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Whether you are a veteran researcher or just beginning your academic career, you are probably familiar with the concept of peer review. In an ideal world, peer reviewers would politely request changes and suggest changes that would significantly improve your publications. In reality, peer review can be rude and unproductive. Here are some suggestions to improve both sides of the peer review conversation.
What are realistic expectations of peer review? Irene Hames has some answers in Science Editing, including:
- Provide authors with quality and constructive feedback
- Generally improve the quality and readability of articles
- Help maintain the integrity of the scholarly record
On the receiving end of peer review?
How to respond to peer reviewer comments. 10 Tips for Success.
Want to know why your manuscript was rejected? Daniel Byrne discusses some common reasons for rejecting manuscripts at medical journals.
Are you the peer reviewer?
Basic principles [pdf] to which peer reviewers should adhere, from the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).
A journal editor at The Chemical Record weighs in on his expectations of peer reviewers. For instance:
Every peer reviewer should explain or support his/her judgments. …I like to ask potential reviewers how they would view the same comment if they had received it for one of their own papers, especially if the reviewer suggests rejection.
Peer reviewer roles and responsibilities from the Council of Science Editors “White Paper on Promoting Integrity in Scientific Publications.”
A guide for scientists just beginning to perform peer review at Violent Metaphors.
Can’t do it?
How to say no to a request to perform peer review.
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The International Air Transport Association (IATA) again singled out Airport Company of South Africa and Ethiopia’s Air Navigation Service Providers (ANSP) among examples of infrastructure service providers looking to hike their fees to recoup lost revenues. Air traffic management (ATM) provided by air navigation service providers (ANSPs) is the invisible part of the air transport value chain but it is the essential enabler for the air transport system.
The Director-General of IATA, Willie Walsh, warned that planned increases in charges by airports and air navigation service providers (ANSPs) will stall recovery in air travel and damage international connectivity. Airports Company of South Africa (ACSA) is asking to increase charges by 38 percent in 2022 while Ethiopian ANSP is raising charges by 35 percent in 2021. In Nigeria, the Airspace Management Agency (NAMA) is the sole Air Navigation Service Provider (ANSP) but it is not known how much the agency charges for its services.
By way of context, Amsterdam Schiphol Airport Is requesting to increase charges by over 40 percent over the next three years; Heathrow Airport is pushing increase charges by over 90% in 2022, and NavCanada is increasing charges by 30% over five years. Walsh said last week that while Heathrow and Schiphol have reduced their increases, now is not the time to burden airlines with costs. Airport and ANSPs should cover them by calling governments for help by providing loans, said Walsh, who made identical at IATA’s Annual General Meeting in September.
The Managing Director of NAMA, Capt. Fola Akinkuotu recently said only an effective peer review of safety systems and procedures among ANSPs in the region could enable Africa to build upon its rising safety profile and make the continent more competitive in the global aviation industry. He said the time had come for African ANSPs to harmonize and synergize their safety systems and procedures by bringing members up to speed with industry best practices with the ultimate goal of achieving a single African sky.
ANSP charges skyrockets
The ANSP charges have already reached $2.3 billion. Walsh warned that further increases could be ten-fold this number if proposals already tabled by airports and ANSPs are granted. “A $2.3 billion charge increase during this crisis is outrageous. We all want to put COVID-19 behind us. But placing the financial burden of a crisis of apocalyptic proportions on the backs of your customers, just because you can, is a commercial strategy that only a monopoly could dream up. At an absolute minimum, cost reduction—not charges increases—must be top of the agenda for every airport and ANSP. It is for their customer airlines,” said Walsh.
A case in point is European air navigation service providers. Collectively, ANSPs of the 29 Eurocontrol states, the majority of which are state-owned, are looking to recoup almost $9.3 billion (€8 billion) from airlines to cover revenues not realized in 2020/2021. They want to do this to recover the revenue and profits they missed when airlines were unable to fly during the pandemic. Moreover, they want to do this in addition to a 40% increase planned for 2022 alone.
“Today I am ringing the alarm. This must stop if the industry is to have a fair opportunity at recovery. Infrastructure shareholders, governmental or private, have benefited from stable returns pre-crisis. They must now play their part in the recovery. It is unacceptable behavior to benefit from your customers during good times and stick it to them in bad times. Doing so has broad implications. Air transport is critical to support economic recovery post-pandemic. We should not compromise the recovery with the irresponsibility and greed of some of our partners who have not addressed costs or tapped their shareholders for support,” Walsh said.
Understanding the danger
Some regulators already understand the danger posed by the behavior of infrastructure providers. Regulators in India and Spain successfully intervened on the increases proposed by airports. They provide an example for other regulators to follow. The Australian Competition & Consumer Commission¹ warned in their recently published report that increasing charges to recover lost profits from the pandemic demonstrate airports systematically taking advantage of their market power, damaging the vulnerable airline sector’s ability to recover at the expense of both consumers and the economy.
Walsh reiterated that airlines undertook drastic cost-cutting from the outset of the pandemic, reducing operating costs by 35% compared to pre-crisis levels, stressing that this was supported by increased commercial borrowing and shareholder contributions. Airlines also sought government aid, the majority of which was in the form of loans that need to be paid back. Of the $243 billion that was made available to airlines, $81 billion supported payrolls, and approximately $110 billion was in support that needs to be paid back. As a result, airlines have amassed a huge debt burden of over $650 billion. Any defaults could result in airline failures and the loss of tens of thousands of jobs.
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Melchizedek [Hebrew: 'melek' = king; 'tsedeq' = judgement] has a meaning something like 'king of justice' - or 'king of judgement'. In Greek it is rendered 'basileuV dikaiosunhV' [as at Heb.7:2]. It is without difficulty that we can discern the name of kain (Cain) hidden here - and it may be wise not to forget the promise made by Cain at Gn.4:14: 'I shall be hidden also from your face'.
The name Melchizedek appears only twice in the texts of the 'old testament' - once in 'Genesis' at chapter 14 and once in the Davidic Psalm 110. Then in the 'new testament' letter to the Hebrews it is noted [Heb.7:11-14] that Jesus Christ does not inherit levitical priesthood from Aaron. But it is set out that he is of Judah - and that his 'priesthood' is of the 'eternal' kind, 'resurrected' - in the words of Psalm 110 : 'kata thn taxin melcisedek' - 'according to the order of Melchizedek'.
This is why the identity of Melchizedek is of key importance in understanding the claims of Christian doctrine - for if you can characterise Melchizedek then (relying upon the author of 'Hebrews') you may characterise Jesus of Nazareth, the one 'said to be the Christ'. The Judaeo-Christian scriptures are documents which carry within them more meaning than the literal. So to extract the full meaning it is necessary to 'read' with quite some care. Here (as best I may) I shall investigate Melchizedek - and draw out some implications.
In Egyptian hieroglyph writing the epithet 'mAa-xrw' ('true of voice') was added to the names of those deceased. It is sometimes translated as 'justified' - or perhaps 'judged'. It refers to the fact that the deceased person is considered to have passed the 'judgement' - and is now allowed to 'enjoy' the afterlife. The roots of the Hebrew tradition in 'Genesis' lie extensively in the religious traditions of Egypt (see Ac.7:22). So the name 'melek-tsedek' might very well be used of one who has 'passed over' - and who in this story of 'Genesis' has 'returned to haunt the earth'
8.2 Melchizedek in the
'Book of Genesis'
Here is the (LXX) text of 'Genesis' - in which this otherwise mysterious character is first mentioned :
01O 13 12 abram de katwkhsen
en gh canaan lwt de katwkhsen en polei twn pericwrwn kai eskhnwsen en
01O 13 13 oi de anqrwpoi oi en
sodomoiV ponhroi kai amartwloi enantion tou qeou sfodra
01O 13 14 o de qeoV eipen tw
abram meta to diacwrisqhnai ton lwt ap' autou anableyaV toiV ofqalmoiV sou ide apo tou topou ou nun su ei proV borran
kai liba kai anatolaV kai qalassan
01O 13 15 oti pasan thn ghn hn
su oraV soi dwsw authn kai tw spermati sou ewV tou
01O 13 16 kai poihsw to
sperma sou wV thn ammon thV ghV ei dunatai tiV
exariqmhsai thn ammon thV ghV kai to
sperma sou exariqmhqhsetai
01O 13 17 anastaV diodeuson thn ghn eiV te to mhkoV authV
kai eiV to platoV oti soi dwsw authn
01O 13 18 kai aposkhnwsaV
abram elqwn katwkhsen para thn drun thn mambrh h hn en cebrwn kai wkodomhsen
ekei qusiasthrion kuriw
01O 14 1 egeneto de en th
basileia th amarfal basilewV sennaar ariwc
basileuV ellasar kai codollogomor basileuV ailam kai qargal basileuV
01O 14 2 epoihsan polemon meta
balla basilewV sodomwn kai meta barsa basilewV gomorraV kai sennaar basilewV
adama kai sumobor basilewV sebwim kai basilewV balak auth estin
01O 14 3 panteV outoi
sunefwnhsan epi thn faragga thn alukhn auth h qalassa twn alwn
01O 14 4 dwdeka eth edouleuon
tw codollogomor tw de triskaidekatw etei apesthsan
01O 14 5 en de tw
tessareskaidekatw etei hlqen codollogomor kai oi basileiV oi met' autou kai katekoyan
touV gigantaV touV en astarwq karnain kai eqnh iscura ama autoiV kai touV
ommaiouV touV en sauh th polei
01O 14 6 kai touV corraiouV
touV en toiV oresin shir ewV thV tereminqou thV faran h estin en th erhmw
01O 14 7 kai anastreyanteV hlqosan epi thn phghn thV krisewV auth estin
kadhV kai katekoyan pantaV touV arcontaV amalhk
kai touV amorraiouV touV katoikountaV en asasanqamar
01O 14 8 exhlqen de basileuV sodomwn kai basileuV gomorraV kai
basileuV adama kai basileuV sebwim kai basileuV balak auth estin shgwr kai
paretaxanto autoiV eiV polemon en th koiladi th
01O 14 9 proV codollogomor
basilea ailam kai qargal basilea eqnwn kai amarfal
basilea sennaar kai ariwc basilea ellasar oi tessareV basileiV proV touV
01O 14 10 h de koilaV h alukh
freata freata asfaltou efugen de basileuV
sodomwn kai basileuV gomorraV kai enepesan ekei oi de kataleifqenteV eiV thn oreinhn efugon
01O 14 11 elabon de thn ippon
pasan thn sodomwn kai gomorraV kai panta ta brwmata autwn kai
01O 14 12 elabon de kai ton
lwt uion tou adelfou abram kai thn aposkeuhn autou
kai apwconto hn gar katoikwn en sodomoiV
01O 14 13 paragenomenoV de twn
anaswqentwn tiV aphggeilen abram tw perath autoV de katwkei proV th drui th
mambrh o amoriV tou adelfou escwl kai adelfou aunan oi hsan sunwmotai tou abram
01O 14 14 akousaV de abram oti
hcmalwteutai lwt o adelfoV autou
hriqmhsen touV idiouV oikogeneiV autou triakosiouV
deka kai oktw kai katediwxen opisw
autwn ewV dan
01O 14 15 kai epepesen
ep' autouV thn nukta autoV kai oi
paideV autou kai epataxen autouV kai ediwxen autouV ewV cwba h estin en aristera
01O 14 16 kai apestreyen pasan
thn ippon sodomwn kai lwt ton adelfon autou
apestreyen kai ta uparconta autou kai taV gunaikaV
kai ton laon
01O 14 17 exhlqen de basileuV sodomwn eiV sunanthsin autw meta to
anastreyai auton apo thV kophV tou codollogomor
kai twn basilewn twn met' autou eiV
thn koilada thn sauh touto hn to pedion
Verses 18-20 are said to be a later insertion to the original text [see NJB Standard Edition : p.33 Note g.)] :
01O 14 18 kai
melcisedek basileuV salhm exhnegken artouV
kai oinon hn de iereuV tou qeou tou uyistou
01O 14 19 kai huloghsen ton
abram kai eipen euloghmenoV abram tw qew tw uyistw
oV ektisen ton ouranon kai thn ghn
01O 14 20 kai euloghtoV o qeoV
o uyistoV oV paredwken touV ecqrouV sou upoceiriouV soi kai edwken autw dekathn apo
01O 14 21 eipen de basileuV
sodomwn proV abram doV moi touV andraV thn de ippon labe seautw
01O 14 22 eipen de abram proV
basilea sodomwn ektenw thn ceira mou proV ton qeon
ton uyiston oV ektisen ton ouranon kai thn
01O 14 23 ei apo
spartiou ewV sfairwthroV upodhmatoV lhmyomai apo pantwn twn swn ina mh eiphV oti egw eploutisa
01O 14 24 plhn wn efagon oi neaniskoi kai thV
meridoV twn andrwn twn sumporeuqentwn met' emou escwl aunan mambrh outoi lhmyontai merida
01O 15 1 meta de ta rhmata
tauta egenhqh rhma kuriou proV abram en oramati legwn mh fobou abram egw uperaspizw sou o misqoV sou
poluV estai sfodra
01O 15 2 legei de abram
despota ti moi dwseiV egw de apoluomai ateknoV o
de uioV masek thV oikogenouV mou outoV damaskoV eliezer
01O 15 3 kai eipen abram
epeidh emoi ouk edwkaV sperma o de oikogenhV mou
01O 15 4 kai euquV
fwnh kuriou egeneto proV auton legwn ou
klhronomhsei se outoV all' oV exeleusetai ek sou outoV klhronomhsei se
01O 15 5 exhgagen de auton exw kai
eipen autw anableyon dh eiV ton ouranon kai
ariqmhson touV asteraV ei dunhsh exariqmhsai
autouV kai eipen outwV estai to sperma sou
01O 15 6 kai episteusen abram
tw qew kai elogisqh autw eiV dikaiosunhn
Now, in common with much of the book of Genesis, this passage takes the form of a compound riddle and its meaning is certainly more than may at first appear.
There is too much in this text for me to deal with everything - but here are a few comments :
|Hebrew Script||Numerical [R->L]||Hebrew||Greek||English|
|(310 + 8) = 1000 / p|
8.3 Melchizedek in Psalm
The other place in the OT (LXX) texts where Melchizedek is mentioned is Psalm 110 :
19O 109 1 tw dauid
yalmoV eipen o kurioV tw kuriw mou kaqou ek
dexiwn mou ewV an qw touV ecqrouV sou upopodion twn podwn sou
19O 109 2 rabdon dunamewV sou
exapostelei kurioV ek siwn kai katakurieue en mesw
twn ecqrwn sou
19O 109 3 meta sou h arch en
hmera thV dunamewV sou en taiV lamprothsin twn agiwn ek gastroV pro ewsforou exegennhsa
19O 109 4 wmosen kurioV kai ou
metamelhqhsetai su ei iereuV eiV ton aiwna kata thn taxin melcisedek
19O 109 5 kurioV ek dexiwn sou suneqlasen en hmera orghV autou
19O 109 6 krinei en toiV
eqnesin plhrwsei ptwmata sunqlasei kefalaV epi ghV pollwn
19O 109 7 ek ceimarrou en odw
pietai dia touto uywsei kefalhn
Here are some comments on this psalm. Ostensibly it is addressed to one of the Davidic kings :
Finally, as I have mentioned both Melchizedek and Cain here, I would like to quote Rv.3:12 :
66N 3 12 o
nikwn poihsw auton stulon en tw naw tou qeou mou kai exw ou mh exelqh eti kai
grayw ep auton to onoma tou qeou mou
kai to onoma thV
polewV tou qeou mou thV kainhV ierousalhm h
katabainousa ek tou
ouranou apo tou qeou mou kai to onoma mou to kainon
66N 3 12 He who overcomes, I will make him a pillar in the temple of my god, and he will go out from there no more. I will write on him the name of my god - and the name of the city of my god, the new Jerusalem, going down out of heaven from my god - and my own new name.
Now did you get that ?
"I will write upon him the name of my god, the name of the city of my god - and my own new name".
And did you see what that name was ?
Was it not 'kain' - Cain ?
The ariqmoV value of
kain = 81
The ariqmoV value of melcisedek = 919
The ariqmoV value of kain + melcisedek = 81 + 919 = 1000
The ariqmoV value of o nikwn = 1000
So Melchizedek and Cain are complementary (in the mathematical sense of the word), circumscribing the world.
|melcisedek + kain = 1000 = (310 + 8) * p = "o nikwn"|
Consistent with other conclusions drawn above, it also appears that Melchizedek and Cain are complementary - presumably as 'father' and 'son'.
Then at Jn.10:30 Jesus himself declares :
43N 10 30 egw kai o pathr en esmen
43N 10 30 I and the Father are one
And at 2P.3:8 the equivalence is declared between ONE and A THOUSAND
61N 3 8 en de touto mh lanqanetw umaV agaphtoi oti mia hmera para kuriw wV cilia eth kai cilia eth wV hmera mia
61N 3 8 But in this let it not escape your notice, beloved, that ONE day with a lord (is) as A THOUSAND years - and A THOUSAND years as ONE day.
8.4 Melchizedek in the NT
'Letter to Hebrews'
Within the NT canon, Melchizedek is mentioned only in the letter to the Hebrews. But there in chapters 5-7 he is mentioned 8 times - and associated with Jesus Christ. Without going into too much detail, the following points are made :
So this 'special priesthood' is established in a 'new' covenant - and did you see the name of kain (Cain) there?. It is inherited through Israel (alias Jacob, who in Genesis Chapter 27 lies three times to his own father) - and through Jacob's son Judah, who at Genesis Chapter 38 takes as a prostitute his own daughter-in-law, Tamar. Then this latter story is echoed at Jn.8:1-11 (the woman taken in adultery) - with Jesus taking the place of Judah. The woman (Tamar) has (still) not returned his 'string', 'seal' and 'rod' - so Jesus is forced to use his finger to write on the ground. And, like Judah before him, he is unable to condemn the woman.
Some final thoughts :
Here are some abstracts from Microsoft's 'Encarta' Encyclopaedia [Copyright (c) 1994 Microsoft Corp; (c) 1994 Funk & Wagnalls Corp] :
|Ares. In Greek mythology, god of war and son of Zeus, king of the gods, and his wife, Hera. The Romans identified him with Mars, also a god of war. Aggressive and sanguinary, Ares personified the brutal nature of war. He was unpopular with both gods and humans. Among the deities associated with Ares were his consort, Aphrodite, goddess of love, and such minor deities as Deimos (Fear) and Phobos (Rout), who accompanied him in battle. Although fierce and warlike, Ares was not invincible, even against mortals. The worship of Ares, believed to have originated in Thrace, was not extensive in ancient Greece, and where it existed, it lacked social or moral significance. Ares was an ancestral deity of Thebes and had a temple at Athens, at the foot of the Areopagus, or Hill of Ares.|
|Mars. In Roman mythology, god of war, the son of Jupiter, king of the gods, and of his wife, Juno. One of the most important Roman deities, Mars was regarded as the father of the Roman people, because he was the father of Romulus, the legendary founder of Rome. Originally a god of the year, especially of the spring, Mars was identified by the Romans with the Greek god of war, Ares. The month of March was named for him.|
J Ralston Skinner has written on the Kabalistic significance of the characters who appear in the Genesis story. In his Key to the Hebrew Egyptian Mystery (Ref. 5) he says :
"Now Mars was the lord of birth and of death, of generation and of destruction, of ploughing, of building, of sculpture or stone-cutting, of architecture, of the origin of measures ... of all arts. He was the primeval principle, disintegrating into the modification of two opposites for production.
Astronomically, too, he held the birthplace of the day and year, the place of its increase of strength, Aries, and likewise the place of its death, Scorpio. He held the house of Venus, and that of the Scorpion. He, as birth, was Good; as death, was Evil. As good, he was light; as bad, he was night. As good, he was man; as bad, he was woman. He held the cardinal points, and as Cain, or Vulcan, or Pater Sadic, or Melchizadek, he was Lord of the Ecliptic, or balance, or line of adjustment, and therefore was 'the just one'. The ancients held to there being seven planets, or great gods, growing out of eight, and Pater Sadik, the Just or Right One, was lord of the eighth, which was Mater Terra (ie. 'mother earth')."
In the text quoted above, I have emphasised names which clearly link to the texts of Genesis - and of Psalm 110.
What is said in this abstract seems to be consistent at least in part with the observations which (independently) I have been able to make in the foregoing sections of this note.
Indeed one might go further than this, for then we may consider again Gn.1:26-28 :
01O 1 26 kai eipen o qeoV
poihswmen anqrwpon kat' eikona
hmeteran kai kaq' omoiwsin kai
arcetwsan twn icquwn thV qalasshV kai twn peteinwn tou ouranou kai twn kthnwn
kai pashV thV ghV kai pantwn twn erpetwn twn erpontwn epi thV ghV
01O 1 27 kai epoihsen o qeoV
ton anqrwpon kat' eikona qeou epoihsen auton arsen kai qhlu epoihsen autouV
01O 1 28 kai huloghsen autouV
o qeoV legwn auxanesqe kai plhqunesqe kai plhrwsate thn ghn kai
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The reference to making this PERSON to be 'in the image of a god', yet 'male and female he made them', may perhaps remind us of the qualities attributed to Ares/Mars - 'disintegrating into the modification of two opposites for production'.
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Kahn, David, 'The Codebreakers : The Story of Secret Writing', Simon & Schuster (Scribner), 1967, 1996 : ISBN 0-684-83130-9, p.92
In LXX Greek we have 2nd sg. aor. subj. act. from the verb 'diairew'
- see http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0057%3Aentry%3D%2324848 ).
'A Catechism of Christian Doctrine', CTS Pocket Classics, ISBN 0851834205
or 'The Penny Catechism : A Catechism of Christian Doctrine', ISBN 0895557525
Singh, Simon, 'The Code Book', Fourth Estate, 1999 : ISBN 1-85702-889-9, p.217
Ralston Skinner, J., 'Key to the Hebrew-Egyptian Mystery in the Source of Measures', Kessinger Publishing, ISBN 1-56459-519-6, p.186 | <urn:uuid:78b011bb-8683-4b69-9651-190cf0ded7c3> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://authentic-christianity.org/chaptr08.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.95/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817032054-20220817062054-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.790135 | 6,263 | 1.578125 | 2 |
Volvo Cars has formally signed an agreement to locate its first American factory in South Carolina at an event attended by South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley and key public officials in Charleston. This paves the way for the fall 2015 ground-breaking of a full manufacturing facility capable of producing up to 100,000 cars per year. The first American built Volvos are expected to roll off the assembly line in late 2018.
“Today we formalize an important milestone in Volvo Cars’ global transformation in the United States,” says Lex Kerssemakers, President and CEO of Volvo Cars of North America, “our planned American factory demonstrates our commitment to the United States and our desire to be a truly global automaker.”
In addition to the signing, Volvo Cars announced plans to preserve 1,500 acres of wetlands with the State of South Carolina to support a “green belt” around the greater Charleston region. Volvo is also working with the local utility to power the factory with renewable energy and reroute storm water to form ponds that simulate wildlife habitats. Improvements to local roadway infrastructure will also ensure the factory has a minimal impact on the local environment.
Once completed, Volvo Cars will be able to manufacture vehicles on three continents, underscoring its position as a truly global car maker. It already operates two plants in Europe and two in China. The new US plant forms part of an ambitious medium term expansion plan to double global sales, boost market share and lift profitability.
Volvo Cars estimates that the factory will employ up to 2,000 people over the next decade and up to 4,000 people in the longer term. An economic impact analysis compiled by Dr. Frank Hefner at the College of Charleston estimates that, for an initial 2,000 direct jobs, more than 8,000 total jobs would be created as a result. The plant would contribute approximately $4.8 billion in total economic output on an annual basis.
About Volvo Cars of North America
Volvo Cars of North America, LLC, (www.volvocars.com/us) is a subsidiary of Volvo Car Group of Gothenburg, Sweden. VCNA provides marketing, sales, parts, service, technology and training support to Volvo automobile retailers in the United States. For more information please refer to the VCNA media website at: http://www.media.volvocars.com/us. | <urn:uuid:c6e6611e-9082-4bff-a030-8843656da7b7> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.media.volvocars.com/us/en-us/media/pressreleases/163218/volvo-cars-formalizes-commitment-to-south-carolina-factory | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571911.5/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813081639-20220813111639-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.917084 | 486 | 2 | 2 |
When: 2012-02-08 17:00 - 2012-02-08 19:00
Where: American Center, Tržiště 13, Praha 1 – Malá Strana
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“Forgotten Transports” stand out from the multitude of Holocaust documentaries because its director, Lukas Pribyl, did more than track down survivors or burrow through film archives and deportation records. Over 10 years and visits to 30 countries, he hunted down photographs of SS camp commanders and snapshots taken by local residents and workers who might have encountered inmates, sometimes trading bottles of vodka for the artifacts. The impression conveyed is that a photographer was along for the nightmare ride of the Czech Jews. Together the films trace the experiences of 76 of the 270 survivors among the thousands of Czech Jews deported, not to the familiar Theresienstadt ghetto or to Auschwitz, but to less-well-known camps like Jagala and Kaiserwald. Mr. Pribyl chose that approach because his grandfather was sent to an obscure camp. | <urn:uuid:196c7d7e-fa44-4840-bc4c-df6d691045a7> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.americkecentrum.cz/en/udalost/forgotten-transports-to-poland-screening-discussion-2/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.95/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817032054-20220817062054-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.92348 | 222 | 1.703125 | 2 |
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Choosing a username
There are no hard and fast rules for choosing a username, other than that it must be unique and should be relatively easy to type. Taking a few minutes to choose a good username is worthwhile, since your username can't be changed later, and is used in many ways such as accessing your scratchpad, sending you messages, and referring to you in posts. Choose wisely.
Consider that your username is one of the first things other Perl Monks will know about you. What sort of a message do you wish to send? Advice you offer with the username "CompleteMoron" may not be taken too seriously! Likewise, choosing "PerlNewbie" as your username is also ill advised, unless you plan on remaining a newbie forever. People don't name their newborn babies "Born Yesterday". They pick names which will last a lifetime. Give yourself a little credit; you won't always be a newbie, will you?
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How easy is your username to remember and type? When people want to send you private messages, or address you or mention you in the chatterbox or in postings, they will have to type out your username. For this reason, usernames should not be too long, and should avoid punctuation and other odd characters HaX0r-$TyL3 names are also difficult for people to remember and type — and won't impress the Monks anyway. So take a few minutes to choose your username carefully, and avoid potential frustrations later.
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Lygodiaceae - Climbing ferns
Photo: BT. Wursten
Description of the family
Plants terrestrial, climber. Rhizome horizontal creeping, slender, dichotomously branched. Fronds climbing, numerous, dimorphic, specialised fertile pinnae with strongly reduced lamina parts bearing aggregated sporangia in marginal spike-like masses; with a slender twisting indeterminate rhachis, stipe cylindric, rhachis cylindrical to slightly flattened adaxially. Indumentum composed of single uniseriate hairs confined to the frond axes and veins, veins free.
The climbing stem is in fact the stipe and the rhachis of an elongated frond. Secondary rhachis branches absent or present, alternate, dichotomously branched, with an arrested apical bud in each bifurcation. Pinnae borne in pairs along the secondary rhachis. Pinnae pinnate to 3-pinnatifid. Sporangia borne along the margins of pinnule lobes, borne seperately in 2 rows at the veins endings, each sporangium subtended by an indusia-like flange covering it abaxially, homosporous.
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TOMORROW NEEDS YOU TODAY
For many youth, tomorrow is their greatest hope- and their biggest fear.
A recent survey of teens from JA and ENGINE Insights shows that 91% of young people are looking for additional support this school year. 39% believe they are behind educationally due to the pandemic, and more than a third (34%) say they need “emotional support” from caring adults to help their “mental wellbeing.”
“Who will I be?”
“ What role will I play?”
“ And, how will I get there?
These are just some of the questions our teens have today about their future.
JA is helping students realize the opportunities for tomorrow by preparing them to manage their finances, become entrepreneurs and develop the job skills that are the foundation for economic self-sufficiency.
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A Panel on the Politics of Impeachment: Public Opinion, Congress, and Donald Trump
The event was covered by Berkeley News: "What’s the point of impeachment in hyper-polarized America?" The event recording is available below.
This panel will bring insights from the IGS Poll, research on congressional politics, and electoral strategists to illuminate the politics of impeachment in the 116th Congress. Panelists will draw on results from the latest Berkeley IGS Poll to help understand how voters are thinking about impeachment. They will also consider how party leaders and ordinary members of both parties are thinking about the dynamics of the ongoing fight over the future of Donald Trump's presidency.
Presented as part of the Matsui Center's Breaking News in Perspective Panel Series.
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(Natural News) When you’re watching the news, do you pay attention to reports about crimes or do you ignore everything as you go about your day? If you want to protect yourself and your family, take note of these reports and start practicing situational awareness. (h/t to ConcealedCarryToday.com)
What is situational awareness?
Situational awareness doesn’t mean being insensitive to the victims of the crimes reported in the news. It means paying attention to details and using your prepping skills so the same thing doesn’t happen to you or your loved ones.
Here’s a common scenario: You’re on your way home from work and you need to drop by the store to buy some milk. Once you’re at the store, you get the milk, you wait in line at the cashier, then you stare at your phone until it’s your turn to pay. Is there anything wrong with this scenario?
It can take place anywhere in the world, but from the time it took you to find the milk to paying the cashier, did you notice how many people you passed or where the exits were? A person who was not paying attention to their surroundings may find themselves in trouble.
This is where situational awareness comes in. This crucial survival skill is the process of knowing what is going on around you at all times and having a tentative plan to respond to an unusual occurrence.
This doesn’t mean that people with situational awareness are insecure or paranoid. Paying attention to your surroundings and planning for potentially dangerous situations are key to survival, especially when SHTF.
Attackers target victims who are easy to take advantage of. Don’t make things easier for them by being glued to your phone when you’re taking a walk or shopping.
Even if you belong to a middle class or an affluent family, your “safe” neighborhood could still be targeted by criminals. You don’t have to hide inside your home to avoid danger, especially since living a life driven by fear already makes you a victim. The best thing to do is to evaluate your situation and think of how you can improve your daily routine so potential attackers don’t target you.
Here are two important things to consider:
- You’re not going to turn into an action hero overnight.
- You can’t control every parameter and scenario in your life.
Situational awareness won’t protect you from every danger there is, but it can help you stay safe. Preppers and survivalists know that even milliseconds of reaction time can spell the difference between life and death.
A situational awareness exercise
The next time you’re out running errands, keep your phone in your bag. Your life is more important than your friends’ Facebook status updates. (Related: Critical survival skill: Teach yourself and your kids situational awareness.)
For example, if you need to get gas, here are some important things to remember.
- Put the car in park. Before you open the door, check your rear and side view mirrors. If someone is approaching, check them out for a second. Let them pass by if they are close, but if they keep lingering and looking in your direction, they could be a potential attacker.
- After you exit your vehicle, look around again. Check your surroundings and the people around you at the other pumps. Once you confirm that there are no potential threats or suspicious activity, you can go about your business.
- Don’t take out your phone. While you’re waiting, glance discreetly around you every few seconds.
- Once you’re finished fueling, reenter your car. Stay alert, close the door, and lock them. As you’re preparing to drive, check your mirrors until you’re safely driving down the road.
The exercise above applies to other scenarios, such as when you’re at the bank or the mall. Situational awareness isn’t meant to instill fear in you. In fact, it aims to train your mind and body to be prepared and react if needed.
Even preppers with situational awareness take the time to greet their neighbors or other people they pass by on their daily walks. The difference is, preppers pay attention to where they’re going and who they’re encountering while also enjoying the view.
Practice situational awareness daily, but don’t be too obvious. It may seem odd at first, but remember that being prepared and observant is crucial if you want to avoid potential danger wherever you are. | <urn:uuid:4b9f386e-0a73-41d2-8a92-7977d502f5ab> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://naturalnews.com/2019-04-23-prepping-101-what-is-situational-awareness.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.95/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817032054-20220817062054-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.941746 | 965 | 2.28125 | 2 |
The use of security contractors by the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade in places such as Afghanistan and Iraq is influenced by political, organisational, operational and financial factors.
Diplomatic security encompasses a number of functions, including personal protection of diplomats, static security of diplomatic infrastructure and convoy security. The use of security contractors in the context of diplomatic security is an emerging trend in western states. After relying on the Australian Defence Force (ADF) for eight years in Iraq, Australia’s Department of Foreign Affairs (DFAT) has moved towards contractors for the purposes of diplomatic security since 2011.
Security contractors have been an integral aspect of Australia’s diplomatic presence in Afghanistan since it started in 2006. In recent years the provision of one year of contracted diplomatic security in Afghanistan and Iraq has set DFAT back some AUD 50 million. Yet the actual number of contractors is a closely-held secret.
The use of security contractors has political advantages. Using contractors in place of ADF personnel reduces the chance of further ADF casualties in Afghanistan and Iraq, while enabling the Federal Government to earn brownie points with the Australian public through reduced overseas troop commitments. If the reaction to contractor casualties by the US Government and media is assumed to apply in Australia, there is less concern regarding a contractor returning to Australia in a body bag as opposed to an Australian soldier.
This applies ever more if the contractor is not Australian. In reality, Australians are but a portion of the personnel forming contracted diplomatic security teams protecting Australian diplomatic interests overseas. This is not unusual. For example, the US and Canada use non-citizens for diplomatic security. If these contractors are killed or injured, the Federal Government will have received the benefits of their service while being able to ship them back to their country of origin.
Political risks can also be mitigated by DFAT being able to substantiate claims for confidentiality under the Freedom of Information Act, thereby inhibiting transparency surrounding the specifics of a given contract.
