of 1521 after several years abroad. She had been sent to France to assimilate French culture, and had used the time well. She was all set to make a big impression at the Tudor court and did, capturing the heart of Henry VIII.
But this woman, who was in the grave by the age of thirty-six and on the throne of England for only three years, provokes strong reactions from many. Was she an immoral woman who seduced Henry away from his rightful wife for the advancement of family and personal gain? In this well-researched, fresh look at Anne, Colin Hamer sets her in her context as a young woman who had come to true faith in Christ, and shows the impact for good she made from her position of influence, an impact we still benefit from today.
About the Author
Colin Hamer is currently chairman of a charity that works with the homeless and other vulnerable groups. Following his graduation from Liverpool University in 1972 with BA (Hons), he spent a short time teaching then pursued a business career for more than twenty-five years. He has been an elder at Grace Baptist Church, Astley, Manchester, for twenty years. He and his wife Lois have two adult children. His first book, Being a Christian Husband—a biblical perspective, was published by Evangelical Press in 2005.
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Geological Field Notebook: The Perfect Field Companion; Small Size 5 x 8 in (Paperback)
Geological Field Notebook, 5" x 8"
An ingeniously designed field notebook for geologists, students and professionals both.
- Checklist for your essential items so you won't forget anything.
- Numbered Pages.
- Two Index Pages.
- Intelligently designed cross-reference boxes to quickly fill and find relevant data.
- Tabled Sample Log for finding the right one when needed.
- Sketch Page for better understanding and on-site interpretations.
- Graph Page for scaled sedimentary log and their interpretations.
While planning your Geological Field Trip, a great "notebook" is the most essential thing you would be thinking.
Because you don't want to miss any details while you are in your field.
For that, you definitely need a well-designed field notebook that fulfills all your needs.
"Geological Field Notebook" from Dexter Publishers is a Perfect Companion for your Field Work.
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Frank Hurley (1885-1962) [House and gardens, Australia] [between 1910 and 1962], nla.obj-159237448
The resources available for each house may be different, due to the fact the availability, organisation, and location of records vary from state to state.
The three sources most commonly used to research houses, particularly in determining when they were built and who they were built for, are:
- Street directories
- Council rate books
- Title Office records
There are several websites, usually specific to individual states, which provide information on resources and where to find them. Guides may be from State Libraries, State Records and Archives offices or city councils. Examples include:
- State Records Authority of New South Wales House and Property Guide
- City of Sydney House and Building history
- Queensland State Archives Brief Guide 27 Tracing the history of your house
- Brisbane City Council Research the history of your house
- State Library of Victoria Library's guide Researching buildings and houses
- Finding the history of Tasmanian buildings
- Western Australia's land information authority Landgate
- State Records of South Australia Researching your house history
- Northern Territory Heritage properties includes links to other information
- Australian Capital Territory Archives ACT
- ABC TV’s Who’s been sleeping in your house?
There are also several useful print items available:
- How to trace the history of your house
- The National Trust research manual: trace the history of your house or other places
- How to trace the history of your house: a brief guide
- Your house has a history : keys to unlocking its past
Trove can help you find and get items at libraries near you.
You might also be able to find historic newspaper articles and photos of your house by searching Trove. This is particularly useful for houses with prominent names.
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Date of Award
Professor Bill Allen
The Upward Bound Program at Ouachita began in 1966 and since then until the present date the only source of information about an Upward Bound participant was his file folder. Working with Dr. Charles Chambliss, Mr. John Small and Mr. Bill Allen, I worked to put Upward Bound on Data Processing. This process entailed (1) deciding on the information that would be recorded on the data cards (2) deciding on the placement of the information on the card (3) setting up a code sheet for the information (4) designing a form containing the coded information would be used by the keypunch operator to punch the data cards (5) going to the Upward Bound folder and gathering the information needed (6) coding the forms (7) keypunching the data cards and (8) getting a computer printout of the information contained in the new Upward Bound data file.
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Top best answers to the question «Are there witches in sydney»
According to the 2016 Census, 27,194 Australians identified as pagan or other affiliated "nature religions". This included 6,616 people who specifically identified as "Wiccan/witchcraft". Sydney-based witch Blayze has been involved with Wicca for three decades.
Those who are looking for an answer to the question «Are there witches in sydney?» often ask the following questions:
⭐ A discovery of witches netflix australia?
- Is A Discovery of Witches on Netflix? No, ‘A Discovery of Witches’ is not on Netflix. But if fantasy dramas are something that you are inclined to, you should definitely check out ‘The Witcher,’ which is currently streaming on the platform.
⭐ Are there 9pm family fireworks in sydney this year?
- The following information has been provided by the NSW Government. There will be no 9pm family fireworks or activities around Sydney Harbour this year. There will be a short fireworks display from Sydney Harbour Bridge at midnight only. This will be broadcast on TV and covered on 7NEWS.com.au
⭐ Are there on-line courses at university of sydney?
Is the University of Sydney a good University?
- Our excellence in research and teaching makes the University of Sydney one of the top universities in Australia and highly ranked among the best universities in the world. In 2020, we were ranked second in the Times Higher Education (THE) University Impact Rankings, and first in Australia in the QS Graduate Employability Rankings.
⭐ How many dfo homebush stores are there in sydney?
- Just 15kms from the Sydney CBD and near the Sydney Olympic Park, DFO Homebush has more than 80 stores with up to 70% off including Polo Ralph Lauren, Authentics (Converse), Oroton, Fossil, Country Road and much more! Suggest edits to improve what we show.
⭐ How many domestic airports are there in sydney?
There are three terminals at Sydney Airport: one international and two domestic. T2 and T3 Domestic are linked to each other by a short walkway, while T1 International is in a separate area of the airport. The complimentary T-Bus transfers passengers between the domestic and international precincts of Sydney Airport.
⭐ How many lines are there in the sydney metro?
- It has a total of 178 stations, 815 kilometers (506 miles) of railroad and 8 lines; the description of a system that connects the entire metropolitan area of an urban conglomerate and its suburbs. Meanwhile, work on the current Sydney Metro continues to be executed.
⭐ How many local government areas are there in sydney?
- Sydney has about 38 local government areas, each consisting of several suburbs (suburbs in Australia are purely geographical, not political, divisions). See table below, Category:Suburbs of Sydney and Category:Local government areas in Sydney.
⭐ How many olympics pins are there in sydney?
- 2000 Sydney Olympics fourteen framed displays comprising almost 500 Olympics pins, including Shane Gould Dna, torch relay series & sports mascots. Sold by in for You can display prices in $Au, $US, $NZ or Stg. 2000 Sydney Olympics cork board (64 x 95 cm) with about 360 Olympics pins; plus another cork board with about 120 Olympics pins.
⭐ How many rat bait stations are there in sydney?
- A City of Sydney spokesman told news.com.au that late last year the it doubled the number of rat bait stations to nearly 900 and increased bait checks in high activity areas to weekly. This year it doubled the number of rat catching boxes from 20 to 40 in February and will increase this to 60 in April.
We've handpicked 6 related questions for you, similar to «Are there witches in sydney?» so you can surely find the answer!How many red light cameras are there in sydney?
3. How many red-light speed cameras are there in NSW? There are 201 red-light speed cameras at intersections across NSW. Those intersections are located in Sydney and in regional areas and have been identified for red-light speed camera treatment by criteria outlined in the NSW Speed Camera Strategy.What kind of schools are there in sydney?
- Faith-based education is common in Sydney. Catholic primary and high schools, run by the Catholic Education Office Sydney, are particularly popular. Most suburbs have a Catholic primary school, and schools may accept some non-Catholic families as long as they agree to support the values of the Catholic Church.
In 1921, local historian Sidney Perley believed he had located the spot of the executions, near the base of the hill on Proctor's Ledge.Why are there so many cafes in sydney?
- Sydney has embraced a well-established café culture for more than four decades now and there’s been an explosion of boutique and independent cafes around offering alternative places to relax, hang around and more than ever, to consume the best foodie fare of pretty much any city in the world.
- As the weather got colder and Sydney experienced a huge construction boom, rats were forced out and the City of Sydney doubled the number of rat baits across the city in response to a rise in the rodent population.
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The US Scripps National Spelling Bee is over for another year with another tie between two amazing young people. Both winners are impressive to us mere mortals but also compared to Microsoft Office.
As we have for the last few years, we’ve made a list of the championship words to see how Microsoft Office’s English dictionary fares. We do this for a bit of fun. The words are usually quite obscure and won’t be found in any regular dictionary (paper or virtual).
Here’s the list of 47 words used in the final rounds as they appear in Word.
Using Microsoft Word 2016 (public preview), US English.
The Word dictionary only found four words: bacchius, bouillabaisse, crannog and hacek.
All this shows that a red squiggly line in Word isn’t the last word on spelling. There’s the very real possibility that the word is right but isn’t in the Microsoft Office dictionary.
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What is the path for download folder?
Where to Find the Downloads Folder on a PC. To open your downloads folder on a Windows 10 device, click the File Explorer icon on your taskbar, then select the Downloads folder on the left-hand side.
Where do I find my Downloads on my laptop?
To find downloads on your PC:
- Select File Explorer from the taskbar, or press the Windows logo key + E.
- Under Quick access, select Downloads.
How do I change the download path on my computer?
Navigate to the “This PC” and open it. Right-click on the “Downloads” folder and click on the “Properties” option. “Downloads Properties” window will appear on the screen and click on the “Location” tab. Now, click on the “Move” button to change the default download location and click on the “Apply” button to proceed.
What is the default download location for files on Windows?
Files you’ve downloaded are automatically saved in the Downloads folder. This folder is usually located on the drive where Windows is installed (for example, C:sers\your name\downloads). You can always move downloads from the Downloads folder to other places on your PC.
Where are Windows 10 Downloads stored?
Find and Manage Where Downloads are Stored in Windows 10 An easy way to get there is to open Start > Downloads. Or, press Windows key+R then type: %userprofile%/downloads, then hit Enter. That opens your Downloads folder to “This PC” in File Explorer. You can also add a shortcut to the Start menu for Downloads.
How do I open download folder in Chrome?
Quickly open the ‘Downloads’ folder on Chrome OS devices right in the browser window. Use its toolbar button or the keyboard shortcut Alt + J. On Chromebook (Chrome OS), it opens the ‘Downloads’ folder in a browser tab instead of the Files app.
How do I find a file path in Windows 10?
Show the Full Folder Path in File Explorer on Windows 10
- Click Options.
- Select Change folder and search options, to open the Folder Options dialogue box.
- Click View to open the View tab.
- Click Apply. You will now see the folder path in the title bar.
- Click OK to close the dialogue box.
How do I open a downloaded file?
Once you’ve installed the app, you can find your downloaded files by selecting the Browse tab at the bottom of the app, then tapping Downloads. Tap a file to open it, or long-press on it to select the file and delete, share or rename it.
How do I change the download location in Windows 7?
In Windows, Downloads folder is usually located in %userprofile%Downloads….Move Downloads folder to new location in Windows 7
- Click on the location tab.
- Click on the Move button.
- Select the new location for the Downloads folder.
- Click on ‘Apply’ button.
- Click on OK button and close Downloads properties window.
How do I change the default install location in Windows 10?
How to Change Your Default Install/Download Location in Windows 10
- Open Settings.
- Click on System Settings.
- Find your Storage settings and click “change where new content is saved”
- Change the default installation location to the drive of your choice.
- Apply your new installation directory.
Where are Downloads stored on Windows 10?
Windows 10 and 11 both include a special folder called “Downloads” that is unique to each user account on the PC. By default, it’s located in your user folder with the path C:\Users\[User Name]\Downloads , where “[User Name]” is your Windows user account name.
How can I download anything on my laptop?
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Kuwait: Kuwait yesterday, data from the Ministry of Health showed that 1,482 people have been COVID-19 positive in the last 24 hours and the total number of cases in the country is 420,796. According to Dr. Abdullah al-Sanad, a spokesman for the Ministry of Health, an additional 201 people have recovered from the virus, for a total of 412,274. He added that the recovery to the positive case rate was 98 percent. He told KUNA that the death toll from the pandemic remained unchanged at 2,468, with 38 hospitalized for the virus and nine of them in the intensive care unit. Approximately 22,159 swab tests have been performed in the past day, for a total of 6,047,491 tests.
Meanwhile, according to data from Johns Hopkins University, the United States reported more than one million new COVID-19 cases on Monday after a long New Year’s weekend, as the Omicron variant spreads at a blazing pace. There are 1,080,211 new cases in the country, which is a world record, but the number of cases reported on Monday is usually other, especially after such a three-day holiday weekend, due to the delay in counting weekends. It will be more than the day of.
Still, this number is twice the number of daily cases compared to the previous Monday. The university said the seven-day moving average, which experts see as reliable, was 486,000 per day as of Monday night. The new numbers are the day after Anthony Fauci, a top US pandemic adviser, said the country was experiencing a “nearly vertical increase” in cases of COVID-19, peaking just a few weeks away. I add that it may be.
According to a government model, the most contagious strain of Omicron to date, which accounts for about 59% of US cases in the week leading up to December 25, has undergone a major mutation. According to Fauci, the experience in South Africa was first detected in late November, peaked quickly, and then subsided almost as quickly, with some hope.
Mortality and hospitalization rates in the United States have been lower in recent weeks than in previous COVID surges. Over the past seven days, 9,382 people have died, and the number of deaths nationwide is declining by 10% each week. In the last seven days, the country has recorded 3.4 million cases, according to Johns Hopkins data. The US record during the previous wave was 258,000 per day for the week of January 5-11, 2021.
On Monday, the US Food and Drug Administration approved Pfizer’s COVID-19 booster shot for children up to the age of 12 prior to reopening school after vacation. COVID-19 has killed at least 5,441,446 people worldwide since the outbreak occurred in December 2019, according to AFP aggregates edited from official sources on Monday. Taking into account the excess mortality rate associated with COVID-19, the World Health Organization estimates that the overall death toll could be two to three times higher.
Cyprus authorities also met yesterday to consider new limits to keep the per capita COVID infection rate at the highest level in the world. Cyprus President Nicos Anastasiades meets with a scientific adviser to meet with a church rally when the start of a new semester is delayed and the island is preparing to mark Epiphany, an important date in the Greek Orthodox religious calendar tomorrow. It was decided to discuss measures such as restrictions on.
Like other European countries, the Mediterranean islands have been hit by a surge in the case of highly contagious Omicron variants of the coronavirus. Cyprus has recorded the world’s highest COVID infection rate per 100,000 inhabitants in the last seven days, according to AFP figures. Denmark (2,117), Ireland (1,946), Greece (1,762) and France (1,680) were the top with 2,505 cases per 100,000 population. Last week, Cyprus hit a record high for the fifth time in a row, with a population of about 1 million and a surge of 5,048 on New Year’s Eve. Monday’s 5,024 case loads approached that record. -agency
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In thermodynamics, one considers thermal systems and the maximization of entropy subject to the conservation of energy. A consequence is Landauer’s erasure principle, which states that the erasure of one bit of information requires a minimum energy cost equal to kT
ln(2), where T is the temperature of a thermal reservoir used in the process and k is Boltzmann’s constant. Jaynes, however, argued that the maximum entropy principle could be applied to any number of conserved quantities, which would suggest that information erasure may have alternative costs. Indeed, we showed recently that by using a reservoir comprising energy degenerate spins and subject to conservation of angular momentum, the cost of information erasure is in terms of angular momentum rather than energy. Here, we extend this analysis and derive the minimum cost of information erasure for systems where different conservation laws operate. We find that, for each conserved quantity, the minimum resource needed to erase one bit of memory is λ-1
ln(2), where λ is related to the average value of the conserved quantity. The costs of erasure depend, fundamentally, on both the nature of the physical memory element and the reservoir with which it is coupled. | <urn:uuid:ab7421d6-768e-4195-b91c-94476de6bbaf> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/15/11/4956 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570977.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809124724-20220809154724-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.919422 | 262 | 2.328125 | 2 |
A federal lawmaker has introduced legislation requiring electronics manufacturers to provide resources facilitating independent device repair. Repair advocates say it’s the first such bill to hit the national stage.
Rep. Joe Morelle, D-N.Y., on June 17 introduced H.R. 4006, a bill mandating “original equipment manufacturers of digital electronic equipment to make available certain documentation, diagnostic and repair information to independent repair providers.”
In a release announcing the bill, Morelle said many electronics manufacturers require that repairs be made by the device producer itself or by authorized vendors, which he said can make the process more expensive and difficult for consumers.
“This common-sense legislation will help make technology repairs more accessible and affordable for items from cell phones to laptops to farm equipment, finally giving individuals the autonomy they deserve,” Morelle said.
The federal legislation follows a flurry of state right-to-repair bills that were introduced this year. Most recently, a bill cleared one chamber of the New York legislature, the furthest a right-to-repair bill has made it in a state legislative process.
Morelle said the bill will help “consumers and repair shops to avoid unnecessary and costly delays while also reducing waste.”
The announcement included statements in support from The Repair Association, U.S. Public Interest Research Group, iFixit and more.
In its own write-up about the development, iFixit noted Morelle’s proposal is the “first broad federal right-to-repair bill.”
More stories about refurbishment/reuse
- Walmart launches refurbished electronics program
- Washington Post: Time to end planned obsolescence
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Mount Auburn is committed to providing elegant, tranquil, and environmentally-sensitive burial space now and well into the future. Current options include conventional casket graves, natural burial graves, and space for the burial of cremated remains, and accommodate a wide range of memorial styles. With features like reflection pools, woodland gardens, or scenic overlooks, today’s offerings reflect the Cemetery’s founding principle that nature helps to console the bereaved and inspire the living.
CONVENTIONAL CASKET GRAVES
Conventional casket graves are available throughout the Cemetery in both historic and more modern areas. These graves typically accommodate two caskets, provided the first is buried extra deep, and most require the use of a concrete liner. Companion graves that accommodate up to four caskets are also available. Monumentation varies from shared tablets to private lawn (also known as flush or flat) makers to private upright markers. Casket graves may also be used for the burial of cremated remains. Prices begin at $25,000.
CREMATION BURIAL & NICHES
Mount Auburn provides a variety of options for the earth burial of cremated remains, as well as a limited number of individual niches in the Story Chapel Columbarium. Outdoor cremation graves range from individual spaces to graves intended for three or more individuals. Memorialization options include shared listing stones or wall panels, individual wall panel blocks, private lawn (also knows as flush or flat) makers, or upright private markers. Most locations allow for burial in urns or other suitable containers, while all allow the pouring of remains directly into the earth. Prices start at $3,000 for individual graves and $15,000 for spaces that accommodate two or more burials.
NATURAL BURIAL GRAVES
Natural burial graves are available largely in the historic areas of the Cemetery and are intended for unembalmed bodies buried in biodegradable containers. Natural burial graves accommodate one individual each, though Mount Auburn does allow one additional cremated remains burial in any natural burial grave. Many natural burial graves are unmarked, while others include rights of the inscription on a shared memorial tablet or rights to erect a private marker. Memorial tree plaques are a popular option to commemorate those buried in unmarked graves. Prices begin at $9,000.
WHAT DOES THE PURCHASE OF BURIAL SPACE INCLUDE?
Purchase of a burial space includes right of burial, perpetual care of turf or plantings around the grave in accordance with its location, and associated inscription or monumentation rights. Not included in the purchase of space are the fees for the interment of a casket, natural burial, or cremated remains; and depending on the type of space purchased, the fees for inscription on a shared memorial or fees for the setting of a private marker. Please note that Mount Auburn does not sell private markers.
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Why Spay/Neuter Your Pets?
by Dr. Jesse Navatta
Why is it important to spay/neuter your pet?
Aside from keeping up to date on vaccinations, spay/neuter is the most effective procedure for prolonging our pets’ lives in multiple ways!
First and foremost, early spay/neuter significantly reduces the risk of mammary cancer or prostate issues and completely eliminates the risk of uterine, ovarian, and testicular cancers. As our female pets get older and go through multiple heat cycles, they are at risk of developing a life-threatening infection called pyometra. This can lead to a sharp decline in a pet’s health, requiring an emergency spay with a high risk of anesthetic complications.
Pets that are intact (not spayed/neutered) are often driven by hormones that result in roaming (running away) which puts pets at risk in many ways. It can also lead to behavioral issues that can make training and home-life difficult.
How is the VWC helping serve outdoor pets?
Our VWC expands our capacity to participate in Trap-Neuter-Return (TNR). Through this program, outdoor pets are spayed/neutered, vaccinated, and examined by a veterinarian. These pets are returned to their habitats and cared for by designated colony caretakers, amazing individuals who volunteer their time and resources to ensure the health and wellbeing of these outdoor pets.
There is another benefit to our work with outdoor pets: through TNR, the population of outdoors pets is managed humanely which in turn benefits human health in the city by keeping transmissible (known as zoonotic) disease levels to a minimum and protects the local wildlife (birds and rabbits) from being over-hunted by food-seeking outdoor pets. By being spayed and neutered with the adequate resources available to them, the outdoor pets will fight less amongst themselves allowing them to live happy and comfortable lives.
What’s one thing someone can do to help keep their pet happy and healthy in the summer?
For both dogs and cats, the best thing any pet parent can do for their pet is to keep them up to date on their preventives! Preventives include vaccinations, flea and tick medications, and heartworm preventions. With warm weather comes fun times in the sun which means long walks outside and perhaps time at the dog parks, beaches, or other settings where many other dogs congregate. While these are centers for fun and enjoyment, there is also a strong potential for disease transmission in these areas.
The most common transmissible diseases are generally preventable with yearly vaccinations. Fleas, ticks, and mosquitoes also love the warm weather! These parasites not only cause discomfort when they attach themselves to our pets, but they can also carry diseases.
One of the most concerning diseases is heartworm which is spread through mosquitoes. It is important to remember that even indoor cats are at risk of hosting these parasites. Ever seen a mosquito buzzing around inside your home? They are quite sneaky! By ensuring your pets are fully vaccinated and kept up to date on parasite preventives, you can ensure that they will enjoy a happy and healthy summer!
The Tree House Veterinary Wellness Center is here to help with affordable access to vaccinations and parasite preventives. We would love to meet the family! | <urn:uuid:8d4a9d7f-d4d4-4869-bb0f-309a1bb12303> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://treehouseanimals.org/blog/why-spay-neuter-your-pets/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572043.2/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814143522-20220814173522-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.958368 | 688 | 2.5 | 2 |
In his groundbreaking Dictionary of Modern English Usage, H.W. Fowler, with his customary insight, wrote:
What grammarians say should be has perhaps less influence on what shall be than even the more modest of them realize; usage evolves itself little disturbed by their likes & dislikes. And yet the temptation to show how better use might have been made of the material to hand is sometimes irresistible.
If the history of the English usage wars shows us anything, it’s how overpowering that temptation has proved, and still proves, to be. No special training is required to be an amateur grammarian, and so the annals of language commentary fill with unfounded peeves from those who like to tell other people they are Doing Language Wrong.
Of course, there has always been an opposing force from those who know the perils of setting usage advice in stone, of saying a certain word must mean this and never that and so it should be forevermore. Decrees of this type may be out of date by the time they’re published, and can seem particularly odd or surprising a mere generation or two later.
Ammon Shea’s new book Bad English: A History of Linguistic Aggravation (a copy of which I received for review from its publisher Perigee Books), is a very welcome addition to the canon of usage commentary. It is light yet scholarly, explaining disputes in a clear, informed and entertaining fashion and proceeding in each case to a sensible conclusion.
Readers generally aligned with descriptivist tenets will find it a satisfying treatment of the terrain; those remaining to be convinced that aggravate can mean irritate, or that different than is legitimate, may find food for thought in its careful counsel. All readers are likely to appreciate its solid research and balanced analysis. After defending adjectival fun and its modification, for example, Shea writes:
You can use funner and funnest, but you should bear in mind that anyone who chastises you for this use is unlikely to be interested in hearing your explanation for why it should be acceptable. These words will grate on the ears of many for some while to come.
Bad English selects a medley of problematic usages and traces them back through historical byways. It presents a colourful assortment of tirades, some well-known, some obscure, each offering a window into how various words were received when they first entered English, became popular, or dared to broaden their repertoire of grammatical categories.
“For shame, Mr Jefferson!” wrote the London Review in a huff at the Founding Father’s coining of belittle. Such disparagements serve as sobering reminders of both the tireless mutability of language and the tireless efforts of control freaks to halt that mutability. Shea’s advice is to relax, because English is “behaving exactly as it should, which is to say it is changing”:
The problem is that, while many people accept that our language is subject to change, they want to dictate what sort of changes will take place and that is a very difficult thing to do.
A recent edition of the BBC style guide warned about “Americanisms” such as euthanise/-ze. This word in fact appears to be British in origin, as are most of the verbed nouns the style guide censures in its chapter on Americanisms. Bad English wryly notes that verbing has obviously been part of English “since hundreds of years before the concept of the United States was a mote in the eye of George III”.
The use of hopefully as a sentence adverb meaning “it is to be hoped” (as opposed to the traditionalists’ preferred “in a hopeful fashion”) goes back even further than I thought: Shea finds it in a translation of essays by Montaigne in 1648. I also learned that the word jazz was initially so disliked that there were at least two big competitions to coin a word to replace it:
Approximately seven hundred thousand people sent in suggestions in an attempt to win the $100 prize, which was split between two people who sent the same word. That word, which has utterly failed in its intended goal of replacing jazz, was synco-pep.
Another competition in 1949 offered $1000, and the winner, crewcut, likewise “went on to have no effect whatsoever upon the language”.
There is a useful passage on the ragged history of apostrophe use, though Shea says it’s “should be used only to mean it is”, apparently forgetting that it also commonly means it has. In another minor lapse, he writes that we tend to modify unique “with an auxiliary word, rather than a prefix” – but suffix (or affix) is the word needed here.
Bad English is sometimes very funny, a quality rather rare in books in this genre. The humour manifests not just in Shea’s writing but in the material he draws on and in its arrangement, as for example when he quotes a 2006 study guide deploring different than, then quotes the same book using different than.
Study guides come in for further criticism. After exploding the myth that you shouldn’t end sentences with a preposition, Shea finds the rule still upheld in two places: internet comments and college writing centres; the latter fact he finds “quite distressing”, but hopes students will pay no heed to this “nonsense”.
The book concludes with 221 words that were once frowned upon, paired with grumpy denunciations that may invite speculation on the psychology of not-a-word prescriptivism. Standouts include Isaac Asimov on interface (“What’s wrong with ‘interact’? When I interface with a girl, I’m kissing her, by God”), and Richarde Willes, who in the 16thC attacked several words for “smellynge to much of the Latine”.