On a more positive note, contractors have been seen by diplomats as a way of assisting the diplomatic process. In the case of Iraq, DFAT saw the ongoing use of ADF personnel as hindering the building of a strong relationship between the Australian and Iraqi Governments. It is likely that Australian diplomats shared the view of their US counterparts that seeking normalised relations is challenging when you continue to be surrounded by uniformed troops and armoured vehicles.
There are also organisational factors at play. DFAT wants to control the manner in which diplomatic security is executed: that is, according to its own policies and procedures. Yet using ADF personnel is likely to come with strings attached, with the defence leadership having a say as to how best to execute diplomatic security in exchange for using its personnel. As a result, the ADF personnel protecting diplomats and infrastructure may find themselves in the same position of their US counterparts: being the servant of two masters. Security contractors are seen as way of avoiding these issues. In crude terms, DFAT is the master and the contractor is the servant. The desire for renewal of the contract, in addition to building a satisfied customer base to attract future work, acts as an important incentive to accede to DFAT’s demands. The use of contractors also avoids committing ADF personnel to a function that is not typically seen as a core function in the post-Cold War era.
The operational benefits of using security contractors have been espoused by the industry itself, the governments that use them and in the scholarly literature. For example, there is the appeal of being able to build teams of personnel from a global pool of ex-military and ex-law enforcement personnel that are best suited for the task at hand. DFAT sees contractors as a means of attaining necessary knowledge and experience of operating environments. If a particular dialect is required to function in an environment, contractors with this skill can be recruited. When the US Department of State took over security provision in Iraq following the US troop drawdown, it had to rely on contractors for functions in which its personnel had no experience.
Security contractors have also acted as a means of reducing Australia’s troop commitments in Afghanistan. When Australia’s diplomatic presence commenced in 2006, it consisted of a few officials operating out of a luxury hotel in Kabul protected by contractors. As this diplomatic presence evolved – including the opening of the Australian Embassy in Kabul – contractors continued to be used. Consequently, this has freed the ADF of a lengthy diplomatic security commitment like it experienced in Iraq from 2003 to 2011: its functions were limited to protection of DFAT staff outside safe zones and, in 2014, to assist contractors following concerns about growing instability in the operating environment.
Security contractors allow DFAT to avoid the ongoing financial commitments associated with building and maintaining an in-house diplomatic security capability and the risk that this capability ends up being underutilised or not as effective as using contractors. Access to a global pool of personnel also assists DFAT and the contracting company financially. Downward pressure on diplomatic security expenditure has facilitated the recruitment of numerous ex-military personnel from developing countries that can be obtained for the price of a single former member of a Western force. For example, Chilean nationals have protected the Australian Embassy in Iraq. At the same time, DFAT has faced issues surrounding its efforts to keep costs down, such as contracted security personnel leaving Iraq in 2015 after disputes over cuts in pay and conditions.
Jon Cottam is a PhD candidate at the Department of Security Studies and Criminology in Macquarie University. He holds a Bachelor of Arts (Hons) and Bachelor of Laws from the University of UNSW and Master of Policing, Intelligence and Counterterrorism from Macquarie University.
This article is adapted from the author’s presentation “Can’t Somebody Else Deal with It? The Outsourcing of Australia’s Diplomatic Security” at the International Political Science Association World Congress on 21-25 July. It was produced with the support of the Macquarie University Research Training Program Scholarship and the Australian Government Research Training Program Scholarship.
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The most obvious new element of the president’s regionalist policy initiative is the July 19 publication of a Department of Housing and Urban Development regulation broadening the obligation of recipients of federal aid to “affirmatively further fair housing.” The apparent purpose of this rule change is to force suburban neighborhoods with no record of housing discrimination to build more public housing targeted to ethnic and racial minorities. Several administration critics noticed the change and challenged it, while the mainstream press has simply declined to cover the story…
The new HUD rule is really about changing the way Americans live. It is part of a broader suite of initiatives designed to block suburban development, press Americans into hyper-dense cities, and force us out of our cars. Government-mandated ethnic and racial diversification plays a role in this scheme, yet the broader goal is forced “economic integration.” The ultimate vision is to make all neighborhoods more or less alike, turning traditional cities into ultra-dense Manhattans, while making suburbs look more like cities do now. In this centrally-planned utopia, steadily increasing numbers will live cheek-by-jowl in “stack and pack” high-rises close to public transportation, while automobiles fall into relative disuse. To understand how HUD’s new rule will help enact this vision, we need to turn to a less-well-known example of the Obama administration’s regionalist interventionism.
In response to my recent piece on Paul Krugman’s Moronic Take on Sprawl and Upward Social Mobility I was challenged on characterising the left’s attitude towards the suburbs as hatred. Part of my response was to refer to the San Francisco Bay Area’s initiative on the subject, which Kurtz’ article goes into more detail about, but that wasn’t enough.
Or was it? Although vitriol is the usual way of measuring hatred, it isn’t the only one. I prefer to gauge people’s attitudes by their actions. If people are persistent in their actions, they most be motivated: the more the persistence, the more the motivation. Whether they opt to make a big public show of their commitment or whether they do so quietly depends upon many factors.
I think that hatred is a fair characterisation of the left’s attitudes towards suburbia. The original animus dates to the 1960’s, when suburbia was the home of the “repressed” and “bourgeois” attitudes they were revolting against. But there’s more. Suburbia is the object for the left’s pushback for two more reasons:
- Environmental: low-density development takes up more land, requires more energy to run the utilities and commute, and thus is seen to be hard on the environment in many ways.
- It’s where most of the Republicans live (that’s reason enough for most leftists), the influx of immigrants into the suburbs notwithstanding.
So the Obama regime does what it can to promote pushing people into the fifty square metre apartment (or smaller) and making them straphangers on the tube. Such a policy will disincentivise upward social mobility. A big reason Americans work hard to get ahead is to land themselves in suburbia, with its spaciousness and nice neighbourhoods. By levelling the housing stock in this way, neither will be out there and Americans will, to use an expression I’ve picked up living in the same town the President visited today, lay out. (Compounding the problem is the fact that most of these policies tend to make housing expensive, which puts it out of reach for ordinary folk).
If that’s what they want to do, then all this talk about helping the middle class–and we heard a lot about this from Obama today–is a lot of rubbish, in an American context.
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Artemis Technologies expects to double its workforce to more than 100 employees in 2022, as its work to develop transformative new zero-emission marine vessels in Northern Ireland enters a new phase. The news follows the hiring of its 50th employee.
With the first Artemis eFoilerTM test vessel expected to take to the water in a matter of months, the ongoing recruitment drive forms part of Artemis Technologies’ mission to lead the decarbonisation of the maritime sector through the development of innovative and sustainable technologies and products.
Debbie Eve, Head of People at Artemis Technologies said, “Establishing a presence in the Belfast region was an obvious choice for Artemis Technologies due to the existing skills base, along with its established expertise within the manufacturing, composites, maritime and aerospace sectors.
“In addition to our ultimate aim of maritime decarbonisation, we are building upon Belfast’s rich shipbuilding heritage, positively contributing towards the reinvigoration of this industry as we work with our partners to develop the zero-emission high speed vessels of the future.
“Artemis Technologies is currently recruiting for a number of key roles, and we are particularly interested in hearing from candidates in the fields of naval architecture, senior embedded software engineering, compliance engineering and mechanical engineering.
“If you are enthusiastic about the opportunity to implement and develop your skills as part of a forward-thinking organisation, dedicated to making a real and tangible difference in the global fight against climate change, this is your chance.”
Artemis Technologies’ 50th staff member, Ross Johnston, will join the technical team, as a Mechanical Engineer.
Established in 2017, Artemis Technologies is a partner of the Belfast Maritime Consortium, a 13-member syndicate which brings together a range of established and young firms, academia and public bodies to design and build zero-emission high-speed ferries in the city.
Harnessing knowledge that combines technology from the America’s Cup and motorsport, the vessels will be powered by the unique Artemis eFoilerTM electric propulsion system. | <urn:uuid:a4f2933b-e13c-4aaf-8f59-17a6a8e207f0> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://intrademagazine.com/artemis-technologies-to-double-workforce/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571538.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812014923-20220812044923-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.918823 | 428 | 1.539063 | 2 |
National Day is a statutory holiday established by a country to commemorate the country itself. Chinese National Day refers specifically to October 1, the anniversary of the official founding of the People's Republic of China.
International Labor Day is approaching. To celebrate the National Day, we will have a holiday from October 1st to October 7th. In this piece, I wish you all a happy National Day holiday | <urn:uuid:7a9928ce-38ec-40ba-9d77-26f6ff41ac35> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.kcdlight.com/news/celebrate_national_day-98859.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572043.2/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814143522-20220814173522-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.954019 | 79 | 2.25 | 2 |
SINGAPORE: Singapore took another important step in promoting the Green Agenda last month.
The country announced on May 20 its intention to position itself as a carbon services hub.
Climate Impact X (CIX) is a joint venture between the Development Bank of Singapore, Singapore Exchange, Standard Chartered Bank and Temasek Holdings.
First conceived by the Alliance for Action on Sustainability of the Emerging Singapore Taskforce, CIX will provide a market for carbon credit trading from the end of 2021.
READ: The new global carbon exchange will be headquartered in Singapore
Singapore is well suited to host a carbon market. It is an ideal base for multinational companies working on projects that generate emission credits in the region.
As a regional leader in commodities trading, Singapore also deals with many majors and energy traders who will constitute a large part of the ancillary services customer base of the carbon market.
There are already around thirty companies here offering carbon consultancy services, which include the development of low-carbon projects, consultancy and verification for the registration of certified emission reduction credits, measurement of carbon footprint, project financing and legal services.
Launching a carbon market can attract more of these consultants to a key growth industry.
(What will CIX bring to the carbon trading and climate action table? Read up on The Climate Conversations.)
A WELCOME ADDITION TO SINGAPORE’S CLIMATE ACTION INITIATIVES
CIX is a welcome addition to the suite of emissions reduction initiatives and institutions in Singapore that are helping the country accelerate its peak and net zero emissions timelines.
Under the Paris Agreement, Singapore’s nationally determined contribution is to peak emissions of 65 million tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent by 2030. Singapore is also seeking to halve maximum emissions to 33 million tonnes by 2050 and achieve net zero emissions as soon as possible in the second half of the year. of the century.
A key innovation of CIX includes provisions for the commerce of nature-based solutions.
Nature-based climate solutions like mangroves, wetlands and forests can absorb large amounts of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
A recent study by researchers at the NUS Center for Nature-Based Climate Solutions estimates that reforestation in Southeast Asia can contribute to 3.4 gigatonnes of reduced carbon dioxide emissions per year. Reforestation, combined with transparency of the supply chain and harmonized standards for carbon offsets, can result in an immediate source of carbon credits.
As an exchange focused on these carbon credits, CIX will enhance the climate finance ecosystem in Singapore and expand the range of mechanisms for companies to manage and price their carbon externalities. Google, Microsoft and Amazon are said to be in talks to use CIX in their journey to become net zero emitters.
In addition, it offers Singapore another way to expand the international reach of its environmental management activities.
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THE RIGHT PRICE OF CARBON
CIX can help adjust Singapore’s carbon tax – which went into effect in January 2019 – by expanding the range of tools used for carbon pricing in Singapore.
This will allow the Singapore government some freedom to discuss a future, possibly upward, review of the current tax, as local businesses will have the option of defraying their “carbon costs” from others. means.
The current tax rate of S $ 5 per tonne of CO2 can be challenged for three reasons. First, the costs of abatement are generally considered to be much higher, and ideally the price of carbon would reflect the cost of abatement. A World Bank report released in May notes that a price of US $ 40 to US $ 80 (S $ 50 to 100) per tonne of CO2 is needed to meet the 2 degree Celsius target..
Second, the S $ 5 price may not fully capture the carbon embedded in international supply chains and trade.
This sparked a debate on the need for carbon border adjustment mechanisms – a tool to ensure that domestic and imported goods assess their intrinsic emissions equally, thus discouraging trade with heavily polluting countries that do not have effective carbon pricing mechanisms.
Third, Singapore’s carbon pricing is arguably not a sufficiently liquid mechanism because it changes infrequently.
The government plans to increase the tax rate to between S $ 10 and S $ 15 per tonne by 2030. The level and path of taxation after 2023 will be reviewed by 2022, in consultation with industry and groups. experts in order to give businesses and the opportunity to adapt to changes.
It makes sense to introduce market-based mechanisms to facilitate the pricing process and allow emissions pricing in business decisions.
In the absence of such a mechanism, finding the right price for carbon is complex. This requires striking a balance between reducing the carbon footprint of industries and increasing the costs of doing business, which can negatively impact the competitiveness of Singapore’s economy.
However, with the pandemic still evolving, the success of Singapore’s carbon services hub should not be taken for granted. An increased and quantifiable demand for carbon offsets also suggests an upward trend in emissions-intensive activities in the short term.
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get companies to play ball
The CIX is also a first step in getting companies to play Singapore’s climate bond game.
The demand for carbon offsets could come from several sources. Companies that currently pay carbon taxes can purchase credits to meet their carbon tax obligation.
Likewise, companies or other speculators can buy credits to exchange them later for a bounty, if this is allowed under the carbon pricing law.
We can also expect a retail business of individuals looking for socially responsible investment options.
However, Singapore should not forget that there are no mandatory reduction targets at the industry level. Many of the carbon commitments of companies in the region are currently voluntary, which can limit market participation.
Regulation can ensure strong market participation. With the rapid global expansion of climate finance, compliance concerns have also increased due to âgreenwashâ – when companies over-inflate the environmental credentials of their projects.
The devil is in the details. Regulators must provide strong mechanisms for verifying, monitoring and enforcing project compliance, not only to prevent greenwash, but also to ensure fair benchmarking of all projects.
This could be initiated by industry, where providers of carbon credits and offsets commit to co-develop and implement methodologies for quantifying and reporting greenhouse gases for their respective sectors. Regulators will then be able to assess methodologies that improve transparency in carbon credit transactions.
Recognizing the complexity of scaling up global carbon markets, the Global Institute on Finance’s Scaling Voluntary Carbon Markets Task Force launched a consultation on building ‘high-end markets. integrity â, which should end at the end of June. It seeks to establish “a threshold standard for high-quality credits, clear legal standards, and unite existing and fragmented carbon credit markets into one impactful and well-managed system.”“.
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To ensure the integrity and quality of its credits, CIX will work with global partners, including the Voluntary Carbon Market Scaling Working Group and the Natural Climate Solutions Alliance.
It will also use cutting-edge data analytics, such as satellite monitoring, machine learning, and blockchain technology to ensure the environmental integrity of credits traded on CIX.
Global rating agencies could be asked to provide independent environmental assessments for nature-based projects that will issue carbon credits.
It is important that Singapore provides a well-managed and reliable market for carbon offsets while expanding efforts to reduce emissions.
However, to achieve its own national goals, companies must ultimately engage in less carbon-intensive production models and not simply âpay to playâ by exploiting the offsets.
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Monday 11 July 2016
The British HIV Association (BHIVA) is pleased to announce that the BHIVA guidelines app can now be downloaded on both the App Store for iPhone and iPad, and on Google Play for Android devices.
Since the 1990s, BHIVA has been producing guidelines for the management of HIV infection, which, while primarily intended for the use of UK physicians, have international influence.
BHIVA guidelines are published in HIV Medicine and are also available on the BHIVA website at http://www.bhiva.org/guidelines.aspx.
The guidelines encompass the treatment of antiretroviral diseases and specific guidelines on the management of TB and hepatitis co-infected individuals, transplantation, immunisation, malignancy, opportunistic infections, reproductive and sexual health and pregnancy.
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Obama vetoes 9/11 lawsuit bill
By Kevin Liptak CNN White House Producer
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Barack Obama vetoed Friday a bill that would allow family members of 9/11 victims to sue Saudi Arabia. The White House claimed it could expose US diplomats and servicemen to litigation in other countries.
Republican and Democratic leaders in Congress say they'll override Obama's veto next week.
Obama has now issued 12 vetoes. If successful, Congress' override would be the first of Obama's presidency.
Support for the "Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act" ran high among lawmakers, who overwhelmingly passed the bill earlier this year after pressure from victims' groups. The bill would end foreign countries' immunity in the United States from lawsuits, allowing federal civil suits to go forward if the country is determined to have had a hand in a US terror attack.
In his veto message, Obama wrote he had "deep sympathy for the families of the victims of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, who have suffered grievously."
But he maintained the legislation would seriously hurt US national security interests and cause harm to important alliances, saying it "would neither protect Americans from terrorist attacks nor improve the effectiveness of our response to such attacks."
He warned that the law would hurt the effectiveness of the administration's action against terrorism by taking questions of foreign states' involvement in terrorism "out of the hands of national security and foreign policy professionals and placing them in the hands of private litigants and courts."
Obama also said the move would open Americans abroad, especially those serving in the military, to prosecutions by foreign countries, since this would remove the reciprocal agreements that now protect both sides from such lawsuits.
He also pointed to complaints that allied nations have made about the measure. This legislation, he said, "threatens to limit their cooperation on key national security issues, including counterterrorism initiatives, at a crucial time when we are trying to build coalitions, not create divisions."
Demonstrating the difficult political position the White House is in, Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, Obama's former secretary of state, expressed her support for the legislation Friday.
"Clinton continues to support the efforts by Sen. (Chuck) Schumer and his colleagues in Congress to secure the ability of 9/11 families and other victims of terror to hold accountable those responsible," said Jesse Lehrich, a Clinton spokesman. "She would sign this legislation if it came to her desk."
Schumer called the veto "a disappointing decision that will be swiftly and soundly overturned in Congress."
Co-sponsor Sen. John Cornyn said, "I look forward to the opportunity for Congress to override the President's veto, provide these families with the chance to seek the justice they deserve and send a clear message that we will not tolerate those who finance terrorism in the United States."
White House lobbying effort
In recent days, some of the measure's supporters in Congress have expressed misgivings about the legislation, prompting a new effort by the administration to lobby against the bill.
The lobbying effort on Capitol Hill against the legislation has involved the administration but also representatives for the Saudi government, which denies any involvement in the 9/11 terror attacks. The alliance puts Obama in the unlikely position of defending the same position as the Kingdom, with which he's had longstanding disputes over counterterrorism strategies and human rights.
It also puts the President at odds with family members of 9/11 victims, who protested outside the White House this week and spoke alongside lawmakers from New York and Connecticut on Capitol Hill. They, along with other proponents of the bill, say the language is written narrowly to prevent the types of repercussions the administration predicts.
"The president's rationales to veto JASTA don't hold weight. They are 100% wrong," said Terry Strada, whose husband Tom Strada died in World Trade Center collapse. "For us, the 9/11 families and survivors, all we are asking for is an opportunity to have our case heard in a courtroom. Denying us justice is un-American."
Strada said the lobbying efforts from representatives of Saudi Arabia amounted to an intimidation effort from a country the US still relies on heavily in the fight against terror groups like ISIS.
"Neither the President nor Congress nor lobbyists for foreign kingdoms should be permitted to make us wait another day to pass JASTA," she said.
Veto override plans
Administration officials had been eying a Friday afternoon veto with the hopes of submitting it to lawmakers after Congress adjourned until November's election contests. But prolonged negotiations over a government funding bill and a package to combat Zika virus have delayed the recess, meaning lawmakers are still likely to be in Washington next week to cast an override vote.
"Our assumption is that the veto will be overridden," Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell told reporters on Tuesday.
House Speaker Paul Ryan followed suit Wednesday, saying, "I do think the votes are there for the override." But the Wisconsin Republican also voiced his own doubts about the legislation, saying the implications for lawsuits against Americans worried him.
"I worry about legal matters," Ryan said. "I worry about trial lawyers trying to get rich off of this. And I do worry about the precedence. At the same time, these victims do need to have their day in court."
He was one of several prominent lawmakers who have expressed buyers' remorse for the proposed law. A pair of Republican senators, Bob Corker of Tennessee and Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, have pushed for changes to make it more difficult for the families to pursue lawsuits but could also make it harder for the US to be sued for alleged wrongdoing.
Opponents of the bill gained support Wednesday both from the European Union, which issued its opposition in the form of a "demarche" statement to the US Department of State, and from a bipartisan group of former national security officials, who penned an open letter to Obama.
"The harm this legislation will cause the United States will be both dramatic and long-lasting," the letter read, citing arguments over weakening sovereign immunity. Its signatories included veterans of Republican and Democratic administrations, including Stephen Hadley, a national security adviser to President George W. Bush; Michael Mukasey, a US attorney general under Bush; William Cohen, a secretary of defense under President Bill Clinton; and Richard Clarke, a national security aide to Bush and Clinton.
The letter also noted the law, if enacted, "will most certainly undermine our relationship with one of our most important allies, Saudi Arabia, and damage our relationship with the entire Middle East."
CNN's Dan Merica and Ted Barrett contributed to this report.
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This section is from the "Health and Survival in the 21st Century" book, by Ross Horne.
In brief, the transformation of normal cells into abnormal (cancer) cells is a predictable, biological event, obeying natural biological laws in circumstances that give the cells no other choice if they are to survive individually. In Chapter 3 it was explained how in conditions of constipation, normal aerobic bacteria in the colon are forced to change into anaerobic bacteria. In a similar fashion, when body cells are deprived of oxygen or the enzymes necessary to utilize oxygen they will endeavor to survive by anaerobic means, and to do this they must change in form, ie, de-differentiate, to a more primitive form.
Differentiation is the process that takes place in a developing embryo during pregnancy by which primitive, unspecialized embryo cells, as they multiply, change in form to the different specialized cells required to form the different organs of the baby's body. At conception, when egg and sperm unite to form one cell which then subdivides and multiplies, the new cells--called embryonic cells--are all the same: they are primitive in form, largely anaerobic, and multiply rapidly without constraint. And although they are different to the mother's own body cells and therefore foreign to her body, because of what is known as "blocking factor" they are not challenged by her immune system.
When the embryo attaches to the mother's circulatory system and begins to receive nourishment and oxygen from the mother's blood, the embryonic cells become fully aerobic, ie dependent on oxygen. As the embryo continues to grow, the embryonic cells change in form: they become different from each other in order to construct the different organs of the new body, so that they are identifiable as bone cells, muscle cells, skin cells and so on. They are differentiated.
In understanding cancer, the points to remember are that embryo cells are initially primitive, undifferentiated, largely anaerobic and multiply without constraint, whereas fully differentiated, specialized cells in normal tissues are aerobic and their subdivision and growth is strictly constrained.
When bacteria, which are single primitive cell organisms, are deprived of oxygen they are capable of survival by reverting to the process of fermentation of nutrients in order to produce the energy they need. This process, called glycolysis, was the process used by primitive cells billions of years ago before oxygen became freely available in the sea and air, and is still part of the aerobic respiratory process employed by oxygen-using cells of living creatures today.
Glycolysis is an inefficient process which liberates only small amounts of energy from a given amount of blood sugar, leaving a residue of pyruvic acid which is converted to lactic acid and eliminated. Oxygen-using (aerobic) cells still retain glycolysis in the initial stages of their respiratory cycle but are immensely more efficient because they are capable of taking the pyruvic acid resultant from glycolysis and combining it with oxygen, which process not only liberates about fifteen times more energy but at the same time leaves only carbon dioxide and water as by-products, substances which are completely harmless and easily eliminated.
In order to survive by fermentation, aerobic bacteria must change into a more primitive form, and because fermentation is so inefficient, more fuel (blood sugar) must be consumed and a lot of acid produced. This process occurs in the mouth when the natural bacteria there are deprived of oxygen by food residues stuck between the teeth, and the acid so produced eats away the tooth enamel to make the cavities we call tooth decay. Similarly, aerobic bacteria normal in the colon (bowel) change into anaerobic bacteria when putrifying residues of protein and fat cause constipation and acids and other toxins are produced, many of which find their way into the bloodstream.
When lipotoxemia and acidic conditions of the blood result in deterioration of the lymph which sustains the tissue cells of the body, the cells may be deprived of oxygen or deprived of the enzymes they need to utilize oxygen. When this occurs the milieu interieur , polluted, is referred to as the cancer milieu.
Like bacteria (which are cells), the cells of the human body are similarly capable of reverting to a more primitive form when forced to by interference to their normal respiration, and the more their aerobic respiration is curtailed, the more primitive they must become in order to survive. Thus, for a normal fully differentiated cell, eg a lung cell, to change into a more primitive form it must de-differentiate, and in degrees lose its identity as a lung cell, and resemble more and more the primitive embryo cells from which the body originated. The degree of dedifferentiation is proportional to the degree the cell is dependent on fermentation to survive, and when the cell reaches a certain stage of primitiveness it forgets its allegiance to the body as a whole and starts to reproduce as primitive cells do, heedless of the body's normal constraints. This unrestrained growth of increasingly dedifferentiated cells is cancer, and the tumor at the site of origin is called the primary tumor.
The degree of de-differentiation determines the primitiveness of the cells and therefore their rate of growth, which means that the malignancy of the cancer is directly related to the degree of de-differentiation, fermentation and production of lactic acid. Thus the cancer growth proceeds in a vicious circle because the lactic acid and other waste products of the cancer cells worsen further the cancer milieu which started the process off in the first place. Moreover, because the cancer cells resemble embryonic cells in structure and function they are to some degree capable of producing the same blocking factor embryonic cells do, which inhibits the immune system from attacking them. | <urn:uuid:8a6fdd6b-7a0b-4d3c-81d3-832eee791280> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://chestofbooks.com/health/natural-cure/Ross-Horne/Health-and-Survival-in-the-21st-Century/Cancer-Differentiation-and-De-differentiation.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572043.2/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814143522-20220814173522-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.948198 | 1,179 | 3.59375 | 4 |
The past Pizza My Mind featured the return of Canon Virginia for their second presentation of the year. Canon heavily emphasizes heavy community and environmental involvement. Canon’s Anne Goldberg led the presentation.
The American branch of Canon does not actually make cameras. Instead the branch refurbishes and repairs existing cameras. Production of copiers, laser printers, and toner cartridges also take place here. Plastic injection molding is another process now done at the Virginia plant.
The Virginia site is becoming the regional Technical headquarters for Canon. New major areas are targeted as focal points for the future of the site. These areas include Automation and Controls Engineering, Business Development Engineering, Tool Engineering, and Recycling/ Materials engineering. Medical supplies and Engineering are also growing in prominence.
Internships begin in May. Students are given a specific project to work on during their placement. While they will meet the other interns the projects themselves are separate. Interns must be working towards an undergraduate degree and be classified as a junior or senior credits wise. They must also be 18 years old.
Employees at Canon have a well defined path to advancement and the ability to rotate positions every 6 six months for 18 months as part of the Engineering Rotation Program in order to experience a wide variety of work.
Canon offers a relatively unique internship in terms of structure and a chance to work in an important industry with passionate professionals. The presenters were strong at answering questions and providing info. The interview process has begun so apply now.
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Geneva Centre of Humanitarian Studies
"The Geneva Centre of Humanitarian Studies (ex-CERAH) is a unique teaching, research and policy platform for humanitarian action. It is a joint centre of the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies and the University of Geneva, two internationally renowned centres of academic excellence. It offers high quality post-graduate courses that enable humanitarian professionals and graduates to make a difference and improve the lives of people affected by conflicts, epidemics, disasters, climate change or social exclusions, as well as increase the capabilities of humanitarian organisations. It organises public events, conferences and workshops, to stimulate debates on contemporary humanitarian issues and strengthen the link between theory and practice, action and reflection. The Centre is also promoting the critical reflection of the humanitarian system through research projects developed by researchers on current issues either in the field or in collaboration with major humanitarian organisations and academic centres. The flagship research project, the Humanitarian Encyclopedia, offers a platform for practitioners, community leaders, policy makers and academics to reflect on humanitarian concepts and practice in the 21st century."
- Master of Advanced Studies in Humanitarian Action
- Diploma of Advanced Studies in Humanitarian Action
- Certificate of Advanced Studies and short courses
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Original Ergonomic Design
The crossover pencil grips are different.
*Original ergonomic design, working with body physiology
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Firesara pencil grips crossover allow you to put thumb and index fingers in the 2 “ears” of the elephant and middle finger in the ring hole, quickly forming the right way to hold a pencil - The Tripod Grip. Tested well by kids’ small hands, our pen grippers are popular in schools, widely recommended by parents, teachers, doctors, occupational therapists, Arthritis Foundation, etc.
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Firesara crossover pencil grips are universally used by kids, preschoolers, students from pre-kindergarten to 12th grade, adults, those with special needs such as arthritis, autism, dysgraphia, dyslexia, ADHD, etc. They also simply fit on pens, markers, ball pens, pencils, crayons, and other drawing tools.
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You can put your thumb and index finger into 2 “ears” of the elephant, then hold the ring with your middle finger. In this way, your three fingers can be tightly fixed for a tripod grasp.
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In the making of a baby, there are myriad complications that can arise. We explore the different kinds of infertility, what can be done, costs involved, and the tricky ethical and legal issues that can crop up.
For a fertile couple in their twenties having regular unprotected sex, the chance of conceiving each month is only 25 per cent. So how do you know when something's amiss?
The answer depends on how old you are. While the man's age is thought to play a role, the medical definition of infertility focuses on the woman. A woman under 35 is considered infertile if she fails to become pregnant after 12 months of regular unprotected sex. But for those over 35, the threshold is six months instead of 12.
There are degrees of infertility. The majority of infertile couples are actually sub fertile they produce eggs and sperm but have difficulty conceiving due to disorders such as hormone imbalances and problems of the reproductive tract. Cases of total infertility where no eggs or sperm are produced are rare.
After 12 months of trying to conceive you should consult your GP or gynaecologist for a referral to a fertility specialist. You and your partner will undergo a series of tests sometimes your GP may conduct these tests. The test results will give clues to the type of infertility and ultimately a treatment plan to overcome the problem.
Firstly, the specialist will look at the couple's medical history. For the woman, this includes information on any previous pregnancies, the regularity of her periods; and whether she has had painful periods, pelvic pain, infections, or surgery. A specialist will want to know if the man has previously fathered children, suffered a testicular injury; or had any developmental problems, infections, surgery; or if he has been exposed to certain environmental factors.
Next there will be a physical examination, which may include:
Blood tests. A series of tests will establish if there is a hormonal basis for the couple's infertility this may be corrected by hormonal supplements. Other tests will check for rubella, blood group, sperm antibodies and sexually transmitted diseases such as HIV, Hepatitis B and C.
Ultrasound examination. This gives information on what the ovaries and uterus look like. Your doctor will look at the growth of eggs, the thickness of the lining of the uterus (if thin, it can indicate hormonal problems), the presence of fibroids or polyps on the uterus, as well as signs of endometriosis or ovarian cysts. Surgical laparoscopy may also be used to identify endometriosis or blocked fallopian tubes.
Semen analysis. Men need to provide a semen sample this allows specialists to assess the number of sperm, how well they swim (known as 'motility') and the presence of sperm antibodies.
Finding out that either you or your partner is infertile, or sub-fertile, can be a traumatic experience. One or both of you may experience feelings of blame, anger, denial, guilt, self-pity or jealously, this may place stress on your relationship. These feelings are common and IVF clinics provide counselling services to help you deal with them.
Going through infertility treatments can be an emotional rollercoaster, especially for patients who fail to become pregnant after a number of cycles. The beginning of a cycle is full of hope, anticipation and the anxiety of wondering "am I pregnant?" This can be quickly followed by dealing with the disappointment and despair of 'failed' cycles.
It may take a while before a couple undergoing infertility treatments becomes pregnant. It is hard to pinpoint why an IVF cycle doesn't work as there are many factors to take into consideration. Ultimately, the prospect of never having children may have to be faced.
Many couples find fertility support groups useful for sharing coping strategies and experiences.
Article last reviewed: 09/05/07
For centuries, if a couple were unable to have a baby, it was considered the woman's problem. We now know both men and women suffer infertility problems and these are no more common in one sex than the other. Sometimes multiple factors are involved in one or both partners.
Among couples who are infertile, about 40 per cent of cases are exclusively due to female infertility, 40 per cent exclusively to male infertility, and ten per cent involve problems with both partners. In the remaining ten per cent, the cause is unknown.
Women can suffer from disorders such as hormone imbalances, blocked fallopian tubes, endometriosis, or abnormalities of the reproductive organs. Men can experience infertility if they have problems with the number and shape of their sperm, produce antibodies against their own sperm, or have blocked spermatic cords. In some cases, the exact cause of infertility cannot be explained.
Proper diagnosis of infertility will help in selecting an appropriate treatment plan that maximises the chance of becoming pregnant.
A delicate balance of sex hormones (oestrogen, progesterone, luteinizing hormone, follicle stimulating hormone) is needed for the timely growth and release of the egg from the ovary (ovulation).
Hormone imbalances can cause ovulation disorders in women and are the most common cause of infertility in women.
Fallopian tube damage
It is in the fallopian tube that fertilisation takes place, after the egg is released from the ovary into the tube and is met by sperm. Full or partial blockage of the fallopian tubes will prevent fertilisation taking place.
Fallopian tubes can be damaged by inflammation that results from viral or bacterial infections, some types of sexually transmitted diseases, or complications of surgery such as adhesions or scarring.
Uterus and cervical disorders
Benign growths on the uterine wall, such as fibroids or polyps, can also contribute to infertility as they interfere with the attachment of the embryo onto the uterus wall.
Abnormalities in the shape of the cervix or changes in the texture of the cervical mucus can make it difficult for the sperm to move from the vagina into the uterus.
Endometriosis is a condition where the lining of the uterus forms at inappropriate places within and outside of the reproductive tract. It can block the fallopian tubes and/or disrupt ovulation. It occurs in about ten per cent of women.
The presence of antibodies to sperm in cervical mucus can cause infertility. In other cases, the mother's immune system prevents the embryo from attaching to the wall of the uterus and so causes a miscarriage.
Polycystic ovaries contain lots of small cysts, making the ovary larger than normal. The condition, called polycystic ovarian disease (PSOD), is also associated with high levels of androgen and oestrogen. Women with PSOD have irregular periods and may not ovulate, resulting in infertility.
Ovarian failure can be a consequence of medical treatments (for ovarian tumours for instance), or the complete failure of the ovaries to develop or contain eggs in the first place (for example, Turner's Syndrome).
The treatment for ovarian tumours may involve surgical removal of all or part of the ovary. Ovarian failure can also occur as a result of treatments such as chemotherapy and pelvic radiotherapy for cancers in other body areas. These therapies destroy eggs in the ovary.
Age is a critical factor affecting a woman's fertility woman. In our society many women choose to delay having children. Some of the common reasons for this include education and career demands, financial stability, second marriages/relationships and waiting for a suitable partner.
Reproductive function declines as a woman ages, particularly after the age of 35. Women are born with a finite number of eggs, unlike men who produce sperm most of their adult life. In the years approaching menopause, there are fewer and fewer eggs left in the ovary. The quality of eggs also diminishes as a woman gets older. When a woman is in her late thirties, there is an increase in chromosome abnormalities that can result in birth defects like Down syndrome.
Ageing can also affect other reproductive organs and functions, such as the uterus, hormone production, and ovulation. There is also a higher incidence of miscarriage in women in their late thirties.
Infertility treatments cannot reverse the ageing process and should not be thought of as a safeguard that will ensure a pregnancy at some point in the future. The success rates of IVF for women over 35 are much lower than for younger women.
A low sperm count is the most common cause of male infertility. Abnormalities in sperm shape or their ability to swim can also cause infertility problems. These can be due to hormonal imbalances, infection, or testicular varicocele.
A total absence of sperm (known as 'azoospermia') in the ejaculate can be caused by testicular damage, mumps, anatomical disorders, or lack of hormones.
Some men produce antibodies to their own sperm, which prevent the sperm from penetrating the egg. The exact cause is not known but may be due to infection or vasectomy.
Spermatic cord occlusion
The spermatic cord is the tube that transports the sperm from each testis to the penis and any blockages will cause infertility. Common causes are vasectomy, infection and some sexually transmitted diseases.
Some ejaculation disorders such as retrograde ejaculation where the semen is ejaculated backwards into the bladder can prevent proper transfer of sperm into the vagina without the man being aware of the problem.
Until recently, ageing was considered a risk factor only for female fertility. However, recent research shows ageing affects sperm function too. Sperm that swim in a straight line have a far better chance of making their way through the female reproductive tract to reach the egg. But the swimming ability of a man's sperm declines as the man ages. The older a man gets the greater the chance of genetic abnormalities in the sperm itself.Unexplained infertility
In approximately ten per cent of couples, both partners may appear fine but are still unable to become pregnant. While it is easier to treat couples where the cause of infertility is obvious, couples with unexplained infertility can also be treated.
Identifying the cause of your infertility is important as it may affect the choice of treatment.
A series of hormone injections will be given to the woman in order to stimulate egg growth and ovulation. If ovulation can be successfully induced, conception may occur naturally.
Artificial insemination is used in cases where the male has a low sperm count, a high number of abnormal sperm or the woman has sperm antibodies present in her cervical mucus. Sperm is treated in the laboratory to increase the chances of fertilisation. Large numbers of sperm are then inserted directly into the uterus for easy access to the fallopian tubes.
IVF (In vitro fertilisation)
IVF is used to treat infertility that arises from blockages of the fallopian tubes, endometriosis, abnormal sperm, and some cases of unexplained infertility.
The woman is treated with hormones over a number of weeks to stimulate the growth of several eggs in the ovary. When ripe, the eggs are removed from the ovary and put into a dish with the partner's (or donor's) sperm. The fertilised eggs are then grown in the laboratory for a few days before being placed into the uterus.
GIFT (Gamete intrafallopian transfer)
This procedure is the same as that for IVF except that fertilisation takes place inside the body of the woman. The eggs and sperm are collected and placed directly into the fallopian tubes for fertilisation to occur. GIFT is used for cases of endometriosis, cervical disorders, and some types of male infertility. GIFT is suitable only for women with no abnormalities in the fallopian tubes.
ZIFT (Zygote intrafallopian transfer)
The same procedure as IVF except the very early embryo (zygote) is placed directly into the fallopian tube. This procedure is undertaken when there are abnormal sperm and/or problems with the ability of the sperm to fertilise the eggs.
ICSI (Intracytoplasmic sperm injection)
This is a technique in which a single sperm is inserted directly into the egg. Eggs are obtained the same way as for IVF and then fertilised by injecting a single sperm into them. The fertilised eggs can be transferred to the woman's fallopian tubes or grown in the laboratory for a couple of days and then transferred to the uterus.
Epididymal and testicular sperm extraction
Sperm are removed from the epididymis or directly from the testis using a needle. Fertilisation is performed by ICSI (see above). This treatment is used in cases of male infertility (azoospermia), and spermatic cord abnormalities. Usually enough sperm can be collected so that samples can be frozen for later use if required.
Freezing of sperm and embryos
If more embryos are produced through IVF than are needed for transfer into the uterus of the patient, the extra embryos can be frozen. The stored embryos can be used later if the patient fails to become pregnant or if the couple wishes to have more children through IVF at a later date.
There is a limit to the number of years embryos can be stored frozen and laws governing this may differ in each state (see Costs & legal issues).
Similarly, sperm can be frozen for use in subsequent IVF cycles or as insurance against infertility due to procedures such as cancer therapies, vasectomy or prolonged absence from a partner (such as men in military service may experience). Sperm can also be frozen and kept in sperm donor banks.
Donor eggs, embryos and sperm
For women who have ovarian failure, men who do not produce sperm, or couples whose eggs fail to fertilise, the use of donor eggs, embryos or sperm may be an option. Older women may also wish to use donor eggs from younger women to overcome the problems of ageing.
Each state has its own laws relating to the use of donor eggs, embryos and sperm (see Costs & legal issues).
Egg donation is a big business in the United States. Women advertise the sale of their eggs in magazines, over the internet and in college newspapers, with price tags of US$6,000 upwards. For a larger fee, there are also 'egg brokers' who can arrange to recruit, screen and collect eggs from donors.
PGD is an embryo-screening technique which can be used to identify embryos with chromosome abnormalities. A single cell is removed from an early-stage embryo and screened for genetic disorders using molecular techniques. Only the healthy defect-free embryos are transferred to the woman's body.
Genetic disorders that can currently be detected in this way include cystic fibrosis, Duchenne muscular dystrophy, thalassemia, haemophilia A, muscular dystrophy, hydrocephalus, Huntington's disease, imbalances in the number of chromosomes (aneuploidy), and sex-linked disorders. Research is ongoing to develop reliable tests for other genetic disorders.
Note: The information below is based on procedures at Monash IVF, but may vary at other clinics.
Your GP will refer you and your partner to an IVF Clinic. You can chose which clinic you would like to attend or your GP can recommend one for you. In states with legislation, only accredited clinics can offer IVF services. These facilities, doctors and procedures have been thoroughly reviewed to ensure they adhere to certain guidelines. Accredited institutions are listed on the Fertility Society of Australia's webpage.
Initially, the IVF clinic will perform routine tests to assess the degree of infertility that you and/or your partner may have. These include blood tests, semen analysis, and pelvic ultrasound (see What is infertility? Diagnosis).
Once your fertility specialist analyses the test results, a treatment program will be planned.
In some states couples may be required to attend counselling before treatment begins. In Victoria it's a legal requirement to attend one session, however in other states a couple's participation is recommended but not compulsory. The counselling session give couples the opportunity to discuss any concerns they may have about the treatment with a registered psychologist (see Coping with infertility). The counselling sessions are not designed to assess suitability for infertility treatment.
Those using donor eggs and sperm, will need to discuss with the counsellor issues that relate to identification of the donor (see Costs & legal issues ).
You will need to decide on the number of embryos transferred and whether or not you wish to freeze any extra embryos that may be produced for use at a later date. Your doctor will discuss these issues with you (see Treatment Freezing of sperm and embryos).
The number of embryos transferred has been an intense point of discussion worldwide. In Australia, generally only one to two embryos are transferred. The greater the number, the greater the chance of achieving a pregnancy, but more embryos also increase the chance of a multiple pregnancy (twins, triplets or more). This can pose an increased risk to the health of both mother and babies. Because IVF is generally less successful in older women, the risk of a multiple pregnancy through IVF declines with age.
An IVF cycle involves a series of steps that may require the administration of hormones (known as having a 'stimulated' cycle) and minor surgical procedures. For a stimulated IVF cycle, hormones are given to induce many eggs to grow. Some clinics may require you, your partner or a family friend to administer the hormones, this can be taken orally, through a nasal spray or via an injection. (In contrast, hormones are not used to induce egg growth in a 'natural' IVF cycle.) Ultrasound and daily blood tests are used to track egg growth, timing of ovulation and the growth of the lining of the uterus (important for implantation of the embryo.)
In general, you may need two to four IVF cycles to have a fair chance of getting pregnant. Initially you may be required to take the oral contraceptive pill for a minimum of 21 days. This will help to regulate your cycle.
Eggs grow within a multicellular unit called a follicle in the ovary a fluid filled compartment much like a blister. To stimulate the growth of many follicles in the ovary, daily injections of a hormone called FSH are given for ten to 12 days. The more eggs that can be collected from the ovary, the greater the chance the required number of embryos will be produced.
During this time, one or two ultrasounds will be performed to find out how many follicles are growing, the size of the follicles and in which ovary they are developing. The scan is done by placing a sterile probe inside the vagina.
When the follicles are big enough, you will be given an injection to initiate ripening of the eggs in preparation for egg collection approximately 36 hours later.
Egg collection is a day procedure that is carried out in hospital. You will be given a light anesthetic, and once you are asleep the follicles will be viewed in the ovary using ultrasound. A needle is used to collect the egg from inside each follicle. With the aid of the ultrasound, the needle is pushed through the vaginal wall and into the ovary. The eggs are removed and then put into a special solution in sterile dishes and placed into an incubator in preparation for fertilization.
Your partner will be asked to provide a semen sample close to the time of egg collection. The sperm will be washed and prepared for fertilisation then added to the eggs. Fertilisation should occur 18 to 24 hours later (ie the day after egg collection). At this point you will be notified of the results.
Not all eggs will form embryos and not all embryos have the same chance of developing into a baby. If fertilisation has occurred, then the 'best' embryos will be selected for transfer. Some clinics may allow you and your partner to view your embryos in the laboratory before they are transferred.
Embryos may be transferred to the uterus any time from one to seven days after egg collection. The embryo transfer procedure is relatively painless and rarely requires the use of an anaesthetic. Embryos are transferred to the uterus using a fine sterile plastic tube that is passed from the vagina, through the cervix and up into the uterus.
If you have decided to freeze extra embryos it will be done at this point.
Finally, a pregnancy test will be preformed about 16 days after egg collection. The results of the test should be available the same day. If pregnancy is confirmed, further check-ups will be needed.
If you fail to become pregnant and have had extra embryos frozen, these embryos can be transferred at a later date.
When assessing IVF, it must be kept in mind that even in healthy, fertile couples, the chances of becoming pregnant are relatively low.
The overall chance of a baby being born through assisted reproductive technologies is estimated to be 20 per cent similar to the conception rate experienced by a fertile couple in their twenties having regular unprotected sex.
But the odds vary with the age of the woman, the nature of the infertility problem, the number of embryos transferred and the type of treatment. In general, the older the woman, the lower the success rate.
Rates also vary between clinics and you need to be aware how the information is compiled.
There is no clear evidence of increase in birth defects in children born as a result of assisted reproductive technologies compared to children born through natural conception. But in cases where infertility is due to inherited factors, IVF may allow these factors to be passed on to children who may then grow up to be infertile themselves.
Multiple pregnancies are associated with lower birth weights and a higher risk of mortality for the baby and the mother. The number of embryos transferred to the uterus should be discussed with your fertility specialist before treatment begins.
IVF involves surgical procedures (for egg collection, or laparoscopy) where local or general anaesthetics are used. There are slight risks associated with these medical treatments, such as infection and bleeding. You should consult your doctor if you have any concerns.
The hormones used to help stimulate the ovary to produce ripe eggs for collection may have minor side effects and can cause a condition called ovarian hyperstimulation. This condition is life-threatening in two per cent of women and is more common in younger women or women with polycystic ovarian disease.
There have been concerns that the incidence of breast, ovarian, uterine or cervical cancers may be higher in IVF patients due to the hormones used to stimulate egg growth. Extensive studies have found no evidence this is the case. However, regular Pap smears and breast examinations before and during infertility treatment are encouraged.
Since IVF is still a relatively young science, long-term health risks for women or their children cannot be definitively ruled out.
For women, there are also risks such as miscarriage as well as hazards inherently associated with pregnancy and birth.
The cost of a stimulated IVF cycle where hormones are used to boost egg numbers varies between clinics but is approximately $3000. There are additional costs for services such as donor programs, ICSI, PGD, artificial insemination, freezing of sperm and embryos.
Medical appointments and most infertility treatments are covered by Medicare.
If you have private medical insurance then hospital day surgery fees are covered (providing IVF is included in the level of private health insurance that you have).
The "Medicare Plus Safety Net" provides a rebate of approximately 80 per cent of "out of pocket " fees paid for out-patient services that are provided outside a hospital . It is not applicable for procedures such as oocyte retrieval or ICSI.
More detailed information on the costs of infertility treatments may be obtained from the web sites of IVF clinics.
The laws regarding infertility treatments differ in each state.
Victoria has the most stringent legislation regulating the use of IVF in clinics and for research purposes. In 1995 the Victoria Parliament passed the Infertility Treatment Act 1995. It also set up a regulatory body called the Victorian Infertility Treatment Authority (ITA) to oversee the use of infertility treatments in clinics and research into infertility within Victoria. Doctors, scientists and counsellors involved in infertility treatments in Victoria must obtain approval from ITA.
In Western Australia, the Human Reproductive Technology Act 1991 governs the use of infertility treatments. Likewise in South Australia there is the Reproductive Technology Act, 1988. The remaining states do not have specific legislation but clinics adhere to strict guidelines set out by the National Health and Medical Research Council.
All infertility centres are inspected and accredited by a body of professionals and consumers (patients) established under the auspices of The Fertility Society of Australia. This body is called Reproductive Technology Accreditation Committee and is responsible for the setting of best practice guidelines and standards for infertility treatment in Australia and New Zealand. Failure to achieve accreditation status from this body means that treatment offered by the infertility centre is not covered by the Medicare rebate. Further information regarding RTAC is available on the FSA website www.fsa.au.com
There are laws that govern how long gametes (eggs and sperm) and embryos can be frozen. These laws are enforced to ensure the decision-making process regarding the use or disposal of gametes and embryos is kept with the couples who produced them.
In Victoria, eggs and sperm can be stored for a maximum of ten years, and embryos for a maximum of five years (although the ITA can grant an extension).
If you have stored eggs or embryos you have the following options:
Where legislation exists, donor gametes (eggs and sperm) can only be used if defects in the gametes will not allow fertilisation to occur or if there is the possibility that a gamete carries a genetic abnormality that can be passed onto the child.
In Australia, it is against the law to buy eggs from donors. Some clinics offer an egg donation service where women may donate their eggs to infertile couples. However, due to lengthy waiting lists and very few donors, clinics will encourage you to find your own donor.
With regard to parental rights, the law recognises that the woman who gives birth to the child is the mother, regardless of the child's genetic origins.
There is different legislation for freezing sperm depending on the intended use. If sperm is to be used to fertilise your partner's eggs to produce a child, then you will have legal and social obligations to care and support that child. If the sperm is to be donated, the only obligations you have are to undergo counselling and testing for transmissible diseases prior to donating.
Laws governing information access vary in each state. In Victoria, legislation dictates that a compulsory register must be kept detailing identifying information of donors and their offspring. Donors can find out how many children have been born from their donations. And children born from donated gametes or embryos can apply for their birth origin information once they reach the age of 18.
In NSW, there are no laws regarding identification issues for gamete and embryo donors or children. However, IVF clinics recommend that the donor be someone you know in order for the child to maintain some level of contact with their genetic 'parent'.
Whether you are male or female, enhancing your general health can have positive effects on your fertility. Incorporating the following into your lifestyle before and during the time you are trying to conceive could be beneficial:
Quit smoking. Smoking has been linked to low sperm counts and sluggish sperm motility in men and an increase in miscarriage in women.
Reduce your alcohol intake. Alcohol (especially binge drinking or chronic abuse), affects the fertility of both men and women trying to conceive either naturally or through infertility treatments. Alcohol is toxic to sperm, reduces sperm counts, can interfere with sexual performance, disrupt hormone balances and increases the risk of miscarriage.
For women, no more than one to two standard drinks a day is recommended. For men, the limit is slightly higher three to four standard drinks a day.
While the inability to conceive can place stress on a relationship, avoid the temptation to relieve the stress using alcohol. Other useful methods include meditation, relaxation, moderate physical activity and yoga.
Eat a balanced diet. A well-balanced diet includes carbohydrates, protein and fibre. All women should increase folic acid intake (found in green leafy vegetables, fruit, cereals, but also available as supplements) prior to and during the first three months of pregnancy.
Exercise moderately. Excessive exercise can lead to menstrual disorders in women and affect sperm production in men due to the heat build-up around the testicles.
Avoid environmental poisons and hazards such as pesticides, lead, heavy metals, toxic chemicals, and ionising radiation.
Check with your doctor that any medication or herbal remedies (prescribed or over-the-counter) that you may be taking do not affect fertility.
Give up recreational drugs such as marijuana and cocaine as these have been linked to low sperm counts in men and infertility in women.
Women in particular should:
Lose weight if you are overweight. Being overweight can decrease your chances of becoming pregnant. This can be achieved through moderate exercise and a balanced diet, both of which have positive effects on fertility.
Men in particular should:
Wear loose-fitting underwear such as cotton boxer shorts. Tight-fitting underwear can lower sperm production.
Prevent overheating. Stay clear of saunas, spas and hot baths, as heat around the testicles impairs sperm production.
New or improved infertility treatments are the subject of intensive scientific investigation. The following treatments are considered 'experimental':
Having eggs collected and frozen during a woman's twenties or early thirties may be one way of suspending the ageing process or at least its effects on eggs. These could be thawed and used in IVF or GIFT procedures later in life.
But while embryos can be successfully frozen, eggs are more difficult and scientists are still working on protocols.
Freezing and transplantation of ovarian tissue offers hope for preserving fertility in cancer patients whose eggs might otherwise be damaged by treatments such as chemotherapy or radiotherapy.
The strategy involves freezing pieces of ovarian tissue containing hundreds of eggs before cancer therapies begin. The tissue is then be transplanted back to its original place for conception to occur naturally at a later date. The tissue might even be able to be transplanted to other sites within the body (such as under the skin on the forearm) where the growth of eggs can be more readily monitored. In either case, the eggs might also be collected and fertilised through IVF.
One of the risks with this treatment is that that the stored tissue may contain cancer cells, which could reinfect the patient after transplantation. Therefore it may be appropriate only for patients with cancers that have virtually no chance of spreading to other parts of the body.
While the freezing of ovarian tissue is a simple and easy procedure and may be offered already at some IVF clinics its transplantation back into the body is still highly experimental. To date, three babies have been born using this technology. In light of these encouraging results, researchers continue to refine and evaluate this technique.
Long-term storage of ovarian tissue may allow options for women to better manage their fertility in the future. Ovarian tissue frozen during young adulthood could be used as an insurance policy against infertility in the future, either due to aging or other factors. Since ovarian transplants also produce sex hormones, the method could also be used as a form of hormone replacement therapy.
There are currently no safeguards for boys facing sterility after cancer treatments. They do not produce sperm that could be collected and frozen for later use until after puberty. However, the ability to transplant primitive sperm cells in the testes, known as stem cells, may be an option in the future.
Sperm start out as stem cells before undergoing a complex developmental process. Animal studies have shown these stem cells can be removed from the testes, frozen and transplanted back at a later date without harming their ability to grow into healthy sperm that can fertilise eggs and produce offspring.
This may be a strategy to guard against possible future infertility in adult men too. Although sperm itself can be frozen, having stored stem cells might mean an unlimited volume of sperm could be produced at a later time.
Adhesion the abnormal formation of a fibrous tissue between two organs, usually as a result of surgery.
Antibodies proteins produced by the immune system to destroy something it recognises as foreign. The abnormal presence of antibodies to sperm in a woman's body can prevent sperm from recognising and therefore fertilising an egg.
Androgen male sex hormone such as testosterone
Artificial insemination placing sperm into the reproductive tract of a woman.
Azoospermia the absence of sperm in an ejaculate.
Cervical mucus mucus produced by the cervix through which sperm must pass to gain access to the uterus and fallopian tubes. The amount and texture of the mucus changes at the time of ovulation.
Cervix opening of the uterus. It is found between the body of the uterus and the vagina.
Chromosome package of highly-coiled DNA in a cell, usually shaped like an X. There are 46 chromosomes (23 pairs) in most body cells but just one from each of the 23 pairs exist in healthy eggs and sperm.
Conception when a sperm fertilises an egg to from an embryo.
Cystic fibrosis a genetically inherited disease that affects the lungs and gut.
Down Syndrome a condition where an individual has an extra copy of chromosome 21 resulting in mental retardation, characteristic body shape and abnormalities of the heart and other organs.
Duchenne muscular dystrophy an inherited type of muscular dystrophy characterised by rapid muscle weakness starting in the legs and pelvis.
Eggs female sex cells, found in the ovary.
Ejaculate fluid released from the penis during orgasm that normally contains sperm.
Embryo An egg that has been fertilised by a sperm and has started to divide.
Embryo transfer The placement of embryos into the uterus using a fine sterile tube.
Endometriosis a condition where the lining of the uterus (which is shed each month), forms at abnormal places inside and outside of the uterus.
Endometrium Lining of the uterus or womb.
Epididymis structure on the outside of the testis which connect the testis to the spermatic cord. It is the location of sperm maturation and storage before ejaculation.
Fallopian tube a tube that stretches from the ovary to the uterus.
Fertilisation when a sperm enters the egg to form an embryo.
Fibroids benign growths of the muscle layer of the uterus.
Foetus an unborn individual in the later stages of development in humans, from seven to eight weeks after fertilisation until birth.
Follicle an egg surrounded by support cells.
Follicle stimulating hormone FSH. Hormone produced by the brain that stimulates the growth of follicles in the ovary and sperm development in the testes.
Gametes eggs and sperm.
GIFT gamete intrafallopian tube transfer.
Haemophilia A a rare heritable bleeding disorder where there is a shortage of one of the blood clotting factors (clotting factor VIII).
hCG human chorionic gonadotrophin. A hormone produced by the embryo after it has attached to the uterus. It has similar properties to luteinizing hormone and is used to induce maturation of eggs in the ovary during an IVF cycle.
Hormone replacement therapy a treatment where synthetic hormones are given to help overcome menopausal symptoms.
Huntington's disease a progressive genetic disorder involving the degeneration of nerve cells in the brain. It is characterised by abnormal movements of the body and mental decline.
Hydrocephalus a disorder associated with the build up of fluid in the brain resulting in brain damage.
ICSI intracytoplasmic sperm injection. A technique where a single sperm is injected directly into the egg.
IVF in vitro fertilisation. Infertility treatment where eggs and sperm are placed in vitro (meaning 'in glass') for fertilisation to occur outside the body.
Laparoscopy surgical procedure in which a small camera is inserted into the abdominal cavity so that internal organs can be viewed.
Luteinizing hormone LH. Hormone produced by the brain that is involved in egg maturation and ovulation in women. In men, it is involved in the production of testosterone.
Miscarriage spontaneous loss of an embryo or foetus from the uterus.
Muscular dystrophy a group of diseases that results in progressive weakness and loss of muscle tissue.
Oestrogen female sex hormone produced by the large growing follicles in the ovary.
Ovarian hyperstimulation a condition (sometimes fatal) where the ovaries become enlarged, painful and release fluid into the abdomen. It can occur in response to over stimulation with hormones, usually follicle stimulating hormone, in infertility treatments.
Ovary one of two reproductive organs in a female that produce eggs and secrete estrogen and progesterone.
Ovulation the process where the follicle opens to release the egg from the ovary. Occurs in response to luteinizing hormone.
Polycystic ovarian disease condition where the ovary contains numerous cysts, ovulation is disrupted and hormone levels (particularly testosterone) are abnormal.
Polyps benign growths of the inner wall of the uterus
Progesterone female sex hormone produced after ovulation in the ovary. The main hormone produced during pregnancy.
Sperm the male sex cells, produced in the testes.
Sperm count a method of analysing the volume of semen, number, shape and motility of sperm. A normal sperm count contains on average 60 million sperm per millilitre of semen, of which 50 per cent are healthy, motile sperm.
Spermatic cord known also as vas deferens. A tube which connects the epididymis to the urethra.
Subfertility having a reduced likelihood of becoming pregnant due to problems within the reproductive tract.
Testicular varicocele swelling of the blood vessels around the testes.
Thalassemia a group of genetic blood diseases where the molecules inside red blood cells that carry oxygen are decreased or absent.
Turner's Syndrome a genetic condition where the ovaries fail to fully develop and produce none or very few eggs resulting in total infertility. It occurs when one of the two X chromosomes are missing or incomplete.
Uterus also known as the womb. The place where the embryo attaches and grows during gestation. It comprises an outer muscular layer called the myometrium and an inner glandular lining called the endometrium. The endometrium is shed each month, resulting in a period.
Vasectomy surgical procedure where a segment of the spermatic cord is removed to prevent the sperm from being released into the ejaculate.
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What is LASIK
LASIK stands for laser assisted in-situ keratomileusis. This is a highly popular form of eye surgery and is used to correct a range of refractive errors, such as astigmatism, myopia and hyperopia. LASIK is a type of refractive surgery and involves controlled and precise targetting of the corneal tissue with a special laser. Corneal tissue is removed, resulting in a reshaping which enables improved vision.
The differences between LASIK and LASEK?
Many people wonder if there is a difference between LASIK and LASEK procedures, after all, the terms sound virtually identical! Both are methods of laser eye treatment.
During the LASIK procedure, the laser will be used to create an extremely thin protective flap on the cornea - the transparent part of your eye. This flap will then be lifted during the second part of the procedure and your vision will be corrected with a second laser. Both eyes can usually be treated on the same day.
LASIK has been successfully used to treat people for over twenty years and has helped millions of people to have improved eyesight. NASA even approve it for use on their astronauts!
The acronym LASEK represents Laser Assisted Sub-Epithelial Keratectomy. It is a more suitable option for people who have thin corneas or a medical condition that makes laser eye surgery more difficult to achieve. The surgery is more straightforward in some respects as only one laser is used to correct the patient's vision rather than the two that are used during LASIK.
An alcohol solution is carefully applied to the surface of the eye and an ultra-thin sheet is positioned directly on the eye. The alcohol solution helps to loosen the fine layer of cells on the surface of your eye known as the epithelium. These cells then adhere to the sheet. The surgeon will then carefully move the sheet to the side of your eye to gain access to the corneal layer which will be subjected to the laser.
The laser is used to reshape your cornea and after the procedure, a special protective contact lens will be placed in your eye to minimise any discomfort during the healing process. This lens can normally be removed after a few days. As with LASIK, it is usual for both eyes can be treated at the same time. Many patients notice an immediate improvement in their vision, but it may take several days for your eyesight to settle. The recovery process of LASEK can take a bit longer than LASIK — but usually no more than a fortnight. Most patients feel that this is a compromise that is well worth making because of the long-term benefits of corrected vision.
What is the right age for LASIK eye surgery?
The optimal age for LASIK eye surgery is above 18 years of age. Most young people who would like to have the surgery are discouraged as there is a high chance that their eyesight is still changing. Most surgeons advise that a person's prescription should be stable for a couple of years before the procedure. The most popular age to book a LASIK treatment is between 35 and 40 years old. People in this age category as most likely to have stable vision and are also more likely to be able to afford the treatment.
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Behind the Scenes: Thailand's IPEF Talks
By Mr Kavi Chongkittavorn, Senior Communications Advisor: At the weekly cabinet meeting last week, item No.15 was one of the most important issues up for discussion. This concerned a planned statement on the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework for Prosperity (IPEF) proposed by US President Joe Biden. The cabinet was quick to agree that Thailand was named as a signatory when Mr Biden announced the new trade agreement during his visit to Japan.
The decision came as a big surprise for analysts and pundits all too familiar with the long-standing recalcitrance of the Prayut administration about joining the long-awaited Comprehensive and Progressive Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP). Over the past two years, the government's coalition parties have been squabbling about the pros and cons of negotiating to join the CPTPP dragging down efforts to expand free trade networks. Given current domestic political conditions, the government does not want to raise the wrath of farmers and agricultural groups as their livelihoods would be negatively impacted despite repeated government pledges to provide compensation and subsidies.
During the meeting, cabinet ministers were told that the statement on the IPEF expressed, in simple terms, the country's desire to join talks on the new US economic proposal and ways to move forward. 'If there are amendments in the [US] announcement on parts that are not substantive or go against Thailand's interest, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs is allowed to consider them without further cabinet approval,' read the government's press release.
The cabinet also made clear that the talks on IPEF will focus on four priorities to promote economic security and sustainable development in the Indo-Pacific. These are matters involving trade and investment, supply chain resilience, decarbonisation and clean energy as well as taxation and anti-corruption. Mr Biden will announce the launch of the IPEF in Japan ahead of the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue or Quad summit.
In the coming days, these four broad areas will be further discussed in greater detail by signatories on a voluntary basis, according to the website. Should any Thai government department like to proceed with negotiations, a cabinet decision is first required. In a nutshell, the IPEF is still a work in progress to draw in new partners who want to be part of this new economic creation.
When the initial IPEF idea was proposed last October during Mr Biden's virtual meeting with Asean leaders at an Asean-US summit, he disclosed the US is preparing a new economic framework to increase economic engagement with the Indo-Pacific region after the US pulled out of the Trans-Pacific Partnership in 2017. Since then, discussions have been held among small groups of countries, namely the US, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, and Vietnam, all members of CPTPP to initiate a new trade bloc.
However as time went by, some of the participating countries, felt that the scope and membership of the new framework were too narrow and selective. As such, it would dissuade other countries in the region from taking part. At best, it must be inclusive to promote economic cooperation, not as a disguised security bulwark against a third party. At this juncture, with the war in Europe, the US wants to strengthen ties and cooperation with allies and friends in all areas.
Kudos must go to Japan for convincing the US that the new multilateral trade and investment framework should be open-ended and inclusive in nature. The US agreed and decided to welcome more regional economies to join in as signatories. In the weeks ahead of the special Asean-US summit, interested Asean countries increased to include Indonesia, the Philippines, Malaysia, and Thailand. South Korea, which has expressed the desire to join CPTPP, earlier committed to the IPEF talks.
Raison d'etre abounds to comprehend the Thai cabinet's surprising decision to enter the IPEF talks. First of all, it stemmed from an abortive effort to join the CPTPP as a latecomer. Now the UK, China, South Korea and other countries are on the waiting list. It will be years before other new members would be considered. As such, Thailand realises that it would be too late to associate with the CPTPP. As a signatory to the IPEF, it could shape rules and regulations to reflect Thai and regional interests.
In addition, for the past few months, Thailand has been assessing the possible political cost of taking part in the IPEF talks. The government is confident that there would be no public objection because Thailand will join other interested countries at the starting line. If there is anything that does not look palatable then Thailand could just throw in the towel.
It is interesting to note that Thailand's quick decision came after Thai-US relations improved. Last week, representatives from the two countries' Foreign Affairs and Defence ministries held their first strategic and defence dialogue in Washington, which they should have done a long time ago. Meanwhile, Thailand also realised that this is a good opportunity to negotiate with the US as an equal in a major trading bloc.
At the special Asean-US summit, Thailand outlined its future development strategies to ensure the success of a speedy recovery post-pandemic. Creating an international environment that is conducive to promoting mutual trust and strengthening a resilient supply chain is an important priority. Therefore, it is important to enhance sustainable development through a transition to a society based on clean energy and low carbon use. Prime Minister Prayut Jan-o-cha also urged all countries to work together to take up new development approaches, which Thailand has strongly advocated with the Bio-Circular-Green economic model, known as BCG. As the current chair of Apec, Thailand is pushing hard to garner support for the joint statement that will emphasise the BCG at the end of the Apec leaders' summit in November.
In addition, the IPEF provides a good platform for Thailand to put forth its national policies as outlined in the 13th Nation Economic and Social Development Plan (2023-2027) and realign them with international platforms. Political pressure from civil society organisations, private sectors, and grassroot groups will be lessened as Thailand can now leverage regional and global issues with other major economic partners.
Disclaimer: The views expressed are purely those of the authors and may not in any circumstances be regarded as stating an official position of the Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia.
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Citation: A Behavioral Analysis of Learning Curve Strategy, John D. Sterman and Rebecca Henderson, Sloan School of Management, MIT and Eric D. Beinhocker and Lee I. Newman, McKinsey and Company.