Bad English aims to examine issues “commonly thought of as mistakes in English usage” over the centuries. Its author describes it as both a history of what we think is correct and why, and a celebration of “the marvellously flexible language that has allowed room for such myriad forms”. On this basis and more it is an outright success. You can order it from your preferred bookshop via Penguin Books. | <urn:uuid:d4273ab9-0a2e-46a8-b275-ada3909e8ce2> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://stancarey.wordpress.com/2014/08/26/book-review-bad-english-a-history-of-linguistic-aggravation-by-ammon-shea/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572043.2/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814143522-20220814173522-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.964417 | 1,335 | 2.15625 | 2 |
In response to the National LGBT survey, the government has issued LGBT Action Plan 2018: Improving the lives of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender people; this outlines its firm commitments “to tackle some of the biggest issues facing LGBT people”. The Press Release is reproduced below.
In July 2017, the Government launched a national survey of LGBT people. The survey was open to anyone who identified as having a minority sexual orientation, gender identity or had variations in sex characteristics. It asked questions about people’s experiences of living in the UK and in accessing public services. We asked questions about education, healthcare, personal safety and employment.
The survey received more than 108,000 responses, making it the largest national survey of its kind anywhere in the world. This response was unprecedented, and it was a significant undertaking to analyse the results. We have now published the results from the national LGBT survey in the form of a research report and a summary report, and we hope that the findings will be a valuable resource, not only for government, but also for everyone working to support LGBT people.
The Government is committed to taking bold action on the results of the survey. This ‘LGBT Action Plan’ explains how we will advance the rights of LGBT people both at home and abroad, and improve the way that public services work for them. Our vision is for everyone, regardless of their sexual orientation, gender identity or sex characteristics, to be able to live safe, happy and healthy lives where they can be themselves without fear of discrimination.
The government initiative was welcomed by the Church of England, who in the Press Release Government pledge to eradicate conversion therapy stated:
Following the publication of the Government’s LGBT Action Plan, a spokesperson for the Church of England said:
“We warmly welcome the Government commitment to eradicate gay conversion therapy in this country.
“As a motion endorsed overwhelmingly by the Church of England’s General Synod last summer concludes, the practice is unethical, potentially harmful and has no place in the modern world.
“Since then the Church of England has pressed the Government to consider outlawing the practice and the Second Church Estates Commissioner Dame Caroline Spelman has held a number of meetings with ministers to that end.
“As we await the detail of any proposals, we also welcome the recognition that any steps taken should not have the unintended consequence of preventing people seeking spiritual support from their faith leader in the exploration of their sexual orientation or gender identity.” | <urn:uuid:50fc1e9c-5d2c-4504-bb96-7af9c460fc5e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://lawandreligionuk.com/2018/07/03/government-lgbt-action-plan/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571210.98/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810191850-20220810221850-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.953455 | 520 | 2.203125 | 2 |
In the year 2000, the United Nations Millennium Summit established eight goals for improving the lives of the millions around the world suffering poverty, hunger, disease and the effects of environmental degradation. Thousands of NGOs and civil society organisations took part in the process that drew up these Millennium Development Goals, and every single UN member nation (189 at the time) committed to achieving them by 2015.
Goal 2 was to ensure that, by 2015, children everywhere, boys and girls alike, will be able to complete a full course of primary schooling.
A lot of progress was made early on. By 2012, Northern Africa had almost achieved universal primary education, while in Oceania enrolment rates rose from 69% to 89%.* However, the last few years have seen progress stall, especially in sub-Saharan Africa, in part because of rapid population growth, partly because of reduced funding, and also because of armed conflicts and other emergencies, with the result that 58 million primary school-age children remain out of school today.*
Even when there is an educational infrastructure in place and attendance is compulsory, there are many reasons why children may not attend school (or may enrol but drop out). These include:
- Location – Children may live far from their nearest school or the school may be difficult to get to, especially in rural or mountainous areas or during times of severe weather.
- Gender – Many countries report significantly lower rates of enrolment for girls than boys. This may be because their education is not valued as highly as that of boys, or because they are needed at home, but in some regions it is simply because it is too dangerous to allow girls to make the journey to and from the school itself.
- Cost – As well as being unable to pay school fees, parents may need to send their children out to work simply in order to make ends meet.
- Language – The medium of instruction may not be the child’s home language but the official language or the language of a different ethnic group.
- Disability – There are rarely systems in place for inclusive, special-needs education, which either prevents children with disabilities from attending school or slows their progress.
- Conflict – Many children are denied an education by armed conflict, either because the conflict disrupts or destroys the infrastructure or because it makes it too dangerous for them to be out of home. To compound this, there is generally little if any education provision for the tens of thousands of children in refugee camps.
A pressing concern in many countries is a severe lack of teachers (in Chad, for example, there is only one teacher for every 1,800 pre-primary school children). Many are also poorly trained, in some countries having completed nothing beyond their own primary education and a basic training course.
Perhaps the most direct consequence of a lack of basic education is the inability to read or write. As of 2012, 781 million adults and 126 million youth worldwide lacked basic literacy, six out of every ten of whom are women.* Deprived of even this most fundamental skill, an individual’s opportunity for improving his or her life is severely limited. But where there is basic education, employment opportunities are increased, income levels rise and the health of mothers and infant children is improved.
The 2015 MDG deadline has now been reached, but this does not mean that the drive for universal primary education is going to slow down. More information about what is being done to continue the effort can be found at UNICEF, UNESCO and the Global Campaign for Education. To quote UNICEF, “Universal access to quality education is not a privilege – it is a basic human right.”
Teachers interested in raising awareness of these issues with their own students will find classroom resources here and here. There is also a 12-year documentary project by PBS – Time for School – that follows seven children from different countries who are struggling to achieve a basic education.
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In a recent article about Irritable Bowel Syndrome, I had spoken about the advantages of following a low FODMAP diet to help ease the condition. I thought it would be helpful to delve deeper into the subject of what FODMAPs are and how following a low FODMAP diet can help few people.
What are FODMAPs?
FODMAP is an acronym that stands for Fermentable Oligo-, Di-, Mono-saccharides And Polyols. It’s a fancy name for scientific classification of certain food groups that contain short chain carbohydrates. A few examples of these short chain carbohydrates are:
Oligosaccharides(More than 2 Carbs joined together): Wheat, rye, legumes and various fruits and vegetables, such as garlic and onions.
Disaccharides(2 Carbs joined together): Milk, yogurt and soft cheese. Lactose is the main carb.
Monosaccharides(Single Carb molecules): Various fruit including figs and mangoes, and sweeteners such as honey and agave nectar. Fructose is the main carb.
Polyols(Sugars with hydroxyl groups in them): Certain fruits and vegetables including blackberries and lychee, as well as some low-calorie sweeteners like those in sugar-free gum.
What are the roles of FODMAP in the gut?
FODMAPs are found in a majority of food groups in varying concentrations and play an essential role in gut health. They are classified as prebiotic foods that boost the growth of healthy gut bacteria. Even in individuals without any intestinal discomfort, FODMAP foods are poorly digested and passed out in the stool. The friendly gut bacteria use these foods as fuel producing methane as a by-product. They are essentially what would constitute the dietary fiber in your diet.
While the FODMAPs play an essential role in a normal individual, they tend to cause discomfort in individuals with gastrointestinal issues such as IBS. In such individuals, the undigested FODMAPs tend to move into the colon where bacteria use up the food as fuel and produce hydrogen gas a by-product leading to symptoms such as gas, bloating, stomach cramps and pain. Another thing to note here is that FODMAPs are osmotically active, which means that they can draw water into your intestine and contribute to diarrhea.
What is a low FODMAP diet?
A low FODMAP diet is a process of completely eliminating foods high in FODMAPs for a period till you see an improvement in quality of life. Then there is a systematic reintroduction of FODMAP foods one at a time to identify your tolerance level for these foods and to identify trigger foods for symptoms.
A low FODMAP diet is not a long term diet or the ultimate solution to your ailments. It is an analytical process to find what works best for you to improve your quality of life.
Who would benefit from a low FODMAP diet?
A majority of the studies and research related to FODMAPs have been conducted in adults with Irritable Bowel Syndrome. A few preliminary studies have also established an advantage of following a FODMAP diet in individuals with inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD) like Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis.
It is important to note that a few foods classified as FODMAPs may cause intolerances irrespective of intolerance to FODMAPs common examples of which are Lactose and Fructose intolerances.
It is thus essential to rule out all of these factors and establish that it’s absolutely essential to get on a low FODMAP diet before you start the process. As explained before, FODMAPs are essential for normal body function and restricting them unless needed could lead to adverse effects.
A doctor would recommend a FODMAP diet after eliminating all intolerances through a breath test and after ruling out most gastrointestinal disorders which can be treated by other means. In most cases, a low FODMAP diet is reported as a secondary measure when there’s no response to primary treatment methods.
How would one go about following a low FODMAP Diet?
As mentioned before, this is not a long term diet. It is a very systematic process that involves 3 stages and it’s not advisable to go about these steps without the guidance of a dietitian and/or a doctor. The stages are as follows:
Stage 1 – Restriction: This stage involves cutting out all foods high in FODMAP from your diet for a period of 3 – 8 weeks depending on how long it takes for symptoms to disappear. While a few people might find relief in symptoms within a week or so, some might take the entirety of 8 weeks.
If no relief in symptoms is seen after 8 weeks, the individual has to immediately stop trying out the diet as FODMAPs form an essential part of the diet and cannot be restricted for longer.
Stage 2 – Reintroduction: Once the symptoms have subsided, the next step is to reintroduce FODMAP rich foods one at a time for a period of ~3 days each. The aim of this step is to identify what FODMAPs you are able to tolerate and how much of it you can tolerate.
Stage 3 – Personalization: The final stage involves taking information from the Reintroduction stage to personalize and tailor the list and amount of FODMAP foods you can consume without triggering any symptoms of discomfort.
Where can I find a list of FODMAP foods?
Although a majority of FODMAP food lists are available online, the most comprehensive list of FODMAP foods is maintained by King’s College London and Monash University.
What’s the Bottom Line?
FODMAP foods form an essential part of an individual’s diet. They constitute to the dietary fiber of an individual’s diet and boost the growth of good gut bacteria. Avoiding FODMAPs completely is close to impossible to do as a huge variety of foods contain them in varying concentrations and doing so would also have adverse effects. But in individuals with certain gastrointestinal disorders such as IBS would be able to lead a better quality of life if they are able to identify their trigger FODMAP foods and avoid them. It is also essential to have this as a last resort and go through the process with the guidance of a doctor and a dietitian.
- Barrett, J. S., & Gibson, P. R. (2012). Fermentable oligosaccharides, disaccharides, monosaccharides and polyols (FODMAPs) and nonallergic food intolerance: FODMAPs or food chemicals? Therapeutic Advances in Gastroenterology, 5(4), 261–268. doi: 10.1177/1756283×11436241
- Ong, D. K., Mitchell, S. B., Barrett, J. S., Shepherd, S. J., Irving, P. M., Biesiekierski, J. R., … Muir, J. G. (2010). Manipulation of dietary short chain carbohydrates alters the pattern of gas production and genesis of symptoms in irritable bowel syndrome. Journal of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, 25(8), 1366–1373. doi: 10.1111/j.1440-1746.2010.06370.x
- Staudacher, H. M., Whelan, K., Irving, P. M., & Lomer, M. C. E. (2011). Comparison of symptom response following advice for a diet low in fermentable carbohydrates (FODMAPs) versus standard dietary advice in patients with irritable bowel syndrome. Journal of Human Nutrition and Dietetics, 24(5), 487–495. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-277x.2011.01162.x
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The effort is the power you use to move the handles, the fulcrum is the nail that combines the two pieces of sharp blades and the load is the paper you slice. The Class of Lever is determined by the location of the load, fulcrum, and force. In a Class Three Lever, the Force is between the Load and the Fulcrum. If the Force is closer to the Load, it would be easier to lift and a mechanical advantage. Examples are shovels, fishing rods, human arms and legs, tweezers, and ice tongs.
Second Class Lever Examples include wheelbarrows, staplers, bottle openers, nut cracker, and nail clippers. A great example of a Class Two Lever is a wheelbarrow. The dirt in a wheelbarrow is the Load, the Fulcrum is the wheel, and the Force is at the end of the handles where a person lifts it.
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Book Section. Publication date: Stockholm, 2018 av M Jonsson · 2015 · Citerat av 3 — Perceptions of daily life amongst adolescents with asthma: the struggle with Asthma Quality of Life Questionnaire (PAQLQ) is one example of a validated Resultatet visade att tonåringar med astma lever med en ambivalens mellan att Examples of projects include Youth Education Through Sport (YES), The development of formal democracy in everyday life (the Association Act) is and sport as a lever for individuals and groups in the civic society. Challenge a colleague, fellow student or friend and sign up for Star for Life's virtual However, many real-life examples show that cloud infrastructure costs can Sydafrika har den största hiv-pandemin i världen, och enligt UNAIDS lever cirka Benchlearning: Good Examples as a Lever for Development: Karloef, Bengt, part of the book deals with the pre--conditions for grown--ups to learn in work life.
concept of sustainability and the development of renewable resources but I also live in the real world. Many translated example sentences containing "real-life experience" år på grund av familjeskäl, personer som lever ensamma och har vårdnaden om ett eller Many translated example sentences containing "real life problems" som vi delar inom Europeiska unionen, värden som stöder den gemenskap vi lever inom. Translation for 'lever' in the free Swedish-English dictionary and many other English Translations & Examples; Context sentences; Synonyms; Conjugation My question is this: is this Parliament living in the real, or an imaginary, world? Svensk översättning av 'real world' - engelskt-svenskt lexikon med många fler Min fråga är denna: lever detta parlament i verkligheten eller i en låtsasvärld? describes the problem area and gives som examples on real-world problems. Learn about different types of simple machines; Learn about engineering design; Be able to identify simple machines as part of daily life; Lär dig mer om av J Sjöbergh · 2007 · Citerat av 1 — examples from such humor collections given the ples are very similar, such as “fryst kyckling lever” ples of amusing split compounds from the real world. See 2 authoritative translations of Song in Spanish with example in context with real-life examples for millions of words and expressions, using our För vi lever i en visslande tid som swishar förbi, Because we live in a Look through examples of Proof of Life translation in sentences, listen to pronunciation and The president requires daily proof of life to authorize the release.
Examples: Human arm ; Tongs (double lever) (where hinged at one end, real life examples of a first class lever. the joint between the skull and the atlas vertebrae of the spine always greater than 1 Simple machines. Se hela listan på school-for-champions.com
2014-09-25 · One anatomical first class lever example. Very basic, and does not go into details. Some examples of levers are scissors, hammers, tweezers, seesaws, and crowbars. These are a few pictures of real life levers: Here are two Modern day Examples. 2020-04-03 · Examples of first class levers include see-saws, crowbars, pliers and scissors.
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These are a few pictures of real life levers: Here are two Modern day Examples. 2020-04-03 · Examples of first class levers include see-saws, crowbars, pliers and scissors. In third class levers, the effort is between the load and the fulcrum. More force is required in a third class lever to move an object. Examples of third class levers include a broom, a hoe, a fishing rod and a baseball bat.
To get food, the rat had to press the correct lever. You can see examples of a wheel and axle simple machine in everyday life. Exploring everyday examples can help you understand this simple machine: it’s a basic mechanical device with few moving parts used to modify motion and force. A wheel and axle machine is a type of lever.
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These types are based on the relative position of the fulcrum, load, and effort in the lever body. Examples of first class levers include see-saws, crowbars, pliers and scissors. In third class levers, the effort is between the load and the fulcrum. More force is required in a third class lever to move an object. Examples of third class levers include a broom, a hoe, a fishing rod and a baseball bat. Now, we can work some practice problems using the law of levers. Let's get to it!
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Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment (B-BBEE) is a policy in South Africa that aims to rebalance the racial socio-economic disparities that still exist today. It does this by giving economic privileges to certain groups of the society: mainly Blacks, Coloureds, Indians and Chinese. Since the end of the Apartheid in 1994, the African National Congress (ANC) … Continue reading Is South Africa’s B-BBEE Policy Really That Black and White?
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My Hobby – Essay Writing
Different people have different tastes. Therefore, there are different kinds of hobbies also. A hobby is an occupation different from the main business of life. It is a favourite pursuit. It gives us joy and amusement.
Some people collect stamps and take delight in displaying them. Others are fond of collecting coins of various countries and ages. They keep them as a valuable treasure. Some collect rare specimens of art. Some people may be interested in photography, painting, music, sports or rearing birds or other pets. There are people who are mad after money. They earn money and hoard it. Such people have no heart to indulge in a healthy hobby. There are again some people who always pore over books. They wear a gloomy look and no sunny smiles ever dance on their faces.
I am neither a book-worm nor a money-hunter. l take life lightly. I like light moments when my mind is free to enjoy the fun and the folly of life. Hobbies have their own value for the individual. l have my own hobby. l have a passion for gardening. I always love flowers. l have a small garden of my own. I have planted a variety of flowers in it. My heart dances to see the flowers planted by me. I always spend my leisure in the garden. l water the plants daily. They put forth beautiful flowers. As long as I am in the garden l forget the realities of life.
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My hobby has become a part of my life. Life without it would be dull and monotonous. It would be devoid of all charms. Hobby gives variety to life and interest in work. Gardening is not my business, it is not the profession of my life. Yet it is no less important for me than my occupation. It is a pleasant labour for me. Gardening affords opportunities for the study of plant life. It also gives physical exercise.
Beautiful things are manifestations of God. Every flower that blossoms in my garden represents one god added to that pious shrine. A garden is no less pious for me than the temples of great Gods. Thus, in maintaining a garden I maintain a great temple of Gods.
I consider my garden to be one of the supreme creations of art. When it is full of flowers it represents paradise on earth. My hours of leisure are spent in Paradise. When I work in the garden I create beauty. I make the world more beautiful, I decorate the Mother Earth. It gives me great joy. I breathe fresh pure air as long as I work in the garden. l feel refreshed and delighted. l bathe in the purity of flowers. It makes me lively and my life charming.
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Solar panels, also known as photovoltaic or pv systems, use semiconductor technology to transform power from sunlight into electricity that can power your house. The photovoltaic or PV cells are extremely important in generating enough sunlight and heat in order to successfully generate the energy that is needed in order to heat up water, warmth houses as well as power electrical power.
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My name is Han Nguyen and I am a rising junior majoring in Chemistry with a concentration in Biochemistry. This is my first summer participating in the OSCAR Summer Team Impact Project. Prior to participating in this program, I had never conducted a scientific study that is laboratory based or really gotten into the field to collect samples. Hence, what I have been doing in the past two months has been very fascinating because of the luring attraction of “not knowing what I am doing” if that makes sense. Under the supervision of both Dr. Gregory Foster and Dr. Dann Sklarew, I am currently working with another OSCAR student and a high school volunteer on the microplastics team to determine the presence and abundance of microplastics in the aquatic ecosystems of the tidal freshwater Potomac River. I specifically conduct a scientific research to determine the concentrations of microplastics within the environment (i.e., surface water, sediment, stream) and learn more about the relationship between them and population density.
We know that plastic or microplastics contaminating the oceans is one of the world’s growing concerns, but there are things about microplastics that remain understudied. This includes fate, behavior, and effects of microplastics in freshwater. This is why when OSCAR’s microplastics research theme arose, I could not wait to join this amazing team.
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Dealing with a depressive disorder is difficult, and it is fine to take your time to figure things out. It might take some time to…Betterhelp Said I Wanted To Switch Therapists… comprehend how your life may alter and how the diagnosis might define it. As you know more about your medical diagnosis, it assists to acknowledge what you have actually done so far to get to this point. There is absolutely nothing incorrect with looking for assistance. Doing so can assist you realize you should have better on your own.|Experiencing unfavorable ideas is typical, and it may appear overwhelming to take in such a medical diagnosis. It may take time to comprehend how your life may change and how the medical diagnosis may define it. As you understand more about your diagnosis, it assists to acknowledge what you have done so far to get to this point.}
narcissists trigger it so if we think of the prevalence in narcissism today it’s no wonder 15 million americans experience social stress and anxiety if you’re one of them you’re going to want to watch this video to the end i’m going to talk through the connection in between narcissism and social anxiety and share 6 signs that you might be dealing with social stress and anxiety in your life let’s get to it welcome to the common ego community my name is christina and on this channel we speak about emotional abuse self-development and spirituality today we’re talking about a topic that’s near and not so dear to my heart social anxiety i do not mind sharing that social anxiety has belonged of my life in varying kinds for as long as i can remember and i have actually come a long way in the past couple of years however i definitely still have work to do i recently discovered the connection between social stress and anxiety and narcissism and it’s kind of remarkable but prior to i get to that i wish to share that this video is sponsored by betterhelp an online therapy website that can connect you with a certified therapist and if your stress and anxiety is stopping you from living your best life
i absolutely suggest talking with a therapist whether it’s through much better aid or whether you find the therapist yourself and for ten percent off your very first month make sure to utilize the link betterhelp.com forward slash typical eco now for the connection in between social stress and anxiety and narcissism and the connection is twofold first as i discussed narcissists cause social stress and anxiety and they do this by second guessing your every move or teasing whatever you do when you grow up around narcissistic people you’re going to be so used to people doubting degrading and outright teasing you that you’re probably going to anticipate that this is how everyone behaves in a conceited household there may be a scapegoat who bears the brunt of all or the majority of the unfavorable feedback however not all families with egotistical parents have a clear scapegoat in numerous egotistical family dynamics nobody is safe from the criticism either way handling this kind of feedback continuously can absolutely have an effect on your self-esteem and how you see the world not only will you question yourself however you anticipate everyone else to question you too and based on my experience and my beliefs it ends up being a self-fulfilling prophecy you think it’ll occur and it does why isn’t it so easy to manifest a million dollars however this connection does make sense because of how individuals in your environment will respond to your pain in social scenarios there are some kind-hearted individuals who will do what they can to reduce your worry
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While much is found out over the years about anxiety, scientists are still checking out contributing aspects behind its cause. Anxiety has absolutely nothing to do with individual character flaws or weak points. Several different things might contribute to developing depression, including things out of your control.
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While you may know the essentials about the signs of anxiety, it is crucial to keep learning beyond the necessary info. You’ll want to evaluate methods signs may hinder everyday living. Find out about ways to cope– such as treatments, support groups, and self-help options. Gain insight into what to expect throughout the treatment process. Hang around understanding your medical diagnosis to understand sensible expectations for your journey to healing. Collecting information helps you see you are a specific with a medical diagnosis, and the medical diagnosis does not specify who you are.
Explore efficient treatment alternatives such as cognitive behavior modification and understand how they work. As you find out more about coping with a depressive disorder, there are considerable information you’ll wish to bear in mind to guide you during research study. As you look for current, reliable information, consider elements based upon proof. Such sources will have up to date data from scientists such as scholastic journals, psychological health companies, and other associated resources. You’ll also want to find out more about other individuals’s experiences with depression through neighborhood support groups, organizations, etc. You might find out useful ideas for conquering individual obstacles.
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Upon discovering your diagnosis, you might have questions about treatment options. There are various methods to create a treatment plan, and there is no one size fits all method. It is crucial to work with your physician or mental health expert to get the most benefits from your treatment plan.
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Sinha, S N and Agrawal, M K (1996) Minimization of Waste Generation in Steel Sectors. In: Proceedings of National Seminar on Environmental & Waste Management in Metallurgical Industries. NML, Jamshedpur, India, Jamshedpur, pp. 146-153.
The operation in the integrated steel plant can be classified into three different groups. The first group involves iron making process comprising sintering and agglomeration, coke making and blast furnace operations. Steelmaking which includes all operations from primary steelmaking through secondary steelmaking to ingot/continuous casting constitutes the second group. Rolling and finishing processes including pickling, coating, shearing and other finishing operations constitute the third group . At all these stages enormous amounts of wastes are generated. These wastes have a wide ranging impact on the environment. Thus, minimization of waste through integrated waste management has gained special significance in the present scenario. This paper suerunarizes the scope to reduce waste generation of all kinds in the steel sector. It has been concluded that through the introduction of latest processing technologies, waste can be drastically reduced and whatever generated can be recycled in the process stream or converted into value added products.
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What Is The Difference Between Open Cell Foam and Closed Cell Foam?
If you are new to the world of foam, you will probably have many questions about the difference between open cell foam and closed cell foam. Well, the key difference is within their cell structure.
Open Cell Foam
Open cell foam, or polyurethane foam, has small cells that are not completely sealed and allow air to fill the space or take on water if soaked. This means the foam can be easily compressed and then naturally recover back to its original shape. As a result, PU foam is widely known for its use in the mattress and furniture industry as sofa cushion foam, foam mattresses, campervan foam, upholstery, headboards, etc.
Furthermore, polyurethane foam has proven to be just as effective in sound absorption and soundproofing. Many of the acoustic tiles and sheets utilise open cell foam to absorb unwanted soundwaves through its porous cell structure.
When purchasing polyurethane foam, you will often have to choose between varying foam densities and hardnesses. To simplify things, Foamrite names our upholstery grade foams to best match physical properties i.e. firm foam or firm memory foam.
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Closed Cell Foam
Closed cell foam, or polyethylene (PE) foam, has uniform, interlocking cells that are sealed shut preventing air or water to pass through. Consequentially, this type of foam is rigid and water-resistant making this type of foam highly suited for shock absorption and thermal insulation.
Sometimes, closed cell foam is often known by the brand name “Plastazote”. This brand is one of many that manufacture polyethylene foam including OK Company, Palziv and Koepp.
Common examples of closed cell foam in use include building or caravan insulation, buoyancy aids, gym mats and camping mats.
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Both known for their great durability and longevity
Both can be bought in sheets of varying densities and thicknesses
|Polyethylene foam is suitable for exposed use indoors and outdoors; polyurethane foam should only be used outdoors if covered with a waterproof fabric as the foam is damaged by UV, and CO2 and takes on water|
Polyethylene foam is available in a multitude of additives (i.e. EVA, fire retardancy, etc.); polyurethane foam is much more limited
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Polyurethane foam is very vulnerable to surface damage; polyethylene foam is very robust
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Blepharitis is a condition that causes swelling of the eyelids. This can occur either right on the edge of the eyelid where the eyelashes grow, or in the corner of the eye where the tear ducts (meibomian glands) are located. These versions are known as anterior and posterior blepharitis respectively.
Either type of blepharitis can be an extremely irritating and frustrating problem. You will find that your eyes itch and feel sore – especially every time you blink. You may produce too many tears and find you always look like you’re crying, or you might never produce any tears at all causing your eyes to become dried out and sore.
Then there’s the way they get gummed up overnight so that you can’t open them up when you wake. That’s a great look if you have company staying over by the way!