Neoclassical models of strategic behavior have yielded many insights into competitive behavior, despite the fact that they often rely on a number of assumptions-including instantaneous market clearing and perfect foresight-that have been called into question by a broad range of research. Researchers generally argue that these assumptions are “good enough” to predict an industry’s probable equilibria, and that disequilibrium adjustments and bounded rationality have limited competitive implications. Here we focus on the case of strategy in the presence of increasing returns to highlight how relaxing these two assumptions can lead to outcomes quite different from those predicted by standard neoclassical models. Prior research suggests that in the presence of increasing returns, tight appropriability and accommodating rivals, in some circumstances early entrants can achieve sustained competitive advantage by pursuing Get Big Fast (GBF) strategies: rapidly expanding capacity and cutting prices to gain market share advantage and exploit positive feedbacks faster than their rivals. Using a simulation of the duopoly case we show that when the industry moves slowly compared to capacity adjustment delays, boundedly rational firms find their way to the equilibria predicted by conventional models. However, when market dynamics are rapid relative to capacity adjustment, forecasting errors lead to excess capacity, overwhelming the advantage conferred by increasing returns. Our results highlight the risks of ignoring the role of disequilibrium dynamics and bounded rationality in shaping competitive outcomes, and demonstrate how both can be incorporated into strategic analysis to form a dynamic, behavioral game theory amenable to rigorous analysis.
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The future is here and this is not a butterfly on your wall, as Israeli drones are getting tiny. Their latest project – a butterfly-shaped drone weighing just 20 grams – the smallest in its range so far – can gather intelligence inside buildings. The new miniscule surveillance device can take color pictures and is capable of a vertical take-off and hover flight, just like a helicopter, reports the daily Israel Hayom. Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) says this may come in handy in ground clashes, when a soldier would merely take it out of a pocket and send behind the enemy’s line. The insect-drone, with its 0.15-gram camera and memory card, is managed remotely with a special helmet. Putting on the helmet, you find yourself in the “butterfly’s cockpit” and virtually see what the butterfly sees – in real time.
“The butterfly’s advantage is its ability to fly in an enclosed environment. There is no other aerial vehicle that can do that today,” Dubi Binyamini, head of IAI’s mini-robotics department, told Israel Hayom.
Structures under observation can be anything from train stations or airport terminals – or office buildings – to battlefields and even forests in, say, southern Lebanon, where Israel believes Hezbollah hides its ambush squads.
The virtually noiseless “butterfly” flaps its four wings 14 times per second. Almost translucent, it looks like an overgrown moth, but is still smaller than some natural butterflies.
This is bio-mimicry, when technology imitates nature. And this has proved to hide a trap. When the device was tested at a height of 50-meters, birds and flies tended to fall behind the device arranging into a flock.
The IAI, Israel’s major aerospace and aviation manufacturer, needs two more years to polish their “butterfly” project. The product seems to fall into the trend of reducing drone size. Their recent models promoted for city observation and conflicts were the Ghost, weighing 4 kg, and Mosquito, which weighs only 500 grams.
While the “butterfly” may bring “a real technological revolution,” as the developer predicts, to the military field, questions remain how it will change the civil life. The drone is also propped up for police use and there is little doubt that secret services will be only too happy to grab such an intricate weapon.
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William D. and Neppie Ann Woods Lucas and children. Ettrick Marion Lucas is at right in white collar. This photo was likely taken in the late 1890s in Arkansas, a few years after the family migrated from North Carolina.
William D. Lucas, grandson of William and Neppie W. Lucas, and wife Henrietta Lucas.
In the 1860 census of Coopers township, Nash County: farm laborer Chordy Locus, 26; wife Jinsey, 24; and children William, 2, and John, 1 month.
In the 1870 census of Black Creek township, Wilson County: farm laborer Cordie Lucas, 35; wife Quincy, 35; and children William, 10, Arnold, 9, Lahary, 7, Sidney, 5, Willie, 3, and Olivia, 1 month.
In the 1880 census of Coopers township, Nash County: Corda Lucus, 46; wife Jincy Jane, 45; and children William, 21, Arnold. Jno., 20, L.A. Jane, 17, Sidney E., 14, J. Wiley, 12, Livy A., 10, Martha A., 4, and Moning, 1.
On 3 February 1886, W.D. Lucas, 27, of Nash County, and Neppie Ann Wood, 21, of Franklin County, were married at Read Wood’s residence in Franklin County.
In the 1900 census of Madison township, Saint Francis County, Arkansas: farmer William D. Lucas, 42; wife Neffie, 35; and children William, 13, John, 12, Ettric, 9, Askew, 6, Peter, 5, and Emma, 2; and adopted daughter Della Short, 16. All but the youngest four children were born in North Carolina.
In the 1910 census of Telico township, Saint Francis County, Arkansas: farmer William D. Lucas, 43; wife Neppie A., 40; sons Askew W., 16, Ettrick M., 18, and Peter W., 13; adopted sister Dellar Short, 30; and Lula Wood, 17.
In 1918, William Lucas registered for the World War I draft in Saint Francis County, Arkansas. Per his registration card, he was born 30 November 1883; Lived in Forrest City, Arkansas; worked as an express driver for Wells-Fargo Express Company; and his contact was Anna Lucas.
In the 1920 census of Telico township, Saint Francis County, Arkansas: farmer Wm. Lucas, 60; wife Neppie, 53; son Ettrick, 28; grandchildren Susie, 7, Leonard, 6, William D., 4, and Linda, 3; cousin Leo Tabron, 8; and boarders Della Short, 45, Roy Allen, 19, and Louis Jones, 23.
Neppie A. Lucas died 13 September 1928 in Caldwell, Telico township, Saint Francis County, Arkansas. Per her death certificate, she was 63 years old; was born in North Carolina to Bill and Amanda Ritch; and was married to William D. Lucas. She was buried in Goodlow cemetery.
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Biden's supply chain disaster
Category: News & PoliticsBy: vic-eldred • 10 months ago • 91 comments
Remember the old "Car 54" theme song?
There's a holdup in the Bronx,
Brooklyn's broken out in fights.
There's a traffic jam in Harlem
That's backed up to Jackson Heights.
There's a scout troop short a child,
Khrushchev's due at Idlewild
Car 54, Where Are You?
That should be the theme song of the Biden administration. Right now there is a backlog of cargo ships waiting to get into major American ports. The problem? No it's not climate change or the pandemic. One thing is for certain: There is a shortage of truck drivers! What caused it? The question is debatable. Might it be granting too much relief to workers? Could it be the vaccine mandates (which I originally thought was a good idea)?
"The trucking industry moves nearly 71% of all freight in the U.S. and is heavily reliant on a vast number of trained and certified drivers to keep the supply chain running, according to estimates by the Commercial Vehicle Training Association, which is the largest association of commercial truck driving schools in the country."
Solving the problem will require leadership. I doubt it will come from vice president giggles or clueless Joe. Who can solve it? Most likely it will be the marketplace: specifically trucking companies.
1.1 Million drivers needed.
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online_fall_velocity: Fall velocity of a spherical sediment particle
This program calculates the fall velocity [w] of a spherical sediment particle using an iterative procedure, with the following steps:
- The particle Reynolds number [R] is assumed equal to 100.
- For the given Reynolds number, the drag coefficient CD is obtained from Fig. 15-1 in the text, assuming a spherical particle.
- The fall velocity is calculated with Eq. 15-2, assuming γs = 2.65 (quartz particles).
- The particle Reynolds number is calculated with Eq. 15-3.
- The absolute difference between assumed and calculated Reynolds number is compared to a specified tolerance (0.0001).
If the difference is greater than the tolerance, replace assumed with calculated value, and return to Step 2.
- Otherwise, stop and report results of last iteration.
Output is the number of iterations, and the last drag coefficient, particle
Reynolds number, and fall velocity (in m/s or fps) calculated.
Default units is SI (metric). The program can take U.S. Customary units.
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Interactive board book designed for avian enthusiasts with audio recordings of 12 bird's unique song.
Learn about the best-known garden bird species seen & heard across North America through detailed illustrations and interesting facts. The high-quality sound module makes it easy to hear and differentiate the elements of a bird's song, like pitch, tempo, whistles, trills and buzzes. Best of all, children will love pressing the buttons to hear the distinct calls, and being able to identify the chirpers they hear outside. Keep it on your windowsill for the whole family to enjoy and see who becomes the bird-song expert first! | <urn:uuid:dce78895-2b77-4b34-bcae-264329a9e86b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.wickeduncle.com/gifts/boys/age-8/the-little-book-of-backyard-bird-songs | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571911.5/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813081639-20220813111639-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.934186 | 129 | 2.671875 | 3 |
Historic victory for animal rights as the Canadian government bans from now on the keeping of dolphins and whales in captivity. The ‘Free Willy’ bill as passed by the nation’s House of Commons and is currently awaiting “royal assent” from the Senate. However, the odds are extremely high in the bill’s favor.
The name of the bill would be S-203, it was first suggested in 2015, therefore, it has now finally been passed after three years of exhaustive legislative fights. Furthermore, this bill is that there was support for it across many political parties which mean that issues related to the environment are not subject to party politics in Canada, and every citizen has to take a stand in order to protect the environment. Everyone has a role to play when it comes to environmental issues because we all share the planet Earth.
The dolphins and the whales as well, are traveling hundreds of miles a day and migrate across huge seas. Therefore, they are unable to do that, when kept in captivity, no matter how large the tank is.
“The passage of Bill S-203 is a watershed moment in the protection of marine animals and a victory for all Canadians,” Rebecca Aldworth, executive director of the Humane Society International/Canada, said in a statement. “Whales and dolphins don’t belong in tanks, and the inherent suffering these highly social and intelligent animals endure in intensive confinement can no longer be tolerated. We congratulate the sponsors of this bill and the Canadian government for showing strong leadership in responding to public will and sound science on this critical issue.”
INCREDIBLE! Keeping whales and dolphins in captivity is going to be banned in Canada! Legislation that bans keeping whales, dolphins, and porpoises in captivity for entertainment has just passed through Canadian Parliament. This is truly an historic victory! 🐳🐬 #cdnpoli #S203 pic.twitter.com/fZUD6gkRyg
— HSI/Canada (@HSI_Canada) June 10, 2019
It is obvious that the community is becoming more conscious and aware of how their activities are influencing the environment. Raising awareness from the government side is one of the best tools that can be used to change the things and reduce environmental issues. When there is an official law in place, so many things can be minimized and organizations will be stressed to follow suit. | <urn:uuid:fe1c2639-30e5-4b5e-8e85-fe39de50c649> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.homesluxury.net/canada-passes-free-willy-bill-making-now-illegal-to-keep-dolphins-and-whales-in-captivity/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.95/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817032054-20220817062054-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.956717 | 497 | 2.671875 | 3 |
To explain the question: I ran 500 meters uphill. This costs energy, which can be measured in Joules etc.
My question is: how far should I run on flat ground to expend the same amount of energy?
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Approximately 750 m.
Any physical activity has a MET value associated to it. The definition is not important; what matters for us is the following:
(...) MET can be thought of as an index of the intensity of activities: for example, an activity with a MET value of 2, such as walking at a slow pace (e.g., 3 km/h) would require twice the energy that an average person consumes at rest (e.g., sitting quietly).
A fortunate coincidence is that running on flat ground gives MET values that roughly coincide with the speed in km/h. For example, running at 12 km/h has a MET value of approximately 12 (it's actually 12.5). To compare that with running uphill, we need a MET table with values for different inclines. One is given by American College of Sports Medicine: Guidelines for Graded Exercise Testing and Exercise Prescription, 2nd Edition, Lea & Febiger, Philadelphia (1980) and reprinted in this article (the grades for outdoors are wrong, they're all halved). I found a formula that reproduces all those values with less than 0.7% error:
MET = 1 + (0.957*v - 0.064)*(1 + 0.045*g)
where v is the speed in km/h and g is the grade in percentage (e.g., for 7% incline, g = 7).
We really don't need to be too precise because there are so many other factors involved, so there's no problem simplifying the formula above to, say:
MET = v*(1 + 0.05*g)
That is, add 5% to the calories burned when running for every 1% of incline. In your case, it's 10% incline, so +50% calories. That's the same as running +50% of the distance: 500 + (50% of 500) = 750.
You could also try an online calculator (but some of them are way off). I tried this one with some typical values and the OP's weight:
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What techniques do modern-day dictators use to control protestors? Hari Sreenivasan and Slate editor William Dobson discuss Dobson's new book, "The Dictator's Learning Curve," a portrait of how today's dictators are confronting and controlling democracy activists.
Finally tonight, a portrait of how today's dictators are confronting and controlling democracy activists.
Hari Sreenivasan has our book conversation.
2011 brought the year of the protester. Demonstrations rocked Tunisia, Egypt and Libya. Yet, despite this wave of pro-democracy movements, the number of free countries declined for the sixth year in a row. That's according to the Freedom House Research institute.
One reason for that is authoritarian regimes are learning to manipulate political system without using brute force for suppression. A new book by William J. Dobson, "The Dictator's Learning Curve: Inside the Global Battle for Democracy," tackles that subject.
For two years, Dobson traveled the world to examine regimes that managed to rule with a velvet glove, in spite of their iron-fisted policies.
William Dobson, thanks for being with us.
WILLIAM J. DOBSON, Author, "The Dictator's Learning Curve: Inside the Global Battle for Democracy": Thanks for having me.
All right, so if modern-day dictators aren't using firing squads or kidnappings, what are they doing to stay in power?
WILLIAM J. DOBSON:
Well, the modern dictator understands that if you are going to try and keep ahold of your people, you have to use new and different techniques, such as — take, for example, Putin. Putin chooses to send tax inspectors or health inspectors to close down or shutter a dissident group.
In Venezuela, laws are written broadly and then used like a scalpel to — against any group that is deemed a threat. The Chinese Communist Party frequently refers to democracy and makes sure that all of its top leaders only serve two terms. There are all sorts of different ways in which regimes are finding how to move and navigate through forces that challenge their regimes that make them appear to be other than what they are.
So there is a scene in the book where you talk about the tension on the streets in China after the revolutions were happening in the Middle East, and they — how they were trying to prevent any spread of a Jasmine Revolution. Describe that.
Well, I was in China about 10 days after Mubarak fell.
And it was an incredible moment, because the party — on the one hand, there was no visible sign of revolution. But there was a tremendous tension. And there had been a call for people to assemble at different points around China at a particular moment on a particular day.
And the regime knew that. And so I was — I went to one of those spots at 2:00 p.m. on that Sunday. And it was an incredible thing. You saw the fear that the regime exhibited by just the sheer number of police that were present. But more than the police were the number of plainclothes policeman.
There were moments when I was walking through crowds, and literally, three, four, five people around me, they all had earpieces.
What did they try to do to prevent the crowds from assembling?
They have really developed excellent crowd control techniques, where they would move the crowds through with street-cleaning equipment. And they would push people through with lots of water, cleaning the same street corner again and again and again.
Mind you, no one is actually coming out to protest. No one is actually declaring, down with the Chinese Communist Party. If you were to do that, then you would be rushed away in no time by security. But, rather, the call had been for people just to come out for a stroll.
And that was sort of a very — that was a very clever way of going about it, because you can't really arrest someone for just walking down the street.
So there seems to be almost a cat-and-mouse game on what I would call the technologies of expression. Help folks understand that.
One of my favorite examples is actually from Egypt before the revolution, where you had members of the April 6 Movement, who they put out a call on Facebook for people to rally around a strike that was going happen in another part of the country.
And they said to people, on that day, just don't go to work, another easy way to sort of show your protest without actually taking enormous risk. Just stay within your home on that given day. And the support for this was enormous on Facebook. And so the regime's initial response was to start putting out a ticker on all television broadcasts saying, on April 6, everyone must go to work.
They inadvertently broadcast this message in a way that the members of April 6 never could have imagined. Egypt is a country of 81 million people. The regime had mistakenly, inadvertently communicated this protest to everyone.
Let's talk a little bit about Syria.
It's in the news. We see horrendous bloodshed there. Not necessarily advice for Assad, but how do you size that up? He's clearly chosen to go the old-fashioned route: Let's just mow people down.
That's exactly right.
He is really following his father's example, who in the early 1980s crushed an uprising at that time by murdering more than 25,000 people in the space of a month. His son hasn't killed that many yet over the space of a year, but he's taking that same approach, the slow-burning 20th century approach of trying to just resort to violence.
And that's what the regime did almost right away, as opposed to others, who have tried to accommodate these protests. I mean, the thing to remember about 2011 is that it wasn't just North Africa and the Middle East. This was — we saw protests spreading across the world. And we see how people reacted in many different ways.
In the case of Malaysia, there was a very sophisticated approach, where they essentially ultimately welcomed some of the protests as signs of a mature democracy. In Russia, much the same. Putin has complimented the protesters, while using laws to squelch it.
Which leads me to wonder if I'm a dictator and I have this control and there's people sort of saying whatever they want about me on Twitter and Facebook, why should I care?
A certain amount of actual dissent, open dissent isn't necessarily a bad thing. It's like a safety valve that lets some of the pressure out of the system. It lets people feel a certain amount of freedom without actually having the means of acting.
So you talk a lot in the book about almost a burgeoning cottage industry between pro-democracy movements and how much the U.S. government as well as others are trying to foment change in different ways.
Talk a little bit about how they are learning from each other.
Well, that's — it is an important element, because when I was traveling to a lot of these different countries, and I would talk to different student groups or activists, you name it, they would often draw off of examples that they had gathered from other places and other times.
So the call for people to go for a stroll in Beijing and across China, that was something that was actually done during the Solidarity movement in Poland in the 1980s. Others were taking lessons from the young Serbs who had overthrown Milosevic in 2000. When you have a police official or goon that really enjoys beating up children and beating up protesters, what do you do?
They took a tactic from the Serbs, where they take photographs of the person beating these people. They get their cell phone numbers. And they plaster posters of the man beating the kids in the places where his wife shops…
… where his children go to school. If we can't confront him through the badge, through the state, we can use his own family to shun him and to make him stop.
All right, the book is called "Dictator's Learning Curve."
William Dobson, thanks so much for your time.
Thank you for having me.
We have posted William Dobson's list of the top seven people tweeting against the authoritarian regimes online. That's on our World page.
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A view of one of the Taj Mahal entrances. The detail is just phenomenal. Notice the intricate calligraphy around the exterior, as well as the inner door itself. Most of the writing on the Taj Mahal is composed of various verses from the Quran. There is some more information below. Shah Jahan built the Taj Mahal to entomb his favourite wife, Mumtaz Mahal; he was later to be buried beside her upon his own death. Widely viewed as one of the most beautiful building’s in the world I was expecting to be somewhat let-down and definitely was not. It really is incredibly beautiful to see in person. | <urn:uuid:3a7891fd-8864-46ec-908e-b5fee1534a27> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://jameslawton.net/the-taj-mahal-3/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.95/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817032054-20220817062054-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.988738 | 134 | 1.90625 | 2 |
The ability to filter web searches using the Google search engine BY DATE is an important media literacy skill. In this 5 minute tutorial, Dr. Wesley Fryer demonstrates how to use the date filter in Google.
Instructions about how to do this are also available in Chapter 14 (“Filtering by Time and Place to Find the Original”) of the free online eBook, “Web Literacy for Student Fact Checkers” by Mike Caulfield (@holden).
This skill was included as a Badgr mini-project in Dr. Fryer’s April 14, 2019 workshop at the ATLIS (Association of Leaders of Independent Schools) Conference in Dallas, Texas, titled, “Filtering the ExoFlood: Strategies for Media and Information Literacy.” All resources from that workshop are available on wfryer.me/exoflood.
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In hindsight, it’s probably one of the funnier stories of our careers but at the time it was anything but and nearly cost us our jobs.
Part of the attraction of moving to Wood Buffalo National Park in the late 1980’s was the opportunity to work in the largest, intact wolf-bison ecosystem remaining on the planet, although at the time, this amazing ecosystem was under threat from both external and internal pressures that were converging on a plan to slaughter the park’s bison population and replace it with so-called “pure” wood bison.
But the plan was to run afoul of park staff, local First Nations and the Canadian public and backfired in spectacular fashion.
To make a long story short (and to avoid incriminating people), CBC‘s Double Exposure took up our cause with a satirical piece entitled Bart the Buffalo.
Here it is for your listening pleasure.
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May 5th, 1818, was a Tuesday. It was day 125 of 1818. The decade was the 1810s.
204 years, 3 months and 10 days have passed since May 5th, 1818.
The zodiac star sign for this date is Taurus.
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Celebrities, historical figures and other notable people who were born on May 5th.
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James Monroe was the President of the United States on May 5th, 1818.
Robert Jenkinson was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom on May 5th, 1818.
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History, culture and natural beauty are what have made Germany famous. Thanks to the great historical cities and small towns, the abundance of forests and mountains, visitors have many options to choose from. Those who want to visit or discover art and architecture can go to metropolitan areas, and those who want to spend their free time in recreational activities and leisure can visit places like the Bavarian Alps, the Black Forest or the Rhine Valley. Below, we have listed six perfect weekend trips in Germany.
- Leipzig – The largest city in the region of Saxony, Leipzig is known for art and culture, famous composers of music such as Bach, Richard Wagner, and Felix Mendelssohn. The city is a perfect destination for weekend trips in Germany. Tourists can enjoy concerts to discover Bach’s works at St. Thomas Church, where Bach served as choirmaster and is buried. Apart from historical sites such as the old town hall, the city has quite a few iconic structures, such as the Napoleonic monument and “Reichsgericht”, the former high court of the Reich. Leipzig also has a massive city square, the Augustusplatz.
- The Rhine Valley – Sneaking between the cities of Bingen and Bonn, the Rhine flows through a spectacular geological formation called the Rhine Gorge. This region offers a spectacular landscape and is a popular destination for weekend trips in Germany. There are several medieval castles and picturesque villages with vineyards. The most famous natural attraction of the region is the Lorelei, the deepest and narrowest section of the Rhine Gorge, where there is a large, treacherous rock that caused many boating accidents before the 19th century. The best way to discover the Rhine is by taking a river cruise.
- Schwerin – The capital of Mecklenburg is a town more than a thousand years old, famous for its castle on an island in Lake Schwerin. The picturesque palace now houses the State Parliament. The State Art Museum has an outstanding collection of works by Dutch painters from the 16th century as well as works by German artists from medieval times to the present day. The city is surrounded by seven lakes that have turned it into a picturesque paradise.
- Cologne – Located on the banks of the Rhine in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia, Cologne is one of the most popular places to visit in Germany. The city offers a dynamic array of attractions, nightlife, art, and culture. But the symbol of this city is its Gothic cathedral which is beautiful. In addition, the city has twelve Romanesque churches that are magnificent examples of medieval architecture.
- Munich – Known for the world-famous Oktoberfest, Munich is one of the most beautiful cities to enjoy weekend trips in Germany. Munich is home to several houses and sophisticated opera theaters such as the National Theater. The city center is an attractive blend of classical and modern architecture, teeming with historic churches, medieval walls, and royal palaces, as well as lively shopping malls and nightclubs. The Munich Oktoberfest started in 1810 on the occasion of the celebration of a royal wedding. Today, this famous beer festival attracts millions of visitors each year to take part in the debauchery, in several gigantic beer tents where you can discover the delicious Bavarian cuisine and where millions of liters of beer are consumed.
- Berlin – Capital of Germany, Berlin is largely known for its history, from World War II to the division of East and West by the Berlin Wall during the Cold War. Since the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, Berlin has been present as a large, unified and diverse city. The city is today rich in the tourist attraction, cultural and nocturnal. Tourists are often attracted by Berlin’s famous historic structures including the Brandenburg Gate and the Reichstag. Although the majority of the Berlin Wall has been demolished, some parts are still standing near Checkpoint Charlie and the Reichstag. | <urn:uuid:ab8c27e0-74a5-4298-9e31-7675b2b466a0> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.wowrange.com/6-perfect-weekend-trips-in-germany/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572212.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815205848-20220815235848-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.95952 | 830 | 2 | 2 |
A New Zoo
by Mary Friesen
Exciting changes have been underway for the Lincoln Children’s Zoo the last few years. The zoo is getting close to finishing its $16 million expansion which will double the size of the zoo. The expansion will also allow the zoo to be open year-round.
The expansion will make room for southern giraffes, Sumatran tigers and spider monkeys. In September 2018, the zoo received three giraffes. The first giraffe to arrive, a 1-year-old female from the Como Park Zoo in St. Paul, Minnesota, will be named by Lincoln first graders. She is joined by two other 1-year-old giraffes Allie and Joey, from Oklahoma City and Seattle.
The giraffes will be housed in one of the premier giraffe habitats in the country. The nearly 28 foot tall building features a large indoor habitat, bedrooms for each giraffe and an indoor feeding area where guests will be able to feed them lettuce year-round. The public will be able to view the giraffes and the new giraffe exhibit in May 2019.
In addition to the giraffes, the zoo will be receiving Sumatran tigers in 2018. The tiger habitat features a rock area for the tigers to roam and a water area where they can play. Children will be able to sit in the driver’s seat of a safari vehicle next to a tiger. The vehicle is divided by a large piece of glass so kids and tigers can sit side by side.
Joining the giraffes and tigers will be spider monkeys. The building that will host the spider monkeys is one of the most anticipated and exciting places in the Zoo. It will feature a climbing structure that will share a space with the spider monkeys so families can climb to different heights and get different views of the monkeys.
The climbing structure resembles a treehouse and includes tunnels that will go inside the spider monkey habitat.
Finishing out the expansion is a playful stream area which will allow access to tigers, spider monkeys, giraffes and the original Zoo. The area will include small paths where guest can find animals, flowers, plants and trees. The red pandas will move from their current location to the new plaza. The pandas will be able to move from habitat to habitat right above guests walking on the path.
The Zoo’s new stream will be located across from the red panda exhibit. The shallow stream will be about an inch deep and include areas where kids can play.
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In a tiny business, the company leader may manage a small amount of people, all whom they directly manage. However, like a business becomes effective and expands, with increased staff joining the ranks, the company leader may need to employ managers or team leaders to consider proper care of its employees, developing a hierarchy or pyramid structure that contains numerous branches or channels. This can inevitably imply that the company leader will be responsible for handling the management team, who’re consequently accountable for handling the other employees.
While you will find apparent advantages to this method, having a business leader focusing priorities in other locations while managers organise the job and staff, it is crucial that some control, trust and responsibility are worked out by individuals managers to delegate tasks effectively. While managing staff may be one factor, managing managers is really a different game entirely.
So what exactly is a great way to consider when supervising an administration team? This is a listing of methods detailing how you can manage managers most effectively:
Set obvious short and lengthy-term goals: It might seem apparent, but it’s imperative that managers know what they’re working towards. Make sure to set obvious short-term (monthly) in addition to lengthy-term (yearly) goals, that are realistic and achievable. Should they have unsuccessful to satisfy their targets when expectations were clearly organized and decided, then they may be attributed however, if no obvious path continues to be formerly organized, it’s fair to state their leader would be to blame.
Don’t make plans without talking to them: A supervisor inside a department might have been employed for the reason, for instance their set of skills or understanding on the certain subject, so imagine their frustration if your decision is created by somebody greater in the chain of command – particularly if it’s the wrong decision – without checking together first or requesting their opinion. When focusing on a company-wide plan that will affect certain managers, make sure to include them. Contrary, it ought to help to improve the program, but the manager will feel involved.
Don’t micromanage: A crime from the small business operator that has needed to expand. Managers towards the top of the chain shouldn’t micromanage every nitty-gritty detail of the management team. Managing their staff directly – without studying the manager – ought to be prevented, as it may confuse workloads and wreck havoc on a manager’s plans. It might be challenging for somebody that accustomed to control everything, but business proprietors should realize that managers ought to be given space to create their very own decisions, with influence and guidance, rather to be told just how they ought to manage.
Pay attention to your managers: Managers won’t need guidance and assistance but might also develop ideas inside their own department which might influence other locations on the business-wide scale. Pay attention to their concerns, pay attention to their suggestions. An innovator who not pay attention to their managers should never be in a position to manage effectively, especially if they’re too nervous to talk up.
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Wired Smart Cities
What Makes a Town or City “Smart”?
“Smart” communities use computing and communication technology to provide innovative solutions to complex issues.The goal is to stimulate community-based social and economic improvement and enhance our quality of life. The backbone of a wired smart city is optical fiber to every home and building — an electronic highway promoting collaboration, connection, commerce, and culture.
Don’t we Need Wireless 5G to Be “Smart”?
Take a peek at this “Smart City in a Box” Diagram created by Surbana Jurong and Microsoft.
Other than ITown which is all about taking pictures with a mobile phone, every single function shown – yes, even the smart toilet! – could be better accomplished with municipal fiber than with 5G. That’s right – a wired fiber network could accomplish essentially all the same functions as wireless 5G, but would do so more economically, more reliably, and more safely. In the very few cases where wireless is needed for mobility, pre-existing wireless protocols could be used.
For the techies: 5G is all about higher data rates and lower network latency. But the sensor technologies used by “smart city” sensor networks and the Internet of Things tend to be low data-rate applications and not real-time interactive. 5G would be unnecessarily complicated and over-the-top for the stuff inside the box and for most sensor networks – things like monitoring water flow, temperature, structural factors, and traffic, and metering electricity, water and gas.
What if I want to commute like the Jetsons?
Autonomous vehicles are currently engineered to rely on wireless signals. But 5G millimeter waves are so highly directional, short range, and easily blocked by buildings, bodies, and more, they will not offer dependable city-wide coverage. For reasons of safety and reliability, it would be foolhardy to depend on wireless signals to get us from Point A to Point B.
The Wise Way
In his groundbreaking February 2018 report, Re-Inventing Wires: The Future of Landlines and Networks, Dr. Timothy Schoechle explains how a wired fiber infrastructure that includes wired secure gateways is the best way to achieve “smart” city applications.
Truly smart communities begin with wired community-owned fiber-to-the premises networks. The possibilities?
- Water systems
- Energy systems—smart grid and clean energy
- electric power grid management for localization and decentralization solar+storage
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- metering of electricity, water, gas, etc
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- Public services (government information dissemination)
- Education, training, and distance learning
- Work at home enablement
- Small business development through an improved ability to connect to customers/resources, trade and commerce
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Aboveground storage vessels come in various sizes and dimensions. Lets take a look at some of them. Tanks that can hold 550 gallons and measure 48 x 6-0. Tanks that have a holding capacity of 1,100 gallons and measure 48 x 12-0. On the other hand, tanks that can hold 1,000 gallons and measure 64 x 6-0. Aboveground Storage Tank Operator HandbookABOVEGROUND STORAGE TANKS Aboveground Storage Tanks (ASTs) come in many different sizes . Most ASTs have cylindrical sides or shells and flat tops and bottoms. They are set vertically (on end) or horizontally (on sides). Most ASTs are constructed out of steel. Older tanks have riveted or bolted seams and newer tanks are welded. API Standards for Tanks - EnggCyclopediaAPI Standard. Title. Description. API-620. Design and Construction of Large, Welded, Low Pressure Storage Tanks . Guide for construction of tanks with internal pressures up to 15 psig. For large tanks which are assembled in field and are used for storage of petroleum intermediates and petroleum products. API 650.
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When our children were young, one of their favorite ways to bother a sister or brother was to copy what that sibling said. Before long, “Mom, she’s copying me!” would echo at least twice through our house as the copied child grew tired of the “game” that was being enjoyed by the other sibling. Copying the brother or sister took little effort on the part of the sibling. It simply required repeating what the other one said, matching tone and volume.
Romans 12:2 begins with “Don’t copy the behavior and customs of this world” (NLT). Much like my children’s copying game, to copy the behavior and customs of this world takes little thought or effort for me. I just act out what I observe or what comes easily or naturally to me. For example, judging others by appearance alone is one of the world’s customs that I’m quick to copy.
The rest of Romans 12:2 encourages me instead to let God transform my thinking so that I can learn God’s will. What does it take to transform my thinking? If God must do the transforming, then the process must be something that I cannot do for myself. And without God’s work of transforming my thinking, will I be able to learn God’s will and act on it?
Paul says in Ephesians 5:1-2, that we are to imitate God in everything we do. I wonder if the only way to imitate or follow God’s example is through a transformed mind that doesn’t just copy outward behavior. If my thinking is transformed to the mind of Christ, I can thus learn and then act on what God wants me to do. To learn and act as God would want takes much more effort than simply copying a behavior. I must have a new way of looking at life and practice acting out of that new perspective.
Much as my children have—at least I hope—outgrown their copying game, I pray that I will outgrow the habit of doing what comes easily to my human nature. As I submit to God’s transforming of my mind, I hope to learn how to imitate and follow Christ’s example of a life filled with sacrificial love.
I join many of those who will pray for you as you seek to discern what you are called to be at this moment. May God grant you the courage to fulfill that calling. May we all open our eyes and see the misery, open our ears and hear the cries of God’s people, and, like God through the Lord Jesus Christ, be incarnate amongst them.”
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POSSIBLE NOVA IN M31
Mi Zhang and Xing Gao, report the independent discovery of a possible nova (mag
approximately 16.6) on several 300-s survey images (limiting mag about 20.0)
taken by Xing Gao in Xingming Observatory Sky Survey(C42) around Mar. 08.58523
UT using a unfiltered CCD ( + 0.6-m f/8 Ritchey-Chretien telescope ). The
transient was independently discovered and first announced by Koichi Itagaki and
designated as PNV J00424612+4111362. The transient approximately located at
R.A.=00h42m46.14s +41d11’35”.8 (equinox 2000.0). Which is about 20.5″ east and
272.7″ south of the center of the NGC224(M31). Nothing is visible at this
position on archival images taken on Mar. 03.63137 UT(limiting mag 20.0).
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It's Official: Retirees Will Not Receive a COLA in 2016
This is only the third time in 40 years that there hasn’t been an adjustment.
This story has been updated.
Federal and military retirees will not receive a cost-of-living adjustment for 2016.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics on Thursday published the final data point used to calculate the annual COLA for all retirees and disabled veterans. There will be no benefit increase, largely because of low gas prices.
The average of the July, August and September 2015 Consumer Price Index for Urban Wage Earners and Clerical Workers (CPI-W), along with the average from the third quarter of 2014, is used to calculate the 2016 COLA. The annual COLAs are based on the percentage increase (if any) in the average CPI-W for the third quarter of the current year over the average for the third quarter of the last year in which a COLA became effective. In this case, that is 2015 and 2014.