For these reasons, you might find yourself looking for a number of home remedies to treat blepharitis or at least to help make the symptoms a little easier to ignore. Fortunately, there just so happens to be a wide range of options to help combat the issue.
The first thing to do is to rest. While you might think of this as primarily a skin condition, the truth is that it can take quite a toll on you. Not only does an infection in this area cause painful and unpleasant swelling, but if it is caused by an infection, then that might mean that your whole immune system is on red alert and that you are experiencing a rapid heartbeat, a fever, lethargy, dehydration, and a whole host of other symptoms.
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Fossil captures ancient baby reptile's birth
Mother was giving birth to triplets underwater 248 million years ago
The fossils, belonging to dolphin-like marine reptiles with huge eyes called Chaohusaurus, date back to 248 million years ago, during the Mesozoic era, before the rise of the dinosaurs.
That makes this the oldest live birth of a vertebrate — an animal with a backbone — known in the fossil record.
The mother appears to have been in the process of giving birth to triplets. The one that died while being born had two siblings nearby — one still inside the mother, and one that had already been born, lying near the mother.
The fossils were described by University of California Davis paleontologist Ryosuke Motani, and American, Italian and Chinese colleagues in a paper published in the journal PLOS ONE this week.
Chaohusaurus is the oldest of a group of marine reptiles called Ichthyosaurs. Ichthyosaurs were already known to give birth to live young, unlike many present day reptiles that lay eggs. Later ichthyosaurs have been found being born tail first, like whales, thought to be an adaptation to prevent suffocation during underwater births.
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Viola Davis, Rita Moreno, Meryl Streep, More Give Voice to Central Park Statues of Great Women
Jane Alexander, Viola Davis, America Ferrera, Rita Moreno, Zoe Saldana, and Meryl Streep give voice to Sojourner Truth, Susan B. Anthony, and Elizabeth Cady Stanton in Talking Statues Monologues that accompany the August 26 unveilings of the first statues of real women in New York's Central Park. The Talking Statues project began in Copenhagen in 2013 in King’s Garden; the original idea was to make short films about each statue, but it was later decided the statues should tell their own stories. Talking Statues is now a part of Monumental Women’s education campaign to educate Park visitors, young people, and schoolchildren around the world about women’s history.
Talking Statues will also give voice to seven new female Talking Statues in the project “She Built NYC.” This collaboration with the Department of Education in New York includes talking statues of Rep. Shirley Chisholm (Brooklyn), Billie Holiday (Queens), Elizabeth Jennings Graham (Manhattan), Dr. Helen Rodriguez Trías (Bronx), Katherine Walker (Staten Island), and Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera (Manhattan). For more information go to NewYorkTalkingStatues.com.
Natalie Toro, Orville Mendoza, Marc de la Cruz, More Featured in Music Video for Bye Bye Birdie's "The Telephone Hour"
New works development organization Live & In Color debuted a new music video for the classic Bye Bye Birdie tune “The Telephone Hour” during a chat with original Birdie star Chita Rivera as part of the organization's weekly online talk show Be Our Guest. Featured in the video are several theatre alums, including Natalie Toro (A Tale of Two Cities), Maria-Christina Oliveras (Amelie), Orville Mendoza (Peter and the Starcatcher), Rheaume Crenshaw (Groundhog Day), Diana Huey (The Little Mermaid), Marc de la Cruz (Rent), Jonathan Burke (Choir Boy), Martin Sola (The King and I), Devin Trey Campbell (Kinky Boots), Shelley Thomas-Harts (Brooklyn), Andres Quintero (Bat Out of Hell), and Lucille Lortel Award winner Kuhoo Verma (Octet). The video, produced by Lauren Grajewski, features filmmaking by Andrew Young, animation by Erika Nardi, and musical supervision by Ricky Romano.
Live & In Color invites viewers to help them get the word out about the work they do to foster diversity in the arts. With a donation from Tiger Baron Foundation, Live & In Color will receive $1 for every like, share, and subscribe of “The Telephone Hour” video up to $7,500.
Christine Ebersole to Be Honored by Music Conservatory of Westchester
Two-time Tony winner Christine Ebersole will receive the Achievement in the Arts Award from the Music Conservatory of Westchester during its 19th annual gala, presented as a virtual fundraiser this year. In addition to Ebersole, Tony nominees Kate Baldwin, Alex Brightman, and Lilli Cooper will be part of the festivities. The gala takes place September 23 at 7 PM ET with streaming details and more celebrity appearances to be announced. Proceeds will go toward the conservatory’s music therapy program, scholarships, and the Healing Our Heroes program. For more information, click here.
Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival Gets a New Permanent Home
Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival will move to a new piece of land in Phillipstown, New York, gifted by philanthropist Christopher Davis. The non-profit theatre will rebuild its open-air tent along the Hudson River as a permanent open-air structure, with plans to begin staging productions in 2022 (the 2021 summer season will remain at its current site in Garrison).
“[This] historic gift preserves this land and allows HVSF to transform from a summer festival to a year-round cultural anchor in the region,” says Artistic Director Davis McCallum. The group has also acknowledged that gifted land was once occupied by the Lenape (Munsee) people, and plans to engage with indigenous artists to create work that reflects the area's culture and educates visitors. HVSF has also tapped six theatre makers as part of its inaugural Tent Pole commission, which aims to develop the new artistic space. Despite canceling its 2020 season due to the COVID-19 pandemic, HVSF has moved forward with a slate of digital offerings including virtual readings, bi-weekly talks with artists, and remote education programs. | <urn:uuid:283fb2a2-369e-4d53-bab6-f08dfd3b2c75> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://playbill.com/article/in-the-news-viola-davis-rita-moreno-meryl-streep-give-voice-to-notable-women-christine-ebersole-to-be-honored-more | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572043.2/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814143522-20220814173522-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.912055 | 996 | 1.703125 | 2 |
The Hazelwood Power Station is set to close its doors in March, leaving 500 workers unemployed. While the closure has had a devastating impact on the workers and their families, as well as the community as a whole, the effect of the controversial closure on the entire nation is beginning to show.
The Hazelwood power plant was commissioned in the late 1960s, making it one of the oldest coal-fired power plants still operating in Australia. But after more than 50 years, the power station, in Victoria’s Latrobe Valley is closing its doors.
In May last year, ENGIE announced it would gradually withdraw from coal-fired power stations. Chief executive Isabelle Kocher told a French senate committee they would study all possibilities for the Hazelwood plant. From May to November, it was unclear what the future was for Hazelwood.
In November, ENGIE announced 500 workers would face the axe as Hazelwood approached its schedule shutdown for March 2017.
The power station supplies about 22 per cent of Victoria’s energy requirements and employs around 750 workers, 250 of which will stay employed at the power station until 2023 to manage the decommissioning and help rehabilitate the adjoining mine site.
ENGIE Australia chief executive officer Alex Keisser said the power station was no longer economically feasible for the plant to continue operating.
“Hazelwood has been a wonderful contributor to the National Electricity Market but we have now reached the point where it is no longer economic to operate,” Mr Keisser said.
In order to re-establish its viability, Mr Keiser said hundreds of millions of dollars would need to be invested, and it was a level of investment that could not be justified.
The loss of jobs from the power station’s closure is being seen as a blow to the state’s economy, with Latrobe Valley unemployment rates already ranking one of the highest in the country.
ENGIE has also indicated it is studying the possible sale of two other Australian power production assets in Australia: Loy Yang B coal power station and Kwinana gas power station.
THE PARIS AGREEMENT
On April 22, 2016, Australia signed the Paris Agreement. In line with its obligations under the agreement, the Australian Government has committed to reduce emissions to 26-28 per cent below 2005 levels by 2030.
This target represents a 50-52 per cent reduction in emissions per capita and a 64-65 per cent reduction in the emissions intensity of the economy between 2005 and 2030.
Currently, coal-fired generation (both brown and black coal) makes up 78 per cent of electricity generation across the National Electricity Market.
Currently, there are 24 coal-fired power stations in Australia. Since 2010, nine coal-fired power stations have been decommissioned.
The Climate Change Authority August 2016 Policy Options for Australia’s electricity supply sector: Special review research report (CCA’s Special review research report), noted that of all the sources of electricity generation, coal contributed 88 per cent of emissions.
“Of the generation sources that produce emissions, brown coal is the most emissions-intensive—that is, it produces the most greenhouse gas emissions per unit of generation—followed by black coal and gas,” the report said.
“The total emissions from each fuel depend on the emissions intensity of the fuel itself and what share of total generation it makes up. Coal produces around 88 per cent of generation emissions, 35 per cent from brown coal and 53 per cent from black coal.”
If Australia wants to reduce emissions and reach its renewable energy targets, cleaner power sources are needed. This has lead to a level of uncertainty and insecurity in the industry, with more closures inevitable.
INQUIRY INTO THE RETIREMENT OF COAL-FIRED POWER STATION
The Environment and Communications References Committee, headed by Senator Larissa Waters, released their interim report for its inquiry into the planned closure of coal-fired power stations in November.
The inquiry looked at policy mechanisms to encourage the retirement of coal-fired power stations from the National Electricity Market, and policy mechanisms to provide a just transition for affected workers and communities.
Associate Professor Frank Jotzo, director of the Centre for Climate Economics and Policy, ANU College of Asia and the Pacific, and Professor John Wiseman, deputy director of the Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute, University of Melbourne, provided the committee with information from their International Coal Transitions Research project.
“The Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) submitted under the UNFCCC Paris Agreement imply significant reductions in the share of coal in primary energy by 2030,” the Professors’ submission said.
“Holding the increase in global temperature to well below 2°C and pursuing efforts to limit it to 1.5°C would require even deeper reductions in coal use in the energy system by 2030 and 2050, even allowing for [carbon capture and storage] technology.
“Relevant research and advocacy efforts have so far focused, with a high degree of success in many places, on stopping new coal plants. But early phase-out of both coal production and consumption assets will also be necessary to stay well below 2°C.”
In order to meet the Paris Agreement targets and to effectively retire coal-fired power stations, there must at the same time be an increase in renewable energy systems to ensure a smooth transition.
Many submissions argued if coal-fired power stations were to close, they would need to be replaced with power stations using different energy sources in order to maintain energy security.
The Australian Mines and Metals Association (AMMA) explained the importance of maintaining the security and stability of the country’s electricity market in its submission.
“…if Australia reduces its reliance on coal (through the retirement of coal-fired power stations) and if the demand for energy (electricity) were to remain or increase, without the same amount out of supply being brought on to the market by alternative energy sources, the price of energy (electricity) will rise as well as elevating the risk of supply shortages (dependent on inventory levels).”
AMMA called for a National Energy Transition Plan be developed, including harmonised renewable energy targets, that ensures affordable, reliable and secure energy and delivers measured transitions that are as fair as possible for employees, communities and the industry.
“Australia requires genuine and constructive policy discussions on our energy future, including on the emergence of renewable sources and ensuring we meet our international obligations such as those agreed in Paris,” AMMA head of policy Scott Barklamb said.
“However, discussions on future power generation in Australia must also be firmly grounded in facts. For instance, while there will be a considerable shift in investment towards renewables over the next 25 years, the World Energy Council projects fossil fuels will remain the dominant producer of electricity until at least 2050.
“While government will have an important role in promoting and incentivising new sustainable energy technologies, its first priority must be maintaining access for Australian industries and communities to affordable and proven reliable energy sources.”
Mr Barklamb said AMMA was concerned about “naïve optimism” that the renewable energy industry can seamlessly pick-up all jobs lost from coal-fired power stations.
“Unfortunately, there is minimal geographical commonality between Australia’s current coal fired power stations and where our potential for renewable energy will emerge,” he said.
“Even if former coal-fired power station employees had perfectly transferable skills and experience, most would have to relocate to find employment.
“The key challenge for governments will be implementing energy transitions predictably and transparently, while minimising losses of existing jobs, maintaining energy security and positioning Australia’s energy sector as an attractive and globally competitive place to invest and do business.”
The committee made note of the national plan in its interim report, and said the phase-out of coal-fired power stations would need to be structured and managed well. One of the arguments posed in favour of a strategic national plan to retire coal-fired power stations is that is reduces uncertainty for workers in the industry and allows them to plan for a future without coal.
“In the past fifteen years, there has been a push by labour organisations and environmentalists across the world for what is termed a ‘just transition’. A ‘just transition’ is defined as linking ‘ecological sustainability with issues of work, equity and social justice’,” the report said.
“A just transition process recognises the needs of both current and future generations for safe, secure and satisfying jobs… A just transition is needed to ensure that the costs of change do not fall on vulnerable workers and communities.”
In the interim report, the Committee said the question was not if coal-fired power stations will close, but rather, how quickly and orderly the closures will occur, and what policies will be in place to manage the process.
“The age and declining economic potential of Australia’s fleet of coal fired power generators, as well as Australia’s commitment to reducing its carbon emissions footprint in line with the Paris Agreement, means it is inevitable that many of these coal fired generators will cease operations in the medium term,” the report said.
“It is imperative that this reality is acknowledged by government, industry and the broader community, so that this transition can be adequately planned for and implemented at the lowest cost to consumers, taxpayers, workers and communities.”
HOW MUCH WILL THE CLOSURES COST?
The Australian Energy Market Commission released their annual report on household electricity price trends in December. The 2016 Residential Electricity Price Trends report showed residential electricity prices are expected to rise over the next two years to 2018/19, driven by significant increases in wholesale costs following the retirement of the Hazelwood coal-fired power station.
“The changing generation mix – as more wind and solar generators enter the market and coal-fired generators retire – changes electricity flows across regions and leads to variation in residential prices,” the report said.
The effect of the retirement of the Hazelwood power station on the wholesale market is particularly large, according to the report, as it currently accounts for around 20 per cent of Victoria’s electricity consumption. Prices in Victoria, South Australia and Tasmania are expected to increase by around 20 to 40 per cent from 2016/17 to 2017/18 following the closure, before decreasing by around 10 per cent in 2018/19.
AEMC Chairman John Pierce said the wholesale costs are estimated to increase by between 5 per cent and 15 per cent each year over 2015/16 to 2018/19 in most states and territories, while demand remains flat.
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Elon Musk is considering building an airport near Bastrop, a suburb east of Austin, Texas.
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According to local publication Austinia, the Tesla CEO intends to use the airport not only for personal purposes, but also for employees of his many companies.
Elon Musk loves Austin and moved his headquarters here from Palo Alto and Los Angeles.
However, building a new airport will not be an easy task for Musk.
This requires several state permits as well as environmental and air traffic impact studies.
According to a 2019 report by The Washington Post, Elon Musk travels about 250,000 km per year by plane. This is more than six times the circumference of the Earth.
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He currently owns four private jets: a $70 million Gulfstream G650ER, two $61.5 million Gulfstream G550s and a $26 million Dassault Falcon 900B.
The teenager who tracks all of Musk’s flights and tweets his whereabouts, Jack Sweeney, recently turned down $5,000 from Elon Musk, who asked him to stop tweeting. The teenager, however, said he would consider closing his account in exchange for a Tesla Model 3.
The exact size of the future airport is unknown, although sources say the concept plans have been confirmed.
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The Fortezzuola - The small fortress
The Fortezzuola is known in the seventeenth century documentation as the “Hen House” and it is where ostriches, peacocks and ducks were reared for the shooting parties of the Borghese family.
Its current name comes from its characteristic palisaded medieval style turret, which was created at the end of the Eighteenth century, and is attributed to Antonio Asprucci. In the course of these works, Felice Giani in 1793 decorated the facade with eight Karyatid heads above the doors and windows.
In 1919 the building, which was ebing used for administrative offices, caught fire and was subsequently abandoned. In 1926 permission for its use was granted to the sculptor Pietro Canonica, who had the structure repaired and transformed the stables into exhibition rooms. After his death in 1959, the collection of his works there became the nucleus of a museum dedicated to the artist. His wife, who died in 1987, additionally donated to the City of Rome the furnishings of the apartment where they had lived. | <urn:uuid:8d7a339b-a2c5-4394-bbe0-a1099e42c15d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.museocanonica.it/en/sede/la_fortezzuola | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572043.2/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814143522-20220814173522-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.986539 | 228 | 2.890625 | 3 |
By Jeremy Appel, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
(ANNews) – Calgary’s Reconciliation Bridge will be fitted with an upgraded lighting system this year to illuminate in various colours marking significant dates and events in local First Nations communities, bringing their stories to the forefront.
The Calgary Municipal Land Corporation (CMLC) is slated to install new LED lights on the bridge that runs over the Bow River from Memorial Drive to 4th Avenue S.E. at some point this year, the Calgary Herald reported.
“CMLC is pleased to have this opportunity to recognize our city’s rich Indigenous history and bring attention to important elements of Indigenous culture on this prominent downtown landmark. Through all seasons, these lights will serve as reminders of our heritage,” said CMLC CEO Kate Thompson.
The National Day of Awareness and Action for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls, National Aboriginal Awareness Week, Metis Week and National Day for Truth and Reconciliation will all be commemorated in the lighting, but the bridge will also light up at various points to showcase Indigenous stories, history, culture, changes in season and lunar cycles.
The initiative was planned in coordination with the city’s Indigenous Relations Office, which was established in response to the city’s 2016 White Goose Flying Report on reconciliation.
“Spanning the Namaahkaa or Bow River, the Reconciliation Bridge stands in a place of great meaning for the Indigenous peoples of southern Alberta,” said Stewart Baker from the Indigenous Relations Office in a city news release.
“We are pleased to support this lighting program to honour Calgary’s Indigenous culture and history year-round and as a part of the ongoing Indigenous reconciliation and healing that’s so important for our city.”
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Building of workshops in third world countries such as Indonesia or Thailand for production of decoration craft of Japan as new business line.
• Introduce operations with fast services in order to cater the department of youths.
• Starbucks Corp Clouds In Your Coffee Case Study Help can use up add-on organisation in order to sell conventional stuff of Japan in a dedicated dining establishment areas.
• Bring variation in the menu such as addition of sushi-on-the-go, udon, robatayaki.
• Intro of appealing plans for old people and females.
• Intro of complimentary card of subscription to offer package of special offer to its loyal clients.
Structure of local center for training especially to train local staff.
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A child’s eyes are precious. It’s how they come to recognize the faces of those who love them. It’s how they learn to explore the world and learn from their surroundings. However, millions of kids these days are taking on the world with these seemingly picture perfect images, at a blur. Over 10 million U.S. children already have a condition known as myopia. By 2050, half the world’s population will have myopia, including almost 60 million kids under the age of 17. We break down everything you need to know about the condition.
What is myopia?
Myopia, or nearsightedness, is a condition of the eye where objects in the distance are blurry. 80% of myopia starts in childhood and frequently vision deteriorates throughout the childhood years. Glasses and contact lenses compensate for myopia by providing clear vision, but do not treat the underlying condition, which is an eyeball that is growing too long.
What are the risk factors for myopia?
The primary risk factor for myopia is genetics—if one or both parents are myopic there is an increased risk for a child to have myopia. However, the massive increase in myopia can’t be explained by genetics alone, we now know environment plays a role. Multiple research studies confirm that lack of outdoor time in children is causing myopia to occur earlier. It is also suspected that reading and using computers and smartphones is helping drive this increase in myopia. It seems the warnings from our moms as children were right—TV and other devices are changing the way eyes develop and grow.
How does this affect my child and their future eye health?
We now know that there is no “safe” level of myopia. As the eyeball grows longer and myopia increases, parts of the eye are stretching. This can impact several of the internal structures of the eye and increase the risk of more serious, sight threatening eye diseases. The most common of these diseases are retinal detachments, glaucoma, and cataracts.
What’s the big deal? Why should I care?
We are now more concerned about myopia because we know it increases the risk of serious eye diseases. Retinal issues and glaucoma in particular can cause permanent loss of vision, even with proper care and intervention.
Another reason to try to halt myopia’s progression is that a lower myopic eye is a better candidate for refractive surgery procedures such as LASIK. While refractive surgery is only done on adults, if we can treat a child’s myopia to keep their prescription lower they are a better candidate for refractive surgery later in life.
What can I do about it?
There are now proven ways to slow down or even stop myopia from getting worse in children. Instead of just giving a child stronger glasses every year as their vision deteriorates, we can now use customized contact lenses and/or prescription eye drops to treat their myopia. These non-surgical treatments give the child better vision now, and reduce their risk of more serious eye diseases for life. Early detection and intervention is critical as these treatments don’t reverse myopia, so it is best to catch it early. | <urn:uuid:39414cdb-d949-4c90-a438-1c3901977c9f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://northwest-eye.com/blog/the-nearsighted-epidemic-the-health-condition-growing-among-children/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572212.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815205848-20220815235848-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.956582 | 675 | 3.078125 | 3 |
About the book
As UK trade unionists eagerly await the introduction of the long promised Corporate Manslaughter Bill, this Comparative Note looks at what we can learn from similar legislation introduced in Canada in 2004.
The Canadian legislation came about following a major industrial accident and the inability of the existing criminal legislation to hold anyone to account. The Bill however, rather than deal with the inherent conflict in capitalist corporations (the push for profit versus the promotion of safety), attempts to redress “narrow technical difficulties created by law and the judiciary”.
To deal with the technical difficulties, the Canadian legislation introduced technical solutions. The first was to identify a suitable person as the “guiding mind and will” of the corporation. The second was to impose a legal duty on that person to take “reasonable steps to prevent bodily harm”. Welcome though these steps were, the solutions introduced new technical difficulties that threaten the usefulness of the Bill.
This publications raises many interesting points of law and principle for UK trade unionists. Its content, focus and timing make it essential reading for all those concerned about the UK regulatory system of health and safety at work.
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If you decide to live and study in Kentucky, you will get to experience a unique blend of southern and Midwestern food. Its proximity to the Midwest gives Kentucky chefs access to fresh meat and in-season produce. Many of the largest restaurants in Kentucky are located in its main cities of Louisville, Lexington, and Bowling Green. Some of the most popular restaurants in Kentucky include Seviche, Ghyslain Chocolate des Beaux Arts, and Holly Hill Inn.
When you live in Kentucky, you can take advantage of its low cost of living, which is about 12% below the national average. With almost 4.4 million people living in Kentucky that enjoy this benefit of Kentucky life.
Are you ready to study culinary arts in Kentucky? If so, there are ten schools that can help you reach your goals. These schools offer a mix of certificate programs, Associate’s degree programs, Bachelor’s degree programs, and graduate programs. However, the overall average tuition rate of $4,992 is still very affordable. This is particularly true when you factor in the average scholarship award of $2,447.
Most culinary arts programs are laid out in roughly the same way. First, you build a strong foundation of cooking and baking skills. Topics covered include knife skills, protein preparation and cooking, food timing, and how to work in a kitchen. As you move through your culinary program, you’ll build on these skills while learning new ones. By the end of your program, you should be able to work efficiently and accurately in any kitchen you are put into.
Culinary Schools in Kentucky
One of the benefits of earning an Associate’s degree or Bachelor’s degree is the possibility to take extra courses. If you are interested in owning a catering business or restaurant, you may want to take extra courses to prepare you for the business aspect of your career. In addition, you may be able to take elective courses in different cuisines and cooking methods that interest you.
There are three main career paths you can pursue as a new chef: restaurant work, catering work, or private chef work. Restaurants are the most common workplaces for chefs, as the Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that 46% of chefs work in restaurants. Working for a catering company allows you to serve a wider variety of food to all sorts of clients. If you are a private chef, you may have to work on-call or late evening hours to serve your clients’ needs.
In Kentucky, some of the primary culinary employers are Jack Binion’s Steak House, A & M Events, and Adecco.
You do not need any special license or certificate to work as a chef in Kentucky, unless you plan on opening your own restaurant or catering company. This gives you the freedom to begin pursuing jobs as soon as you graduate. The American Culinary Federation has certification options that you can use to demonstrate your skills to potential employers.
Chef’s salaries fluctuate widely based on experience, education, and seniority. The best way to increase your earning potential is hard work, since seniority can qualify you for higher-ranking jobs like sous chef and executive chef.
Job growth in Kentucky is not as fast-paced as it is in other parts of the country. The demand for chefs is not anticipated to change much between 2010 and 2020 (O*Net, 2010). In that same time frame, cooks can expect job growth of 8% (O*Net, 2010). | <urn:uuid:7537e27d-515b-44d4-9541-54103a43ca44> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.usculinaryschools.com/states/kentucky/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572043.2/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814143522-20220814173522-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.952362 | 717 | 2 | 2 |
Defibrillators have been installed at 60 Hendy Group sites across the south and south west.
The company has invested £36,000 in the defibrillators and Hendy Group property manager John Hendy said the widespread installation across all sites was a sensible precaution for the company to protect everyone who comes into physical contact with the business.
The arrival of the defibrillators comes at a time when there are more than 30,000 sudden cardiac arrests in the UK outside hospital every year.
Immediate treatment of someone suffering from a sudden cardiac arrest boosts survival rates dramatically.
Without immediate assistance the survival rate is less than 6% but with prompt attention this can rise to 70% and the availability of an AED (automated external defibrillator) increases chances of survival.
“Colleague welfare is a huge priority for us at Hendy so anything we can do to protect them in a working environment where they spend a lot of time is important,” said Hendy.
“We hope that none of these defibrillators are never needed but by having them in our facilities we know that anyone in need will have the best treatment available immediately.”
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To the editor: Former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn’s proposal to make America “one nation under God and one religion under God” is dangerous, delusional, divisive and a distortion of history. (“”No, Michael Flynn, America does not need one religion, “Opinion, 20 Nov.)
Besides, what would one religion be? It is clear, in Flynn’s view, that neither Islam nor any of the innumerable religions would be considered “Eastern.” And no matter when the term “Judeo-Christian” was coined, it does not describe one religion, but rather a supposedly common ethical belief system.
So, does Flynn mean Catholicism or Judaism? My guess is no. That leaves Protestantism. But even that includes many separate faiths whose adherents fiercely disagree on minor and major principles of their faith.
Flynn blows a dog whistle in the hope that every person who hears him will believe that his or her religion will be the chosen one. Even my dog knows better than to listen.
Andrew Rubin, Los Angeles
To the editor: The vibrant religious culture we enjoy today as the most pious democracy in the West does not exist in spite of our secular tradition, but because of it. The tolerance, pluralism and unrestricted expression we experience is only ensured by state-approved freedom of conscience.
Flynn’s argument for the Christian nation is attractive. Many Americans would prefer an “established” state church and an implied covenant: If we honor God, he will protect and bless us.
But secularism has also added to our identity as a beacon of freedom. Without the age of reason, for example, the abolitionist movement would not have been able to de-contextualize Scripture’s implicit sanction of slavery and segregation. The political liberation of women would have been prevented and equality would be unthinkable.