The average CPI-W for the third quarter of 2015 is 233.278; that’s less than the average for the third quarter of 2014 (234.242). No increase, no COLA.
The CPI-W measures price changes in food, housing, gas and other goods and services.
This is only the third time in 40 years that there hasn’t been a COLA.
Many federal retirees will feel the pinch of no COLA because of a jump in Medicare Part B premiums, which are estimated to increase by more than 50 percent next year.
National Treasury Employees Union President Tony Reardon said it was “absolutely unfair” to force those retirees to pay higher premiums. “NTEU is committed to doing all it can to protect seniors from escalating and unaffordable Medicare costs in 2016,” he said.
Part B beneficiaries who are covered under the Civil Service Retirement System (CSRS) and who do not receive Social Security benefits will have to pay the 2016 premium increase unless Congress changes the law to lump them in with the 70 percent of beneficiaries who are “held harmless” from the increase. Under the hold harmless provision of the Social Security Act, the dollar increase in Medicare Part B premiums is limited to the dollar increase in an individual’s Social Security benefit.
“This is about more than just money, it is about basic fairness,” said National Active and Retired Federal Employees Association President Richard Thissen.
“There is no reason why two people with the same income should pay different Medicare premiums based on whether the money is coming from a Social Security check or a checking account.”
Rep. Dina Titus, D-Nev., and Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., have introduced legislation to make the hold harmless provision applicable to all Medicare beneficiaries.
American Federation of Government Employees President J. David Cox also decried the absence of a COLA for retirees next year, pointing to the 7.4 percent increase in premiums for enrollees in the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program. “The prices for many items that seniors must purchase is rising faster than the overall inflation rate. The most important of these are health insurance premiums."
Retirees received a 1.7 percent COLA increase for 2015, a 1.5 percent boost for 2014, a 1.7 percent increase for 2013 and a 3.6 percent bump for 2012. The 2012 COLA increase was the first since October 2008 (which took effect in 2009).
If there had been a COLA for retirees, it would have been become effective in December 2015, with pay-outs starting in January.
Employees still working for the federal government do not receive a COLA, but they may end up doing better than retirees. Federal workers at the moment are on track to receive a 1.3 percent pay raise in 2016.
For a history of COLAs and federal employee pay raises going back to 1970, review this Retirement Planning column from Tammy Flanagan, the senior benefits director for the National Institute of Transition Planning Inc.
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How Common Is Breast Cancer In Men
Although it is rare, men can get breast cancer. Learn about symptoms of breast cancer in men and things that may increase your risk. Breast cancer is most often found in women, but men can get breast cancer too. About 1 out of every 100 breast cancers diagnosed in the United States is found in a man.
What Are The Risk Factors
Several factors can increase a mans chance of getting breast cancer. Having risk factors does not mean you will get breast cancer.
- Getting older. The risk for breast cancer increases with age. Most breast cancers are found after age 50.
- Genetic mutations. Inherited changes in certain genes, such as BRCA1 and BRCA2, increase breast cancer risk.
- Family history of breast cancer. A mans risk for breast cancer is higher if a close family member has had breast cancer.
- Radiation therapy treatment. Men who had radiation therapy to the chest have a higher risk of getting breast cancer.
- Hormone therapy treatment. Drugs containing estrogen , which were used to treat prostate cancer in the past, increase mens breast cancer risk.
- Klinefelter syndrome.Klinefelter syndromeexternal icon is a rare genetic condition in which a male has an extra X chromosome. This can lead to the body making higher levels of estrogen and lower levels of androgens .
- Certain conditions that affect the testicles. Injury to, swelling in, or surgery to remove the testicles can increase breast cancer risk.
- Liver disease. Cirrhosis of the liver can lower androgen levels and raise estrogen levels in men, increasing the risk of breast cancer.
- Overweight and obesity. Older men who are overweight or have obesity have a higher risk of getting breast cancer than men at a normal weight.
Talk to your doctor about your familys history of cancer.
What Is Male Breast Cancer And Who Does It Affect
Breast cancer in men is very similar to breast cancer in women. A painful lump in the breast male can be detected under the chest cavity surrounding the pecs. The painful lump in breast males, upon diagnosis, is often found to be breast cancer, which is a form of tissue growth in the breast region.
Male breast cancer is usually detected in older men even though it is possible to develop the condition at any age or stage of life. If detected early, you can have the excessive breast tissue removed or treated with radiation and chemotherapy.
Most cases of breast cancer in men are easily diagnosed and treated before it spreads. It is best to keep an eye out for the male breast cancer symptoms and seek treatment if you find any painful lump in the breast male.
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What Else Do We Know About How Breast Cancer Differs In Men And Women On A Molecular Level
Another molecular test used to guide breast cancer treatment decisions is a test for the HER2 protein. Twenty percent of female breast cancers have an increased number of copies of HER2, and HER2-positive status indicates that patients are likely to respond to one of several drugs that target the HER2 protein.
However, less is known about HER2 status in relation to male breast cancer, Dr. Gucalp says. The available data are varied. A few studies suggest that HER2 is less common in male breast cancer, but more research is needed.
This summer, MSK experimental pathologist Jorge Reis-Filho published a study in which his team sequenced the tumors of 59 male breast cancer patients. They found that in addition to a lower incidence of HER2-positive status, the two most frequent alterations in female disease in the genes PIK3CA and TP53 are less frequent in men. He also found that men with breast cancer were more likely to have mutations in genes that affect DNA repair including BRCA2.
The most important message is that we should not extrapolate the results of studies we do in female breast cancer to male breast cancer, Dr. Reis-Filho says. When it comes to specific genetic alterations, there are important differences.
Risk Factors For Male Breast Cancer
Several factors are known to increase the risk that a man will develop breast cancer. But its important to know that many men who develop breast cancer do not have any of these risk factors.
Factors that can increase a mans breast cancer risk include:
The risk of male breast cancer increases as you age. The average age of men diagnosed with breast cancer in the United States is about 67. But breast cancer can occur in young men, too.
A mans risk for breast cancer is higher if any of his close relatives have had breast cancer, and especially if any male relatives have had the disease.
Men who inherit certain genetic mutations from their mothers or fathers have a higher risk of developing breast cancer. A man who inherits a BRCA1 mutation has about a 1% risk of developing breast cancer in his lifetime, compared to a risk of 0.1% for the average man. A man who inherits a BRCA2 mutation has a 7% to 8% risk.
Mutations in the ATM, CHEK2, PALB2, and other genes are also linked to breast cancer in men, but more research is needed to understand those risks.
You may think of testosterone as a male hormone and estrogen as a female hormone. The truth is, both men and women have different levels of testosterone and estrogen in their bodies. Men have less estrogen than women, but all men have some estrogen in their bodies.
Higher levels of estrogen can increase the risk of male breast cancer. Men can have high estrogen levels as a result of:
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What Is The Outlook For Men With Breast Cancer
The outlook for men diagnosed with breast cancer depends on several factors including the stage at which the cancer is caught, the extent of spread, and type of tumor, among others. In general, the prognosis is best when the cancer is detected at an early stage. Thats why it is important for men who notice symptoms of breast cancer to see a doctor for evaluation.
After treatment, men should continue to follow up regularly with a doctor to monitor recovery and possible recurrence of breast cancer or the emergence of cancer elsewhere in the body.
What Are The Symptoms Of Breast Cancer In Men
Public relations campaigns dont often encourage men to check their breasts for cancermost breast cancer messaging is directed to women. However, its important for everyone to be aware of any changes in their bodies.
Signs of breast cancer in men include:
- Fluid leaking from the nipple
- Indentions or puckers in the skin
- One or more lumps under the skin
- Nipple turning inward
- Redness, swelling or warmth
If you notice any of these changes in your body, be sure to ask your primary care provider about them. If you dont have a visit scheduled in the near future, call your doctor and schedule an appointment right away.
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Dcis Of The Male Breast
DCIS accounts for approximately 5% of breast cancers in men.84 It usually presents clinically with symptoms of a retro-areola cystic-type mass or bloody nipple discharge. Clinical, rather than mammographic, detection possibly accounts for the different incidence of DCIS between men and women. The predominant histological subtypes of DCIS in men are papillary and cribriform. Standard treatment is total mastectomy with excision of the nippleâareola complex but wide excision and radiotherapy is being used more frequently.85 Pure DCIS in men is usually of low or intermediate grade less than 3% of cases are high grade. In a series of 114 patients, 84 with pure DCIS and 30 with DCIS and invasive cancer, there were no cases of high-grade comedo DCIS in men without an invasive tumour.86 The percentage of men with DCIS that eventually develop an invasive cancer is not known.
Sarika Jain, William J. Gradishar, in, 2018
What Are The Stages Of Male Breast Cancer
After diagnosing breast cancer, providers classify the disease using a process called staging. Providers measure the tumor and look at its location. They determine whether the tumor has spread to lymph nodes, surrounding breast tissue or other parts of your body. Lymph nodes are small organs that move fluid through the body and help protect you from illness.
The stages of male breast cancer are:
Stage 0: Cancer cells are only in the ducts. Cancer has not spread to other breast tissue.
Stage I: The tumor is small and hasnt spread to the lymph nodes.
Stage II: One of these is true:
- The tumor is smaller than 20 millimeters and has spread to a few axillary lymph nodes. Axillary nodes are lymph nodes in the armpit.
- The tumor is 20 mm to 50 mm across and has not spread to the axillary lymph nodes . Or the tumor is 20 mm to 50 mm and has spread to the axillary lymph nodes .
- The tumor is larger than 50 mm and has not spread to a few axillary lymph nodes.
Stage III: Cancer has spread typically to several lymph nodes. Cancer cells may also be in the chest wall or skin. It has not spread to other areas of the body away from the breast.
Stage IV: Cancer cells have spread to other parts of the body away from the breast. Cancer can spread to all areas of the body, including the lungs, bones, liver or brain.
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What Is The Most Common Type Of Breast Cancer In Men
The most common type of breast cancer in men is infiltrating ductal cancer. This is cancer that starts in milk duct and spreads to nearby tissues.
Other less-common types of breast cancer in men include inflammatory carcinoma and Paget disease of the nipple. A type of breast cancer called lobular carcinoma in situ is very rare in men. This is because men don’t have much lobular tissue. Lobular tissue is where breast milk is made.
What Is Breast Cancer In Men
Breast cancer occurs mainly in women, but men can get it, too. Many people do not realize that men have breast tissue and that they can develop breast cancer. Cells in nearly any part of the body can become cancer and can spread to other areas.
Breast cancer starts when cells in the breast begin to grow out of control. These cells usually form a tumor that can often be seen on an x-ray or felt as a lump. The tumor is malignant if the cells can grow into surrounding tissues or spread to distant areas of the body.
To learn more about how cancers start and spread, see Cancer Basics.
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Some Men Can Benefit From Breast Cancer Screenings
Experts dont recommend routine breast cancer screenings for men in general however, for those who are at a high risk of the diseasethey have a personal or family history, or a confirmed genetic markerregular screenings may make sense, Dr. Mortimer says. A study published in Radiology found that male breast cancer screening in high-risk patients yielded a cancer-detection rate of about 18 diagnoses per 1,000 examinations.
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My Treatment At Clara Maass Was Excellent
Male breast cancer is rare enough that most men dont even consider it. According to the American Cancer Society, fewer than 1 percent of all breast cancers occur in men. The risk that a female will have breast cancer at some point in her life is one in 8, whereas the risk of male breast cancer is one in 833.
Those statistics make it all the more shocking for men like Louis Graham, 68, a retired IT security analyst for RWJBarnabas Health, who recently discovered that he had the disease.
A decade earlier, the West Orange resident had noticed that his right breast was growing larger. He visited a doctor, who took X-rays, but didnt believe anything was amiss.
Last December, Louis noticed that his left breast was also enlarged. It was like I was on steroids. It was so noticeable that the guys at the Y even mentioned it.
Then he discovered a lump in his left breast. He went to his primary care provider, who ordered a mammogram and ultrasound, followed by biopsies that diagnosed the bilateral breast cancer.
To learn about his treatment options, Louis met with , Director of Breast Surgery at the Center for Breast Health and Disease Management at Clara Maass Medical Center , who is also affiliated with Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey.
Dr. Kowzun ordered an MRI for additional imaging. At that point, Louis decided to go to Aruba on vacation in case it was my last chance, he explains. Id lost my wife of 46 years the year before, and I was still in mourning.
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Every Breast Lump Should Be Evaluated By A Doctor
The bottom line is that any mass in a breast, male or female, needs to be taken seriously and evaluated by a doctor, says Joanne Mortimer, MD, a medical oncologist specializing in breast cancer at City of Hope, a cancer research and treatment center in Duarte, California. Men need to be encouraged to take their health seriously, Dr. OHea says. Regardless of cancer, all men can benefit from increased awareness of their body.
What Are The Types Of Male Breast Cancer
Breast cancer in men usually begins in the breast ducts. Ducts are tubes that carry milk to the nipple. Although men have milk ducts and glands that create milk, they dont work like the ducts and milk-producing glands in women.
The types of male breast cancer include:
- Invasive ductal carcinoma: Cancer begins in the breast ducts and spreads to other parts of the breast. Cancer cells may also spread to other areas of the body. Invasive ductal carcinoma is the most common type of breast cancer in people regardless of gender.
- Invasive lobular carcinoma: Cancer begins in the lobules . Lobular breast cancer can also spread to other parts of the body.
- Ductal carcinoma in situ : Cancer cells grow in the lining of the breast ducts. They have not spread to other parts of the breast or the rest of the body. Ductal carcinoma in situ is uncommon in men.
- Inflammatory breast cancer: Usually a type of invasive ductal carcinoma, inflammatory breast cancer is very rare in men. The breast tissue is swollen and red. It feels warm to the touch, and the skin may be dimpled, but there is no lump.
- Pagets disease of the nipple: Cancer cells grow in the ducts and spread to the nipple and the area around the nipple. Pagets disease of the nipple is also called Pagets disease of the breast or mammary Paget disease.
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An Overview Of Male Breast Cancer
Male breast cancer is just as rare as it sounds, only its real. Of all the breast cancers, one percent of occurs in men. The causes and risk factors are similar as in any breast cancer in women. There are no defined causes for breast cancer but there are certain risk factors that increase the chances/risk of getting cancer in men and women. To prevent and/or cure cancer, we must know the risk factors, causes, symptoms, and treatments.
Coming to statistics, breast cancer has taken 0.22 % deaths of all cancers in men. The survival rate in both, men and women, breast cancer is on the rise to state a positive note.Certain risk factors for male breast cancer include men having enlarged breasts with the increase of breast tissue in them and can find a small tissue that feels like a button, under the areola. This could be a condition of gynecomastia.
Similar to gynecomastia, Klinefelter syndrome is another condition that comes across as a risk factor for breast cancer in men. This condition is a rare genetic problem. The X chromosome is extra in men when they have this condition. Smaller testicles and enlarges breasts are the results of Klinefelter syndrome and if one feels he has that condition, then he must visit the doctor.
If there is a family history on breast cancer or genetic mutation , it can increase the risk of breast cancer in men.
Effects On Sexual And Psychiatric Functioning And Postfinasteride Syndrome
Q34.10 Infrequently decreased libido, erectile and ejaculatory dysfunction, decreased ejaculate volume, and testicular pain are reported in 4% to 8% of older men taking 5 mg finasteride 108,115 and in 2% to 4% of younger patients receiving 1 mg finasteride . Although these effects reportedly decrease with longer-term use and reverse upon drug discontinuation, recent reports cite persistent sexual dysfunction after treatment discontinuation.108,116,117
In a recent retrospective health records review of over 11,000 men, persistent erectile dysfunction lasting months to years occurred in approximately 1% of men aged 16 to 42 years taking finasteride 1mg, and longer-term exposure was possibly associated with greater risk.118 Chronic exposure in rats to 5-α reductase inhibitors has been shown to change corpus cavernosum muscle and affect erectile function.119
Postfinasteride syndrome is a recently coined term to characterize a constellation of symptoms including sexual dysfunction, gynecomastia, cognitive impairment, depression, anxiety and suicidal ideation that persist after discontinuation of 5-α reductase inhibitors. Controversy currently exists regarding this entity, in part that large clinical trials before Propecia release did not demonstrate significant increases in these risks.
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Which Men Are At Risk For Breast Cancer
A risk factor is anything that may increase your chance of having a disease. Risk factors for a certain type of cancer might include smoking, diet, family history, or many other things. The exact cause of someones cancer may not be known. But risk factors can make it more likely for a person to have cancer.
Things you should know about risk factors for cancer:
- Risk factors can increase a person’s risk, but they don’t always cause the disease.
- Some people with one or more risk factors never develop cancer. Other people with cancer have no risk factors.
- Some risk factors are very well known. But there’s ongoing research about risk factors for many types of cancer.
Some risk factors, such as family history, may not be in your control. But others may be things you can change. Knowing the risk factors can help you make choices that might help lower your risk. For instance, if an unhealthy diet is a risk factor, you may choose to eat healthy foods. If extra weight is a risk factor, your healthcare provider may help you lose weight.
Risk factors for breast cancer in men include:
- Being age 60 or older
- Radiation exposure, such as from radiation used to treat another cancer in the chest
- Estrogen treatment
- Diseases linked to high estrogen levels and low levels of male hormones , such as severe liver disease or Klinefelter syndrome
- Heavy use of alcohol
- One or more female or male relatives have breast cancer
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When shopping for door hardware for your business, you may find yourself looking at a mix of residential vs. commercial products. Sometimes the hardware may look very similar, so it can be tempting to invest in the residential products as they are usually less expensive.
However, there are often critical differences in the quality and level of protection that you should consider. Here are a few of the main differences between residential and commercial hinges:
Metal Thickness and Durability
One of the primary differences between residential and commercial hinges is the thickness of the metal and its durability. Generally, commercial hinges are thicker and designed to withstand more wear and tear.
Commercial hinges are intended to support heavier doors that are often found in commercial settings. They are also intended to withstand years of high volume use that is unique to a commercial setting.
On the other hand, residential hinges tend to be more lightweight and are intended to support doors that are not reinforced and not as heavily used. While the metal thickness is sometimes obvious, that’s not always the case.
Most of this durability technology isn’t obvious on the surface, but it is there nonetheless. If you attempt to use residential hinges for your commercial doors, you may end up needing to replace them far more often.
Level of Protection
The American National Standards Institute (ANSI) is a non-profit organization that coordinates standards for products, including door hinges. They have developed a system to grade hinges between one and four, with four being the lowest grade and one being the highest.
Grade one hinges are the best heavy-duty hinges and have been tested against specific safety and security protocols. They are the most durable, the longest-lasting, and the least susceptible to tampering. Residential hinges generally are grade three, while commercial hinges should be grade two or grade one.
Lower-grade hinges will mean that your door is not as secure as it should be, and the hinges are far more susceptible to wear and tear.
While commercial and residential hinges may look similar at first glance, when you look closely, you’ll start to notice the difference in screw hole patterns. Commercial hinges are manufactured with a half-moon pattern, while most residential hinges are manufactured with a “W” pattern.
The screw hole pattern is a standard that all manufacturers follow to ensure continuity and compatibility with frames and doors. Residential screw hole patterns are not intended to be used with commercial doors, so make sure to pay attention when purchasing new hardware.
You don’t want to place a large hinge order for your entire building only to find out that the screw holes aren’t what you expected and are incompatible with your doors or frames.
National building codes are very specific when it comes to things like fire ratings. Building codes prohibit the use of residential hinges on doors that are fire-rated. This rating is particularly important in settings like hospitals, hotels, and schools.
Residential hinges simply are not strong enough to withstand the heat and pressure from a fire and can compromise the entire door. Commercial hinges have been tested to withstand fire and are critical to preserving the integrity of a fire-rated door.
Using residential hinges on fire-rated doors is against the building code and can result in fines. In addition, it poses a risk to anyone inside the building in the case of a fire.
Don’t Roll the Dice with Residential Hinges
Even if you find the right fit and screw hole pattern, it is strongly advised that you use commercial hinges for commercial doors. Residential hinges do not meet the same testing standards as commercial hinges when it comes to durability, safety, and security.
Most residential hinges are designed for lighter doors that are not as heavily used. They simply will not withstand the weight of a heavy commercial door, particularly if it is an entryway door or located in another high-volume area. When residential hinges fail, it can cause damage to your door and disrupt your business operations.
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If you’re one of those early Christmas decorators, we’re here for you! And we’ve got some fun ideas to help you with some indoor holiday planter inspiration. Besides the obvious centerpieces, wreaths, garlands, and trees, there are lots of simple ways you can take your decor even further. Include all of your indoor planters in your Christmas decorating to spread the festive feelings from one end of your home to the other.
Here are 9 ways to make your decorating scheme into an immersive holiday experience this year:
1. Change out your planters.
We often recommend that people plant their houseplants in a pot with drainage, usually plastic or terracotta, and then set that pot inside of a more decorative pot since many decorative pots don’t have drainage holes. If you want to take your Christmas decor up a notch, pop your plants into new decorative planters that match your seasonal decor theme.
2. Plant amaryllis for the center of your planters.
Amaryllis is a favorite Christmas bloom. Why not get a few and see if you can set them inside their own pot, in the center of your existing planters to add some gorgeous blooms in December.
3. Add small wreaths around planters.
Wreaths aren’t just for hanging on doors. They are a super-easy way to turn a plain plant pot into a festive planter. Lay a small wreath down, and set your planter in the center of it. Work some festive berries, colorful twigs, or pinecones into the wreath, and now your planter ties into your decor.
4. Dress up your houseplants.
Add twinkle lights and a few ornaments to larger plants. Hang small ornaments, or stick them onto planters to carry your decor theme throughout your houseplant collection.
5. Get wrapping!
Did you fall in love with a set of wrapping paper? Measure around the largest part of your plant pots, and measure how tall they are. Cut out a piece of wrapping paper 1-2 inches taller, fold over the top and bottom edge, wrap it snugly around your plant pot and secure it with tape. All of your houseplants coordinate with the presents under the tree now!
6. Put a festive bow on it.
Get out your Christmas ribbon or burlap, and tie bows around your planters.
7. Add simple natural elements.
Setting a bundle of birch poles, some pinecones, and a sprig of red berries in front of or across the top of your planters, gives a natural hint to the festive season.
8. Enhance with dried florals.
Colored twigs, dried seed heads, dried berries, and pinecones are all things you can add to your planters to turn them into festive dried floral arrangements.
9. Embrace faux greenery.
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The Irish name for Ballybeg West is An Baile Beag Thiar
Ballybeg West is on Logainm.ie: Ballybeg West.
It is located at 52° 12' 48" N, 8° 40' 28" W.
Ballybeg West has an area of:
Nationwide, it is the 14154th largest townland that we know about
Within Co. Cork, it is the 1398th largest townland
Ballybeg West borders the following other townlands:
Curious to see who lived in Ballybeg West in the past? Maybe even seeing scans of their handwritten census returns?
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Before I worked in retail, I used to marvel at how neat and tidy stores looked; everything was so immaculately pristine, well, until it came into contact with customers, that is. However, when I began visual merchandising, I realised that it certainly doesn’t happen by accident. We had a whole app to advise us on how to style mannequins, display collections, and fold clothes (there is indeed a wrong way to fold!). In my efforts to ensure the store mirrored the guidelines, I proudly called myself a ‘perfectionist.’ Unfortunately, I was less eager to apply the same diligence to other areas of my life.
“You, therefore, will be perfect [growing into spiritual maturity both in mind and character, actively integrating godly values into your daily life], as your heavenly Father is perfect.” (Matthew 5:48, AMP)
This is the concluding sentence in the passage of scripture where Jesus tells the multitude to love their enemies. Click here for my thoughts on Matthew 5:43-47. The reason that I opted to write about this verse on its own is because it talks about the outcome of loving your enemies: perfection.
- Jesus expects you to love your enemies (v44)
- If you don’t want to love your enemies you’re essentially rejecting God as your Father (v45)
- The process of loving your enemies makes you as perfect as God (v48)
There’s a slight chance you might be taking issue with the third bullet point. Surely sinful humans can’t possibly be as perfect as God, right? Actually, I would argue that we can. I firmly believe that Jesus chose His words carefully: the perfection we will attain is equivalent to God’s. The Greek word for perfect (teleios) means complete. In essence, Jesus is simply saying that you can’t be complete (like God) if you don’t love your enemies. As a Christian, you are aiming to be like Christ (1 Corinthians 11:1; Ephesians 4:17-24, 5:1-2). The same Christ who is like the Father (John 10:30). Choosing to hate your enemies means you are incomplete; a true follower of Christ would strive to change that narrative.
Love by Design
It’s best to conceptualise how you relate to others as a love-hate dichotomy. From a human perspective, we perceive a middle ground that is non-existent in spiritual terms. There are no categories for mere liking or indifference: you either love someone or you don’t. If you consider what it takes to genuinely love everyone, then you have a better appreciation of how that, in turn, makes you perfect. You are forcing yourself (initially but hopefully not always) to respond in a way that is counter-intuitive: opting to override your human nature in instances where you have been provoked. Or maybe you haven’t been provoked, you simply don’t want to expend the energy it takes to actually love. It’s hard. But every time you act counter-intuitively, you understand what it’s like to do something that comes naturally to God.
Perfection is reserved for those who love by design, not convenience.
An individual who has mastered the art of loving everyone can’t ‘switch it off.’ What Jesus is trying to explain is that God’s love is impartial: He loves those who love Him and those who don’t. This requires the removal of bad habits which have created a ‘hierarchy of love.’ For most people this refers to the fact that their love for family/friends is deeper or richer than it is for ‘others.’ Although love is expressed in different ways depending on the person/context, loving certain people less is never permissible.
Love in Action
When was the last time you pondered about your love for your boss/colleagues/lecturers/peers/flatmates? Whilst loving family and friends can be difficult; we are far more motivated to navigate those challenges than we are in relation to others. Since love is applicable in every context, it is incompatible with unloving behaviours, such as:
- Doing the bare minimum at work because you hate your boss
- Being cordial but not friendly with certain colleagues because you don’t like them
- Doing things you know you can get away with, instead of the right thing (e.g. falsely calling in sick)
- Not contributing as much as you should to the group project
- Arriving late/not attending lectures because you don’t like the lecturer/module
- Being frosty with a flatmate due to a past issue
Challenging love should be embraced not avoided: it is the springboard for perfection.
Disregard for how you treat those you deem ‘undeserving’ of your love is indicative of your contentment with imperfection. You might think the examples above are ‘not that deep,’ but that mentality is what inhibits perfection. Whether you think your actions are inconsequential, or you feel the recipient is unbothered about how you treat them, is irrelevant. Your responsibility is to love irrespective of reciprocity. Moreover, if you view these actions in light of the love-hate dichotomy, you realise that you wouldn’t treat anyone you truly (agape) loved in this manner. Jesus is clear that perfection doesn’t come from reciprocal love; evidently, you are missing something crucial by loving selectively. In essence, use every (challenging) opportunity to ask God how you can love like Him.
On the first page of an old journal, I wrote “What Does It Look Like?” – ‘it’ referred to love. The function of this journal was to record how ‘well’ I loved. I happened to be reviewing 1 Corinthians 13 at the time and I realised that I fell short in many areas. Therefore, my intention was to review my interactions at the end of each day and see if there were any areas which needed improvement. The journal is in England so I can’t check how long I actually used it for, but it was certainly a very short-lived period. Why do I mention it? Because perhaps I need to resurrect it.
You can only change what you’re aware of, therefore, reflecting on how you treated someone vs what they deserved (from God’s perspective, not yours) is incredibly helpful. Perfection won’t happen overnight, but it’s certainly attainable. Perhaps you could start with a 7-day log instead of committing to a full journal and see if it helps. If you do keep a log, I’d love to hear how you get on – drop me a message on the Contact page.
I can’t think of any other practical ways to ensure I can live up to such an exacting (but realistic) standard. Comment below if you have any ideas!
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In the wake of the Parkland school shooting four years ago, a new slogan began to emerge on social media. “Journalism is activism.” Michael Blanding crystallized the premise in an August 21, 2018 article for the Washington Post. Blanding posed the question, “Where does journalism end and activism begin?”
In reading the article, it was no surprise to see a generational split on the question. Older journalists believed that a healthy distance should be kept between the activist class and the newsroom, while younger journalists and journalism students believed the opposite.
The Post painted a sexy picture of Rebecca Schneid, editor of the Parkland High newspaper for her belief that journalism is, in fact, activism. Who would dare argue the point in the wake of yet another mass school shooting? In fact, the point seemed to resonate with many moderates and leftists as basic common sense in the wake of then President Trump’s relentless attacks on a non-compliant media.
In the years since, activist journalism has only become more popular with burgeoning issues such as the #MeToo Movement, the resurrection of Black Lives Matter, talk of election fraud and a quickly transforming international landscape. With social justice causes now at the forefront of our collective consciousness, who could possibly argue that activism doesn’t have a place in journalism? And we’re not talking about mere political punditry, but hard news reporting akin to the Washington Post, the New York Times and digital publications like Slate and the Huffington Post.
The finer point amongst the younger journo/activist class is that not every issue has two sides that deserve exploration or nuance. LGBTQ rights, racial justice, climate change and a host of other progressive causes really only have one side, and that side is the truth. Yet, how easily that mindset can carry us down a slippery slope. COVID-19 is the glaring contemporary example. As Joe Rogan, a podcaster who has recently come under fire explained, things that we accept as basic truths in a given issue have a way of changing over time.
When young people and committed progressives thing of activist journalism, they probably hold a certain image of it in their heads. An idealistic reporter fighting for the oppressed, the downtrodden and the marginalized. Avatars of truth and justice speaking truth to power, given voice to the voiceless, afflicting the comfortable and comforting the afflicted. As it is in any other facet of life, the story may start out that way, but as it passes through the conveyer belt of humanity with all of its complexities and imperfections, the end result is usually radically transformed from the initial idea.
Exhibit A: Fox News
Roger Ailes died three months after Donald Trump assumed the presidency, but by then, the Frankenstein monster he had created had reached full strength. Ailes created Fox News in the mid 1990’s as an answer to a media whom conservatives rightly believed were biased against them. Talk radio flamethrowers like Rush Limbaugh to introspective thinkers at the National Review all reached the same conclusion. That is why Fox News found a climate in which it was able to flourish.
FNC grew in stature during the Bush years in a post 9/11 world. Some predicted its demise once Obama took office, but Fox proved to be indomitable now that it had a nemesis in the White House against whom it could chafe. What Ailes didn’t fully realize was how the monster of populism that he was fostering would turn on him at the slightest hint of descent. He found out when Donald Trump came down the escalator on June 15, 2015.
Trump didn’t take long to lash out at Fox. His attacks were leveled against Fox anchor Megyn Kelly, who asked him a question that displeased him at a presidential primary debate. According to Kelley’s book, Ailes was in between the proverbial rock and a hard place. He wanted to defend his employees, but he also didn’t want to alienate Trump. As it turned out, he managed to ingratiate himself to The Donald, while Megyn soon left Fox.
Roger Ailes unceremoniously left Fox News on July 21, 2016, over a year before the birth of the #MeToo Movement. Yet, he was a harbinger of things to come. He left due to a series of sexual harassment scandals that plagued the company. His departure did nothing to stop the juggernaut that was Trump. The dye was already cast. Trump won the election and throughout his presidency, he heaped favorable praise on Fox News, particularly on Bill O’Reilly, Sean Hannity and the Fox Morning hosts.
When Trump lost to Biden in 2020, the folks at the Fox News Decision Desk got into a lot of trouble with viewers because they called Arizona for Joe Biden early. Even though they were proven correct, many fans never forgave them. No one was more infuriated than Trump. It was a dispiriting surprise when Trump went unpunished for his actions that lead to the attack on our nation’s capital, but it was no surprise that people like Chris Stirewalt were let go from Fox due to his role on election night, 2020. Few of us who paid attention were surprised when we recently learned that text messages were flying back and forth between White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows and various Fox hosts including Sean Hannity, Laura Ingraham and Brian Kilmeade on January 6. Even though they are opinion makers, they are the faces of Fox News. Fox detractors and casual viewers don’t associate Fox with the hard news wing, represented by quality journalists such as Chris Wallace, Bret Baier and Jennifer Griffin. In the wake of the departure of Bill O’Reilly, Tucker Carlson has taken the place as Fox’s number one spokesman. Carlson has progressively become more and more unhinged over the years. His crowning achievement has been a documentary on Fox Nation, a private platform outside of the cable news channel, which floats the conspiracy trial balloon that January 6th was instigated by the FBI. This is likely the reason why Chris Wallace abruptly departed from Fox and defected to CNN.
How will that work out for him?
Exhibit B: CNN
CNN, once a prestigious and trusted source of news throughout the ‘90’s, is now viewed as the anti-Trump network. From all outward appearances, they have embraced this image. It is no coincidence that their ratings sored during Trump’s presidency, even as their various prime time hosts railed against Trump and all of his excesses. It is also not a coincidence that their ratings plummeted once he left office and lost his Twitter account. To watch CNN, you might think that they didn’t play a significant role in the rise of Trump. Yet, if you think back to the election cycle of 2016, they covered as many Trump campaign rally events as did Fox. They merely took a different angle in their approach, feigning outrage on camera while gleefully watching the uptick in the ratings numbers behind the scenes.
Trump aside, CNN, along with many other mainstream outlets, fawned over New York Governor Andrew Cuomo shortly after the outbreak of the pandemic in March, 2020. Cuomo was painted as, “America’s governor,” keeping a steady hand at the helm even as President Trump went crazy at his daily press conferences. No one outside of Fox News and a few other conservative sources talked about Cuomo’s scandalous behavior with respect to his shady book deal, his shunting of patients to New York nursing homes and his fudging of the death numbers once investigators became suspicious. No one on or off CNN cared that Cuomo was holding syrupy conversations with his brother Chris, an employee and prominent on-screen presence at CNN. When a woman came forward and accused Cuomo of sexual harassment in December, 2020, it was barely a blip on the media radar.