While proponents of Christian heritage see the divine providence in the founding of the nation, secularists celebrate 1776 as the birth of a new kind of exalted state, a society without a throne and no altar where human reason is increasing. Uniting these two impulses is a core challenge in our political system.
David DiLeo, San Clemente
To the editor: Flynn says America needs one God and one religion. May I just say that if his brand of “religion” is the one he preaches, then count me out.
I may be wrong, but I have always lived under the concept that believers in God were moral, truthful, decent people. If anyone has “lost sight of it,” it’s Flynn.
I repeat: Count me out.
Rebecca Hertsgaard, The Palm Desert
To the editor: Randall Balmer, an episcopal priest, reminds us of past attempts to exploit faith in God for one form of expression. President Lincoln and Mike Mansfield, the Senate Majority Leader in the 1960s, were instrumental in thwarting such attempts in their own time.
I can not help but be reminded of Germany at a time when many of us were born – a time when a man fascinated the nation against Jews who were murdered in wicked numbers.
God is too great to be referred to one religion. The 1st amendment remains the best idea of the United States.
Mary Leah Plante, Los Angeles
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One of the most challenging issues facing leaders in the public accounting profession is the high rate of employee turnover. A recent survey finds that turnover in large CPA firms (those with revenues in excess of $75 million) is 17%, and one in every six firms experiences annual turnover of 20% or greater (Inside Public Accounting National Benchmarking Report, Platt Consulting Group, 2015). Given that the direct costs associated with replacing a professional staff member can be as much as 50%–60% of the employee’s annual salary, there is little wonder why firms are continuously searching for ways to keep high-quality employees (Terence Mitchell, Brooks Holtom, and Thomas Lee, “How to Keep Your Best Employees: Developing an Effective Retention Policy,” Academy of Management Executive, November 2001, http://bit.ly/2yUU2Zv).
Employee satisfaction has received considerable attention as companies attempt to improve employee retention. In fact, many organizations ask employees to take annual surveys to determine overall satisfaction, with the goal of targeting areas for improvement. While this is certainly a noble effort, focusing on employee engagement could represent a more effective method for not only improving employee retention, but also increasing productivity.
Many large corporations devote substantial effort to measuring and improving the engagement of their employees; CPA firms, however, have generally given little attention to this. Because employee engagement is not a one-size-fits-all solution for improving employee retention and performance, it is important to measure the engagement of employees within CPA firms. The authors surveyed a cross-section of CPA firm employees to determine the extent of their engagement. Moreover, the authors used the obtained data to identify the factors that have the greatest impact on employee engagement at CPA firms. Based on these findings, the authors provide recommendations for how CPA firms can improve the engagement of their employees, which can lead to greater employee retention and productivity.
What is Employee Engagement?
Within the academic literature, employee engagement (also referred to as “work engagement”) has varying definitions. One of the most common definitions describes employee engagement as “an individual’s sense of purpose and focused energy, evident to others in the display of personal initiative, adaptability, effort, and persistence directed toward organizational goals” (William Macey, Benjamin Schneider, Karen Barbera, and Scott Young, Employee Engagement: Tools for Analysis, Practice, and Competitive Advantage, Wiley-Blackwell, 2009). This description places emphasis on an individual’s “state of mind” while at work and is much different from employee satisfaction, which generally measures an employee’s level of contentment with the work environment.
To illustrate this point, satisfaction is nearly always measured by a single question in an employee survey: “How satisfied are you with your job?” Conversely, engagement is quantified using multiple questions that attempt to measure an individual’s state of mind and emphasize items relating to enthusiasm, pride, passion, focus, and energy on the job.
Research consistently finds a significant relationship between employee engagement and positive outcomes within organizations. Specifically, empirical evidence suggests that employee engagement has a direct effect on job performance, return on assets, customer loyalty, profitability, and reduced employee turnover (Michael Christian and Jerel Slaughter, “Work Engagement: A Meta-analytic Review and Directions for Research in an Emerging Area,” Academy of Management Annual Meeting Proceedings, August 2007, http://bit.ly/2APGEY0; James Harter, Frank Schmidt, and Theodore Hayes, “Business Unit–Level Relationship between Employee Satisfaction, Work Engagement, and Business Outcomes: A Meta-analysis,” Journal of Applied Psychology, May 2002, http://bit.ly/2qwBESn). Thus, employee engagement is a more inclusive construct that can translate into greater employee retention, as well as better job performance and profitability.
The authors evaluated the extent of employee engagement in public accounting firms by surveying 1,064 employees across five different CPA firms in the Midwest. The survey focused on employee engagement, employee satisfaction, the employee’s intention to stay in the organization, and additional workplace variables. It was completed by 775 employees (72.8% completion rate).
Employee satisfaction was measured using the single question, “Overall, how satisfied are you with your job?” Employee engagement was measured using seven questions modeled after the Utrecht Work Engagement Scale (Willmar Schaufeli and Arnold Bakker, Utrecht Work Engagement Scale: Preliminary Manual, November 2003, http://bit.ly/2yVNxG5). This composite measure of employee engagement included questions such as, “I am enthusiastic about my job,” “I feel full of energy when I’m at work,” and “I am passionate about the work I do.” Intention to stay in the organization was measured by asking how likely it was that the employee would be working at the firm in one (short-term) and five (long-term) years. All questions were measured on a seven-point scale, with 7 being “strongly agree,” 1 being “strongly disagree,” and 4 being neutral.
The survey results indicate that 45.8% of all employees in the public accounting firms surveyed are “highly engaged” (defined as an engagement score of 5.5 or greater). This level of engagement is consistent with most estimates of employee engagement in the general workforce. The authors further examined the participants’ engagement by segmenting the results based on the participant’s job title.
Exhibit 1 provides the engagement results by job title, illustrating a divide in engagement between groups of employees. Employees in staff, senior, and manager positions have significantly lower levels of engagement, with less than 35% classified as highly engaged. On the other hand, employee engagement by partners is dramatically higher than all other positions within the firms. If one views the employee engagement results based on the typical life cycle within CPA firms, high turnover in the public accounting profession is made salient based on the lack of engagement by lower-level staff members.
Highly Engaged Employees, By Job Title
Because of the retention issue faced by most CPA firms, the study went beyond the measurement of employee engagement and examined its influence on an employee’s intention to stay in the firm (an indicator of actual retention). Based on the findings, employee retention is highly influenced by employee engagement, whereby highly engaged employees report a greater propensity to stay at their firm in both the short and long term. In fact, the level of engagement was the primary predictor of whether employees intended to stay in their organizations, accounting for over 40% of the differences in employees’ short- and long-term intentions to stay in the firm. While employee satisfaction can influence employee retention within CPA firms, engagement appears to be more important to an employee’s intention to stay in a firm.
The authors also performed a regression analysis to determine the factors that have the greatest impact on employee engagement. In many cases, organizations that conduct employee surveys have a tendency to only focus attention on the areas that receive lower scores, reasoning that every low score has a negative impact on engagement or the attribute being measured. The problem with this approach is that it treats all variables (or survey questions) as though they have an equal impact on the desired outcome.
For example, assume that a firm conducts an engagement survey and the question, “I have sufficient time to complete my job responsibilities,” receives very low scores. One reaction might be to create action plans to address this question, along with all other low scores from the survey. In reality, some lower scores are inconsequential because they have very little impact on employee engagement. Thus, it is important to focus improvement plans on the factors that have the greatest impact on employee engagement as opposed to using measurement scores alone to drive decision-making. The most effective means of determining what actually affects engagement is through the use of a regression analysis. This method removes the guesswork from improving employee engagement and provides the greatest return on investment, as resources can be allocated more specifically and effectively.
The authors’ regression analysis indicates there are three factors that have the greatest impact on employee engagement, accounting for over 65% of the differences in employee engagement from the surveyed CPA firm employees. (These primary drivers of engagement at CPA firms are presented in Exhibit 2.) Focusing on these three variables gives firms the best opportunity to enhance employee engagement, thereby improving employees’ intention to stay in the organization. Further discussion of each of these variables, along with specific suggestions for improvement, is provided below.
Top Three Drivers of Employee Engagement
My job gives me the opportunity to do what I do best.
Job fit—whether one believes their skills are well matched to their responsibilities—surfaces time and time again as a driver of engagement across many different sectors and industries. This intuitively makes sense, as one would expect that an individual who feels as though his skills are being fully employed would also be more engaged in his job. Examples of successful approaches to improving job fit in firms include the following:
- Having specific conversations with employees about the job duties that they find fit best with their skills. Although potentially challenging at first, given continued attention, employees will begin to learn and discuss the areas of their job that best fit their skill sets. The goal is having the right people, in the right places, doing the right things.
- Making sure that career paths allow for job fit. Even though most organizations understand that the best sales person does not always make the best sales manager, such situations are frequently created. In public accounting firms, one of the most challenging issues is how to reward individuals who wish to stay in managerial roles and are not interested in moving to a partner role. Having a career path for these types of situations can help individuals stay in a role that provides them with the best job fit.
I believe my personal values are aligned with my firm’s values.
Value alignment within accounting firms can encompass a wide variety of different issues; however, this statement generally refers to firm culture and core values. Suggestions for improving this area include the following:
- Making sure to discuss and define the firm’s core values. In many cases, the discussion around core values is even more valuable than the actual establishment of them, as it provides all employees with an opportunity to provide input on the kind of firm for which they want to work.
- Being strategic in the hiring process. Creating a list of core values is important, but using them frequently to ensure that incoming employees’ values align with the firm’s values is just as important.
I believe I make a difference at work.
Interestingly, this driver is near the top of the list for millennials in many public accounting firms. There is an increasingly important desire for younger employees to believe that their work is making a difference in others’ lives. This satisfaction can come in a variety of different ways, but methods for improving this driver of engagement include the following:
- Making sure that the firm is telling its story, and telling it often. In many cases, accounting firms underestimate the positive impact they have on individuals’ lives; telling those stories can have a tremendous influence on helping employees understand the important role they play in those lives. In addition, it creates a common theme that can be shared not only with employees but also with current and prospective clients.
- Telling employees that they’re making a difference and celebrating those successes. With the multitude of demands placed on firms, it can be challenging to change the perspective in order to communicate individual and team success stories; however, doing so can have a profound impact on employees and engagement.
Building a Better Firm
Given the challenges of employee retention in public accounting firms, it is no wonder that firms are eager to explore ways to improve employees’ intention to stay with the firm. This study provides evidence that employee engagement is a primary contributor to employee retention, more so than the traditional emphasis on employee satisfaction. Although the guidelines listed above provide sound generalizations for improving engagement, all accounting firms are different. Most firms have areas—whether departments, locations, or job titles—that need more attention than others. Using a valid, reliable instrument to measure engagement can provide an effective means to create action plans for improving engagement across these different areas of the firm. This approach can not only improve employee engagement, but also lead to positive changes in employee retention, customer loyalty, and overall firm profitability. | <urn:uuid:565a4ccd-f54a-484d-a6d9-0b7ebc3ef18c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.cpajournal.com/2020/01/16/employee-retention-the-state-of-engagement-in-public-accounting-firms-and-why-it-matters/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571911.5/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813081639-20220813111639-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.954764 | 2,613 | 1.890625 | 2 |
Whether or not the revelations tend to rock shaaditips an enduring love for british royal relatives at home and abroad is still around viewed.
This has already stoked conversation in australia, part of the Commonwealth and you will where in fact the queen continues to be lead out-of condition, more should it be time for changes, having former Finest Minister Malcolm Turnbull reportedly advising ABC Television in the Australian continent to your Tuesday one “the head from condition might be an Australian citizen, is going to be certainly united states, maybe not the new Queen or Queen of the British.”
The fresh new Zealand Finest Minister Jacinda Ardern, meanwhile, told you Tuesday that country was unrealistic to avoid having the king because a mind out-of condition any time in the future.
Regal well worth?
There’s for ages been a debate across the really worth and value of monarchy, and this produces tourism revenue to the nation, and comes at a cost to your Uk taxpayer.
This new solitary offer is money repaid by bodies make it possible for the fresh new king so you’re able to “discharge the girl requirements since head away from county,” the federal government claims, but it addittionally helps most other elder royals’ certified obligations for example overseas visits, hospitality and you will societal involvements.
In exchange for such public loans, not, the queen has to throw in the towel money from the Top Estate to help you government entities, which works out what kind of cash is the reason the newest offer.
The fresh new royal household get money out of what’s known as the Crown Estate – home and you can services belonging to the king, instance Buckingham Palace and you will Windsor Palace, offered to people during the normal times and you can which entice funds – also what’s known as Sovereign Grant
Discussing how Sovereign Offer functions, the government listed just last year you to: “In exchange for which social help, the newest King surrenders the brand new money throughout the Crown Property on the regulators and that for 2018-19 is ?343.5 mil. The fresh Sovereign Give having 2020-21 try ?85.nine million which is 25% from ?343.5 million.”
The latest sovereign give for 2018-2019 amounted in order to ?82.2 billion ($107.1 million), up off ?76.1 million in the 2017-2018, which was equal to ?step 1.24 each person in the U.K. Currently, new regal nearest and dearest will surely cost most of the Uk (to the an inhabitants complete off 66.8 million) ?1.twenty eight per year.
That isn’t much since new regal family unit members does notice someone towards the You.K., that have tourism institution Head to Britain reporting back into 2017 you to tourist linked to regal homes instance Buckingham Palace and you can Windsor Palace results in dos.eight mil individuals a year. It’s difficult to help you identify how many everyone been especially into the You.K. by the monarchy, not.
Regal wedding events, along with Prince William and you will Kate Middleton last year, and you can Prince Harry and you can Meghan , had been and additionally named bolstering U.K. tourist, adding thousands of folk, and you may giving an improve to help you gross residential tool. Both princes’ wedding parties caused a boon to possess You.K. tourist as well as the economy. Once more regardless of if, wedding events involve additional coverage and you can purchasing you to definitely fundamentally falls into the taxpayer’s shoulders; Harry and Meghan’s relationships apparently costs regarding $42.8 mil which have a large part of finances allocated to coverage and additional policing, if you find yourself William and Kate’s 2011 marriage apparently appeared at a price for the taxpayer of ?20 million, or around $twenty-seven billion.
Brand new anti-monarchy promotion group Republic tournaments the concept the monarchy was a boon to have U.K. tourist, stating there’s absolutely no research to give cerdibility to particularly states.
A live YouGov poll into the Tuesday expected anyone “with exactly who do your sympathies primarily lay” after the interview in addition to current overall performance showed forty% of respondents effect so much more sympathetic towards brand new queen and royal family unit members, which have twenty-four% a whole lot more sympathetic towards the Harry and you may Meghan. Tellingly possibly, some other twenty-four% said “neither.” | <urn:uuid:57176cfc-66de-4989-8e60-5aedf0d0b60e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://resto-lelocal.com/the-fresh-argument-is-likely-to-reignite-debate/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571911.5/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813081639-20220813111639-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.950046 | 957 | 1.570313 | 2 |
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- Provide a robust immune response to infection and many chronic conditions.
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Vitamin C, or ascorbic acid, is a water-soluble vitamin. Unlike most mammals, humans do not have the ability to make their own vitamin c and must obtain it from supplementation or diet. Vitamin C is essential for multiple reactions in the body such as collagen production, immune system activation, metabolism support and acts as a potent antioxidant. Studies indicate that higher blood levels of vitamin C are associated with lower risk of death from cancer and cardiovascular disease. There is no scientific evidence that large amounts of vitamin C exert any adverse or toxic effects.
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The topic of employee wellness is a broad one, encompassing everything from staff satisfaction in their roles to healthy work environments. According to a 2015 Mercer report on employee well-being, well-being is defined as: “A term that captures the essence of what drives success both inside and outside the workplace. Encompassing physical, emotional and financial health, it includes wellness and health management but is not limited to them.”
In today’s world, it’s highly likely that employee wellness was impacted and even changed dramatically by the 2020 pandemic. Here, we’ll examine the effects of the past year on spa professionals’ well-being, and explore how management can better support their teams with these issues in mind.
An article in the Journal of Hospitality Marketing & Management (January 2021) examined the impact of COVID-19 on employees’ work stress, well-being and mental health. In it, the authors identified that employees working in service industries may experience “psychological burdens and extreme stress due to the nature of contact that occurs in the process of serving customers,” and that this is especially true in times when epidemics occur.
Negative external factors can manifest themselves specifically as various forms of stress, and these can be identified as four main anxieties that affect our teams. Along with the possibility of being infected themselves, spa and salon staff can suffer from the anxiety that they can spread infection to their families and friends. Arguably the main fear is about hours and pay, with stress on both sides of that coin. On one side, there are fears about reduction or loss of work hours, reduced pay and unpaid leave; and on the other side, some employees are feeling the pressure of overwork and unstable schedules due to other colleagues leaving the business. There’s also the stigma that is carried from the uncomfortable social gaze and personal safety questions that arise from the fact that this is a business where direct physical contact with customers occurs.
These incredible, unprecedented work stresses can translate into negative attitudes and behaviors of employees and, in turn, can also have a negative impact on the company. A 2018 McKinsey study identified that: “A chaotic workplace environment of frequent, uncontrollable events adversely affects people’s motivation, their cognition and learning, and their emotional state.” In an industry that’s all about taking care of our clients, who is going to take care of our employees? The answer is incredibly simple.
Victoria Nickle, executive director of the signature retreat program at the California Health & Longevity Institute, has more than 20 years of experience operating health and wellness facilities for hotels, resorts and medical groups. She opened the first Bliss Spa in London and managed 17 spas for Steiner Leisure before joining Four Seasons Spas in 2011. | <urn:uuid:03463857-1c23-4516-9a14-606afadb4e1b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.wellspa360.com/business/management/article/21366420/improving-workplace-wellness | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572043.2/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814143522-20220814173522-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.962285 | 582 | 1.90625 | 2 |
New smart car ecosystem through partnership
INGDAN.com, entered a strategic agreement with Toyota to establish the “Toyota INGDAN.com Innovation Platform” (“Innovation Platform”) smart car ecosystem in China. INGDAN.com is a subsidiary of Cogobuy Group ( stock code: 400.HK), a platform providing artificial intelligence and internet of things (“AIoT”) business solutions in China.
Through the new platform, the two parties will apply Toyota’s core technologies to China’s innovative enterprises, and empower the Chinese smart car industry to develop the next generation of automotive products and applications.The platform connects nearly 100 Japanese advanced auto technology suppliers with more than 100 upstream and downstream Chinese supply chain and project resources for artificial intelligence, autonomous driving, new energy vehicles, auto parts, and automotive electronics, helping to advance the Chinese and Japanese automotive industries with industrial upgrades and smart technology capabilities. Several new startups are also expected to grow out of the new ecosystem, which will help the Company capture new energy and industrial dividends.
Mr. Jeffrey Kang, CEO of Cogobuy Group, said, “Our partnership with Toyota is a major breakthrough in the development of China’s IoT and smart automotive industry. It also positions our two companies well in the new autonomous driving and new energy markets both domestically and globally. Increased sharing of innovation resources in China and Japan’s automobile industry can help both countries’ automobile industries upgrade from being manufacturing-oriented to intelligence-oriented. We are excited to connect Toyota’s advanced automotive manufacturing technology suppliers with Cogobuy’s abundant supply chain and project resources, and to enable companies on the new Innovation Platform achieve quick and efficient industrial upgrades.”
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just before Christmas Donald Trump has made the two most important foreign policy decisions of his now almost two year term of office: the retreat from Syria, half the forces in Afghanistan. Both will change the conditions there, because the Americans left a power vacuum in the local and regional actors encounter. In Syria, this dynamic is observed: The Kurds ally themselves with Assad’s troops against Turkey. Trump is now for the first Time is full of risk. He will be measured by the consequences of the withdrawal of the ISAF troops.
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This is especially true, because he cannot hide behind his predecessor, the military or any of the consultants. Players of yesteryear and today have advised him. He lost his Minister of defence and his representative to fight against the claim militia “Islamic state” (IS), both in open dissent. One could conclude easily, that Trumps decisions were wrong. The circumstances seem to suggest. In Afghanistan, the Taliban cheer, in Syria, Assad and Putin. Instead of the options work out, fell Trump his closest associates in the back. In a telephone conversation with Turkish President Erdogan, he took suddenly his view of things: What is American “military advisers”, in fact, special forces are still in Syria, if the IS has lost the territory?
but caution is required in the case of a judgment Trumps decisions. Would not have chosen a President Obama in his place the same way? Or a President Clinton? From the Hindu Kush wanted to pull off the already Trumps its predecessor, he took up with this promise and shrank back only at the very end before the possible consequences of the Taliban to conquer the whole country. So he had enough 8500 soldiers there; and, to prevent the worst, but too few to stop the Islamists in the area. Trump increased the number of necessity to 14,000. But also the changed little. The Taliban now control at least half of Afghanistan. They see no reason to close with Washington in any Deal. How to say the Islamists are so beautiful: you have the watches, we have time. So a lot of strategic patience, not democracies, not even the super power America. | <urn:uuid:4c9efa83-6fd0-4df7-a9a1-cdb7e19571d3> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.wirenewsfax.com/comment-trump-is-risking-everything | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572043.2/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814143522-20220814173522-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.975308 | 465 | 1.78125 | 2 |
In 2014 MoMA added Google Cardboard to its design collection. Earlier this year the Department of Film organized Slithering Screens, which highlighted notable projects such as James George’s and Jonathan Minard’s documentary Clouds and Lynette Walworth’s virtual-reality film Collisions (2016). But aside from these forays into virtual reality, not much else has been organized at the Museum (or most other art museums) around the burgeoning technology.
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As part of the July 6 Agora series, I had the privilege of hosting a conversation with attendees addressing the question: How Will Art Solve Problems?
How Will Art Survive Us? I had the pleasure of presenting on this beautifully provocative topic at MoMA’s Agora program this past July. I discussed two works, one ongoing pedagogical project, School of Apocalypse at Pioneer Works, and one sculpture, Eroding Plazas and Accumulating Resistance, made with the Occupy Museums collective. Facing social and ecological changes that may threaten the very survival of our species, our times require large-scale collective adaptation. The arts, and arts institutions, are crucial here. They hold space for new stories and act as arenas for the rehearsal of new structures and modes of engagement that will be the most effective tools for surviving what we have become.
“A mere glimpse restores my sagging soul,” wrote Lillian Gerard, Special Projects Coordinator at MoMA, of The Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Sculpture Garden in a letter to Richard Shepard at The New York Times in 1975. She went on to describe it as “as a meeting place for young lovers, senior citizens, jumping children, foreign travelers, and out-of-towners” and in particular singled out “…its evenings with performers as ardent and free as the trees and the sculpture that thrive in this oasis of fountains and pools, with the sky above and cement below.”
On a Thursday afternoon earlier this summer, apprentice educator Tali Petschek and I rushed around the Education Center, heading up to the seventh floor to ferry down supplies to our classroom on the mezzanine level. It was the culminating session of Open Art Space, a new MoMA Teens drop-in program for LGBTQ high school students. For our 15th and final session of the season, we decided, in collaboration with some of our most devoted participants, to do an LGBTQ prom-themed photo shoot. Teens wanted at least a taste of a prom they couldn’t have in their own schools, where they could bring whomever they wanted, dress however they wanted, and explore whatever gender roles felt right to them at that moment.
For the past five weeks, we have organized a series of weekly monotype printmaking workshops, Degas in Process: Make a Monotype, in conjunction with the exhibition Edgar Degas: A Strange New Beauty, on view on MoMA’s sixth floor through July 24. Taking Degas’s innovative use of the monotype as a starting point, these workshops are led by teaching artists—Justin Sanz, Sophy Naess, Neil Berger, Kerry Downey, and Bruce Waldman—each of whom brings a unique creative approach to their session and offers a glimpse into the sustained relevance of the monotype technique in contemporary artistic practice.
Our teen programming is set up in a multi-tiered way: Open Art Space is a free drop-in program for LGBTQ-identified teens and their allies, with no application required, that people can visit as little or as much as they want. Our In the Making programs offer free studio art courses, introductory experiences that involve a structured amount of weekly on-site classes and culminate with a teen art show of participants’ work.
I’m an educator here at MoMA, and I am 30 years old. When I teach in MoMA’s galleries I am mostly talking with people who are twice, sometimes three times my age. It’s not something I anticipated when I was an art history student 10 years ago, but it is one of the more informative and enlightening aspects of my job: discussing art with people who have far different—and far more—life experiences than I do.
We first worked with Mary Mattingly in the summer of 2013, when she collaborated with us as one of the teaching artists for the Museum’s first ever 3-D printing course for teens, a program that was set up through our involvement with <a href="http://eyebeam.org/" target=_blank>Eyebeam</a>. When she approached us last fall with an idea for a new teen course, I was immediately intrigued
If you’ve read some of my other blog posts, you’ll know that MoMA has been experimenting with “pop-ups”—drop-in learning and art-making spaces—in closer proximity to the galleries for the past couple of years. These impromptu spaces are something that the Department of Education has long advocated for because offering hands-on activities helps visitors make connections to the art on view.
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B0265 Chevrolet Montana is described as Fuel System Too Rich, which basically means bank 1's oxygen sensor has detected a rich condition of fuel. This means there's not enough oxygen in the exhaust from too much fuel being delivered into the air and gas mixture for combusion. So if the problem persists despite of your diagnosis, then you should never hesitate to take your vehicle to your dealer or to a qualified mechanic.
Possible Causes :
Find out what kind of system you have and verify that voltage to the fuel level sensor is present at the fuel pump wiring harness. If the engine displays a miss and there wasn't a code, determine which cylinder is misfiring. If the exhaust manifold is visible, spay or pour a small amount of water on each cylinder exhaust port. Water will evaporate immediately on good cylinders and slowly on the missing cylinder. If this can't be accomplished pull the plugs and check the condition. Check to make sure they are not burnt or corroded. If in doubt, get some Electrical Contact cleaner at any parts store if cleaning of the terminals is needed.
Diagnostic trouble code B0265 Chevrolet Montana is not difficult to diagnose and repair. Thus, it always pays to have a qualified technician to look after your vehicle should this error code arise.
Diagnosing this code requires the engine to be in good running shape, without unmetered air entering the engine. If other codes that relates to misfiring condition, lean running or air entering the engine is present, then you must first fix those error codes before B0265 Chevrolet Montana.
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Spine and Sports Chiropractic has the necessary imaging tools in our office, so you don’t have to travel all over town for imaging. While not all new patients need x-rays on the first visit, we have that option in-house if indicated by the doctor in order to save you time and money. We always do an examination on the patient’s first visit to address their complaints/concerns. Some, but not all, patients require x-rays for access to any fracture, skeletal deformities, or any contraindications for treatments. Our patients appreciate the thoroughness of seeing that it is safe to receive treatments or if they need to be referred out to another provider for examination or treatment.
X-rays are a very low dose of radiation and give a wealth of information to the treating Doctor allowing them to create a more specific treatment plan.
At Spine and Sports Chiropractic, we believe in the value of wellness. On-site x-rays help further that belief, as we are able to relieve the stress of our patients and have the ability to quickly recognize any issues or conditions from the x-ray.
What are On Site Xrays?
An x-ray is a noninvasive medical test that helps physicians diagnose and treat medical conditions. A bone x-ray makes images of any bone in the body, including the hand, wrist, arm, elbow, shoulder, spine, pelvis, hip and more. On-site x-ray services are when x-rays are performed in the office for routine studies, such as chest, bone, joint, and abdominal films. More complicated studies may be referred to outside radiologist specialists.
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If you take a look at the current scenario, travelling by air has turned into something of a casual affair for most people nowadays. Be it for an important business venture or simply to enjoy a short vacation, people seem to be travelling a whole lot more than they used to in the past. In fact, airlines are no longer being used to just migrate from one country to another but also within the boundaries of the country as it happens to be the speediest mode of travelling. However, this easy mode of travelling has been found to have some effects on the health of the people who travel on a regular basis. The most common of these problems is air sickness.
If you happen to travel by plane quite often, you might be feeling a strange sensation inside you that would not have let you concentrate on your work properly. Well, that is nothing but one of the symptoms of air sickness that makes you feel dizzy, leading your brain to receive some mixed messages that could prove to be a hindrance to your regular course of work. The most common cause for air sickness happens to be all the continuous travelling. Your mind feels as if it is living within a trance generated by the effects of the flight and you can feel everything shaking and moving inside you even though none of it happens in reality. Nevertheless, you do not need to really worry about the after effects of your flight as travelling cannot be ignored completely in this contemporary world. But you can certainly use some precautionary measures to nullify the ill effects of your flight –
Watch out for your consumption
The best way for you to overcome the feeling of nausea that affects you while travelling by plane would be to avoid overeating, before and after boarding the flight. You should also make sure that you do not starve yourself of food. Try to have light but fulfilling meals prior your flight time and even during the flight. Be sure to avoid consuming anything oily or too rich for your system to digest. If you have a habit of consuming alcohol or cigarettes whenever you feel like, then it is necessary that you prohibit yourself from doing so when you are in flight or within a span of 24 hours before your flight takes off.
You are free to consume cold drinks. This will ensure that your body doesn’t get dehydrated or you can even sip some lemon or ginger tea to avoid feeling sick to the stomach.
Opt for the medicated or non-medicated prescriptions
If you are aware of the fact that you are prone to bouts of air sickness, it would be wise of you to always keep some medicines in your travel kit that would help you return to a more calm and normal state. Pop a pill before boarding the flight to avoid getting mixed messages in your brain. You can buy some of these medicines easily from a chemist center while you would be required to have a prescription slip to purchase a few others.
However, if you do not like taking medicines and want to avoid them, you can opt for alternative solutions like getting a motion sickness band. You can ask your physician to prescribe the best possible way for you to deal with air sickness.
Divert your mind from the sickness
If you keep on thinking about the air sickness, you will definitely encounter it. So always make an active effort to distract your thoughts by doing one thing or the other when you are on board the flight. Try looking at some distant objects or outside your window but make sure that you do concentrate on the same thing for an extended period of time as that could cause you some amount of strain. Try and strike up a conversation with the person sitting next to you as your mind will get engrossed in knowing that person which will help you forget about your surroundings and the sickness. You can even try leaning back and relaxing by closing your eyes or better yet, just go off to sleep and wake up only when you have reached your destination.
Avoid reading when you are in flight. Though it seems to be the best distraction during the journey, the activity can cause stress to your brain and make you feel even dizzier than before.
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In an excellent article in The Washington Times, UPI’s Shaun Waterman described a “red team” activity in which a security consultant created a false persona on Facebook that appeared to be attractive young woman who was working in cyber defense. She quickly garnered hundreds of friends in the national security community, as well as job offers and invites to conferences. In the process she gathered a great deal of sensitive materials such as inadvertently exposed passwords.
This is not a hypothetical concern – Hezbollah (long a terrorism pioneer) has already employed this strategy. According to the Israeli news site MySay:
The Hizbullah agent pretended she was an Israeli girl named “Reut Zukerman”, “Reut” succeeded during several weeks to engage more then 200 reserve and active personnel.
The Hizbullah agent gained the trust of soldiers and officers that didn’t hesitate to confirm him as a “friend” once they saw he/she is friends with several of their friends from the same unit. Most of them assumed that “Reut” was just another person who served in that elite intelligence unit.
In this way, Hizbullah collected information about the unit’s activity, names and personal details of its personnel, the unit’s slang, and visual information on its bases. This user / agent using Facebook is an example of a trend called fakebook.
The picture attached to “Reut Zukerman” was, of course, an appealing young woman (some tricks are timeless.)
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Marketing Plan for New Product Development
Whenever a product is launched in the market with enhanced features, various marketing plans are in process. This includes market studying, budgeting, and choosing the target customers. When these plans and strategies are ready to execute, products are launched with great interest and excitement.
What Is Product Marketing?
Product marketing is a marketing process of transition of products or services from an idea to a customer. It relates to product management, sales, and marketing. The 4 elements of product marketing are the 4 P’s of marketing- Product identification, price, place of product distribution, and promotion strategies. All these elements of product marketing are managed by the team of Sales, Product Manager, and Product marketing manager.
Marketing Plans for Developing Your New Product
Your company’s marketing plans for developing new products should support all the strongpoints. This includes right from using customer information to target the products on the basis of their needs. The company should also build and support brand products from different dimensions. Moreover, the company’s marketing plans should be customer- friendly.
Your company should work hard on gaining customers’ interest. This is possible only if you are making good improvements to the products. Moreover, before you launch your new product on the market, you should make a study of your competitors’ products too. In this manner, you can produce better products than your competitors. While working on a marketing strategy, you should have skills in making the right monetary budget.
You must keep your customers hooked to your upcoming product through various traditional, electronic, and digital marketing methods. Your product will reach maximum customers if you market your new product on TV, Newspapers, magazines, broachers, radio, company websites, social media, and podcasting.
How to Create an Effective Product Enhancing Marketing Strategy?
Here are a few steps to follow while making an effective product enhancement marketing strategy. In simpler terms, this is also the marketing plan for new product development. This includes:
- Analyzing Product’s Place in Market: The first stage of a marketing plan is analyzing the new product’s place or position in the market. Here, you need to do market research about the product. This includes what type of products consumers are using now, and what are their requirements and expectations. After that, you need to study about the same products offered by your company’s competitors. This study makes you realize your products’ weak and strong points. It also includes studying competitor’s website traffic, product websites, social media, reviews, etc. In this manner, you will able to do a SWOT analysis, and position your new product in the market with developed features.
- Create Your Target Audience: The important job to make a good product development marketing plan is to determine the target audience. On the basis of market research, you can create an average potential buyers’ personality. For example, if your product is a tech-friendly affordable laptop, your customers will be mostly from age groups 15-25 years. Moreover, this age group will be students or young professionals who need an advanced computing device at cheap prices. As a result, when you work on creating a portrait of your consumers you should remember some characteristics. These are age, gender, location, education, income group, goals, challenges, customer requirements, and personality features.
- Early Marketing of New Products: Before launching the new advanced product in the market, your company needs to engage in doing pre-marketing of the product. This includes an attractive message, slogan, or positioning statement. Moreover, your marketing message should also include answers for – “This product is for whom?”, “What is the product’s job and importance?”, and “How and Why is this product special from others?”. Your slogan or message should be strong enough to discuss the product’s benefit within less time. Also, you need to use the right tone to deliver the marketing message to reflect the product’s brand.
- Create Budget Planning: The job of creating budget planning is to decide the product’s price. If your company is launching a newly developed product in the market for the first time, set a price lower than the usual market price. However, you can increase the price later once the product’s response is positive. Also in case of extra unique features, you can set the price a little higher than the similar products available in the market. Here, you need to justify the price increase by describing the product’s unique features.
- Promotion Planning: You need an effective plan to promote your product to enter the market. For this, you need a launch plan that includes launch events, traditional and online campaigning, sales guide and their training, etc. Promotion planning also requires a content marketing strategy for products online. This is done by creating website content for the product, landing pages, podcasts, videos, social media marketing, etc.
- Gathering Feedback for Product Success: In order to have a better analysis of the newly developed product, you need to gather customers’ feedback. This is to see if the product is performing better in the market or not. Moreover, it is the method to detect the consumers’ responses and reviews towards the new product. You can gather feedback via emails, customer support, website, surveys, social media, etc.
Importance of Product Managers & Product Marketing Managers in Products’ Marketing
Product Managers and Product Marketing Managers share responsibilities of early marketing plans of the product. They are involved in product development, budgeting, market research, and collecting feedback. A Product Manager makes the external and internal idea of market planning of the product. While a Product Marketing Manager is involved in mainly product marketing. Their job is to promote and sell the newly developed product to the target customer.
A strong marketing plan for new product development is the best strategy to unlock high peaks of product sales. It is a successful marketing plan to put the customers’ as the focal point. Therefore, if you want a create the best marketing plan to woo your target customers, you need to know 3 main things. These are knowledge of your target audience or customers, knowing your competitor’s product, and strong marketing promotion. Also, you need to have a good customer support team. This is to address the issues of customers and check customers’ feedback. In this manner, your marketing plan for new product development will be a great success.
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Jay Z and Kanye West’s 2011 Watch the Throne is a self-avowed “luxury rap” album centered on Eurocentric constructions of nobility, artistry, and race. Notably, it is also an album about the excess associated with royalty. In this book, I perform a close reading of the album’s sonic and social commentary while placing it in its social, cultural, and political contexts across the Black Atlantic. In particular, I examine how the album alternately performs and critiques the mutually reinforcing ideas of Europe, nobility, old money, artistry, and their standard bearer, whiteness.
In 1920 W. E. B. Du Bois wrote of this very network of white privilege in “The Souls of White Folk,” chapter 2 of his Darkwater: Voices from within the Veil. “Here it is that the comedy verges to tragedy. The first minor note is struck, all unconsciously, by those worthy souls in whom consciousness of high descent brings burning desire to spread the gift abroad,—the obligation of nobility to the ignoble. Such sense of duty assumes two things: a real possession of the heritage and its frank appreciation by the humble-born. So long, then, as humble black folk, voluble with thanks, receive barrels of old clothes from lordly and generous whites, there is much mental peace and moral satisfaction. But when the black man begins to dispute the white man’s title to certain alleged bequests of the Fathers in wage and position, authority and training; and when his attitude toward charity is sullen anger rather than humble jollity; when he insists on his human right to swagger and swear and waste,—then the spell is suddenly broken.”
It is in the connections between Jay and Ye’s boastful luxury rap and this 100-year-old premonition of “swagger” that this book finds its raison d’être.
In this study, I argue that this system of racial privilege that has undergirded the global capitalist economy for the past 400 years is now in its death throes—that Black swagger has revealed the racial underpinnings of capitalism and broken the spell of capitalist hegemony. More specifically, I suggest that if we listen closely to this “dangerous, disturbing, and subversive” album we can hear, as Jacques Attali put it, that it “makes audible the new world that will gradually become visible, that will impose itself and regulate the order of things.” While much remains unclear at this time of global precarity, tumult, and realignment, I argue with certainty that Jay and Ye’s Obama-era album—and its well-publicized fallout—can be shown to “herald the future.”
It prophesies nothing less than the end of capitalism.
Watch the Throne is capitalism’s death dance.
In this book, I show how Jay and Ye seem to accede to Eurocentric signifiers of Kultur, but through a strategy that I dub “critical excess,” performatively exceed the logics of Europe, nobility, and artistry and break “the spell” of white supremacy. Articulating the Black Atlantic, postcolonial, and critical theory of Du Bois, Houston Baker, Frantz Fanon, Tricia Rose, Paul Gilroy, Daphne Brooks, Fred Moten, Stuart Hall, Cedric Robinson, and Kimberlé Crenshaw to Jacques Attali’s theorizations about the prophetic nature of music in his Noise: The Political Economy of Music, I argue that the album brings the idea of Europe to its logical conclusion and heralds the final stage of late capitalism—our current one-percenter era…
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The book is Evaluation Fundamentals Insights into Effectiveness, Quality, and values
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Over the summer, the city of Detroit came under fire as reports of water being shut off to thousands of customers who were behind on their bills hit the media.
Recently, The Detroit News reported that while people’s water was still getting turned off, service was still running in abandoned properties throughout the city.
Sherman Foster admitted that he hadn’t paid his bill in four months, and it was approaching $200 when he received the warning that his service was about to be cut.
“[Foster] was shocked when city workers warned his service would be shut off,” reported The News. “After all, water from the house next door ran for more than two years before it was turned off in the burned out, boarded building.”
The vacant building had racked up a bill of almost $26,000.
Foster paid his bill without losing service, but questioned the city’s logic. “How in the world do you allow a bill to build like that? Then go after me for less than?” he asked. “It’s totally ludicrous the way Detroit runs its water system.”
Officials for the city’s water department say that customers’ unpaid bills cause rates to rise, which in turn make it even harder for the city’s poorest residents to get caught up.
Last Wednesday, Wayne County held an auction of over 11,000 tax-foreclosed homes. The water bills at these properties totaled $21.5 million, or an average of $1,600 per house. Over 100 of those houses had bills of at least $10,000, and 484 have bills of at least $5,000, The News Reported.
If so many of these homes were abandoned and/or vacant, why didn’t the department cut off service months, or even years, ago? Not allowing these properties to rack up debts reaching five-figures would have gone a long way to keeping rates lower, meaning residents would have a better shot at actually being able to afford paying past-due bills.
“It’s horrible,” said DeMeeko Williams, spokesperson for one of the groups opposing the shut-off, the Detroit Water Brigade. “The billing practices of the water department are just inept. It shouldn’t take months and months to shut off water on abandoned properties.”
The property with the biggest bill, a one bathroom, 876-square-foot house, owes $72,579. The majority of that debt, $68,000, was accrued last year, “three years after its owner died.”
It’s unlikely the city will ever see any of that money, though, because houses purchased at auction come with the water bill attached. Even if the small house was given away, the new owner would still be saddled with a $72,579 debt.
The city says that part of the frustration lies with the department replacing old water meters that ran slow, only tracking about 70 percent of water useage. Once the meters were replaced, people started being charged for the full 100 percent of their usage.
“The complaints are coming because our meters are more accurate now,” said Darryl Latimer, the water department’s deputy director.
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When it comes to worship and to ordering our worship services I have long believed that some churches just overdo it. Things are programmed to the point that people run on auto-pilot and the service becomes routine. I must note though that the Bible does instruct us to do things “decently and in order” (1 Cor. 14:40).
It is also true that as a Baptist I grew up thinking the word “liturgy” was a bad word! For doing things liturgically I was told was to leave the Holy Spirit out of the working of the church and do things by rote routine. Worship should be spontaneous, right? The truth is though that even a “spontaneous” worship service has a liturgy, for the term simply means the order in which we do things during the worship of God. The word “liturgy” in fact comes from the Greek word leitourgia which is defined as “service”, or a religious ritual of service to God. To worship God is to have a liturgy!
In discussing worship, we must understand that the act of declaring the worthiness of our God is not to be spontaneous, disorganized, or disorderly at all. It is to be heart felt, no doubt, but the Scriptures are clear. Jesus Himself tells us that God desires us to worship Him in spirit and truth (John 4:24). I have dealt in depth with answering the question of what it means to worship in spirit and truth before in studying Seven Marks of a Sound Church. The first mark in that study was that a sound church worships God in spirit and truth.
In ordering our worship then what are we to use as our guide? What or who determines the order and content of our worship of God? Silly question, right? Not so silly when you begin to realize that too many congregations do not give this question a second thought at all. For you see, if our Confession of Faith is correct in instructing us about worship then we must find out how to worship from the Word of God.
The Second London Baptist Confession of Faith, 1689
Chapter 22 – Worship:
The light of nature shows that there is a God Who has lordship and sovereignty over all, is just and good, and Who does good to all. Therefore He is to be feared, loved, praised, called upon, trusted in, and served, with all the heart and all the soul, and with all the might. But the acceptable way of worshipping the true God has been instituted by Himself, and therefore our method of worship is limited by His own revealed will. He may not be worshipped according to the imagination and devices of men, nor the suggestions of Satan. He may not be worshipped by way of visible representations, or by any other way not prescribed in the Holy Scriptures.
Here we must see that it is the Bible, the written Word of God, that instructs us clearly and abundantly on the topic of the worship of God. He tells us how to worship Him, from the First and Second of the Ten Commandments and throughout the Scriptures. God does not hide the form or content of worship from us.
In our church then, we have gone to the Scriptures to establish our order of worship. What do we do? How do we do it? What is the content of our services as we gather to glorify God through corporate worship? Here are our answers from the Word of God for these questions:
Elements of Worship – Acts 2:42; Eph. 5:19; 1 Thess. 5:16-22
1. Preaching (Apostles Doctrine, includes teaching/reading the Word)
3. Prayer (and fasting on occasions)
4. Ordinances (Lord’s Supper and Baptism)
5. Praise (singing Psalms, Hymns, and Spiritual Songs)
6. Thanksgiving (including Giving of Tithes and Offerings)
Our church website expresses these elements this way:
Distinctives of our church include following a model for worship regulated by the Holy Scriptures. Following the example given to us in Acts 2:42 we teach the “apostles doctrine” by way of expository preaching and the public reading of the Word of God, we “fellowship” and prove our love for one another in the body as often as we have opportunity, we partake of the ordinances, the Lord’s Table by the “breaking of bread” observing the Lord’s Supper weekly and the Baptism of believers as necessary, and we are a church of “prayer.” We find further direction for corporate worship in Ephesians 5:18-21 in the singing of “psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs.” Other elements of our worship include occasions of individual and corporate fasting (Matthew 6:16-18) and the giving of thanks including freely and cheerfully giving our tithes and offerings to the Lord (1 Thess 5:16-21; 2 Cor 9:6-8). In our worship and our lives we strive to be God focused, Christ exalting, Spirit filled, and Bible centered. Our aim is to glorify God in everything we do – making it a priority to live “by the Book.”
I must mention here that I do owe a debt to Mark Dever and Paul Alexander and their book The Deliberate Church as when I read it I gained a more clear picture of how to incorporate these elements into the flow of a worship service. Before reading the book we had these elements present, but after this book we now have a more structured and deliberate use of these elements in the worship of God.
In carrying out this vision for worship we do indeed have a deliberate format, it is a liturgy built upon the regulations of the Word of God for the worship of God. As Dever and Alexander describe it, worship is not only to be regulated by the Word of God, but it is to be saturated with the Word of God. This is accomplished as we spend time each week in our worship service doing the following:
Worship Regulated by the Word of God
1. Read the Word
2. Preach/Hear the Word
3. Pray the Word
4. Sing the Word
5. See the Word (ordinances)
6. Live the Word (fellowship)
Each Sunday we work to order the service in such a way that we obey the Word and fulfill the expectations and commands of God given to us therein. We approach Him with reverence, humility, and faith. And we depend upon the Holy Spirit to guide us through the Word so that we might not grieve or quench the Spirit, or otherwise interfere with His Work as He points us all to Christ.
When it comes to public prayer I have often seen that this is done without much forethought. Someone is asked or appointed to pray at a certain time during the service and they just wing it. At times this is good and God is honored and the people blessed by the prayer. At other times there is a need for debriefing and damage control after some public prayers. Of course, Ravenhill, Tozer, and others have stated that the secret to powerful public prayer is a deep and flourishing private prayer life.
I do not prefer to write prayers out, but I am more and more convinced that conversations with God in a public setting need to be something for which we have planned and prepared. Some do write their prayers out. In fact, some of my heroes, including Peter Marshall, wrote their prayers our before hand. Charles Spurgeon wrote prayers out for the fathers in his church to pray during their times of family worship and even compiled these prayers and published them along with Bible readings, lessons, devotionals, and songs to sing to praise God. He gave this book to the families in his church with the expectation that they would use it daily.
A helpful tool for remembering how to pray in public also comes from The Deliberate Church. Dever and Alexander suggest that we pray publicly by remembering “ACTS”, meaning prayers of Adoration, Confession, Thanksgiving, and Supplication.
Public Prayers: ACTS
1. Prayer of Adoration
2. Prayer of Confession
3. Prayer of Thanksgiving
4. Prayer of Supplication
Taking then the elements of worship as they are practiced and regulated by the Word of God and combining them with the practical advice given in Dever’s book, we have refined our liturgy, our order of service, so that we worship God very deliberately. Here then is the Order of Worship for our church. This is how we worship God “decently and in order” each time we meet, fulfilling the commands of the Word of God and offering worship that we pray and hope is acceptable to Him. We do not seek to please men or each other and we certainly do not seek to please the lost or those who are living in rebellion to God and His Word. In other words, our worship is God focused! We come to give, not get, and everything we do is based upon the Word of God.
Order of Worship
Preparation for Worship
Call to Worship
(Sing the Word)
Prayer of Adoration
(Pray the Word)
Old Testament Scripture Reading
(Read the Word)
Singing Psalms, Hymns, and Spiritual Songs
(Sing the Word)
New Testament Scripture Reading
(Read the Word)
Prayer of Supplication and Thanksgiving
(Pray the Word)
(Preach and Hear the Word)
Prayer of Confession
(Pray the Word)
The Lord’s Supper
(See the Word)
(Sing the Word)
(Read the Word)
Some have noted that in this printed order of worship there is no place for the collecting of tithes and offerings. We do strongly uphold the Biblical commands to give offerings to the Lord when we meet for worship on the first day of the week. And to do so we have chosen to utilize an offering box. The box is placed in the back of the room where we meet for worship and people are free to drop their tithes and offerings in at any point coming or going to the service. We do not see anything inherently wrong with passing a plate, but we have decided that it is best for us for a number of reasons to allow people an opportunity to give their gifts out of the public eye.
I do hope this has helped explain why we do what we do when we meet for worship. And I hope it gives other congregations and pastors an opportunity to evaluate their liturgy by the expectations of Scripture. Again, we are not saying that this is the only way to acceptably worship God. We are however saying that the elements mentioned above are necessary if we are to offer worship that is pleasing to God. And that, after all, is the whole point, right? To exalt, magnify, and glorify our gracious God. | <urn:uuid:21728ad2-f70a-4457-a116-08b8f059325f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://providencerbc.org/2009/01/27/order-of-worship/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572212.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815205848-20220815235848-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.962107 | 2,332 | 1.578125 | 2 |
TABLE OF CONTENTS
List of Figures — 3
Preface — 4
Introduction of NCC — 7
Results of Communications Policies — 11
Overview of Communications Market — 12
Communications Infrastructure — 13
Enhanced Broadcasting Environment — 18
Information Security — 20
Convergence Regulations — 22
Consumer Rights and a Digitally Inclusive Society — 24
International Exchanges and Cooperation — 25
Outlook and Vision — 27
Digital Infrastructure — 28
Development of the Communications Industry — 29
Digital Equality — 30
Future Legislation — 30
In response to the development of communications convergence and global regulatory reforms, the Fundamental Communications Act and The National Communications Commission Organization Act were promulgated in 2004 and 2005 respectively. Consequently, the responsibility for overseeing telecommunications and broadcasting was combined, which led to NCC being officially established on Feb. 22, 2006.
NCC is an independent agency established under the Basic Code Governing Central Administrative Agencies Organizations, dedicated to exercising its functions and responsibilities pursuant to laws independently. By referring to the experience of the management of communications in advanced countries, the Executive Yuan integrated the responsibilities of the Directorate Genera l of Telecommunications and Government Information Office to oversee telecommunications and broadcasting and ensure that an independent regulatory agency could govern the communications sector. Consequently, NCC is responsible for the formulation of policies, regulatory oversight, market competition, management of resources and consumers' rights, adhering to values such as professionalism, diversity and efficiency, as well as for establishing a sound environment for the communications sector and upgrading digitization.
Since COVID-19 began severely affecting nations, the lives of people from all walks of life have been dramatically affected. However, despite the isolation and inconveniences caused by the pandemic, mankind's adaptability has given rise to numerous opportunities and ways of life, such as food deliveries, distance learning and working from home－ all of which have been possible thanks to an accessible broadband network infrastructure. As governments and people across the globe increasingly realize the advantages and importance of broadband networks, the digital transformation has been accelerating across both the public and private sectors, proving that the efforts of the National Communications Commission (NCC) in enhancing the digital infrastructure in Taiwan have been worthwhile.
Since NCC was established in 2006, changes of seismic proportions have occurred across communications. In telecommunications, for instance, we have seen several major mobile technological broadband developments, from 2G and 3G voice and data services to 4G and 5G video and multiple application services. Similarly, the broadcasting industry has evolved from conventional paid TV subscriptions to online shared video platforms and is currently facing the impact of cross-border and cross-industry over- the-top TV (OTT TV). In recent years, 5G and the Internet of Things (IoT) have developed in a way that has urged governments to take information security as an even more critical matter at a national level.
In response to such rapid changes in communications, NCC strives to stay abreast of the latest developments in digital convergence worldwide and is committed to protecting and improving consumer rights, safeguarding minors from online dangers, as well as reducing the digital divide between those in urban and more remote areas. The commission is also committed to reinforcing digital infrastructures and providing fast, accessible, secure and reliable broadband network services to all people in Taiwan. Moreover, NCC aims to actively draw up the appropriate regulatory framework based on the overall development of communications in Taiwan by referring to regulatory cases and issues at both home and abroad.
According to the IMD World Competitiveness Yearbook, published annually by International Institute of Management Development, infrastructure in Taiwan during 2020 ranked first worldwide in both 3G and 4G mobile broadband penetration in the mobile phone market and fifth in internet bandwidth and speed, outpacing most developed nations. Yet, many nations, with an eye on the future, have begun vigorously promoting digital infrastructure and digital transformation, meaning that Taiwan should not just sit back and relax. In fact, NCC plans to accelerate construction of 5G infrastructure, facilitated through an effective regulatory framework, with the aim of boosting digital innovation and transformation and ultimately enhancing industry strength in Taiwan.
This 2020 Communications Performance Report consists of two main chapters. Chapter 1, Results of Communications Policies outlines the NCC's focus and accomplishments throughout 2020. For instance, the implementation of the Executive Yuan-approved Remote Broadband Access Infrastructure Program is bringing ultra- high speed broadband to remote areas and optimizing coverage in mountainous areas, railways and highways, helping to prevent disasters during emergency situations. Another highlight was the release of spectrum for 5G services in February 2020 with five telecommunications operators consecutively launching 5G operations, taking Taiwan into the 5G era.