On August 24, 2021, Governor Andrew Cuomo resigned after a series of claims of sexual harassment were lodged against him. The story was broken by the New York Times, not CNN, and only after the scandal was too big to be ignored.
On December 4, 2021, Chris Cuomo was fired from CNN after an internal investigation showed that he was using his media contacts to dig up dirt on his brother Andrew’s accusers.
On February 2, 2022, Jeff Zucker abruptly resigned as the president of CNN. He claimed that he was engaged in a consensual romantic relationship with an executive and had failed to disclose it in a timely manner. The executive of which he spoke turned out to be Allison Gollust, Vice-President of Chief Marketing Officer at CNN. She also happened to be a former Communications Director for Governor Andrew Cuomo. In light of a lawsuit brought against CNN by Chris Cuomo, we can be sure that many more facts will be unearthed in this case, but it’s not hard to guess where the trail will lead. Zucker, Gollust and Chris Cuomo did their best to use CNN to lionize Andrew Cuomo in the hopes of aiding him to sell more books and possibly to further his future political career.
The handwringing of CNN’s public faces such as Don Lemon, Brian Stelter and Jim Acosta has been predictable and predictably self-indulgent. They claim that Chris Cuomo is the real villain and that the termination of Zucker is a punishment that did not fit the crime. Again, I suspect that there is much to the story that will come to light in the coming months. But more to the point, the unctuous outrage pouring forth from the CNN talking heads is reminiscent of the performative anger that spewed forth from loyal Fox News stalwarts such as Hannity, O’Reilly and Ingraham in the wake of Ailes’ departure. In both cases, it is doubtful that those who trumpeted their disapproval didn’t know what was going on behind the scenes despite their protests of good faith ignorance.
At this point, all two of you who read this may be saying, so what, RyanO? These are two old white guys who misbehaved themselves, got caught and got canned. What does that have to do with the search for truth and justice? If the point isn’t obvious, I can’t do anything for ya.
Both Ailes and Zucker didn’t start out as men in charge of news empires. They started out as young, hungry warriors who wanted to bring their own brand of activism to the marketplace of ideas. They quickly realized that activism starts in grass roots, but real change is brought about through legislation. Legislation is authored by politicians. Politicians are influenced by lobbyists, who are merely professional activists who are lucky enough to profit from their idealism. Politicians are flawed, imperfect human beings who can easily be tempered by a multitude of dark forces. Many of those dark forces are journalists who serve as conduits through which flow mutated ideologies. Often times, that ideology starts out in pure form, but no matter which side of the political spectrum it springs from, it is corrupted by base human drives; greed, lust and envy. One day, these activists suddenly realize that they are sitting atop a major platform with millions of loyal followers. They then realize that said platform can be used to elevate preferred politicians to higher office.
That’s how we find ourselves with living golems like President Trump and Governor Cuomo. A good deal of their success can be laid at the doorstep of activist journalism. When journalism proves popular and results in ever increasing ratings and clicks, it feeds the beast. That beast results in corporate executives crawling into bed with the very politicians against whom they are supposed to be the watchdogs. When certain personalities prove too successful for the suits upstairs to control, you get Tucker Carlson and Chris Cuomo. The journalistic organs they purport to serve are mere extensions of political parties or figures.
If you think I’m engaging in hyperbole, ask yourself why you haven’t heard about the latest kerfuffle involving Black Lives Matter? Did any of you know that the California Attorney General has formally warned the group that they are delinquent in the registration of charitable contributions totaling millions of dollars from 2020? Did you know that other states are launching inquiries into the fundraising practices of BLM? Did any of you notice that the BLM fundraising page has been suspended? If you don’t read the Washington Examiner, a conservative alternative to the Washington Post in the D.C. Beltway, you wouldn’t know it.
Is the investigation of BLM activist journalism, or is it mere hackery? If it is the latter, what constitutes the former? Is there a good kind of activist journalism and a bad kind? My educated guess is that the answer would depend upon which side of the political divide you get your news from. If you hail from the right side of the spectrum, you likely believe that the most successful non-profit advocacy organization currently in existence should account for all of its assets. You probably believe that the public has a right to know what BLM is doing with their money. If you hail from the left side of the spectrum…white privilege, systems of oppression, systemic racism, etc. Yet, if you were to substitute the NRA for BLM, you would see that very spectrum engage in a teeter-totter effect.
“Democracy dies in darkness,” indeed. I’m sure the Uyghurs would agree.
Activism starts with a specific narrative. This is fine as far as it goes. Activists are human beings whose experiences drive them to push for change in the public square. But personal experiences can also result in viewpoint bias, blinding people to all of the variables at play. Good journalists who are interested in fairness and balance should be able to weight those variables in the reporting of a story. When it’s done well, you get quality newshounds like Jake Tapper, Maggie Haberman, Jonathan Karl, Jennifer Griffin and the good folks over at The Dispatch. When it goes wrong, you get Dan Rather and Mary Mapes.
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ESG in Facility Management
What is ESG?
Environmental. Social. Governance. These three words combine to generate a potent notion (ESG) that has been circulating throughout the business sector. Many businesses now issue ESG reports to highlight their efforts to promote environmental and societal changes. There are also a plethora of seminars, conferences, webinars, and podcasts that focus on how to gain value from contributing to a more sustainable, equitable, and just future. The ‘E’ and ‘S’ garner the most attention in all of these circumstances. That’s understandable; these are the factors that propel improvement attempts. However, the ‘G’ may be the most crucial in terms of actual advancement.
For a long time, people have argued over the proper terminology for significant components of ethical and environmentally friendly corporate practises. The terms “green” and “social responsibility” as well as “triple bottom line” have all been used. However, there appears to be a growing recognition and attention on environmental, social, and governance issues (ESG). CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility) is still used as a name standard for self-reporting purposes, and investors may utilise these reports as part of their ESG scores. ESG raters in 2010 relied on CSR reports or comparable public publications, or requests for information and interviews from corporations, for almost 60% of their ratings, and companies who replied to these information requests performed better than those that did not. An earlier Hong Kong study indicated a favourable market reaction to corporations’ ESG initiatives, which suggests that CSP and CFP are intertwined in ESG initiatives.
What’s the use?
Consideration of ESG principles in facilities management was once regarded as a “additional benefit.” Today, investors and customers actively seek out sustainable firms, and organisations who do not follow sustainable practises will face a decrease in both investing and business in general. According to Environmental Leader, using ESG data provides significant benefits to organisations. Facilities Managers can employ advanced dashboarding and record-keeping systems to report performance to stakeholders. Data on the environment and how existing activities affect it improves operations continuously, and it all aligns a business with an overarching concept of social and environmental responsibility.
Furthermore, using ESG in corporate management provides additional benefits that stem from the underlying technology required to consider ESG in the first place. Big data analytics, wireless sensors, and other technological advances are required to handle and collect data. The same resources can be used to lower company running expenses, increasing an organization’s profitability and energy efficiency.
It’s not always easy to find the best way to use ESG management in your facilities. There are thousands of software providers on the Internet, and each one says that their product is the best. But not all ESG platforms take into account the full range of data and variety that may be in your organisation. Data analysis is the only way to really know how your organisation affects the environment, society, and government oversight. If your company doesn’t know how much it’s spending and what it needs to do to be successful with ESG in facilities management, it’s likely missing out on something. Choose the right smart building solutions provider to use ESG in facilities management. Contact Factech to get started. | <urn:uuid:89278b1d-5f02-4d74-9732-08bf1879a7d0> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://factech.co.in/blog/esg-in-facility-management/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572212.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815205848-20220815235848-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.940482 | 700 | 2.390625 | 2 |
Theatrical reading of UGA professor Leanne Howe's book Savage Conversations, hosted in coordination with the Department of Theatre & Film Studies, Department of English, and the Creative Writing Program at UGA. The reading will take place on April 15th and 16th, 7 p.m. Balcony Theatre Room 400, Fine Arts Building. Free and open to the public.
Mary Todd Lincoln: Marla Carlson
Savage: Sean Polite
Rope: Kya Missick
Stage Directions: Erin McDermott
The play adaption is taken from Savage Conversations, (2019) LeAnne Howe, UGA faculty, English. The conversations take place in 1875 between Mary Todd Lincoln and a Savage Indian. Mary has been placed in an insane asylum for “nervous derangement and fever in the head.” Her doctor notes peculiar symptoms. Mrs. Lincoln tells him that a savage spirit is removing wires from her eyes, especially the left one, and cutting the bones from her cheeks. She attributes the fiendish work inside her head to an American Indian. Each night she claims he lifts her scalp and replaces it by dawn, sometimes cutting a bone out of her cheek. The Indian,” she says, “slits my eyelids and sews them open, always removing the wires by dawn’s first light.” | <urn:uuid:c9a96da4-c1a7-470a-b094-c342eb4c276a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://engl.franklin.uga.edu/events/content/2019/savage-conversations-theatrical-reading | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572212.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815205848-20220815235848-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.927414 | 286 | 1.78125 | 2 |
It will be a largely dry day today with the best of the sunshine felt in the east and south of the country.
Met Éireann forecasts that high pressure will gradually build over Ireland throughout the coming days and it will become warmer and sunnier by the end of the week with highs of 22C.
It will be rather cloudy early in the week with patchy rain or showers at times, especially in the west and north.
A few showers will develop today, patchy rain will push into the northwest later in the evening with highest temperatures between 15C to 19C in a moderate to fresh westerly breeze.
There will be lots of cloud over Ireland on Monday along with occasional bright or sunny spells. It will be mostly dry apart from isolated showers.
By evening, there will be more widespread sunshine with top temperatures ranging between 15C to 19C, warmest in the southeast of the country with moderate northwest breezes.
There will be some sunny spells across the east and south of the country on Tuesday.
However, in the west and north it will be mostly cloudy, often dry during the day albeit with scattered light showers.
Highest temperatures will range between 16C in the northwest to 21C in the southeast in a moderate westerly breeze.
It looks set to be mostly cloudy on Wednesday with patchy rain across Connacht and Ulster.
Across Leinster and Munster, it will be largely dry with a few sunny intervals along with isolated showers.
Temperatures will range between 17C to 22C, warmest in the east and south of the country with moderate northwest breezes.
There will be plenty of cloud around on Thursday but some sunny spells will develop with highest temperatures between 16C to 22C, warmest in Leinster and east Munster.
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Co-sponsored by the Georgia Legal Services Program and the State Bar of Georgia, the Pro Bono Resource Center is headquartered at the Bar and involves private attorneys in representation of the poor in civil matters. The Resource Center also provides information to lawyers on what programs are available when they want to volunteer. The Resource Center gives technical assistance to local bar associations when they want to develop or revise a pro bono program.
"Equal justice under the law is perhaps the most inspiring ideal of our society. It is fundamental that justice should be the same, in substance and availability without regard to economic status." - Lewis Powell Jr., Justice, U.S. Supreme Court
The Pro Bono Resource Center, created by the State Bar of Georgia in 1982 in conjunction with the Georgia Legal Services Program, assists local bar associations, individual private attorneys and communities in developing pro bono private attorney/bar involvement programs in their areas for the delivery of legal services to the poor. The Resource Center also receives support from the Chief Justice's Commission on Professionalism and the Georgia Bar Foundation.
Our judicial system cannot function without the availability of counsel to ensure that all people have effective access to the legal system. The need for legal assistance by low-income Georgians to resolve life-shattering problems is enormous. Legal intervention is often the critical factor that enables a family to remain together or to receive vital financial support. In even the best of times, Georgia Legal Services and Atlanta Legal Aid can serve only a small fraction of the persons who meet program standards and who need legal assistance. Thus, private attorney participation in the delivery of legal services to the poor is absolutely critical.
This program assists service members and veterans by connecting them to State Bar members who are willing to provide free or reduced-fee legal services. Service members and veterans often have legal needs in their personal lives and specific to their military service. They also face financial issues and other civil law matters resulting from the sacrifices made in military life. Depending on eligibility, clients will be connected to a lawyer in their geographic area with expertise in their area of need.
We encourage members of the Bar to join our statewide volunteer website www.GeorgiaAdvocates.org/GOJC to learn more about volunteer opportunities throughout the state.
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The National Public Health Emergency Team will hold talks later on what further measures are needed to control the spread of Covid-19.
It's after another spike was recorded over the weekend.
There were 200 new cases on Saturday and 66 yesterday.
Outrage erupted over a video at a city centre bar, appearing to show people ignoring health advice.
Acting CMO Dr Ronan Glynn last night said some people are socialising "recklessly" and that "cannot continue".
DCU Professor Anthony Staines hopes NPHET tells government to rapidly change its course of action:
"The real hazard is that we will find ourselves either unable to open schools because it's just too dangerous or that we will be opening schools and then closing them, as has happened in some other countries.
"I just hope they will give them advice very clearly that what they're doing now is not working; that the programme of rolling lockdowns is not working."
Further restrictions will be considered to protect the elderly and vulnerable from coronavirus.
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Competition: Dezeen and publishers Gestalten have teamed up to offer readers the chance to win one of five copies of Utopia Forever.
The book explores a range of concepts for the future from the fields of architecture, city planning and urbanism with features written by architects and theorists.
This competition is now closed.
The information that follows is from Gestalten:
A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing at, for it leaves out the one country at which Humanity is always landing. —Oscar Wilde
The cities in which we live today are unfortunately not the cities that we need for a humane and sustainable tomorrow. Societies and politicians are desperately looking for solutions and ideas for the urban areas of the future. That is why the development and discussion of utopias are–next to sustainability–the most current topics in contemporary architecture.
We have learned from the 1960s and 1970s that utopian visions are one of the most important catalysts for fundamental change. Modern wind farms for generating energy, for example, were initially contemplated at that time and are now permanent fixtures in our landscapes.
Utopia Forever is a collection of current projects and concepts from architecture, city planning, urbanism, and art that point beyond the restrictions of the factual to unleash the potential of creative visions. In contrast to the largely ideal-theoretic approaches of the past, today’s utopias take the necessity for societal changes into account.
The projects in this book explore how current challenges for architecture, mobility, and energy as well as the logistics of food consumption and waste removal can be met. Text features by both architects and theorists give added insight.
Whether created by established architects and artists or new talents, the examples in Utopia Forever are important catalysts for fundamental change and are radically shaping our notions of life in the future.
Utopia Forever: Visions of Architecture and Urbanism
Edited by: R. Klanten, L. Feireiss
Title: Utopia Forever
Subtitle: Visions of Architecture and Urbanism
Editors: R. Klanten, L. Feireiss
Features: 256 pages, fullcolor, flexicover
Format: 24 x 28 cm
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We project demonstrations to become more compelling within the subsequent year. For example, a quantum computer may carry out a chemical simulation unimaginable by any commonplace supercomputer, leading to a more nuanced debate about whether or not the chemical that could be found will be useful to society. will be deployed increasingly in additional systems that have an effect on the well being, security and welfare of the general public. These methods will higher utilize scarce assets, prevent disasters, and improve safety, reliability, comfort, and convenience. Despite the technological challenges and public fears, these systems will improve the quality of life for millions of people worldwide. Critical methods embody energy era and distribution, telecommunications, road and rail transportation, healthcare, banking, and more.
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As a non-for-profit establishment to be responsive to altering demographic and local socio-economic situations to be able to serve the needs of people who are presently underrepresented in skilled job fields. The medical training program will prepare you for certification in Phlebotomy, EKG, Certified Nurse Assistant , Medical Assisting, Medical Billing, and Medical Coding. Students with licensure could Technology select to obtain a multi-age endorsement as part of their grasp’s degree research. The program is nationally acknowledged by the International Society for Technology in Education . Courses on this program can be utilized towards theProfessional Instructional Design Certificate and the PhD in Instructional Technology. | <urn:uuid:48c27b55-976a-46f0-8646-6a0a9284da6f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://ymlp201.net/computer-systems-and-technology.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571538.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812014923-20220812044923-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.942253 | 909 | 2.3125 | 2 |
Humankind studying itself now faces one of the most fascinating challenges in the realm of knowledge. The author leads the reader on this engaging journey through the natural history of humans considered as an animal species, one of the many, even though its unique features are remarkable. After a brief discussion of the early stages of anthropology, the author compares the basic characteristics of Homo Sapiens and other anthropomorphic primates, within a broader biological context. The book also addresses evolution, the idea pioneered by scholars such as Linnaeus and Darwin, and the theory that explains evolution on the basis of natural selection. The final section of the text is an exploration of the distant past, in that it tells of selected key episodes in the search for the so-called "missing link", i.e., an ideal extinct form of life, "half man and half monkey", that would reconcile us completely with the natural world.
Giorgio Manzi teaches Biology and Human Paleontology at "La Sapienza" University in Rome, where he also heads the Museum of Anthropology. He studies human evolution in Europe and the population of Mediterranean areas in prehistoric and historic times. | <urn:uuid:834a2b67-0e7e-41d0-9942-eac9e977ce9a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://mulino.it/foreignrights/isbn/9788815109743 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571911.5/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813081639-20220813111639-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.926797 | 230 | 3.328125 | 3 |
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The Olympics kick off in Rio de Janeiro this week, so we thought it a good occasion to recall a Londoner intimately associated with the Olympics, though not as an athlete but as a coach.
Born in Blackheath, Scipio Africanus – ‘Sam’ – Mussabini was a pioneering athletics coach who, in early 20th century, coached 11 athletes to win medals, including five gold, over five different Olympic Games.
Mussabini, the son of a Syrian-Italian father and French mother, was educated in France and worked, like his father, in journalism, writing for sports magazines and specialising in billiards (which he also played to a high standard).
From the 1890s, he started working, first as a cycling coach and later as an athletics coach in south London, based at Herne Hill Stadium.
His first major success as the latter came when young South African sprinter, Reggie Walker, won gold in the 100 metres at the 1908 London Olympics. In 1913, he was appointed coach of the Polytechnic Harriers at the Herne Hill athletics track.
He would go on to train the likes of Albert Hill – he won gold in the 800 and 1,500 metres at the 1920 Olympics in Antwerp – and his most famous student Harold Abrahams who won gold in the 100 metres and silver in the 4 x 100 metre relay at the 1924 Paris Olympics – a role which is depicted in the 1981 film Chariots of Fire (the coach is played by Ian Holm).
Mussabini is famous for the comprehensive and systematic approach he took to training his athletes, an approach which covered the athletes’ lifestyle and diet as well as a rigorous training regime, and which saw him use techniques such as using a cine-camera t0 film his athletes in action and then analysing the footage. He is also noted for having ensured female athletes, like world record sprinter Vera Palmer-Searle, received high quality coaching.
As a paid coach in an age when most were amateurs, he was ostracised by the establishment and apparently only started to receive the recognition he deserved well after his death, particularly following his depiction in Chariots of Fire.
Mussabini, who suffered from diabetes, died in March, 1927, at the age of 60. He was buried in Hampstead Cemetery. There is an English Heritage blue plaque on the house he lived in at 84 Burbage Road (it backs onto the Herne Hill Stadium) between 1911 and 1916.
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Welcome to Chinese Medicine Center!
Chinese treatments include both Acupuncture and Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM). They are an integral part of Chinese culture and philosophy for more than 5000 years. The concepts of Yin and Yang and the dynamics of the Five Elements provide the intellectual framework of TCM theory. Analogies are drawn from the natural phenomena to the correlations of organs of the body. Illnesses, including cancers, are seen as a tip-over in the balance of Yin and Yang, which can be caused by emotions, improper diet, over-work, over-rest, phlegm, rheum, or climate factors, such as wind, cold, summer-heat, humidity, dryness, heat. Therapy thus depends on accurate diagnosis of the source of the imbalance. Four basic diagnostic methods are used: inspection, auscultation and olfaction, inquiry and palpation. Clinic properties of thousands of herbs are well-documented. Some can clear heat and toxin; some can regulate blood circulation; some can remove phlegm; some can eliminate diuretic and dampness; some can be applied externally.
Prescription drugs take on different approach. For each diseases, pharmaceutical
companies come up with different drugs to fight. Inevitably, they bear two
1. New drug research cycle is usually 10-15 years or longer.
2. Serious side-effects may happen.
We live in a world that the spectrum of diseases keeps mutating. The long-waiting period could be prove devastating. In early 2003, when Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) first broke out, doctors scrambled to search for the effective drug. They needed hormones to suppress the immune system. However, hormones aren't safe. As a result, many recovered patients suffered osteonecrosis later. To date, no immediate cure for SARS is found yet. On the other hand, according to TCM, SARS is caused by pestilence, dampness and heat toxic. Thousands of natural herbs are available to clear away the heat and toxic inside the body. It is reported that when combining TCM treatments with prescription drugs, fever days of patients were significantly decreased and the chance of getting osteonecrosis is much smaller.
Taking another example, in cancer treatment, chemo-therapy and prescription drugs are widely used to fight the cancer cells, and doctors hope that patients are strong enough that human normal cells can survive. But are cancer patients all "strong"? Unfortunately, the answer is a resounding "No". Cancer patients usually have weak body immune system, and few can survive these abusive drug treatments. Then what differences can TCM make to those cancer patients? TCM works to keep yin and yang balanced, to boost stomach energy, to fight cancer cells, while strengthening the body immune system. Once immune system is back on-line, patients will recover day by day.
World Health Organization (WHO) have emphasized the importance of TCM, and has promoted its development all over the world. Today, TCM is very popular in Germany and other European countries. Dr. Wang is one of the leading Chinese doctors who successfully treated many cancer patients. His unique diagnosis is based on both the modern medical examinations and traditional methods. He uses TCM, acupuncture, or both in his treatments.
This clinic is specially dedicated to treating people with cancer and varieties of difficult-to-cure diseases. Due to popular demands, we also provide remote diagnose, please refer to contact for details. We hope this clinic will benefit all the patients who are suffering and feeling hopeless. | <urn:uuid:caa43fa1-93dc-4ab1-bbab-062d447b0e6a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://chinesemedicinecenter.com/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572043.2/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814143522-20220814173522-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.943044 | 739 | 3.203125 | 3 |
Autor: E.Esteves Pereira
Genus honouring Pierre Josef Braun (1959-), German botanist and specialist of the Brazilian cacti.
A genus of usually solitary plants, subglobose becoming elongated (columnar and weakly branched in P. brauniorum), erect or bent, not constricted. Stems with 10-17 ribs (4-5 in P. brauniorum). Epidermis finely granular in P. brauniorum. Cephalium absent (flower-bearing areoles with dense wool in P. brauniorum). Spines aciculate, fragile.
Flowers diurnal, self-sterile, tubular, grouped at the apex, pink magenta, pollinated by hummingbirds (Eupetonema macroura). Fruits globose to egg-shaped, waxy, pink (pale pink to wine red in P. brauniorum), with translucent liquid pulp (red pink in P. brauniorum). Seeds slightly striate and foveolate (smooth in P. brauniorum), black, matt, retaining the remnants of the mucilage.
The genus Pierrebraunia grows at approximately 1000 m in altitude, in bushes, on arid rocky soils, on cliffs or steep slopes, in the cracks of rocks, usually in full sun, among grasses, orchids, bromeliads, as well as other cacti.
Brazil (Bahia, Minas Gerais).
Currently 2 possible species:
– Pierrebraunia bahiensis (Braun & Esteves) Esteves 1997
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The Traditional Gongfu Tea Ceremony: A Complete Guide
Gongfu tea is a traditional way of preparing tea, characterised by multiple infusions of the same tea in a small teapot. This way of brewing is originated from Chaozhou during the Song Dynasty, which is why it’s also often referred to as ‘Chaozhou Gongfu Cha’.
Origin & Meaning: Chaozhou Gongfu Tea
There’s a Chinese saying “有潮汕人的地方，便有功夫茶的影子,” which literally means “In places where Chaozhou people are, you’ll find a reflection of gongfu tea”. This saying more than reflects reality as the custom of preparing gongfu tea is still maintained. Even today, every family in Chaozhou still has a tea table with a traditional tea set for gongfu brewing.
A traditional gongfu tea ceremony shouldn’t be confused with Chinese wedding tea ceremonies though.
In this article we mainly discuss the principles of traditional Chinese gongfu brewing. Though there are differences in application when compared with a Japanese, Vietnamese or Korean tea ceremony, many principles still remain the same.
How Gongfu Tea Relates to Martial Arts
‘Gongfu’ literally means ‘Kung Fu’ in Chinese. When hearing this term, people tend to wonder why brewing tea is related to martial arts. However, the word kung fu means more than just a fighting sport. The most basic meaning of the term is related to the words ‘art’, ‘skill’ and ‘effort’. So in the context of tea preparation, it means brews tea with more effort and dedication to brew a perfect cup of tea in a more artistic way. This also extends to the art of tasting tea, which also requires ‘skill’.
Gongfu Tea as a Type of Culture and Lifestyle
Some people think Gongfu tea is a type of tea. That’s not true. Instead, it’s a way of brewing tea. Because of the artistic side of such steeping method, it can also be considered a kind of tea culture. Especially, during ancient times, people practice gongfu tea to self-cultivate.
Like Kung Fu as a type of Martial Arts, gongfu tea also focuses on the spirit and ideology behind it, which is how to become a better moral-person. This can be reached consciousness in movement and focusing oneself only on the brewing of tea. The real essence of this is to become aware of the ‘cha qi’ (tea energy), so that tea is experienced beyond just taste, aroma, and appearance, but also how it affects one’s body and mind.
What Teas Are Suitable For Gongfu Brewing?
In practice, mostly oolong, pu erh and certain black teas often prepared in the gongfu way in China. The reason is because these teas simply taste better in such a way. This doesn’t mean that other teas can’t be brewed with this method. As said, gongfu tea extends beyond tea tasting. It’s also about performing art and connecting with ones body and mind. As more and more people can afford good tea today, the art of steeping tea is flourishing and there’s a lot of experimentation and development going on with brewing green and white tea in such a way.
Chinese Tea Ceremony Set: What You'll Need
A full Chinese tea ceremony set will consists out the following accessories:
- A teapot or gaiwan: the main vessel for brewing leaves.
- A fairness pitcher: the tea should first be poured into the pitcher before serving.
- A strainer: such a filter should be put on top of the pitcher to make sure the smallest leaves don't end up in the pitcher.
- 6 aroma cups: these long shaped cups make sure you can smell the fragrance of the tea better.
- 6 tea cups: to drink tea.
- 1 or more tea pets: to improve fengshui and luck.
- A small tea cloth: to clean and dry the table and accessories.
- A tea brush: to dry and polish clay teaware.
- A set of the 'Six Gentlemen of Tea' accessories usually stored in a wooden holder and includes:
- A teaspoon
- A tea leaf strainer: this isn't the same as the mesh strainer used on the pitcher. Instead, it's one that's placed on the teapot. This accessory makes sure the leaves don't fall outside the teapot.
- Cha ze: a small teaspoon to remove the used leaves from a teapot. Gongfu teapots usually have a pretty small opening. In addition, as the tea expands in the pot, it's sometimes tightly filled. Therefore, such a tool can come in handy.
- Tea cup tweezers: this tool is handy as you don't have to touch the tea cups with your hands, which might be considered unhygienic.
- Needle: this shouldn't be confused with the tea knives/needles used to pry compressed tea. Instead, the needle is used to clean teapot spout of potential tea leaves that might be stuck inside.
Tea Ceremony Steps
The below videos should be a proper guide to brewing gongfu tea yourself. For super serious brewers, read this post about the traditional 21-step gongfu brewing method.
Gongfu Tea Brewing Tools: Teapot, Gaiwan or Glass?
Using teapots to brew tea is considered the most traditional way of preparing tea. This is also preferred by people in Chaozhou where gongfu tea originates from. The teapot should be made from a type of ceramic, ideally from Yixing clay. Yixing teapots have many benefits as they’re known to improve taste and isolate heat well. Such teapots are usually smaller than usual teapots and steep 4-6 small cups of tea that can be consumed in one sip.
One disadvantage of Yixing teapots is that one should dedicate it to one specific type of tea. If you want to avoid buying multiple teapots for different types of tea, then it's better to go for a porcelain teapot.
Also read: 2 ways to pour with an Yixing teapot
See the video below in which we demonstrate how we brew Tieguanyin oolong tea with an Yixing teapot:
Another popular way of brewing gongfu tea is using gaiwans. These steeping vessels consists of a 3 parts (cup, lid and coaster) and are mostly made from porcelain. Though they’re mainly used to steep tea, most people would gaiwans are tea cups to drink from. Gaiwans don’t isolate as well as Yixing teapots, but they’re much better for appreciating the appearance of tea. Porcelain gaiwans also don’t affect the flavour of tea, which can be an advantage, especially for green teas with subtle flavour.
Also read: Gaiwan vs Yixing
Watch the video below in which we brew a Huang Shan Mao Feng in a gaiwan:
When it's your first time using a gaiwan, it's sometimes challenging not to burn your hands. In such case, read our tips in this post: Gaiwan Brewing & How Not To Burn Your Hands
Brewing tea in a straight glass is usually considered as a casual way of brewing. When visiting green tea producing regions like the West Lake region in Hangzhou, you’ll see many people drink tea just from a glass. The leaves often aren’t separated from the infusion after the steeping is finished. This is because, one simply adds more water when the flavour becomes too strong. A common rule is also to not completely finish the glass, but refill with hot water when 1/3 of tea is left. See how this works in the video below:
You can tweak the brewing method based on the specific characteristics of the tea that you're planning to brew. See the video below:
Glasses aren’t great for isolating heat, which is why they’re mainly used to for steeping green tea and other delicate teas that don’t require high temperature. One benefit is that once the water temperature drops, the leaves in the glass will stop releasing flavour until you refill with hot water. Other benefits include that you don’t need many tools to perform the ceremony and transparent glasses are the best way to appreciate the appearance of leaves.
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Rules of the game Svara ( Svarka )
Svara ( Svarka ) is a card game that is played with a deck of 32 cards – from 7 to Ace . The minimum number of players is two . The total number of combinations in the game is 4960
Each player is dealt three cards in a clockwise direction . Each card combination has a specific numerical value. Winner is the player with highest points.
The value of the points is calculated by the following rules:
1) Each card from 7 to 9 give 7 to 9 points respectivly.
2 ) The cards 10 , J, Q, K and give 10 points.
3 ) Aces give 11 points .
4 ) The cards of the same color have as many points as their sum . For instance :
Q ♦, K ♦ 10 ♠ give a total of 20 points and 10 ♠, 8 ♠ K ♥ give a total of 18 points ;
5 ) Aces can be combined regardless of the color that is to say two ace are 22 points , three are 33 points
6) 7 ♣ is called ” Ceco Jonchev , Chechak , Chotora , Shpoka or Yoncho ” and can be combined with all other cards for 11 points .
8 ) Three of a 7 gives 34 points and this is the strongest combination in the game.
9) Three of a kind combinations are carrying as many points as the lead card. For example , three of 8 bring 24 copies / 3×8 = 24 / : three of Q give 30 points / 3×10 = 30 / etc
7 ♥, 9 ♦ 9 ♣ give a total of 9 points (this is the worst hand ) ;
10 ♠, 10 ♦ 10 ♣ give a total of 30 points ;
8 ♣, K ♥ 9 ♦ give a total of 10 points ;
K ♥, 9 ♥ Q ♣ give a total of 19 points ;
Q ♣, Q ♥ 9 ♦ give a total of 10 points ;
A ♠, A ♦ 10 ♣ givea total of 22 points ;
8 ♠, A ♦ 7 ♣ givea total of 22 points ;
10 ♦, 9 ♦ J ♦ give a total of 29 points ;
Q ♣, Q ♥ Q ♦ give a total of 30 points ;
7 ♣, K ♥ K ♦ give a total of 31 points ;
7 ♣, A ♥ A ♦ give a total of 33 points ;
Two of 7 no matter the suits give a total of 23 points ;
1 ) Before the cards are dealt to the players each player bets a certain amount called ante;
2 ) Player that is located left to the dealer make his anounces. Before seeing his cards he is allowed to bet a certain amount called blind bet;
3 ) If a player make a blind bet, the next player to his left has the option to double the blind bet;
4 ) If a player skips the blind bet the next player is not allowed to make new blind bet;
(Blind bets are optional)
5 ) After the cards are dealt to the players they make their bets;
6 ) If there is a blind bet, the next player should at least double the bet;
7 ) If the player that made the blind bet wnats to see the cards of the other players he must pay the bet.
8 ) If there is a blind bet and no one pay it, the winner is the player that made the last blind bet;
9 ) The game wins the players with highest points;
10 ) If there is no blind bet and no other player makes a bet the winner is the dealer;
11) If two or more players have the same number of points we have SVARA;
12) SVARA is a new game that includes all the bets from the previous game;
13) Any player is allowed to join the SVARA after he pay the SVARA join amount.
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Strength, Fracture and Complexity
Strength Fract Complex
ISSN (printed): 1567-2069. ISSN (electronic): 1875-9262.
Fracture has been studied for many, many years, for instance more than hundreds and fifty years at least as far as fatigue is concerned. Still, fracture and the related problems remain unsolved. For instance, although nanostudies and, on the other hand, computational science and mechanics are rapidly developing by the equation explicitly expressed in non-lineary nano, meso and macropscopic terms without containing any hypothetical parameters and with time sequences. These features suggest that fracture may be a phenomenon as complexity system. Strength, Fracture and Complexity: An International Journal is devoted to solve the strength and fracture unifiedly in non linear and systematised manner as complexity system. An attempt is welcome to challenge to get the clue to a new paradigm or to studies by fusing nano, meso microstructural, continuum and large scaling approach. The concept, theoretical and/or experimental, respectively are/is welcome. On the other hand the presentation of the knowledge-based data for the aims is welcome, being useful for the knowledge-based accumulation. Also, deformation and fracture in geophysics and geotechnology may be another one of interesting subjects, for instance, in relation to earthquake science and engineering. Other future problems in fracture needed to be solved, will be the subject concerned.