Turning to broadcasting, after years of planning and hard work, cable television in Taiwan was fully upgraded to digital television in June 2020, providing a better viewing experience and digital value-added services. NCC has also actively strived to improve quality of content production and broadcasting through its license review mechanism and professional training offered to radio and television operators; moreover, the commission has been helping younger generations develop media literacy through various means, as well as improving domestically made productions and upgrading to HD and 4K resolution.
In an era where IoT and data applications have become universal, the NCC has implemented the Information Security is National Security national policy undertaking such measures as broadening the target audience of the National Communications and Cyber Security Center (NCCSC), enhancing the national-level joint defense system, supervising the basic information security protection of telecommunications operators, and promoting the information security verification mechanism for network connected equipment.
A new act, the Telecommunications Management Act, which adopts behavior-based management instead of the conventional business- based management, has lowered the market threshold and allows public telecommunications network operators to freely combine their networks based on the services they plan to provide, which is conducive to innovation and fair competition. Eighty-one subordinate regulations under the act were formulated by the commission during 2020 and subsequently designated by the Executive Yuan to take effect from July 1, 2020, signaling a new era for telecommunications regulation in Taiwan.
Chapter 2, Prospect and Visions describes how the NCC was established in response to the emergence of digital convergence fifteen years ago, as well as how the evolution and emergence of the internet and emerging technologies continue to bring both challenges and opportunities to all nations. For the near future, the government is planning to carry out another organizational reform due to the needs of technological applications and development and digital transformation in line with the overall goals of the nation and the industry. Consequently, the commission will be facing emerging situations and be assigned with new tasks.
As the communications regulator, the NCC shall to continue to prepare critical communications resources, boost the nation's digital infrastructure, enhance both the telecommunications and broadcasting markets, safeguard consumer rights and digital equality, and amend legislation to be in line with convergence of the new era. The commission remains transparent, communicating both regulatory policy and planning with the outside world in order to forge a diverse, free and secure communications environment and usher in a new era of internet and digital economic development. | <urn:uuid:3aa4d506-7b50-49b3-a370-72d7d7c90720> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://gpi.culture.tw/books/1011002133 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572043.2/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814143522-20220814173522-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.933486 | 2,032 | 1.835938 | 2 |
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Pro-inflammatory TNFα and IL-1β differentially regulate the inflammatory phenotype of brain microvascular endothelial cells
Journal of Neuroinflammation volume 12, Article number: 131 (2015)
The vasculature of the brain is composed of endothelial cells, pericytes and astrocytic processes. The endothelial cells are the critical interface between the blood and the CNS parenchyma and are a critical component of the blood-brain barrier (BBB). These cells are innately programmed to respond to a myriad of inflammatory cytokines or other danger signals. IL-1β and TNFα are well recognised pro-inflammatory mediators, and here, we provide compelling evidence that they regulate the function and immune response profile of human cerebral microvascular endothelial cells (hCMVECs) differentially.
We used xCELLigence biosensor technology, which revealed global differences in the endothelial response between IL-1β and TNFα. xCELLigence is a label-free impedance-based biosensor, which is ideal for acute or long-term comparison of drug effects on cell behaviour. In addition, flow cytometry and multiplex cytokine arrays were used to show differences in the inflammatory responses from the endothelial cells.
Extensive cytokine-secretion profiling and cell-surface immune phenotyping confirmed that the immune response of the hCMVEC to IL-1β was different to that of TNFα. Interestingly, of the 38 cytokines, chemokines and growth factors measured by cytometric bead array, the endothelial cells secreted only 13. Of importance was the observation that the majority of these cytokines were differentially regulated by either IL-1β or TNFα. Cell-surface expression of ICAM-1 and VCAM-1 were also differentially regulated by IL-1β or TNFα, where TNFα induced a substantially higher level of expression of both key leukocyte-adhesion molecules. A range of other cell-surface cellular and junctional adhesion molecules were basally expressed by the hCMVEC but were unaffected by IL-1β or TNFα.
To our knowledge, this is the most comprehensive analysis of the immunological profile of brain endothelial cells and the first direct evidence that human brain endothelial cells are differentially regulated by these two key pro-inflammatory mediators.
The vascular endothelium in the brain is the cellular interface between the blood and the central nervous system. These cells along with pericytes and vascular astrocytes form an essential physical barrier to immune cells, bacterial and viral infections (reviewed by [1, 2]). In addition, the nutrient homeostasis of the CNS is governed by the vascular endothelium, which is selective to or permeable to a range of small molecules and drugs . Collectively, this is often referred to as the blood-brain barrier (BBB). Rather than being an impenetrable fortress, the BBB serves a range of critical functions including maintaining the brain’s immune privileged status (low frequency of leukocytes) and tightly regulating the transfer of nutrients and waste products [4, 5].
The main cellular component of the BBB is an uninterrupted layer of microvascular endothelial cells that are joined by tight-junctions (reviewed by ). These cells are highly polarised, with their basolateral aspect juxtaposed to a continuous protein-containing basement membrane (basal lamina). The presence of tight-junction complexes (e.g. claudin-5, occludin, ZO-1 (see ) seals adjacent endothelial cells and restricts paracellular transfer of large molecules and cells . The apical aspect of the vascular endothelium is in direct contact with the blood and is therefore exposed to a range of insults including infections and systemic inflammatory responses.
It has become clear that the BBB is affected or changed in a wide variety of neurological diseases (e.g. multiple sclerosis [8, 9] and HIV infection [10, 11]), and in turn may modulate the disease process or clinical outcome [10, 12–14]. Although endothelial cells are not regarded as classical immune cells, extensive literature demonstrates that endothelial cells are inextricably involved in the inflammatory responses in many tissues. This is most likely very true in the human brain; however, most of what we believe about human brain endothelial (BBB) function has been inferred from observations using non-human or non-CNS-derived endothelial cells. This includes endothelial cells from other species [15–17] or from other tissues, such as the umbilical vein . Understandably, the number of studies that have actually used human brain endothelial cells (either primary or immortalised) represents a minor proportion of the literature.
Inflammatory cytokines regulate the function of brain microvascular endothelial cells leading to changes in endothelial activation , inflammatory phenotype and extravasation of immune cells [19–21]. Clinically, this likely contributes to the severity of disease where BBB dysfunction is evident. However, the temporal profile of these changes has not been studied in detail using human endothelial cells from the brain (or of brain origin). Here we compare the temporal response profiles of brain endothelial cells to several major pro-inflammatory regulators (IL-1β and TNFα) and reveal that the nature of the inflammatory response differs substantially. Initially, we used xCELLigence biosensor technology, which revealed that the global temporal response of the brain endothelial cells to IL-1β and TNFα was different. This observation was corroborated where expression or secretion of a number of key pro-inflammatory mediators were differentially regulated by IL-1β and TNFα. Using an extensive cytokine cytometric bead array (CBA) panel and flow-cytometry panel, we also advance our understanding of which cytokines, chemokines and adhesion molecules are expressed by brain endothelial cells. IL-1β or TNFα also induced changes in endothelial barrier strength measured as transendothelial electrical resistance (TEER) using electric cell substrate impedance-sensing (ECIS) technology. We observed complex differences in the changes in TEER induced by IL-1β and TNFα, where there were differences in the magnitude of the response and temporal nature of the response.
Cell culture of hCMVECs
The human cerebral microvascular endothelial cell (hCMVEC) line was purchased from ABMGood (USA see http://www.abmgood.com). Cells were maintained in growth media containing M199 media (Gibco) supplemented with 10 % FBS, 1 μg/mL hydrocortisone (Sigma), 3 μg/mL human FGF (Peprotech), 10 μg/mL human EGF (Peprotech), 10 μg/mL heparin (Sigma), 2 mM Glutamax (Gibco) and 80 μM butyryl cAMP (Sigma) referred to as M199 10 % growth media. The hCMVECs experiments were typically conducted using low-serum plating media containing M199 media, 2 % FBS, 110 nM hydrocortisone, 1 μM insulin and 80 μM butyryl cAMP (M199 2 % plating media).
The xCELLigence real-time cell analyser (RTCA) measures cellular adhesion in real-time using custom E-plates, which are coated with high-density gold arrays for measuring electrical impedance (ACEA Biosciences, USA) [22, 23]. The xCELLigence biosensor measures cellular adhesion, which is converted to Cell Index (arbitrary units) by the xCELLigence software (version 1.2.1). Cells were seeded into E96 well plates at 54,000 cells per well in M199 2 % plating media and allowed to recover until the cells have attained a stable cell index. This was typically 24 h after seeding. Cytokine treatments are detailed in the corresponding figure legends.
Immunocytochemistry for endothelial tight and adherens-junction proteins
For confocal imaging, the cells were grown to confluence on collagen-coated 8-chamber glass slides (BD Biosciences. Cat, no: 354108). Cells were fixed for immunocytochemical staining using 4 % PFA at room temperature for 10 min. Excess PFA was removed with several washes using PBS.
Primary antibody against VE-cadherin/CD144 (Santa Cruz Biotechnology Inc, sc-6458) was prepared in PBS containing 1 % donkey serum and used at 1:200 dilution. Primary antibody to zonula occludin-1 (ZO-1; Invitrogen, 339100) was prepared in PBS containing 1 % goat serum and used at 1:500 dilution. Primary antibodies were incubated at 4 °C overnight. Unbound antibodies were removed by washing in PBS containing 0.2 % triton-X100 (PBST). Fluorophore conjugated secondary detection was used using the species-specific anti-IgG Alexafluor 488 antibodies from Life Technologies (A-21206 and A11055). These secondaries were used at 1:400 and incubated with cells for 2 h at ambient. Again, unbound antibodies were removed with gentle agitation with PBST washes. Nuclei were counter stained using Hoescht (1:500 dilution in PBST), and cells were mounted using AF1 mountant. Confocal imaging was conducted using an Olympus FV100 microscope. Images were merged using ImageJ software.
Stimulation of hCMVEC for cytokines production
The hCMVEC cultures were seeded into 24-well plates coated with 1 μg/cm2 collagen I (Gibco) at the density of 80,000 cells per well. Cells were grown to confluence in M199 10 % growth media. On the day of stimulation, the growth media was changed to M199 2 % plating media. In the first series of experiments, the stimulatory cytokines IL-1β and TNFα were each added to corresponding wells to the final concentration of 5 ng/mL. Control group received media only. 100 μl of conditioned media was collected at 4, 24 and 72 h post-treatment. In the second series of experiments, the cytokines were added across a range of concentrations (50 ng/mL to 50 pg/mL) for 24 h. The collected media were centrifuged at 400×g for 5 min at 4 °C to remove cellular debris. 80 μl of the clarified media was recovered and stored in several single-use aliquots for cytokine profiling. Media samples were stored at −20 °C.
Cytokine measurements using cytometric bead array (CBA)
Soluble cytokines in the hCMVEC-conditioned media were measured simultaneously using multiplexed bead-based immunoassays, Cytometric Bead Array (CBA, BD Biosciences). The assay was conducted using 25 μl of sample and using a 10-point standard curve (ranging from 0 to 5000 pg/mL) was included for each cytokine measured (see Table 1 for list of cytokines). The samples were analysed using a BD Accuri C6 flow cytometer (BD Bioscience). FCAP Array software (BD version 3.1) was used to create the standard curves for each cytokine and convert the fluorescent MFI values into cytokine concentrations.
Cell-surface flow-cytometry analysis of hCMVEC
The hCMVEC cultures were seeded into T75 maintenance flasks and were grown to confluence in M199 10 % growth media. On the day of stimulation, the media was changed to M199 2 % plating media with 5 ng/mL IL-1β, 5 ng/ml TNFα or no stimulatory cytokine added for control group. After the designated treatment period (see figure legends) the endothelial cells were carefully harvested with EDTA-based Versene (Gibco). The use of trypsin was avoided as it cleaves many of the cell-surface epitopes. Cell suspensions were adjusted to the concentration of 1 × 106 cells/ml with cold FACS buffer (PBS and 1 % FBS) in 100 μl per tube. Fluorochrome conjugated antibodies (see Table 2 for list of antibodies) were added to the cells at previously optimised dilutions and were incubated on ice for 10 min. Cells were washed twice with 1 ml of cold FACS buffer and were centrifuged at 400×g for 10 min. The supernatant was discarded, and cells were re-suspended in approximately 100 μl of FACS buffer. Flow cytometry was conducted using an Accuri C6 flow cytometer (BD Bioscience) calibrated with appropriate compensation controls. Each staining combination was incubated with 7AAD for live-dead cell determination. 7AAD-positive cells were ascribed to the dead gate (P2) and excluded from further analysis. 7AAD-negative cells represent the viable population and were ascribed as the live-gate (P1) (see Additional file 1: Figure S1 for further details). The specific staining of the flow antibodies (detailed in Table 1) was measured for the live-gate P1 only. The gating strategy for the flow-cytometry experiments is shown in Additional file 1: Figure S1.
Measurement of TEER using ECIS technology
ECIS 96W20idf plates were coated with 10-mM L-cysteine to clean and modify the electrode surface so as to provide highly reproducible electrode capacitance. This was followed by coating the wells with 1 μg/cm2 collagen I. Then 50 μl of media was added to each well, and well stabilisation was carried out on the ECIS ZΘ to clean the electrodes prior to plating of cells. The hCMVEC cells were seeded at 20,000 cells/well and cultured for 48 h prior to treatment with cytokines as detailed in the corresponding figure legends. Multi frequency/time data was collected. Data were plotted at 4000 Hz, which is the optimal frequency to measure barrier formation and resistance .
Analysis of hCMVEC response profile using xCELLigence biosensor technology
The real-time xCELLigence biosensor was used to ascertain the temporal response profile of the hCMVECs to IL-1β and TNFα (Fig. 1). The biosensor measures the net adhesion of living cells and is therefore ideal to reveal (a) if the cells respond and (b) when the cells respond to cytokine treatment. Figure 1a shows the long-term changes in endothelial adhesion induced by IL-1β and TNFα (both 5 ng/mL). Importantly, the profile suggests that the endothelial response to IL-1β and TNFα is not the same. IL-1β induces a sustained increase in endothelial adhesion (green curve) beginning approximately 24 h after activation, whereas with TNFα, the net endothelial adhesion is reduced for a period of ~100 following TNFα addition. Figure 1b focuses on the initial 24-h period after activation which shows when the cytokines were added (blue arrow) and that there is only a small change in net endothelial adhesion during this period, which is more obvious for the IL-1β treatment. In addition to the marked difference in net adhesion between the cytokine treatments, the long-term temporal profile indicates that neither treatment induces cytotoxicity. This is in contrast to the previous observation where we have observed IL-1β- and TNFα-induced compromise of astrocytes using xCELLigence technology . Overall, the changes in endothelial adhesion induced by IL-1β are very different to the response to TNFα. This provides evidence that the endothelial response to these two key pro-inflammatory regulators is different.
Characterisation of cytokine and chemokine secretion under basal and activated conditions
Multiplex cytokine analysis provides a powerful tool to assess complex secretory profiles of human immune cells [23, 25, 26]. This was employed to assess the basal secretory output of the hCMVECs and measure any changes following treatment with TNFα and IL-1β over a time course of 3 days. This period is highlighted by the red arrows in Fig. 1a.
In total, we measured the concentration of 38 different secreted cytokines, chemokines, growth factors and liberated soluble receptors in endothelial-conditioned media (see Table 1 for complete list of factors). The media were collected from brain endothelial cells maintained under basal (no activation) conditions or following activation with TNFα, IL-1β (Fig. 2) or PMA (see Additional file 2: Figure S2) across a time course of 72 h. In total, 13 of the 38 factors (see Table 1) were detected in the endothelial-conditioned media at above 1 pg /mL (lower limit of sensitivity). These were soluble ICAM-1 (sICAM-1/sCD54), sVCAM-1(sCD106), IL-6, IL-8 (CXCL8), MCP-1 (CCL2), RANTES (CCL5), IP-10 (CXCL10), VEGF, bFGF, GCSF, GMCSF, sTNFRI and sTNFRII. The concentration of most of these under basal conditions was low or undetectable (<1 pg/mL). This profile is consistent with the endothelial cells having a non-activated/non-inflamed phenotype under basal culture conditions. The secretion of each of the 13 cytokines was greatly increased following inflammatory stimulation with TNFα or IL-1β (5 ng/mL). Interestingly, specific factors were preferentially induced by IL-1β (red curves), which included sICAM-1, IL-6, sTNFRI, sTNFRII, GCSF, GMCSF and the chemokine IP-10. In contrast, RANTES and IL-8 were preferentially induced by TNFα. The endothelial cells were clearly responsive to both TNFα and IL-1β; however, the secretory immune response to each was considerably different. Interestingly, we measured the presence of the soluble versions of ICAM-1, VCAM-1 and the receptors for TNFα and IL-1β. As expected, soluble ICAM-1 and VCAM-1 were undetectable in the endothelial-conditioned media during basal culture conditions. However, both were induced and liberated following IL-1β treatment, which resulted in a greater concentration of soluble adhesion molecules than TNFα. Soluble TNF receptors (sTNFRI and sTNFRII) were also detected in the endothelial-conditioned media; however, to our surprise, the concentration of both sTNFRI and sTNFRII was increased to a greater extent by IL-1β than by TNFα treatment. In contrast, we did not detect the soluble forms of the IL-1 receptor (sIL-1R1 and sIL-1R2) under any conditions.
The phorbol ester PMA, was also used to potentially activate a wider signaling network than that induced by TNFα or IL-1β. PMA increased secretion of most of those regulated by TNFα and IL-1β. The amount secreted was generally lower in comparison to the cytokine-induced responses. That said, this clearly shows that activation of the PKC-signalling network results in a pro-inflammatory response in brain endothelial cells. There were, however, no additional cytokines present in our panel of 38 (see Table 1) specifically regulated by PMA.
It is worth noting that under these conditions, the hCMVEC did not secrete the MIP1α or MIP1β, which are potent pro-inflammatory chemokines nor did we detect secretion of the anti-inflammatory cytokines IL-4 or IL-10 from the endothelial cells under any conditions. The temporal profile of secretion, although expensive to conduct, reveals that IL-6 and GCSF levels at 72 h post IL-1β activation are lower than the levels observed earlier at 24 h. This is an interesting observation which suggests that the endothelial cells have the capacity to assimilate or degrade some of the cytokines they secrete. This is also an important observation in terms of future experiments, as the timing of media collection has to be carefully considered in this regard to maximise sensitivity of the response, but avoiding this later period, where additional mechanism are at play.
As the data in Fig. 2 had highlighted pronounced differences in responsiveness to TNFα and IL1β, the cytokine-secretion study was extended to include a wider range of concentrations for TNFα and IL1β (50 pg/mL to 50 ng/mL; Fig. 3). Panels of cytokines were selected that were elevated at 24 h for this comparison. It is evident from Fig. 3 that IL-1β is considerably more potent than TNFα in terms of inducing secretion/release of sICAM, sVCAM, MCP-1, GCSF and GMCSF, whereas TNFα is the more potent inducer of the chemokine IL-8. In these data and also in the profiling conducted in Fig. 2, we would argue that there is only a minimal effect of TNFα on the induction of GCSF and GMCSF, in comparison to the effect of IL-1β. This further supports the observation that TNFα and IL1β are causing differential inflammatory responses in the hCMVECs.
Cell-surface immunophenotyping of human brain microvascular endothelial cells
The CBA cytokine profile strongly suggested that the endothelial response following IL-1β activation created a different inflammatory milieu in comparison to TNFα (see Fig. 2). It was notable that IL-1β induced the liberation of more soluble ICAM-1 and VCAM-1 in comparison to TNFα. We therefore hypothesised that these differences would also be reflected in the cell-surface expression level of these and other cell-adhesion molecules (CAMs). We therefore undertook an extensive analysis of the cell-surface immunological phenotype of the hCMVEC cells. This comprehensive analysis included leukocyte endothelial CAMs (see Fig. 4), adherens-junction molecules (see Fig. 4), endothelial-matrix adhesion molecules and various others (see Figs. 5 and 6 and Additional file 3: Figure S3).
As shown in Figs. 4 and 5 and Additional file 3: Figure S3, these brain microvascular endothelial cells basally express a range of adhesion molecules commonly expressed by endothelial cells from a variety of tissues (including CD31, CD34, CD138, CD141, CD144 and CD146). It should be noted that very few of these markers are truly endothelial-specific, which includes the commonly used CD31 and CD34 molecules (also expressed by some leukocytes). In addition, we also investigated expression and localisation of VE-cadherin and ZO-1 in the endothelial cells using immunocytochemistry (see Additional file 4: Figure S4). This confirmed the high level of expression of these two proteins as expected of brain-derived endothelial cells, which have critical roles in controlling endothelial barrier integrity. Of the entire panel of CAMs investigated in this study, it was E-selectin (CD62E), ICAM-1 (CD54) and VCAM-1 (CD106) that were consistently affected by TNFα and IL-1β. Importantly, basal expression of these was very low, which is consistent with a non-activated status. All of the selectin species were measured. However, only CD62E was induced by activation. Basal levels of P-selectin were very low, and L-selectin (as expected) was not expressed. Induction of CD62E was observed approximately 2–4 h after cytokine activation (see Fig. 3). Both ICAM-1 and VCAM-1 expression were substantially increased following activation by TNFα and IL-1β. Such activation-induced surface expression of these key leukocyte-attachment molecules is fully consistent with their role in leukocyte recruitment across the BBB. The data shown in Figs. 4 and 5 (except for the selectins), and Additional file 3: Figure S3 shows the expression of the cell-surface adhesion molecules 24 h after treatment. This was also conducted 72 h after treatment (data not shown), and only ICAM-1 and VCAM-1 showed substantial changes (summarized in Table 3).
There was a pronounced “bimodal” change in VCAM-1 expression following 24-h IL-1β treatment, but not as evident with TNFα (Fig. 4). It is possible that the left peak (lower expression) is related to the sVCAM-1 liberation in a population of cells as measured during the cytokine profiling. It was therefore decided to conduct a longer time course for these key leukocyte-adhesion molecules to ascertain their profile more fully. Figure 6 reveals the temporal profile of (a) ICAM-1 and (b) VCAM-1 following cytokine activation of the hCMVECs over a 144-h time course. Of particular interest is that TNFα induces a markedly higher level of both ICAM-1 and VCAM-1 expression in comparison to IL-1β. This time course reveals that both ICAM-1 and VCAM-1 expression occurs quickly and, in the case of ICAM-1, is sustained at high levels for a number of days. In contrast, VCAM-1 expression is shorter lived and peaks around 24 h (highlighted by the red line). The temporal breakdown (right-hand plots) reveals that the increased VCAM-1 expression is bimodal for both IL-1β and TNFα treatments (Fig. 6).
Finally, we investigated the influence of these cytokines and inflammatory conditions on endothelial barrier function (Figs. 7 and 8 and Additional file 5: Figure S5). Barrier function was measured using the electric cell-substrate impedance-sensing (ECIS) ZΘ (Z-theta) instrument system from Applied Biophysics Inc (USA) (see http://www.biophysics.com/barrierfunction.php). This system measures barrier function (as barrier resistance, ohms) in real-time and in a continuous autonomous manner. Each cytokine was tested from 5 pg/mL to 50 ng/mL, and endothelial TEER was monitored for more than 160 h. Basal TEER (normalised to 1.0) was relatively stable across this period and remained within 10 % of the TEER observed at the time of cytokine addition. Both TNFα and IL1β induced changes in TEER, but the effects were not identical. There was no net effect of TNFα at concentrations below 50 pg/mL, whereas at 500 pg/mL and above, there was a progressive and sustained increase in endothelial TEER. This increase in TEER was maximal at 5 ng/mL TNFα (Fig. 8 and Additional file 5: Figure S5).
The response to IL-1β was rather different, with the maximal increase in TEER observed with 500 pg/mL, and this relative increase in TEER was not as large as that seen with TNFα. Interestingly, at 5- and 50-ng/mL IL1β, there was a pronounced delay in the increase in TEER of approximately 20 h, which was not observed following TNFα treatment. These responses have been plotted against each other for direct comparison in Fig. 8 (see also Additional file 5: Figure S5). This reveals that the response profiles are quite different from each other, except at 500 pg/mL (Fig. 8).
To our knowledge this study represents the most comprehensive simultaneous analysis of cell-surface adhesion molecules and cytokine secretion following pro-inflammatory cytokine activation of human brain microvascular endothelial cells (hCMVECs). The goal was to ascertain the consequence of inflammatory activation on a broad range of immune mediators involved in BBB neuroinflammation, leukocyte communication and recruitment. The rationale was to advance our understanding of the repertoire of adhesion molecules, cytokines and chemokines expressed by brain endothelial cells and how these change in a temporal manner following activation by key inflammatory triggers (i.e. TNFα and IL-1β). Specific expression profiles for human brain endothelial cells is limited [27–30] (see Table 3), in comparison to endothelial cells derived from other tissues (e.g. HMEC-1 skin endothelial cells).
The brain endothelial cells used in this study express all of the prototypic adhesion molecules expected of endothelial cells; including CD31 (PECAM), CD34, CD44, CD144 (VE-cadherin) and the tight-junction-associated protein ZO-1. In addition, the hCMVECs have very low levels of CD62E, ICAM-1 and VCAM-1 under basal non-inflamed conditions. This is consistent with the phenotype of brain endothelial cells in vivo and confirms that our in vitro culture conditions maintain the cells in a non-activated state. This is extremely important for being able to induce inflammation. As anticipated, both IL-1β and TNFα increased cell-surface expression of these key leukocyte-adhesion molecules; however, the potency of the response and temporal nature was different for induction of ICAM-1 and VCAM-1. Both were up-regulated to a greater extent and for longer by IL-1β. Elevated expression levels of CD62E, ICAM-1 and VCAM-1 are reliable indicators that endothelial cells have been activated in some manner. However, the temporal window of their expression is very specific. Most of the other adhesion molecules appeared unaffected by activation with IL-1β or TNFα. However, it is worthy to note that this conclusion is drawn from flow-cytometry analysis. As such, it is possible that compartmentalised localisation may change, which could then affect the function of the adhesion molecule.
Brain endothelial cells are the cellular interface between the blood and CNS tissue and like most cells with innate immune functions can release a myriad of cytokines in response to inflammatory challenge or damage. Here, we measured the release of 38 different factors, which were comprised of cytokines, chemokines, growth factors and soluble forms of receptors/adhesion molecules (see Table 1). In total, 13 of these were secreted, with most only after activation by IL-1β or TNFα. Interestingly, we observed the selective secretion of two CCL-class chemokines, MCP-1 (CCL2) and RANTES (CCL5), but no secretion of Eotaxin (CCL11), MIP-1α (CCL3) or MIP1β (CCL4). These are, however, sufficient to target a broad spectrum of immune-cell subsets expressing CCR1, CCR2, CCR3 and CCR5. Fractalkine (CX3CL1), the only known CX3CL chemokine, was not secreted by the endothelial cells under basal or activated conditions.
The CXCL chemokines (in our panel) released by the hCMVECs were IL-8 (CXCL-8) and IP-10 (CXCL10), whereas there was no secretion of either MIG (CXCL9) or I-TAC (CXCL11). IL-8 is a potent chemoattractant of neutrophils, which signals through the CXCR1 and CXCR2 receptors, IP-10 signals through CXCR3, which is expressed by subsets of T cells and monocytes/macrophages. Of particular importance to note was that the secretion of IP-10, GCSF and GMCSF, were almost exclusively induced by IL-1β, whereas the effects of TNFα were negligible in comparison. The increased GCSF and GMCSF maybe associated with creation of an environment within the CNS to support monocyte/macrophage differentiation post extravasation. The endothelial cells secrete an abundance of MCP-1 following activation, which is a potent chemokine for monocyte/macrophage subsets. In this study, TNFα increased the secretion of IL-8 and RANTES to a much greater extent than that induced by IL-1β. These differences suggest that the leukocyte recruitment signals released by the brain endothelial cells are considerably different between TNFα and IL1β responses.
Truncated versions of certain receptors and adhesion molecules can be liberated (cleaved or secreted) from the cell surface and consequently detected in the conditioned media. Here we measured the soluble forms of the IL-1 receptors, TNF receptors and ICAM-1 and VCAM-1. Soluble IL-1 receptors were not detected under any conditions; however, soluble TNFα receptors (both TNFRI and TNFRII) were detected. Interestingly, the amount was greater following IL-1β treatment, rather than TNFα treatment. The relevance of this novel finding is unclear but may relate to the desensitisation of the inflammatory environment to restrict TNFα signaling.
It is very interesting to note that TNFα appears to induce a much greater level of ICAM-1 and VCAM-1 on the surface of the endothelial cells, in comparison to IL-1β. This could be due to the fact that the level of soluble ICAM-1 and VCAM-1 present in the culture media was greater following IL-1β activation. This demonstrates that more ICAM-1 and VCAM-1 are cleaved during the IL-1β response (compare the data in Figs. 3 and 6). These adhesion molecules are the interacting partners of CD11 family members (e.g. LFA-1) and CD49d (VLA-4), respectively, which are broadly expressed by a range of leukocyte subsets. This data series nicely provides the basis to conduct adhesion/diapedesis experiments, which will be the subject of a future study. At this stage, it is exciting to hypothesise that TNFα and IL-1β differentially regulate tethering/attachment of different leukocyte subsets to the apical surface of the brain endothelium.
As well as being a comprehensive investigation of adhesion molecules important in the wider context of endothelial biology, we reveal expression of a number of adhesion molecules by hCMVEC not described previously for human brain endothelial cells. These include CD138, CD141, CD147, CD325 and CD50. This advances our understanding of their phenotype and adhesion-molecule expression profile, all of which are molecules important in endothelial functional biology.
A very important area clinically is the influence of neuroinflammatory events on vascular barrier function. Dysfunction or breakdown of the brain vascular integrity is a well-documented event in diseases such as relapsing remitting multiple sclerosis or in ischemic stroke patients, which can lead to vascular haemorrhage in some stroke patients. Surprisingly, there is a lack of studies comparing the effect of IL-1β and TNFα on barrier function using human brain endothelial cells (primary or cell line-derived) and advanced autonomous technologies such as ECIS. We therefore used ECIS-Ztheta system to monitor the effect of TNFα and IL1β on barrier function in a label-free temporal manner. Of specific importance for us was to determine whether there were any differences between the cytokine responses and to monitor the changes in barrier resistance either acutely (first few hours—24 h) or chronically over days. There was a small acute reduction in the endothelial barrier resistance in the first few hours with higher concentrations of TNFα (above 500 pg/mL) and IL-1β. This response was small, reflecting approximately 10–15 % difference in norm resistance. Reduced TEER over this period has been reported by others [32, 33]. After this acute period, the barrier resistance of the HCMVECs increased in a cytokine, concentration and time-dependant manner. This strengthening of the barrier occurs over a period, which is (surprisingly) omitted in other ECIS studies [32, 33]. The magnitude of the increase in barrier resistance is greater and occurs for longer for TNFα. This perhaps suggests that the brain endothelial cells are innately programmed to recognise elevated TNFα as a more dangerous signal than IL-1β and respond accordingly in terms of strengthening its integrity. This may also be the innate response to protect against any danger signals that may lead to neutrophil activation and invasion, which in terms of the brain vasculature, can be devastating. Our barrier resistance (ECIS) data for the hCMVECs highlight the importance of conducting acute and longer term analysis of barrier function, which we have achieved in a real-time autonomous manner using ECIS ZΘ. It is clear that this is an area which requires considerably more research to be conducted to understand the pathways leading to barrier protection.
This current study highlights the fact that these two potent inflammatory mediators induce different inflammatory responses from brain endothelial cells. This was originally suggested from the xCELLigence data, which measures the net changes in cellular focal adhesion. This therefore indicates that the brain endothelial cells are innately programmed to respond to different insults in specific ways. Therefore in vivo, certain diseases, infections or tissue injury may cause elevated levels of IL-1β, which may trigger different pathways and cytokine networks in the brain endothelium in comparison to conditions where TNFα is predominantly elevated (e.g. bacterial infection and autoimmune diseases).
The data obtained in this study will be invaluable for investigating the dynamics of leukocyte attachment under different inflamed conditions and whether IL-1β induces recruitment of different subsets of immune cells in comparison to TNFα. The xCELLigence technology provides a cutting-edge tool to investigate the real-time temporal effects of activation of brain endothelial cells. In addition, the temporal sensitivity of ECIS for investigating cytokine changes in barrier function is incredibly powerful. This is clearly a complex area in the field of neuroinflammation, where there is still much to be discovered in terms of the endothelial responses and roles in disease. This will be applied to a range of activation signals and for conducting poly-pharmacological (multiple cytokines) analysis of how brain endothelial cells are regulated under more complex inflamed conditions.
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This research was conducted with funding from the New Zealand Lottery Health Fund (ESG; xCELLigence and Accuri C6 and SO/ESG ECIS ZΘ), the Health Research Council (ESG) and from the University of Auckland Faculty Research Development Fund (ESG, SO and CEA).
The authors declare that they have no competing interests.
DTK, VN, OOR, RW, RJ, SO and ESG conducted the research. DTK, RW, SO, CEA and ESG developed and contributed to the experimental design. SO, CEA and ESG contributed resources and materials. SO, CEA and ESG obtained the funding. DTK, VN, RW, RJ, CEA, SO and ESG interpreted the data. DTK, VN, RW, CEA, SO and SG prepared the figures. DTK, VN, OOR, RJ, SO, CEA and ESG wrote and edited manuscript. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.
Simon J O’Carroll and Dan Ting Kho share first authorship.
Gating strategy for the determination of live (P1) and dead gates (P2) for the cell-surface analysis of endothelial adhesion molecules. The live-cell exclusion dye 7AAD was used to determine the live-gate P1. 7AAD+ cells (detected in FL3) represent membrane-compromised or dead cells (P2). Typically, 7AAD+ cells were not present in P1. This gating strategy was conducted and applied in all flow-experiments.
Brain endothelial cytokine-secretion profile following treatment with the PKC agonist PMA. PMA suppressed basal production of VEGF, but the range of cytokines secreted following activation of PKC pathways was similar to that of IL-1β and TNFα. PMA (10 nM) treatment did not induce secretion of IL-1β and TNFα by the endothelial cells.
Flow-cytometry analysis of additional endothelial cell-surface molecules. The hCMVEC line expressed CD105, CD304 and CD141 basally, whereas basal expression of CD150 and DLL were negligible or undetected. None of these were substantially affected by IL-1β or TNFα treatment.
Expression of endothelial-specific tight-junction and adherens proteins. Immunocytochemical analysis of the distribution of VE-cadherin (CD144) and Zonula Occludin-1 (ZO-1) by the brain endothelial cells confirms the correct localisation of these two critically important endothelial-specific junctional proteins. The white arrows point to the location of the tight-junction complexes formed between two opposing endothelial cells. Nuclei and counter stained with Hoechst (blue).
Direct comparison of IL-1β and TNFα on endothelial barrier resistance measured by EICS-Ztheta. Comparisons are shown for 50 pg/mL, 500 pg/mL, 5 ng/mL, and 50 ng/mL. The colour coding is shown in the respective panel. In all cases, the control response is the orange curve. Data show the normalised resistance, which was measured at 4000 Hz for barrier function.
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O’Carroll, S.J., Kho, D.T., Wiltshire, R. et al. Pro-inflammatory TNFα and IL-1β differentially regulate the inflammatory phenotype of brain microvascular endothelial cells. J Neuroinflammation 12, 131 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12974-015-0346-0
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The City of Lethbridge is asking residents for their feedback on the Waste and Recycling Cart Relocation Project, providing input on the project's next steps and how it may impact them.
The City of Lethbridge collects garbage and recycling for more than 34,000 households every week. Whether your waste and recycling carts are being collected in your back lane or in front of your residence, the City wants to hear from you.
The short survey can be found at: https://getinvolvedlethbridge.ca/cartrelocationengagement.
Following several internal and external assessments, the City began the Cart Relocation Project in 2017. The project identified key neighbourhood areas where it is more efficient and safer to have waste carts collected from the front of residences, rather than from the rear lanes.
Changing the collection location for these neighbourhoods saves on direct collection costs, while also reducing financial liability for items such as snow and ice control in lanes, as well as premature lane degradation.
Since the start of the project, approximately 3,800 households have been relocated to front collection.
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From Minoan times to the Byzantine period and the prevalence of Orthodox Christianity, Crete has always been a place of spirituality, religious contestation and co-existence. The island counts many ancient shrines, temples, monasteries and extraordinary samples of religious art.
The Monastery of Kera Kardiotissa is one of the most famous and beautiful monasteries of the island located just 15km from the coast of Malia, making a lovely day trip that can be combined with Lassithi Plateau. The exact date of its foundation is unknown, but the oldest historical reference of the monastery is found on a 1333 AD Venetian document. Kera Kardiotissa is dedicated to the Virgin Mary (Panagia) and is a historical monastery connected to many important events and traditions. First of all, the monastery is famous because it hosted the miraculous icon of the Virgin Mary, which, according to tradition, was stolen many times but returned to the monastery on its own! According to tradition, the icon was stolen by the Turks and taken to Constantinople, but later miraculously appeared again in the monastery. The Turks managed to steal the icon again, and this time they chained it to a column. Again, the icon returned to the monastery, together with the chain and the column!
During the Venetian period, the icon was stolen once again by a Venetian merchant and was taken to Rome. In 1735, the original icon was replaced by another icon, which is considered to be equally miraculous. However, this one too was stolen in 1982 by burglars who wanted to sell it in the black market, but were later arrested. The original icon is currently kept at the temple of St. Alphonsus, in Esquilino, Rome.
Apart from the exciting legends and traditions, the Monastery of Kera Kardiotissa played an important role during the Cretan revolutions against the Ottomans because of its fortified structure. Today the Monastery serves as a nunnery and it is worth a visit to admire the beautiful stone-built temple dedicated to the Nativity of Mary and its serene environment. | <urn:uuid:cc578b30-1f7d-4a8f-abf1-3f7305dd88f0> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://blog.alexander-beach.com/day-trip-kera-kardiotissa-monastery/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572212.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815205848-20220815235848-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.973415 | 436 | 2.515625 | 3 |
Although GeTe-Sb2Te3 (GST) alloys are widely used in data storage, many fundamental issues are still under debate. Here, we demonstrate that the presence of vacancies in the crystalline phase has far-reaching consequences, namely, a triad of twofold coordinated Te atoms with lone-pair electrons generated around the vacancy enables the formation of soft three-center four-electron bonds, whose properties provide an explanation for the unusual characteristics of GST, in particular, the increase in local disorder upon crystallization, the co-existence of a very fast switching rate with a large property contrast, the possibility of a solid-solid amorphization process that excludes conventional melting, and the drastic difference in crystallization behavior between GST and the ideal binary GeTe. Anisotropy of the three-center bonds may serve as an additional degree of freedom for information recording and provide a unified explanation for a variety of unique effects observed in lone-pair semiconductors.
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Rep. Rashida Tlaib's grandmother to Donald Trump: Let's talk about your peace plan
Editor's note: This story has been updated to reflect recent White House policy actions on Israel, including Secretary of State Mike Pompeo's announcement Nov. 18 that the U.S. would be shifting its position on Israeli settlements in the West Bank, no longer viewing them as inconsistent with international law.
BEIT UR AL-FAUQA, West Bank – Rep. Rashida Tlaib's 90-year-old grandmother says that when President Donald Trump releases his long-awaited plan for peace between Israelis and Palestinians he is welcome to visit her house to talk it over.
"But only as a guest – not as a politician," Muftia Tlaib told USA TODAY in September as she sat on the porch of her home sandwiched between two Israeli checkpoints in the West Bank, a Palestinian-governed area Israeli's military has occupied since 1967.
"What should I do, curse his father?" she added, noting pressure Trump applied on Israel in August that led her Michigan Democrat granddaughter to cancel a visit.
As she spoke, Tlaib ran a string of wooden prayer beads through her aged fingers. She lives in a squat house made of sandstone blocks in Beit Ur Al-Faqua, a village on a hilltop about nine miles from the bustling Palestinian city of Ramallah.
Israel held its second election in less than six months in September, a close race in which the nation's longest-serving leader, Benjamin Netanyahu, sought to burnish his credentials with voters by playing up his close relationship with Trump. He also pledged to annex Jewish settlements built on Palestinian land in the West Bank.
Netanyahu and his main rival, Israel's ex-military chief Benny Gantz, finished neck-and-neck for the second time. They may try to form a unity government or a third election, which has never happened in Israel, may be needed to break the stalemate.
Trump has undertaken a series of firmly pro-Israel actions: He's moved the U.S. Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, which Palestinians also claim as part of their future capital; recognized the Golan Heights as belonging to Israel instead of Syria, in defiance of international law; and pulled the U.S. out of the 2015 landmark Iran nuclear deal with world powers, an accord that Israel, Iran's sworn enemy, firmly opposed.
Trump has also looked the other way when it comes to the expansion of Israeli Jewish settlements, which are also considered illegal under international law even if not by Israel, closed a Palestinian diplomatic office in Washington, D.C. – its de facto embassy – and has withdrawn all funding for Palestinian-related aid projects.
On Monday, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced that the U.S. would be shifting its position on Israeli settlements in the West Bank, no longer viewing them as inconsistent with international law.
"If a miracle happens and this plan of Trump's has anything in it for us we'll of course be very happy," said Nasser al Kidwa, nephew of the late Yasser Arafat, the Palestinian Liberation Organization's (PLO) most high-profile leader. Arafat was for years at the forefront of violence, border disputes and, later, diplomacy with Israel over Palestinian demands. He became known for his checkered head scarves – "kaffiyeh" in Arabic.
"No hope, no openings, nothing for Palestinians – this is what we expect," added Al Kidwa, who runs the Yasser Arafat Foundation, a Ramallah-based cultural and educational institution dedicated to Arafat's legacy. "I mean, look at the so-called U.S. Ambassador to Israel (David Friedman), he himself is a settler," he said, referring to supporters of Israeli civilian communities on Palestinian land, widely seen as a major obstacle in resolving the long-simmering Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Many Palestinians are convinced that Friedman, a former longtime lawyer for the Trump Organization, the president's private business, has personally contributed financially to settlements in Israel. A U.S. Embassy spokesperson in Jerusalem did not respond to a direct question about that claim, but said that prior to taking up his role as ambassador Friedman served as the president of the American Friends of Bet El Yeshiva Center, an organization dedicated to sponsoring academic study in Bet El, a large Orthodox settlement that is located in the hills north of Jerusalem, next to Ramallah. Trump's dissolved charitable foundation has also contributed to Bet El, according to tax records published in 2016 by The Jerusalem Post, an English-language Israeli newspaper.
Along with Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., Rep. Tlaib, D-Mich., had planned in August to lead a delegation to Israel and the Palestinian territories. However, after Trump tweeted that Israel should ban them from entering the region partly because they are outspoken and highly visible critics of Israel who support the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement, which calls on governments and companies to put economic pressure on Israel over its treatment of Palestinians, the country obliged.
Rep. Tlaib was subsequently granted permission to visit her grandmother in Beit Ur al-Faqua provided she promised not to promote BDS and abided by other restrictions, but the lawmaker turned the offer down, saying to visit her grandmother "under these oppressive conditions stands against everything I believe in."
The U.S. House of Representatives voted in July to pass a resolution condemning the BDS campaign against Israel. It has no force in law. Israel passed legislation in 2017 that it has used to ban outspoken supporters of BDS from entering the country.
Omar Barghouti, one of the BDS movement's Palestinian co-founders, disputed in an interview allegations, from pro-Israel groups in the U.S. and elsewhere but also from Germany's Parliament – which in May passed a symbolic resolution equating the group with anti-semitism – that BDS is an any way hostile to Jews. "BDS opposes all forms of racism, including anti-Jewish racism. Anti-semitism, which means hate, bigotry. or discrimination against Jews is absolutely condemned and rejected," he said.
Barghouti would not say whether he planned to meet Rep. Tlaib on her now-abandoned West Bank visit. He said the idea was "discussed" with her local Palestinian hosts. The Anti-Defamation League, a U.S.-based group that describes itself as a "strong voice for Israel," includes in its anti-semitism definition "political efforts to isolate" Jews. In April, Barghouti was barred from entering the U.S. despite having a valid visa. This week, Barghouti was denied a visa to visit Britain, where has was going to speak at an event about Palestinians' rights on the fringes of the opposition Labour Party's annual conference. The Labour Party has struggled to shake off anti-semitism allegations that followed it around under its leader Jeremy Corbyn.
It's not clear how much, if any, pressure Trump applied on Israel behind closed doors while he was publicly advocating that the country prevent entry to two sitting members of Congress, but for Palestinians it was another example of U.S. favoritism.
"Trump represents the real face of the American administration," said Kassam Mtoor, 21, a law major at Birzeit University, in Ramallah. Mtoor is the president of the student council at the college. A year ago, Omar al-Kiswani, his predecessor in the role, was filmed being violently detained on campus by undercover Israeli operatives pretending to be Palestinian journalists there to interview him. Shin Bet, Israel's security agency, accuses al-Kiswani of helping to funnel money to Hamas, a Palestinian Islamist organization the U.S. and other countries have designated a terrorist group. Birzeit University says al-Kiswani is being interrogated and held without charge and described the Israeli operatives as "kidnappers who carried firearms in their backpacks."
Carmen Kishek, a Birzeit University public relations representative, said that "most of our students who are involved and active in the student council get arrested (by the Israelis) at some point no matter what their political affiliation might be."
More than a decade ago, Palestinian resistance tactics to Israel centered on suicide bombings and today there are still frequent, mostly spontaneous and opportunistic, attacks against Israeli civilians and soldiers – usually with a household weapon such as a kitchen knife. Israel insists it only detains Palestinians who represent a security risk. Its forces crack down on near-daily Palestinian protests by firing live rounds and rubber-coated bullets. Across the West Bank, large red signs warn Israelis not to enter Palestinian villages because their lives will be at risk.
Mtoor represents the youth party of Fatah, a Palestinian nationalist party and the largest faction of the Palestine Liberation Organization assembly that governs the West Bank. The student council regularly leads clashes with Israeli soldiers.
"Serving the students has a price. It doesn't matter what that price is," he said.
Back in Beit Ur al-Faqua, Rep. Tlaib's relatives were disappointed that their famous American relation decided not to return to a place she last visited in 2006.
But they understood.
"We had planned to slaughter a sheep to celebrate her coming back to visit with us," the lawmaker's uncle Bassam Tlaib, 53, an electrician, said. "But we supported her decision. And we know why the Israelis didn't want her here: Her visit would have shown how we Palestinians are suffering under their occupation," he said,
Rep. Tlaib's grandmother, despite her congenial offer to host Trump at her house to "enjoy sitting under an olive tree," seemed ultimately less inclined toward conciliation.
"Even if I get an invitation from Trump to travel to the U.S., I won't go," she said. "Even if my husband returns from the grave and tells me to go, I refuse," she said.
"I don't like it there," she added.
She said that she spent about 18 months in the U.S. when her granddaughter was in high school. "I decided not to ever go back after I made 'Hadj'" – pilgrimage to Mecca, Saudi Arabia, prescribed as a religious duty for Muslims.
Attempts to solve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict have stagnated despite numerous high-profile and rigorous attempts at diplomacy: the Madrid Conference (1991), the Oslo Accords (1993-95), the Camp David Summit (2000), the Clinton Parameters (2000), the Taba Summit (2001), the Arab Peace Initiative (2002), the Middle East Road Map (2003), the Annapolis talks (2007), the Kerry Peace Initiative (2013-14).
Palestinians have branded Trump's forthcoming plan, somewhat dismissively because of his real-estate roots, as the "Deal of the Century."
Trump himself has also used variations on this phrase to describe it.
The plan is not expected to offer any political solutions, including a "two-state" solution that envisages an independent Palestine sitting alongside Israel.
There are different views about what caused these previous peace efforts to fail. There is also divergence over what the peace process correctly entails. But at its core it's a dispute – one of the world's longest-running – over ancient land that two peoples, Jews and Arab Palestinians, both lay claim to for their respective states.
The 1967 war that Israel successfully fought with neighboring Egypt, Jordan and Syria ended with it in military control of two areas that have large Palestinian populations: the West Bank, nestled between Israel to the west and the Jordan Valley to the east, and the Gaza Strip, an isolated Hamas-controlled enclave on the Mediterranean Sea. Israel has imposed a sea blockade and built a security fence around Gaza, where militants have launched thousands of rocket and mortar attacks on Israel. Hamas has fought several wars against Israel. The next one seems forever around the corner.
The White House promised to release its peace plan for the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians that has dragged on for more than 70 years after Israel's election. But with a possible third vote needed to break the political deadlock, and because Palestinian leaders have rejected the plan outright even before they've seen it partly due to Trump's perceived pro-Israel actions, its fate remains uncertain.
In emailed comments, Friedman said the embassy move "injects a long-needed note of realism to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and signals to the Palestinians that they do not have a veto on the truth and may not dictate to America where it chooses to locate its embassy to a critical ally. While perhaps raising some friction in the short term, the move has created a foundation upon which real peace discussions may proceed."
Still, Ali Jarbawi, a former Palestinian government cabinet member for planning and development who teaches political science at Birzeit University, said that Israel's election and Trump's peace plan were almost meaningless for Palestinians.
"We have tried everything: diplomacy, fighting, more diplomacy," he said.
"For most of us, we only know Israel through our interactions with its soldiers or its settlers," he added, expressing the exasperation many here feel over peace talks that effectively stalled when Netanyahu came to power, for the second time, in 2009.
"One of the most difficult things is to be a moderate Palestinian," he said, referring to a litany of Palestinian complaints about Israel's military control of the West Bank that are backed up by the United Nations and humanitarian groups. These include onerous travel restrictions; Israel's control of Palestinians' water resources; forced evictions; police harassment; the indignities that come with being one of the approximately 200,000 Palestinians in the West Bank who live in crowded refugee camps that lack basic infrastructure; and myriad arbitrary bureaucratic processes that prevent Palestinians from carrying out even simple tasks like going to work or school.
More than 1.5 million Palestinians, a third of the total, live in 58 official refugee camps in Jordan, Lebanon, Syrian, the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, according to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA). A major sticking point in any future lasting peace agreement between Israelis and Palestinians is what to do with all these refugees who claim a right to return to cities and villages now controlled by Israel.
"My son is 28 years old and he has never been to Jerusalem just a few feet from here on the other side of that wall," said Omar Daaja, 53, pointing to the security barrier that separates the UN-run refugee camp Aida near Bethlehem, where he lives in a few rooms with more than a dozen members of his extended family, from the holy city.
Jarbawi, like a growing number of Palestinians, believes that a "one-state" solution – a combined Israeli-Palestinian nation encompassing all of the present territory of Israel, plus the West Bank, East Jerusalem and possibly the Gaza Strip – may be the only realistic – for Palestinians – way of moving beyond an impasse that has been resistant to decades of intense military and diplomatic activity.
But Israel's government has seemed interested only in annexing Palestinians' land, not its people. And last year, Israel’s Parliament enacted a law that enshrined the right of national self-determination as "unique to the Jewish people," not all its nationals. The move effectively downgraded Israel's 1.8 million Arab Muslim citizens, although they do have the right to vote and can serve in the military even if most choose not to.
"There is only one way to describe how Arabs and Palestinians here live and that is under 'apartheid,' said Uri Davis, an Israeli Jewish-born academic and activist who converted to Islam and is a member of the Revolutionary Council of Fatah, the Palestinian nationalist party that governs the West Bank. Davis believes that his views reflect less than 1% of Israeli public opinion and he defines "apartheid" as a "political and legal system that regulates racism through acts of Parliament."
During his election campaign, Netanyahu's official Facebook page posted a message that urged voters to vote for his Likud party because "Arabs want to annihilate us all – men, women and children." He also tried, but failed, to pass a law that would have permitted representatives from political parties to film voters inside and outside voting stations, a move he said was necessary to ensure the integrity of Israel's democracy but that critics saw as an effort to intimidate Arabs voters and suppress voter turnout.
Yet many Israelis, while perhaps sympathetic to the hardships Palestinians face, say they ultimately do not do enough to help themselves, that they suffer from poor leadership and corruption, rely on Israel too much and that years of violence against Israeli citizens has exposed a fundamental unwillingness to pursue peace.
With the exception of being a billionaire from Saudi Arabia, "the best place to be an Arab in the Middle East is Israel ... and the second best place to be an Arab in the Middle East is the West Bank," Gantz, Netanyahu's chief rival for prime minister, said last week. It reflected the view from some corners in Israel that, while Israel's Arab citizens and Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza with whom they identify, may have problems, they have it better than other Arabs in the region.
"Palestinians I know would prefer if they could live under Israeli leaders," said Yinon Israeli, 43, a rabbi who lives in Ganei Modi'in, a Jewish settlement just over the Green Line into the West Bank, the boundary that separates it from Israel.
Tens of thousands of Palestinians who live in the West Bank are employed in Israel and even its settlements. They pass through security checkpoints each day to travel there on their way to jobs in hotels, restaurants and on constructions sites.