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Comparable to strategic resources, ordinary resources can be used to build profitable business models. However, a business model leveraging many ordinary resources will often take a different approach that one focused on scarce strategic resources.
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|VALUE AWARENESS OF RESOURCES||High Value||Lower Value|
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Milestone in advancing Urban Air Mobility achieved as Vahana celebrates two years since launch
Vahana, the all electric, self-piloted, VTOL aircraft from A³ by Airbus, today announced the successful completion of its first full-scale flight test, reaching a height of 5 meters (16 feet) before descending safely. The test was completed at 8:52AM Pacific on January 31, 2018 at the Pendleton UAS Range in Pendleton, Oregon. Its first flight, with a duration of 53 seconds, was fully self-piloted and the vehicle completed a second flight the following day.
“Today we are celebrating a great accomplishment in aerospace innovation,” said Zach Lovering, Project Executive of Vahana. “In just under two years, Vahana took a concept sketch on a napkin and built a full-scale, self-piloted aircraft that has successfully completed its first flight. Our team is grateful for the support we’ve received from A³ and the extended Airbus family, as well as our partners including MTSI and the Pendleton UAS Range.”
Vahana is a project developed at A³, the Silicon Valley outpost of Airbus. A³ enables access to unique talent and ideas, new partnership opportunities, and execution at speed. Vahana aims to democratize personal flight and answer the growing need for urban mobility by leveraging the latest technologies in electric propulsion, energy storage, and machine vision.
“Vahana’s first flight demonstrates Airbus’ unique ability to pursue ambitious ideas quickly, without compromising the quality and safety for which the company is well-known. For A³, it proves that we can deliver meaningful innovation with aggressive project timetables, to provide a real competitive advantage for Airbus,” said Rodin Lyasoff, A³ CEO and former Project Executive of Vahana. “Our focus now is on celebrating the work of the tireless Vahana team while maintaining the momentum of this accomplishment.”
Vahana leverages its self-piloted capabilities to operate without a passenger. Following these successful hover flights, the team will turn to additional testing, including transitions and forward flight.
For more information please visit: vahana.aero
For images please visit: https://www.airbus-sv.com/media
About A³ by Airbus
Founded in May 2015, A³ (“A-cubed”) is the advanced projects outpost of Airbus in Silicon Valley. A³ focuses on projects centered around three traits: speed, transparency and a commitment to culminating in productizable demonstrators or demonstrators at convincing scale. To learn more, please visit www.airbus-sv.com and connect with us on Twitter and LinkedIn.
About Project Vahana
Project Vahana is a vehicle project focusing on advancing self-piloted, electric VTOL flight. It is being developed at A³, the advanced projects outpost of Airbus in Silicon Valley. For more information, please visit vahana.aero and follow us on Twitter. | <urn:uuid:7449dd4e-b3d6-40d7-a431-3e1a07a9a132> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.airbus.com/en/newsroom/press-releases/2018-02-vahana-the-self-piloted-evtol-aircraft-from-a3-by-airbus | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572043.2/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814143522-20220814173522-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.944999 | 652 | 1.640625 | 2 |
A future filled with wonders can be what we expect with all the technological advancements we anticipate in our global landscape. We will see things that defy current logic and understanding, but, likely, we will also witness a future of computing and electronics that will include biological and biologically inspired implants and apps, furthering our experiences. Indeed, artificial intelligence, creative machines, and robots will self-design, self-evolve, and even self-replicate. We will witness an era where human augmentation will become the rage. Due to scientific advancements, non-invasive brain-machine interfaces will transform how we interact with our world and how our individual entertainment experiences will be more vivid and intense.
Our time for fun will remain somewhat the same. Our activities will include watching movies, participating in sports, enjoying concerts, playing games, doing crazy extreme jumps, flying on “air boards,” and even visiting Jupiter. But, due to our augmentation as humans, our emotions will be turned up so high that they can totally blow one’s mind!
Imagine a football game above ground with players taking to the sky, where jetpacks or flying hoverboards or what I call “airboard” become part of a strategy? Envision soccer, baseball, basketball taking to the air as an added dimension for the sport? These events will unfold as if you are on the stage participating in the game with the players. An enhanced experiential environment will completely take over the playing field. But there is more… Think of yourself in a stadium, picking players and giving them a real-life advantage as you provide added incentives or harness capabilities to help them? Contemplate direct connectivity with your favorite players as the game goes viral into the last innings? New rules and new challenges will become part of each game, and we, the audience, will entirely have a hand in the outcome.
Interactive Virtual Reality
There is also the certainty that virtual reality will be much more developed. It will allow us total immersion into the moment, creating a new reality we would never experience otherwise, like mining in space or traveling to the speed of light through the cosmos piloting your own starship.
As machine learning broadens all facets of society, it will emerge in another sphere altogether. The creative machines around the globe will build games for us, making them available so that we can enter our own gamified universe and be at the center of them, without the need to know how to program (codless programming). But as A.I. is developed through all facets of society, it will expand dealing with all types of tasks on our behalf. Strict consideration and ethical constraints must be given to the development of such an entity to secure ourselves against a potentially powerful ally or foe. Assuming we are able to put in safeguards, will this make us lazy? Less inquisitive? It is a possibility. I, for one, can imagine entering the world of NEWDAWN and becoming a participant in it! Of course, by then, there is the possibility that what I have conceived thus far will take place in the future and is already so much at our fingertips that I will need to keep inventing new frontiers. Of course, I will do so gladly. The reality is that we perhaps may even witness redundancy in the creative arena as authors, filmmakers, directors, bloggers, and artists are replaced by then with creative machines that provide content on the fly. Although, part of me feels that our human ingenuity will still be able to develop innovative ways to avoid that circumstance. I see A.I. helping to keep us engaged in our lives and plays. The same approach will ensure that we do not get too bored and re-engaged as we shop if our attention wavers. A.I. will know our buying patterns so well that it will determine what will be the next items on our list of purchases.
Let’s also acknowledge that haptic will have reached new heights by then, and sensors will provide almost no distinction between computer gaming, real sports, and even possibly our lives. So, we are in for a world that has expanded in possibilities, and we may ask ourselves if we will not become so addicted to extreme experiences as more adrenaline shoots through our veins. Vision imps will be part of our everyday world, and we will see them evolve from vizor lenses to nanotech lenses. We will likely suit up to feel more deeply in this virtual environment, everything set in play.
3D Printers Deliver Lifestyles
Imagine that a 3D holographic printer will conveniently provide anything your mind can formulate. And why not? We can drop in into a movie as it plays in our heads instead of on a screen. We will all be interconnected to an A.I. like in Ang, where a DAINN will monitor our moods and health, intervening on occasions or as needed to maintain our physiology to the highest performance level.
For those of us with cost issues, we will still have the ability to enter holodeck suites for a price, giving us access to a field of games or dreams. It may even effectively replace the traditional theaters. Will we be able to connect telepathically to these games for the heavy gamers in need of further sensations? Possibly.
Impacting Real Players
The beauty of the virtual world may be to prolong the life-game expectancy of real players to remain active in the sports world via apps and switch back and forth from reality to fantasy. The access to A.I. will give us access to data and analytics on games, possibilities, scenarios, and scores. But there is so much more… Neuro devices may even affect performance, and training sessions will provide players with the ability to improve their games. Coaching will take place in the mind’s eye more and more. Neuro stimulation will help train the body, so player reactivity is enhanced further. Additional abilities will definitely be part of the landscape, so everyone will access extraordinary and superhuman skills, just like in NEWDAWN. But while this happens, control over body prosthesis as some players will play with or without could become a logistical nightmare as new rules enter the arena to keep everything on a semi-level playing field.
Legal And Ethical Considerations
These new capabilities bring us to consider legal and ethical concerns that will undoubtedly raise the bar to create rules and maintain an equitable landscape. Our future will include cyborgs, security robotics, genetically enhanced or genetically engineered and modified populations including athletes, and even animals. All of these new developments will require new parameters established for the good of our society. CRISPR or shorthand CRISPR-Cas9 provides specialized stretches of DNA. It is an enzyme that acts like a pair of molecular scissors capable of cutting strands of DNA, enhancing the human experience further. Think about what we have to look forward to?
Robotics At Work
We can also expect robots to enter the playing field not solely in the business world but also with games designed for them by creative machines. The thrill of watching your favorite robot outperform another or win in different sports categories and games will be added to our experiences.
While all this may seem fictional, many companies are already researching and developing ways to connect non-invasive machine brain interfaces and optoelectronic devices to influence our brain waves or brain synopsis to affect memories and provide upload and download abilities. Elon Musk recently conducted a similar experiment with a monkey playing virtual games with a neuro link. Imps will frequently be embedded in our brain by autonomous robotic surgeons or machines, increasing our mental abilities.
From Fiction To Reality
As in NEWDAWN, faster data transfers, enhanced memory, and processing capabilities will be the norm. Digital signals converted into a bio-electrical input will affect our mental abilities. But some of us will still hold on to our traditional ways, and for those, we will have access to external devices doing the work for us with the same advantages but with a slight delay. Telepathy will be similarly integrated into our social interactions thanks to an A.I. It will be similar to our robotic security forces sharing information similar to a hive via the A.I. with centralized data. Is this even in the realm of reality? Consider the things already in the works, like turning Facebook into the first world telepathic network! Humm… CEO Mark Zuckerberg himself sets this as a subsequent goal for Facebook. It is no more unlikely than what we are today accomplishing with our trip to Mars, but oh, so much scarier!
I thought of the NEWDAWN Saga as part of my journey to tomorrow. I am amazed at the number of advances performed daily. These are truly exciting. I wrote about a story of the future as I envision it and how it will affect us. In many ways, this story today is already in front of us. Roamers, the prequel to this grand adventure awaits you. “NewDawn is not just a book; it is a whole new universe!”
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Attached is a photo of my mother taken in July 1927, during her vacation at a Chico, California, dude ranch. Notice the engine in the background behind the pump. The second photo shows an 1891 Daniel Best engine, one of three images received from Greg Johnson and taken by Ransome Mathews of a 3hp Best engine that Ransome acquired for the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles in the 1940s or 50s.
The engine is still in their collection. Ransom was curator of the museum’s mechanical/car collection for many years and was a founding member of the Horseless Carriage Club in 1938 (which started in Los Angeles). One of the Ransome images clearly shows “Daniel Best” on the cylinder. As to the engine in the 1927 photo of my mother, based on what I can see, it is an early Daniel Best. What do you think?
We’d have to agree, Jack. The engine frames look identical, as does the flywheel and the crankshaft main bearing caps. The pulleys are obviously different, the engine behind your mother featuring a homemade, wooden pulley. – Editor
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Charleston, S.C., Aug 9, 2018 / 23:27 pm
In the thick of the Bible Belt, the famously evangelical Protestant region in the southeastern United States, some Catholic Masses are filling to standing-room only.
Meanwhile, many Baptist, Methodist and Lutheran churches are struggling to keep enough people in the pews to justify opening their doors.
It has widely been reported that the U.S. as a whole is losing its religion, with Protestant mainline churches seeing the most decline over the past 15 years. But two key factors are contributing to Catholic growth throughout the south: a boom in the Hispanic population, and the southern migration of Catholic retirees and families from the Northeast.
St. Gregory's Catholic Church in Bluffton, along the southern coast of South Carolina, particularly illustrates this shift along the Bible Belt - the congregation grew by a massive 70 percent in just 10 years, and now claims 10,000 registered members. Even though South Carolina is gaining in population, the growth of this parish outpaces even that of the state, according to local newspapers. | <urn:uuid:fae5dc7a-40a6-4e72-94af-c37da6759890> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/39093/whats-driving-the-growth-of-catholic-churches-in-the-bible-belt | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.95/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817032054-20220817062054-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.966662 | 219 | 1.960938 | 2 |
How To Get Your Business Started With Success in Mind
Starting a business can be exciting, but that excitement is tempered by the many considerations that need to be made during the planning phase. It takes a village to build a business from the ground up, because you need to work with a variety of professionals in order to open your doors. Here’s what you need to know.
Every business needs a headquarters, but procuring a place of business can be more complex or more simple, depending on your needs. For example, a small tech startup can rent office space within a larger building or even work from home. Meanwhile, a larger company may need to commission framing services Minneapolis MN and commercial construction in order to get the building it needs.
Opening a new business will require some startup capital, and this presents a barrier to entry for many. However, there are ways that anyone can get the venture capital they need, provided that they have good credit and a sound business plan. Getting a business loan from a bank or working with a private investor can help you start your business from a position of financial security, but you and your benefactors will need to be sure of your company’s profitability, because you’ll be expected to pay back the amount of your loan and then some.
While a good location and word of mouth can do your business some good, you’ll need more brand recognition in order to be successful. Marketing is the primary tool with which your business can grow, and this is more important at the beginning than at any other time. Without a sound marketing campaign engineered by professionals, your business will have a hard time gaining traction straight out of the gate. By investing in marketing early and often, you can create an audience of loyal customers that will support you for years to come. | <urn:uuid:1c422b82-fdda-425c-81ec-cedcdf07bead> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://theholbornmag.com/how-to-get-your-business-started-with-success-in-mind/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572212.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815205848-20220815235848-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.959506 | 377 | 1.734375 | 2 |
These functions are little rarely used in Spark as they confined to be used with RDDs only and RDDs are commonly used very rarely as they lack performance enhancements and structured schema. But these are very useful in case if we have to use RDDs to process our data. Let's look into them one by one..
Zip() method is used to combine two RDDs by joining corresponding rows from each RDD. As they join each row from two different RDDs we should make sure that both the RDDs have the same number of elements in them otherwise Spark will throw error.
Here I'll construct two RDDs with same number of elements and join them using zip() function.
val rdd = sc.parallelize(Seq(1,2,3,4,5,6,7)) val rdd1 = sc.parallelize(Seq(1,2,3,4,5,6,7)) rdd.zip(rdd1).collect.foreach(println) O/p: (1,1) (2,2) (3,3) (4,4) (5,5) (6,6) (7,8)
zipWithIndex is an operation that should be performed on a single RDD. When we call this method on an RDD, Spark will assign an incremental index of type Long to each of the elements and the index will be in ascending order.
Below is the code that shows how to use zipWithIndex() method and it's output:
rdd.zipWithIndex.collect.foreach(x=>println(x._1+" "+x._2)) O/p: 1 0 2 1 3 2 4 3 5 4 6 5 7 6
This method also assigns a unique index value to each element of an RDD but it won't maintain any order as it assigns index using Hashing.
Below is the code that shows how to use zipWithUniqueId() method and it's output:
rdd.zipWithUniqueId.collect.foreach(x=>println(x._1+" "+x._2)) O/p: 1 0 2 2 3 4 4 1 5 3 6 5 7 7 | <urn:uuid:5e021841-e40c-466c-af9b-2f574532611b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.bigdatainterview.com/zip-zipwithindex-and-zipwithuniqueid-in-spark/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572212.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815205848-20220815235848-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.873754 | 479 | 2.78125 | 3 |
Who Is Using CBD and Why?
Despite the huge public interest in CBD products, and an endless stream of media stoking that fire, there have been limited efforts to figure out exactly how and why people are using this darling compound of the cannabis world.
In early 2019 Project CBD began collecting responses to a survey we designed to figure out who is using CBD, how and why people are using CBD, what kinds of products they are consuming, and whether or not CBD is working for them. The analysis in this report (available in its entirety here) covers an eight-month period and encompasses over 3500 responses.
The survey asked about CBD’s impact on six quality of life measurements: pain, mood, sleep, physical function, energy or motivation, and the ability to socialize. A majority of participants reported some improvement across all measures, but the most significant were in the areas of pain and mood.
Of great interest were the efficacy reports for specific conditions. The survey elicited information about 17 different conditions for which CBD is sometimes used, including:
- ADD or ADHD
- Alzheimer’s disease
- autism spectrum disorder
- brain injury (e.g. stroke, TBI, tumor)
- epilepsy and other seizure disorders
- gastrointestinal disease (e.g. Colitis, Crohn’s, IBS)
- anxiety and other mood disorders
- motion sickness
- Parkinson’s disease
- hormonal conditions (e.g. PMS, menopause)
- multiple sclerosis
- sleep problems
The survey asked what type or stage of disease the person had (e.g., type 1 or type 2 diabetes), and how they felt CBD impacted their symptoms.
This observational study validated some well-established facts about CBD – namely that it has a strong safety profile, and it is very effective at ameliorating pain and anxiety. Participants reported significant improvements in pain and mood regardless of the underlying medical condition.
That said, the study also showed that CBD is not a panacea for all that ails us. Some symptoms were decidedly less responsive to CBD products. For example, CBD was not particularly useful in helping people with gastrointestinal diseases maintain a healthy weight. Nor did it have much of an impact on PMS-related bloating, cancer-related diarrhea and constipation, or low sex drive during menopause.
Nonetheless, CBD was effective in simply making people feel better – most likely because of its positive impact on pain, mood, and sleep.
The survey also found that there were few adverse effects, which is consistent with studies showing that CBD is safe and well-tolerated even at high doses.
Care By Design, a Santa Rosa-based CBD company, provided support for this survey. Project CBD will make the survey data available to researchers. We hope the data generated by this survey can provide guidance for those seeking therapeutic relief and for those curious about where CBD research might lead. And we’re not done collecting data! If you’re interested in sharing your CBD story, head to the survey and let us know how it’s been working – or not working – for you.
Look for products with clear labels showing the quantity and ratio of CBD and THC per dose, a manufacturing date, and a batch number (for quality control). Select products with quality ingredients that are lab tested and safely extracted.
There is no single ratio or strain that’s right for everyone. A person’s sensitivity to THC is a key factor in determining the appropriate ratio and dosage of CBD-rich medicine. You need to find the combination of CBD and THC that works best for you.
Oral administration of CBD is safe and well tolerated in humans, according to clinical trial data published by the journal Current Pharmaceutical Design. Investigators at Kings College in London assessed the physiological and behavioral effects of CBD and THC versus placebo in a randomized, double-blind, crossover trial.
Cannabidiol (CBD), a non-psychoactive component of the cannabis plant, has generated significant interest among scientists and physicians in recent years—but how CBD exerts its therapeutic impact on a molecular level is still being sorted out. | <urn:uuid:34c67e80-3c62-466b-88fe-4379bb339a3b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.projectcbd.org/science/cultivating-wellness-project-cbd-survey-results | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570767.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808061828-20220808091828-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.950987 | 884 | 2.34375 | 2 |
Presentation #309.03 in the session “Exoplanets and Systems: Orbital Dynamics 2”.
We investigate the origins of Kepler-419, a peculiar system hosting two nearly coplanar and highly eccentric gas giants with apsidal orientations liberating around anti-alignment, and use this system to place constraints on the properties of their birth protoplanetary disk. We follow the proposal by Petrovich, Wu, & Ali-Dib (2019) that these planets have been naturally placed on these orbits as a result of the precessional effects of a slowly dissipating massive disk and extend it by using direct N-body simulations and models for the evolution of the gas disks, including photo-evaporation. Based on a parameter space exploration, we find that in order to reproduce the system the initial disk mass had to be at least 95 MJup and dissipate on a timescale of at least 104 yr. This mass is consistent with the upper end of the disks mass observed distribution, and the dissipation timescale is consistent with photoevaporation models. We study the properties of such disks using simplified 1D thin disk models and show that they are gravitationally stable, indicating that the two planets must have formed via core accretion and thus prone to disk migration. We hence finally investigate the sensitivity of this mechanism to the outer planet’s semi major axis, and find that the nearby 7:1, 8:1, and 9:1 mean-motion resonances can completely quench this mechanism, while even higher order resonances can also significantly affect the system. Assuming the two planets avoid these high order resonances and/or close encounters, the dynamics seems to be rather insensitive to planet c semi major axis, and thus disk migration.
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NOVA, Vol. 3 Release Date and Synopsis
As entertaining as it is informative, NOVA explores headline-grabbing innovations and discoveries, demystifying science and technology along the way while also highlighting the human side of the people "who make science happen." As the most watched documentary series on PBS, NOVA programs have defined science television for the world, helping us to understand the way things work, while also exploring the social implications of these scientific findings that affect our past, present, and future. Ranging in topics covering everything from galaxies to atoms, the series opens viewers' imaginations to cutting-edge technology that is constantly pushing the limits of the real and possible.
Everything You Need to Know About NOVA, Vol. 3
NOVA brings you stories from the frontlines of science and engineering, answering the big questions of today and tomorrow, from how our ancestors lived, to whether parallel universes exist, to how technology will transform our lives.
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Suppose you want to effectively search through millions of images, train an algorithm to perform image and video object recognition, or research the complex patterns and relationships that exist in our visual world. A common and essential component for any of these tasks is a large annotated image dataset. However, obtaining labeled image data is a complex and tedious task that requires methods for annotating and structuring content. Therefore, we developed a comprehensive online tool and data structure, Markup SVG, that simplies the collection of annotated image data by leveraging state-of-the-art image processing techniques. As the core data structure of our tool, we adopt scalable vector graphics (SVG), an extensible and versatile language built upon XML.
As a core contribution of our framework, we wanted to standardize the visualization of several computer vision datasets with ground truth. Vision datasets have multiple formats and representations that make management and visualization of the data difficult. We also wanted to provide annotations and ground truth of other datasets that do not originally have labeled data. However, using our framework, we were easily able to collect this data through a variety of means, including manual annotation, modification of existing ground truth, and crowdsourcing.
Please note that the vision datasets and images presented here DO NOT belong to me and proper citations and attribution should be given to the original creators. ALL DATA presented here is for RESEARCH PURPOSES ONLY.
Caltech 101 Dataset
Markup SVG - An Online Content-Aware Image Abstraction and Annotation Tool [PDF]
User Study: User study with 11 participants [PDF]
Amazon Mechanical Turk Study: MTurk study [PDF]
If you find any of this useful, please cite my paper - BibTeX | <urn:uuid:6c987271-d431-49b8-b756-59903efa9490> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://markupsvg.com/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571911.5/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813081639-20220813111639-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.889328 | 364 | 2.390625 | 2 |
BAKU, Azerbaijan, Jan. 22
By Elnur Baghishov - Trend:
The statement of Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif on the country's possible withdrawal from the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) was mentioned in the letter of the country's President Hassan Rouhani to the 4+1 group dated May 2019, Spokesperson of the Iranian Foreign Affairs Ministry Abbas Mousavi said, Trend reports with reference to the ministry's website.
The letter of the Iranian president noted that Iran will leave the NPT in case if the nuclear program of the country is referred to the UN Security Council and thepre-Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) sanctions are imposed, Mousavi said.
Iran will leave the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) if Europeans insist on their unjustifiable behavior or refer the nuclear issue to the UN Security Council, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said on Jan. 20.
On Jan. 14, 2020, the UK, France and Germany issued a statement regarding Iran's suspension of its obligations within JCPOA and announced that they launched a process to resolve nuclear disputes. If problems are not solved in this process, the matter will be discussed at the UN Security Council’s meeting.
In January 2016, JCPOA was launched between Iran and the P5+1 group (US, Russia, China, UK, France and Germany) in connection with Iran's nuclear program. In May 2018, the US announced its withdrawal from the deal and imposed sanctions against Iran in November of the same year.
In order to preserve the agreements reached as part of the JCPOA, the European signatories of the deal stated in January 2019 that a financial mechanism for maintaining trade with Iran called INSTEX was formed.
On May 8, 2019, Iran announced that it had ceased fulfilling its commitments regarding the sale of over 300 kilograms of uranium, as stated in the deal, basing its decision on the other signatories having not fulfilled their obligations. On July 7, Iran announced that it will not be fulfilling its commitments regarding the enrichment of uranium at 3.67 percent and the reconstruction of the Arak Heavy Water Reactor Facility as stated in the deal.
On Sept. 5, Iran announced that it will enrich uranium using next-generation centrifuges and will not mix it with the enriched uranium residues as part of the third step of reducing commitments in JCPOA.
On Nov. 5, 2019, Iran announced that it took the fourth step in connection with reducing its commitments to the nuclear agreement. So, uranium gas is being pumped to the centrifuges at the Fordow Fuel Enrichment Plant.
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I have always loved developing myself, I’m very passionate about personal development. It started when I was on the graduate scheme for my current company, they sent us on lots of development programmes and I realized how much I enjoyed learning about myself and how I could improve. This interest has stayed with me ever since, always looking for ways to learn. I think it is of great importance to grow as an individual. I realize there is so much out there that I don’t know and so much that I want to learn. Everyone has things that they can improve. I feel that through improving myself I get more out of life.
I have listed all the things that you can do to support continuous learning:
1) Read as many books as you can
Make a list of all the books you’d like to read, there are some great ones out there. Get recommendations from friends and on personal development blogs. Don’t just read the book, implement the ideas you read about. Click here to access Bestselfology’s You Tube site where you can find some great book recommendations.
2) Ask for feedback
‘We all need people who will give us feedback, that’s how we improve’
Receiving feedback helps you to become more self aware and you should encourage it. Listen to the feedback and act on it.
3) Get a mentor
You can enroll on a formal mentor programme, but as Sheryl Sandberg says in her book ‘Lean In’ some of the best mentoring comes from people you meet and form a relationship with and ask for help from. Either way, having someone who can offer you advice and guidance can be critical for your development.
4) Spend time with inspiring people
You can learn so much from those around you. If you spend time with inspirational people, they will not only help motivate you, you can also learn from them and how they approach things.
5) Create a development plan
To be able to grow and develop it can be beneficial to create a development plan detailing the specific areas you are working on.
6) Create dedicated thinking time
It can help to dedicate a good amount of time to personal development. If you are busy, this is something that can take a back seat, so allocating specific time can be beneficial.
7) Challenge yourself
Set yourself challenges to stretch yourself and learn. 30 day challenges are an excellent way to develop over a short amount of time.
8) Write morning pages
Morning Pages come from Julia Camerons book The Artists Way, they are three pages of longhand, stream of consciousness writing, done first thing in the morning. Cameron explains that there is no wrong way to do morning pages, it is just about capturing everything that pops into your mind, for your eyes only. They provoke, clarify, comfort, cajole, prioritize and synchronize the day at hand. They can help you with your development as they help you focus your thoughts and explore.
9) Stop watching TV
Depending on the sort of programmes you are watching, you might find you are not learning much from watching TV, that your time could be much better spent on other activities.
10) Read personal development articles
You can subscribe to personal development blogs and read up on personal development ideas to give you inspiration for your own development.
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Explores the region's customs and traditions for magical healing, luck, prosperity, and more. Author Byron Ballard--known as the village witch of Asheville, North Carolina--teaches you about the old ways and why they work, from dowsing to communicating with spirits.
Learn the deeper meaning of magic hands for finding, haint blue doors, and herbs and plants for healing. Discover hands-on tips for creating tinctures and salves, attuning to the phases of the moon, interpreting omens, and other folkways passed down through generations of those who call the Blue Ridge Mountains home. Part cultural journey and part magical guide, this book uncovers the authentic traditions of one of North America's most spiritually vibrant regions.
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I started using WaniKani back in February. So far it has gone really well, but recently I’ve noticed the kanji aren’t sticking as well. The last couple levels I’ve started to miss more answers, especially with the readings for the kanji and vocab. I think the main cause is I’m getting a lot of 干渉 (interference) between kanji with similar appearances and meanings. Does anyone have advice for dealing with the increased memory load?
Do you use the radicals and mnemonics much? That makes a huge difference for me. Naming all the radicals in the kanji in my head reminds me of the mnemonic, and recollection becomes much easier. It’s good to have mental pathways that go beyond trying to recognise it at a glance.
It can also help to devote extra time to those leeches.
With the Self-Study script along with the Additional Filters, you can set up study quizzes that only cover leeches. If it’s not sticking the regular way after repeated attempts getting it through the SRS, they may need a more forceful hand.
Do you read much? The extra exposure in context can also really help to cement things. As, again, you’ll be developing more mental pathways connected to those items. ^^
Sometimes it’s also easier to remember if you know some of the kanji’s compounds tend to take certain readings. I still think the semantic-phonetic composition script should be a standard part of WK, because it’s so useful.
Best of luck! I think almost all of us run into this at some point.
When I saw the topic, I thought, “Oh, @pragmata is having a tough time of it, huh?” But no, you two just use identical avatars, with a slight difference in how zoomed in it is.
Sorry I don’t have many useful tips, but only the reassuring thought that nearly everyone hits a wall at some point, I personally get it around every 10 levels, and I just stop doing lessons and do reviews only until I feel like my brain can handle some new lessons again
You’ll probably climb over the wall naturally after some time!!
I hit the same wall, I’m just starting to come out of it but the last month has been pretty miserable. Slow progress and no motivation. I was starting to resent doing my reviews and was not enjoying the learning process at all. I’m not sure what’s changed, I just made sure that I kept turning up, kept on doing my reviews and this week everything clicked into place again.
My advice is to just keep going, we all go through it and the key is not to try and not let yourself get too bogged down by it. It will pass.
I wouldn’t have gone as far without the phonetic-semantic extension. A lot of kanji share the same readings, and it also helps you identify which part of the kanji that give its meaning/reading and similar kanji.
Another thing that I did, which I think it helped me, it’s to learn how to write the kanji. You’ll start breaking down the radicals a little better, and it’ll help improve your recall and recognition ability. It will also help you read those weird fonts!
Or maybe you just need a little break? Stick only to reviews for a while and when you feel like your brain can take the load, you come back to learning.
Yeah I’ve had more trouble learning grammar and keeping up reading without a system like WaniKani. For now I am only doing reviews and focusing on reading which hopefully will help consolidate the kanji I know and give me a mental reset.
Wow I didn’t know that existed! It looks really helpful.
I’ve thought about learning to write, but it seems like such an investment of time given all the low hanging Japanese language fruit I have yet to harvest. What sort of system did you use?
I use this anki deck:
It uses pretty much the wanikani order, you can start slowly, maybe 3 or 5 per day. If you use it with ankidroid, you can also write it on the screen.
There is also a paid app called Kanji Study for android/ios that does the same thing, but you’ll have to create your decks manually, which isn’t as bad as it sounds.
But even if you don’t want to learn how to write all of them, you could do like 200 or so just to get a good feel for them, and then keep reviewing just the ones that give you trouble!
Bonus useful article, Stroke order is important!
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History of Government House
Captain Sir James Stirling RN arrived from England to found the Colony of Western Australia which he proclaimed as the State’s first Lieutenant Governor in June 1829. See ‘Former Governors’ for more information.
Early Vice Regal residences
The first Vice Regal residence was initially a tent camp, set up on Garden Island, near the suburb now known as Rockingham, between June and September 1829.
Following the founding of Perth on the banks of the Swan River in August 1829, Stirling and his family moved to a site on the corner of St George’s Terrace and Barrack Street, Perth (now Stirling Gardens). In 1832, canvas tents gave way to a temporary wooden building for the Vice Regal family in that location.
In August 1832, Stirling returned to England where he was knighted.
On his return to Perth in 1834, he took temporary possession of the newly completed Officers’ Barracks and instructed Henry William Reveley, a civil engineer who had arrived in the Colony with Stirling in 1829, to prepare drawings for a new Government House (situated just inside the main entrance gates of the current Government House gardens).
The first permanent Government House
The first attempt at building Government House resulted in a severe but correctly proportioned Georgian building, similar in its architectural excellence to the Old Supreme Court nearby, built in 1837 and also designed by Reveley. Stirling had moved in by 1834, prior to completion of the work in 1835.
From the beginning, the building was inadequate. Besides leaking roofs, termites in the flooring, and the porous walls absorbing moisture, the House lacked accommodation for visitors and facilities for the large functions expected of the Vice Regal establishment.
Stirling resigned in October 1837. Four successive Governors (John Hutt Esq, Lieutenant-Colonel Andrew K. H. Clarke, Captain Charles Fitzgerald RN and Sir Arthur Edward Kennedy) resided in Reveley’s first Government House, until 1855.
The fifth Governor of Western Australia, Governor Arthur Edward Kennedy (1855-1862), commented in despatches to the Secretary of State Lord Russell that:
-(Despatch No. 114 November 9, 1855).
New Government House
Following a report commissioned by Governor Kennedy, eventually an ordinance passed by the Legislative Council in September 1858, enabled funding for the erection of a new House.
Lieutenant Colonel (later Sir) E.Y.W. Henderson, RE, Comptroller of Convicts, designed the second permanent Government House with assistance from the Colony’s surveyors, particularly James Manning, Clerk of Works.
The Foundation stone was laid on March 17, 1859 in an impressive ceremony conducted by the Masonic Lodge of St John.
The new Government House endured the same problems as its predecessor with the shortage of private and skilled labour and difficulties with the site. Costs spiralled from the original budget of £7,000 to £15,000 by June 1863.
Governor Kennedy was never to occupy the residence he had done so much to create. Governor John Stephen Hampton (1862-1868) and his wife and son, took up residence in 1863, prior to completion of the House in 1864. The first permanent Government House was subsequently demolished in the early 1880s.
While Henderson modelled the new Government House on Jacobean archetypes, Gothic remains the central ingredient in his final design. Government House has a picturesque architectural character demonstrated in the use of stonework and bonded brickwork, incorporating square mullioned windows, decorated gables and ogival capped turrets.
The attenuated Gothic arcading at ground floor level derives from another form of Victorian Revival expression in vogue in England during the nineteenth century – Fonthill Gothick.
Governor Hampton was undertaking changes to the new House even before it was finished. He wanted more space for official and public entertainment, an important aspect of his role, and ensured that space was created in the upper floor to accommodate a small Ballroom.