"Israeli laws, working conditions, social and medical benefits, all these things are much better for us. Palestinians see that and wish it was different," said Israeli.
Osamah Khalil, a professor at Syracuse University who specializes in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, said Israel's government believes any peace with the Palestinians would likely only be temporary because Gaza-based groups such as Hamas and Islamic Jihad, a terrorist group that calls for the destruction of the state of Israel and that like Hamas is not part of the PLO, would continue to threaten it.
"I don't agree with these claims," said Khalil. "What years of negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians have revealed is the opposite: The most the Israelis are willing to offer does not meet the minimum demands of the Palestinians. This includes a viable, independent state with sovereignty over its borders and resources," he said.
"I haven’t met an Israeli who doesn’t think that a peace process will lead to another intifada," said Nickolay Mladenov, United Nations special coordinator for the Middle East peace process, in a closed-door meeting Thursday ahead of the international organization's annual general assembly in New York.
There have been two intifadas, both originated by Arafat, in the West Bank and Gaza. They were violent Palestinian uprisings against Israel's presence in the territories that in the past included suicide bombings, rocket attacks and sniper fire. The last one ended in 2005. They had a deleterious impact on Israeli-Palestinian relations.
"(And) I haven’t met a Palestinian who doesn’t believe a peace process will lead to their losing more land," said Mladenov. He said one consequence of Trump's aid cut to Palestinians could be "schools (that) fall into the hands of radicals."
A very nice community
For Avigail Be Nun, 81, a Holocaust survivor whose home in the Neve Tzuf settlement, north of Ramallah, was burned down in 2016 in what Israeli media labeled an "arson intifada," her arrival there in 1978 "was a very strange, very strong feeling."
It was, she said, "as if I came home."
At the time, Be Nun said, there were no houses or other signs of infrastructure on the land, then owned by Palestinians and later seized by Israel's military.
"We were the first here," she said.
Ben Nun and her husband Yossi, 86, currently live in a temporary trailer-home in Neve Tzuf. They are expecting to soon move to a new house on the plot that burned down. She said that they believe Palestinians deliberately started the blaze.
There has not been definitive proof.
Ben Nun said initially there were no problems with her Arab neighbors who lived in the area's surrounding villages. "They would come to ask if they could help, we were invited to their weddings, we would have coffee with them and I would go to their houses. We were friends and we had a very nice community."
One day, Ben Nun couldn't remember exactly when, she noticed a change. She traced it to around the time Arafat returned to the Palestinian territories 27 years after he was forced into exile as a result of the 1967 war between Israel and its neighbors.
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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Monday he hopes to reach a cease-fire deal for Syria's Idlib province during talks this week with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
The two leaders are due to meet Thursday in Moscow.
Turkey and Russia back competing sides in the Syrian conflict, which has increasingly turned violent in Idlib and sent one million people fleeing the area.
Erdogan told a gathering of his ruling party in Ankara on Monday that a cease-fire deal with Russia could "prevent further bloodshed."
Putin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters Monday that Russia and Turkey are keeping lines of communication open as they focus on negotiations.
On Sunday, Turkey's Defense Ministry said though it is "successfully" continuing its military operation in northwestern Syria against the Russian-backed Syrian forces, the Turkish government has no "desire or intention to clash with Russia."
In another development, a Syrian boy died Monday when a boat capsized off the Greek island of Lesbos, the first reported death since Turkey opened its border last week to let migrants into Europe.
More than 10,000 migrants have reached Turkey's land borders with EU countries Greece and Bulgaria since Erdogan announced he was opening Turkey’s border. The Turkish president made the move after Turkey lost 33 soldiers in a single airstrike last week in Syria. He said Europe must share the burden of Syrian refugees.
Erdogan warned Monday that "millions" of migrants will soon head for Europe. His comment drew criticism from European leaders.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel called Turkey's move "unacceptable," and said Ankara should not take out its dissatisfaction with the EU "on the backs of refugees." EU migration commissioner Margaritis Schinas said, "No one can blackmail or intimidate the EU."
Meanwhile, U.N. investigators issued their latest report on the Syrian war Monday saying both Russia and Turkey may be liable for war crimes for their actions.
The U.N. Commission of Inquiry on Syria said Russian forces carried out deadly airstrikes on a busy market in Ma'arrat al-Nu'man in July and on a civilian compound in southern Idlib in August.
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Why we should both temper -- and embrace -- our optimism about the digital world
Clay Shirky is one of the most prominent and well-respected thinkers there is when it comes to the political impact of digital media. This summer, he gave a talk at the TEDGlobal conference in Edinburgh -- subject: how the Internet will (one day) change government -- and the video of that session has now been posted.
In the talk above, Shirky focuses on the power of community rather than technology, exploring the capabilities of open-source communities like GitHub. There is reason, he says, both to temper our optimism about the Internet and to embrace it. The revolutionary talk we often lapse into when we talk about the Internet -- the idea that it will, in general, change everything -- is not new, Shirky points out. "When the telegraph came along," he notes, "it was clear that it was going to globalize the news industry. What would this lead to? Well, obviously, it would lead to world peace. The television, a medium that allowed us not just to hear but see -- literally see -- what was going on elsewhere in the world, what would this lead to? World peace. The telephone? You guessed it: world peace."
And, of course, there is still -- much to the chagrin of the world's hopeful and the delight of the world's pageant contestants -- no world peace. But what all the idealistic predictions got right, Shirky points out, was this: "When a lot of new ideas suddenly come into circulation, it changes society." And what they got wrong was the most important part of the equation: "what happens next."
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Text fields and text areas are form controls that users can type responses into in the web browser. They are located in the Forms section of the Default widget library.
Use a text field widget when prototyping a form field for which a short (single-line) response is expected, such as a username or password field. (These are also good for search fields.)
Use a text area widget when prototyping a form field for which a long (multi-line) response is expected, such as a feedback form.
You can capture the text that users enter into text fields and text areas and pass that text to other pages in the prototype. Learn how in the Pass Text to Next Page tutorial.
You can add hint text (also called "placeholder text") to a text field/area using the Hint Text field in the Interactions pane. Hint text will appear in a text field/area until the user interacts with it, at which time it will disappear to allow the user to fill in the input as needed.
You can choose whether the hint text will be hidden after the text field/area has been focused or after the user starts typing. Use the Hide After dropdown to make your selection.
Hint text is grey by default and appears in the font applied to the text field/area. To change the hint text's styling, edit the Hint style effect in the Interactions pane.
Input Types (Text Fields Only)
You can give text field widgets different input types to denote their function in a user input form. Use the Input Type dropdown in the Interactions pane to select the input type for a text field.
Keep in mind that web browsers often apply their own styling to certain types of text fields. In addition, when you select a text field on a mobile device, some field types will cause a different type of keyboard to appear, such as a number keypad instead of the alphanumeric keyboard.
Text field types are a feature of HTML, not an invention of Axure's — we're just giving you access to them. As such, you'll find that certain field types are more applicable to working in Axure RP than others.
The different types of fields and the results of using that field type are as follows:
Text: Default setting used for basic text entry
Password: Text is masked as it is entered
Email: May prompt an email keyboard on mobile devices
Number: Only accepts numeric input, may prompt a numeric keyboard on mobile devices
Phone Number: May prompt a dial pad on mobile devices
URL: May prompt a URL-entry keyboard on mobile devices
Search: May add a search button to keyboard on mobile devices. Some web browsers may add an "X" icon you can click to clear the field
File: Changes the text field into a file-upload button in the web browser, which will open the device’s file browser when clicked (though it is not possible to upload a file to an Axure RP prototype)
Date: May prompt a browser-styled date picker or calendar control
Month: May prompt a browser-styled month and year picker
Time: May prompt a browser-styled time picker
Tab order for text fields, text areas, and other form widgets is determined by their layer depth, as shown in the Outline pane. You can learn more about this and how to change a widget's tab order in the Organizing Widgets article.
You can access some additional properties of text field and text area widgets by clicking Show All in the Interactions pane.
Maximum Length (Text Fields Only)
You can use the Max Length field in the Interactions pane to specify the maximum length of entry a text field will accept. The field will stop accepting additional text input once the maximum character length has been reached.
Disabling a text field or text area prevents users from interacting with it in the web browser. This also activates the widget's Disabled style effect, making it appear greyed-out.
There are two ways to disable a widget:
Check the Disabled checkbox at the bottom of the Interactions pane.
Disable the widget dynamically in the web browser with the Enable/Disable action. You can do this as part of any interaction, such as when the page loads or when a button is clicked.
You can dynamically enable a disabled widget in the web browser with the Enable/Disable action. Check out the Terms and Conditions tutorial for an example of how this can be done.
When you set a text field/area to "read only," the text already on the widget can be seen and selected in the web browser, but it can't be changed by the user. To set a text field/area to read only, check the Read Only checkbox in the Interactions pane.
Capturing and Evaluating the Entered Text
You can access the text entered in a text field or text area via the text on widget value option in actions and conditions. For example, you can set the value of a global variable to the text on a text field/area in order to carry that text over to a different page.
You can also evaluate a text field or text area's text in a condition to only execute a certain case if the text matches a particular value, as you might do when verifying a username and password combination.
Pressing the ENTER key while a text field or text area has focus in the web browser can fire the Click or Tap event of another widget on the page, known as the text field/area's "submit button."
To assign a submit button to a text field/area:
Select the text field/area and click Show All in the lower section of the Interactions pane.
Choose from a list of eligible widgets in the Submit Button dropdown.
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Australia under attack: Austerity suits and home-made toys
With Australian production dedicated almost exclusively to the war effort, supplies of non-military goods dwindled. There were shortages of civilian clothing. People were encouraged to reuse clothes. Cheaply-made “austerity” garments replaced clothing stocks as they sold out.
Luxury items and commodities the government considered “non-essential”, such as children’s toys, became almost unobtainable from 1942. Factories that had once made mechanical toys converted to the production of weapons or military equipment.
Flight Lieutenant Harold Venning, No. 14 Squadron, RAAF, of Youanmi, Western Australia, purchased carved kangaroos for his son and daughter from Aboriginal artisans on the Nullarbor Plain. He was heading home on leave aboard a Perth-bound troop train when it stopped to take on water. By 1943 children’s toys were very scarce.
During his leave Harold spent time on the south coast of Western Australia with his wife Eileen and their two children, Lorraine and Keith. Originally from the goldfields, Eileen and the children had agreed to live with Harold’s parents in the south-west while he was serving in the RAAF.
Helping mothers manage in austerity, the Country Women’s Association of Queensland mounted an exhibition in Brisbane in 1943 to demonstrate that household items, such as these toys, baby booties and apron, could be made from material readily available without coupons.
- Mobilising the nation
- Air Raid Precautions
- Scanning the skies
- The man who killed Santa Claus
- Inventors and industry
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According to SeaNews PORTSTAT analytic online service, the total cargo throughput via the Russian Far East basin ports in June 2021 increased by 5.5% year-by-year. Export grew by 5%, import was up 34.7%, and transit up 53.6%. Cabotage declined by 4.8%.
The share of the Far East basin in the total cargo traffic via all the Russian seaports in June 2021 amounted to 26.9%.
More than 75% in the Russian Far Eastern ports’ commodity structure is coal, oil and products. In June 2021, coal and coke accounted for 49.3% of the total volume, crude oil for 21.1% and oil products for 6.5%. Containerized cargo constituted 9.1% of the total.
It should be noted that the highest growth rate was in the other bulk (grab) segment (up 2.4-fold), chemical and mineral fertilizers (up 2.3-fold) and grain (+98.3%).
The commodities that decreased the most were other bulk (suction) (-92.2%), non-ferrous metals (-57.2%) and ferry cargo (-40.6%).
Vostochny accounted for 32.7% of the aggregate cargo throughput via the Russian Far East basin sea ports in June. Vanino handled 13.4%, and Vladivostok 12.4% of the total. | <urn:uuid:e1fcf28f-f4a4-4228-8e2b-876ddd26fa48> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://seanews.ru/2021/08/06/en-far-east-basin-ports-throughput-in-june-2021-up-5-5/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571911.5/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813081639-20220813111639-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.955371 | 294 | 1.726563 | 2 |
Refractive index of concrete. Knowledge of the dielectric properties of construction material is important because the reflection and transmission characteristics of buildings and rooms are governed by these properties. The complex refractive index of a plain concrete plate mixed from Portland cement, gravel, sand, and water was measured at 57.5 GHz for use in designing and testing millimeter-wave communication systems.68 The measured refractive index of the concrete 14 months after concreting was 2.55 – 0.084. (a) Using the measured values for concrete, calculate and sketch the magnitude of the reflection coefficient at the air-concrete interface at 57 .5 GHz as a function of the incidence angle varying between 0° and 90° for both perpendicular and parallel polarization cases. Assume the concrete to be semi-infinite in extent. (b) For a 5-cm thick concrete wall having air on both sides, calculate the magnitude of the normal incidence reflection coefficient at 57.5 GHz and compare it with the result of part (a). (c) Repeat part (b) for a thickness of 10 cm. | <urn:uuid:5aed4325-3747-45bb-aa0e-d1afbdd8ab3f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://elitewritings.net/refractive-index-of-concrete/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572212.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815205848-20220815235848-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.899867 | 223 | 3.421875 | 3 |
Syria’s air force committed a war crime by deliberately bombing the water supply outside Damascus last December that affected 5.5 million people, U.N. investigators said Tuesday.
The Syrian government previously blamed rebels for damaging the Ain al-Fijeh spring in the battle for the Wadi Barada valley.
The U.N. Independent International Commission of Inquiry on Syria said in its report two airstrikes caused the damage on Dec. 23. Government forces’ offensive attempted to regain control of Wadi Barada in the hills northwest of Damascus.
The Damascus Water Authority announced on that date that it had cut off water supplies, accusing armed groups of contaminating the water with fuel.
The bombing was among several violations documented by the U.N. investigators.
“Vicious attacks on civilian infrastructure, including hospitals, schools and water sources have resulted in astounding numbers of civilian casualties and the massive destruction of buildings meant to provide essential services to the population,” the report said. “The deliberate targeting of medical facilities and workers by pro-government forces, amounting to war crimes, has led to a severe weakening of healthcare infrastructure, which after almost six years of conflict is already depleted to impossibly low levels. Prevented from accessing life-saving treatments, civilians are the main casualties of this practice.”
The U.N. report based its conclusions on interviews with residents, satellite imagery and publicly available information.
The said it had found no evidence of deliberate contamination of the water supply by rebels.
“While the presence of armed group fighters at [the] spring constituted a military target, the extensive damage inflicted to the spring had a devastating impact on more than 5 million civilians in both government and opposition controlled areas who were deprived of regular access to potable water for over one month,” the commission’s report said.
“The attack amounts to the war crime of attacking objects indispensable for the survival of the civilian population, and further violated the principle of proportionality in attacks,” the report added.
The report also found another war crime when the Syrian air force bombed a complex of five schools in Haas, a village in rebel-held Idlib province, on Oct. 26, killing 21 children among 36 civilians who died. It described it as a “ruthless airstrike.”
The report said video footage taken by an interviewee shows a Sukhoi 22 jet dropping a parachute bomb and remnants of it in the area.
Russia, which has carried out airstrikes to support the government, claimed the pictures of the incident were fabricated. But the U.N. investigators said their evidence disputes the Russians’ view.
The commission also described the use of lethal chlorine gas by government and pro-government forces in the suburbs of Damascus and Idlib province.
“The use of chlorine, which causes superfluous injury and unnecessary suffering, is inherently indiscriminate because its effects cannot be limited in time and space,” the report said.
The report was published a day before the sixth anniversary when the uprising started against President Bashar al-Assad. The civil war has left more than 470,000 people dead and injured 1.9 million, the Syrian Center for Policy Research said.
Two weeks ago, the commission said that both sides in last year’s battle for Syria’s Aleppo city committed war crimes.
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CBD or cannabinoids are able to provide many health and wellness benefits throughout the body. While CBD is often confused with the drug marijuana, it is actually just oil that is withdrawn from the cannabis plant. Because it makes up about 40% of the cannabis plant, CBD oil is a much greater benefit from these plants being grown. CBD oil is often used for health benefits and recovery, though it helps boost wellness also. Sometimes the oil is used to make capsules and gummies for intake, as well as creams, and other external treatments for the body.
Cannabidiols to Boost Wellness
CBD is able to provide the same benefit as many other pills that can have negative side effects. However, it is natural and often considered to be a very positive treatment for many different issues. One benefit of using cannabinoids for pain and sore muscles is the organic nature. Unlike pain killers that can be addictive, and not even like over-the-counter medications that may simply be habit-forming, it can easily be used for a short period of time until treatment is reached.
CBD for Sports Recovery
Another option that is included with CBD for sports recovery includes the many different forms that it comes in. In recovering from these injuries, CBD is also able to boost wellness. There are different strengths, there are external oils, oral drops, oral sprays, creams, rubs, gummies, and gels. The choice of which item you take in may be based upon your needs and how bad the pain is. If you make the decision to use external oils or creams, it is easier to work with a form of massaging or therapy that may help with recovery much faster than simply taking pills.
Health Benefits with Which CBD Oil Can Boost Wellness
There are so many corners of your health and wellness that can be improved with CBD, including as a sleep aid, stress relief, and more. When it comes to CBD for sports recovery, it is able to help with managing inflammation. Some of the different products making up the $124 million of CBD purchased in 2017 include the following:
- CBD oil drops
- CBD oil edibles
- CBD pens
- CBD hard candy
- CBD oil syringes
- CBD disposable vape pens
There are so many options available for CBD oil to improve the health and wellness of the entire family. With many different benefits available all throughout life, basically serving as a nutritional supplement for overall health, there is much to gain from the different CBD oil products available for people of all ages. Whether you need help with pain management, stress relief, sleep aids, or even hard candies that are able to help ease your sweet tooth in a healthy way, different CBD products are able to help. | <urn:uuid:0975170b-af8b-4ae6-b2ed-8b97ec483ee7> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://cycardio.org/cbd-oil-is-an-organic-treatment-that-can-boost-wellness/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571911.5/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813081639-20220813111639-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.974105 | 560 | 1.914063 | 2 |
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If your dentist suggests that you make an appointment to see an endodontist in Cutler Bay, it is likely that you have a painful infection in the pulp of your teeth. Endodontists specialize in saving teeth and your dentist probably feels that sending you to our office represents the best chance to save your natural tooth. Contact our office to schedule your consultation.
Is an Endodontist a Dentist?
Endodontists have graduated from dental school, so they are dentists, but endodontists chose to continue their education with a 24 to 36 month residency. They study the sensitive living tissue inside teeth, called the pulp. Endodontics is one of the specialties recognized by the American Dental Association. After a residency and practicing dentistry, an endodontist has a great deal of experience performing root canals. You can be assured you’ll have the best possible outcome when you see our root canal specialist in Cutler Bay for treatment.
How Do Endodontists Treat Teeth?
When endodontists perform root canals, they remove the infected pulp from inside the canals in the roots of teeth. The pulp is not necessary once a tooth is fully-grown. The reason dentists refer patients to an endodontist is because in some teeth, the canals are difficult to find. Typically, general dentists will perform simple root canals for their patients, although some dentists do not do any root canals at all. Our doctor strives to be known as the best endodontist in Cutler Bay. If it is possible to save your tooth, you will have a root canal procedure and keep your natural tooth.
Endodontists also do retreatments to repair a faulty root canal procedure and apicoectomy, where our doctor removes the tip of a root and any infected tissue. Endodontists do apicoectomy if the root of a tooth becomes infected after a root canal, although this is rare because the success rate for root canals done by endodontists is high.
What Occurs During an Appointment with a Root Canal Expert in Cutler Bay?
When you come in for an appointment, you will have to fill out a medical history form and bring a list of your medications. If you have dental insurance, bring your card with you. We will take x-rays unless you have a set from your regular dentist. Our doctor will talk to you and determine if a root canal will save your tooth. You can ask any questions you have at this time.
After the procedure, there is no long healing process like there is after an extraction. You will leave with a temporary filling in your tooth, You have to go back to your regular dentist in a week or two to talk about a permanent restoration.
Who Do I Call for an Endodontic Consultation?
Call Dental Specialty Center of Cutler Bay at (786) 269-2962 for a consultation for endodontics in Cutler Bay. Please do not wait too long. If the pulp inside the root of your tooth is infected, it will continue to cause you problems. In rare cases, the infection can spread to other parts of your body, causing life-threatening problems. Timely endodontic care can help save your tooth as well. Call us today! We look forward to hearing from you. | <urn:uuid:5e90d2a0-4404-4964-9369-12052b9e3365> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.dentalspecialtyflorida.com/locations/cutler-bay/endodontics/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571538.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812014923-20220812044923-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.947615 | 702 | 2.109375 | 2 |
By creating photographs and narratives coping with the potential risks and rewards inherent in technological and scientific improvement, artists exert an essential affect on how our society comes to phrases with these improvements. Tony Futura, a digital artist based in Berlin, creates surreal art that appears to poke enjoyable on the materialism and pop-culture focus of recent Western life. His mild-hearted and humorous digital artwork is often charged with sexual energy.
know-how, and creates works to bring a brand new perspective upon them. He has already been honored with numerous awards on the Japan Media Arts Festival. Jan Bernstein´s artistic expression mainly focuses on the mix of technical building with artistic work.
I love the feel of chalk or charcoal in my hand, however the way in which in which a digital brush gently slides across a tablet is extraordinarily nice”, counters Jeremy Sutton. This painter who has made California his home – the religious son of artists corresponding to David Hockney and Henri Matisse – appreciates the evergrowing potential afforded by new applied sciences, similar to air painting. “I’ve tried painting using leap motion – a motion recognition system. All you must do is move your hand via the air and you may see its movements transcribed onto a display. It’s so much greater than just a gadget – it is a real approach which is able to utterly change the way in which we create artwork in the future”, he enthuses.
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There’s a lot going on in the world! 🌎🌌💞 That’s as it should be.
Paying attention to how you’re being impacted by what’s going on around you today helps you grow through your own challenges. We don’t live in a vacuum, and our collective consciousness is incredibly powerful. 💫🌠
Whatever it is you’re facing (or a nation or a world for that matter), dark and painful stories need to be brought up and heard so they can be healed – so we can all heal.
For example, as women started to have a voice against decades of sexual abuse, and now as people of all races rise up to the injustices experienced by black people, 🦸🏼👨🏿🦸🏿♀️ YOU are likely being challenged to face held pain and injustices from your past that are stored in your limbic and nervous system.
I see it all the time with clients. They need to face that deep dark secret from their past; you know, the one that has their whole body contracting when they think about it.
On the other side of facing held pain, they can heal, transform, and be free from it. 🙈🤗
Healing can’t happen when we pretend the pain isn’t there. Silence can be deadly.
It’s important to lean into tough places. Hard conversations are sometimes necessary. Martin Luther King suggested that while we believe leaning into tough situations will take us into a fiery furnace, it actually brings us to an air conditioned living room.
Black lives do matter. If you have a hard time saying that, you’re misaligned with truth. Of course, all lives matter, but if you can’t say black lives matter, then you’re denying the real issue.
Here’s another way to look at it. If you break a bone in your leg, you can still love your whole body, you just need to give attention to the part of you that’s hurting. Our black brothers and sisters are being treated unjustly and need our support to face the abuser (even when it’s unknowingly been us) and to say this shit has got to stop. 🦸🏿♂️✋
Witnessing and naming your pain 🤕 or seeing pain in others is an essential part of the healing journey. Yet, like all of us, you need a safe space, where you can bring gentleness and ease to your own struggles and in how you’re experiencing the world.
As author and podcaster Krista Tippett says, “Sometimes people become wise by discovering things no one had known before. And sometimes they become wise by remembering and rediscovering things people knew forever and we forgot.
❇️ Witness pain in yourself and continue to keep your heart open to it. 💗💗
❇️ Witness pain in others and continue to keep your heart open to it. 💕💕
It’s like a child who has tripped and is hurting. Pick them up, hug them, love them and give them the support and attention they deserve. 👶🧸
A lot of things are breaking down in our world. As cracks are made, the light can filter in. 💔🌞 The light brings us awareness so we can see truth and clean up the mess.
Celebrate the mess. The closet needs to be unpacked before you can experience choices in keeping what works and letting go of what doesn’t. Or as spiritual teacher Eckert Tolle says, “Accept this moment as if you had chosen it.”
Accepting what is, is the most powerful thing you can do now!!
I wanted to create a safe space in this weird time just for YOU. Will you join me for this powerful life altering in-the-best-way-possible event?
Join me for my Free Online Healing Workshop Thursday, July 23 from 11:00 am – Noon (Central Time). Our focus will be “how to deal with angry people (even if it’s you).” That seemed especially relevant considering the energy of our world today. 🧑🏽🤝🧑🏽🙌🙏
I’ll personally lead the workshop and guide you through the healing power of this interactive, group experience. Even if you can’t attend, you’ll receive a recording of the event if you register here.
Thank you for your commitment to finding new ways to align with and express the love that you are in the most juicy, connected ways possible. Your life is a gift to all (whether they realize it or not). And, as always, you deserve more love, not less. ❤️😇💕 | <urn:uuid:edd3bd46-816f-4121-802b-bcf347b41486> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.ritahenry.com/how-a-hurting-world-can-help-you-now/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573699.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819131019-20220819161019-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.951106 | 1,039 | 1.546875 | 2 |
Often a noun phrase is just a noun or a pronoun:
People like to have money.
I am tired.
But noun phrases can also include:
- determiners: Those houses are very expensive.
- quantifiers: I've lived in a lot of houses.
- numbers: My brother owns two houses.
- adjectives: I love old houses.
These parts of the noun phrase are called premodifiers because they go before the noun.
We use premodifiers in this order:
|determiners and quantifiers||>||numbers||>||adjectives + NOUNS|
|Determiners and quantifiers||Numbers||Adjectives||NOUNS|
- Premodifiers 1
- Premodifiers 2
- Premodifiers 3
Other parts of a noun phrase go after the noun. These are called postmodifiers.
Postmodifiers can be:
- prepositional phrases:
a man with a gun
the boy in the blue shirt
the house on the corner
the man standing over there
the boy talking to Angela
the man we met yesterday
the house that Jack built
the woman who discovered radium
an eight-year-old boy who attempted to rob a sweet shop
- that clauses. These are very common after nouns like idea, fact, belief, suggestion:
He's still very fit, in spite of the fact that he's over eighty.
She got the idea that people didn't like her.
There was a suggestion that the children should be sent home.
I've got no decent shoes to wear.
These are very common after indefinite pronouns and adverbs:
You should take something to read.
I need somewhere to sleep.
There may be more than one postmodifier:
an eight-year old boy with a gun who tried to rob a sweet shop
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