Perth’s Government House is not large by normal Vice Regal standards, but it gives an impression of spaciousness. It has 16 rooms on the ground floor and 25 on the first floor. By June 1867, a banqueting hall had been erected next to Government House (on the present Ballroom site) in anticipation of a visit by Prince Alfred in 1869, the first ‘Royal’ visit to Western Australia.
Some original drawings dating from 1897 show the early designs for adding a new Ballroom, Dining Room and Executive Council Room to the House. The Government Architect of the day, Mr John Grainger, signed the drawings but the designs are believed to have been done by Hillson Beasley.
Although a major addition to the House, there apparently was no attempt made to conform to the original design. The Beasley design was in the style of Free Classicism which was popular at that time. Unfortunately even this design was not finally built.
The 1899 Ballroom was much reduced in size and style to the original drawings.
In 1989 the government of the day commissioned a Conservation Plan for Government House. It was completed by architect Mr Ron Bodycoat AM FRAIA in 1990, and led to a series of restoration and refurbishment projects in the House and Grounds that began in 1990 and continue to the present day.
The Conservation Plan and Management Plan for the Gardens were completed by 1998 as an important part of the conservation strategy.
Well into the last century, Government House continued to be recognised as one of the State’s most important society addresses. Economic depression and war in the 1930’s and 1940’s diminished the Vice Regal residence’s lustre and the post war urban renewal almost resulted in its destruction. However, over the past thirty years community interest, involvement, and activism resulted in a long overdue official heritage listing and renewed public interest in its chequered past.
In the early 1990s, Government House, Ballroom and Gardens were listed on the Western Australian Register of Heritage Places and classified by the National Trust.
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Issue: How to Fix Security Error “This publisher has been blocked from running software on your machine“ on Windows?
Long story short, a couple of month ago I’ve upgraded Windows 7 to Windows 10. I had lots of performance issues with this OS and thought about going back to Win 7. Nevertheless, after fixing the last issue everything went smooth for quite a long time up till now. Yesterday, when I tried to run the setup file for Chrome, I received an error message that reads: “This publisher has been blocked from running software on your machine.” The only option is to click “OK”. I’ve tried to boot Windows in Safe Mode and run the setup file again, but the same message occurred. Feeling frustrated. Could you please help?
Many people have encountered a Security Warning when trying to open a file, application or install a piece of software. The message reads: “This publisher has been blocked from running software on your machine“. The pop-up error gives an “OK” option or “How do I unblock this option” link at the bottom. Unfortunately, but neither OK nor the link to the web browser really helps to solve the issue.
“This publisher has been blocked from running software on your machine“ does not occur on Mac OS, but can pop-up on all Windows OS versions, including Windows 10, 8, 8.1 and older. According to Windows enthusiasts, this bug may occur due to several reasons. In case you are trying to run a setup file of particular software, you should better check if you haven’t installed that software previously. If that’s not the case, then the core may be related to organization of the system’s administrator, which blocks that particular publisher. Luckily, “This publisher has been blocked from running software on your machine“ security error can be fixed quite easily. The following are the fixes:
Fix 1. Run an elevated Command Prompt
- Right-click on the file or application that you cannot run and select Properties.
- Find and copy its target.
- After that, click Win key or Start, type cmd, and press Enter.
- When a Command Prompt option shows up, right-click it, and select Run as Administrator.
- Paste the target you’ve just copied and press Enter.
- The program should open without “This publisher has been blocked from running software on your machine“ pop-up.
Fix 2. Disable Untrusted Publishers option
- Right-click on Win key and select Control Panel.
- Select Network and Internet and navigate to Internet Options.
- After that, open Content and choose Certificates.
- Using the right pane, scroll down and select Untrusted Publishers.
- Mark the publisher of the software that you attempt to run and select Remove.
Fix 3. Run PC optimization tool
In case “This publisher has been blocked from running software on your machine“ error shows up due to some system malfunctioning, you can also try to run a system scan with ReimageMac Washing Machine X9. That’s a quick and easy solution, which may help to fix “This publisher has been blocked from running software on your machine“ bug and prevent similar problems in the future.
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(CNN)For many families, trying to find fun activities during quarantine has been challenging. One Canadian father found the perfect project for his son to work on that will keep the neighborhood dogs entertained, too.
Innovative 10-year-old creates 'stick library' for local dogs
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David Carter, an educator in Saskatchewan, Canada, realized he had to get creative in order to keep his 10-year-old son, Jeremiah, busy during quarantine.
"He likes doing sports, he's sports crazy, and he likes hanging out with his friends," Carter said. "And that hasn't been happening very much lately."
Every week, the family picks a night and they create something. Carter saw a post about someone in New Zealand who created a stick library -- a place to keep sticks for dogs that want to play fetch.
He decided building the library would be his next activity with his son.
"We had to do a lot of measuring and figuring to cut the wood and put it all together," Carter explained. "Plus Jeremiah got to use the power tools, which always makes it a good time."
The Carters are dog owners themselves. They have a 2-year-old Goldendoodle named Nala. David Carter said Nala is energetic when they take her to the dog park every day, which gave them more incentive to start this project.
After they finished building the stick library, they headed to a local dog park.
"We took it and zip tied it to the fence so it wouldn't disappear, we gathered sticks that we figured dogs would enjoy, and filled it up and waited to see what happened," Carter said.
He and Jeremiah were surprised when they came back to the park one day to see that the stick library was actually used.
"When we would go to the dog park, there would be no sticks in there, or lots of sticks lying around," Carter said.
According to Carter, his son has gotten a lot of satisfaction seeing people interact with the stick library.
"It seemed to make people happy and it's given him some enjoyment and a bit of purpose," Carter said.
Although the stick library is the first community project from the father-son duo, they're already planning to create another one to put at another dog park.
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Oct 11, 2020
How often do you use your laptop or desktop PC? In the recent news, a spate of scams in which multiple criminals are using technology to take over victims' potentially vulnerable victims' computers has now been officially reported by an anti-fraud group.
The Financial Fraud Action, which is a body that is set up by the financial services industry mentioned that fraudsters were "impersonating" big companies to steal money, certainly far from ideal. This means that money would be taken from the victim's account via accessing your computer, the fraudsters would claim to be fixing a slow internet connection, this would trick firms into allowing funds to be transferred. The loan calculator on simple finance can provide secure loans if you have lost money and need quick access to some cash after such an incident. We also found at simple finance that some claim to event be calling as a recent result of high-profile data breaches, we know that this is not right.
The loan calculator advice is to never let someone have access to your computer remotely especially if they have approached and contacted you through an unsolicited phone call. If you are in doubt you should call the organisation back on a number that you trust, if they are then a legitimate company they will understand the loan calculator needs.
Simple finance found that whilst claiming to be "working" on the internet fault, they, the fraudster then claims that the victim is entitled to compensation and goes through to asking them to log into their bank account, this is where the transaction takes place. They will then put a fake screen onto your computer claiming that the money has arrived whilst working in the background they have complete access to your loan calculator bank account and can take your money.
The recent news is that big businesses such as Talk Talk, Sony and Carphone Warehouse have been compromised, no other news on other businesses as of yet. But be sure to stay checking the simple finance blog as more content is released on a regular basis regarding the loan calculator, finance news and other money issues. Thanks for reading and we look forward to providing you with some more blogs very soon. In the meantime you can have a look at some of our other blogs including ones from our loan calculator.
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The design for the First People’s Hospital by HMC Architects aims to create a sustainable healthcare architecture, an idea new to the practice of the region. The project, which was the winner of the national AIA Academy of Architecture for Health 2011 Unbuilt award, features green design elements which optimize building performance. In addition, these elements create a healing environment, further its mission for community outreach, and evolve with cultural uniqueness. Its iconic architecture engages the local historical values and building industry/material. More images and architects’ description after the break.
The site is a 33-acre open field with a canal on its northern border and a green belt reserved on its southern border for the new city. As one of the first major structures of the new city, this hospital campus will be the impetus to the planned urban community in which it resides, tying directly to the planned urban transportation, road, utility, and building systems. Being the largest public building complex in the area, the medical center expresses its civic representation through its open-campus plan and accessible outdoor plaza/garden spaces.
The city of Shunde is a historic city known for numerous mountain ridges and gardens and canals. The use of terracotta screen and water elements as the main building components continues Shunde’s tradition of terracotta manufacturing and water. The massing and orientation of the campus make reference to the historical city and engage traffic patterns from the proposed urban infrastructure. The building footprints are designed to be as compact as possible to maximize open space and allow for future expansion.
The clear and logical organization of the site optimizes site efficiency, while maximizing flexibility for future development. The four distinct site zones¬—inpatient, outpatient, support and staff—are juxtaposed to correspond to the public/noisy side and private quiet side respectively. The access points into the site are clearly separated to ease wayfinding.
Taking into account the high peak influx of outpatient visits of 3,000 patients, a grand atrium is created to accommodate registration, waiting, food service and retail functions. This dynamic linear “eco-atrium” is the main organizational spine that connects and harmonizes all components of the campus. It is a naturally ventilated indoor/outdoor space in a vibrant 24-hour medical facility where visitors will spend most of their waiting time. Healing gardens are located throughout the campus. The vertical gardens, roof garden, and viewing terraces bring green spaces and nature to each block.
The medical planning strategies translate advanced western hospital design to accommodate Chinese local practices, creating a forward-thinking healing environment. Infection control is a focus of innovation for this project as this region was the epicenter of SARS. In terms of campus planning, the connected but independent departmental building allows infection control and quarantine capacity during an epidemic event. Another area of innovation is in the interventional platform where western interventional platform planning—with less sterile and soil traffic—is proposed to reduce the risk of cross contamination of material and people.
The inpatient beds are located in two towers with 1,200 beds in one and 800 beds in another. This inpatient arrangement allows for management independency while the bridging connection on the upper floors provides flexibility for staff sharing and material transport.
The sustainable design initiative of this project has prompted local government to designate this project as one of the first pilot green hospitals in China. With emphasis on fundamental sustainable design practices, the overall building performance will vastly exceed local energy regulation.
Some of the major sustainable strategies are:
- Sustainable site: Open space is maximized to 75% (40% of which is vegetated) which exceeds local zoning requirement by 50%. Public transportation system is brought onto the campus for patient and staff commuting. Bioswale and large water body are proposed to harvest and manage storm water. - Optimal building orientation: All buildings are juxtaposed in east-west orientation. These slender building blocks maximize daylight and allow panoramic views to the landscape and cityscape for both staff and patients. - Optimal indoor environmental quality: The optimal building orientation and massing maximize natural day-lighting and ventilation and reduces solar heat gain while capturing renewable energy. Humid air is dehumidified through natural ventilation, stack effect, and chilled beams.
- Thermal mass, solar screens, and geothermal energy (underground air tunnels) are used as passive means in regulating indoor temperature. Terracotta on the “eco-atrium” wall is used as sun screen and thermal mass that reduces heat gain during the day and provides warmth at night. - Innovation in design and renewable energy: The building façade systems are derived through mapping of the building envelope’s solar exposure. A building integrated photovoltaic system (BIPV) is designed into the façade shading screen, skylight, and roofing system to generate 1,500 Mwh of renewable energy annually to supplement a major portion of the energy consumption. - Local material: Terracotta exterior panels, as the main building envelope material, is manufactured locally; the City of Shunde is historically known for its terracotta industry.
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Happy Thursday, city lovers, and welcome back to POLITICO’s Living Cities project.
Before we get into this week’s newsletter, let’s do a little experiment. Think of a typical city street, maybe it’s even the street where you live. Once you have the image in your mind, notice the cars — not just the ones driving down the street, but the ones parked along it too. Now erase those from the picture.
Remarkable how much space that frees up, right? There’s room to walk, cycle, let kids play. Across Europe, local leaders are looking at ways to make that mental exercise a reality. More on that after the jump.
EUROPE’S CAR-FREE PIONEER: A stop-off point on the Way of Saint James pilgrimage route located between the Galician port city of Vigo and the regional capital of Santiago, the streets of the Spanish city of Pontevedra have always buzzed with activity. The constant flow of traffic was manageable before the advent of the car, but later engulfed the city: By the late 1990s, an average of 80,000 cars drove through the city of 85,000 people on a daily basis. It also registered an average 140 road-related accidents with serious injuries each year.
“This city was basically a giant warehouse for cars, full of private vehicles that filled our public space, generated noise and emissions, and stopped our citizens — especially children and the elderly — from having true autonomy in the place in which they lived,” Pontevedra’s mayor Miguel Anxo Fernández Lores, elected to office in 1999 on a campaign promising to reclaim the streets, told me in an interview.
Pontevedra’s Praza de Curro Enriquez has gone from being car-choked to car-free | City of Pontevedra
Cars out, people in: The scheme he championed transformed Pontevedra. Since the city banned cars from most of the city center in 1999, pollution has dropped by more than 60 percent and the city hasn’t seen a fatal road-related accident in over a decade. Quality of life has also “dramatically improved,” according to Fernández Lores, who noted that some 15,000 people have moved to the city since it became car-free.
Catching on: As cities across Europe look to meet ambitious climate goals, many are considering or already implementing measures to kick out cars to slash emissions and cut down on pollution. But in places where cars are deeply ingrained in city life, like Brussels, local leaders are also wary of public backlash — particularly from the business community, which is vocal about concerns that limited car access will discourage customers and hurt their bottom line.
The city of Brussels is implementing measures to reduce car traffic as part of the region’s Good Move plan | City of Brussels
Open ears: Bart Dhondt, the official overseeing an ambitious mobility plan for the city of Brussels, said his team has doubled down on their communication with businesses: “We’ll keep listening because we have to be pragmatic and honest enough to address side effects that might arise,” he said.
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URBAN SUSTAINABILITY CHAMPS: Valencia, Spain, and Cagliari, Italy, have been named the two finalists for the 2024 European Green Capital Award, which recognizes major cities with a consistent track record of achieving high environmental standards. The Danish city of Elsinore, Slovenia’s Velenje and Romania’s Bistrița were named as finalists for the European Green Leaf Award, the award for cities with fewer than 99,999 inhabitants. The winners will be announced on October 27 in Grenoble, France, which holds the 2022 Green Capital title. There’s €600,000 up for grabs for the winner of the European Green Capital Award; first prize for the European Green Leaf Award is €200,000.
NO BUTTS ALLOWED: If you’re thinking of lighting up as you lounge on a Barcelona beach this summer, think again. The city this week banned cigarettes and nicotine products from its coastline. According to the city council, the ban is motivated by both health and environmental concerns; cigarette butts can take up to 10 years or more to degrade. Persons found violating the new laws face a €30 fine.
People cool off beside the fountains in Trafalgar Square in central London | Calros Jasso/AFP via Getty Images
KEEPING THE LIGHTS ON: Soaring temperatures across Europe last week caused electricity demand to skyrocket in many European cities. In London, the surge surpassed supply and left parts of the city dangerously close to a blackout. British authorities were able to keep the lights on, but only by exporting power from Belgium at a record-high price. Electricity went for £9,724.54 (about €11,550) per megawatt hour — more than 5,000 percent higher than the usual price of imported energy. U.K. households are likely to see that transaction reflected in energy bills at the end of the summer.
EASY BREEZY BRUSSELS: The Belgian capital may be notorious for its foul weather, but Ostend-based wind power company EDSG is looking into making the most of the strong winds that pummel the coastal city by installing small turbines on tall buildings. The idea isn’t crazy: EDSG already has small-scale turbines set up on social housing buildings in Hasselt, and a 2014 study commissioned by Brussels Environment, the Belgian capital’s environment and energy agency, concluded there’s enough wind to make these projects economically profitable in the city.
FERMEZ LA PORTE: Paris has announced that it will fine air-conditioned businesses up to €150 if they leave doors or windows open, wasting valuable energy. Formidable.
DRIVER, FOLLOW THAT BIRD! Flying taxis may seem like the ultimate space-age pipe dream, but exhibitors at last week’s Farnborough airshow in Hampshire insisted that short-haul, electric-powered planes will soon be zipping through our cities. Mobility manufacturers like Embraer and Hyundai predict that within three to five years so-called electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft could be ready for use, including to shuttle passengers to and from airports. Virgin Atlantic and Vertical Aerospace, an eVTOL start-up from the U.K., recently announced they would be trialing air taxi trips out of London Heathrow and Bristol airports from 2024.
Urban sprawl: Cities are at the heart of prospective flying taxi operators’ strategies. Mike Whitaker, chief commercial officer at Supernal, Hyundai’s U.S.-based electric air vehicles unit, told my colleague Mari Eccles the tech could allow people to more easily commute between jobs in high-priced metropolitan areas like San Francisco and more affordable residential areas. Whitaker said it was too early to estimate how much these flights might cost, but compared it to Uber’s premium Black service. “When you think about how much you save on your mortgage, you can [afford to] spend a fair amount on the ride into the city to your high-paid job,” he said.
Vertical Airspace is one of the companies developing these vehicles | Vertical
Who’s in charge? European cities have been explicit about wanting to have a say in how urban air mobility policy is developed. In 2020 Amsterdam, Porto, Stockholm and Ljubljana were among the signatories to a manifesto in which they asked that “the role of cities … as one of the competent authorities in the governance of the urban airspace … [be] explicitly acknowledged.” Whitaker agreed that municipalities should have input into where so-called vertiports are built and be allowed to voice local expectations and rules on noise. “But there can be a tension if the city thinks it can design the airspace … We don’t want [different] airspace rules in different cities,” he said.
Who’s at the wheel? Whitaker told Mari the plan is ultimately for the vehicles to be autonomous, but said he recognized the public will need time to get used to the idea. He predicted that pilotless planes could arrive by the mid-2030s provided that the “regulatory structure [is] in place and people [are] accepting.” Safety concerns are likely to be front and center in the debate, with memories of recent helicopter taxi crashes fresh in people’s minds.
STATS AND THE CITY
I’ve been delighted to receive more messages on interestingly named public transport infrastructure.
Berlin’s Stadtmitte U-Bahnhof | Creative Commons
This week Philip Lott in Berlin wrote in about Berlin’s Stadtmitte U-Bahn station, noting that it’s “quite stereotypically German to simply name a station ‘city center'” but also misleading: “Berlin historically really is a city of many ‘centers.'”
This week I’m curious to hear your thoughts on those flying taxis mentioned above: Would you ever use one? Let me know here.
— I couldn’t help but chuckle at this hilariously out-of-touch Forbes column warning of the dangers of importing Europe’s “war against cars” to American cities. In terms of cluelessness it ranks up there with comments made by Carla Sands, the former U.S. Ambassador to Denmark, who last month said the Danes’ love of cycling was down to their inability to afford cars.
— A net-zero office building, a combined primary school slash social housing project and a timber-framed library are shortlisted for the 2022 Royal Institute of British Architects Stirling Prize, the U.K.’s highest accolade in architecture: Check them out.
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“Defining ‘ethical AI’ starts with defining ‘ethics’.
Not to get into a drawn out, philosophical debate, but it’s worth mentioning that what’s being discussed could easily take different forms.
To be clear: the term ‘ethical AI’ is used when referencing a very specific type of AI technology. One which has well-defined ethical guidelines and/or codes of conduct, and is based on a set of fundamental values that, in essence, is developed in support of a greater good. It isn’t tech for tech’s sake. It’s tech for a purpose with the core aim of ‘being better’.
If that’s all sounding a bit reductive, it might be because it is. Ethical AI can mean – and does mean – many different things to different organisations. It can seem dependent on developers not only understanding the breadth of what it means to be ethical and have ethics, but their ability to transmit that into a piece of machinery; the machinery’s ability to assess and analyse data subsets to produce a conclusion, and the entire lifecycle and evolution of the technology from there.
Which is where we slip into the trap of contextual and subjective ‘right’ in AI and indeed in data regulations. We’ve all grown more and more aware about the problem with algorithms and their intrinsic link to human bias, so how can we label technology ethical by any standards if we aren’t sure whether their internal clock (algorithms) is ticking right (morally)?
Leading by example
The argument that ethical AI can be in existence is really an argument for an alternative perspective. We are not so much determining AI’s ability to be ethical, as much as we are determining how organisations can use it ethically. We are assuming that innovators, developers, teams and businesses will be in a position to root the technology in the interests of the public – whether that’s a matter of privacy and security measures, environmental efforts, animal rights, the list goes on.
This is the chicken and egg scenario which too often runs alongside any innovation. Take facial recognition technology (FRT) as an example. FRT is broadly used for safety and security measures from airports to supermarkets, across law enforcement, including body cameras, smartphone UX and enhanced personal security measures; even children are regularly being subjected to FRT.
But there is, as always, the other side to it. Law enforcement and the need for security measures, such as identifying and reprimanding suspects, has faced particular scrutiny in recent years. Many US cities are effectively banning it – though recent news suggest this is an ongoing debate and will be for some time – but here in the UK, it’s increasingly enforced. This is despite campaigners’ efforts, and many findings suggesting that FRT not only isn’t anywhere near as effective as it could be in safety and security efforts, but that it is a deeply biased and needs strict regulation.
We aren’t here to get into the weeds of ‘right’ or ‘wrong’ use of AI, but it is a demonstrative and real life example of where the technology can embody both sides of the ethical coin – and disproportionately impact more vulnerable people.
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The pendulum effect
If positive innovations can lead to negative outputs, logic says that negative outputs can lead to positive change. Or that’s the theory.
Regulation in technology often comes after the fact – rather than working alongside or preceding it. Over recent years, GDPR has made it obvious that we don’t always see the need for enhanced data protection until it’s obvious we do through not insignificant privacy and security concerns. You only need to look at Microsoft’s Tay chatbot, or, dare I say it, Facebook’s now infamous entanglement with Cambridge Analytica.
It might seem like an unnecessary risk, even ethically wrong, but these types of catastrophes are sometimes the greatest catalyst we have for change and regulation. When the European Union began their discussions on AI regulation – the first major body to examine implementing legislation for the tech – Microsoft acted as an advisor, bringing their experience of Tay to the discussions.
We can also learn from the likes of Uber Eats who were accused of unfair dismissal after erroneous FRT findings – this particularly case has helped steer the Trade Unions’ Congress into acting and monitoring the use of AI technology in the workplace, particularly in light of the potential unethical practices.
Similarly, Clearview AI was accused of numerous unethical and unlawful practices across EU countries as well as Canada, UK and US over their ‘face scraping’ methodology. And while no formal legislation or third party involvement has taken place as a result of this yet, it’s not to say there won’t be.
Turning AI around
AI disasters aren’t only making way for greater regulation as a consequence – but teaching other organisations the dos and don’ts in real time, in real ways. It’s demonstrative of how and when the use of AI is applicable and ethical, and how and when it isn’t.
Comparatively, it’s also helping steer many businesses towards ethical AI innovation in the first instance – rather than after a scandal. Pimloc’s product, Secure Redact is a prime example. The software uses AI to anonymise personal data, not only helping businesses maintain GDPR compliance – and their own corporate due diligence – but keeping visual data of any ordinary person walking down a street, secure.
Yes, this solution has been inherently designed to support data legislation adherence and everything that goes along with it. But it also supports the wider education and awareness of people’s rights when it comes to their data – especially visual data which all too frequently falls through the cracks.
Which is particularly required when we think about the complexities of data laws and data privacy, and more so how few businesses understand the full extent of these laws. You could argue that this solution – if we look at it in isolation – is less about making sure all AI is used ethically, and more about developing the type of technology which could combat the dangers of AI used unethically.
True that this might be effective, but it is – arguably – only a short term solution. It’s treating the symptoms of a wider issue, rather than curing it. So the long-term solution? Understand the driving factors behind ‘ethical AI’ and let those help determine more stringent data laws – which aren’t open for interpretation or debate.
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New Delhi: Rahul Gandhi today took charge as Congress president in a ceremony at the party’s headquarters in New Delhi in presence of his mother Sonia Gandhi and other senior leaders.
Former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh stated that Rahul Gandhi was taking over as the new Congress President amid disturbing trends as politics of fear was taking over the politics of hope in India.
Rahulji is taking over as President of our party at a time when there are certain disturbing trends visible in our politics, Manmohan Singh told a gathering at the Congress Headquarters after Rahul Gandhi was formally declared the head of the country’s oldest party.
He noted that a distinguished academician has pointed out that there are dangers that politics of fear will take over the politics of hope in the country. Rahulji, we depend upon you to transform and sustain politics of hope, the Congress leader said.
“Led by Rahul Gandhi, the Congress will once again be seen a new role in Rashtranirman (nation-building),” said Congress spokesperson Randeep Surjewala.
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|Title||Current manufactured cigarette smoking and roll-your-own cigarette smoking in Thailand: findings from the 2009 Global Adult Tobacco Survey|
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Current manufactured cigarette smoking and roll-your-own cigarette smoking in Thailand: findings from the 2009 Global Adult Tobacco Survey
Sarunya Benjakul1, Lakkhana Termsirikulchai2, Jason Hsia3*, Mondha Kengganpanich2, Hataichanok Puckcharern4, Chitrlada Touchchai4, Areerat Lohtongmongkol4, Linda Andes3 and Samira Asma3
* Corresponding author: Jason Hsia firstname.lastname@example.org
1 Bureau of Tobacco Control, Department of Disease Control, Ministry of Public Health, Nonthaburi, Thailand
2 Faculty of School of Public Health, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand
3 Office on Smoking and Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA, USA
4 National Statistical Office, Bangkok, Thailand
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BMC Public Health 2013, 13:277 doi:10.1186/1471-2458-13-277
The electronic version of this article is the complete one and can be found online at: http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2458/13/277
Received: 1 July 2012
Accepted: 19 March 2013
Published: 27 March 2013
© 2013 Benjakul et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd.
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Current smoking prevalence in Thailand decreased from 1991 to 2004 and since that time the prevalence has remained flat. It has been suggested that one of the reasons that the prevalence of current smoking in Thailand has stopped decreasing is due to the use of RYO cigarettes. The aim of this study was to examine characteristics of users of manufactured and RYO cigarettes and dual users in Thailand, in order to determine whether there are differences in the characteristics of users of the different products.
The 2009 Global Adult Tobacco Survey (GATS Thailand) provides detailed information on current smoking patterns. GATS Thailand used a nationally and regionally representative probability sample of 20,566 adults (ages 15?years and above) who were chosen through stratified three-stage cluster sampling and then interviewed face-to-face.
The prevalence of current smoking among Thai adults was 45.6% for men and 3.1% for women. In all, 18.4% of men and 1.0% of women were current users of manufactured cigarettes only, while 15.8% of men and 1.7% of women were current users of RYO cigarettes only. 11.2% of men and 0.1% of women used both RYO and manufactured cigarettes. Users of manufactured cigarettes were younger and users of RYO were older. RYO smokers were more likely to live in rural areas. Smokers of manufactured cigarettes appeared to be more knowledgeable about the health risks of tobacco use. However, the difference was confounded with age and education; when demographic variables were controlled, the knowledge differences no longer remained. Smokers of manufactured cigarettes were more likely than dual users and those who used only RYO to report that they were planning on quitting in the next month. Users of RYO only appeared to be more addicted than the other two groups as measured by time to first cigarette.
There appears to be a need for product targeted cessation and prevention efforts that are directed toward specific population subgroups in Thailand and include information on manufactured and RYO cigarettes.
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The International Labour Organization estimates that there are 40.3 million victims of human trafficking globally. With the rapid adoption of social media platforms, human traffickers have the potential to target more vulnerable children. Yet artificial intelligence and machine learning also have the potential to thwart more predators and protect potential victims.
On April 26, the Anti-Trafficking Coalition at Berkeley, a Blum Center IdeaLab, gathered researchers and advocates from academia, industry, and the nonprofit sector to discuss how AI can help prevent child exploitation and combat human trafficking. The panelists included: Bob Rogers, expert in residence for AI at the UCSF Center for Digital Health Innovation; Lisa Thee, vice president of Bark.us, a child monitoring app; and Roger Martin, former Chief IP Strategist of Qualcomm and co-founder and CEO of the charity platform Enduragive.
Martin explained that preventing initial online communications between vulnerable children and suspected traffickers is a significant intervention. “Since 2015, the number one recruiting tactic into the sex trade happens online,” he said. “But there was a huge gap in using technology in prevention.” Predators were deciding whom to approach by looking at public profiles online and gauging vulnerability. If these vulnerabilities were modeled, Martin said, machine learning could be coded to detect which children were most likely to be approached.
Once a child goes missing, time is of the essence. In 2016, the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children employed 25 analysts receiving and disbursing about 8 million reports to law enforcement. Cases determined as “urgent” were automatically dispersed to a government agency, while others went to a 30 day backlog. Machine learning was introduced as a key part of the pipeline in 2017, automating the IP addresses and cell phone information of victims and predators. Since then, case backlog is down to 24 hours, and the time saved has allowed analysts to focus more deeply on specific cases.
When creating data sets to be fed to algorithms to prevent human trafficking, concerns about diversity and inclusion are life and death issues. As Thee of Bark.us explained, “Traditional facial recognition tools are good at identifying those who are white, adult, and male—which is almost the opposite of human trafficking victims. Pairing the grainy pictures of missing children with actual faces was our initial challenge.”
Finding technology companies to partner with the panelists’ initiatives presented significant challenges. “Storytelling has significant power,” Rogers said. “Press about how Intel can use its AI technology to save lives is powerful. But you have to be comfortable with rejection. Funding is always going to be a issue here—You have to be ready for a marathon and not a sprint.”
The panelists underscored that AI and machine learning are proving to be extremely helpful tools for this important human rights work. They also noted that the potential for student involvement is great, as this generation of university students are increasingly fluent in computer science, which can be put toward protecting vulnerable children around the world.
“Young people growing up online are in the midst of one of the largest social experiments in history,” said Thee. “This is labor intensive work, but in many ways you can work to save yourselves and your peers.”
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(left, Ben Garrison's brilliant tableau entitled"Cultural Marxism." The spider is George Soros.)
God is ultimate reality. Mankind is inflicted by a cancer called Cabalism (Satanism.) Its goal is to supplant God and redefine reality according to its interests and perversions. Thus it must sever our ties with truth by making us question reality. This is called "gaslighting." They are positioned to do this through their control of information and discourse (i.e mass media and education.) They believe the truth is whatever they say.
Remember, Cabalists are not just Jews. They are Freemasons, the goy elite installed by the Jewish central bankers. These traitors are our "leaders."
What follows are ten examples of gaslighting. There are hundreds. I don't intend to dive deep but simply illustrate the point.
"Gaslighting" is a mind-control technique used by individuals and governments to gain or maintain control by making victims question their own sanity and thereby submit to authoritarian rule. It's a common tactic of abusers, dictators, narcissists, and cult leaders. If done slowly, victims don't realize how much their cognitive faculties are compromised. Victims are defenceless which explains why the results can be devastating.
A more psychological definition of gaslighting is "an increasing frequency of systematically withholding factual information from, and/or providing false information to, the victim - having the gradual effect of making them anxious, confused, and less able to trust their own memory and perception.Doing something to upset someone, waiting for them to react, then standing back in pretend ignorance saying "what? what did I do?"
In no particular order:
2. The holocaust. While "holocaust denier" David Irving admits two million Jews were gassed, the Jewish holocaust is a distraction from the larger picture: the real holocaust was the murder of 60 million goyim in World War Two, including six million "anti semites" ( aka Nazis.) The Jewish halocaust is used to disarm the goyim with guilt, but in fact Zionists put Hitler in power and funded him. The fact that "Holocaust" is capitalized in spellchecks is another instance of gaslighting. 4. "Russian collusion" This notion that Russian interfered with the 2016 elections was in the headlines for two years without any explanation of how this was accomplished or proofs. One man writes: "As a pastor I have heard families watching the apparently unstoppable descent of a loved one into physical or mental illness ask: "What are we to do?" That's the query of sorrowing citizens peering into the figurative padded cells that Washington institutions are becoming." 5. The assault on gender. The human rights of 98% of the population are under constant assault but the "rights" of deviant minorities are the only ones that matter. Obviously they are being used as a pretext to attack and undermine the heterosexual majority. Other examples of gender gaslighting include mixed sex bathrooms, trannies in bathrooms and libraries, and children being given gender changing hormones and operations. A girl is suspended for asking to be excused from this pernicious indoctrination. A grad student is suspended for saying men can't become women. Makes you question reality doesn't it?
And what about feminism? Convincing women to squander their most fertile years pursuing career instead of family, only to play catch-up later when it's too late. That gaslighting has ruined the lives of millions and helped to shred the social fabric.
Listen to this insanity: "As Africa's population doubles [to four billion by 2100], a lot of them, whatever the circumstances, will be coming to Europe, as economic migrants or as refugees, they will be coming, many of them," ONE co-founder Jamie Drummond said. "And that is a good thing. Because we will be senile, we will be senescent demographically. We'll need their youthful energy to do stuff. So, that is just what the economic statistics tell you and the demographic data demands, you know, demography is destiny."
10. "White Supremacism" - There is no Chinese supremacism in China; Japanese supremacism in Japan or Jewish supremacism everywhere else. Irish Savant writes: "Not just gun control but all elements of the anti-White project seem to have suddenly gone into overdrive. Third World immigration, the spread of "hate" (read anti-White) legislation, the blocking of pro-White websites, White displacement in the workplace, Antifa aggression and provocations, depravity and degeneration in the public sphere, the rewriting of history. It's like the way the flow of a river speeds up as it approaches a waterfall."
We could go on. All wars are designed to undermine and kill the non-Cabalists while enriching the central bankers and increasing their power.
The Cold War was a fraud. The USSR was built by the West. Communism is nothing but monopoly capitalism. Let's not forget all the false flag mass shootings from Sandy Hook, to Orlando to Parkland, FL. designed to relieve the goyim of their weapons. And by the way, the Protocols of Zion are not a "forgery." And women cannot beat up men like they do on TV and the movies.
Mankind is being inducted into a satanic cult based on Cabalist Judaism. First Jews were subverted, then the goyim through Freemasonry.
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